After Chen Fan gets bound to a System, he nearly breaks down on the spot. It wants him to mentor geniuses? He can't even be bothered to write his own graduation thesis! This System seems tailor-made to torment him. So without hesitation, he lays out everything the System can do and reports it to the state, adding: “You can take the System. I just want to keep lying down.”
The state's response is unexpected: “Comrade Chen Fan, your philosophy of ‘governing through non-action’ reflects an exceptionally profound state of mind! After careful consideration, we have decided to appoint you chief mentor of the ‘Dragon Vein Project.’ This must remain classified.” From then on, Chen Fan's life of lying flat is “forcibly” taken to the next level. He complains while gaming, “This AI minion's pathfinding logic is worse than my grandma's,” and the very next day, a revolutionary algorithm breakthrough erupts at the National AI Research Center. While watching a sci-fi movie, he casually remarks, “This warp drive's energy efficiency is way too low. Two stars,” and a week later, an academy fellow from the aerospace institute excitedly calls him “the lighthouse guiding us through the fog.” The state establishes a special “Office for Conveying the Spirit of the Mentor's Sayings,” which analyzes every sleepy mutter and grumble of his around the clock, packages each one as a pearl of wisdom, and distributes them to top geniuses in every field. Chen Fan spends every day fretting over how to lie down in greater comfort, completely unaware that to the outside world he has long been the elusive “Guardian of Huaxia.”
