This Taoist’s Tongue Is More Vicious Than a Ghost’s

Chen Sanpi owns the Auspicious Studio in Qingshi Town. His main business is swindling people, especially the rich, while his side gig is warding off evil spirits and ghosts, a job he was forced into. Sharp-tongued, greedy, and always choosing to lie down rather than sit, his life motto is: “No refunds on the hard sell. A big deal? That’ll cost extra!”

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Then his sister Chen Xiaoqi, who supposedly drowned at the age of three, returned to the world of the living with an underworld government job as a “Special Envoy of the Underworld.” By day, she helps him talk back to clients and balance the books. By night, she hunts evil ghosts and writes reports.

The Auspicious Studio soon takes on a downright eerie atmosphere: paper effigies play mahjong in the middle of the night, the gambling ghost Lao Hei polishes his urn until it gleams, and his unreliable master always lets him down at the worst possible moment. Even worse, a cult leader who wants to use Xiaoqi as “material for resurrection” is leading an army of demons and monsters to attack...

With a cigarette dangling from his lips, Chen Sanpi weighs his peachwood sword in his hand. “Damn it, you dare lay a hand on my sister? This time it’ll cost double, and you’ll have to pay workers’ compensation to my paper-effigy brothers too!”