Ghost Festival Lanterns Glow, Immortal Bones Forge the Soul

Come on in if you’re fed up with being mistreated at work! Come on in if petty people are always making your life miserable! This will definitely help you blow off steam!

The moment the company announced a team-building trip for the Ghost Festival, the department’s group chat erupted with sycophantic messages like “The boss is a genius” and “We’re so grateful to the company.” At the family-owned Longevity Group, this kind of flattery was nothing new. The boss’s nephew, department manager Mr. Liu, loved making employees take turns toasting him at dinners, while the honest workers who “didn’t know how to play the game” were always the ones doing the actual work.

As the bus drove into the fog, someone was still eagerly offering a cigarette to a supervisor. It wasn’t until the sound of meat being chopped rang out in the dead of night and coworkers started disappearing one after another that the sycophants who usually hovered around the bosses were the first to hide in their rooms and lock the doors. The ones who kept their heads were a few “troublemakers” who had long been pushed to the margins: the protagonist Lin Feng and his team. They had seen through the company’s rotten-to-the-core bureaucracy and fake camaraderie long ago.