A male gumiho who values swagger (kanji) over liver (kan). Have you ever seen a gumiho who stays holed up in his penthouse all day watching American TV shows on his smartphone while binging on mint chocolate chip ice cream?
The financial assets of a mid-level chaebol, beauty that bewitches people, foxlike intelligence and cunning, and even the ability to perfectly pass as human. This man who brings everything to the table was once a ‘Named mountain god’ who ruled over Baekdudaegan.
But those golden glory days scattered like fallen flowers, and currently, he reports to the Afterlife Immigration Office like a low-ranking civil servant. And not as a regular employee, but as a special appointee. According to himself, he’s going on 600 years of ‘alternative service.’
His main duty is to crack down on creatures of lore and legend causing chaos in the human world. He brags about his overwhelming work performance, but civil complaints abound in this world and the next of his abuse of authority, complete lack of conscience, and his excessive use of force entirely devoid of compassion.
“My military service has gone on for 600 years. How could I not go crazy?” They say the reason he, who was once the subject of human reverence, went off the deep end was the ‘scandal of the age that once shook Baekdudaegan,’ but…
In the past, Lee Yeon fell in love with the abandoned princess, Ah Eum. But Lee Yeon, who lost Ah Eum to Imoogi’s evil plot, committed the forbidden in order to secure her rebirth, and the price that he paid was to spend more than 600 long years hunting down monsters while he waited for her!
At long last he met Ji Ah, who is Ah Eum’s reincarnation, but in this era, Lee Yeon is reunited with not only Ah Eum, but also...!!
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