Miss Witch doesn't want to be a diva!.

Chapter 576: A remote star region
Walking on the street, Tilan held a paper bag in her hand, which contained the stationery gifts she had selected. She originally thought that she would buy a lot, but when she really went in and faced the still dazzling array of goods, she no longer had the curiosity and anticipation she had before.

Many of the linked products were very unclear in the past, but now that I have been exposed to more commercial planning projects, I can probably see the marketing ideas behind them at a glance. Many of the celebrities mentioned above can only be regarded as entertainment traffic figures, and there is nothing much to praise. Instead of buying those, it is better to buy those with simpler designs or more distinctive features.

After the final selection, the cost was only more than 700 federal coins, which was not as expensive as Tilan had expected.

Afterwards, Tilan and Dolores went to the clothing stores, dessert restaurants, game halls, cinemas, etc. on the street. By the time they finished shopping, it was already evening.

"It cost about 3500 federal coins in total." Tilan calculated afterwards.

"Oh, it turns out that the things that were out of reach when I was a child only cost this much money." Today she could be said to have completely enjoyed trying things she had never tried before. She originally thought that they would cost tens of thousands of dollars.

"Tilan had a hard childhood." Dolores comforted the girl.

"No, although I'm a bit poor, I'm not unable to survive. Compared with some people of my age, I'm still average." Tilan shook her head.

"But compared to now, there have indeed been huge changes." After saying that, she looked at the underground dome above her head that had transformed into a starry sky. At this moment, it was similar to the past.

Afterwards, the two of them took a hovercraft to the house where Tilan used to live. There were already people guarding it.

After thanking the several officers on guard, Tilan and Dolores walked in, then woke up the sleeping autonomous unit and simply cleaned up the dust accumulated in the room. Then Tilan went to the familiar bathroom to take a shower.

"Did you live here later?" another girl asked in the bathroom mirror.

"Yes," the girl answered in her mind.

'It seems that a lot has changed since I left. 'When Themisia was still alive, Tilan's family lived in the higher part of the upper city, and their house was much more spacious than it is now.

"Yeah." Tilan was feeling a little depressed.

"Well, I was a little wrong at first." It was rare for Themisia to give in, and this time she wasn't just being perfunctory, but she really felt sorry for her sister.

"I just didn't expect that they would not care at all." Themisia felt that even if she had insisted on having her own way, with a little comfort and support from St. Ingo Academy, Tilan's family would not have ended up living like this.

After sighing, the girl in the mirror returned to normal again. Tilan also wiped her body, put on her underwear and nightgown, and walked out.

"If you take a shower, you need to use the handle inside to adjust the water temperature." Tilan taught her in advance because she was afraid that Dolores would not be used to this old-fashioned manual shower.

"I understand. This is actually very common." Dolores tilted her head.

"No, I see that everything in your house is of automatic sensing type." Tilan complained slightly.

Back in the living room, Tilan sat on the sofa, turned on the TV and watched the latest programs. Many of them were about the news inside the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Domain, and occasionally reported on the overall situation of the Federation and some major events in the alien domain.

It can be seen that the economic development of Siye Crystal is pretty good now and is in a stable growth. The redevelopment of the northern region has created a large number of jobs and attracted a lot of capital from alien domains to invest.

After watching TV for a while, Dolores finished her shower and came out wrapped in a bath towel. The water vapor on her head had not yet dried, and her body was emitting a little warm water mist from just coming out of the bathroom.

"Is there a hair dryer?" Dolores looked around and didn't seem to see anything like that.

"Here." Tilan waved her hand, asking Dolores to sit over, then lightly touched Dolores' brow with her fingertips, making her feel a slight chill on her body. Then the moisture on her hair condensed into smooth tiny ice beads. Then a breeze flowed between Tilan's hands, absorbing and rolling up the ice beads, which collided with each other in the air, and then gathered into an extremely transparent ice ball.

"Okay." Tilan looked at the ice ball in her hand, raised her hand, let it float automatically, fly to the bathroom on the side, and then fall into the pool.

"This ability is novel no matter how I look at it." Dolores combed her hair and tied it up simply.

There are extraordinary people who can control ice, but there are not many who can do it as delicately as Tilan. If she is not careful, Dolores will probably turn into a big block of ice.

The two sat together and watched TV for a while before going back to their room to rest.

After a good night's sleep, Tilan and Dolores brought some small gifts and visited old acquaintances, such as Grandma He's family and several neighbors. Many of the stationery they bought yesterday were also given to Lisa who was in junior high school.

"Thank you, Sister Heshia~" Lisa has grown taller now, has short golden curly hair, and wears a bright yellow and light white dress, which makes her look youthful and cute.

"Study hard." Tilan smiled and touched Lisa's head. She thought that in a few years, she probably wouldn't be able to touch her anymore.

Since everything at home started to get better, Grandma He's life became more relaxed and freer, and she was healthier and more energetic than in previous years. However, she was extra cautious and nervous when facing Tilan. After all, the girl in front of her was no longer an ordinary girl who worked next door in the past, but a real big shot. She knew the status of a singer much better than her grandson He Cheng and others.

"It's okay, don't be so polite." Tilan was a little helpless about this, so she had to comfort her for a while, and then asked Grandma He to stay healthy.

"In the afternoon, I'm going to visit a senior." During lunch, Tilan told Dolores about her previous work at Liuli Dream.

"Mrs. Isabella can be said to be my benefactor. Without her help, I would not have been able to come here so easily."

At 2 pm, Tilan came to the Glass Dream again, but many people here had changed, and she only recognized some of them.

"Oh, it's 'Dantrian'~" Frost saw the gray-haired girl who appeared at the door at a glance.

Tilan was also surprised. After all, Furuusi came from a fairly large family, and she didn't expect him to stay in the Glass Dream for so long.

"Would you like something to eat? I'll prepare it for you." Frosus greeted warmly.

"It's been a while since we had lunch, so we're not very hungry. Let's just have something simple." Tilan and Dolores sat down, and the young lady beside them also looked at this special maid cafe with curiosity.

"Then I'll give you some mixed pudding."

Afterwards, Frosus prepared while communicating with Tilan.

"The manager retired two years ago. Belfinger is the manager now, but she has become lazy and has delegated many tasks to the newcomers."

"Butisi (Yulan Duojia) has only come to the store occasionally in the past two years. It seems that she wants to make a comeback again."

"Andusia's greenhouse remains the same as before. For elves, seven years is only a short time."

"Miss Gray Crow comes over occasionally and tells us about you. She is very well-informed."

"Mrs. Isabella sometimes goes on business trips to other places, but she still stays in the store for a few months every year." Frost brought the prepared pudding and smoothed the silver-gray hair beside her ear.

"What about you, Frosus? Aren't you going back?" Tilan was curious.

"I don't need to. Anneli is doing very well now and I don't have to worry about her. If I go back, I will probably have to face the tedious business matters again. I am not short of money now, so it is better for me to be free." Frosus said her plan.

Since Tilan graduated from Edes, Anneli has returned to her family's business, Silver Leaf Workshop, to make her mark. Tilan once asked her if she had ever thought about going to the Central Star Region to study at university, and this was her answer.

"If I didn't inherit the family business, I would definitely go, but now is a critical moment. If I delay college for a few years, my brothers will control the real power."

"Learn and accumulate knowledge while working. If you really want to get a diploma, I will have time to do it in the future. Now, what's more important is what's happening with Siye Jing."

I don’t know how Anneli is doing now. Although Tilan chats with her occasionally, Anneli is a bit proud. I guess she only reports good news and not bad news. Even if she encounters difficulties, she won’t tell Tilan.

After eating the pudding, Tilan brought Dolores to Andusia's wisteria greenhouse, and met the elf sister 'Andusia' who had hardly changed from the past. She was teasing an orange-gold cat on the table.

"Dantrian is back." Seeing Tilan, the graceful elf stood up.

Andusia made tea and entertained the two of them while chatting about the current situation.

"The Glass Dream hasn't changed much, but is Danterian still practicing the piano well?" As Tilan's music teacher, Andusia is more concerned about this.

"Well, I practice occasionally." Tilan answered a little embarrassedly. She really hadn't touched the violin for half a year.

"It's okay. I know I'll be busier after becoming a diva, but I just need to remember it occasionally."

The three of them drank tea and talked about the past. Dolores also slowly started talking to Andusia. After all, this elf beauty had a gentle tone and could always make people feel less nervous and unfamiliar.

"When the time comes, I won't keep Danterian."

An hour later, Tilan and Dolores got up to say goodbye and came to an exclusive seat in a corner of the Glass Dream, where they met Lady Isabella.

This blonde noblewoman still looks the same as she did back then, with half-elf blood and the extraordinary ability to slow down aging, making her appearance appear to have not changed much.

"You're finally back, little Tilan." She called out the girl by her affectionate name.

Tilan has always respected this elder, who was even a senior elder who had taught many singers, especially when she was young and ignorant, and he took good care of her.

"Please sit down. Don't be so polite." Inviting the two to sit down, Lady Isabella listened to Tilan talk about what happened after she went to the central star field.

"I didn't expect that you met Ewen Qilin in the first grade." Speaking of this name, Lady Isabella felt a little nostalgic.

"At that time, I had just retired from the music industry and became a tutor at the Golden Flame Flower Academy. The first singer I taught was Ewen Qilin."

"Although she was in her early 20s at the time, she looked like a 14-15 year old girl, as elves develop very late after all."

"Yingwen Qilin, who had just arrived at the academy, was full of curiosity, but she was also shy. There were many things she didn't dare to ask strangers, so she came to me, her music teacher, to talk."

"I have to say that she has a simplicity that is out of tune with her environment, and her mind is delicate and sharp. These qualities allow her to focus on her studies, make rapid progress and improve rapidly."

"At that time, I and many other teachers at the academy were very optimistic about her and thought she would become the most promising talented singer in the Federation in the past hundred years."

"Whether it was playing the piano, composing music, expressing emotions, sensing people's hearts, or releasing her own feelings, she quickly mastered these songstress-related courses, and gradually formed her own unique aura. You have to know that she was less than 25 years old at the time. According to the elves' evaluation standards, she was probably not even an adult, but she had already touched the threshold of a Moon-level songstress."

"After that, we released an album, which became an instant hit, attracting phenomenal attention both in the central star region and in some remote star regions."

"Unfortunately, this overly enthusiastic attention became a thorn that trapped her later."

"The world is not all rosy. Unwarranted malice, ridicule, mockery, and slander are everywhere. The convenience of the Internet, in particular, allows many spokespersons to avoid having to bear the cost, which has magnified these things."

"Some people always say that it's better to be more open-minded, but as a normal person, how can you be without emotions and temper?" Lady Isabella shook her head.

“Even if I continue to enlighten myself, those words and phrases will still be remembered, and sometimes they will even become needles in my memories, which will hurt me once I think of them.”

"Evan Gillin was quickly overwhelmed by the overwhelming attention and opinions, and fell into a long period of self-doubt and pain."

"We are heartbroken about this phenomenon, but there is nothing we can do. Even if we cut off the online information channels, she will still be exposed to these things in her daily life."

"So, in order to protect Ewen Qilin from getting damaged, we suggested that she temporarily disconnect from the Internet and live in a quiet environment."

"It took several years for Ewen Qilin to slowly recover, but since then, she has rarely participated in public performances and activities, only occasionally releasing a few songs and becoming a folk legend."

"I rarely ask Tilan about music, singing ability, and other things, because I think as long as you are still a singing girl, you will definitely be exposed to these things frequently and will gradually improve. But I think character and other things are more important."

Lady Isabella said that she sent Tilan to two different academies based on past experience. The highly competitive environment of Edes Academy was used for training, while the relaxed atmosphere of Iridium Academy was used for recuperation and respite. Tilan's growth and development later confirmed her idea.

"Tilan really has a very good senior taking care of her." Dolores sighed softly after hearing this.

In the following days, apart from meeting a few old classmates, Tilan stayed in the Glass Dream, reminiscing with everyone. Occasionally, she would play the role of a maid in the store, helping Frous and others to complete their work, or take over Belphegor's battlefield and play card battle games with the guests.

This gray-haired girl wearing glasses soon became famous among the guests, but no one knew that she was one of the current singers.

Time passed slowly, and the New Year was approaching. Tilan also began her tour in the northern area of ​​the Emerald Skirt. Along the way, she visited newly built projects in various places, as well as the towns and cities that were gradually becoming lively. Finally, she participated in the New Year's Eve Gala in the city of 'Qianliu', which was broadcast to the entire Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region.

Unconsciously, Tilan gradually felt a sense of familiarity and intimacy with everything in the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region, which was rare in other places.

No wonder many singers focus on supporting their hometowns. This kind of mutual recognition and dependence is indeed very different.

……

However, a place as prosperous, peaceful and vibrant as the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region can be said to be an anomaly in today's Federation. When Tilan recalled the faint intimacy and nostalgia, the undercurrents and conflicts within the Federation gradually began to emerge.

(End of this chapter)