I Only Want to Live Until Tomorrow

(No special powers. Hard-hitting, realistic survival. Ruthless, no do-gooder heroics, no mindless plot armor. A protagonist who grows over time. Slow burn. Enter with caution: high tension.)

The apocalypse is never something to joke about. It’s called the apocalypse because, by definition, it’s humanity’s darkest and most desperate hour. I woke up to find my phone burned to scrap and the streets outside swarming with zombies.

Guan Fei had no special powers and no System. All he had were two daggers handed to him by his old father, and one thing he said: “I just want to make it through tomorrow.”

Supplies have to be seized. People have to be watched. The living are more terrifying than the zombies.

No one is a fool in the apocalypse. One wrong step, and you’ll never recover.