The Supporting Actress Only Wants a Government Job

[Transmigrating into a book, subverting the usual tropes, rejecting cutthroat competition, passing the civil service exams, a System reformed in reverse, career-driven heroine]

Su Tang, a product manager at a major tech company, dies from working overtime and transmigrates into an old-school tragic romance novel as the vicious supporting female character, destined to be executed by imperial decree. While other transmigrators are busy stealing the male lead and fighting for power in the harem, all she can think about is passing the civil service exams and securing a stable government job.

She applies product-management thinking to the rules of the palace, turns the System's schemes into KPIs, sets up ledgers, draws flowcharts, and introduces performance reviews. Before long, she has transformed the chaotic imperial harem into a smoothly run “tech giant.”

She reforms the wicked-girl System into a palace efficiency assistant. The original novel's beloved heroine becomes her career-minded deputy. Even the male lead, a workaholic crushed by the heir apparent's KPIs, is left questioning his life when she snaps, “Better to do practice questions than date.” In the end, he gives up his claim to the throne and requests a posting far from the capital.

No rivalry between women and no romance-addled characters. Watch a hardcore overworked employee use modern management to outclass an ancient palace, rising step by step from a vicious supporting character to the first female director of the Merit Evaluation Office in Dashuo.