I Promote the Underworld’s Benefits on a Metaphysical Variety Show

The underworld is full of ghosts and short on staff.

Yao Yuling, the underworld's ghost affairs manager, has been given an ultimatum by the Judge: if the underworld's staff aren't doubled by the end of the year, she'll have to do eight jobs at once and get paid for only one.

Yao Yuling: ...The Judge is even more crooked than Black Impermanence!

She can only investigate through the night to find out why the underworld is so short-staffed. In the end, she discovers that the living are deeply prejudiced against the underworld. They have never considered staying on to work there after death, and only want to be reincarnated as soon as possible.

So Yao Yuling applies for a business trip to the human world, determined to improve the underworld's image and promote its employee benefits!

Full of enthusiasm, she hands out flyers and posts advertisements, but nearly gets arrested as a suspicious person.

She tries using the internet instead, only to be mistaken for a scammer.

Just as Yao Yuling is losing hope, she sees an audition announcement for a supernatural reality show.

She realizes this is the perfect opportunity to promote the underworld. What's more, she can scout talented guests from the show and recruit them in advance!

And so...

While the guests diligently work to break a formation, Yao Yuling does her best to pitch the underworld: "Hey, you look like you have quite a bit of cultivation. Why not come work for the underworld after you die? It's a guaranteed job!"

When a thousand-year-old monster throws its weight around, Yao Yuling casually seals it away. "You've cultivated for a thousand years, yet you're still lazing around in the mortal world. Aren't you ashamed? Come work for the underworld instead. You'll get paid!"

When a vengeful ghost appears, Yao Yuling waves a hand and makes it vanish into thin air. "Don't get in the way of my benefits pitch! Work in the underworld is easygoing, and with a hundred-year contract, you don't have to worry about unemployment!"

Netizens: Yao Yuling is clearly incredibly powerful. Why sell her with such an absurd persona of promoting the underworld's employee benefits?

It isn't until a famous master's posthumous belongings include an employment contract from the underworld that they realize Yao Yuling really is the underworld's ghost affairs manager!

Yao Yuling becomes a sensation in the human world, and the underworld's image improves along with her. Its staff triple! On top of that, appointments with her for fortune-telling and spiritual consultations are booked up five years in advance!

Yao Yuling: The human world is pretty great. Maybe I should just quit my underworld job!

Everyone else: Weren't you just saying the underworld had great benefits?

[Blurb screenshotted on January 31, 2023]

Theme: Discover the good in life.