Construction and Development Stories, No Romance, Ancient or Modern Settings Are Both Fine! 基建文，无CP古代现代都可！

1. 1 我 My Emperor Father Can Read Minds 我的皇帝父亲会读心 Bone-Leak Gua Wen骨漏呱闻Historical1.3M WordsCompleted [Infrastructure Building Focus ✚ Mostly Comedy ✚ Not Historically Accurate ✚ No Romance] Emperor Wei prided himself on being a wise ruler. His ministers served him well, his harem was harmonious, and his children were clever and filial. That is, until he was struck by lightning. Afterward, he gained the ability to read minds, and finally learned that everyone around him was two-faced, saying one thing while thinking another! Emperor Wei was devastated. So he had been such a failure as an emperor 58.4kReads9.3Score5.4kShelves

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   This is a novel with no CP basics. The male protagonist travels back in time since he was a child and wants to be a salty fish. Unexpectedly, after his father was struck by lightning, he acquired the ability to read minds and squeezed him to work every day [laughing and crying] [laughing and crying]

2. 2 飞 After Failing to Ascend, I Became the Little White Emperor 飞升失败后成了小白皇帝 Wine God, Green Grape酒神葡萄绿Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted A male-lead, no-romance, ancient-world kingdom-building story with a golden finger: he’s the only cultivator in the world Synopsis: After transmigrating to the cultivation world and failing to ascend, I’m reborn as a prince in an ancient kingdom. The good news is that this world has spiritual energy, so I can keep cultivating. The bad news is that the throne somehow falls into my lap. I have to be a good emperor and cultivate the Dao properly. My dream of ascending hasn’t changed. You people nee 14.8kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves

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   The male protagonist has no cp and finally rises to the top. He's so good-looking.

3. 3 天 Surviving Natural Disasters: Everyone Protects the Slacker Lord 天灾求生，全民守护咸鱼领主 Really Speechless真真无语Sports545k WordsCompleted No romance + easygoing slacker + lord + territory building + everyone’s favorite + feel-good thrills + lighthearted On her way to jump off a building, Ci En is accidentally pulled into a disaster-survival game. She doesn’t want to survive, but her plans to end her life aren’t going anywhere, either. Her territory keeps growing, and the responsibilities on her shoulders get harder and harder to shrug off. Orcs, goblins, humans, and mushroom elves all start setting up neighborhoods in her domain. 10.8kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves

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   Infrastructure article, no cp, the heroine builds a territory in a natural disaster, with orc game settings [top post][top post]

4. 4 我 After Reaching Max Level in the Wasteland, I Transmigrated to a Famine Year and Became Empress 我在废土满级后，穿越荒年当女帝 Zhuye竹野Ancient Romance1.7M WordsCompleted A satisfying infrastructure-building power fantasy, not a matriarchal-world story. Ruan Xiang, ruler of the largest base in the wasteland, transmigrated into one of the refugees fleeing famine in ancient times. Finding water, irrigating fields, building filtration ponds, making bricks and building kilns, teaching people to read, pressing oil… To survive better, Ruan Xiang gathered every worker she could. Until she discovered that the imperial court was growing weak, the ministers were afraid 11.2kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves

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   Awesome, don't stop updating! Big

5. 5 哥 Big Brother Goes to Cultivate Immortality, Little Brother Comes to Farm 哥去修仙，种田弟来 Book Silkworm书蚕虫Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsOngoing [No System] [No Items] [Farming] [Management] [Science + Metaphysics] After transmigrating to the cultivation world, with no System and no wise old mentor, he has to flee for his life from the start... While others are still fighting to the death over half a tattered manual or killing for a few cultivation supplies, Chen Fei glances at the data from the Spirit Realm: 80,000+ Yellow-tier techniques collected, 5,000+ Black-tier techniques, Earth-tier... The traditional path to immortality: Kill → 5.4kReads7.5Score366Shelves

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   This book comes from Tomato Loss, Great Brainstorming, and Materialistic Cultivation. The so-called spiritual power settings are very scientific, there are no big problems with the logic, and there are no poisonous points. The writing is very good! The novel constructs a unique narrative of technological cultivation, and presents a very exciting story of workshop management and technological innovation in the world of cultivation. It combines the elements of cultivating immortality with ancient social changes, and the main line of the collision between science and cultivating civilization, and has a good chance of developing a unique worldview of cultivating immortality. Rune computer, communication talisman Internet, computer exercises derivation, online immortal cultivation library, promotion of simplified characters...

6. 6 被 The Hundred Officials Go Crazy After the First Emperor Hears Their Thoughts! 被始皇读心后，文武百官卷疯了！ Gu Qijin顾七堇Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [Mind Reading + Developing the Qin Empire + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Infrastructure Building + No Romance + Everyone’s Favorite + A Cast of Smart Characters] The genius PhD Gu Lingxue woke up one day and transmigrated to the Qin dynasty! With a wave of her little hand, she decided to become an official! If she became an indispensable favorite of Qin Shi Huang, wouldn’t she be able to make the rules? Just as she was drawing up all kinds of development plans, she never expected Ying Zheng to hear 20kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves

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   Traveling through the Qin Dynasty, main infrastructure, no CP

7. 7 卧 Undercover Agent Becomes Hong Kong's Secretary for Security 卧底成为香港保安局局长 Egg White Boy童子蛋白Mystery238k WordsOngoing In 1990s Hong Kong, the age of the triads, he fights organized crime and corruption to become the top cop in the force! He's capable, and he has a supportive girlfriend who is both his partner and his rock. He solves case after case, rising to the top spot in Hong Kong's police force. And begins a happy, fulfilling life. 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Come and read this book, at least it won't be boring

8. 8 农 The Farmhouse Matriarch’s Life as a Noblewoman 农门婆婆的诰命人生 I Want to Laugh Every Day每天都想笑Ancient Romance805k WordsCompleted [Souls swapped between ancient and modern times + lighthearted absurdity + no System] Tang Youyou and the college guy she hired end up in ancient times together. They become a trio of misfortunes: married without paperwork, mothers without the pain of childbirth, and broke without warning. One ramshackle house and six minors on the verge of a total wipeout. The King of Hell says she’ll die at the third watch, but he sends someone to kill her at the second. Tang Youyou: “It’s fine. I have free la 1.1kReads9.0Score132Shelves

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   The first [angry] book, as the title suggests, the male protagonist [vomits] and wants to die. After the emperor's father was struck by lightning, he has the ability to read minds [almost crying]. The wise and powerful emperor does not allow his son to [lick the screen] to rot. The emperor's family leads the ministers to start the infrastructure madness mode. In the second book, our charming [stunned] ancestor has a door that allows people to travel two thousand years later. The young master Fusu begins to learn [think] about modern life and [cry] return to the Qin Dynasty to build the Qin Dynasty [shy] empire. [Wrongful][Sneaky smile][Love]

9. 9 大 Fusu of Qin Is Stunned by the Modern World 大秦扶苏，被现代惊呆了 Vegetables Taste Great蔬菜好吃Historical460k WordsCompleted This is a story about an ancient person who can travel between the past and the present, slowly observing and adapting to modern life. I've watched many films and read many novels about people traveling to the modern era, and they always adjust to modern life right away. So I decided to write something different. Synopsis: In the Great Qin Empire, Fusu is ordered by the First Emperor to travel more than two thousand years into the future and witness the glory of Great Qin. But after arriving in 3kReads9.1Score227Shelves
10. 10 穿 Transmigrating into a Chaotic Age, the Mad Princess Builds a Nation Through Robbery 穿乱世，疯癫公主她靠抢劫建国了 Turning Ink into Ink点墨成墨Ancient Romance2.7M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate + Struggle for Supremacy + Chaotic Era + Powerful Female Lead + Fleeing Famine + Infrastructure Building + No Romantic Pairing + Portable Space] Original title: Transmigrating Through Chaotic Times, the Mad Princess Builds a Nation by Robbing Others When Jiang Jin awoke, she discovered that she had become a princess of a fallen kingdom and was being sent to Liang City to become a plaything for the barbarian Jiao Liang. She thought about it and decided it would be better for others 173.5kReads9.5Score22kShelves

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    It's a good read, a cool story about a strong woman fighting for infrastructure without CP, but a bad read, kill me

11. 11 秦 Who's Best at Qin Dynasty Infrastructure? The Food System Is Here to Help 秦朝基建哪家强美食系统来帮忙 Yu Shuo予说Ancient Romance340k WordsCompleted Note: The female lead has no romance. The central idea of this story is the proper use of a food System: selling food, no; building infrastructure for the Qin Empire, yes. [In our country, "sir" is a gender-neutral form of address. The System has no gender, so it has been addressed with the neutral term "sir." If you think that because foreign men have been translated as "sir" in modern times, the word means male, and thus the System should not be called "sir," please avoid this story.] [As for 3.4kReads9.2Score435Shelves

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    Real and objective, compact plot

12. 12 都 Cities: Skylines: Rush Hour 都市天际线：尖峰时刻 Tai Yi You太乙游Urban214k WordsOngoing [System + Infrastructure Development + Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce] The protagonist starts in a tiny fishing village and uses the System to lead it through steady growth, from a town to a county-level city, then a regional leader, and finally an international metropolis. 87Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 13 穿 Transmigrated as a Spoiled Noblewoman, She Was Exiled to a Poor Mountain Village 穿成娇蛮贵女，她被发配到穷山沟 Heavenly Wind Gou v天风姤vAncient Romance483k WordsOngoing Zhao Liang died, and Zhao Liang woke up in another world. She had become the notorious, domineering, and utterly unhinged young lady of the capital. With a reputation in the capital so foul that no one could stand her, she had no choice but to obey her family and retire to the impoverished mountain village where her family originated. Zhao Liang: I’m leaving behind the backbreaking life I had in my previous life. I’m going to be a happy freeloader and lie flat in retirement! Long live lying flat 204Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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    It is a lighthearted and funny story about farming and infrastructure construction, and the heroine is humorous, smart and not a noob. The writing style is more rural, with more dialects and slang. No CP, no space, no cheats! Special decompression.

14. 14 大 The Iron-Boned Ming, Zhu Qizhen the Fortress Emperor 大明硬骨头，堡宗朱祁镇 Book Silkworm书蚕虫Historical204k WordsOngoing [No System, no golden finger, no overpowered protagonist, no crushing everyone with brute force] On the eve of the Tumu Crisis, he transmigrates as Zhu Qizhen and is emperor for just one day. Why did Zhu Qizhen clear Wang Zhen's name? Was the Zhu Qizhen who returned to power in history really the same man? Did the Ming dynasty truly begin its decline with him? Of the sixteen Ming emperors, how many met a clear-cut end? He must survive first. Only then can he think about anything else. With three 3kReads—Score129Shelves

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    There is no system and no understanding of history. On the night of Tumu Fort, he traveled through time and killed Wang Zhen. He only served as emperor for one day, and he sent his substitute south to be captured, while he led three thousand remnants of his troops north to suffer from hunger and cold. Snowfield, white-haired wind, lack of food, wolves... There is no golden finger, only survival in desperate situations. At the same time, Zhu Qiyu was in the capital, looking at the empty treasury, and Yu Qian was guarding the country, running in parallel, one bright and one dark. This was the hardest bone and the coldest knife in the Ming Dynasty.

15. 15 寒 The Poor-Born Phoenix’s Infrastructure-Building Journey 寒门凰女的基建狂魔之旅 Chubby Puffed Koi锦鲤胖噗噗Ancient Romance2.4M WordsCompleted Farming and Infrastructure + Education to Strengthen the Nation + No Romance, Family Focus + Female Independence and Growth + Widow + Family Bonds + No Romantic Entanglements + Strong Female Lead Tone: A warm, ensemble-style farming story focused on family bonds and devotion to the nation, with light comedy woven in. The antagonists are mostly shortsighted local gentry or rigid officials, with no complicated household infighting. 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Recommended: No CP, focus on your career

16. 16 明 Late Ming: Reshaping China's Future 明末：重塑华夏未来 Teapot Dumplings茶壶饺子Historical1.6M WordsOngoing The Ming dynasty was an era that left people sighing with regret. If someone possessed vision and power beyond their time, could they turn the tide when all seemed lost? Chen Shenghua, a modern young man, is reborn as the son of a landlord in South Zhili at the end of the Ming dynasty. Faced with a catastrophe that seems inevitable, he chooses the hardest path: starting from nothing and laying the foundations of a new world with his own hands. He opens a school at ten, takes in refugees at thirt 90Reads7.4Score—Shelves

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    Traveling through the late Ming Dynasty, agriculture, industry, commerce, and military science and technology developed step by step, with passion and beauty. Infrastructure, technology, and military are all there.

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