After the Great Battle

Thinking back to a movie she had watched in her previous life, where people around the world united as one, fought together against a world-ending catastrophe for survival, and ultimately won, Aoko Aozaki only now truly understood why it had been classified as "science fiction."

Because the fantasy in that movie had not been the technology, but "the great unity of the people of the world."

After suffering the blows of two "Impacts," with the global population reduced to only 25 percent of what it had been before the Second Impact, the major nations still maintained... At this point, the Ghost King had no time to deal with us. I helped Bai Jing to the side, rolled up her pant leg, and saw a corpse beetle burrowing desperately deeper into her flesh. Panicking, I reached out and grabbed it. The corpse beetle immediately went mad and crawled outward, making Bai Jing cry out in pain.

In days like these, the old emperor was always dead drunk, sleeping without waking, let alone visiting anyone's bedchamber.

That was the suffering Du Wenrou and Madam Liu had endured back then, yet now it seemed to have become a mountain crushing Du Fuqu.

"Your servant is here!" The eunuch guarding the entrance heard the empress's call and hurried inside at once.

Like a clumsy duck, I had only skated a few strokes before flailing and falling to the ground. After that, no matter how anyone tried to persuade me, I stubbornly refused to move another step. Hadn't I embarrassed myself enough already?

I smiled and pushed his hand away. "What a joke! I can still hear your thoughts!" Ever since we had been in the elevator, he seemed able to guess what was on my mind. Afraid to think any further, I pulled the