Notice of the Evil Spirit Examination

When Wen Xu received his "Evil Ghost Assessment Notice," he knew there was something fishy about his death.

·Other ghosts were assessed on killing people, scaring them, and creating despair.

·His assessment tasks: repair a roof, break up a fight, and tuck a living child into bed.

All because his personal examiner was Xie Changming, the "Iron-Faced Judge" renowned throughout the Underworld.

They said this god was cold and impartial, and hated resentment and bloodshed above all.

·Wen Xu had no choice but to hide all his hostility and become a model ghost who was "civilized, courteous, disciplined, and beautiful" in countless terrifying instances.

He hid his doubts and played the part of the obedient ghost, all to fulfill the examiner's promise: "Wash away your sins and reenter the cycle of reincarnation."

Until, in an SSS-grade instance, he instinctively unleashed the sealed power of the "Ancient Ghost King" to save Xie Changming.

The instant his power awakened, forgotten fragments of memory pierced his soul.

There had been no sudden, accidental death.

A thousand years ago, it was this very Judge Xie, cool as the moon, who personally nailed him, then a Ghost King, to the Soul-Purging Pillar.

"Caught you." Xie Changming's hand passed through the rampaging ghostly energy and gently covered his bloodstained eyelids.

In those eyes, which had always held only rules and punishment, surged a pain he had never seen before, and... tenderness?

"This time, don't even think about escaping." Xie Changming's voice was hoarse. "And don't you dare... die for me again."

He looked at the man before him, who had disguised himself as an examiner and toyed with him at will. His voice was hoarse. "You sentenced me to utter annihilation, then personally rebuilt my soul... What exactly do you want?"

Xie Changming's fingertips brushed the corner of his eye as he said softly, "I want you to hate me, and even more, I want you... alive to hate me."

[Reading Guide]

1. Clear-headed, rational, deceptively innocent Ghost King Wen Xu X cold on the outside, madly devoted Judge Xie Changming

2. Both powerful, enemies to lovers, mutual redemption.

3. On the surface, it's an assessment game between a cold boss and an obedient subordinate. Beneath that, it's a thousand-year pursuit of his beloved, planned step by step, with plenty of heartbreak.

4. Expansive world: episodic instances + a thousand-year conspiracy at the heart of the main plot.

5. Happy ending, but the road there is paved with both angst and sweetness.

6. More focus on the plot.

Theme: My examiner personally sent me to the afterlife in my previous life