The Nation Told Me to Slack Off, but I Really Can Build an Aircraft Carrier

Ji Yunsha, a former military-industry prodigy, now works as a welder at a scrap-metal factory and is a notorious rule-breaker in the web-fiction world.

After being falsely accused of “treason” following an experimental explosion, she hides out in a fishing village and takes it easy, scraping by on her novel Steel Romance. Then...

Readers rage: “These aircraft-carrier welding details are so fake!”

State security slams the table: “How can you write something like this?”

Shi Huaixu, head of State Security’s Ninth Division, is ordered to keep an eye on this “high-risk talent.”

He expects a troublemaker, but then discovers:

She cooks with a pressure cooker and casually puts a nuclear submarine’s pressure resistance to the test.

She modifies a fishing boat’s diesel engine into the propulsion system the military has been desperate to get its hands on.

She livestreams herself welding steel pipes, and in the background there’s salted fish cured with missile fuel...

When foreign spies, a corrupt former boss, and a diva influencer take turns picking fights with her...

Ji Yunsha: “Stop digging! One more look and this really will become a state secret!”

The state: “Quick! Give her funding! Give her projects! Give her a husband, too, if that’s what it takes!”

[Bonus Scene]

Shi Huaixu: “You are forbidden from using military radios to teach the aunties square dancing.”

Ji Yunsha: “Then give back the titanium pot you swiped last time.”

The state, issuing a notice overnight: “Notice on Assigning Certain Retired Warships for Comrade Ji Yunsha’s Personal Use”

[A Note Before Reading]

The author’s imagination runs wild: the military-industry technology and genius protagonist are entirely made up, so please don’t take them too seriously.

Leave your brain at the door: this story is all about the fun, and the logic has already been fed to the call ducks.