"The birth rate in the mortal world has plummeted. Countless souls are stranded, and the reincarnation index has dropped another 30 percent year over year. Immediate intervention required!"
With the number of ghosts in the underworld exploding, Ling Zhao, Director of the Reincarnation Bureau, opened a chain of immersive haunted houses in the mortal world to solve the problem of ghosts having nowhere to reincarnate. The NPCs were all real ghosts employed by the underworld, and the ones with the most terrifying deaths were dragged off to work. The effects were so realistic that the haunted houses trended every day.
Just as business was booming, several of his branches were wiped out in one fell swoop. Ling Zhao stared wide-eyed at the pretty young Taoist on the security footage.
Wait... Why does this person look familiar?
"Gu Mingxi?!" Ling Zhao was so furious his liver hurt.
They had agreed to meet again in the underworld after death. He had kept his promise and reported to the underworld, but Gu Mingxi had vanished without a trace. Ling Zhao searched everywhere and couldn't find him. In the end, he waited at the Reincarnation Bureau, working his way up from a junior ghost official to its director, but Gu Mingxi never showed up.
He had waited a whole thousand years, and now this guy had come to wreck his business at the busiest possible time!
The battered little ghosts wailed, "Director, we've been beaten up! You have to avenge us..."
"I'll go deal with him myself!" Ling Zhao declared boldly.
Inside the haunted house, Gu Mingxi, currently suffering from amnesia, pointed his sword at Ling Zhao's throat and demanded coldly, "You're their boss?"
Ling Zhao put on an innocent look. "I'm being framed, Senior Taoist Brother. I'm just a visitor here to see the haunted house."
"Huh?" The other ghost employees watching nearby were so shocked their jaws nearly hit the floor. Was this really their mighty, imposing, stern, cold Director of the Reincarnation Bureau?
"Boss, are you okay? Why are you pretending to be innocent? Do something about him!"
"Get out of my way!" Ling Zhao kicked him aside. What a clueless idiot, getting in the way of his pursuit of his beloved...
Gu Mingxi steadily moved his sword forward another inch. "Are you human or a ghost?"
"Of course I'm human, Senior Taoist Brother. You can feel my heartbeat if you don't believe me." Ling Zhao firmly grabbed his hand and pushed it into his shirt, which was unbuttoned at the top. "Come on, feel it! Go ahead!"
Gu Mingxi: Case closed. What a frivolous man... wait, is he a man?
A few warnings:
1. The pursuing partner dotes on the receiving partner. Readers who prefer otherwise, beware.
2. Romance-focused, with everyday interactions between the couple at its heart.
Premise: Maintain public order
After reading Xiaohongshu's tweets, I think the setting is quite interesting, but the author doesn't like to update it.