After Ruan Mei closed the door.
Bai Heng checked the time. It was 10:47.
There wasn't much time left before Jingliu arrived on Glamour Star.
So Bai Heng directly activated the Origin Chip.
After three short-range spatial jumps, he arrived at the starship docking port where Jingliu would land before eleven.
Though night had already fallen, Glamour Star's starship docking port remained brightly lit.
Only when silver moonlight fell upon wetlands untouched by the searchlights did it turn into glittering shards of silver.
Bai Heng watched the patrol ships filling the sky as he waited for a skiff to land.
The faint smell of starship engine fluid at the docking port was especially strong. Breathing it in, Bai Heng suddenly felt that simply waiting around wouldn't demonstrate the depth of his feelings.
So, while no skiff was in sight, he had the owner of a nearby snack shop grill some skewers and cook a bowl of warming noodle soup.
That way, Jingliu could have a hot meal the moment she arrived.
She was half an hour later than expected.
It wasn't until after eleven-thirty that he saw a skiff slowly making an emergency descent from the sky.
It should have been early spring on Glamour Star now, during that late cold snap when nighttime temperatures were very low.
After standing outside in the wind for half an hour, Bai Heng at least looked somewhat sincere.
He watched the skiff slowly descend.
Before long, the graceful figure of silver hair like moonlight appeared not far from Bai Heng.
Meanwhile, the two Fire-lick Rabbits were biting Jingliu's cloud boots.
Who knew where they had learned that habit.
When it came to matters of the heart, Ruan Mei simply wasn't good at expressing herself, but she had always been no amateur.
Jingliu, on