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Qin Ran became an interstellar drifter after the resources on her home planet ran dry.

After drifting through space for more than a dozen cosmic years, she finally found a barely livable job at a cosmic resource recycling company. She had neither a space-recognized diploma nor a home planet to call her own.

The HR rep's smooth talk went to her head. Dreaming of the wonderful life ahead, she signed a contract that bound her to the company with an exorbitant penalty for breaking it.

She realized something was wrong as soon as she started work.

There was no onboarding. The equipment was shoddy. The company took no responsibility for injuries or deaths. There was no base salary. Recycled planets were crawling with danger. Her coworkers would stab her in the back and steal her stuff...

After the 203rd time her temporary teammates swiped everything she'd collected and tossed her off their ship, leaving her alone to face an ancient building with six eyes staring at her, Qin Ran finally snapped.

From that day on, she was going to be a cold-blooded resource-grabbing machine!

She would get promoted! Get a raise! And make everyone who'd stabbed her in the back regret ever crossing her!

She'd even buy the entire company and make the whole universe pay her resource tax!!!

Qin Ran, renowned philanthropist whose name resounded across the universe, chairwoman of the Cosmic Resource Recycling Company, investor in the Planetary Revival Project...

Behind all those titles lay a vast fortune, including ninety percent of all the universe's recyclable resources, and a steady stream of hefty resource tax payments flowing into her pockets every cosmic day.

Some people cursed her day in and day out for ten years because they couldn't afford the resource tax. Others praised her for saving their planets through the revival project.

A reporter from the Universal Truth Society interviewed her. "Ms. Qin, what do you think of these mixed opinions, both praise and blame?"

Qin Ran looked up from the account numbers stretching as long as a planet's identification code and said:

"Honestly, I never thought that far ahead. I just wanted to be a simple, unpretentious rich woman."

Then she kicked her boss in the butt. Hard.

Oh, and that crooked HR rep, too.

...And the coworkers who stabbed me in the back. (Smiles.)

Theme: Become your best self in the face of adversity.