Before You Read

Hi there new and old readers! Some useful info below:

--This novel is based on two deities of Chinese folk religion: Black and White Impermanence or Heibai Wuchang. I've kept their original names, but taken pleeenty of liberties otherwise. There have been several other interpretations of these two across video games, novels, manhua, manga and the like. This is my own.

-- Creatures! Some cute some scary, some friendly some... not so much :)

-- It should go without saying but: ghosts are there too! Mostly to bring the feels. All the scares are courtesy of the living, just like real life!

-- Betrayals! Questioning long-held beliefs! Risking it all for love! Sacrifice and tough choices!

-- HE overall but I will make you sweat for it, because I love pain.

-- Mysteries, tying the past and the present together :3~~~~

-- All explicit chapters will be tagged (NSFW), lighter sexual content might be untagged but let me know if you'd prefer otherwise!

-- I'll use the words Underworld and Hell interchangeably, but the Underworld of Chinese folk religions, and Daoist beliefs more broadly, is a neutral place. Everyone who dies ends up there on the road to reincarnation -- some reincarnate right away, others uhm...stew a little.

-- If you read my previous novel Capturing my Demon King Costar, you're probably familiar with the Underworld as a setting, but these two novels aren't connected! Ultimately both novels have different depictions of the Underworld as well as Youdu (the capital city).