Chapter Summaries

After losing his job for defending Xiao Jing, Su Jin received a mysterious package containing a briefcase, a mask, and a real pistol. A burning notice from Heavenly Dao Liability Unlimited Company revealed that he would soon be sent to a dying world to protect a client during the apocalypse.

• Su Jin rejected Old Li’s demand that he apologize to Mr. Wang in exchange for getting his job back.
• Su Jin accepted a mysterious job recommendation that appeared on his computer.
• Su Jin opened a package delivered to his home and accidentally fired a real pistol into the ceiling.
• Su Jin read a notice ordering him to protect a client in a dying world and warning that failure would leave him stranded.
• The notice burned away after revealing the company’s name, Heavenly Dao Liability Unlimited Company.

Su Jin discovered that the mask, handgun, and briefcase were supernatural objects tied to a mysterious company and an impending apocalypse. As a countdown reached zero, a golden portal appeared and swallowed him before he could decide whether to enter.

• Su Jin tried to call the police, but a mechanical voice warned him not to disclose company information and ordered him to put on the mask.
• Su Jin put on the mask, which vanished against his skin and left a countdown visible in his vision.
• Su Jin discovered that the handgun could not be examined normally and that the briefcase contained hidden storage space.
• Su Jin bought supplies, arranged money and insurance for his parents, and told them he would be working overtime for months.
• When the countdown reached zero, a golden portal appeared before Su Jin and rushed forward to swallow him.

Fu Qingdai tried to convince her mother and classmates that her recurring dreams foretold the end of the world, but they dismissed her warnings as stress or madness. The chapter left her borrowing money from Gao Peng to prepare while Xiao Ning reported her worsening condition to Zhang Wan.

• Fu Qingdai woke from another apocalyptic dream and begged Zhang Wan to believe that the world would soon end, but Zhang Wan dismissed her fears and gave her only fifty yuan.
• Fu Qingdai wrote at her desk, then warned Xiao Ning that the rain was dangerous and urged her to stock food and seal the doors and windows.
• At school, Xiao Ning and another student privately treated Fu Qingdai's warnings as signs that she was losing her sanity.
• Fu Qingdai asked Gao Peng to lend her money, and he agreed to lend her one hundred yuan.
• A student called Zhang Wan to report that Fu Qingdai had spoken to a boy and urged Zhang Wan to seek help for her worsening condition.

Su Jin arrived in another world and found his client, Fu Qingdai, in Longshan City Psychiatric Hospital. Fu Qingdai recognized him as the man from her dream and concluded that the apocalypse was real, while Su Jin gave her a false name and arranged for them to pose as cousins.

• Su Jin appeared outside Longshan City Psychiatric Hospital and realized he had crossed into another world.
• Su Jin found money and identification in his belongings, entered the hospital grounds, and went inside.
• Fu Qingdai waited anxiously for the man from her dream, then saw Su Jin and believed the apocalypse was real.
• Su Jin met Fu Qingdai, confirmed that the company had contacted her, and introduced himself as Li Haocheng, an elite operative.
• Su Jin asked Fu Qingdai to keep his identity secret and told her to pose as his cousin.

Su Jin questioned Fu Qingdai about her life and her dreams of an apocalypse that would begin with five days of torrential rain in seven days. As he planned how to prepare, he discovered that the company’s translation service made his writing unreadable to others, and Fu Qingdai asked if he was an alien.

• Su Jin learned that Fu Qingdai was a student mistakenly placed in a psychiatric hospital and that her dream predicted rain-driven chaos beginning in seven days.
• Fu Qingdai explained that the Heavenly Dao Company had contacted her in a dream and promised to send help, leaving Su Jin to suspect he had to complete his mission to contact it.
• Su Jin questioned Fu Qingdai about her family, local customs, and resources, then concluded he should rent an apartment near her home and stockpile supplies.
• Su Jin discovered that Fu Qingdai could not recognize the H₂O he had written and that the characters she wrote appeared different to him, suggesting the translation service distorted writing.
• Fu Qingdai gathered the courage to ask Su Jin whether he was an alien.

Su Jin told Fu Qingdai that she was humanity’s best hope against a virus released by the Trisolarans, while claiming to be a Namekian sent to protect Earth. He then tried to convince nurse Ding Jia that Fu Qingdai should be taken home, but she refused to bend hospital rules.

• Su Jin explained to Fu Qingdai that Trisolarans had infected the atmosphere and that her antibodies made her essential to developing a cure.
• Su Jin said his spaceship had crashed, his teammates were dead, and Fu Qingdai needed to stay alive while they prepared for the disaster.
• Su Jin reassured Fu Qingdai by describing the Namekians’ mission to protect civilizations and their conflict with the Trisolarans.
• Ding Jia confronted Su Jin for reinforcing Fu Qingdai’s delusions, and he claimed he had been role-playing with his cousin as they had when she was young.
• Su Jin asked Ding Jia to help persuade Fu Qingdai’s mother to take her home, but Ding Jia said the hospital would follow its procedures.

Su Jin manipulated nurse Ding Jia into helping Fu Qingdai leave the hospital and keeping his return secret, then asked Fu Qingdai to prepare for his rescue plan. After learning she had carefully gathered survival information and money, he promised to save her parents as well and left her with renewed hope.

• Su Jin charmed Ding Jia with a Xiaomi Mi 6, got her phone number, and persuaded her not to tell Fu Qingdai’s family that he had returned.
• Su Jin instructed Fu Qingdai to encourage Ding Jia to help her recover at home and to keep Su Jin’s involvement secret from her parents.
• Fu Qingdai insisted that Su Jin save her parents too, and he promised that he would.
• Fu Qingdai gave Su Jin three notebooks containing her dreams, practical information, and a marked map of Longshan City, and revealed she had buried more than ten thousand yuan near her home.
• Su Jin praised Fu Qingdai’s preparation, told her to eat more, and said he would wait outside while he arranged a place near her home.

After leaving the psychiatric hospital, Su Jin investigated the local food and supplements to prepare for survival in the unfamiliar world. He headed toward Talent Estate to find a place to stay, stopping at a video store to ask for disaster movies.

• Su Jin studied Fu Qingdai’s map, tied his briefcase to his wrist for safety, and walked to a nearby produce market.
• Su Jin collected vegetable leaves to test and inspected the meat and seafood, where he recoiled from a giant fish with a humanlike mouth and teeth.
• Su Jin compared local multinutrient supplements with his Centrum and concluded that the similar ingredients made the food seem mostly safe.
• Su Jin visited a video store and asked the owner whether they had any disaster movies.

Su Jin rented several films to learn about this world’s disasters and society, then used an adult video to check whether human anatomy matched his memories of Earth. Reassured by what he saw, he left the shop in a hurry after the owner misunderstood his actions.

• Su Jin rented three disaster films and requested realistic historical, contemporary, and military films as research.
• Su Jin asked the shop owner for adult films and followed him into a back room to preview one.
• Su Jin studied the video’s close-up anatomy and movements, concluding that people in this world resembled those on Earth.
• The owner mistook Su Jin’s movements beneath his coat for finishing quickly, and Su Jin left the shop while the owner cursed at him.

Su Jin arrived in Longshan, recovered the money Fu Qingdai had buried, and rented two apartments in Talent Residential Complex, including the one across from hers. Alone in his new home, he finally let his fear and confusion over being transported to another world and having to prepare for the apocalypse overwhelm him.

• Su Jin inspected Talent Residential Complex and found the biscuit tin of money Fu Qingdai had buried by a tree near Building Seven.
• Su Jin called the landlord and arranged to rent the apartment across from Fu Qingdai's home.
• Su Jin persuaded the landlord to rent him his son's empty apartment downstairs as well, paying the first month's rent for both and delaying the deposits.
• Su Jin stood alone in the apartment at sunset and struggled with fear and confusion about his new world and the coming apocalypse.

Su Jin overcame his initial panic and began preparing for the doomsday that was six days away. He planned supplies, weapons, and training, while leaving himself a plan to check on Fu Qingdai if she did not return from the psychiatric hospital.

• Su Jin lamented his situation, found no one from Heavenly Dao Unlimited Liability Company to answer him, and resolved to finish his assignment.
• The next morning, Su Jin confirmed that six days remained until doomsday and planned to wait three days for Fu Qingdai to return after her discharge.
• Su Jin calculated how to stockpile water and outlined a plan to discreetly buy staple foods, fats, powdered milk, and medicine.
• Su Jin ruled out buying firearms because of the cost, legal risks, and difficulty obtaining ammunition, and decided to prepare melee weapons instead.
• Su Jin considered visiting a slaughterhouse to practice hacking at living creatures so that fear would not make his hands shake in a crisis.

Su Jin welcomed Fu Qingdai after she was released from the hospital and began preparing to help her and her parents before the apocalypse. After learning about her family, he planned to visit her home the next day and assigned her two tasks.

• Su Jin discovered that food kept its warmth inside his storage space but could still go stale.
• Fu Qingdai arrived at Su Jin’s apartment and told him she had returned home without trouble.
• Su Jin laid down three rules for Fu Qingdai and reassured her that she needed to trust him.
• Su Jin questioned Fu Qingdai about the local electrical system and concluded that his phone should charge normally.
• Fu Qingdai described her parents and family in detail, and Su Jin said he would visit them the next day.
• Su Jin asked Fu Qingdai to have her mother prepare substantial dishes and find a way to get him two thousand yuan.

With four days left until the Apocalypse, Su Jin stocked his apartment and went to meet Fu Qingdai’s parents, hoping to gain their trust and enlist their help. He entered their home by posing as a government risk bureau director, leaving Fu Hu confused and wary.

• Su Jin bought water containers, food, medicine, sanitation supplies, and other necessities while planning to acquire fabric and materials for makeshift armor.
• Su Jin went to Fu Qingdai’s home for dinner and introduced himself to Fu Hu as his new neighbor, Li Haocheng.
• Su Jin recited Fu Hu’s military service details and claimed to work for a secret government bureau, showing Fu Hu an identification image on his phone.
• Su Jin said he had come to borrow the television, and Fu Hu let him inside.
• Fu Hu sent Fu Qingdai to her room and told Zhang Wan that Su Jin was a relative of an army buddy, then invited him to sit and talk privately.

Su Jin tried to convince Fu Hu that he was a director in the secretive National Strategic Risk Bureau and asked him to run an errand. Fu Hu remained suspicious but invited Su Jin to dinner, then told Zhang Wan that something was wrong with him.

• Fu Hu questioned Su Jin about the National Strategic Risk Bureau, and Su Jin said it handled major national risks and would soon become public.
• Su Jin showed Fu Hu an encoded phone and claimed he had recovered its manufacturing documents during a foreign assignment.
• Su Jin explained that he had returned secretly to pursue an open deputy director position and offered Fu Hu money or a bureau job to help him.
• Fu Hu asked which country Su Jin had visited, then invited him to dinner instead of agreeing to help.
• Fu Hu went into the kitchen and warned Zhang Wan to keep her voice down because something was wrong with Su Jin.

Su Jin used questions about Fu Qingdai’s routine to identify her academic stress and a painful breakup, convincing Fu Hu and Zhang Wan that his psychological expertise was genuine. Fu Qingdai broke down crying, while Zhang Wan accused Fu Hu of wrongly wanting to send her to a psychiatric hospital.

• Fu Hu and Zhang Wan worried that Su Jin might be a fraud, but invited him to dinner and questioned him about the National Strategic Risk Bureau.
• Su Jin noticed Fu Qingdai in her room and persuaded her parents to bring her to the table for him to assess.
• Su Jin identified Fu Qingdai’s academic stress and asked detailed questions about her daily routine.
• Su Jin described Fu Qingdai’s relationship with a boy from another class and said the boy had dumped and humiliated her.
• Fu Qingdai burst into tears, and Zhang Wan celebrated Su Jin’s assessment and reproached Fu Hu for wanting to send their daughter to a psychiatric hospital.

Su Jin arranged to help Fu Qingdai recover and promised to look into a job for her father, Fu Hu, while hiding his own loneliness and fear. After waking from a nightmare, he checked his preparations and realized the apocalypse was only three days away.

• Su Jin told Fu Hu and Zhang Wan that their treatment of Fu Qingdai had worsened her distress and offered to talk with her for two hours each evening for seven days.
• Fu Qingdai agreed to speak with Su Jin, and he arranged to begin helping her the next day.
• Su Jin entertained the family with his fabricated Mi 6 persona, accepted money Fu Qingdai had slipped him, and promised Fu Hu an answer about a bureau job the next day.
• After returning home, Su Jin heard the family chatting behind their door and felt hollow as he missed home.
• Su Jin awoke from a nightmare about a zombie attack, reviewed his preparation plans, and saw that only three days remained until the apocalypse.

Su Jin went to an outskirts slaughterhouse to toughen himself up by slaughtering pigs, then convinced Brother Liu he had come because his woman had run off with another man. He left with his money returned and two bags of pig feed after Brother Liu begged him not to come back.

• Su Jin arrived at the slaughterhouse and paid Brother Liu two hundred yuan to let him practice slaughtering pigs.
• Su Jin spent three hours slaughtering pigs despite his nausea, alarming Brother Liu with his persistence and violent approach.
• Brother Liu urged Su Jin not to come back and asked whether he was preparing to commit a crime.
• Su Jin pretended to be heartbroken over his woman running off with another man, and Brother Liu comforted him until he believed Su Jin had calmed down.
• Su Jin asked for his two hundred yuan back and then requested two bags of pig feed, which Brother Liu reluctantly gave him.

Su Jin arranged for Fu Hu to buy bows, arrows, and solar equipment as part of a plan to secure Fu Hu a job and contact Su Jin’s trusted men. After visiting Fu Qingdai in her room, Su Jin demanded the money she had stolen and was displeased by the small-denomination notes she handed him.

• Su Jin told Fu Hu to buy three differently colored compound bows, arrows, and accessories to use as a gift for Zhang Zhao’s son.
• Su Jin instructed Fu Hu to buy solar equipment from a specialist shop as a signal to Su Jin’s trusted men, and Fu Hu agreed to make the purchases the next day.
• Fu Hu escorted Su Jin to Fu Qingdai’s bedroom and told her to pay attention to Su Jin’s lesson.
• Su Jin asked Fu Qingdai how much money she had stolen that day, and she handed him a handful of small-denomination notes that displeased him.

Su Jin and Fu Qingdai discussed how to prepare for the coming zombie crisis, and Su Jin arranged for her to help secure the house after her parents were asleep. After tasting a piece of candy, Su Jin suddenly suffered a severe reaction.

• Su Jin scolded Fu Qingdai for bringing home too little money, then comforted her as she cried over being unable to warn her family and friends about the coming disaster.
• Su Jin reasoned that they should shelter through the rain and wait for the authorities to handle the zombies.
• Su Jin told Fu Qingdai to give her parents sleeping pills on the final day and meet him at eleven to help set up safety measures.
• Fu Qingdai listened to music on Su Jin's phone, then caught him staring at her feet and questioned him.
• Su Jin found Fu Qingdai's candy stash, tasted a tiny piece of chocolate, and suddenly turned bright red as blood vessels spread across his eyes.

Su Jin discovered that chocolate from each world was poisonous to people from the other, then continued preparing for the apocalypse despite his exhaustion and fear. With supplies and defenses ready, he watched the clock as the apocalypse was about to begin.

• Su Jin suffered a severe reaction after eating Fu Qingdai's chocolate and tested that even contact with his own world's chocolate burned her skin.
• Su Jin returned home, induced vomiting, and received a nighttime delivery of boxed grain and cooking oil, warning the workers to avoid rainwater and tap water.
• With two days left before the apocalypse, Su Jin bought supplies, sealed and fortified his windows, and checked the compound bows, arrows, and solar equipment stored at the Fu family's home.
• Su Jin told Fu Hu he would not be able to treat Fu Qingdai for two days and claimed a comrade had died on a mission.
• The following night, Su Jin finished organizing supplies and filling water buckets, then sat anxiously beside a cage of mice as the clock reached eleven.