Guardian of the Mountain and Sea Gate

Name: Guardian of the Mountain and Sea Gate
Author: The Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare

山海守门人

by The Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare (兔子和乌龟的故事)

Status: Completed
Length: 171k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Cultivation
Updated: 11mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

Also known as: I Inherited a Zoo, but All the Employees Are Ancient Divine Beasts??? A Modern-Day Unlucky Guy's Bizarre Work Diary!!

Shen Liushang is a born loser who graduated straight into unemployment. He chokes on his water, trips over every pothole, and can never get more than one bar of Wi-Fi. Just as he failed his 108th job interview and was about to go home and live off his parents

A strange Chinese-style manor, Wangchuan Residence, suddenly opened its doors to him.

And so began his miserable working life: meals and lodging included, built to withstand beatings and verbal abuse, and with a whole bunch of demanding elders thrown in for free!!

Even more absurdly, none of his coworkers are normal! The sharp-tongued, scheming, long-legged owner, who wears a qipao and smokes from a long-stemmed pipe, treats him like a "human wishing machine" and orders him around every day!

A violent golden-haired little boy is either beating him up or on his way to do so, while a highly intelligent white-haired little girl spends her days either watching anime and shipping CPs or humiliating people for their lack of intelligence with mathematical formulas...

And his daily job is to <keep an eye on> a bunch of hot-tempered divine beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas who've skipped work!!!

Nine-Tailed Fox: Claims to be a top-tier star and throws a fit every day about holding a fan meeting!

Taotie: Sneaks food from the fridge in the middle of the night, then has the nerve to say, "You sealed me away for thousands of years! What's wrong with eating a couple bags of your chips?!"

Qiongqi: A terminal chuunibyou who yells "Destroy humanity!" every day, only to get assigned by the long-legged lady to scoop poop for the neighborhood's stray cats!

Other daily happenings include, but are not limited to:

✔ Helping an office worker who's been bullied at work face-slap the boss (Bai Ze's "workplace clapback skills" are MAXED OUT)

✔ Helping a girl with autism regain her confidence (Luan Bird is the president of the competitive-recruitment praise club)

✔ Stopping Xiang Liu from using all nine heads to play on his phone at once!!

Stats

52Chapters

3Reads · 30 days

147Reads · all time

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