Su Aiqing often had the same nightmare repeatedly.
The ground was stained red with blood, and the city lay abandoned.
Several people dressed in ragged clothes were fighting over a packet of instant noodles, viciously beating one another until their bodies were covered in blood.
Someone screamed, “The zombies are coming!”
Everyone immediately began running for their lives. Su Aiqing was swept along with the crowd, stumbling as she desperately tried to move forward.
Suddenly, someone behind her grabbed her and violently dragged her to the ground.
A cold hand instantly closed around her ankle. She trembled all over with terror. Forget running away, she could not even muster the strength to scream. Accepting her fate, she closed her eyes.
One zombie after another, their heads missing large chunks and their intestines dangling loose, lurched forward with twitching bodies and lunged at her.
Every time this happened, Su Aiqing would wake up, not because she was frightened, but because the whole thing felt far too unrealistic!
In her previous life, she had been a police officer. No matter what predicament she found herself in, she would never give up on surviving, much less fall to the ground just because someone gave her a single tug.
The first time she had this dream, she assumed she had simply watched too many television dramas and thought nothing more of it. However, over the following days, her apocalyptic nightmare kept repeating like an ongoing television series. She even began to suspect that she was suffering from delusions and went to see a psychologist.
It was only when she inexplicably activated a jade bangle and obtained the space hidden inside it that she finally understood.
Damn it, she had transmigrated into a fantasy world that was about to be destroyed!
In her previous life, Su Aiqing had grown up in an orphanage before becoming a police officer. She had died from a drug dealer’s gunshot while trying to save someone.
When she woke up again, she had become the three year old intellectually disabled daughter of the Su family.
More than twenty years had passed since then, and she had lived a very happy life. The Su family was wealthy, her parents were deeply in love, and her older brother was a complete sister fanatic. As for Su Aiqing herself, she had a sweet, innocent appearance, held a postgraduate degree from a prestigious university, and even had a boyfriend whose family was of equal social standing.
She had never expected such a happy life to be so short lived.
“Regarding the sharp decline in global crop yields, the Global Agricultural Alliance has dispatched scholars from its member countries to Country S for research. We believe they will reach a conclusion soon. Now, let’s move on to another news report.”
After dinner, Su Guoliang and Qin Xiao sat on the sofa watching the news.
The Su family’s company owned several farms, so they were particularly concerned about the dramatic decline in crop production.
“Dad, what do you think is causing the sharp drop in crop yields?” Su Aiqing asked as she sat beside her father with an orange in her hand. Ever since learning that the apocalypse was coming, she had abandoned her weight loss plans. She practically wished she could transform herself into a competitive eater.
“Probably global warming, environmental pollution, or something along those lines.”
“What if it’s because the apocalypse is coming?” Su Aiqing pressed her lips together.
“That’s certainly possible.” Su Guoliang joked, “But once the apocalypse arrives, people will turn into zombies and won’t need to eat grain anymore.”
Su Aiqing stared at him with a solemn expression. Her own father had hit the nail on the head with that remark. Since that was the case…
“Dad, Mom, the apocalypse really is coming,” Su Aiqing said bluntly.
Qin Xiao secretly glanced at her husband and raised an eyebrow. The two exchanged a look and immediately understood what the other was thinking.
Suddenly, Su Guoliang stood up and began twitching violently. Rolling his eyes and tilting his head to one side, he pretended to be a zombie before lunging at Qin Xiao as though he were about to bite her.
Qin Xiao played along, jumping to her feet and screaming in terror.
Su Aiqing stared at her ridiculous parents with a speechless expression before slamming her hand onto the table.
“I’m not joking! And I’m certainly not playing some role playing game with you!”
Although she had loved playing games like this when she was little, that had been her way of making up for the happy childhood she had missed in her previous life.
“See for yourselves!”
Su Aiqing gently swept her hand over the two meter long coffee table in front of her, and it suddenly vanished into thin air.
Not stopping there, she stood up and swept her hand over the television, sofa, and large refrigerator. Everything she passed disappeared immediately.
Only then did Su Guoliang and Qin Xiao finally calm down. They stared at their daughter with their mouths hanging open in utter astonishment.
“Dad, Mom, I’m not joking. The apocalypse really is coming.”
With another wave of her hand, Su Aiqing made the objects she had just collected reappear. They were now scattered haphazardly throughout the room.
“I’ve also obtained a portable storage space.”
After that, Su Aiqing seriously explained the scenes she had witnessed in her dreams.
“Over the past few years, global crop yields have already declined dramatically, and all kinds of disasters have been occurring more and more frequently. In my dreams, the acid rain begins falling across the world in about a year. It contaminates almost all the land and water sources. Then a zombie virus that first breaks out among animals spreads to humans, while some people awaken supernatural abilities. That’s when the apocalypse officially begins.”
Su Guoliang furrowed his brows and settled down to think carefully.
Although he sometimes behaved like an overgrown boy who loved playing with his children and even got jealous when they received too much attention from his wife, Su Guoliang was a responsible head of the household whenever something serious happened.
“Aiqing, it’s not that Dad doesn’t believe you, but something like this is simply too unbelievable. Even if you really do have some kind of space…”
Su Guoliang paused, realizing that his words might hurt his daughter’s feelings. He quickly changed his tone. “No matter how unbelievable this sounds, your mother and I believe you. However, you still can’t be certain that the apocalypse will definitely happen. So I think we need to proceed on two fronts. First, we’ll develop a detailed plan for dealing with the apocalypse and carry it out accordingly. Second, we’ll continue living our normal lives, including making sure you maintain your social life and keep up with your work.”
Su Aiqing pressed her lips together and nodded. She knew it would be difficult to convince her parents all at once, so this outcome was already quite good.
After considerable discussion, Su Aiqing became the person responsible for developing their apocalypse survival plan, and her parents promised to cooperate as much as possible.
Of course, Su Dad’s support was much more practical. For example, he could provide the output of an entire farm or hand her a black card with no spending limit.
Such things were nothing extraordinary for the Su family at present, but if the apocalypse really arrived, they would represent an enormous fortune and a crucial guarantee of survival.
Su Aiqing inspected her storage space. It was roughly the size of a thousand square meters of ordinary indoor space, and time did not pass inside it. In other words, if she put a steaming bowl of spicy hot pot noodles inside, it would still be piping hot and delicious when she took it out. However, living creatures could not enter the space.
With this space, providing food and drinking water for the family of four would be entirely manageable.
But what about accommodation?
Su Aiqing figured they still needed to prepare a motorhome so they could escape at a moment’s notice. A custom built, high end, eight wheel drive off road motorhome would cost at least ten million yuan.
Su Aiqing spent the entire night calculating her expenses. The next day, sporting dark circles under her eyes, she went to find her father.
“Dad, what if I’ve prepared all these things and the apocalypse never comes?”
Su Guoliang took off his glasses and put down the newspaper in his hands.
“You’re not wasting money recklessly. Just think of it as giving the family an extra layer of protection.”
With her father’s reassurance, Su Aiqing felt even more confident about continuing her preparations.
She divided her storage space into separate sections for beverages, cooked food, vegetables, fruit, rice, cooking oil, salt, and other household necessities. She also had shelves custom built to fill each room from floor to ceiling.
With Su Dad’s help, every section except the cooked food section received a steady supply of goods.
All Su Aiqing had to do was find cooked food!
She even drew up a detailed plan. First, she would empty out several nearby KFC and McDonald’s branches. Then she would strike a deal with the wildly popular malatang restaurant next door, arranging for them to prepare a hundred portions for her every day.
Ah, and hot pot too!
Besides stocking up on hot pot soup bases, she would need to order takeout several more times and put the entire hot pot setup into her storage space, pot and all.
Snacks were essential as well. Her family apparently owned a supermarket. She would just have to mention it to her father one day and ask him to close it for a day so she could sweep the shelves clean.
Su Aiqing busied herself preparing for the apocalypse, and before long, several months had passed. Looking at the steadily growing stockpile in her space, she finally felt a little more secure.
She dreamed about the apocalypse almost every week, and her understanding of the coming disaster grew increasingly detailed. She became more convinced that the apocalypse was not far away.
She drew up a physical training plan and forced her parents to exercise alongside her. Fortunately, her family had always paid attention to their health. Her mother was learning Pilates, while her father regularly worked out with gym equipment.
As for Su Aiqing? In her previous life, she had been a formidable policewoman who could break a criminal’s wrist with her bare hands. Did someone really need to worry about her?
One weekend afternoon, Su Aiqing practiced a set of boxing moves in the courtyard of her villa. After spending some time training with her newly purchased Tang sword, she received a call from a friend.
“Hey, Su Aiqing! Have you gone missing lately or something? You haven’t come out to hang out for months!” The caller was Xu You, one of Su Aiqing’s university friends.
“Don’t try to shift the blame onto me! You’re the one who abandoned your friends for a man and went traveling around the world with your boyfriend.” Su Aiqing scoffed and sat down on the sofa, taking a long gulp of water.
“Let’s get serious. Donglaishun tonight. My treat.” Xu You spoke in a mischievous tone. “It’s time to fulfill my wish!”
Su Aiqing rolled her eyes. Because her name contained the two characters for “love” and “romance,” Xu You, who had spent more than ten years being single, had latched onto her as her personal lucky charm. She had practically hugged Su Aiqing every day, claiming that she was “embracing love every day so that one day, love will embrace me in return.”
Su Aiqing had once protested against her father’s choice of name, but Su Dad thought it was absolutely brilliant. Not only was it a homophone for Su Aiqin, it also represented the fact that she was the fruit of her parents’ love.
“Fine. I’ll starve myself for the entire day so you can fulfill your wish properly!” Su Aiqing agreed. She also wanted to remind her best friend to stock up on supplies and exercise regularly.
Donglaishun was the most popular hot pot restaurant in C City, and reservations were required. Xu You was such a food lover that she had even become a premium member.
“Go ahead and order whatever you want.” Xu You generously handed Su Aiqing the ordering iPad.
Su Aiqing did not bother being polite with her friend. She ordered a whole spread of food, but then suddenly paused and looked at the waiter with sparkling eyes.
“Do you offer delivery?”
The waiter was speechless.
People can barely get a table here even with a reservation, and you expect us to deliver hot pot to your home?
Su Aiqing thought to herself, After the apocalypse, I wonder if I could trade a whole box of fried chicken with the owner for the secret hot pot recipe.
“Seriously, you’ve been way too much of a homebody lately. I’ve been looking at all the travel photos Wu Jie posts on his social media, and you’re nowhere to be seen.” After chatting for a while, Xu You frowned and asked, “Are you two still together?”
“Of course we are.” Su Aiqing knew she had indeed been neglecting her boyfriend, but what could possibly be more important than staying alive?
“You two aren’t even in a long distance relationship. You should still go on dates from time to time! Look at me and my baby. We can’t bear to spend even a single day apart. Every day without seeing each other feels like three years…”
Xu You launched into her endless monologue while Su Aiqing continued eating enthusiastically, occasionally nodding in agreement.
More than an hour passed like this. Finally, Su Aiqing rubbed her thoroughly rounded belly and let out a satisfied sigh.
“I’m going to touch up my makeup.”
Su Aiqing was a meticulous, beauty conscious girl who rarely went out without makeup. She was also always polite and well mannered when dealing with others.
During university, she had been voted the class beauty and department beauty, and had even earned the title of campus goddess because of her elegant demeanor.
When graduation came around, quite a few classmates got drunk and confessed their feelings to her. They said they had fallen for her the first time they saw her walking across campus in a white dress.
What those classmates did not know was that beneath her skirts, the seemingly pure and elegant girl wore athletic shorts that allowed her to perform high kicks without accidentally exposing herself.
She also had beautifully defined biceps capable of crushing an apple between her arms, as well as a set of visible abdominal muscles developed through hanging upside down from a horizontal bar and doing sit ups in midair.
Now, that same elegant and innocent looking girl stood in front of the mirror, gripping her phone so tightly that her knuckles turned white.
On her way to the restroom, she had received a WeChat message from her boyfriend, Wu Jie.
When she opened it, she found an intimate photograph of Wu Jie lying shirtless with another woman, accompanied by a message.
Wu Jie is sleeping right beside me. Want to video call? He looks so adorable when he’s asleep.
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Qin Zhizi started out by livestreaming herself eating and selling pork. A talent scout discovered her, and she successfully entered the entertainment industry. Her fans affectionately nicknamed her the Pure Altar Fairy.
After starring in several terrible dramas, she joined a reality show called Pursuing the Movie Emperor, where she and various popular actresses with different public personas competed to win over the newly crowned Best Actor, Yun Ge.
However, the movie emperor seemed to have a particular prejudice against her.
Reporter: “Movie Emperor Yun, what was your first impression of the rising star Qin Zhizi?”
Yun Ge: “Hmph. The daughter of a pig farmer?”
Reporter: “Movie Emperor Yun, how would you evaluate rising star Qin Zhizi’s acting skills?”
Yun Ge: “Hmph? Even a pig that can oink would act better than her.”
Reporter: “Qin Zhizi, after being stabbed twice by his remarks, how do you plan to continue pursuing the movie emperor?”
Qin Zhizi: “Actually, pursuing a man is just like raising pigs. You make sure he eats well, sleeps well, and stays in a good mood. Occasionally, you can play some music to make the meat even more… Ahem! Occasionally, you can play some music to help him relax.”
Two years later
Yun Ge, special guest on The Road to Prosperity: “Allow me to advertise my father in law’s pig farm first.”
Yun Ge, special guest on Traveling with My Wife: “Qin Zhizi had a crush on me from the very beginning. Her acting is so terrible that all the love she expressed toward me on Pursuing the Movie Emperor was genuine!”
A responsible procrastinator of a young woman versus a perfectionist, strong, handsome, and tragic man.
In his previous life, Yun Ge had been a talented and respected actor. Just as he was preparing to retire from acting and move into business, he suddenly transmigrated into another world!
He had become the male supporting character in a romance novel, a movie emperor who had been dumped by the female protagonist.
Even though I know she might play me, I still fell in love with her.
The movie emperor’s long and painful journey to win his wife back.
When you gaze upon a poor pig farmer’s daughter, little do you know that she is actually a billionaire.
I have to act well, or I’ll have to go home and inherit thirty two thousand pigs every year!
Yun Ge joined the reality show Pursuing the Movie Emperor, preparing to accept the various forms of romantic pursuit from the popular actresses.
Reporter: “Movie Emperor Yun, what was your first impression of the rising star Qin Zhizi?”
Yun Ge: “Hmph. The daughter of a pig farmer?”
Reporter: “Movie Emperor Yun, how would you evaluate rising star Qin Zhizi’s acting skills?”
Yun Ge: “Hmph? Even a pig that can oink would act better than her.”
Two years later…
Yun Ge, special guest on The Road to Prosperity: “Allow me to advertise my father in law’s pig farm first.”
Yun Ge, special guest on Traveling with My Wife: “Qin Zhizi had a crush on me from the very beginning. Her acting is so terrible that all the love she expressed toward me on Pursuing the Movie Emperor was genuine!”
A lazy, procrastinating, compliment loving young woman versus a perfectionist, strong, handsome, and tragic man.
I know she might play me, but I still fell in love with her.
The movie emperor’s long and painful journey to win his wife back.
When you gaze upon a poor pig farmer’s daughter, little do you know that she is actually a billionaire.
I have to act well, or I’ll have to go home and inherit thirty two thousand pigs every year!
Qin Zhizi became famous through livestreaming herself selling pork, and netizens affectionately nicknamed her the Pure Altar Fairy.
When she first debuted, a reporter interviewed her.
“Does your family make a living by raising pigs?”
Qin Zhizi nodded awkwardly. “Yes.”
The reporter looked at her sympathetically. “You graduated from a film academy, and tuition there isn’t cheap.”
Qin Zhizi nodded again. “That’s right. I never expected university tuition to be so expensive. My family had to sell several pigs to pay for my education.”
The reporter asked, “Then how many pigs does your family have in total?”
Qin Zhizi fell silent.
The reporter said considerately, “If it’s too embarrassing to say, that’s fine.”
Qin Zhizi replied, “No, I’m still counting. My family has thirty two pig farms, and each farm raises a thousand pigs. Thirty two farms would mean… thirty two thousand pigs!”
Reporter: “Director, cut that part out! Let’s start again.”
The reporter continued, “I’ve heard that you’re now considered the pride of your entire village. Is that true?”
Qin Zhizi shook her head. “My father is the pride of the village. He led everyone toward prosperity, and everyone in the village has become skilled at raising pigs! For example, my family raises thirty two thousand pigs every year…”
Reporter: “I’m done! I quit! I’m going home to raise pigs!”