[No Romance + Disguised National Teacher + System-Driven Nation-Building + Satisfying Chaotic-Era Story]
Lin Yao transmigrated as an orphaned girl in a chaotic age. From the start, her aunt sold her to a fool in exchange for food, but she became bound to the Divine Strategist, a power that could predict disasters, grain routes, waterways, and the human heart.
The System told her to win over the crown prince. Instead, she sent the faith value of the slums through the roof.
While others changed their fate through romance, she used a tattered map, a mouthful of divine spring water, and a single fire to save an entire border city and bring it to its knees.
At the end of the Yong Dynasty, natural disasters struck year after year, the frontier ran short of food, the court was rotten, and the people’s lives were worth less than grass. The first thing Lin Yao did when she woke up was not look for the male lead, but expose her awful relatives for hiding gold and selling girls. The second was not to act helpless, but to predict a bandit raid on a village and lead the people to safety. The third was to enter Yanzhou, crack a kidnapping case, fight frauds posing as fortune-tellers, dig up a divine spring, raid secret granaries, investigate military provisions, and burn the enemy camp.
The crown prince was waiting for a chance encounter. She was compiling a list of disaster victims.
The System urged her to raise her favorability score. She asked, “Can you eat favorability?”
When enemy forces bore down on them, the entire court wanted only to hold the line and die defending it. Lin Yao slammed down her military pledge: “If the enemy’s supplies aren’t cut off within three days, I’ll accept the death penalty.”
Three days later, the enemy’s main supply depot was ablaze.
The System fell silent. “Host, did you take a wrong turn in the story?”
Lin Yao: “No. I just changed my target from the crown prince to the whole world.”
