A Modern Corporate Drone, Reborn as the Attention-Seeking Emperor of Great Ming

Lin Feng, a 996 programmer, dies of overwork after staying up all night fixing bugs. When he opens his eyes, he's become Zhu Yijun, the ten-year-old emperor in the first year of the Wanli era! Between Zhang Juzheng's “strict teacher” style of regency, the stiff prostrations of court officials, and palace life without so much as toilet paper, his overworked modern soul can't take this lousy “throne.” At least a 996 job comes with milk tea! To survive in the Forbidden City, he puts his office-worker smarts to creative use: distracted at court, he turns the “Single Whip Law” into “a cup of iced tea,” leaving the officials utterly confused; he teaches the eunuchs to set up a “food delivery service” to sneak snacks out of the imperial kitchens; his DIY soundproof room made from a wooden tub and cotton is mistaken by the empress dowager for a “witchcraft curse”; and when he hands palace maids and eunuchs “performance vouchers,” everyone starts competing to “work overtime.” Jokes aside, when he sees resistance to the Single Whip Law, corruption among Jiangnan's gentry, and Japanese pirates ravaging the coast, his practical office-worker instincts kick in: he holds royal auctions to fill the imperial treasury, improves looms to save working-class women, uses “time cards” to tackle the court's laziness, and even hangs banners promising “surrender and get milk tea” while fighting the pirates. Is this Ming dynasty a bit hard to manage? No problem. This eccentric emperor has come to the rescue with a modern imagination. Watch as an overworked office drone turns the Wanli era into a dependable yet hilarious “ancient workplace”!