Jin Ling was born able to see ghosts.
Abandoned by her parents when she was one, she followed the old master who took her in, collecting corpses and setting up a stall.
The master and his apprentice did business with the Netherworld, earning money by collecting unjustly dead souls and wandering ghosts for King Yama.
The old master was a man of mysterious origins. The words he said most often were: In our line of work, there are only two taboos: "falling for a client" and "letting a client become attached to you."
Jin Ling scoffed at this, until one day she ran into an exceptionally annoying and troublesome wandering ghost.
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In his previous life, Shan Xingyu was the son of a general of the Shaoyin Kingdom, and a notorious wastrel before he died.
He was already 1,721 years old when he died.
No one knew why this young master refused to be reincarnated and chose to remain a ghost instead. Many years later, Young Master Shan was as beautiful as an immortal banished from heaven. Holding his own blood-soaked head in one hand and waving a white bone fan in the other, he grinned as he tried to scare the person across from him, the "enemy" he had searched for countless years, who no longer even recognized him.
"Impressive, right? Little ghost, want me to show you another way to die?"
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Jin Ling kept dreaming that someone was saying to her in a past life, "Even if I die, I'll haunt you as a ghost!"
The old master said, "Dreams are usually caused by ghosts. What does this ghost look like?"
Jin Ling couldn't remember clearly. After hesitating for a moment, she said, "Hateful-looking, extremely annoying, and a little ugly."
The old master said, "Sounds like you. Seems you've got a poor ghost clinging to you."
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In this life, I've seen people beg for wealth, power, good fortune, and beauty, but this is the first time I've seen someone beg for death.
The auspicious hour has arrived. The gates of the Netherworld are open!
Ferrying a hundred ghosts, returning to the mortal realm!
*1v1, happy ending.
*An ensemble series of standalone ghost-catching stories.
*Past and present lives, with plenty of flashbacks.
*Blurb subject to change.
First version published under the original title The Auspicious Hour Has Arrived on August 15, 2024. Blurb revised on December 1, 2025, and July 23, 2026.
Theme: Sincerity makes things happen.
