. Qian Yan: a world-weary, cool-headed female mecha warrior from the apocalypse
Qin Huan: the aloof, obsessive Commander-in-Chief of the Interstellar Alliance Army
The apocalyptic mecha warrior Qian Yan transmigrates in an instant, only to be reborn as a penniless nobody. She can't afford a mecha, so all she can drive is a beat-up van.
To find the fragments of her biological mecha scattered across this era, which are also the pet cub that had been by her side for eight years in the apocalypse and her personal mecha, Qian Yan begins a long search for her cub.
To piece the mecha back together, the apocalyptic mecha warrior takes on the entire interstellar realm by herself.
Wherever her cub's fragments are, that's where she goes to fight. In just one year, Qian Yan takes back the 245 planets the Interstellar Alliance had lost over the past 50 years.
Anyone who gets in the way of her finding her son is dead.
The entire interstellar realm has been gossiping lately.
Word is that the Interstellar Commander's First-in-Command has recently taken a young lover. For this lover, she's willing to break the marriage agreement arranged by their parents, making her family furious.
Media reporters, desperate for clicks, have been doggedly digging into the story, determined to find out who this person is.
One exposé after another about the young lover keeps flooding the web, and the story has topped the interstellar trending charts for a whole month.
But the truth leaves everyone stunned: she comes from the slums, is an illegitimate daughter, and was abandoned to scrape by in poverty. She never even finished school before going out to work, has no special skills, and now drives an unlicensed van.
How could the future commander of all three armed forces fall for a useless pretty face like that? Girls across the interstellar realm say they can't accept it at all.
All anyone hears is that this young lover is arrogant, looking down her nose at people every day. They say she even publicly dissed the piloting skills of their ace pilot right to his face.
The entire interstellar internet is up in arms.
But soon, the whole internet falls silent at once.
Because this is what the live interstellar broadcast shows that day:
During the planetary reclamation ceremony on Gused, which is being broadcast live to the entire planet, the skyship carrying an array of influential figures and officials is suddenly attacked amid a formation of ceremonial gunships.
Qian Yan is standing in the skyship's main reception cabin with the influential figures and officials, watching the battle in space through the windows. Her expression grows increasingly impatient, especially as she watches the movements of the ace mecha leading the formation.
"Did he tie his brain to his feet today or what?"
"Does this mecha have a slow-motion system turned on?"
"What, he doesn't like that enemy he just fought?"
The officials in the cabin turn to glare at her, but, wary of General Qin, none of them dares to speak.
Only a few quiet mutters come from the corner:
"That's too much."
"If she's really that good, she should take her van up there and fight."
The already tense atmosphere is now ready to explode. Everyone looks around at one another, but Qian Yan only gives a cold, mocking laugh and turns to leave without looking back.
Then General Qin's personal mecha, Thunder, appears on the battlefield in space.
Everyone stares in confusion at General Qin, whose expression remains calm beside them, then hurriedly turns back to look at the red mecha already darting deftly through space.
Its movements are so fast they can barely make them out. Then the battlefield lights up like a fireworks display as one enemy mecha after another explodes. By the time they finally understand what's happening, the battle is over.
Lieutenant General Luo, an old man aboard the skyship, rubs his chest with lingering fear. He'd nearly thought they were all done for.
Unable to resist, he turns to his adjutant and asks in a whisper:
"Y-you said she used to do what?"
"R-reporting, she used to drive a van..."
Theme: Live well and don't go looking for trouble.
