On a scorching summer day, unemployed drifter Xi Qingshan is struck by lightning. When he wakes up, he discovers that he has unexpectedly been bound to a System. Following the System’s directions, he arrives at the Feihe Daoist Temple. Every day, he enters the System at 9 a.m. to do missions and leaves at 9 p.m. He works six days a week, and even on his days off he has to fold gold ingots to earn merit: 100 merit points can be exchanged for 10 virtual coins, which can be used to buy equipment in the System shop. At the temple, Xi Qingshan meets a friend he decides to stay with for the rest of his life. As he travels through one mission after another, he unexpectedly discovers that the System he is in may be a scam. His dearest friend is entirely imaginary, and even the System with its omniscient perspective, which has been guiding him all along, hides a secret. One day, he wakes to the sight of a ceiling, the stinging smell of disinfectant in his nostrils, machines beeping beside him, and a mysterious woman at his bedside announcing that he is dead...
