The Infinite-Overtime Kid

Shi Liangming had just graduated from university at twenty-two and started working at a law firm. She was forced to become an elite wage slave earning just 2,800 yuan a month, enduring daily abuse from her supervisor and exploitation by her boss. Life was hard, but it wasn’t exactly fun, either. One day, after finishing work, she collapsed into bed, exhausted. When she woke up again, she found herself inexplicably in a high-end hospital room, wearing a patient’s gown. It seemed she was a patient. It took her a day to figure out her current situation. She had amnesia. There weren’t many good things, and there were plenty of bad ones. The good news was that she had a remarkably impressive new job. Her monthly take-home pay was nearly 100,000 yuan, with a thirteenth-month salary, plus quarterly, semiannual, and annual bonuses of 200,000 yuan each. The bad news was that the job had an astonishing 60 percent mortality rate within two years. The work mainly involved going to haunted places and fighting ghosts. The good news was that she had inexplicably awakened several powerful supernatural abilities. She’d heard that before losing her memory, she’d been a pretty capable hand at the job. In short, she was a wage slave all over again. The bad news was that she seemed to have offended her direct supervisor. She was an exceptionally beautiful, aloof young woman named Fu Ling, who shared a surname with the organization’s founder, her own boss. The beautiful young woman was two years younger than her, with absurdly strong work skills. Unfortunately, she was a loner with a strange temper, and she was always staring at Shi Liangming coldly, like a ghost. Shi Liangming put up with it, and put up with it, but in the end she couldn’t hold back and accidentally offended her. Then came another good… bad piece of news. She realized that her young, beautiful supervisor seemed to have improper designs on her. Despite holding different positions, the two of them had somehow been assigned to the same dorm room. One time, Shi Liangming woke from a dream and happened to catch her usually stern, intimidating boss creeping toward her bed in a cute, fluffy set of pajamas. The woman seemed to have gotten quite practiced at it. She tiptoed into the bed, pulled the covers over herself, wriggled closer, and carefully pressed herself against Shi Liangming’s back, settling down right beside her. After that, on countless nights and countless times waking from dreams, Shi Liangming would find a second person in her bed. A beautiful girl, cold as ice and ghostlike. Theme: Be a good person and keep striving every day.