Being a Fish Is So Hard!!!

[Transmigration, two male leads]

The Celestial Stop Dao, a thousand paths, three thousand worlds. When disaster strikes the Celestial Stop, the thousand paths descend into madness, and a false face takes the throne. The future is a mystery. Born to meet destiny, arriving with fate, truth and falsehood entwined, all will ultimately end in fulfillment.

Xiao Jinli is a koi spirit who has cultivated for 500 years. As the saying goes, no spirits may take form after the founding of the nation. To keep people from discovering that he is a koi spirit, Xiao Jinli has no choice but to disguise himself as an overworked office drone, laboring diligently from nine in the morning to nine at night every day. Even this koi, who struggles just to make a living, is somehow in the heavens' bad books. A bolt of lightning strikes him and sends him into a novel.

Damn you, Heaven!!! I'm a hardworking, upstanding koi who doesn't kill or start fires, rob people or take advantage of women, and you still don't like me enough to keep from striking me? Fine, you struck me, but then you sent me into the novel I just finished reading. And not only did you send me into the book, you made me the villainous Big Boss with the exact same name as me?

Knowing the plot, Xiao Jinli starts a miserable (but happy) life on the run to save his own skin.

One scene:

On a dark, windy night, the eldest disciple of Jinli Peak secretly packs his belongings in his room. Once everything is ready, he prepares to flee. Unfortunately, his plans are foiled before he can even get started: the moment he opens the door, he's caught red-handed.

“Ma... Master, good evening. What brings you here so late?”

“Nothing. I just came to see where my wife is planning to go after abandoning me.”

“Hahaha, Master, what are you talking about? Let me explain...”