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!