The Strongest in the Stars Was Reborn as an F-Ranker

[Written up to the blurb, in Chapter 23] [The male lead appears in Chapter 35]

[Pre-release Xianxia BG novel "My Nephew's Brother-in-Law Fell for Me" blurb at the very bottom]

After the death of the strongest human in the entire interstellar alliance, she is reborn in the body of the Alliance Army's most famous good-for-nothing. Her daily life is full of mockery and exclusion, and during a military exercise, she's even assigned to lead the academy's problem children.

Problem Child No. 1 is an illegitimate scion of a wealthy family who wants to win the military exercise to prove himself: "Deadweight, can't you just die?"

Problem Child No. 2 is the academy's bottom-ranked student, barely scraping past the pass mark and giving up on everything: "What military exercise? What does it have to do with me?"

Problem Child No. 3 is blind: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to hit our own battleship!"

Problem Child No. 4 is a dog: "Woof!"

Nobody has any faith in this group, not even the group members themselves.

Other teams' instructors: experienced military elites.

Their instructor: a good-for-nothing, frail and sickly, on the fringes of the military, unable to use mechanical weapons, and clueless about mechas...

Then an unexpected incident strikes during the military exercise. The problem-child squad is trapped in a strange ruin, and just as everyone assumes they're doomed, a dazzling beam of quasi-divine mechanical-weapon light bursts from the boundless darkness, as radiant as the descent of the Creator God.

When the light fades, the problem children, who thought their savior had arrived, are dumbfounded.

Why is it you?! The relief of thinking we'd been rescued just vanished in an instant!!!!!

The next second, their good-for-nothing instructor draws her sword in a flash and cleaves an S-rank mech in two, as casually as chopping vegetables.

The problem children: ??????????????

In her previous life, Su Bai dreamed of interstellar peace, but reality crushed her again and again. After her father was assassinated and died, she turned to darkness. She started an interstellar war, invaded more than half the galaxy, stained her hands with blood, and became estranged from everyone. In the end, her greatest rival crushed her heart, and she died on the battlefield.

That day, the galaxy found peace.

The repentant Human Alliance and the reborn Atlantis Empire made peace, ending the years-long interstellar war with Su Bai's death.

Twenty years later, Su Bai is reborn in the body of a well-known good-for-nothing in the Alliance.

After being reborn, Su Bai has only one thought: run.

In her previous life, she dreamed of interstellar peace. In this life, she only dreams of keeping her head down, slacking off, and living a quiet, steady life.

One day, she passes a stunning white rose garden and overhears someone in the know say that their Marshal planted it for his late wife.

Wait, does this late wife somehow mean her?

#MyRivalGoesAroundClaimingI'mHisLateWifeNowThatI'mDead

Reader's Guide

1. The heroine is the strongest and coolest. Her outlook is a little bleak early on after her rebirth, but she'll get herself back on track!

2. Written for my own enjoyment, with countless personal interpretations. This isn't a traditional interstellar progression story. The heroine is max-level from the moment she's reborn, pretending to be a useless nobody. The main plot explores the truth of her previous life, with flashbacks dropped in along the way.

3. It's tagged as a feel-good power fantasy, but the first volume lays the groundwork, so some parts may not feel as satisfying. If the story frustrates you, try sticking it out until the second volume, where it's all power fantasy from then on.

4. Some side characters eat shit. Please don't read if that bothers you.

/Pre-release Blurb/

In his previous life, Nangong Zhengren was bound to a Villain System and powered his way through a righteous cultivation novel, turning it into an evil-path power fantasy. When he was one step away from dominating the cultivation world, someone appeared out of nowhere and stood in the way of his ambitions.

It was his domineering sister-in-law's aunt.

Nangong Zhengren lost.

As he fell through a rain of swords, his Dao heart shattered. He had spent his whole life invincible, lording it over everyone, only for everything to be destroyed by a single sword from his beloved aunt.

And yet...

Why was he so excited?

As he fell, he found he couldn't take his eyes off that distant figure.

Nangong Zhengren suddenly realized he might be a masochist.

*

On the night of his crushing defeat, Nangong Zhengren was chained up in the punishment chamber of the Lihuo Palace, resigned to his death. Instead, his aunt drew close, her breath brushing his skin, and embraced him from behind.

Nangong Zhengren: ?

That night, for the first time, he felt as if he had fallen into a pool of gentle water, wrapped up and entwined until he could barely breathe.

His greatest regret in this life was that when he had just left the beginner village, he hadn't dared to take the hand his aunt had held out to wipe the sweat from his cheek, even though she had been teasing him on purpose.

Now his aunt bent down and cupped his face as she had back then. Looking down at him, she softly whispered, her voice bewitching: "A-Zheng, why won't you behave?"

Nangong Zhengren's mind went hazy.

Damn. It took losing and getting a bad ending in this life to realize what he really wanted.

It turned out that being his aunt's dog was all he needed.

He would be even more obedient than a real dog.

Nangong Zhengren passed out. When he woke, he found himself back in the year he had first transmigrated.

This time, he gingerly climbed his fingers up the hand caressing his cheek. "Aunt, let's get married."

His domineering brother-in-law beat him up on the spot.

[Also known as "The Great Villain Gets Turned into a Gloomy, Slithering Bug," a lofty beauty with skin-hunger syndrome and a master dog trainer x a gloomy aunt-obsessed man with romance brainrot]

Theme: World peace and a happy life