I Never Meant to Climb the Ladder

The day Lin Mo passed the civil service exam, he set himself three ironclad rules: Don’t get promoted. Don’t stand out. Don’t offend anyone. For two years, he was a complete nobody in the township government office, and he did it better than anyone. Then the System arrived. [Workplace Breakthrough System bound. Host’s determination to lie flat is too strong. Intervention initiated.] At a briefing, his superior told him to read out a report. The System forced him to point out three data errors in front of everyone. A long-abandoned project that no one had touched in three years. The System forced him to write to the county government about it, and forbade him from using tactful language. A problem no one wanted to handle landed on his desk. The System forced him to get to the bottom of it, leaving the person who’d passed the buck with nothing to say. After every task, Lin Mo just wanted to retreat to his office and go back to being invisible. But rumors had already started spreading in the corridors: “Who is this guy? What civil servant would dare do that?” “He must have connections. Didn’t you see how the higher-ups treated him?” “I heard someone in the county specifically asked about his personnel file.” Lin Mo: ...I really don’t have connections. All I have is a System that won’t let me rest. [Reminder: The Host’s current mission has attracted the attention of three relevant individuals. Handle the consequences on your own.] All he wanted was to coast along peacefully until retirement. The System just wouldn’t let him.