The real world, Station 13.
The Dimensional Audience watched Caroline on the screen, whom they had not seen for a long time, and their hearts felt complicated.
Caroline had long since shed her youthful innocence.
Her identity had also changed from a member of the Ember Organization, despised by all,
to a prodigy Mechanical Star Envoy certified by the headquarters of the Star Envoy Association.
She had even become the disciple of General President Enit, hailed as the Current Strongest Star Envoy.
No matter how one looked at it, she was far better off than she had been six years ago.
She was a dazzling, peerless presence, with no one able to match her limelight.
Yet when the Dimensional Audience looked at that solitary, desolate figure on the screen, able only to drink afternoon tea by herself,
they still felt an inexplicable surge of pity in their hearts.
Because everyone who had followed Season 1 of "Stellaris" knew that although Caroline always had the words, "I'm just Tiandao's tool, the shadow that follows him," on her lips,
Tiandao had never regarded her as a tool or an appendage.
The relationship between the two was more like that of close friends, or something special that went far beyond ordinary companions.
They gave off the feeling of being "more than friends, less than lovers"—each other's one and only "exception."
And both of them were strikingly attractive, while Tiandao's unpredictability and Caroline's rationality created an interesting contrast.
This made the Tian Ca Faction the undisputed champion of Stellaris's CP battlefield, standing alone at the summit.
This pairing alone could firmly suppress every other CP faction.
Yet no one had expected the Stellaris Production Team to heartlessly split apart the Official Couple Ceiling in the Dimensional Audience's hearts at the end of Season 1.