One morning, overworked office drone Mu Huailan wakes up as a doomed cannon-fodder character in a xianxia novel, fated to die from the start. In the original story, she accidentally discovers the secret of Ji Heng, the future Demon Lord who will destroy the world, and he casually crushes her to death. Faced with certain doom, Mu Huailan makes a decisive choice… to cling to the villain and apply for the job of Demon Lord’s assistant!
While others cultivate immortality, she goes to work, becoming the sinister and ruthless Demon King’s “chief administrator.” Faced with endless palace intrigue, xianxia edition; power struggles, demonic sect edition; and all kinds of absurd KPIs, Mu Huailan brings out the survival strategies of the modern workplace: she uses performance reviews to whip the Demon Palace into shape, project management to resolve sect crises, and SWOT analysis to help her boss avoid the risks posed by the Heavenly Dao! She even helps her boss’s older brother upgrade his business and wows everyone at a palace banquet with a dance to “Subject Three.”
She thinks she’s just working to stay alive, but the cold-blooded Demon Lord starts looking at her in a very different way. He gives her resources, has her back, and even… starts discussing “equity incentives” with her? And when the original plot completely derails and a real crisis arrives, Mu Huailan realizes that as his “executive assistant,” she’s already caught up in the game and can’t get out.
This is a hilarious everyday tale about using workplace smarts to stay alive in the cultivation world, while accidentally turning a world-destroying villain into a “domineering CEO.” Watch a modern office worker use KPIs and PowerPoint to conquer the xianxia world!
