Malicious Compliance: I Use Magic to Beat the Unwritten Rules

The protagonist is a newly hired civil servant with a perfect memory and an absolutely rational mind. He finds himself in an old-fashioned bureaucracy where personal connections outweigh the law and unwritten rules run rampant, but he wields every regulation, policy, and document, whether public or buried away, as his only weapon. By internalizing a vast sea of statutes and turning them into airtight chains of logic, he uses “malicious compliance” to smash every unwritten rule, starting by standing up to his superiors and putting workplace culture in order. He gradually grows from an isolated “hothead” into a “Bao Zheng of the bureaucracy” who terrifies the entire city government, becoming every rule-breaker’s nightmare and the ultimate guardian of the law.