What does it take to be an emperor?
Nothing at all. Just be a puppet and leave everything to the gods.
Offer a sacrifice, and the gods grant favorable weather and abundant harvests.
Offer a sacrifice, and the gods bless you with health and long life.
Offer a sacrifice, and the gods order the war to stop...
As long as the sacrifices are plentiful enough, the nation will enjoy lasting peace and stability.
Huai Ning, a lazy, lie-flat bottom who has no desire to work hard, thinks this world is perfect for a leisurely retirement. That is, until the executioner's blade comes down on his neck, and he and his blood relatives become offerings to please the gods!
Unbelievable! Just because he lies flat and does nothing, do they really think they can carve him up like meat on a chopping board?! Whoever makes life difficult for Huai Ning will make the whole world suffer for it.
The altar shatters, the high gods are gravely wounded, and everything falls apart.
Huai Ning is reborn, back in time to when he transmigrated at the age of five. This time, he'll turn the tables and take back everything that belongs to him!
After barely two days of effort, the lazy fish lies flat again. Getting up at three and going to bed at ten? He can't live like this. Huai Ning changes course. Since he doesn't want to work hard, he'll whip others into shape and force them to become the ultimate overachievers!
Wielding his little whip, the lazy fish drives his flock onward: the rebellious youth from the borderlands becomes an invincible, unstoppable general; the young Taoist who hates studying becomes a brilliant, farsighted chancellor; the princess who loves pretty clothes picks up a farming hoe and grows a thousand-catty crop; the quiet, shy young lady breaks off her engagement and then produces heavy weapons capable of shattering mountains...
Meanwhile, the utterly ordinary lazy fish hides behind the scenes, playing a timid, cowardly puppet emperor who obeys the high priest responsible for worshipping the gods in all things.
Until Heaven itself collapses and the gods fall!
Theme: We are born free.