The Poet and the Villain

Yu Linfeng, the military’s vicious attack dog, the Empire’s lackey, a ruthless madwoman.

In Star Year 559, her starship was destroyed while escorting classified documents, and she disappeared.

Along with the secret files every faction wanted to get their hands on.

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Two days and fourteen hours after the starship was destroyed, Yu Linfeng woke up in a luxury private hospital. A shy young man was sitting by her bed.

“You’re awake? I found you at the spaceport. You were badly hurt and covered in blood, so I had to bring you here for treatment...”

The young man looked at the “frail and weak” patient in the hospital bed and considerately added, “Um... My name is Cang Ji. Is there anything else you’d like to ask me?”

Cang Ji, the only heir of the Cang family’s nineteenth generation, a poet wealthier than nations, and a clueless space traveler.

“Oh, yes.” The villain listened politely to his explanation, then blinked and smiled. A miniature dagger snapped out and pressed against the poet’s neck. “Ms. Cang, would you mind being taken hostage?”

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And so began the perilous, universe-spanning odyssey of a villain on the run and a poet taken hostage, accompanied by countless assassination attempts and explosive fireworks.

1. An all-female world, with lots of original worldbuilding.

2. A fantastical space road trip.

3. Such a niche genre, a once-in-a-lifetime kind of story.

Theme: How can someone be this unlucky?