Misfortune

[A thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye, yet you are still the god I once had to look up to.]

Wen Zhilian has a lousy job at the Special Affairs Bureau, earns next to nothing, and is perfectly content with a life where he never goes hungry or dies, and occasionally catches ghosts just to beat them up.

The only thing he wants to do is find the foster father who supported him until he turned eighteen and repay this kind benefactor by looking after him in his old age and seeing him off at the end of his life.

Then his old boss retires, and the higher-ups parachute in a well-connected newcomer to become his new direct superior.

His new boss is fair-skinned, beautiful, and elegant, but has a terrible temper, gives him the silent treatment, and quits at the drop of a hat. He's also sickly, panting three times after walking a single step. Wen Zhilian is forced to work around the clock and serve as his punching bag. Every time he wants to stage a rebellion, he reminds himself: Murder is illegal, and killing your boss is illegal too.

But little by little, the more Wen Zhilian looks at his boss, the more he realizes something is off. His boss has a bad temper because the people under him aren't getting things done. He gives the silent treatment because he's reserved and shy, and bad at expressing himself. He quits because he understands the importance of balancing work and rest... In short, Wen Zhilian manages to convince himself.

He seems to have fallen for his new boss.

Until he confesses to him.

His boss looks up at him impassively. "I used to hold you when you were little. Don't you remember? I heard you've been looking for me for over a decade. Call me Dad."

A lovesick loser x a stray dog.

A little story about a government worker who's just coasting through life, catching ghosts and monsters to meet his KPIs, and finding time for romance along the way.

Theme: Live as if you were born to die.