The Underachiever Is Actually a National Treasure of an Academician in Seclusion

At twenty, Jin Mo transferred into her sophomore year at Jinghua University.

She slept through class and dressed so plainly she looked like a student who had wandered onto the wrong campus. Her monthly exam score was the class joke: twenty points. Her homeroom teacher submitted three requests to transfer her out, and the principal signed them without even looking up.

Nobody knew that this "academic failure" was Anguo's only nationally treasured reclusive academician.

At fourteen, she received a classified medal in the country's most secure hall, resolving a deep-space crisis with a four-hour countdown in a single night. Then she fell asleep under the gaze of the distinguished experts filling the hall. Over the next six years, she tackled six major bottlenecks in aerospace, military industry, chips, deep-sea exploration, controlled energy, and quantum information. She held controlling stakes in six of the world's leading conglomerates, yet lived in a small house in the south of the city that cost just three hundred a month in rent, because she wanted to live close to home.

She had another name: Dark Star.

For six years, an organization called "Dome" had been secretly pursuing "Project Reboot": eliminate the "useless" and leave only the elite. Her birth mother, a leading materials scientist, had been murdered in a plot orchestrated by the organization.

Only when her father came to her with a DNA test, and her mother's old files revealed a flaw, did four "coincidences" link together to form a murder plot. Only then did she decide to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight.