He Built a City for Their Wedding Night

Please add my next novel in the same series to your collection: The Prince Consort's Main Job Is Being a Landlord. Blurb at the end.

- Blurb for this novel ↓

Hong Shang transmigrates to the Zhou Dynasty as a prince consort, a man who gambles, drinks, visits brothels, and suffers from venereal disease.

On their wedding night, Hong Shang lies stiff as a board.

He lies on the outer side of the wedding bed. The two husbands touch, and he instinctively shifts outward, leaving a gap between them. Seeing this, Li Yuanwei seems to take it as a challenge and shifts inward too, leaving enough space between them for another person.

“…”

Li Yuanwei is out of favor, and the fief he has been granted is extremely poor.

Hong Shang looks at this wretched place, poor as can be and plagued by floods. Building houses here would be a dead end, wouldn't it?

'I'm a property developer' is sure to become 'I'm a builder of unfinished buildings.'

Hong Shang plans to repair the waterways before discussing construction.

Once the waterways are repaired, Hong Shang starts completing the tasks issued by the 'I'm a Property Developer' System. He works himself to the bone building houses so he can exchange his rewards for a healthy body as soon as possible.

He gets the houses built, but no one will buy them.

Hong Shang grits his teeth and holds a genuine fire sale.

Everyone says the prince consort has more money than he knows what to do with.

Poor people don't care about all that. A house this cheap is impossible to find, even with a lantern, and it's far better than their own thatched huts.

Fortunately, the System's rewards give Hong Shang a safety net. Otherwise, he'd have lost every last pair of trousers.

More and more people move into the new city of Jianzhou. With more people in town, life naturally becomes more lively.

People travel constantly between the villages and the city. Everyone's living well, and the cost of living is low.

Everyone wonders, “How is the prince consort's brain wired? He can make cement and cable cars, things that seem like they came from the immortals.”

Hong Shang is inscrutable... You don't understand a transmigrator's golden finger.

The taxes from Jianzhou City make Li Yuanwei filthy rich, turning him from a pitiful little thing into someone wealthier than an entire nation.

Li Yuanwei pats the prince consort on the shoulder. “You're really capable!”

Hong Shang takes his hand with great seriousness and replies, “Thank you for the compliment, my lord. Come again tonight.”

Li Yuanwei blushes and kicks him.

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Straightforward, adorable bottom / upright, dependable top

The bottom has a bit of a temper with those close to him. He is obedient but immature, and he's a shallow romantic who judges people by their looks...

The top is mature and keeps his promises. He's somewhat naive when it comes to love. He longs for a happily-ever-after with just one person for life, which is why he was single in his previous life. (The top is really dense, doesn't know how to sweet-talk, and speaks very stiffly?)

Reading guide: After completing the tasks, the top's body will be replaced.

A farming-and-infrastructure novel, top-focused, 1v1, both leads' first love.

A novel featuring men who can bear children.

The logic is dead, the writing is terrible, and this is a fictional world, so don't overthink it.

Chu Xiao: roguish and shameless, looks like trouble, and handsome

Hua Biao: a well-mannered sweetheart who breaks free from his cage for love and dares to defy years of tradition (not a love-brain)

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After Chu Xiao's soul transmigrates, he falls for someone.

He thinks this person is a young man from a farming official's family. Hong Shang thinks, 'I can work hard and win him over.'

While Chu Xiao works hard to complete his System tasks, he also does his best to win his beloved's affection.

“My father has been worrying about the grain lately. He hasn't had a good night's rest in ages...” Hua Biao furrows his brow, his expression gloomy.

Chu Xiao can't bear to see him like that. He immediately gives Hua Biao the sweet potatoes he got while posing as a peddler.

“Take these sweet potatoes home and plant them. Once they're ready to harvest, show your father. This is the best time to plant them, and they'll be ready in a few months.”

Hua Biao thanks him solemnly and decides to follow his advice, planting them himself first.

A few months later, a single mu of land yields a thousand jin of sweet potatoes.

Hua Biao can't believe Chu Xiao so casually gave him such an incredible crop.

To repay him, Hua Biao rents one of the houses Chu Xiao built outside the capital, using the rent to make up for Chu Xiao refusing to take his money.

After spending time together, Hua Biao finds himself falling for him.

The springtime of a thirty-year-old man's life is almost here.

“My father is the Crown Prince.”

Chu Xiao: ???

“I have feelings for you.”

Chu Xiao: !!!

Who cares if he's the Crown Prince or the Emperor? Chu Xiao decides he'll marry the one he loves, even if it costs him his life.

Build houses, build cars, make cement...

With his golden finger wide open, Chu Xiao will do whatever it takes to marry Hua Biao.

The Emperor is a shrewd businessman. Chu Xiao trades all his secret recipes for a marriage contract with Li Yuanwei.

After the wedding.

A piece of land outside the capital is granted to Hua Biao as his fief.

Chu Xiao is worried. Everyone in the fief is poor, and eating sweet potatoes every meal isn't a solution.

Chu Xiao's System tasks are to build houses and find tenants, which means he has to develop the economy.

They reach the same conclusion, using Hua Biao's status and Chu Xiao's (System's) technology.

The area outside the capital gradually develops into a major trade hub.

Hua Biao's fief becomes the wealthiest in the land.

Chu Xiao also completes his System tasks. At last, he can live without relying on the System.

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The Zhou Dynasty welcomes envoys from every nation, and all under heaven belongs to the Emperor.

Everyone has a role to play, and the people thrive.

The young are cared for, and the old have someone to rely on. This is all ordinary people could hope for, and now their dream has come true.

A thousand years later, historical records jokingly call him: The most profitable brother-in-law of Emperor Taizong of Zhou, the greatest man of all time, a pioneer of technology, Chu “The Pioneer” Xiao.

Reading guide

1: 1v1, both leads' first love

2: The protagonist has plenty of flaws. He's not smart or rational; all he wants is to show off in front of his wife. Her admiring gaze gets him so excited he practically jumps three feet in the air, so he's incredibly vain (he has to look impressive in front of his wife).

3: Updates daily once the novel starts.

4: A farming, infrastructure, and romance novel, top-focused, featuring men who can bear children.

Theme: Building a civilized city starts with you and me