No one notified me in advance. Everyone in the end times is crazy.

Chapter 516 Bloomed Like Fireworks

After taking a shower, Fang Hui was taken to the restaurant.

She had only ever seen the food on the table on TV. Ilya invited her to sit next to her and piled a lot of food onto her plate.

Xu Yu'an, imitating his mother, clumsily used his chopsticks to pick up a chicken leg for Fang Hui.

"Sister Huihui, eat."

Xu Xiao: "Alright, alright, stop using your saliva-covered chopsticks to serve others. It's disgusting."

Xu Yu'an: "I'm sorry."

Fang Hui: "No, it's nothing."

Ilya: "Don't be so formal, just make yourself at home."

Fang Hui: "Yes, thank you."

Ilya: "Eat quickly."

"Mmm." Fang Hui picked up a piece of braised pork from the plate. The aroma of the oil burst in her mouth, and it was so delicious that her eyes widened.

Ilya: "What's wrong? Is it not to your liking?"

Fang Hui: "Delicious."

Ilya: "Whatever you like."

Fang Hui: "Thank you again."

Ilya: "What a polite and good child. From now on, you will take care of my An'an."

Fang Hui looked at Xu Yu'an and nodded firmly.

"I'll take good care of him."

After dinner, Fang Hui kept her promise and picked up Xu Yu'an to play with toys on the carpet.

Fang Hui found those toys very novel, as they were things she had never encountered before.

As darkness fell completely, Fang Hui still hadn't seen the male head of the household; she was then directed to Xu Yu'an's room.

The room was very large; even with an extra bed, it still felt spacious.

Xu Yu'an had a nanny who would hold and lull him to sleep. Fang Hui lay on the bed, her eyes fixed on him, not with envy, but with caution.

She always felt that the thin-armed and thin-legged nanny might accidentally shake Xu Yu'an away.

She only closed her eyes with peace of mind after Xu Yu'an was safely placed on the bed.

After an unknown amount of time, the door to the room was opened, and light from outside shone in through the crack in the door.

Fang Hui suddenly opened her eyes, feeling the figure getting closer and closer, and smelling the familiar perfume, her vigilance slowly subsided.

Ilya went to the bedside of the sleeping Xu Yu'an, leaned down and kissed his cheek, took out her phone to take a picture, and whispered a voice message to Xu Hao.

"Honey, An'an is asleep. When are you coming back?"

There was no reply; he's probably busy.

After Ilya left, Fang Hui tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep again, perhaps because the bed was too soft.

She decided to get up and go out for a drink of water. She didn't know much about the house, only that there was a water dispenser downstairs.

When they reached the corner downstairs, they heard Shi Ying nagging Lu Qi again.

"Why is it that the new girl gets to sit at the table and eat with them? We have to wait until they're all asleep before we can eat!"

"They are the masters, and we are the servants. Isn't that how it is for everyone?"

"Sigh~ I wish I could turn the tables and be the master someday."

Fang Hui ignored their delusions and went back to her room after getting the water.

The next day, as soon as the nanny entered the room, she saw Fang Hui standing by Xu Yu'an's bedside, staring at him like a ghost.

The nanny greeted her, but she ignored her and just stared at him as he helped Xu Yu'an get up.

When the nanny was going to breastfeed Xu Yu'an, Fang Hui would test the milk temperature first. Even when the nanny was going to change Xu Yu'an's clothes, Fang Hui would check the clothes for any foreign objects.

Isn't this child being a little too dutiful? Or has she sensed something?

During playtime after breakfast, Fang Hui and Xu Yu'an were bumping into each other with toy cars when suddenly a pair of men's hands reached out and picked up Xu Yu'an. Fang Hui instinctively raised her toy car to smash him.

Hearing that sweet, childlike voice: "Daddy~"

Fang Hui awkwardly withdrew her hand and put it behind her back.

Haha! This kid is way too tense!

Ilya's voice came from upstairs: "Darling, you're back."

"Well, I'm back."

With one arm around Xu Yu'an and the other around Ilya running towards him, Xu Hao held her in his arms. Before Fang Hui could even envy this happy scene, Ilya put her arm around her back and pushed her into his embrace.

“Darling, this is Fang Hui, whom I told you about yesterday.”

"Hello, I'm An'an's father, Xu Hao. You can tell me anything you need. Here's a bank card for you; my monthly salary will be deposited into this card on time." Xu Hao said, putting a bank card into Fang Hui's hand.

Fang Hui stared blankly at the bank card in her hand and at the warm embrace that felt like a death wish.

In the days that followed, Fang Hui took great care of Xu Yu'an. The Xu couple treated Fang Hui like their own child, and she would receive the same gifts as Xu Yu'an.

An'an is very sensible and always secretly gives her favorite treats to Fang Hui.

Two years of such happy days passed quickly.

One day, Fang Hui took out a red talisman from the clothes Xu Yu'an was about to wear. The talisman was placed in a very strange spot; if she hadn't turned the clothes inside out, she wouldn't have noticed it at all.

The zombie worm hidden in her sleeve showed fear of the talisman. Fang Hui's intuition told her that this was not a good thing, so she immediately tore the talisman into pieces and threw it into the toilet to flush it away.

[Those runes drawn on the talisman paper... I feel like I've seen them somewhere before? Where? Ugh! Think hard, you're so dense!]

Ilya's urging voice came from downstairs: "An'an! Huihui! Have you changed your clothes yet?"

"That's good!"

"Mom! We're here!"

Xu Yu'an put on the coat Fang Hui was holding and skipped downstairs like a little deer.

Today is their monthly family outing, and as usual, they went shopping and then had a picnic.

The couple walked hand in hand in front, with their two children following behind, holding hands.

An alarm suddenly went off in the mall, followed by a series of explosions.

Five-year-old Xu Yu'an was so frightened that he covered his ears and squatted down on the spot.

"Don't be afraid, I will protect you." Fang Hui said, picking up Xu Yu'an. When she turned around to call for the Xu couple to evacuate, she saw a scene that she would never forget.

They exploded before her eyes like fireworks, their flesh and blood splattering onto her face, sticky and warm, just like their embrace.

Ilya's head fell to the ground, her mouth still opening and closing, as if she were saying something.

Fang Hui covered Xu Yu'an's eyes, backed away little by little, bowed to them, and then, holding Xu Yu'an in her arms, fled the place without looking back.

Ilya's eyes reflected the scene of their escape, and she was completely lifeless.