Seven Years on the Frontier, and I Build a Modern City

[Historical setting + transmigration + lighthearted comedy.]

Luo Cheng transmigrates into the Prince of Ning, a borderland ruler in the State of Chu, and plans to lie flat for the rest of his life.

But the old emperor dies without an heir, and the throne passes to a ten-year-old girl. The court is locked in a struggle for power, and the female emperor is reduced to a figurehead.

To protect himself, Luo Chen spends seven years turning a remote, impoverished backwater into a modern city. He thinks he can now live like a local emperor.

He can take his birds for a stroll, listen to music, enjoy foreign dancers, and, on the side, raise a great army, build guns and cannons, conquer the Western Regions, and fight the barbarians.

But by sheer chance, the female emperor makes a secret inspection tour. When she sees a smooth highway built of concrete and steel city walls, she falls into deep thought...