Reborn, I Blackmail Fat Di for a Million and Slack My Way to the Top

In his previous life, he coasted through life after graduation until he suddenly died in 2025. This time around, the first thing he did was use childhood photos of himself in the nude to blackmail his childhood friend into lending him her 1 million yuan New Year’s gift money. He promptly spent it on 80,000 bitcoins, then watched their value crash to zero and ended up flat broke. Shamelessly, he moved into Liba’s home and began sponging off her for food and lodging. He knew all about the halal food her family ate. He’d grown up eating pilaf and baked buns, but deliberately took her to try Beijing-style braised offal to test her limits. She chased him for three whole blocks.

Two years later, Liba gained some popularity with The Legend of the Ancient Sword, and Jiaxing Media assigned her a team. She promptly shoved Wu Liang into the production as her assistant, hoping to torment him in revenge. Who could have guessed that Wu Liang couldn’t drive, carry a bag, or even keep from setting the kitchen on fire, yet could use his memories of his previous life to help Liba revise scripts, dodge scandals, and pick hit projects? Amid the chaotic everyday life on set, he took his boss gaming, to comic conventions, for foot massages, and to the front row to watch the gossip unfold.

When Liba realized that this lazy bum was about to get rich off bitcoin, and Wu Liang realized that Liba was looking at him in a decidedly strange way, their childhood-friends journey from a Xinjiang military compound to a Beijing mansion officially took off. No schemes, no villains, no angst: just a fun-loving guy sweeping morality aside to be himself, living the dream of winning big while doing nothing in the entertainment and crypto industries from 2012 to 2020.