His boss asked him to explain what it meant to slack off.
Chen Mo said, “You trade your lives for performance reviews. I’m keeping mine.”
The whole room laughed at him for being useless. When they were done laughing, a wineglass cracked by itself, forming a perfect hashtag.
The Great Xia Deity-Ban Edict was perfectly clear: any mortal who develops a divine nature must be erased on the spot. Chen Mo is the most overlooked product manager at a major company in North City. His performance is rock-bottom, his desk is by the restroom, and his name is always on the layoff list. Then one day, his broken computer flashes a line of text
[Host detected slacking off. Lie Flat Heavenly Dao System successfully bound.]
Slack off, and his cultivation rises. Work overtime, and his level drops. Humiliated in public, and he siphons off his tormentor’s luck.
All he wants is to make rent this month. But the System starts a countdown: one hundred successful bouts of slacking off remain until he becomes a god.
On the night his coworkers pull an all-nighter revising a proposal, he undergoes tribulation at his desk. The day his boss calls him useless, the Deity-Ban Bureau is already lined up downstairs.
The well knows him now.
It wants him to go down and work overtime.
