Is the end of office drudgery a journey to the West? Is the ultimate form of complaining Buddhahood?
Han Xiaofei, a modern wage slave driven to the brink by performance targets, was ranting about his boss during a late-night shift when a bolt of “heaven-sent justice” struck him and sent him transmigrating! He woke up stark naked, hanging from a crooked tree on Five Elements Mountain, with a handsome young Tang Monk below gazing up at him. From the start, he had nothing but his silver tongue. Yet with his “the art of failing exams” theory, he bluffed his way into becoming the scripture-fetching party’s chief senior disciple, outranking Sun Wukong!
From then on, the journey to the West went completely off the rails.
Tang Monk treated him as a cure for boredom, Wukong and Bajie saw him as a master of deception, and the gods and Buddhas throughout the heavens treated him as their source of joy. With his confidently delivered nonsense and internet memes far ahead of their time, he became a top-tier star and the darling of the Three Realms among both immortals and demons.
When Buddha asked him what qualified him to fetch the scriptures, Han Xiaofei replied with righteous conviction, “Buddha, I’ve used jokes to settle conflicts along the way and humor to enlighten all living beings, filling the Three Realms with laughter. Is that not great compassion?”
See how a transmigrator rises to success through complaining, using his silver tongue to beat the game in a Journey to the West where no one plays fair, ultimately winning the heart of a beauty and attaining an unconventional rank among the Buddhas!
Quite interesting