When a top-tier CFO and senior engineer transmigrates to ancient times, he looks at the whole dynasty as if it were a balance sheet riddled with bugs.
Imperial power? Intangible brand premium.
Noble titles? Depreciating fixed assets.
The only things he’s obsessed with are cost control, project management, and KPI evaluations, all etched into his DNA.
So when he’s exiled to a barren fiefdom with nothing to its name, he’s thrilled: the greatest startup project in history is underway!
He builds roads, opens mines, and sets up factories, reshaping the land with data and blueprints;
He provides disaster relief, trains troops, and develops trade, defining the rules with reason and results.
He doesn’t become emperor, because the throne would limit the scope of his projects.
He doesn’t fight for hegemony, because war would lower his return on investment.
But when the land falls into chaos and the people kneel before him, shouting the name “Sage of Industry,” everyone realizes in horror that the man who holds the economic lifelines of the realm has long been its uncrowned king.
