Old-Time Breeding Guide

This is a story about trying to keep five insurances and one housing fund amidst indescribable horror. When old whispers meet labor contracts, when gazing into the abyss meets monthly statements... The story revolves around Lin Yu, an unemployed young man who inherited a remote old bookstore when she was in trouble, but found herself stepping into a strange world that was far beyond her imagination. The "book collection" of this bookstore is not ordinary reading material, but a "non-standard information aggregate" of various shapes, containing dangerous knowledge and living consciousness. Lin Yu's new identity is not the store owner, but their "trainee manager". Her work manual reads: patrol the shelves daily to check seals, appease restless units, record abnormal events, and strictly prohibit entering the basement after midnight. The requirements of the "residents" are equally outrageous: some need to listen to classical music regularly, some apply for more sunshine, and one holds a "White Paper on the Protection of Inter-Dimensional Employee Rights and Interests" and solemnly requests to negotiate with the new administrator on the payment of "five insurances and one fund". However, deep in the bookstore, in the sealed basement, the existence of the red-covered book has awakened. It senses the arrival of new guards, whispering old terms and temptations. There is only one line between rules and madness.