I'm on Duty in the World of the Living

★ My next books: "The Top-Tier Star's Talismans-Writing Wife Is Impossible to Win Over" / "My Husband Is a Born Drama Queen". Hilarious, sweet, and satisfying. Please add them to your reading list! ★ ▼Story Synopsis▼ Yun Qing, director of the Underworld Registration Office, has been run ragged lately. Her carefree ghostly life of drinking tea and reading the papers all day is over, and she's been sent to the human world to investigate why vengeful ghosts are running rampant. But I'm a civil servant!! Knowing that going it alone is practically asking to get killed, she tricks a teammate into joining her: Song Jinyan, heir to a century-old family of celestial masters. When a group of cat spirits attacks: Song Jinyan: "How are we attacking this time?" Yun Qing pulls a burrowing talisman from her bag. "I'm going first. You cover our retreat!" When they discover a murderous corpse in a graveyard: Song Jinyan shields Yun Qing as he struggles to hold it back. "Got a plan? I can't hold on much longer." Yun Qing stares at his finely sculpted profile. "How about you try flashing that pretty face again?" It's fun to sabotage your teammate once. Keep doing it, and it's fun forever. After a while, even the ghost world can't help wondering: What kind of sins did Celestial Master Song commit in his past life to end up with such a terrible teammate? Until one day, the vengeful ghosts in the morgue gang up on Song Jinyan and leave him badly wounded. Just as they wonder at the eerie smile curling his lips, they notice that the floor beneath them has been covered in talismanic symbols. At the center of the symbols stands Yun Qing, holding the Book of Life and Death. The moment her red eyes flash, golden light bursts forth. The evil ghosts turn into ghostly flames in an instant. Before they disappear, one lets out a furious final cry: "So the rumors really were all lies!" * Song Jinyan will never forget the day he first met Yun Qing. She held a battered notebook in one hand and his wrist in the other, her eyes seeming to sparkle with starlight. "I can open your third eye. Will you team up with me to exorcise ghosts and slay demons?" [Scholarly Underworld Official] x [The Human World's Strongest Celestial Master] Reader's note: This is supernatural fiction, not natural science. Don't take it as fact! * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ▼Upcoming Book Synopsis▼ Upcoming Book 1: "The Top-Tier Star's Talismans-Writing Wife Is Impossible to Win Over". Please add it to your reading list! * Li An is determined to cultivate the emotionless path, and she has a superstar fiance. After their whirlwind wedding, a woman claiming to be Qi Xingchen's former lover shows up at Li An's door the very next day. She clutches Li An and sobs, claiming she's pregnant with Qi Xingchen's child. Li An frowns at the infant spirit on the woman's shoulder. "You've lost four pregnancies, and Qi Xingchen made you lose every one? I'll call that scumbag right now!" The supposed former lover goes pale and nervously slaps the phone out of her hand before fleeing without looking back. I... I never said I'd lost any! How did she know? Not long after, her mother-in-law in name only comes by again, acting high and mighty and looking for a fight. But before she can even enter, Li An takes one look at the dark mark between her brows and throws rice all over her. The mother-in-law watches as Li An pulls a talisman from her clothes. Her expression changes instantly, and she grabs Li An's arm, pleading, "Immortal maiden, please save me!" Li An and Qi Xingchen are bound by their birth charts. They've never even met, but family tradition says they have to marry. She thought he might run away from the wedding or propose a quick marriage followed by divorce. She never expected him to send her a Zhou dynasty wedding robe. It was her secret favorite thing, the one she thought only she knew about. On their wedding day, red silk banners stretch from the foot of the mountain to its peak. The secret marriage Li An expected becomes a wave of congratulations across the whole internet. Qi Xingchen makes a show of pulling her into the frame of every media outlet's camera. At the time, she thinks he's doing it to trend because he's a celebrity. Actually, Qi Xingchen is thinking: I'm obviously showing off how happy I am! * Qi Xingchen has been secretly in love with Li An. Ever since she casually protected him when they were children, ever since she never remembered who he was, ever since he secretly hid nearby and kept her company while she cried, ever since he realized his heart and eyes had no room for anyone else... He knew that, in this life, Li An would be Qi Xingchen's whole universe. Reader's guide: 1. [Sweet and obedient in front of his wife, sharp-tongued, cunning, and scheming behind her back] x [Cool-faced, warm-hearted heroine from a family of mystics] 2. The hero is devoted to her alone, and he personally puts the other women in their place. 3. The heroine's plan to cultivate the emotionless path is part of the story, but she hasn't started yet. 4. Both are each other's one and only, in body and soul. 5. The modern setting is entirely fictional and is not meant to be scrutinized. Add "The Top-Tier Star's Talismans-Writing Wife Is Impossible to Win Over" to your reading list from my profile ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Upcoming Book 2: "My Husband Is a Born Drama Queen". Please add it to your reading list! After accidentally falling into the water, Sheng Ling discovers that she was reincarnated into this world as a fetus. In the original novel, the heroine will transmigrate into the villainess five years later. With her intelligence and resourcefulness, she'll help the hero rise to power, and the two will live happily ever after. Sheng Ling, meanwhile, is just the hero's long-dead first wife, someone who exists only in a few words he says. He and Sheng Ling aren't deeply in love at all. They're forced to marry because he saved her from drowning. That's what Sheng Ling, who knows the plot, originally thought. Until the fourth concubine from the rear courtyard comes running to her, sobbing: "Your Highness, Yao'er begs you to save Xue Lang! The Prince is going to have him executed by slicing!" Sheng Ling rubs her temples in frustration. "Where's the Prince? Where is he now?!" The concubines in the manor are all sweet and gentle, and all have devoted lovers, except that they don't like the Prince. Apparently, he'd promised to send them home after a few years, once the political climate settled down. But ever since she married him, that dog has been acting crazy and picking fights every day. That would be bad enough, but every time, he threatens to slice someone to death. He's not tired of it, but she's sick of hearing the same sob story from the concubines over and over! It's the same imperial garden, and the same wooden frame for tying people up. To Sheng Ling's surprise, Fourth Concubine's Xue Lang isn't tied to it. Instead, the two men face each other. Xue Lang feebly throws a punch, and the Prince dramatically falls to the ground, wailing. Then he pretends he's only just noticed her, squeezes out two tears, and rushes over to wrap her in his arms. Yan Junze: "Wuwu, I'm hurt. I don't want to sleep in the study tonight. I want my wife to hold me while I sleep." Sheng Ling: "..." * Yan Junze is a fan of Sheng Ling. Unlike the ordinary people of the Tianyuan dynasty, who are infatuated with the only daughter of the regent, he doesn't merely admire her. He's in love with her. So much so that when his father announced he would betroth her to the eldest prince, Yan Junze made sure his big brother spent three days on laxatives and gave up on her for good. He never thought he could marry Sheng Ling. He knew better than anyone that a good-for-nothing playboy prince wasn't worthy of a woman blessed by heaven. Even when he saw her fall into the water and jumped in after her without hesitation, all he could think was: The road to the underworld is dark. Junze will go with you. Later... Yan Junze's inner thoughts: If something I never even dared to dream of has suddenly come true, then I have to keep trying. I'll make all the things I've dreamed of night after night come true, too! Reader's guide: 1. A shameless, scheming fake playboy x a laid-back, sharp-witted true daughter of heaven who never lets anyone take advantage of her 2. The hero is obsessed with winning his wife over and spoiling her. He's ruthless to everyone else, especially his rivals in love. 3. The original novel's heroine never appears. The hero never lived happily ever after with her, either. In and out of the book, he only loves the heroine. 4. Both are each other's one and only, in body and soul. 5. All backgrounds and characters in this story are fictional and not meant to be scrutinized. Upcoming book, add it to your reading list from my profile ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Theme: Live well in the present.