Dawn Sleep

Return (4)

Within the Empire, First Galaxy, Capital of Aslan Star City.

Aphrodite Grand Ballroom.

Soothing music circulated within the lobby, lights flickered on the bright red fringed curtains, men in black tuxedos and women in long black dresses were playing stringed instruments, brass instruments and percussion instruments with all their might.

——Aslan Star City Symphony Orchestra, one of the most famous symphony orchestras in the empire, and was a powerful faction that won countless music awards every year. However, at the moment, they were nothing more than insignificant embellishments to the place.

In the golden ballroom, dancing skirts bloom like flowers. The scent of women’s rouge intertwined with the scent of men’s perfume, soft women’s hands wrapped in lace were placed on broad shoulders, red lips, beautiful cheeks, and interlaced dance steps.

Figures were spinning, jewelries were reflecting, and when the music turned passionate, laughter echoed back. Females with their partners held hands together and couples kissed under the light.

This was the playground for the upper-class nobles.

Bei Man’er was sitting aside, she looked at the boys and girls spinning happily in front of her, maintaining an elegant smile on her face.

When the music stopped, a few girls raised their skirts and came forward with delicate steps.

The girls’ cheeks were flushed from dancing, and their foreheads were covered with sweat. At this moment, they looked at Bei Man’er expectantly. “Miss Bei, you, what do you think of our dance?”

“Everyone danced so beautifully.” Bei Man’er nodded, placed her ten fingertips over her heart, delicately pursed the corners of her mouth, and politely commented one by one with a smile.

“Miss Shu’s dancing steps are much lighter.”

Elegantly smiling.

“Miss Julia is indeed a perfect match for Master Hubbard.”

Smile.

“Nana, your new dress is so beautiful, just like the white swan in a fairy tale……..”

Smiling so hard that your face is almost frozen…

Before the next piece of music played, the eldest lady of the Bei family picked up the diamond-encrusted cane beside her, and slipped out of the Aphrodite Grand Ballroom with an excuse.

She rubbed her stiff face at the door, crumpled up the ball invitation, and threw it in a recycling bin by the roadside.

——Before joining the Silver Big Dipper, she did have a talent for dancing, but now everything was different.

It’s really laughable that those aristocratic ladies who were raised silly by their families would invite a person with a broken leg to the ball.

It was a clear day and the crowds came and went. Beautiful small colored flags were hung on the streets on both sides, and magnetically levitated buses were still running in the distance.

Bei Man’er took two steps forward and saw her family’s air vehicle parked by the roadside. The old butler in a gray suit saluted her and helped her onto the air vehicle.

Looking at the world around her, everything was different. Shouldn’t it be said that everything had returned to the way it was before?

Bei Maner didn’t remember how she got home.

The private air vehicle was parked at the entrance, and she walked slowly into the magnificent gate with a cane, stepping on the garden path paved with cobblestones. Her mother hurriedly lifted her skirt to welcome her, and the servants also saluted enthusiastically along the way. The canary sang in the cage overhead and the chef grandma said with a smile ‘Miss, try the newly baked brioche bread’.

She’s allowed to forget, that’s all right.

She has only stayed in Silver Big Dipper for more than a month.

Bei Man’er put on an elegant smile once again, thanked everyone who cared about her, and then hid in her own bedroom.

The room was spacious, and as soon as she entered, she saw a full-length mirror carved in rosewood. She took off the pearl lace cap on her head, and stroked her newly permed curls.

She’s fine, she’s okay. 

She’s……

“Baby….” 

Madame Bei choked up and knocked on the door, “Don’t be sad, open the door and talk to Mom, okay?”

“We will do regenerative surgery next year. Take a rest for a year, and we’ll go about it in the next. Let’s find the best doctor, and Baby will get better soon, Mom guarantees.”

After half a minute.

The door of the young lady’s bedroom opened.

Bei Man’er stood there quietly, with a calm expression on her pretty face, except for the glitters of makeup that shone under the corners of her eyes, which looked like tears.

She shook her head and said slowly, “Mom…I’m not sad, I just feel so strange.”

“I came back from the Far Interstellar Space like a deserter, a loser with dejected appearance. I left one of my legs there, left my friends, the person I like……”

Bei Man’er turned around and murmured, “But what did I come back for?”

“Obviously even if I come back…”

Her soft fingers stroked her prosthetic knee, and the silk fabric of the pink dress flowed under the girl’s fingertips, “I can’t dance anymore.”

Madame Bei covered her lips while in tears, “No, my Baby……”

Bei Man’er didn’t look at her mother, she just gazed up at the sunny sky of Aslan Star City outside the window, and at the white clouds that look like cotton candy.

She pinned a lock of her curly hair behind her ear and murmured to herself, “Why did I come back?”

Beep beep——

The sound of the wrist device came.

Bei Maner lowered her eyes……Oh, her wrist device has also been replaced with the latest model.

But what’s the point?

She hasn’t had much interest in these luxury goods since childhood. If it wasn’t for this, she wouldn’t have gone to the Kaios Military Academy.

What’s more, the message that sounded just now would just be either an invitation or a request.

Bei Man’er casually wanted to press it down, she glanced at it casually, but suddenly froze!

****

Outside the entrance of the Bei’s house, several fashionable young girls looked at each other in speechless despair.

Suddenly, one of them lit up their eyes,”It’s Miss Bei, she’s coming out!”

Sure enough, the pink figure who had just sat quietly at the ball appeared at the door in a hurry.

The noble girls hurriedly gathered around, and the leading person bowed her head guiltily, “I’m sorry, Miss Bei, today we invited you rashly, not considering your……”

The pink figure was like a whirlwind, blowing past the noble girls.

Bei Man’er’s eyes were shining brightly, and she rushed out of the house without her cane. While running, she lifted up the bloated skirt and quickly tied it in a knot. She threw her high heels and stepped on flat boots.

“一In an hour, Beluga Star Port!”

She nodded, turned over and jumped onto her own air vehicle, slapped the console and said, “There’s still time!”

The noble girls were all terrified. “Miss Bei!?”

When the private air vehicle took off from Bei’s parking lot, the old butler and Madame Bei’s equally terrified screams also came out:

“Miss, it’s not allowed—”

“My god, my Baby—”

Bei Man’er didn’t hear them, her heart was pounding, and she felt blood rushing all over her body for a long time.

The wind from Aslan Star City tossed the chestnut curly hair, and ruined the hairstyle that the stylist had blown in the morning.

Quick. Quick.

Bei Man’er’s eyes were bright, she controlled the console with both hands, and was speeding on the air vehicle-only airway above Aslan Star City. One after another, private air vehicles were left behind, leaving only afterimages of the streets and crowds below.

She was as fast as the wind.

She didn’t know why she was in such urgency, as if what she wanted to welcome was not just a friend who had returned from Silver Big Dipper. 

It’s more than a part of myself that I lost…….that I accidentally lost somewhere.

Someone exclaimed, “My God, who is that little girl? This skill, it’s awesome!”

“Hey, this technique, she seems to have driven a mecha before.”

But she once had manipulated a faster steel giant.

She used to—

Woosh!! The wind sounded sharp, Bei Man’er twisted the lever, and immediately overtook several other air vehicles on the same road.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw an uncle laughing heartily inside an air vehicle. “Yes, she must have driven a mecha before. Eighty percent, it is a military mecha!”

一She used to be faster than the wind.

****

An hour later, Beluga Star Port.

Jiang Jianming, carrying a bag alone, walked out of the aerospace train slowly, and was pushed forward by the crowd.

Even if Garcia was determined to urge him to leave first, he wouldn’t be able to drive the Silver Big Dipper military warship and land directly at the star port, it would cause a big commotion.

In the end, he still asked the chief to ask someone to make arrangements, took an aerospace train in the middle, and returned to Aslan in a low-key manner.

Jiang Jianming suddenly remembered something, and looked down at his wrist device. When he got on the train, he sent a message to Bei Man’er, hoping to make an appointment to meet up.

As a result, he did not see any reply from Miss Bei, but when he swiped and swiped, several text messages popped up, which dazzled his eyes.

[Where are you now] 45 minutes ago

[Reply] 40 minutes ago

[…] 35 minutes ago

[Still angry? You provoked me first, Xie Yuduo should have told you that I don’t like being mentioned together with the name Ryann Kaois. ] 28 minutes ago

[Jiang?] 21 minutes ago

[Jiang Jianming, I need to ensure your personal safety, I’m warning you, do not lose your temper, no one here will coax you] 20 minutes ago

[…I was wrong, reply to me] 6 minutes ago

[Will you return to Silver Big Dipper?] 1 minute ago

Jiang Jianming while holding the wrist device: “……..”

He was completely lost in a deep confusion.

If it weren’t for being able to check the sending time, he would have thought that he had been out of contact for a full ten days, instead of only not being able to check his wrist device for an hour.