The Lazy God Possession

The Lazy God Possession is a long urban supernatural fiction novel by web novelist Jun Bujian. Serialized on Qidian.com from May 2015, it took about two years to complete and runs over 3.4 million Chinese characters. The protagonist, Nan Ming, is an ordinary high school student who is possessed by a soul implant calling itself the "Lazy God," which constantly drains his energy—every daily activity costs energy, making him seem listless and weak, and his family writes him off as a lazy slacker. To survive, he threatens suicide and strikes a symbiotic pact with the Lazy God: Nan Ming supplies food energy and "positive energy" such as a sense of achievement, satisfaction, and happiness as nutrients, while the Lazy God grants him the special ability to "enhance" the properties of objects and displays a ten-bar energy gauge in his vision. When the gauge fills, the Lazy God evolves, and only then can Nan Ming escape its control. And so Nan Ming sets out through the world as a "lazy, pleasure-loving, good-hearted youth who loves to help others": enhancing a passenger seat, turning an ordinary flashlight into a laser sword, upgrading a voice assistant into an AI, converting a quadcopter into a flying robot—rescuing people, resolving crises, developing futuristic tech, and dealing with all sorts of urban characters along the way. The book's style is light and brisk, its dialogue humorous, and the pace easy and satisfying; it is a prequel in the author's "Lightstone Network" worldview series.