"So the boss has this kind of fetish," Zhenyang thought to himself as he looked at the scene before him. "Could it be that the reason the boss looked down on the women in their territory before was because those women had long hair?"

Zhenyang was lost in his own thoughts, while Lin Xuan and Bai Yi stood in front of Ji Yueyao with angry expressions, clearly very dissatisfied with Lin Xuan's actions.

Xia Yaoxuan took a half step back, his eyes darkening as he looked at the vines clinging to his thigh. He glanced at the termites and Lin Xuan beside Ji Yueyao. Xia Yaoxuan was certain that if Ji Yueyao gave the order at this moment, these two would attack him without hesitation.

Ji Yueyao sighed helplessly at the scene before her, and while fixing her hair, she gestured for Bai Yi and Lin Xuan to step back first. "Bai Yi, Lin Xuan, don't be anxious. This guy is not an enemy. He is my childhood sweetheart."

Looking at Xia Yaoxuan, Ji Yueyao didn't feel the expected sense of intimacy. Instead, she felt a dreamlike, unreal feeling.

Childhood sweethearts?!

The termites were stunned, Lin Xuan was dumbfounded, and Zhenyang was utterly horrified.

Zhenyang stared at Ji Yueyao, feeling that she was talking nonsense. Xia Yaoxuan was someone who appeared in their Black Zone, how could he be her childhood sweetheart? Could it be that Ji Yueyao was also one of their Black race?

Termite frowned, looking troubled. He hadn't expected the captain to have a childhood sweetheart... This shouldn't be the kind of relationship he was thinking of. If it were, how would he explain it to the adults?

Ji Yueyao naturally noticed the change in the people around her. She sighed, then pulled Xia Yaoxuan towards the door, saying, "There are too many people here, let's talk somewhere else."

Xia Yaoxuan looked at the little hand holding his arm, his eyes crinkling with pleasure. He turned back to Bai Yi and the others and said, "I am her man."

"Smack." Ji Yueyao kicked Xia Yaoxuan in the thigh with such force that he almost fell to his knees. "What nonsense are you spouting?"

Xia Yaoxuan couldn't believe Ji Yueyao had such strength. His eyes widened as he was pulled away by Ji Yueyao, completely dumbfounded.

"Yueyue, tell me honestly, are you eating eight meals a day now?!" Xia Yaoxuan stared at the back of Ji Yueyao's head, indicating that he was quite frightened. Was this still her weak, delicate, and easily-crying childhood sweetheart?

"Get lost, do you think I'm a pig..." Ji Yueyao turned around and glared at Xia Yaoxuan, then dragged him to the top floor before stopping. "You still haven't told me, what are you doing here?"

"It's not like I can't be here." Xia Yaoxuan leaned against the wall and smiled gently, but the words he muttered made people want to punch him. When he looked up and saw that Ji Yueyao seemed to be about to explode again, Xia Yaoxuan then spread his hands and said, "I saw you fall down and went to help you, but before I could even reach you, I opened my eyes and found myself here."

“…Uh…” Ji Yueyao was speechless. “I got here pretty quickly after I got up…but why do you look so much older…cough, much older?”

Seeing Xia Yaoxuan's glare, Ji Yueyao decisively swallowed the word "old" back.

Xia Yaoxuan raised his hand and flicked Ji Yueyao on the forehead, then crossed his arms and said, "Silly, it's obvious that I arrived in this world earlier than you... You still look like you're eighteen, right? I'm already twenty-five this year."

Ji Yueyao looked at Xia Yaoxuan, who was now more than two heads taller than her, and suddenly remembered that Mu Yanxuan had said that Xia Yaoxuan appeared in this world in the 107th year of the apocalypse, while she herself arrived in the 113th year of the apocalypse... Hmm? Ji Yueyao did the math and felt something was off. She looked up slightly at Xia Yaoxuan and asked in confusion, "You arrived in this world in the 107th year of the apocalypse, right? If that's the case, you should only be twenty-four years old this year. Where did you go for the other year?"

"You really are... no wonder you're a senior in high school." Xia Yaoxuan shook his head and smiled helplessly. "I came to this world in the year 106 of the apocalypse."

"Huh? But the information shows you're 107... uh." Ji Yueyao frowned and said, lowering her eyes slightly, but unexpectedly she saw a scar on Xia Yaoxuan's chest.

Xia Yaoxuan was wearing a very smart jacket with a low zipper at the chest, so Ji Yueyao could see the scar on Xia Yaoxuan's chest almost immediately. It was a hideous scar that was extending towards his left shoulder.

"What kind of injury did you suffer? How did it get so serious!" Because of the clothes covering him, Ji Yueyao couldn't see the wound on Xia Yaoxuan's chest. She took a step forward, but Xia Yaoxuan raised his hand to stop her.

"It's alright." Xia Yaoxuan put away his usual gentle smile, reached out and pulled Ji Yueyao into his arms, then buried his head deeply in Ji Yueyao's neck, breathing softly.

At this moment, Ji Yueyao suddenly thought of the suffering she had endured when she first came to this world. Unconsciously, she raised her hand and touched the deep scar on her neck, her eyes darkening slightly.

That's right. They came into this world with nothing. How could they possibly have the chance to live well in this world without paying a price?

“I came to this world in 106.” Just when Ji Yueyao thought Xia Yaoxuan would not say anything more, Xia Yaoxuan’s deep voice suddenly rang out, “When I first came to this world, I was in the Black Zone. There was no food, no water, no people, no living things. There was nothing but the sunlight and a suffocating smell.”

Xia Yaoxuan recounted the events calmly, but Ji Yueyao could hear the untold bitterness in his voice. "There was no one there... I wandered around alone for two days, on the verge of collapse. Well, actually, I was almost done for. I was losing a lot of water and was about to lose consciousness. But as I collapsed, I suddenly noticed a very attractive pattern. After picking up that stone, I felt a continuous surge of strength returning to me, and that was the turning point for everything."

“Protagonist halo…” Ji Yueyao raised an eyebrow, looking at Xia Yaoxuan who seemed to have returned to normal and curled her lips, “You picked up the superpowered meteorite, didn’t you? This luck is beyond words.”

Xia Yaoxuan burst out laughing, "Pfft, if I were the male lead, you would be the female lead, there's nothing surprising about that." As he said this, Xia Yaoxuan's eyes suddenly became eager as he looked at Ji Yueyao, as if he was looking forward to seeing how the little girl in front of him would react.

However, Ji Yueyao didn't think about anything else at all. In her eyes, she and Xia Yaoxuan were the best partners. She leaned against the wall and casually spread her hands, saying, "Forget it, with my luck, I can't even absorb a meteorite with superpowers, let alone be the female lead... Hey, by the way, did you become a superpowered person by absorbing a meteorite with superpowers?" As she said this, she narrowed her eyes and looked at Xia Yaoxuan.

"Yes, of course." Xia Yaoxuan nodded. "Are there any other ways to become a superhuman?"

"I heard you're a natural-born superhuman." Ji Yueyao shook her head, neither confirming nor denying.

Hearing Ji Yueyao's words, Xia Yaoxuan pondered, "This... it's because I encountered the Black Race in the Black Zone right when my powers were about to erupt. No one saw me absorbing the power meteorite, so they assumed I was a natural-born power user." (To be continued.)