The Number One Star in the Interstellar Era

ELLIS sighed when he heard Astrid's answer. She suddenly felt like this artist of hers was hiding a lot of things from her. What kind of situation would he give an answer of 'I know him but he doesn't know that I do'?

Was this 'White Wolf' perhaps a relative who was too shy to admit that they made a stan account for Astrid and the latter accidentally discovered about it? Ellis had a feeling that that might be the case.

Thinking so, he remembered Astrid's twin brother. Wasn't he a cadet at the Imperial Military Academy? Maybe it was him and he was just embarrassed to admit that to his brother. He could be a great hacker for all she knew.

Well, it didn't really matter. What's important here was the fact that this 'White Wolf' wouldn't suddenly turn into a stalker. With this person's hacking ability, they would be such a pain in the ass if they decided to be a stalker.

"I'll trust you and not look into it," Ellis said responding to Astrid's answer. "But I hope there's no more major secrets between us. I'm your agent. It's important that I could react appropriately to any issue that may come your way. You understand, right?"

Astrid only smiled and did not give a definite answer. How could he when there's a huge secret about his identity that he couldn't tell the other right now?

Ellis narrowed her  eyes at that smile. It's like the other was saying, 'yes, I indeed have a secret, but I can't tell it to you right now'. She could only sigh at the end.

"Please, just tell me this secret is not detrimental to your career," she said in a helpless tone.

"Well, it depends. It might turn out to be an advantage but it could also be a disadvantage. It really all just depends on people's perspective on the issue," Astrid said. "But Sister Ellis doesn't have to worry about that right now. I don't think this secret will be revealed any time soon anyway."

"That's good to hear," Ellis said with a bit of sarcasm. "Just give me a heads-up if this 'secret' is about to be revealed."

Astrid nodded. Then, he remembered that there he still had another secret. That he had a sort-of ambiguous relationship with the prince of the Empire.

Ellis would probably have the huge urge to wring his neck by the time all these secrets came out in the open.

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After his call with Ellis ended, Astrid had no time to check [Cyberspace] because he had to get ready for school. He only had a chance to do it while he was on a flying car on the way to Redwood.

Seeing all the posts and the comments related to the issue, it seemed that it was quite the circus. It's such a shame that he missed all of it. And then he finally saw Wulfric's post.

It was a very straightforward post. Just saying that it's the evidence of Nadia's media play. He didn't even directly say that the post was to directly defend Astrid against the malicious rumor about him. Which was probably even more effective. Because it focused more on Nadia's media play instead of the grievance Astrid had suffered.

Surprisingly as well, Wulfric didn't go too overboard with this. He simply provided evidence of Nadia's usual tactics whenever she wanted to get clout. If this was the Wulfric when he first met him, something much worse than this would have happened to Nadia.

This was probably Wulfric's way of not directly dealing with things involving Astrid. So, to go around that promise he made with him, he instead used the identity of his stan account to help Astrid deal with this situation.

Astrid had a feeling that Wulfric would still do the same in the future.

And no, he wasn't angry about that. It's not like the other broke his promise to him. The one who cleared all the misunderstanding was not the prince of the Empire but his number one fan.

He then started sending messages to his friends to respond to their inquiries. He also sent one to Reas. The other probably hadn't yet known about the issue, so quickly explained things to him before he started worrying. The same went for his parents. The fact that they didn't call or message him meant that they hadn't yet seen the commotion on [Cyberspace].

And then lastly, he opened his number one fan's [Cyberspace] account. Then, he messaged the other directly.

[@astridtownsend: Hi! Thank you for clearing the misunderstanding about me. It must have been a lot of work. I really appreciate what you did. Having a fan like you truly warms my heart. I will try my best to show a better side of me in the future. Thank you, my number one fan. ^_^]

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Wulfric woke up just after an hour of sleep. After looking for evidence of that woman's wrongdoings and posting it online, he stayed up just to monitor if there would be someone trying to reverse things. Once he made sure that no one did so and that the woman would not be able to escape the backlash of what she did, he finally was able to sleep peacefully.

Although he would probably have to deal with Hildred's inquiry sooner or later. Because the one he always asked to do things related to Aster was the other. It was the same last night.

He asked Hildred to find those CCTV footages, as well as investigate the blank Terminals that Nadia Beck used. Maybe the other already had an idea that Wulfric had a [Cyberspace] account dedicated to Aster. Just imagining how much teasing he would get after was already making his head hurt.

It was probably good that Hildred was about to go on a vacation with Edmund.

After waking up, the first thing Wulfric did was to check [Cyberspace] directly. Thankfully, the topic about Aster and that whole fiasco was no longer in the trending hot topic list. Instead, there were more people talking about Nadia Beck's bad behavior.

Wulfric smirked reading the hate comments towards that woman. Although there were still some brainless fans trying to defend her, their voices were already drowned by the much larger general public.

He didn't pity the other for that. Wasn't this what she wanted? To be the center of attention. Well, now she's having that one-minute of fame. She should be happy, right?

After confirming that, he was about to close [Cyberspace]. But then a notification appeared, saying that he received a message from the person he's following. And there's only one person on his following list.

He quickly opened the message and read the content.

His heart felt warm and happy after reading how Aster appreciated what he did. It's like all his hard work was just for this moment.

But then, that happy feeling quickly turned into something sour. Because this message was not exactly for 'Wulfric' but for 'White Wolf' instead. Aster was basically sending this message to a complete stranger!

And thus, our prince, a mighty general, experienced for the first time how it felt to be jealous of one's self.