Mu Wan wakes up inside an entertainment-industry novel. As the female lead's foil, she has countless scandals to her name, and year after year, audiences vote her the most hated female celebrity.
Born into a wealthy family, she has powerful connections to rely on. No matter how much trouble she causes, there's always work for her, so why bother trying?
Mu Wan, freshly transmigrated: Forget it. I'll just slack off.
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When the variety show Antique Objects Can Talk announces its celebrity guests, Mu Wan's name is prominently on the list, setting off another storm of controversy.
Mu Wan plans to slack off to the very end, ignoring every voice around her. The System keeps persuading her: If you collect the characters' mental damage points, you'll get a chance to reverse the plot. Better to act now than wish you had!
Mu Wan: Not moving an inch.
System: Mental damage points +1.
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The sweet, innocent female lead makes an enthusiastic effort on the show, staying up late night after night to study the past and present of the cultural relics.
Mu Wan, unmoved and lazier than anyone, is mocked once again.
Mu Wan: Right, right, I'm lazy. I'll leave it to you. I'm off to get my beauty sleep.
The sweet, innocent female lead: Mental damage points +1.
The childhood friend who has a crush on the female lead works day and night researching methods of restoring cultural relics. Worried Mu Wan will get in the way, he refuses to let her help with the restoration.
Mu Wan: Right, right, I'm stupid. I'll leave it to you. I'm off to get a spa treatment.
The childhood friend: Mental damage points +1.
The guests work hard to impress, rising with the chickens and burning the midnight oil.
Mu Wan, in the corner: Right, right, I'm just a useless little thing. Time to slack off!
The guests: Mental damage points +1.
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At first, viewers harshly criticize Mu Wan for slacking off. Gradually, they see themselves in her. Life is already stressful and exhausting enough. Why, when watching a variety show, does everyone still have to compete and do so much pointless busywork?
Remembering the dread of being ruled by 996 and 007 work schedules, viewers increasingly support Mu Wan, who slacks off all the way through.
Viewers: Cultural relic restoration and excavation have never needed so-called efficiency or competition. Show producers, give us back our peaceful variety show!
Show producers: Mental damage points +1.
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Mu Wan becomes famous for slacking off. Her support far surpasses that of the sweet, innocent female lead, and she wins the Most Popular Female Celebrity award.
System: Um... Just a small reminder: your mental damage points have reached the limit and can be used to reverse the plot.
Mu Wan, still slacking off: So I don't have to do it myself? All right, let's give it a try.
Then, using a plot reversal, she changes the original storyline from [Important sections of the historical records are missing, a great regret for our country's cultural relics workers to this day.]
to [The important sections of the historical records have been preserved in full, a great source of pride for our country's cultural relics workers to this day.]
And [There is no end in sight for the return of precious cultural relics lost overseas.]
becomes [In the blink of an eye, precious cultural relics lost overseas are sent back home.]
As the key person who brings everything together, Mu Wan earns the fervent adoration of her fans.
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The collector Ling Qiuhe gives in to his good friend's urging and joins an archaeology variety show, where he meets a female celebrity even lazier than he is.
While everyone else is clanging away in the tomb pit, the two of them sit with a cup of goji berry tea each, even blowing on the floating bits in perfect unison.
Fans ship this slacking-off couple like crazy. No one expects their wish to come true, but shortly after the show ends, the two announce they're together!
Mu Wan thinks Ling Qiuhe is very much her kind of person. And his family really does own a mine, so she can keep slacking off if she stays with him.
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Mu Wan: So I don't have to do it myself?
Ling Qiuhe: ...If you don't want to move, then I'll do it.
Theme: Face adversity with courage
