LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 2: The White Lotus
Zhang Yi walked out of his home. Outside, there was a peaceful scene full of the joy and comfort of the mortal world. Many parents were playing with their children in the square of the community, with happy smiles on their faces. However, Zhang Yi knew that all of this would vanish like soap bubbles in just one month.
He quickly walked out of the community. Not far from the community, there was a Michelin three-star Western restaurant. In the past, it would cost at least five or six thousand yuan for a meal there, and Zhang Yi had never been willing to go in and eat before. But now, he didn't care at all. Having come back to life after death, he must celebrate it well!
After walking into the restaurant, Zhang Yi found a seat by the window and then ordered all the most expensive dishes on the menu. He also asked for a bottle of red wine from the Château Lafite Rothschild. Altogether, he spent fifty thousand yuan on this meal. Even the waiters in the restaurant looked at Zhang Yi with ambiguous eyes, thinking that he must be a wealthy second-generation heir. Otherwise, how could an ordinary person afford to eat such expensive food for a meal?
Zhang Yi didn't care what others thought. When a table full of delicious food was served, he began to stuff it into his stomach hungrily. Perhaps because he had experienced six months in the ice age apocalypse, at this moment, when he ate such delicious food, he was almost moved to tears. As a result, his eating manner became a bit fierce, which attracted a lot of comments from the diners around him. But Zhang Yi didn't care about them at all. You know, after the end of the world came, people might even kneel down and kowtow just for a pack of instant noodles. By that time, all civilization and morality would disappear.
While Zhang Yi was eating in the restaurant, a woman passing by outside the window stopped in her tracks. She had long flowing hair, exquisite makeup, was wearing Gucci high heels, and had an LV bag on her arm. This woman was exactly Fang Yuqing who had killed Zhang Yi in his previous life. Beside her was her best friend Li Caining.
Whenever the two of them passed by the Michelin three-star restaurant, they couldn't help but look at it a few more times. They had always been longing for such high-end and luxurious places in their hearts. However, their limited funds didn't allow them to splurge in such places. But that didn't prevent them from looking inside with a scrutinizing gaze, hoping that they might be able to find some high-quality second-generation heir and hook up with him.
As a result, when Fang Yuqing took a look this time, she was surprised to find Zhang Yi inside, with a large table full of top-notch food in front of him.
"Isn't that Zhang Yi? How could he afford to eat here?" Fang Yuqing said in surprise.
Li Caining also covered her mouth in astonishment and said, "Is Zhang Yi actually so rich?" While speaking, she gave Fang Yuqing an ambiguous look and then smiled, "Yuqing, you're so lucky! That guy who's been chasing you is actually a hidden rich second-generation heir."
"Look at the food on his table. It must cost at least fifty or sixty thousand yuan. Who among ordinary people can afford to eat such expensive food for a meal!" There was a hint of envy in Li Caining's tone. Because she knew that Zhang Yi had been chasing Fang Yuqing for two and a half years. However, Fang Yuqing had always been keeping Zhang Yi on the hook, neither rejecting him nor agreeing to be with him.
Fang Yuqing was a complete gold digger. She had always thought that she could marry a high-quality second-generation heir and become a young mistress. But for Zhang Yi, a petit bourgeois with a car and a house in Tianhai City, she was reluctant to let him go. So all along, Fang Yuqing had been treating Zhang Yi as a backup. Her principle for dealing with backups was not to take the initiative, not to reject, and not to take responsibility.
Today, seeing that Zhang Yi could enjoy a luxurious meal worth tens of thousands of yuan by himself, Fang Yuqing couldn't help but start to have doubts.
"Could it be that Zhang Yi is actually a hidden rich second-generation heir?" Fang Yuqing held her chin and began to think. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that it was possible.
"Right, don't there are always such people in TV dramas?"
"They are actually very rich, but in order to find true love, they pretend to be ordinary people." Fang Yuqing almost believed what she said herself, and her eyes lit up. If that were true, she could save a lot of trouble. After all, Zhang Yi had been chasing her all along, and she thought that as long as she nodded, Zhang Yi would propose to her immediately.
Li Caining also persuaded from the side, "Yuqing, let's go in and find Zhang Yi!" In fact, she had her eye on that table of delicious food. This was a Michelin three-star restaurant. Ordinary people might never have the chance to taste the big meals in it in their whole lives.
Fang Yuqing hesitated for a moment, then shook her head and said, "It's not good to do that! It would make him think that I'm a gold-digging woman."
"Well, let's wait outside and pretend that we happened to meet him by chance." Fang Yuqing wasn't stupid. She wouldn't lower her posture just for a meal. Even if Zhang Yi was really rich, she still had to put on the air of a goddess. Only in that way, when they were together in the future, could she control Zhang Yi well and make him continue to be her lapdog.
So the two of them hid not far from the restaurant and waited for Zhang Yi to come out.
Zhang Yi ate for more than an hour and then touched his round belly contentedly. The taste of the Michelin three-star restaurant was actually just so-so, but for a person who had just been reborn from the apocalypse, it was already a delicious meal that could move him.
Next, he planned to go to the nearby supermarket to buy some supplies and take them back. This was to test the storage capacity of the alien space, in case there were any problems later. Although he was quite confident that he could transport the supplies from the Walmart warehouse back, it was always better to be cautious. After all, he had experienced hunger before, and he couldn't allow any accidents to happen.
Zhang Yi paid the bill readily and walked out of the restaurant door under the waiters' attentive smiles.
Just at this moment, a familiar voice rang out beside him.
"Zhang Yi, what a coincidence!"
Zhang Yi turned his head and saw Fang Yuqing and Li Caining. Fang Yuqing reached out and brushed her hair behind her ear, deliberately exposing her fair neck and pink earlobes. Zhang Yi sneered in his heart. Such a trick was a classic move of a green tea bitch. The intention was to make men's hearts flutter inadvertently. Fang Yuqing, this top-notch green tea bitch and white lotus, naturally knew this trick well.
Unfortunately, Zhang Yi was no longer the simple lapdog he used to be. Not long ago, he had been killed by this woman and died a miserable death. She even wanted to break Zhang Yi's ribs and make soup with them!
Thinking of this, Zhang Yi's gaze suddenly became a bit cold, with a blatant killing intent. Anyway, the end of the world would come soon, and there wouldn't be any problem even if he killed her. Should he kill her?
Fang Yuqing also felt a chill all over her body when Zhang Yi looked at her like that and said nervously, "Zhang Yi... you... what's wrong with you?"
Zhang Yi quickly restrained his gaze and said indifferently, "Nothing. I mistook you for someone else."
He suddenly changed his mind. Wouldn't it be too easy on her if he let this woman die like this? Moreover, if he really killed her now, he probably couldn't escape legal sanctions. Zhang Yi didn't want to stay in the detention center when the apocalypse came. Instead of that, it would be better to let her experience the despair of the end of the world first and then play her to death with some means. With careful planning against her unpreparedness, Zhang Yi had enough time to prepare. Coupled with the memories from his previous life, he had a hundred ways to make her die in pain.
So for now, there was no need to deal with her. The most important thing now was to build the safest shelter so that he could survive safely and comfortably in the apocalypse.