I Pilot Mecha with My Imagination

[Academy competition + interstellar adventure + mecha battles]

"Ming Xing, you've failed both mecha theory and engineering. Why do you think you can pass the Longyi Military Academy entrance exam?"

"I'm good at language arts, I love reading, and I have a great imagination."

"...You can't eat imagination."

The evaluator wrote a big "F" beside Ming Xing's rating.

The entrance exam was packed with elites. All kinds of cutting-edge mecha appeared one after another: heavy mecha, sleek designs, and even biomechanical mecha modeled after insects, fish, birds, and beasts...

The professors nodded in approval. This was a promising class. Perhaps they stood a chance against the star beasts.

Then Ming Xing stepped onto the field and began her presentation.

"I've recently been reading books about Buddhism from a thousand years ago. Inspired by them, I designed a mecha..."

The audience burst into laughter. Her opponent grinned, and the teachers furrowed their brows.

Suddenly, a thousand mechanical arms unfolded behind Ming Xing, blotting out the sky and surging with overwhelming force.

"I call it Thousand-Armed Guanyin."

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"Impossible! No one can control that many mechanical arms at once! She must be cheating!"

"But Ming Xing really did it..."

The public was in an uproar. The media scrambled to report on this dark horse newcomer, wildly speculating about the secret behind her extraordinary control.

After the exam, the prodigy she'd humiliated on the field stopped her.

"How did you do that?"

"I imagined it," Ming Xing said, looking surprised.

"When you pilot a mecha, don't you use your imagination?"

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Imagine being your opponent, and you copy their signature move.

Imagine being a bird, and your flying board streaks into the clouds along an impossible trajectory.

Imagine being the River Styx, and everywhere the Wangchuan mecha flows becomes a border between life and death.

"Are you even human?" her opponent demanded hoarsely after the match.

"Can you still 'imagine' a solution?" the commander asked desperately at the end of the competition.

"I always can."

From Longyi Military Academy to the Starsea League, from an F-rated exam candidate to the strongest new-generation mecha pilot.

With innocent yet audacious imagination, she makes anything possible.

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I don't know how the mecha started working, either.

I'm so strong that my mindset is amazing.

Yeah, win or lose, it doesn't matter. I just want to have fun, and then I win without even trying.

Wild imagination. A natural-born genius.

Female lead

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Tall, handsome, rich, and from a family of three generations of mecha pilots.

Wealthy, well-connected, and extremely hardworking.

A grind-hard, spend-hard, competitive king with a fierce desire to win and a born winner's confidence.

Yet the genius drives him crazy every day.

Male lead

*Includes plenty of detailed descriptions of [mecha design] and [mecha battles].

*Features many mecha and abilities based on strange concepts.

*Slow-burn ensemble progression story.

*Academy life, battles, competitions, and planetary exploration take up most of the story, but the romance is also an important part of the plot.

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[Coming Soon]

"Surviving and Exploring the Wilds in a Post-Apocalyptic Water World"

Giant waves sweep across the globe, sea monsters run rampant, cities collapse, and ninety percent of humanity perishes.

As one of the few survivors, Jiang Ya joins the main group of survivors in building a base.

The floating city: Arks One through Thirteen.

In a boundless expanse of water, human society is reshuffled. Whatever your former identity, job, age, or achievements, you're now a Level Three resident of Water City.

Esper abilities, cybernetic enhancements, buying low and selling high... Residents are crammed into communal dormitories with a hundred people to a room. Survival is no guarantee, and everyone has to fend for themselves.

That year, Jiang Ya was a high school senior, frail and unable to carry a bag of rice.

In the third year of the apocalypse, her friend, who can light a flame with a fingertip, asks earnestly, "Are you really not going to go get soaked in the Heavenly Punishment Rain? If you awaken an ability, you'll easily become a Level One citizen."

"No." The blood of a mutated giant fish sprays across the sail of the little boat. Jiang Ya swings her axe onto her shoulder and wipes the sweat from her brow.

"I'm already strong enough."

*Sea salvage, wild exploration, esper battles, ordinary people's daily lives in the apocalypse, communal living, and urban infrastructure. Pure fantasy, not science fiction. The technology is all made up and has no logic. Lots of everyday details. The heroine will awaken an ability.

Theme: Understand your own heart