Zombie Life Begins in Hongxi Village

Caiyuan Street.

This area is near Kowloon Tong, and the houses here are much more respectable than elsewhere. It is a gathering place for middle-class families in Kowloon, and the streets are lined with villas with small courtyards.

With a deep engine roar, a black Ford sedan came to a steady stop in front of a somewhat old villa.

Ah Xing got out of the car first, opened a large black umbrella, and held Yi Ping tightly by his side before the two walked towards the closed door.

Yiping's face was pale, and her eyes were so empty that they seemed to have lost their focus.

The images Lin Yi implanted in her mind were like rusty, dull knives, relentlessly cutting into her nerves.

Pushing open the door, the lights inside were still on.

Fu Wenpei was sitting at an old mahogany table, seemingly lost in thought.

Hearing the noise, she looked up and saw the distraught Yiping and the imposing young man standing behind her. Her brows immediately furrowed.

"Yiping, who is this gentleman who is back so late?"

Fu Wenpei's voice carried a deep, lingering resentment.

Yiping stood at the doorway, staring intently at the woman before her, whom she called "Mother," her chest heaving violently. She was trembling all over, yet she forced herself to stand ramrod straight.

"Mom..." Yiping suppressed her emotions, her voice sounding like it was being squeezed out from between her teeth, "I have a question for you, and you must answer me truthfully."

Fu Wenpei assumed she had suffered some trouble outside again, and with her expression unchanged, said irritably, "What's wrong with you now, child?"

As she spoke, she looked at Ah Xing, "Sir, you must be Yiping's friend. Come in and sit down, don't stand at the door. Yiping, hurry up and pour some tea, you have no manners at all."

"Mom, am I really your biological child?!"

Yiping suddenly raised her head. Her usually stubborn and proud eyes were now bloodshot, and tears welled up in her eyes, but she stubbornly refused to let them fall.

Fu Wenpei's heart skipped a beat. Forget about Ah Xing, she reprimanded him sternly:

"You child, have you heard any rumors outside?"

Of course you're my biological child! You're the one I carried for ten months and painstakingly brought into this world!

"Is that so?" Yiping took a step closer, her voice so shrill it was heartbreaking. "Then why did you choose to take care of Ruping instead of me?!"

"When Ruping contracted chickenpox and infected me, I had a high fever and was alone in my room. Where were you then?"

You held Ruping in your arms for three days and three nights straight! Do you know how terrified I was?!

"Also, from childhood to adulthood, why have you been so harsh on me, never once praising me, yet so gentle with Ru Ping?"

As Yiping spoke, tears streamed down her face.

Those grievances buried deep in their hearts erupted like a volcano at this moment.

Not far away, Lin Yi watched with great interest, thinking that as expected of Aunt Qiong's romance heroine, the lines and emotional tension were something that no actor could pull off.

Fu Wenpei retreated repeatedly as she was questioned, her eyes darting away.

She felt guilty!

"What nonsense are you spouting!" Fu Wenpei raised her voice, trying to use anger to mask her inner fear.

"Ruping was sicker than you back then! I was afraid something would happen to her! I'm your own mother, how could I abandon you? You child, why are you so vengeful!"

Ah Xing, who had been standing by and watching coldly, finally figured out what was going on. It turned out that this prospective mother-in-law might be an imposter, and she wasn't treating Yi Ping well.

He was highly skilled in martial arts and had a clear mind. When Yiping questioned him just now, he clearly caught the fleeting panic and guilt in Fu Wenpei's eyes.

Judging from Yiping's expression, she doesn't intend to acknowledge him anymore, so he has nothing to worry about.

Ah Xing interjected at the opportune moment, "Medical technology is very advanced nowadays; Umbrella Hospital can test blood types."

Whether it's their biological child or not, a blood test will tell. I'll arrange a car tomorrow, and we'll go together.

"What...what did you say?!"

Upon hearing the words "blood test," Fu Wenpei felt as if she had been struck by lightning. Her legs went weak, and she almost collapsed into the chair.

She panicked, completely panicked.

"I won't go! I'd rather die than go!" Fu Wenpei's eyes instantly reddened, and tears fell like beads from a broken string. She clutched her chest, looking heartbroken.

"Yiping, you actually hired an outsider to pressure your mother? I raised you with so much hardship, and this is how you repay me?"

You're going to bring some random guy from out of town to annoy me? How could I have given birth to such a heartless, ungrateful wretch like you!

Seeing Fu Wenpei like this, Yiping's last glimmer of hope was shattered.

She finally understood.

The images in my mind are real.

The woman in front of her is not her biological mother at all!

"That's enough!"

Yiping suddenly shouted, her voice so loud that even Fu Wenpei was stunned.

She stepped forward, staring intently at Fu Wenpei's tear-streaked face:

"Did you raise me? Back when I was in the Lu family, you hardly cared about me. You treated Ru Ping better than you treated me."

After I left the Lu family, I did all the laundry and cooking myself. You were always sighing and lamenting, and you never even picked me up from school.

My dad gives us HK$100 a month for living expenses. I didn’t have a concept of money before, but after I started earning money, I realized how much money that was.

Many manual laborers outside only earn twenty-odd yuan a month!

This money is enough for us to live very well, not to mention that Dad gave us two thousand yuan as a resettlement fee, which includes my education expenses.

Where did all this money go? Why are we living such a hard life? My tuition is only a few dollars, why can't I even afford to go to school now?

That tiger skin on the wall is just an inanimate object; how can it compare to your daughter's future? You'd rather I drop out of school than sell it.

"To avoid putting you in a difficult position, I braved the heavy rain to go to the Lu family to ask for money, and my father whipped me with a horsewhip until I was covered in bruises!"

I went to Shanghai to work as a singer, performing in places like that, just to support this family! Is this what you call raising a child through hardship?!

With each word Yiping spoke, Fu Wenpei's face paled a little more.

"You're calling me a heartless, ungrateful wretch?" Yiping laughed bitterly. "Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, do you even deserve to be a mother?!"

Fu Wenpei was rendered speechless, her whole body trembling. She could only lean weakly against the edge of the table, panting heavily.

Seeing her guilty look, Yiping suddenly leaned closer to Fu Wenpei, stared intently into her eyes, and said cryptically, word by word:

"The reason you're treating me like this is because you're not my mother at all... Did you switch me with Ru Ping?!"

boom!

These words seemed to drain the last bit of strength from Fu Wenpei.

Her face changed drastically, her pupils contracted sharply, and she looked as if she had seen a ghost. She suddenly stepped back, knocking over the chair behind her.

"How do you know! Did Lieutenant Li tell you?! Only he knows about this!!!"

Fu Wenpei let out an extremely sharp scream. This secret, buried for more than ten years, was suddenly exposed, and her psychological defenses finally collapsed.

"I can't believe even he betrayed me!!"

Fu Wenpei suddenly broke down in tears. Pointing at Yiping, she hysterically screamed, "So what if I had Lieutenant Li switch you with Ruping! It's all Wang Xueqin's fault!"

"What?!"

Yiping and Axing were both stunned.

Fu Wenpei seemed to have fallen into some kind of frenzy. She cried and laughed at the same time, her voice shrill: "That vixen Wang Xueqin, she always shows off in front of the master because of her good voice."

Ever since she came into the family, the master has become increasingly cold towards me. He always gives her the best things. She stole my man!

Why should she, an actress, enjoy such a life? I'll make her daughter suffer!

"And you, you jinx! Of all the things you could learn, you had to learn from that bitch Wang Xueqin and study music! Do you know that the better you sing, the more I hate you?!"

You still want to go to college? I'd rather lose my money, I'd rather give it to a beggar, than give it to you!!!

Fu Wenpei's words were like poisoned daggers, piercing Yiping's heart.

It turns out that her seventeen years of life were a complete joke.

She is not Fu Wenpei's daughter; she is Wang Xueqin's daughter.

She suffered so much not because Fu Wenpei was biased, but because Fu Wenpei was taking revenge.

She was merely a victim of a power struggle between two women.

She looked at Fu Wenpei, who was slumped on the ground and completely collapsed. Her eyes no longer held the affection and heartache of the past, but only a deathly coldness.

"Fu Wenpei, you're ruthless," Yiping said, emphasizing each word. "From this day forward, our ties are severed!"

After saying that, she turned around, took Ah Xing's hand, and walked out of the Western-style house where she had lived for nearly ten years without looking back.

Ah Xing held her hand tightly, pulled her into his arms, and strode into the car.

Inside the room, only Fu Wenpei remained, slumped on the floor like a lump of mud.

……

Outside the door, the rain continued to fall, but when it hit Lin Yi, it passed right through him as if he didn't exist.

This is a clever use of spatial rules, somewhat similar to Runtu's divine power becoming ethereal, except that he temporarily created a space.

Unexpectedly, the first time he used it, he used it for eating melons.

"So Lieutenant Li really had something on Fu Wenpei. No wonder he kept sending her money like it was a bottomless pit."

Lin Yi nodded to himself. This play did not disappoint him.

However, just as Lin Yi finished eating the melon and was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.

His gaze pierced through the heavy rain and landed on a small alley outside the villa.

There stood a disheveled old man.

He stood there quietly in the rain, his gaze fixed on the direction where Ah Xing and Yi Ping had left.

"It's him!"

Lin Yi was also taken aback when she saw his appearance.

The person following behind Ah Xing and the others was none other than the mysterious beggar who sold Ah Xing the "Buddha's Palm" manual!

and……

In his vision, the disheveled old man possessed an unfathomable inner force, as vast and boundless as a boundless ocean, which automatically repelled the rain.

"Interesting..." Lin Yi's lips curled into a playful smile. "This internal energy is hundreds of times greater than Ah Xing's!"

Ah Xing is a martial arts prodigy; his internal strength is more than ten times that of an ordinary person like Ku Liqiang. And this old man's internal strength is hundreds of times greater than his!

Moreover, his vital energy soared to the heavens, and his body was as strong as a diamond, completely transcending the realm of mortals.

Just then, the old man moved. Like a ghost, he floated lightly in the direction Ah Xing and the others had left.