Even the Underworld Needs an Industrial Upgrade

Jiang Mu was eating a cheap takeout meal when he suddenly saw Black and White Impermanence pass by the dorm entrance. He choked in fright and managed to choke himself straight into the underworld.

The two spirits casually hooked him over, and the three ghosts stared at one another.

Black and White Impermanence: "You saw us just now? How much did you see?"

Jiang Mu: "N-not much, about 40 percent..."

Black and White Impermanence: "Looking for a job? The underworld is upgrading its industries and could use someone like you."

Jiang Mu: "Do you pay social insurance? Do you offer the five insurances and one housing fund?"

Black and White Impermanence: "We don't have that."

Jiang Mu: "Then no. Let me reincarnate. I'm waiting to be born as the only child of a couple with 500 million in assets who are too busy to look after me. Ideally, I'll be lying around in a mansion saying, 'I don't need lots of money. I want lots of love.'"

Black and White Impermanence: "But we do offer a free house, a detached villa, and an annual salary of ten million."

Jiang Mu: "On second thought, of course I want to contribute to the underworld."

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Only after Jiang Mu actually started working in the underworld did he discover that the so-called villa was a graveyard-view villa, and the ten-million salary was in underworld currency. The workplace was eerie and terrifying, and his coworkers were a bunch of weirdos. His immediate superior was Si Ming, the Great Emperor of Fengdu in Beiyin, who looked human from a distance but wanted an office romance up close.

He got Jiang Mu to build the underworld's office system, "Bureau Affairs," with one hand, while running social media with the other. Jiang Mu even developed underworld tourism, the Heaven and Earth Bank transfer system, the PinshaoShao shopping app...

Si Ming: "Your salary comes from my private treasury. It's real gold and silver."

Jiang Mu: "You're actually a pretty good ghost."

Si Ming: "Then can we have an office romance?"

Jiang Mu: "That doesn't seem quite appropriate..."

An important announcement from the author:

One-on-one couple

Si Ming, Great Emperor of Fengdu in Beiyin × Jiang Mu, recent graduate

Also known as: An abstract-minded boss addicted to the internet × an employee with a questionable mental state

This story is full of wild headcanons and wild imagination. Please believe in science.

Thanks to the readers, my friends, my keyboard, cheap takeout, and Jinjiang. Actually, never mind that last one. It crashes every day, so I'm not thanking it for now.

Theme: Time and hard work build great achievements; practical action opens a new chapter.