Lin Ye never imagined that the most intense grind of his life would be the System forcing him to spend money.
A universally acknowledged master of slacking off at a top university, he took the campus forums by storm with the line, “Sweating now, are we?” But after a haircut scammer swindled him out of 8,888 yuan, he got bound to a shouty tycoon System.
“Answer me! Do you dare spend this money?!”
The System pushes him to stir up trouble every day: wake up an overachiever by splashing milk tea on him, turn an outrageously expensive salon into a “Relaxed, Free Haircut Shop,” hand the esports team Advanced Mathematics and English Exam Papers as prize money...
Even more absurdly, he has to bring his “ancestors” along when he spends: Su Shi's apparition teaches him to market with Dongpo pork, Genghis Khan urges him in Mongolian to expand, and even Li Bai shows up in his livestream to sing, “Plane tickets are too expensive, so I'm not going.”
Lin Ye completes his tasks in his own laid-back way. “Acquire a company? Sure. I'll give the employees blind boxes as benefits. Anyone who draws The Guide to Lying Flat wins.”
“Cultural outreach? Easy. I'll have an AI Song Huizong livestream himself painting A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains in the metaverse.”
Other tycoons show off their wealth. He becomes a top-tier star by slacking off. Netizens spread the word: “Brother Ye isn't spending money. He's turning the whole rat race into a joke and rubbing its face in it!”
The System angrily flips the table. “You call this slacking off?!”
Lin Ye rolls a skewer between his fingers as he watches Su Shi and Qin Shi Huang argue in the livestream about how lying flat takes cultural depth. Calmly, he adds, “What else? You think I should really become a tool of capital?”
Spending in reverse, flaunting wealth with a relaxed attitude, and getting a bunch of ancient ancestors to join in the antics: this tycoon has truly mastered the art of lying flat.
