Underworld Guide: From the Start, I Take a Heiress to the Yellow Springs

【Urban supernatural + folk horror + two powerful leads constantly sabotaging each other + rule-based horror + business warfare in the underworld + sharp-tongued, money-loving male lead】 Li Sijiu is the stingiest paper-effigy shop owner in Beijing’s old town, and the last leader of spirit mediums in the human world. When others see ghosts, they burn incense and kneel. When he sees one, he checks his ledger first: fifty million to save your life, extra for breaking barriers, and burning lifespan to unleash a big move costs more. When the underworld forcibly seizes the soul of tycoon Shen Wantang, his daughter, Shen Tingxue, throws a hundred billion at Li Sijiu’s door and forces him to descend to the Yellow Springs to rescue her father. But this isn’t an ordinary deal to buy back a life. It’s a deadly trap laid jointly by the Fifth Hall’s King of Hell and the Guixu Path: ghost soldiers marching through the mortal realm, soul-dissolving black mud, and the colossal prison of the Wrongful Death City. Every taboo is waiting for them to walk into the trap. Li Sijiu’s old ledger can seize the laws of ghosts and gods, but every use burns his vital yang energy, shortens his lifespan, and leaves him indebted to karma. When he finally turns to the ledger’s last page, he discovers that the most expensive job of his life was signed for him by his master twenty years ago.