I was the loser prince. So I built a pistol and ruled them all.#romantic#sword #xiuxian #female

Transported into ancient China as the ninth prince, a lazy nobody forced to marry a legendary female general known as the "Butcher of the North." He just wanted to invent trinkets, earn some silver, and live easy—until his gunpowder experiments accidentally birthed a modernized army. Now, with barbarian hordes at the gates and the empire begging for a savior, he holds a princess in one arm, points his cannon at the enemy, and sighs: "All I wanted was a quiet life. Why are you all forcing me to rule the world?" Xiao Yi wakes up as the ninth prince of the Great Xuan Dynasty—and his new life is off to a brutal start. The emperor, his so-called father, arranges a marriage to General Lu Qingge, the fiercest female commander in the realm, whose reputation earned her the nickname "Female Butcher." The entire court places bets on how many days this pampered prince will survive. On their wedding night, her blade is at his throat. His response? He calmly pulls out a gunpowder formula and says: "Darling, fighting is so uncivilized. How about we talk science?" His plan was simple—sell a few inventions, visit a few teahouses, and coast through life as a carefree playboy. But one gunpowder upgrade leads to another, and before he knows it, he's rolling out muskets, cannons, and an elite artillery corps that has no equal in this age. When the northern barbarians breach the border and the court panics, Xiao Yi dons his armor, leads his firepower-equipped legion into battle—with a bevy of surrendered princesses by his side. As his sword points north, he can only shake his head with a wry smile: "I just wanted to slack off. But fate, it seems, had other plans." No system. No cheat code. Just a modern mind, a bit of luck, and one reluctant prince dragged kicking and screaming from "dead within three days" to "undefeated legend."