Reborn as a Deposed Empress? I’ll Make the Emperor Kneel with Technology

Transmigrated into the body of an empress discarded in the cold palace, Su Qingyi binds herself to the [Queen of Engineering] System. The court officials wait for her to rot away in silence. Instead, she quietly opens the tech tree. On her first day, she builds a water purifier from broken jars and roof tiles. In her first month, she makes soap and perfume by hand, filling the cold palace with fragrance. In her first year, her improved farming tools double the nation's grain output, while her firearms leave the barbarians fleeing without their helmets or armor. Emperor Xiao Jingyu, who once cast her aside like a worn-out shoe, stares at the statecraft blueprints in his hands, designs far ahead of their time, and falls into thought. The old ministers cry out in anguish: “Your Majesty, everything the Empress has learned is sorcery! It will bring calamity upon the nation and its people!” An urgent message from the border arrives at the capital: “Your Majesty! The divine weapons made by the Empress have secured the frontier! We beg you to mass-produce them!” The Minister of Revenue weeps with gratitude: “Your Majesty! The national bonds introduced by the Empress have replenished the treasury! We beg Her Majesty to start teaching classes!” At last, the emperor steps into her Royal Academy of Sciences. Su Qingyi, dressed in a white coat, looks up from a heap of steam engine blueprints. After a long silence, he asks with difficulty, “Empress, what will it take for you to devote yourself to governing this realm for me?” She smiles faintly and points to the vast building outside the window, where the foundations are being laid. “Simple. Once my first university is built, Your Majesty can come be its very first freshman. How does that sound?” #From discarded cold-palace empress to head of the empire's greatest university# #Your Majesty, have you handed in today's physics homework?#