I’ve Noticed a Problem: Most New Books Are Extremely Lackluster 发现一个问题,新书大多数都非常惨淡。
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My Parents Transferred Me Ninety Thousand Yuan, and the Zombie Horde Broke Out the Next Day 父母给我转了九万块,第二天丧尸潮爆发
My Parents Transferred 90,000 Yuan to Me, and the Zombie Horde Broke Out the Next Day
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Transmigrate to Another World: This Great Dao Wants to Eat Me 穿越异世:这个大道要吃我
“I spent my whole life following the rules, but the rules killed me!” [Poetry-led storytelling + clever power fantasy + subtle foreshadowing + Lovecraftian horrors + political intrigue and conquest + mystery and investigation] The Great Dao has no form, and fate is a hunting ground. Mortals are ants, cultivators are livestock. After death, every soul is devoured by the Dao. His name is Yun Ping'an, also known as Yun Qingshan. In the dead of night, he is the “Ghost of Yun,” the man who lays other
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Transmigrate into the Apocalypse and Cultivate to Immortality 穿越之末日修仙
While diving, Qin Mo is swept by a strong current into a cliffside cave with no visible bottom. At this critical moment, he discovers that he has arrived in a new world after the apocalypse. To his astonishment, people here can cultivate immortality.
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The Iron-Blooded God of War Against Japan 抗日之铁血战神
Elite soldier Wang Longfeng transmigrates to 1937, bringing modern tactics and a body built like a tank. At the Marco Polo Bridge, he teaches the Japanese invaders a lesson. From thirty brave men to an army of thirty thousand, he blows up blockhouses, seizes supplies, recruits fierce generals, and rescues beautiful women, turning the War of Resistance into a real-life battle royale. The only difference is that his “blue zone” covers the entire Japanese Empire!
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A Legendary Warrior Emerges from the Eleventh Whampoa Class 黄埔十一期杀出一个最强传说
Huangpu Military Academy’s Class 11 was widely regarded as its most useless class. No connections: anyone with influential family ties had gone to Classes 1 or 2. No resources: anyone with support from above had gone to Classes 4 or 5. No luck: they graduated just in time for the Battle of Shanghai, and so many died that even the roster was burned. But after Lin Ye arrived, the most useless class became the deadliest blade. On the Shanghai battlefield, they were the blade driven into the Japanes
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It Wasn’t a Dream: Motherland, Let’s Cultivate Immortality Together 原来不是梦:祖国,咱们一起修仙
When the cultivation world mocked her as a rootless weed, the voice of her motherland reached across time and space: “Fellow countrywoman, we’re bringing you home.” A young woman carrying the wisdom of Chinese technology starts her cultivation journey anew in another world. The ancient legacy she gives back will become the spark that keeps a civilization alive. As both worlds face peril, aid spanning the stars and the bond she shares with her peerless cultivation partner together write a legend
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Whoa, My Moments Feed Connects to the Three Realms and Shapes the Future 哇塞我的朋友圈直通三界影响未来
✦ Connected Across Three Realms: One social circle brings together top-tier stars from politics, business, academia, and entertainment ✦ A Closed Time Loop: Talking with his past self, pitting himself against his future self ✦ A Father-Son Time Gap: The father who abandoned him twenty years ago is the mastermind behind it all ✦ A Mother-Son Connection Across Time: His mother’s final three words hold the key to crossing twenty years ✦ Awakening Variables: From pawn to player, from gatekeeper to t
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Psychic Energy Descends, and I Can Assimilate All Things 灵能降世,我能同化万物
In the abyssal rifts beneath this Blue Star, countless monsters are ravenous, and humanity faces an existential crisis. I was reborn and unexpectedly activated a Cute Girl System while trapped in a desperate situation. Others awaken through talent. I grow stronger by devouring everything. Everyone thought Chu Ling'an was just a low-level spirit wielder, until he protected this Blue Star and opened a new dawn for humanity.
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Pokemon: Starting with a Big-Brother Charcadet 宝可梦:开局一只大哥炭小侍
[The rating just came out, so don't be fooled. Everyone who's read it says it's great!] Also known as: "I Fell Off a Cliff from the Start, and My Pokemon Look Kinda Wrong," "Pokemon: From the Start, I Got a Badass Charcadet," and "Pokemon: A Record of the Hero from the Underworld" [Pokemon] + [No System] + [No transmigration] + [No rebirth] + [Comedy] + [Regions merge] + [Original elements] + [Daily life] + [Friendship-focused] + [Light novel] Lin He is an ordinary boy who dreams of becoming a P
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Slay the Outer Gods, Starting by Curing the Cold Poison 诛灭外神,从解寒毒开始
[Alternate setting] [Fully developed worldbuilding] [Rational, cold-blooded man with emotional detachment vs. Steady, fatherly, powerful and dependable man] Zhang Yuan wakes up as a poor young man with a shattered spiritual palace and a deadly cold poison coursing through him. A golden dragon resides in his spiritual palace, and his two awakened talents are both pseudo-king-tier: the Domain of Myriad Phenomena and the Eye of Heaven’s Mandate. He thinks this is the beginning of his defiance of
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The Selection Era: A Frozen Apocalypse 筛选纪元:冰封末日
Not a System novel + evolution + new humanity Chen Yuan was nourished by the ancient earth energy of the Qinling Mountains from the moment he was born. When Earth awoke from its frozen apocalypse, he became the first person to awaken in the post-apocalyptic world. He led the Qinling Mountains through the apocalypse, rebuilt Earth, and ushered the planet into the age of cosmic civilization.
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When Will I Come of Age? The Campus Arc 何时而立之校园篇
This story, based on real people, is the first installment in the When Will I Come of Age series: When Will I Come of Age: Campus Days. It follows the events in the life of the protagonist, He Li, during his university years, including his daily life, studies, and romance. His self-discipline in both life and study ultimately takes him to the top of his academic field. The novel feels so authentic that readers can relate to it and feel as though they’re right there in the story. Its gripping plo
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My Old Man Is No Ordinary Guy 我家老登不简单
Urban + Sci-Fi + Entrepreneurship + Pure Romance An unemployed, divorced food-delivery uncle × an alien AI No godlike superpowers, just a brain with maxed-out predictive abilities A lifetime's worth of hard-won experience at the bottom of society is all the capital he needs to turn things around People used to say I couldn't keep up with the times Now, through my own efforts, I'm changing how ordinary people survive Xiao Qi: I can only help you think things through Yang Lu: Then start by helping
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Transmigrated as Dongge’s Little Sidekick 穿越成东哥的小跟班
A new work is here! Welcome to read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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The Chosen Storyteller 天选说书人
A top multilevel-marketing lecturer transmigrates to a war-torn age with no money, no strength to fight, and only his silver tongue. He wins over refugees with slick talk, handles warlords through negotiation, and fools ambitious leaders with promises of a “win-win.” In the end, he realizes that after a lifetime of lies, the only thing he wants to believe is the promise that “tomorrow will be better.”
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Falling from the Top 从顶层坠落
His name is Shen An. More precisely, he is the man who transmigrated and became this young detective named Shen An. In his previous life, he could move heaven and earth. Now, he earns 4,800 yuan a month, lives in a cramped, rundown apartment beside the precinct, and gets vomited on by drunks while on duty. Then he has to wash his own uniform. He thought this was the most absurd fall from grace imaginable. Until he got assigned to his first case.
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Magical Girl, What's Wrong with Me Riding Your Coattails for Some Traffic? 魔法少女,我蹭点流量怎么了
[Unconventional Magical Girls] [Gender Swapping] [Friendship] [Combat] [Light Yuri] [Light Novel] This is a world with magical girls, a world with powerful monsters, and a world where the more fans a magical girl has, the stronger she becomes. Lu Zhuiliu, a science blogger who transmigrated after eating a poisonous plant, gained a magical-girl growth System and the ability to transform into a magical girl. “The more followers I get, the stronger I become? Is that for real?” Chasing trends, lives
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I Slept for 180 Years and Became the Sect's Holy Son 睡了180年,我成宗门圣子了
Hu Donglai transmigrates to the Xibei Continent, where he binds himself to the first-generation, version 1.0 System and becomes Tantai Jiu, the Sacred Son of the Kunlun Immortal Sect. Later, through quantum entanglement, his soul transmigrates back to Blue Star, allowing him to send information between the two worlds. Many other transmigrators become Tantai Jiu’s customers…
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I'll Write You a Note for the Underworld, Don't Mention It 我帮你给地府写张条子别客气
You have no spiritual energy, but I have a System that converts endless demonic energy. How could I possibly lose? Just as Black Demon Emperor Haotian was despairing on Blue Star, he finally activated the System. While growing stronger and taking care of the Lizardmen forces along the way, he searches for a way back to the Tianshu Domain to exact his revenge.
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The Food Delivery Uncle Is Reborn as a Goddess 外卖大叔重生成女神
After his business failed at fifty, Wang Defa became a delivery driver and got into a car accident. He bound to a down-and-out Sumeru Mustard-Seed System and was reborn in a young girl's body. In the end, Wang Defa accepted his new reality, cast off the shackles of his former life, became a scheming green tea beauty, joined a sect, and set out on the road to a comeback.
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Half-Mountain Ferry: No Shore Beyond, So I Make a Way 半山渡:彼岸无岸,我开路
A boy’s pursuit of pleasure turns into a youth filled with the bittersweet aches of growing up. [Depressed, frail, adored-by-all campus beauty × a battlefield of love rivals | 1990s school days | bittersweet youth, tragic ending | push and pull | dissociative identity | based on a true story] Who can save her shattered soul? ① The domineering class monitor: “Even if I can’t win your heart, I’ll have you.” Du Qinghuan bit her lower lip. “You wouldn’t dare!” His desire got the better of him. “Gues
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The Enlightenment Human Community 启明人类共同体
(The rating just came in and will keep rising, so feel free to give it a try. People keep saying there’s no room for sci-fi here, that everyone only likes cultivation and fantasy, and that The Three-Body Problem is the only one that can compete. Let’s prove them wrong!) Abducted by aliens? Turns out that’s a good thing: we’re the pandas of the universe. They won’t let us visit home? There’s always a way around every obstacle! They lock us in cages and cut us off? Then we’ll just have to secretly
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The Great Luo Interstellar Empire 大罗星际帝国
Cultivation Science: Rebuild chip architectures using the principles of formations, optimize material ratios with alchemy, and convert the logic of cultivation techniques into AI algorithms · Spiritual-Energy Technology: Spirit stones replace conventional energy sources, and a spiritual sense network replaces the internet · Causality Weapons: Ultimate technology based on the laws of primordial chaos
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My AI Roommate Is a Router 我的AI室友是个路由器
My AI Roommate Is a Router
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Beyond the Absolute Cliff 绝崖之后
Beyond the Precipice
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The King of Hell’s Borrowed Blade 阎王借来的刀
The Blade Borrowed by the King of Hell
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After Five Years as a Kept Man, the Richest Man Begged Me to Come Home 吃软饭五年,首富跪着求我回家
After Living Off His Wife for Five Years, the Richest Man Begged Him to Come Home
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Who Says Magic Can’t Be Programmed? 谁说魔法不能编程?
Previous life: A leading quantum physicist and holographic game architect who died in a dimensional storm while trying to repair the core of the “World Tree.” This life: An orphan from a border slum, dismissed as a good-for-nothing “magic insulator.” Golden finger: [Omniscient Sight] (can see the code structure of all things) + [Instant Compilation] (can construct magical models instantly, without incantations). Personality: A calm, rational scientific mind, but when protecting his companions, h
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Saiyan: Lord of the Planet 赛亚人:行星之主
My new work is out! Please visit Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I will do my best to tell every story well!
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Snow Falls Late, Just in Time to Meet You 晚来雪万幸遇
A high school student’s perspective on Jiang Yu and Yu Sheng’s story, on the coincidences that brought Jiang Yu and Yu Sheng together, and on the feelings in their hearts.
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Blank Voucher 空白凭证
[Two male leads] [Sweet and fluffy] [Su Rang vs. Jiang Ye] [Older or younger? 🤔] “I haven’t even woken up yet. Who the hell are you? My boyfriend? And we’re this close? Then don’t go anywhere just yet…”
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The Wooden Man's Tail 木头的尾巴
“Mu Chen vs. Wei Yanwan” “Wherever you go from now on, I'll follow you. It doesn't matter where I am, anyway. I'll be your little shadow.” “I think... this is as far as I can go with you.”
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Caught You, Mr. Wuchang 逮住你了,无常先生
[Dual male leads + pure love + xuanhuan fantasy + fate + lighthearted + episodic stories] How did a perfectly normal person like me end up becoming an impermanence spirit, with my life depending on collecting souls? Is this right?! Turns out it really is: life is unpredictable, but the grind never ends.
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Beneath the Paint 颜料之下
[Two Male Leads] [Zuo Tang x Li Yu] [Iris ⚜️ x Sunflower 🌻] Just started getting ratings, and they'll keep rising 🔥 Five years ago, Li Yu, bundled up from head to toe to fend off sasaeng fans, met senior Zuo Tang “in the sunshine” on the first day of school. Sadly, he only remembered he was still wearing a mask after Zuo Tang had run off. By the end-of-term exhibition, the sunny senior had turned into an emo senior, sitting blankly on the floor and staring at his painting. Li Yu sat beside him a
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The White Lotus Big Shot Insists on Being My Sidekick 白莲花大佬非要给我当跟班
Two male leads + equally powerful protagonists + pure historical setting + ensemble cast + the jianghu + love and hate spanning two generations He seems gentle and frail, so I stay on high alert. He makes plans at every turn, so I stay on my guard at every turn. Will this bring good fortune or disaster?
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After Contracting with the Ice Princess, I Save the World by Ranting 契约冰公主后我靠吐槽拯救世界
The rating just came out, but it’ll go up later. Remember to rate it, everyone! [Two Female Leads] [Transmigration] [System] [Everyone’s Favorite] [Breaking Up Couples] Li Ruotao, a working girl brainwashed by instant noodle ads, transmigrates into Ye Luoli and gets bound to the Ice Princess. Other transmigrators rely on a golden finger; she relies entirely on her sharp tongue, which can make Mandora’s forehead wrinkles appear. To the Ice Princess, she says, “Before you disappear, could you tran
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Love Apartment: The Lü Family's Spring and Autumn and Waterloo 爱情公寓:吕氏春秋滑铁卢
Exclusive broadcast of Lu Ziqiao’s search history How to give my rich father-in-law dementia. Will I be shot for wearing fake Armani when I meet the parents? How to convince a rich heiress I’m a virgin. Can an overdose of loratadine make you stupid? How to make instant noodles feel like French cuisine. How to make a sneeze sound sexy. Chanel No. 5 perfume counter price, high-quality knockoff. The Lu Family’s Notes on Seduction? No, no, no. × The Lu Family’s Spring and Autumn Annals: Waterloo!
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Dream of the Red Chamber: Above All Others 红楼之万人之上
Jia Yu was an ordinary man living in the modern world. An accident sent his soul through time and space into the unfamiliar world of Dream of the Red Chamber, where he became Jia She’s illegitimate son. When he awoke in an antique-style room, he was dazed for a moment. But he soon realized that he had transmigrated and now had a new identity. Dream of the Red Chamber, here I come. I’ll change the fates of all the women in this world.
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I Transmigrated into the Delicate Heroine of a Tragic Romance, but I’m a Man! 我穿越成了虐文小白花,但我是个男的啊!
I Transmigrated into a Tragic Romance as a Delicate Little Flower, But I'm a Man!
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Smoke and Dust over the Parasol Trees 烟尘梧桐
“The wu tree is male, and the tong tree is female. The two grow old together!” “Lush and flourishing, that is the wu-tong tree in its prime; Harmonious and melodious, that is the cry of the phoenix.” Beneath a wu-tong tree, a girl softly hums and sings. A young novice asks for directions. The wheels of fate begin to turn...
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Water Margin Heroine in the Future: Headmaster, Want to Fight? 水浒女将在未来:校长,打一架吗
In 3026, the university alliance monopolizes the futuristic city of Tongque, leaving smaller schools struggling to survive. To his shock, Chaotian, the principal of Liangshan Correspondence College, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, discovers that he is the reincarnation of Chao Gai. The 108 heroes of Liangshan have all been reborn as female university students at various colleges, each with ancient powers lying dormant within her. Determined to break the alliance’s monopoly and establish a f
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Lie Flat Development System: My Beautiful Tenant Unlocked a Treasure Trove 躺平发育系统,美女租客爆资源
The world is overrun by the paranormal, and the university district has become a living hell! Everyone is trapped in a single dorm room and awakens a System for killing ghosts and surviving. They fight for their lives to slay ghosts, earn points, trade them for gear, and defend their rooms. Every ten days, a ghost-tide dungeon appears. Fail to hold out, and your soul will be scattered! While everyone else kills ghosts for points, Ling Xiao goes to bed and automatically earns coins. While everyon
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Roses in the Desert 沙漠里的玫瑰花
“Can roses really not grow in the desert?” “That's right.” “But the wind and sand fill the sky, carrying all the love of my life!” “Roses may not grow in the desert, but wheat blossoms have always grown in our hearts! The hardships of this world have never spared ordinary people like us. Where the wind and sand reach, not a blade of grass can grow. Roses cannot take root in this land. The wind is always so coarse, it cannot blow with gentleness, just as we cannot express our love. Roses have nev
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The Spirit Tamer's Teaching Journal: Ghosts at Qingshan High 镇灵教书录:青山中学有鬼
I am a teacher, and I protect the students in my care. I practice the Dao, and I keep the monsters of this world at bay. This is a rural middle school filled with Chinese ghosts and monsters, and the story of a fallen Daoist heir who teaches students by day and subdues ghosts and spirits by night, in a paranormal tale set in a small town.
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Your Highness, the Princess Consort Is Fishing Again! 王爷,王妃又去摸鱼了!
A modern fish-farming technician transmigrates to ancient times and makes a living by slacking off. He originally planned to make money and grow rich in this fictional dynasty, but who could have known that his slacking would lead him to a prince, launching him into a cheat-fueled life of rising from obscurity to become a consort…
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The System Insists I Provide Emotional Support to Girls 系统非让我给妹子提供情绪价值
Introverted programmer Zhuang Ziming unexpectedly meets Liu Zhenchen, a younger girl, and triggers the “Emotional Value” System! As long as he can stir a woman's emotions, he can earn money, skills, and even superpowers. From a painfully straightforward guy to a “master” of romance, he bounces between the world of code and everyday life. After countless hilarious mishaps, he wins the heart of his beloved and finds success in both his career and love life!
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I Transmigrated into a Book and Rewrote a Flop, Winning Over the Immortal Venerable and the Editor-in-Chief 穿书重写扑街作,仙尊总编皆倾心
Su Wan had spent five years writing one flop after another as a struggling author. After staying up late dissecting the platform's rankings, she nodded off at her desk, only to transmigrate into her own doomed cultivation novel, which was about to be canceled. There, she became Yun Qinghe, a tragic side character destined to be framed for stealing a treasure, have her immortal bones destroyed, and die horribly in the wilderness. In the original story, Mo Yuan, the obsessive Immortal Venerable o
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I Raise My Girlfriend in the Ice Age, and the System Forces Me To 我在冰河时代养女友,系统逼我
The apocalypse froze me stiff, but I, Lin Chen, survived with a System. I thought I could stay alive by winning over beautiful women, but I never expected to get bound to a hopelessly lovesick System! I have to keep from freezing into a popsicle while soothing the icy beauty in my arms, and the idiot next door keeps causing trouble by trying to steal our supplies. Best of all, the System nags me every day: “Dear, your romance progress is at 99%! One kiss and you're there~” Help! Can this lousy a
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Tea Fragrance on Jingling Ridge 镜岭茶香
A new story is here! You’re welcome to read my work on Tomato 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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Doomsday Rain Calamity: I Stockpiled Supplies and Survived to Rule the World 末日雨劫:我靠囤货苟成世界霸主
In the autumn of 2025, relentless rain caused widespread flooding. Everyone joked about the strange weather, but Shen Qiucheng felt as if he'd fallen into an ice cellar: he'd been reborn with memories of the apocalypse! Floodwaters stretch to the horizon, with only one percent of the land left above water. Mutated creatures roam everywhere, and terrifying aquatic humanoids hunt their own kind. After activating a survival System, he becomes a lone wolf, stockpiling supplies, fortifying his strong
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