Huang Junjie, a mechanical engineering PhD from Tsinghua University, catches his girlfriend passionately kissing another man in a car. He drowns his sorrows in liquor and drives off, only for his consciousness to leave his body in the instant his car plunges off a bridge in a rainstorm.
When he opens his eyes again, red candles and wedding curtains surround him. He is wearing the scarlet robes of a Ming dynasty prince consort, and a beautiful, shy princess stands before him.
Two sets of memories clash wildly in his mind: one belongs to a technological genius from his past life, the other to a penniless scholar who was just poisoned and sent to the afterlife.
“Ding! Industrial Overlord System bound: blueprints, high-grade steel, machine tools? Whatever the Host wants, it can be made real!”
This is the year Chongzhen is still planting trees on Coal Hill, Li Zicheng is just a minor chieftain, and Hong Taiji is sharpening his blades beyond the passes.
Huang Junjie rubs his temples and looks at the peerlessly beautiful Ninth Princess, Zhu Meichuo, beside him.
“Princess, is the Ming dynasty about to collapse? Don’t worry. I have an excavator... I mean, you have me.”
A year later, the whole capital is stunned. As the Ninth Prince Consort and his wife welcome twins, the first steam tractor chugs across the experimental fields outside the city, opening up thousands of miles of fertile land!
