Name: I Run a Supermarket Across the Apocalypse
Author: Sea of Ice-Peak Flowers

Synopsis

Nuclear wasteland black tech + modern urban tycoon sci-fi + feel-good wish fulfillment.

An accidentally activated time-space ring throws Gao Yuan, a Chinese student studying abroad, into a wasteland hell after a nuclear explosion.

There’s no food or clean water, only radiation-mutated monsters and bandits even more vicious than the monsters.

He curls up inside the metal shell of an abandoned car, enduring 24 hours of thirst and terror, all for the ring to recharge and restart.

Back in the modern city, two gold bars scavenged from the ruins become his first pot of gold.

Traveling between two worlds, he finds the wasteland’s futuristic black tech hidden in all sorts of places, while food and clean water from the modern world are valuable commodities.

Black-market merchants, financial magnates, wasteland warlords, mutated beasts… Greed and its claws close in from both worlds.

Gao Yuan faces every crisis with a smile, but his deepest resolve never wavers:

He will uncover the ultimate secret behind the ring and the black tech, surpass immortality, and become eternal.

Other names

The Space-Time Ring: Neon Cities and Radioactive Wastelands时空戒指：霓虹都市与辐射废土Alternate title on Fanqie

Stats

1.1kChapters

1.9kReads · 30 days

255.7kReads · all time

216Shelves

7.2Score

More by this author

AI Apocalypse in the Interstellar Era: I Have Chip-Based Virus Powers

Invincible: Slaughtering Water Margin, Recruiting Dream of the Red Chamber, Unifying the Three Kingdoms

A Portal Lets the Nation Help Me Cultivate as a Mortal

In booklists 8

The Most Promising New Books of 2026, Guaranteed to Score Over 9.9!

Looking for something like The Warring States: Starting with the Summoning of Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu. 1. A new book. 2. It must have real potential. 3. Nothing from the rankings. 4. Smart characters, a smooth plot, and exciting battles. 5. A must-read standout. 6. The genre should be wuxia or

1.3kBooks9.7MViews1dUpdated

Overlooked Masterpieces

Cultivation, fantasy, or historical fiction are all fine.

2kBooks18.1MViews2dUpdated

A 10-Year Bookworm's Seal of Approval

Shennong Tastes a Hundred Herbs

895Books6MViews2dUpdated

Transporting Goods Between Two Worlds

Looking for books like Moving Goods Between Two Worlds: From the Start, the Sisters Are Sucking on My Frozen Treat. Any top-notch stories about traveling between two worlds to make a killing as a trader? I'm desperate for something to read, it's driving me nuts.

143Books5.5MViews9dUpdated

Stories Where You Can Transmigrate Between a Wasteland and the Real World

The protagonist transmigrates to a wasteland world where there's an incredibly powerful robot dog. Later, the protagonist sells supplies from the real world in the wasteland in exchange for technology, helping make the country stronger. In the real world, they also invent a powered suit and take part in the Syrian war.

50Books1.1MViews15dUpdated

I’m in a Major Reading Slump. Give Me Some Inspiring Tech Stories

39Books2.7kViews1moUpdated

Post-Apocalyptic Wastelands, Wild Ideas, Mecha Warriors, Vampires: Show Me What You've Got

Looking for books similar to Dark Night Medical Codex. What's the best post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel, in your opinion? New authors are welcome to recommend their own work, and old hands can show off their sci-fi favorites. Bunny will tidy up and get ready to savor the good stuff...ing

32Books3.9kViews9moUpdated

Looking for a Book I Read a While Ago

Can anyone help me find a book? The protagonist transmigrates into the body of a scholar who grew up being fed by the neighbors. The protagonist has a System that lets him obtain a creature's trait by killing it. Each creature has one fixed trait, and several traits can be combined into a higher-level one. He eventually becomes a great general.

44Books2.9kViews1yUpdated