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After graduating from a prestigious academy, Jing Ling, a down-at-heel girl from a backwater planet, predictably fails to find a job in the Imperial Capital, where connections are everything.
Fortunately, her hometown still has a few acres of farmland, so Jing Ling packs up and heads home.
Rumor has it that the academy's notorious flirt and gold-digger, Jing Ling, is going to confess to He Lan, the top student in the mecha program, at the graduation ball.
He Lan thinks so too.
The Imperial Capital's nobles are waiting to laugh at her.
Everyone knows He Lan is always cold toward her. He's seen right through Jing Ling and knows she's no good. Ever since she started at the academy, she's used her pretty face to flirt with one person after another!
How could those Imperial Capital nobles ever take her seriously?
But the ball ends, the guests go home, and He Lan still hasn't seen Jing Ling.
Only after checking the flight schedule does He Lan discover that she left three days ago.
He Lan remembers the first time he met Jing Ling. He'd just finished training when he noticed a pair of bright, sparkling eyes fixed on him.
"Can you pilot a mecha to farm?" the girl asked sweetly.
At the time, He Lan thought it was a very unusual pickup line.
Later, watching her happily working the fields, he wonders if she'd really come to ask him about piloting a mecha just so she could farm?!
At Jing Ling's farm, He Lan also runs into a few of his "good buddies."
They'd all badmouthed Jing Ling to him.
"We're all adults. You seriously believed every little thing people said?"
Those people show no shame at all. They operate the System and harvest crops with the effortless skill of seasoned farmers with twenty years' experience.
He Lan sneers, takes off his custom jacket, and reveals his firm, handsome physique.
Farming? Anyone can do that.
Jing Ling looks at her noble classmates, each trying to outshine the others. Beneath their extravagant, gorgeous faces, their biceps glisten with sweat, along with their mouthwatering chests and abs. She wonders, can farming cure a lunatic?
They look so much more cheerful than they did at the academy.
Jing Ling remembers her days there: that dark, twisted world where love was as intense as hate and everything spun like a whirlpool. She'd nearly thought she'd never escape.
One-line premise: The academy's most hated girl plays Mary Sue in an interstellar era full of nonhuman, unhinged lunatics, and bullies stubborn, arrogant rich boys.
1. A lowbrow noble academy. In this future, everyone's a handsome guy, with the difference being whether he's normally handsome or super handsome.
2. There are ordinary humans and evolved people with nonhuman genes.
3. The heroine is a naturally awful, universally adored flirt. Expect a battle of men for her, dark possessiveness, and all kinds of the author's personal kinks.
Premise: Always strive to live with hope.
