After Joining the Underworld, I Became a Winner in Life

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After graduating from college, Lu Jianqing stumbled into an educational school called Yin Jian and became its newest teacher.

On her first day at work, before Lu Jianqing had even entered the classroom, she saw one of her students floating in midair with the exact same face as a long-dead literary figure from her textbook. Pointing at the new textbook she had just bought, the student raged helplessly: "What a load of nonsense! I didn't mean that at all when I wrote this essay! I never said that!"

Lu Jianqing: "???"

It seemed like there was something a little off about the students she was supposed to teach.

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At first, the resident ghosts at the school thought that, aside from being pretty and knowing how to cook, the new little teacher didn't seem to have anything special about her. They figured they could scare her off with no effort.

That was until they saw her effortlessly knead a troublemaking spirit into any shape she wanted, kick the head off a vicious ghost like a ball, and even snap a zombie's bloodstained fangs with her bare hands...

The resident ghosts: "..."

Damn! What was with this living person? Wasn't she the real terrifying ghost here?!

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Years later, an outstanding graduate pointed to a photo of Lu Jianqing and earnestly advised the younger ghosts: "Do you know who in the entire underworld is the person you should never mess with?"

"His Majesty the Ghost Emperor?"

"Of course not." The ghosts, mercilessly drilled by Five Years as a Ghost, Three Years of Mock Exams, gazed back with tears in their eyes. "His wife!"

Female lead: When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you.

The ghosts: When the hell did you change your name to Abyss?!

Reader's Guide:

1. A supernatural, feel-good comedy. The ghosts and gods are mostly based on the author's own worldbuilding, so don't take it too seriously.

2. The heroine is beautiful, bold, and wildly unconventional, with a level of strength that makes no scientific sense.

3. Also known as: #The Years I Made Ghosts Take the Gaokao Practice Exams in the Mortal World# #Did I Rip a Vicious Ghost Apart Today? Don't Rush, I Did#

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My Paper-Doll Characters Have All Run Out

As a little phoenix who gained sentience after the founding of the country, Lu Kou thought she was on track for a story about studying hard and revitalizing the demon world. But before she could graduate, the stable job she'd been promised went under because the senior great demon running it was bad at business. She was so broke she was nearly reduced to selling her underwear on the street for cash.

Lu Kou: "..."

Life as a demon was so hard. She could barely afford to keep the paper-doll characters on her phone alive, so she had no choice but to earn some extra money by joining an adventure reality show, otherwise known as a death wish, just to make ends meet.

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At first, the viewers who stumbled onto the show thought they were watching an ordinary reality program that was supernatural exploration in name, but really just an educational science show.

Until later...

Viewer A: I saw that giant snake stick out its tongue, sing while clacking castanets, and ask people for money with my own eyes. How is that thing anything like a mechanical snake?!

Viewer B: What? Where did you find those extras? Why does the chef in the kitchen look so much like my late aunt?!

Viewer C: The production crew can make excuses for the stuff above, but what about the man beside Lu Kou who cut an entire abandoned apartment building in half with one sword strike, the dragon who keeps spitting up gold, and the young boy who plays with a skull?!

Lu Kou: "...That one's impossible to explain."

After all, before she started playing the game, nobody told her that her paper-doll characters could run out of the game and chase after her, demanding to be raised!

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In another world, a once-proud prodigy of the immortal sects had his bones and tendons ruined and fell into the mud. A golden dragon, meant to soar through the heavens, was trapped in the abyss and clinging to life. A demon boy who should have lived freely lost his parents and was left destitute and alone.

They fell to the very depths, thinking they would never see a glimmer of light again. But someone stubbornly lifted them out of the darkness and lit up their entire world.

Lu Kou thought she had merely played a game.

She had no idea what kind of longing her "paper-doll characters" held for her.

--They wanted to see her, protect her, live in the same world as her, and bring her all the best and most precious things.

--They wanted to build a home with her.

How Do I Make My Paper-Doll Characters, Who Are Overprotective of Me, Understand That I'm Not a Helpless Little Thing Who'll Fall Over at a Push? Later, When the Many Demons and Ghosts Remembered the Terror of Being Ruled by the Benevolent Lu... What? Why Didn't We Fight Back? Hilarious. We Couldn't Beat Her!

Theme: No matter where you are, remember to study hard.