Serving the living by day and the dead by night. What college student working a part-time job doesn't go crazy?
Deep in the old alleys of a bustling city is a private restaurant that's packed with customers by day, but doesn't exist at all by night. When midnight strikes and white mist rises, the sign above the door quietly changes beneath the ghostly blue lanterns: the Fate's End Inn.
The inn has three rules: No guests during the day, no payment, and no one stays past dawn. Whether living or dead, every visitor must offer an "old possession" and an "obsession" as bargaining chips in exchange for a chance to resolve old grudges from their past.
Lin Shi, a second-year history student, is a poor college kid crushed by life and fretting over rent every day. Desperate to find an internship that would earn him an official company stamp on his certificate, he accidentally pushed open the inn's wooden door one moonless night.
Before him stood a mysterious, unscrupulous boss with a deathly pale face and a cold expression, constantly toying with a white jade pipe: Yan Ci.
Before Yan Ci could throw the intruder out, an "uninvited guest" shrouded in the aura of death suddenly barged in. Lin Shi should have run away in terror, but he could see the scarlet "thread of karma" wrapped around the ghostly guest. With a single remark, he revealed the key to resolving the case!
"Kid, you can wait tables at the restaurant by day and work as a server at the inn by night. Room and board included, monthly pay over ten thousand, and I'll even stamp your internship certificate. Interested in working for me?" A strange contract was slapped down in front of Lin Shi.
Tempted by both money and academic credit, Lin Shi gritted his teeth and signed the "indenture contract." Thus began his hard-core working life: carrying plates by day and seeing ghosts by night...
