An Interstellar Student Surviving Tribulations

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[Currently writing: "ABO, but the Spirit Form Is a Wrench": Male Alpha, female Beta. The heroine uses her wrench spirit form to handcraft weapons and save the world.]

Coming soon 1: "Me, the Dog-Blood Novel, and the Metaphysics Master": A collection of melodramatic metaphysics stories plus modern cultivation. She strips the villain's dog-blood System bare and wins by lying flat.

Coming soon 2: "She Is the Perfect Match for a Top Alpha": Male Alpha, female Omega / a groveling chase after the wife (but to no avail) / one of the second male leads rises to the top.

Coming soon 3: "Multiple Secret Identities Forbidden on the Horror Set": Haha, how did you know I dreamed of transmigrating into a whole-family massacre, with all these crime-solving secret identities?

(Full blurbs below.)

Lian Xiao's electronic diary:

Monday: Alliance History / Physical Training / Mecha Piloting I

Strawberry-flavored nutrient paste. Disgusting.

Tuesday: ...

Blueberry-flavored nutrient paste. Ordinarily disgusting.

Wednesday: ...

Mapo tofu-flavored nutrient paste. Extremely disgusting.

P.S. What does food from Earth even taste like?

Thursday: No diary. That's the day Lian Xiao, an unlucky Earthling with the same name, transmigrated into her body and inherited the original owner's mountain of debt.

In this future era of interstellar immigration, where mechas and the Zerg soar together beneath the same starry sky, humanity has all but abandoned cooking in the name of convenience and efficiency. The cuisine of Earth has become a distant, forgotten part of history.

After all, with the Zerg as a powerful enemy at their side, people could make do with a little nutrient paste.

Lian Xiao: I woke up to find that the entire interstellar world's cooking skills had dropped by 10,000 points! It's time to show off real Chinese cooking!

Not enough ingredients? Too poor to afford much? Nutrient-paste fans objecting?

No problem. If you want something done, do it yourself.

She had honed her cooking skills in the food desert of her previous life, and as an international student, she'd cooked to keep herself alive. She would never compromise with bland Western food or nutrient paste. It was the last thing she could be stubborn about!

And so

Before her one-on-one duel against an A-rank genius senior, Earth bumpkin Lian Xiao brought out breakfast. Its aroma swept through the crowd, and the spectators switched sides one after another.

After she enrolled, the hot topics on the Alliance University forum changed overnight, from “Someone save us! How do we get Lian's family-style breakfast stir-fry?” to “Earth actually produced an S-rank genius named Lian Xiao.”

Later, during the eagerly anticipated live broadcast of the Alliance Intercollegiate Mecha League, viewers across the stars watched Lian Xiao's team feast on red-braised pork, spicy chicken, and Sichuan boiled beef, while the other teams miserably chewed nutrient paste. Lian Xiao dazzled everyone with her cooking skills and took down one Zerg after another with her blade. She was terrifyingly strong.

That day, Lian Xiao dominated the trending topics:

#FollowLianXiaoAndGetMeatToEat#

#ChineseCuisineRevival#

And

#LianXiaoGuChangfengTheStrongestSSRankCouple#

In private, people talked about Gu Changfeng, the aloof flower of the mecha department and the strongest S-rank in history.

On the battlefield, this young man was as majestic and ferocious as a lion, always cold and domineering, keeping everyone at arm's length. Netizens joked that in this lifetime, the only thing likely to touch Gu Changfeng's handsome, classically sculpted face was blood splattered by the Zerg.

Only Gu Changfeng knew how desperately he longed for that person's favor.

He tried to look the way Lian Xiao liked, lowering his brows with the pitiful look of a drenched puppy. He approached her, ears red, and confessed:

“Could you...”

Could you like me?

A heroine who doesn't overthink things and only wants to earn money and graduate, with her career always on her mind X a seemingly cold, capable Alpha hero who is actually a lovestruck overthinker

P.S. The heroine grows into a powerhouse. If I have to pick which of them is stronger, I choose the heroine.

Summary: An interstellar student tries to cook in the future so she won't starve to death, then accidentally becomes a wealthy mogul and wins the heart of a cool mecha pilot.

[Coming-soon blurbs]

"The Dog-Blood System Begs Me to Stop Winning":

Just before turning eighteen, Yin Cha, who was born with yin-yang eyes, learned that she had not only been given a metaphysics plot, but also a fake heiress plot.

When the Lu family learned she wasn't their biological daughter, they immediately turned against her. On the advice of a metaphysics master, they even planned to kick her out before she came of age, making room for their real daughter.

Yin Cha packed up and left without a fuss: Sure.

Mr. and Mrs. Lu and her brother: As expected, you're no Lu. You leave the moment we tell you to. What a coward!

The Lu family hated Yin Cha and did everything they could to stop her from taking the college entrance exam. But not only did she get around their schemes, she used an item from the System to scare the Lu family's twin siblings half out of their minds, then went on to claim the top score.

As for the System's reward items...?

Yin Cha looked at the talismans and magical artifacts that had suddenly fallen from the sky and calmly said: How should I know? Might as well use them.

The metaphysics prodigy whose fortune she'd stolen and whose face she'd slapped was furious: Damn it! The dog-blood System is mine, and those reward items you're using are mine too!

And what about the precious clients of that metaphysics prodigy?

The perfect senior student suddenly suffers one streak of bad luck after another, turns ugly and loses her money, and her boyfriend falls for her best friend?

A rich young heir discovers that his new stepmother is his ex-boyfriend? And she's pregnant?

A famous entertainment star is suspected of being possessed, and turns out to be the stand-in for some big shot's unrequited love?

Yin Cha: No problem. I'll take them all.

The Lu family eagerly waited for her life to fall apart, only to discover that Yin Cha had already reached her modest goal of financial freedom. Even the upper-crust families they could barely get near, along with celebrities and social elites, treated her with the utmost respect and called her a master! Then Yin Cha even landed a government job?

The Special Affairs Bureau? The Lu family might have money, but they couldn't afford to provoke them...

Oh, wait. They'd forgotten that thanks to Master Yin's heroic deeds, the Lu family had already gone bankrupt.

Who could have imagined that Yin Cha, an ordinary intern, would find such a wealth of rare magical artifacts and pills after being recruited into the Special Affairs Bureau that it would take your breath away? She graduated with honors in the path of ruthless cultivation, a program with a graduation rate of just 0.000001%, and outlasted the gifted prodigies and privileged heirs to come out on top.

When someone asked Yin Cha, hailed as “the greatest metaphysics prodigy in a hundred years,” about the secret to her cultivation, she hadn't even answered before the dog-blood System broke down:

Please, stop winning while lying flat! You're going to strip this System and all those unlucky villains bare and leave us bankrupt!!!

Yin Cha: ? What does any of that have to do with me? I just want a peaceful life, to lie flat and retire before I turn thirty-five.

And so, as she kept working hard, she somehow ended up stepping on the dog-blood System and several villains to rise to the top, exceeding all her modest life goals.

Years later, the truly powerful Yin Cha sipped her tea calmly: Another peaceful day. Time for tea!

Extra scene:

Bai Cang, the youngest elder in the Ten Directions Council, was extraordinarily handsome, hot-tempered, and able to decide life and death with a single glance.

At first sight of Yin Cha, Bai Cang instinctively disliked her. He hated troublemakers who didn't know what they were doing!

Who could have imagined that one day he'd wish he could tear up every word he'd said, creeping closer to Yin Cha one step at a time, gritting his teeth as he watched her happily pet a cat.

At last, Bai Cang could bear it no longer. He bared his chest and transformed into his true form:

Meow, meow, pet me! My fur is soft! I'm big-chested!

"Our Betas Have Power":

This is a world of ABO and sentinels and guides.

Kuang Ye is a Beta, and even after graduating from college, she's still just an ordinary person, a disgrace to her family.

So her family throws her into a live-streamed arena, where she has to either awaken a spirit form or die.

Cornered by pollution monsters, Kuang Ye raises her arms and shouts: Rise, spirit form!

With tens of millions watching, she truly does awaken one! The only problem is, her spirit form is...

a wrench.

Everyone else's spirit forms are furry animals. A nonliving spirit form is unheard of.

Kuang Ye and her family quickly become the Alliance's biggest laughingstock. Everyone knows the Kuang family has a Beta wrench girl.

Because of the wrench scandal, her fiancé wants to break off their engagement.

On the day of the breakup, her Alpha fiancé mocks Kuang Ye, saying she's not as gentle and cute as an Omega, can't have triplets in one pregnancy, and even has a tacky wrench for a spirit form. Even the lowliest Beta in the contamination zone wouldn't want her.

Of course, if Kuang Ye begged to be his bedmate, he might consider it.

The wrench stiffened.

When her former fiancé demanded, “What do you think you're doing?” Kuang Ye smiled as brightly as her wrench. “I'm going to bend you.”

“Right, I'm going to hit you with a wrench and turn you into an Omega,” she added.

With no reproductive value or worth as a political marriage match, Kuang Ye is driven out of the Alliance's central region by her family and joins an expedition team heading into the contamination zone.

Everyone thinks she'll die out there without a trace. But she discovers that her spirit form is not only highly effective at clearing pollution monsters, it can also synthesize things.

The most contaminated areas, where even veteran expedition teams are helpless, are easy pickings for Kuang Ye. She goes in alone and comes back with a fortune.

Pollution monsters along the way become raw materials. Kuang Ye uses her spirit form and the monsters to make a chainsaw, synthesize a laser gun, even build a tank?

When a wave of pollution monsters hits the Alliance's frontier, the White Tower's top sentinels suffer heavy casualties. Ignoring everyone's attempts to stop her, Kuang Ye vanishes into the horde with her wrench.

Just as everyone is about to despair, gunfire and flames tear through the darkness.

A Beta everyone considers a failure, wielding a spirit form everyone considers worthless, is shooting down one pollution monster after another and saving an entire city.

Kuang Ye: So it turns out I'm not playing Alliance Online. I'm playing Giant Wrench Synthesis.

At this rate, building a starship by hand is just around the corner. There's only one problem:

She's an arts major with no science background...

In the interstellar era, pollution monsters and human evolution arrived at the same time.

The brave sentinels and guides of the White Tower used their flesh and blood, and made sacrifices, to stop the tides of pollution from devouring human settlements.

The grueling war of attrition lasted for decades. Humanity steadily lost ground and never managed to wipe out the pollution monsters completely.

Then a small region appeared. It grew into a city, a planet, and an alliance.

In this land, people never had to fear attacks by pollution monsters. The dark night of human history was finally over.

People named this pure land after its builders, saviors, and administrators, calling it

“Wilderness.”

/

The youngest major general in Alliance history, White Tower S-rank sentinel Mu Xingbei, became the “Most Heart-Throbbing Alpha” as voted by the Alliance's countless Omegas, all thanks to a profile photo taken when he received his rank.

When reporters asked him about his ideal partner, the upright, cold-eyed Alpha remained silent for a long time.

The textbooks said Alphas and Omegas were the perfect match.

But the person he'd had a crush on since his youth was destined to remain free and rational, and could never be marked by him.

Later, during his rut, the usually aloof and taciturn Mu Xingbei bit at his lover's gland without restraint. His unsatisfied urges made the most powerful sentinel tremble as he exposed his neck, wrapping around his lover like a snake and panting raggedly:

Please, mark me...

“But,” Kuang Ye said with a troubled look at Mu Xingbei, who was on the verge of breaking down beneath her, his eyes turning red from a single touch, “I'm neither an Omega nor a guide.”

"She Is the Perfect Match for a Top Alpha":

The Imperial Chancellor Augustus followed his family's wishes and married. His young wife was beautiful and docile, like a fledgling sheltered beneath his wings. Most importantly, she was the only Omega on this planet whose pheromones had a 100% match with his.

The Chancellor was content with the stability of their marriage and planned to carry on like that.

But after he brought back another Omega from an enemy planet, Augustus noticed that the fire in his wife's eyes had gone out.

Later, Augustus discovered that his longtime friend, his loyal subordinate, and the rising star he'd been watching in the military, all top Alphas, were kneeling at the feet of the same woman: Ying Xu, his wife.

Only then did Augustus learn that Ying Xu's pheromones matched those of every top Alpha by 100%.

"Multiple Secret Identities Forbidden on the Horror Set":

Draston was the heart of the nineteenth century, and Wolfburg was the heart of Draston, the heart of the world, the city of a thousand cities.

Countless merchants, artists, speculators, thieves, and con artists flocked there.

Leonard had a pair of pure eyes. He was severely face-blind, yet he never forgot a person he'd seen.

Because what he saw was the shape of people's souls.

On the Church's orders, Leonard stepped into the City of a Thousand Cities, a place full of filth and secrets, and took up temporary residence in Count Meritz's estate.

Then he encountered the greatest crisis of his career:

Why did Count Meritz look exactly like Countess Meritz from the previous week, and why did that hunting dog wear the same stupid grin as young master Meritz the following week?

Little Len, confused.jpg.

A nonexistent devil roamed the Meritz mansion, possessing sinners. Leonard swore he would catch it.

But when Leonard set down his camera and developed the photo of himself with the count's family, there was no one in it.

So who was the person who didn't exist?

In the “Sunset Empire” of Draston, the capital Wolfburg was full of pickpockets, con artists, impostors, bankrupts, and love at first sight.

None of that had anything to do with Su Mingyi, an ordinary college student who had come to study there. Her life was perfectly uneventful, until she visited the famous haunted Meritz Manor and began having nightmares.

Every seven days, Su Mingyi had a dream that lasted a whole week.

In each dream, she had a different secret identity:

She could be a woman, a man, a countess, a butler, or a servant. She could even be not human at all, just Tina, the dog belonging to Count Meritz :)

The good news: She could enjoy history with multiple secret identities and experience the extravagant life of the aristocracy in the Golden Age for free!

The bad news: The Meritz family had all been massacred in a single night in real history. More than thirty people had died, and the case remained unsolved to this day.

By her reckoning, the massacre was set to happen in the middle of the week she had transmigrated into!

To avoid dying in her dream, Su Mingyi used her built-in secret identities to become several of the victims and search for the killer.

But why did the mysterious, handsome priest, who wasn't even on the later list of the dead, keep looking at her like a suspect?

He even took advantage of a moment when no one was around to pin her against the wall, bend down, and whisper a brazen threat in her ear:

“Don't think I don't know what you've done, devil.”

Su Mingyi: ?

Su Mingyi, in her pet-dog secret identity: Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof

I'm just a dog. You're the killer!

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