I Returned to Before the Apocalypse and Sweet-Talked the Villain into Heaven

The apocalypse will arrive in just three days. Blizzards bury the city, floods swallow the land, and earthquakes tear the earth to pieces. Humanity waits for no miracle, only the countdown. To find the cause of the apocalypse, Pei Yining, a member of the secret research institute's special forces, is secretly sent back to three years before doomsday. Every clue points to the same child Pei Lin. Thin, silent, and covered in old and new scars. The institute's orders are cold as iron: Correct the situation in time. If correction is impossible, execute him on the spot. The apocalypse must not be allowed to happen. Pei Yining stands before Pei Lin. Watching him hunch his shoulders like a frightened little beast, she finds she can't bring herself to do it. She reports the situation to the institute. The reply contains just one word: Execute. She slowly crouches and tentatively reaches out her hand, her voice so soft it seems afraid of breaking him: "Would you come with me?" Pei Lin looks at her fearfully. He doesn't answer, only asks in a trembling voice: "Then what will happen to them?" Pei Yining's hand hangs in midair. In that moment, she suddenly isn't sure: is she taking away the source of the apocalypse, or the first child abandoned by it?