All Chapters of Reborn in the Apocalypse: Watching My Ex and Her Lover Beg for Mercy: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

I snapped my eyes open, gasping frantically for air as the agonizing sensation of my carotid artery being violently ripped apart lingered in my neck.I couldn’t shake the memory of Chloe Mercer and her foster brother, Boyd Brooks. They hadn’t just stolen the last moldy piece of bread I had risked my life to find; the exact moment the zombies smashed through the security door, they had grabbed my arms from both sides and ruthlessly shoved me into the horde.“Ethan, Boyd is in poor health,” Chloe had screamed. “Block them for us, and I’ll remember your sacrifice forever!”I clenched my fists until they hurt, using the sting to remind myself that my regression was entirely real.Throwing off the blankets, I stepped out of bed and walked into the living room, where the screen of Boyd’s iPad was still glowing on the coffee table. Looking at the chat interface on the display, a cold smirk curled the corners of my lips.The next morning, inside a luxury private hospital room.I stared c

Chapter 2

Walking out of the hospital gates, the blinding sunlight forced me to squint slightly.Although the luxury penthouse was Chloe’s pre-marital property, my name had been officially added to the deed after our marriage. Before the legal title transfer could be finalized, there was a sufficient time gap for me to exploit.I immediately contacted a loan shark who had spent years operating in the legal gray market.“A three-hundred-square-meter penthouse downtown, market value over twenty million,” I said, slamming a copy of the property deed onto the desk, my tone absolute. “I only need eight million. I want the funds disbursed today.”The broker stared at me, his eyes lighting up with greed. “Mr. Mercer, you’re a straightforward man, but the interest rates on a rush job like this…”“Calculate the interest at your maximum allowable rate. I don’t care,” I interrupted coldly.Chloe would be the one stuck paying it back anyway. Even if the interest rates skyrocketed into the stratosphere

Chapter 3

The eve of the apocalypse arrived with a silence so profound it felt suffocating.I stood before the bulletproof glass observation window of my fortress, watching the sky split open as a torrential downpour of heavy, dark red rain soaked the earth, carrying the heavy, metallic stench of rust.On the wall, a television monitor flickered as emergency broadcasts began interrupting regular programming with increasingly frantic reports.“An unidentified strain of a mutating, rabies-like virus has triggered violent attacks across multiple sectors of the city,” the anchor announced, her voice trembling violently despite her professional veneer. In the background of her live feed, piercing screams echoed through the studio walls. “All citizens are strongly advised to remain indoors, lock all doors, and secure your windows immediately…”I turned my head toward the surveillance monitors linked to the penthouse.Inside the luxury apartment, Chloe and Boyd remained completely oblivious to the

Chapter 4

By the third day of the apocalypse, the once-luxurious fragrance of expensive perfume that used to linger in the penthouse had been completely smothered by the foul stench of human waste and the sour reek of despair. Without running water or electricity, the twenty-million-dollar luxury high-rise had transformed into a stifling, airtight tin can.Chloe was starving, her eyes gleaming with a desperate, animalistic hunger. She began ransacking the spacious kitchen and living room, tearing open every cabinet to take stock of their supplies.Because the two of them had just moved in, their minds had been entirely consumed by their romantic, short-lived honeymoon phase. Neither of them had given a single thought to actually buying groceries or cooking.Inside the massive double-door refrigerator, there was nothing but a few bottles of high-end champagne and a half-eaten container of imported strawberries. The shelves were completely barren.Chloe turned every single drawer upside down,

Chapter 5

The fifteenth day of the apocalypse.Famine had descended in its absolute, unyielding entirety.Inside the luxury penthouse, not a single chewable item remained. Even the expensive, rare potted plants had been ripped out by the roots by Chloe, chewed into fibers, and forced down her throat. The two of them were completely skin and bones, their eyes sunken deep into their skulls like a pair of walking skeletons.Boyd’s condition was exponentially worse.Due to advanced kidney failure, his legs had swelled to the size of elephant stumps, stripping him of the strength to even crawl out of bed. Toxins that his body could no longer excrete began seeping directly out of his pores, filling the master bedroom with a stench so rancid that even flies refused to linger. He lay on the mattress, his breaths shallow and ragged, his pupils dilated and unfocused.Chloe spent her hours drifting through the living room like a ghost, scratching at every corner for anything she might have missed. Sud

Chapter 6

The twenty-fifth day of the apocalypse.The last single drop of water inside the luxury penthouse had officially run dry. Over the past several days, they had managed to drag out their wretched survival by rationing the stagnant water left inside the toilet tanks. Now, even the muddy grime coating the bottom of the tanks had been licked entirely clean. If they didn’t venture out to scavenge for food and water, they would die of absolute dehydration within two days at most.Chloe leaned weakly against the corner of the room, her hand white-knuckling a kitchen knife as her cold, calculative gaze drifted over Boyd.“Boyd, let’s face it. Your body isn’t going to last much longer anyway,” she muttered, her voice hollow. “Why don’t you go out first? Make some noise in the hallway to draw the zombies away. I’ll use that window to slip down the fire escape and head to the supermarket for supplies. I swear, the moment I find food, I’ll come straight back to save you.”Although Boyd was term

Chapter 7

Outside the heavy security door of the luxury penthouse.The emergency lights in the hallway had long since died from the power outage. The entire corridor was plunged into pitch-black darkness, and the air was thick with a sickening cocktail of putrid decay and the copper reek of fresh blood.Chloe leaned her back against the freezing concrete wall, her heart hammering frantically against her ribs as her legs shook uncontrollably from a mix of sheer terror and near-fatal starvation. Swallowing hard, her hands white-knuckled the kitchen knife. Guided only by the eerie, faint green glow of the emergency exit sign, she shuffled toward the elevator lobby one agonized step at a time.Crunch... Crunch...The sickening, wet sound of grinding teeth echoed from around the corner.Chloe froze entirely, cautiously poking half of her head past the drywall to look. There, right in front of the elevator doors, a zombie in a shredded business suit was crouching over a mutilated, unrecognizable

Chapter 8

Under the aggressive erosion of the virus and the violent stimulation of her near-death experience, a seal buried deep within her consciousness suddenly shattered. Countless fragments of a life that did not belong to this timeline flashed through her mind like a chaotic cinematic reel.It was the memory of her past life.She saw the first day of the apocalypse, where I had risked infection, charging downstairs with a baseball bat to scavenge a backpack full of food from the supermarket.She saw the days when water and food ran bone-dry, where I had forced the last half-bottle of water and a piece of moldy bread into her hands, while I grew so depleted from starvation I could barely stand.She saw the exact moment the zombies smashed through the barricade, where I had stood at the absolute front wielding a blade, screaming at the top of my lungs for her to take Boyd and run.However, the final frame of the memory froze on a cold, metallic security door.It froze on the image of he

Chapter 9

Chloe’s desperate howling echoed relentlessly through the dead silence of the corridor.She used her blood-soaked hands to slam frantically against the luxury penthouse’s security door. “Boyd! Open up! Open the damn door! I’ve been bitten—save me!” Chloe shrieked at the top of her lungs, her fingernails scraping against the reinforced iron, leaving jagged, crimson streaks in their wake.Inside the apartment.Boyd leaned against the foyer wall, his face turned completely ghostly pale as he listened to Chloe’s piercing screams and the violent banging on the door. Yet, his hands never once reached for the handle. Instead, he clamped both palms tightly over his own mouth, his eyes flickering with an unstable mix of paralyzing terror and absolute selfishness.“Open the door! Boyd! You piece of shit! I only went out there for your sake—how dare you lock me out?!” Chloe cursed maniacally from the hallway.Instead of yielding, Boyd dragged his bloated legs backward, inch by inch, retreati

Chapter 10

Following Chloe’s brutal demise, the horde in the corridor did not disperse. After consuming every shred of her flesh, dozens of zombies continued to linger right outside the luxury penthouse. They could smell it—the unmistakable scent of a living human drifting through the narrow gaps of the frame.Thud! Thud! Thud!The monsters began throwing their bodies frantically against the entrance.While the lock on this twenty-million-dollar high-rise was admittedly top-tier, it had received zero maintenance over the past thirty days, and its structural integrity had already been compromised by Chloe’s frantic battering. Under the relentless, day-and-night pounding of dozens of zombies, the metal finally let out an overwhelmed, screeching groan of structural failure.Crash—!With a thunderous roar, the heavy security door collapsed entirely, slamming violently down onto the marble tile of the foyer.A shaft of weak light from the hallway cut into the apartment, illuminating a space that

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