Shi Sui, 26, is a low-level internet company wage slave. After three years of overtime, all he has to show for it is fatty liver disease and a cervical spine problem. One night at the crack of dawn, he is bound to the "Lie-Back-and-Win System," a corporate drone of a System that has been laid off and demoted by headquarters.
Other Systems give their Hosts luxury cars and villas. His System gives him "Zero Presence," a "Social Anxiety Aura," and "Bad Luck Haunting You." Each mission is more obnoxious than the last: tell your boss, "I don't want to work"; make a coworker fall over in front of you; stay silent during a board meeting.
Shi Sui is forced to take on the missions, only to discover that Zero Presence lets him eavesdrop on business secrets, the Social Anxiety Aura makes clients sign contracts on the spot, Bad Luck Haunting You becomes a precision strike, and his deteriorating speech makes his opponents wildly overinterpret everything.
The System says, "This System may be useless, but its Host can't be useless."
Shi Sui says, "Is it possible that you made me this way?"
From being made redundant to turning the whole company around, Shi Sui stages one comeback after another with his useless System. But the secrets of System headquarters are far more outrageous than he imagined...
Other people use Systems to reach the pinnacle of life. Shi Sui uses his System to learn how to live even better after getting fired.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.