A Beginner's Village from the Start

After graduating from college, Ye Lanting planned to take the civil service exam and return to her small hometown to live out her days as a government employee. Meanwhile, she downloaded a game where she could experience being an ancient village chief, building infrastructure and nurturing talent. Who could have guessed that one day she'd open her eyes and find herself inside the game she'd been playing, as the newly appointed village chief of Dagu Village? Ye Lanting: "..." Well, no need to take that exam now. Time to get to work! She might only be a village chief, but her NPC subordinates were an impressive bunch, full of talented and capable people The richest man in the empire, who controlled the nation's largest shipping business, had once been the village bookkeeper; The top scholar who passed the imperial exams after leaving Dagu Village had once been a handyman in her home; The emperor's most favored consort, Consort Rong, had worked as a gardener in Dagu Village as a child; And the Assistant Minister of Justice, the Vice Minister of Works, and the General of the Escort Guards at court had all once been Ye Lanting's steward, carpenter, and doorman! The annual Shenzhou Olympics and beauty pageant drew noble scions from all the great clans; everything produced by the Dagu Merchants' Association became a nationwide hit. Every year at the Dagu Village festival, a large number of officials took leave to return home, claiming they had to give their respected village chief their annual reports. Dagu Village had gone from encircling the cities from the countryside to extending its influence into the heart of the capital. The newly enthroned emperor stared at the piled-up leave requests and fell into deep thought. "Just who is the chief of Dagu Village?" Ye Lanting: I'm just an ordinary village chief, a public servant of the people :) * Coming soon: I Run an Underground City At the border of the Interstellar Alliance lies a wondrous underground city. The underground city is a melting pot, full of neon lights and revelry day and night. Anyone who enters, whether noble or beggar, receives the protection of the city lord. Even the marshals from every faction fighting in the Star Alliance must cease fire here. And so An assassin wanted across the entire galaxy became a bartender here; A one-eyed marshal who had once betrayed the empire started repairing spaceships here; A potion-maker who brewed nutritional supplements made a fortune selling medicine here overnight; A six-fingered tentacle cardsharp became a dealer here; This independent city is a peaceful oasis for the entire Star Alliance, because it has a city lord no one dares to provoke! Every day, people come from far and wide to seek refuge and pledge themselves to the underground city. They kneel reverently on one knee and touch their foreheads to the ground: "We humbly request an audience with the esteemed city lord." "She's over there." The deputy city lord pointed toward a dim corner of the underground city, his face impassive. On a sofa lay a woman sprawled without an ounce of decorum. Her face was hard to make out, but her skin was very pale. She watched a show on a starpad in one hand while stuffing potato chips into her mouth with the other. Every so often, she covered her mouth to cough. When she wiped it with a handkerchief, there was a patch of blood on it. The people who had come to pledge themselves: "..." Was this sickly-looking woman really Meng Xuan, the underground city lord who was said to terrify even the empire's top general? You must be pointing at the wrong person! +=========Completed novels in my column: The Pampered Consort Transmigrates into a Book The Transmigrated Female Supporting Character Steals the Overbearing CEO's Aura The Tragic Novel's Female Supporting Character Steals the Male Lead's Aura Theme: May our lands be safe and our people at peace.