Scavenging for Scrap in the Stars

Shen Xu is a mechanic on a garbage planet, where resources must be fought for and equipment pieced together from spare parts. One day, he finds a damaged terminal. After repairing it, he installs it in a decommissioned robot. The robot looks at its mismatched hands. Its mechanical joints keep clicking because they're missing parts. Robot: ... Shen Xu comforts it. "Don't be sad. I'll find you a good hand someday." Later, before Shen Xu can find a good hand, he comes across a pair of mechanical cat ears. He asks excitedly, "How about I put these cat ears on you and paint your body pink?" The robot raises a hand, and the vase behind Shen Xu explodes. Shen Xu saves up enough money to buy the most advanced mechanical limbs on the black market, only for the black-market dealer to pass off inferior goods as top quality. His robot raises a hand again, and the entire black market before Shen Xu explodes. Shen Xu feels a little sheepish. Everything about his robot is great, except for its short temper. Then, after all his hard work installing the new limbs, the robot suddenly won't start. The mechanics on the garbage planet all laugh at him: "Your junk robot finally gave out?" "With skills like that, you think you'll save enough to study on the Imperial Star?" Blurb 2 The Third Prince Lu Xingjue's terminal was damaged. After a period of maintenance, his consciousness data finally recovered, and the whole Empire celebrated. But he had the nagging feeling that an important piece of data was missing. Later, Lu Xingjue finally recovered that missing data, and remembered Shen Xu. He secretly used the interstellar network to return to the robot's body, only to discover that Shen Xu had been having an even harder time since he left. Lu Xingjue secretly used the robot's body to keep Shen Xu company and help him get into the Imperial Academy. After Shen Xu enters the Imperial Academy, everyone assumes he pulled strings through the Third Prince, Lu Xingjue, to become the master's final disciple in mechanical engineering. But then... Shen Xu modifies a spaceship's braking system, increasing its speed by 20%; develops a stealth-combat function for fighter ships, allowing the Empire to launch surprise attacks on the battlefield; and improves the speed of neural connections between humans and machines, greatly enhancing mecha combat power. The people who once mocked him: ... Incredible. Theme: Pursue true love.