She’s a Ghost-Hunting Pro, but the King of the Underworld Keeps Setting Her Up

[Metaphysics + Mystery + Ghost Hunting + Both Leads Are Chaste]

Lu Ru, the underworld's chosen hardest-working employee in the Xia Kingdom, is a junior impermanence officer by day. The King of Hell and his cronies are always taking advantage of her, making her moonlight as a ghostly bailiff, cover for Granny Meng, and now serve as the crucial link between the official worlds of the living and the dead.

The living dwell in the realm of the living, and ghosts in the underworld.

She can roam freely between both realms.

Too bad her body is weak and she has no strength.

She noticed that Qin Ran from the joint operations bureau was strange. He was handsome, smelled wonderful, and, most importantly, his aura glowed with golden light.

So Lu Ru liked sticking close to him and chatting whenever she had nothing to do. After all, she was a soul, so she had nothing to fear and could say whatever came to mind.

Lu Ru: Why is your nose so high and straight? I heard people with high, straight noses are really... well endowed...

Lu Ru suddenly blushed: Oh, you're awful!

Qin Ran, pretending to nap: ... (How am I awful?)

She leaned close to Qin Ran's ear. "You smell so good. Why don't you be my boyfriend? I can support you~ We can be frugal in the living world, but there's plenty to go around in the underworld!"

The bureau received word of a major accident in the suburbs, with multiple casualties.

Qin Ran had no choice but to end his precious nap and get up to work.

He paused, then turned to face the empty air. "Time to work. Weren't you going to support me?"

Lu Ru, bent over the Book of Life and Death: Were you talking to me?! Wait, you can hear me???!

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Lu Ru: Our slogan!

Little ghosts: Pay up and get a smile. Skip your debts, and a ghost will come knocking at midnight!

Lu Ru: Our future!

Little ghosts: Wrongfully dead ghosts back to work, happy drudges waiting to be reborn!

Lu Ru: Our goal!

The ghosts cheered: Support Lu Ru, and marry her handsome husband!

Qin Ran: ...I'm ready. Just waiting.

A somewhat theatrical female lead, an impermanence officer with her spiritual power maxed out

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A male lead who seems stern and intimidating but is actually gentle and devoted, and happily indulges the female lead's theatrics

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Please add my new upcoming Sentinel-and-Guide novel to your collection: The Bee Guide Ignores Compatibility

Upcoming novel blurb:

[Sentinel and Guide + Mystery + Wasteland + Both Leads Are Chaste]

[Dark Guide heroine with separation anxiety x Male ghost Sentinel hero with a strong possessive streak]

"A child with no parents is like a weed. A child with no one by their side will die." This curse tormented Jian Ning for twenty-two years.

And the day Lu Huaiyuan left without a word, that curse pushed her into the abyss for good.

Though she crawled back from the gates of death with the company of a glowing little ball, she also lost those memories.

To uncover the truth, Jian Ning decided to join the fleet.

But her application was rejected again and again. Furious, she decided to go confront the fleet commander.

She turned and crashed into a familiar embrace she had not felt in so long. The scent of flowers, carrying the chill of snow, enveloped her. In her daze, Jian Ning heard the voice she had been searching for for three years:

"I heard you were coming to confront me?"

When she first joined the fleet:

Other fleets mocked her without mercy: "A 60% compatibility rating gets you into the First Fleet? And you're a 60% who tries to match with everyone? Looks like we're all going to die soon."

The Sentinels in her own fleet sneered: "If you can't guide, don't guide. Don't think knowing someone gives you the right to treat us like fish in your pond, picking and choosing as you please. If you want to climb the ladder, first make sure you can survive."

After a battle:

Teammate 1: Jian Ning, I need Jian Ning! Hurry and guide me!

Teammate 2: Sister Ning, I was wrong. You're my sister in this life and every life after. I'm putting my life in your hands!

Teammate 3: Sister Ning, I'll gladly be one of the fish in your pond. Pick me, pick me, pick me~~

Other fleets: Find a way to recruit Jian Ning, no matter the cost!

Lu Huaiyuan's face darkened: All of you, get lost.

Three years ago, Lu Huaiyuan was forced to disappear, leaving only the glowing little ball to keep her company.

For three years, all he could do was sense her emotions through that faint trace of energy.

Now, after finally returning, he discovered by chance that Jian Ning was connected to a disappearance case from twenty years ago.

To protect her, Lu Huaiyuan submitted a bonding application to the Tower.

What he didn't know was that Jian Ning could control the results of her compatibility tests with other people.

When he showed her the compatibility report, Jian Ning pushed him away:

"Do you believe me when I say that, if I wanted, I could be a perfect match with anyone..."

She looked at him coldly. "Anyone but you."

This is a work of fiction. Trust science and don't be superstitious.

Theme: Let go of your obsessions, and live without worry