Golden Blaze
On Day 212 of the Ashfall, my fiancé Julian and best friend Tessa locked the shelter gates in my face.
They took the convoy seats. They watched my seventeen-year-old brother bleed out in the dust. And as raiders tore through my defenses, a scarred rogue soldier died fighting to pull me from the wreckage.
Death was not the end.
I woke up seven days before the sky turned grey—armed with the mysterious Second Dawn Spatial Vault and a burning need for vengeance.
This time, I’m not spending Julian’s fortune on a dream wedding. I’m draining his black card to stockpile thousands of tons of grain, fuel, and medical tech. And the dying soldier from my past life? I found him bleeding in an alley, stitched his wounds, and made him my deadlier half.
Survival has a brutal price: every time I alter the timeline, the System erases a piece of my past memories. Worse, I discover the apocalypse was never an accident.
Now, the ash is falling, the city has collapsed, and Julian is pounding on my steel blast door, screaming for a single cup of clean water.
I won’t open the gate, Julian. Beg harder.
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