Apocalypse: My Doomsday Fortress with My Childhood Friend, the School Belle

Seeing the latest chapter 40, well, this work shouldn't be on Tomato Bookstore; it should be on 7 PM. This book is destined to flop on Tomato, but it's a top-notch piece. Tomato's pacing is fast, and post-apocalyptic stories are mostly pure "feel-good" novels; those that aren't satisfying are basically doomed.

Chapter 60: The apocalypse has only just begun; the Pacific Ocean isn't even as deep as you.

Currently, it appears to be a single female lead, but this is uncertain. The male lead will recruit subordinates in the future. If it's a single female lead, then avoid ambiguous relationships and scenes involving sending women to each other to showcase the male and female leads' feelings. If it involves multiple female leads, then avoid turning it into a harem-style story where the male lead falls in love with every woman he meets; the number of female leads needs to be reasonably controlled.

It should be a pure love story, featuring a single female protagonist, and is the only one in a post-apocalyptic setting. It's also quite well-written.

Not a single female lead

Currently, it's still a single-female-lead story, with only a slight ambiguous relationship with the female real estate agent. It's unclear whether it will maintain this single-female-lead focus later on; if not, then all the male lead's vows of eternal love are just empty words. The first forty-odd chapters are a bit drawn out, but the rest is alright. After all, it's a novel, so it doesn't have to be perfectly rigorous.

Up to chapter 65 (current update progress), it's very good. I'm deducting one star because the first four chapters were too drawn out. Perhaps the author wanted to depict the disgusting side of that woman (the one with the green hair) and the protagonist's boss to resonate more with readers? However, the first four chapters, with the protagonist being subservient, were quite depressing.

If you hadn't written the male lead as a useless loser in his past life, I'd give you five stars. Even if his childhood sweetheart died and he repented, that would have been fine, but he died on the path of being a sycophant. If he hadn't been betrayed and killed, he'd probably still be awkwardly reborn.

Why did you trick me into eating it? 😢😢

This is so frustrating, I can't stand it anymore.