[Historical romance + tycoon heroine + infrastructure building + adorable kids + System + play the pig to eat the tiger + slow burn + no saintly heroine]
The Su residence in the capital is brought down overnight, and Su Jinyao, its legitimate daughter, is exiled to Qingyun County, a desolate backwater.
On the way, she picks up two little ones: one fierce as a tiny tiger, the other soft and sweet. From then on, she raises the children and builds her career at the same time.
Who would have guessed that upon arriving in the barren county, she would unexpectedly bind herself to a “County Wealth-Building System”? For every additional resident, the county earns one tael of silver, bringing in ten thousand taels of gold a day! But the money comes with one ironclad rule: it can only be spent within the county!
The richest person in the county? Think bigger.
While everyone else is still fighting tooth and nail over a few meager plots of land, Su Jinyao snaps up the county’s largest abandoned estate for her residence. And while her enemies in the capital think she has become a lowly peasant, the impoverished county under her rule has already built official roads, opened schools and clinics, and established a marketplace...
Faced with everyone’s mockery, Su Jinyao simply smiles as she holds the little one in her arms. “I’m not trying to become a rich lady. I want to turn this sorry county into a paradise that everyone under heaven longs to visit.”
Little Huzi fiercely chimes in, “Anyone who dares bully my mother, I’ll bite them!”
Tuantuan raises a soft little hand. “Tuantuan will b-bite them too...”
Many years later, an imperial envoy arrives by order of the court to interview Su Jinyao. “Lord Su, how did you turn a poor frontier county into the finest county under heaven, with a population of one million?”
Holding the little one in her arms, Su Jinyao smiles faintly. “I just felt like it at the time~”
The powerful man beside her adds coolly, “When she felt like it, she happened to take me too.”