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1. 551 末 The Apocalypse Rules: The Seven-Day Transformation 末世规则之七日之变 A Rotten Person Who Isn't Rotten烂人不烂Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsCompleted A zombie Doomsday story with no superpowers, a focus on logic, and a realistic feel. It may touch on pets, so read with care. “A novice author's novel, pure beginner writing. Please be patient and bear with me.” The male lead is an ordinary man who, through a twist of fate, brings a mutated rabies virus back to China. It wasn't intentional, but it leads to a catastrophic disaster. On his journey to find his daughter, he faces all kinds of hardships and dangers. Only belatedly realizing what he h 805Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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   I wrote this myself, and its main focus is realism. If you like post-apocalyptic zombie stories, you should give it a try. I'm begging for reviews and ratings; thank you so much! [Sending heart]

2. 552 全 Nationwide Train Survival: I Have a Full-Map Navigator 全民列车求生：我有全图导航 Monocyte Pudding单核细胞布丁Sci-Fi & Apocalypse312k WordsOngoing (Just got its score) [Everyone’s Survival + Train + Lone Wolf + Information Advantage + Decisive Combat + Everyone Awakens Abilities + One-Man Army + From Falling Behind to Taking the Lead] Hundreds of millions of people were dragged into an underground train survival game. From the start, each person got one train. Ahead lay endless dark forks in the tracks. Players had to use the train’s core to choose a stop or a nearby track. Would they blindly pick high-level stops to maximize their gains, 2kReads6.0Score146Shelves

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   (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ Give it a little push.

3. 553 破 From the Earth, a Dragon Rises 破土化龙 Watermelons Grow on Apricot Trees西瓜长在杏树上Urban426k WordsOngoing In times of great upheaval, astonishing geniuses are bound to emerge. But perhaps even a genius has to grow, step by step. A nobody in the mortal world, Drifting through life, trapped in the armored ranks. One day, his spirit awakens and breaks through the heavens, Turning his journey around, he sets out to change his fate. The winds of another world rise from that moment on, He strides across the land, blade in hand, and makes his mark. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 554 诡 Proving Immortality in a Bizarre Apocalypse 诡谲末世证长生 Mozi Wan莫子丸Sci-Fi & Apocalypse459k WordsOngoing (Lone-wolf cultivation + no female lead + decisive and ruthless + Chinese-style Cthulhu + original Backrooms-like dungeons + myriad realms) “The moon” “impostors” “animated ██████”... The spiritual energy in this world is actually self-aware!??? Rules twist, the uncanny pours in... Look! The things in the sky... they're all alive, hahahahahahaha!! memetic contamination ███████? I don't want to save ███... I just want to... survive.!! Escape this! Damn! cage!! ? (Note: The overa 894Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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   This is good.

5. 555 末 Apocalypse Forbidden Zone: From the Start, I Awaken the Ruinstar Rule Body 末世禁区，开局觉醒墟星规则体 Brown's Knife布朗的刀Sci-Fi & Apocalypse145k WordsOngoing As the apocalypse closes in around the city, Tianshu splits it into eight districts, and the world becomes a hell where the powerful play their games. This book continues the epic saga of catastrophe in the modern world, conflicts between species, and humanity’s struggle to find a way out! Every unresolved fate and hidden truth will be revealed here! The apocalypse in this forbidden zone was never an accidental natural disaster. It is the cruelest trial of civilization, imposed on tiny humanity 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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   A must-read hardcore masterpiece for those suffering from a post-apocalyptic reading slump! The protagonist, an orphan with no one to rely on, is caught in a century-old conspiracy between the Shen and Ling families when the apocalypse arrives, where the human heart is darker than any monstrous beast. He awakens the power of the rules of the Void Star at the start, developing amidst the ruins, hunting down aberrant creatures, gradually uncovering the truth on the surface, confronting extraterrestrial civilizations, and stepping onto the interstellar stage.

6. 556 末 Doomsday Delivery: I'll Go Home After This Last Order 末世外卖：送完这单我就回家 Wait for Me to Come Today今天等我来Sci-Fi & Apocalypse101k WordsOngoing "Homebound navigation alert: A Class B mutated beast is up ahead. We recommend taking a detour." "How long will the detour take?" "Three minutes longer than your remaining lifespan." Han Dong, the top food-delivery rider in the city, transmigrates into the apocalypse with only one goal: to get home. The System offers walkthroughs but never guarantees success. Quest rewards can be doubled, but the price comes later. While others become hunters in the apocalypse, he becomes a courier: accepting or 7Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 557 小 Xiao Po's Survival Journal: Irises in the Ashes 小珀生存日记：灰烬中的鸢尾 ZhiYNA栉YNASci-Fi & Apocalypse234k WordsOngoing [This book is dedicated to portraying war and survival with uncompromising grit and realism] [#Gritty #Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland #Survival #Female Lead #War #Human Nature #Realism #Detailed Infantry Tactics] [This is a story about blood, iron, and how to breathe between the two.] A world built by the tip of a pen fiction and reality, rust, blood, and the end of the road. At the edge of the wasteland hangs an amber stone, corroded with rust; in the war zone, she blooms into a silent flower. Surv 350Reads—Score—Shelves

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   New book. War and Humanity.

8. 558 诡 Eerie: Others Choose Ugly Wives, but I Choose the Most Beautiful 诡异：别人选丑妻，我偏选最美的 Painting in Wind and Snow风雪之婳Mystery539k WordsOngoing My name is Si Ling, and I transmigrated. The good news: I was bound to a daily hint System. I knew I was set. The bad news: This world has a bizarre rule. Newcomers have to get married. If they don’t, they drop dead. The even worse news: The more beautiful the wife, the more dangerous she is. So the old-timers all agree: pick an ugly one. The uglier she is, the safer she’ll be, and the longer you’ll live. That was what I thought, too, until my System gave me three hints… So, with everyone 5.3kReads5.4Score361Shelves

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   Multiple female protagonist novels

9. 559 许 I Promise You Brilliance 许你灿烂 I'm Eleven!我是十一啦Modern Romance207k WordsCompleted [Ten-year age gap] [Both are romantically inexperienced] [Brooding CEO × quirky sweetheart] [Warm and healing] [Hilarious and heartbreaking] Thirty-two-year-old, brooding CEO Xu Jingxing runs into Wen Canlan, a bright and spirited twenty-two-year-old who was just fired by his father's company, three times in a single day. The calm lake of his heart, undisturbed for thirty-two years, ripples inexplicably, and he falls hard for her. When they run into each other again at a bar, she mistakenly thin 13Reads8.8Score—Shelves

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   It's so sweet and reassuring.

10. 560 修 Zombies Run Rampant in the Cultivation World, So I Stockpile Supplies and Build a Safe Zone 修真界丧尸横行，我囤货建安全区 Tongtong Tree桐桐树Sci-Fi & Apocalypse209k WordsOngoing [Apocalypse + cultivation + wild imagination + spatial storage + hoarding supplies + base building] Qin Yu is a low-ranking tool of her sect. In a cultivation apocalypse, they squeeze every last bit of value out of her, then abandon her to die a horrible death in a zombie horde. When she opens her eyes, she’s back seven days before the apocalypse. At that very moment, she’s being held down in the sect’s main hall and forced to confess to poisoning her junior sister. She bursts out laughing. The 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Highly recommend this book! This post-apocalyptic cultivation novel is insanely brutal! The female protagonist slaps faces and kills zombies cleanly and efficiently, without being a saint or feeling resentful. Every chapter is exhilarating, the pacing is incredibly fast, and if you're looking for something to read, grab this now!

11. 561 末 Apocalypse Reboot: I'm a Military Contractor 末世重启，我是军事承包商 Central Plains Little Fat Lamb中原小肥羊Sci-Fi & Apocalypse411k WordsOngoing Starting out as a tiny private military contractor, he rockets his way to the top five military powers on Blue Star. The Apocalypse has arrived. Zombies and mutated beasts, are you ready? [Apocalypse] + [Reborn] + [Technology] + [Superpowers] + [Zombies] + [Mutated Beasts] + [War] Good news: A meteor struck Blue Star, but humanity intercepted most of it outside the atmosphere with mushroom bombs… Bad news: I’m a private military contractor who worked my way up through hell, finally building an i 486Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 562 穿 Through the Black Hole: Searching for a Partner, I Stumble Upon a Second Earth 穿越黑洞：寻伴偶遇第二地球 Xia Pinghu峡平湖Sci-Fi & Apocalypse326k WordsCompleted ✨ Core Tags: Sci-Fi Apocalypse + Interstellar Transmigration + Ancient-Era Court Intrigue + Two Souls in One Body + Quantum Symbiosis + Everyone’s Favorite + Prince + Romance + Strong Female Lead + Strong Male Lead + Aristocratic Feuds + Vast Cosmic Setting 🔥 [Book Description] [Fresh Premise · Modern-to-Ancient Transmigration + Sci-Fi Apocalypse] She returns from a black hole, only to fall into a hopeful world that resembles the Song dynasty, but isn’t quite the same. With her home planet 5Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 563 黑 Black Rain Descends: I Rebuild Civilization with Plant-Based Powers 黑雨降临：我靠植物异能重建文明 Xuantian Yunsheng玄天芸生Sci-Fi & Apocalypse218k WordsCompleted [No System, supernatural abilities] [No rebirth] [Steady pacing] [Fighting zombies] [Collecting pets] [Surviving the apocalypse] [Farming and building] Black rain fell, and zombies ran rampant. After another failed blind date, I stayed cooped up in my sixth-floor apartment, playing games and reading novels. As it turned out, that let me escape the initial disaster. By the time I realized something was wrong, my family had vanished and their whereabouts were unknown. Order had collapsed, and mons 45Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's pretty hardcore: post-apocalyptic survival, featuring a female protagonist, an ordinary person who fights zombies, hoards supplies, has no system or rebirth, collects pets, farms and builds, and see how an ordinary person survives in the post-apocalyptic world and rises to the world stage.

14. 564 重 Reborn on the Mainland, Returning from the Stars 重生大陆星际归程 Dream Technology梦想科技Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.6M WordsCompleted Long, long ago, in less than a century, humanity triggered five massive “World Nuclear Wars.” As a result, the world gradually fell into ruin. Amid the wars, a small group of survivors escaped aboard the Starfire, a spaceship. When the ship malfunctioned and went out of control, it crashed on an unknown planet. They named the place where they began their new lives the Rebirth Continent. As he lay dying in his previous life, an enemy said, “You shouldn’t have meddled with the secret of returning 13Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I've been following this great book for a long time; the content is excellent and worth rereading repeatedly. [Please follow][Upvote][Add to bookshelf]

15. 565 全 Global Zombie Outbreak: My Lovesick Older Sister 全球尸变：我的病娇姐姐 Long Qingye龙倾夜Sci-Fi & Apocalypse178k WordsOngoing [Sci-fi apocalypse, zombies, no System, no rebirth, one female lead, yandere, both pure, character growth] “Longlong, I finally found you. From now on, you belong to me alone.” She held me, on the brink of death, tightly in her arms, her voice gentle yet possessive. Han Qingwan, the older girl I accidentally rescued as a child, has now become the ruler of ten thousand corpses. She treats me with tenderness and a disturbing possessiveness, while showing nothing but coldness and ruthlessness t 24Reads—Score102Shelves

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16. 566 末 Reborn in the City of the Apocalypse, My First Order of Business Is Revenge 末世之都重生了当然要先报仇啦 The Galaxy Stretches into Zhaoye星河迢迢入昭野Sci-Fi & Apocalypse838k WordsOngoing [Post-Apocalyptic Rebirth] [Natural Disasters] [Zombies] [Stockpiling] [Infinite Space] [One-on-One Romance] [Happy Ending] [Strong Female Lead] Note: This is a purely fictional setting. Please do not use any real-world information or draw parallels to reality when it comes to official details. (Ranks and titles are all made up.) A poisonous fog descended without warning, plunging the entire world into disaster. Torrential rain, floods, extreme heat... Zombies and mutated plants and animals all 1.4kReads—Score146Shelves

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    Apocalyptic zombie apocalypse! Plot-driven! Strong female lead!

17. 567 末 The Apocalypse: I Have an Intelligent Space 末世之我有智能空间 Shang Shang Bu JiuVik尚尚不久VikSci-Fi & Apocalypse207k WordsOngoing [Apocalyptic disasters + reborn + stockpiling + space] [Everyone's darling, multiple male leads later on, the heroine is overwhelmingly powerful, a dog-training story] Chen Nian survived for five years in an apocalypse wrought by natural disasters, only to be framed by her half-sister and die horribly in the jaws of zombies. Reborn three months before the apocalypse, all she wants is to stockpile supplies, get revenge, and survive the end of the world. 29Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Highly recommended, a great female-centric novel.

18. 568 第 The Sixth Mass Extinction: My Cancer Cells Can Evolve 第六次大灭绝，我的癌细胞能进化 Thieving Dong贼贼冬Urban843k WordsOngoing The sixth mass extinction has begun! The moon, which has existed since time immemorial, is actually the final boss! It was also responsible for Earth’s first five mass extinctions! Under the influence of lunar radiation, the “dragon” genes inside every living creature on Earth begin to mutate, including those of all humans! The protagonist Yang Jian’s “dragon” genes mutate after fusing with cancer cells. His body is gradually replaced entirely by cancer cells, granting him unimaginable abilities 1.3kReads—Score128Shelves

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    I recommend my own books: urban fantasy, urban superpowers, biological mutation and evolution, post-apocalyptic disasters, science fiction.

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