I Carry the Torch for Blue Star [Interstellar]

[Don't look! The ending is only an outline.]

[After changing the premise several times, this story has lost its spark. I have no passion for continuing, and the writing block is severe. I'm truly sorry, everyone!]

Lu Qingyuan opens her eyes and finds herself back three months in the past.

The first thing she does is hurry to ask Blue Star for help.

She has just fallen from being a top-tier star to a washed-up celebrity everyone loves to hate. After being struck by lightning and miraculously surviving, she got bound to a research System from the future.

Then she got herself killed because her brain had short-circuited.

Who could have guessed that on her second try, she would start out a hundred billion in debt?

Lu Qingyuan: QAQ!

For years, tensions have been simmering between the civilizations of the interstellar worlds.

Blue Star has specially assembled a research team to deal with the situation,

and they can conveniently put Lu Qingyuan and her System to work.

It doesn't take long for Lu Qingyuan to realize that, next to the experts, she's not even as capable as a three-year-old. At least a three-year-old can feed themselves. She can't even find the rice bowl.

Surrounded by a group of terrifyingly brilliant big shots, Lu Qingyuan clutches her System and trembles.

The System can only point the way. The research still has to be done by the experts.

This lazy fish is forced to get moving. All she can do is study, study, study!

From brain-computer chips to fully intelligent AI;

from intelligent hovercars to mecha battleships;

from the depths of the sea to time travel...

Blue Star's arduous research suddenly seems to go into overdrive. It doesn't just catch up, it leaves everyone else in the dust.

The surrounding planets are rattled, but no one can stop Blue Star's rise.

Blue Star simply smiles without a word.

With a single fulcrum, they can lift the entire cosmos.

[From a bullied, barren planet to the pinnacle of interstellar civilization, Blue Star is united by passionate ideals. They are sincere, blazing with fervor, and willing to give everything for the shared dream.]

[A single spark can start a prairie fire.]

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After haters drive Lu Qingyuan out of show business, the Star Network is abuzz.

But before long, viewers start missing the face that outshone the entire entertainment industry.

We've suffered ugly people long enough. Lu Qingyuan, please come back!

After everyone's endless pleas, Lu Qingyuan does return.

But she goes to the Interstellar Science Channel, where she wears a white lab coat and, with her perfect, exquisitely beautiful face held in a stern expression, explains the cutting-edge technology that's sent the entire Star Network into an uproar.

The whole entertainment industry is stunned.

Also known as: "I Lay Bricks for Blue Star" and "I Cheer Blue Star On"

1: A completely fictional world, set in the interstellar future.

2: The research is all made up, so don't take it seriously.

3: There's basically no romance.

[Preview of a future story]

Star Calendar 319.2.15

Three months have passed since the meteor appeared. The enormous meteor hangs in the sky. Experts estimate that if it falls, the planet will be destroyed.

After three months, people have grown used to the meteor's presence.

One day, the meteor suddenly shudders. Countless guns and cannons are aimed at it, ready to fire.

Unexpectedly, the meteor projects a gigantic transparent screen across every corner of the world, displaying a stream of unknown encrypted characters. At the same time, some people see those characters transform into words they can understand...

[Blue Star's Dangerous Individual Rankings: Live Observation]

No. 50: Joel Rose, M Country

Crime: Possession of an S-class hallucinogenic weapon; uses illusions to kill

No. 49: David King, M Country

Crime: An insatiable glutton who devours all living things

No. 1: Chi Xiao, Z Country

Crime: Top-tier SSS-class lethal weapon; will destroy Earth

(As of Star Calendar 320.2.15)

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Chi Xiao is woken by the property manager knocking at her door. She opens the curtains and sees countless hovercars parked in the residential complex, with a large number of Star Police officers standing guard nearby.

As she opens the door, she wonders who could possibly be so terrifying that they'd need to send so many Star Police officers.

The door opens. A whirlwind rushes past, and Chi Xiao finds herself in handcuffs.

...The terrifying person is her.

Under constant surveillance, Chi Xiao sits in an interrogation room, bewildered as the military talks about a live ranking from the future, a top-tier lethal weapon, and a top-tier high-risk individual.

Then the person across from her waves a hand and says they're going to re-educate her.

Chi Xiao listens until her head spins. Is living off your parents a crime these days?

But just as the re-education begins, she's pulled into an unlimited game called "The Summit" and bound to a card-drawing System.

First draw: a red apple

Second draw: a tissue

Third draw: a children's toothbrush

Chi Xiao: "..."

A top-tier lethal weapon, and this is what I get?!

Theme: The self-reliant spirit of a developing planet