Rejecting Lovesickness: I Seize the Empress and Make Her Build the Great Wall

[Subverting the usual tropes + infrastructure and farming + decisive and ruthless + hilarious + heartless capitalist]

After transmigrating into a deranged dynasty where everyone is obsessed with romance, Qin Xiao is at a loss.

The empress gives up three border cities just to make her male favorite smile?

A great general runs into his first love on the battlefield and orders the entire army to surrender?

Qin Xiao looks at the “Civilization Correction System” in his hands and gives them a warmly benevolent smile.

“Don’t understand science? No problem. I’ll teach you physics.”

And so, the borderlands undergo a dramatic transformation:

The tragic heroine who “cries tears of rain” is locked in a drought zone, forced to watch tragic movies every day, and put in charge of irrigating the fields.

The hero of the broken-engagement story, whose “rage blazes to the heavens,” is sent to a steel mill as a human blast furnace, saving tens of thousands of tons of coal.

The peerlessly beautiful dancer who can “captivate a city with a single dance” is counseling soldiers at a psychiatric hospital…

Even the enemy nation’s “domineering and ruthless” God of War is seized and put to work keeping pork fresh in a refrigerated warehouse!

Years later, when the Northern Mang army bears down on the border, what they see is not a weak Great Xia, but a torrent of steel belching black smoke.

The empress, now working a sewing machine, begs for mercy through her tears. “I was wrong! Let me go back to my romance!”

Qin Xiao lashes his whip with a cold expression.

“Enough talk! If today’s production targets aren’t met, nobody eats!”