All My Coworkers Are Weird Systems

At EchoCore, everyone comes with their own brand of eccentricity: Da Liu, who pushes work with a ruthless, wolfish drive; Old Zhou, who resists by reading poetry; Xiao Mei, who turns every process into a prison; and A Qiang, who's lost his creative spark... Lin Xiaofan just wanted to keep his head down, write code, and get by, until the System began turning every overtime shift, every blame-dodging incident, and every labor law violation that went ignored into cold, hard curves on a graph. Others argue with emotions. He fights with data. A chart comparing overtime hours to production incidents is more effective than a hundred excuses. A ledger that follows due process and gives people a chance to defend themselves even makes the toughest boss back down. From an F-rank recorder to an S-rank architect, he never trampled anyone to get ahead. He simply recorded, one by one, the rights everyone had overlooked. This is a feel-good power fantasy with substance: every coworker's eccentricity has a cause, bosses aren't born villains, and labor laws don't need preaching when the rules can speak for themselves through face-slapping moments. When Su Wanqing projects the Gundam model display cabinet she'd kept hidden for two years onto the big screen at an all-hands meeting, Lin Xiaofan finally understands: the System was never a telescope. It was a mirror. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.