Today is the day the Purple-Clad Princess, who owns nine resource planets in the star belt numbered 35791 within the Ant Interstellar River System, completes her trial in a carbon-based life world in the Third-Dimensional Universe and returns to Imperial Capital Star, in the Imperial Capital Heavenly Domain Ecological Sphere of the Ant Interstellar River System, in the Third Universe Plane. It is the day she undergoes her coming-of-age rite.
Wu Wei had waited patiently until his several queen ants finally appeared and entered, one by one, the entrance to the new anthill beneath the grape trellis in the backyard. Only then could he truly let go of the worry weighing on his mind.
His whole body went limp, and he slumped into the reclining chair beneath the trellis. He pulled out the towel he usually kept under the chair's cushion and wiped away the sweat that had trickled from his hair and face down his neck. Unbuttoning the front of his short-sleeved shirt, he stretched his mentally exhausted body across the chair.
As sunlight filtered through the grapevine leaves and fell in scattered patches across his face and body, he closed his eyes in peaceful repose.
On the ground in front of the chair, at the entrance to the new anthill, a purple ant no bigger than a grain of rice opened its mouthparts, which bore two pairs of antennae, and gently breathed in the sleeping Wu Wei's soul. His spirit, lost in dreams, flew toward the tiny purple ant...
