After Work, Please Visit Hell [Infinite]

Xin Jiu, a twenty-two-year-old trainee director for a stand-up comedy show, has her sarcastic commentary skills maxed out, but she is also a thoroughly miserable corporate workhorse. One day, after working unpaid overtime, she took the last subway to hell, the Naraka subway system, to save money on a taxi. The good news: She would not have to go to that awful job tomorrow! The bad news: This subway only takes people in and never lets them out. If she did not want to die, she had to earn ten thousand points with her life on the line. Facing a hellish start, Xin Jiu displayed the professionalism of a top-tier office drone: Fine, what difference does it make where I work like an ox? But this time, the KPI is a little hardcore: stay alive. Here, each circular line has a strict hierarchy. They are the gods' testing grounds and madmen's amusement parks. The stations are bizarre and uncanny instances. Only by clearing them can one earn the points needed to stay alive. Damn it! In the real world, taking the subway makes it convenient to go to work. Here, taking the subway makes it convenient to go die. First stop: corpse-melting water filling the sky, and she still has to deliver packages? Is sacrificing her teammates to the heavens the only way to survive the night? Second stop: a century-old haunted residence filled with family infighting, where humans and ghosts share a table. Want to survive? First learn how to be a proper servant to the inhuman masters and mistresses. Third stop: a Japanese hot-spring hotel. Every day, she must visit one attraction and collect a stamp, but doing so requires risking her life. Is this a tourist destination or a death trap? Fourth stop: a Chinese dreamcore world, an inescapable time loop, and a nineties era that has stopped forever. How can she break the dream? Fifth stop... sixth stop... from E-rank to S-rank... Every challenge is difficult, yet every challenge is overcome, because only by surviving can one reach the "Sumeru Paradise." After clearing a station instance, players enter the den of extravagance suspended above hell, the "Sumeru Paradise." Here, pleasure numbs the nerves, and every desire has a clearly marked price. The players split into two factions: the "Indulgers," who lose themselves in pleasure, and the "Awakened," who bitterly await salvation. But Xin Jiu chose neither faction. Her motto is: Be a model employee, eat the System's food, fleece the System's sheep, and flip the System's table. While everyone else is learning to obey the rules, she begins learning how to dismantle them. When the strong feed on the weak and the System sits above all, dictating the rules, she tries to form an alliance. Until the day she fought through every instance and stood at the end of Naraka. Looking at the lofty god, she calmly raised a megaphone: "According to Article One of the Player Rights Protection Act, our company, Naraka, is suspected of serious illegal employment practices." "We are now initiating collective labor arbitration." "Our demands are: dissolve the company and compensate every employee for emotional distress, one hundred million per person, payable immediately!" All the ghosts fell silent. The gods were dumbfounded. #Give the Infinite-Flow System a Little Shock from a Corporate Drone# #We agreed to be workhorses together, but you secretly became the master of the rules# #While everyone else was struggling to survive in fear, she was already drafting the Player Rights Protection Act# When forming a team in hell's instances, there always has to be something in it for each person. Xin Jiu wants Ye Xian because he can fight, take a beating, and turn into a human weapon when he goes berserk. Ye Xian wants Xin Jiu because she is smart, clear-headed, and absolutely merciless when making calculations. The two hit it off immediately and turned hell's workplace into a mutual-aid group for corporate drones. Until one day, Ye Xian took a blow for her. Covered in blood and barely conscious, he said, "Now... you have to take care of me for the rest of your life, right?" While bandaging him, Xin Jiu calmly mocked him. "Try pretending a little harder, and I can send you painlessly into your next life right now." Ye Xian immediately sat bolt upright as if miraculously cured. "The next life is too far away. We have to seize the day." #We agreed this was only mutual exploitation, so how did we end up investing the rest of our lives in each other?# Reading Guide: 1. The heroine is extremely down-to-earth, the kind of ordinary person you might meet on the subway or at a market. This is a story dedicated to writing about grassroots heroines and heroes. 2. A cool-headed, sarcastic older-sister type x a mad-dog, fun-loving young wolfdog. 3. A growth and leveling-up story. The heroine is neither saintly nor evil. She has clear likes and dislikes, and she can be afraid, cry, and get angry, but she will grow stronger step by step and become stronger and stronger. 4. Blind-box-style instances, leaning toward traditional infinite flow. No special powers, no livestreaming, and no System in her head. 5. Plot-driven, with a light romance arc. There is a male lead, and he is not merely a background character. Premise: Survive in desperate circumstances while preserving the brilliance of humanity.