Your Majesty, Stop Building! Zhou Is About to Become an Empire Where the Sun Never Sets

[Career-Driven Workaholic Discarded Consort vs. Scheming, Overthinking Emperor] A workaholic office drone transmigrates into the discarded consort confined to the Cold Palace. After binding to the Villain System, she tries to die as quickly as possible so she can return to the modern world. Using her civil engineering knowledge, she recklessly squanders labor and resources on ruinous construction projects, only to accidentally turn a doomed dynasty into an infrastructure-obsessed industrial powerhouse. The people and emperor mistake her for the greatest virtuous empress in history, saving the nation by unconventional means.

Yan Xizhu, an office drone, dies suddenly on the eve of her civil service exam and transmigrates into a discarded consort in the Cold Palace.

The System tells her: “Stir up public resentment, weaken the nation’s fortune, and bring down Great Zhou. Then you can go home.”

She’s thrilled. “I can do that!”

But then...

She renovates the Cold Palace and saves the imperial palace. She digs up the imperial gardens and saves everyone from a flood.

She builds a palace for the common people and saves refugees. She paves a road through the northwest and saves the frontier.

Her: “???”

The emperor: “My empress is a goddess sent to Great Zhou by the heavens.”

Yan Xizhu: “...I just want to be a wicked, nation-destroying consort, okay?!”