Apocalypse — Chapter 32: Sorry, I’m Not a Bootlicker

And she would become the zombies’ lunch as well, torn into four pieces like the others.

But just then, the frantic hammering outside the iron door cut off all at once…

Tang Jingyan wiped her tears, stood up in surprise, and walked forward a few curious steps, wanting to look through the hole in the door and see what had actually happened outside.

Through the hole in the iron door, she found that the two zombies that had been attacking the door like mad had already vanished. Even those other ordinary zombies had disappeared completely.

The only thing left was a figure standing outside the door with a modao.

“Open the door.” Suddenly, a man’s voice came from outside.

The silhouette and the voice were very familiar. She knew. It was the boy who had saved Lin Mancha and taken her away before.

Tang Jingyan hurriedly pushed all the sports equipment aside, then opened the iron door, and Xiao Yi walked in to meet her.

The moment Xiao Yi came through the door, he looked around and said, “You’re the only one left?”

Tang Jingyan nodded. Watching the people around her die one after another, her heart had already gone a little numb. “And that other girl lost it. She fell off the roof and died.”

She paused, then asked, quite tense, “Thank you for saving me! Did you come here specially to save me? How is Mancha doing at your place?”

Xiao Yi glanced at the yoga goddess Tang Jingyan, who looked both relieved and rather confident. She was that beautiful. Fine features. Skin white, fine, and tender. A swinging ponytail. She gave off a goddess quality you could not quite put into words.

Add that exquisite, perfect body and that unnameable air of nobility.

Looking at the goddess in front of him, Xiao Yi even could not help feeling a little ashamed of himself.

“Sorry. I did not come here specially to save you. I only wanted the corpses of those zombies just now.”

“As for whether I save you or not, that still depends on your own decision.”

Ashamed of himself or not, being a bootlicker was something Xiao Yi would absolutely not do.

Tang Jingyan froze slightly and bit down hard on her pink, tender lower lip. “I know you’re a good person. Can you save me and take me to your shelter?”

Handing him a good-guy card?

Xiao Yi smiled.

When an ordinary goddess wanted to use a loser, she always handed the loser a good-guy card first.

Then she gave him a little sweetness. A little hope.

A loser who tasted that sweetness went down like a dog that had gotten a piece of good food, slowly sank into the goddess’s light, and gradually turned into a bootlicker.

After that the loser would be used by the goddess again and again, hurt by the goddess again and again. When the loser wanted to give up, the goddess would feed him another thread of hope, let him taste sweetness again, and keep him licking, giving everything for her.

And in the end, the lucky bootlicker spare tires got to raise someone else’s kid. The unlucky bootlickers got hurt down to the bone and were left with nothing.

Sure enough, Tang Jingyan went on. “Your name is Xiao Yi, right? I know you. One of your roommates used to come watch my performances all the time. He and I counted as friends. He talked about you to me a lot.”

As she said it, color rose in Tang Jingyan’s face. A little shy, she said, “I actually noticed you a long time ago. You’re actually pretty outstanding…”

A cold laugh moved through Xiao Yi’s chest. He said with a faint smile, “Oh, is that so? When did you notice me? Do you still remember that roommate’s name? What exactly did you think was outstanding about me back then?”

If she meant that the him of now was outstanding, Xiao Yi would admit it.

But if she meant the him from before the apocalypse was outstanding, Xiao Yi did not believe it himself.

Of course, Xiao Yi believed even less that a yoga goddess of her standing would have noticed a loser so ordinary he could not have been more ordinary.

The rich, tall, handsome boys who chased Tang Jingyan could have lined up and circled the running track at least once.

Tang Jingyan froze slightly. In her heart she silently cursed him. How did this man kill a conversation the moment he started talking?

He was an idiot with no emotional intelligence, wasn’t he?

She had only been saying the polite thing she was used to saying.

After a good while, Tang Jingyan really could not answer Xiao Yi’s questions. She stammered, “I was terrified just now. I suddenly… suddenly can’t remember his name. But I really did notice you. You’re a very kind, simple boy. I know you’ll help me. I know you like me too. If you can move me, we could still become boyfriend and girlfriend. After all, it’s the apocalypse now. We can depend on each other.”

“Sorry. There may be some misunderstanding between us. I am not kind at all, and I also have no desire to make you my girlfriend.”

Xiao Yi said it coldly.

He understood Tang Jingyan’s meaning very well. She wanted him to please her, to use feeling to control him, to turn him into her bootlicker.

She had filed him as the same kind of bootlicker as the other boys who had chased her.

She was smart. In an apocalypse like this, the only way a woman could control a man was to play the feeling card.

But he was sorry. Xiao Yi was not a bootlicker.

He did not need Tang Jingyan’s feelings either.

Women, to Xiao Yi, were nothing more than a tool he used below the belt.

“A melon you force off the vine isn’t sweet, is it? If you can make the other person fall in love with you, that’s when you’re happy. That’s when it feels like more, right? You know, a lot of boys used to chase me. What I need is a boyfriend who will be good to me, spoil me, love me, and be able to protect me.” Tang Jingyan said it seriously.

“True. A melon you force off the vine won’t be sweet. But I also have no intention of forcing anything. As for whether a lot of boys chased you or not, what does that have to do with me?” Xiao Yi killed the conversation again. “What kind of boyfriend you want to find, you don’t have to tell me, because that is not my business. I also have not the slightest interest in becoming your boyfriend.”

Tang Jingyan had never met a steel-straight man you could not salt or oil like this.

---

Read 30 chapters ahead on Patreon and support Gugugu Novels:

/cw/GuguguNovels