Exiled to My Hometown, I Build Up the Borderlands

Xu He was a top student with dual degrees in geography and history from a top-tier university. She transmigrated into an ancient romance novel as a cannon-fodder legitimate daughter. From the start, the emperor's suspicion of her entire clan got them exiled. With a single imperial decree, the Great General Xu, who only knew how to fight naval battles, was sent off to the northwest to die. Extreme cold, drought, and nomadic cavalry: everyone knew this was a case of using one enemy to kill another. Only Xu He sat calmly in the hall, her face expressionless as she ranted furiously to herself: “What do you mean, exiling me to my own home? This is the northwest! I worked for the local tourism bureau for three years. I could write eight papers on the terrain, climate, and water sources...” Not only did she persuade her father to accept the decree, she also took the opportunity to ask the emperor for artisans, a cartload of doctors, and several sacks of mysterious “seeds” no one could identify. The entire capital laughed at her stupidity. Until news of the battle arrived from the northwest: heated brick beds, deep wells, potatoes, and guerrilla warfare. The Xu Family Army had beaten the Khitan Khan so badly that he wrote a surrender letter in the middle of the night. The old emperor was so furious he spat blood, then begged the Xu family to return. The Xu family lounged on their heated brick beds. “Thanks for the offer. We're in the northwest and just want to take it easy.”