The window of one of the guest rooms on the second floor of the villa was still lit.
Tang Wutong sat at the desk by the window. A blank notebook lay open before her, and although she held a pen in her hand, she did not write for a long time.
She gazed at the starry sky outside. Some of those flickering points were stars, some were distant Soul Tool Satellites, and some might have been faint light refracted from the God Realm as it drifted through the cosmos.
Ten thousand years ago, when the God Realm still existed, the night sky had not looked like this.
Back then, the nights were clearer, and the starlight gentler.
When she had still been Wang Dong... no, Wang Dong'er, before he defected from Shrek Academy, everyone had condemned Huo Yuhao. Yet Wang Dong'er alone had chosen to comfort him.
At the time, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er had still been good friends... Though Wang Dong'er's feelings had been one-sided, Huo Yuhao had still tried to accept that Wang Dong'er was a girl.
That night, Huo Yuhao had pointed toward Scorpio and told her that there was an asteroid there called Dong'er Star, one he had marked with his Spiritual Power. No matter what corner of the universe she was in, as long as she found that star, she would be able to find the way home.
Later, she had truly tried to find it.
During those wandering years after the God Realm was swept away by the turbulent currents of space-time, through countless lonely nights, she had looked up at unfamiliar skies, trying to find the one star that belonged only to her among endless points of light.
But she had not found it.
Perhaps the celestial body had shifted, perhaps the