My Co-Pilot Can't Possibly Be the Rose of a Desolate Planet

[No comments from people who steal and repost chapters. Maseratis spotted: @LuWangJiang on Weibo] Shi Weiran’s life takes a turn at Duan Chuyu’s engagement ceremony. The bride accuses him of seducing the groom and sabotaging an arranged marriage between prominent families, while the groom accuses him of concealing the truth and trying to escape the desolate planet where he’s imprisoned. From then on, Shi Weiran is wanted and hunted. He spends years living by the edge of a blade, seeing the full range of warmth and cruelty in the world. One day, he finally escapes the desolate planet, only for the ship he’s on to inexplicably explode before it even leaves the atmosphere. Shi Weiran survives by a hair and, after drifting from place to place, ends up on the capital planet, where he meets a tall, handsome man on the street. The man seems to think he’s a poor college student and gently holds out a hand to him. Staring at this privileged young master who’d never had to worry about where his next meal was coming from, Shi Weiran suddenly understands the cruelty of class divisions. He wants to overturn it all. So he hides his sharp edges and timidly says to the man, “Your hands are really big.” - Shen Xijing is the top-ranked fleet leader at Wesley Military Academy, a decorated ace nicknamed the Invincible Young Master. He also has a terrifying record of driving three copilots to a breakdown in a single month. The principal won’t let him become a starship widower everyone hates, and is racking his brains to find a copilot who suits him. Shen Xijing brazenly declares: “My ideal copilot has to be strong, disciplined, levelheaded, hardworking, and from a respectable, spotless family.” The principal: “We can do that.” A few days later, someone steals his private mecha from his vault and takes it on a rampage in the red-light district. It comes back battered and broken. The thief jumps down from a fire escape. Slender waist, long legs, captivating eyes: it’s the “poor college student” he took in out of pity. The other man strides over and introduces himself. “Hi, I’m Shi Weiran, the whetstone the principal assigned you.” Shi Weiran, the “Rose of the Desolate Planet,” is the son of a disgraced minister. His exile made him famous, both for his fearsome reputation and his beauty. Shen Xijing: He’s not just unlike my ideal type, he couldn’t be further from it! One day, Shi Weiran turns his back to him and takes off his shirt, then digs the bullet out of his flesh with a knife. Blood and sweat run over his jade-like skin, and his usually carefree face is overtaken by a look of restraint. Shen Xijing realizes not only that his heart aches, but that he’s getting hard, too. A ruthless, scheming, flirtatious beauty VS a sharp-tongued hunk with absurd combat skills who turns into a lovesick fool around his sweetheart A few things to know before reading 1. Two strong leads, 1v1, both virgins and each other’s first love. 2. Fictional setting and made-up details. No lore-diving or reading real people into it. 3. A character’s stance doesn’t represent the author’s. Don’t message me when you drop the story, and don’t mislabel it. What you think is true may not be what I wrote. 5. If you spot lots of homophones, don’t be surprised. It’s so we can meet on JJ! [Saved 2020-04-06] [Cover authorized by @Patikara, cover design by @YanShu] ※ Next historical fantasy novel: Our Sword Cultivators Don’t Play Nice Qin Yunzhan transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder sword cultivator with the same name. He has an ugly birthmark, everyone hates him, and the only sect willing to take him in is the Mingding Sword Sect. The sect leader gives him a new face, becoming his rebirth parent. To win the leader’s favor, he devotes himself to the sect and follows the rules for half his life, making countless enemies along the way. Unexpectedly, the real protagonist of the novel is the sect leader’s son. He suddenly accuses Qin Yunzhan of murdering people and flaying them for their looks, calls him thoroughly evil, and finally kills him with one sword before ascending on the spot. Qin Yunzhan: What kind of stepping-stone self-improvement manual is this? I can’t even. Thanks a lot. He arrives just in time for the entrance ceremony, where candidates choose between two sects. To avoid repeating the original owner’s fate, Qin Yunzhan publicly rejects the invitation from the sect leader and his son, then drops to his knees and joins the nearly extinct Zizai Pavilion. Onlookers: How could anyone be so ungrateful? The sect leader and his son: Hah. A washed-up guy and a washed-up sect are made for each other! - Zizai Pavilion claims that everyone follows the Way of Freedom, but from top to bottom they’re all slackers. Shi Yunzhuo, standing in for the sect leader at the admissions ceremony, only plans to go through the motions. Then a young man with an oddly divided face tugs on his sleeve and says, “Immortal, you have extraordinary bones and bearing. You’re destined to become a beacon on my path of cultivation!” Shi Yunzhuo: “Speak plainly.” Qin Yunzhan: “Nobody else wants me. Could you take me in?” Shi Yunzhuo: “Do I look like I collect junk?” Qin Yunzhan: “You do!” Shi Yunzhuo: “?” - Shi Yunzhuo entered the Void Abode realm at eighteen. Cool and taciturn, he devotes himself to the Way, yet he still can’t reach the Great Ascension realm. The diviner says he hasn’t weathered a tribulation of love and can’t ascend. Shi Yunzhuo, who isn’t particularly interested in romance: Then I just won’t ascend. :) One day, Zizai Pavilion takes in a young man with an oddly divided face. Today he kicks and curses a cultivator who insulted his master; tomorrow he beats up a thug who harassed his junior sister. Shi Yunzhuo has to clean up his mess every day. At the Mystic Grotto debate, his sword-cultivator opponent says, “There’s an unwritten rule in the field: no more than three exchanges, and then we call it a draw!” Qin Yunzhan: “Who says we have to stop just because you do?” Afterward, the opponent’s trousers are slashed into lace, and he’s so traumatized by sword practice that he gives up martial arts and takes up literature. Everyone: Qin Yunzhan fights dirty! Senior Brother Shi won’t let him live to see tomorrow! Unexpectedly, a few years later, Qin Yunzhan becomes famous overnight after a battle at the Mystic Grotto and earns the title of “The Number One Sword Cultivator of the Nine Provinces.” Zizai Pavilion tops the cultivation sect rankings, and prospective students beat down its doors. Meanwhile, Shi Yunzhuo, who couldn’t break through because he didn’t understand passion, inexplicably ascends... - After Qin Yunzhan joins Zizai Pavilion, he can tell that his senior brother Shi Yunzhuo wants to kick him out every day. But as the only NPC in the original story who doesn’t side with the protagonist, he has to cling to Shi Yunzhuo and work hard at cultivation. On the day he completes his cultivation of the Great Way, Qin Yunzhan is so relieved that he has a couple too many drinks. He dares to touch the back of Shi Yunzhuo’s neck, and Shi Yunzhuo knocks away his sword with a fan and pins him hard against the cold stone pool on Cloud Pillow Terrace. The next day, Qin Yunzhan clutches his shredded clothes and sighs bitterly: Did my senior brother cultivate some fake Way of Freedom? A cool, refined, secretly passionate fan cultivator VS a sunny, talkative sword cultivator Theme: Unity, friendship, and defending home and country