I Told You to Bring Ruin to the Country, Not Actually Go Farm

Alternate Ancient Setting | System-Based | Infrastructure and Farming | Lighthearted Comedy | Strong Female Lead | Slow-Burn Romance |

My father tells everyone he once saved the emperor.

After boasting about it for eighteen years, he drove our family into bankruptcy and his daughter off a cliff.

That's right, I jumped off a cliff.

But I came back to life.

The day I woke up, something in my head chimed: [The Nation-Wrecking System has been activated.]

Me: ? What did you just call it?

[The Nation-Wrecking System. Newbie gift detected, ]

Hold on. I'm not out to wreck the nation. I'm a respectable person.

[Automatically activated. Congratulations, you've won the Ice-Making Method.]

...Fine, let's see how it goes.

The whole city crowds around me, cursing me as a wicked woman while gulping down ice-cold drinks.

The line to buy ice is longer than the one outside the county office for filing complaints.

The System chimes like an alarm clock: Ding, ding, ding, emotional points received, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding

My father squats outside the tavern, holding the bowl of ice I gave him. Tears fill his eyes. “Daughter, this is even cooler than what I saw in Folangji back in the day!”

“Dad, they don't have ice in Folangji.”

“Oh, then I must have remembered wrong.”

No, you remember everything wrong, old man. Everything except saving the emperor.

Later, the eldest son of the Shen family came calling. Shen Yanzhi, top scorer in the imperial examinations, looked like a gentleman but behaved like a scoundrel. His younger brother had driven me off a cliff, and he wanted to marry me and take over my family fortune.

“Miss Xiao,” he said, standing before me with the utmost refinement, “I would like to discuss marriage with you.”

“Want to buy some ice?”

“I, ”

“Not buying? Next!”