In the third year after the Red Mist Virus outbreak, Su Wan was betrayed by her best friend, Lin Wei. Lin pushed her off a high-rise to steal her storage space, and the last thing Su Wan remembered was the bloody, metallic taste in her mouth.
When she opened her eyes again, she was reborn seven days before the Red Mist arrived. Her familiar home, her mother cooking, her father planning her dowry, and the birthday circled on the calendar made her resolve to protect her family, stock up on supplies, and rewrite the tragedy this time around.
She convinced her parents to withdraw all their savings, drew up a shopping list with a thousand jin of rice and a hundred boxes of canned food, and used her memories from her previous life to avoid the "old army buddy" who would have swindled them. She also reactivated her storage space, which had remained with her. When the thug Liu Lei came after their supplies, she was no longer weak and timid. Together with Li, a veteran, Grandma Zhang, and Doctor Lin, she thwarted several attempts to break in. The neighbors went from wary of one another to standing together, building a defensive line as one.
On June 19, the Red Mist stained the morning light crimson, and the infected began to howl. Su Wan held a fire axe, her armed parents beside her and trusting neighbors behind her. In her previous life, she struggled alone. This time, she would fight for a way to survive among the ruins with the people she cherished. True hope meant standing shoulder to shoulder against the darkness with those you loved and trusted.
