Chen Xiaofan, the last slacker programmer in the Magic City, opens the door to a whole new world after thirty straight days of overtime.
Only, this world is packed with square-dancing music, a Haotian Mirror that can edit photos, and sharp-tongued coworkers who fly on swords using Excel.
The reward for working 996 isn’t a trip to the ICU, but a “blessing” in the form of the Joyful Cultivation System.
While others cultivate by popping pills, he cultivates through public humiliation:
• Unlocking a hair-regrowth technique by square-dancing in the CBD
• Cracking an ancient Immortal-Slaying Formation with memes
• Turning a client’s bald spot into a spiritual-energy reactor
• Facing the Nine Heavens’ tribulation with PowerPoint animations
When code comments start generating talismans, the break-room microwave plays the evening news to warn of a heavenly tribulation, and the lipstick of the merciless director turns out to be ancient cinnabar...
Chen Xiaofan realizes the entire cultivation world is suffering from “modern civilization dependency”:
• The top sword cultivator boosts his cultivation with cheesy pickup lines
• Sending a rocket gift at the Immortal Realm’s Spring Festival Gala can buy you another day of life
• Inner demons attack by reading your embarrassing old posts
• The Bureau of Prices weighs the value of jokes on bronze scales
This is an office drone’s comeback story, and the ultimate mockery of 996:
Using the most embarrassing moves to win the most satisfying fights, and the wildest ideas to overcome the most outrageous tribulations.
But the shocking conspiracy behind the System is hidden in a labor contract from thirty years ago that was formatted and erased...
