The Theory of Deceitful Karma

Wanqi Lin is a carefree little Taoist on Blue Star, known as Master Dao. He loves money, women, and meat, and he enjoys getting into trouble. The one thing he doesn't love is cultivation. His master, the esteemed Master Liaochen, was hailed as a living Buddha. On a stormy night twenty years ago, Master Liaochen found Wanqi Lin, born with a red mark between his brows, an aura of chaos, the bearing of an emperor, and a fate cut short. He kept him confined in a mountain temple and forced him to cultivate. To help him escape his fate, Liaochen entered the demonic path, severed his ties to Buddhism, and gave up his divine soul. He sent Wanqi Lin into the netherworld cycle of reincarnation with his heart's blood and a Buddhist relic, hoping to deceive the Heavenly Dao. But the Heavenly Dao caught on, leaving Liaochen's body destroyed and only a wisp of his soul behind.

By chance, Wanqi Lin gets swept into the river of time alongside Wenren Jingluo, the remnant soul of a high-tech civilization, and they transmigrate to Wangyuan, a nation where women rule and men are subservient. He slaps down emperors, puts scheming social climbers in their place, cracks one strange case after another, and meets the love of his life, setting off a series of hilarious adventures. Because the Heavenly Dao has marked him, Wanqi Lin bears karmic burdens within him. Touching someone can drag them into a fatal calamity, while he accrues more karma himself. He can also be forcibly pulled into other people's past and present lives. If he fails to resolve their troubles, their accumulated karmic burdens will entangle him until the Heavenly Dao detects and erases him. Though desperate, Wenren Jingluo still hopes he'll help return to the original timeline, so he painfully hands over all kinds of high-tech weapons and equipment for Wanqi Lin to show off and dish out face-slapping. From then on... the two idiots go completely off the rails.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.