Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse - Chapter 27
Chapter 27: Suspicion
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
When Su Jin walked out of the dimension, feeling refreshed, Lu Hao had finished preparing the food. He had made three dishes and a soup. Although it was not as tasty as Lin Yunguo’s cooking, it was still very decent.
Su Jin did not even know that Lu Hao could cook. Then again, they had barely been married for a few days in the past life before she had to leave for work. After that, they were separated for a long time.
Lu Hao looked at Su Jin, whose mind had wandered halfway through the meal. He could not help but pinch her face.
“Hurry up and eat.”
Lu Hao pinched her again.
“Lu Hao, I suddenly have an idea,” Su Jin said as she ate the beer-braised duck.
“What is it?”
“Why don’t we keep some poultry in the dimension too? And some fish too. That way we get to keep up the supply.”
Su Jin only thought of that while she was looking at the meat in her bowl. There was meat to eat during the apocalypse too, but that tended to be meat from mutated animals. No matter how they tried to cook it, the meat was always hard as a rock and utterly unpleasant to eat.
“Alright, we’ll go buy some later.”
Lu Hao had no objections, of course. He wanted to keep his wife plump and happy.
After the meal, Lu Hao washed the dishes while Su Jin lounged on the couch, happily eating the desserts he had prepared for her. Just then, she heard his phone ring on the coffee table.
“Lu Hao, you got some messages on your phone,” she called toward the kitchen.
“Could you help me reply to them?” Lu Hao yelled back.
Did he have that much faith in her? Seemed like not all men thought of their phone as their private sanctuary.
Su Jin held a slice of apple with her index finger and her thumb, sliding her middle finger across his phone screen. It did not require a password…
Su Jin glanced at his WeChat and saw that there were 99+ unread messages… Did he usually leave them unread?
Su Jin could not stand that. Whenever she saw the red dot symbolizing an unread message on any app in her phone, she simply had to get rid of it. Lu Hao was the complete opposite. There had to be at least a hundred, if not a thousand unread messages in there. His WeChat straight-up said 99+…
She tapped on the first chat log in the list. It was a group called ‘Galaxy’s Strongest Unbeaten Supercops’, and there were eight members inside. The admin of the group was Yin Chengtian.
Su Jin entered the group chat and saw that the members were in the middle of a conversation there. With a swipe of her fingers, she scrolled through the entire chat history for the day.
Yin Chengtian: Captain, captain! Paging the captain.
Mai’zi: The captain didn’t reply at all last night. Do you think he’s ok?
Shi Jin: Shut up, don’t jinx him. Our captain is invincible, of course he’s fine.
Xiang Sanjin: …
Tian Yongyi: Maybe the captain just hasn’t seen the messages. Let’s wait a lil longer.
Guan Shouzhong: I hope he’s alright
Peng Dong: [waiting]
Yin Chengtian: The captain should be awake by now. He works out every morning.
Shi Jin: Should we go check on him at his place?
Lu Hao: I’m fine! I’m positively peachy rn~
Yin Chengtian: There he is!!!
Shi Jin: Something feels off
Xian Sanjin: …
Tian Yongyi: I’m glad you replied, in any case. We were all really worried about you
Guan Shouzhong: I knew the captain would be fine. Y’all were worried for nothing.
Peng Dong: [happy] [flower]
Lu Hao: I’m Su Jin. Captain Lu Hao is now washing dishes in the kitchen, so I’m replying for him~
!!!
Their stern, strict, serious Captain Lu was washing the dishes?
Yin Chengtian sprayed his water onto his phone screen, but he desperately wanted to reply so he had to wipe the screen hastily with his screen.
Yin Chengtian: Hi, Sis-in-law! Good morning!
Shi Jin: Good morning, Sis-in-law!
Mai’zi: Good morning, Sis-in-law!
Tian Yongyi: Good morning, Sis-in-law!
Guan Shouzhong: Good morning, Sis-in-law!
Xiang Sanjin: Good morning, Sis-in-law! Good morning, Sis-in-law! Good morning, Sis-in-law!
Peng Dong: Hi, Sis-in-law [good morning]
Lu Hao: Good morning, everyone.
Su Jin noticed that there was one more icon in the group that had not sent any messages yet. The user’s profile name was Lin Zhi…
It seemed like the others did not delete Lin Zhi from the group after what happened to him. They were probably quite the loyal group of guys.
After she left the ‘Galaxy’s Strongest Unbeaten Supercops’ group, Su Jin happened to see another unread message down the list. The sender’s name was Chen Xiarong.
Chen Xiarong!! Had she been communicating with Lu Hao already?
Su Jin gritted her teeth and clicked on the chat log. As she scrolled through it, she realized that Chen Xiarong had been sending Lu Hao messages unilaterally. Lu Hao had never once replied to her.
1 January, Chen Xiarong: Happy New Year, Brother Lu! It’s the beginning of a brand new year!
10 February, Chen Xiarong: [Happy Chinese New Year, red packets please!]
14 February, Chen Xiarong: Happy Valentine’s Day! I’m alone again this year [cries]
20 March, Chen Xiarong: Brother Lu, I saw you today when I went to the station to bring my dad something! You look so good in uniform, hehe [blush] [blush] [blush]
27 March, Chen Xiarong: My dad said you got engaged to another girl. Is she good to you? [sad]
5 April, Chen Xiarong: Brother Lu, I went to watch a movie by myself today and I suddenly thought about you. Could you come watch a movie with me next time?
30 April, Chen Xiarong: Brother Lu, are you really getting married tomorrow?
1 May, Chen Xiarong: I snuck to your wedding today. The bride’s quite pretty. I think I should give up now…
3 May, Chen Xiarong: Good morning, Brother Lu! How’s your wife? Has she been cooking for you every day? You have a delicate stomach, so she should pay attention to that.
10 May, Chen Xiarong: My dad said your wife went on a business trip outstation! How could she?! You two just got married. Did you get into a fight?
8.00 am, today, Chen Xiarong: Good morning, Brother Lu! I want to work out with you every morning! [diet time] [working hard]
…
Dafuq, what did she just read? Su Jin felt like she was going blind. That log was clearly an innocent damsel’s crush diary!
It looked like Chen Xiarong was truly smitten with Lu Hao. No wonder she hated Su Jin so much in the previous life. Nevertheless, Lu Hao had married Su Jin now, so why was Chen Xiarong still sending all those suspicious texts?
Thank goodness Lu Hao never replied to her. He should have blocked her, though! Hmph, Su Jin was mad now.
After Lu Hao washed his hands and walked out of the kitchen, he saw Su Jin sitting on the couch with her cheeks puffed up.
Poke~
He poked her puffed-up cheeks.
“Hmph.”
Su Jin ate a piece of apple and rolled her eyes at him.
Was she… mad at him?
“What’s the matter?” Lu Hao asked, sitting down.
“Nothing. Hmph!”
“…”
She still was not saying anything, so Lu Hao bit the apple piece directly out of her hand. He then brought her head closer to his with one large hand, passing the apple from his mouth into hers.
“Let’s eat this together.”
Lu Hao was holding another piece of apple with his teeth, trying to pass it over to Su Jin again.
“Nah, I’ve had enough.” Su Jin turned her head away.
“Then why don’t you tell why you’re angry at me? Hmm?”
For some reason, Su Jin felt slightly guilty, as though she had peeked at something she should not have.
Then again, when she remembered that Chen Xiarong had been the one who killed her back then, Su Jin figured she had a reason to be mad. Hence, she stuck out her chest and asked, “Do you know Chen Xiarong?”
“You mean Mr. Chen’s daughter?” Lu Hao was starting to understand why Su Jin was angry now. Was she jealous? The potential reason behind her anger left Lu Hao feeling a little happy instead.
“What do you think of her?”
Su Jin wanted to know what Lu Hao thought.
“Don’t worry, I don’t like her. The only one I love is you.”
Why did that sound like a lying movie playboy’s lies?
“In that case, why didn’t you unfriend her?”
“Unfriend her? How?” Lu Hao had no idea how to remove a friend on WeChat. He assumed that once he added a friend, there was no way to remove them. Still, he never read Chen Xiarong’s messages. He only used his WeChat to read his team’s group chat and to make video calls with Su Jin.
Su Jin remembered the little red notification with the number 5 on Chen Xiarong’s profile picture just now before she read the log. That meant he had five unread messages from her.
Did he really not know how to block her? No wonder there were 99+ notifications just now when she entered his WeChat app. That might explain the lack of a screen password too.
Was he an old man out of time or something? Su Jin inwardly shook her head at him, but she believed him now.
Even so, she was not being petty here. She just happened to be very sensitive when it came to Chen Xiarong.
In the past life, Chen Xiarong had directly led to her death, but Chen Xiarong never did a thing to harm Lu Hao before. That was why Su Jin had yet to tell Lu Hao the truth. She did not want her grudge to affect Lu Hao. Besides, she wanted to settle this score from her past life on her own.
If Chen Xiarong still meant her any harm in this life, Su Jin would kill her with her own hands.
“What are you thinking?” Lu Hao saw Su Jin’s expression turned from sad to determined.
Was Su Jin hiding something from him? Did it have to do with Chen Xiarong?
As a police captain, Lu Hao was adept at reading the minute changes in his suspects’ demeanor. He used that sharp eye of his when he observed his wife too.
Su Jin’s reaction now must have something to do with Chen Xiarong, Mr. Chen’s daughter. However, Su Jin had never met her before and should not know who she was.
Was it because of the messages she read? That probably was not it either, because Su Jin had obviously forgiven him for that.
Finally, Lu Hao remembered how Su Jin said that someone close to him had killed her in her past life. His gaze turned a few degrees colder.
Was it Chen Xiarong, then?No matter who it was, he resolved to make them pay!
