TODAY, THIS PRINCESS-CONSORT ALSO WANTS TO GO BACK TO MODERN TIMES
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Prologue:Death by Spreadsheet
Chapter 1:System Boot-Up
Chapter 2:The Duke's PTSD
Chapter 3:Performance Reviews in Ancient China
Chapter 4:The Birth of Bubble Tea
Chapter 5:The Duke's First Awkward Compliment
Chapter 6:The White Lotus Arrives
Chapter 7:The Cooking Competition
Chapter 8:The Eunuch's Debt
Chapter 9:The Confession
Chapter 10:The Truth Comes Out
Chapter 11:The Political Storm
Chapter 12:A Side Quest: The Village
Chapter 13:The Final Countdown
Chapter 14:Wedding Anniversary
Chapter 15:The Birth
Chapter 16:Ten Years Later (Epilogue)
PROLOGUE – Death by Spreadsheet
Lin Wanwan was 27. Unmarried. Underpaid. Caffeinated to the point of cardiac risk.
She worked as an Operations Manager at a tech company. They'd recently rebranded themselves as an "AI-driven lifestyle ecosystem." Which meant she spent 14 hours optimizing supply chains for products nobody needed.
Her colleagues called her "the Robot." She didn't cry in meetings. Always had a backup plan. Could recite quarterly profit margins while sleeping.
She called it surviving.
The night she died, she was finalizing a spreadsheet. Title: "Q4_Revenue_Projection_FINAL_v8_ACTUAL_REAL_THIS_TIME.xlsx."
2:47 AM. Third cup of instant coffee. Cold. Tasted like cardboard.
The office was empty except the janitor. He'd stopped trying to make her leave around midnight.
She typed the last number. Pressed Enter. The cell calculated.
Then her heart said no.
The world tilted. Her forehead hit the keyboard. Last thing she saw: "4,872,309.67" blinking.
At least make it round, she thought.
Everything went black.
- Writer
