Rebirth: I Will Win Easily in the Apocalypse-Chapter 1 - Rebirth

"Yang Zhi, your mom and dad have passed away, and leaving the family property to an outsider is outrageous. Could an outsider be more reliable than us relatives? Listen to your aunt's words and let your uncle manage the company; it will definitely be better than it is now."

"Yeah, Yang Zhi, you surely know what your uncle and aunt have been to you and Yan Lin these past years. Let your uncle take over the company; it's bound to be better. When Yan Lin graduates, we can hand the company to him."

"Yang Zhi, you should think it over carefully. We women, even if we get married and want a good life, still need the support of a powerful maternal family. I know you and Song Zhao are childhood sweethearts with deep affection, but you never know what's truly in a person's heart. If he harbors any ill intentions, it'll be too late for tears."

"It's only right that the company should be in the hands of our own family, to avoid empty efforts. Your uncle and aunt will surely not cheat you."

Sitting in the coffee shop and listening to the chatter around her, Gu Yanzhi kept a steely face and did not say a word.

Her head turned toward the window, looking at the busy traffic outside, her hands clenched so tightly her fingernails were almost digging into the flesh. She had to exert great effort to keep her shocked expression under control.

She was still alive; she couldn't believe she was still alive.

A second ago, the sound ringing in her ears was a roaring explosion; unexpectedly, in the next moment, she was back before the apocalypse.

Looking at the two people in front of her, whose faces she had almost forgotten, they gradually became clear. Gu Yanzhi vividly remembered the look of despair in their eyes before their death and their skin, which was decaying and unrecognizable.

But what did that have to do with her? They were also among those who caused her parents' death. Realizing this, Gu Yanzhi's eyes turned bloodthirsty and icy. She stood up and left the cafe.

The two did not expect Gu Yanzhi to be so dismissive. Their expressions darkened immediately, but remembering their unachieved goal, they pasted on enthusiastic smiles and called out to Gu Yanzhi's retreating back, "Yang Zhi, think over what we just said; it's all for your own good."

"Pah, the little wench, wait until the company is in my hands, and see how I'll deal with her," Gu Li spat hatefully once Gu Yanzhi was out of sight, her face glooming over again.

"Sister, it's up to you to talk to Yang Zhi more, after all, you two are blood relatives. Before our big brother passed, he was good to you; surely Yang Zhi will listen to you," Li Hong quickly consoled Gu Li. "Once the company is ours, whatever belonged to your brother will be yours, and you'll definitely get a share of the dividends."

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Gu Yanzhi stood by the roadside, watching the passing crowd and listening to the bustle around her, feeling the realness of having truly returned from the apocalypse.

Ten years in the apocalypse, Gu Yanzhi couldn't express how much suffering she had endured. She had finally gotten her revenge in a way that ended everything for herself, her parents, and the person she loved most, just as the apocalypse was about to end.

After leaving the cafe, the first thing Gu Yanzhi did was pull out her phone to confirm the current date and time.

It was July 15, 2135; there were still three months until the apocalypse. Thankfully, there was still time.

This time, she would strive to survive the apocalypse with her brother and her lover.

Gu Yanzhi clumsily fiddled with her phone, found Song Zhao's number, and dialed it.

"Zhizhi, what's the matter?" Hearing that familiar voice, Gu Yanzhi's tears began to flow uncontrollably, the voice she had missed for ten years.

"Zhizhi, what's wrong, why aren't you speaking?" Not hearing a reply, Song Zhao's voice became urgent.

"Zhizhi, what's happened, did they bully you?"

Fortunately, Gu Yanzhi had arranged to meet Gu Li and Li Hong at a shopping center next to the Gu Family corporation, which allowed Song Zhao to see Gu Yanzhi, a pitiful figure crouched by the roadside, as soon as he came downstairs.

"Wah, Zhaozhao, Zhaozhao, I've missed you so much." The moment she saw that familiar face from her memory, Gu Yanzhi threw herself into Song Zhao's arms, crying inconsolably.

"There, there, Zhizhi, don't cry."

Gu Yanzhi didn't cry for long, her emotions quickly stabilizing, her expression turning resolute. "Zhaozhao, let's go home, and call Yan Lin back too, I have something to tell you."

On the way home, Gu Yanzhi called Gu Yanlin, fighting back another surge of tears, telling him to hurry home and wait for them.

Throughout the journey, although Song Zhao was very worried, seeing Gu Yanzhi's solemn expression, he suppressed the desire to comfort her, choosing to wait until they got home to ask.

They arrived home smoothly, where Gu Yanlin was already waiting in the living room, with Gu Yanzhi's favorite milk tea prepared on the table.

"Sister, Brother Zhao, what's going on? Why the secrecy in calling me back? Don't tell me our family is going bankrupt," Gu Yanlin said with an anxious expression as he saw the two walk in side by side, particularly noting Gu Yanzhi's unusual demeanor.

Gu Yanzhi gestured for them to sit opposite her and, after a moment of contemplation, she began speaking slowly, "I have been reborn, from ten years in the future, after the apocalypse."

"Listen to me, I'm not joking, and I'm perfectly sane," Gu Yanzhi asserted with emphasis, noting the shocked expressions on their faces, especially her younger brother's disbelief, as he even attempted to touch her forehead to check for fever.

Three months later, an unexpected flood swept across the globe, and the internet was disabled by a strange magnetic field. The network collapsed just a couple of days after the flood began, followed by two months of torrential rain. Eventually, water and electricity supplies were gradually cut off as well.

At that time, Gu Yanlin was attending university in the Capital. Gu Yanzhi had been unable to make contact with him.

It wasn't until several years later, when Gu Yanzhi finally made it to the Capital Base, and encountered Gu Yanlin's classmate, that she learned Gu Yanlin had been swept away by the flood waters soon after they hit, and his body had never been found.

After the torrential rain, what followed was almost two years of severe cold. The temperatures plummeted to below minus 60 degrees Celsius, freezing many unprepared people to death.

Gu Yanzhi had come down with a high fever due to the sudden cold. Song Zhao braved the severe cold to find medicine for her, but once he left, he never returned.

Waiting at home for Song Zhao, who never came back, Gu Yanzhi was eventually met by her second uncle, Gu Qiang, and her cousin Gu Yanqi, who brought the news that Song Zhao had frozen to death outside. Before she could even grieve, Gu Qiang and Gu Yanqi forcibly took her to the bed of a powerful figure where she suffered humiliation and torture.

Taking advantage of the situation, Gu Qiang and his son gained many benefits and expanded their influence. Even after the powerful man tired of Gu Yanzhi, they did not let her go. Instead, they corralled her with several other women as forbidden pleasures, forcing them to ingratiate themselves with their subordinates or other officials who could provide them with conveniences.

Among these women were Gu Li and Li Hong. These two beasts, Gu Qiang and Gu Yanqi, when lacking connections during the onset of the apocalypse, forced their own sister and mother into prostitution for their own benefit, showing a complete lack of humanity.

Through her interactions with them over time, Gu Yanzhi learned from their stories that her parents' car accident had not been an accident at all but had been orchestrated by Gu Qiang, who bribed the driver to tamper with the brakes to cause the crash for the benefit of his company.

Even the death of Song Zhao was not because he froze searching for medicine; instead, on his way back after finding medicine, Gu Yanqi ambushed him, breaking his legs, and leaving him without the ability to move. He froze to death outside.

Gu Yanqi's goal was to get close to Gu Yanzhi, to deliver her to the powerful man so that Gu Qiang could become the person in charge of distributing supplies for the Capital government.

After two years of extreme cold came another two years of scorching heat.

Due to the sudden onset of intense heat, the bodies frozen by the cold weather rotted overnight, and the stench of decay became unbearable everywhere.

The rapid occurrence also led to the gradual spread of plagues.

Forced to abandon the territory they had ruled for years, Gu Qiang and Gu Yanqi moved to the Capital Base. They repeated their old ways, robbing many attractive girls along the way and continuing to engage in flesh trading in exchange for benefits once they reached Capital Base, quickly establishing a strong foothold.

However, by that time, Gu Yanzhi, after being forced to lead such a sordid life for so long, had her skin ulcerated in many places, and she had become dark and shriveled, with a disfigured and frightening face due to the extreme heat, sun exposure, and severe dehydration. With her once coveted face gone, she was sent to a laboratory for human experiments, extracting the last bit of her value.

During her years in the laboratory, Gu Yanzhi could not count how many drugs she was injected with daily, nor how often she was cut open without anesthesia.

Relying on the intense hatred in her heart, she endured it all.

In the early days in the laboratory, she suffered excruciating pain every day. Then one day, as she awoke from a coma, she felt she had gained an additional space.

Still, as a test subject, Gu Yanzhi was closely watched and could hardly obtain any resources. It wasn't until later that she gradually earned the trust of the laboratory director, and her background in biology, her major in university, proved to be an asset. Gu Yanzhi slowly became one of the director's assistants.

Afterward, Gu Yanzhi began her revenge plan.

She plotted for nearly five years, finally gathering her enemies together on the day the end of the apocalypse was declared by the nation. She detonated the bombs she had planted beforehand, perishing along with her adversaries.

But in the blink of an eye, she found herself back before the apocalypse had even begun.

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