Looking for Grounded Infrastructure-Building Stories, Step by Step, with a Modest Golden Finger 想看基建文，一步一步脚踏实地的，金手指不要太大
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The Tech Emperor of the Republican Era 民国科技大帝
(No brainless heroics, and no invincible protagonist.) He transmigrates to 1924 and nearly gets beheaded from the start. Hu Lai uses his modern knowledge to conquer the world with miracle medicines in one hand and churns out entrepreneurs by the dozen through his university in the other. He makes the foreigners pay through the nose for medicine, while affordable treatments save the people. He builds the nation through science and technology, strengthens it through industry, and brings order to a
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- 52 A Student Abroad in the 1950s 五十年代留学生 (The score is still new and will go up.) As a college student who believed everyone saying the 21st century was the age of biochemistry, chemical engineering, materials, and environmental science, I got buried in one of those hellish majors. Jiang Yueyun prayed to every god he could think of, using his ID number to beg for a job after graduation. Then his job placement sent him straight to 1956. So the 21st century isn't the age of those fields after all? The 1950s are? Factory Director Li: "Why 8.7kReads6.6Score563Shelves
- 53 A Cheap Import Who Studied Abroad? Call Me the Father of Chips! 归国留洋水货？叫我芯片之父！ [The 1950s + technological powerhouse + academic prodigy] A young man from the new century transmigrates to 1955 as an overseas student returning to China, becoming one of the same group of ocean-liner returnees as Qian Xuesen. The original list of twenty-four people has inexplicably gained one additional name: his. However, this Stanford graduate in his former life actually graduated through his family's donations. He has no real knowledge in his head and is already someone about to be eliminat 397kReads8.7Score29.9kShelves
- 54 War of Resistance: Defending Greater Guangdong 抗战之保卫大广东 The year is 1932 by the Western calendar. The land of China struggles to survive under the Japanese invaders from across the sea. Hope has become the most precious thing in this world, while progressive ideas are gradually fading from the lands of the Northern Expedition, like shadows from days gone by. Then the soul of someone from another world comes to inhabit a body. From that moment on, the rising sun becomes night, and the long night begins to break. 29.9kReads8.8Score2.7kShelves
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The General's Wife Only Wants to Farm 将军夫人一心想种田
A farming story turned into an educational account of Zhao Kuangyin, founding emperor of the Early Song. This melon is so drunk. Apart from the protagonist's family and relatives, who are fictional, most of the people in the story are real. Even the personalities of minor soldiers, as well as the characters, events, and policies, are all documented in official histories. For sources, see the Song History on Hancheng.net. Historical fact-checkers welcome. A few caveats before you dive in: First,
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I Transmigrated, but Into a Walking Joke 穿了，但穿成大笑话了
A nontraditional Spring and Autumn period tale of rivalry and nation-building. The early chapters are told from the perspective of commoners, with a focus on farming and a slow, everyday pace. The power struggles come later. No romance + powerful heroine + hands-on craftswoman. Jiang He transmigrated into the past with one small problem: her new status was “wild person.” She was one of the lowest-ranking commoners, farming the land beyond the city for the ruler. She could not join the army and h
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- 57 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 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 9.9kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
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Apocalypse: Wilderness Survival from the Start 末世：开局荒野求生
The survivors of the apocalypse endure a grueling stretch of time. As they struggle to fill their stomachs, they search the wilderness for the dignity they've lost, piece together the memories of civilization, and press on toward hope.
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Big Brother Goes to Cultivate Immortality, Little Brother Comes to Farm 哥去修仙，种田弟来
[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 →
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Lord: From the Start, I Begin by Abducting a Princess 领主：开局从强抢公主开始
[Western Fantasy + Hardcore Technology + Multiple Heroines + Conquest] I transmigrated into the body of a debauched count, waking up just as a princess was about to “serve” me. Her inner thoughts: “I’m going to tear you limb from limb.” Outside the door, a Church Inquisitor had already arrived: “The princess has been corrupted by a demon. Anyone involved will be burned at the stake.” My life hung by a thread. But no one knew I was an electrical engineer. And even fewer knew I could hear women’s
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I Transmigrated to Azeroth, and From the Start I Had Two Heads 穿越艾泽拉斯，开局我有两个头
[World of Warcraft + Hardcore Western Fantasy + Lord + Farming + War + Slow Burn] Good news: I transmigrated! Bad news: I transmigrated into an ogre in World of Warcraft's Azeroth. Bad news x2: It's a two-headed ogre, and I can only control one of the heads. Bad news x3: There are not only ogres where I transmigrated, but also the Scourge and werewolves. Bad news x4: The other ogres all say I'm an idiot, one of the biggest fools among ogres. What a terrible start!
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Bright Sword: Half of My System Has Been Cracked 亮剑：我的系统被破解了一半
He transmigrates into the world of Bright Sword and gets a points-exchange System. Killing enemies earns points, which can be used to exchange for equipment through the System. This should have been an ordinary, standard transmigration perk, but unexpectedly, the System gets hacked. It’s only half-hacked, but that’s still ridiculous enough. Having a golden finger is already powerful, but then it evolves into a golden thigh. Just you wait, Japanese devils.
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Historical War of Nations: The Yellow Turban Rebellion from the Start 历史国战：开局黄巾起义
(History + nation-versus-nation war + famous generals + livestreaming + national destiny + political scheming + passion) The historical nation-versus-nation war begins. Having lost its historical records, Huaxia forfeited the initiative and spent twenty years mired on the battlefield, losing all its accumulated strength. Li Chen, who transmigrated here, is inexplicably chosen as the sixteenth contestant. Bearing the name of Huaxia, he enters the battlefield to fight for a glimmer of hope. Lookin
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- 64 After a Century of Cultivation, I Built a Computer 修炼百年，我造出一台电脑 [Almost Invincible] The protagonist rarely meets anyone he can't beat, and he's no pushover himself. [Sci-Fi and Fantasy] He'll eventually combine science fiction with fantasy. [Slice-of-Life Farming Style] He'll build up his own forces and increase production. [Genius and All-Rounder] He'll eventually evolve himself. He accidentally transmigrated to a world of cultivation. Wang Ke had no grand ambitions. He just wanted to cure his internet addiction. Then he spent a hundred years. And built a 197Reads6.2Score105Shelves
- 65 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times, but My Brother Seems Even More Like a Transmigrator Than I Do 穿越古代我哥比我还像穿越者 Alternate World / Ancient Era / Farming / Imperial Exams After a plane crash, Chen Jingming transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a farmer's son. His family is split up because they need to pay for his medical treatment, and his older brother goes missing. Later, the eldest brother returns from a long journey and sends him to school. Eldest Brother: “Little brother, our family's honor rests entirely on you!” But later, as he watches the family estate grow, Chen Jingming realizes that the 15.8kReads9.0Score2kShelves
- 66 From the Start, I'm a Superman Clone, So I Grab a Bucket and Run 开局成为超人克隆体，我提桶跑路 Reader’s Guide: 0. This new title, “Colonizer,” is best enjoyed alongside the sour-grapes comments in the one-star reviews and the bitter remarks from people too chicken to leave. Their promised land, the Lighthouse Nation, has already been flattened in this book. The more brainless the bad reviews, the more they prove I’m writing well. :) 1. Both this book and its author uphold the One China principle. The entire book is free, too. Middlemen and traitors, don’t come here looking for attention. 1.1kReads8.0Score112Shelves
- 67 The Supreme Soviet of the Vampire World 血族世界的最高苏维埃 [Low-Magic World] [No System] [No Golden Finger] [Protagonist Transmigrates Whole] [Grassroots Path] [Encircle the Cities from the Countryside] Twelve hundred years ago, the vampires rose to power in Sylvania... Eight hundred years ago, they unleashed the first Vampire Calamity, which was successfully put down by the combined forces of the human kingdoms and the Holy Church Alliance. Over the next six hundred years, the vampires kept returning. With steel, gunpowder, and faith, the Holy Church A 17.3kReads9.3Score2kShelves
- 68 A Wandering Knight's Frontier Expeditions 流浪骑士的异域开荒 After transmigrating to another world, Xiao En finds himself inhabiting the body of a wandering knight. He considers his options: witness dazzling magic, experience a knight’s invincibility, or roam another world fighting dragons and monsters? But what lies before him is a hopelessly chaotic land. Looking at the fields choked with weeds, he wishes he could drag the bandits out and kill them all over again. “Is this how you grow crops?” 917Reads7.6Score105Shelves
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I Transmigrated as the German Emperor: I'll Restore Germany to Glory! 穿越德皇：我重振德意志！
Zhao Zheng, a PhD in history, wakes up to find that he has taken over the body of Wilhelm II, Germany’s last emperor, in 1918! He has only two days before his abdication! Berlin is in turmoil, mutinous sailors seize power, and the Entente powers mass their troops at the border. The once-glorious Second Reich is on the brink of collapse! But armed with a century of historical knowledge, Zhao Zheng refuses to repeat the tragedy! He kicks the arrogant powerbroker Ludendorff aside and seizes iron-fi
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The Ten Thousand Mountains: 1840 十万大山：1840
A logistics park transmigrates as a group to parallel-world Blue Star in the late Qing era, where they lie low and build strength in the mountains. They fight pirates, battle foreign devils, and establish a naval base in Nanyang. Step by step, they grow stronger, taking root like a fierce tiger and emerging with the force of a soaring dragon.
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Desert Island Survival: I Build a Civilization from Scratch with the Goddess 荒岛求生：我带女神手搓文明
[Desert Island Survival · Technical Expertise · Minor System · Farming and Construction · Multiple Heroines] A plane crashes, leaving six survivors stranded on an uninhabited desert island. There’s no rescue, only a perilous primeval rainforest. Li Yunfan, a former project manager, is bound to the Survival Encyclopedia System. There’s no spiritual qi revival, just practical skills like making fire with a drill, firing bricks, smelting iron, taming animals, and farming. In this desperate situatio
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- 72 Work Hard and Make Money! I'm Buying Back the Earth! 努力赚钱！我要把地球买回来！ Earth was divided into colonies tens of thousands of years ago? No way! We Earthlings won’t accept that! ...An interstellar treaty? Warships capable of destroying a star system? Warriors who can punch satellites into smithereens? Uh... How much? I’ll buy Earth back! —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Starting Out as a Space Junk Scavenger 从太空垃圾佬开始
[Space Opera] [Exploration and Frontier Development] [Interstellar Trade] [Dreadnoughts and Big Guns] [Interstellar Colonization] A modern man transmigrates to the interstellar age, but can't handle future technology? No problem, Emperor Gaozu of Han already showed us the way. I'll start my own business, offering benefits with one hand and dangling promises with the other. I don't need to master everything; the talented people will take care of it for me. From the start, my unreliable parents di
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- 74 Longevity: I Was Picked Up by Xu Da in the Ming Dynasty 长生：我在大明被徐达捡回家 [Longevity] [Healing] [Feel-good power fantasy] In the fifth year of the Hongwu reign, Yang Xuan met Xu Da, who had returned from a failed northern campaign. To fill his belly, Yang Xuan agreed to become Xu Da’s disciple, beginning his years in the Great Ming dynasty. He lived through the bloodshed of the Hongwu era, witnessed the nations paying court during the Yongle era, and saw the prosperity of the Ren and Xuan reigns. He was Zhu Biao’s close friend and confidant. He was the person Zhu Di t 23.7kReads8.7Score1.9kShelves
- 75 The Skeleton Lord's Growth Journal 骷髅领主的成长日记 I unexpectedly transmigrated to another world. Others became immortals or Buddhas, while even the less fortunate got to rise from being nobodies. But when Gu Erdan got here, he realized he had nothing to look forward to. Because this guy had become a skeleton soldier! And not just any skeleton soldier, but a low-grade, headless, battle-damaged wreck of one! Life is hard, so the skeleton sighed. Looking at his body, without an ounce of flesh on it, Gu Erdan decided he would show everyone how to m 3.6kReads9.1Score461Shelves
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The Strong-Armed Chef Guards the Frontier, and I Snatched My Husband 大力厨娘守边关，夫君是我抢来的
(Farming and Food + Building Wealth + Super Strength + A Touch of Ensemble Cast + Live-in Son-in-Law + Sweet Romance) (Fair-skinned, beautiful, super-strong cook VS gloomy, lovesick, scheming heir) Modern master chef Li Lanxue transmigrates to an ancient border region. No System, no pocket dimension, no golden finger, and not even the original owner's memories. All she has is tremendous strength. A mute old woman takes her in, and she faces the government's forced marriage policy. Thus begins he
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- 77 The Princess and Her Obsessive Bodyguard Flee Famine, Then Unite the World 公主带偏执护卫逃荒后一统天下 [Farming + Sweet Romance + Fleeing Famine + Pocket Dimension + Empress + A World Map to Help Me Conquer the Globe] (Also titled: After Transmigrating, I Built an Everlasting Great Xia) After the birthmark on Li Lingwei's palm suddenly turns into a pocket dimension and a transmigration countdown appears, she goes on a shopping spree, stockpiling supplies like crazy. She thinks the apocalypse is coming, but instead she transmigrates into the body of Great Xia's princess, whose kingdom is on the ve 345Reads8.7Score102Shelves
- 78 I, the Skeleton Emperor! Pay Up! 我！骷髅大帝！打钱！ A skeleton spearman who excels at surprise charges and blazing straight down the road. A Dark Warrior who takes life and death in stride and fights anyone who crosses him. A skeleton archer who can snipe your tonsils from four hundred kilometers away. Skeleton Emperor Qin Feng figures that his underlings might, possibly, perhaps be just a tiny bit dim-witted. Still, they’re pretty decent. Whether there’s trouble or not, they’ll charge in anyway, and if there isn’t any trouble, they’ll find some 19.5kReads9.1Score1.7kShelves
- 79 One Essay on Young China, and I’m Forced to Rebel 一篇少年华夏说，我被迫造反 Liu Wu shouted from the podium: “Great Qian is weak and declining. Today, things have reached the point of no return.” “The imperial clan and the nobles and officials cling to outdated ways, covering up the truth with empty appearances.” “Proud Huaxia is scorned by the nations and looked down upon by foreign peoples.” “We scholars have studied the books of the sages so hard. How can we not do everything in our power to turn the tide and restore the Han?” One scholar said, “Liu Wu, are you trying 3.9kReads8.6Score248Shelves
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Late Ming: For All the People of the Realm 明末：为了天下万民
[Late Ming + Farming + Ensemble Cast + Chongzhen + Rebellion + Business + No System] In the eighth year of the Chongzhen reign, Zhou Huaimin transmigrates to Zhoujiagou, Gong County, Henan. Drought and locust plagues ravage the land, refugees are everywhere, rebel bands pass through, and bandits are as thick as weeds. To protect their homes and their people, the protagonist organizes a peasant association. He leads the villagers in a desperate struggle to survive between rival factions and natur
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- 81 I Turned a Lord's Game into a Farming and Hoarding Simulator 领主游戏被我玩成种田囤货流 [Farming + Infrastructure + Gaming + Leveling + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Western Fantasy] With Blue Star on the verge of destruction, an unknown force dragged Robin into a game called Lord’s Era, where he nearly died the moment he arrived. [Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have awakened a Lord Talent: Put in one unit of effort and reap a hundredfold joy.] “Wait, it’s all desert around here. No matter how hard I work, all I’ll get is sand!” [Ding! You killed an unknown magical beast (Tier 1), ga 1.5kReads7.5Score115Shelves
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1912: Sweep Through a Chaotic Era with My Arsenal 1912：我靠军火库横扫乱世
Late Qing dynasty, the third year of Xuantong, Rong County, Sichuan. Gunfire echoes across the land. A world in turmoil is coming, and the nation is on the brink of collapse. Chen Feng, a soldier in the Jiaolong Special Operations Assault Team, opens his eyes to find that he has transmigrated into this turbulent era, where human life is worth less than grass. Bandits run rampant within the country, and mutinous soldiers burn and slaughter. The Qing court is corrupt, while foreign powers circle l
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- 83 Lord: From the Start, Am I Really Marrying a Villainess? 领主：开局迎娶恶役千金？ [Lord + Farming + Western Fantasy] After transmigrating into the last game he played before dying, and somehow being chosen by the royal family, Lind became the doomed fiancé in the game, dragged into a rebellion by a villainess heiress. To avoid the tragic ending of the original story, Lind had no choice but to find a way to save himself in this increasingly fantastical world. Years later, some outlying races heard a human whisper: “Why do barbarian tribes keep spawning on the empire’s borders? 27.2kReads8.8Score2.4kShelves
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Frontier Lord: From Refugee to City Ruler 边陲领主：从逃难者到城市之主
A modern office drone trapped in the 996 grind wakes up inside a game with twelve elderly and infirm refugees, fleeing to the frontier. Wolves, bandits, and blizzards take turns making their lives miserable. If he can’t go back, he’ll use modern knowledge to turn this wilderness into an impregnable fortress! In the final second before dying from overwork, Liu Feng is still stockpiling supplies in Farthest Frontier. When he opens his eyes again, he’s the “lord” of thirteen refugees: a broken-do
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- 85 I Thought This Was a Game, So Why Am I Fighting for Control of Space? 说好的游戏，你让我争霸太空？ First-person, space opera, hard sci-fi, gaming, interstellar, leveling up, magic, technology I only entered this game because I was blackmailed, and I never planned to make a career out of mining. Becoming a space pirate was even more of an accident... But in this game, which can affect reality, it started with doing things for the guild, then for Earth, and now for the entire galaxy. I have no choice but to keep taking risks. My name is Lu An, also known as Lu An. You may have heard of me at Me 25Reads6.7Score—Shelves
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Notes on Farming in the Middle Realm 中界种田笔记
Lin Fan, an industrial enthusiast, is transported to another world and becomes a minor lord. No System, no golden finger, just the history of industry in his head. From the Newcomen engine to the Watt engine, from muzzle-loading guns to breech-loading cannons, others rely on magic; he relies on technology. A serious industrial-revolution farming novel. Feel free to put it to the test.
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Wasteland Farming Handbook: From Refugee to King 荒原种田手册，从难民奋斗到国王
[Western Fantasy, farming, refugees rising up, conquest, knights, magic, technological progress, dragons, elves...] After transmigrating to a Western fantasy world where knights and magic coexist, Gray isn't despairing. But when he ends up a refugee on the verge of starving to death, Gray is very much despairing... Once he reaches the wasteland, Gray must face not only its harsh conditions and savage tribes, but also navigate the power struggles with the upper nobility while leading his people.
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Building Terraced Fields on the Loess Plateau 黄土高原开梯田
[No System] [Period Novel] [Upright Values] He carved out a place for himself with his own hands. He made the yellow earth bloom with his sweat. This is a farming novel about changing the whole world through hard work!
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The Dragon Rises in America 龙起美洲
[System] [Primitive Era] [War] [Civilization] [Pioneering] [Colonization] [Amazon] Special forces soldier Liu Shuo crashes in an accident and transmigrates to the perilous Amazon rainforest in 1541. He thought this was nothing more than a primitive wilderness where people lived like beasts, a human no-go zone famous to later generations. He never imagined that before Europeans brought the catastrophe of smallpox, this rainforest had already nurtured countless brilliant civilizations. In the popu
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- 90 The End of the Han: Brocade-Sailed Armor Fills the City 汉末之满城尽带锦帆甲 [System + Three Kingdoms + Colonization + War + Expansion Abroad] While others fought over provinces and commanderies at the end of the Han dynasty, I, Gan Ning, would turn the whole world upside down. Forced to raise the banner of rebellion after starting out as a pirate of the Brocade Sails, I carved my way through the chaos: I crushed Gongsun Zan, defeated Yuan Shao, captured Lu Bu, destroyed Cao Wei, swallowed Shu Han, and unified Jiangdong. I pacified the Nine Provinces at home and expanded 1.5kReads8.2Score123Shelves
- 91 Summoning System: I Rule the World with the Han Iron Cavalry 召唤系统：我以大汉铁骑霸天下 [Total War: Three Kingdoms System + Conquest + Another World + Summoning + National Destiny] Starting with a tiny mountain stronghold, he possesses the Total War: Three Kingdoms System. Every time he plunders silver, he can summon an army of legendary heroes from the Three Kingdoms. From then on, Liu Wei establishes the Han dynasty, pacifies foreign tribes, conquers the Central Plains, gathers the Nine Tripods, and unites the fortune of the Human Emperor. He follows the martial path to immortali 9.3kReads8.8Score537Shelves
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Apocalypse: I Can Summon Stalkers 末世：我能召唤潜行者
[Just started receiving ratings, please be kind] [Doomsday] [System-Based] [No Mass Troops] [Hardcore] The virus shreds civilization; steel crushes humanity. An unknown virus erupts, turning the entire Federation into a hunting ground of flesh and blood. Mutants' bone blades tear through soldiers' body armor, corrosives' acid melts tank plating, and the Hive Mind's psychic pulses plunge entire cities into silence. Meanwhile, Liu Rui accidentally picks up a PDA and activates the Stalker System. W
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- 93 EN The Doomsday Codex 末日法典 Chen Cheng, the youngest Nobel laureate, transmigrates and is reborn. In this life, he is reborn as a royal infant. He had thought he could enjoy every luxury thanks to his status as a prince, but never imagined that his new identity would make him a figure everyone despised. The destruction of a civilization, a victor's paean. See how a prince, hated by all and bereft of his country and family, makes a comeback and composes a magnificent paean to civilization for the world to hear. 179Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 EN Surviving the Misty Apocalypse, I Build a Home with Eldritch Flesh 全民迷雾求生，我用邪神血肉建家 [Flesh and Bone + Apocalypse + Lovecraftian Survival + Civilization Graveyard + Mass Transmigration + No Romance] When mist shrouded the world and monsters howled outside their windows, all the players huddled and trembled inside their dilapidated shelters. But Bai Yi was teleported onto the face of the Great Being known as the “Lord of Flesh,” where he witnessed a horrific feast as an even more terrifying being devoured a planet of flesh. The fragments of flesh and bone that splattered from th 139.2kReads9.1Score12kShelves
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The Iron-Boned Ming, Zhu Qizhen the Fortress Emperor 大明硬骨头，堡宗朱祁镇
[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
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Transmigrated to Ancient Times, I Keep My Head Down and Grow Up 穿到古代苟着长大
After an ordinary woman dies, she transmigrates to another world. She is no self-sacrificing heroine! No pocket dimension, no System, no golden finger, and no awful relatives! There is a romantic pairing! This is a story of struggle built on her own experience and hard work, with farming and business management. The pace is unhurried, and life is slow. If that's not your cup of tea, please don't flame me! Any resemblance to other works is purely coincidental!
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A Lone Woman in Troubled Times, Plotting an Age of Prosperity 乱世孤女，谋千古盛世
[Strong Female Lead + No CP + Empress + Ensemble Cast + Political Scheming + War + Power Struggles in a Chaotic Era + Nation-Building and Farming + No Spatial Storage or System + Slow-Burn Growth + Epic Length] Yun Huaijin suddenly became a "corpse" in a world torn apart by chaos. She crawled out of a pile of bodies, with only a child on the verge of starving to death beside her. In this world, nobles lived in drunken indulgence, powerful clans monopolized knowledge, bandits slaughtered withou
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An Immortal Clan: I Can Change My Descendants' Aptitudes 不朽家族，我能改变子孙资质
[Farming + System + family saga + partial ensemble cast + slow burn + no saintly heroine + not a power fantasy] After Zhou Ping died, he was reborn in a world of cultivation. The Great Dao flourished in this world, where carefree immortals roamed between heaven and earth and mighty beings enjoyed eternal life. Yet it was also rife with endless dangers: demons and beasts ran rampant, while ordinary people were no more than grass or ants. Though he had a System, it was practically useless. After t
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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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Ironblooded Late Ming 铁血残明
In the late Ming dynasty, Spain and Japan gradually restricted the outflow of silver, reversing the capital inflow that the Ming had enjoyed since the early sixteenth century. The commercial and smallholder economies that coexisted under the Ming were both hit by deflation. Combined with the effects of the Little Ice Age, one domino after another fell, plunging the realm into chaos. In the eleventh month of the sixth year of the Chongzhen reign, the roving rebels crossed the river south of Mianc
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