Qi Dui, a modern military engineering prodigy, transmigrates into the late Sui dynasty and becomes Li Xiuning, Princess Pingyang, who is about to be married.
She wakes to find herself being forced into an arranged marriage. Her counter: a convenient “heart condition” that tears up the marriage alliance plan.
With chaos looming, she secretly trains troops and makes weapons, while setting her sights on the cold-faced blacksmith Li Xun in the Western Market.
He can improve hydraulic bellows, craft superior repeating crossbows, and even draw up plans for a fire-oil projector!
She thinks she's found a top-tier helper, unaware that he's a fellow transmigrator with gunpowder formulas and mechanical blueprints, hunted by the mysterious organization known as the Dark Gate.
He thinks she is a calculating user, while she sees him as a technological cheat code in a chaotic age.
Until he takes a poisoned arrow meant for her, and she slaughters the assassins sent after him.
Until he hands her a packet of black powder. “Second Young Lady, use this to blow them up. We can't lose!”
She lights the fuse, blows up Du Ling's private residence, and exchanges a smile with him in the blaze. “A pleasure doing business, Mr. Li.”
But the game of the war-torn world can change in an instant.
Her elder brother, Li Jiancheng, offers an olive branch while secretly testing her.
Turkic cavalry bears down on the border, and Dark Gate assassins follow like shadows.
And behind the Heavenly Craft Manual lies an astonishing secret spanning a thousand years...
When she stands with him atop the city wall, repeating crossbow in hand, a vast expanse of smoke and fire behind them and the fate of the realm before them,
he asks softly, “Second Young Lady, who are we blowing up next?”
She smiles. “We'll blast a way out for ourselves.”
Highlights:
#DualTransmigrators #TechDrivenConquest #ExplosiveGunpowder #BuildingAmidChaos #LoveAndRivalry #Mastermind
Style: A formidable partnership
