Office worker Lin Xiaoxiao transmigrates into a disgraced empress confined to the Cold Palace. All she wants is to use workplace rules to outwork the harem and retire early.
What she doesn’t know is that the cold-hearted Emperor Xuanyuan Yi can hear every thought in her mind.
[Your Majesty, that dragon robe must be expensive, huh? You look like a top male model in it, but that scowl is really hurting your prospects for a raise.]
Xuanyuan Yi: “...Empress, step forward and answer me.” He wants to find out whether her mouth or her mind is more outrageous.
[No overtime pay, no benefits, and you still expect me to fight for power in the harem? Forget it. My KPI is to live to a ripe old age!]
So she overhauls the palace maids’ duties with performance targets and develops medicine, turning the Cold Palace into a “dream workplace” that the whole harem envies.
He listens to her endless stream of complaints and goes from furious, to confused, to utterly enthralled.
Then she is in danger, and he loses control, taking an arrow meant for her.
Lin Xiaoxiao is stunned. [Why did the boss take a hit for me? Does this count as a workplace injury? Do my family get compensation?]
Xuanyuan Yi grits his teeth. “...Shut up.”
What angers him isn’t the attempted assassination. It’s that she still hasn’t understood:
He doesn’t want her to work herself to the bone. He only wants her to be wholly devoted to him
I hope you will like this book a lot. Those who like to read time travel can leave comments and provide valuable opinions to the author. Here, I wish all the little cuties a happy life.
Why does the chapter feel a bit like a short story plot? Is there a modern plot behind it?