Marrying a Barren City

[Complete! If you can, please leave me a five-star review! Muah muah muah! My new story, The Whole Sect Is Players Except Me, is now available! Weibo: Black-Hearted Citizen Bai] When the apocalypse arrives, only cities with a will of their own can withstand the invasion of monsters. Yun Chen is set up and falls into a horde of monsters. She narrowly escapes into a small, rundown city. Just as she's about to say goodbye, she discovers that she has become its chosen one and cannot leave. To improve her life, she has no choice but to start growing food, deal with monsters, develop the city, and begin the struggle to survive in a desolate city. After living in the city for a while, Yun Chen discovers that the little city can not only level up, but also talk. Little City: "My dear, may I kiss you?" Yun Chen: "With what? Your city gate?" The vines resting on the city wall awaken. Their dark green tendrils affectionately draw close to Yun Chen, and flower buds suddenly bloom at their tips. A gorgeous flower lands a kiss on her lips. Little City: "Smooch." Yun Chen: "////" ** With Yun Chen's help, the little city recovers its former name and culture. Once, all it had were shabby, leaky brick houses, and no one lived there. In the blink of an eye, roads stretch into the distance, skyscrapers stand tall, and the streets bustle with people. Yun Chen thought she'd been handed a farming-life story, but instead she bears the responsibility of connecting the wills of all the cities and awakening Jiuzhou. To protect the realm is the duty of every person, no matter how humble. Cover: painted by Xiongmao of Ranshuanghua Studio [Please add my upcoming story to your reading list! Click through to my author page to see it~] Title: I'll Out-Grind You All [Infinite] Blurb: Chu Yan worked her way from nothing to a prosperous life through sheer effort. Then she's selected to join an escape-and-business reality show. Only after becoming a player does she learn that she's the aloof, untouchable white moonlight in the heart of the male lead of a male-oriented romance story. The male lead is her ex-boyfriend, a rich second-generation heir she broke up with after their contract relationship. The female lead is her best friend of ten years. In this escape show, she'll become a stepping stone for the leads' love and mutual salvation. The heroine will expose her true nature as a "money-grubbing merchant," and she'll die miserably under the male lead's disappointed gaze as he says, "I can't believe you're this kind of person." Chu Yan: "..." She politely declines the duo's invitation to team up and explores the escape show on her own. ** Death Livestream is an escape-and-business reality show that is hugely popular throughout the interstellar worlds. Its appeal lies in watching players survive the terrifying monsters in each instance, open shops, grow their businesses, and earn enough money to leave the horror instance. One day, viewers discover an oddball in the livestream: Chu Yan. In the zombie siege instance, while other players open weapon shops, supermarkets, and pharmacies, she opens a cosmetic surgery clinic that provides aesthetic services to zombies. The Zombie King, who should have every player trembling in fear, skips into her shop with a shy, flowery gait. "Darling, want a hydrating injection today? Muah." And so, humans and zombies live in peace. In the deep-sea horror instance, while other players open martial arts schools, gyms, and swimming pools, she opens an aquarium, solving the problems of where the man-eating sea folk can live and find work on land. The Sea Folk King, who should have destroyed the world, shouts angrily in the aquarium: "Bosses who make their employees work 996 are beasts!" The tourists sigh sympathetically. So the sea folk and humans have the same enemy: those who turn streetlights into decorative ornaments. And so, humans and sea folk live in harmony. She also opens a barbershop in the Hundred Ghosts Walking at Night instance, a mahjong parlor in the Bionic Crisis instance, and a hotpot restaurant in the Perfect Figure instance... She seems never to need rest, doing business in her shop twenty-four hours a day. She keeps coming up with new ideas, and anyone who wants to copy her success has to pay a franchise fee. She works the other players so hard they start questioning their lives. Interstellar viewers: "She's! So! Spe! Cial!" As Chu Yan happily runs her shop, the heroine appears with the male lead, hoping to expose Chu Yan's money-grubbing nature in front of her current ultra-rich boyfriend. Heroine: "Is there even a shred of real love between you two? You're only after his money!" Chu Yan replies firmly: "Please don't sully our pure business relationship with filthy love! I only love money in this life! I'll never leave money, even in death!" The male and female leads: "..." Her contract boyfriend, who has taken the form of money: "///" S-so direct! Theme: People are more amazing than any miracle.