The Queen of the Underworld Is Working Overtime Again

Who would actually be happy to work overtime as a ghost?!

Yin Ning had been the Netherworld Empress for three thousand years, and had finally had enough of her Netherworld Emperor husband's insane overtime hours.

At the Netherworld's Nth expansion meeting, which dragged on until the third quarter of the Chou hour, she kicked over the conference table in front of all the assembled officials, snuffed out the thousand-year-old eternal lamp on the desk, tore open a rift between the realms of yin and yang, and slipped away.

The first thing she did after leaving the Netherworld was help a seven-year-old girl fulfill her wish. She signed a rental agreement with the girl, and from then on, Netherworld Empress Yin Ning opened an office in the human world specializing in ghostly affairs.

The next day, a sign reading "Where the Departed Return" went up.

Main business: handling matters for ghosts.

Hours and fees: depending on her mood.

In short, she'll do the work, but working overtime is out of the question.

Ghosts lined up at her door:

A road worker crushed flat as a pancake by a road roller;

A "male ghost" from the Republican era wearing a qipao;

Yin Ning dug up graves, hunted for treasure, climbed walls, picked locks, and brought all eighteen kinds of martial arts into play.

Meanwhile, the owner of the noodle shop next door brought her noodles every day. He was expressionless, but his cooking was excellent.

"Boss lady, have some noodles."

"Who's a boss lady? I've told you eight hundred times, we're not close. Please go back to the Netherworld."

"Mm. We're not close. The noodles will get soggy, so eat them while they're hot. I'm not going."

Yin Ning couldn't make sense of it. This man had actually put aside his official duties and chased her from the Netherworld all the way to the human world. He put down the Book of Life and Death and picked up a rolling pin, insisting on taking a "leave to pursue his wife," and forcing her to eat a bowl of noodles every day.

Reader's Guide:

@ A hot-tempered Netherworld Empress who works herself to the point of running away × an overtime-obsessed, stone-faced Netherworld Emperor. They fall for each other, 1v1, HE.

@ Standalone cases with an advancing main plot. Each story stands on its own, but all follow the same main storyline.

@ Building a career and a romance, with laughs and tears in equal measure.

Theme: Three thousand years of merit in exchange for the stability of her soul