After three years on construction sites, civil engineering master’s student Shen Zishan transmigrated and opened her eyes to find herself at a construction site again.
Great, it was right up her alley.
The only problem was that her client was the imperial court, her project was a river embankment, and failing the inspection could cost her head.
On her first day in office, she saw officials raising the embankment.
Shen Zishan crouched at its base and watched for a while. “Stop building it higher. It’s going to collapse.”
No one listened. Sure enough, it collapsed.
For the sake of the common people, and all the glory and wealth that came with it, she took up the post.
After reviewing the case, Shen Zishan resigned on the spot.
Hu Lingchuan said, “Too late.”
She thought about it. “That’s fine. I’ve already been torn to pieces once.”
The rain poured down as one breach after another opened in the embankment.
Hu Lingchuan asked gently, “How confident are you that you can control the river, Miss?”
“Completely confident,” Shen Zishan replied, then asked him how confident he was about solving the case.
Hu Lingchuan nodded. “Thirty percent.”
Soon, news arrived that the embankment had collapsed with a roar.
Shen Zishan brushed the mud off her clothes. “Now I’m even more confident.”
Hu Lingchuan looked at her and smiled even more gently. “Now I’m down to ten percent.”
Shen Zishan realized that the gentler Lord Xie Shaoqing’s smile became, the harsher his methods were.
She investigated the embankment, while he investigated the people.
Then Shen Zishan discovered that someone had deliberately brought in and packed fine sand into the embankment’s core. This was no joke.
“Something’s wrong.”
“Cutting corners is supposed to save money. Building it this way costs more than doing it properly.”
Hu Lingchuan’s smile faded. “So?”
Shen Zishan looked up at the raging river.
“They built this embankment so it would collapse.”
An alternate world, please don’t overthink the details | Maxed-out looks, intelligence, and constitution | Happy ending | Career first, romance and plot later | Occasional revisions, major ones will be noted
Theme: Make mountains bow and rivers yield
