Time slipped by, several years passing as swiftly as a white steed glimpsed through a crack. The Shrek Seven Devils, who had once fought shoulder to shoulder and inspired countless people's envy, no longer had the flawless romantic lives they once enjoyed after the scouring of the years. Among the seven, the four couples had reached very different outcomes: some remained sweetly in love, while others had drifted farther and farther apart.
Yue Zhengyu and Xu Xiaoyan, once celebrated as "the angel and the starry sky," had long since reached the end of their romance. After the upheaval at Sea God's Fate that year, Yue Zhengyu had desperately tried to salvage their relationship, and Xu Xiaoyan had grieved alone in the stillness of the night, but the rift between them was like a scar that would never heal. The arrogance rooted in Yue Zhengyu's bones and the sensitivity deep within Xu Xiaoyan's heart had exhausted their patience through one attempt after another to adjust to each other. Now, although they could still maintain a respectable facade as friends and teammates, the love of those days had long vanished from their eyes. Their relationship existed in name alone, yet both had tacitly avoided piercing that final layer of paper over the window, and they had never reconciled.
Meanwhile, the situation between Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi was more complicated. Although their relationship appeared unbroken, the way they treated each other had long since lost its original flavor. As the Star God Douluo, Ye Xinglan had an extremely forceful personality, and with her incomparably sharp sword intent and formidable strength, she had always held absolute dominance in their relationship.
Whenever the night grew quiet, Xu Lizhi would look at Ye Xinglan sleeping soundly beside him, then at his own still-round, somewhat bulky