Modern urban supernatural fantasy + promotions through the underworld bureaucracy + lighthearted everyday comedy + satisfying battles of yin and yang. He spent his life working himself to the bone as a 996 office drone. After dying, he refuses to make the same mistake again.
The day Lin Yue died, he stood before the Bridge of Helplessness and realized something: reincarnation just meant going through school, work, and late-night overtime all over again.
He made a run for it! He hid throughout the underworld, dodging work at every turn, and somehow became a thirty-year squatter who refused to enter the cycle of reincarnation.
The whole underworld was at its wits' end. They replaced eight patrol teams, asked Granny Meng to persuade him in person, and sent Ox-Head and Horse-Face into the mountains to hunt him down, but nobody could catch the slippery fellow. His district ranked dead last in evaluations year after year, and everyone from the underworld's rank-and-file clerks to its judges and Yama Kings was tearing their hair out. They just wanted to assign him somewhere and get rid of him.
In the end, the underworld made a one-time exception and offered him a single condition: a special civil-service recruitment slot just for him. If he passed, he would get a permanent position and be allowed to stay in the underworld as a ghost official. If he failed, they would immediately force him into reincarnation and back to work!
To escape the rat race of the living world for good, Lin Yue gritted his teeth, studied for the exam, and scraped through by the skin of his teeth.
The moment he received his permanent appointment, he was overjoyed, thinking he could finally put in regular office hours and coast toward retirement in the underworld.
But he never imagined new recruits would all be sent out to the front lines. One transfer order dispatched him straight to the bustling world of the living.
Guiding souls to the afterlife and capturing vengeful ghosts were part of the job. He also had to coordinate with the 749 Bureau's field team, deal with dogmatic Daoist cultivators, and work with influencer Daoist priests who livestreamed their stunts.
On top of that, he had to handle a whole bunch of bizarre ghosts with peculiar obsessions: a food-loving ghost who refused to move on, a shut-in ghost addicted to online games, and an old ghost who loved getting involved in everything. Daily life was utter chaos.
He had only planned to build up some experience before transferring back to the underworld
😄 Come on, author, it's a very good decompression novel, I can recommend it.