The Number One Commander in the Galaxy

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Blurb:

College student Li Fen dies suddenly after staying up all night working on a PowerPoint presentation. When she opens her eyes again, she finds herself lying in a corpse disposal site.

An old man who tends the furnace is about to put her into the cremator. “Poor child. Grandpa will send you off with dignity.”

Li Fen sits bolt upright. “Wait... I think I can still be saved!”

After being reborn, Li Fen plans to make a name for herself in another world using modern knowledge. But...

Rely on her brains? This is a Galactic Federation with infinitely advanced technology!

Rely on her strength? She’s been confirmed as the lowest-ranked D-class ability user!

Rely on luck? She only picked a gemstone off a corpse, and the next thing she knew, a noble had thrown her into prison.

In prison, she gets caught up in a wave of alien beasts and accidentally lets two high-security prisoners escape.

Li Fen: “I said it wasn’t on purpose. Do you believe me?”

After getting out of prison, Li Fen returns to the corpse disposal site. “Grandpa, would you like to become the founder of the largest crematorium in the galaxy?”

The old man sighs. “Silly child. You’re so young and all you do is dream. Studying hard is the only way forward.”

Then he spends all his savings to enroll her in the commander program.

Command studies? She’ll learn them!

Hand-to-hand combat? She’ll learn it!

She doesn’t forget to advertise the family crematorium, either.

Her classmates sneer at her. A D-class ability user who works at a furnace? What a joke!

But they’re laughing too soon.

Ten years later, the Sigrid Tournament is broadcast live, and the entire galaxy tunes in to watch the four military academies compete.

In the Mandrake Military Academy team, which has languished at the bottom for twenty years, one girl stands out.

The comments flood in: Mandrake is getting worse and worse.

First round, the frozen arena.

Everyone is freezing, but Li Fen leads her team in hunting an S-rank snow beast, skinning it to make coats and opening a pop-up shop on the spot.

The audience: Is this a competition or a livestreamed sales pitch?

Second round, the scorching furnace.

While her opponents are busy trying to stay cool and protect themselves from the sun, Li Fen has already built a mobile ice fortress and leisurely watches them hop around as they get scorched.

Third round, the hallucinogenic rainforest.

Hallucinogens take out every mecha pilot on the other teams. Li Fen pulls out her homemade Mandrake-brand gas masks and wins her way to the championship.

After the competition, she earns enough in just half a month to buy the academy a whole classroom building.

Even the principal is stunned.

Li Fen’s name resounds across the entire planet.

The nobles who once mocked her compete to make her offers.

She quietly arranges the remains of military academy students who died, free of charge.

Later, Li Fen becomes the strongest commander in the galaxy and builds a one-stop funeral services empire spanning the entire galaxy.

Her grandfather is even awarded the title of “Federation’s Outstanding Parent.”

As reporters clamor to interview her, Li Fen just waves them away. “Keep it low-key, keep it low-key.”

Theme: End-of-life care