I Built Warships in Ancient Times

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Song Shi is a researcher specializing in the design and manufacture of ships and ocean structures, commonly known as “a shipbuilder.”

After an accident, Song Shi falls into the sea. When he is fished out, he finds himself fleeing with an ancient pirate chieftain.

The “pirate chieftain” is badly injured, but still manages to flirt shamelessly with Song Shi! And once he discovers Song Shi’s shipbuilding skills, he drags him straight back to his “pirate den”!

While battling wits with the “pirate chieftain,” Song Shi secretly keeps score in a little notebook, determined to make him kneel and call him “Daddy” one day!

In the end, although he never gets to hear “Daddy,” Song Shi does achieve the feat of making the henpecked “pirate chieftain” kneel on a durian.

Song Shi transmigrates into a book.

He ends up in a dynasty called Xianyuan. The dynasty is fantastically wealthy, but its naval forces are weak, and it is constantly harassed by the pirates and Japanese raiders of neighboring lands.

So Song Shi refits warships and builds battleships. Not only does he create a formidable navy for Xianyuan, he also ushers in the Age of Exploration ahead of schedule, making Xianyuan the first maritime hegemon to sail around the world!

A fake pirate chieftain who is really a flirtatious prince devoted to strengthening the military, seme X A shipbuilder who only cares about researching engineering, timid uke

PS1: The author studied liberal arts. All the engineering content about ships, machinery, and the like comes from Baidu and other research. It all serves the story, and I make no guarantees about its real-world feasibility.

PS2: This story is entirely fictional. The court, military system, and social life are all heavily fictionalized. Everything serves the story, so please don’t take it as real history.

Thank you.

Completed novel: After Transmigrating, I Was Stripped of My Citizenship

Coming soon: Yasha Says No to Ugliness, but the Movie Emperor Has Two Faces

Shen Yu is a fresh-faced twenty-two-year-old, an obscure actor so far down the ranks he’s never seen the world. To help him shed his reputation as a nobody, his older brother gets him a spot on their family’s variety show as a mascot, so he can see the world while he’s at it.

But his brother never said it would be this kind of “world”!

In a papercutting shop, a paper bride flaunts her slender waist and tries to marry him;

At an ancient tower, a ghostly loop traps him inside with no way out;

In a country village, an evil ghost crawls out of a dry well and bows down to him;

Even his brother’s ultra-modern entertainment complex has a man-eating painted-skin demon lurking inside...

???

Did his brother forget he’s sick? He’s the fragile darling of the Shen family!

He’s going to tell their father that his brother is trying to kill him and keep the whole inheritance for himself!

And that blacklisted movie star, Shi Que, who was supposedly assigned to take care of him? He has to tell their father to ban him!

This jerk keeps appearing beside him without warning. Whenever he gets close, Shen Yu’s heartbeat, which usually skips and stutters, somehow becomes... steady?

And the Yasha that Shen Yu conjures from paper cutouts and uses to wreak havoc on the supernatural variety show looks a little like the movie star...

Shi Que has waited a thousand years for his little Taoist priest. At last, he has found him.

His little Taoist priest doesn’t remember him in this life. It doesn’t matter.

His little Taoist priest wants to use him. All the better.

There is only one thing he won’t allow.

He will never let his little Taoist priest die in front of him again. If Heaven will grant his little Taoist priest only twenty-three years in this life, then he will slaughter every demon to extend his life!

[Bonus Scene]

During a variety show livestream, ghosts run rampant, and viewers think it’s all immersive special effects.

Shen Yu hides behind Shi Que and weakly tugs at his sleeve. “Movie Star Shi, I can’t cut any more paper. Kill them for me.”

Shi Que takes his icy hand, his eyes suddenly glowing red. “All right. What kind of death would you like to see, young master?”

Afterward, the entire internet is in an uproar, buzzing about the mysterious “special effects artist.”

Shen Yu watches Shi Que making him medicine in the kitchen and waves the red paper in his hand. “Was that Yasha last night you?”

Shi Que pauses, then lowers his eyes. “It was.”

Shen Yu smiles and cuts out a paper butterfly, which flutters onto Shi Que’s shoulder. “Then I’ll leave my safety entirely in Movie Star Shi’s hands from now on.”

Shi Que looks at him, his eyes full of a love repressed for a thousand years. “As you command, my...” little Taoist priest...

A frail, spoiled young master who makes paper cutouts, uke VS A restrained, devoted Yasha who has lived a thousand years, seme

Theme: Guided by the Belt and Road Initiative, build a powerful maritime nation and showcase the bearing of a great power