Unofficial History of the Later Han

Sang Kasha rubbed her throbbing temples, her fingertips brushing over the mountain of pending files on her keyboard. The time in the bottom-right corner of the screen ticked over to 23:17. She was the only one left in the office, with a light still on above her desk. Cold air from the central ventilation system carried the musty smell of paper as it drifted over a copy of Draft History of the Later Han Dynasty, left open at the corner of her desk. It was reference material for a local history research project she worked on in her spare time, but now it was yet another burden piled atop “Personnel Dispute Mediation Cases” and “Quarterly Performance Reviews.”