A cute, timid mushroom mistakenly takes the zombie king for her boyfriend and sticks close to him.

"Ah~" The mushroom raised its head high, looking eager to try, instantly sounding the alarm for Mr. Zombie.

He covered her mouth with his hand as quickly as possible, his indifferent eyes flashing with emotion. "You'd better think carefully before you say anything."

The man's gaze was extremely oppressive, and Meng Xiaoyou's heart pounded under it, feeling a strange sense of crisis.

It was as if if she dared to utter those two words, Pei Sinian would press her small body down onto the dining table like a vine.

A wise mushroom knows when to yield; it doesn't bother arguing with humans.

This isn't cowardice; it's intelligence and magnanimity!

Mushroom mentally prepared herself, blinked her eyelashes, and extended two index fingers, making a crossed shape to indicate that she had closed her mouth.

Pei Sinian then put his hand down.

The little vine had already taken off the moment Pei Sinian let go. It probably saw that its mother was in danger, so it didn't ask Meng Xiaoyou for help. Instead, it ran to the shoe cabinet by the door and scurried inside.

Meng Xiaoyou blinked, genuinely envious. She also wanted to shrink, and when she angered Pei Sinian, she wanted to turn into a mushroom and crawl inside him, so that Pei Sinian wouldn't be able to pry her out.

"Don't get any bad ideas."

Pei Sinian flicked her forehead lightly with his finger, and she hummed twice: "Pei Sinian, you've changed."

Pei Sinian stopped what he was doing without making a sound.

She said, "You weren't like this before. If you knock my brains out, you'll be the one who suffers in the future."

He'll have to take care of the little idiot.

Mr. Zombie didn't speak, but silently twitched the corner of his lips, carrying a complex emotion that Mushroom couldn't understand, as if he was mocking.

Before Meng Xiaoyou could take a closer look, there was a sudden knock on the door.

They've only been here a short time. In the apocalypse, no one would visit each other, right?

Meng Xiaoyou nudged Pei Sinian, who got up to open the door. Two formally dressed men stood there, their clothes looking familiar…

Each of them carried a box and asked mechanically, "Excuse me, does Meng Xiaoyou live here?"

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"Has the stuff been sent over?" In the dimly lit room, the curtains were drawn, and the bitter smell of medicine filled the air. The woman's voice was weak, as if she might faint at any moment.

“I’ve already sent her over. After all, she’s my own daughter. I can’t let her starve to death…” Su Ji was extremely dissatisfied with what happened today: “That wild child is becoming more and more disrespectful. She doesn’t even come back to see you.”

Su Yue's health had been deteriorating since the apocalypse, and even though Su Ji frequently asked healing-type ability users to check on her, she continued to grow increasingly haggard.

Su Ji loved his wife, Su Yue, and even the name he chose for their child reflected his love for her.

Unfortunately, a twist of fate led to their children being switched at birth. He couldn't help but feel regret whenever he thought about it. If he hadn't had that accident, his wife wouldn't have traveled thousands of miles to find him while heavily pregnant, only to have her water break halfway there...

Su Yue has said more than once that it was fate and that she could only accept it now.

Su Lanyue had grown up in their loving care over the years. They would have developed feelings for even a cat or dog after all, and they couldn't bear to part with her.

The child they found, though their biological child, was a stranger to them. They tried to make up for the missing father and mother love, but Meng Xiaoyou had become wild outside, completely disobedient, and never quieted down. She even often bullied Lanyue behind their backs.

Does this sound like a word?

It wasn't like anyone deliberately switched them. Su Lanyue was also an infant back then, what wrong could she have done?

Everyone says that genes are powerful, and that dragons beget dragons and phoenixes beget phoenixes, so how come their own daughter is so bad?

The two parents felt they couldn't communicate with their child. They would say a few words to her and then leave without a word, returning to the underdeveloped, remote corner of Y City.

They thought: Go ahead, and once you've suffered enough, you'll know to come back.

Then the apocalypse came, and they panicked. They hired people with superpowers to search for them in City Y, even if the chances were slim.

Ironically, their usually well-behaved daughter also followed them, which suggests that Su Yue's illness was entirely caused by excessive worry.

She sighed, "I don't expect her to be very filial, nor do I hope she will be very successful, but she should at least be half as well-behaved as Lan Yue, right?"

"Stop talking. She brought back another wild man this time. That guy is arrogant and doesn't look like a good person at all. He's weak and frail, good for nothing except his pretty face. He's not even as good as Qingfeng. I don't know what their relationship is. I hope it's not what I'm imagining, otherwise I'll be driven crazy by this rebellious daughter!"

"Cough cough~" Su Yue was about to say something when she accidentally aggravated her chest, making her throat hoarse and uncomfortable. Su Ji poured her a glass of water, and she took a breath, her brows showing exhaustion. "I feel like I don't have much time left."

"Why are you saying such discouraging things?"

"I know my own body. Let's find a chance to have Xiaoyou come and see me..."

Su Yue was completely buried in the blankets, her body emaciated and her face sunken, yet even so, one could still vaguely see some of her former radiance.

She has big eyes and flawless, delicate features. It can be said that Meng Xiaoyou did not inherit any of her father's features, but she looks at least four or five points like her mother. The rest is all due to "genetic mutation".

"Sir?" There was a knock on the door. Su Ji checked the room temperature to make sure it wasn't too cold before pushing the door open and going out.

His sharp gaze fell on the two people at the door and the suitcases in their arms, his brows furrowing deeply. "She didn't take them?"

The two shook their heads: "We hadn't even seen Miss Meng when that man kicked us out, and he even said..."

They exchanged a glance, but dared not utter a sound.

Heaven never fails to reward the wealthy. Besides ability, good fortune is essential for wealth. After the apocalypse, the superpowers awakened by those powerful families became even stronger. Don't be fooled by this guy's aloof demeanor; he spends all his time in the base and never goes out to train. In reality, he awakened a powerful mental ability upon the apocalypse, capable of attacking people's minds.

These three powerful families also obtained all the information about the zombies first, and discovered the zombie crystal cores, providing financial resources to support the research institute.

At the beginning of the apocalypse, he could still use the money he had before the apocalypse, and he used it as a stepping stone. When money was no longer useful, he had already mastered and collected a number of crystal cores that ordinary people could not collect even if they worked themselves to death.

Now, as the head of the Su family, he has already reached the sixth level of supernatural ability.

No one had ever dared to give him a hard time, and the two superhumans hesitated when they thought of the man's words.

Su Ji asked, slightly displeased, "Go on, what else did he say?"

The superhuman said, "He told you... to stay away from your daughter."

This damn kid!

Su Ji's face darkened. Did he need an outsider to tell him whether or not he should stay away from his daughter?

When has Su Ji ever been provoked like this?

However, misfortune never comes singly; another commotion erupted as someone came to report, "The Mu family has arrived."