Invincible Me, Tricked by My Master into Becoming a Martial Arts Legend

Li Buxian is a country boy who dreams of becoming a “martial arts civil servant” and commanding the heroes of the martial world. His three terrible masters join forces to kick him down the mountain. His sword-master first master, a directionally challenged hermit with social anxiety, puts a bounty of ten thousand taels of gold on his head. His second master, a sharp-tongued medical sage and crooked merchant, makes him buy overpriced pills on credit. And his third master, a leggy, cross-dressing master thief, goes even further, forcing him to steal the emperor’s underwear as his “graduation assignment”!

The moment he comes down the mountain, he’s in hell! As soon as Li Buxian enters the city, he runs into Jiang Yu, the prime minister’s daughter and a human abacus. When his master’s cold medicine bottle lands him with a usurious debt of five hundred taels, accruing interest at three percent a day, he’s in deep trouble. His landlord’s parrot keeps demanding the “Great Treasure Vase” to cover a hundred years of rent. Desperate to pay off his debts, he reluctantly tries his hand at swindling, only to be caught red-handed by Jiang Yu. Things get even worse when his third master launches a nighttime raid in women’s clothes. Those leg hairs are an assault on the eyes!

His debts snowball: the Treasure Pavilion scam is exposed, he has a terrifying run-in with the Six Gates, he tries and fails to steal a koi from the emperor’s bedchamber, and he somehow manages to sell “foot-binding cloth” in Jiangnan for ten thousand taels of gold... Every step brings him closer to public humiliation or having his entire clan executed! Jiang Yu is always on his heels, and her mental attack, “Abacus Bead Skull-Crusher,” could set off the “debt bomb” in his head at any moment.

Even more absurdly, the emperor recognizes his first master, Lu Hanxiao, as his long-lost younger brother, Prince Jing! Li Buxian instantly becomes the prince’s martial nephew. He thinks he can lie flat and pay off his debts, but the prince’s mansion becomes a new battlefield: ten thousand taels of gold spark an internal fight among his masters, Jiang Yu arrives with her abacus to demand astronomical damages for emotional distress, and the parrot uses Prince Jing’s old chamber pot as the “Great Treasure Vase” to settle the debt, then storms the mansion...

Li Buxian’s journey through the martial world is a tear-stained chronicle of creative debt repayment, as his masters drag him into trouble, creditors chase him, a bird shakes him down, and his identity holds him hostage. A martial arts civil servant? No, he’s just someone standing on the edge of an abacus bead