Shen Que, a top graduate of the police academy, is forced into “retirement” after failing a psychological assessment during an undercover operation. Disillusioned, he decides to give up on everything. He lands a cushy job at a nearly bankrupt security company, where his greatest exertion each day is breathing. But the company’s real boss is none other than Lin Xiaotian, a godfather-level crime lord feared by both the underworld and the authorities. Lin Xiaotian sees Shen Que’s perfunctory “aloofness” as the composure of a man who keeps his true abilities hidden, and mistakes his slacking off and sleeping on the job for an efficient work-life balance. Even Shen Que’s offhand suggestions, made only to avoid trouble, repeatedly foil his opponents’ deadly schemes by pure accident. Shen Que only wants to lie flat until he gets fired, but somehow he becomes the “inspirational idol” praised throughout the company. Lin Xiaotian even considers him a once-in-a-century successor and personally pushes him onto a blood-soaked stage for the struggle over power. Under the watchful eyes of countless people who want to tear him limb from limb, Shen Que has no choice but to keep up his “diligent” campaign of slacking off. With one carefully orchestrated “coincidence” and stroke of “luck” after another, he disguises himself as the strongest wolf in the maelstrom of wits and schemes.
