Laying Low in My Fief, I Picked Up an Empress to Work as My Kitchen Maid

Chu Ci transmigrates to the Great Xia dynasty and becomes a notorious good-for-nothing heir. He had planned to lie low in his fief and live a carefree life, but then he discovers that something is seriously wrong with this world!

The entire imperial court is hopelessly lovesick!

To win a smile from an enemy kingdom’s bewitching consort, the emperor orders a loyal minister’s entire family executed. The grand marshal, unable to bear the thought of his beloved seeing blood, orders the border troops to retreat three hundred li. The grand secretary becomes the ultimate simp, sending a defense map to a famous courtesan as if it were a love letter.

Unable to put up with these lunatics any longer, Chu Ci pulls out the flintlock he just finished building and begins a one-sided technological rampage!

They want tragic, star-crossed love? One shot to the head! They want to guilt-trip him? A family-wide game of extermination!

Along the way, he takes in a cool, aloof maid, feeds her delicious food every day, and secretly builds an invincible firearms corps.

When the enemy army finally closes in and Great Xia stands on the brink of destruction, Chu Ci drops his disguise. A hundred thousand black-armored troops roll their red-coated cannons forward and smash through the imperial capital!

Just as he’s about to put on the imperial robes and take the throne, the maid beside him wipes the braised pork from the corner of her mouth and dons the phoenix robe. “Time to come clean: I’m the empress of Great Xia. I’ll give you the realm as my dowry!”