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The First Engine Tycoon

She built the road before the world learned to walk. She died in a world that already had roads. She woke up in a kingdom that still believed horses were the peak of civilization. Transmigrated into a rigid feudal era ruled by nobles, guilds, and outdated traditions, Elara Veyne finds herself reborn as the overlooked daughter of a declining noble house—a woman with no power, no title, and no future worth mentioning. Except for one thing. She remembers a world that moved. Wheels. Engines. Roads. Industry. While the kingdom remains trapped in endless wars, political stagnation, and reliance on brute force, Elara quietly begins building something no one understands—and everyone fears. Not magic. Not divine blessings. But machines. Her first invention is dismissed as madness. Her second is mocked as heresy. Her third changes trade forever. As roads begin to replace battlefields and engines challenge the dominance of aristocracy, Elara rises from a forgotten noblewoman into the most dangerous kind of power—a tycoon who controls movement, logistics, and wealth. Standing at her side is Prince Caelan Auremont, a war-hardened royal bound by tradition, duty, and a kingdom on the brink of collapse. He does not believe in miracles—but he believes in Elara. Their alliance begins as necessity. Their trust is forged through resistance and sacrifice. And their romance burns slowly, dangerously, beneath political tension and unspoken desire. But progress has a price. The nobility wants her silenced. The church wants her condemned. The old powers want her erased before the world learns how to move without them. As Elara’s engines reshape history, she must decide: Will she merely survive this era— or become the woman who rewrites it? In a world that never imagined wheels could rule kingdoms, she becomes the First Engine Tycoon.
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A Concubine Who Knows the Future:She Died Watching the Empire Burn

"I watched you execute me. I watched the empire burn. Now I'm back—and this time, I'm saving us both." Wei Lian died on her knees in the Imperial Garden, accused of poisoning the Crown Prince she'd never even met. As the executioner's blade fell, she watched Emperor Shen Yao's cold eyes—the same eyes that had never once looked at her with anything but indifference during her three years as his forgotten concubine. Then she watched the empire fall. Witnessed the palace burn. Saw the Emperor fight to his last breath against the rebel forces that tore his dynasty to ashes. And then she woke up—three years earlier, on the day she entered the palace as a lowly concubine from a disgraced family. Wei Lian knows exactly what's coming: which concubines will betray her, which ministers are traitors, when the floods will devastate the south, and most importantly—that in eighteen months, everything she knows will be destroyed. The Crown Prince will be poisoned. The Emperor will execute the wrong person. The empire's greatest general will defect. And civil war will consume them all. She should run. Escape the palace before the trap closes. Instead, she makes a different choice: she'll change everything. Armed with three years of future knowledge and nothing to lose, Wei Lian begins playing the deadliest game in the empire—palace politics. She exposes conspiracies before they hatch, saves lives that were meant to be lost, and speaks truths that should be impossible for a concubine to know. The Emperor notices. Shen Yao has ruled through fear and control for eight years, his heart frozen after losing everyone he ever loved to betrayal. He keeps his concubines at a distance, uses people like chess pieces, and trusts no one. But this strange woman—this lowly concubine who was supposed to be invisible—keeps appearing where she shouldn't be, knowing things she couldn't possibly know, and looking at him with eyes that hold too much sorrow. "Why do you watch me like you're mourning someone?" he demands. "Because I am, Your Majesty," she whispers. "I'm mourning the man you're going to become if I fail." Every life she saves alters the future. Every conspiracy she unravels changes the timeline. And every moment she spends near the Emperor draws them into a connection that was never supposed to exist—because in her first life, he never loved her. Never even knew her name before he ordered her death. But the future is fighting back. The harder she works to prevent catastrophe, the more dangerous enemies emerge. The Empress wants her dead. The Imperial Consort is a poisonous schemer. The rebels are already moving. And the real mastermind behind the empire's fall—someone she never identified in her first life—is hunting her. Worse: she's falling for a man destined to become a tyrant. A man who, in the original timeline, loved someone else—the beautiful Imperial Consort Hua Rong, whose "death" will drive him to madness and massacre. Wei Lian must choose: save the empire and lose the Emperor's heart to the woman fate chose for him, or save the man and watch the world burn. She died once for an empire that never valued her. This time, she'll make them all pay attention—even if it means becoming the most dangerous woman in the palace. The future isn't written. It's a war. And she's already won it once.
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