After I Became the Bandit Chief, the Court’s Powerful Minister Became My Crush

[System + transmigrate into a book + infrastructure building + powerful minister + sweet romance] Overnight, she transmigrates into a shabby female bandit chief in a place of exile. The stockade is drafty, with no food or water. The villagers are so hungry they can only chew tree bark and eat clay. Winter is fast approaching, morale is crumbling, and Ye Zhuo starts with every hellish debuff stacked against her. Luckily, she has a lord-management System! Improving farm tools, selecting seeds and raising seedlings, digging wells and bringing in water, building heated greenhouses and a dining hall, drawing up new rules... She throws herself into infrastructure projects and completely forgets that a husband she captured as a son-in-law is waiting in her room. Inside the room. Subordinate: “Someone gave Madam a deep-sea pearl today.” The man, usually calm and self-controlled, didn’t even raise his eyes. “Mm.” Subordinate: “Madam accepted it. She really likes it.” The man’s writing hand paused ever so slightly. Subordinate: “Madam went with Young Master Pei to, ” The man dropped his pen and strode out. Ye Zhuo was in the middle of negotiating a trade deal when the red-eyed man pulled her into his arms. “Madam, the children at home are hungry. Are you going to abandon us?” Ye Zhuo, utterly bewildered: “...Wait, where did these children come from?” The man pointed to the roadside, where a row of little kids in identical school uniforms smiled at her. Ye Zhuo: “...” Fine, the jealous king has spilled the whole jar of vinegar again. At first, Ye Zhuo only wanted to look after the villagers and build a business empire. Who knew that, without meaning to, she’d become the first female city lord on the continent whom the imperial court begged to grant amnesty and whose neighboring countries eagerly sought trade agreements with? [An ambitious female bandit chief devoted to developing the land, getting rich, and building a business empire VS a seemingly delicate but secretly shrewd male lead with enough strength to lift a cauldron]