[Broken engagement from the start + nation-building + strong female lead + satisfying career success]
I was reborn as the legitimate daughter of a marquis’s household, only to be publicly jilted on my wedding day.
My fiancé sneered: “You’re obsessed with strange inventions. You’re unfit to be the matriarch of a household!”
The guests laughed at me, and my family considered me a disgrace.
I tore up the marriage contract and emptied my dowry.
Then I bought a haunted, dilapidated house on a barren mountain and hung up a sign:
“Qinghui Institute of Technology: We only admit clever women abandoned by their families.”
They laughed and called me crazy.
Until
A widow accused of bringing death to her husband became the Ministry of Revenue’s first female secretary;
A blacksmith’s daughter designed a crossbow that pierced the armor of an enemy general;
A concubine-born daughter developed a gunpowder formula that changed the course of the border war…
Three years later, the emperor came in person to visit my institute.
My former fiancé knelt outside, asking to see me: “Dean Shen, I… would like to enroll and start over.”
Through the classroom window, I looked at the female students behind me, now pillars of the empire.
“See that? That’s my world of stars and seas.”
