I Transmigrated as a Good-for-Nothing Heir, Then Lit the Spark of the Industrial Revolution

Shen Yan, a modern PhD in mechanical engineering, transmigrates into the body of the good-for-nothing heir of the Marquis of Zhenbei. He discovers that this world’s mechanical arts rely on monopolizing rare “spirit crystals,” and that Ling Yun, the marquis’s adopted son, is using them to frame him and seize his position as heir. Shen Yan gives up competing for scarce resources and instead uses modern knowledge to “outclass” the old ways, transforming ordinary materials and creating more efficient, widely accessible “divine mechanical arts.” This struggle is not merely a battle for power, but an ideological clash between an old order entrenched in monopoly and a new future built on open access and shared knowledge.