After Failing My Tribulation, I Became the Living King of Hell

After failing to overcome the tribulation, the Nine Heavens Demon Venerable opened her eyes in the body of a pitiful eight-year-old.

Her scumbag father and stepmother had just sold her to northern Myanmar for half a million. Then the ruthless boss of a scam compound took her in as a substitute daughter.

“Sweetheart, Daddy will love you just as much as he loves Niannian.”

I looked at the towering resentment and bloodshed swirling around me, and nodded obediently.

Perfect. Spiritual energy is scarce in this world, so you resentful ghosts will all become my nourishment!

A month later, the compound was taken down in one swoop, and I became an anti-fraud hero celebrated across the internet.

My scumbag father and stepmother came to pick me up, putting on a tearful show for the cameras about how much they had missed me.

I smiled, looking utterly harmless.

On my first night home, the vicious ghost haunting the house knelt by my bed and kowtowed. “My lord, shall I warm your feet?”

Then I took out my phone and quietly started a fortune-telling livestream.

“Nine Heavens Celestial Venerable, here to answer your questions. Yin and yang are always in balance.”

My callers included a programmer haunted by a water ghost, a businessman targeted by a malicious feng shui curse, and... a baby spirit sobbing that it couldn’t find its mother.

The livestream gradually went off the rails:

[Streamer, my great-grandpa says he’s out of money down there. He wants you to burn him some!]

[Same here! My ancestor appeared in my dream and specifically asked to watch your stream!]

I was busy accumulating merit and rebuilding my demonic body.

Until one day, a familiar ID entered my livestream. After sending an extravagant tip, it requested to join me on a call.

On the other side of the screen, a man gazed at me with tender obsession and said softly:

“Sweetheart, have you had enough fun?”

“Daddy’s been looking for you... He’s had such a hard time finding you.”