I Deliver Takeout in the Cyber Underworld

When it comes to bad luck, no one beats Xi Shuo.

She graduates straight into unemployment. She takes a food-delivery job, and even the app seems possessed: "Connecting to the Underworld's cyberspace..."

The bright yellow interface turns a sinister red. From then on, her customers are no longer human, but data ghosts.

Other people deliver meals to earn money. She delivers ghostly takeout and risks her life.

Today she brings coffee to a ghostly top student, tomorrow she helps a ghostly has-been singer put on a concert, and the day after that she's dancing disco at a scumbag's grave.

As for payment...

Sometimes it's a few merit coins. Sometimes it's a handful of graveyard grass.

And the whole process is a little hard on the heart.

Ding!

A high-paying order that makes her heart skip a beat pops up:

[44-centimeter incense stick]

[Delivery address: Across the hall from your home]

[Customer: Your long-missing neighbor]

Note: "Bring the incense inside and bow three times to my husband."

Huh? What kind of new kink is this?

Just as she's about to reject the order,

her phone screen is suddenly swallowed by blood red: Don't cancel! Helphelphelphelphelphelphelphelp me!!!

Worst of all,

the stunning powerhouse who arrives from above in her hour of peril, clad in white robes edged with crimson willow embroidery...

looks exactly like the murderous woman who visits her dreams every night to stab her through the heart!

White-Robed Ghost God: "Sorry, I'm late."

Xi Shuo: "..."

Emergency!

What do you do when the murderous woman from your dreams shows up in real life?!

#MyDeliveryAppConnectsToTheCyberUnderworld#

#MyDreamKillerBecameMyLiveInRoommate#

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Reader's Guide:

Volume One is complete, with six instances: two large, one medium, one small, and two micro.

[1] The Straw Bride

"My delivery is a 4-centimeter incense stick, and the customer wants me to bow three times to her brawny husband."

[2] White Night, Bright Shadows

"The television in the photo studio broadcasts six survival rules. One of them is: Never trust the man who reeks of alcohol and keeps apologizing."

[4] The Endless Exam Hall

"When your height and weight become test questions, are you the bully or the lowest-ranked student? Welcome to a theater where a thousand people stand trial."

[6] Luojia Bridge

"I woke up in the same village five times and discovered that every woman's shadow here falls into strange disarray as time passes..."

The first instance of Volume Two is complete.

[1] The Museum's Collection

"When you walk into a museum, are you looking at exhibits from a hundred years ago, or are those exhibits looking at you?"

[2] World Sandbox

"I was once crude and misshapen, served up as someone else's meal. I also became a giant beast and devoured my mother's flesh. At the end of the cycle of rebirth, I stood there for the last time, unable to see the sun in the sky." (Currently drafting)

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Reader's Guide:

1. This is not an all-female world. Please don't read if that bothers you.

2. The city is fictional, a patchwork of different cities. Some instances incorporate a little Jiangnan folk custom, but do not refer to any single real city.

3. The story has four volumes. Volume One moves at a brisk pace, with little daily-life content. From Volume Two on, there will be more everyday interactions. Updates are slow, so feel free to bookmark it and read once it is complete or reaches Volume Three.

Theme: Use a science-fiction perspective to deconstruct traditional ideas and celebrate the power of human kindness and self-redemption