The moon hung high in the sky, and the Hundred Thousand Mountains sank into slumber.
Only the sporadic howls of wild beasts could occasionally be heard.
In the room, September contentedly cradled a large bowl of peppery soup.
A reclining chair sat beside the window.
At that moment, a snow-white skeleton lay on the chair beneath a blanket.
She was still the boss lady of Chen Ji Wine Shop, and Jiang You had even stamped the position with an official seal. Technically, she was now an employee of Tingfeng City's system.
Whenever she thought of everyone's envious looks, September found it rather amusing. She had never dreamed that she would land a secure government job after the apocalypse.
Although she had been released for several days, she still occasionally felt ravenously hungry.
She had even developed the habit of eating a late-night snack.
Back at Dawn Tower, she had always been meticulous about food innovation and nutritional balance to maintain her figure. She had even had her own personal nutritionist.
But now...
September took a large sip of the peppery soup, slowly suppressing the hunger in her stomach.
In theory, she had also suffered from hunger before establishing Dawn Tower. She shouldn't have ended up like this just because Jiang You had starved her for a while.
But back then, she had been free to move. When she was starving, she could at least eat roots and tree bark to fill her stomach.
There had been nothing like that in the Hell of Black Flame.
The bars were made of iron, and the floor was paved with stone slabs. There had originally been straw inside, but the day after that young tribesman reported to Jiang You that she had secretly chewed on dried straw, every last strand of straw in