In the seventh year of the spiritual qi revival, spirits, demons, and monsters all have to pass a human qualification exam and disguise themselves as office workers to get jobs and pay social insurance.
Lin Yi, a living skeleton who has been around for a thousand years, only wants to quietly work as an artist and pay off his Huabei debt. But Su Wanqing, an old god’s follower pretending to be an investment banking executive, catches him in a compromising position: he accidentally snapped her coccyx on the subway.
His compensation is to join the “Abnormal Creature Reemployment Service Center,” help repair her bones, and take clients on the side.
A butter spirit gets fired from a cake shop? He’s on it. A sloth spirit gets complaints while working customer service? He’s on it. A white tiger spirit gets kicked out of a gym for being too big? He’s on it again.
He thinks he’s just working to pay off a debt, but step by step he gets drawn into the “Balance Plan,” jointly devised by the human leadership and the old gods: an ultimate purge that will require sacrificing the bloodlines of ninety-nine old gods.
