Yu Lian smiled without answering and simply pointed up at the sky. Above them was the military port in near-Earth orbit, where the Dawn Angel was currently docked.
Major General Larr looked at Yu Lian in silence, his expression tinged with sympathy. "At four this afternoon, Princess Su Liuka's invitation had already been sent to the observation delegation. Earth received one too. Naturally, she invited several other senior officers from the other observation delegations as well, but anyone with eyes can see she's really after you."
"Don't make it sound like there's something between us, okay?" Yu Lian pushed his empty plate aside, picked up his drink, and lit an Old Blade.
"Is there not? She bet on you to win ahead of time, and made at least a hundred million gold dragons from the Aibo Group. That's no small sum in the gambling world," the general said with a smile.
The Aibo Group was the largest gambling giant in the entire galaxy. It had vast resources, but a hundred million gold dragons was enough to buy a million-ton freighter, so even they would feel the sting. If an ordinary person won that much, they might not even get the chance to claim it before their whole family was stuffed into a proton torpedo's warhead and launched into the sun. But the trouble was, no matter how much the gambling giant had its fingers in both the legal and illegal worlds, it wouldn't dare steal money from the Grand Elector!
"...Brother, if Feifei were here, I'd think you'd come all this way just to set me up."
"She isn't here, and that's exactly why," Major General Larr said with a laugh. "You two have been inseparable these past few days, and you don't even bother hiding it when you're holed