After I Became a Reclusive Master with a Degree in Robotics

He Li, a third-year robotics student with a promising future and an internship at a major tech company, transmigrates into a melodramatic wuxia novel that no one reads.

He Li: I'm doomed.

Fortunately, his workshop came along with him, as did an inexhaustible supply of materials. He might as well keep building robots. What else could he do, jump off a cliff?

First, he builds a robot vacuum to handle the cleaning, then a chatty robot to keep him company. A drone scouts the surrounding terrain, while a robotic dog guards the house.

After a while, He Li is living a lovely, self-sufficient life and has become a legendary hermit, the greatest spiritual physician in the world. They say he can bring the dead back to life and restore flesh to bare bones, and that he makes lifelike bodies for wandering ghosts. Those reborn souls granted bodies by him stay in his courtyard and serve him for a while.

For example, there's the short little boy who sweeps the courtyard. He still hasn't shaken off his habits from when he was a ghost and likes to crawl around in the shadows. Sometimes he squats in a corner, lost in thought.

For example, there's the black-clad shadow guard with peerless movement skills, who spends all his time darting across rooftops and treetops. They say he was a scout in ancient times, killed in a brutal battle, and his soul became an immortal.

For example, there's the masked beauty with an exceptionally lovely voice. Anyone who hears her speak falls for her. Legend has it she was the top courtesan in Jingzhou in her previous life, and countless people spent fortunes on her, only for her to die unjustly in a vicious political conspiracy.

For example, there's the big yellow dog that guards the house. It... can talk.

He Li: (scratching his head) It seems like the people around here have something wrong with their eyes...

Still, there are lots of perks to being a legendary hermit. He can make up whatever rules he wants, and wherever he travels, powerful figures from every corner give him a grand reception. Even the martial arts alliance leader and the demonic sect leader have to speak deferentially in his presence.

There's just one annoying thing lately: a gloomy female ghost keeps pestering him to make her a new body so she can take revenge for some blood feud.

He Li: Your body is a gift from your parents. Besides, you're so beautiful, miss. Why waste your life on hatred?

Gloomy female ghost: ...I'm a man.

He Li transmigrated as a tool-character supporting male. Everything he does is rationalized by the world's consciousness, so the robots he builds look like all kinds of strange people to everyone else.

A leisurely Jianghu slice-of-life with farming.

Thesis: Master math and science, and you won't fear transmigrating to ancient times