As the zombie's teeth snapped through my neck, I saw my boyfriend, Lu Yan, kissing my best friend, Su Xue, in the distance. He held the spatial jade pendant that should have been mine, while Su Xue rose on tiptoe, smiling like a flower laced with poison.
"Qingqing, don't blame us. Blame the world we live in."
Lu Yan's voice drifted lightly through the zombies' snarls and slipped into my ears. I hated them. I hated them until my eyeballs burst, hated them so much I wanted to become a vengeful ghost.
Then I was reborn.
I sprang up in bed, gasping for breath. Before me was not the filthy wasteland of the apocalypse, but my familiar, clean and tidy rental apartment. The wall
