Xu Yan looked at her daughter, who had rushed into her arms, with a puzzled expression.
She had only gone to work at eight this morning.
After only ten hours apart, why was this girl crying so much?
But seeing her daughter sobbing uncontrollably in her embrace, she felt heartbroken.
No matter how old her daughter grew, she would always be her little darling.
She gently stroked her daughter's back.
With a knowing expression.
"Go on, tell me. Are you out of money again, or did you get back together with Tang Qing?"
Her voice carried a hint of disappointment, as if she were lamenting her daughter's lack of progress.
Her daughter, a graduate of a prestigious university, was exquisitely beautiful, and a second-generation heiress!
The people pursuing her stretched all the way from here to France!
Yet Tang Qing, ungrateful as he was, had cheated on her.
Xu Yan couldn't fathom what her daughter saw in him.
Xu An, having finished crying, stealthily wiped her nose on her mother's five-figure shirt.
Then she looked up, her expression blank.
"Who is Tang Qing?"
"Are you sure you're not still half-asleep? I told you ages ago not to sleep so much, you're always up and down..."
Here followed ten thousand words of a mother's nagging.
Xu An tightly clutched the corner of her mother's clothes, afraid she might disappear at any moment.
For her mother, the separation had only been ten hours.
But for Xu An, it had been ten years since she had last seen her mother.
Listening to her mother's long-absent nagging again, Xu An didn't feel annoyed at all.
Her mother could really talk; she hadn't stopped for ten minutes.
Thinking this, she let out an involuntary laugh.
This laugh stunned her mother.
Her daughter, who usually grew impatient and retreated to her room after a few words of nagging, was still here.
Not only that, but she was looking at her with a silly grin.
Meanwhile, Xu An's memories began to flood back, and in a daze, she recalled.
In her previous life, three months before the apocalypse, her boyfriend of one year had cheated on her.
And that cheating ex-boyfriend's name was Tang Qing.
In a way, she should thank Tang Qing.
If he hadn't cheated, she wouldn't have stayed home for half a year due to heartbreak.
This developed her habit of hoarding supplies at home.
It was this good habit that allowed her to survive the initial zombie outbreak.
During that period, the population of Blue Star plummeted by a tenth.
That was the true... hell on earth.
...
Although, according to the timeline, she and Tang Qing should have just broken up.
But in her memory, breaking up with Tang Qing had happened ten years ago.
Seeing her daughter's bewildered expression, Xu Yan also sensed something was amiss.
She wondered if the heartbreak had been too much for her daughter, causing her to become disoriented.
Should she tell Nannan that she was actually a super-rich second-generation heiress to cheer her up?
No, if she was a love-struck fool and told Tang Qing about it, that boy would latch onto Nannan for the rest of his life.
Thus, for her daughter's future happiness.
Xu Yan decided she would never reveal that she was actually a trillionaire heiress.
"It's not about Tang Qing at all. That scum cheated, and I dumped him."
Xu Yan looked at her daughter's red, swollen eyes and didn't expose her.
"It's good that you know he's scum. Our Nannan will definitely find a better boyfriend."
As they spoke, they walked into the living room and sat on the sofa.
"Oh, Mom, it's not about boyfriends right now. I need to tell you something serious."
"How is talking about boyfriends not serious? Oh, let me tell you, your Aunt Wang's son is very outstanding..."
Here followed ten thousand words of a mother promoting other people's sons.
This time, Xu An didn't let her mother continue her rambling.
"Mom! Stop pretending. I already know!"
Hurry up and come clean with me. You know, I'm actually a second-generation heiress with a net worth of a trillion."
Xu Yan, who was in the middle of a eloquent speech, was suddenly interrupted. She paused and instinctively retorted.
"What am I pretending?"
"Mom, don't act. I know our family doesn't run a regular pig farm, but a listed company!"
Xu Yan looked shocked and her mind raced.
What if her daughter, knowing she was a rich second-generation heiress, was deceived by a scoundrel for money and affection?
Waiting for advice online, urgently.
"You... what nonsense are you talking about? We're just a small farming family, what listed company."
However, the panic and evasiveness in her eyes had already betrayed her.
Hearing this, she vaguely understood why her mother was denying it so vehemently; she probably thought she was being love-struck.
Alas, the current Xu An would probably only be smacking zombie brains.
Thinking about it, Xu An felt that regardless of whether her mother believed her now, she had to tell the truth.
A company with a market value of a trillion was no small sum, and it was impossible to divest it quickly.
And what they lacked most right now was time.
"Mom, listen to me. What I'm about to say might sound absurd to you, but you have to believe me."
Xu Yan also noticed that her daughter had suddenly become serious.
A sense of foreboding arose in her heart.
She nodded solemnly.
"Go ahead."
"Mom, actually... I've been reborn from ten years in the future."
Seeing her mother's incredulous expression, the fingers that had been gripping Xu Yan's clothes now tightened their hold on her mother's hands.
"Mom, I'm not joking. In six months, the world will end. First, there will be a zombie tide, followed by various natural disasters, and I..."
She recounted her ten years of solitary survival to her mother, one by one.
The moment she spoke it aloud.
Xu An felt the true reality of her rebirth.
In her previous life, her survival had been nothing short of a miracle.
Xu Yan looked at her daughter, whose eyes were red from crying, and her heart tightened.
Although she found what Xu An said somewhat far-fetched.
However, the slight pain in her hands made her realize.
Her daughter was not joking.
Xu Yan began to hypothesize in her mind.
If her daughter wasn't joking...
Then, had her daughter truly struggled alone for ten years in such a difficult apocalyptic world?
If all of this were true...
Xu Yan's nose twitched, and her eyes began to water.
How did my Nannan manage to struggle and survive all alone...
She dared not even imagine.
Her heart ached with a searing pain.
It was as if.
In the years she hadn't noticed, the whole world had been bullying her precious daughter.
An hour later, Xu An finally finished recounting the long decade.
She was afraid her mother wouldn't believe her, and her mind was filled with:
How can I prove I'm really a reborn person?
Waiting for advice online, urgently.
"Mom... Mom... are you listening to me?"
Xu Yan was silent.
Throughout Xu An's hour-long account, she had never mentioned her.
It was easy to guess that if this were true, she would have likely died by then.
If she were still alive... if she were still alive...
Wouldn't Nannan have had such a difficult life?
Xu An asked hesitantly, "Mom... do you still not believe me?"
Xu Yan shook her head.
"No, let me think about it properly."
Although all of this sounded absurd.
However, to be able to start from scratch and turn a pig farm into a listed company with a market value of a trillion.
Xu Yan was never an ignorant woman. On the contrary, her receptiveness was very high.
No one would tell a lie so meticulously, even being so detailed about specific times and places.
And her daughter had no reason to deceive her.
Especially since her daughter knew they were wealthy.
This made Xu Yan begin to doubt.
The apocalyptic crisis might be real!
Just as she was still questioning this thought.
Xu An's actions completely convinced her of her daughter's words.
As if fearing her mother still didn't believe her, she pulled her up from the sofa.
In the next second, the sofa that had been in the living room disappeared.
"Mom, I really came back from rebirth. This is my superpower, spatial ability."
Looking at the now empty living room, Xu Yan was silent for a long time.
Xu An did not urge her.
After all, who among normal people would believe in the arrival of the apocalypse immediately upon hearing it?
It took only about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.
Xu Yan seemed to have made a great decision, and her previously bewildered eyes gradually became clear.
Xu An heard her mother speak.
"How much time is left until the apocalypse?"
Xu An was overjoyed. She had expected it to take some time to persuade her mother, but she hadn't anticipated getting it done in an afternoon.
"There are still three months, but we need to order and stockpile a large amount of supplies without attracting attention, so we need to act quickly. We must start now."