Lin Ye, a 21st-century internet wage slave ground down by KPIs, demanding clients, and unpaid overtime, stays up late revising the eighth version of a proposal. Just after messaging the client, he suffers a heart attack and collapses. When he opens his eyes, he has transmigrated into a book, becoming a complete nobody in the Three Kingdoms era, a mere apprentice to an ordinary grain officer under Cao Cao, with the original name “Lin Aye.” He comes equipped with the survival rules of a wage slave, etched into his DNA: slack off without getting caught, pass the buck without taking the blame, and tactfully avoid offending anyone. His motto is “better not to make trouble than to invite it, safety first.” His knowledge of history consists of scraps left over from school textbooks. He only remembers the broad strokes, such as the Oath of the Peach Garden and the Battle of Red Cliffs, and has to guess at all the details, yet somehow he keeps stumbling into pivotal events by accident. At first, he has no grand ambition to conquer the realm. All he wants is a hot meal in this chaotic age, to stay alive, admire beautiful women, avoid overtime, escape blame, and keep from being singled out. But fate has other plans. Starting as a nobody in the supply corps, he uses his wage-slave savvy to advance step by step, recruiting famous heroes and commanders to serve him and winning the Three Kingdoms’ famous beauties as his wives. In the end, he rises to become the ruler who unifies the Three Kingdoms, while keeping his chatty, complaining wage-slave nature to the very end.
I like the Three Kingdoms theme, this is pretty good