“No, please let me go. It hurts, it hurts so much… How can you do this to me? What did I ever do wrong?”
Excruciating pain swept through her entire body as she struggled desperately.
Her agonized cries echoed across the sky, only to be quickly swallowed by the howling cold wind.
Lin Yuhan watched helplessly as her former family, friends, lover, colleagues, and neighbors surrounded her, each of them wearing a hideous expression as they turned against her.
Their clubs came crashing down on Lin Yuhan’s head. After a burst of intense pain, everything before her eyes turned crimson.
Just as she was about to collapse from exhaustion, she heard He Yiming’s final roar beside her.
“Let her go! You beasts, let her go!”
The next moment, Lin Yuhan saw He Yiming, covered in blood, push through the crowd and throw himself over her, using his own body to shield her from the merciless blows.
But everything He Yiming did was futile. The brutal beating did not stop.
One blow after another landed on the man’s body. Lin Yuhan could hear the sound of his bones breaking and the sound of blood gushing out. She could even feel He Yiming’s blood dripping onto her face.
Helplessly, she screamed with all her strength, “He Yiming, I’m sorry. I got you into this. Run, hurry and run!”
But in the apocalypse, tears were useless.
Lin Yuhan could only watch as He Yiming was eventually torn apart and devoured by the crowd right before her eyes.
With He Yiming no longer there to protect her, Lin Yuhan was also slowly torn to pieces by those people.
As her consciousness gradually faded, she suddenly heard Lin Jiaojiao shouting, “I was the one who tricked her into opening the door! I should get a share of that bag of food too!”
Bai Sili, standing nearby, screamed hysterically, “Nonsense! I’m the one who tricked her into opening the door. I should get a larger share of the supplies!”
Lin Jiaojiao was Lin Yuhan’s stepsister. After Lin Yuhan’s mother died, her dad married Cui Fengzhi, a woman who already had a son and daughter of her own, Lin Jiaojiao and Lin Dongdong.
But Lin Yuhan had never treated Lin Jiaojiao or Lin Dongdong badly simply because they were not related to her by blood.
She regarded Lin Jiaojiao as her own younger sister and Lin Dongdong as her own younger brother.
Even after the apocalypse began, when supplies had become scarce, Lin Yuhan still had a small amount of supplies thanks to He Yiming’s help.
Because she cared about her dad, she often gave some of the supplies at home to her family. Yet the person her dad cared about was his wife and her children.
Bai Sili was the man Lin Yuhan had always admired. He was an attending physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at the First Hospital of A City.
Lin Yuhan had once loved him deeply and pursued him for a long time, taking the initiative to chase after him.
Yet Bai Sili had always kept her at arm’s length, often eating and drinking at her expense without paying a cent.
Because Lin Yuhan had always believed that they were dating, she never held it against him.
In reality, however, Bai Sili had always treated Lin Yuhan as nothing more than a devoted backup option.
After the apocalypse arrived and supplies became scarce, Bai Sili began fawning over Lin Yuhan and joined forces with Lin Jiaojiao to deceive her with all kinds of sweet words until they tricked her into opening the door.
In the end, Lin Yuhan paid the price for her foolish devotion, and He Yiming paid for it with his life.
At that moment, she had watched helplessly as He Yiming was torn apart while protecting her, only to see herself slowly devoured afterward.
She regretted it deeply, regretting how foolish she had been.
She had never imagined that the very family members and people she had once loved, the people she had desperately protected, would be so eager to push her into an abyss of despair at that very moment.
And He Yiming, the poor man who had always stayed by her side, could have survived in the apocalypse.
Yet he had exhausted himself searching for supplies for Lin Yuhan and protecting her at every turn, only to end up losing his life because of her.
At that moment, Lin Yuhan wished more than anything that she could have another chance.
If she could live her life over again, she would definitely make every person who had hurt her pay the price.
Then she would stay by the devoted He Yiming’s side and survive the apocalypse with him.
But it seemed everything was already too late.
Lin Yuhan’s consciousness grew increasingly faint, and the pain gradually subsided until darkness finally consumed her vision…
A sudden alarm rang out, and Lin Yuhan jolted awake in bed.
Sunlight streamed through the curtains and fell across her face. Covered in cold sweat with her heart racing and her head aching slightly, she struggled to calm herself before looking around.
“What is going on? How can there be such beautiful sunlight? Didn’t I die? Why is it so warm?”
Isn’t this my old home?
The warm sunlight, the neat furnishings in the room, everything was exactly as she remembered.
She opened the window and looked down at the plaza. Birds were singing, flowers were blooming, and a group of elderly men and women were doing their morning exercises.
The peaceful life she had not seen in so long left Lin Yuhan utterly astonished.
Because in June 2023, Earth Star was affected by the explosion of a super magnetic star located one million light-years away, causing temperatures around the world to plummet.
Even though it was June, a massive snowstorm struck, and the temperature dropped as low as minus seventy degrees Celsius.
Blizzards swept across the entire Huaxing Planet, burying every city beneath mountains of snow.
Almost all life on Earth was wiped out. Under the protection of her special-forces-trained devoted boyfriend, He Yiming, Lin Yuhan struggled to survive in the apocalypse for three long years.
As she watched humanity teeter on the brink of extinction in the disaster, she was ultimately betrayed by her own family and friends and became nothing more than a speck of dust in the apocalypse.
Lin Yuhan turned around and walked into the kitchen, where the pot still contained the crystal sugar, white fungus, and snow pear soup she had made the previous night.
Tears filled her eyes as she picked up the crystal sugar, white fungus, and snow pear soup she loved most.
After three years of struggling desperately through the apocalypse, this simple soup was nothing short of a precious treasure to her.
She ate mouthful after mouthful, tears streaming down her face as she did so.
At that moment, the Xiaodu speaker began announcing the time.
“Good morning! A beautiful day begins right now. Today is May 1, 2023, International Workers’ Day. Happy holiday to every hardworking person!”
“May 1… That means there is still one month before the apocalypse arrives. He Yiming should be on a business trip in Hai B City right now and hasn’t returned yet.”
Lin Yuhan picked up her phone and checked the date once again. Only after confirming the time did she let out a long breath.
She knew that she had been reborn, returning to one month before the apocalypse arrived.
Nothing had happened yet. Everything could still be changed.
Heaven had truly treated her well by giving her another chance to live.
A sharp glint flashed through Lin Yuhan’s eyes.
In her previous life, she had given her sincere love to the wrong people and suffered terribly because of those scumbags. Since she had been given another chance at life, she would never let anyone who had once harmed her get away with it.
And she would never forget He Yiming, who had died tragically for her in her previous life.
“He Yiming, I’ve been reborn. This time, I will protect you properly. We will stay together and survive the apocalypse, and I will make every one of those scumbags pay the price they deserve.”