Jesse Dawson drowned in the flood in his past life when the village bully Gregory Shaw kicked him into the torrent, and his parents were swallowed by the flood too. Reborn seven days before the rainstorm, he mortgaged his house, borrowed from loan sharks and online lenders, frantically raised his family’s foundation, stockpiled massive survival supplies, and built the village’s only fortress-style safe house. The whole village laughed at him for going crazy, and even his parents didn’t understand. Seven days later, the flood arrived as expected and submerged the entire village. Gregory Shaw brought men to demand debt repayment and was driven back by crossbow bolts; after betraying him, his girlfriend Olive Dawson knelt and begged to be let in but was refused; the thug Roy Fisher led a crowd to storm the fort and was repelled by a high-pressure water cannon and crossbow bolts; the village bully Isaac Bennett threatened to dig up his ancestral grave and was subdued by a drone electric shock. After the flood receded, Jesse Dawson established a new order of “distribution according to work,” led the villagers to rebuild their homes, and became the new village chief of Fairview. Sadie Sutton stayed by his side all the way and became his most trusted partner.
