Inside the upscale restaurant, after several glasses of red wine, Ye Qingwei was already swaying unsteadily.
Jiang Yang took the opportunity to put an arm around her and brought her back to his hotel.
Inside the hotel, Wu Lei was tidying the room. Xiao Wan was not surprised when she saw Jiang Yang bring back a girl. This was the normal Young Master Jiang.
"Brother Jiang, you... where is this?"
Ye Qingwei was only drunk, not unconscious. Seeing the unfamiliar surroundings, she immediately sobered up a little, though she was still weak all over. The effects of alcohol would not fade anytime soon.
Besides, even if she were sober, it would be useless.
Her legs had no strength to begin with.
"This is my room."
Jiang Yang gently laid Ye Qingwei on his bed, guilt showing in his eyes.
If possible, he would rather slowly develop his relationship with Ye Qingwei. But he was the villain. Why did villains in television dramas always fail?
Because villains were inefficient and talked too much, so they died miserable deaths.
Jiang Yang would not make that mistake. Only those ruthless enough to act without wasting words could hold their ground in the Apocalypse.
Sorry, Ye Qingwei. I'll make it up to you properly someday.
One night was enough to change many things.
The soft moans from that first tearing gradually began to sound in a steady rhythm throughout the hotel.
Meanwhile, Wu Lei was honing his muscles in the hotel gym. The improved food and conditions had made his body even more imposing.
Xiao Wan, on the other hand, was handling recent orders at the hotel.
They could do whatever they wanted in the hotel, but Jiang Yang had ordered them to remain there and not go out.
Across the vast Linjiang City, everyone was repeating their daily routines, completely unaware that disaster was about to descend.
Elsewhere.
In a luxury apartment five kilometers away, Ye Fan was excitedly taking photos of his apartment.
"Baby, have you seen my dorm?"
"If you rented this dorm for a month, it would cost eight or nine thousand!"
"How about you move over in a couple of days, and we live together?"
"Are you asleep?"
After being reborn, Ye Fan was naturally the kind of protagonist who was arrogant, decisive, and ruthless.
But before his rebirth, he had mastered the art of simping to perfection. Back then, he had won Tang Ya over through his simping skills.
Perhaps in his eyes, it was proof of his sincerity. In reality, sincerity without a material foundation was called simping.
At that moment, Tang Ya was tossing and turning, unable to sleep in her tiny studio apartment.
Looking at the messages Ye Fan kept sending her, she could not help wishing they had come from Jiang Yang instead.
It was so late, yet Tang Ya had not even removed her makeup. She was waiting for a message from Jiang Yang, hoping that perhaps he would remember her charms tonight.
Then she would have to serve Jiang Yang in her best possible state.
Perhaps Ye Fan's messages were simply too annoying, so Tang Ya picked up her phone and glanced at them.
An apartment costing over nine thousand a month? Jiang Yang's hotel room cost tens of thousands for a single night—and the hotel itself was one of his assets.
What a pathetic broke loser. He would be this pathetic for the rest of his life!
That was what she thought, but Tang Ya did not dare say it aloud.
Before he officially became hers, Ye Fan still had some use. Besides, she greatly enjoyed the feeling of being fawned over.
"I'm going to sleep. We'll talk about moving in together in a couple of days."
Back at the apartment, Ye Fan felt a wave of frustration when he saw Tang Ya's lukewarm reply.
They had been dating for so long. He had spent plenty of time and money on Tang Ya, even told her his bank card password, yet he had not even kissed her on the lips.
At that moment, Ye Fan remembered Tang Ya buying a handbag before. She had spent all forty thousand yuan, so it was about time she made him a real man!
Ye Fan set himself a lofty goal and drifted off to sleep with sweet dreams in his head.
Five o'clock the next morning.
Ye Fan, lying in bed, suddenly sat upright. A cold glint flashed through his eyes, and he was like a beast that had lurked for years, his entire body radiating murderous intent.
But that murderous aura disappeared after only a few minutes.
Ye Fan looked around. There was no smell of blood in the air and no bloodstains on the floor. There could be no place this good in the Apocalypse.
"Where is this?"
Ye Fan noticed the phone on the bed, and a familiar memory surged into his mind.
About three minutes later, a cry of alarm rang out from the thirteenth floor of the luxury apartment.
"Reborn!"
Ye Fan roared excitedly. After seven years in the Apocalypse, he had actually been reborn!
What did that mean?
He possessed memories of the next seven years. He knew everything that would happen, could seize every opportunity, and become one of the first powerful figures of the Apocalypse!
"Five-oh-seven. There's still time!"
Ye Fan's gaze was sharp. At exactly six o'clock on July 7, 2023—
The world would undergo tremendous changes. Seventy percent of humanity would turn into Zombies, while countless animals and plants across the planet would mutate.
Countless alien creatures would also come to Earth.
The surviving humans would name that day Judgment Day.
Humanity would fall from the top of the food chain. Technological means would be destroyed by the Apocalypse, and humans would sink to the bottom of the food chain.
The dead would become Zombies, while those who survived would live like walking corpses, worrying about survival every day!
Yet some people would live very well in the Apocalypse, becoming unquestioned local tyrants. Beautiful female celebrities would sing and dance for them every day while they ate premium steaks and drank 1982 Lafite.
Those people were the ones who had seized their opportunities, the first to act after the Apocalypse arrived.
Now that he had been reborn, he would be the first to eat that crab!
Filled with ambition, Ye Fan recalled the best resources from the beginning of the Apocalypse. But just then, he suddenly noticed a problem.
"Wasn't I in the dorm when the Apocalypse began?"
"Where is this?"
As a reincarnator, Ye Fan possessed two sets of memories from before the Apocalypse began. At that moment, the two memories differed somewhat.
For a while, he could not tell which was real.
The discrepancies in his memories even gave Ye Fan a sense of temporal dislocation, plunging him into deep self-doubt.
"Could it be... that I have delusions?"
"No, that's not right!"
Ye Fan felt that both seemed real. His rebirth was real, and what he was experiencing now was also real.
A moment later, he steadied himself. After all, the survival experience brought by his rebirth had elevated his mental fortitude to unprecedented heights.
"Could it be... the Butterfly Effect?"
Ye Fan attributed this incident to the Butterfly Effect. After all, he had been reborn. It was perfectly normal for something to go wrong after his rebirth, right?
"Forget it. I'll find the opportunity first! Once I find it, I'll go chop up that bitch Tang Ya!"
Ye Fan could not spare any attention for the conflict between his two sets of memories. Finding the opportunity was most important. He needed to go to Linjiang University, where an Inherited Profession would appear. It would be the core of his rise.
After leaving his room, Ye Fan pressed the elevator button for a long time, only to find that it was under maintenance—and he was on the thirteenth floor!
"Fuck!"
Spitting out a curse, Ye Fan began taking the stairs down. With his current physical condition, going downstairs was not difficult, but by the time he reached the ground floor from the thirteenth, he was still panting heavily.
After arriving downstairs, Ye Fan checked his location.
He was actually five kilometers away from Linjiang University?
"Fuck!"
Cursing under his breath, Ye Fan took out his phone to call a ride. But when he opened the ride-hailing app, he found that he could not book one at all.
"Invalid identity information?"
"Fuck!"
Ye Fan cursed angrily and went to scan a shared bike by the roadside, only to receive the same prompt as before.
"Invalid identity information. Please bring your ID card to the relevant department and submit the following materials..."
"Submit my ass!"
Ye Fan was about to explode with rage! He had finally been reborn, and Heaven was still messing with him like this?
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