[Please add this to your collection~ OvO]
Heartless, sweet-on-the-outside-and-dark-within x aloof, unhinged hopeless romantic
After dying young for reasons beyond her control, Su Zhaozhao, who had been doted on and lived in luxury, went straight to the underworld.
While waiting in line for Meng Po's Soup, she caught the head ghost guard's eye and, by a twist of fate, skipped reincarnation and became an "ordinary" ghost guard in the underworld.
When she had free time, she went to the human world to collect souls. When she didn't, she visited the Tiandi Bank to collect the gold and silver her parents had burned for her. Content with her lot, Su Zhaozhao lived a very happy life.
Then one day, the underworld's White Impermanence got into trouble and was arrested, leaving the position vacant.
As the ghost guards all deferred to one another, Su Zhaozhao somehow ended up as the new White Impermanence of the underworld.
The good news: Her direct superior, King Yama, was kind and liked to slack off, just like her.
Even better news: Her partner, Black Impermanence, might be cold-faced, but he was famous throughout the underworld for working himself to the bone.
At long last, she'd latched onto her workaholic partner's coattails. He still had a cold expression, but often took care of a soul-collecting task for her while he was at it, and sometimes brought back interesting novelties to the underworld.
Moved by how easy her lie-flat life had become, Su Zhaozhao made him some thank-you gifts by hand.
To her surprise, after her partner accepted them with a straight face, he helped her out even more often.
Su Zhaozhao (clutching her heart) (lying flat): Another day of enjoying warm, friendly colleague relationships in the underworld.
Her partner, Xie Zhi, who had just thought he'd received a token of love: ?
Reading guide: 1. Third-person narration. Warm on the outside, cold on the inside, and heartless White Impermanence x aloof, unhinged hopeless-romantic Black Impermanence.
2. This is a prequel to The Cannon Fodder Heroine's Daily Reincarnation and Gossipping, but it can easily be read on its own.
3. The setting includes many original elements.
Theme: Work hard and change your own fate
