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Despair never fades away; it merely lies dormant until it encounters someone who can bring hope...
From corrupted beings, deeply corrupted beings, to calamity-level, and then to demon king level, most corrupted creatures have to undergo a long process of evolution.
But for some beings with special qualities, perhaps... all it takes is a single day steeped in enough despair.
Such a day need not be filled with constant pain, because for most people... humanity has a resilience.
The tenacity of life enables them to always adjust in the face of adversity, the more dire the situation, the more they want to persevere, to see the moment when bitterness gives way to sweetness.
But what is truly feared is to see hope and then to have that hope shattered.
For Zhang Haoyun, that hope wasn't actually Zhou Baiyu.
All the beauty that could appear in one's life, all the luck one might experience, those were her hopes.