[Ridiculous Cultivation + Anticlimactic Romance + Office Worker Comeback]
Food delivery guy Chen Ergou has one fatal weakness: his girlfriend, campus beauty Gu Xiaoyao. She’s a kitchen disaster who can turn instant noodles into cement, yet she loves clutching a novel called The Arrogant Immortal Venerable Falls for Me and solemnly declaring, “Once I regain my cultivation, I shall bathe the Three Realms in blood.”
Then, one stormy night, Chen Ergou sees his girlfriend smash a lightning tribulation with one slap. Carrying her delivery bag and striding through the air, she says, “This stupid Heavenly Dao! Can it afford to replace my man’s electric scooter after it fries it?”
That night, he digs out the family heirloom Guide to Postpartum Care for Sows, only to find a startling note on the title page: “If you encounter an empress reincarnated, feed her luosifen every day with a double portion of tofu skin. Otherwise, she may use your underwear to forge her lifebound treasure.”
From then on, the cultivation world takes a bizarre turn
The Demon Venerable livestreams sales of Nine-Turn Resurrection Pills: “Folks! Today we’re paying protection money to Empress Gu. Everything’s 90% off!”
An elder of an immortal sect kneels and begs Chen Ergou to buy spicy strips for him: “Fellow Daoist, these are tribute to quell the empress’s wrath!”
Meanwhile, Chen Ergou sips goji berry tea from his thermos in one hand and holds How to Live with a Girlfriend with Mental Health Issues in the other. At the scene of the immortal-demon war, he calmly scans a QR code: “Hey, you there! Remember to pay the parking fee for your flying sword after the fight.”
