give up

Sang Jiyue hated Sang Huai very much.

She had countless reasons to hate Sang Huai, and they accumulated at every stage.

She lost her mother when she was young, and they, father and son, married into the family. Since then, her life has fallen into a vicious circle that she cannot escape, because that was originally her home, where she lived.

She always firmly believed that it should be Sang Huai who should leave.

When the end of the world came, after experiencing the death of Lin Luoqing, Sang Jiyue decided to try to get along with Sang Huai and others under the comfort of Yin Qiao. However, after two years, she was betrayed. When she was dying, Sang Huai ruthlessly cut her arm with a zombie limb.

At that time, the virus spread rapidly in the dying body, and the pain of death spread like a tide, almost suffocating her.

Sang Huai killed her, and what stood up later was just a walking corpse.

Sang Jiyue knew that was her fate, but she struggled and was unwilling to give in, wanting to escape from such a difficult situation.

If being close to Sang Huai would bring misfortune, then could she live without Sang Huai?

When she regained consciousness, Sang Huai and Yin Qiao were all gone.

The only one beside her was Jiang Wangxi.

At that time, the spiritual satisfaction far outweighed the physical pain.

So Sang Jiyue could pretend not to know that in the first year of their "escape", researchers from Jingcheng contacted Jiang Wangxi. Since then, they were no longer hunted, and even more sophisticated instruments appeared in the abandoned laboratory.

The price was that every time she injected the medicine, all the experimental data were sent to the research institute in Jingcheng.

It didn't matter. She knew that Jiang Wangxi was trying to gain the greatest benefit for herself while treating her body, and she could understand that.

Sang Jiyue knows everything, but she still likes her brother who has grown up with her and has always been by her side even in her most difficult times.

They lived together for a long time, and that was the happiest time in Sang Jiyue's life. She got rid of Sang Huai and stayed away from that vicious circle. The only person around her was Jiang Wangxi who never gave up on her.

She is not good at expressing herself, but she likes Jiang Wangxi the most.

Although all of this was later ruined by Sang Huai, at least in Sang Jiyue's eyes at that time, Jiang Wangxi was killed by Sang Huai in order to protect her, and she survived by chance, at the cost of her arm.

Sang Jiyue, who escaped death, was entangled with strong hatred and heavy guilt.

In the following three years, as high-spirited as Sang Huai was, she became as dejected and hopeless.

If it weren't for her, Jiang Wangxi would not have died.

At that time, the reason why Sang Jiyue was still alive had long since changed from revenge for himself to revenge for Jiang Wangxi.

When will the cycle of revenge end? Sang Jiyue doesn't believe this. She wants Sang Huai to die.

Later, perhaps Sang Huai was finally no longer favored by fate. Sang Jiyue finally killed him and also killed all the teammates who had been with her day and night for two years.

Except Yin Qiao.

Three years ago, Yin Qiao broke up with Sang Huai and disappeared from their sight.

No one knew where she went.

However, Sang Jiyue finally saw Yin Qiao. Besides Yin Qiao, there was also Jiang Wangxi who hurried over.

...At that time, she was hit in the brain by the final blow of Sang Huai's supernatural power, and her head and body were almost torn into pieces.

The last person she saw was Jiang Wangxi.

She died a tragic death, without even a complete body. The only thing to be thankful for was that she didn't feel any pain at the time.

Instead, I just felt relieved.

Sang Jiyue thought, it was finally over, she was just too tired, so she wanted to have a good rest and a good sleep.

However, when she opened her eyes again, Sang Jiyue returned to the year when she was seventeen years old.

Having her head smashed happened in an instant, and Sang Jiyue hardly felt any pain at the time, so when she was first reborn, her memory was also distorted.

It was not until the moment he saw Jiang Wangxi that the memory of death completely returned.

The past cannot be retrieved. Sang Jiyue always thought that she had let it go. Even though she no longer liked Jiang Wangxi, he was still very important to her.

So she had no intention of telling Jiang Wangxi from the beginning that she knew everything.

It was just that Jiang Wangxi was forcing her, and he had to have a reason, so Sang Jiyue didn't mind telling him so bluntly.

They had returned to the hotel by now, and there were only three of them in the living room. Sang Jiyue was treating Sheng Xingzhou's wounds while softly saying, "Can I ask you a question?"

Jiang Wangxi nodded silently.

Sang Jiyue wrapped the last bandage around her neck, stood up, looked at Jiang Wangxi, and asked him, "Brother, why did you give up on me? Is it because the experiment is over and I'm no longer useful?"

"It's useless."

These two words made Sheng Xingzhou, who was lying on the sofa, look towards her immediately. In his memory, Sang Jiyue often mentioned these two words.

Her calm yet doubtful look made his heart feel like it was being crushed over and over again, with a dense and piercing pain.

Sheng Xingzhou struggled to get up and stood behind Sang Jiyue.

"Xiaoyue, I should have explained this to you earlier." Jiang Wangxi closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he had completely calmed down. He said to Sang Jiyue, "I didn't give up on you. I just made the best choice for us."

Jiang Wangxi has a special identity and his position in the research institute is very important. He has followed the research on the zombie virus from beginning to end.

The zombie virus had broken out on a small scale three years ago. Their team had already begun studying the virus at that time, but the serum had not yet been developed. A year later, the virus broke out on a large scale, ushering in the end of the world.

Another two years passed, and their research finally made significant progress, and Jiang Wangxi made an indelible contribution.

However, at the most critical moment, he made the only extraordinary move in his life. He took away the corpse-like Sang Jiyue and did not want her to be taken to Jingcheng.

A year later, researchers sent by the research institute found Jiang Wangxi, hoping that he would return to the research team. They would forgive all the past events and were even willing to hand Sang Jiyue over to him completely, as long as he would provide her physical data in real time.

The researchers are here, and the military must have found them. Jiang Wangxi has no other choice. Besides, the conditions proposed by the institute can indeed impress him.

They were all there to treat Sang Jiyue, and they were just recording the experimental data in real time. It wasn't an excessive request, and Jiang Wangxi had taken half of all the pain for her.

Jiang Wangxi didn't think he did anything wrong.

As for whether his purpose changed later, only he himself knows. After all, this is a difficult area to define.

Later, the experiment achieved amazing results, and it was time for Jiang Wangxi to return to Jingcheng to carry out the final step of the experiment. That was his hard work, and he could not give it up.

It’s just Sang Jiyue…

She resists humans and the base. If she knew the truth, she would probably mess up many things and make everything fall through.

So Jiang Wangxi finally decided to fake his death.

When he has a more unshakable position, he will take Sang Jiyue home.

Before that, they still have a long way to go.

Not long after returning to Jingcheng, Jiang Wangxi became very successful. The gene-modifying serum he developed was widely used. Neither zombies nor alien beasts could threaten them anymore, and humans once again stood at the top of the food chain.

Later, both humans and zombies can become "new humans" by injecting this gene.

Everything in the world is brand new and flourishing.

Everything went smoothly. The only problem was that Jiang Wangxi couldn't find Sang Jiyue. No one knew where she went. When he saw Sang Jiyue again, she was dead.

Jiang Wangxi looked at Sang Jiyue with gentle eyes and said softly, "Xiaoyue, in our last life, we were just a little bit away from being together. In this life, I have already done it. There will be no more obstacles between us. I will never leave you again. I will protect you forever."

Jiang Wangxi casually attributed everything to "almost", and Sang Jiyue naturally would not argue or get hysterical.

As early as the days when she was reborn and slept in Jiang Wangxi's bedroom, she had cried hysterically.

At that time, she even forgot her death. She only remembered that in the last glance before her consciousness faded, she still saw Jiang Wangxi.

It was him both times.

The first time is rebirth, the second time is death.

After crying for several days, Sang Jiyue asked her "mother" for her opinion, wiped away her tears, and decided to no longer like Jiang Wangxi.

There is no need to mention these again.

"There has never been any obstacle between us." Sang Jiyue said slowly: "It's just that you gave up on me, and I no longer like you."

"I said, I didn't—"

Sang Jiyue asked softly, "Then why have you never dared to tell me that you only faked your death?"

Two years ago, Jiang Wangxi didn't dare to say it.

Two years later, he was forced into a corner by her and had to tell her.

"Brother, I'm not blaming you." Sang Jiyue said calmly, "You did nothing wrong. I had indeed lost my value back then. Return to Jingcheng and continue your research and career. If you eventually achieve success, I'll be happy for you—that's the path you should take."

"As for me..."

Sang Jiyue said firmly: "I said, I will choose another path. If you don't want to be my enemy, then please withdraw from my life."

Jiang Wangxi's self-proclaimed calmness collapsed again at this moment.

"Xiaoyue, you've changed your mind." He said in a calm voice, "It's all because of—"

Sang Jiyue looked at Jiang Wangxi indifferently. Her clear dark eyes clearly reflected how out of control he was at the moment.

Jiang Wangxi lost all his voice in an instant.

He understood that all this had nothing to do with Sheng Xingzhou. Even if nothing had changed, he and Sang Jiyue would have reached this point today.

It was only because of Sheng Xingzhou that all this happened ahead of time.

No amount of reasons or excuses can make up for the three years he was absent.