The Work Unit Assigned Me an Unfinished Building

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Thirty years after the cataclysm, the national satellite broadcasts an invitation to survivors in the wilderness to return to the cities and embark on the comprehensive construction of a new civilization.

Zhou Yu is an overworked woman in the architecture industry. After dying from overwork, she is reborn in the body of an eighteen-year-old girl from the apocalypse.

She knows neither farming nor hunting, and has no idea how this unfamiliar world works. As soon as she hears the broadcast, she packs her things and heads to the city to join the organization.

The organization's representative, Zeng Yunguang, unfolds a city map. "Pick whichever house you like, and we'll assign it to you!"

But everywhere she looks is desolation, with crumbling buildings worse than the unfinished ones in her previous life.

Zhou Yu chooses a small villa and uses every bit of her ability to build a nest, restoring it into a livable home with running water, electricity, heating, and internet.

But success attracts attention, and she is forced to join the Zhongzhou City Reconstruction Command.

Zeng Yunguang tries to recruit her with an offer: "We'll cover your food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Your salary will match my rank. You'll get five types of insurance and five housing fund contributions, plus performance bonuses. Your years of service start counting today. If you work in a dangerous occupation, you can retire early after fifteen years and receive full benefits."

And there's one last condition: absolutely no overtime.

Zhou Yu accepts, then casually asks, "If the state covers everything, will it also assign me a handsome, capable boyfriend?"

Later, Zhou Yu sincerely invites Zeng Yunguang: "After fifteen years of work, the nation will be at peace and the future will be bright. Let's retire together and enjoy a wonderful old age, no, youth, together."

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Blurb for The Doomsday Farmer:

The apocalypse is brutal, and all kinds of supplies are scarce. Food has become one of the most valuable forms of currency.

Countless people are exiled beyond the safety zones and made into farmers, struggling on barren land as they battle mutated plants and animals, disease, and the forces of nature.

They are the smallest units of production. They farm during the busy season, work on basic infrastructure in the off-season, and must defend their homes when needed.

Only those skilled in all eighteen forms of martial arts can just barely survive.

And only by producing and handing over the required amount of food can they earn citizenship, enter the safety zone, and live a normal life.

Zhou Shu is an entrepreneur who runs a modern leisure farm. After dying unexpectedly, she is reborn in the body of a person with the same name in the apocalypse.

A dilapidated house, a wrecked car, three months' worth of food, and a contract to lease fifty thousand acres of wasteland: that's all she owns.

In her shattered memories, a voice says, "Zhou Shu, you were supposed to die. But to avoid wasting a single life in the apocalypse, we'll make you a farmer. You will be a farmer your entire life, and you will never qualify to enter a safety zone."

But Zhou Shu smiles at the contract. The leased land is tax-free for ten years, and any wasteland she clears herself will be hers permanently, as long as her abilities allow it.

What a great deal. She's in!

Later, humanity gradually gains a foothold in the apocalypse, and Zhou Shu becomes the biggest farm owner, grain merchant, and landholder.

In the wastelands, everything she can see belongs to Zhou Shu.

People say that if Zhou Shu has a poor harvest for even one season, everyone will go hungry for a month.

Every safety zone courts her, asking her to become an honorary citizen, but she turns them all down.

A farmer can never be separated from the land.

Where she stands is her royal domain;

where she lives is her capital.

Theme: A mayfly can shake a tree, and Nuwa can mend the sky. Even when faced with an apocalypse, as long as we never give up, we can build a new future.