Running a Hot Pot Restaurant in a Disaster World

On her day off, overworked office drone Jiang Ci is playing a restaurant-management hotpot game on her phone when she is unexpectedly sucked into it and appears in a desolate disaster-stricken world. The game System tells her that if she completes System missions and upgrades the hotpot restaurant, she can get a hotpot restaurant of her own in the real world. No more being an overworked drone. It's time to take charge! Except the luxurious five-story hotpot restaurant in the game has turned into a rickety wooden shack with just two shabby tables and chairs. Even the selection of ingredients and soup bases is pitifully small. Jiang Ci is stunned. How is she supposed to play this? The System starts issuing missions: "Serve five customers to unlock bottled water." "Sell ten portions of potatoes to unlock sliced beef." Jiang Ci looks outside at the empty street, where only zombies pass by: "..." Song Jinchuan is trapped in a room surrounded by hundreds of zombies after rescuing someone. On the brink of death, he is transported to a restaurant wafting with the aroma of hotpot. A pretty young woman sees him and happily tosses him a rag. "You came just in time! Want a job as a waiter? Room and board included!" Song Jinchuan stands frozen, rag in hand: "...Even heaven is this competitive?" (An unconventional post-apocalyptic story, with a gradual, everyday upgrade progression!) Please add my upcoming stories to your reading list! Building an Underground Shelter in the Wasteland An unprecedentedly massive disaster threatens to destroy the world. The air, soil, water, and every other resource are contaminated. The animals that survive mutate, and their combat abilities skyrocket. In the fifth year of the apocalypse, Tang Ye is out on a mission when her scumbag boyfriend and best friend steal her gas mask, leaving her to die at the mission site. When she opens her eyes again, she has miraculously come back to life and become bound to the Underground Shelter System. With the System's help, she begins building a shelter called Miracle. It has comfortable dormitories, ample water and electricity, a cafeteria, and a special laboratory capable of developing anti-radiation medicine and clothing. Many survivors come to Miracle Shelter and settle there. In the end, Tang Ye truly creates a miracle in the wasteland. A Deserted Island from the Start: Natural Disasters You Guo accidentally transmigrates into a disaster-stricken world, where zombies run rampant and extreme weather strikes without warning. Few humans remain, struggling to survive. By luck, You Guo gets bound to a small island, and the whole story takes a turn. While everyone else is hacking zombies to death, You Guo is chopping trees. While everyone else is hiding from the cold wave, You Guo is felling timber. While everyone else is fighting over a piece of hardtack, You Guo is building roads. Through her tireless efforts, the island gradually takes shape. To earn more points, You Guo sets off from the island in her battered wooden boat to rescue survivors. The island's population grows, and its facilities become more and more extensive. In the end, survivors hail it as the last sanctuary on Blue Star. (The male lead is just a background character.) The Supporting Female Lead Relies on a Multiverse Shop to Stay Alive Only after dying does Shu Yun learn that she was the supporting female character in a book, and that her entire family died because of the twists and turns in the romance between the male and female leads. To avenge herself, her parents, and her older brother, Shu Yun decisively agrees to bind herself to a multiverse shop. One thousand sales points can buy her one year of life. One hundred billion sales points can send her back to the past to save her parents. And so, in corners of countless worlds, the Cloud Multiverse Shop quietly opens for business. The imperial consorts of the inner palace buy toner, moisturizer, foundation, concealer, and moisturizing lotion. Villages stricken by famine buy gleaming white rice, flour, and vegetables. Survivors of natural disasters eat steaming hot instant noodles, tears in their eyes. Players trapped in infinite-flow games buy all kinds of handy items to clear their stages quickly. The Cloud Multiverse Shop gradually spreads across countless worlds and earns the admiration of people everywhere. After Transmigrating into a Mary Sue Novel, I Just Want to Study Hard After Yun Chu dies suddenly from overwork, she transmigrates into a Mary Sue novel she had bought to pass the time. At this elite school, Yun Chu is one of the few poor students, admitted specially because of her excellent grades. Yun Chu's eyes light up. In her previous life, her parents favored boys, forcing her to give up her education. From then on, Yun Chu starts pursuing her dream from her previous life in this new world. While the male and female leads are stuck in a "Let me explain!" "I won't listen! I won't listen!" exchange, Yun Chu gets the highest grades in her year. While the male lead pursues the female lead, who is trying to escape but cannot, Yun Chu wins a gold medal in a competition. When the male and female leads finally get together, Yun Chu is being courted by universities everywhere. Even the plot System that appears beside Yun Chu to stop her from disrupting the story ends up being turned into a study System by her. At last, when Yun Chu finally reaches the top, the aloof top student who has been chasing after her complains, "Can't you turn around and look at me for once?" Core Theme: Hard work brings success.