I Only Want to Be a Taoist, but the System Keeps Forcing Me to Take the Imperial Exams

I Only Want to Be a Daoist, but the System Insists I Take the Top Spot

I Only Want to Be a Daoist, but the System Insists I Take the Top Spot. The protagonist, Lin Youran, is an unambitious young Daoist at the Green Ox Temple who unexpectedly becomes bound to the “Sage’s Lie-Flat System.” The System says that as long as he keeps a lie-flat attitude, makes no effort to improve, and slacks off day after day, he’ll automatically receive rewards like righteous qi, insights into scripture, and brilliant poetry. Lin Youran is overjoyed, thinking he can finally relax and be useless in peace. But the System’s rewards are simply too astonishing: a poem he casually recites can trigger strange phenomena in the heavens and earth, and his unintentional actions keep solving major problems no one else can handle. The more he tries to lie flat, the more famous he becomes, and trouble keeps piling up. His master sends him down the mountain to take the imperial examinations, he gets caught up in factional struggles at court, and enemy nations come to see him as a grave threat… Forced to bounce back and forth between “lying flat” and “solving problems so he can go back to lying flat,” Lin Youran makes his way through the provincial, metropolitan, and palace examinations. With talent he’s “lain flat” his way into, he astonishes the world and, amid laughter and banter, puts the court in order and ushers in an age of peace and prosperity.