Transmigrating into the body of Leon von Hohenzollern, the second son of a Marquis of the North, he appears to be the capital's number one playboy, with his fiancée being the aloof and genius magician, Alyssa. To survive in the vortex of power, he dons a mask of cynicism and secretly builds an underground business and intelligence empire. Utilizing his superior understanding of modern thinking, he stirs up a storm, turning a magic competition that will determine the future of the empire into a colossal gamble.
However, the empire's political landscape is turbulent, the struggle for the royal succession is fierce, the eight major states harbor ulterior motives, and the mysterious half-elf prince is eyeing Elisa with predatory intent. Leon is forced to navigate the complexities of his fiancée's cold scrutiny, his brother's overindulgent control, and the machinations of various factions. He believes he's manipulating everyone, unaware that he's being drawn deeper into a deeper game. When his facade crumbles and his clandestine businesses are exposed for danger, the outcome of this high-stakes gamble of power and emotion remains uncertain. It's an adventure of dancing on a knife's edge, the stakes being his life, his freedom, and the warmth that might lie hidden beneath his frozen heart.
When orcish hooves shattered the southern plains, and infighting among nobles eroded the kingdom's foundations, Ryan Green, from another world, inherited the remote Eaglebeak Valley. Here, there was no fertile land, no loyal army, only a group of serfs struggling to survive and crumbling city walls.
In chaotic times, survival is the only rule. Ryan knew that relying solely on cold weapons and feudal constraints would ultimately reduce him to food for orcs or a pawn in the power struggles of nobles. He took up two "weapons": steam and gunpowder.
He used steam engines to drive forging hammers, stamping out indestructible iron armor; he used sulfur and saltpeter to develop cannons that shook the battlefield. He broke the aristocracy's monopoly on knowledge, teaching soldiers to read and navigate, and had serfs cultivate land and train soldiers, building an iron defense line in barren valleys.
Faced with the savage charges of the orcish legions, he constructed death traps with giant ballistae and gunpowder mines; dealing with the nobility's attempts to win him over and their schemes, he accumulated wealth by exporting iron armor, demonstrating the confidence of "neutrality" through his strength. From being forced to defend to actively expanding, from an unknown lord to Earl Green, he proceeded step by step, transforming a remote valley into the only safe haven in a chaotic world.
As the northern nobles' rebellion tore the kingdom apart, and as the eastern orcs brewed an even greater storm, Ryan stood before the steam-powered workshop, gazing at the armored army arrayed in formation, his eyes gleaming with ambition: "Chaos is not the end, but an opportunity to reshape order. This southern land will ultimately be dominated by steel and steam."
This is a story about using technology to break the shackles of feudalism and using strength to rise in a chaotic world.
Lu Chuan, a modern civil engineer, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a deposed prince exiled to a barren land. Faced with saline wasteland and a desperate populace, he vows to create life in this desolate place. He gains trust with a shallow well, defeats a village bully with fishing traps, and discovers astonishing mineral deposits in the barren mountains. When powerful external enemies lurk, Lu Chuan uses his extraordinary wisdom to lead his people to independence. Caravans come and go, brick kilns rise, and disillusioned martial artists lend a helping hand; he embarks on an unprecedented path of infrastructure development in this wild land.
I transmigrated into the cultivation world of a book and became a passerby who died before even making an appearance.
Knowing the plot of the book, as well as the fates and opportunities of the important characters, one's own future remains completely unknown.
Fortunately, he inherited ancient knowledge, cultivated his own blessed land, explored the cultivation world, and embarked on the path to immortality.
[No female lead + decisive and ruthless + building up a power base]
Qi Yuan, a game designer, travels to a fantasy world with the strange objects he designed.
A gourd of flesh and blood that can be used to refine elixirs and unlock supernatural powers in the human body.
The Seven-Day Resurrection Sutra, which can bring the dead back to life.
The Yinshan Ghost Market, where lifespan is the currency.
A muscular corpse that devours all life.
"Gentlemen, why not transform into elixirs and ascend to immortality with me!"
Life isn't always dramatic; more often it's mundane and uneventful. Ed, an ordinary person, always manages to find his own happiness in the ordinary moments of life.
Lin Yuan, who was just one Olympic gold medal away from achieving legendary status, suffered a muscle strain in the Beijing Winter Olympics final and was unexpectedly eliminated. Unable to accept the reality, Lin Yuan was reborn in a drunken stupor. He returned to his first year of high school, a time brimming with endless possibilities. With his decades of track and field skills and the perk of his rebirth—the Champion System—watch as Lin Yuan creates his own glorious legacy in this life…
Zhang Yunxiu was in a hurry to travel back in time to become Zhang Juzheng's youngest son.
A year later, his adoptive father passed away, leaving his family devastated; two years later, the Thirteenth Prince, wielding only a boarhide armor, rose in rebellion, embarking on his path to usurp the throne; seven years later, England defeated the invincible Armored Fleet, beginning a bloody primitive accumulation of wealth.
Fierce factional strife, land annexation, border corruption, and the silver crisis are like a sword hanging over our heads.
...
However, four hundred years later, when people opened the historical records, they were surprised to find that history had inexplicably taken a different turn in the ninth year of the Wanli reign.
In that year, the first comprehensive newspaper in the Ming Dynasty, the Wanli Xinbao, was launched, deconstructing Yangming's philosophy of mind and setting off a groundbreaking intellectual revolution.
In that year, modern medical theory was proposed for the first time, and the plague problem that had plagued people for thousands of years was contained for the first time.
That year, the gentry experienced for the first time what the iron fist of macroeconomics truly meant.
From this year onward, the already precarious Wanli New Deal unexpectedly triggered a major upheaval unprecedented in a century! Inventions and discoveries of all kinds, such as the steam engine, sweet potato, and flintlock musket, emerged one after another!
From that year onward, the headstrong Wanli Emperor became obsessed with artistic creation, and Zhang Juzheng, who had been struggling to support the crumbling Ming Dynasty, suddenly realized that his support had become somewhat weak.
Once regarded as a rebellious and absurd son, he actually managed to hold up half of the Ming Dynasty!
This book is also known as *The Chief Architect of the Industrial Revolution in the Ming Dynasty*, *Zhang Yunxiu: A Loving Father and Filial Son*, *The Living Father of the Civil Official Group*, and *My Cartoons Are More Important Than Memorials*.
(The author already has two million words of high-quality books with 16,000 words of premium content, so you can read with confidence.)
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Wild and untamed creatures, growing wildly, their ambitions and desires intertwined, can always forge earth-shattering legends.
A microcosm of reform and opening up, a magnificent miracle of ordinary people rising to prominence.
[Sandbox] + [The Fourth Calamity] + [Game Impacts Reality]
"Extraordinary power is invading the world, and all ordinary people will be wiped out by the tide of time!"
Genetic lock is an insurmountable barrier between ordinary people and extraordinary individuals; some have gone bankrupt because of it, and some have lost their families.
Until a game quietly arrived, this insurmountable gap began to crumble:
What?! The world's largest supernatural realm is actually a game?!
What? You can become stronger just by breathing, and level up by defeating monsters!
Lu Chuan: "What are you talking about? This is just an ordinary sandbox game."