The System Wants Me to Be a Movie Star

Overworked office drone Lin Zhou is saddled with 300,000 yuan in online loans and spends his days enduring a 996 work schedule, squeezed dry by his boss and ground down by life. He thought his life was a stagnant pool, until one wretched night of overtime, when a translucent blue panel forcibly appeared before his eyes.

[Ding! The Destiny Role-Playing System has been activated!]

[Novice mission: Play the role of a domineering CEO and fire your immediate superior!]

[Mission reward: All debts cleared, plus one million in cash.]

[Failure penalty: One package of social death, including a featured spot on the homepage of a popular video site.]

Looking at his greasy, lecherous boss, still spouting off, then at the glaring failure penalty, Lin Zhou quietly clenched his fists.

Act, he had to act! How hard could it be to play a domineering CEO? Who hadn't watched a few idol dramas?

From then on, Lin Zhou was forced to begin a life of split personalities.

One moment, he was a business titan calling the shots and directing the world; the next, he might be an extraordinary sage, hidden in the bustling city and able to see through people's hearts.

From a cold-blooded assassin to a miraculous doctor with a healing touch, then a top lawyer who could outargue a roomful of scholars, Lin Zhou switched effortlessly among countless roles.

He had only wanted to live in peace on the rewards the System gave him, but before he knew it, he had turned the world upside down.

When he had flawlessly portrayed one character after another who existed only in legends and fantasies, Lin Zhou realized that this so-called “System” was far more complicated than he had imagined…