Thirty Years of Martial Arts: I Lie Flat and Become a Top-Tier Star

Lin Yan is a Wudang heir and an orphan. In his previous life, his master forced him to train in martial arts for thirty years. Every day was either stance training or cultivating his inner arts. At long last, his master passed away, and Lin Yan thought he could get by as an extra at Hengdian. Instead, he collapsed from exhaustion on set. When he opened his eyes, his soul had transmigrated into a parallel world, where he had become a top-tier star in the entertainment industry: a traffic star with the same name, an impossibly handsome face, and a reputation blackened across the internet for acting like a diva and having terrible acting skills.

Looking at the nine-figure balance in his bank account, Lin Yan decides to give up trying: “I’m not going to work myself to the bone this time! I’ll make up for all the good things I missed out on in my last life!”

He has a good moral compass and speaks faster than he thinks, delivering one-liners and pulling all kinds of sly stunts. He takes on attention-seeking influencers, exposes fake traffic stars, and stands up for ordinary people. And yet he’s impossibly handsome, absurdly well-read, and his Wudang martial arts give him an innate air of security.

All he wanted was to lie flat and enjoy life, but the more he takes it easy, the more famous he gets. Beautiful actresses and celebrities approach him, and offers for variety shows and scripts pour in, carrying him farther and farther from the laid-back life he wanted.

Someone accuses him of chasing clout? He shuts them up with his talent. Someone questions whether he deserves his status? When the country needs him, he steps up to protect his fellow citizens with Wudang martial arts, showing the spirit of China.

Lin Yan spreads his hands helplessly. “I really don’t want to be a top-tier star. I just want to fish and travel in peace. Don’t push me!”

The whole internet: “Stop pretending! You’re the top-tier star the entertainment industry was born to have!”