“Wanwan, I’m sorry. I’m too late! I won’t let you die. I won’t! With me here, you’ll survive. You have to live…”
A tall, exceptionally handsome man carefully held a woman in his arms. All four of her limbs had been severed, and her entire body was covered in blood.
His face was filled with fear and despair. A trace of madness flickered in his deep, handsome eyes.
Lin Wan lay in his arms, staring at Shen Mochi in astonishment. She could also see the earth-shattering urgency and regret in his eyes, which made her heart tremble.
Blood continued to pour from her wounds. She could clearly feel her life slipping away.
It was already the fifth year of the apocalypse. In the end, she had died because of the ridiculous thing called family affection. Her sworn enemy, Lin Ran, had stolen everything from her and driven her into a corner!
But she was the one dying, not Lin Ran. So why was Shen Mochi reacting like this?
Hadn’t he once been one of Lin Ran’s devoted admirers?
Now, he was also the leader of the number one base in the apocalypse. But why had he struck Lin Ran down with his lightning ability the moment he arrived, then held her in his arms with reddened eyes?
A wave of dizziness washed over her, and the excruciating pain suddenly eased considerably.
She knew she was about to die.
Forget it. None of it mattered anymore. Everything was already too late.
After fighting for so many years, she had ultimately lost to Lin Ran. But she was unwilling to accept it!
If only she could have another life…
Her eyelids grew heavy. The taste of blood filled her mouth, and she began coughing up mouthfuls of blood.
Carrying her hatred with her, Lin Wan gradually sank into darkness.
In the final few seconds before her consciousness disappeared, she heard a deep, sorrowful voice.
“System, I want to use the one remaining chance at rebirth I have for Lin Wan right now!”
“Are you sure, Host? You have a super virus inside your body. If you use your only remaining chance at rebirth, your system will disappear permanently! You won’t have much longer to live either.”
“I’m sure! Hurry up and give it to her!”
“Understood. Lin Wan has obtained a chance at rebirth. The time of rebirth is unknown!”
“Lin Wan, just let Ranran live in that house. You spend all day doing nothing anyway, so you don’t need it.”
“That’s right. You’re her older sister, so you should give in to Ranran. Tomorrow, I’ll take you to transfer the property into her name.”
When Lin Wan heard those two voices that she hated with every fiber of her being, her body couldn’t help but shudder.
Her beautiful almond-shaped eyes widened, filled with confusion and numbness.
Her gaze shifted slightly.
The spacious, immaculate room. The European-style crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling…
This was clearly the Lin family’s villa from before the apocalypse!
At that moment, she was even lying on a soft, comfortable bed…
How long had it been since she had felt such warmth and comfort?
It felt wonderful.
She must be hallucinating because she was about to die, right?
But even though she was dying, why did those two utterly disgusting figures have to appear in her hallucinations?
She was unwilling to accept it. Her hatred was overwhelming.
But… everything was already too late.
She closed her eyes, unwilling to look at those two disgusting people. She just wanted to enjoy this final moment of comfort in her hallucination.
However, she couldn’t help remembering how her life had ended.
She had struggled so hard to survive in the apocalypse, only to be injected with the deadliest doomsday virus by her two biological older brothers in the fifth year. Then her stepsister, Lin Ran, had cut off her limbs to use her as an experimental subject.
In the end, she had suffered unbearable agony. Her internal organs had throbbed with pain, blood had poured from all seven orifices, and the cold had pierced straight through her bones.
It was Shen Mochi, who had rushed there at the last moment, who had given her that final trace of warmth…
As she thought about this, those two voices from the end of her life kept echoing in her mind.
The system? Rebirth? Giving her a chance?
Could it be…
No way! That was simply too absurd!
“Hey, Lin Wan! Stop pretending to be dead! I’m talking to you! What kind of attitude is that?”
A sudden shove interrupted her thoughts.
Lin Wan’s eyes snapped open. She glared fiercely at the two people sitting beside her bed, her gaze filled with hatred.
Lin Ze froze. For some reason, the icy, sharp hatred in her eyes actually startled him.
Lin Xu also stared at her in disbelief. His shock soon turned into overwhelming anger.
He stepped forward and roughly dragged Lin Wan up. She still had a fever, and her face was flushed.
He snapped viciously,
“How dare you look at Big Brother and me like that? You bully Ranran all the time, and now you think you can climb all over our heads too?”
The genuine pain in her arm startled Lin Wan!
She stared at her slender arm in disbelief as an absurd thought once again surfaced in her mind.
Could it be… that she really wasn’t dead?
That was impossible!
Then could it be…
She had been reborn!
Could the words she had heard at the very end not have been a hallucination? Had Shen Mochi really exchanged his system for her chance at rebirth?
But why?
Hadn’t they always disliked each other?
Besides, how precious and important was a system in the apocalypse?
Lin Ze watched her lower her head and stare at her arm with a strange, solemn expression. Her silence only made him increasingly irritated.
He frowned.
“Lin Wan! Are you even listening to us?”
Lin Wan abruptly raised her head. Looking at the two faces before her that bore some resemblance to her own, her eyes filled with murderous hatred!
Everything from her previous life surged through her mind. The overwhelming resentment was impossible to suppress, and her eyes turned red.
Who cared whether this was a hallucination or whether she had truly been reborn?
She would deal with them first!
If she really had been reborn, even better. She would have plenty of time to figure out what had happened later!
“SMACK!”
“SMACK!”
Lin Wan swung both hands at once, summoning all her strength to deliver a resounding slap to each of them.
When she felt the familiar, genuine sting and slight tingling in her palms, she finally became certain.
She, Lin Wan, had truly returned!
“Hahahaha…”
“Hehehehe…”
“I’m back! Hehehe… Heaven really does have eyes!”
The two brothers stood there, each clutching one side of his face. It took them quite a while to recover from their immense shock.
Lin Ze stared in disbelief at his younger sister, who was sitting on the bed, laughing hysterically and pounding it with her fists.
He gritted his teeth and roared,
“LIN WAN! You actually dared to hit me! I’m your eldest brother!”
Lin Xu, on the other hand, didn’t say another word. He simply raised his hand and swung it toward Lin Wan.
“You’ve really gone too far! Let’s see how I’ll teach you a lesson!”
Lin Wan wiped away the tears of laughter at the corners of her eyes. When his large palm came swinging toward her, she nimbly rolled over and climbed off the other side of the bed.
She shook her hand and sneered.
“That’s right! I hit you two worthless animals! Your faces really are thick. You hurt my hand with how hard I had to slap you!”
Lin Ze usually loved putting on airs as the eldest brother and lecturing everyone. Now, he had been slapped without warning and even insulted so viciously. He felt utterly humiliated and was furious.
His expression darkened.
“Lin Wan! I think that fever has made you delirious! As your older brother, I’ll have to teach you a proper lesson today!”
“Lin Xu, go grab her!”
At that moment, Lin Xu wanted nothing more than to tear her apart.
Ever since childhood, no one had dared to slap him across the face like that!
And she had actually managed to dodge him just now!
His temper was already terrible. With a dark expression, he strode toward her to grab her.
Lin Wan grinned. She casually picked up a photo frame from the cabinet and hurled it straight at him with all her strength.
Five years into the apocalypse, she had been abandoned by everyone and left with no one to rely on. She had survived those five years entirely on her own and had learned quite a few skills from Uncle Wang.
She still had pretty good aim.
“Ah!”
The photo frame struck Lin Xu near the corner of his eye.
The sound of his agonized scream rang out as the photograph of the three siblings together as children shattered on the floor.
“Lin Wan! I’ll kill you!”
Seeing blood trickling through the gaps between Lin Xu’s fingers as he covered his eye, Lin Ze was both shocked and furious.
“Lin Wan, you’ve gone too far! He’s your second older brother!”
But before he could say anything else, a vase came flying straight toward him without the slightest hesitation.
“Don’t you dare insult the word ‘brother’! What kind of brother helps a stepsister with no blood relation to bully his own biological sister? I’m disgusted to have brothers like you who can’t even tell right from wrong! I don’t have brothers like you!”
Memories of her previous life lingered in Lin Wan’s mind. Her eyes were completely cold, and the flames of hatred burned fiercely in her heart.
Having been given another chance at life, she, Lin Wan, would make sure to crush every last one of those worthless scumbags!
“Lin Wan, have you gone crazy? What the hell is wrong with you?”
Seeing that she was actually trying to hurt them, Lin Ze cursed furiously as he dodged the vase. However, flying shards still cut his leg, leaving it wet with blood.
“Hehehe! That’s right! I’ve gone crazy!”
If only she had a knife within reach. She really wanted to finish them off right then and there!
She grabbed every object she could reach and hurled them at the two men without holding back.
Terrified by her sheer madness, Lin Ze and Lin Xu were already injured. Both of them valued their lives far too much to stay.
They covered their heads and fled the room in a miserable state.
Lin Xu was absolutely furious. Hiding outside the doorway, he shouted viciously,
“Isn’t it just a house? All we did was ask you to give it to Ranran! How dare you hit us like this? You’re truly evil! And to think Ranran has always been speaking up for you!”
His response was a chair flying straight out of the room.
Fortunately, Lin Ze reacted quickly and pulled him aside. Otherwise, Lin Xu’s head would have been smashed.
“Let’s go to the hospital first. We’ll deal with her when we get back!”
“Lin Wan, just you wait!”
Only after they had left did Lin Wan finally feel as though all her strength had drained away.
Her head was spinning. She touched her burning forehead and felt as if her heart were about to leap out of her chest.
She couldn’t afford to rest.
Hurriedly digging through the mess on the cabinet, she retrieved her phone and turned on the screen.
August 13, 2124!
There was only one month left before the apocalypse!
That’s right. She remembered now.
The reason she had developed such a high fever over the past two days was that Lin Ran had complained to Lin Xu and the others a few days earlier because Lin Wan had refused to give her the luxury apartment in the city center.
So yesterday, during the torrential downpour, Lin Xu had deliberately tricked her into getting into the car just to vent Lin Ran’s anger. He then abandoned her on a highway far from home!
She had been forced to endure an entire soaking in the cold autumn rain, and that was how she had fallen ill!
But Lin Xu and his brother hadn’t bothered to help her or even ask how she was feeling.
Instead, the moment she woke up, they shamelessly came over to demand that she give the apartment to Lin Ran!
They really were Lin Ran’s most loyal lapdogs!
However, all of that could wait for now.
The apocalypse was approaching, and time was money!
There were so many things she needed to do. She also had to find Shen Mochi and get an explanation from him!
After swallowing some fever medicine, she immediately removed the decorative wall painting and opened the small safe hidden behind it.