When He Xi opened her eyes, the world had already gone to hell.
The howls in the stairwell, the blood moon outside the window, and the strange glowing mark in her palm that could turn zombies to ash at a touch all told her the same thing: the apocalypse had arrived.
On her way back to her apartment complex, she found a boy at the entrance to her building.
He was as pale as moonlight, as obedient as a puppy, and his eyes sparkled when he smiled. Best of all, he could turn a pack of emergency rations into Michelin-star cuisine. He Xi brought him home, and amid the ruins without water or electricity, she somehow ended up eating four dishes and a soup at every meal.
Only…
“Xiao Yan, where did you get today’s lobster?”
“I found it in a supermarket freezer.” The boy blinked and put a piece of tofu in abalone sauce in her bowl.
Only later did she learn that the supermarket freezers had been cleaned out in a frenzy three months ago.
Even more absurdly, powerful ability users from the apocalypse came knocking, trying to recruit her. “Sister He, stop sticking with an ordinary guy. Team up with me, and you can come and go from the base whenever you like!”
He Xi stroked the freshly cooked sweet-and-sour ribs and didn’t even look up. “No thanks. My Xiao Yan is shy around strangers.”
Then, during a mission, she saw a familiar figure at the center of a zombie horde.
The slender boy stood atop tens of thousands of zombies, his white shirt spotless. He raised one finger, and the most ferocious Zombie King obediently crouched at his feet. He turned to look at her, his gaze as gentle as ever, while a blood-red tide blotted out the sky behind him.
So the Zombie King humanity had been desperately searching for was the one who made her breakfast every day.
He Xi: “…”
Wait, those “supermarket specials” she’d been eating for half a year… They weren’t…?
It's so good-looking and the male and female protagonists really match each other 🤭