[The funeral home you inherited holds secrets the living must never know: screams can be exchanged for cash, ghosts have to sign employment contracts, and bad reviews bring real evil spirits to claim your life.]
When Jiang Lin received the inheritance papers for a funeral home in the suburbs, he thought the most he'd have to do was deal with a few haunting rumors. Then, on a pitch-black night during a power outage, a corpse crawled out of a freezer and gave him a thumbs-up for “meeting its performance targets.” It turned out the place was a viral hotspot for visitors from both the living and the dead.
Now he has to meet the deceased's KPIs:
✔️ Turn a Republic-era songstress's death song into an ASMR sleep experience
✔️ Transform the crematorium into a live-streamed escape room battle royale
✔️ Get Meng Po to sell wasabi-flavored Meng Po soup on the Bridge of Helplessness
Otherwise, he'll be the one stuffed into the freezer next month.
Tourists flock in, clutching the Underworld app that measures fear levels. “Not scary enough? One-star review!”
That night, three hundred urns of ashes rose from the dead and performed a tap dance routine.
Watching his ghost employees riot, Jiang Lin poured the last cup of Meng Po soup into the mouth of a bad reviewer. “Now it's your turn to be props.”
[Reader's Guide]
◆ A real haunted house, an underworld business, and a supernatural escape room all in one: every chapter features a new scenario
◆ Qipao-clad ghosts chase their performance targets, while paper effigy makers build VR ghost realms. The supernatural gets put to work in new-media marketing
◆ When the craziest escape-room owner meets the most competitive ghost employees, viewers send rocket gifts and the evil spirits immediately add more scares
(A friendly warning: This book may cause the following side effects: wanting to scan a QR code and book a visit whenever you pass a funeral home, instinctively looking for a power bank when you hear crying, and believing that bad reviews really can get you killed.)
