[Comedy + scheming + supernatural resurgence + subverting expectations + capitalist]
“The scariest thing in this world isn't ghosts. It's being broke!”
Unable to pay his rent, Lin Xuan takes a night-shift security job at Jiangcheng's most notorious abandoned hospital for just 3,000 yuan.
At midnight, a red-clad female ghost snaps her neck and leans over his back, blowing cold air. “I'm… so… cold…”
Lin Xuan whips around and slaps her hard, then beats her to her knees with a riot baton and forces her to sign an “Open-Ended Employment Contract.”
“You have your own freezing domain? You're going to work in the cold storage room as a refrigeration unit! Never get tired? Then go power my generator in the basement!”
[Ding! The Supernatural Reemployment System has been bound!]
From then on, the entire supernatural world changed beyond recognition.
Midnight ghost delivery riders were forced to deliver takeout around the clock, and their e-bikes never even needed charging;
The hanging ghost in the haunted maze was made into an escape-room NPC, trembling in fear as visitors scared her every day;
A century-old blood-robed ghost king descended upon the human world, but before he could start slaughtering, Lin Xuan had him hauling cement at a construction site.
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When the supernatural fully resurged across the globe and everyone cowered in safe zones,
Lin Xuan looked at the gods and demons filling the sky, eyes gleaming, and pulled out a thick stack of employment contracts. “Brothers, the free labor market is open! Round them all up and put them to work at the sewing machines!”
The ghosts cried, “Please, act like a human being! Even the capitalists in the underworld would weep at the sight of you!”
The content is scary but humorous. It doesn't look boring and has rich associations. Dare to think and write, it's good, the ideas are novel and interesting, the pace is tight, and it doesn't procrastinate. I will continue to pursue it. Big boost for the author!