The male lead and the others were all from Jing City.
However, the club where they were staying was in Han City, one hundred kilometers away from Jing City.
These people all came from prominent families in Jing City.
They were watched closely whenever they were in Jing City, so they had deliberately chosen Han City for a private gathering, simply because they wanted some freedom.
Who could have imagined that they would run into the apocalypse?
The group gathered together to discuss their plans for what came next.
Wen Chu did not get involved and quietly sat on the sofa eating.
She had been busy all night and was both hungry and exhausted.
Besides, these people would never ask for her opinion anyway.
In their eyes, she was simply a young girl who was prone to causing trouble, a beautiful vase who was useless except for her looks.
The male lead had been the first to awaken a supernatural ability, so he naturally became the core of this little group.
Song Xingci cleared his throat, unable to hide the smugness in his voice.
“Chuman’s space is a full three thousand cubic meters. I think our most urgent task is to stockpile supplies first.”
He paused before continuing.
“Although Han City does not have as many supplies as Jing City, it is close to Jing City. It takes less than two hours to drive there by highway. Many office workers who work in Jing City rent apartments in Han City and commute by high speed rail. Not to mention people like us who come here for vacations and spending. So the supplies here are more abundant than those in ordinary second tier cities.”
He looked at everyone and analyzed the situation in an orderly manner.
“There are military forces and central government personnel in Jing City, so there is no place for us to interfere there. Han City is different. There are quite a few food factories and pharmaceutical factories here. That is the key.”
The other three had already recovered from their initial shock and nodded in agreement.
Wen Chu chewed on some dried beef before opening another packet of pistachios.
She was eating happily when Shen Chuman walked over.
She was holding a bottle of mineral water and handed it to Wen Chu with a gentle smile.
“Little sister Wen Chu, have some water.”
Wen Chu did not even raise her head.
“I am not thirsty. Thank you.”
She did not take it.
Shen Chuman simply kept holding out the bottle without lowering her hand.
This scene happened to be seen by Song Xingci.
The voices of the people discussing their plans abruptly stopped.
Song Xingci strode over, his face dark with anger.
“Wen Chu, why are you bullying Chuman?”
Wen Chu still had pistachios in her mouth and had not swallowed them yet. She was stunned by his question.
She pointed at herself with a bewildered expression.
“Me?”
Shen Chuman quickly grabbed Song Xingci’s arm, her voice as soft as cotton candy.
“Xingci, you misunderstood. Little sister Wen Chu did not bully me.”
Song Xingci lovingly pulled Shen Chuman into his arms.
“Chuman, I saw everything. She ordered you to bring her water and then deliberately refused to take it, making you keep holding it out.”
Wen Chu finally swallowed the pistachios in her mouth.
She sprang up from the sofa.
Song Shiyu and the other two had just been about to stand up and defend her, but when they saw her imposing attitude, they sat back down.
It seemed they did not need to step in.
Wen Chu stared at Song Xingci with undisguised mockery.
“If there is something wrong with your eyes, go get them treated. If your ears are deaf, go see a doctor. Which of your eyes saw me bully her, and which of your ears heard me do it?”
She pointed at the tea table in front of her.
“I was sitting here peacefully eating. She came over on her own and offered me water. I said, ‘I am not thirsty, thank you.’ She insisted on holding it out anyway. What was I supposed to do?”
Wen Chu gave a cold laugh and went all out.
“She has had close contact with you, but she and I do not even know each other. We have never even spoken a single word to each other. Do you seriously think I would dare drink the water she gave me?”
The room became so quiet that even their breathing could be heard.
No one had recovered from the shock.
Wen Chu had been spoiled and willful since childhood, yet she had always obeyed Song Xingci without question and had never spoken harshly to him.
She had always been like a little tail following behind Song Xingci.
Wherever he went, she followed. Whatever he said, she nodded and agreed.
When has anyone ever seen her like this?
Song Xingci was stunned as well.
Shen Chuman’s eyes immediately turned red, and her voice became choked with tears.
“It really was like that… I was the one who insisted on bringing water to little sister Wen Chu…”
But with that tone and that expression, anyone who did not know the truth might have thought she had suffered some enormous injustice.
Wen Chu looked at her, and a complicated feeling suddenly rose in her heart.
When she had been reading the novel, she had initially envied the female lead for having such good food.
But as the story progressed, that envy had gradually turned into sympathy.
This novel was a 1VN story. The female lead not only had the male lead as her primary man, she also had three more men as secondary partners.
On the surface, all the men loved and cherished her. They could not bear to see her suffer even the slightest injury and protected her inside the base, refusing to let anyone approach her.
The female lead always had the best food and drinks, while all the men in her harem were incredibly vigorous and spent their nights indulging themselves.
Yet the more Wen Chu read, the more something felt wrong.
Were these men simply treating the female lead as a walking warehouse?
They used her space to store supplies, but never allowed her to train her supernatural ability.
After the female lead reached level three, her space of more than ten thousand cubic meters was packed with supplies, yet she could not even use the most basic spatial blade.
Whenever she encountered trouble, all she could do was cry and ask the men in her harem for help.
A perfectly good female lead in an apocalypse story had been turned into an exquisite parasitic vine, completely incapable of surviving without men.
If you truly loved someone, could you really bear to let her have absolutely no ability to protect herself in the apocalypse?
Looking at Shen Chuman’s delicate and helpless appearance now, Wen Chu simply felt uncomfortable.
Song Xingci quickly patted Shen Chuman’s shoulder reassuringly, his voice gentle.
“Chuman, you are simply too kind. Do not be afraid. I will protect you.”
Then he turned toward Wen Chu, his expression darkening again.
“Who knows whether you are simply jealous of Chuman?”
Wen Chu’s eyes widened.
“I am jealous of her?”
“I am one hundred seventy centimeters tall, with a beautiful figure, an exquisite face, and I am the only daughter of the Wen family. I am jealous of her?”
“What could I possibly be jealous of? Jealous that she is together with a rotten cucumber like you?”
Song Xingci’s expression became even uglier.
“This is the apocalypse. What use are all those things you mentioned?
Chuman has awakened the rare spatial ability.”
“In the apocalypse, strength is what matters!”
Wen Chu said nothing.
She raised her hand, and a clear little ball of water floated above her palm.
In reality, she had simply released it from her space.
“A supernatural ability?” She tilted her head, her tone casual. “What is so impressive about that? Who does not have one?”
For now, she did not want to expose her control ability. That was her greatest trump card.
She had not inherited the original owner’s memories, and the book contained very little information about the original owner. At the moment, she had no one she could absolutely trust.
But she could not truly pretend to be an ordinary person either. Given how ruthless Song Xingci could be, he might really abandon her.
Besides, she had never passed a driving test in either of her two lives and did not know how to drive.
How was she supposed to get back to Jing City? Walk there?
She remembered that the male and female leads had a black business vehicle. It was an imported model with bulletproof glass and was extremely sturdy.
If she wanted to hitch a ride back with them, she could not make herself look completely useless.
“Water ability!”
Song Shiyu was the first to react, looking delighted as he strode over.
“Our Wen Chu awakened a supernatural ability too? That is amazing!”
He reached out and rubbed the top of Wen Chu’s head, smiling so broadly that his eyes curved.
Beichuan leaned against the sofa with his legs crossed and gave a cold laugh before adding sarcastically.
“Wen Chu herself has a water ability. Would she really be short of drinking water? Why would she need someone else to bring her water? I wonder what certain people are really up to.”
His words were completely merciless, and his criticism was clearly aimed at Shen Chuman.
Shen Chuman’s eyes became even redder. She bit her lip without saying anything and shrank slightly into Song Xingci’s arms.
It was as though his arms were her safe harbor. As long as she entered them, someone would stand up for her.
Song Xingci did not say anything else. Instead, he looked deeply at Wen Chu.
That gaze was complicated, containing surprise, scrutiny, and something else that was difficult to define.
After a moment, he turned around and continued discussing the collection of supplies with everyone.