Lin Qiu, a poor wage worker struggling to survive in the city, was sent flying by an out-of-control truck late one night after working overtime. On the verge of death, she finally found the release she had always imagined: the two handsome "underworld civil servants" Black and White Impermanence had come to escort her. She thought she could lie flat and enjoy the peace of the afterlife, but the netherworld turned out to be even more competitive, poorer, and more chaotic than the world of the living.
As a newly dead wandering soul, Lin Qiu only wanted to hide in a corner and be a couch potato. But a casual complaint of hers pointed out a bug in the underworld's points System, accidentally shaking the entire institution to its foundations…
Along the way, she has to contend with the political maneuvering of the Ten Courts of Hell and form alliances with her former superiors, including Black and White Impermanence and the Judge, amid trust and betrayal. When she uncovers the highest secret of the underworld, the truth behind the divine throne of Fengdu, she realizes that her so-called "accidental death" was part of a carefully orchestrated game. From giving up to fighting back, from pawn to player, Lin Qiu ultimately ascends the throne as the new Great Emperor of Fengdu. Her aim is no longer merely to stabilize the underworld, but to reshape the cycle of reincarnation across the Three Realms into a fair order free of cutthroat competition.
