Shen Mo thinks someone got his life story wrong.
One second, he was a top rich kid in the capital, surrounded by luxury cars, designer watches, and beautiful women, ready to unlock a new achievement in life. The next, an unfair bolt of purple lightning hit him dead-on, without even giving him time to say, “Wait a second.”
When he opens his eyes again, he’s in the world of Shu Mountain.
He’s penniless, dressed in a ragged Daoist robe, with a mysterious lightning mark on his arm. Two sword-flying cultivators point at him and yell, “Monster, prepare to die!”
The good news: he’s read Shu Mountain fan fiction and knows who the big shots are.
The bad news: knowing too much will get him killed even faster.
The even worse news: Emei has its eye on him, Xu Feiniang, the widowed disciple of the Five Terraces Sect, forcibly recruits him, and the ambitious Green Robe Ancestor from the demon sect tries to poach him with a high salary. Three factions’ HR departments are sending offers at once, and his résumé only says, “Eats and sleeps well, skilled at slacking off.”
The worst news: that lightning wasn’t an accident. He’s the chosen “Tribulation Child,” a living switch that can trigger the great calamity occurring once every five hundred years. The righteous sects want to seal him away, the demonic path wants to win him over, and another group wants him erased completely.
Shen Mo’s response: “There’s no way I’m taking this crappy job.”
But since he’s already here...
“Fine. I’ll play this game of chess with you.”
In this novel, you’ll find:
How a rich kid struck by lightning and transmigrated to another world brings the art of slacking off to new heights in the cultivation realm
A socially anxious man forced to deal with multiple teams’ KPIs at once, in a workplace saga of blood, sweat, and tears
Villains lining up to offer a helping hand while the protagonist becomes a big shot against his will
Plots within plots and traps within traps, but the protagonist is always the one outside them
The righteous and demonic factions are all baffled: whose side is this guy on?
One lightning bolt from the start, and all the damage comes from acting. This is the underdog comeback of a Shu Mountain office drone!
A smell of love