I Scored 250 on the College Entrance Exam, and My Mom Thought I Was a Lost Cause

At eighteen, Fu Chuyu sat for the college entrance exam, which had a perfect score of 750. She scored only 250.

It wasn't that she couldn't do better. She simply didn't want to.

She was the Fu family's only granddaughter. Her father was a major who died in the line of duty, her mother was Chu Zhizheng, the iron-willed commander of the 703rd Brigade, and her younger brother Fu Chuyao had graduated from university at seventeen and taken over the family business.

Outsiders thought she had everything, but only she knew that she couldn't find any meaning in being alive.

By day, she was a "problem student" who stayed up all night, slept all day, and lived off everyone else. By night, she was a mysterious hacker known by the codename "Ember," taking jobs on the dark web and able to rewrite other people's fates with a simple click.

Then one day, an invitation from the military's special cybersecurity team, "Gui Xu," completely upended the life she'd been coasting through.

Team leader Ji Youning lured her in with a "sting operation," then used enlistment papers to strap her to the war wagon. After a random assignment, she was sent to military camp.

Could she last three months of military service, going from a carefree girl to an iron-blooded soldier, and from avoiding reality to facing her innermost self?

And what about the mother who said she didn't care about her, yet secretly paved every road ahead of her; the younger brother who always stood in front of her and said, "I'll support you for the rest of your life"; and the older sister who had protected her since childhood, yet forgot to protect herself?

This time, Fu Chuyu wanted to live for herself.