Chapter Summaries

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.