Qin Luo, a programmer laid off by his unscrupulous boss, raises his middle finger in the pouring rain. A golden beam strikes from the sky.
“Heavenly Court Outsourcing System successfully bound. ID 9527. Refuse? Fifty years will be deducted from your lifespan.”
Forced to sign the contract, he discovers that while everyone else cultivates through hard work, he gets ahead by slacking off. The longer he slacks, the bigger the reward multiplier.
His first KPI: make the boss who bullied him publicly confess, “I'm useless. I only got here because of my dad!” Quest complete, merit coins earned, slacking multiplier activated. When Chang'e, the cold-faced HR director, checks in over video for the first time, she stares at his data for a long while. The corner of her mouth twitches, but she manages not to laugh.
From convenience-store oden in the modern world to the KPI operations center on the 88th floor of the Heavenly Court, from fixing bugs in the underworld's reincarnation System to breaking the monopoly on outsourced weather services in the Dragon Palace, Qin Luo goes from a laid-off office worker to the supreme wartime commander of the Three Realms. His creative ways of slacking even make the Jade Emperor wonder: should the Heavenly Court's outsourcing system be outsourced to him for a revamp?
When the Chaos Outer Realm invades and the Three Realms teeter on the brink of destruction, he stands at the head of the allied forces and says just one thing: “When this battle's over, I'm clocking out.”
One “clocking out” decides the fate of all. The System displays one last message. It isn't a KPI. It's from Chang'e: “Milk tea, two cups.”
