From Big Tech Employee to the Peak of the Demonic Path

[The new book, The Immortal Sect's Number One Lackey, is now out. The blurb is at the end.] Qin Jun was an excellent employee. She'd climbed from a small-town exam grinder all the way to P9 at a major tech company. Unfortunately, after two months of working 007, she died suddenly at her desk. Then she found herself inside a book, as the infamous Demon Lord. To make matters worse, she was bound to a System that required her to complete cannon-fodder missions and help the domineering male lead build his career. She was no longer allowed to entertain the idea of making the world feel pain. At the time, the domineering male lead, who would be preparing to destroy the world thirty years later, was still just a snot-nosed little brat. Qin Jun expressionlessly reviewed the Demon Palace's financial statements, its unevenly talented and undisciplined employees, and a century's worth of abysmal, disastrous performance... She decided to bring the Demon Palace into alignment with the finest level of detail for the first time in its five-hundred-year history. Then she gathered the personal information of every current employee of the Demon Palace. She equipped every employee with Demon Palace DingTalk to ensure they could stay in touch at all times. No one could take organizational property outside without permission. Shift workers had to clock in strictly on schedule. Fieldwork required a prior application... Even when robbing the righteous sects, they had to make sure their movements formed a closed loop and get proper receipts. If all else failed, a wanted poster could serve as proof of fieldwork. The male lead had decided to lie flat after being reborn and had become thoroughly disillusioned with the righteous sects. By the time he came to his senses, he was already standing on Demon Palace grounds, having followed the news about Qin Jun. In his previous life, the righteous sects had hunted her down, and she had died horribly. This time, he could at least give her a hand and join her grand undertaking to destroy the world. But before he knew it, he'd gone from a Level Four employee to a Level Ten employee, and become the Demon Palace's only chief researcher. Qin Jun launched a massive construction project on Demon Palace land, building subsidized housing and homes in school districts. The corporate culture started with the children. From seizing market share to dominating the entire market. A hundred years later, cultivators were horrified to discover that the Demon Palace had become the trendsetter for the entire cultivation world. For trade, they had to use the Demon Palace's marketplace. For moving money, they had to use the Demon Palace's platform. Their food, clothing, housing, and transportation all relied on Demon Palace technology. Even the textbooks used by righteous sects to teach their disciples were made by the Demon Palace, for crying out loud! Qin Jun became the dark cloud hanging over every righteous sect. Watching the black aura around the domineering male lead grow heavier and heavier, Qin Jun decided to approve his resignation before he could quit and destroy the world again. After all, anyone who's ever had a job knows: Wanting to destroy the world every day at work is perfectly normal. A ruthless workaholic Demon Lord x a domineering male lead who wants to lie flat and slack off, but can't help being an unhinged, gloomy ghost of a man The Immortal Sect's Number One Lackey The year she passed the civil service exam, Rong Huaibing vowed to be a diligent public servant. The year she died from working late on paperwork, she regretted that after twenty-three years of studying, all she had left was the skill of writing official documents. To make matters worse, even after dying she was bound to a System and sent to another world to become the foundation supporting the chosen male and female leads. She was to be the heroine's most loyal sidekick, then get paired off with the male lead's subordinate at the end. The immortal sect was vast. After enduring countless hardships, Rong Huaibing stood before the great hall, listening to an elder's instructions. The heroine stood before her, along with the male lead, who was exchanging glances with her. The elder said, "Your talent is average, but your comprehension is acceptable. Wait for now." The System told her to join the Sword Elder's sect, get along with the heroine, and help the male and female leads navigate their tumultuous, tragic love story. Rong Huaibing looked up at the immortals seated in a row and fixed her gaze on the one at the highest seat. "I want to become the Sect Master's disciple!" The immortal said, "I happen to need a disciple who can handle odd jobs. You can do it." "There are three rules for joining my sect." "First, you may not take a disciple from an aristocratic family as your cultivation partner." "Second, you may not use the sect's influence to benefit your family." "Third, you must remain upright for your entire life and never marry." Rong Huaibing looked into the immortal's utterly impersonal eyes and said, "Understood. I will follow your teachings." From that day on, Rong Huaibing became the busiest person in the entire immortal sect, as well as the most loyal lackey in her master's sect. Her master didn't want to lecture the outer disciples today? No problem, she'd do it. Her senior brother didn't want to go down the mountain on a mission today? No problem, she'd go. Her senior sister didn't want to take her turn on sect duty today? No problem, she'd cover for her. Her junior brother didn't want to practice today? No problem, she'd help fool their master. Her junior sister wanted to stake out the news about her dream man today? No problem, she'd handle it. Her master didn't want to deal with the sect's mundane affairs? No problem. Leave it to her. She'd make sure everything was done properly, the most devoted lackey in the sect. Everyone said she was trying to cling to the powerful families of the immortal sect so she could rise to the top in a single leap. Rong Huaibing only smiled and went back to running errands at her master's command. What her master told her to do, she could do. What he didn't tell her to do, she could do that too. Every immortal knew that Dao Venerable Jici had a loyal, capable lackey who handled everything and left no detail unattended, practically a second Dao Venerable Jici. Jici let her handle everything. She was one of his own, after all, and he could trust her. Until one day, tribulation struck and a demon abyss opened. The immortal sect's prodigies fell one after another, powerless to resist. Little disciple Rong Huaibing was going to the battlefield too. Jici emerged from seclusion. "Stand down. Saving all living beings is beyond your abilities." He thought, she's just a little disciple who spends all her time doing odd jobs. How could she bear such a heavy burden? But to his surprise, rosy clouds filled the sky as his little disciple stood with a blade in her hand. She said, "The nine provinces and ten thousand lands rest on my shoulders. You don't get to speak for all the people of the world!" An ambitious double agent heroine x an unwittingly lovestruck, gloomy, old-fashioned male lead The heroine's name, Rong Huaibing, was inspired by Xin Qiji's poem "To the Tune of Water: Harmonizing with Ma Shudu's Visit to Moonwave Tower": "I summon the bright moon filling the sky, to illuminate the ice and snow in my heart, as mighty rivers surge. The whale has yet to drink the sea dry, but the sword's aura already spans the autumn sky." Also, a nod to The Ming Dynasty in 1566. Blurb archived as of 2025-06-11. Theme: Work hard and become the boss.