Novels like Plague of Mad Desire
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- 1 Reborn in the Zombie Apocalypse 丧尸世界，末世重生 “No supernatural powers, no System, not a monster-fighting level-up story, a standard zombie setting, and the protagonist can be reborn.” During the last sports meet of his senior year, Mo Bai was injured and taken to the school infirmary. Not long after regaining consciousness, he died in a zombie’s jaws. In a daze, he woke up again to the same scene, but this time he dodged the zombie’s first attack. Brought back to life, Mo Bai will struggle through the apocalypse in the midst of pain. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Doomsday Overture: Silence and Laughter 末日序曲：寂静与狂笑 Rule One: No laughing. Rule Two: No crying. Rule Three: Don't make a sound! After the Apocalypse, the “Laughing Nightmare” virus hits the world with a mute button. The infected laugh uncontrollably and hunt down every “discordant” source of sound. Chen Wei crawls out of a pile of corpses at his school. With his deskmate Lin Wan and a child he picked up, he sets out on a desperate journey to find his parents. Their enemies are not only the “Laughers,” transformed from former teachers and friends, 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I Become a God of Slaughter in the Laughing Plague Apocalypse 我在狂笑疫末世当杀神 I’m a God of Slaughter in the Laughing Madness Apocalypse 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 I Studied for Three Years, and You're Telling Me There's a Zombie Outbreak? 备考三年，你告诉我丧尸爆发了？ [Apocalypse] [Zombies] [Science Fiction] [Survival] [Time Loop] [New author, new book. Thanks for your support!] The world died the moment the college entrance exam ended. Some died in zombie jaws, others fell to their companions’ blades. Outside the door, people begged for help. Behind it, others wore a mask. One moment of softness, and everything was lost. In the Apocalypse, human life is worth less than grass. But more importantly: Does 46:00 mean it all starts over, or that everything ends f 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Bitten by a Zombie? Don't Panic, Just Wrap It Up First 被丧尸咬了？别慌，打个绷带先 [Transmigrate to Ancient Times] [Zombie Uprising] [Battle Royale] Bitten by a zombie? Don't panic, slap on a bandage first. Want to get stronger? Have an energy drink first. AK, M4, 98K... Take over a bandit stronghold, storm the zombie city. In these chaotic times, nothing can stand in my way... My name is Chang Ning! I speak for myself! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Starlight 星际光明 A virus outbreak. Zombies everywhere. The apocalypse has arrived. Qin An becomes the last immortal on Blue Star's final disciple, leads humanity in uncovering secrets from the stars, and ultimately guides them toward a bright new home. No saintly do-gooders, no brainless characters, an invincible protagonist, a gentle heroine, and intelligent villains. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Plague: All of Futu 疫病：浮屠全境 [Ensemble Cast + Mild Horror + Apocalypse + Zombies] (This book consists of many short chapters.) An unknown virus codenamed P.061 swept across the globe on June 1, 2033. Using the intelligence and cooperation they had possessed in life, the infected turned the world into a violent hunting ground. Civilization collapsed, and survivors struggled amid the ruins. When familiar friends and family became cunning hunters, trust became the most extravagant gamble of all. Between corpses and lies, every 598Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 8 I Kissed a Male Zombie, and the System Gave Me Unlimited Mods 强吻男丧尸，系统送我无限MOD [Post-apocalyptic survival + wild imagination + hard-core action + funny characters who feel real] My name is Qin Feng, and I'm a man. A bug between a game and its mod sucked me into a zombie-ravaged world on the very first day of the outbreak. Then the infuriating System told him he had to perform a “data repair” by kissing a zombie mouth to mouth within 30 seconds, or the game world would crash and format everything. With no other choice, the male lead starts by passionately kissing a male zom 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Blood Cross: Ashen Earth 血十字【烬土】 [Hardcore] [Blood Cross] [No Female Lead] [Doomsday] [No System] [Not a Power Fantasy] [Characters Don’t Lose Their Intelligence] This novel casts aside the usual power-fantasy tropes. In a gritty, realistic style, it focuses on the struggle to survive and the conflict of human nature after civilization collapses. It is more than a record of survival in Doomsday: it is an ultimate question about what makes us human. When the whole world descends into madness, violence becomes commonplace, and ho 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Blood Cross: Surviving the Apocalypse 血十字，末日求生 Blood Cross + ordinary people + apocalypse + a touch of horror. Chen Qi only wants to live another life in peace. In the sweltering examination hall in June, he was nodding off over a test paper he couldn't understand, trying to figure out how to copy his buddy's answers. Compared to the nightmare of constantly fleeing for his life in his previous one, this ordinary school life felt like a dream. Then he saw a twisted figure in the opposite classroom building plunge from the third floor, only to 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Zombie Siege: No One Survives 丧尸围城之无人生还 My name is Yang Tianqi, someone who was supposed to be dead. Now I'm alive for one reason only: revenge! My brothers, the woman I loved, everything I cared about is gone! So let's go crazy one more time! My name is Fury! I'll be waiting for you in hell! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Apocalypse: From Fighting My Way Through the School Building to Rebuilding Home 末世：从杀穿教学楼到重建家园 [No supernatural powers + realistic survival + one heroine + a small ensemble cast] The zombie outbreak began thirteen days before the college entrance exams. Lin Mubai, a high school student, had just finished his cleaning duty when he heard the first scream. Then the whole world began to plunge into the abyss, and he led the surviving students to the rooftop. With no way out, he took up a weapon and fought his way through the entire school building. Lin Mubai always thought this was just an or —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Blood Cross: Apocalypse of the Laughing Sickness 血十字：狂笑病末世启示录 Blood Cross-like / madness disease / apocalypse / not a power fantasy / everyone suffers / zombies / decisive male lead (Also: This book has three protagonists, so you can read it in three separate volumes.) When the apocalypse broke out, Yang Zhao was working a summer job delivering food to make money. But during one delivery, a sudden disaster swept over everything... Severed limbs, mangled flesh, scenes of utter horror... Gradually, Yang Zhao discovered that these monsters were a hundred, eve 3.8kReads—Score299Shelves
- 14 Doomsday Survival Memoirs 末日求生回忆录 The rating has just come out; it will rise later. [Realistic post-apocalyptic survival + ensemble cast + hard-hitting + no mindless wish fulfillment + no golden finger + no special abilities + tight logic + no saintly foolishness] This is a hard-hitting survival journal about life after the apocalypse. After the zombie outbreak, a delivery rider who knew nothing but his job, Old Liu, who had spent half his life repairing cars, and Xiaoting, a student nurse, hid in a funeral home and struggled to 1.4kReads8.1Score117Shelves
- 15 Raging Plague: The World 狂疫：世界 This book has multiple protagonists, each in their own separate arc. It contains graphic violence and other elements that may be disturbing. Please stop reading if you feel uncomfortable. (Bloody Cross type) Civilization is a chain that shackles our genes. Humans live in cages woven from social rules and regulations, each of us pretending to tame the beast within and slapping a seal over our instincts. Then disaster struck, revealing that so-called social rules were nothing more than cold chain 917Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Long Road of the Laughing Sickness 狂笑病之长路漫漫 Inspired by Mo Qianhui’s videos about madness Why? Why has the world become like this? I was supposed to be going home tomorrow! (P.S. I’ve obtained Mo Qianhui’s permission to use their worldbuilding. Everyone is a villain. Some of the earliest chapters have been deleted, so please forgive any plot points that don’t quite make sense.) 205Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 An Online Shopping System in the Late Ming, and the Rebel Army Is Contagious 网购系统在明末，流民军有传染性 Transmigrate to the late Ming dynasty, and you even get an online shopping System? The System connects to the modern world. You can not only list the gold and silver treasures of the late Ming for sale, but also buy items from the modern world. Don’t ask yet whether giving Zhuge Liang a hundred thousand self-heating meals a day would help him win his northern campaigns. Let’s see if giving the entire army a hundred thousand a day can sweep the enemy from the land! Li Zicheng, Hong Taiji, Dorgon, 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 A World Gone Mad 全球狂病疯子 [Blood Cross] [Doomsday Survival] [Ordinary People] [A Battle of Human Nature] This is a global outbreak of malicious infection. On the day it erupted, the world did not wail. Instead, wild laughter rang across the land as far as the eye could see. In this Doomsday world, Gu Qing is nothing but an ordinary man in a desperate state. With the world in despair, how can he lead his teammates through forest paths carpeted in flesh and blood, while evading the deranged impostor soldiers who hunt in or 719Reads5.4Score136Shelves
- 19 Surrounded by Zombies: I Am a Survivor 丧尸围城之我是幸存者 When the zombie virus really breaks out, what are we supposed to do? Slowly get used to it and accept it, or take a chance for ourselves and fight for what seems like a better future? What will you choose: live for yourself, or protect others? My name is Ling Chen. This is my story. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Zombies: A Thousand-Mile Journey Through the Apocalypse 丧尸：末世千里行 [Alternate ancient setting + zombie apocalypse + Detective Dee-inspired] The Turks? No! Living corpses, a thousand times more terrifying than the Turks, have overrun the beacon towers of Liangzhou. In 697, amid the bone-piercing winds of Liangzhou, Wang Xiaojie, Grand General of the Right Mighty Guard, received the horrifying news: three hundred elite soldiers from Shilipu had been torn apart by their “former comrades.” A horde of corpse demons from deep in the Gobi was surging south, feeding on 81Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Just a Mama's Girl Little Zombie 妈宝女小丧尸一枚吖 “When I turned into a conscious zombie and saw Mom on the road, she told me, ‘Eat a little less. You’re the fattest zombie on the road.’” Jiang Xiaojia was a first-year college student who was always online. She had just followed the latest trend and posted a video on Douyin when a commotion broke out nearby. Before she could even realize what was happening, a zombie lunged at her and bit her to death. When she woke up, the first person she saw was her mother. Thinking it had all been a dream, s 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Please Survive: An Ordinary Person's Zombie Apocalypse 《请活下来：普通人的末日丧尸》 Please Survive: An Ordinary Person’s Zombie Apocalypse 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Corpse Road Home 归途尸途 The Corpse Road Home 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Reborn as a Level Nine Zombie, I’m Building a Level One Zombie Empire 重生为九级丧尸，建一级丧尸帝国 [Zombie rank system + cautious growth + handbook for raising a Corpse King + smart protagonist + no harem + ruthless and decisive, no saintly behavior] (This is not a conventional zombie apocalypse novel. The focus is on sci-fi, interstellar adventure, special abilities, the supernatural, a System, and horror. Read with caution!) In her previous life, Gu Ning was betrayed by her best friend and boyfriend, and died at the jaws of zombies! In this life, Gu Ning was reborn as a Level Nine zombie, a 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Revelation of Dead Silence 死寂启示 No rebirth, no System, no superpowers This story is all about keeping it real. Qin Ning is a young wage earner. One day, by chance, he came across a report about a biting incident while scrolling online. At first, Qin Ning didn't think much of it. But as time passed, more and more strange things happened around him. He realized that, amid his ordinary days, something he knew nothing about was quietly brewing. What he didn't know was that this would change his life, and the lives of everyone else —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Creating a New Era at the End of the World 末日创造新时代 [Doomsday zombies + one female lead + Tree Eye + nearly invincible protagonist + no System + teamwork] The apocalypse arrives, leaving humanity on the brink of despair. By a twist of fate, Yan Huang is the first to step beyond his comfort zone. His extraordinary talent leads him to discover a path of cultivation and awaken the “Tree Eye.” He joins forces with people who share his convictions. Even in the face of adversity, the authorities refuse to give up, protecting the people with ironclad re 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Apocalypse: Why the Hell Don’t I Have a System? 末世，俺为啥没有系统 [Apocalypse + Military + Passionate Action + Superpowers + No System + Multiple Female Supporting Characters] The male lead is absurdly strong. He seems sweet and innocent on the surface, but is actually a scheming cynic who goes around recruiting underlings and rescuing beautiful women. The apocalypse arrives, and life on Earth mutates. Sun Jiuyue unexpectedly awakens a superpower and is forced to join the army? Then he'll just have to give it a shot and take a chance! He fights zombies on one —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Endless Hiding 无尽躲藏 This is a world with no concept of "zombies," a parallel world with no related movies, stories, or information. An unprecedented crisis descends without warning. No one knows what the biting "strangers" are. They only know that these "strangers" inexplicably lunge at the people around them and bite. No one knows why they bite, only that they fear no death and possess monstrous strength. No one knows where it is safe, so all they can do is hide and flee for their lives. Welcome to a world filled 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Campus Zombies: The Humane Elimination Project 校园丧尸：人道毁灭工程 [Apocalypse] [Zombies] [Campus] [Hardcore] [No Female Lead] A sudden viral outbreak turns a familiar campus into a battlefield for survival. The water will run out, the food will be used up, and wounds won't heal on their own. Every trip outside means calculating the risks, and every decision about supplies could spark an argument. All you can rely on is limited stamina, clear judgment, and experience built up little by little. There is no absolutely safe place here, and no ally you can trust fo 1.4kReads—Score147Shelves
- 30 Mad Laughter Syndrome: Starting with a Doomed Flight 狂笑病：从绝命航班开始 [Reborn] + [System] + [one heroine] + [madness] + [Doomsday] + [graphic content] + [read with caution] Inspired by the madness videos by Mo Qianhui and Yiban Tongguo Zhaoanren. A comet streaks across the sky. From that moment on, the world becomes unrecognizable to Mu Qiuye, with people killing one another everywhere. Bloodshed, violence, murder, and lust fill every corner of the world. Can the reborn Mu Qiuye change the future? “Is there some strange thing inside me now?” … “Let this blood-soa 1.3kReads—Score135Shelves
- 31 Laughing Sickness: The Dead Walk the Same Road 狂笑病：群骸同途 [Laughing Sickness + Blood-Cross-style + no saintly heroine + intelligent zombies + apocalypse + doomsday + decisive killing + multiple storylines + ensemble cast + hardcore survival] There is no rebirth, no supernatural powers, no System space, no protagonist plot armor, and no romantic entanglements. This is not a wish-fulfillment novel. It focuses on a purely realistic, hardcore apocalypse, depicting humanity’s desperate yet unyielding struggle in the age of the “Laughing Sickness,” along wi 1.4kReads—Score121Shelves
- 32 Blood Cross: The Scumbag Chases His Wife Through Hell in the Apocalypse 血十字：渣男在末世追妻火葬场了 [Blood-Cross-inspired + Nonhuman Female Lead + No CP + Pets + Ensemble Cast + No Superpowers or System + Realistic] On the fifth day of her cold war with her boyfriend, Luo Ning couldn't take it anymore. She bought a cake and went to make up with him. Just as she reached the bottom of his apartment building, the apocalypse suddenly began. Luo Ning watched with her own eyes as her boyfriend of five years escaped through a window with his new sweetheart, a junior student. She was left behind to be 1kReads—Score115Shelves
- 33 Madness: The Mortal World at the End of Days 狂病：末世人间 On March 17, 2027, the Madness Plague broke out. The infected laughed hysterically and thirsted for blood and human flesh, yet retained the cunning they’d had in life. The government responded swiftly, and the situation seemed to come under control. Duan Ran, 38, a former major in the Langya Special Forces Brigade, was forced to leave the military after being saddled with 1.5 million yuan in debt to cover someone else’s mess. Whether or not the apocalypse came, all he wanted was to hunker down a 93Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Piranhas Are Coming: The Blood Corpse Is by Your Side 食人鱼来临：血尸在你身边 Apocalypse + no romance + strong female lead + torrential rain + new blood corpses + blood blobs + piranhas + desperate escape After surviving an apocalypse, humanity rebuilt its home. No one knew another apocalypse was about to return. New blood corpses are remnants of last year's species, and they possess intelligence. Blood blobs are soft-bodied monsters that can crawl into homes through the tiniest cracks. There is nowhere they cannot get in! They crawl into people's mouths and suck them dry 846Reads8.3Score179Shelves
- 35 Madness: Nightmare 狂病：噩梦 Overnight, “Mad Sickness” consumed the entire city. The infected lost all reason, but retained their cunning and malice. They ran through the streets laughing wildly and spewing filth, knew how to corner people and play dirty, and even taunted their victims as they tore into the living. They were a hundred times more terrifying than mindless walking corpses. Civilization crumbled amid the screams, the streets became a playground for lunatics, and the whole city sank into an endless nightmare. Ch 682Reads—Score100Shelves
- 36 Blood Cross: A Drifter’s Struggle to Survive 血十字：流浪者的苟活之路 [No saintly behavior in the apocalypse]+ [Multiple male leads]+ [No female lead]+ [Decisive and ruthless]+ [Gory]+ [Blood Cross Virus]+ [Despairing ending] After the Blood Cross Virus broke out, the world became a living hell. Blood-red cross-shaped blisters appeared on the faces of the infected. They went mad, craved blood, and took pleasure in torturing the living. They would force themselves into anything with an opening, whether human or animal… Chen Hao was an obscure college student. As s 1.1kReads8.0Score100Shelves
- 37 Blood Cross: The Metro Terminus 血十字：地铁始发站 The morning subway you’re riding may be the last one in human civilization. A virus known as “Blood Cross” has erupted across the globe. The infected develop red, cross-shaped sores on their faces, and the incubation period is less than ten seconds. The virus devours their moral faculties while leaving their intelligence and memories completely intact. They can shoot, drive, set traps, and even organize into tribes for group hunts. They are the embodiment of humanity’s darkest desires: no reason 105Reads—Score104Shelves
- 38 Apocalypse Rebirth: From the Start, I Stockpile Campus Beauties in a Safehouse 末世重生：我开局在安全屋囤校花 [If you don't like overly dark apocalypse stories and can't accept extreme self-interest, come on in. This is a lighthearted apocalypse story.] [Lots of controversial points, so criticize as you like. The protagonist only kills those who deserve it, and there are plenty of devoted girls.] (Reborn + apocalypse + space + lay low + stockpile supplies + natural disasters + not dark + evolution + supernatural abilities + zombies + sci-fi + alien civilization) In his previous life, the ordinary Li Xiu 397Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 39 Three Hundred Tang Corpse Strikes 唐尸三百手 Li Qing opened his eyes to find himself transmigrated to the height of the Kaiyuan era, in the body of Li Qing, the Tang Emperor Xuanzong's eighteenth son. He thought he was about to start an overpowered life in the Tang dynasty, but then a secret letter suddenly arrived from beyond the frontier: people at the border were devouring one another like beasts, and blood had flowed for three thousand miles. The Tang dynasty... was in danger! 41Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 40 Apocalypse: I Lead My Classmates in a Desperate Fight for Survival 末世：我带同学极限求生 [Intelligent zombies + no rebirth + no supernatural abilities + no System + no female lead] Lu Tianyi wakes up one day to find that the world is about to change! “Ahhh!” A piercing scream rings out. Zombies begin spreading across the campus. With so many different sources of information, there’s no way to tell what’s true and what isn’t… Fear, darkness, and uncertainty fill people’s hearts. Where can they go from here? Sometimes kindness gives others the weapon they need to kill you. Pain a 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Blood Cross Siege: Survival Is the Only Truth 血十字围城：活下去才是唯一真理 [Blood Cross + post-apocalyptic survival + gritty, no golden finger + ruthless decisiveness + ensemble cast + suspense and horror] The whole city mutates, and the Blood Cross descends. The infected weep blood, their mouths stretched in crazed grins as they revel in the thrill of slaughtering their own kind. Chu He is just an ordinary high school teacher. When his students turn red-eyed and start cutting one another with utility knives, he promptly locks the classroom door, climbs out of a second 53Reads—Score105Shelves
- 42 Madness: Sunspots 狂病：太阳黑子 [Zombie apocalypse, no supernatural powers, no System, gritty style] The common flu suddenly mutates into a madness disease. Those infected are almost indistinguishable from zombies. Clearing out carbon-based life and bringing the situation under control should not be difficult. But war breaks out at just the wrong time, and disturbances from sunspots cut off internet communications... For Shen Nian, staying alive and protecting his older sister are both crucial and incredibly difficult. As he p 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Flocking Together: All Living Beings 群栖：众生 Content warning: No storage space, no System, no golden finger. The protagonist grows stronger gradually. When the shadow of a bioweapon disaster suddenly fell over the school, peaceful classrooms became terrifying hellscapes in an instant. Zombies who had lost their minds roamed the corridors. The campus, once filled with the sound of students reading aloud, now echoed only with bone-chilling snarls and desperate cries. Yet amid the endless darkness, warmth and hope never went out. The students 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Death Takes the City 尸杀全城 Also known as The Citywide Zombie Slaughter: Survival Begins in an Apartment [No Superpowers or Cheats + Realistic Survival + Zombie Apocalypse] It all begins with a ridiculous night of drinking... And yet the world is about to be plunged into a cataclysm. As steel cities become death zones, once-bustling streets slowly fall into ruin, and countless strange figures wander across the ravaged land... Can Chen Yu make it out alive, carrying the seed called “hope” in his heart, and survive to the e 1.9kReads8.0Score106Shelves
- 45 Raging Plague: Infection Everywhere 狂疫：全境感染 [Apocalypse + ensemble cast + realism + blood cross + no System + no supernatural powers] Beneath the seemingly prosperous surface of the modern city, a disaster known as the “Raging Plague” crept in like a nightmare. No one knew where it came from, but like a demonic curse, it rapidly spread through the population, turning one living person after another into bloodthirsty lunatics. They lost their humanity, retaining only their primal instinct to kill and their bestial desires. 1.2kReads8.5Score101Shelves
- 46 The End Is Here: How Long Must We Keep Running? 末日来临：究竟要逃到什么时候 [Apocalypse + zombies + hyperrealistic survival + supplies in abundance + growing female lead + no saintly heroine + ensemble cast + no special abilities + no golden finger + generally no omniscient point of view] [Early story focuses on Country Z, later story focuses on the world] A friendly reminder: This story is set in a fictional world. Any similarities are purely coincidental. At first, people think it’s just an ordinary natural disaster, never imagining that a zombie virus will break out 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Blood Cross: Purge 血十字：肃清 Chen Lang has cancer and wants nothing more than to stay alive. After contracting the Blood Cross virus, the cancer cells in his body are eliminated, and even the desire amplified in his brain is reduced to a single thing: survival. Though relieved, Chen Lang knows the cross-shaped blisters on his face mean he can never go back to his old life. What path lies ahead for him now? 275Reads6.6Score115Shelves
- 48 Laughing Sickness: Mayflies in a Sea of Blood 狂笑病：血海蜉蝣 [Apocalypse] + [Madness] + [Blood Cross] + [No Cheats] + [Zombies] (The kind that laugh) When laughter becomes a harbinger of death, can anyone stay silent? Beneath the night sky over Jiangcheng University, a sudden apocalypse turns the campus into a living hell. The mad laughter is no longer ordinary teasing. It is a harbinger of death... 80Reads—Score101Shelves
- 49 When the Dead Turn, Everyone Else Becomes Hell 尸变他人即地狱 [Zombie apocalypse + team + decisive and ruthless + no saintly do-gooder protagonist + protagonist growth] A six-person team came together at the very start of the zombie apocalypse. To survive, they stopped at nothing, traveling from City A to City B, then City C, City D, and beyond... Unexpectedly, many died along the way, and many others joined them. The original group of six became one big family. On the run, they came to understand that no one could ever truly be trusted. Every day they sta 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Madness Plague: Escape from the Apartment Block 疯疫，从单元楼开始逃亡 (Bloody Cross, Grim, Ensemble Cast, Teammates, Doomsday, Escape) "Sis, your eyes are so beautiful. Would you take them out and give them to me?" Shen Wei had just graduated from military academy for women. Carrying her suitcase down the street, she glanced down and saw a boy of seven or eight with unnaturally red skin beneath his eyes. Before she could respond, his mother pulled him away. As they left, he turned and stared at her. Shen Wei thought nothing of it. She unpacked when she got to her 1.7kReads—Score230Shelves
