I'm a Modern-Day Advisor

A cup of imperial poison wine sent off Wu Mingyuan, the mastermind behind the struggle among the nine princes for the throne. When he opened his eyes again, he had somehow become Lin Xiao, a debt-ridden office worker who had just been fired and made the scapegoat! Faced with a bizarre steel jungle and the cold, unfamiliar electronic “sorcery,” this Qing dynasty’s greatest strategist, who had once calculated the world’s every move, was forced to begin survival mode on the highest difficulty.

Pawn a piece of inferior jade? He used the rhetoric of The Guiguzi to outplay unscrupulous merchants! Falsely accused on the subway? He used techniques from The Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified to turn the tables on a spy! Hired by the administration department? He treated the office automation system like a stack of memorials to the throne, inviting ridicule from the entire internet! But when Su Wanqing, the heiress of a wealthy family, became embroiled in a power struggle within her clan, Wu Mingyuan’s dormant soul as a master strategist fully awakened!

The venue for a senior executives’ banquet maliciously seized? He proposed a “feint in the east, attack in the west” strategy, using an art appraisal to force the hotel owner to bow his head and apologize! A mountain of data concealing a fraud? He applied the art of “perceiving the small to understand the great,” seeing through a hypocrite at a glance and exposing the mastermind! Their resources cut off at the source? He devised a strategy of “retreating in order to advance.” A seminar on international trends unexpectedly brought Su Zhenghai, the Group’s business emperor, in person, where he left a mysterious vermilion annotation: “Restrain haste and exercise patience!”

As the family’s hidden war escalates, the modern workplace becomes a court within the Forbidden City. Chen Zhihao smiles while hiding a blade, and the rules of capital are as binding as the law. Su Wanqing is inexperienced yet steadfast, the only lifeline for Wu Mingyuan as he returns to the arena of power. And Su Zhenghai, the business emperor who adores Emperor Yongzheng’s vermilion annotations and keeps a sand table of the world in his study, watches the whole game coldly, treating everyone as pieces to hone his heir...