Cannon fodder in the Interstellar

At noon, around twelve o’clock, Ruo Manni emerged from the training room. She received a message from Hua Deyu: “Manni, I’m sorry. Father misspoke. You’ve rarely had time off, and we couldn’t spend time together as a family.”

Ruo Manni understood that adults were busy with important matters. Even she had spent nearly three years on a desolate planet for a mission, with restricted access to the internet, often needing to conceal her identity. She wasn’t disappointed at all.

Although she’d always wanted to explore the capital city, with the current situation involving the safety of all humanity, neither she nor her father felt much like going out shopping.

To ease Hua Deyu’s guilt, Ruo Manni replied: “Just make it up to me next time.”

“Alright, my dear. I’m really sorry. If you want anything, just shop online, and if you need more money, let me know,” Hua Deyu responded with another message.

As soon as Ruo Manni read this, she knew what was coming next. Sure enough, within two seconds, she heard the sound of a transfer to her account.

She opened it and saw that Hua Deyu had transferred 200,000 credits as compensation.

Ruo Manni calmly closed the account page, neither surprised nor excited, remaining utterly composed.

Only she knew that ever since reuniting with Hua Deyu and his wife at the Queen’s birthday banquet three years ago, she’d been on an irreversible path to becoming a “rich lady.”

On the night of the Queen’s birthday party, Hua Deyu transferred a total of 50 million credits in one go, along with a monthly allowance of 10,000 credits for living expenses and pocket money.

Lixi Amber frequently found various excuses to give her credits as well, adding up to at least around 10 million over the past three years.

Unlike Hua Deyu, who had family support, most of the money he sent was for the expenses of direct elite descendants from the Hua De family. Lixi Amber was just a collateral branch member of the Amber family, and after falling out with her own family, she didn’t have much wealth of her own. This sum of over 10 million was probably a compilation of her salary over the decades.

Ruo Manni understood her mother’s selfless desire to provide the best for her daughter, so she accepted it. However, she used the money to buy many things online as gifts for Lixi Amber.

As for the thoughtful gifts from her daughter, Lixi Amber was incredibly happy, so much so that Hua Deyu complained about being jealous, saying that Ruo Manni was too considerate towards her mother and not as good to him as her father.

In reality, Ruo Manni hadn’t forgotten about her big supporter, Hua Deyu. Although she wasn’t as attentive to him as she was to Lixi Amber, she still did her best to be a good daughter.

Ruo Manni felt that Hua Deyu’s jealousy complaints were more like trying to cheer Lixi Amber up.

Not only did this couple love to give her credits, but their generosity also influenced others.

Over the past three years, on every festive occasion, such as her birthday, Ruo Manni’s account would buzz non-stop.

Because Ruo Manni was on a desolate planet and couldn’t go out to meet people, and outsiders couldn’t send her anything, everyone worked together to transfer credits to her, allowing her to buy whatever she liked.

Hua Deli and Dean Atchison were no exception; these two still generously sent her 100,000 credits each time, which was quite generous of them.

However, Ruo Manni didn’t take advantage of them; when their birthdays came around, she bought them gifts worth around 100,000 credits each.

Her cousin and older cousin, Hua Deqi and the Crown Prince, also communicated directly with her and were no exception—they also loved sending her credits to spend, with amounts far exceeding those of her two underage cousins.

Moreover, the two of them refused to accept gifts worth more than 100,000 credits from Ruo Manni on their birthdays.

Ruo Manni suspected that before she was recognized by Hua Deyu and his wife, she had discussed wanting to learn a sword technique with Dean Atchison, but she had given up on it due to lack of funds, and her relatives already knew about it.

She still remembered the sympathetic look Dean Atchison had given her back then.

So, knowing Ruo Manni’s background, Dean Atchison’s most frequent comment was that his cousin must have had a very hard life for the past decade, unable to even come up with 100,000 credits.

Additionally, when Ruo Manni first arrived on the Imperial Capital Star, she enjoyed presenting her image as a commoner (though at that time, she had her own motives). She hadn’t anticipated that it would later provoke these people.

Ruo Manni estimated that in their eyes, her life as a commoner for over a decade must seem really pitiful. She explained to them that she hadn’t suffered much; Teresa Du had treated her very well and had done everything she could for her, but they didn’t seem to believe her.

So, these people all shared a common interest in transferring money to her.

Damn it, if you don’t become a wealthy person, you wouldn’t understand how the money of rich people is used; poverty truly limits one’s perspective.

The Crown Prince asked her to buy herself a birthday gift and directly transferred one million credits to her, even saying that if the gift she liked was more expensive and that amount wasn’t enough, she could just tell him, and he would add more money.

Yesterday, at that banquet, Ruo Manni received quite a few gifts; although no one asked her, she had a rough idea of their value, which added up to around twenty million credits.

However, the most expensive gift was from the elder of the Hua De family, who gave her not only a flying car worth over ten million credits but also a credit card with fifty million credits on it.

In just three short years, she had become a wealthy woman worth over a hundred million.

The problem was, after latching onto this golden thigh, that hundred million was nothing. Could a poor person even imagine what that feeling was like?

According to the Crown Prince’s estimates, that Xuanwu technique had already obtained the intellectual property patent from the Human Alliance of the Gumera Star Domain, and the Gus Empire would grant her a substantial reward. In half a month, thirty million credits would be directly credited to Ruo Manni’s account.

Additionally, there would be continuous patent fees, estimated to be at least two billion, with no upper limit. In any case, this would benefit her descendants for generations to come.

So, you tell me, would Ruo Manni even feel anything about a mere two hundred thousand credits?

To be honest, she was no longer concerned about credits; she no longer had to think about making money at all.

She even feared when others asked her if she was lacking anything, because she truly felt she lacked nothing at all.

Before returning to the military yesterday afternoon, Lixi Amber had given Ruo Manni a space ring just like the one Hua Deli had.

Ruo Manni didn’t know what was in Hua Deli’s space ring, but her own was filled with an abundance of food, showcasing delicacies from various planets in the central star region of the Gus Empire.

Now that she was extremely wealthy, Ruo Manni lacked nothing; the only thing she expressed was her love for food. Despite not having much time to spend with Lixi Amber over the past three years, Lixi still knew about Ruo Manni’s preferences.

In the Imperial Capital Star, enjoying gourmet food was a very easy task, as long as you had money. However, sourcing such a wide variety of delicacies, especially those unique to other planets, couldn’t be done in just a day or two. Ruo Manni was truly touched by Lixi Amber’s thoughtfulness for her daughter.

So, at that moment, Ruo Manni happily accepted the gift and hugged Lixi Amber, saying, “Mother, I’m so happy! There are so many things in here that I haven’t tried yet. Once I taste something delicious, I’ll buy some for you to enjoy too.”