Building Infrastructure in a Time of Chaos

The imperial court is weak, eunuchs hold power, the realm is in chaos, and local warlords rule their own territories, each building up their armies and proclaiming themselves kings.

Jiang Congqiu discovers to her horror that she has transmigrated into a chaotic age where a person's life is worth less than a dog's. The only golden finger she brought with her is a forum connected to the modern world.

After fighting for her life to escape a deadly pursuit, she arrives in a land plagued by both hunger and disease.

Looking at this living hell, filled with the cries of the suffering, she decides to stand up and forge a way to survive, so she can live better in these turbulent times.

She grows crops, develops infrastructure, and uses the power of online friends to advance technology in ancient times. She only meant to lie low in a remote region, but her forces grow bigger and bigger, until she becomes a major power in this chaotic age.

Since that's the case, I'll gladly accept this realm as my own.

The people of Poshan City all believed that they would quietly perish in this chaotic age. They never expected one person's arrival to become a ray of light for them all.

A land once littered with starving corpses is no longer a mass grave. Golden fields spread across the mountains and into everyone's sight, the filthy rivers run clear once more, and towering buildings make life easier for everyone.

They follow their great Lord of the City, marching across the whole realm on iron hooves, as she declares with absolute confidence: I will make this land synonymous with prosperity and abundance, and ensure that all its people have enough to eat, warm clothes, freedom, and peace.

"I Conquered the Entire Galaxy with My Novels"

Xing Liu never saw it coming: she transmigrated to the interstellar age and became a poor girl on a junk planet, barely scraping by on government assistance.

On her first day after transmigrating, she drinks a nutrient supplement that tastes like a mix of paint and plastic bags, then stares expressionlessly at a job listing: I need to make money. I need to eat.

By her first week, she has accepted the reality that humans are inferior to robots and that she's useless. She logs on to the Star Network, registers an author account, and begins writing like mad.

By her first year, she's learned to calmly ignore the endless hype surrounding her, with shameless praise calling her the brightest new star of the literary world in a new era.

Looking at her newly purchased mansion, rows of game consoles, and her online sweetheart with their gentle, lovely voice...

Xing Liu: This is all territory I won myself.

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The literary world had always been stagnant, until a prodigy appeared out of nowhere, using her pen to paint one fantastical world after another and compose magnificent poems, inspiring a collision of ideas and growth across the entire literary world.

No one knows where she came from, just as she says: When you eat an egg, you don't need to know which chicken laid it.

But her ideas cut through the darkness, bringing dazzling light.

[Why did you choose to become a writer?]

Xingxing: I hope to bring more people a sense of spiritual fulfillment, and let the flowers of idealism bloom freely and passionately in every corner of the universe.

Xing Liu lies in bed, staring blankly at the journal's endless stream of flattery. That embarrassingly cringey answer she gave on a whim is enough to make her want to disappear and dig herself a mansion-sized hole.

Turns out, keeping her identity secret was absolutely the right choice.

Theme: Strengthen the nation through science and technology. Knowledge is power.