Three galaxies outside the central [Galactic Flying Courtyard (Flying Courtyard Star-Cruiser)], the outer customs and sanitation tollbooth of the Galactic Gu Clan gleamed beneath the warm golden light of the sector boundary beacon.
Guarding the outer tollbooth today was an impenetrable four-person household sanitation squad: Empress Luo Qingxue’s younger sister Auntie Luo Yiyi, flanked by the Three Apron Grand Elders of the Galactic Gu Clan. First Grand Elder Gu Cang, Second Grand Elder Gu Hai. Third Grand Elder Gu Lin (all three Rank 9 Early, and all three proudly wearing their spotless pink floral dishwashing aprons over their grand elder robes)!
BEEP-BEEP-HUM!
A soft proximity chime sounded on the tollbooth’s perimeter sensor array.
Gliding out of a hidden fifth-dimensional side-tunnel ten miles ahead of the tollbooth gate were 100 Slender Figures wrapped in tattered, artfully dirt-smudged linen refugee cloaks.
Every single one of the one hundred figures was a precision-printed “Long-Lost Childhood Sweetheart & Green-Tea Assassin Clone” dispatched personally by the sixth Script-King—the King of Harem-Slavery!
Beneath their hoods, all one hundred female assassin clones had identical porcelain-pale faces, artificially reddened eyes brimming with crocodile tears, and a tiny painted beauty mark beneath the left eye. And floating three inches above each of their heads was an oily, neon-pink fifth-dimensional ring: the [Forced Romantic Misunderstanding & Marital Strife Halo]!
