How a Cat Built Infrastructure in the Ming Dynasty

Liu Ruoheng transmigrated.

The good news: once she completes the mission of raising a wise ruler, she can return to her own time, and she has been given a golden finger that makes her drawings come true.

The bad news: she has transmigrated as the six-year-old daughter of a minor official in the Ming Dynasty, and she can't get close to the future emperor, who is still hiding in the Inner Anle Hall. Her only option is to raise the child as a cat.

Liu Ruoheng stared silently at her pair of cat paws.

No matter how good my drawing skills are, expecting me to draw anything decent with these hands (paws?) is asking a bit much, isn't it?

One day, Liu Ruoheng waved her little paw, and high-yield hybrid rice appeared before her eyes. She ordered a certain future ruler to work hard, toddling around and swinging a little hoe!

This is a great public-welfare project that will feed tens of millions of people in the future. If we wait until he's grown up, it'll be too late. He has to start working hard now!

Little Zhu Youtang toiled in the fields, sweating profusely: ...

One day, Liu Ruoheng looked thoughtfully at Zhu Youtang, now Crown Prince, then casually grabbed a sheet of paper and drew a square, gray stone with a charcoal pencil. She asked him, "Let's see how hard this material is."

Seeing this familiar scene, Zhu Youtang felt an ominous premonition rise in his heart.

Sure enough, a month later, Zhu Youtang was sent off to a remote region to build roads: ...

Liu Ruoheng declared righteously, "If you want to get rich, build roads first!"

The Yellow River suffered its worst flood since the founding of the dynasty. Zhu Youtang was ordered to control the flooding, and Liu Ruoheng followed him in her cat form.

Looking at the levee destroyed by villains, Liu Ruoheng used the ground as her canvas and drew a gigantic flood barrier, preventing further damage in time.

But in the end, she used too much force and fell into the floodwaters. Liu Ruoheng: ...Controlling the Yellow River is a task for the ages!

Watching Liu Ruoheng disappear beneath the floodwaters, Zhu Youtang completely lost his mind.

(Not historically accurate. Please don't scrutinize it too closely. It has my own settings, so you can treat it as an alternate history.)

---The following is a preview of an upcoming novel.

"Teaching Nonhumans Wellness in the Stars"

(Estimated release: late December)

Everyone knew Zhou Tianqi was a legend at the Federation's Second Military Academy.

They said she had defeated the commander's number one in the Federation, making him fall for her.

But the people of the Empire scoffed, believing it was nothing but exaggeration, using a pure human as a gimmick.

Then the Federation and Empire held joint military exercises, and the Empire mocked the Federation for sending a weakling pure human.

Zhou Tianqi: "Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right."

She fired a potion hastily made mainly from angelica root and ginger. The fire attribute surged through the fire-type ability beast, and it collapsed on the ground, helpless to resist.

Imperial: "You must have used banned drugs. That's cheating!"

Zhou Tianqi: "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. See you later!"

She simply shoved a potion with an opposing attribute into his mouth. The big, muscular man couldn't fight back and soon collapsed, unable to move.

Imperial: "Those sly Federation people, pretending to be weak!"

Federation: "Since when did we have such an amazing pure human?!"

Federation commander: ... (feeling guilty)

Zhou Tianqi transmigrated into a pure human on the brink of extinction in the space age and took a job as a nutrition teacher at the Federation's Second Military Academy.

The medicinal cuisine culture of Huaxia had been lost to history in this world, leaving behind only a vaguely related field called nutrition.

She didn't know nutrition, so she decided to transform it into medicinal cuisine instead.

The Federation's people distrusted the tiny, weak pure human, and one after another looked down on her:

"What kind of trash is medicinal cuisine? I've never even heard of it! Pure humans really are terrifyingly naive."

Who could have guessed...

The beloved daughter of the Guppy family was often listless and had no appetite. The clan leader had consulted every famous doctor, but nothing helped. Zhou Tianqi often made her crucian carp soup with poria and atractylodes to strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness. In just a few days, she was bouncing around full of energy.

The only phoenix bloodline left from ancient Earth had awakened as a fire phoenix. Lily and lotus seed porridge, which calmed the mind and quelled internal heat, helped it through the most difficult stage of taking its true form. Its temper mellowed, and it reconciled with its mother.

The most domineering metal-type ability user begged Zhou Tianqi to save his younger brother. He even turned into a white tiger and acted cute, all so she would agree to help. A bowl of old duck soup with glehnia root and polygonatum cured his brother's poor health.

Lily and lotus seed porridge, Four Spirits soup, bupleurum and liver-soothing porridge... More and more medicinal dishes tailored to regulate the energies of the Five Elements appeared, and the so-called incurable interstellar genetic diseases were cured just like that.

Zhou Tianqi said, "See? It was all because you people didn't know how to take care of yourselves."

As one outstanding member after another from the various families was cured, the organization conducting illegal human experiments was left dumbfounded.

How were they supposed to proceed with the next stage of their plan?

They turned their attention to the culprit who should have been the most important part of their plan.

This pure human had ruined everything for them. They absolutely couldn't let her get away.

But they never expected that the seemingly frail pure human would turn their hideout upside down.

At first, everyone who saw Zhou Tianqi was fooled by her pure human appearance.

None of them thought that this tiny, weak human was qualified to be their teacher, even if she was teaching the useless subject of nutrition.

Later, the Huaxia Medicinal Cuisine Research Institute founded by Zhou Tianqi benefited nonhumans across the stars. Her name resounded throughout the galaxy, and she became the one everyone looked up to.

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