[Honkai: Star Rail] Yingxing, but in the Genius Society

Novel Blurb:

A young man from Earth transmigrates into the world of Honkai: Star Rail. Here, there are lofty, concept-level Aeons, Emanators who can destroy planets with a wave of their hands, and all sorts of tangled factions and powers. In short, none of them are to be trifled with.

Oh, and most importantly, he has transmigrated into the unfortunate fellow who shares his name.

Yingxing: I'm so screwed.

Just as he is at a loss, the [Genius Simulator] System falls from the sky.

He gets only one chance to allocate his starting points, so he decisively puts everything into [Intelligence] and [Strength].

Yingxing, a science prodigy and engineering genius, believes in two principles: knowledge changes fate, and truth is only found within the range of a cannon.

And so, a brilliant genius takes his first steps across the cosmos.

[Year 7300 of the Star Calendar. You are born.]

[Age 5. Your parents die beneath the claws of Borisin beasts, leaving you an orphan. The Xianzhou Zhuming takes you in, and you become a short-life species resident.]

[Age 12. Your talent begins to show, and you become an apprentice at the Artisanship Commission.]

[Age 14. You gain the gaze of Nous and become Seat 78 of the Genius Society: Yingxing.]

[You meet General Huaiyan and become his personal disciple.]

[Age 20. You accompany an envoy to the Xianzhou Luofu and become the famed "Celestial Star Forger." No one dares slight you because you are a short-life species.]

[Age 753. You take part in Herta's "Simulated Universe" project, working alongside several geniuses. You are responsible for regulating the Imaginary Engine and dimensional space-time.]

[Age 765. Your friend Jing Yuan announces his retirement and chooses to become a carefree Galaxy Ranger.]

[You build him a dimensional star destroyer as a means of transportation. Jing Yuan is deeply shaken.]

[The next day, the Interastral Peace Broadcast reports that a Galaxy Ranger whose name was withheld laughed as he left after blowing up a Borisin remnant's beast ship.]

[Age 799. Dr. Ratio invites you to audit his course, "Mechanical Power and Aesthetics," at the First University of Truth.]

[That day, a class that usually has only a handful of students is packed to the point that there's nowhere to stand. After the professor in charge breaks his eighth stylus, you step in as a temporary teaching assistant.]

[Your Aurumaton MK9999 bursts through the classroom, forcing the entire class to take their lesson outdoors, where it is no longer crowded. Unable to take any more, Dr. Ratio flicks a pen cap at you and adds, "Get lost!"]

[Age 800. Herta sends you good news: the "Simulated Universe" project has finally found its ideal tester. His name is Caelus.]

Reader's Guide:

1. The author has done a lot of research in advance, but there may still be some personal interpretations of the timeline and setting.

2. Yingxing is Yingxing himself. He knows the original story, which will be explained later.

3. No CP, universally adored male lead. Everyone loves Brother Yingxing!

4. The main story ran for a full year, covering versions 3.2 to 4.2, so it spans quite a long period.

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Coming Soon: Assemble! The Golden Grand Hotel, no CP male lead Bai E, modern AU with the Chrysos Heirs!

Blurb:

In a corner at the end of the western winds, there stands a mysterious grand hotel.

No matter who you are, what you do, or what your status is, whether human or not, once you step through the hotel's doors, the chefs and servers will do everything they can to satisfy your palate and make you cry out, "Oh-ho!"

Because they have the best manager and staff in the universe:

* Head Chef, [Pot of All Creation] Bai E

A warm and cheerful country lad, talented in all sorts of things. He invented the dish "Onion Omelet Rice," which suits his peculiar aesthetic, earning him the well-deserved title of "the ancient Greek god in charge of purple and yellow color schemes."

He runs the "E-You-Okay?" delivery platform and is always making surprise appearances on various film sets under a low-key identity, becoming a conspicuous emergency stand-in. Everyone jokingly calls him the "Savior."

He claps shoulders with sorcerers, chats merrily with undercover agents from the distillery, and gets along famously with great monsters...

Just as everyone thinks this is a slice-of-life series...

On the day the apocalypse descends, the so-called Savior everyone used to joke about sheds his gentle facade. He spreads dazzling, godlike wings in a fit of rage, and the chill between his brows makes heaven and earth tremble.

With a lift of his hand, he commands a meteor to rip through the clouds, dragging a long tail of fire as it crashes down on enemies who brought this on themselves.

Everyone who sees a familiar face showing off: Wait, handsome, who are you?

* Sous Chef, [Spade of Divine Retribution] Mydei

A rich Nth-generation heir with a throne waiting for him at home. He's best friends and sworn rivals with the man above. Apart, each rules his own domain. Together, who knows what happens to their IQ.

He also develops dishes and is the only ruthless soul who dares taste Head Chef Castorice's dark cuisine. He once declared, "What doesn't kill me only makes my stomach stronger."

But when his secret identity is exposed, everyone gasps: this six-foot-two tough guy who can knock someone out with one punch is, in private, a cat meme blogger with millions of followers?!

Mydei, occasionally muttering in a low voice in Ochnarvese to cover his embarrassment, now dying of it: ...HKS.

* Manager, [Hand of the River Styx] Castorice

Cursed to bear death, she cannot touch living beings directly. The dishes she makes are often hard to swallow, yet she unexpectedly earns the affection and approval of certain nonhuman beings.

When she isn't cooking, the girl especially loves to write. After studying local literary classics in depth, her stories have become widely acclaimed. Her published works include:

The Savior Is Obviously Powerful, Yet Overly Cautious

Welcome to the Kitchen of the Meritocracy

About My Reincarnation as an Ordinary Person

An Angel Once Visited the Belly of E

Castorice: Um... sorry, I didn't write the last one.

Mydei: Why are you looking at me? I didn't write it either.

And there's also the server Cyrene, who excels at meeting any customer's needs; the speedy delivery courier Cipher; the generous investor Aglaea; the two chefs' strictest mentor, Anaxa; the great gourmand Tibo, whose palate can discern over a thousand flavors; and a pink-haired beauty who randomly appears anywhere in the hotel...

This little hotel is full of hidden talents!

*

And when a corner of the world's curtain is cruelly torn away, the boundary between truth and falsehood splits open once more. The schemes of various factions, including [Destruction], [Enigmata], [Finality], [Remembrance], and [Erudition], gradually come to light.

Who will walk out of the cave with their companions, reach up toward the heavens, and seize that cruel fate?

"I still vaguely remember offering up all my flame to the me of the next cycle. So, you are...?"

[Hello, Neiko496-1, or rather... Mr. Bai E. I'm a kind passerby who brought your copied data out of Amphoreus, and I now serve as your personal System.]

"Then answer me this: where is this?"

[You're in a new world. To help you adapt to this world's base code, I've given you a new persona from a script. Once you've accumulated enough Trailblaze power, your companions can appear in this world, and you can return to your homeland, Amphoreus.]

"...Wait. If I remember correctly, the script you're using, The Golden Grand Hotel, doesn't Castorice still need to write the ending?"

[Isn't that all the better? What we call [Trailblaze] is walking along the road left unfinished by those who came before, and going farther than they did. Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. You can call me Akivili.]

Theme: Use your mind to perceive, and your hands to create