Reborn in the 1960s as a Cancer Cell

Li Yiyi is a relentlessly overworked manager in antitumor drug development. Her life motto: retire early and lie flat for good!

And the result? A “running-a-red-light kind of clocking out” gets her there ahead of schedule, except the place she’s lying flat is a little horrifying: she’s reborn as a cancer cell!

The good news: no more KPIs! With unlimited proliferation and immune evasion, she begins living the carefree cancer life inside a scientist from the 1960s, reaching the pinnacle of “winning by lying flat” in the cell world!

The bad news: her “mansion” (the Host) is a relentless workaholic who burns the midnight oil every day! His body is in such terrible shape that even the cancer cells are terrified: “Boss, if you keep pushing yourself like this, we’re both done for!”

Even more absurdly, she can chat with red blood cells (“Delivery guy, bring me more nutrients!”), trade wits with white blood cells (“Hey, security guard, cut me some slack?”), and even “chat online” with her scientist Host every night!

When the “lie-flat cancer” discovers her Host’s great mission, and sees how he values the mushroom cloud more than his own life…

Li Yiyi scratches her head (if cancer cells have heads): Help! This Host is way too hard to keep alive! If I want him to live long enough to detonate the nuclear bomb, does this “bad cell” of mine have to… blow itself up first?