Rebirth in the Apocalypse: My Ex-Girlfriend's Guide to Winning Me Over

"You want to leave the Zuoyou Squad?" Zuo You was also a little puzzled. Just this morning, An Yingying was saying that she would support the squad from now on. Why would she want to leave now? Is the pressure of supporting her family too great?

An Yingying shook her head emphatically, "No, I just want to move out and not leave the Zuoyou Squad."

"Then why do you want to move out? There's no room here." Lin Ling adopted the older sister's stance, pressing her aggressively.

Faced with her two older sisters' puzzled expressions, and under Lin Ling's persistent questioning, An Yingying was too embarrassed to admit that she had had enough of their PDA and was a little disgusted with them.

Zuo You observed An Yingying's expression but couldn't figure it out, so she simply let Lin Ling talk to her while she put on a wig and went out to disguise herself.

"Yingying, why is that?" As soon as Zuo You left, Lin Ling adopted a stance that she wouldn't give up until she got an answer.

"Oh, Sister Lingling, please stop asking me, okay? I won't do it anymore. You're my sister, and you always will be."

"This isn't about moving out or not. You must have something against me or Youyou to want to live outside. If you have something against me, you have to say it. How are we supposed to know if you don't tell us?"

An Yingying: ...How can I say it? I can't bring myself to say it!

Just as the situation reached a stalemate, the dog pushed over a wooden board with a line of words carved on it: I don't want to be a single dog, I want to find a partner!

Lin Ling fell into deep thought upon seeing this line of text. After a moment, she burst into laughter, realizing that she understood what the two meant.

She and Zuo You should pay attention to this; both kids have complaints about them!

......

After settling the research staff in, Tang Jingshan and Tang Haoran arrived at the office building. This building had since been renamed the City Lord's Mansion.

“A centralized system based on bases is more suitable for the current environment.” Tang Jingshan saw his nephew staring blankly at the plaque. “Come on, let’s go to the office and tell me in detail what has happened this year.”

Tang Haoran spent the entire afternoon in the office recounting in detail some of the important events that had occurred over the past year. Tang Jingshan listened with alternating expressions of deep concern and approval, as if he were listening to a radio drama.

His watch vibrated, signaling his older brother to urge his son to go home for dinner. Only then did the two stop talking and head home.

Suddenly, Tang Jingshan asked his nephew, seemingly casually, "Do you know what Zuo You's mother's name is?"

Tang Haoran stopped and looked at Tang Jingshan in surprise. Suddenly, a woman who loved to laugh appeared in his mind. He couldn't see the woman's face clearly, but he remembered that she had an extremely beautiful smile.

In his memory, the woman ruffled little Tang Haoran's hair, pouting as she corrected him, "Little Ranran, you can't call me 'sister,' you should call me 'auntie.'"

"I... I'll ask when I have some free time."

The questions kept swirling in his mind. Zuo You was 24. If she really was that person's child, then considering her age, wouldn't that mean...?

Tang Haoran became increasingly alarmed as he thought about it, realizing that his uncle had missed the point!

The key point is not what Zuo You's mother's name is, but what Zuo You's father's name is.

Paternity Testing!

I need to ask Professor Li tomorrow if the research institute can perform paternity tests.

Once Tang Haoran started thinking about this, he couldn't stop. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Zuo You looked like his uncle. How come he hadn't noticed it before?

Unbeknownst to him, Tang Haoran was walking with a confident stride and a broad smile on his face.

......

Zuo You had no idea that something unexpected would happen on her very first day at the base.

At this moment, she is breaking through in the space.

Actually, I reached a bottleneck a few days ago, but it wasn't convenient to break through while I was out, and I was worried about causing a commotion.

Perhaps due to her long-term consumption of water from the spatial well, she felt no pain whether breaking through minor or major realms.

To Zuo You's surprise, she was kicked out of the space as soon as she broke through.

If you try to go back in, you can't even get your consciousness in.

"Did you break through?" Lin Ling asked with a hint of anticipation as Zuo You emerged from the space and put down the crystal core in her hand.

Seeing her nod, Lin Ling asked again, "How does it feel? Compared to the seventh rank?"

"My superpowers are at least ten times stronger. I'm not bragging, but I really feel like I'm incredibly powerful now. It's almost unreal."

Zuo You's words were very Versailles-like, but Lin Ling still caught a glimpse of confusion in her eyes.

"Then...would you like to tell me your story?" Lin Ling knew that Zuo You had a secret, and she had been trying to control herself from asking, but judging from her expression, she couldn't resist her curiosity.

Zuo You didn't dwell on the matter, but carefully considered her words, "I had a dream in which I experienced five years of apocalypse. In the dream, I wasn't a superhuman..."

She slowly recounted the apocalypse in this dream and her own experience, her eyes filled with a serene indifference.

As Lin Ling listened, tears welled up in her eyes, which she wiped away silently with her fingertips.

This is her precious secret. No wonder she knows so much about the apocalypse, no wonder she has so much cooked food in her space. It turns out she has already lived through one lifetime.

Lin Ling hugged her tenderly, "Am I in your dreams?"

"Yes, you saved me in my dream."

Zuo You recalled Lin Ling, who had a powerful aura and a cold face in her past life, and now she felt a little dazed.

The little cutie beside her was still better, Zuo You unconsciously tightened her embrace.

Hearing this, Lin Ling's pretty face showed some anger. "I saved you in your dream, why weren't you willing to team up with me then? Where's your conscience?"

She stretched out her slender finger and tapped Zuo You's chest hard. Recalling the nervous feeling she had when she begged Zuo You to team up with her, a sense of dissatisfaction welled up in her heart.

“I…I only saw you twice in my dreams, but I didn’t know what kind of person you were. Besides, at that time, I didn’t originally intend to team up with you…” Zuo You gently patted her back and forced an explanation, “You are the teammate, and the others are the underlings. From the beginning, you were different from others.”

"Hehe," Lin Ling smiled slyly, "You're not losing out if you dream of getting a wife, I'm making a killing."

Zuo You: "..." How mercenary! That's such a mercenary way of putting it.

"When you get to the base, aren't you going to look for your family?"

"No rush, let's settle down first."

The two spent half the night whispering sweet nothings to each other before finally falling asleep in the unfinished bedroom.

The next day, Zuo You opened her eyes and stared blankly at the unfamiliar room. Sunlight streamed through the window, revealing the dust floating in the air.

Looking at the person still fast asleep on the bed, Zuo You placed a kiss on her forehead and quietly left the room.

Lin Ling and Zuo You woke up one after the other, but she lingered in bed for a while until she heard noises downstairs before getting up.

Jian Hong was very efficient; all the renovation workers he found for Zuo You were superhumans.

If this had happened in her past life, she wouldn't have dared to even imagine it.

"Two earth-type, two metal-type, two wood-type, and two water-type. I've checked, it can be done in a day. However, the water-type needs Xiaoling, who is a fire-type, to cooperate." Jian Hong came over for breakfast and patted his chest to assure Zuo You of the renovation time.

[The City Lord's Mansion is the base's office, not its residence. This is how it's set up in the novel's plot; please don't apply it to reality.]