Hell's Top Salesman: Starting at the Convenience Store

[Urban Fantasy] [Business and Growth] [Satisfying Sales Story] [Subverting Expectations]

The thing Chen Mo is best at in this life is selling things to other people.

He has sold insurance, houses, and financial products, and he was always the top performer. Then he was laid off for refusing to help his company shift the blame onto its customers.

On his thirtieth day unemployed, his bank account held just 327.5 yuan.

Then he saw a job ad: Night Manager at a 24-Hour Convenience Store, 20,000 yuan a month, room and board included.

The interview question was strange: "Are you afraid of ghosts?"

Chen Mo smiled. "No. I've dealt with customers more troublesome than ghosts."

He started work at midnight that night and discovered that every customer who came into the store after midnight was actually a ghost.

The starving ghosts came to buy late-night snacks, the frozen ghosts came for hot-water bottles, the wronged ghosts came to buy "the truth," and even the Ghost King lined up for "Reincarnation Consultation Services."

When other people met ghosts, they screamed, ran away, and exorcised them.

When Chen Mo met ghosts, he smiled, handed them his business card, and said, "Welcome! What can I get for you?"

"So what if they're ghosts? Ghosts are customers too."

And so, limited-edition cigarettes sold for triple the price, loopholes in the rules became premium services, local gods were talked into becoming brand ambassadors, and Section Chief Zhao from the Underworld became a major government-business client.

From one run-down convenience store, to a chain spanning the worlds of yin and yang, to a business empire ruling both realms.

But Chen Mo gradually discovered that there was more to the store than met the eye: the fire in 2003, his father who had been missing for eighteen years, the deliberate disruption of the balance between yin and yang, and the true identity of the sharp-tongued System inside the cash register...

"There's nothing that can't be sold, only people who don't know how to sell it."

"This time, I'm going to sell peace to the whole world."