Building an Island Settlement: I Make a Living from the Sea and Support a Haughty Minister

[Fleeing Famine + Farming + Land Reclamation + Infrastructure + Romance + Daily Life + Healing] Su Huaxi, a master of both architecture and agronomy, opens her eyes to find herself a pitiful young woman being sent into exile in the barren Lingnan region. She has been forced to marry her stepsister's place, becoming the wife of a crippled, supposedly ill-fated official convicted of a crime. While others wail and despair on the road to exile, Su Huaxi gazes at the vast stretches of unclaimed coastal land, her eyes practically glowing. From the start, all she has is a broken bowl and a body covered in wounds. No problem. She has a blind-box trading device for gathering seafood and farming! She makes refined salt, builds waterwheels, reclaims farmland, and constructs a fishing port, all while keeping her notoriously bad-tempered fiancé running around at her beck and call. The male lead, Xie Dao, had planned to coldly watch the delicate young heiress break down and admit defeat. Instead, she turns a shabby thatched hut into a seaside villa, then smiles sweetly every day as she hands him a stack of blueprints and sends him off to do the backbreaking work. Watching her bright, shining eyes despite the mud smeared all over her, his long-locked heart quietly skips a beat. She's busy creating a paradise on earth for everyone, while all he wants is to protect her and work for her for the rest of his life. There are no dark clouds of imperial power struggles here, only two people drawn to each other in the sea breeze. When the amnesty decree from the capital arrives, Xie Dao and Su Huaxi exchange a smile over the city they've just finished building, then use the imperial edict to prop up a table leg.