One morning, Lin Xiao, a eunuch chief with power over the imperial court, wakes up as a lowly courier in a modern city.
Faced with “iron boxes” that carry voices over a thousand miles and “iron horses” that race like the wind, the Nine-Thousand-Year-Old is in despair. Delivering packages? Such a menial task!
Then he picks up his first parcel. He treats his electric scooter like an imperial steed, the housing complex like a palace garden, his customers like consorts, and bad reviews like beatings from the imperial court. The Nine-Thousand-Year-Old is furious: “This isn’t delivering packages. It’s all about dealing with people!”
Watch as he uses palace intrigue to keep his coworkers in line, his knack for reading people to handle customers, and the methods of the Inner Factory to bring his district to heel. From “star courier” to “district manager,” he rises once more to the peak of power on an entirely different battlefield.
But then a female author who looks just like the beloved he lost in his previous life appears. A retired professor suspects he carries an ancient secret, and business tycoons come to see him as a thorn in their side...
Standing at a neon-lit crossroads, Lin Xiao asks himself: In this life, will he keep being a scheming “servant,” or will he truly live for himself and become a man who can hold up the heavens?
[This is the hilarious story of an ancient eunuch who turns his life around in the modern workplace and ultimately rediscovers himself.]
