Smash All Pots and Pans To Go to School

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She was once one of Earth’s top engineers—sharp, cool-headed, a woman of schematics and precision. But fate has its own twisted sense of humor. When Wei San woke up in a tr*sh heap on a remote, forgotten planet somewhere in the galactic backwaters, she realized she’d crossed time and space… only to land in the body of a dropout with nothing but a malnourished body and a nose for salvaged junk.

Thrown from Earth’s engineering labs into the dirt of a nameless alien star, Wei San doesn’t crumble. She rises.

Because the tuition was cheap and she was broke, Wei San ended up signing up for the wrong program. She didn’t become a mech builder.

She became a mech soldier.

The kind that gets thrown into live-fire drills and survives off sheer bloodlust and pain tolerance. The kind of profession where “close combat” means face-to-fist and “training” means voluntary trauma.

Though she stumbled into the blood-soaked path of a mech soldier instead of building the machines herself, she refuses to be limited by labels. She trains, she adapts, and she learns to kill with as much finesse as she once designed engines.

Through perseverance, wit, and a hefty dose of don’t-f*ck-with-me energy, she blazes a dual path—as both soldier and engineer—toward a future carved with her own two hands.

One-line summary:

Poverty made me powerful.

Core theme:

How to grind your way to top-tier single-soldier with nothing but pain, precision, and petty spite.

[This novel is fast-paced, smartly written, and absolutely unafraid of biting humor. The worldbuilding is fresh, the characters fiercely vivid, and the protagonist?

She’s pure steel wrapped in sarcasm and stubborn ambition. A must-read for anyone who likes their heroines relentless, clever, and just a little bit deadly.]

Associated Names
One entry per line
Pawn My Life Just to Get an Education
SAPPS
Za guo mai tie qu shang xue
Đập nồi bán sắt đi học
我要上学
砸锅卖铁去上学
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Sakil
Sakil rated it
January 29, 2024
Status: c323
This story feels so lacking.

There isn't much world building of any kind. We only have a small bubble around the main character we know about and nothing more.

There isn't much character development for our MC and their transmigration is only used in the beginning and to explain their engineering "talent".

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Instead of transmigration, she could have learned some skills from the old man and simply have a passion for engineering

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While I like her personality and banter with her companions, I can't get over the fact that her only motivation is to earn money or rather to survive and live a decent life. It can work but her drive is really lacking.

Current opinion at Chapter 323
Spoiler

The entire tournament arc doesn't make sense from a motivation perspective and why does she even continue to go to school after earning enough money from the underground arena.

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The translation quality isn't the best and terms sometimes change between chapters. <<less
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Pearl Strategos
Pearl Strategos rated it
August 27, 2023
Status: --
I gave this 5stars because thats all to give.

I like that this novel has very little to none romance between the FL and ML but you can still feel the tension between them, and thus making the reader (me, I'm the reader) hunger for more 😉😉

The translation are not fully done yet, so I'm still waiting for that. Hopefully this will not be dropped because this is such a gem.
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Rakel89
Rakel89
June 15, 2023
Status: c227
I loveeeee this novel. The translation is good and the story is engaging! I can't wait to see Wei San & Ying Xingjue meet up!!!! Thank youu &hope there's more chapter coming.
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frostcrystal
frostcrystal rated it
August 7, 2022
Status: c147
I loved the MC, I loved her bros, it was all great. However, I ended up dropping halfway because the entire story pretty much became a tournament arc. I kept waiting for something other than tournament arc to happen, but it's just so long that I couldn't keep going.

ML is alright - he's nice enough but I would actually have preferred him to be one of the bro squad instead of the standard cold, aloof, handsome ML.
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