Xiao Xianyu, a bailiff in the underworld, has been working unpaid overtime for three whole months. It can't be helped. The underworld's “outstanding employees” don't always get a choice.
After diligently working for King Yan for sixty years, he finally decided to put an end to his long career as an exploited wage slave and go get reincarnated.
To be precise, he wanted to be born into a good family.
After all these years as a bailiff, his salary and benefits were already enough for an ordinary reincarnation.
But Xiao Xianyu had a clear goal: in his next life, he wanted to be a rich second-generation heir.
Suddenly, the number in his bankbook seemed pitifully small.
To make it happen, he'd tried all kinds of “side hustles”: holding places in the reincarnation line at the Bridge of Helplessness, reselling sightseeing spots at the Tower of Nostalgia, and peddling queue-jumping passes for Meng Po's soup... But even after saving up all those odd bits and pieces, at this rate he'd have to work for at least another hundred years.
Xiao Xianyu decided to go all in.
He began taking on the trickiest cases and capturing the most troublesome evil spirits. The bounties were so high they could make even a judge's brush tremble. As he hustled to boost his performance, though, he couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong.
For instance, he couldn't remember at all how he'd died at seventeen, or why he'd landed this “iron rice bowl” job as soon as he reached the underworld. Then one evening, standing by the River of Forgetfulness with his soul-hooking chain in hand, it suddenly hit him:
“Wait a minute. I'm an official underworld bailiff. Why do I have to save up money myself to get reincarnated?!”
A sharp-tongued ghost-catching junior official vs. a taciturn, secretly seductive male ghost on the run
