Surviving the apocalypse with a wife and a system! [GL]

too much locked content, and the ads were so annoying that she could feel her patience drop with every tap. After another minute of searching, she simply sighed, opened the browser, and started looking for a third party manhwa reading app that people in forums had been recommending for a long time.

The search results were as messy as expected. There were too many websites, too many fake download pages, and too many pop ups asking for permissions that looked suspicious at first glance. Bai Li was not careless, so she checked comments under the recommendations first. She looked at screenshots posted by other users, compared the names, and ignored the ones that looked like obvious traps. One forum thread was especially helpful. It had a list of readers that could download Chapters offline, save reading progress, and keep a personal library without forcing users to stay online. Bai Li scanned through the comments and saw a lot of people talking about GL manhwas with almost suspicious excitement. Some users were recommending wholesome titles with soft art and slow romance, some were listing fantasy stories with strong women and dangerous plots, and some were just begging for more updates because their favorite couple had not kissed in thirty Chapters. Bai Li stared at that part for a moment and then clicked the links one by one. She was not even being subtle about it now. She knew exactly what she wanted. The apocalypse could wait for a little while. She wanted to read girl love stories. She wanted something that felt sweet and a little warm, the kind of thing where even if the world was falling apart outside, the people inside the story were still reaching for each other one careful step at a time.

She finally found an app that people kept mentioning as easy to use. It was not in the official store, which was already enough to make the average person hesitate, but the users in the comment section kept saying it was stable, fast, and good for downloading Chapters. Bai Li checked the version number, the file size, and the posted screenshots again before deciding to try it. She downloaded the installation file, then paused when the phone asked for permission to install from an unknown source. Her eyes lowered a little as she read the warning, but she did not back out. In this kind of world, she was already dealing with much bigger risks than an app download. She tapped through the permission prompts, completed the installation, and opened the app. The interface was simple enough, thankfully, with a dark background, easy menus, and a clean search bar at the top. Bai Li entered a few keywords she liked, and in just a few seconds, the app started showing her all kinds of manhwas. Some were fantasy, some were modern, some were school stories, and some were in worlds with monsters and systems. She skimmed past the ones she did not want and clicked on the GL section. The library opened up with a long row of covers, some soft and pretty, some bright and silly, some dramatic enough to make people stop just from the art alone.

Bai Li’s expression eased a little more as she looked through the covers. It was strange, really. Just a moment ago, she had been reading posts about collapsing cities, zombie outbreaks, and people arguing over bottled water, and now she was browsing girl love manhwas like she was on a quiet weekend break. But that was exactly why she liked it. She did not need every minute of the day to be soaked in tension. Reading was one of the few ways she could make her own space in the middle of all this mess. She opened a few titles, glanced at the summaries, and picked the ones that seemed most to her taste. There were stories about a cold heroine slowly falling for a stubborn girl who kept showing up in her life, stories where one woman pretended to be calm but kept getting flustered by every tiny thing the other did, and stories where the romantic tension was so obvious that even the background characters seemed to know it before the leads did. Bai Li read the first Chapter of one title, then another, then saved a few more to download for later. The download button was tiny, but it worked. She added a bunch of Chapters to her offline list, planning to keep them stored in case the internet got unstable. If the network suddenly went bad, at least she would still have these to read.

There was one story in particular that caught her attention because the female lead had the same kind of cool and quiet feeling that Yan Cijin sometimes gave off. Bai Li stared at the screen for a few seconds, then lowered her lashes a little as she read the dialogue bubbles. It was nothing special, really, just a simple scene with one woman helping another after a small injury, but somehow her eyes stayed there longer than usual. Maybe it was because she was tired. Maybe it was because the room was too quiet. Or maybe it was because some part of her had become more sensitive lately, noticing small things she used to ignore. She could not say for sure. Bai Li only knew that whenever she looked at these kinds of stories, her mind moved a little differently. She started paying attention to the little gestures, the way a hand reached out, the way a person hesitated before speaking, the way silence could sit between two women and still feel full. It was not the same as the messy and loud things people wrote online. It was much quieter. More careful. And for some reason, that made her read even more seriously.

The app remembered her browsing history very quickly, and soon the recommendations underneath started filling up with similar titles. Bai Li clicked around and saved a few more to her library.

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TO BE CONTINUED,

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