From the Start, Estranged from My Family: I Support the Tyrannical Chief Minister with Carpentry

[No CP + strong female lead + imaginative world-building + infrastructure development + face-slapping + villain cultivation]

Yan Qing, a top modern-day mechanic, transmigrates into the body of an older village girl who’s been thrown out by her awful relatives.

From the start, it’s hell mode: a dilapidated temple with a leaking roof, a gloomy genius nephew with a broken leg, and a little niece who has fainted from hunger.

The whole village is waiting for them to starve to death in the bitter winter.

Yan Qing scoffs and picks up a chipped woodcutting knife.

Can’t embroider? She carves blind-box toys with a knife, and they take the capital by storm!

No money for medicine? She builds a water-powered loom and shock-absorbing carriages, drawing countless nobles who wave their money around, begging to work with her!

Her jealous uncle’s family tries to mooch off her, only to be scared witless by the ingenious repeating crossbows in her courtyard.

Later, Yan Qing turns the dilapidated temple into the greatest mechanical workshop in the world.

Her nephew, who was supposed to become disabled and turn evil, passes the imperial examinations with top honors from a “mechanical wheelchair” she built herself and becomes a powerful chief minister.

And she becomes the richest person in the world, so wealthy that even the emperor addresses her respectfully as “Master”!