In a room in the Grand Bazaar, Nilu sat beside the bed and looked worriedly at the woman lying on the bed.

In my memory, the beautiful woman who was so radiant on the stage now looked a little haggard.

"teacher..."

Nilu grabbed Samuel's hand, and her eyes subconsciously fell to the other's ankles, which were covered by the sheets.

"Is it true that you can't dance anymore?"

Facing his disciple's concerned gaze, Samuel shook his head with a smile, but there was a bit of reluctance in his eyes.

"I know that I can walk on my feet after only two days of use, but I think I can't dance on stage like I used to."

There was a lot of regret in his words.

In fact, Samuel is only in his mid-thirties this year, so he naturally looks very big compared to Nelu, who has just grown up.

But if taken individually, in fact the golden age of a dancer is about 28 to 38 years old, and she is only in the second half now.

But the foot injury did exacerbate the decline in her career.

Samuel touched the girl's short hair, which was already as red as a tomato, and his eyes were filled with the image of Nelu who studied under her when she was a teenager.

"In a blink of an eye, you have grown so old, and it is time to take this opportunity to step on the stage."

"Teacher, but I-"

Halfway through her words, Nilu saw the glimmer of hope in Samuel's eyes, and she couldn't even utter the words of retreat on her lips.

She thinks that she is still far behind her teacher and has not yet gone out.

But now that Samuel has withdrawn from the Zubair Theater, it is time for someone to take the lead.

Moreover, Mr. Zubair watched her performance and agreed with the teacher's decision. No matter what, she could not refuse the next arrangements.

Thinking of this, Nilu immediately drooped her head.

Like a fish that has been struck head-on.

"I think your foot injury must have been caused by those from the Order."

Nilu muttered reluctantly, but Samuel's expression suddenly changed after hearing this.

She quickly reached out her hand to cover the girl's mouth and said seriously.

"We can't let outsiders hear this."

As a dancer who has worked at the Zubair Theater for almost twenty years, Samuel knows what the Holy Order means in Xumi City.

No matter how famous she is in front of others, it would only take a few words for any middle-level cadre in the church to punish her.

Although the so-called actress doesn't sound good, that's what she is.

And Nilu will be such a person in the next twenty years.

If you want to shine at the Zubair Theater, you must accept this reality.

Nilu blinked her eyes, wondering why the teacher's reaction was so big.

But she still nodded to indicate that she heard.

Seeing this, Samuel breathed a sigh of relief and released his hand covering the girl.

"But teacher, you were injured when the Academy sent people to inspect the stage...those guys have been displeased with us for a long time."

"Silly boy, don't worry about this."

Samuel knew that Nilu had resentment in her heart, and that resentment was not directed at her, but against the huge authority.

But precisely because of this, she hoped that Nelu would blame her instead of the Imperial Academy.

Samuel took off the void terminal worn by Nelu's ear and spoke earnestly.

"Nilu, please remember that people who shine brilliantly on the stage should hide themselves as deeply as possible after they get off the stage. It is best to regard yourself as a speck of dust and disappear into the world."

"oh."

Nilu tilted her head in confusion.

Looking at the girl's pretty face, Samuel seemed to see herself when she was young. She reached out and touched the girl's head.

Under the sunlight, this scene looked so peaceful.

Those who don’t know better think that Samuel is old enough to be a grandmother.

And just out of sight of the two of them, Bai Qiyun had quietly arrived outside the window of his residence, and with his extraordinary perception, he understood the conversation in the house clearly.

'Tsk, your eyes never left that little girl.'

"Shut up, I'm observing the mission target."

Bai Qiyun lied with a blushing face and his heart not beating.

Yes, King Daci Shu was right, he was indeed looking at Nilu's figure.

While admiring it, he still had serious business to do.

"The Nilu here is much greener than the one in reality."

'So? You want to seduce an ignorant girl?'

"Why do you always think of me in that direction..."

Bai Qiyun coughed lightly and did not intend to continue chatting on this topic.

After confirming Nilu's location, he released a series of pure water birds to observe Nilu's every move, and then left far away.

After all, he has been squatting around here like a crazy person. If Nilu discovers this, it will be embarrassing to meet him in real life.

You must know that the entire dreamland was transformed by Nilu. Although her ontological consciousness has always been in Samuel's room, the passers-by transformed by her subconscious are still walking around Xumi City.

If discovered by these people, Nilu would also notice it after waking up from the dream.

'What are you going to do next?'

"Two days later, Nelu will make her debut on stage. This dream event will definitely revolve around that debut... By the way, did anything happen in real life when Nelu made her debut?"

Suddenly, an idea flashed in Bai Qiyun's mind.

There is an old saying in Liyue, which goes like "thinking about things every day and dreaming about things at night."

Only things that impressed Nilu deeply can become part of the dream.

But what responded to Bai Qiyun was silence.

"Hey, what, did you fall asleep again?"

After a while, after an unknown length of silence, Lin's slightly helpless voice sounded again.

‘No records of that day’s Zubair Theater were found in the Void Terminal.’

"No?"

Hearing this, Bai Qiyun's face was startled.

How is this possible? The people of Xumi City almost never go out without the Void Terminal. How could there be no record?

'Yes, it must have been erased artificially, and it was possible to do this without concealing it from me...'

"Great Sage Azar, that dead man left a lot of mess."

Bai Qiyun's impression of Azar became even worse.

However, since it was Azar who deleted the incident record, the general outline of the whole incident has become much clearer.

There is definitely a disgraceful side to the Order, and it can be seen that it is not accidental.

From the fact that Samuel's foot injury was suspected by Nelu and others to be related to the Order, and then later when Nelu's void record was deleted when she first appeared, it was most likely that the Order had deliberately tampered with it.

For example... disrupting the order of the theater in the name of supervision, and then taking advantage of the chaos, causing Samuel's foot injury.

Then I tried to use this method to repeat what happened to Samuel to Nelu, but in the end it failed for some unknown reason.
Chapter completed!