I Write Bestsellers in the Underworld

Washed-up writer Zhang Yuan’an is crushed to death by a falling refrigerator at a post station, only for his soul to be hauled off by Ox-Head and Horse-Face to the Underworld’s novel-writing assembly line. If he can’t write a thousand hit novels, he’ll be fed to the “Inspiration-Hungry Beast”! Forced to start a new book, I Was Eaten by a Refrigerator at a Post Station, he is horrified to discover that its plot is playing out in the Underworld. A screen on the refrigerator displays completion rates, chapter comments, and tips, with the numbers directly tied to life and death: Not enough chapter comments? A bloody hand will choke you, triggering [Character Turns on Author]. Completion rate below 30%? The Forgotten River’s writer’s-block pool will eat away at your soul. Write a romance? “It” will smell the sweetness and tear up your contract! When a wealthy reader tips 200 persimmon coins and demands that he “kill off a key NPC right now,” Zhang Yuan’an sees through the storm of bad reviews that his mother is locked inside the book review section. Every bad review is a knife aimed at her! To break out of this trap, he becomes a “Hunter of Rule Exploits”: ► He uses clickbait copy to provoke chapter comments: “Click to uncover the real culprit in the refrigerator corpse case!” ► He writes a tip-crazy reader into the story and kills him off, striking fear into the hearts of the trolls. ► He even alters the code to create the forbidden weapon [Golden Wolf Arrow], which pierces the dimensional wall with a single shot! But an even greater conspiracy comes to light: Ox-Head and Horse-Face are actually avatars of “It,” while a last message carved in blood by his mother points to the human world. The real Golden Wolf Arrow is hidden in the one-star review section of the Persimmon app... In the flood of data, every line of text is a bargaining chip for survival. He isn’t writing a novel. He’s forging a sword to strike at the rules!