It was hard to believe, but Dolsingman was supposedly a wealthy entrepreneur who had made a fortune before the war.


    I didn’t know what kind of business he was in, but the AI-generated image he posted depicted a shadowed man in a luxury high-rise office, dressed in a sharp suit, gazing down at the city below.


    "Hah."


    I let out a short laugh.


    The background music was a sleek jazz tune—one I vaguely recognized.


    Anyway, the self-proclaimed successful businessman Dolsingman had fallen in love with a mysterious woman, married her, and lived a glamorous life that anyone would envy.


    But, as his nickname suggested (Dolsingman—divorced man), that happy marriage had been doomed from the start.


    The cracks in their relationship began when China’s hardliners started making waves within their government.


    For the first time in decades, artillery shells rained down on Taiwan’s Kinmen Island.


    They were the ones who abandoned social status, wealth, and relationships in favor of extreme survival preparations—stockpiling years’ worth of food, buying remote properties, or even building bunkers.


    People like me, who threw every last cent into bunkers, were considered the radicals of the active prepper community.


    Passive preppers, on the other hand, believed in the apocalypse but weren’t willing to sacrifice their current lives for it.


    Instead, they prepared in subtler ways—accumulating assets like gold or foreign currency, gathering survival knowledge, and making contingency plans without drawing too much attention.


    Dolsingman was one of the passive preppers.


    He believed the end was coming but didn’t want to give up his social status or wealth.


    He was a man torn between two realities—his mind convinced of doom, but his heart clinging to normalcy.


    And where there’s a divide, there’s conflict.


    His wife was an optimist.


    And while Dolsingman was a passive prepper in action, his mouth was anything but.


    6:30–6:40 – First resident6:45–6:55 – Second resident7:00–7:10 – Third resident7:15–7:25 – Fourth resident


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