The Underworld's Top Earner

The series “The Internet’s Only Positive-Energy Idol Who Urges You to Study” is complete. Come check it out! Here’s the blurb:

996 wage slave Li Lili always believed that if she worked hard, she could rise above the rest and swagger around the CBD with a Hermès bag (not really).

Until she suddenly died a violent death.

Lili: In my next life, let me be born into a rich family. I don’t want to work hard anymore.

Unexpectedly, after death she joined the Underworld’s civil service system as a management trainee. Not only was reincarnation out of the question, she also had to work diligently for hundreds of years.

Heavens! I really am a wage slave, body and soul!

She rotates to the reception department and becomes an Underworld customer-service agent: The service industry is so hard. Good thing I made a close friend!

She rotates to the Soul-Summoning Squad: Why are the Underworld police so handsome? Are they escaped poultry from some PR agency?

The Soul-Summoning Squad’s captain, You Lanyu, has served for 900 years. He’s an Underworld ghost general, beautiful, strong, and miserable. Now that’s interesting!

The deputy captain, A Pang, is a bull-headed ghost bailiff, a Beijing young master who’s served for 27 years. Such a sunny boy. I’m sold.

She rotates to the Reincarnation Office: Granny Meng is actually trying to steal my man?

Going to work has suddenly become so exciting. Don’t ask why. I just love work. Work makes me happy!

Keep it up, Underworld wage slaves!

New story 1, “The Gold Rush Trail of the Eighties,” is now open for advance reservations. The character illustrations are out, and they’re gorgeous. Go take a look!

In her previous life, Ji Shu fell into a den of scumbags:

Her scumbag dad faked an illness to gain sympathy. A lazy good-for-nothing, he leeched off Ji Shu’s mother until he had nothing left to take.

Her scumbag younger brother never studied, got into fights, and disappeared without a trace after reaching adulthood.

Her scumbag husband became a tycoon, but cheated and abused her. After divorcing him in her thirties, Ji Shu lived alone.

Ji Shu finally understood.

Men slow down my money-making. Dating is no match for making money.

Though she later started a business, she had already missed the golden eighties and nineties, when opportunity was everywhere. In the end, she was only a small-time online shop owner living alone.

When Ji Shu is reborn in the late eighties, at the age of eighteen, she swears to ride the waves of the times and strike gold!

Ji Shu looks down at her younger brother, whose hand she’s holding. “Starting today, you’re going to learn how to be a decent man. Otherwise, I’ll chop you up.”

She glances at her boyfriend beside her. “You, get lost. Dating you is slowing down my money-making.”

She takes a look at her scumbag dad lying in bed when she gets home. “You’re going out to work right now, or I’m cutting ties with you.”

After that, she starts factories, sells small commodities, studies abroad, and founds an internet company, becoming an indisputable role model for women.

Meanwhile, a certain internet mogul who returned from abroad discovers that he’s fallen for her:

How can there be an opponent so pure and unpretentious?

I don’t want to acquire your company, and I don’t want to invest in you. I want you.

Ji Shu: Dating slows down my money-making... Wait, you can help me make money?

New story 2, “The Drama Queen White Lotus Fails at Her Conquest Again [Entertainment Industry],” is now open for advance reservations! The cover and character illustrations are ready, and they look amazing. Don’t miss it if you’re passing by!

Drama queen actress Bai Lian suddenly transmigrates into a book, an entertainment-industry novel.

She isn’t the heroine or the villainess. She’s an NPC who doesn’t even have a name: the hero’s first love.

According to the story, she’s the one who teaches the hero how to love.

But the book describes her in fewer than three lines, and gives her just one defining trait: a naive, saintly white lotus.

Since she’s already here, Bai Lian plans to lie flat and enjoy life. Who cares whether the hero learns to love or not? Let him love whoever he wants!

Unexpectedly, she gets bound to a conquest System: She must win over the hero, Jiang Xi, and stay in character, or she’ll die on the spot.

To stay alive, Bai Lian, known as an ordinary little genius at romance, is forced to start her conquest of the hero.

Huh? Why is this so difficult?!

System: Otherwise, why would we have picked you?

Jiang Xi, heir to the SK entertainment empire, has just turned 28, and Grandpa Jiang is frantic.

Jiang Xi speaks five foreign languages, holds dual degrees in business administration and literature, and is secretly an MMA fighting master.

Even more remarkable, he has an icy, chaste face that can rival any movie star’s.

Of course, Grandpa Jiang isn’t worried about his heir’s abilities. He’s worried because Jiang Xi seems determined never to fall in love.

In desperation, Grandpa Jiang approaches Bai Lian, a rookie actress reputed to be the best flirt in the entertainment industry, and asks her to help his son see the light.

It’s fine if she leaves him heartbroken. He just needs to let his son experience love: I’ll give you 100 million. Just don’t leave my son!

Watching Bai Lian use every trick in the book, Jiang Xi sneers. “Stop acting. I don’t like your type.”

Bai Lian gives up pretending. “If it weren’t for this mission, I wouldn’t even spare you a glance!”

Jiang Xi: ? Now that’s interesting.jpg

System: Why not try breaking character?

A cool, charismatic drama queen actress forced to play a white lotus × a sharp-tongued, narcissistic CEO who has seen through the world

New story 3, “The Hired Bride,” is now open for advance reservations. A sweet romance (?) with mystery and detective cases in the entertainment industry:

When Ni Hong first entered the business, her mentor told her, “Don’t ask why.”

Clients might be doing it to comfort their parents, to satisfy society’s expectations, or to fulfill a wish in their hearts. Whatever the reason, they hire a bride to put on an act, pay the money, and that’s that. Don’t ask questions.

Ni Hong took that to heart.

Her mentor also said this line of work was niche, but if you did it well, couldn’t you earn more than working as an extra in Hengdian?

Ni Hong nodded, picturing the balance in her bank account. It was a dismal figure.

After playing a hired bride at three weddings, Ni Hong thought she was an old hand. Then she met Gu Ling.

When the tall, lean man said he wanted to hire her to play a bride for an entire year, she was stunned.

Her mentor smiled. “This is obviously a scam. You’d still take the job?”

Ni Hong opened her phone and showed her mentor the amount Gu Ling had just transferred.

Her mentor grinned ingratiatingly. “Take it, take it, take it. Accept right away! Ask Mr. Gu if he has any friends who need a hired bride, too.”

Gu Ling was so strange. He bought her clothes, shoes, designer bags and watches, a mansion and a sports car. He even announced to the world that Ji Ni Hong was his bride. He was going to help her fulfill her dream, too, and make her a movie star.

Ni Hong spoke with a quaver in her voice. “Hey, Gu Ling, if you’re sick, go get treated. You’re scaring me. I’ll pay you back. I’m done with this act!”

Gu Ling sneered. “I’m not sick.”

Ni Hong curled up into a ball. “Then... then am I your long-lost sister?”

Gu Ling clenched his teeth, as if he might bite through them. “I do have a sister, but it isn’t you. You’re the only person who can help me find her.”

At the same time, the “girl kidnapper,” who had been silent for many years, suddenly resurfaces and strikes again. Ni Hong begins to recover her lost memories.

Theme: Searching for your true self