In Star Era 1023, the inferior planet Phi-23 was on the verge of extinction, and all its residents had to leave. Those with money could buy residency permits for other habitable planets and immigrate, while everyone else would be sent en masse to the undeveloped Tail Planet to fend for themselves and start over.
Qi Huan, who had always been a lazy lie-flat type, naturally had no money. But before the immigration plan was put into action, he spotted an announcement on the Star Network for a mecha competition. The top three contestants would receive prize money, and the first-place prize was just enough to buy two residency permits for another inferior planet.
So Qi Huan teamed up with his childhood friend Ji Qingyu and entered the mecha competition.
No mecha? They would build one themselves from a pile of scrapped machines.
Not enough mecha moves? They would make do with the street-fighting techniques they had picked up growing up.
Not enough defensive capability? They would use their own powerful mental strength to disrupt their opponents.
Need to upgrade the mecha? Easy. They would dismantle their opponents' mechas and take whatever parts they needed, specializing in on-the-spot modifications and upgrades.
No one expected the livestream of an ordinary, unremarkable mecha competition to attract widespread attention across the Star Network.
After all, no one had ever seen contestants from an inferior planet with scarce resources and backward technology enter a mecha competition.
Everyone tuned in expecting a novelty and a good laugh. Instead, they witnessed two eighteen- or nineteen-year-old boys piloting heaps of junk, sweeping the arena with a completely new set of shameless tactics that made them seem like bandits and thugs passing through, and miraculously taking first place.
The internet was abuzz with debate. Some thought the competition was too minor and their win mere luck. Others said their techniques were beneath the sport. Some believed it was simply a desperate measure caused by their inferior equipment, while others thought they would not get far...
Years later, Qi Huan and Ji Qingyu were piloting the most advanced mechas, yet still fighting like thugs. They had smoothly won every major mecha competition title and become widely recognized as the most inspiring comeback story in the Federation. Seeing this, people with all kinds of opinions were simply stunned.
At first, Qi Huan, a lazy lay-flat type who loved doing nothing, only wanted to keep himself and his childhood friend from having to work on the Tail Planet. It sounded exhausting.
But even after they got residency permits for another planet, that wasn't nearly enough. They still had to earn money to buy a house, clothes, and food...
To make money quickly without having to think too hard, Qi Huan took Ji Qingyu to one competition after another to win prize money. He never expected that, before they knew it, they would reach the top and become inspiring legends across the entire Federation.
Qi Huan and Ji Qingyu: "..."
In the end, even the military offered them both jobs.
Qi Huan, who suddenly found life getting even more exhausting: "...???"
Warnings:
1. A lazy, laid-back, cool delinquent with exceptional tactical instincts as the seme x a cool, beautiful uke who is widely read, knowledgeable, low-key, and quiet.
2. Both are geniuses. The seme is a mecha pilot, and the uke is a mecha mechanic. An upgrade-focused power fantasy.
3. The seme is older. They dote on each other, have mutual secret crushes, and go from childhood friends to husbands.
4. Screenshot saved on August 19, 2023.
Premise: Seize your opportunities and make a comeback in life.
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