A modern woman preparing for the civil service exam transmigrates into a toilet-scrubbing maid and takes the Great Yan bureaucracy by storm with OKRs and KPIs.
Lin Zhixia had failed the civil service exam three times. Then she woke up as the lowest-ranking maid, responsible for cleaning, in the residence of Chief Minister Shen Yan.
Other people transmigrate to become princesses. She transmigrates to scrub toilets.
The toilets are too filthy? She introduces KPI management and gets every toilet in the residence clean enough to sit down and read in just three days.
The paperwork is a mess? She applies the four-quadrant method, tripling the chief minister's efficiency at reviewing memorials.
The kitchen is wasteful? She implements cost controls and slashes expenses by twenty percent.
Everyone calls her a genius. Only she knows the truth: she's just applying everything she learned for the civil service exam to the ancient bureaucracy.
But Lin Zhixia never expected that while her career was flourishing, her love life would spiral completely out of control.
The icy Chief Minister Shen Yan writes her name in his private files and labels it: "Useful. Must be kept in check. Not letting go."
Yan Changge, the foremost imperial merchant, buys the residence next door to the chief minister's just to see her more often.
Xiao Ji, commander of the Imperial Guards, gives her the saber he's guarded for ten years. "Let it stand guard for me."
The young top scholar Pei Xingci covers the walls of his confinement room with her name. "Wait for me to marry you."
Four men, four kinds of love, each more difficult to handle than the last.
Lin Zhixia: I'm here to build a career, not to fall in love!
The four men: You can build your career, but you're falling in love too.
A woman has to be ruthless to secure her position. But with four ruthless men all coming after her, she might not be able to keep her footing.
