I Became the King Consort After Delivering Takeout to Loulan

Lu Cheng had spent seven years delivering takeout. On his final delivery, he plunged headfirst into the desert.

When he opened his eyes again, he was in Loulan. He saved the queen, completed the three wedding rites, and found the whole city out of food. The grain officer said, "We can only distribute rations to forty households a day."

He replied, "Three dou, six alleys, two hundred and forty households. We'll finish distributing them in one day."

No one believed this man who had just crawled out of the sand. Three days later, the whole city knew his name.

Drawing on his delivery skills, he built relay roads, lit lamps, established registers, and kept accounts, reconnecting a severed trade route one stop at a time.

When Han envoys entered the city demanding a hostage, he said, "Give them the city gate keys, not a child."

When the Xiongnu burned the trade road, he said, "As long as the lamps are lit, the road isn't broken."

Thirty years later, someone asked him how many deliveries he'd made in his life.

He said, "If you can't count them, don't bother. As long as they got there, that's enough."