The Broke Solo Operative Is Exposed as the Mecha Grandmaster’s Founding Lady!

Mecha + military academy + league + battlefield + strong female lead + secret identity + a touch of ensemble cast + romance

Who could have seen this coming?

Ning Ci, the venerable founder who ushered in the mecha age of the Interstellar Federation, fell into a wormhole and somehow transmigrated three hundred years into the future as a little beggar! Then someone threatened her life and forced her to enter a military academy, where she had to compete for the title of the Federation's top mecha pilot!

Ning Ci shrugged, then trudged all the way to the oldest and most storied military academy in Federation history: Tianqi Military Academy, which she had founded herself.

Wait! This isn't how it was supposed to look!

Where's my glittering golden gate? Where are my stately, solemn classroom buildings? Why are they all falling apart?

And that's not all. Tianqi's students are all downcast, and discipline has completely fallen apart.

Ning Ci stands among the new students in ragged clothes. The others immediately scatter, leaving a circle of empty space around her.

“Tianqi actually accepts people like this now?”

“If they don't fill the enrollment quota, they'll have to shut down for good.”

“Then let it shut down. Some prestigious old school! It's dirt poor, and it hasn't even competed in the league for years.”

Ning Ci steps forward to correct their misguided thinking, only to be mocked. “You sure stick your nose into everything. What are you, the head of Tianqi?”

Ning Ci tilts her head up at a forty-five-degree angle, wearing a wicked grin. Hah. Get ready to bend over and welcome the harshest principal in your school's history!

In reality, she causes trouble in class, wreaks havoc in the points tournament, turns the official matches upside down, and runs wild on the interstellar battlefield...

She plays the part of a penniless nobody among the new students while saving Tianqi from bankruptcy and, along the way, turning the entire school's culture upside down.

Then her secret identity finally comes crashing down, and the whole Federation is shaken to its core:

You're telling me that penniless mecha pilot who causes chaos every day and acts like a total flirt is the long-dead, noble-minded founding matriarch of mecha, who passed away three hundred years ago?!