Why Is Every Apocalypse Story About Being Reborn or Transmigrating? Please Recommend an Apocalypse Story 为什么每本末世文都是重生或穿越，求一部末世文
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The Fake Heiress Is a True Master of the Mystical Arts 假千金她是玄学真祖宗
Everyone in town knows that the second daughter of the Li family was switched at birth and is a fake heiress. She was raised in the countryside for ten years before being brought back to marry in someone else’s place and bring them good fortune. Everyone was waiting to laugh at her. Some guessed she’d be crude and uncouth, others thought she’d be ugly. In the end, they all got a painful slap in the face. Li Xiangwan, a profound mysticism master of a thousand years, a figure whose name makes the
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The Heiress's Ancestral General Store Connects to the Underworld 豪门千金的祖传杂货铺通地府
[Revenge against scumbags + Metaphysics + Wealthy families + Episodic stories + Light romance] To get some peace and quiet and fulfill her grandfather’s wish, wealthy heiress Qiao Chu inherits her maternal grandfather’s family business, a traditional yin-yang general store. The store takes on all kinds of jobs, including helping spirits buy human goods and fulfilling their unfinished wishes. A ghost who died suddenly from working overtime and never has to work again wishes to taste instant noodl
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Quick Transmigration: After the Tragic-Novel Heroine Gets a Unhinged Script 快穿：当虐文女主拿了疯批剧本后
In every tragic romance, the heroine is tormented by the hero until her heart is torn apart, and her heart, kidneys, and brain are cut out. Yet the heroine loves the hero without fail, devoting herself wholeheartedly to her career as his doormat. Now Jingsha has become the heroine of a tragic romance. She's obsessive, unstable, scummy, and downright crazy. She torments the male lead, then the male supporting character, then the female supporting character. In the end, they all love her but can n
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Run! The Deranged Host Has No Heart 快跑，疯批宿主她没有心
[Quick Transmigration] [No Romance] [Strong Female Lead] Li Ku was once a piece of deadwood from the Primordial Realm, rootless and adrift in the abyss. Her daily routine was to watch countless great demons enter in perfect shape and leave missing limbs. One day, someone claiming to be a Tasker mistook her for a treasure and brought her back to the Time and Space Administration. No freeloaders were allowed there, so Li Ku, gathering dust, was kicked into a mission world. What was a mission? In t
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The System's a Clown, I Make Things Worse: Rebellious to the Core 系统沙雕我添堵，一身反骨离大谱
They came from distinguished families and were beautiful, talented, and exceptional. But whenever they crossed paths with the male and female leads, they became brainless cannon fodder, burning themselves up to make the leads’ romance flourish until their dying breath. And now Gu Mo has become all those women from countless novels. System: Boss, you can face-slap the villains and break up those couples! Go get ’em! Gu Mo: I’m awesome! I can do this! Much later, the System stares in bewilderment
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The Apocalypse Arrived, and I Met Someone with a System 末世来临，我遇到了系统拥有者
The apocalypse came out of nowhere, and the first person to awaken did so with a water-based ability that couldn't attack? Do I need to attack? I'll just make myself an invisibility cloak and move freely through hordes of zombies. My water-based ability can create pocket dimensions, too. You, the one with the System, need a bunch of seeds? Too bad, I've already cleared out the entire seed vault!
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Back to the Apocalypse: Redeeming a Tragic Fate 重回末世：救赎悲怆命途
After a sudden apocalyptic disaster, the world was transformed beyond recognition. Once-thriving cities lay in ruins, zombies roamed the streets, and human civilization teetered on the brink of collapse. Yet amid the chaos and despair, a group of people continued to fight relentlessly for survival.
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Transmigrate into a Book: Everyone in the Village Except Me Cultivates Immortality 穿书后，除了我全村都是修仙的
[Cultivation + Lighthearted Comedy + Villain + Buff Skills + Bickering Couple] After transmigrating into a book, Le Ranran spent ten years thinking she had landed in an ordinary farming novel. She was determined to enjoy life in the countryside: grow crops, raise chickens, and occasionally bicker with people her age. The villagers doted on her, and her days were full and pleasant. Who could have guessed that one day, lightning bolts thicker than a person's arm would strike the mountaintop one af
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The Refugee Saintess: The Cold Tyrant Can't Stop Plotting Against Her 逃荒圣女，冰冷暴君总想图谋不轨
Also known as The Doomsday Powerhouse Slays Her Way Through a Chaotic World [Strong heroine + satisfying read + sweet romance + mutual devotion] Ability-wielding saintess vs. cold tyrant Luo Shengge, an S-rank agent from the apocalypse, transmigrates into a chaotic age and becomes the saintess of the Xiyue tribe, gifted with the power of divination. Her people are hunted by various nations, while this chaotic world is rife with monsters, treacherous hearts, famine, and bandits. Luo Shengge reali
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The Villain Was Supposed to Be Redeemed, So How Did This Become a Marry-First, Fall-in-Love-Later Story? 说好的救赎反派怎么成了先婚后爱
[Dramatic, hilarious, gorgeous overachiever Shen Xitang × aloof, sweet-faced-but-dark, world-ending Sword Venerable Wei Xiaomo] After dying suddenly in the apocalypse, Shen Xitang transmigrates into a cannon-fodder supporting heroine in a xianxia novel full of household intrigue. The heroine is her older sister, locked in a painful romance with a scumbag who wants to keep Shen Xitang as his mistress. Unable to bear the humiliation, the original Shen Xitang severed her own meridians, driving her
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Reborn After the Apocalyptic Disaster, My Family Thrives by Stockpiling Supplies 末世天灾我重生，全家靠囤货躺赢
Apocalypse + rebirth + pocket dimension + stockpiling supplies + loving family + gourmet food and farming + feel-good power fantasy The apocalypse arrives, bringing floods, extreme heat, plague, extreme cold, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions... Disaster follows disaster. In her previous life, Jiang Ling survived for three years after the apocalypse began before being swallowed by lava. Reborn one month before the apocalypse, she receives a massive pocket dimension and goes on a wild shopping spre
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Back to the Horrific Apocalypse: From the Start, I Stockpiled a Graveyard 重回恐怖末世：开局先囤一块墓地
(Horror Apocalypse + paranormal revival + stockpiling supplies + an unconventional safe haven) Reborn seven days before the Horror Apocalypse, Shen Qi immediately bought herself a grave, carved her own name onto the tombstone, and added a couplet. First line: A home, a field, and a well Second line: Good food, good drink, and sound sleep Center: Shen Qi's Tomb In the Horror Apocalypse, no house is safe. Only spaces born from graves can serve as safe havens. Those with ancestors can rely on them
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After Rejecting the Cannon Fodder Role, I Marry Into a Duke’s Household and Become His Darling 不当炮灰女配后，嫁入公府娇宠
Who says transmigrating means you have to become the protagonist! Who says transmigrating means all those princes will fall for you! Who said that? Step forward. I promise I won't hit you!!! The moment Qin Zhiqin transmigrated, her outstanding talent for business earned her the attention of many powerful figures. But after acting boldly for half her life, she finally realized that people had seen right through her all along. After working hard for half her life, she hadn't even made it to the un
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A Doomsday Veteran Brings Her Spatial Storage to the 1970s 末世大佬带着空间穿七零
Synopsis: [Period drama + supernatural abilities + transmigration + pocket dimension + shopping mall + both untouched + strong male and female leads] (Drink less water if you need to. There’s almost no filler. I can’t promise every chapter is thrilling, but it won’t be boring. If a couple of chapters drag now and then, just skip ahead.) A young woman inexplicably transmigrates to the 1970s. She possesses two supernatural abilities: mental powers and healing. She also has a magical pocket dimensi
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Apocalypse Rebirth: Farming and Stockpiling Food with My Best Friend 末世重生：和闺蜜的种田囤粮日常
[Natural disasters + Apocalypse + strong female lead + supernatural abilities + pets + reborn + pocket dimension + stockpiling food + gourmet dishes + no romance] [Loads of adorable animals + everyday life at first, then war and fantasy + unnatural disasters] [A slow-burn, growth-oriented heroine. Please go easy on her!] [The author is extremely patriotic] Lin Miao spent ten years barely surviving in the Apocalypse. She thought she could ride out the disasters in a shelter, but just a few months
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Apocalypse Disasters: I Strip My Scumbag Ex of His Supplies and Stockpile a Trillion's Worth 末世天灾，薅光渣男物资囤货千亿
[Natural disasters, reborn, pocket dimension, no romance, women’s base] (This is a story about a woman leading other women to wipe out every vile man in the world. There will be many female characters, all decisive and unsentimental, serving as the heroine’s right-hand women.) By the seventh year of the apocalypse, women had long since been reduced to playthings. Men could abuse them as they pleased, and Li Qing had survived for seven years only by disguising herself as a man. Reborn into a new
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The Apocalypse Came After the Adorable Kid Ran Away from Home with the Dog 萌宝带狗子离家出走后，末世来了
A powerful immortal dies and is reborn in the apocalypse as a baby, bringing a System along. Before the apocalypse, three-and-a-half-year-old Tianbao is beaten by her biased grandparents and runs away from home with her dog. To get its three-and-a-half-year-old Host to collect more supplies, the System has no choice but to promise her an extra episode of Paw Patrol every day. While collecting supplies, Tianbao happily explores the luxurious amusement parks she’s never been to before. Along the w
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Stockpiling Supplies in the Apocalypse 末世囤货记
[Apocalyptic Disasters + Pocket Dimension + No Romance + Stockpiling + No Saintly Protagonist] Xu Xiaoyan works as a warehouse manager at a supermarket. One day, she suddenly gains a pocket dimension and suspects the apocalypse is coming, so she starts frantically stockpiling supplies. After enduring a series of disasters, including an epidemic, an insect plague, extreme heat, and earthquakes, she follows rescuers to a survivor base. But the base is short on resources, and humanity is put to the
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In the Apocalypse, I Become a Big Shot by Picking Up Treasure Chests 身在末世，我靠捡宝箱成为大佬
[No romance + not a saintly protagonist + stockpiling + everyone struggles to survive + natural and man-made disasters + special abilities + space, with a growing protagonist who isn't invincible from the start and gains allies later to join forces] Everyone woke up to find they had transmigrated into a survival challenge. The entire world was shrouded in poisonous fog. Animals had mutated, the land could no longer be farmed, and all resources had to be obtained by opening treasure chests. Treas
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Leveling Up to Lucky Charm: I Rely on Luck to Develop a Deserted Island 升级欧皇，我在荒岛靠幸运值开荒
Ordinary girl Luo Yin is thrown into a deserted-island survival game. From the start, all she has is a deserted island, and she has to fish for everything she needs. Everyone else: “Unbelievable! I pulled out a pile of cockroaches, and now they’ve made themselves at home on my island.” Our heroine, Luo Yin: She looks at the fruit in her hand and takes a huge bite. Everyone else: “I don’t get it. Why is there a pair of stinky, previously worn socks in my chest?!” Our heroine, Luo Yin: She happily
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Back in the Apocalypse, I’m Going to Keep My Head Down 重回末日好好苟着
She thought that if she kept trying a little harder each day in the harsh apocalypse, she could keep on surviving. But in the end, she didn't make it. Fortunately, fate showed Qi Guoguo mercy and sent her back to the apocalypse once more. This time, before the end arrived, she returned to the hometown she had always dreamed of. In this life, she has a house of her own, so she'll stay put and do her best to survive! An apocalypse story focused on natural disasters, with no zombies or anything lik
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Transmigrated to the 1970s: The Scorned Educated Youth Has a Pocket Dimension 穿越七零：炮灰知青有空间
Fresh out of college, Yao Qi unexpectedly unlocked a pocket dimension and began stockpiling supplies. After a car accident, Yao Qi transmigrated to the 1970s, into a period novel she'd read. She wasn't the heroine, just a cannon-fodder character. With rural relocation looming, Yao Qi had her pocket dimension and didn't panic. But just after arriving in the countryside, she caught the eye of a village man…
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Transmigrating into a Book: A 1960s Novel's Supporting Actress Keeps Her Head Down 穿书六零：年代文女配苟住了
When Luo Zimu transmigrated into a book from the apocalypse and became the doomed female character in "Blessed Baby’s Sixties", she knew exactly what she had to do next. Her spatial storage was her greatest secret, and she couldn’t tell anyone... She had to stockpile grain and game, and make it through the turbulent years... As for her biased grandma, her awful parents, and the heroine and hero, what did any of them have to do with her?
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The 1970s: I Became the Female Supporting Character's Foil in a Period Novel 七零：穿成年代文女配对照组
A period drama about an independent female lead, with no golden finger! She passed the high school entrance exams, but her family wouldn’t let her attend. Instead, they sent her uncle’s daughter, who had never gotten along with her, to school. Short-tempered Lin Erxia erupted into a fight. After a furious scuffle, she passed out from anger. When she woke up, she realized she seemed to have transmigrated into a book...
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The Side Character from a Period Novel Can Transmigrate to the Cultivation World 年代文女配她能穿越修仙界
(Female lead, no romance, period setting, cultivation, special abilities, punishing scumbags, supporting female character’s comeback) Feng Wanqing is framed by her cousin. Her family abandons her, and she is forced to go to the countryside as an educated youth. After nearly drowning one day, she discovers that every night she can travel to a wondrous place where everyone pursues the path to immortality and cultivators soar through the skies and burrow beneath the earth. By day, she is a delicate
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The 1970s: My Brother Is Cannon Fodder 七零年代：我的哥哥是炮灰
Lin Nanning just can't understand it. They all transmigrated to the 1970s, so why are their circumstances so different? Other people have pocket dimensions packed with supplies, so they never go hungry or thirsty. Hers is packed with nothing but land, so she has to work with her own two hands for food and drink. Other people have Systems that hand out food and let them fill their pocket dimensions just by doing a daily sign-in. Her System is lazy and stingy, and she has to slowly unlock its feat
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I Land a Government Job by Gossiping in a Period Novel 我靠吃瓜在年代文里拿编制
This novel has undergone a major revision [transmigration; gossip; System; getting rich; male lead; transmigrate into a book set in the 1970s] Jiang Panyu's greatest passion in life was gossip. She was like a melon-eating mouse in a field, always showing up wherever there was juicy gossip, right at the heart of the action. One day, she got so caught up in watching two old ladies brawl that she completely lost herself in the excitement. A brick in one of the old ladies' hands sent her straight to
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I Transmigrated into a Cultivation Novel: I Follow the Heroine and Snatch Up Her Leftovers 穿进修仙文：我跟在女主后面捡漏
The Blazing Heaven Continent is a bizarre world where both gods and demons exist. Mo Wanli was just an ordinary office worker. All she did was read a rebirth novel and complain that the heroine's golden finger was too powerful and the supporting heroine was too stupid. For that, she was dragged into the world of the book. The most important thing was that she wasn't the heroine or the supporting heroine. She was a minor maid to a supporting heroine who appeared for less than one chapter before d
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I Was Reborn as a Cannon Fodder and Went to Cultivate Immortality 我穿成了炮灰去修仙
Synopsis: [Strong female lead with no romance + space + genius + transmigrates into a book + incredible luck] Shi Yan transmigrates into a book. After receiving the body's memories, she realizes she's become a cannon-fodder character in a cultivation novel. The heroine is ahead of her, a rival is behind her, and the male lead and his rival keep throwing obstacles in her way. She has to scrape by all alone, but luckily, her luck is excellent and she's made a few good friends. Gradually, though, S
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Lin Daya’s Road to Escape the Famine 林大丫的逃荒路
[Fleeing Famine + Drought + Earthquake + Plague + Military Conscription] No Romance The female lead’s golden finger is a portable space with a capacity of just one cubic meter. She’ll have to rely on her companions and family throughout the entire journey to escape famine. Lin Nianchun was a graduate student in the twenty-first century. While visiting the director at the orphanage where she’d grown up, she was involved in a car accident. She thought that was the end of her life, and that she’d d
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After Handing Over the System, I Got to Live Off the State 上交系统后，我吃上了国家饭
This novel has no CP!!! [Sorry to everyone who came from The Castaways. The female lead of this book has changed, but the two leads will meet in the worlds they travel through!] After waking up, office worker Jiang Li discovers that she has transmigrated to another world. Dinosaurs long thought extinct, giant mushrooms, and mutated creatures make her think she'll have to spend the rest of her life on the run. Unexpectedly, at a moment of crisis, she returns to her familiar rented apartment. Thin
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I Have a Space Station 我有一座空间站
[Apocalypse + sci-fi + base + wild imagination + future technology] Dongfang Chen accidentally activates a space station that serves as a legacy of the Nata civilization from the Triassic period. The station holds the collective wisdom of tens of thousands of scientists from the Nata civilization, along with a vast trove of technological achievements. Before long, Blue Star is struck by another ecological crisis, and viruses run rampant. With help from artificial intelligence, Dongfang Chen keep
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Racing Through the Apocalypse 驰骋末世
The Shen Universe, Huaguo. Yi Fei had been a workplace newbie for less than two years since graduating. He hadn't even been at his first job for a year before he was laid off, and then his girlfriend broke up with him. Just as things seemed to have hit rock bottom, a mysterious virus swept across the globe. The world was devastated, and the apocalypse began...
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After the College Entrance Exam, I Used My Foresight to Become a Tycoon 回到高考后，利用先知成富豪
By a twist of fate, Chen Feiyu returns to the day after his class reunion, held after the college entrance exam. Using his information advantage, he makes up for past regrets. From the start, he sets his sights on the Brazil World Cup to earn his first fortune, then uses his expertise and memories to grow his money in the stock market. He also keeps in touch with his high school crush and his senior from university, wins the hearts of both beauties, and becomes a winner in life!
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Ten Trees 十棵树
Ever since a global earthquake, the world has changed! Ten towering trees suddenly sprouted, followed by strange and inexplicable deaths. Who is behind the disappearances, and who is the culprit? At first, it seemed to be nothing more than the forces of nature. Who could have guessed it was all part of a massive conspiracy!
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Apocalypse: She's Just a Piece of Seaweed 末世：她只是棵海藻
A beautiful seaweed woman from the Purple Star System is exiled to Blue Star, just in time for the Apocalypse. Alcegh says it’s no big deal... [Apocalypse] [Torrential Rain] [Scorching Heat] [Extreme Cold] [Base] [Building a New World]
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Apocalypse: Walking Dead Crisis 末世：行尸危机
(Apocalypse + Zombies + Human Nature + Realism + Two Female Leads) I, Lin Xuan, was on duty in the security office when I saw a female student being harassed by thugs. Then the zombies came, one after another. The next night, the zombies attacked, and a conspiracy quietly enveloped the entire world. Forced to pick up his weapons again, Lin Xuan set out on the road to survival, only to uncover the secret behind the zombie virus. A struggle for power and money... A plan to eliminate the lower clas
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