

After I was caught in a dockside explosion, I was bound to a Survival Program. It gave me twenty-five years and four designated targets. If even one target’s Love Score or bond score reached 100%, I could wake up in my real world. But I failed all four. Because every target I tried to reach eventually turned toward Sophia Lane, the heroine of this world. They called my pain a performance. They called my tears manipulation. They said I was only pretending to break down so they would choose me over Sophia. But if they never loved me, why did they lose control when my mission failed and I chose to leave this world for good?

Ten years ago, the captain of the Federal Cavalry, Eli, was framed by warlord Dirk in collusion with high-level officials and exiled to wasteland on charges of treason. After ten years of dormancy, he returned to Nikko Town and witnessed Dirk slaughtering the townspeople to seize high-purity mineral veins. Eli joined forces with his former henchman Karen and ranger Lena to rise up in rebellion and collect evidence of exoneration. During the final battle, Karen sacrificed her life to blow up the enemy line, while Eli killed Dirk and was exonerated. However, she refused to be persuaded by the Federation and returned to the desert alone.

Ray, a former FBI ace agent, chose to live incognito as a low-level mechanic just to return to his family. On the eve of the zombie apocalypse, he is brutally betrayed by his manipulative, social-climbing wife and humiliated by a Wall Street elite who strips him of his fortune. With a cold sneer, Ray signs the papers and retreats with his adopted daughter into a subterranean, nuclear-grade fortified bunker—a stronghold that drained his entire life savings.

In a devastating fire, a stepmother and her stepdaughter become trapped in an elevator, and Evelyn sacrifices her life in a desperate attempt to save Heidi. Unbeknownst to her husband, Vincent Clarke, Evelyn's tragic death occurs while he stands by the side of Heidi's biological mother, Fiona Lawson. Grief-stricken, Heidi cries out, "I only have one mother, her name is Evelyn Glover!"