Well, You're Quite the Corporate Slave

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Zhi Songxue's husband died, but with an enormous debt hanging over him, he had no time to grieve.

He was a miserable wage slave and a pitiful widower.

All he could do was hurriedly bury his husband.

Then he got a new job and flagged down a passing car, only to get caught up along the way in an allegedly impossible-to-end survival game

An endless sea of sand, trapped people starving and freezing, and venomous whispers that seeped into every corner of the night. All of it dragged travelers toward an eternity of being lost in a desert city in ruins.

Zhi Songxue snatched the steering wheel, floored the gas, smashed through the city wall, and drove off.

Over the roar of the engine, he sighed, "This scene reminds me of my husband. He built sandcastles on the beach and buried himself in the sand... I really wanted to run over his head with a tire, but what can you do? He died too young."

Bystander: "..."

Huh?

*

He settled into his new job without a hitch, but strange occurrences began haunting him.

An abandoned old building was always filled with strange calls, tempting people inside.

In some places, adults began to reverse-age until they regressed into embryos.

His mirror self was accused of hiding inside mirrors, moving from one to another, and spying on him.

People vanished without a trace, and terrifying two-dimensional images of them appeared at the same time.

He also began falling into nightmares with increasing frequency. In his dreams, the air was hot and humid, his skin sticky, and marks appeared as he neared the point of collapse. He would wake drenched in sweat, with pain at the tip of his tongue.

A shadow stood beside his bed, rubbing his little finger. "Darling, you fear a swirling mass of floating flesh and blood, yet you never congratulated the dead who came back to life..."

"Darling, where is my head?"

Zhi Songxue squeezed his eyes shut, panting and mumbling, "I..."

"I have work tomorrow."

"..."

A sweet 1v1 romance, with an all-villain cast.

Theme: Face relationships with composure, and navigate society with ease.