Golden light flooded across two hundred million light-years of the Eastern starry sky, turning the pitch-black ink clouds of Sector 1 into a radiant ocean of dawn.
At the center of that rising ocean of light, seventeen-year-old Ye Xiao drank the last warm drop of [Scholar’s Clear-Mind Bamboo Shoot Soup], placed his stainless-steel spoon neatly back inside his [Galvanized Galactic Lunchbox]. Snapped the two metal latches shut with a crisp click.
Then, reaching into his breast pocket, he drew out the snow-white silk handkerchief embroidered with a tiny silver ice-phoenix that his adoptive mother, Empress Luo Qingxue, had tucked into his robe before launch.
Unfolding the handkerchief along its ironed creases, Ye Xiao wiped the corners of his mouth with methodical care, refolded the silk into a neat square. Placed it back over his heart right behind his [Dad’s Gold Star Sheriff Badge].
Up in the fifth-dimensional void, inside the towering obsidian halls of the Black-Mirror Palace, the King of Betrayal stared at his vibrating Golden Script-Typewriter in utter madness.
On the typewriter’s floating crystal monitor, the character file for [Villain Boss #3: Ye Xiao — The Blood-Shadow Sword Fiend] was rapidly turning from blood-red to radiant scholar-gold, line by line, paragraph by paragraph!
