Chen Fei, a backbone employee at a major internet company, was laid off after he could no longer keep up with the rat race. When he opened his eyes, he had become a sweeping monk in a dilapidated ancient temple! Even more terrifying, the Bodhisattvas, Arhats, and Four Heavenly Kings here were all real! But every one of them looked gloomy, because their incense-offering KPIs had been missed for three hundred years straight. Their divine powers were running out, and the entire Lingshan Temple Group was on the verge of bankruptcy and liquidation!
To stay alive (and save this group of immortal coworkers on the brink of unemployment), the former star operations manager could only pick up his old trade with tears in his eyes. He grabbed a broom and... a PowerPoint, vowing to overhaul this “Buddhist-style company” with internet thinking and his experience as an overworked office drone!
Market research? On it! The rival Taoist temple is livestreaming? We’ll do it too, and turn the Four Heavenly Kings into the Three Realms’ top boy band, “Heavenly F4”!
Poor user experience? Start with the Heng and Ha Generals: train them to greet visitors with eight-tooth smiles!
Core business in free fall? Help Guanyin Bodhisattva optimize the backend and launch an “Online Prayer System + VIP Channel”; bring in Guan Yu, the Martial God of Wealth, to target the “B2B market” with “Business Blessings”!
A sudden crisis? The underworld’s reincarnation system crashes? No problem! Launch the “Three Realms Merit Bridge” project and crowdfund across the internet!
When KPIs come to Buddhism, even immortals have to join the rat race! See how a humble sweeping monk (not really), the Chief Operating Officer (that’s right), uses traffic-driven thinking to revive a bankrupt temple and lead the immortals to fight their way back to the top of the Three Realms!
[Reading Guide]
A lighthearted, laugh-out-loud satire, full of wild ideas and straight-faced nonsense.
The focus is on career and business, using modern operations thinking to solve management problems in the world of immortals.
The setting is entirely made up and has nothing to do with real religions. Please don’t overanalyze it.
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