Office drone Zhao Xian transmigrates into a succession-struggle plot and gets a solo-player [Lie-Flat-to-Win System]. The more completely he lies flat, the better the rewards! A crown prince tries to assassinate him right from the start? He channels his inner award-winning actor and plays dead, earning an exemption from execution. All he wants is to scrape by in the Cold Palace until he’s old. But the System keeps forcing him to “work”: the emperor tests his military strategy, so he presents The Art of Slacking Off, with its “When the enemy retreats, I sleep” principle. A general puts it into practice by mistake and scores a great victory! Refugees surround the city? Annoyed by the noise, Zhao Xian tosses out sweet potato vines with a note saying, “Keep making a fuss and I’ll spank you.” Instead, the people hail him as the “Sweet Potato God of War”!
The road to an easy win brings one “surprise” after another: an overpowered bodyguard who imagines Zhao Xian is playing a grand game of chess; a meticulous housekeeper forced into the job, who turns the lie-flat fund into a mountain of gold; a sharp-tongued, food-loving young doctor devoted to keeping him alive until the end of time; a socially anxious tech geek who turns the immortal palace into a lazy person’s paradise; a chatterbox information broker who protects him with a barrage of gossip; a drama queen princess sent to cement an alliance, who turns the struggle for favor into a one-woman comedy show; and a laid-back fellow slacker who shares his sunlit, peaceful days. Seven extraordinary women with wildly different personalities end up building a whole “lie-flat ecosystem” around this lazy fish!
When Zhao Xian’s fame gets too high and triggers a System bug, everyone gets thrown back into a modern rental apartment to fend for themselves, and things get even stranger: the bodyguard mistakes cars for monsters, the princess treats a talent show like a palace power struggle, and the tech geek tears apart phones to build an automatic feeding machine… Zhao Xian just wants to roar: I only want to lie flat in peace! At last, he returns bearing fizzy drinks and the “Legend of the Immortal Realm,” then yawns in his pajamas on the balcony of the immortal palace, the ultimate battlefield. The enemy ruler suddenly attains enlightenment: “This is the supreme Dao!” He promptly surrenders his entire nation and begs for The Secrets of Retirement!
