Jiang Fei awoke to find herself in the living room of her aunt Li Yanping's home, two months before the apocalypse was supposed to devastate the world. In her previous life, she had died horribly in the fourth year of that apocalypse, betrayed and eaten by cannibals, and she had learned that her cousin Jiang Zixuan possessed a treasure left by her mother—a wooden bracelet with storage capabilities. Now reborn, she was determined to change her fate.Li Yanping was trying to force Jiang Fei to marry Boss Sun, an old and ugly rich man, in exchange for a two million yuan bride price that would be used to buy a house for her son Jiang Ziming. Jiang Fei pretended to agree but demanded the property rights to her mother's old house and half the bride price. When Li Yanping revealed she had already taken the money and set the wedding for three months, and Jiang Ziming tried to attack her, Jiang Fei used her apocalypse-honed combat skills to throw him to the ground and stab him in the thigh with a fruit knife. She forced Li Yanping to transfer one million yuan to her account and accompany her to transfer the house ownership. Before leaving, she warned her uncle Jiang Zhengkang to stock up on food due to impending abnormal weather, though she knew he was too timid to defy his wife.At her mother's abandoned old house in the suburbs, Jiang Fei searched for the wooden bracelet that had been mentioned in her previous life. She found it along with a photograph of her mother. When she pricked her finger on a splinter, the Gold-Swallowing Supermarket System bound itself to her. The system had a vast supermarket space but most of it was sealed by white mist because she was too poor. Unlocking the first area required 1000 grams of gold, which cost about 467,000 yuan. Jiang Fei bought gold ornaments and deposited them into the system, unlocking the snacks section—ten shelves filled with potato chips, cookies, chocolate, and other treats. The system could automatically replenish items up to a default quantity, and the warehouse behind the supermarket could store unlimited supplies with perfect preservation, as she tested with a cup of iced coffee that did not melt.Desperate for money to prepare for the apocalypse, Jiang Fei took out loans from various platforms, borrowing a total of one million yuan, and listed Li Yanping as a contact to ensure the debt collectors would harass her. She also sold the old house through an agent named Xiao Wu, receiving fifty thousand yuan. With her existing savings, she had about 1.53 million yuan. She then met Xiao Wu to find a rental property in a high-end residential complex called Yulan Garden. She chose to rent two apartments on the twenty-second floor, 2201 and 2202, because she needed to be high enough to avoid the flooding caused by typhoons and rainstorms. The neighbor in 2203 was a mysterious man who wore a baseball cap and mask, and he seemed unnaturally talkative despite Xiao Wu's claim that he was a recluse.Xiao Wu introduced his brother Wu Dayong, who ran a renovation business. Jiang Fei demanded extensive modifications to her apartments: reinforce all windows to withstand at least level twelve typhoons, replace the entrance doors with high-quality electric doors, install solar power panels and water purification systems, connect 2201 and 2202 with a small electric door, and provide five additional electric doors for future use. The estimated cost was four hundred thousand yuan, and Jiang Fei paid half as a deposit. She insisted the work be completed within a week by hiring more workers.With the housing situation settled, Jiang Fei rented a large warehouse and went to the wholesale market. She purchased ten household diesel generators, ten maximum-power solar panels, twenty ten-ton water storage tanks, ten water pumps, and five small chainsaws from a hardware store. From a grain and oil store, she ordered a hundred fifty-kilogram bags of rice, a hundred of white flour, a hundred ten-liter barrels of soybean oil, and various coarse grains like red beans, mung beans, soybeans, potatoes, corn, and brown rice. She also intended to buy other necessities. However, she noticed that the hardware store owner had sent a young man to follow her, likely planning to rob her. Jiang Fei was not afraid; she had survived the apocalypse and was ready to kill if necessary. She continued her shopping, determined to accumulate enough supplies to survive the coming apocalypse and to settle scores with those who had wronged her, especially her cousin Jiang Zixuan, who would eventually become a guest of honor among the cannibals.
