Core tags: Wild Imagination · Comedy · Ensemble Cast · Anti-Trope
Plot tags: Anti-Trope · Behind-the-Scenes · Workplace Cultivation (Underworld Office Edition)
Elements: Lighthearted · Power Fantasy · Misinterpretations · Institutional Reform
[The Heavenly Dao System, which had kept the Underworld running for billions of years, crashed in front of an eighty-year-old man.]
[His crime: He had been so “mediocre” his entire life that his good and evil scores both landed precisely at zero, making him impossible to judge.]
The King of Hell was furious, but there was nothing he could do about him. Even the blade mountain and the boiling oil shrank away at the sight of him. As history’s first “invalid soul,” Chen Shouzhuo was exiled to the ultimate garbage dump for souls.
The Underworld doesn’t want me? Then I’ll bring it crashing down!
Armed with a lifetime’s worth of wisdom about “keeping the peace” and “going with the flow,” he became the biggest bug in the Three Realms. He developed hot spring baths in the boiling-oil district, helped Lady Meng create “spicy” soup to boost her performance metrics, and even convinced Ox-Head and Horse-Face to form the Underworld Slacking-Off Association...
As he threw the Underworld’s rigid institutions into chaos, a world-shattering truth began to emerge: Perhaps his “mediocrity” was the ultimate answer to maintaining the balance of the universe...
(Also known as: My Mediocrity Happens to Counter Every God; The Underworld Starts Falling Apart When I Leave a Bad Review)
