Cui Xing breathed a sigh of relief and closed the recruitment website window.
He couldn't help smiling at the thought of landing a job that paid even more than his position at Shannan City's funeral center.
There was nothing wrong with Cui Xing's professional abilities. The only reason he wanted so badly to leave Shannan City's funeral center was that he had offended the boss's brother-in-law.
These days, nine out of every ten assignments at the center went to other masters of ceremonies, and the one left for him always involved a client of modest means.
Most of his income in the past had come not from his salary, but from the cash gifts clients gave him in white envelopes.
What the man was doing amounted to cutting his pay by indirect means, and his wife had spent quite a while complaining to him about it.
That was how Cui Xing had come to consider leaving Shannan City's funeral center.
But his whole family lived in Shannan City. He couldn't abandon his wife and child to work in another city, so he focused on the county-level towns around Shannan City instead.
Although the base salaries in county-level towns were lower than those in Shannan City, they offered extra income too.
With that extra income, he would definitely be better off than he was now.
What he hadn't expected was how hard it would be to find a job at a county-level funeral home.
Either they didn't need a master of ceremonies, the pay was too low, or the location was too remote.
After searching high and low, he gave up.
That was when he saw Tianmen Funeral Home's recruitment ad. He had already resigned himself to enduring more petty harassment from the boss's brother-in-law, and he was in a foul