Building a Swimming Pool in the Desert [Management]

My new novel, The Princess Has No Sense of Romance, is out now. Take a look if you're interested~

[Host has reached the target location. The Lord Management System has been activated. The newly unlocked building is: a swimming pool.]

A shabby outdoor swimming pool appears out of thin air before Lin Nanxing, who was forced to transmigrate.

Feeling the extraordinary heat and seeing the endless yellow sand, Lin Nanxing looks at the pool in front of her, which doesn't even have a fence, and is utterly bewildered. You're calling this swimming pool a proper facility?

Besides, who would be stupid enough to open a swimming pool in the desert?

The doomsday game arrives. Temperatures rise, the world is gripped by drought, animals become monsters, and plants gain sentience. Humanity is forced to become players, move underground, and join the survival game.

The water and food people need to survive can only be bought through the System. They can't be grown or produced, and living conditions are appalling.

After ten years of the game, people are exhausted from struggling to stay alive, their emotions slowly collapsing. Then one day, an expedition returns with news: a swimming pool has appeared on the surface.

At that moment, the doomsday game begins its countdown.

As all the world's water disappears, the plants that have survived are hit hardest. Just as they're about to wither and die, they hear news from their fellow plants: there's an oasis far away in the East, where the water never runs out.

What? Such a wonderful place exists? The dying plants pull up their roots.

As the Star Territory continues to expand, Lin Nanxing recruits more and more plant spirits: a battle-ready banyan tree, a carnivorous flower with its own storage space, a clover that can turn into a fan, glowing mushrooms with an extraordinary ability to reproduce, and cherry trees with devastating self-destruct attacks...

As her territory grows and her collection of plant spirits expands, Lin Nanxing is confused.

Is she playing a lord-building game, or collecting the plant encyclopedia from Plants vs. Zombies?

Currently serializing: The Princess Has No Sense of Romance (Reborn)

Everyone says Princess Changle Shen Yao was born lucky. She accidentally fell into the water at the banquet celebrating honors and lost her looks, but the new top scholar risked his life to save her. A mishap gave rise to the romantic tale of a princess marrying the top scholar.

But Shen Yao knows that her consort was actually in love with her cousin. He was forced to marry her simply because he had kindly saved her.

Because of this, she always felt guilty toward her consort and cousin, and put up with their behavior time and again.

Only after her father died suddenly, deadly poison was found in the Eastern Palace, and her mother and young brother became prisoners did she learn that everything had been a plot tailored for her from the very beginning.

When Shen Yao opens her eyes again, she is back on the day she fell into the water, before any of the tragedies have happened.

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Princess Changle has a little quirk that the palace staff love to gossip about: handsome people get special treatment from her, and the princess is especially fond of refined gentlemen with elegant manners.

Xiang Tingxuan, heir to the Loyal and Brave Marquis, grew up with his maternal grandfather, guarding the frontier beyond the border. The moment he returned to the capital and revealed his strikingly heroic face, he became the dream lover of countless noblewomen in the capital.

After entering the capital, Xiang Tingxuan went against his usual style and began wearing a blue robe and white cap. He looked less like a general and more like a scholar.

At last, he met the person he had been longing for at the imperial palace. But she sat in a sedan chair, stared at him for a long while, and then said with a bright smile, "General Xiang, military armor suits you best."

Reborn Without Powers, But With a Safe House

A timid, easygoing hamster who loves to stockpile supplies x a killing machine of a demon king whose wife always comes first

As an ordinary person, Ye Shiruo had already beaten the odds by surviving for ten years after the zombie outbreak. But a decade of drifting from place to place had left her exhausted. When someone shoved her into a horde of zombies, all she felt in her final moments was peace. She even thought she could finally stop and rest.

When she opens her eyes again, she's back one day before the apocalypse. To avoid once again being an ordinary person at the mercy of others, this time she actively embraces the object that fell from the sky.

Becoming an ability user or a zombie is a matter of a single thought.

As expected, agonizing pain strikes. After a night of burning fever, Ye Shiruo has neither become a zombie nor gained an ability.

Is she really going to relive the ten years of hardship she endured in her previous life?

With no will to survive, she watches the low-level zombies about to break down her door and decides to wait for death.

But a minute passes, then ten minutes, then an hour. The tottering door still hasn't been breached, and the zombies outside are becoming fewer and fewer.

Realizing something is wrong, Ye Shiruo gets up to check and discovers that her house is glowing green, slowly swallowing the zombies that attack it.

Well, she didn't get an ability, but her house did?!

Ye Shiruo didn't get an ability and has lost the will to live, but she finds a new hobby: picking things up.

An ice ability user betrayed by his companions: picked up and made into a refrigerator.

A lightning ability user who fell into the water by accident: picked up and made into a power bank.

A mutated giant panda that got lost: picked up as a pet.

A city leader surrounded by zombies: picked up and made into a housekeeper.

A handsome guy trapped in a basement: picked up and made into a pretty boy.

Wait, why does this pretty boy look so familiar now that he's cleaned up? Isn't this the infamous Demon King from her previous life, wanted by every base?!

She plans to quietly throw him out while he's still asleep, but before she can even leave the safe house, the man suddenly opens his eyes and looks at her with a confused, innocent expression. "Sis, are you going to abandon me?"

Theme: Stay true to yourself, even when conditions are harsh