Looking for Urban Novels Where the Male Lead Inherits a Nation and Builds Infrastructure 求男主都市继承国家，基建的小说
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How Did a Tiny Country Become a Permanent Member of the Security Council? 你一个小国，居然成了常任理事国
[Transmigration + Farming + Development + War + Ensemble Cast + Ideals] To borrow Sankara's words: What was the Republic of Bujinia like before he took over? Its national GDP was just 7.26 billion dollars. Its land area was a pitiful 274,000 square kilometers. Its entire armed forces numbered fewer than 100,000! The navy? What's a navy? Can a landlocked country even have one? And what was Bujinia like after he took over? Its GDP surpassed that of the United States Federation, accounting for 40%
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From the Start, I Had 100,000 Suicide Soldiers: I Destroyed the Eagle and Killed the Jews in Winter 开局十万死士，我在中冬灭鹰杀犹
Chen Fan transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes the crown prince of a small country in the northern Middle East. Having already lost most of his territory, he is called upon in a crisis to negotiate peace. Faced with an aggressive Eagle Sauce envoy, “Ding! Quest initiating. Please choose!” “Option one: Publicly execute the Eagle Sauce envoy.” “Reward: 10,000 Hatred Points and 100 million dollars.” “Option two: Surrender and abdicate.” “Reward: 10 million dollars.” Chen Fan: “Do I even hav
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Urban: From the Start, I Was Emperor 都市：开局当皇帝
Zhu Zirui: My mom says that when I was little, a fortune-teller said I was destined to be emperor. But what was with that panicked look on her face? Surely she doesn’t believe that nonsense. After the Jingnan Campaign, the Jianwen Emperor of the Ming dynasty fled overseas. He eventually established a new country on an island in the South Seas, where his dynasty lasted nearly six hundred years. By sheer coincidence, Zhu Zirui, who received nine years of compulsory education, inherits this somewha
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Urban: From the Start, I Inherited the Throne of Lanling 都市：开局继承兰陵帝位
Synopsis: The protagonist was the fastest ever to die at the hands of a System. In less than ten minutes, he was hit by a car while heading out, his soul sent to a parallel world, where he inherited an empire ruled by an absolute monarch. Xiao He: “It’s 1996, and the twenty-first century is just around the corner. How can a feudal relic like this still exist? So why am I just a little bit thrilled?” Watch as this inexperienced emperor stirs up international affairs and leads his empire’s civiliz
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Conquering the World, Starting with Becoming a Chieftain! 征服世界，从当上酋长开始！
(I've said it's a mindless feel-good story, so why keep obsessing over the brain issue? There is a heroine. If you like eunuchs... I have nothing to say!) Gao Yan transmigrates after a truck driver works overtime and sends him on his way, arriving in a world exactly like Blue Star. In Yemen, he awakens the Tyrant System. [Host completes a mission and receives three squads of China's Snow Leopard Commando Unit.] [Host completes a mission and receives one rifle production line.] When Gao Yan becom
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I Know a Little Feng Shui: A Warlord’s Road to Dictatorship 略懂风水，军阀的独裁之路
Cao Zheng opened his eyes and found himself in a world governed by feng shui and fortune. In this world, if your ancestors were buried in a good spot, the emperor might come knocking at your door this year. Short on money? Move your great-grandfather's grave. Want to become an official? Move your great-great-grandfather's grave. Want to become emperor? Move your great-great-great-grandfather's grave. In short, as long as you can find a place with good feng shui, most of the problems you'll encou
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Reborn in South America, 1960 重生南美1960
My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Fanqie Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Reborn in 1955 重生一九五五
After completing the first phase of the lunar base in 2049, the protagonist set out to find the regret that had haunted his grandmother her entire life, prevent the persecution of Chinese people across Southeast Asia after World War II, and give the descendants of Yan and Huang more room to survive on Blue Star and greater influence across the planet. With help from the world's only autonomous artificial intelligence, his soul traveled back to 1955. In the end, he dismantled the "White Eagle," w
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Urban: From Failing Student to the World's Richest Man 都市：从学渣到世界首富
Armed with the business knowledge and principles he remembered from his past life, Ye Xiaowen, a struggling student, returned to the age of seventeen, only to be scolded by his homeroom teacher: “Ye Xiaowen, a student like you wants to apply to Qinghua University?!” “Teacher, even a salted fish needs a dream. Getting into Qinghua University is my only choice!” With the entrance-exam papers and answers in his head, Ye Xiaowen not only got into a top university, but also raced down the road to bec
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I Really Am the Richest Man 我真是首富
The First Emperor of Qin is here to hand out money? Chen Ming, a broke nobody, unexpectedly gets an investment from Qin Shi Huang. Being the richest man in the world is child's play! My name is Chen Ming. I'm the richest man around, and I'm my own spokesperson!
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The First Family's Candidate 第一家族竞选者
The Song family of the capital is the most powerful clan, with more wealth than anyone could count, and I’m a candidate to inherit it! The richest man in the city? He’s just one of my lackeys!
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I Really Got Rich Overnight 我真的一夜暴富
With his mother seriously ill and his girlfriend having run off with someone else, Wang Kai was at the end of his rope. He could only turn to a wealthy classmate for help when he suddenly got a phone call. What? My dad’s investment made hundreds of millions? Overnight, I’ve become the biggest shareholder in the world’s largest angel investment firm? As someone who used to be dirt-poor, Wang Kai had to say that life as a rich man wasn’t easy either. Especially when there were tycoons even richer
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Urban: I Became a Billionaire After My Identity Was Exposed 都市：从身份暴露开始当首富
He has many identities. A real estate tycoon worth hundreds of billions; the founder of a conglomerate that owns hundreds of publicly listed companies; the God of Huaguo, founder of the War God Hall... With a mere flick of his hand, he decides who lives and dies! After lying unconscious for three years, Gu Wentong wakes up as a live-in son-in-law. He had hoped to live a quiet life, but his mysterious identities are exposed. One earth-shattering identity after another sends the world into a frenz
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The Spoiled Brat King of Soldiers 纨绔兵王
Run a restaurant, hunt for bargains, try my luck at stone gambling, and beat up all kinds of stupid rich second-generation heirs while taking down a few minor monsters along the way. See how a walking contradiction, known by many titles including spoiled heir, elite soldier, elite among the elite, and gourmet, makes his own uniquely brilliant life.
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The Number One Warrior 第一兵王
A legendary soldier crosses the border and goes to prison to avenge his brother. Five years later, he returns to the city... His big brother became a live-in son-in-law and is constantly bullied! Because of his prison record, everyone looks down on him! But who would have thought that his biological parents are actually the heirs to a prestigious family in the capital...
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Empire: From the Start, I Had an Imperial Infantry Division 帝国：开局一个帝国步兵师
(War + feel-good thrills + fast pace + Red Empire) By a twist of fate, a young man named Liming transmigrates to a chaotic world torn apart by war. He's a major general, so why is he being sent to court-martial the moment he arrives? System, save me! “Ding! Newbie gift pack: one imperial infantry division. Please accept delivery!” Watch how Liming leads his nation through these chaotic times and toward the pinnacle of the world! (This is a fictional world. All countries, place names, and weapon
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Worlds Collide, and an Empire Rises 万界融合，帝国崛起
[Farming + development + reborn + struggle for fortune + wars among a hundred races] The myriad worlds shattered, and countless eras merged. Dynasties of every age, along with martial arts and immortal cultivation worlds, all broke apart and fused into the Eternal World. They were joined by savage kobolds, brutal gnolls, and insectoids that devour everything... They hunted humanity at will, devouring, enslaving, and trampling them... Humanity refused to give in and rose up to fight. They gathere
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Conquest of Another World: I Drew a Million German Soldiers 异世争霸：抽中百万德军
Synopsis: Great Warlord + Crushing the Foreign Powers + System + Raising an Army + Conquering the World [Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have successfully drawn the fully organized German Fourth Panzer Army.] [Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have successfully drawn an Iowa-class battleship!] [Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have successfully drawn a Super Arsenal, capable of producing Cold War equipment.] Ma Jin was a modern man who happened to transmigrate to another world: the Great
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The Tang Dynasty's Super Arms Merchant 大唐之超级军火商
An eighth-grade fitter is reborn in the Tang Dynasty with a tool System. See how the protagonist takes the Tang Dynasty by storm. The Type 54, Type Zhongzheng, and Type 92 heavy machine guns, mortars, steamships, helicopters: he's got it all! Li Shimin says, “Anzhi, how about we...”
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Is It Really So Strange to Build an Aircraft Carrier in a Feudal Dynasty? 我在封建王朝造航母很合理吧？
[Otherworld + farming + naval warfare + no System + no harem] Li Yi was flung a hundred years into the past by the power of time and space from the East (author), becoming a disgraced prince exiled overseas. Luckily, he had the knowledge from his previous life and knew weapons development inside out, so he went straight into a shipbuilding frenzy. Battleships sailed in formation across the seas, carrier-based aircraft unleashed overwhelming firepower, radar and missiles struck hard, and deep-sea
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One Man Guards the Nation’s Gate, and My Farm Can Synthesize Without Limit! 一人守国门，我的农场无限合成！
In the year 2100 on Blue Star, the world's land resources were depleted. A food crisis had arrived! Despair shrouded the entire planet! But just then, the National Farm system suddenly appeared! Every year, a hundred people from every country around the world could enter the farm space. The harvests there would be reflected in the real world. One country after another escaped despair and even took a step into the extraordinary! Only Great Xia seemed to have been cursed by heaven. For three years
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I've Killed Over a Million Enemies: I Am the God of War 杀敌过百万，我是战争之神
(Li Yunlong + Chu Yunfei + Monk Wei + Yan Shuangying + special forces) Wu Qianli transmigrated into the world of Bright Sword, only to be saddled with a crime. To clear his name, he had no choice but to build up his own forces... He won over Shunliu, conquered Monk Wei, and brought Yang Zhihua into the fold! Li Yunlong: “Who the hell is this? Why do all the credit and blame end up on me?” Chu Yunfei: “I, Chu, admit I can’t match such fighting strength!” Everyone: “Whose troops are these, anyway?
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Might Shakes the Nine Provinces 威震九州
The original novel behind the hit short-form drama Urban Super God of War. When he raises his banner in fury, a thousand armies tremble; when he glares, warhorses neigh at the three passes. Qi Kunlun, the only five-star God of War in Huaguo, returns home after ten years on the battlefield to avenge his elder brother's blood-soaked death.
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The Special Forces Playboy 特种纨绔
Though we're close enough to touch, we're worlds apart. When will I achieve success and return home? I'll laugh and drink with you thirty thousand times, with no need to speak of parting sorrow. Special Forces King Ye Qingling fell from grace and became a notorious playboy, but it wasn't because he turned evil on a whim. There was more to the story. On the day of his engagement, a beauty hid a scheme beneath her skirts. He fled a thousand miles, only to run into disaster. Losing his memory overn
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The Pillars of a Great Nation 大国重器
The most important thing in a nation is its people. Agriculture is the foundation of its survival, and manufacturing is the key to its strength! Televisions, telephones, cars, engines… He knows all the principles and can even reverse-engineer the complete blueprints. But without sufficient manufacturing capacity, it’s all just talk, and imports remain the only option. Only when a nation has mastered powerful manufacturing capabilities can it truly stand among the world’s strongest. This is an ag
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I Inherited Four Hundred Buildings from the Start 开局继承四百栋楼
Awake, command the world's wealth; drunk, lie in the arms of beauties. A tycoon's life begins with inheriting four hundred buildings! (No otherworldly setting, no suffering for the protagonist, just nonstop thrills. If it's not good, you can kill me.) (Please leave a five-star rating, add it to your bookshelf, and support me with comments and interaction.)
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Genius Scion 天才纨绔
A strand of a superpower's primordial spirit transmigrates to Earth and possesses the body of a wastrel who died in a fall from his horse, reborn into a new life in a bustling city. He can cultivate immortality and woo women, heal the sick and kill, with divine-level talent and mastery of supernatural arts. Watch as he defies fate and changes his destiny, rising to the pinnacle of the mortal world amid its pleasures and beauties!
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Infrastructure Maniac: One Railway Shocks the World 基建狂魔：从一条铁路开始震惊世界
How long would it take to build an 80-kilometer tunnel through the Tanggula Mountains? Ye Shanhe held up five fingers. “Five days!” How long would it take to build the Three Gorges Dam? Ye Shanhe: “Twenty days.” Are you a god? Ye Shanhe: “No. I'm Shanhe Corporation of Huaxia. Whatever the gods can do, we can do too.”
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Infrastructure: Others Build Shacks, I Build the Great Wall 基建：别人小破屋，我建万里长城
[Welcome to the world of infrastructure building.] [Take good care of the hammer in your hand. It is your starting point and your lifeline!] Nie An wakes up on damp grass, dazed. When he opens his eyes again, the cozy home he knew is gone. All around him is dense forest, and the only thing in his hand is a simple iron hammer.
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Building Infrastructure in Troubled Times, I Become Empress 我在乱世搞基建当女帝
(Lighthearted kingdom-building wish fulfillment) As the late emperor’s most beloved princess, Chu Xiang is banished by the new emperor to the desolate, freezing lands of Liaodong. She takes it in stride, reclaiming wasteland for farming, planting forests to halt the sand, building roads and canals, opening up trade, and establishing schools. The barren frontier, where smoke from cooking fires could not be seen for a thousand miles, becomes a granary beyond the pass. The new emperor’s tyranny pl
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I Build Infrastructure in Ancient Times 我在古代搞基建
[Woman Disguised as a Man + Infrastructure Building + Career-Focused + Fiercely Protective + Clear-Eyed Heroine] Original title: Building Infrastructure in Ancient Times Tang Yixuan, a brilliant engineer, transmigrates into the body of a woman who has taken her brother’s place as the new magistrate of Qingchuan County. To stay alive, she racks her brains and exhausts every resource at her disposal. She builds waterworks, raises tall buildings, paves roads with concrete, and constructs a city. Be
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I Transmigrated to Ancient Times During a Drought and Built an Apartment Building 穿越旱灾古代，我建了一栋公寓
[Transmigration + System + infrastructure building + no romance] As an overworked wage slave who puts in overtime every day, Zhao Shuyue likes to imagine winning the lottery before bed, quitting her job, buying a house, and retiring for good. She never expected that after being killed by a falling object, her dream would be within reach! The System she’s bound to tells her that if she accumulates ten million merit points in the ancient world she transmigrates to, she can return to the modern era
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Infrastructure: I Build Up the Motherland 基建，我为祖国搞建设
[Patriotic, infrastructure development, slow-burn, realistic, no mindless decisions.] [What is infrastructure development? It's the perseverance to keep at it, day after day!] [Salute to the working people!] Shen Tianzong swore he would put an end to shoddy construction, wipe out profiteering companies, ensure the people lived in comfort and abundance, and lead Huaxia to the pinnacle of the world. A century-long undertaking, a nation rebuilding from the ruins: the rise of a great power through i
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Top Scholar in the Imperial Exams: From the Start, I Draw the Protagonist's Aura 大考状元：开局抽取主角光环
On the eve of the college entrance exam, Qin Feng unexpectedly obtains the [Protagonist Aura System]. By completing System missions, he can draw an unlimited number of protagonist auras with different attributes. Top Student Aura: God-tier intelligence, destined to top the college entrance exam! Kung Fu Aura: Extraordinary bones, a martial arts prodigy, master of every fighting style! Boyfriend Material Aura: He never loses face in front of his girlfriend! Miracle Doctor Aura: Heals with silver
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I Created the Underworld and the Celestial Court 我捏出地府天庭
By day, demons hide among the crowds, devouring people without a trace. By night, ghosts and monsters feast, roaming unchecked. Li Chen transmigrates to a world hiding a dreadful terror, penniless and suffering from a terminal illness. With such a hellish start, fate still gives him a chance: he unexpectedly receives the Nuwa Empress's legacy and a Dough Figurine System... Sculpt the Earth God and the Door Gods, and evil spirits won't dare approach. Sculpt the Black and White Impermanence and th
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The Nation's Finest General 一品国将
After six years of fighting, the God of War returns! A master healer, unrivaled in wealth and power! He will avenge every humiliation and oppression he once endured! He will also repay every debt and make amends for every regret from the past. Beyond this splendid land, there are people he must protect and cherish... Mother-in-law: You filthy beggar! Divorce my daughter at once. One phone call from the son-in-law brings four five-star generals to pay their respects! Mother-in-law: I was wrong! P
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The Ultimate Bodyguard: My Gorgeous Landlady Won't Leave Me Alone 最强保安：美女房东赖上我
[Urban + bodyguard + female CEO + underdog's rise + play the pig to eat the tiger + face-slapping + feel-good story] The plot is similar to Bodyguard to the Ice-Cold Beauty's Wife. Returning from a hail of bullets, Zhao Dong becomes a night-shift security guard at an upscale residential complex. All he wants is to live an ordinary life, but one night he takes a drunk female resident home, and his peaceful existence is thrown into turmoil once more... If he can't go with the flow, then he'll turn
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The Arrogant Soldier King 嚣张兵王
A former special forces soldier returns to his hometown, only to learn that his brother was hit by a car and left with both legs broken. A massive conspiracy lurks behind the incident. To avenge his brother, he takes on the local crime boss and digs up the mastermind behind it all... As if that weren't enough, his father-in-law is assassinated, and the culprit turns out to be a notorious drug lord! To eliminate the threat for good, he infiltrates the Golden Triangle and sets out once more on the
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The Dragon's Successor 大龙接班人
Campus romance + political intrigue + military affairs + powerful connections The protagonist, Zhou Ziqing, was taken away by an old Taoist priest when he was just a month old and taught various skills. At eighteen, he came down from the mountain and became “invincible,” possessing martial arts, medical expertise, and exceptional intelligence. He also navigates the political arena, takes part in extensive military operations, and lays out comprehensive business strategies, all on an epic scale.
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The Southern Ming Empire, 1980 南明帝国1980
My new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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