Exploring the Stars with Zhongli [Honkai: Star Rail + Genshin Impact]

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Taisi Nicholas has been reborn. She opens her eyes to a sky full of swirling sand. To her left lie the old, weak, women, and children, waiting to die. To her right, her own people are fighting over a sack of rice like rabid dogs. Ahead lies a lush rainforest ripe for the taking; behind her, a fertile plain. The world's largest freshwater lake is to the left, and vast tracts of land waiting to be developed to the right.

But in her own little patch of land, there's absolutely nothing!

As if she could put up with that. Taisi grins fiercely and grabs a weapon, only to go pick up trash.

She uses Forbidden Knowledge to farm, fixes a plow machine to clear the land, and figures that Hilichurls are free labor, so she might as well put them to work.

To build the Great Red Sand Sea, Taisi becomes a merchant in another world.

A firework doll hidden aboard a spaceship? Hand it over! It'll be my pioneering tool.

Denizens of Abundance lurking in a dark corner? Hand them over! They'll make feed for the Rifthounds.

Just as Taisa is about to be beaten down by the world's will, a reassuring voice calls out: "Solid as a rock."

A massive stone wall rises from the earth, sheltering the weakened girl beneath it.

Zhongli sighs. "You can try relying on me."

Taisa, meanwhile, shields her precious generator. "Move! You're blocking the lightning rod. If the train has no power, we can't get back."

Interdimensional trade is lucrative, and Taisa returns home with a fortune.

"Let's give a warm welcome to Albedo, our technical advisor, who will now speak at the launch of Phase One of the Maple Water in the Sand Project."

"Zandar, I asked for cochineal insects, not real scorpions! And why is the desert full of flying mechanical brains? Missing your son doesn't mean you have to miss him like that!"

P.S. Some readers have asked what Trailblazing means. In Honkai: Star Rail, it is a Path whose essence is breaking the unknown, exploring the world, and connecting civilizations.

That's how I understand it.

[Blurb is tentative, screenshot saved]

Ming Yueye transmigrates and gets the good news that she's become a princess, and the bad news that she was born with a fiance who's already halfway in his grave.

The good news: she brought her phone with her. It has a favorability System, can serve as an online encyclopedia, and lets her claim tens of billions in subsidies. From trucks to penicillin, it has everything.

But in a place where white rice with salted fish is already a feast, those subsidies don't seem so appealing.

Just as Ming Yueye is dreaming big, hoping to drive a truck into the old geezer and seize a new life, she runs into a battle between ninjas.

Rivers boil, and mountains collapse.

Ming Yueye's confidence crumbles. She puts away the truck and obediently goes back to being a princess.

When the young man who can cleave mountains lowers his pride and bows before her, Ming Yueye trembles with excitement behind the curtains.

She's found it, another path to controlling her own fate.

Who says a princess can't inherit the throne? Ming Yueye advocates for the Xuanwu Gate method of succession.

By day, she negotiates with all kinds of factions and builds up her own power. By night, she sleeps side by side with a ninja and talks about her ideals.

The prize pool keeps growing, and Ming Yueye begins her miserable routine: working in the morning and putting out fires at night.

Theme: Develop the Great Red Sand Sea and make the waters blue and the skies clear again.