However, her future path did not lie here. Once they connected with the outside world, if Murata Himeko still wanted to venture into the stars, she could go aboard the Astral Express.
As long as she wanted to.
"Sir, have we met before?" Murata Himeko put away the book in her hands and looked at Lingchen with some curiosity.
Murata Himeko was clearly much younger at this point. After all, there were still a dozen or so years until the future, and she still had some of a young girl's awkward innocence.
The way Lingchen looked at her was not how someone looked at a stranger, but even after thinking for a long while, Murata Himeko could not recall where she might have met him.
If they had met, she should have remembered a man with such a presence very clearly.
At Murata Himeko's question, Lingchen shook his head slightly.
"This is our first meeting, but I'm very familiar with you, Himeko."
Hearing him address her like that, Himeko believed him somewhat, mainly because Lingchen did not look like a bad person.
And in the Far East, addressing someone directly by their given name was something only people who were very familiar with them would do.
Noticing Lingchen's expression, Murata Himeko was not angry. Instead, she made a mild little joke.
"I thought I'd forgotten a handsome gentleman like you.
"Could my family have made some sort of agreement with you?" Was she already thinking about getting married this early? Lingchen was a little surprised, but he still shook his head slightly.
"That's not the case. I just came to see you."
After saying that, Lingchen left directly.
He merely left Himeko some energy. In the future, when she had fully matured, she could use this power to develop an