For three nights in a row, I dreamed of my parents' accident.
The screeching tires.
The blinding headlights.
The crushing sound of metal.
And the silence that followed.
It had been five years since they died, yet the dream felt so real that when I woke up, my pillow was soaked with tears.
Maybe it was because the anniversary of their death was approaching.
Or maybe… it was a warning.
That morning, I started my livestream as usual. I was a small beauty streamer on Weibo, and talking to my followers had become part of my daily routine.
That was when a user named Lucky Koi commented:
"Use all your savings to buy a lottery ticket with these numbers on this date. You will win."
I laughed at first. It sounded ridiculous.
But for some reason… my heart wouldn't calm down.
My intuition kept telling me: Believe him.
"Don't listen to people online," my best friend Sarah said from behind me. "They just want attention."
I nodded, but I didn't tell her that I had already memorized the numbers.
Three days later, I used all my savings — 400,000 yuan — to buy the lottery ticket.
I didn't tell Sarah.
I didn't tell anyone.
I thought I was buying a dream.
I didn't know I was buying a nightmare.
The day the results came out, Sarah suddenly rushed into my room screaming.
"I won! I won the lottery!"
My heart dropped.
A strange sense of fear crawled up my spine as she waved the ticket in front of me.
Those numbers.
They were my numbers.
"That's my ticket," I said, my voice shaking.
Sarah's expression changed instantly. She clutched the ticket and looked at me like I was a stranger.
"Your ticket? Do you have proof?"
"I… I bought it. I told you I was going out that day—"
She suddenly laughed and pulled out her phone. Then she played a recording.
It was my voice.
"No, I didn't buy any lottery ticket."
My mind went blank.
I remembered that day. She had casually asked me if I bought one, and I denied it because I was afraid she would say I was being stupid for wasting money.
I didn't know… she had recorded me.
She posted the recording online that same day, crying on her livestream, telling everyone that I was trying to steal her lottery ticket.
Overnight, I became a thief.
The internet tore me apart.
People found my phone number, my address, my workplace.
They sent me death threats.
Someone poured chicken blood on my door.
I was called shameless, ungrateful, evil.
Then Sarah brought her brothers to my house.
They beat me, smashed my things, and stole my laptop and valuables.
They even took photos of me and threatened me so I wouldn't call the police.
For two weeks, I didn't dare leave my house.
Until Uncle Zhang found out.
He was my father's best friend and business partner. When he learned what happened, he hired the best lawyer for me.
Five months later, the court finally announced the verdict.
I won the case.
Sarah and her brothers were each sentenced to 10 years in prison for robbery, assault, defamation, and intimidation.
The day the verdict was announced, I cried for a long time.
I thought it was finally over.
I thought I could finally start a new life.
But one week later…
The world froze.
The temperature dropped overnight.
Snow fell endlessly.
The power grid collapsed.
Food became more valuable than gold.
The Extreme Cold Apocalypse had arrived.
Because of the cyberbullying, I had developed a habit of staying indoors and hoarding supplies.
That habit saved me for the first week of the apocalypse.
Then Sarah and her brothers escaped from prison.
They came straight to my house.
They took my food.
They took my house.
They tied me to the bed.
When the food ran out… they sold me to other survivors in exchange for bread and water.
In the end, I died in the cold, bruised, starving, and full of regret.
The last thing I saw was Sarah's face.
She smiled and said,
"Your biggest mistake was treating me like family when I never saw you as one."
I opened my eyes suddenly.
I was back in my dorm room.
My livestream was still on.
The comments were still scrolling.
And on the screen, I saw a familiar username:
Lucky Koi:
"Buy the lottery ticket. You will win."
My hands began to tremble.
I had been reborn.
Back to before everything happened.
Back to the moment my fate changed.
I slowly turned my head and looked at Sarah, who was sitting on the bed, rolling her eyes at Lucky Koi's comments, pretending to be my caring best friend.
Hatred surged through my chest like fire, but I forced myself to smile.
"Sarah," I said brightly, "my agent just asked to meet me. I can't go shopping with you today."
She looked surprised. "But you promised."
"I'm sorry," I said. "Work is important."
She hesitated, then forced a smile. "Okay… we'll go next time."
I watched her leave the room.
Then I picked up my bag, walked out, and went to a different district.
This time, I still bought the lottery ticket.
But everything else…
I will do differently.
After buying the ticket, I drove straight to a real estate agency and listed my apartment for sale.
In my previous life, that neighborhood became a den of criminals during the apocalypse.
This time, I would not wait there to die.
Then I drove to the place I hadn't visited in five years—
Pearl Community Villa Area.
The house my parents left me.
The real home I had been running away from.
If I wanted to survive the coming apocalypse…
This place would become my fortress.
That night, while preparing to visit Uncle Zhang, I opened my mother's jewelry box and picked a simple silver bracelet with a jade moon pendant.
As I put it on, the sharp edge cut the back of my hand.
A drop of blood fell onto the jade.
The next second, my vision went black.
When I opened my eyes again, I was no longer in my room.
In front of me were two mud huts, a field of dark soil, a stream, a spring, and endless misty land.
I stood there in shock.
"…A space?"
I had been reborn.
And now…
I had a Heavenly Space.
This time…
Sarah, the lottery, the apocalypse, the supplies, the future —
I will control everything.
And this time,
I will do it my way.