I Really Do Look Delicate [Interstellar]

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[Story Blurb]

Lan Qi, the Empire's number-one bounty hunter, had an accident during a mission. When she opened her eyes again, she had arrived in a parallel world much like the interstellar world she had come from.

She had turned back into a thirteen-year-old, and she had a System.

The System called itself the Frail Beauty System. It could give her a buff that made her gasp for breath every three steps, cough every five, and spit blood every ten.

Lan Qi: "???"

As a result of the System's meddling, Lan Qi really did start gasping every three steps, coughing every five, and spitting blood every ten.

Though the System repeatedly promised that this was only what other people saw and that her body would suffer no actual harm, Lan Qi's life was still greatly affected.

For example, when she went out and ran into a vendor who was trying to rip her off, she was just about to charge over and beat him up when her throat suddenly tickled. She coughed so violently she could barely breathe, then spat out a mouthful of blood.

The vendor dropped to his knees in fright, packed up the things she wanted to buy, and offered them to her with both hands. "I was wrong! You can have all of this for free. Please, be the bigger person and don't die at my stall!"

"..."

Before long, Lan Qi became famous far and wide in her village as someone who was about to die.

Then one day, the System, silent for a long time, suddenly spoke up. "Why haven't you met the overbearing CEO who was kidnapped by bad guys as a child?"

Lan Qi: "?"

Then it saw the starships flying through the sky and was shocked. "Holy crap, I bound myself to the wrong Host!"

The day the System left, it removed the Frail Beauty buff it had put on her.

From then on, Lan Qi became a legend in her village: the person who had been spitting up blood for four years without dying.

It wasn't until she was seventeen, when the imperial battleship from the capital of the Alans Empire landed in her peaceful little village, that Lan Qi learned she was a princess of the royal family, lost and living far from home.

On her first day back, the entire palace learned that the newly returned little princess was a frail beauty who couldn't withstand the slightest shock.

Later, circumstances forced Lan Qi to represent the imperial family at an interstellar exchange competition with the Alliance.

Before she left, her younger siblings cried inconsolably, afraid she wouldn't come back.

Later, Lan Qi made her name by knocking out the second prince of the Kasha Kingdom, hailed as a combat genius, with a single punch.

Everyone who heard the news: "???"

[Reader's Guide]

1. Many original world-building details. The setting is interstellar, but not a traditional interstellar story.

[Blurb dated April 14, 2023]

Theme: Love life, love the world