Exiled to Lingnan? I'll Fish and Farm My Way to Becoming a Tycoon

Lu Qingyan was born into a family of wealth and prestige, the legitimate daughter of the renowned Qinghe Lu clan of the capital.

An imperial decree dragged the Lu family into the succession struggle, and the entire clan was sentenced to execution.

Stripped of her household registration and exiled to Lingnan, she died of illness on the miasma-choked road into exile.

When she opened her eyes again, the person lying in the prison cart was a soul from the modern world.

The guards are stripping off her embroidered shoes to buy wine?

She sees through their embezzlement at a glance and, with just a few words, forces the escort captain to hand over the prison cart keys.

Everyone says Lingnan is a savage wasteland where death is all but certain.

Lu Qingyan looks down at the muddy ground beneath her feet and smiles.

Miasma everywhere? The mountains are full of life-saving herbs no one knows how to identify.

Not a blade of grass to be found? She has spent her whole life growing tropical crops.

Short on money, food, salt, and iron? Her mind holds an entire workshop.

With the Heavenly Craft and Mountains-and-Seas Almanac at her side:

She grows snow sugar and makes a fortune every day; forges divine weapons to awe the Baiyue; builds giant ships and sails straight for the Southern Seas.

Years later, with the Central Plains emperor's treasury empty enough to race horses through, envoys cross the oceans to beg her for help.

They kneel on her deck, holding out an imperial letter and asking what she wants.

Gold and silver? A title? Or a prince's manor?

Standing beneath sails that blot out the sky, the woman taps the sea chart with her fingertips:

"You can't give me what I want."

From this day forward, every sea route is mine to command.

No reborn male lead comes to the rescue, and this is no pampered-wife story.

The heroine is decisive and ruthless, devoted to building her enterprise.