I'm a Ruthless Boss at a Magical Girl Company

Cheng Yan, thirty-one, former ruthless boss. He had only one ambition in life:

Make other people work for him.

Then a plane crash killed him when he was struck by plane-engine wreckage. When he opened his eyes again, he had somehow become Jiang Ling, a debt-ridden magical girl working for a disaster-response corporation in China.

The labyrinth devours people. The company chews them to the bone.

While everyone else is still risking their lives for performance bonuses, Jiang Ling has already set her sights on the shift roster.

On her first trip into the labyrinth, she saves the poker-faced team leader Shen Zhou.

At her first payout, she forces the company to hand over the subsidies it had been hiding.

And at her first promotion, she discovers she is merely a pawn pushed forward in a power struggle among the executives.

But if a pawn knows how to crunch the numbers, stir up trouble, and use public opinion to hold up an IPO

then it’s anyone’s guess who’s really playing whom.

Years later.

Labor inspectors arrive, but the magical girls one by one crowd into her office.

Shen Zhou asks, eyes red: “Jiang Ling, do you still want me to go out tonight?”

Gu Li smiles as she wipes her sword: “If it’s a shift you scheduled, I’ll take it.”

Yu Weiyu clings to her leg: “Boss, does head-patting count as post-battle comfort today? Can you comfort me again tomorrow?”

Jiang Ling looks at the inspectors outside the door, then at the group of obsessive girls who are on the verge of losing it, and slowly presses her fingers to her brow.

“When I started, I really just wanted to be a boss who didn’t have to go into the labyrinth.”