Every night, Lin Wanwan wakes from the same nightmare. In it, a voice repeatedly warns her, “By middle age, you’ll have no talent or virtue, and you’ll be laid off.” As a fresh graduate who has just received an offer from a prestigious company, she finds it absurd. Until one day, she goes to work and the voice in her head comes true.
[Congratulations, Host, you have awakened the Unemployment System! Our mission: get unemployed, then get reemployed. Middle-aged people have bright futures too!]
Lin Wanwan looks at her youthful, collagen-rich face in the mirror. “System, are you blind? I’m only twenty-two!”
At first, all she wants is to milk the System for a little extra cash and save enough to lie flat. But after being forced to master all kinds of skills, she becomes a legend in the industry: the mysterious, all-powerful empress of the working world.
