Felix Soforth, an experienced philosophical consultant, opened his business with the ambition to use wisdom to solve life's problems. However, reality gave him a blow. When he tries to use Kant's categorical imperative to analyze whether clients should lie, and uses Nietzsche's superhuman philosophy to motivate dieters, the results are often ridiculous, and even make clients slam the door and leave. His life is equally messy: when pursuing his lover Emily, he failed miserably by applying rigid philosophical strategies. He was helpless in the face of his mother-in-law's pragmatic "critical attack". Even his friend Carl, a sharp cynic, knew how to enjoy life in time better than he did.
Felix realized that the philosophy in books was incompatible with living reality. Inspired by his grandfather's fables full of Eastern wisdom (a blessing in disguise and a cook's calamity), he began to clumsily try to "combine China and the West": using existentialism to talk about freedom, Confucianism to talk about responsibility; utilitarianism to calculate gains and losses, and Taoism to understand tolerance. But the mid-life crisis, the mystery of his life experience, and financial pressure came one after another, almost defeating him. An ordinary epiphany (perhaps the birth of his daughter, or the moment of sweeping the floor) made him realize that "the Tao is drowned in shit" - the real wisdom is not in the clouds, but under the feet...
