[A battle-power ceiling with a missing soul and a tsundere, scheming, fiercely protective man]
Ning Ling runs a hotpot restaurant passed down through her family. Her daily routine is sleeping during the day and serving customers at midnight.
She seems to have been born without a normal emotional response. She never laughs out loud when she's happy or cries when she's sad. Even when Elder Sister Liu calls to tell her that Grandpa Liu has died, all she says is, “Mm, I know. Don't be too upset.”
After Grandpa Liu dies unexpectedly, his will leaves Ning Ling in charge of Wangsheng Studio, where she will serve as its director.
Wangsheng Studio doesn't just sell funeral supplies. It also visits clients to deal with strange happenings.
A hanging ghost encountered on the road, an infant spirit that steals the body of a blood relative, a Phoenix Man who makes a deal with an evil master to turn his wife into a puppet, deadly games...
As Ning Ling resolves one strange case after another, she senses that an invisible hand is manipulating things behind the scenes.
At the same time, Shen Jiuyou, who calls himself an “Underworld Messenger,” shows up at her door, saying that the Lord of the Ninefold Underworld sent him to investigate an imbalance between yin and yang.
✎ The story is divided into volumes, each with three smaller tales, but one overarching plot runs through them all.
✎ There is a romance, but not much, and the pacing is fairly slow.
✎ This is pure fiction, so don't overanalyze it.
