The Little One from Garbage Star Is Five and a Half!

An'an recently found a round ball in a mountain of trash and now carries it around all day, refusing to let go.

He was an orphan with no parents on a garbage planet. He had just turned five, though he didn't know what being five meant. His grandfather, who had found and adopted him, was the one who told him he was five.

An'an was very good at listening to his grandfather, but his memory wasn't the best. Before leaving, his grandfather told him many things, but all An'an remembered was that he was five, a big boy now who could take good care of himself, and his grandfather's final words: "My good An'an, don't be sad that Grandpa is leaving. I'll watch over you from the sky and make sure your life goes smoothly."

An'an didn't know what death was. He only knew that Grandpa had fallen asleep, and that somehow, he would never see Grandpa again...

At the thought, tears rolled from An'an's eyes like pearls. He hugged the round ball tightly, unaware that many people were watching his every move.

The Star Network was indispensable to the people of the interstellar era. Because mental energy could easily run wild, many ordinary citizens needed to relieve stress on the network and lower their mental instability levels.

Watching livestreams was one way they did that.

At first, no one knew that people still lived on the garbage planet. That changed when a cub living there found a damaged livestream device and accidentally switched it on. People watching to relieve stress saw him, and someone posted it on the forums. That's how everyone learned that people still lived on the garbage planet.

The incident sparked a huge debate on the Star Network. People said no one should have to live on the garbage planet, and that its inhabitants deserved the same benefits as ordinary citizens of the Empire, instead of being abandoned there to fend for themselves!

The arrogant authorities had no intention of granting the ordinary Imperial citizens' petition. They felt the garbage planet and its trash were not worth wasting Imperial resources to save, and that the people on the garbage planet belonged there for the rest of their lives.

They first shut down the garbage planet cub's livestream, and just as they were about to go further, a video that was uploaded sent everyone on the Star Network into an uproar.

The black-haired cub wore ragged clothes, his chubby little face scrunched up as tears kept rolling from his eyes and running down his cheeks.

He cried for a long time. Only when he was exhausted did he stop. His bright eyes were swollen from crying so much, but that did not keep the people on the Star Network from seeing his deep red irises.

!!!

This was the child of the Emperor and Empress!

It was no wonder they recognized him at a glance.

Black hair was extremely rare in the Empire. Only the Empress had hair that pure black, and eyes that turned red when emotions ran high were a mark of the Imperial family.

This child had both, so naturally they assumed he was the Emperor and Empress's child.

They had always thought the child was dead.

In the great war back then, the Emperor's mental energy ran wild near the end, and he became lost on the battlefield. To save him, the pregnant Empress ignored everyone's protests and entered the battlefield.

The Empress did everything in his power to save the Emperor, giving up his own life and the child's. He said the Empire could not be without its Emperor, and that he wanted his beloved to live.

Theme: Never give up. Hope will come at last!