No Apocalypse, Please: Building My Little Cabin

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic Survival | Base-Building and Farming | No Romance | Female Ensemble | Lighthearted

(The golden finger won't be very powerful. This isn't a mindless power fantasy, and it's a slow burn.)

Jiang Xiaoman, a fourth-year agricultural science student, wakes up one day and finds herself tossed into the "Everyone's Survival" System.

From the start, she has a shabby wooden cabin with drafts coming in from all sides and a hole in the roof.

From the start, all she has is junk equipment. The System coldly drops a single line: "Good luck surviving."

She holds out her hands, calloused from digging in the fields for food since childhood.

Fine. Farming is something she knows how to do.

Others ask her, "Aren't you afraid?"

She says, "Even if I'm afraid, I still have to survive. Grandpa is waiting for me to come home."

While others fight over resources, brawl, and cling to powerful allies in the apocalypse, never knowing if they'll make it through the day and running everywhere to escape monsters,

she makes her days in the apocalypse even more regular than her school days, and her life just keeps getting better.

Later, she picks up a taciturn special forces soldier, a talkative mechanic, and a poker-faced doctor.

Four women and one deer manage to build a fortress in the apocalypse.

Later, she learns the truth about the System.

On the day the return passage opens, the System tells her: "Your memories will be erased after you go back."

She thinks it over and says, "My hands will remember. My body will remember. Every vegetable I've grown will remember."

What was left behind in the survival space will never disappear.

Others survive by risking their lives. She survives by farming.

And as she farms, she turns the apocalypse into a life worth living.