Tuan Tuan was made a county princess at birth, but grew up in the godforsaken Taoyuan County until she was five.
Surrounded by mountains on three sides, the county was poor, and Tuan Tuan had only a wet nurse by her side.
Every day, she used to worry about what she would eat,
that is, until she bound herself to the [Fourth Calamity Development System].
In the real world, a full-immersion game had just launched.
Players entered the game and stared pensively at the leaky shack and the little county princess chewing on her fingers.
[Main Quest: Assist the county princess in developing her fief]
What an incredibly realistic game!
The players took on the main quest with feverish enthusiasm.
Not enough food? No problem, they would develop hybrid rice right away.
The thatched cottage leaked? Don’t worry, they were already firing up the cement kiln.
Too dark to see at night? Hang on, the streetlights would be powered up in no time!
Thanks to a time ratio of three to one, Taoyuan County changed beyond recognition in the players’ hands, day by day.
As the central figure in the main quest, Tuan Tuan received one-on-one guidance from countless top players and underwent a complete transformation.
At seven, she discussed poetry and philosophy with others, graceful and composed.
Her companion called himself the Green Lotus Hermit, and players rushed over to check in: “I’ve seen the real Li Bai!”
At nine, she wrote Taoyuan County’s First Five-Year Development Plan overnight.
The players finally caught on: “Wait, how did my soft and cuddly little county princess turn into my client?”
*
The An Lushan Rebellion broke out, and Li Longji fled in disgrace to Shu.
An Lushan thought victory was all but certain.
But who could have guessed that, a thousand li away in Jiannan Circuit...
[Ultimate Quest Unlocked: Leave Sichuan]
[Congratulations, Host and all players. The map of the entire realm has been unlocked.]
An Lushan stared pensively at the steel behemoth before him.
He had thought everyone was still in the age of cold weapons.
So why was he facing...
[An eighth-century Fourth Calamity · Infrastructure Maniacs · 100,000 Immortal Players · 80% Literacy Rate in Jiannan Circuit · 1,000 Jin per Mu · The Age of Electricity · Tank Battles · Aerial Supply Drops...]
An Lushan: “Are we still in the Tang dynasty?”
Li Longji was overjoyed. “My realm is saved!”
Tuan Tuan drove past in a car. “It’s my realm.”
[Reader’s Guide]
1. This is an alternate Tang dynasty. The plot draws on real history, but please don’t nitpick the historical details.
2. The heroine is the daughter of the daughter of Princess Taiping and Wu Youji. She was born in 734. This is entirely fictional, including Li Longji making her a county princess and sending her to her fief, which is done to serve the plot. Please don’t nitpick the historical details.
3. The heroine is temporarily called Tuan Tuan because there are no adults in her family to give her a proper name. She’ll name herself later.
4. You can enjoy this even if you’ve never played a game. The game is original and basically just sends out quests.
5. There is a romantic pairing. By the end of the An Lushan Rebellion, the heroine is already in her twenties. The relationships with the kids in the early part are mostly friendships.
Coming soon: Please add to your favorites, The Qin Emperor’s Princess Binds Herself to the Fourth Calamity System.
Ying Yinman bound herself to a system.
Bad news: The System told her that her father would die after his eastern tour, Hu Hai would take the throne, and the Qin dynasty would fall under the Second Emperor. Hu Hai would also have all his brothers and sisters buried alive.
Good news: This divinely bestowed System could summon people from the future to help her.
Ying Yinman: “With power granted by heaven, who else could be emperor but me?”
From then on, Ying Yinman had a new goal.
She would secretly build up her strength and advance the technology tree, waiting for the right moment to drag that good-for-nothing Hu Hai off the throne!
The first batch of players arrived.
“Wait, this princess is Ying Yinman?”
“Why isn’t the System bound to the First Emperor?”
“Where’s Qin Shi Huang? Where’s Qin Shi Huang? I want to see Zheng-ge!”
“Girls, stop wailing. The quest is to help the princess build things. Let’s raise her first. Zheng-ge will show up sooner or later!”
“Got it! Raise the princess and develop the infrastructure! Then we’ll twist Hu Hai’s dog head right off!”
Ying Yinman found it hard to keep up with the thought processes of these heavenly soldiers.
Some carved “I love you, Zheng-ge” into the walls of the Xianyang Palace.
Some clamored for the game’s System to release a life-sized First Emperor body pillow.
And a bunch of fragile little sharks died and came back to life over and over while repairing the Great Wall, forcing her to go to enormous lengths to cover it up.
She couldn’t understand why these people were so crazy about her father.
Weren’t they afraid of him?
*
Life carried on in a lively fashion for more than half a year.
Ying Yinman kept feeling that something was off around her, as though someone were watching her from the shadows.
She looked up at her father on the throne.
Ying Zheng happened to look her way too, his gaze heavy.
The System’s alert sounded in her ear.
[Warning: The Host’s attention level from Ying Zheng, the chosen one of this plane, has exceeded the threshold.]
[Binding secondary System...]
Late at night, the First Emperor stared expressionlessly at the blue screen before him.
[Detected: You have become the NPC players look forward to the most.]
At last, he understood what his busy daughter had been doing lately.
The strange people around her were from a thousand years in the future.
How dare they!
With divine soldiers like these, how could she not present them to him?
Who would have thought Ying Yinman would be so bold as to come straight to him?
Princess: “Father, an autograph!”
First Emperor: “My name is not something one writes on a whim.”
The princess whispered, “But that person can make cement...”
The First Emperor was silent for three seconds. “Bring me a brush.”
“Father, this player wants a hug!”
“Absolutely not!”
“Cannons...”
The First Emperor opened his arms. “...If you can’t make them, you’re dead.”
Ying Yinman watched the System’s progress bar shoot up and could barely contain her delight.
She’d found the instruction manual for dealing with her father!
Theme: Work hard and build a new era!
Oh no, stay away from me
Will the article repeat the same mistake and have his daughter-in-law robbed again?
[Changed][changed] Li Longji is a bad old man
Can Da Da change Yang Yuhuan's fate? 💔 Dead old man, old man who is immortal, steals his daughter-in-law
Is it a humiliation? You gave me the broken mirror that I don't want the most!
Thank you to heaven, thank you to earth, thank you for your hard work~
No, no, no, Lao Deng, don't look at your daughter-in-law
Accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger, this damn old man
I've been hoarding it for several days and reading it all at once 🙏 🙏
Have you ever thought that your skills are actually inferior to others?