Winds of the Xun Palace: I Read Promotion Fortunes at a Fortune 500 Company

On her first day at work, Lin Xiaoman breaks her director’s fine porcelain cup, but unexpectedly unlocks an alert function in the jade bangle her grandmother left her. Blind spots in the break room’s security cameras, the lucky direction of a VIP in the conference room, a honey trap hidden in a rival’s cuff: all become her secret guide to surviving the workplace. With one hand, she builds reports in Excel; with the other, she calculates the Nine Palaces Flying Stars. The quiet janitor she happens to meet in the break room turns out to be a hidden big shot, while the aloof director she bumps into in the elevator becomes her hapless ally. While everyone else is working 996, she uses feng shui ornaments to trip up her rivals. While her colleagues compete to make the most polished PowerPoint, she uses bubble tea recipes to win business wars. From scapegoat intern to the youngest executive, everyone else follows the career track while she plays with a metaphysical power-up. But this power-up comes at the CEO’s expense. Cheng Nuo, the sharp-tongued man in a wheelchair, always manages to crash into her at just the right moment whenever she’s in danger. Hidden inside his medical exoskeleton are ten years’ worth of secretly taken photos, and every time he comes to her rescue, it feels like a carefully planned proposal. When the heiress of a rival family arrives with a jade bangle and throws her weight around, and her cousin acts out so spectacularly that she stumbles into exposing evidence of an old crime, Lin Xiaoman finally realizes: the real passcode was written long ago by someone in a red love letter from the cargo ship bombing case.