After pulling an all-nighter to finish a prehistoric fantasy novel, overworked office worker Li Mo closed his eyes and opened them to find himself reborn as a young man named Li Anran, who had just lost his family in a demon calamity. A mysterious fragment of ancestral jade had come along with him.
Before he could even gather his thoughts, a passing immortal, Patriarch Bodhi, casually rescued him and took him in as his final disciple, giving him the Buddhist name Wu You.
Even more bewildering was that his furry-faced senior brother, who leaped about all day, scratched his ears and cheeks, and dragged him off to raid birds' nests or break into the Water Curtain Cave, was none other than Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, who would one day wreak havoc in the Heavenly Palace!
He had thought that clinging to Brother Monkey and knowing the plot would let him cultivate in peace and keep his head down until he achieved perfection. But before he had even mastered the immortal arts, an edict summoning all immortals suddenly arrived from the Heavenly Court!
Wu You, a nobody who had only just met the cultivation requirements, was forced to report for duty, plunging headfirst into the unfathomable workplace of the Heavenly Court.
On his very first day standing guard at the Southern Heavenly Gate, just as he nervously began his shift, that familiar, brash monkey's cry came closer and closer:
"You old geezer, Jade Emperor! Your Grandpa Sun is here!"
Golden light blazed across the sky, and his staff swept through thousands of troops. His troublemaking senior brother was fighting his way straight to the Hall of Miraculous Heavens!
As the gazes of countless heavenly soldiers and generals, along with their icy spearpoints, were about to descend on him too, Wu You's scalp prickled. His survival instinct exploded, and he blurted out to the lawless monkey:
"Senior Brother, don't panic! This time... your junior brother has someone backing him up!"
(This is the story of a nobody striving to cultivate and survive office politics in the prehistoric world, while dealing with his troublemaking senior brother, Sun Wukong...)
