She Who Read The End

Kim Da-eun, 26, Seoul office worker

On the last Friday of an ordinary month, Kim Da-eun does something no one else in the world has done: she finishes reading The Last Scenario — a 10,000-chapter web novel about the end of the world — all the way to its final page.

At midnight, the scenario begins for real.

Monster gates tear open across Seoul. System messages appear on every phone. The Tutorial notification that Da-eun read about in chapter one arrives in her own notification bar, word for word, exactly as the author wrote it. The apocalypse that she spent three years reading is now the world she is living in — and she is the only person on Earth who has read every single chapter of how it unfolds.

Da-eun is not the novel's hero. She is not the strongest, not the most powerful, not the one the divine Constellations were watching. She is a quiet, introverted woman who reads too much and sleeps too little — and she knows the name of every monster, the weakness of every boss.