[Unhinged comedy + two powerful leads + the supernatural + urban fantasy + light comedy + a touch of ensemble cast + episodic stories]
At some point, a community service center opened on a street in Nancheng. It looked like a general store and also offered photocopying and printing. But ever since it opened, strange incidents seemed to be happening more and more often nearby.
No one knew that the owner, Zhu Yu, was an heir to the art of curse warding. She had spent the first half of her life working in shady businesses, and her unusual fate left her so poor it was frightening. Other people got rich overnight; she got poorer by the day!
After finally making a little windfall, she gritted her teeth and rented a shop, hoping to go straight. But she found she didn't have a golden basin to wash her hands in, or even a copper one.
She tried to keep up with the times and open an online store to change her fate, but after waiting for months, she got just one order, and it came with a bad review?!
Maliciously leaving bad reviews? I'll lock you in a KPI talisman for a week!
Using curse warding to force internet trolls to do good deeds ought to earn her some karmic merit, too.
But she hadn't gone looking for trouble, so why did trouble keep coming to her?!
In modern-day Nancheng, spiritual energy had dried up. To survive, gods, demons, monsters, ghosts, cultivators, divine beasts, and spirits had no choice but to blend into human society, hide their identities, and work for a living.
Fierce beasts, female ghosts, and one calamity after another came crashing into her life. Everyone laughed at how poor she was, and, to make matters worse, she wasn't exactly doing anything to change it.
Zhu Yu was beside herself with worry. And even setting all that aside, there was a municipal worker on her street who kept catching her doing bad things and threatening to report her at the drop of a hat.
Trouble was sprouting everywhere like bamboo shoots after the rain!
Heh heh, bamboo shoots are delicious.
