Unfinished Game

Aaaah, I got the tags wrong!! This isn't a male-female romance!!!

(A collaborative work by two authors. If anything doesn't make sense, blame the way our two brains work. We're both lazy, and characters may sometimes seem to have "split personalities." This isn't a straightforward apocalypse novel. If you don't like it, you don't have to read it.)

The apocalypse came. The two fought desperately, then returned to the moment it all began.

Unprepared, they had to start over, and all they got in exchange was the chance to reunite.

Yu Qing takes on a battle of wits with Qi Shengsheng and Dr. Yate, and a battle of wits with the world itself.

Yu Qing: I want to slack off, but there's an idiot beside me, so I can't. Fine, I'll just make the world a little more peaceful. (The one with brains.)

Qi Shengsheng: With a slacker who can't cook by my side, she'd starve herself if I weren't here. (A little girl who can cook.)

Dr. Yate: I need to find someone to do the heavy lifting. (The one with brains, number two.)

Jiang Li: Why am I so unlucky? (The hired muscle.)

They return to a few hours before the apocalypse, but have no time to prepare. What should they do? Slack off, then go rob Dr. Yate's place when the time comes.

Why are there so many zombies already? Never mind, I'll just stay nearby and watch Qi Shengsheng play.

What should I do now that my powers are gone? Bring out the thing I've been saving for a rainy day and fight for my life.

Is the world fake? Is Dr. Yate not Dr. Yate? Is Li Lin actually Li Ting? Who caused time to flow backward? Where did the supernatural powers come from? A battle of wits with God?

The answers to all these questions?

I knew them long ago.