Title of the book can be misleading.MC isnt building an Empire, he is barely building a city.The city is being build in the background without us knowing which I find terrible.Where the city building chapters or empire building??? Why the hell would he chill in other cities except the one hes building.It had a great start but everything went downhill when you stop focusing on character development and empire building development.I think the title is clickbait and false.Get back to empire/city building and focusing on leveing his city to see his GF from the start again