Reflected on the glass window was the ice-cold probing deep in Luo Xiaoxiao’s eyes. “Someone suddenly attacked me just now, and I’m at the hospital getting an injury assessment right now. I’m a little scared—can you come keep me company? Please? You know that you’re the only person I trust the most…”
Luo Xiaoxiao was a book-transmigrator.
When she transmigrated into this apocalyptic favorite-pet novel, it was precisely one year before the outbreak of the end times. So, with the system’s assistance, she spent a year farming the female lead Ma Xiaoli’s favorability and even used a few clever tricks to snatch away her official love interest. Once the apocalyptic acid rain arrived and the zombies began to bite, she even successfully stole Ma Xiaoli’s million-stockpile space—the Jade Buddha.
In her past life, Luo Xiaoxiao walked Ma Xiaoli’s path, leaving Ma Xiaoli with nowhere to go, and replaced her as the apocalyptic favorite pet.
Unfortunately, at the end of the third year of the end times, an organization from a certain mysterious group appeared out of nowhere, disrupting her comfortable life.
Upon learning that this organization was recruiting plant-type ability wielders and had promised them all kinds of lavish conditions and privileges, the base chief and even the men around her actually started plotting against Ma Xiaoxiao!
Had Luo Xiaoxiao not overheard their secret conversation, if Ma Xiaoxiao were to counterattack overnight, she would have come to settle scores with her first!
To prevent Ma Xiaoxiao’s retaliation, Luo Xiaoxiao had no choice but to strike first to gain the upper hand, instigating Ma Xiaoxiao’s grand-aunt and her family to set a trap and send Ma Xiaoxiao into the mouths of zombies.
To her absolute hatred, Ma Xiaoxiao actually unleashed her ability at the ultimate moment, using vines to drag her straight into the pile of zombies!
With no other choice, Luo Xiaoxiao could only sacrifice all her system points at the critical moment to exchange for rebirth—yet, after her rebirth, her huge system was nowhere to be found!
Luo Xiaoxiao had already carefully reviewed everything!
For Ma Xiaoxiao’s grand-aunt and her family to come looking for her, the most likely reason was that they had been reborn too.
Luo Xiaoxiao felt the probability of this family being reborn was exceptionally high.
Because when Ma Xiaoxiao dragged her down to perish together, she herself had let slip the matter of the Jade Buddha!
That was why they had eagerly come searching for her!
However, how did they know she was at the hotel?
Could it be that Ma Xiaoxiao had also been reborn? So, when Ma Xiaoxiao was delivering the errands supplies just now, she had recognized her! Therefore, after discovering that the family had also been reborn, Ma Xiaoxiao deliberately let them come over to cause trouble for her?
If that was truly the case, would she still have a chance to snatch Ma Xiaoxiao’s Jade Buddha?
At this thought, Luo Xiaoxiao pinched her uninjured arm fiercely. The pain made her tears and whimpering sound a bit more genuine: “Xiaoli, I beg of you, I’m so scared…”
No matter what, Luo Xiaoxiao decided to trick her over first and see how things stood!
Who could have expected that after a long silence on the other end of the phone, a strange man’s voice suddenly came through: “Who is Xiaoli? Is she the owner of this phone?”
All of Luo Xiaoxiao’s grievances and racing thoughts froze in an instant. Her expression stiffened severely, her voice betraying a hint of breakdown: “You—who are you?”
The man on the other side: “This is the security room of TCM University! Someone just found this phone and brought it over. If you know the owner of this phone, just have her come over to claim it.”
Under extreme emotional turmoil, Luo Xiaoxiao suffocated for a moment, only able to agree with a strange expression.
Immediately after, she pulled up the WeChat app, tapped into her dormitory group chat, and asked if anyone could contact Ma Xiaoli.
Prohibit Emo Little Fairy: Isn’t Xiaoli in the group?
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Luo Xiaoxiao—Luo Xiaoxiao cursed fiercely: “Useless trash!”
If her system was still around, she could have directly locked onto Ma Xiaoxiao’s location!
At the same time, Ma Xiaoli searched through the street stalls at Crystal Palace and finally found a small pendant roughly the same size as her Jade Buddha. After a back-and-forth bargaining match with a bald old man, she finally spent a whopping 15 yuan to secure this small pendant, then happily rode her electric scooter back to her father’s detached villa.
Pushing the door open to walk inside, she didn’t expect her father to be standing akimbo in the entryway with a ferocious expression.
“Where did you go? Why was your phone lost?”
Faced with her father’s sharp tongue-lashing, Ma Xiaoli’s reaction was to pull out her phone and take a look at the time, “You skipped work?”
The corner of her father’s mouth twitched as he stared at the phone in her hand: “Wasn’t your phone lost?”
What was lost was naturally not the errand runner phone, but a second-hand model of the same phone that Ma Xiaoli had casually bought at a second-hand shop.
She had merely put her SIM card into the second-hand phone, then deliberately tossed the phone in front of the TCM University security room door.
However, Ma Xiaoli had no desire to explain any of this to her father.
Ma Xiaoli kicked off her sneakers and put on slippers: “Home at 17:49—truly worthy of an evil capitalist.”
Her father choked for a moment, “Where did you get the money to buy a new phone? Aren’t all your credit cards maxed out?”
Ma Xiaoli raised her head with a look of astonishment: “Where would I get a credit card from? The money for this phone was naturally earned by me working my way through school and running errands part-time.”
Her father’s expression instantly turned somewhat dangerous: “You… didn’t receive the supplementary card I gave you?”
Ma Xiaoli was just about to curse him as a lunatic when she suddenly paused. She grinned at her father, who was repeatedly jumping on the edge of rage: “Ha, who would have thought that a dignified industrialist would actually be scammed out of money by his grand-aunt’s family? No big deal.”
Passing by her father’s side, she patted his shoulder with a face full of sympathy: “Having more money than brains means you deserve to be scammed out of money by weird relatives. Either way, it’s not the first time you’ve been tricked.”
Watching Ma Xiaoli walk upstairs in a nonchalant manner, her father bit his lip, pulled out his phone, and called his assistant: “Go investigate! My money, my cards—in whose hands are they exactly?!”
After discovering that he might have been scammed by the grand-aunt’s family, Ma Xiaoli’s father ruthlessly forced his assistant into overtime 5 minutes before leaving work. After the assistant reported back, learning that the grand-aunt’s family had not only pocketed the credit card supplementary card and squandered his money, but had also made his only daughter suffer to the fullest…
Her father flew into a rage and personally contacted a lawyer on the spot to formally sue the grand-aunt’s family… Of course, that was all a story for later.
After returning to the bedroom, Ma Xiaoli immediately stepped forward to check on her grandmother’s condition.
Her grandmother had a new cooling patch on her head, which should have been replaced by Ye Huiling, because as soon as Ma Xiaoli sat down on the edge of the bed, she came in holding an electronic thermometer.
Seeing Ma Xiaoli, Ye Huiling was somewhat surprised.
“38.2 degrees, still a slight fever. Xiaoli, Grandmother is getting on in years, we must send her to the hospital.”
Ye Huiling naturally knew that Grandmother was undergoing chemotherapy. She wasn’t as delicate and unwelcoming toward Grandmother as the grand-aunt claimed. Whether out of genuine affection or fake pleasantry, Ma Xiaoli’s view of Ye Huiling shifted slightly for the better: “No need, the doctor said Grandmother’s condition is normal.”
Ye Huiling frowned: “The doctor? You mean you went to the hospital just now to find Grandmother’s attending physician?”
Ma Xiaoli was just talking nonsense, but since Ye Huiling provided her with an excuse, she nodded, “You can go out now, I’ll take care of Grandmother and give her some medicine.”
Ye Huiling: “How about this—I’ll have the family doctor come over to examine Grandmother?”