Chapter 2: The Trans-Time and Space Drama “Stars”

“Interdimensional anime? I’m living in the second dimension?” Yun Ruoxi caught the keywords.

【You can understand it that way, but the essence is different. For specific differences, you can spend 9,000,000,000 popularity points to inquire.】

“How many popularity points do I have?”

【1100】

【Would you like to check the host’s current popularity, role ranking, and character settings?】

“Check!”

As the words fell, a sky-blue transparent panel instantly appeared on the girl’s retina.

【Name: Yun Ruoxi Yelan】

【Age: 10 years old】

【Fame: Widely known (Appearance)】

【Role Ranking: Female Second Lead (Antagonist)】

【Stellar Energy Index: 145 points First Tier (0)】

【Potential: S(E)】

【Bloodline: A+ Grade Bloodline: Night Orchid Bloodline (Temporary), Unknown Grade Bloodline (Spending 20,000 popularity points can initiate preliminary awakening; full awakening requires 200,000 popularity points)】

【Physical Attributes: Strength B (E), Agility S (B), Willpower A (S), Constitution A(E), Mentality A(C)】

【Note: Physical attributes are based on the average of individuals with the same Stellar Energy level and will change as strength grows】

【Popularity Points: 1100】

The Interstellar Era was different from the Earth Era; there was no longer the distinction of countries, only differences between species.

This was also the key reason for the emergence of the Human Empire.

However, correspondingly, the concept of family quietly sprouted in the Interstellar Era, measured in light-years.

The Yelan family originated from ancient China, with the Night Orchid, a unique economic crop of the West Tower star system, as their family emblem.

Yun Ruoxi was her given name, and Yelan her family name, distinguishing her from countless others with the same given name.

“Why are there brackets behind my Stellar Energy Index, Potential, Bloodline, and Physical Attributes?” Yun Ruoxi asked, puzzled.

【In the original script, Yun Ruoxi did not awaken her bloodline and was sold by the Overlord to the battle camp.

The host’s early awakening of the bloodline angered the Overlord, who planned to extract the Night Orchid Bloodline from the host’s body before sending her to the battle camp.】

【After the bloodline was extracted, except for the willpower attribute which is unrelated to the bloodline, all other attributes will drop to a level slightly lower than that of an average interstellar human.】

“So that means I’m…”

【Please do not blame yourself. Changing the script will bring unknown changes, but it is the best way to gain popularity points.】

“What exactly is this original script you keep mentioning?”

Yun Ruoxi didn’t understand why she was the antagonist—clearly the Overlord should be.

Thanks to the System, although her heart was full of anger now, she could still think and converse calmly.

【The host can spend 2000 popularity points to exchange the rough outline of the first season of the interdimensional anime ‘Stellar’ in the shop (the outline only contains the general plot direction of the first season).】

“I only have 1100 popularity points. Can I get a discount? By the way, where did these 1100 popularity points come from?”

【The system cannot offer discounts but can provide loans.】

【As a beginner’s benefit, the system can temporarily provide a 100,000 popularity points loan during the first season.】

【For the source of the host’s popularity points, please watch the following video.】

A television screen replaced the panel in front of Yun Ruoxi’s eyes.

“Isn’t this the Bilibili playback interface from my previous life?”

Yun Ruoxi was quite familiar with the interface and intuitively used her mind as a mouse, clicking the play button.

“Stellar · Season One PV officially released!”

“UFOtable, Bones, BOSS Studio, CloverWorks… Netflix and multiple countries’ studios joint production.”

“An epoch-making breathtaking space opera, redefining the frontier of human imagination.”

On the pitch-black screen, there was no animation, only the familiar names of various anime studios from her past life.

The background was styled like 1990s sci-fi, paired with the old computer green text display, listing the studios one after another like a menu.

“Looks like I can open the danmaku… let me try.”

She toggled the danmaku on.

A flood of comments quickly scrolled across, rows of “Witness history!” instantly filling the screen.

Yun Ruoxi slid the danmaku opacity to maximum to block out most of it and managed to see some unique comments.

“The big one’s coming, don’t sleep tonight!”

“What the heck, I woke up and I’m transmigrated? How could these studios possibly collaborate?”

“I guess it must be an alien invasion, otherwise I can understand Japan and China collaborating on anime, but why are the Russians and Americans involved too?”

“The power of capital? This is anime unification!”

“Wrong, this is the Anime Silk Road!”

“So this alternate timeline really is the Earth from my previous life?”

Looking at the string of familiar names on the screen, Yun Ruoxi felt as if she had returned to her past life, hesitating slightly.

Until today, she had always thought she had just transmigrated more than ten thousand years into the future of the Original Script.

She never expected to have gone to another dimension entirely.

The ‘Stellar’ pilot PV was actually quite short.

After listing the studios like a menu, only about ten seconds remained.

During these ten seconds, every second, a character’s front black silhouette briefly appeared.

Below each silhouette was their name.

For the first nine seconds, Yun Ruoxi didn’t recognize a single silhouette and could only guess that they were the main characters or the protagonist group of Season One.

Until the tenth second.

Comments.

A loli silhouette, barely reaching 1.4 meters tall with waist-length hair, appeared on the screen.

Under the silhouette was her name.

Yun Ruoxi Yelan.

Only then did she realize where her 1100 popularity points came from.

“Oh ho, it’s a loli, she’s my momma, nya~”

“Wawa, could you tone it down and stop calling me mom?”

“Enough upstairs, she’s clearly my wife.”

Yun Ruoxi was a little uncomfortable, blushing slightly.

Honestly, as a character appearing and being called mom and wife nonstop was quite strange.

It was like being forced to watch your own embarrassing past.

Although Yun Ruoxi had been one of them in her past life, she now found it hard to accept.

She evasively closed the danmaku and exited fullscreen mode.

She then found that while she couldn’t switch the screen to other Bilibili interfaces, she could still stay on the PV screen and browse.

Yun Ruoxi focused on observing the PV release and comment dates.

“I transmigrated on March 7, 2024, and have lived in this dimension for ten years, but this pilot PV was only released on July 4, 2025. It seems the flow of time differs between the two worlds. The PV has only been out for eight days but already has 30 million views.”

Yun Ruoxi opened the comment section and skimmed the hot comments.

“Rational analysis: Six-nation joint production anime, could this be a precursor to easing international tensions? As we all know, our national power has recently exploded…”

“This huge investment, what kind of IP are they trying to build? It feels a bit too absurd! I heard just the recent overwhelming advertising cost 300 million dollars.”

“The background of this anime is space. Don’t you think it might be a heads-up from our mom? That we should start preparing for extraterrestrial colonization?”

“Don’t say that, it might really be true. Internal conflicts on Earth are just so-so; only colonizing other planets is humanity’s future!”

“Shouldn’t we thank Ma Sheng for open-sourcing? I’m telling you…”