Lin Xiaomi, operations director at a major internet company, was still revising a proposal one second before she dropped dead.
When she opened her eyes again, she had become the puppet empress of the Great Yan dynasty. She had been on the throne for seven days: the Empress Dowager had poisoned her, the powerful ministers had used her as a pawn, and a court full of old foxes was waiting to laugh at her.
Anyone else would be doomed.
But who was Lin Xiaomi? She'd spent fifteen years in the workplace and had seen far worse messes than this. No System, no golden finger, no modern industry. All she had was a set of survival rules forged by being battered by society:
Passing the buck in meetings? She was better at it than anyone. Backstabbing during layoffs? She'd written countless optimization lists. Selling people an impossible dream? She could make her promises so tempting that the whole court would scramble for a piece.
Being emperor was just like being a CEO, wasn't it?
Watch this overworked empress use KPIs to evaluate her officials, OKRs to reform the court, and upward management to keep the powerful ministers in line, turning the throne into the steadiest iron rice bowl in the land.
And those old ministers nagging her to marry and have children? Lin Xiaomi smiled faintly. “My personal affairs are not the Human Resources Department's business.”
In a word: this is the worst court I've ever had to manage.
