Do Consorts Have to Work Too? [Infrastructure]

[Highly Deserving Ministry of Works Office Worker × Suspicious, Stone-Faced Little Brat]

1v1 ✦ Both Pure ✦ Younger Male Lead ✦ Marriage Before Love ✦ Bickering Couple

After five years of working diligently, engineer Jiang Junyi was replaced on the very day she was about to get promoted by the company's newly introduced, idiotic hazard warning system. She went from being a project lead who always had the final say to a system customer service agent tasked with eliminating hazards.

With her faith shattered and her ideals crushed, Jiang Junyi prepared to quit and lie flat. Then the System received an epic optimization and upgrade, taking her along as she transmigrated. This time, the System got to work, matched her with a new map, and gave her a new job: favored consort.

Jiang Junyi: A favored consort? Me? I'm not cut out for that!

Except...

The favored consort she imagined: decked in gold and jewels, counting treasures, batting her eyelashes and complaining before sleeping in the imperial bed!

The favored consort she actually became: This design is dangerous. Once I've saved you, I'll go save the next person...

Why is it even a tiny bit different from what she imagined?

And that's not all. The imperial harem is downright strange. The dowager treats her like a daughter, and the concubines treat her like a best friend.

No palace intrigue, no scheming, and everyone has their own ambitions... In that case... should she lie flat?

Of course not! Now that she has money, power, and status, what else is there to say? She'll leave the harem and be herself again!

Jiang Junyi embarked on a life of making her mark at the Ministry of Works: repairing houses, restoring roads, building drainage systems, repairing dikes and dams, creating sponge cities...

But what came faster than a promotion and a raise was becoming empress.

*

Emperor Yan Zheng of Changning ruled for three years, governing with diligence before dying under mysterious circumstances. When he opened his eyes again, he had been reborn.

But could someone tell him when he had acquired a favored consort who was his childhood sweetheart, someone he'd known since they were little?

Yan Zheng: I was reborn, not struck with amnesia!

He must have been haunted by some demon!

Yan Zheng tried every possible method to drive away evil and keep himself safe.

But all he got was laughter and her eyerolls.

After plenty of evidence, he realized how badly mistaken he'd been. This wasn't some evil spirit, but Heaven's favor! A blessing from the gods!

Yan Zheng, the true heir to the throne, adjusted his attitude and prepared to accept the divine lady's affection, only to discover that she, too, was planning to leave the harem and work at the Ministry of Works.

Aggrieved, furious, and unable to accept it!

He blocked her at the palace gates and, eyes red, demanded, "You're only going to work at the Ministry of Works! Why do you have to leave the harem? You're not allowed to go!"

-----Reading Guide-----

1. The early chapters mainly feature minor squabbles in the harem. After the natural disasters, the story shifts to infrastructure development, and the heroine gradually shows off her professional skills.

2. This isn't a power fantasy with an overpowered golden finger. Every character has their own growth arc, with a hint of an ensemble cast.

3. This is a fictional setting, so please don't overanalyze it. There are many original details, and everything is made up to serve the plot. Kindly refrain from professional advice.

4. Both leads are pure, 1v1, younger male lead. The warning system is only there to assist; the heroine mainly relies on her professional expertise.

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