Guo Lang transmigrates into the body of a menial servant. He worked himself to death in his previous life, so this time he decides to lie flat for good.
While others train by pushing themselves to the brink, he takes it easy. While others seek ascension, he sets up a stall by the ascension passage and tries to talk the mighty Divinity Transformation patriarchs out of it: “Up there, they work 996. You get one day off every three hundred years. At your age, can you really handle being an intern, serving tea and running errands?”
Only when an envoy from the Immortal Realm arrives to bring him into the fold does Guo Lang see the truth: the so-called Celestial Court is just one giant cubicle farm, and so-called immortality means endless overtime.
“I won’t listen, I won’t listen!” Guo Lang rolls on the ground. “Either we work four days and rest three, or we go on strike! Starve out the Heavenly Dao and cut power to the Celestial Court!”
From turning the overworked Eye of the Heavenly Dao against its masters to piloting a bronze mech and blasting the tax collectors; from forming an anti-overtime alliance to forcing the Immortal Emperor to take indefinite sick leave, Guo Lang and a band of fellow “slackers” carve out a new order in this dog-eat-dog cultivation world, one where everyone can “sleep until they wake naturally.”
When the whole world is pushing you to your limits, daring to lie flat is the real way to defy fate.
