Lin Xia, a rookie account executive, joins Aurora Media and is immediately handed a decade-old proposal file by her “demon team leader,” Zhou Jin. She turns around and uses Python to uncover flaws in the data, then turns the tables on a boss who tried to steal her credit. When a client demands “ten creative concepts in one hour,” she delivers with AI templates and viral Douyin trends. A meme guide to “handling difficult clients” even wins her an annual award. It turns out the whole ordeal was a corporate stress test.
Promoted to senior planner, she takes on Florasis in a showdown with L'Oreal. Brushing off accusations that her ideas are “old-fashioned,” she launches a Dunhuang-inspired Flying Apsaras pop-up that draws millions of viewers to its livestream and boosts sales by 300%. She also uses blockchain to catch the plagiarist. After becoming creative director, she pretends to help senior executives launder money, then uses data visualizations at the annual gala to expose the corrupt network and unmask the HR director's short-selling scheme.
At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, when she is mocked with the claim that “Chinese advertising can only copy,” she wins a major award with a Moutai proposal combining AI and intangible cultural heritage. She then discovers that one of the judges is the college classmate she secretly loved. When America's WPP tries to acquire the company, she champions “democratizing advertising,” attracts a million user-generated submissions in three months, and makes a stunning comeback as CEO of the group.
There is no rivalry between women here, only a sisterhood that writes project schedules in the style of Empresses in the Palace and plays proposal-themed Werewolf. There is no love-brain nonsense, only a coding romance with the CTO that blossoms through GitHub, with each chapter also hiding a fun advertising fact. Lin Xia proves that a woman reaches the pinnacle of her career not by groveling to clients, but by mastering her craft and becoming a queen.
