My Mom Is the Real Big Shot [Apocalypse]

[Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy + Strong Female Lead Ensemble + Leveling with Light Infrastructure Building] Twenty-year-old Lin Xi never expected someone to call her Mom in public one day. The person was three years older than her, and brought her three pieces of news. First: She would die in a plane crash at the age of thirty-six, leaving no remains. Second: On the seventh day after her death, the apocalypse would descend. Monsters would run rampant, technology would regress, and the surviving humans would band together and struggle to survive. Earth would enter ten years of absolute darkness. Third: Her closest friends and family would be targeted one after another, and every one of them would die. Lin Xi’s gaze sharpened like a blade. So you’re all dead, are you? Three days later, the apocalypse arrived ahead of schedule. Lin Xi’s blade flashed, and one monster after another fell. This time, with her here, no one was allowed to die. A year later, while every other base struggled to survive and faced the threat of annihilation at any moment, Pingyang City became the cherished destination of every human survivor. The reason was simple: its City Lord, Lin Xi, could make nuclear bombs with her bare hands. She was as powerful as a god! [The Daughter’s Perspective] Lin Duomu struggled to survive for ten years in the apocalypse and eventually became one of the strongest people alive. But just before the dawn, her teacher betrayed her and left her for dead. She returned to a time when her mother was still alive, but unfortunately, all her cultivation was gone and she had to start over. Luckily, the apocalypse was still sixteen years away. There was time to make things right. Lin Duomu secretly vowed that this time, she would protect her mother and everyone she loved. Three days later, the apocalypse arrived early, and Lin Duomu fought her way out with her mother. She watched as her mother went from a complete beginner to Silver rank in half a day, a feat that would take anyone else at least a month. Then she witnessed her mother build a team, travel from Shencheng to Pingyang, kill monsters above her level, battle flocks of giant birds, take on a hundred enemies alone, and lead her team to wipe out monster armies numbering in the tens of thousands time and again... Lin Duomu finally understood. Her mother was far stronger than she was. A year later, she looked at the super-base capable of housing a million people, her mother being showered with praise by the leaders of other bases, and the strongest mutant being slain by a single stroke of her mother’s blade. Lin Duomu understood once more: So her mother was the real powerhouse of the apocalypse! [A Few Things to Know] 1. The story’s sole female lead is Mom. The story follows her perspective, so she is the protagonist. 2. The female lead has top-tier combat skills and cultivation talent. She is ambitious and loves a fight, but is not purely good. She has many followers and admirers. There is rivalry between men and a male lead. The plot takes priority, with romance as a secondary element. 3. This is post-apocalyptic fantasy, not a conventional superpower story or a cultivation novel. [My Next Book, Please Add It to Your Reading List ˃ 𖥦 ˂] "Transported into an Apocalypse Survival Novel, but Bound to a Tycoon System" Lu Jinso was transported into an ongoing apocalypse stockpiling novel she had been following. In the novel, the planet was invaded by an advanced civilization and endured one extreme environment after another: zombies, extreme cold, drought, insect plagues, giants, supernatural horrors, survival at sea, beast tides, and wasteland pollution. Every so often, it also opened a deadly arena where survival was a long shot. Fortunately, everyone on the planet was bound to a system. The system could improve personal attributes and develop abilities, and it also came with a shop, a forum, and a resource exchange. People could even build their own safe houses to shelter from disasters. The bad news: Lu Jinso still hadn’t been bound to a system by the time zombies were right in her face. The good news: Just as she was about to die, the long-delayed system finally appeared. The bad news: @#%*& was a tycoon System!!! A month later, someone using the codename Old Jin began to make a name for himself. Everyone wanted to add him as a friend and trade with him, because what he sold was a thousand, even ten thousand times more useful than the skimpy selection in the stingy shop. For example, when the shop only sold ordinary handguns, Old Jin could offer a rocket launcher. And when the shop only let you buy water one bottle at a time, you could ask Old Jin for a whole case, and a premium brand at that. He could also sell things the shop didn’t carry. His insecticide, in particular, had a five-hundred-percent approval rating. His one drawback was that Old Jin didn’t accept system coins. He only traded for paper money, gold, or silver, and the better the goods, the higher the price. Fortunately, Old Jin would do any kind of business. Even a single cent was worth earning. As a result, whenever they arrived in a new world, everyone’s first priority was to search high and low for paper money, gold, and silver. Nobody noticed that one person seemed completely out of place. He never searched for these precious scraps of metal or paper, but instead trudged around collecting trash. One dead zombie was worth one yuan, one live zombie ten yuan, one bug a tenth of a cent, and one brick a tenth of a cent... As Lu Jinso watched her little nest egg swell, she worked even harder at stockpiling trash. Lu Jinso sighed at the sky. “Ugh, making money through legitimate trades is too slow. I earn more collecting garbage. Ugh, when will I make ten billion? I want to go home so badly!” After she’d worked hard to earn a hundred million, the System chimed: “Host has reached Level L3. Reputation exchange function unlocked.” Lu Jinso: !!! [A Few Things to Know] 1. The female lead eventually makes it back to the real world. 2. There is a male lead, and the ending is happy. Synopsis written on July 15, 2026, and screenshot saved. Theme: Follow the big shot, and you’ll live in comfort and luxury.