Far Away [Mystery]

Blurb:

Looking back on the first twenty years of her life, Yu Yao has known plenty of sorrow and almost no joy. Her bleak, mire-filled life has had only two strokes of unexpected luck.

The first came in her freshman year of college, when she was pushed off a cliff. A man who seemed like an escaped convict happened to pass by, carried her out of a remote primeval forest, and saved her from death.

The second came in her junior year, when she was suspected of murder and subjected to a full-scale online attack. The auto mechanic who lived next door came forward with a pile of evidence and cleared her name.

Only later did she realize that the "escaped convict" and the "mechanic" were the same person.

Later still, the neighbor who looked so ferocious cornered her against a wall. "I haven't properly introduced myself yet, have I? My name is Zong Tiao, and I'm a police officer."

Yu Yao, who had mistaken his identity time and again: ...

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Then she heard the man continue in a hoarse voice: "Take a closer look at my name. Do you notice anything?"

Seeing the solemn seriousness on his face, Yu Yao shook her head in confusion.

"Don't you think our names go well together?"

"So if we don't get together, we'd be doing our names a disservice, wouldn't we?"

Yu Yao, an accident magnet, x Officer Zong

P.S. The romance and the cases progress along two storylines.

Blurb for I Assembled a Big Shot on an Alien Planet:

As a student of spaceship repair in the orbital defense program, Jiang Cha transmigrates to an alien planet and becomes a scavenger. She thinks: Being able to turn trash into treasure feels pretty great.

Until one day, she finds a chip in a garbage heap and cobbles together a realistic-looking robot.

She excitedly brings it home, only to find it "slow and silly," unable even to talk, so Jiang Cha orders it around as much as she likes.

Only later does she discover that the thing she assembled is actually a super-destructive big shot who fell millions of years ago. He simply couldn't be bothered to talk to her.

"My home is a blue planet. There's a boy I like there. His name is Chong Yuan."

"Jiang Cha, the Milky Way has fallen, and so has General Chong Yuan."

"I know. But I still like him."

The last surviving general x mechanical prodigy

Theme: Punish evil and promote good