During the Cold Wave, I Became the Richest Man in the World by Hoarding Goods

On January 14, 2026, the day 32-year-old supply chain expert Lin Zhao lost his job, he woke up in a 1,000 cubic meter constant-temperature space. When a once-in-a-century cold wave froze the world to -100°C, and when humans were killing each other for a mouthful of hot soup in the apocalypse, she relied on her professional skills of "hoarding" to go from being an unemployed social worker in a 30-square-meter rental house to becoming the richest man in the world step by step. She uses Excel spreadsheets to manage apocalyptic supplies, uses supply chain thinking to rebuild order, trades 15 boxes of self-heating hotpots for jade bracelets, and uses greenhouse growing technology to trade for the heating rights of the entire building. Her space contains tomato and brisket-flavored hotpot, a talking orange cat, and a secret left behind by her father—she is not an ordinary space user, she is a "prototype" and a bridge between humans and systems. From the "Chief Administrator of Warm Winter City" to the "Chief Administrator of East China", from the grudges with his ex-boyfriend, ex-best friend, and ex-boss, to the game dialogue with the mysterious AI "system", Lin Zhao proved that the biggest hard currency in the apocalypse is not gold or power, but the freedom to choose to be a human being. When the final choice comes: keep the space and continue to be the richest man, or close the space and save the world? She chose the latter. Because she finally understood that real wealth is not 1,000 cubic meters of space, but being able to waste time watching the sunset and feeding cats fat - ordinary. This is a story about hoarding, survival, revenge and redemption. It is also a story about how to choose not to be a god but to be a human in an imperfect world.