My Years Working the Check-In Desk in Dungeons

Shi Yu is a fairly vicious ghost, the kind who works as an NPC in an infinite game. Thanks to the power the game gave him and his frightening appearance, he successfully rose from Village Man A to become a level boss. He thought his career would be smooth sailing, but who could have guessed that on his very first day as a boss, he'd run into a troublemaker? Looking at the reincarnator wielding a baseball bat covered in talismans, killing anyone who stood in their way, be they gods or Buddhas, Shi Yu chickened out. When the reincarnator walked up to him, he instinctively took a step back and put on a (reluctantly) easygoing smile. "Dear reincarnator, would you like this exit key, or this reward key?" ...I'm begging you, please leave me one in the end. After all, us NPCs have quotas to meet too! That night, Shi Yu, promoted once again through his own hard work, smeared blood all over his face and climbed in through a window, grinning menacingly as he tried to scare the players taking part in the game. Who could have known that the communication device on him would suddenly ring right then? "Baby, every time I see a ghost, I can't help thinking of you. Have you been thinking of me tonight too?" When Shi Yu didn't answer, a man's voice rang out, refusing to let up. The reincarnator, who had been trembling all over just a moment ago, no longer seemed afraid and had stopped shaking. Even though Shi Yu looked a little rough around the edges, the reincarnator couldn't help giving him a curious, gossipy look. Shi Yu: ... Shi Yu shook with rage: "You lousy boyfriend, you're ruining my future!" He was just about to pretend he hadn't heard and keep scaring people when a message from a colleague in the instance came through: [Xiao Shi, help! Your partner is on his way to find you, and he's nearly beaten several of our colleagues right out of the instance!] "...All right, I miss you too." Ignoring the curious looks from the reincarnators around him, Shi Yu ultimately chose to sacrifice himself for his career. "Stay right where you are. I'll come find you right away." Notes: 1. Xiao Shi will be demoted, all the way down to the level of an "elite monster." His approach to dealing with the love interest changes after the story goes premium, so cuties can check the table of contents beforehand to get a general idea. 2. Xiao Xie brings a bit of bad luck, but almost everything he accidentally derails will more or less be restored in the end. He's a rather atypical hzc. 3. The story isn't told from the pursuer's point of view. I feel that seeing things through Xiao Shi's eyes lets me take all you good folks behind the scenes of the instances and show you more, so I chose the pursued one's point of view. Also, based on my limited writing experience, this perspective gives me more room to work with. 4. Those of you pointing out potential issues don't need to keep rewriting the story in your heads and continuing it for me. If you keep doing that, I'll be tempted to send you my account password and ask you to finish the story for me. Here's my one-line response: the content before the first comma in points 1 and 2. In the future, he won't be demoted to a cannon-fodder character, nor will he die thirty or fifty times. His career and points are all thanks to Xiao Xie's indulgence. 5. To be continued. Stay tuned... Thank you, all you wonderful readers, for your support. If you don't like the premise, please don't force yourself to read it. Maybe we'll meet again another time [finger heart] Theme: Love can overcome anything