Are There Really No Good Post-Apocalyptic Novels Anymore? 末世文都没有好看的了嘛
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The Ice-Cold Giant Fish 冰冰巨鱼
[No System + no heroine + a touch of golden finger + farming + raising and developing + slow-burn survival + not a saint, but still compassionate] All of humanity transmigrates to a strange ocean world, where they must survive inside the stomach of a giant fish called the Illusory Leviathan. Humans must help the Illusory Leviathan clear harmful creatures from its stomach. In return, the Illusory Leviathan finds supply crates for them and helps them develop. The creatures in this ocean world are
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The Prison God Returns 狱神归来
The Supreme War God returned in glory, only to discover that his daughter had been sold off to a remote mountain village, where she lived in a chicken coop and ate chicken feed. His wife was seriously injured and hospitalized, too. In a fit of thunderous rage, the Ten Yamas and Twenty-Four Battle Generals withdrew from the battlefield across the heavens to sweep away the War God's enemies! From family clans and sects to financial conglomerates and aristocratic houses, from legislators and heads
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The Hades Hall 冥王殿
Five years ago, Su Tianyu lost his family overnight and tearfully drove his pregnant wife from their home. After five years of war, he has become the king of a dark empire, and every move he makes shakes the entire world. His mother is taken away, his aunt is mauled to death by vicious dogs. Then a trembling four-year-old girl calls her father... No one could have imagined that this call, and his fury, would make the entire world tremble. At his command, ten great War Kings and countless soldier
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Born an Immortal Emperor in an Instant: Invincible in Every Way 出生秒仙帝，除了无敌就是无敌
Unbeatable + insanely satisfying + lighthearted and funny + overpowered background + everything cranked up to the max + doing absolutely nothing Lin Yang dies from working overtime and transmigrates into a fantasy world, where he awakens the Slacker System. As long as he doesn’t feel like putting in any effort, he gets endless rewards. From the start, his unborn twin sister, an Empress, wants to take a share of his fortune? Suit yourself! He gets Primordial Violet Qi, a Pangu True Womb… and e
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The Super Crown Prince 超级太子爷
The eldest young master of the Kang family is plied with drink on the eve of his engagement banquet. When he wakes the next day, he gets a troublesome playboy System. At the banquet, his fiancee publicly breaks off the engagement. Watch how Young Master Kang uses the troublesome System to turn his fortunes around and rise to the pinnacle of life.
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Dimensional Invaders Target My Higher-Dimensional Legacy 纬度入侵我的高维遗产
Earth is suddenly struck by a cataclysmic change. Ripples from a war in the fourth dimension pierce time and space, and the laws of reality begin to collapse. Ling Feng, an ordinary engineer, is caught in an experimental accident that sends his consciousness to the edge of a higher-dimensional battlefield. As he lies near death, he inherits the legacy of a fallen "Guardian": a cultivation manual called Star Origin Art and a mysterious dimensional stabilizer. When he returns to reality, the worl
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When the Apocalypse Hits, Don’t Panic: Stockpile Food First, Then Guns 末世降临不要慌，先囤粮食后囤枪
[Apocalypse rebirth + stockpiling supplies + space + no romance + infrastructure building + ruthless heroine] Jiang You never dreamed that she would evade the zombies’ claws only to be betrayed by the very family she had protected. Years later, she destroyed the research center where she’d been imprisoned. Everyone who betrayed her? Dead! The base that turned against her? Wiped out! Who waits until the next life to get revenge?! With her revenge complete, Jiang You ran out of her supernatu
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The Apocalypse Is Coming? I’ll Arrive First! 末日降临？我先降临！
[The print edition of I'm a Supplier of Survival Plans for the End Times is now available on major platforms] [Character growth · Multi-theme stages · Ensemble cast · Occasional brutal takedowns · No cookie-cutter plot · No mindless wish fulfillment] After facing repeated layoffs and betrayals, Su Jin was at the lowest point of his life when he was accidentally hired by a mysterious company. Countless worlds are on the brink of destruction. Only by saving their clients can the sparks of civiliza
567.9kReads9.2Score50.7kShelves
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Surviving the Apocalypse: The Instance Dungeon Is My Home 末世求生，副本是我家
When Ji He transmigrated, she thought she'd gotten the script of a business tycoon. She worked hard to make money, all so she could count it until her hands cramped. Then she suddenly discovered she was in a post-apocalyptic survival story. She refused to accept it. But what could she do? With the belief that a miserable life is better than a quick death, Ji He did her best to keep her head down. She worked by day, dug tunnels at night, and even ran a dungeon whenever she had time. She lived by
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The Rise of Jiuzhou: Qingping Rises Again 九州之崛起之青萍再起
A meteor streaked rapidly toward Fanhuai Star from the dark reaches of space, traveling at three hundred kilometers per second. Its trajectory aligned perfectly with Blue Star’s orbit, making it the tenth interstellar visitor from beyond the star region. Everyone assumed it was merely a planet’s remnants, drifting through space after an explosion and eventually reaching them. But no one knew what the meteorite it carried in its wake would bring...
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Growing One Point a Year: From Country Bumpkin to Ancestor of the Immortal Realm 每年加一点从山野村夫成仙界道祖
[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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There's Always an Encounter That Feels Just Right 总有一场相遇是自己喜欢的的
There is always a chance encounter that feels just right.
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The Spirit Gourd’s Path to Immortality 灵葫芦修仙记
Er Gouzi is an honest, hardworking farmer. His greatest dream is to save up enough to buy a few acres, become a small landowner, and marry a buxom, strong-legged wife. Then his life would be perfect. But after an accident leaves him with a gourd and an old swindler talks him into it, he blunders into the path of immortality and gets dragged into conflict. Even so, he never forgets his original goal: he just wants to farm...
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Mortal Bones 凡骨
The world’s spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade, Heavenly Spiritual Bone. Second grade, Golden Spiritual Bone. Third grade, Profound Spiritual Bone. Fourth grade, White Spiritual Bone. All the rest are mortal bones, with no chance of cultivating. Xu Taiping, born with mortal bones, swears to prove to the cultivation world that mortal bones can slay demons, mortal bones can vanquish devils, and mortal bones can ascend to immortality!
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The Underworld 黑道
What is the Dao? It does not arise because of one person's goodness, nor perish because of one person's evil. Good and evil are determined by people; rise and fall are determined by fate. The people of the world think they are fighting for money, power, or pride. Only in the end do they understand that they were fighting for nothing but illusion. The Dao knows no black or white. All living beings are within the game. (Note: This book is extremely realistic and even somewhat oppressive. Re
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In and Around the Village 村里村外
His beautiful mother was nearly assaulted by a village lout, but she tearfully begged the man who rescued her not to call the police. Young Gao Yuan couldn’t understand why at the time. Only when he reached his thirties and looked back on the past, with those scenes flashing through his mind, did he realize that the lives of countless rural people together form a chronicle of the mountains and rivers of China!
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My Freshman Internship: You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物
[Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa
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You Destroyed My Dantian This Morning, Now I’m Burning Paper at Your Grave 上午毁我丹田，下午在你坟前烧纸
[The physical edition of One Thought, Phoenix Rising is available on all platforms] Feng Xi transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder female side character, and the day she enters the book is the day she is doomed to die. To stay alive, she does everything she can to leave the heroine's sect, the Hunyuan Sect, and join the Xuantian Sect instead. Oh! All five of her senior brothers are the heroine's devoted admirers in the book, and each one dies more miserably than the last. Feng
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The Emperor's Gold Medal County Magistrate 皇家金牌县令
[Farming + lighthearted fun + transmigration] Fang Zhengyi transmigrates to the Great Jing dynasty and becomes a county magistrate. After seven years of work, he has created his own earthly paradise. He’d planned to live out his days as a carefree little emperor. In the thirteenth year of the Jinghe era, the emperor of Great Jing travels incognito and accidentally wanders into Taoyuan County... The moment the emperor enters the county, he is astonished! The many strange and wondrous things leave
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National Fate: My Secret Weapons Are Just a Little Too Numerous 国运：我的秘密武器有亿点点多
Xu Jingyan transmigrates into the otherworld survival game she had been playing late at night. But it seems she hasn't simply transmigrated into the game. She's ended up in a parallel world, in the body of someone who looks just like her and has the same name. That person happens to have been chosen by the National Fortune game and sent into the otherworld survival game... Wait, are they playing some kind of nesting-doll game with her? At least there's one thing to be glad about: right before sh
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Global Freeze: I Forage for Wild Greens in the Beast World and Strike It Rich 全球冰封：我在兽世挖野菜暴富了
(Apocalypse + System + Beast World + Farming + Gourmet food + Surviving natural disasters + Adventures in another world) Natural disasters struck, and the whole world froze over. Order collapsed, and humanity fell into depravity. Hua Shiqiu watched coldly as her once-kind relatives revealed their vicious true faces. She decisively reclaimed the last of the food and chose to live alone. Just as she was starving and freezing, the Doomsday Home System made a dramatic entrance! From the start, Hua S
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Survival Game: My Luck Is MAX 生存游戏，她幸运值MAX
[Infinite-flow + survival + natural disasters + human-made calamities + romance + a heroine who is a sucker for good looks!!!] What dangers lurk aboard a train bound for an unknown destination? Multiple carriages undergo strange changes, and suddenly attacking passengers erupt into violence. An island that can grant wishes hides secrets no one knows. A town like a cage is little more than a toy in God's hands. And whose heart is stirred by the red hem fluttering high on the branch? Here, try
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I Transmigrated into a Book in the Apocalypse, and the Big Shot and I Are Bound to One Space 穿书末世，我和大佬绑了一个空间
[Apocalypse + transmigration into a book + pocket dimension + growing heroine + villainous powerhouse hero] Ning Cici transmigrates into a book, landing in an apocalypse novel she had just been reading. One second she's cutting fruit; the next, a zombie is right in her face, and she's running for her life in pajamas and slippers. If she'd known that buying the villainous big shot's matching bracelet would come with an apocalypse novel transmigration experience, she never would have messed with
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I’m a Young Lady. What’s Wrong with Acting a Little Wild in the Apocalypse? 我，大小姐，末日嚣张一点怎么了
[Natural disasters + powerful heroine + yandere + heiress to a capitalist empire + space (acquired in an unconventional way) + stockpiling supplies + regularly updated] After dying once, the heiress learns that her world is about to face a series of apocalyptic disasters: typhoons, floods, extreme cold, extreme heat, acid rain, earthquakes, and mysterious fog. The heiress smiles brightly. As the old saying goes, “After suffering through hardship, countless more hardships await.” So, The hei
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Survival in Sheep Village: From the Start, I Sign In to Claim Wolf Inventions 羊村求生：开局签到狼族发明
When they woke up, everyone on Earth found themselves in the Green Green Grasslands. That's right, the Green Green Grasslands, the world where Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf live. Here, grass grew like crazy, devouring everything. Everyone started with a sickle and had to make a living by cutting grass. Gathering supplies and fighting disasters and beasts became an unchanging part of life. Lu Feng arrived and awakened the Big Big Wolf Sign-In System. [Sign-in successful. Obtained seven-star Infi
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I Predicted 2012, and I Have an Infinite Civilization System 预言2012，我有无限文明系统
(Apocalypse + System + power fantasy + showing off + if you’re not enjoying it, feel free to roast the author) On December 21, 2012, the day said to mark the end of the world, Liang Ze was just a boy who loved life. When Heaven entrusts someone with a great mission, It first gives them a System, sparing them hardship and letting them do as they please. [Infinite Civilization System activated] [Level Two civilization detected invading] [Start the civilization devouring program?] [The end of civil
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