The Imperial Consort Is Always Exploiting Bugs

Chen Lexin, the top overachiever in finance, drops dead one day and transmigrates into a palace-intrigue novel as a doomed, love-struck imperial consort.

She’s also forced to bind herself to a [Palace Intrigue System], whose mission is apparently to win favor, bear a son, and become empress?

Looking at the infuriating System and the infuriating harem, Chen Lexin flings the KPIs right back in its face:

“Competing for favor? Think bigger. I’m here to reform the workplace, not fall in love.”

And so, everything takes a sudden turn:

The consorts are fighting over the emperor? She introduces performance reviews and gets them competing to advance their careers.

The palace administration is a mess? She establishes standardized procedures and sends efficiency through the roof.

An opponent schemes against her? She produces contingency plans and a chain of evidence, then traps them in a logical dead end.

She thinks she’s playing a management sim solo, until the tyrant hero corners her against a wall:

“My beloved consort, you’ve saved the empire a million taels of silver and solved three major problems...”

“Tell me, what is it you really want?”

Chen Lexin looks at the bugged-out notice on her System panel, [Emperor’s Affection: 99%], and gives him a professional smile:

“Your Majesty, could you pay my year-end bonus in cash?”

A career-focused master of resisting the rat race versus an out-of-control tyrant who’s gradually being “reformatted”

Watch a modern management genius exploit a System bug and turn a hellishly difficult palace-intrigue plot into a thriving partnership that ushers in a golden age!