I Am No Buddha

Chen Xin died at his desk after staying up all night. When he opened his eyes again, he had become the last True Buddha in the Great Hall of the Buddha at Mount Ling. But being Buddha turned out to be absurd: gods and Buddhas relied on a “karma cycle system” to harvest mortals’ attention and stay alive; the Journey to the West was a “massive karmic reality show,” and even the Ullambana Festival had to follow a “transcendent livestream script.” One wrong move, and he could lose his position as Buddha.

He had no desire to become a Buddha through chanting scriptures, but he did have the rationality of a modern office worker. He used project management to resolve Guanyin’s “Three Trials,” applied SWOT analysis to define the Buddha’s position, and even gave lectures using materials science to deconstruct the Arhat’s golden body. He had to deal with KPI assessments from Mount Ling’s conservative faction, fend off the Abyss’s backlash of “karmic residue,” and join forces with the human world’s council to uncover the truth behind the “myth system.”

When “Let there be light” becomes “programming a closed loop of karmic logic,” and the Diamond Bangle becomes a “topological insulator treasure,” this workplace story of a Buddha using modern thinking to deconstruct divine authority is destined to overturn the established rules of the Three Realms.