[Urban cultivation, a scheming protagonist, workplace comedy, no angst, and an easygoing read from start to finish]
Li Yue is miserable. He wakes up to find that he has landed in the ending of his own novel, where Immortal Emperors are everywhere and even Mahayana cultivators are a dime a dozen.
He is a useless collateral branch member of a cultivation conglomerate that monopolizes the Myriad Worlds, with a spiritual root so poor it could barely be detected. He has also inherited a family loan that would take several lifetimes to pay off.
The good news: he is bound to a System.
The bad news: the System has issued only one main quest.
[Main Quest: Bring down the Li Immortal Industries Group and overthrow the Li family's rule.]
First small goal: Get his direct supervisor a D rating on this month's performance review. Reward: Li Industries' S-Rank Performance Gift Pack.
What? An S-Rank performance review lets him choose a cultivation technique? Then why sleep! He picks an idle-training technique, turning himself into a top-tier workhorse who never rests, grinding around the clock. On the surface, he works everyone else into the ground; behind the scenes, he bleeds the entire family dry.
One day in the future, when scholars across the Myriad Worlds compete to piece together the truth behind the Li family's collapse, they will finally learn that the Immortal Emperor Li Yue's grand vision began with nothing more than a low-level wage slave frantically chasing performance points at his workstation in an immortal factory.
The subject matter is okay. It's a pretty fresh anti-conventional novel. The protagonist is a normal person stuck between the Virgin and the Devil. Although there is a title tag system, it does not directly provide cheats. In the early stage, it basically relies on the cheats of wearing books.
I can read it, but it doesn't smell like AI. I've already beaten 90% of the books.