Wang Xianyu is a bona fide corporate drone. He dreams of winning the lottery someday so he can quit his job and go home to lie flat. But when he wakes up one day, he really has been summoned to another world!
He assumes he must be the legendary hero, destined to cheat his way to supremacy in another world. But the summoning ritual went wrong: the real hero hasn't arrived yet, and he's just an “accidental passerby”! Even more absurdly, after seeing what a good-for-nothing he is, the king and the archbishop promptly decide, “Well... how about you just retire here in the royal capital?”
So while everyone else who transmigrates to another world fights monsters and levels up, he begins living the laid-back life of a “lay-flat hero”:
**Retire in the royal capital? Free food, free lodging, and a paycheck? Sounds great!**
**The kingdom's in danger? The hero hasn't arrived, so it's not my problem!**
**The princess needs help? Sorry, I'm retired. I don't take side jobs!**
But just as he settles in to enjoy the good life in another world, one strange thing after another starts happening. The kingdom's ministers keep plotting to bring him down, the neighboring queen thinks he's a hidden powerhouse and showers him with attention, and even the Demon King mistakes him for the legendary mastermind behind the scenes and sends underlings to spy on him.
Wang Xianyu sighs helplessly. “I really just want to lie flat...”
This is a lighthearted, comedic tale of everyday life in another world, about a “layabout forced to become a big shot.” Watch as this layabout is “forced” to make a comeback in another world!
