The seemingly prosperous city is actually just a protective umbrella for darkness, which is filled with anger, despair, sadness, and struggle.
Hope? It's just something that the weak imagine in their hearts. Death may be their end.
Do you want to survive? Do you want to be able to feed yourself? Do you want to get ahead?
Resist, for the sake of that illusory "hope".
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.