[Period Setting + System + Highly Intelligent Female Lead + Industrial Development + Mutual Healing]
The moment Zhao Zhaozhao opened her eyes, she found herself as the doomed foil in a period novel, destined to lose her family.
Her mother was about to go to prison for selling ration coupons, the military blueprints hidden by her father had drawn deadly attention, and in three months, her younger brother would break his leg protecting her.
The night she bound herself to the Study the Nation to Strengthen It System, she tore up the original plot.
A ration coupon crisis? She used topology to redesign the exchange network!
A factory bottlenecked by outdated technology? She hand-built the core components of a CNC machine!
Was her whole family a bunch of villains? One intelligence-boosting pill turned her shrewish mother into a business genius, while her devious father wept as he handed over his long-hidden military blueprints.
Everyone said the Zhao family’s youngest daughter was a reincarnation of the god of literature. Only Su Yu, the cold-faced officer from the military compound, knew the truth:
The tin of milk powder she used to give her younger brother calcium was stamped with a 2023 production date. The improved fertilizer formula concealed a quantum computing model, and even the “fruit candies” she used to coax him into eating were nanobots capable of healing the wounds of war.
As the blood-red number 89 hovered before her eyes, Zhao Zhaozhao smiled beneath the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb test. “Who says the foil character can only play a supporting role?”
Many years later, her name was carved into a monument commemorating the Special Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress. Meanwhile, the officer who always fastened the wrong third button stubbornly stood guard at the door of her lab. “Chief Engineer Zhao, need a human-temperature sensor? Lifetime warranty included.”
Reader’s Guide
1. A hard-science industrial novel.
2. Everyone has many sides.
3. The romance is a clash between reason and obsession. He loves the look in her eyes when she solves a problem even more than he loves the sound of his own heartbeat.
