The Ghost Realm Express

New blurb written January 15, 2025. Please add to your favorites

Blurb: XX Public Transit Group recruitment ad: We are looking for one bus driver. Applicants should be bold and witty, calm and gentle, good listeners, and eager to help others. Timid applicants need not apply. Salary: 10,000+ (negotiable).

Tan Wei was unemployed as soon as she graduated from college. Before she even had time to feel sad about it, she spotted the recruitment ad right outside her home.

She looked at the requirements in bewilderment. It seemed fake.

But it turned out to be absolutely real, and her family wholeheartedly supported her becoming a bus driver.

Their reasoning: Jobs are hard to find, so give it a try for now.

It was only after she started driving the bus that Tan Wei realized she couldn't quit, because she was the only one who could handle the passengers' needs. The other drivers would all get complaints.

And her passengers weren't just people. Some were ghosts.

If she didn't serve the ghosts well, not only would they complain about her, but the humans would too.

"..."

Recently, Tan Wei had been arranging for a certain young man to ride her bus again and again.

He had all kinds of skills, and both she and the many ghosts couldn't get him out of their minds.

She'd summoned him in dreams to give several female ghosts beauty treatments and hairstyles. Later, through a series of coincidences, she had him make milk tea for some child ghosts, repair a ghost's roof, sew clothes, prepare a New Year's Eve dinner, and give massages...

This time, Tan Wei summoned him again, and it was still for the sake of ghosts.

Who would have thought that as soon as he got on the bus, she would hear him ask,

"What have you called me here to do this time?"

"Huh?" Tan Wei and all the ghosts were stunned.

"I remember everything that happened in the dreams, including seeing you every time."

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