Lin Yuan is an unemployed master's graduate from a top university. He rents a tiny ten-square-meter subdivided room, and his only hobbies are reading novels and writing reviews.
One night, he leaves a scathing, lengthy review under a third-rate novel.
[System notification: Your review has received 127 likes. You've obtained the in-book skill “Traditional Red-Braised Pork (One-Day Trial),” added to your memory, plus a guide to a three-Michelin-star restaurant kitchen.]
Lin Yuan assumes it's some kind of high-tech scam.
That is, until the owner of the breakfast shop downstairs is so amazed by his red-braised pork that she begs him to invest in her business.
Later, he becomes an industry legend:
He uses psychological profiling from a mystery novel to help the police solve a decade-old cold case;
He uses the ability to read qi from a xianxia novel to make a fortune with a single cut at the jade market;
He uses combat techniques from an apocalypse novel to knock out a cocky retired champion with one kick in an underground fight.
People call him a genius, a monster, a top big shot hidden among ordinary people.
Lin Yuan just smiles and says nothing. He opens his reading app and carefully types a comment under the latest hit novel:
[The logic in this chapter doesn't add up. One star off. The author should read the fourth edition of Criminal Psychology.]
The next day, he gets “World-Class Criminal Psychology Expert (Three-Day Trial).”
As countless people look up to his legend, those who once looked down on him beg to work with him, and the whole city spreads tales of his exploits, Lin Yuan can think of only one thing:
What if I comment on the Tao Te Ching, the Analects, or even the Secret Manual of the Tathagata's Palm...?
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