A Traitor Has Appeared Among Us Demons

The little monster Mu Ruo had lived for two thousand years without managing to do anything remarkable. Then one day, a bolt of heavenly lightning struck him. It not only turned him into a human, but also opened his celestial acupoint, teaching him Taoist magic without a teacher.

As the first little monster in the world able to use Taoist magic, Mu Ruo naturally got a position through the back door in the Field Operations Department of the Monster Management Office, the only official and legal agency in the human world responsible for managing demons, monsters, and other supernatural beings.

The Field Operations Department's staff (and monsters), who had no idea what was really going on, all looked at him with disdain. Can't we stop dumping every useless person in our department? Do you really think this place is a recycling center?

But no one expected that, after a few missions, the demons and ghosts they had never been able to catch before would be casually scooped up by this well-connected recruit, like chicks, and tossed into a battered sack.

As they watched the sack continue to writhe, the whole team stared in bewilderment, tossed about by the wind. This has to be a hallucination!

It wasn't until one day that they suddenly discovered...

The shabby sack that looked like you could tear it apart with one tug was actually the Taoist sect's treasured Eight Trigrams Cosmos Bag.

The talisman Mu Ruo had stuck on the office building as mosquito repellent was the long-lost ancient Demon-Driving and Ghost-Subduing Talisman.

And the little black snake that followed him around all day, wagging its tail as hard as it could, was none other than the offspring of a Teng Snake, one of the Four Divine Beasts spoken of only in myths.

The Field Operations Department's staff (and monsters): Boss, where are you going to show off (crossed out) catch monsters today? I'll rub your shoulders, massage your legs, and carry your sack!

Monsters run rampant and ghosts wreak havoc in Chang'an District. All kinds of thousand-year-old monsters have made their lairs there. They only respect strength, not reason, giving the Monster Affairs Office a serious headache.

Over time, every monster that got into trouble learned to run to Chang'an District.

Wanted posters went up one after another, and the bounties grew by the day. But no one dared provoke those old monsters, so they were left to do as they pleased.

Then one day, after a fair-skinned, slender young man who looked especially well-behaved joined the Monster Management Office, the office's dungeon, empty for more than a decade, suddenly came alive.

Two a week, eight a month, twenty-four a quarter...

A fox spirit on the run for a century, a painted-skin ghost that dug out people's hearts, and a drought demon who had been sealed away for a thousand years and had only just escaped all ended up meeting in the cramped, leaky dungeon.

The monsters clasped hands and looked at one another through tearful eyes. All their words came down to one sentence: There's a traitor among us monsters!

#IOnlyWantedToGetAM permanentPositionButEndedUpProtectingPeaceInTheMonsterWorld#

Content warnings:

1. A lighthearted, fun, feel-good supernatural story. The seme doesn't have much screen time at first.

2. A sweet-looking but scheming uke × a slightly socially anxious seme who looks cool but is actually easy to fool.

3. There are twists later on.

Theme: Be willing to help others and make friends wherever you go.