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 Rich Kid Who Turned His Life Around by Writing Web Novels After Going into Debt 富二代的我负债后竟用写网文翻身
An A9-level rich kid and civil servant, buried in debt, somehow turns his life around by writing web novels and rises to the top… Writing and paying off his debts are the main threads of the story, interwoven with family secrets, analysis of current affairs, reflections on life, clever part-time job tips, writing advice, and more... The novel is packed with knowledge from economics, philosophy, history, sociology, management, and other fields. It’s not a power fantasy, but it will absolutely sho
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Fallen Stars: I Lead Humanity’s Resistance Against Earth’s Colonizers 坠落繁星：我带人类反抗地球殖民
[No System]+ [Interstellar Arrival]+ [Conquest of Another World]+ [Civilization Building]+ [Awakening Past-Life Memories]+ [Anti-Colonial] In the Apocalypse Era, the Earth Alliance is controlled by the Anglo faction. Under the banner of “civilizational expansion,” it monopolizes interstellar resources and treats its advance teams as cannon fodder, casting them out to the edge of the universe. The fleet encounters an unknown gravitational force and crashes on a savage planet: Guixu. It hides the
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I Launched the Immortal Realm Version of Douyin, and the Holy Land Ancestors Lost It 发布抖音仙界版，圣地老祖破防了
[Cultural invasion of the cultivation world] + [Lighthearted comedy] Lin Ye transmigrates into a cultivation world where righteous and demonic factions are locked in mortal opposition, becoming a demonic overlord who has gone undercover in the righteous path. If war breaks out between the two sides, he’s as good as dead. Fortunately, he awakens the God-Tier Entertainment System. It gives the entire cultivation world access to the internet and brings over a host of entertainment devices and apps
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Villain: My Little Brother is the Chosen One 反派：我的弟弟是天选之子
"Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain
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All Eight Empresses Betrayed Me: Reborn to Die of Regret 八女帝全背叛，重生悔到肠断
[Reborn]+ [Wife-Chasing Crematorium]+ [Deep Regret]+ [Ridiculously Satisfying]+ [Absolutely No Reconciliation]+ [Commentary That’ll Make You Die Laughing]+ [Comedy] In his previous life, everyone envied Lu Ye, the Nine-Lives Heavenly Venerable. Not only did he have nine lives, he also had eight stunningly beautiful confidantes. Who could have imagined that when Lu Ye attempted to become a Heavenly Dao Saint, all eight of his confidantes would join forces to strike him down? Nine Heavens Sword
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From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老
[Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up
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The White Bone Daoist Court 白骨道庭
Cultivate true energy, build the foundation of the Dao, and manifest the Yin Spirit. The unorthodox path makes seeking the Dao difficult: refine baleful energy, taint the soul, and seek freedom for a fleeting moment. The heterodox path is arduous too: evade earthfire, dodge astral winds, and give birth to the Yang Spirit. A master of the unorthodox path is reborn. In this life, I will establish a Dao lineage, nurture Dao artifacts, and suppress an entire age.
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Global Lord: I'm a Construction Maniac 全民领主：我是基建狂魔
[Lord + Farming + Conquest] One hundred million players around the world entered the virtual game “Everyone’s Lord.” Only when the entire world was unified could they leave the game. Five farmers from the start, and every resource had to be won through battle. Chen Fei gained the [Construction Maniac] talent from the start, increasing construction speed by 1,000%! He built a city, and a colossal structure fifty meters tall was completed in a single day! A six-lane asphalt road was finished in on
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Another Golden Finger 又来一个金手指
Second-year history student Luo Man was transmigrating through an uninhabited zone when he was caught in a temporal turbulence and swept billions of years into Earth's future. Strangely, there was no trace of the civilization that had once existed here. The heroine, Andrea Andrea, is more than just a princess: she is also the leader of another faction. As they discover one ancient civilization after another, Luo Man and Andrea gradually realize that civilization's collapse was no accident. An al
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Awakened Organ Fusion, Reborn Among the Zerg and Eating My Fill 觉醒器官融合，重生虫族我吃爽了
Also known as "Awakening Organ Fusion: At Last, I Die as a Human" and "Reborn as an Insect: I Evolve by Fusing with My Own Kind" Over 0 copies sold | 0 completed works with over a million words | An IP from the Chinese Web Fiction Influence List [Reborn] + [Leveling up] + [Insectoid evolution] In his previous life, at the lowest point in his life, Gong Chong awakened the most useless golden finger of all: the [Organ Fusion System]. After reading the instructions on the System, he couldn’t help s
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After We Had a Baby in My Dreams, They All Came True 梦里和娘子生娃后，她们都成真了
When he was eighteen, Lin Chuan got the Dream-Reincarnation System. In dream reincarnations, he could experience everything with complete realism and customize the dream's traits. Enter the traits [Villainous Demoness], [Swordsmanship Prodigy], and [Dual Personality], and the dream became a winding prelude to cultivation. Enter [Childhood Sweetheart], [Scion of a Prominent Family], and [Close Friend in the Martial World], and the dream became a stirring journey through the martial world. Enter [
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I Build Infrastructure in Ancient Times 我在古代搞基建
[Woman Disguised as a Man + Infrastructure Building + Career-Focused + Fiercely Protective + Clear-Eyed Heroine] Original title: Building Infrastructure in Ancient Times Tang Yixuan, a brilliant engineer, transmigrates into the body of a woman who has taken her brother’s place as the new magistrate of Qingchuan County. To stay alive, she racks her brains and exhausts every resource at her disposal. She builds waterworks, raises tall buildings, paves roads with concrete, and constructs a city. Be
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Infrastructure: Raising Little Ones in the Great Qin Empire 基建：我在大秦养崽崽
[Infrastructure building + sweet romance + System + food + raising a child + devoted 1v1 romance + parallel world] [One-sentence summary] Transmigrating into the Qin dynasty, she builds infrastructure and falls into a sweet romance with Brother Zheng~ [Full synopsis] Chu Yue Ning, a crafting blogger, thought she would live an ordinary, peaceful life. Unexpectedly, a moment of kindness sent her transmigrating to the Qin dynasty two thousand years ago, where she happened to spend a passionate nigh
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Fleeing Disaster: Our Whole Family Transmigrated to Ancient Times to Survive 天灾逃荒：全家穿到古代求生存
[No romantic pairing + farming + infrastructure development + exile + famine migration, a pure plot-driven novel] Ji Xingran never imagined that simply climbing a mountain would result in their family of three transmigrating. They even transmigrated into a group of exiles headed toward a bitterly cold land. Fortunately, all three family members' backpacks became spatial storage, and Ji Xingran also gained special survival skill points that allowed them to predict the weather, gather wild fruit,
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Conquest of the Star Sea: Am I the Only One Choosing to Ascend Through Natural Disasters? 星海争霸，只有我选择天灾飞升？
[This book is the sequel to "Cultivating Immortality Is Hard? I Can Just Rewind Infinitely"!] [StarCraft + Warhammer + Fourth Calamity + Scheming and Hilarious + Rivers of Blood + No Female Lead] When human civilization broke free of gravity and reached the sea of stars, a brutal yet dazzling game of war began. Every powerful lord was a precious beacon of hope for all of human civilization, bringing blessings that would lead it forward. Just as civilization was flourishing in every direction, te
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Legend of the Primordial Spirit Heroes 元灵英雄传
Once upon a time, the realms of Heaven and Earth were connected. The gods of the heavenly domains protected humanity, while mighty human martial cultivators roamed the world. The alliance between gods and humans held the foreign races of the earthly realm and the demons of Heaven’s domains at bay, temporarily halting their expansion. But then the Gate between Heaven and Earth suddenly closed. The gods fell or vanished, and humanity’s great powers dwindled and withdrew from the world, leaving man
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Ancient-Era Infrastructure: This Game Is Way Too Realistic! 古代基建：这游戏也太真实了！
[Ensemble Cast + Infrastructure Building] [The Fourth Calamity] [Ancient-Era Survival] [Relaxed Farming] [Slow-Burning, High-Energy] [Fallen Princess] When modern game designer Lin Xian woke up, he had transmigrated into an ancient age of chaos. The land was shattered, refugees starved across the countryside, the dynasty was crumbling, and the people were ignorant. Just as he was about to give up and wait for death, he unexpectedly connected to the game System he had designed in his previous lif
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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I, the Ultimate Schemer: The Empress Calls Me a Living Yama 我，最强毒士，女帝直呼活阎王
[Search Tomato to watch the short drama: The Third Greatest Stratagem of All Time] Gao Yang transmigrated to the Great Qian Dynasty just as the Empress ascended the throne and began recruiting talent from across the land. So he volunteered himself as a poison strategist! The Empress: “Suppose you personally wiped out your enemy's entire family. As you looked at the bodies scattered everywhere, you suddenly realized there was still a child in the house. What would you do?” Gao Yang: “I'd say, ‘Re
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The Monsters I Created! 我创造的怪物！
[Behind the Scenes + Ensemble Cast + Cosmic Horror + No System + No Romance] Also known as: Dark Revelation Gods and demons, dragons, and the apocalypse were once fairy tales. The mysteries of this world have faded from sight, yet someone has brought those long-lost things back into the public eye. And every clue, every lead, points to a man named Chen Ye. “Friends, would you cast off this flesh and join us in embracing evolution?” Extended blurb: Sequence 001: The Mimic Sequence 002: The Deep O
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A Storm Rises, and the Beauty Takes a Stand 风起云涌红颜怒
The male lead is not chaste. Please avoid this if that bothers you. Since I've transmigrated, why not make the country strong and conquer the world? Even if I'm forced into a relationship, I'll still make money and build my career. After transmigrating into the body of a stunningly beautiful female doctor, she remains devoted to the man she loves. She and her fiancé are in love with each other and have sworn to stay together for life, growing old side by side. Yet the iron-blooded “God of Slaug
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I Really Run an Orphanage, Not an Assassin's Den 我开的真是孤儿院，不是杀手堂
[Comic adaptation in progress...] [The short drama of the same name is now streaming! Watch it on Hongguo!] [The only ensemble martial arts novel on the site with such a wild imagination!] [Over 1.5 million readers at its peak, ranked seventh across all of Tomato Novel. Come on in and see for yourselves!] [Ensemble cast + System + traits + martial arts] Chen Ye transmigrates to the Great Wu Dynasty and binds himself to an orphan-training System. As long as he raises orphans, he earns points, whi
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The Holy White Crown 圣白冠冕
[Fast-Paced] [Explosive Action] [Ruler] [From Eaglefolk Tribe to Angel Empire] [Ascend to Godhood on the Throne] [Clash of the Gods] [Early Transmigration] [Minor System] [One Female Lead] [An animated comic adaptation is out, come watch!] Demon God: When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you! Jiang You: Wrong. Abyss, when you gaze at heaven, heaven gazes back at you! The First Saga: The Primordial Age. Humans do not yet exist. The ancestors of the elves are still trolls, the Tita
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It's Doomsday, and I'm Still Delivering Takeout 都末日了，我还在送外卖
[No System + No Superpowers + A Zombie Apocalypse Where Everyone Is Infected] My name is Lu Ye, and I’m a software engineer who got laid off. That day, I was making food deliveries as usual. When I saw a customer raise the tip to thirteen thousand just to get a bag of rice delivered, I knew the apocalypse was coming. This book may be unlike any apocalypse story you’ve read before, because the protagonist is a normal person, not a dumbass.
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A Lowly Maid's Journey Through Time and Space 孤婢的逆时空
"Past and present worlds connected + Golden finger + Getting rich through business + Opening a school in the modern world to enroll students from ancient times + Sweet romance" A martial-arts-trained maid from ancient times is fiercely loyal to her mistress, but her mistress grows suspicious of her and orders her hunted down. While fleeing, the maid accidentally transmigrates to the modern world, where she meets the son of an antiques dealer. From then on, she uses the space and System she gaine
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Frozen Three Kingdoms: My Territory Can Be Upgraded Without Limit 冰封三国：我的领地能无限升级
The world enters an age of permafrost. Temperatures plunge by a hundred degrees, frozen beasts roam, eerie monsters rise, and humanity struggles to survive. Liu Zhi transmigrates into this world and is met with a village massacre by snow boars from the start. His father dies in battle, most of the two-hundred-person camp is killed or wounded, and then a ghost bride chooses him as her groom. At the brink of despair, the Territory System activates! [Small Bonfire]: Raises the temperature within te
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Endless Devouring: The Unseen Laws 无尽残噬：未见的法则
[Trapped-room opening + survival adventure + graphic gore + unknown creatures + mechanical engineering + contamination + mutation] ~When Zhang Huan wakes up, he finds himself with several strangers in a sealed apartment with no doors. They have all lost their memories. Also trapped with them is a mysterious female corpse in the basement. They decide to find a way out of the carefully designed apartment. The red fog outside the windows grows thicker, and the corpse’s eyes are slowly opening...~ (
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Lord of the Cursed Objects 诡物领主
Aierde transmigrates and immediately becomes a strange creature. From the start, he has a powerful female ghost on his side: Alice, a cool and aloof big sister, as well as Daqi, a gluttonous and hopelessly inept female swordswoman. Together with his two companions, he opens an anything-goes bounty hunter’s office in his territory of Duntunbao. To keep the territory from going hungry for three days out of every nine, they work tirelessly in a world overrun by strange creatures.
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Dating? I Just Want to Afford a Decent Meal! 恋爱？我只想吃上拼好饭！
[Can’t think of a title? Read the blurb! Strong female lead + no golden finger + social mobility + ensemble cast (a portrait of all kinds of people) + no romance, only companionship and exploitation + dark fictional world modeled on Europe + social savvy + Please read the author’s note in Chapter One for more about the story] Allison is a materials science PhD with twenty-six SCI papers to her name. Just as she plans to spend her life doing research, a laboratory explosion hurls her into this fi
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Did I Turn Apocalypse Survival into a Game? 我把末世求生变成了游戏？
Jiang Yao accidentally binds herself to a System that can travel to a real-world apocalypse. But the apocalypse is too dangerous, so Jiang Yao decides to fool the people of Earth: “This is the latest virtual reality game!” After recruiting countless free player goons, the missions become a breeze But why are the players’ wages all supplies they’ve painstakingly earned by fighting monsters and scavenging? System: Well, it’s because you hired too many goons, and the System ran out of resources~ Co
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