In her desperation, she brought her stepsister to find that scumbag, begging him to save her brother.
But instead, she was schemed against by the cheating couple, lost her innocence, and was even dumped by that man.
Her brother eventually woke up but his intelligence had regressed to that of a six-year-old.
As for her, she was framed by her stepsister and charged with attempted murder.
After being convicted, she and her brother were exiled together to Desolate Planet DQ008.
Su Yue reached out and gently touched her lower abdomen.
This child was an accident. The original owner had only discovered his existence a month ago.
At first, she hated and resented the child whose father was unknown. But in the end, she couldn’t bear to get rid of him.
Or rather, given her situation at the time, if she had aborted the child, she might not have survived either.
After all, this was a barren planet. They had no money for medicine, no access to hospitals, and couldn’t afford medical pods.
Su Yue lowered her head and looked at her slightly swollen belly. A warm feeling rose in her heart.
Unlike the original owner, she felt only love for the child in her womb.
During the ten years of the apocalypse, she had once had family by her side.
But later, they all died, leaving her completely alone, struggling through ten long years in that ruined world.
Now things were different.
She had her brother, and in half a year, she would have a child.
Although their current situation was miserable, she was confident she could gradually improve their lives.
Soon, Su Yi brought over two basins of hot water.
Su Yue opened the instant noodles and soaked them.
Sitting nearby, Su Yi kept swallowing his saliva.
After a while, Su Yue felt it was ready.
She opened the lids, added the seasoning and beef, and stirred everything with chopsticks.
“Eat,” she said, handing him a pair of chopsticks.
Su Yi immediately started eating.
Su Yue also began eating.
“So good! So delicious, Yueyue!” Su Yi was clearly starving, devouring the food hungrily.
Su Yue smiled and also ate big mouthfuls. She was starving too.
In less than two minutes, both of them finished their noodles, even drinking the soup clean.
Su Yi stared at the half-full can of beef nearby.
Su Yue smiled.
“Go ahead and finish the canned meat.”
Su Yi immediately reached for it.
But after opening it, he poured it into Su Yue’s bowl instead.
“Yueyue eat. Yueyue has… a baby.” He glanced at her belly.
Su Yue felt a surge of warmth in her heart.
After a moment of hesitation, she took out two pieces of bread from her space.
“I’ll eat the canned meat. These two breads are for you.”
She handed the bread to Su Yi.
She was still very hungry. The noodles alone hadn’t filled her up.
And her brother had S-level mental strength. Even without piloting a mech, his daily energy consumption was far greater than ordinary people. He was likely even hungrier than she was.
Su Yi’s eyes lit up.
“Okay!”
He happily bit into the bread.
“So tasty! This bread is really delicious, Yueyue! It’s even better than natural food!”
Su Yue’s eyes flickered slightly.
Natural food… of course these were natural foods, brought from before the apocalypse.
Yes, although this era had highly advanced technology, natural food was extremely scarce.
The reason was that edible crop seeds were too fragile and difficult to cultivate.
Because of this scarcity, natural food was extremely expensive, often priced ten to even a hundred times higher than synthetic food.
As a result, ordinary people mostly consumed synthetic food or nutrient solutions.
Both the taste and nutritional value of synthetic food and nutrient solutions were far inferior to natural food.
The Empire had officially concluded that long-term consumption of natural food could increase the growth rate of mental power compared to synthetic food.
Even for those who couldn’t afford it regularly, it was recommended to consume at least two kilograms of natural food per week.
Only then could one maintain stable mental strength and a relatively healthy body.
It had been more than three months since she and her brother arrived on this barren planet.
They had only eaten natural food a few times during the first two months. The rest of the time, they relied on synthetic food and nutrient solutions.
Recently, they had become so poor that they couldn’t even afford those anymore.
That was why she fainted yesterday afternoon.
“As long as it tastes good,” Su Yue said with a smile, pulling her thoughts back.
“Let’s work hard together so we can eat natural food every day in the future.”
“Mm!” Su Yi nodded.
“I’ll work hard digging energy stones so my sister and the baby can eat delicious food!”
Su Yue smiled but didn’t correct him.
Tomorrow, her brother would understand.
After resting for the night, Su Yue felt much better when she woke up the next day.
As soon as she opened her eyes, Su Yi arrived.
Carrying a basket on his back and holding a sickle and a hoe, he came to say goodbye.
Because of Su Yue’s poor health, Su Yi had been going out alone for half a month to dig energy stones outside the city.
Clearly, he planned to do the same today.
Yes, there were energy stones on DQ008.
This was also the main reason why it had become an exile planet.
There were two sources of energy in this world: energy crystals and star beast cores.
Energy crystals were refined from energy stones and were the most common energy source in the interstellar world.
Energy stones existed on planets inhabited by star beasts and were relatively abundant.
Star beast cores, however, were rare.
Low-level star beasts did not have cores, while high-level star beasts, though they had cores, were extremely dangerous.
Even though a single high-level star beast core contained immense energy, very few dared to hunt them.
Most star beast cores in the Empire came from battlefields or powerful mercenary groups.
Her brother, like her, was now a criminal without a mech.
Facing even low-level star beasts was extremely dangerous, let alone high-level ones.
So since arriving on DQ008, like other exiles and local low-level residents, they could only survive by digging energy stones.
And their situation was even worse than the locals.
Because they were criminals, they had to submit either 100 jin of energy stones or 2,000-star coins to the Imperial recycling station every month.
Since there were two of them, they had to submit 200 jin of energy stones or 4,000-star coins.
With her poor health and pregnancy, most of the burden had fallen on her brother.
But now, she had to change things.
“Big brother, I’ll go out of the city with you,” Su Yue said.
“How can that be? Yueyue has a baby. You need to stay home and take care of it.” Su Yi refused, glancing at her belly.
Su Yue smiled and gently touched her stomach.
“The baby is still small. It doesn’t need care yet.”
“In less than half a year, it will be born. We need to earn more star coins before that, so the baby won’t go hungry.”
Su Yi frowned. He felt she made sense, but something still seemed off.
Su Yue took out three pieces of bread and two cartons of milk from her space.
“Here. Let’s eat first before we head out.”
Even after a night of rest, she still needed to recover her strength and so did her brother.
This was something she couldn’t afford to skimp on.