I command a million troops, and the empress arrives with our little girl to hold me accountable.

Lu Yuan, a top modern military engineer, transmigrates to the Great Qian Dynasty and becomes magistrate of desolate Beiliang County, a remote exile land filled with refugees and convicts. Over five years, he uses advanced infrastructure and military expertise to transform the run-down territory into a bustling modern city with over a million residents, fortified city walls and thirty thousand elite troops. Five years prior, he met a noble princess stranded after being poisoned; they spent one night together before she left without a word. As Lu Yuan prepares for the county’s grand military parade, the regal Empress Zhao Jianjia arrives with their cute youthful daughter Huanhuan. Mistaking his prosperous city and well-drilled army for signs of treason, the empress is unaware the magistrate is her child’s father, kicking off their fated romance.