The Ming Dynasty's Top Project Manager

Chen Mo, a product manager who died suddenly from working 996, is reborn as Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian. Faced with the rotten Ming conglomerate, he has no time for palace intrigues. He just wants to stay alive. So the morning court becomes a project review meeting, Yuan Chonghuan gets a five-year KPI for pacifying Liaodong, and the imperial concubines start competing over performance reviews. He uses Gantt charts to plan national policy, OKRs to motivate officials, and project management to handle bandit suppression, pacifying Liaodong, and making money.

As civil and military officials are driven mad by "project retrospectives" and "360-degree evaluations," Chen Mo is fretting over the System's tasks: the main quest, avoid hanging himself, is 1% complete. And the first side quest is... to give Wei Zhongxian new-hire orientation! He's found a whole new way to run the Ming dynasty.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.