The Age of Heavenly Craft: Rising Amidst Chaos

**He is the “Idle Prince,” a good-for-nothing in the eyes of the world.**

Dressed in a plain robe and tapping a folding fan, he constantly declares, “All I want is to lie flat.” Zhu Mingyuan, a transmigrant bearing the name of the last scion of the Ming imperial house, seems to pass his days in lazy idleness, yet hides tiny gears and compasses capable of turning the world in his sleeve. The restraint he learned as an overworked office drone in his previous life, combined with the “Industrial Revolution System” awakened in his mind, has taught him how to play the pig to eat the tiger. Glass and soap are just a smokescreen. In secret workshops, the first rumblings of steam engines are already sounding.

**She is a formidable red-clad female general in the rebel army.**

With her spear and swift horse, Hong Niangzi is a picture of spirited grace. In her eyes, Zhu Mingyuan is simply a frail scholar who needs her protection. She thinks he has a few clever ideas, unaware that behind the gleam of his glass-colored eyes, he is already calculating how to use Li Zicheng's blade and the Chongzhen Emperor's crown prince to lay out a world-shaking game in this collapsing age of chaos, the sixteenth year of the Chongzhen reign, when the rebel army breaches the city and the imperial star falls.

**When the wheels of history crush the old dynasty's backbone,**

the “idle fish” lying low finally bares its fangs. From standing alone to gathering the world's finest minds and founding the “Celestial Works Institute,” from covert boy agents to an iron tide sweeping across the seas. Zhu Mingyuan is no longer content merely to survive. He will rekindle China with the fire of technology and establish an unprecedented “Celestial Works Dynasty.”

**And the confidante who once laughed at his lack of strength,**

will cast off her old armor and take command of the mighty ironclad fleet he built with his own hands, becoming the new dynasty's admiral, feared across the seas. She guards his back, and he lights the way ahead. Amid flames of war and the rise of countless powers