The Research Big Shot Only Wants to Build Her Career

【Strong heroine + true and fake heiresses + face-slapping and punishing scumbags + near-interstellar era + romance】Xu Zhongxi, whose childhood name was Jiaojiao, was an unparalleled scientific genius. At just eighteen, she had already made research breakthroughs in fields including medicine, agriculture, and weapons. “I don’t need outdated tributes to my memory. I need honors that can bring benefits.” She had ambition and goals. She wanted to change the world. The technological advances developed for the people shouldn’t be enjoyed exclusively by a single class. She founded a private research institute, built a comprehensive Chinese herbal medicine industry chain, broke hostile nations’ technological monopolies, developed new-energy weapons and vehicles, and forged a technological empire of her own. However, Ms. Xu Zhongxi was always self-conscious about not having enough money. To keep her six research institutes running, she eventually bowed her noble head to Ye Gu, the detestable mine owner. “You give me energy ores, and I’ll give you enough influence on the international stage. It’s a fair deal.” Ye Gu, a mercenary leader of Longguo descent, was the man who ended forty years of brutal unrest in the tri-continent borderlands at the age of twenty-four. A secret tycoon who owned nearly two-thirds of the region’s new-energy mines, as well as vast deposits of rare metals, he smiled and produced a marriage contract, inviting the princess who had saved his very life: “I’m willing to offer all my wealth as your betrothal gift. Please let me love you...”