Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

"Yeah, what do you think it's going to be?" Yuqi rolled her eyes as she came back with everyone else.

"Whatever, I'm going to go study this."

With Xiaoyun leaving the kitchen and heading upstairs, the ten of them went over to the sofa to watch a movie.

"Can we watch something new?" Yueyue protested as Nami was just about to look through the movie list.

"Like what?" Nami asked.

"Um, just something that isn't a horror movie."

Yueyue shyly looked away from Nami's face as if she was too embarrassed to admit that she was scared out by the horror movie last time.

"Fine, I won't put on a horror movie."

Hearing Nami's promise, everyone in the living room let out a sigh of relief.

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The next day.

As Xiaoyun woke up, he was lying on the bed with a blanket over him.

"Didn't I fall asleep on the table?" Xiaoyun murmured as the last thing he recalled before falling asleep was reading the script at the desk in the middle of the night.

"Whatever, I need to get ready before the speech."

After freshening up in the bathroom, Xiaoyun changed into his formal clothes and went downstairs.

As he walked past the entrance next to the stairway, he noticed most of the shoes on the shoe rack were gone.

On top of that, the three babies were already in the living room playing with each other.

"Good morning, babe! I was just about to go wake you up."

Nami waved as Xiaoyun walked inside the kitchen.

"Where is everyone?" Xiaoyun asked curiously.

"They decided to all go shopping after getting an inspiration watching that movie," Nami explained as she turned off the stove.

"What movie?" Xiaoyun got a little more confused.

"It's a romance movie about several girls falling in love with a boy. Long story short, they all eventually decided to do a competition on whoever buys the best gift is the winner." Nami explained.

"Wait, I'm getting gifts?" Xiaoyun asked again to make sure he heard the word right.

"Yeah, but do you want only to pick one of them as your only wife just like in the movie?" Nami asked with a playful tone.

"Hell no. I'd rather never get any gift." Xiaoyun instantly replied with zero hesitation in his voice.

"I'm just joking... Anyway, you're going to need to decide who the winner is in the end. So you better be prepared to pick."

Nami puts the bowl of noodles in front of Xiaoyun and sits down across from him.

"How about you? You're not joining them?" Xiaoyun asked curiously as he began eating breakfast.

"I wanted to join them... But I can't really go out and shop for material."

Nami looked a little down as she stared down at her pregnant belly, which was becoming bigger and bigger every day.

"Sweetie, you are the biggest gift I can ever ask for." Xiaoyun tried to cheer Nami up a little.

"Thank babe... But you don't have to say that."

Seeing Nami still looked a little down, Xiaoyun stopped eating and sat down next to her.

"I really mean it. You're the love of my life that always has a special place in my heart."

XIaoyun stared right into Yuqi's eyes as he held her by the shoulder.

"Uh-huh, you probably said that to all of them."

Nami tried to push Xiaoyun's hand away, but Xiaoyun held onto her even tighter.

"You're the only one that I have said this to."

After a small pause, Xiaoyun continued.

"All of you have a special place in my heart, but they are never as unique as you."

"How?" Nami finally looked back at Xiaoyun's face as she was a little intrigued by it.

"Compared to Yuqi or Yueyue, I was at least able to spend time with them before disappearing. But for you... I was never there for you as a brother.

And as a father, I didn't have time to be with you either. Even I can never make up for all the things I have missed, but I promise you, I'll always try my best to make you happy." Xiaoyun accidentally spoke his thoughts out loud.

Nami was extremely touched by Xiaoyun's words, and she even felt a little bad for him.

"Geez, I was just a little grumpy not being able to go shopping with them. You don't have to say all that."

"Sorry. I didn't mean to say that out loud." Xiaoyun apologized as he realized he might have triggered a bad memory for Nami.

"Actually, speaking of me... Wasn't it an accident between you and mom to have me?" Nami suddenly shifted the topic as she pointed something out.

"Um, n-no? That was never an accident. We intended to have you as our last kid." Xiaoyun quickly tried to cover up the real reason that Nami had just been exposed.

"Uh-huh, but that camera footage says otherwise. If it weren't for Mom asking you to let her keep it, I wouldn't even be alive, would I?"

"How do you know all this? Wait a moment... You watched the recording!" Xiaoyun finally realized how Nami got so much info on that night.

"Ahem, what are you talking about? Oh snap, I got to go watch the three babies."

Nami rushed out of the kitchen before Xiaoyun could do anything.

Xiaoyun thought for a second about how Nami got the footage, as the camera was already hidden in a place where only he and Leyan would know.

"She must have recovered the footage that I deleted... I'm going to need to check her computer." Xiaoyun looked determined as he finished the noodles and walked back to the living room.

"Hey Xiaoyun, I'm playing with the babies right now."

Nami pretended to act busy as she helped build a small race track for the toy car.

"Nami, come on. Did you recover that footage file that I deleted it?" Xiaoyun asked.

"M-Maybe." Nami nervously replied as she remained still between the three babies.

"Sorry about this, but I'm going to need to take your mommy away for a second."

Xiaoyun gifted Nami up as her tactic of using the babies as human shields failed.

"Y-You promise me that you'll always try to keep me happy." Nami immediately reminds Xiaoyun of what he said just a few minutes earlier.

"Of course, I'm just reminding a certain somebody that doing something against the wish of their parent will result in a punishment," Xiaoyun smirked as he carried her all the way upstairs and into her room.

"I-it was on my computer. I can do whatever I want with it." Nami tried to argue back but ended up fruitless.

"You know how much Leyan wanted that video to be removed... Why did you recover the file?" Xiaoyun asked as he lay Nami on the bed.

"I was just too curious. Please, I promise I'll never do it again." Nami apologized as she was starting to have a bad feeling.

"Too late now. Tell me, what is the password to your computer?" Xiaoyun asked.

"I'm not telling you." Nami defiantly refused.

"If you don't say it, I'm going to go throw it into the trash." Xiaoyun threaten.

"Okay, okay, it's my birthday." Nami finally backed down.

After entering Nami's password, the lock finally disappeared.

Xiaoyun searched for the video name on the computer, and within a second, the same file appeared.

"Look like someone is caught red-handed. Xiaoyun pointed toward the file on the screen.

Nami could only watch as Xiaoyun deleted the file again and went onto the app on the top right to delete it permanently.

"You done now?" Nami looked a little angry towards Xiaoyun.

Done? I'm only correcting the mistake that you have created. Now, it's time to move on to your real punishment.

Seeing Xiaoyun close the laptop and moving closer and closer to her, Nami's bad feeling was immediately confirmed.

"You know how much Leyan would be hurt if she learned about what you did with the video?" Xiaoy whispered.

"I-I don't know." Nami nervously replied.

"She's not going to be happy. She probably won't talk to you for almost a month or longer." Xiaoyun pointed out.

"What do you want me to do?" Nami fell under pressure and gave in.

"I won't tell Leyan about this. I already promise you that I'm always going to try to make you happy." Xiaoyun doubled down as he stared towards Nami's eyes.

"Thank you... When can I go back downstairs?" Nami asked with a hint of fear in her voice.

"I haven't even given your punishment yet. Are you that nervous that you lost your common sense?" Xiaoyun asked back.

"Just say the punishment already." Nami finally got fed up with Xiaoyun's constant stalling and reminded him.

"To be honest, I haven't thought of this far... But I think I have a new idea for this now."