[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-732":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Zombie Apocalypse: Creation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1887309,2510,"Chapter 732: Meeting Houqin’s Parent","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-732",732,"\u003Cp>As Houqin robotically walked across the logistic hallway and the parking lot to Xiaoyun’s car, her eyes were still widened in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once inside the driver’s seat, she was still standing outside. It was almost as if his sudden announcement taken her soul out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hello? You there? Can you go to the passenger seat?\" Xiaoyun questioned as he patted her on the shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"S-Sorry!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching her run off towards the logistic entrance, Xiaoyun let out a small sigh as he closed the car door before rolling down the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where are you going?\" Xiaoyun questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-I can’t d-do this. G-Give me some time to process this. I-I’ll tell you w-what I w-want to do t-tomorrow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is no tomorrow. Get back in the car... I won’t drive you to the doctor right now. Just at least tell me where you are going.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After slowly driving down the sidewalk for a whole minute, Houqin finally had a change of heart as she stopped and opened the car door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"C-Can you drive me b-back home?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No problem... But can you tell me where your home is? I don’t know what direction I needed to go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just drive down two blocks from here. Y-You’ll see a coffee shop nearby.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun pressed the gas pedal, the car finally gained speed. Soon, the two could see a coffee shop ahead, next to several apartment buildings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That apartment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pulling the car over to the street side, Houqin exited the car before he could even finish parking it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey! Wait for me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the main apartment door already closed and Houqin disappearing into the staircase, Xiaoyun was a little annoyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did I shock her too much? Maybe I shouldn’t have been so direct...\" Xiaoyun murmured to himself as he stood outside the building alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, Commander, what are you doing here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun quickly turned around, only to see a woman wearing a white logistic uniform standing right there, with a key about to open the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, I came here to see Houqin. Can you actually open the door for me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman didn’t hesitate for a second as she opened the door for him, letting him into the apartment’s main lobby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I almost forgot to ask, do you know which floor Houqin lives in?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m actually her next-door neighbor. I can bring you to her home if you want, Commander.\" The woman offered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s perfect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun followed the woman up the stairs to the third floor, they soon arrived at apartment 305.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is her home.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman quickly walked off to the door on the right, entering inside before closing it, leaving Xiaoyun alone in the hallway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Houqin, you inside? Can you open the door? I just wanted to talk—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Xiaoyun knocked on the door and asked out loud, the door opened on its own as an old couple looked back right at him in the eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hello. Um, is Houqin home?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She’s not.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Houqin’s mother coldly responded, Xiaoyun could visibly see their hostility towards him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem, I just want to start by saying sorry. Your daughter’s mission took much longer than any of us had originally expected.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We know... Do you have a minute to talk, Mr. Governor?\" Houqin’s mom asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following her inside the house, Xiaoyun was a little surprised as everything looked not just minimalistic, but borderline empty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was barely any furniture. No sofa or kitchen at all. Nowhere to sit other than a few wooden chairs and a table in the living room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr.Governor, let’s get straight to the point and not beat around the bush.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Houqin’s father finally spoke up for once, Xiaoyun was more than willing to confront it head-on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is there a problem somewhere?\" Xiaoyun questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We want you to leave our daughter alone. To be more exact, we want you to give her a different job, or just fire her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun couldn’t understand this sudden request from Houqin’s parents. It just came out of left field, which threw him off his expectation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You, Mr.Governor. With all due respect, you have been causing a lot of unintended consequences for us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Like what?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First off, you’re a great man, Mr.Governor. You had done nothing wrong, but the newspaper loved to gossip about our daughter with you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Houqin’s mom tried to sugarcoat the situation, Houqin’s father quickly stopped her from continuing to let himself chime in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We don’t want our daughter to go on a risky tour like the one to Changsha, period. We heard enough lies from you, Governor.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She told you all everything already?\" Xiaoyun softly asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course she did. You sent her to Changsha, and she almost died trying to leave it. This is the last time my daughter is going to work for you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As both sides showed a clear disdain towards her daughter’s job, Xiaoyun let out a small sigh of relief in his head as Houqin didn’t tell them the full story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That was a complete accident. It’s the last time she’ll ever need to leave the cities. I can promise that she will never go on this kind of mission again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite Xiaoyun’s reassurance, both of them shook their head. They didn’t trust his words, especially considering it took a week for her to return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s not the only issue. You, Governor, had caused immense stress for us... Every single blind date we had arranged for our daughter had failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of the men rejected her the moment she said her job title out loud. No one. I mean, no one in the neighborhood wanted to marry a woman in such a high position.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more Houqin’s father ranted about her daughter’s job, the more Xiaoyun began to realize the trouble he had caused for Houqin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he was a little surprised by the fact that her parents were setting up a blind date for her in the first place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I hope you understand, Governor, she’s our only child and she’s already pushing thirty. She’s going to be past her prime if you—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t stay away from her, right? Houqin’s dad, you’re scared that the longer your daughter waits, the harder it will be for her to find a husband?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun interrupted as he answered it for Houqin’s father, whose face looked a little surprised and happy at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you, Governor, now you understand—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I’ll have to say no to that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you mean by no, Mr.Governor?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Houqin’s mother softly asked, holding back her husband from getting up, as his face had the word anger written all over it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can’t, and I won’t fire her unless she wants to quit herself... A parent cannot dictate what their daughter does for a living.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mister Chen, do you really want to force our daughter to be a leftover woman? Is that really what you wanted for your employee?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Houqin’s father got up from his seat and stared at him right in the eyes, Xiaoyun didn’t feel intimidated at all as he slowly got up from his seat himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I shouldn’t call you two Houqin’s dad and Houqin’s mom... Good afternoon, father-in-law and mother-in-law.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of Houqin’s parent were a little dumbfounded. They were completely frozen in place, just like their daughters earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Houqin, you’re in the house, right? Do you want me to explain it to your parents, or do you want me to tell them about it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can tell them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Houqin opened the door and came out of the room over in the small hallway, both of her parents finally came back to their senses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their faces changed within seconds as they looked over to their daughter with a ferocious look, almost as if they were questioning a prisoner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom, Dad... h-he proposed to me this afternoon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t tell me you said yes to it.\" Houqin’s father coldly questioned as he stared back at her, dead in the eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... I did agree to it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why? Just why would you do that? I thought you said you don’t like him. You know he is already married to multiple wives—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I like him more than those men you guys had recommended. I-I don’t want to marry a 40-year-old engineer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Houqin say it out loud, Xiaoyun was a little surprised. But he didn’t intervene as her parent continued to look towards her in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a whole minute of standstill, the mother-in-law was the first to accept it as she turned around to look back over to her son-in-law.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t know what poison you had fed to our daughter, but you’d better treat her fairly, or else we’ll never forgive you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun looked over to his father-in-law, he was still standing there looking towards his daughter, with a disappointed look on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t get it. What’s so good in this man that you find him to be better than any of those men I had recommended outside of age?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1509,"2026-06-10T06:59:54.595Z",1,"novelbin.me","7674156a445e14e13048ad1cda3a0f0eb5d7a2d852b9f74662fd5d626ed906a9","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-733","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-731",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]