Fortune-Telling at the Directorate of Astronomy

Modern office drone and programmer Li Yue dies suddenly after working overtime nonstop to "optimize" code. When he opens his eyes, he has become Gu Yunlan, a low-ranking ninth-rank official in the Bureau of Astronomy of the Great Yin Dynasty. He thinks he has escaped his misery, only to find that the "KPI assessments" (the accuracy of astronomical observations), "project reports" (submissions of solar-term calculations), and "team-building activities" (group stargazing by imperial decree) are even worse than in his previous life. Having seen through the true nature of life, Gu Yunlan decides to lie flat to the very end. With mathematical knowledge far beyond his era, he quickly gets his work done, and from then on spends his workdays sipping tea and his evenings fishing. What he never expects is that the "time-saving gadgets" and "algorithm optimizations" he tinkers with just so he can leave on time seem like unfathomable powers to his colleagues and peerless hidden talent to his superiors. A lazy nobody who only wants to lie flat somehow becomes the Bureau of Astronomy's most powerful backer, stirring up the whole capital.