Recaps

Jiang Ci shared food produced by her unexplained ability with her family, who urged her to keep it secret. Later, she went with Si Beichen to buy supplies and led Tian Jiakai and Yuan Jiaojiao to the apartment where they had committed their first murder.

• Jiang Ci produced a cleaned grass carp and pickled mustard greens, and her family told her to keep her ability secret.
• Jiang Ci gave the family four apples, one for each of them.
• Si Beichen packed cash to buy supplies at the government supermarket, and Jiang Ci joined him.
• Tian Jiakai and Yuan Jiaojiao tried to pressure Jiang Ci and Si Beichen into sharing their supplies, so Jiang Ci invited them along.
• Jiang Ci led the group to the fifth floor of an old residential complex, where Tian Jiakai and Yuan Jiaojiao recognized the home where they had first killed someone.

Jiang Ci confronted and killed Tian Jiakai and Yuan Jiaojiao for murdering an elderly couple, then went grocery shopping with Si Beichen. As they returned home, they noticed Zhang Qiang and Zhang Shuai eyeing their supplies and discussing whether Jiang Ci was Li Weiwei’s neighbor.

• Jiang Ci blocked Tian Jiakai and Yuan Jiaojiao from escaping and led them into an apartment where she confronted them about murdering an elderly couple.
• Tian Jiakai threatened Jiang Ci and Si Beichen, so Jiang Ci shot him and Yuan Jiaojiao dead with a suppressed handgun.
• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen left the apartment and went to the government supermarket, where they bought as much food as they could carry.
• On the way home, Jiang Ci spotted Zhang Qiang and Zhang Shuai downstairs and recognized them as possible accomplices of Tian Jiakai.
• Zhang Qiang and Zhang Shuai watched Jiang Ci and Si Beichen take their groceries upstairs, then decided to ask Li Weiwei about the woman and go home.

Zhang Shuai questioned Li Weiwei about Jiang Ci and her male companion, then returned to discuss them with Zhang Qiang. The brothers decided to watch the pair and avoid drawing attention, unaware that someone had already targeted them.

• After failing to find Tian Jiakai, Zhang Qiang and Zhang Shuai went to his apartment, while an unseen person hid on the sixteenth-floor stairs.
• Zhang Shuai visited Li Weiwei and asked whether Jiang Ci was her neighbor and who the man accompanying her was.
• Li Weiwei claimed Jiang Ci relied on a wealthy lover to survive, and Zhang Shuai decided to tell Zhang Qiang about them.
• Zhang Shuai returned home and told Zhang Qiang that Jiang Ci's companion seemed powerful, so they should wait before acting.
• Zhang Qiang agreed that the brothers should keep watching and go out less, unaware that the hidden observer had set his sights on them.

As the extreme heat worsened, Jiang Ci and her family suspected two men on the seventh floor were plotting against them. While taking out the trash, Jiang Ci overheard a group planning to raid the seventh floor, and realized her family might be targeted next.

• Si Beichen brought home supplies and told Jiang Ci he had encountered the suspicious men on the seventh floor again.
• Jiang Ci suspected the two men had stolen fuel and Zhou Junming's generator, while Si Jianhua urged her and Si Beichen to defend their family.
• Jiang Ci took out the trash and overheard Brother Wei's group discussing a raid on the seventh floor and their plans to seize the brothers' supplies.
• Jiang Ci hurried home, reasoning that the group would deal with the two men but might eventually target her family as well.

Zhou Junming and Wang Xiaohui agreed to an engagement, while Zhao Yunqiu showed no reaction to the news. Later, Jiang Ci wondered why the Zhang brothers had not been targeted, and Si Beichen rejected Zhang Shuai’s attempts to befriend him as they waited to collect water.

• Zhou Dafu proposed a match between Zhou Junming and Wang Xiaohui, and Wang Quan reluctantly agreed to ask his daughter.
• Wang Xiaohui insisted on marrying Zhou Junming, and their families arranged a meeting where the two liked each other and became engaged.
• Zhou Junming’s mother spread the engagement news around the building, but Zhao Yunqiu remained calm.
• Jiang Ci wondered why the promised attack on the Zhang brothers had not happened, then decided to make cold noodles and fruit slushie.
• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen lined up behind Li Weiwei and Zhang Shuai to collect water, and Zhang Shuai tried to strike up a friendship with Si Beichen.
• Si Beichen said he did not know Zhang Shuai, who left resentful and resolved to find a chance to make him pay.

Jiang Ci supported Wu Ya as she and Jiang Chengrong considered whether to continue Wu Ya’s pregnancy amid the extreme heat and scarce medical care. Wu Ya left feeling calmer and ready to make a decision with Jiang Chengrong, while Jiang Ci promised to support them either way.

• Zhang Shuai complained to Zhang Qiang about Si Beichen, and Zhang Qiang said their group of nine would wait until they had worked together before confronting him.
• Wu Ya and Jiang Chengrong visited Jiang Ci because Wu Ya had discovered she was pregnant and they were unsure whether to keep the baby.
• Jiang Chengrong feared that pregnancy and childbirth in the extreme heat would endanger Wu Ya and the child, while Jiang Ci privately felt abortion would be safer but chose not to advise them.
• Jiang Ci told Wu Ya and Jiang Chengrong to weigh the possible outcomes together, make a choice they could accept, and know that she would support them.
• Wu Ya felt calmer after talking with Jiang Ci, then left with Jiang Chengrong and said she would visit again after deciding what to do.

Jiang Ci and Si Beichen visited the municipal trading market after learning the government supermarket had closed. There, Si Beichen unexpectedly reunited with his former teammate Qian Zimo, while Jiang Ci returned and asked for the car keys.

• Residents flocked to city hall to apply for funeral home jobs offering meals and grain.
• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen found the government supermarket closed and learned that residents would now barter at the municipal square.
• Si Beichen drove Jiang Ci to the trading market, where they passed applicants and stalls exchanging goods for food.
• Si Beichen recognized Qian Zimo at a stall selling cigarettes and alcohol, and Qian Zimo explained that he had left the military to help his family.
• Si Beichen asked about Qian Zimo's family and former teammates, and Jiang Ci returned from browsing and asked for the car keys.

Jiang Ci and Si Beichen bartered for New Year couplets and liquor as the disaster worsened and violence spread. After Wu Ya and Jiang Chengrong decided to abort the pregnancy, a group tried to break into Jiang Ci’s home, and Si Beichen suddenly opened the door.

• Jiang Ci traded coarse grains for couplets and rice for liquor from Qian Zimo, who first tried to give the bottles to Si Beichen for free.
• The government announced the successful job applicants, and mounting desperation drove residents to scavenge for supplies as violence and deaths increased.
• Jiang Ci realized Zhang Qiang and Zhang Shuai’s nine-person group was preparing to target households in their residential complex.
• Wu Ya told Jiang Ci that she and Jiang Chengrong had decided to abort the baby, and Jiang Ci gave her a walkie-talkie before escorting them home with Si Beichen.
• Several people tried to pry open Jiang Ci’s door; Jiang Ci recognized the group’s voices, and Si Beichen abruptly opened the door.

Jiang Ci and Si Beichen used suppressed handguns to kill seven armed men who had come to rob them, then cleaned up and broke into Li Weiwei’s apartment to deal with the two survivors. The chapter ended as Li Weiwei’s door opened and two broadswords swung down at Si Beichen.

• Nine masked men, led by Wei Tao and Zhang Shuai, threatened Jiang Ci and Si Beichen and demanded their supplies.
• Jiang Ci revealed her guns and ammunition, and she and Si Beichen killed four men with headshots before the others fled.
• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen killed three more men in the hallway while Zhang Qiang and Zhang Shuai escaped into Li Weiwei’s apartment.
• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen dragged away the bodies, cleaned the blood, and pried open Li Weiwei’s door.
• Two people behind the door swung broadswords at Si Beichen as he pushed it open.

Jiang Ci and Si Beichen killed the three intruders, then discussed with Si Jianhua and Wen Qianyue how the family could defend itself. After the household rested, they learned the victims’ families had collected the bodies without making a scene, frightened that the eleventh-floor residents would retaliate.

• Si Beichen disarmed Zhang Shuai and Zhang Qiang, and Jiang Ci shot them and Li Weiwei before the pair removed the bodies and cleaned the blood.
• Si Jianhua asked Si Beichen to teach him and Wen Qianyue self-defense, while Jiang Ci offered to provide guns and instruction.
• Wen Qianyue asked whether Jiang Ci was scared, and Jiang Ci decided she would protect her family after reflecting on their kindness.
• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen separately wondered about their closeness, with Si Beichen deciding to observe his feelings longer.
• After the family woke and looked outside, they saw the bodies had been collected, while the victims’ families stayed quiet out of fear of the eleventh-floor residents.

After the men who had attacked the eleventh floor were killed, their families struggled to survive, while Zhou Junming grew dissatisfied with Wang Xiaohui and began reconnecting with Zhao Yunqiu. Peng Lianlian prepared to kill herself after arranging the brothers’ funerals, but Auntie Wei barged in, looking for someone to blame for her son’s death.

• Hu Cuihua and Wang Xiaohui’s mother found work at the crematorium, while Zhou Junming became the main provider for their households.
• Wang Xiaohui made her relationship with Zhou Junming official, but his passion for her faded as he compared her to Zhao Yunqiu.
• Zhao Yunqiu arranged encounters with Zhou Junming, gradually drawing him back toward her while Wang Xiaohui remained unaware.
• Peng Lianlian collected Zhang Qiang and Zhang Shuai’s bodies and arranged for Li Weiwei to be cremated with Zhang Shuai.
• Peng Lianlian prepared to poison herself, but Auntie Wei forced her way into the apartment and accused her of being the person she sought.

Auntie Wei abducted Peng Lianlian and forced her into her grandson Wei Jiankang’s room, intending to make her bear his child. Meanwhile, Jiang Ci visited Wu Ya after her abortion, celebrated New Year’s Day with her family, and learned that government water deliveries might stop.

• Auntie Wei beat and bound Peng Lianlian, stripped her apartment of supplies, and locked her in Wei Jiankang’s room so she could bear his child.
• Jiang Ci contacted Wu Ya, learned she had finished her procedure and returned home, and prepared gifts for her recovery.
• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen visited Wu Ya and Jiang Chengrong, who were grateful for the food and milk powder.
• Jiang Ci celebrated New Year’s Day with her family, taking photos and exchanging greetings with Wu Ya and Jiang Chengrong over the walkie-talkie.
• Wu Ya told Jiang Ci that government departments might have collapsed and that water deliveries to the communities could end.

After government water deliveries stopped, residents of the Jiaxing Residential Complex dug shared wells and later gathered dried fish from a nearby riverbed. Their success drew resentment from neighboring complexes, whose residents began demanding access to the wells.

• The residents of Building 7 dug a well with help from three brothers, and representatives from the complex agreed to build four shared wells with weekly water limits and rotating caretakers.
• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen helped dig and collected water, while the complex’s residents began cooperating over water use.
• After a resident discovered a dried-up river full of fish, Jiang Ci and Si Beichen filled two sacks there and later prepared some dried fish with soybeans at home.
• Nearby complexes failed to find water in their own wells, and some residents began stirring up anger against Jiaxing Residential Complex.
• A growing crowd gathered at the complex entrance and demanded that its residents open their wells to everyone.

A mob gathered outside Jiaxing Residential Complex to demand access to its well, and the dispute erupted into a chaotic fight. Jiang Ci and Si Beichen stopped the brawl with sniper fire, leaving the crowd scattered and the complex safe for the moment.

• More than a hundred people demanded water from Jiaxing Residential Complex, while the residents refused to share their well.
• As the crowd grew and armed reinforcements arrived, Si Beichen found Jiang Ci preparing an M200 sniper rifle and night-vision goggles.
• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen took concealed positions on the rooftop while more than three hundred people fought outside the entrance.
• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen shot several people in the crowd, prompting both the attackers and residents to flee when they realized snipers were present.
• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen returned home and packed away their rifles, and Si Beichen praised Jiang Ci's shooting.

Jiang Ci celebrated the New Year with her family and discovered that the Church of the God of Nature had begun distributing cards in the residential complex. Remembering that the cult had sacrificed her in her previous life, she vowed to kill its members if they crossed her path, then spent the night gathering wood for the coming extreme cold.

• Jiang Ci and her family celebrated Lunar New Year's Eve together, watched fireworks, and exchanged New Year visits with Wu Ya and Jiang Chengrong.
• Si Beichen found a card for the Church of the God of Nature outside their door, and Jiang Ci crushed it after recognizing the cult that had sacrificed her in her previous life.
• Jiang Ci resolved to take revenge on the cult and counted down the remaining months of extreme heat.
• Jiang Ci borrowed Si Beichen's Land Rover, drove to the outskirts, and spent the night sawing trees and storing the wood in her space.

Jiang Ci fought off a group of thugs who attacked her car, then returned home and went to sleep. Meanwhile, Zhou Junming planned to get Wang Xiaohui pregnant so he could satisfy his mother while continuing his affair with Zhao Yunqiu.

• Jiang Ci used a stun baton and smoke grenade to defeat the men who surrounded her, then drove home without telling her family about the attack.
• Jiang Ci showered in her space, ate breakfast, and went to bed while Dad Si and Mom Wen accepted her safe return without asking questions.
• Hu Cuihua asked Zhou Junming whether Wang Xiaohui was pregnant, prompting him to plan to visit Wang Xiaohui more often and get her pregnant.
• Zhou Junming brought grain to Zhao Yunqiu and told her he planned to have a child with Wang Xiaohui so he could spend more time with her.
• Zhou Junming slept with Wang Xiaohui and urged her to have a baby, but she asked for time to think; he resolved to keep coaxing her until she became pregnant.

Jiang Ci and Si Beichen cut trees together, and she let him discover that she could store the felled wood in her space. She impulsively asked him to be her boyfriend, leaving him taking the suggestion seriously while she remained unsure whether she felt more than attraction to his looks.

• Jiang Ci joined Dad Si, Mom Wen, and Si Beichen for self-defense practice, then asked why the people outside had stopped trying to steal water; Si Beichen explained that the well-diggers had found water nearby.
• Jiang Ci brought Si Beichen to the outskirts to cut firewood, and he offered to help with the heavy work after learning she had gone alone the previous night.
• Si Beichen noticed Jiang Ci making felled trees disappear into her space, and she deliberately let him see her ability so he could keep her secret and help her.
• Jiang Ci asked Si Beichen how many relationships he had been in and proposed becoming his girlfriend; he said he was her older brother, but privately began taking the idea seriously.
• On their drive home at dawn, a gang of young thugs recognized Jiang Ci's Land Rover and fled, while she cheerfully watched them run and Si Beichen wondered whether her proposal had been a joke.
• Jiang Ci decided that she was attracted to Si Beichen's appearance but did not yet love him, and that she could be happy with or without a boyfriend.

After the crematorium closed, Hu Cuihua discovered that her hidden food was missing and suspected her son Zhou Junming had taken it, but he denied knowing anything. The chapter left Hu Cuihua confronting Zhou Junming as he nervously lied to her.

• Hu Cuihua worried that the crematorium's closure would leave her and Zhou Junming without work or food, though she had saved supplies.
• Si Beichen helped Li Yangyang carry water, and Jiang Ci and Si Beichen later helped him bury his parents after they starved themselves to death.
• The crematorium disbanded at the end of the month, leaving Hu Cuihua and the other workers unemployed.
• Zhou Junming persuaded Wang Xiaohui to agree to bear his child, then went to tell Zhao Yunqiu the news.
• Zhou Junming returned home and found Hu Cuihua searching their overturned apartment for the food she had hidden.
• Hu Cuihua questioned Zhou Junming about the missing food, but he nervously denied taking it.

Hu Cuihua discovered Zhou Junming had secretly reunited with Zhao Yunqiu and confronted them at Zhao Yunqiu’s home. She pretended to accept their relationship if Zhao Yunqiu became pregnant, while keeping her real intentions and the missing grain unaddressed.

• Hu Cuihua visited Wang Xiaohui’s home, questioned her, and concluded the missing grain was probably not there.
• Hu Cuihua found Zhou Junming leaving Zhao Yunqiu’s home and realized he had gone to warn her about the missing grain.
• Hu Cuihua entered Zhao Yunqiu’s home, spotted some of her family’s grain, and questioned the couple about their secret relationship.
• Zhou Junming admitted he had reunited with Zhao Yunqiu and said he did not love Wang Xiaohui.
• Hu Cuihua claimed she would accept Zhao Yunqiu as her daughter-in-law if Zhao Yunqiu became pregnant, and Zhao Yunqiu reluctantly agreed to the condition.

As extreme heat and drought continued, a dust explosion at Rongchang Metal Co., Ltd. started a month-long fire, and Jiang Ci prepared for the coming floods by retrieving her cars from the garage. After a dream about Jiang Ci left Si Beichen flustered, the chapter ended with him trying to act normally around her.

• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen heard a huge explosion in the parking garage and later saw flames engulfing Rongchang Metal Co., Ltd. and its neighboring family housing building.
• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen saw the fire spread through the factory and housing building, where most residents died, and nearby survivors dug firebreaks to protect their homes.
• As March began, Jiang Ci kept the household indoors and retrieved Si Beichen's Land Rover Defender and her BMW Mini from the underground garage, storing both in her space.
• Si Beichen caught Jiang Ci when she bumped into him in the dark, then struggled to sleep after holding her waist.
• Si Beichen washed his underwear himself and avoided Jiang Ci the next morning because he had dreamed erotically about her.

As a catastrophic typhoon struck Jiaxing Residential Complex, Jiang Ci moved her family into the apartment hallway to avoid both shattered windows and a likely flooded basement garage. While the family sheltered together, Si Beichen wrestled with his growing romantic feelings for Jiang Ci and struggled to sleep beside her.

• Jiang Ci and her family discovered that a violent typhoon had begun, and she warned that it could intensify into a force-17 super typhoon.
• Jiang Ci rejected the underground garage as a shelter because the torrential rain could flood it, and the family pitched two tents in the hallway.
• Jiang Ci briefly looked outside and saw the typhoon destroy buildings, uproot trees, and sweep through the shantytown.
• The family stayed in the hallway while Mom Wen cooked meals, and Jiang Ci watched shows and played games in her tent with Si Beichen.
• Si Beichen questioned whether his feelings for Jiang Ci were brotherly, then lay awake beside her as she fell asleep with a leg over his waist.

After the typhoon stopped, Jiang Ci and Si Beichen saw residents gathering on the second floor because the underground garage had flooded, then returned home without going downstairs. Meanwhile, Wang Xiaohui arrived with her mother to move in with Zhou Junming, unaware that he was living with Zhao Yunqiu, and Hu Cuihua went to fetch him.

• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen packed away their tents and shade cloth, then learned that residents from the eighteenth, first, and second floors had gathered on the second-floor corridor to discuss the flooding.
• Jiang Ci and Si Beichen abandoned their plan to go downstairs and returned to their eleventh-floor home.
• Wang Xiaohui and her mother prepared to move from the second floor into Zhou Junming's ninth-floor home, while Zhou Junming was living with Zhao Yunqiu and Hu Cuihua began reconnecting with Xiang Bo.
• Wang Xiaohui and her mother arrived at Hu Cuihua's door with their belongings, and Hu Cuihua welcomed them inside.
• Hu Cuihua went upstairs to Zhao Yunqiu's home to fetch Zhou Junming.

Zhao Yunqiu was relieved when Hu Cuihua returned Zhou Junming to Wang Xiaohui, while Zhou Junming resumed his affair with Wang Xiaohui. The chapter ended when Wang Xiaohui revealed that she might be pregnant, shocking Zhou Junming.

• Zhao Yunqiu secretly took birth control pills and welcomed Hu Cuihua’s announcement that Wang Xiaohui and her mother had moved into Zhou Junming’s home.
• Zhou Junming promised Zhao Yunqiu he would return after fixing her windows, and Zhao Yunqiu was relieved when he left.
• Hu Cuihua settled Wang Xiaohui and her mother into the guest room and went to find Xiang Bo.
• Zhou Junming returned home, carried Wang Xiaohui into his bedroom, and slept with her.
• Wang Xiaohui told Zhou Junming her period was late and she might be pregnant, leaving him stunned.

As the flooding made it impossible to search for food, Jiang Ci watched residents salvage supplies from the water and felt her household was safe for the time being. Si Beichen told her he had reconsidered and wanted to date her, and Jiang Ci accepted; he then went to tell Si Jianhua they were together.

• Jiang Ci watched a swimmer retrieve supplies from the flood, and soon residents across the buildings began salvaging food and other items.
• Jiang Ci prepared supplies in the kitchen and planned pork stewed with napa cabbage and tofu.
• Si Beichen told Jiang Ci he had thought things through and wanted to date her, and she agreed.
• Jiang Ci kissed Si Beichen and called him her boyfriend, leaving him flustered as he hurried out.
• Si Beichen told Si Jianhua that he liked Xiao Ci and that they were together.

Si Beichen and Jiang Ci became a couple and received both parents’ approval, while Jiang Ci enjoyed being pampered during the continuing apocalypse. She noticed suspicious visitors at Liu Shicai’s apartment and agreed to help Wu Ya contact obstetrician Du Wenhao when her neighbor went into labor, then saw Li Yangyang watching the hallway.

• Si Beichen told Si Jianhua and Wen Qianyue that he and Jiang Ci were together, and both parents supported their relationship.
• Jiang Ci began ordering Si Beichen around and often slept beside him, while he restrained himself from going too far.
• Jiang Ci noticed numerous quiet visitors entering Liu Shicai’s apartment and suspected some had come from outside.
• Wu Ya told Jiang Ci that her neighbor in apartment 1001 was about to give birth, and Jiang Ci agreed to relay instructions to Du Wenhao by walkie-talkie.
• After eavesdropping unsuccessfully, Jiang Ci saw Li Yangyang peeking out of apartment 1103 before he returned inside.