Chapter 1: Rewriting the Beginning of the Story

When Qin Shiyuan regained consciousness, she was incredibly arrogant. She was indeed amazing; she survived the zombie king's self-destruction.

The next moment she realized something was wrong. The suffocating, thick stench that had filled her nostrils for years was gone, replaced by a strange, dry, and slightly earthy fresh smell.

"Yuanyuan, be good, don't be afraid." The woman's voice was gentle but firm, with a hint of anger.

In the unfamiliar environment, with a strange woman and himself severely injured, Qin Shiyuan remained on guard, not uttering a single word.

"So, this blockhead knows fear? Does she even understand what I'm saying? It's hilarious!" The voice was sarcastic and mocking.

Qin Shiyuan didn't move. He clenched his fist secretly. He had some strength and should still be able to fight. He would save up his strength so that he could slap her more freely later.

"Yang Meiyu!" Shi Ling shouted angrily, pointing to the door, "Get out!"

"Get out?" Yang Meiyu said arrogantly. "This is my brother's house. If anyone should leave, it should be you and your burden!"

"Shi Ling, you've been married to my brother for over ten years and haven't even given birth to a single child, yet you dare to raise your voice at me!"

"Only my brother can tolerate you. Anyone else would have kicked you and your child out long ago!"

Qin Shiyuan loosened his grip a bit: The zombie horde has receded, should we put on a skit to celebrate? Not sure, let's wait and see!

"Yang Meiyu, if you want to lay eggs, go to your own home and lay them all you want. This is my home, and it's none of your business to tell me what to do!"

"She can't boss me around, but I can!" Feng Jinqiu squinted her triangular eyes and glared fiercely at Shi Ling. "This is my son's house, and I can make sure you all get out of here!"

"I'm afraid you can't either." Shi Ling said coldly, a smirk playing on her lips. "This house was built with my dowry money; it's my home!"

She then looked at Yang Meiyu and said, "You were able to lay eggs as you wished, thanks to my dowry money. Otherwise, would the Qian family have even looked at you?"

“If they were interested in you, you wouldn’t feel resentful and always cause trouble at your brother and sister-in-law’s house.”

Qin Shiyuan: This line... I feel like there's something wrong with it.

"Ah! Shi Ling, I'll fight you to the death!" Yang Meiyu broke down, and Feng Jinqiu pointed at Shi Ling's nose and cursed his entire family with vulgar language.

Shi Ling, fighting two opponents at once, was gaining a slight advantage.

Qin Shiyuan gradually realized that something was wrong; she recognized the name Shi Ling.

She has a friend who is knowledgeable and well-traveled, and loves to share all sorts of stories with her.

Before she left the base to fight the zombie king, her friend had just told her an old-fashioned supernatural story to cheer her on.

Shi Ling is the name of the female protagonist's adoptive father's white moonlight in the story!

Qin Shiyuan turned around and looked around. The houses with blue bricks, tiles, and glass windows—such a housing structure would never appear in the apocalypse!

She closed her eyes.

Bad news: She was caught in the zombie king's self-destruction and is gone!

Good news: She seems to be dead but not really dead, she's transmigrated!

This is a bit complicated, but she doesn't have time to figure it out right now.

She remembered that the story began with the white moonlight passing away unexpectedly due to family changes, entrusting her daughter Shiyuan to the female protagonist's adoptive father.

Qin Shiyuan remembered that she had asked what kind of accident it was back then, and now she knew that it was not the vague accident mentioned in the story.

That foul-mouthed old woman clearly saw Yang Meiyu wielding a rolling pin and viciously smashing it at Shi Ling's head, yet she deliberately kept arguing with Shi Ling to distract her!

This is murder!

Qin Shi thought of all the messy things in the story, and decisively kicked Yang Meiyu, who was trying to sneak up on him, and then slapped the old woman to shut her up!

The rolling pin grazed Shi Ling's head and fell to the ground with a "clatter." Shi Ling was safe.

Qin Shiyuan raised an eyebrow slightly. She had successfully rewritten the beginning of the story. Well done!

"Willing, willing?" Shi Ling murmured, looking at Qin Shiyuan, somewhat lost in thought.

"Mom, Meiyu!" Yang Fuguo, who had been standing by unnoticed, helped Yang Meiyu up, then looked at Feng Jinqiu, who was covering her face and unable to speak, with concern, and looked at Shi Ling reproachfully, "Shi Ling, how could you let Shi Yuan hit someone?"

"Still hitting elders!"

These words seemed to flip a switch, and the stunned Feng Jinqiu slapped her thigh and began to wail: "Oh my god, I'm not going to live! This idiot killed someone!"

Qin Shiyuan looked at Feng Jinqiu in surprise. She could still speak? He then looked at Yang Meiyu, who had recovered and was standing beside Feng Jinqiu in support, and looked down at his own hands.

I can't believe it!

In the apocalypse, her skill was so powerful that she could blow a zombie's head off with a single punch!

Qin Shiyuan became withdrawn; she couldn't accept how weak she was!

"Yang Fuguo!" Feng Jinqiu slapped the middle-aged man's shoulder and back hard. "You good-for-nothing who's been blinded by beauty!"

"Your mother and sister are being bullied like this, and you're just going to stand by and watch?"

"Shi Ling!" Yang Fuguo shouted sternly, "Apologize to Mom and your younger sister!"

"We also have to pay for medical expenses!" Yang Meiyu added, clutching her chest.

"I apologize?" Shi Ling snapped out of her daze, coldly staring at the enraged man. "Yang Fuguo, didn't you really see Yang Meiyu trying to hit me with a rolling pin? She was aiming for my head!"

She then looked at Feng Jinqiu: "Who wants to kill? It's Yang Meiyu!"

"Nonsense!" Feng Jinqiu shouted, raising her head. "You didn't even get a scratch, but Meiyu took a solid kick!"

She covered her face and said, "Me too! You shrew, you actually ordered me to be hit! I'm going to report you to the brigade leader!"

Yang Meiyu chimed in, "That's right!" She was smug, as if she could already see Shi Ling being punished, her face beaming with delight. "Let the captain assign you the hardest and most tiring work!"

"Really?" Shi Ling retorted. "Perfect timing, I also need to tell the captain about your plan to kill me."

“Oh no.” She shook her head. “The captain can’t handle murder. I should report it to the police.”

Upon hearing that Shi Ling was going to call the police, Feng Jinqiu and Yang Meiyu panicked: "You're fine, why are you calling the police!"

"Exactly!" Yang Meiyu's voice was less confident as she spoke. "If a family is just bickering, wouldn't calling the police make them a laughingstock?"

"Yang Meiyu, if that blow had landed squarely, I'd be seriously injured, if not dead," Shi Ling said coldly, looking at Yang Meiyu's evasive eyes. "You know exactly how much force you used!"

Seeing that Yang Meiyu was about to say something, Shi Ling interrupted her directly: "You don't need to explain to me. Save your words for the police officers."

"Shi Ling, we're all family, there's no need to make things so ugly!" Yang Fuguo said in a deep voice.

To be honest, Shi Ling never had any expectations of Yang Fuguo, but his current actions have indeed chilled her heart even more.

"Yang Fuguo, you can get a divorce if you want, and you can find someone to have a child with if you want, but you have to go through the normal procedures."

"No matter how much your mother and sister fight, I won't give up the house."

"Shi Ling, I didn't mean that!" Yang Fuguo quickly explained, "I promised you I would treat Shi Yuan like my own child!"

"I told you before, the Yang family line continues with my eldest brother, I don't want a divorce!"

Feng Jinqiu pinched Yang Fuguo hard, slapped her thigh and cried, "You stupid idiot!"

"The Yang family doesn't need you to continue their lineage, so what about yourself!" she wailed. "You're going to cut off your own descendants!"

"What sins have I committed to deserve such a fool as you?!"

"Being controlled by a woman and suffering your whole life, without even having your own bloodline!"

"I raised you with my own hands and feet, and you're trying to fool me with this burden?!"

"What's the point of me living? I don't want to live anymore!"

"Yang Fuguo!" Yang Meiyu shrieked, "Mom's in this state, and you just stand by and watch!"

You have no conscience!

Amidst the commotion, Qin Shiyuan came to her senses.

Yang Meiyu placed her hands on the edge of the table, about to flip it over, but Qin Shiyuan crossed her arms and hugged her weak and helpless self, then pressed her hands down on the table to prevent her from doing so.

What a joke! There's food on the table. Wasting food in the apocalypse is a crime punishable by death!

Yang Meiyu tried to lift the table again, but still couldn't overturn it. The experience of not gaining any advantage made her even more defensive. She let go of the table and kicked the chair over to express her dissatisfaction.

Qin Shiyuan narrowed her eyes as she looked at Yang Meiyu. In the apocalypse, someone like Yang Meiyu could be slapped into the ground with one slap!

"Yang Meiyu, what are you doing!" Yang Fuguo looked at the shattered chair with a pained expression. "Go and show off your power at the Qian family's place!"

Shi Ling felt even more disheartened. Yang Fuguo was furious that an old chair had been broken. She had almost been hit on the head by Yang Meiyu just now, but he didn't care at all.

"Brother, I'm standing up for you and Mom!" Yang Meiyu glared. "How can you be so ungrateful?"

"You overturned my table! There was meat on it, and it's rare for me to have meat!"

"I failed to lift it!" Yang Meiyu shouted.

"Eat, eat, eat! You don't even have a son, what are you eating for!" Feng Jinqiu slapped Yang Fuguo a few more times. "Kick Shi Ling and that burden out, marry a new wife and have a son, do you agree or not? Give me a straight answer!"

Yang Fuguo remained silent, opened his mouth, struggled for a long time, but still didn't say anything.

Feng Jinqiu cleared her throat and finally revealed the real purpose of her trip: "That's true, you're getting old, it's not easy for you to give birth now."

“In that case, I’ll make the decision and pass on the eldest son’s family business to you.” She glanced at the brick house and continued, “I’ll work on things with the eldest son.”

“They’re all brothers, he wouldn’t bear to see you die without an heir.”

"When the time comes, just give your older brother a small token of your appreciation."

Qin Shiyuan: ...This old woman's abacus beads are about to jump onto people's faces!

Is this what they call "eating the children of the deceased"?

Yang Meiyu chimed in, "Second brother, we're practically brothers. Otherwise, how could eldest brother bear to part with us!" That was true; if it were anyone else, her mother wouldn't be able to handle it!

Yang Fuguo was stunned. He wasn't stupid; he knew his mother was helping his eldest son's family to eat up his childless heir.

He's only forty, who says he can't have children!

Thinking of this, he glanced at Shi Ling subtly, then looked away.

His mother's wishful thinking was too much; Yang Fuguo clenched his fists.

His brick house and his money will all go to his elder brother's son in the future.

He worked hard every day from dawn till dusk to earn work points. In winter, he would go to repair canals and his fingers would freeze so badly that he would lose all feeling, all so that he could give the money to his elder brother's son.

What's the difference between this and his older brother directly taking money from his pocket?

There is still a difference, he thought, glancing at his mother, whose face was full of concern for him.

He could beat his brother up if his brother directly reached into his pocket, and the villagers could also point fingers at his older brother and curse him. But it was different if his older brother's son was adopted; he had to kneel down and reach into his pocket!

He exclaimed excitedly, "Mom, I have a child!" He paused, then added, "Shiyuan is my daughter. I have someone to take care of me in my old age!"

"Pah!" Feng Jinqiu sneered. "A little brat, not even your child, and a complete idiot!"

"You're lucky you haven't been dragged down to death, let alone being taken care of in your old age? You're dreaming!"

Qin Shiyuan: ...Her identity is like a fully stacked buff!

She was originally the villainous female supporting character in the story, but thankfully, she had just brilliantly changed the beginning of the story!

If Bai Yueguang is alright, she won't need to go north to follow the storyline.

She looked at Feng Jinqiu with hostility. Had that old woman just cursed at her?

Were people before the apocalypse really this naive? They dared to say bad things to her face.

Is she some kind of magnanimous, respectful, and caring person?

Of course not.

She hit the old woman too! She just didn't hit her hard enough!

"What happens to Yuanyuan is none of your business!" Shi Ling glanced at Qin Shiyuan, something flashing in her eyes before quickly disappearing. "I'll say it again: divorce is fine, but trying to kick me and Yuanyuan out is impossible!"

"This is my son's home!" Feng Jinqiu retorted without backing down. "You should all get out!"

"That's right, this is my second brother's house, and it will be my nephew's house in the future. You all get out of here!"

Shi Ling sneered, "Yang Fuguo, did your parents or brothers help when this house was being built?" She then looked at Yang Meiyu, "Or did you lend a hand?"

"Now you've got them all on your mind!"

"I'm telling you, no way!"

"Mom, you and Meiyu go back first!" Yang Fuguo said. "Also, I will not give up my child!"

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Selling and consuming wild animals is wrong; any mention of it in the text is for dramatic purposes.