After Returning from Cultivation, I’m Guarding the Gate at Beijing Film Academy

Liu Hui, a cultivator at the Great Ascension stage, failed his tribulation and found his consciousness had returned to 2002, where he had become a soon-to-graduate student at the Beijing Film Academy. After enduring three hundred years of brutal competition and endless loneliness in the cultivation world, he had grown utterly tired of the rat race and constant fighting. He resolutely chose a completely different life: becoming an ordinary campus security guard at the Beijing Film Academy.

On the surface, he spends his days drinking tea, making his rounds, handling deliveries, and chatting with students and teachers. In reality, the extraordinary memory, insight, and learning ability bestowed by his Great Ascension soul, along with the meager resources in his portable pocket dimension, allow him to quietly embark on a different life. He renovates a dilapidated courtyard house into a comfortable home that blends traditional formations with modern technology, invests discreetly in future industry giants to build his fortune, and occasionally shows off traditional cultural skills, attributing them to “family tradition” and “natural talent.” Before long, he's known in certain circles as a mysterious “master.”

In his ordinary job, he meets future stars who have yet to make a name for themselves, including Hu Ge, Huang Bo, and Yang Mi. He also gets to know Liu Qianqian, a pure-hearted and hardworking actress, and they begin a quiet yet profound romance. Amid the glitz and undercurrents of the entertainment industry, Liu Hui uses his understanding and state of mind, far ahead of his time, to guide and protect those around him, never revealing the secrets of his rebirth and cultivation.

As time passes, Liu Hui's life gradually draws the attention of the entertainment industry, the business world, and even the nation. A mysterious foreign family, domestic underworld forces, and even the state's “Office for the Investigation of Anomalous Phenomena” all take an interest in him and his seemingly ordinary courtyard house. Using his wits and disguises, Liu Hui repeatedly averts crises, always keeping the “truth concealed”