[Sci-fi Mecha Leveling] [Beautiful, Powerful Princess × Loyal Knight]
Nan Xi has lost her memory. Following the only clues she has, she fakes the identity of a fallen noble and pretends to be a member of the Holy Church to get a cheating artifact, then gets into Zhukong Mecha Military Academy.
But she cheats a little too successfully. A once-in-a-millennium genius with a 100% mecha resonance rate, she becomes the new student leader whom the principal and instructors pin all their hopes on.
The problem is that Nan Xi has a phobia of mechas and can barely get near one... Keeping up the act of a genius is exhausting, and she wants to run away every single day.
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One day, while on a mission, Nan Xi encounters a traitor to the empire who breaks into an underground casino and takes her teammates hostage, forcing her to repair his mecha.
Under the trusting gazes of her teammates, Nan Xi steels herself, pulls out Mecha Repair: From Beginner to Expert, and despairingly starts learning the mecha’s parts one screw at a time.
Miraculously, she actually fixes it.
“You seem to have forgotten a lot of things.”
Before leaving, the traitor removes his goggles, revealing a pair of crimson eyes corrupted by the Zerg’s mental pollution. “For example, you were once my captain, Princess Cecil of the Wuming Empire.”
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Princess Cecil, an imperial bastard whose mother is unknown, was a brilliant mecha engineer who died two years ago in a conspiracy orchestrated by the nobility.
Nan Xi knows full well that a nobody from a garbage star and a fake mecha engineer could never be Princess Cecil.
However, the Holy Church threatens her over the fact that she cheated her way into school. The princess’s enemies are convinced she is the princess and try to assassinate her. The principal also hopes that this genius will win the National Mecha Military Academy League championship and restore the academy to its former glory...
Under all this pressure, Nan Xi is sweating buckets.
But with no other choice, she can only rise to the challenge.
Who cares if she’s a fake? From today on, she’ll be the real deal!
Repair mechas, build mechas, become the strongest mecha soldier, search for the truth about her identity and memories, destroy the evil Holy Church that harms the people, take revenge on the nobles who framed the princess, and face the resurgent Zerg army...
One day, she will ascend the throne and become the pride of the stars.
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Many years later, a remnant of the Holy Church bitterly spreads the claim that Princess Nan Xi is a fake mecha engineer.
But no one believes him.
“What a bunch of idiots,” sneers the head of admissions at Zhukong Military Academy. “The Holy Church’s cheating gadget has been obsolete for eight hundred years.”
From the very beginning, Nan Xi was a once-in-a-millennium genius with a 100% mecha resonance rate.
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Reader’s guide:
1. Mechas as I imagine them, with tons of original worldbuilding. A story about a chosen heroine adventuring to conquer the universe.
2. Leveling progression, interstellar Zerg, religious and imperial settings, Cthulhu elements, and some cultivation-by-misinterpretation elements.
3. The blurb limit didn’t leave room for the male lead: Luo Miu Albert, the princess’s fiancé. Their pairing: beautiful, powerful princess × loyal knight.
Theme: Embrace the newborn sun
