Dangerous Beauty

After a mysterious time slip leaves her stranded on a savage desert planet, 14-year-old Song Chunshi has just one goal: gather up enough energy to reunite with her beloved grandfather back home. But five years of survival has turned her from a diffident student into something much more dangerous. Equipped with lethal martial arts skills and aided by a mysterious system that swaps energy for power, Chunshi makes her own territory in the wasteland. During the day, she mines precious energy stones; at night, she hunts fearsome star-beasts, gradually growing her strength. Each victim brings her closer to home — or it would, if she weren't still 9,990 years from amassing enough energy to head back. When a cadre of elite military academy cadets accidentally wanders into her territory, their presence threatens to expose Chunshi's carefully guarded secrets. As the Imperial Military Academy starts to notice the mysterious girl who can fell massive beasts with a single arrow, the Chunshi will have to decide: stay hidden and concentrate on her aim of getting home, or charge into the spotlight and confront what opportunities — and dangers — the broader universe might have prepared for her. In a world where fierce hunters reign and two suns burn the earth, a girl's chestnut-and-cream beast leads her home on an adventure that shakes the pillars of an empire.