Unemployed, I Took Up Making Paper Effigies

[Even the most obviously fake supernatural novels can become wildly popular.

I'm speechless. If I'm going to write one, I'll write something real.

I'm a paper effigy maker, and I run a paper effigy shop.]

The oldest and most mysterious professions in Huaxia are the Six Yin Trades, the Six Yang Trades, and the unorthodox arts.

The Six Yin Trades: corpse drivers, corpse stitchers, corpse retrievers, paper effigy makers, executioners, and coroners.

The Six Yang Trades: shamans, yin-yang masters, knife peddlers, treasure hunters, spirit mediums, and tomb raiders.

The unorthodox arts: sorcery, corpse refining, ghost keeping, curse magic, and more.

The so-called Six Yin Trades serve the dying and the dead. As the saying goes, they make their living off the dead. That's why anyone in these trades needs a strong birth chart, preferably one born under all yin signs, meaning they were born in a yin year, yin month, and yin day.

Seventh Uncle once told me that if the dead are not handled properly, or if they harbor resentment, they can become corpses, which is what people call corpse transformation. After absorbing the essence of heaven and earth and the energy of the sun and moon, they become jiangshi, or hopping vampires. After cultivating for years under the sun and moon, they can turn into ghosts, the likes of monsters and wandering spirits. Some ghosts who attain the Way even become underworld officials...

Corpses come in three kinds: flesh corpses, blood corpses, and vengeful corpses.