After pulling an all-nighter at work, period-drama screenwriter He Youyou opens her eyes to find herself as He Lian, the unlucky Empress Dowager at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty. Her husband is dead, her younger brother has been beheaded, Dong Zhuo has a blade at her throat, and the little emperor is crying in terror.
A hellish start? She fires back with the survival rules of an overworked office drone!
She uses bamboo-slip PowerPoint presentations to bluff the court, wins public support by handing out steamed buns, and turns disaster relief into a KPI assessment.
She puts workplace jargon to work on the warlords: she gets the narcissistic battle god Lu Bu obsessed with "gem skins," forces Cao Cao to drink the poisoned wine she gave him, and turns Yuan Shao's "Eighteen Route Lords" into a palace-intrigue showdown!
Even worse, she's caught in a handsome-men love triangle:
Her stoic bodyguard Zhao Yun, ears red as he protects her, asks, "Your Majesty, shall I tie my spear tassel... for you again?"
Jealous Lu Bu pounds on the door with his Sky Piercer halberd. "Witch! Choose him, or my armor with twenty gems?!"
From tearing up her phoenix robe to make steamed buns and save her life, to opening the granaries and establishing a recruitment hall, she transforms the blood-soaked palace of Luoyang into the ultimate workplace!
See how a modern office drone uses Excel-style schemes to fight her way through a crowd of handsome men and turn the imperial throne into her own promotion and pay raise!
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