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

Zuo You thought her suggestion was excellent; after all, this was a big sheep.

Tang Jingshan was momentarily speechless at Zuo You's words. He composed himself and asked, "Your teammate is at the sixth rank?"

"Not yet, why don't you reserve it first? It's not like you're retiring right away." Zuo You restarted a game of Snake and played it with great enthusiasm.

Hearing these infuriating words, Tang Jingshan put his hands behind his back, his mouth agape, and his expression widened, making him look just like his younger self.

"Alright, I can't force you to support me in my old age. I'll have the quartermaster department compile the weapons orders and send them to your secretary later."

"Okay, that's settled then." Zuo You opened the door to see the guest out.

Before Tang Jingshan had taken more than a few steps, Zuo You's cold voice rang out behind him, "Xinyu, I must report to anyone who comes to see me, except for Lin Ling."

"Okay, boss."

"Lin Ling..." Tang Jingshan walked in the corridor, his thoughts drifting further and further away.

Zuo You's secretary is Jiang Xinyu, a rather fierce girl who wants to go to the northern region to find her family. Coincidentally, she actually sees her younger brother at the eastern base.

It turned out that the day before the apocalypse, his younger brother came to J City to participate in a competition, and his parents came with him.

The father was unfortunately infected with the virus by the zombies, but the rescue in J City was very fast, and the younger brother and mother were lucky to survive.

The family's life at the base is quite tough. Although the younger brother awakened his earth element six months ago, he lacks resources and is currently only a second-tier ability user.

She was originally assigned to the Qinglong Reserve by Tang Haoran, but unexpectedly, Zuo You took her over to be her secretary.

She had been secretly delighted to be able to work with her former boss for a long time. Zuo You had saved her life, was protective of her, and was easygoing—who wouldn't like a boss like that?

……

The night was quiet and cloudless, with bright stars and a clear moon.

Zuo You stroked the smooth back of the beauty in his arms, thinking that since he had just performed so well, he should be able to ask her some questions, right?

She finally couldn't hold back and asked, "Lingling, can you tell me about your family?"

"Lord of the City, why don't you investigate it yourself?" Lin Ling said nonchalantly, her eyes half-closed and her voice slightly nasal.

"I want to hear what you have to say."

"It's late at night, and with a beauty by my side, Lord City Lord is quite bored! Shall I serve you so you can rest?" Lin Ling flipped over and pinned our Lord City Lord beneath her, her soft lips brushing against his cheeks, a sensation that was both tingling and ticklish.

Zuo You's eyes darkened slightly as she put the question she had just asked out of her mind.

"How will this beauty serve me, the city lord?" Zuo You wrapped her arms around the beauty's neck, her eyes hazy, her red lips slightly parted, adopting an attitude of enthusiastic invitation.

The cold yet seductive voice sent chills down Lin Ling's spine. She ran her fingertips through Zuo You's hair, their warm breaths mingling, intense and turbulent.

Outside the window, the shadows of trees swayed, while inside the bedroom, two little phoenixes, one of ice and one of fire, circled and frolicked in the air, their movements a vibrant interplay of ice and fire.

Zuo You recovered her brain the next day and, feeling annoyed, went to Lin Ling's office to confront her.

Lin Ling accused her of turning her back on her after she had done her job; last night she called her "little baby," but today she was using her position to intimidate her.

Zuo You was so angry that she wanted to raise the price of her purification crystal core, so Lin Ling grumbled and told her about her family situation.

"There's not much to say. After my mother passed away, Lin Jin married a woman who was the ex-wife of my father's good brother. She had a daughter who was three months younger than me."

“Once, when I was on vacation and went home, the nanny happened to be absent that day. I overheard their conversation and found out that my stepsister was born to Lin Jin and my stepmother!”

"I secretly tested their paternity and hired a private investigator to dig deep into their past. They had been dating since their school days and maintained a romantic relationship even after they had their own families! Until Lin Jin used dishonest business tactics to acquire his good brother's company, and his good brother committed suicide due to bankruptcy. Lin Jin euphemistically called it taking care of his sister-in-law and married that woman."

"How ironic! When Lin Jin married that woman, he said to me earnestly, 'Xiao Min's father is my best friend. I should make up for the fatherly love that Xiao Min lacks.' That Xiao Min is my half-sister."

Lin Ling curled her lip, her face full of mockery and disgust. "I'm glad my mother doesn't know about this. Before she left, she held my hand and said to me, 'Marrying your father was the best thing I ever did. After I'm gone, if your father wants to remarry, don't object. He's still young and shouldn't grow old alone.'"

"Fortunately, my mother isn't love-struck. She anticipated that Lin Jin would remarry, so she gave me all her assets."

"That's why, in front of me, that family all acted like kind fathers and gentle mothers, while my stepsister was praised to death."

"If I hadn't hidden a listening device in Lin Jin's study and known that they wanted the shares in my hands, I almost softened my heart and forgave them several times."

"I watched coldly as that family put on a show for four years in front of me, and my feelings went from being painful at the beginning to feeling nauseous whenever I saw them in the end."

“I couldn’t accept that my dad was that kind of person, so after graduation I went to T City, which is my mom’s hometown.”

Lin Ling thought she could face these things calmly, but after recounting the past, her eyes still welled up with tears.

"I don't know how genuine Lin Jin was towards me when I was young. To put it in a conspiracy theory way, he may have had his eye on my mother as his prey from the very beginning."

"Because he built his fortune on the connections of my maternal grandmother's family, isn't that terrifying? He played the role of a good man in front of my mother for 15 years and a loving father in front of me for 24 years."

Zuo You wiped away her tears, a fire burning in her chest. "You want to commit suicide because of this?"

"Huh?" A big question mark appeared above Lin Ling's head, formed from flames.

Zuo You's temples throbbed; Lin Ling had been getting increasingly wild lately.

Suddenly, a painting appeared behind her, drawn by ice. The painting depicted two beautiful women, one with long hair and the other with short hair, showing the scene of their first meeting.

Lin Ling was sitting on the edge of the rooftop, tears streaming down her face. She took the tissue Zuo You offered and asked, "Why didn't you try to stop me from committing suicide?"

Lin Ling chuckled, her laughter like a pebble thrown into a lake, creating ripples.

"I didn't mean to commit suicide, I was just kidding."

"Then why are you crying?"

“Hmm…” Lin Ling recalled, “That night, Lin Jin came up with a bunch of high-sounding reasons to ask me for shares. I was influenced by him. If these shares hadn’t been left to me by my mother, I really wouldn’t have wanted them. I don’t want to have anything to do with the Lin family.”

No wonder Lin Ling preferred to go to the N City base back then, but why did she come to the Eastern Base in her previous life?

The events of her past life are impossible to investigate, but in this life, no one can bully her.

"Let's not talk about these trivial things, let's go to the cafeteria for lunch."

Lin Ling pouted so much her lips could hang a gourd, "It's nothing important, but you forced me to say it, and besides..."