Time flowed quietly in the Stillness Realm. In the blink of an eye, Mu You reached his five hundredth year there.
On the day they completed five hundred years, the two even held a celebration.
By now, they had broken Vivian's record.
When Vivian had lasted five hundred years, she had already been dazed and utterly exhausted, with practically one foot in hell.
Now, the two of them had reached that same point, but unlike Vivian back then, they were not at the end of their rope. Instead, both were mentally stable and felt they could live here for a long time yet. If they really had to leave immediately, they might even have been a little reluctant.
Meanwhile, Lin Xue's child-rearing game continued. Every day, she earnestly played the role of a mother. Sometimes Mu You could not even tell whether she was "acting" at all. If she was, her acting had become masterful enough to win any best actress award on Earth.
Whatever the case, in this world where everything stood still, this somewhat strange activity was, after all, a way to improve her mood. So Mu You never exposed her and quietly continued playing along.
Another two hundred-odd years passed like this.
Until year 716 of the Stillness Realm calendar.
It was a perfectly ordinary day.
Mu You sighed. He had never imagined that the first thing to drive a wedge between them would not be the tedium of the Stillness Realm, but an obsession with something they could not have.
But Mu You stopped her.
Lin Xue froze, then gave a helpless laugh a few seconds later. "You're not jealous, are you? Honestly, who gets jealous of their own daughter... All right, all right, I admit I've been paying too much attention to the baby lately