Journey to the West: Stopping Time in the Peach Garden from the Start

After delivering his 9,981st food order, Jiang Fan stayed up late watching a time-stop movie. To his astonishment, he was reborn as a security guard at the Peach Garden, carrying a golden hourglass with him. Three minutes into his first shift, he witnessed an epic scene: the Monkey King shouted, “Freeze!” and the Seven Fairies turned into figurines. Even Jiang Fan, who had been watching the show, became a statue. Then he turned the hourglass upside down. [Time stopped: 00:30] With the entire world frozen, Jiang Fan alone could move. The nine-thousand-year peach in the Monkey King's arms? He'd be taking that! He gobbled it down. [Time stopped: 00:03] The Seven Fairies' rainbow robes? That fabric... Ahem, I'll take them next time! A thirty-second warrior's limit-breaking moves. He made daily trips to Doushuai Palace to eat golden pills, until one day Taishang Laojun noticed that the supplies were running low even though the Monkey King hadn't come by. At the Peach Garden, the Monkey King rubbed his head. “Strange! I definitely didn't eat any. Why are there so many peach pits?” One day, the Seven Fairies discovered that their clothes had been stolen... The entire Celestial Court was thrown into a state of panic. “Report! The Peach Garden has been robbed, ” Jiang Fan wiped the peach juice from the corner of his mouth. “Your Majesty, it was the Monkey King's doing!”