The Eternal Night Imperial City: Selling Barbecue in the Cold Palace

【Extreme Cold Disaster + Hardcore Physics-Based Construction + Gourmet Food + Portable Space + Unhinged Male Lead】 An endless night falls over the Great Abyss Dynasty, and an extreme-cold apocalypse engulfs the imperial city. Shen Nanxing, a top engineering and science expert, is demoted by the Empress Dowager to a deserted palace with no water or charcoal from the start. The old woman intends to “physically eliminate” her using temperatures twenty to thirty degrees below zero. You want to freeze her to death? The laws of thermodynamics and the principle of leverage say otherwise. Shen Nanxing breaks through the floor tiles to channel hot spring water, cobbles together a water-powered blower to clear toxic gases, and uses abandoned sewage pipes to build a high-pressure biogas tank and a heated greenhouse. In the deserted palace, she begins her hardcore struggle to survive and build infrastructure. No supplies? She uses her portable laboratory to extract active stem cells and, combining them with an extreme fermentation method, creates extra-spicy cumin barbecue and candied hawthorns so delicious they make the entire imperial city drool. The head eunuch of the Imperial Household Department and the Imperial Guards, who had been waiting to collect her corpse, are all overcome by the aroma of barbecue wafting out of the deserted palace and drop to their knees, begging for mercy. The exceptionally insane heat of the food also attracts Xiao Wujin, an unhinged regent with severe anorexia who can only stay alive through pain. At first, the regent presses his long sword to her throat, his killing intent fierce: “Hand it over.” Later, the living King of Hell, who holds power over the entire court, brings piles of gold bars and an enemy kingdom’s black iron token, willingly becoming the deserted palace barbecue stall’s staunchest backer: “I’ll take all the ham.” From the ruins of the deserted palace to an underground cyberpunk night market that monopolizes the capital’s heat supply, Shen Nanxing uses her knowledge of science and a handful of cumin to shatter the Empress Dowager’s economic blockade, outclass the feudal imperial regime, and build the apocalypse’s mightiest commercial empire!