Jiang Yu, 26, an ordinary corporate drone, died at her desk during overtime at three in the morning.
After death, she thought she could finally get some rest. Instead, a dragon told her, “You've been hired.”
The Bureau of Mountain and Sea Monster Hunting is a semi-official agency specializing in supernatural beasts. It's chronically short-staffed and underfunded, and every employee is more outrageous than the last. Her direct supervisor, Ying Lin, is an ancient Yinglong with a scheming streak. Her colleague Hu Li belongs to the nine-tailed fox clan and once served the goddess Nuwa; these days, his main duties are slacking off and drinking. There's also a little fox who secretly drank a thousand-year-old liquor and got so wasted he couldn't even act like a fox, along with Biyi managing the books, Taotie doing the cooking, and a stone spirit guarding the gate...
The moment Jiang Yu signed a “labor dispatch contract (non-staff position),” her career continued in a whole new way.
This is a book that will make you laugh and cry. It talks about waiting, about choice, about reconciliation, and about inheritance. Talking about those who are trapped in time, those who have waited for three hundred years, and those who "waiting itself is the meaning".
The surface is complaining, but the core is warmth