Eating the Insectoid Race to the Brink of Extinction

The full novel is complete. I may make occasional revisions. Coming soon: Mecha Academy's Chinese Exchange Student. The blurb is at the very bottom. *Blurb* Yu Shiyi transmigrates from the apocalypse to the interstellar era, becoming an orphan on a remote garbage planet. By accident, she also gets bound to a useless System that cannot connect to the internet. But whatever. With no threat to her life, Yu Shiyi thinks she can lie flat in peace, eating and drinking and living like a lazy fish. Then she discovers that every plant and animal in this world has mutated, and humans can only consume nutrient solution. Yu Shiyi, who lives for good food: ... I should've just died in the apocalypse. When the insect tide arrives, Yu Shiyi sees giant seafood charging at her, and tears of excitement stream down her face. Why didn't anyone tell me the insect race was seafood? I'm coming! * To get ingredients, Yu Shiyi springs into action and uses mechanical junk from the garbage planet to build a mecha, then goes on a rampage through the insect tide. By day, Yu Shiyi is an unknown war god, adored across the internet. By night, she drools over the insect seafood covering the ground and cooks herself a delicious private feast. The insect race is so delicious! * The insect tide is driven back, and Yu Shiyi loses her source of food. After turning it over in her mind, she decides to enroll in a military academy, where she can use missions to visit other star systems and openly get herself something to eat. During the military academy tournament, people across the interstellar world notice that the mecha pilots from Jiuzhou Military Academy are all carrying enormous, half-round metal objects for some reason. Their chief commander is an unfamiliar first-year girl. Their opponents talk tough: "Jiuzhou Military Academy is doomed to lose." Yu Shiyi and her classmates sneer: "Let's see if you still say that after you try our food." Their opponents: ? The online audience: ? Once the competition begins, Jiuzhou Military Academy, under its chief commander's direction, crushes its opponents. Yet the commander, whom everyone had thought was delicate and frail, fights her way through the insect tide again and again, even killing an S-rank insect beast with a single slash. But when the live broadcast switches to Jiuzhou Military Academy's team comms, everyone hears: "Kill that one! Its meat will be tender if we steam it!" "I want that one braised!" "No! That one's perfect for grilling!" "Fine, all of them! Let's kill a few more. You hardly ever see this many insects at once, and I haven't had enough!" Everyone else: Are you people okay?! Then they can't resist sneaking a bite... Everyone: It's delicious! * Humans and the insect race have fought for thousands of years, but have never been able to wipe each other out completely. The insect race has no thoughts of its own and relies on reproduction to occupy planet after planet. Until one day, everything changed. The insect race became fragrant and delicious. Even mutated plants transformed into leafy vegetables, and mutated animals found their way onto human dinner tables. People began voluntarily heading to the battlefield to get something to eat, clearing out desolate planets occupied by mutated plants, animals, and the insect race. It became a popular movement embraced by everyone! Decades later, everyone finally realized: Why are there almost no insects left?! Yu Shiyi, a food-obsessed, hardworking heroine × Lou Qi, a male lead who loves to overthink things and eventually becomes a hopeless romantic [Please do not mention other works or characters in the comments. No comparisons or putting other works down. Respect every soul. Thank you.] Please note before reading: 1. Food takes up a large part of the story. This isn't simply a mecha power fantasy, and the pacing is relatively slow. 2. The heroine comes from the apocalypse, but she's too lazy to scheme and only wants to eat. Still, if she has to take action, she won't hesitate. She's not exactly a good person. 3. The cover shows the heroine as an adult, after she becomes the First General. For now, she's still a cute girl. 4. To be added. ----Coming Soon: Mecha Academy's Chinese Exchange Student---- Blurb: The Imperial Military Academy is the finest military academy in the interstellar world, bringing together the most talented people and the children of the powerful from across the star system. People in this era have merged with the bloodlines of star beasts. The stronger the star beast, the stronger the person. This year, the Imperial Military Academy accepted a new transfer student. You Lu, the last pure-blooded human, had just awakened in the Museum of Interstellar Historical Relics. Weak, helpless, and pitiful, You Lu arrived at the classroom door. The first time she met the class monitor, she enthusiastically grabbed his hand and exclaimed: "Your glabella looks dark. You're going to have terrible luck today!" Everyone: ...Huh? * After cultivating in seclusion and ascending, You Lu discovers that she has arrived in the interstellar era thousands of years in the future and become the last human in existence. As the only rare species in the interstellar world, You Lu receives special permission to attend the Imperial Academy. Officially, she's there to study. In reality, she's being confined and protected. However, three months later, the Imperial Military Academy revises its school rules for the first time in two thousand years. 1. Group square dancing and Yangge dancing are prohibited. 2. Flying on swords around campus to deliver takeout is prohibited. 3. During field training, students are prohibited from teaming up to grill skewers, have hot pot, and drink milk tea, then share the food to earn starcoins. 4. Fortune-telling, pulse-taking, and prescribing random medicine to classmates are prohibited! 5. Mahjong and poker are prohibited in the dormitories. 6. Summoning ghosts, drawing talismans, and letting spirits roam around campus are prohibited! You Lu, notorious troublemaker who forced the Imperial Military Academy to change its rules: Why does every single one of these rules target me? * You Lu single-handedly brings the entire military academy under her spell. Rich second-generation kids and officials' children alike seem bewitched, quickly falling in line. They fall in love with square dancing, milk tea, and crayfish. Whenever they have nothing to do, they gather around to ask You Lu for fortunes, and they form groups to play poker and mahjong. Even the health-conscious students take up the Eight Brocades exercise and wolfberry flower tea. Then, during the military academy tournament, You Lu is assigned to a team as its mascot. Her opponents scoff: "You brought a deadweight? You're doomed to lose!" You Lu: "I read your fortunes just now. There's a traitor on your team, so watch out." Everyone: ? The military academy tournament descends into chaos. Many people fall victim to a crisis of trust, each convinced someone else is the culprit. They're on the verge of coming to blows. At that moment, You Lu steps forward and takes out a talisman, speaking righteously: "Don't fight, everyone! I'll summon the victim so we can ask them about it. The truth is right in front of us!" Everyone: Huh??? During the military academy tournament, an insect tide invades, catching the students completely off guard. Their teachers and the military are cut off from them. The only person left who can go out to seek help is You Lu, the human whom everyone believes has no combat ability. Just as everyone is losing hope, smoke curls around You Lu. A towering dragon flickers into view. The dragon's roar rings out, the clouds part and the mist clears. The wind rises, thunder rumbles, and every evil thing scatters. One strike wipes out an army! That is the power of You Lu's bloodline. A Mythical Species, the Azure Dragon! Theme: Study hard and make progress every day.