Civil Service Exam in the Underworld

After dying from overwork, Chen Mo discovers that the underworld is even more competitive than the living world. There's no Meng Po soup here, only mass-produced "Memory Erase Oral Liquid"; no Yellow Springs Road, only the congested "Spirit Express Lane"; want to avoid being obliterated? Take the civil service exam, get on the payroll, and enjoy social benefits. As a former court clerk, he uses his fast document-writing skills and knack for exploiting loopholes to climb from a temporary worker to a full-fledged underworld officer. Reaping souls requires filling out forms, sending spirits to the afterlife requires approval, and sealing haunted houses requires three leaders' signatures—his golden finger isn't a system, but his instinct to spot discrepancies in archives at a glance. Chen Mo thought he had secured an iron rice bowl until he discovered in the Book of Life and Death that his own death time had been moved up by seven minutes. The ink was still fresh. As he investigates further, he finds that seventeen cases of "abnormal deaths" all bear the same internal code. Someone is selling lifespan in bulk within the underworld's approval process. Chen Mo, a ninth-rank underworld officer, decides to overturn the table. After all, his specialty isn't fighting, but finding the loophole in the process—and then getting the leader to sign off. — Description from novelcodex.org