I Became a City Lord After Summoning the Protagonists of Novels

Originally titled The Frail Beauty Becomes a City Lord in the Apocalypse

After the apocalypse began, the frail novelist Xie Shuiyun was trapped at home. When she awoke from a coma, she found a strange man with a dangerous aura in her room and thought her life was over.

But the dangerous young man smiled warmly. "Nice to meet you. I'm the protagonist of your novel."

Xie Shuiyun: "...What?"

After a moment of mental chaos, she figured it out. She had awakened an ability that let her summon the protagonists from her novels.

[Ding! Half-elf summoned.] [Ding! Mechanical species summoned.] [Ding! Puppet Master summoned.]

One month after she first summoned her novel's protagonists.

Commander Xie Shuiyun led the protagonists and their teammates, who slaughtered their way through everything in their path, into a small town and rescued the trapped townspeople.

Unable to carry a weapon or lift a finger, and only able to give orders, Xie Shuiyun was surrounded by the townspeople and made their mayor.

Xie Shuiyun: "Th-this is a little sudden."

Her protagonists: "You can do it, Shuiyun!"

Xie Shuiyun: "But I'm really weak, QAQ."

Her protagonists reassured her: "It's okay. You've still got us."

To put her at ease, the protagonists she'd summoned rolled up their sleeves and got to work causing trouble.

Edible mutant plants? They rounded some up and planted them in the fields.

Giant mutant animals? They rounded some up and trained them at the beast-taming grounds.

Injured, filthy people? They talked them into becoming townsfolk under Shuiyun's care.

After slaughtering their way through everything to protect Xie Shuiyun, the protagonists looked up at the swarms of mutant plants surrounding C City and them, and felt displeased.

On a sunny day, the protagonists brought out their secret weapons and defeated the mutant plants threatening C City.

Standing atop the corpses of the mutant plants, they looked at Xie Shuiyun, whom they had pushed into the position of city lord, and smiled brightly. "See? Even being a city lord is easy."

The many mutants and mutated creatures they'd used as stepping stones: "6"

Reading Guide

1. This is an ensemble story with a healing tone, focused on humanity resisting disaster together.

2. The heroine remains a frail beauty right to the end, with practically zero combat ability. She's also exceptionally gentle and kind, so this may not be for you if you don't enjoy that type of heroine.

Completed works: Yuan Wu's Misunderstood as a God After Transmigrating into a Book

Yan Wu's Did I Mess Something Up While Trying to Heal Dazai?

Upcoming: An no-CP Western fantasy adventure, I Got a Terminal Illness Because I Was Too Talented

An no-CP quick transmigration story, Can a Blade-Spirit Become a Sweet Romance Writer?

Theme: If there is no light, then from now on, I shall be the torch