Single-Player Lord: My Dilapidated Manor Can Level Up

[Infrastructure + Feel-Good Story + Transmigration + System + No Female Lead] While working late to debug Manor Era, programmer Chen Yu accidentally transmigrates into the single-player management game he created and becomes the lord of a dilapidated manor on the frontier. The System bound to him is the beta version he wrote himself: it can fine-tune resource efficiency and construction times, but has strict limits and won’t let him cheat his way to victory. From the start, all he has is a drafty wooden shack and three mu of barren farmland. There’s enough food to keep five people going for three days, and he’s surrounded by “problem NPCs”: a falsely accused old steward, a peasant woman coughing blood, a dejected blacksmith with a bad leg, and others. Chen Yu doesn’t pursue conquest. Instead, he sets a rule of “10% low taxes, none at all in years of disaster,” using small adjustments to the code to solve urgent problems and winning the NPCs’ trust through sincerity. He welcomes refugees, then attracts a brewer, a doctor, and a schoolteacher. His domain grows from a run-down patch of land one square kilometer in size into a small town spanning fifty square kilometers. Where people once lacked food and clothing, there are now a textile mill, a clinic, a school, and a public square. There are no bitter vendettas, just steady management and a warm ensemble cast. Everyone who comes here can find security and dignity. [Infrastructure + Leveling Up + Ensemble Cast + No Female Lead + Transmigration + System] All Chen Yu wants to do is turn this run-down manor into the warmest haven in the game world.