Chapter 99: Rescuing the couple 2.

Her voice broke off there, and she could not finish the sentence.

The child, hearing the word thank you, suddenly looked up with tearful eyes and said in a tiny voice, "Thank you, big sister."

Bai Li’s expression stayed cool, but her eyes softened a little. The taller woman quickly introduced herself after catching her breath. Her name was Xu Wei, and the smaller woman was her wife, Shen Qiao. The child was their daughter, Xiao Yu. They had both worked in a small private design office before the apocalypse. Xu Wei handled operations and logistics, while Shen Qiao worked in illustration and visual design. They had been together for years, and after struggling through family pressure, gossip, and all the ugly looks that came with being a couple who did not fit other people’s expectations, they had finally built a small life together. Xiao Yu was their adopted child, a little girl they had taken in from a relative who could no longer keep her. The three of them had not lived an easy life even before the zombies. They had already learned how to survive other people before the world ended. Now they were just trying to survive the dead too.

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