Choose Your Safehouse: The Twelve Zodiac Signs

Fu Li took a train south to visit her boyfriend. But in the middle of the night, the train suddenly stopped, and the conductor announced that the tracks had disappeared.

Outside the windows was a world buried in snow. Inside, the temperature plummeted to minus forty degrees, and the passengers panicked.

A horde of ice monsters charged in. They tore through the train car with ease and crunched human bones, turning it into a living hell.

Chased by the monsters into the restroom, Fu Li reached for a fire extinguisher in desperation...

When a monster died, it turned into a mask that fell onto Fu Li.

Ding, the prompt appeared before her: Congratulations, you’ve picked up Mask No. 1, the only one in the world, with no second copy. Legendary grade. Choose your zodiac sign and bind a safe house. Please note that your zodiac sign will affect the safe house’s appearance and traits.

Fu Li chose Capricorn and got a cabinet one meter wide and three meters tall.

Fu Li: Are you sure this is my safe house and not a vampire’s?

System: Keep killing monsters to upgrade your safe house, expand your homestead, and do your best to survive.

One day, Fu Li discovered that monsters dropped more than safe-house masks. They also dropped special abilities.

In this world, you make your own name and status. This time, she chose Aquarius.

[Congratulations, you have received the Medical Skill]

Last time she chose Aquarius; this time, she chose Libra.

[Congratulations, you have received the Judge Skill]

Later, a survivor fleeing monsters ran straight into Fu Li.

“Run!” the survivor shouted.

Fu Li smiled brightly. “Why run? You’ve already won.”

System: [The player has used the Judge Skill: Judgment]

Survivor: ?

Behind them, the monster exploded into a shower of blood.

Survivor: !!!

Extreme cold, acid rain, floods, scorching heat, insect hordes, supernatural horrors... One disaster followed another, but Fu Li feared none of them. Her five-mu estate was indestructible, bursting with fruit and vegetables and filled with birdsong and fragrant blossoms. It could withstand anything.

And Fu Li, top-tier healer, ultimate judge, number one on the safe-house rankings, number one on the combat rankings, and master agriculturalist, became a legend of the apocalypse.

* A farming and survival story, focused on gathering supplies, stockpiling, and building a home, with monster-fighting as a secondary element.

* Includes a romantic pairing.

Coming soon

My Father, Monsieur Jules [19th Century]

[First rescue the oyster-shucking father, then put the snobbish relatives in their place]

The day before, Li Anna had been celebrating with her family after getting into Wudaokou Technical School. When she opened her eyes, she found herself lying in a dark, cramped ship’s cabin with a damp blanket over her.

An elderly sailor in ragged clothes sat beside the bed, happily counting the coins in his hand.

“Look, little Anna. A kind gentleman gave me ten sous today. Once I sell some more oysters, you’ll be able to afford your medicine again.”

Li Anna opened her eyes, then immediately closed them again. She had no desire to look at this miserable world.

With her impressive wealth of knowledge, she was sure this sailor had to be the famous Monsieur Jules.

And she was... his daughter?

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The Philippe family’s favorite thing was showing people their “Book of the Gospel,” because their wealthiest relative, the pure and upright Anna de Vauran, owned a shop that everyone flocked to, from princes and nobles to ordinary folk.

It was the largest and most famous landmark in France for centuries.

* The setting draws on nineteenth-century France; anything that differs is original worldbuilding.

* A slow-burn story about farming and running a business.

* Characters from O. Henry’s stories will also appear. I want to rewrite their fates, too.

Theme: Explore the unknown