Kim Dok-ja is an average office worker whose sole obsession is reading a web novel titled Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse. One day, the novel becomes terrifyingly real—and the world begins to fall apart exactly as written. But Dok-ja is the only person who knows how the story ends. Armed with this realization and his "omniscient reader's viewpoint," Dok-ja uses his deep knowledge of the plot, characters, and world mechanics to rewrite fate.