They call Yu Wan a living omen — a 'calamity star' blamed for every fire, flood, and failed kiln in the capital. Her answer is not tears but blueprints. She reopens the ruined brickworks, redraws the kilns, re-plumbs the workshops, and builds, street by street, until the city that cursed her name is standing on her foundations. A deeply satisfying 100-chapter story of engineering versus superstition in an ancient metropolis. Chinese edition; English translation in progress.
虞婉被骂作「灾星」,京城里烧窑塌坊都要算她头上。她不辩解,只摊开图纸:窑口怎么改、火道怎么通、坊市怎么建。一砖一瓦,把骂名之地建成自己的地盘。基建流爽文,100 章完本。
Chapters Chapter 1: The Ruined Kiln Fires Again Chapter 2: Rain Over Sweetwater Alley Chapter 3: Plugging the Breach in the Mud Chapter 4: The Old Kiln Master's Broken Brick Chapter 5: The Register Goes Up Chapter 6: Nine Bad Bricks in Thirty Chapter 7: Officers at Dawn Chapter 8: The Hollow Riverbed Gives Way Chapter 9: Seven Leaks in One Night Chapter 10: What the Broken Brick Hides Chapter 11: Three Rows of Piles Against the Current Chapter 12: Zhiyuan's Waterway Map Chapter 13: Word from the Capital Chapter 14: The Eight-Hundred-Li Dispatch Chapter 15: The Calamity Marches on the Capital Chapter 16: At the Gates of the Capital Chapter 17: Three Hundred Eyes on Zhiyun Chapter 18: Two Days Chapter 19: File Number Bing-Seventy-Three Chapter 20: Mason Zhao Mends the Wall Chapter 21: A City's Voices at the Zhou Gate Chapter 22: You Are the Real Disaster Chapter 23: Water Over the Capital Chapter 24: Old Papers in an Oilcloth Bundle Chapter 25: Build Until the Wall Falls Chapter 26: The Senior Brother Who Died on the Levee Chapter 27: Build All the Way to the Capital Chapter 28: The Man in the Sack Chapter 29: The Capital Lives On Chapter 30: The Water Does Not Stop Chapter 31: The Canal Guarded for 127 Years Chapter 32: The Canal Line Stays Chapter 33: A Wooden Box Goes to Court Chapter 34: The Last Secret Letter Chapter 35: Griefs That Won't Stay Buried Chapter 36: A Ledger Kept for Thirty Years Chapter 37: Three Hundred Lives Chapter 38: My Father's Things in Liu Kun's Hands Chapter 39: Dragged to the Yamen Chapter 40: The Cracking Sound in the Interrogation Room Chapter 41: Rain on the Weir Chapter 42: The Levee Falls Before His Eyes Chapter 43: A Dragon of Torches Chapter 44: A Fate Rewritten by Water Chapter 45: Shadows Across the River Chapter 46: Debris on the Night Water Chapter 47: Three Months to Dig Chapter 48: The Finale Chapter 49: The Worksite at Noon Chapter 50: The Sound of an Approaching Army Chapter 51: Bells in the Rain Chapter 52: The Plug Still Holds Chapter 53: The Schedule Changes Chapter 54: Someone Will Come for Me Today Chapter 55: Still Water on the River Chapter 56: This Is Not Rainwater Chapter 57: One Shovelful for the Three Courts Chapter 58: A Dam Built for Fifty Years Chapter 59: The Ridge Above the Ancestral Graves Chapter 60: The West River Has Reached the Capital Chapter 61: The Smile Behind the Sedan Curtain Chapter 62: The Upstream Levee Has Broken Chapter 63: Asking the Emperor for a River Chapter 64: I Know Who Wrote That Line Chapter 65: Hundreds of Eyes Turn Chapter 66: The Ones Who Fear Her Chapter 67: Urgent Word from the Capital Chapter 68: The Dam Is Evidence Chapter 69: Gongs Upstream Chapter 70: The July Sun Chapter 71: Burned Here by Forty-Eight Villages Chapter 72: The Black Snake Crosses the Boundary Chapter 73: The First Spadeful of Mud Chapter 74: Dredging the Ditch Chapter 75: The River at the Bridge Chapter 76: A Moon Like a Copper Coin Chapter 77: Build One the Water Cannot Break Chapter 78: Not the Marquis of Yongning Chapter 79: Can You Hold Tomorrow? Chapter 80: A Flood Seen Once in Five Hundred Years Chapter 81: A Nod Across the River Chapter 82: Not a Prophecy Come True Chapter 83: The Fifth Water Mark Chapter 84: Whoever Knows the Seal Chapter 85: Seven Li in a Straight Line Chapter 86: Waiting for the Next One Chapter 87: Back at the Hou Mansion Gate Chapter 88: The Hand That Wrote 'Killer of Kin' Chapter 89: A Crowd at Her Back Chapter 90: A Muffled Boom from the West Chapter 91: The Dark, Empty Courtyard Chapter 92: The Flood Crest Chapter 93: A Road Drawn on the Mountain Chapter 94: Settling a Sixteen-Year Account Chapter 95: The Vermilion Gate Chapter 96: Half an Hour to Impact Chapter 97: The Capital's First Line of Defense Chapter 98: The Scroll in Her Hand Chapter 99: The Magistrate's Summons Chapter 100: The Water Does Not Fall from the Sky