“Trying to shamelessly seduce the guy Sister Mei likes? Jiang Lang, you really must be tired of living!”
Before Jiang Lang even opened her eyes, she vaguely sensed a shadow looming in front of her.
Instinctively, she grabbed the claw reaching toward her face and twisted hard. A crisp crack of bone breaking immediately rang out from the girl’s wrist.
A shrill scream pierced the sky.
“Ahhh—bitch! My hand!”
Jiang Lang opened her eyes, flung the hand away, and climbed up from the ground.
Standing before her was a group of heavily made-up girls in short skirts. They looked young, but the way they stared at Jiang Lang was vicious, contemptuous, and full of anger.
A trace of confusion flashed through Jiang Lang’s indifferent gaze.
She looked around.
It was a small alley. The cement road was spotless, the nearby buildings neat and orderly, and the sky was bright blue instead of pitch black. The weather was wonderful, and the sunlight falling on her body felt warm.
Everything around her was far too comfortable—completely different from the apocalypse she knew so well.
Jiang Lang lowered her head and looked at her fair, intact hands. Searching through the distant memories in her mind, an absurd guess arose in her heart.
She had returned to before the apocalypse.
This was the street near the university district.
And the people before her were the same ones who had bullied her back in college.
Ever since some time ago, Li Mei and her lackeys had been targeting her, claiming she was a temptress who had seduced Senior Peng Zhi, the guy Li Mei liked.
In her previous life, at this exact time, these lackeys had beaten her so severely under Li Mei’s orders that she was nearly killed. Fortunately, a kind passerby had saved her life.
But now that she had a second chance, she would never allow anyone to bully her again.
“It hurts so much! My wrist is broken!”
The girl clutched her wrist while glaring viciously at Jiang Lang.
“Jiang Lang, you actually dare fight back? You’re dead!”
Jiang Lang remained expressionless. Excitement surfaced briefly in her calm eyes before turning into icy brutality.
The girls charged toward her, baring their sharpened nails as they clawed toward her face.
Jiang Lang stood in place, kicking one flying away with a single foot before slapping another aside.
Three minutes later.
All four girls were curled up on the ground in disbelief. Since when had Jiang Lang become this terrifying?
Jiang Lang raised a hand and grabbed the throat of the girl opposite her. Digging through her distant memories, she recalled her name.
“Zhang Li?”
“Jiang Lang… you’re insane!”
Zhang Li’s face flushed red from being strangled, gradually turning blue and purple from lack of oxygen.
Without blinking, Jiang Lang tightened her grip even further.
The suffocating feeling spread continuously, and despair surged in Zhang Li’s heart. She had an intense feeling that Jiang Lang truly wanted to kill her!
How could she dare?!
If she killed someone, she would have to pay with her own life too!
What puzzled Zhang Li even more was that Jiang Lang had always been an ordinary person before—someone who never fought back when beaten or cursed at, an easy target for bullying. How had her personality suddenly changed so drastically? And how could she fight five people alone now?
Where had she learned such combat skills?
Of course, Zhang Li would never know that the current Jiang Lang was someone who had struggled through the apocalypse for a full ten years, enduring hardships most people could never even imagine.
Naturally, she had developed the temperament and fighting skills of a wild wolf.
“Sister Mei won’t let you off! You’d better release me!”
Li Mei.
Jiang Lang silently repeated the name. Recalling the events of her previous life, the hostility within her intensified, and her grip tightened even more.
“Let go of me!”
Zhang Li could no longer breathe at all and struggled frantically with both hands.
At the very last second before she suffocated to death, Jiang Lang released her.
Zhang Li collapsed onto the ground, trembling all over as she gasped desperately for air.
Jiang Lang slowly crouched down in front of her, staring without blinking.
The moment their eyes met, Zhang Li shrank back in fear.
“If I remember correctly, you’re Li Mei’s favorite little follower, aren’t you?”
Zhang Li trembled violently, clearly terrified out of her mind. She shook her head frantically.
“Jiang Lang, I won’t dare anymore! I really won’t! I promise I’ll never trouble you again!”
Jiang Lang curled her lips slightly. Looking at Zhang Li’s limp wrist, she mercilessly stepped down on it.
“Ahhh—!”
The sound of bones shattering mixed with agonized screams.
Jiang Lang’s eyes turned cold.
Back in her previous life, after learning she had been bullied, her younger brother Jiang Gan had gone to Li Mei to avenge her. He had learned self-defense, and originally he wouldn’t have been at a disadvantage, but there were simply too many people. Li Mei had ambushed him with a knife and then pushed him down a staircase.
His injuries were severe, and one of his legs was crippled.
After the apocalypse began, resources were scarce. His wounds worsened rapidly, became infected, and he died.
This person had played a part in that as well.
…
She slowly lifted her foot.
“Leave your contact information and get lost.”
There was still exactly one month left before the apocalypse began.
Jiang Lang leaned alone in a corner and opened her phone. Looking at the family photo in her album—her father, mother, younger brother, and herself standing together with bright smiles—she couldn’t help but take a deep breath.
They were all still alive and well.
In this life, she would never allow anyone to hurt her family again. Anyone who threatened them… would die!
She ran home.
At the entrance, she saw Madam Bai.
A sob escaped from her throat.
“Mom…”
Hearing how wronged she sounded, Madam Bai hurriedly asked, “Baby, why are you crying? Did someone bully you?”
Jiang Lang shook her head, then suddenly curved her lips.
“I… I want money. A lot of money.”
Madam Bai probed cautiously, “Baby, do you have a boyfriend now? Or did you run into some scumbag? If you need to go to the hospital, Mom will go with you!”
She was practically one step away from directly asking if she was pregnant.
The corners of Jiang Lang’s mouth twitched, and some of her sadness faded.
“There’s no possibility of you becoming a grandmother in the next few years.”
After a few seconds of silence, Madam Bai sighed in relief, though there also seemed to be a hint of disappointment.
“Mom will transfer it to you in a bit.”
The family finances were all managed by her mother.
Madam Bai was a typical career woman. She managed an enormous company and possessed astonishing wealth. Because of her career, she had sacrificed much of the time she could have spent with her children, so to make up for it, she spent more time at home and often took them out to eat or travel.
“Mom, I’m hungry. Tell Dad and my brother to come home too.”
The soft humming tone and sweet, spoiled voice startled Jiang Lang the moment the words left her mouth.
Back then, before the apocalypse, she had also acted spoiled toward her parents like this, hadn’t she?
It truly felt like a lifetime ago.
Madam Bai smiled.
“Alright, Mom will cook for you right away. Your father happens to be free, and your brother’s homeroom teacher called me again today. I really need to teach him a lesson!”