To Pay Off My Debts, I Took a Job in the Underworld

[First Person]

My name is Lu Youyou. The villagers say that on the Ghost Festival, the seventh day of the seventh month, Grandpa found me on a mass grave, barely alive. He snatched my life back from the King of Hell.

Grandpa was a well-known fortune-teller in the village. But after he found me, his behavior grew strange.

He sold the talismans he drew for just one copper coin apiece, and never sold them to anyone from the village.

Yet whenever someone was willing to pay a copper coin for one, Grandpa would leave home for a while, and no one knew where he went.

When I was three, Grandpa discovered that I had been born with Yin-Yang Eyes and could see things ordinary people couldn’t.

Once the news spread, the villagers urged Grandpa to pass on all his fortune-telling and face-reading skills to me. But he flatly refused.

The peaceful days passed in a flash. Then, one day, an important person came from the city. He took out a copper coin and bought one of Grandpa’s talismans.

Grandpa’s expression grew grave. He called me over and warned me, “If I leave this time and don’t come back, go to Granny Ma in the neighboring village on the seventh day of the seventh month.”...