Bigger Face Than Feet

I’m a “catfish.”

After graduating from college and starting work, Ye Tianmin goes out to play a war game with his friends to blow off steam, only to inexplicably get struck and transmigrate. After arriving in another world, he inexplicably ends up saddled with a huge mess. Starting with a baffling job, he keeps finding that everything he does veers off course from his plans. Drawing on the knowledge he accumulated in his previous life, he seems to glimpse the reasons behind all these strange events, yet he is powerless to change anything! Wanting more say in what happens, he decides to observe from the sidelines and then try to make a difference. Women are drawn to him, experts are astonished, but as he tries to change things, he discovers that others still hold the power over what gets said and done. In the end, he really does become a “catfish.” In many people’s eyes, he is the very sort of person he himself dislikes. Yet every move he makes attracts countless onlookers, and more women and men appear around him. Then he meets someone else who has also transmigrated, and everything gets more and more interesting...

The story offers some perspectives on social issues that invite reflection, but above all it explores how ordinary people get by, attitudes toward the everyday realities of marriage and the entanglements between men and women, and ways of relating to the opposite sex. There are conflicts between black and white, as well as blurred, uncertain shades. Through the dawn light and evening glow, it still comes down to the same old necessities: rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea.