Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Xia Mufei still wanted to refuse, but the three of them had such a look that if he didn’t accept, they would be really angry, so he had no choice but to accept…

It wasn’t until he got home and saw the braised meat in his pocket that Xia Mufei sighed and muttered, “Today was another day of failed refusal.”

“What rejection failed?”

The sudden appearance of Xia Ying behind him gave Xia Mufei a start.

“You, you, you! When did you come back?”

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“Just got back.”

As Xia Ying spoke, he reached out and took the braised meat from Xia Mufei’s hand to look at it.

“Is it from them again?”

“Yeah, Uncle Lin and the others are really too nice. I can never refuse them,”

Xia Mufei replied helplessly. He himself didn’t notice that the topic had already been successfully diverted by Xia Ying.

“Did you really not know them before?” Xia Ying asked doubtfully. He always felt that there was an indescribable look in Lin Cheng and the others’ eyes when they looked at Xia Mufei, like… gratitude?

“I swear I really didn’t know them, but they say I look like a child from one of their relatives’ families.”

“I doubt that,”

After saying this, Xia Ying was about to go upstairs but was stopped by Xia Mufei.

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“Xia Ying, there are a few cans of beer that Uncle Lin gave me the other day. We’ve got beer and meat; let’s eat together,”

Xia Mufei said happily. Since the accident that happened last time, no one dared to move into this house anymore. Now, it was just the two of them, so they didn’t normally have to hide anything.

Xia Ying intended to refuse, but somehow he found himself nodding in agreement. It seemed that when faced with the always smiling, harmless Xia Mufei, he could never find an excuse to refuse.

Xia Mufei still had a particular fondness for the rooftop. He moved out a table from the attic, and the two of them started eating on the rooftop, blowing in the gradually cooling autumn breeze.

The braised meat didn’t look very big, but there was still a full plate of it cut up, and Xia Ying took out a bag of fried peanuts from somewhere and poured them onto the plate.

Even though Xia Mufei had already eaten dinner in the cafeteria, he still swallowed his saliva. In the apocalypse, this combination was unbeatable!

The braised meat given by Lin Cheng was delicious, and even Xia Ying couldn’t help but eat several bites.

“Xia Ying, Xia Ying, this meat is so delicious. I’ve never eaten meat this good before!” Xia Mufei said without exaggeration.

“Hmm,”

Xia Ying took a sip of beer. The familiar taste made him feel a bit dazed, as if he had returned to those hedonistic days.

“Xia Ying, is there anyone you really want to see right now?”

As Xia Mufei drank, he became more talkative.

Someone he wanted to see?

An image of that person floated into Xia Ying’s mind, but then it faded. He would never be able to meet with him again in this lifetime.

Seeing Xia Ying crush the beer can in his hand, Xia Mufei didn’t dare to ask any more. It seemed he had asked a rather inappropriate question.

But unexpectedly, Xia Ying started to chat with him.

Xia Mufei was shocked; he had never imagined that Xia Ying, who not only had been to a detox center, had also been to prison… Although Xia Ying didn’t tell everything in detail, Xia Mufei still understood, and he couldn’t help but feel full of sympathy for Xia Ying.

It turned out that Xia Ying was originally raised in an orphanage and because of his good looks, he was spotted by someone and logically entered the entertainment industry.

But in the vast dye vat of the entertainment industry, Xia Ying had no background or support. Apart from a few online variety shows at the beginning, no more resources were allocated to him. His agency simply treated him as a companion to drink with, sending him to attend all sorts of social obligations. During one such event, someone accidentally spiked his drink, and by the time he woke up, he was in the detox center.

He tried to contact the outside world, only to find there was absolutely no one he could reach out to.

It seemed as if the manager of the detox center always deliberately made things difficult for him. After being admitted, he was locked in a dark room all by himself, with no one to talk to except for the people who delivered his meals.

That was far from the worst of it, he would never forget the whips in the hands of those people, who beat him cruelly every few days under the pretext of aiding his detox. He had resisted countless times, but it only led to more beatings and scoldings.

This way of life continued for nearly a year. When he had almost become numb to it all, the administrator who often beat him was caught, which led to a media scandal and caused quite a stir.

Subsequently, a man who claimed to be his father appeared before him.

He would never forget the day that man appeared, the moment the light flooded the dark room, and he walked in against the light, unable to help but sob, “Child, you’ve suffered…”

He couldn’t see the man’s face, but he could hear that he was crying.

Could it be that someone was crying for him?

He had never dared to hope that he would have relatives in this world, and initially, he hadn’t believed this man either, until the DNA test report was laid before him. Only then did he restrain the ecstatic joy in his heart and accepted that man.

His father always looked at him with eyes full of sorrow, saying that he had let him down. Although he had always been searching for him over the years, his mother had taken him and run away, despite his use of all his connections, he had never found them.

“Then your father, what happened to him now…” Xia Mufei asked cautiously.

“He was driven to his death.”

Xia Ying slammed his fist on the table. His father was a good official, and he had helped so many people; why was he the one who had to die with regrets?

On the night before his father’s departure, he told him in the study that his dream would never be fulfilled in this lifetime. It was because his competitor had used connections from higher-ups, and if he were ever gone, it would definitely be because they had seized incriminating evidence against him to deliver a fatal blow.

And not long after, his father ended his life in the study.

“Don’t be sad, your father certainly wouldn’t want to see you so upset. You know, I also grew up without parents. I was raised by my grandfather,” Xia Mufei said, trying to distract Xia Ying from his grief and find a sense of equilibrium in his own story.

But Xia Ying laughed and said to him, “You are the silliest person I’ve ever met.”

“…”

He had been sharing his own tragic past, yet Xia Ying called him silly?

Xia Mufei suddenly felt even the peanuts weren’t tasty anymore.

“I want to avenge him.”

Xia Ying’s words left Xia Mufei’s chopsticks suspended in mid-air.

He looked at Xia Ying incredulously and asked, “You mean, the person who drove your father to death is still alive?”

“Alive and kicking, psh, why should they!”

Xia Mufei was somewhat silent, feeling there was something odd about what Xia Ying said, but he couldn’t quite point it out.

“Xia Ying, I don’t think that’s the right way to think about it,” Xia Mufei said earnestly.

“?”

“You should live for yourself.”

After he said these words, Xia Mufei immediately regretted them, because Xia Ying across from him seemed to have become angry. He stood up, walked to the staircase, and left behind a sentence.

“Are you qualified to say that to me?”