Meng Lingxi, a section chief in the Underworld’s Reincarnation Office, died suddenly from working 996 hours.
She wakes up as a disposable rogue cultivator in the world of immortal cultivation. She thinks she can lie flat and wait for death, but the Underworld employee badge on her wrist flashes a notification: The reincarnation passage in this world is damaged, and countless souls are stranded. Please continue working overtime and meet your KPI.
Forced to enroll in a retirement sect full of slackers, she spends her days being fed spirit fruit and new clothes by her senior sisters, hoping to coast through life.
Then she meets Gu Linyuan, the young master of the Celestial Masters’ Palace.
He believes, “Demons and monsters all deserve to die.” She just wants to “send the souls on their way and clock out early.” They can’t stand each other, but are forced to team up to investigate a bizarre case of missing souls.
She uses the Book of Life and Death to trace cause and effect, the Soul-Reaping Rope to organize team-building activities, and broadcasts from the Underworld to make rampaging vengeful spirits line up obediently for reincarnation. Watching her use “Underworld thinking” to outclass the world of immortal cultivation, he feels his entire worldview shatter.
Later, he takes a fatal blow for her, and his soul nearly dissipates. For the first time, she loses control and spends every last merit point just to make him open his eyes and look at her.
In that moment, she finally understands: after lying flat for so long, it’s time to take something seriously.
After all, he’s part of her KPI.
