Looking for Stories About Infrastructure, Building Cities or Nations, or Transforming Them 求基建，建城，建国，或者改造城市和国家

1. 401 全 Global Lord: You Think a Few Plants Can Hold Back the Dark Tide? 全民领主：凭几株植物，你就想抵御暗黑狂潮？ Watching Swords in the Snow雪中看剑Sports1.2M WordsCompleted Lin Han transmigrates to a bizarre world under siege by darkness! Invaded by alien species and turned upside down by the collapse of its rules, the world has entered the era of universal lords! Whenever the Dark Tide surges, countless ghouls, vengeful banshees, vampires, werewolves, and billions of other dark creatures batter humanity's defenses. Relying on their territories to hold back the Dark Tide, humankind barely clings to survival! To ensure humanity's survival, all citizens who turn 16 m 778Reads6.9Score100Shelves
2. 402 没 Are You Sick? Why Talk About Kindness with a Man-Eating Demon? 没病吧？你和食人魔谈什么善良？ Wang Wugen王五棍Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + invincible hero + food + farming + keeps his distance from humans + no do-gooder heroine + survival + everyone] How does an ogre usually eat? Step one: Find a desert monster. Step two: Hit it. Step three: Beat it up. Step four: Throw it into a pot. Step five: Simmer it over low heat for two hours. Gorkin had transmigrated to this endless desert world twenty years ago, but he was an ogre with a huge, burly build. He had finally become a chief, and now all the people of Blue Star 31.7kReads9.1Score3.5kShelves
3. 403 幻 The Great Lord of the Illusory Moon 幻月大领主 Lonely Evolution孤独的进化Sports1.2M WordsCompleted [Not a Power Fantasy + Farming + Conquest + Multiple Female Leads + Slow Burn] The struggle of an ordinary person in another world, building up from a dilapidated little village into a vast domain that commands the attention of the entire world. There’s everyday life, romance, family, and friendship. I can’t write power fantasies, so I’ll write what I want to write. The early chapters are a little rough, but the story gradually hits its stride. That’s what readers say, and it’s my own honest ass 10.5kReads6.1Score1.2kShelves
4. 404 我 Aren't I Playing a City-Building Simulation Game in the Apocalypse? 我不是在末世玩模拟经营游戏吗？ Momentary Flame须臾焰Sci-Fi & Apocalypse217k WordsCompleted Apocalypse + System + management + running a shop + no romance + Fourth Catastrophe Liu Miaomiao loved simulation management games and always thought she was playing an incredibly realistic, highly freeform game about running an inn in the Apocalypse. She opened a completely safe inn. She could cook with almost any ingredients. She could fight monsters and get equipment and materials. She could happily fish and farm. She could hire all kinds of Superpowered employees, unlock their stories, and o 536Reads8.7Score100Shelves

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   Both are about infrastructure development, the first one is better. However, the first one goes a bit too far in its views on relationships.

5. 405 当 When the Evil God Dad Finds Out I'm the Final Boss 当邪神爹发现我是最终boss Broken Star Firefly星碎萤火Modern Romance380k WordsOngoing [Broodmother + light settlement-building and farming + everyone’s one-sided love for the supreme Broodmother + a touch of Lovecraftian horror + adventure + multiple races, Western fantasy setting, satisfying power fantasy] She’d ended up in another world. The least it could do was give her a normal identity, right? Mother of the Nest? A monster? Unable to live as a human, Mei Ling had no choice but to work hard at tricking one man after another into becoming the breeding ground for her monste 411Reads8.7Score104Shelves

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   New book 💛 A super exciting and satisfying novel! The female protagonist transmigrates to another world and becomes the "Nest Mother," which consists of a main nest and a human tentacle monster 🐙. In order to cultivate offspring, she captures various races as parasites, including elves, vampires, demons, and humans... It's a story about a wicked woman, and everything she does is to expand her nest and territory.

6. 406 领 The Age of Lords: I Can Customize My Troops 领主时代：我能自定义兵种 Stillness in Motion不动之动Sports500k WordsCompleted [The ultimate troop type in a Lord novel, challenged!] [The protagonist doesn’t start with the one and only strongest troop type. She creates it herself.] [The glorious numbers spiral upward, one foot stepping on the other.] What do you do when you transmigrate into a world where everyone is a lord, only for the System to dump you into the endgame map? Asking online. It’s kind of urgent. Qi Yuan had only just transmigrated when the Lord System selected him, but because his soul was different, he 8Reads7.2Score—Shelves
7. 407 文 A Liberal Arts Student Changes Another World 文科生改变异世界 Sheng Shuihua生水华Eastern Fantasy931k WordsCompleted At last, it was my turn to transmigrate. How exciting. But, well, this transmigration doesn't seem quite right. Why did I arrive in the middle of such a mess? This kingdom has every kind of internal strife, foreign threat, natural disaster, and man-made calamity. How the hell am I supposed to save it? Can I still transmigrate back? Wait, seems like it's too late. But I'm just a liberal arts student. I don't know how to build guns and cannons after transmigrating, and I never learned how to make 215Reads7.4Score—Shelves
8. 408 男 Baron Lord: Starting in the Great Desert of Death 男爵领主，从死亡大沙漠开始 Lord Medicine Worry药愁君Eastern Fantasy373k WordsCompleted [Noble Lords + Knights + Magic + Dragons and Elves + Building an Empire] “Next, allow me to introduce the only son of Count Leighton of the Silvermoon Duchy, the de facto ruler of the Great Desert of Death, the only dragon-blood mage on the continent, the loyal companion of the dragon Asar, the founder of the Yellow Sand Empire, and the glorious son of the O'Lyrian family: Richard O'Lyrian!!!” 1.9kReads6.1Score105Shelves
9. 409 我 I Can Fish Billions of Times, from Cutting-Edge Tech to the Supernatural 我能垂钓亿万次，从黑科技到超凡 Passing Student Lai Xiaoming路过的赖小明同学Urban706k WordsCompleted Jiang Li was an air force fisherman. One day, he seemed to hook something that wasn't quite right! [Ding! Caught item: Brain Development Serum!] [Ding! Caught item: Great Restoration Pill!] [Ding! Caught item: Genetic Cultivation Method!] [Ding! Caught item: Antigravity Technology!] [Ding! Caught item: Virtual Reality Technology!] From an unknown but handsome college student to a man with a host of titles: “The greatest scientist in human history,” “the world's richest man,” “the playboy of the 23.4kReads8.0Score2.2kShelves

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   After transmigrating, he awakens a system, transforming himself from an unknown college student into humanity's greatest scientist—all starting with a brain-developing drug.

10. 410 领 Lordly Conquest: Undead Calamity 领主争霸：亡灵天灾 Who Says I Can't Do It?谁说我不行Sports583k WordsOngoing [Satisfying Story with a Clever Protagonist] + [Lord Game] + [Undead Domination]! The truth of death is this: Raise an undead army, then crush them! PS: A rare gem. Give it a patient read. 3kReads8.9Score141Shelves
11. 411 做 The First Thing I Did as a County Magistrate: Feed the Whole County 做女县令第一件事：让全县吃饱饭 Jasmine Milk Tea茉莉牛乳茶Ancient Romance3.0M WordsOngoing [Farming + infrastructure development + improving people’s livelihoods + System + a female magistrate’s rise to power] Shen Zheng opens her eyes to find she’s become a newly appointed female magistrate. The county office is so poor that plaster is crumbling off the walls, and the granary is so empty even the mice stay away. Everyone knows that the poorest county in all of Liuyang Prefecture is this very county, Tong’an. Just as she thinks she’ll have to waste three years in Tong’an before retiri 17.6kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
12. 412 国 National Fate Lord: Binding to the Zerg Swarm from the Start 国运领主：开局绑定星际虫族 Geng Xinghe耿星河Urban1.4M WordsCompleted Fifty years ago, the Land of Redemption connected to Earth. From then on, the entire world underwent a transformation. Everyone who turns eighteen has a chance to awaken a Lord's Mark and bind a native species. Lords descend upon the Land of Redemption and face challenges that determine life or death. Monsters abound, attacking territories. The local inhabitants are impossible to tell apart as friends or foes. Blueprints, units, resources, treasures, equipment, scrolls. Anyone who obtains them c 11.6kReads8.2Score1kShelves
13. 413 人 On the Moon, Helping China Soar into the Stars 人在月球，我助华夏登月腾飞星海 Zhang Qinghe张晴鹤Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.9M WordsOngoing [Patriotism + Technology + Moon Landing + Lunar Base + Technological Leap + Building the Nation Through Science and Technology + Living on the Moon] Zhang Weiguo wakes up on a primitive planet with the ruins of an ancient civilization and discovers a countdown in his mind. When time runs out, he can return and gain the power of immortality. But when the countdown ends, he finds himself on the Moon! Zhang Weiguo plants a flag. “The Moon has been an inseparable part of China’s territory since anci 7.9kReads8.5Score582Shelves
14. 414 亡 Are Undead Lords Weak? Then How Do You Recruit Fallen Gods? 亡灵领主弱？你怎么招募陨落神明 The Salted Fish Leaps Up to Bite咸鱼暴起咬人Sports1.9M WordsOngoing [Everyone Becomes a Lord + Undead Calamity + Unstoppable Domination + No Heroine] Shen Chi transmigrates to an age of lords, where all races vie for supremacy. From the start, he awakens the weakest undead talent and gets a worthless barracks: an unclaimed grave. Everyone mocks him. But then... [Ping!] [Your unclaimed grave has automatically evolved into an ancient battlefield.] What, undead lords can only recruit fragile skeleton soldiers at the start? Shen Chi: “Sorry, but I have an ancient ba 14.9kReads7.9Score1.6kShelves
15. 415 全 Global Sect Master: Yet I Have a Cultivation World 全民宗主：我却有个修真界 I Really, Really Don't Eat Fatty Meat我真的真的不吃肥肉Eastern Fantasy292k WordsOngoing [Everyone becomes a sect master] [Survival] [Farming and development] [Building a sect] [No female lead] [Incense power] Everyone transmigrates, and Chen Lin is forced to become the master of a cultivation sect on the Divine Selection Continent. While others are still relying on villages affiliated with their sects to recruit disciples, he becomes the Immortal Ancestor of a sect in a small world. His followers' incense power can upgrade the spirit veins, and their prodigies can be recruited for 61Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This book fits your requirements; it's about farming and slowly building up your power. You might want to give it a try if you're looking for something to read.

16. 416 全 Global Lord: I Have an Intelligence System 全民领主：我有一个情报系统 Finding Snow Here此间见雪Eastern Fantasy217k WordsCompleted [Lighthearted] + [Meme References] + [Lord] + [Farming] + [Endless War!] + [Intelligence] Li Lin transmigrates to a supernatural world inhabited by knights, elves, dwarves, and even dragons, and becomes a plant-type Lord. Here, Li Lin must not only fend off the magical beasts threatening his island, but every thirty days his territory will also merge with those of other Lords, leading to battles of attack and defense. Li Lin assumed that, as a plant-type Lord, he would struggle to survive the ea —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is acceptable; infrastructure development [sends a heart emoji]

17. 417 修 Cultivation: Reborn in Another World to Build the Strongest Sect 修仙：重生异界打造最强宗门 Deep Autumn in Baili百里深秋Eastern Fantasy8.9M WordsOngoing [Mortal cultivation + no System + no cheat + relying on skill!] Young scientist Sun Yi transmigrated into the world of immortal cultivation and became a menial disciple with neither talent nor connections. But using the knowledge, experience, and courage of someone from Earth, he successfully latched onto the sect's most powerful patron. Then he set about reforming the sect and developing all kinds of new technology! [Invented a detection radar]: It can locate all kinds of rare treasures, demon 43.7kReads9.0Score4.1kShelves

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    Combining cultivation techniques with technology to create a new system

18. 418 金 With Trillions of Gold Coins, I Built a Land of Gods 金币亿万万，我养出众神领地 Zun Xiaoxian尊小贤Sports586k WordsCompleted All of humanity transmigrates, and everyone receives the same identity: Lord! But this is a perilous world designed to weed out lords. Every lord gets a recruitment board. They can refresh it to recruit troops, conquer territory, and rise above the competition in this trial world! Every lord who fails the trial has only one fate: Death! He Yun is an utterly ordinary person. After transmigrating, he doesn’t even get a golden finger, and his recruitment board only offers useless troops. Just as he 2.3kReads6.7Score245Shelves
19. 419 全 Global Infrastructure Maniac: I Slay Gods with Buildings 全民：基建狂魔，我靠建筑弑神 Who Makes a Wish何人祈愿Urban408k WordsCompleted [Everyone Gets a Class + Building + Farming + Leveling Up + One Female Lead] Otherworldly beings invaded Blue Star, reality became digitized, and the world entered an age where everyone could choose a class. After transmigrating, Lu Chen awakened an SSS-rank class: Super God Architect. He also came with the SSS-rank talent: Construction Maniac. Effect 1: As long as he has enough materials, any building he constructs will be completed instantly. Effect 2: He has an exclusive dimensional space tha 2.5kReads8.2Score286Shelves

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    Infrastructure construction, city building, ⚡ Alien infrastructure construction with the power of a nation! The second one is more like that... The protagonist has god-like talent and is also a builder, who knows, this infrastructure ability is simply invincible.

20. 420 绑 Bound to National Fate: The Master Builder Appears from the Start 绑定国运：开局基建狂魔登场 Great Nation Chemical Industry大国化工Urban338k WordsCompleted [Power fantasy + System + national destiny + nuclear power plants + apocalypse + game + infrastructure + guardian deity] A super-asteroid is about to hit Earth. A global infrastructure-building game called "Death Game" goes live! The game selects twenty players from every country in the world. Each player enters the game bound to the country they represent. To avert the crisis, they must strengthen their country’s destiny and raise its power! Reborn Ye Qing awakens a nuclear power plant from the 79Reads7.9Score—Shelves
21. 421 还 You're Playing Cultivation in a World of Magic? 还在魔法世界玩修仙？ Deep Blue 2025深蓝贰零贰伍Eastern Fantasy191k WordsOngoing [Rich Comfort] [Western Fantasy & Cultivation & Technology] [Continental War] [Long Live the People] In a world where the cultivation world has been defeated by Western magic, watch how the protagonist turns things around without relying on any cheat. The protagonist transmigrates as a slave of the lowest caste, with no System and no cheat. Outside, mages and cultivators are already locked in a battle that has left mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, while he can only lie low and quietly g 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The protagonist simultaneously transforms both the cultivation world and the magic world, ultimately establishing a utopian society.

22. 422 全 Global Survival: My Territory Is the Only Pure Land 全民求生：我的领地是唯一净土 Sang Zhi Ming桑枝明Modern Romance371k WordsCompleted [Global Survival] [Infrastructure Building] [Farming] [Strong Female Lead] [City Lord] The entire world is transported to another realm. From the start, everyone gets a small wooden shack, and they have to earn all their own resources. Some people are on islands, some in deserts, and others in primeval forests. They chop down trees to upgrade their wooden houses and stave off hunger with wild grass and berries. Those who survive for a month can summon their families to join them. While others ar 8.5kReads9.1Score812Shelves
23. 423 最 I Turned the Poorest Border City into the Center of the World 最穷边城，被我砸成世界中心 Mr. Angry Bull愤怒的公牛先生Urban814k WordsOngoing Su Ye quits his job in Shenzhen after nearly working himself into a heart attack and returns to a remote desert town on the northwestern frontier, a place so barren even birds wouldn’t bother to shit there. He awakens a System: all thirty thousand townspeople give him 100 yuan each per day, earning him three million a day! The money can only be spent in town. The mayor is worried about attracting investment? Su Ye buys up an unfinished building and turns it into a full-immersion esports center. 771Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 424 我 I Swear I’m Not a Shady Middleman 我真不是黑中介啊 Has the President Retired Yet?会长今天退休了没Urban531k WordsCompleted [Reborn with a System] [The Fourth Calamity] [No Female Lead] [Shared Prosperity] [DND-inspired] Zhong Jie was reborn in a parallel world and acquired the Black Agency System. He packaged its agency assignments as a high-tech online game, taking everyone off to do under-the-table work in another world. No need to compete in the rat race back home. They could just play games during their sleeping hours every night and earn passive income. Zhong Jie: “Since we're all goblins in the real world anyw 163Reads7.3Score—Shelves

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    This counts too, right?

25. 425 末 My Doomsday Livestream Summoned Haters and Alarmed the Nation 末世直播召唤黑粉后，惊动了国家 Short on Silver缺点银子Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.9M WordsCompleted [Apocalypse, transmigration, mutations, disasters, livestreaming, comedy, System, wish fulfillment] Ye Xiao is incredibly lucky. He’s always complained that life is boring, and now he’s transmigrated! Ye Xiao is terribly unlucky. He’s transmigrated into an apocalypse crawling with mutated creatures! Ye Xiao is incredibly lucky. He’s got a System! Ye Xiao is terribly unlucky. His System doesn’t let him stockpile supplies or give him super strength. It makes him livestream instead! Ye Xiao is losi 45.1kReads8.5Score5.6kShelves
26. 426 三 Three Kingdoms: My Father-in-Law Is Zhang Jiao, and the Yellow Turbans Fly Their Red Flags Across the Hills 三国：岳父张角，黄巾红旗漫山野 Endless Falling Twilight, Drifting Down無边落慕潇潇下Historical254k WordsOngoing The road through these mountain passes is as iron-hard as ever, but now we stride forward and cross them anew. As a strange east wind swept by, the flags held aloft by countless Yellow Turban troops turned red. Golden Yellow Turbans and scarlet banners began to spread across the mountains, rivers, and wilderness of the Han Empire, until at last they tore open the corrupt sky that had hung over the Han for a thousand years! If one day I achieve my soaring ambition, I shall change the sun and moon —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Start with construction, establish the nation

27. 427 穿 Transmigrated to the Deep Mountains to Farm and Build 穿越深山种田搞基建 Little Pig Shiyi拾一小猪Ancient Romance604k WordsCompleted [Fictional setting + remote mountains + no space or System + farming + nation-building + food + everyday life + animal husbandry] Wang Xiaonuan transmigrates. And she brings a dog with her. On her way to work, a little yellow dog bumps into her, and she suddenly finds herself deep in the mountains. From the start, she has nothing but a cave. All she has on her is one set of clothes. She must provide for herself and create everything she needs to eat, drink, and get by, all with her own two hands 1.4kReads6.6Score113Shelves

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    🔥🔥🌿🔥Infrastructure! More infrastructure! Huge infrastructure investment!!!

28. 428 重 Reborn at the End of the Han Dynasty: Taking Liu Hong as My Disciple from the Start 重生汉末，开局收刘宏为徒 Black Tortoise Immortal Tomb玄武仙墓Historical1.0M WordsCompleted He transmigrated to the end of the Eastern Han dynasty and became a teacher, but his students were no ordinary people. Among them were Emperor Liu Hong, Han chancellor Cao Cao, and Han general Lu Bu... Well, looks like I've become the teacher of the Han dynasty! 6.5kReads8.9Score453Shelves
29. 429 陛 Your Majesty! The Crown Prince Stole Your Imperial Seal to Rebel 陛下！太子殿下偷您玉玺造反了 Endless Falling Twilight, Drifting Down無边落慕潇潇下Historical298k WordsCompleted [The only perfect imperial system online + peerless schemes + invincible with no System] Your Majesty! Something terrible has happened. The Crown Prince stole your imperial jade seal and declared himself emperor in Lujiang! Your Majesty! The Crown Prince forged an imperial edict to abscond with your hundred-thousand-strong army, and even made off with a million dan of grain. Your Majesty! The Crown Prince confiscated the estates of every prominent family in Lujiang Commandery, including your own 191Reads8.2Score—Shelves
30. 430 黄 After Wearing the Imperial Robe, All the Founding Heroes Fled 黄袍加身后，开国功臣全跑路 Endless Falling Twilight, Drifting Down無边落慕潇潇下Historical431k WordsCompleted [The Way of the Yellow Heaven + Destroying Great Clans + Calling a Deer a Horse + Reform and Innovation + Making Things Up + Inventing Cheat Powers + Dimensional Supremacy + Invincible Wish-Fulfillment] Zhao Bin wakes up one morning to discover that he has transmigrated to another world. Then, after being talked into it by the Great Virtuous Teacher Zhang Jue, he dons the imperial robes and ascends the throne. Zhang Jue not only makes his two beloved daughters imperial consorts, but also gathers 631Reads6.9Score101Shelves
31. 431 明 Getting By in the Late Ming 明末混日子 Swatting Mosquitoes in My Sleep睡觉打蚊子Historical1.2M WordsOngoing A little nobody arrived in a brand-new world. What path would he take here...? Perhaps he would change this place. Perhaps he would remain nothing more than a speck of dust, arriving quietly and leaving just as quietly. Perhaps he would try his hardest and still fail. Whatever happened, life would go on, and tomorrow would still come. He just wouldn't be that young man anymore. 290Reads5.3Score—Shelves

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    Start slowly.

32. 432 重 The Reborn Minecraft Player at the End of the Ming Dynasty 重生明末的方块人 Black Cat's Dream黑猫梦境Male-Channel Fanfiction1.2M WordsOngoing During the Ming dynasty's Little Ice Age, disasters struck every corner of the country in different ways. Thousands of coffins a day, the people starving, and the living eating one another! Bai Li accidentally stumbles into this desperate, chaotic age. Fortunately, he has all of Steve's abilities from Minecraft! He can also bring the laws of the MC world into reality. No food? With a fishing rod in hand, he can fish from the void. The lake's dried up? He can drink all he wants with an infinite t 21.6kReads8.9Score1.9kShelves
33. 433 天 In This World, I Am Wang Lang 天壤之中，我就是王郎 Cold Crows at Chu Temple楚庙寒鸦Historical1.4M WordsCompleted After transmigrating to the Eastern Jin dynasty, he becomes Wang Ningzhi, a man later generations will laugh at. He has little talent, yet marries Xie Daoyun, famed for her poetic gift and graceful bearing. This world is absurd, too. Huan Wen is copying Zhuge Liang's homework, Xie An is repeating Yin Hao's script, and everyone has their own schemes. Nobody takes the Sima clan on the throne seriously. Starting out as a renowned gentleman, he enters the treacherous court, becomes a strategist, ris 6.1kReads8.7Score500Shelves

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    This is it.

34. 434 序 In the Sequence Corps, I Have Both a Potion Maker and a Mechanic Sequence 序列车队我有药剂师机械师双序列 Green Mountains, Clear Waters山青水不清Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.2M WordsCompleted Lin Quan transmigrated into this eerie, apocalyptic world on Blue Star. From the start, he awakened two sequences: a first-tier potion-maker apprentice and a first-tier mechanic apprentice. With five fiercely loyal subordinates at his side, he began his path of conquest. 13.3kReads7.8Score1.3kShelves

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    Infrastructure development, power development

35. 435 南 South America: I Have a Teleportation Array and Plan to Immigrate 100 Million People 南美：我有传送阵要移民一个亿 Lightly Simmering the Years | Slowly Brewing Tea轻煮岁月丨慢煮茶Historical1.4M WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can 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! 143Reads8.4Score—Shelves

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    These two are

36. 436 高 A High-Martial National War? I Have 1.4 Billion Allies! 高武国战？我有14亿靠山！ Little Eggy蛋蛋小朋友Urban108k WordsOngoing From the Start, Bound to the Extraordinary Realm, the Nation Wants Me to Ascend to Godhood First! [Two Worlds + War Between Nations + Our Mom Has Our Back + Our Homeworld Ascends to Godhood + The Whole Nation Transcends + Cooperation with the Nation] “Sir, I’d like to turn in some extraordinary materials!” Wang Chuan transmigrates to another world and inherits a damaged one, with a cataclysmic war coming in just seven days. The myriad races of the heavens are sharpening their blades, and he has 35Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I recommend what I wrote.

37. 437 基 Infrastructure Maniac: Making Another World Rich and Powerful 基建狂魔：要让异界民富国强 What Day Is It Today?今时何夕Ancient Romance428k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + city building + no romance + lighthearted + wish fulfillment + comedy] Lin Xin made one careless misstep and regretted it for the rest of her life. While climbing a mountain, Lin Xin did the splits in midair, then came crashing down with a thunderous boom. Lin Xin: “Which bastard poured oil on that rock? Even as a ghost, I’ll never let them get away with this!” Unfortunately, before she could become a ghost, she ended up in another world. She was still human, but now had an ext 114Reads6.8Score—Shelves

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    A female protagonist building infrastructure in ancient times, with no male lead.

38. 438 妖 Demons Besiege the City: Chinese Reinforcements Arrive in a Hundred Days! 妖蛮围城：华夏援军，百日降临！ The Real Erdaomao二刀毛本尊Eastern Fantasy447k WordsCompleted [Besieged City + Two Worlds + Countdown + Ultimate Backup + The Entire Nation Invades Another World] There are only 100 days left before the demons and barbarians breach the city. In the otherworld, human cultivators have run out of resources, sects are fleeing, noble clans are surrendering, and everyone is sinking into despair at the prospect of extinction. Only Li Tuo remains completely calm. His cheat is neither a System nor a divine art: it is all of Huaxia! Humanity can die on its feet, but 509Reads6.4Score—Shelves

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    A lone city, resistance, reconstruction, counter-offensive!

39. 439 梦 After Seeing Myself in a Dream Mirror, I Went from Delivering Takeout to Flying a Spaceship 梦中照镜子后，从送外卖到开飞船 Ecological Rift Beast Type l-27生态撕裂兽l-27型Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.3M WordsCompleted [Original + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Requires Some Thought + Slow-Paced + Reflections on Human Nature + Philosophical Meaning + Transcendent Evolution + Future Fantasy + Pure Science Fiction + Apocalypse in a Superposition State + New Overlords + Interstellar Ecology + A New Civilization + Futurism + Sci-Fi Romance] Zhao Jiang was an ordinary food delivery driver, spending every day rushing through the city streets and alleys. Then a series of dreams completely changed his life. In those 5.2kReads8.9Score480Shelves
40. 440 复 Reviving Qin: My Motherland Helps Me Become Empress 复秦：祖国助我成女帝 A Bowl of Spicy Wontons, Please来碗红油抄手Ancient Romance465k WordsCompleted [No romance! No babies! Passing the throne to an empress!] Qin Yijun had just become a public servant. She went home to attend a funeral, and transmigrated… Luckily, her phone and her farm stay came with her! In a chaotic era, Qin Yijun, a descendant of Qin Shi Huang, worked hard and, with the help of her great motherland, ascended the throne! Qin Yijun: “Leader, our industry is too backward to make machine guns. Could I have a few for self-defense?” Leader: “Sure, sure, sure! Will a few Gatling 564Reads9.1Score101Shelves
41. 441 从 Becoming a County Magistrate in 1949 从1949开始当县长 Life Is a Journey Against the Current人生如逆旅Urban1.9M WordsCompleted I’m currently a Grade 6 administrator, holding dual posts within the province. [Power at the Peak]+ [The Founding Years]+ [Farming]+ [Officialdom]+ [Recruitment]+ [Slow-Burn Epic] A model student of the era, a pioneer in prison economics, and an expert at reforming souls and minds. It’s 1949, and the Three Great Campaigns have already been won. I leave the military and transfer to local government to become a county magistrate. I’m 23 years old, with an administrative rank of 12. I devote myself 209Reads9.3Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    I recommend the first and second books.

42. 442 都 Urban: From the Start, I Was Emperor 都市：开局当皇帝 Bookworm for Ten Years十年书虫Urban1.2M WordsCompleted 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 4.1kReads8.4Score187Shelves
43. 443 古 The Ancient World's Apocalypse: I Become a Deity with Unlimited Supplies 古代末世，我靠无限物资当神明 Orange Express Delivery橘子宅急送Ancient Romance343k WordsCompleted [Ancient-era disasters + Pocket dimension + Stockpiling + Farming + Infrastructure + No romance] One pot of mushroom soup leaves the entire Luo family dead as doornails. When Luo Wei opens her eyes again, her whole family has transmigrated into an ancient apocalypse novel, becoming unlucky souls about to have their home confiscated and be exiled. Their home will be confiscated tonight, they'll be exiled tomorrow, and a month later, a catastrophic freeze will hit! “Dad! Mom! There's no time! Hurr 3.2kReads9.0Score419Shelves
44. 444 官 Officialdom: Soaring Ninety Thousand Miles 官场：扶摇直上九万里 I'll Buy a Plane When I Make It Big火了买飞机Urban1.5M WordsCompleted People say you can’t become an official without connections at court, but Qin Yi, reborn into a new life, doesn’t agree. Opportunity comes from careful planning. Only by paving the way at court every step of the way can you rise to the highest ranks! In his previous life, he was wrongfully imprisoned, his prospects ruined, and he died alone. This time, starting by saving a female official from the provincial capital, he seizes every opportunity to climb the ranks, make up for his regrets, and so 26.8kReads9.2Score2.4kShelves
45. 445 末 Apocalypse Rebirth: I Have a God-Tier Shelter Base 末世重生：我有神级避难基地 Half a Ripple半澜Urban1.2M WordsOngoing After struggling to survive in the apocalypse for three years, Xiao Lu watched his entire family die, only to mysteriously be reborn three months before the end of the world. Was this rebirth a joke played by a higher-dimensional universe, or the work of fate manipulating everything from behind the scenes? No complaints, no surrender. He carried the weight of his family and friends on his shoulders, advancing one careful step at a time as he built an unyielding apocalypse base! After surviving a 698Reads—Score100Shelves

    Reader note

    The refuge base is incredibly detailed, from city walls and passes to ecological waterways, vaults, research centers, and precision machining centers—it gives you endless possibilities!

46. 446 我 I Became a God in a Western Fantasy World by Making Games 我靠做游戏在西幻世界封神 Bright Flowers in Disarray乱花明Modern Romance696k WordsCompleted Zhu Zhou transmigrates to a Western fantasy world where the gods are hidden and magic reigns. Want to break through the limits and become a god? Then gather faith! The most sincere devotion from your followers! It will be the foundation of your divine authority! Zhu Zhou: ? So this is why you’re all making entertainment? Everywhere he looks, games, poetry, opera, and stage plays do nothing but endlessly sing the praises of glory. Demoted to the countryside as a lord, Zhu Zhou realizes that faith 143Reads8.7Score124Shelves
47. 447 咸 A Laid-Back Life of Nation-Building, with a Powerful Army at My Command 咸鱼基建，我手握重兵 Running Dumpling飞奔的饺子Ancient Romance800k WordsCompleted After an unlucky transmigration, there was no internet, no air conditioning, no phones, and barely any material comforts in this ancient world. Xie Xian was so miserable she wanted to die. “Good sir, do you know of a quicker, more painless way to die?” “…” Tu Zhen had been about to interrogate Xie Xian about where she came from, but froze. What was this female ghost thinking? When she saw people eyeing the property of her branch of the Xie family, Xie Xian decided to lie flat and wait for 3.2kReads8.7Score308Shelves
48. 448 请 Create Your Own City 请创建属于你的城市 Traveler with Sore Heels脚跟痛的行者Urban2.0M WordsCompleted No killing. No revenge. No wiping out entire families. The protagonist, Shi Tie, is gentle and humble. He is interested only in maintaining and expanding his city, and shows his bravery only when protecting its safety. You can call him a pushover, but he reads people well. He devotes himself to building a city, creating an age of peace and law in a chaotic world where strength reigns supreme. No heroine, no romance. After suddenly finding himself in unfamiliar surroundings, Shi Tie reluctant 149Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    There was no killing, no annihilation of entire families; everyone was focused on building a civilized city within the cultivation world. Everyone practiced martial arts.

49. 449 工 Industrial Deep Dive: Manufacturing Arresting Cables from the Start! 工业大摸底：开局制造阻拦索！ Half a Sandal半只凉鞋Urban4.4M WordsOngoing [The internet’s only 4-million-character industrial deep-dive into cutting-edge technology] [Print edition, Industrial Innovation is published and on sale] [Several animated adaptations are now streaming] [System + Major Industrial Power + “Call Her Mom” Craze + Unwavering Patriotism + No Female Lead + Technology Race] Also known as [Industrial Deep Dive: Manufacturing Arresting Gear from the Start!] [Industrial Deep Dive: Uncovering the South Heaven Gate Project] [After Dumping My Ex, I Awakene 94kReads8.1Score6.6kShelves

    Reader note

    Two million words of cutting-edge technology! Highly recommended!

50. 450 开 A Respawn Point from the Start 开局自带复活点 Moqi Tingbai万俟汀白Ancient Romance524k WordsOngoing Where can you find a job that pays 30,000 a month? How do you pay into the five social insurances and housing fund? To solve the headaches of university graduates, you need at least one System! She signed the contract one second, and the person she met was supposed to leave the next. Uh, not leave, transmigrate. Li Wentang, a proper liberal arts graduate, gets her first job after university: leading a tribe to grow bigger and stronger! Li Wentang: Isn’t this asking a little too much of a liberal —Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    Although it's still being serialized, it's aiming to become a very long story.

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