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Books: 32
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Grade: Level B

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The protagonists' career arcs are the focus, with romance as a secondary element, or barely present, or nonexistent. Lots of progression and infrastructure-building stories. I really love the feeling of starting from nothing and gradually building something successful step by step.

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1 Stockpiling Supplies and Surviving in a Seaside Safehouse 海上安全屋囤货生存 Graceful Evening Glow翩翩晚照Romance2.4M WordsCompleted [Welcome to The God Game: Raft Survival] [New player quest: The extreme heat disaster, Scorching Season, is approaching. Upgrade your safe house as soon as possible.] He Ni, who can't swim, wakes up to find herself floating on a raft. Surrounded by an endless sea, she casts a line beneath the blazing sun and, from the start, reels in ten garbage bags in a row. Just as she's on the verge of despair, a notification appears: [You excel at and love collecting garbage. The Sea God approves of your 239.3kFavorites243.5kClicks/ch2.7MGifts
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A good read about stockpiling goods at sea; I especially loved the early stages of the stockpiling process.
2 Outlive Then Ascend 从长生苟到飞升 Xiao Shi, You Little Scumbag小时你个渣渣Romance2.7M WordsCompleted Lin Nanyin transmigrates into a world of cultivation, becoming an ordinary mortal. The heavens give her a golden finger: eternal youth and immortality. Yes, her lifespan is endless. She arrived at eighteen, and will be eighteen forever. But being immortal doesn’t mean she can’t die. To stay alive, Lin Nanyin decides to keep her head down. No one is going to outlast her. Much later, the underlings she once led become pillars of the righteous sects, the pets she raised become leaders of the d 199.1kFavorites313.2kClicks/ch944.1kGifts
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A cultivation novel, good-looking, with a strong cultivation vibe.
3 Top Warzone Analyst 第一战场分析师！ Retreating Halberd退戈Romance624k WordsCompleted Signed for simplified Chinese publication. - The current era is said to be the worst time for manual-piloted mecha. This discipline, rebuilt under the gaze of countless people, has yet to glimpse the glory of victory, and is already on the verge of fading away and leaving the stage of history once more. Everyone mocks, ridicules, and questions it, believing manual-piloted mecha has buried the youth of countless people and reached the end of the road. That year, Alliance 187kFavorites357.3kClicks/ch702.5kGifts
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Nice
4 The Little Noodle Shop in Bianjing 汴京小面馆 Pine Snow Pastry松雪酥Romance729k WordsCompleted [Signed for publication. Follow @Haochide Songxuesu for publication updates.] Shen Miao transmigrated into the role of a discarded wife, cast out by her cruel mother-in-law. Her birth parents had died early, leaving behind only a burned-down, bankrupt noodle shop. And two younger siblings who had nearly starved to death. Everyone said she had a miserable life. Her ex-husband's family was eager to watch her make a fool of herself. But Shen Miao, whose grandparents, parents, and children had all b 186.4kFavorites236.1kClicks/ch335.7kGifts
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It's a Song Dynasty time-travel food business novel. I forgot about it because I'd been waiting for updates, and I'd forgotten the plot too, but it's still good. The female lead gradually develops her small shop.
5 Level One Silence 一级沉寂 Nine-Level Magic Square九阶幻方Romance900k WordsCompleted [In a world where words can catch fire and speech can explode, how will you survive?] [An unconventional apocalypse story] [The AI male lead is a ball] The print edition is now available on major platforms. It includes signed copies, special-edition signed copies, and a bonus story. For details, see WB @TypingNinthOrderMagicSquare. Some scenes have been revised, so this version differs from pirated copies. Returning readers can clear their cache in settings to see the changes. Thank you for supp 167.7kFavorites206.5kClicks/ch303.8kGifts
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I haven't watched it yet, and I forgot about it after waiting for updates for so long. I only remember the good parts, and how the main character worked hard step by step.
6 Half a Spoiler 二分之一剧透 Tianze Shiruò天泽时若Romance657k WordsCompleted As a game addict who transmigrated into a game, Wen Yanran has a unique advantage that countless other transmigrators lack. First, she starts at the top: she’s the emperor from the start. Second, she comes with a game-assistance System, a standard feature for any protagonist. * Just as Wen Yanran was fretting over her ability to manage a large team, the World Will that had helped her transmigrate offered a friendly reminder: to prevent the current world from restarting over and over, the transmi 164.9kFavorites283kClicks/ch317.8kGifts
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The game is good, and it's a very interesting book.
7 A Guide to Cultivation 修仙指南 Chen Lu沉鹿Romance3.3M WordsOngoing Qiao Minzhen, who transmigrated into a book, knows what’s coming. In three years, a top cultivation genius will join the sect and form a Nascent Soul at just two hundred years old. Unfortunately, this heaven-blessed prodigy will eventually fall to demonic cultivation and be imprisoned beneath Five Zhang Mountain, never to escape. Their golden finger will instead fall into the hands of the future good-for-nothing male lead who rises to power. Qiao Minzhen thinks that rather than let the golden 142.4kFavorites199.2kClicks/ch579.1kGifts
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Traditional cultivation novel, leveling up
8 Doomsday Lord 末日领主 Light Clouds, Faint轻云淡Romance359k WordsCompleted Yun Ling was invited to take part in the “Apocalyptic Cataclysm” open beta. She survived for a hundred days and earned a “Lord's Token,” “Preservation of Life Skill Levels,” and an “S-Rank Skill” as rewards. When the open beta ended, she was eagerly looking forward to the game's official launch. Instead, the whole world turned into a game... Yun Ling, a casual player, figured there was nothing she could do but keep her head down and carry on. With intermediate fishing, intermediate gathering, ad 141.9kFavorites300kClicks/ch439kGifts
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It's a story about building a lord's base, but it's been a long time and I've forgotten the plot.
9 I’m a Police Officer, But I Have the Criminal Master System (Crime Investigation) 警察，但犯罪大师系统[刑侦] The Rabbit Who Learns to Cook学做饭的兔子Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Jiang Xia closed her eyes, opened them again, and found herself in the 1980s. She had become a police officer at a local station, fresh out of police vocational school and newly assigned to her post, with a Master Criminal System bound to her. As long as she kept committing crimes and making a name for herself, the System would reward her with all sorts of criminal skills. Looking at the master-level pickpocketing skill the System had granted her, Jiang Xia fell apart. What am I supposed to do w 121.2kFavorites133.4kClicks/ch496.3kGifts
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System novel, it's good!
10 I Have a Safe City 我有一座安全城 Cat in the Sugar糖中猫Romance1.5M WordsOngoing Cheng Qisheng was an ordinary person with a terminal illness. She received a miniature planet. Apart from one ruined city, there was nothing on it. Time on the miniature planet flowed many times faster than in her world. Cheng Qisheng decided to cultivate human civilization there and have the new humans find a cure for her illness. The good news: The new humans had a loyalty imprint that made them worship Cheng Qisheng as their creator god. The bad news: The new humans still couldn't find a cu 116.6kFavorites125kClicks/ch1.8MGifts
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Unsuspended game, good-looking
11 The Max-Level Foodie Lies Flat in a Period Novel 满级干饭人在年代文躺平 White Eggplant白茄Romance983k WordsCompleted After transmigrating into a book, Rong Xiaoxiao faced two choices: Either find someone to marry, or go to the countryside as an educated youth. Looking at all the men the woman next door had introduced her to, with their lame legs, blindness, and overbearing mothers, Rong Xiaoxiao felt that even her chronic laziness might be cured. She promptly turned around and went home to pack. … Two pretty educated youths arrived at the Hongshan Brigade. One wore a neat polyester outfit and delicate leath 112.1kFavorites320.3kClicks/ch129kGifts
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This is a historical text, written a long time ago.
12 Who Told You to Play Infinite Like That? 谁让你这么玩无限的 Qingyuan清远No CP1.6M WordsCompleted When Chu Zhao first entered the world, she joined a shabby little organization with oversized egos and tiny wallets. The group wasn’t famous, but it talked big, calling itself “the Gods.” All fourteen bosses claimed to be deities, yet they expected Chu Zhao to earn money to support them. The organization was so shabby and its name so embarrassingly stupid that Chu Zhao couldn’t bring herself to say it. Whenever people asked, she called it the “Psych Ward Association.” Then one day, the little 76.9kFavorites80.1kClicks/ch638.2kGifts
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I enjoy the early stages of the infinite flow genre, but the later stages become harder to get into as I wait for updates to accumulate for too long.
13 The Department Store Princess of the Nineteenth Century 十九世纪百货公主 Frozen Orange冻京橙Romance662k WordsCompleted Blurb: Dai Li transmigrated into a minor character in a classic Western novel. Nineteenth-century London, the golden age of the Victorian era. The surging steel tide of the Industrial Revolution had forged the world-famous metropolis of London. The West End was a paradise of glittering excess, while the East End was a hell of sweatshops. Dai Li's entire family was crammed into a narrow little house in the slums of East London. They scraped by on the income from half of a dilapidated general 76.6kFavorites90.5kClicks/ch144.5kGifts
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I really enjoyed the beginning of the 19th century novel, both the career and romance storylines. The romance in the last few chapters really stretched me out, but everyone has different tastes, I guess.
14 I Really Didn’t Mean to Time Travel 我真没想穿越啊 Dream Basket梦箩Romance516k WordsCompleted Zhu Shuangjiang is a university student nearing graduation. One day, she suddenly transmigrates thirty years into the past. Transformed into a child, she lands on the street and is eventually sent to an orphanage after passing through several hands. The orphanage provides for basic survival, but offers no freedom. After thinking it over, she realizes the only reliable path is to study hard. ① There is a romance, but the main focus is the plot, with a slice-of-life feel. ② This is a wish-fulfill 71.4kFavorites130.9kClicks/ch235.7kGifts
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The long-lasting flow of time
15 EN I Grind My Way into a Cataclysm with an Evolution Panel 我靠进化面板肝成天灾 Dreams Fill the Branches梦满枝Romance930k WordsCompleted In the interstellar era, some humans awaken a supernatural creature avatar after turning eighteen. The avatar might be a mutated animal or an imaginary species. It can travel through higher-dimensional space and grant its owner powers, wealth, and longevity beyond an ordinary person’s wildest dreams… To qualify for an awakening, interstellar schools teach both academics and combat, pushing students to compete over talent and, even more fiercely, resources. Wen Jing, who transmigrated here, is a 58.5kFavorites56.8kClicks/ch238.7kGifts
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The game wasn't released yet, but there's a lot of high-tech stuff going on later [frightening].
16 Everyday Family Life in Nineteenth-Century London 十九世纪伦敦养家日常 Three Kumquats金桔三颗Romance649k WordsCompleted My completed novels in the collection: My Agricultural Supply Store Connects to the Stars, I Run a Restaurant to Stay Alive [System], and When the Old Culinary God Transmigrated to the Modern Era [Gourmet]. Give them a look~~ Please add my upcoming novel, The Little Cook’s Guide to Supporting Her Family, to your collection~ The blurb is at the end. Blurb: The main story is complete~ A story about a Chinese soul who transmigrates to late-nineteenth-century England and struggles (gets rich) to s 55.2kFavorites60.1kClicks/ch71.3kGifts
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The 19th century, forgotten.
17 When the Game Arrived, I Was the Only Player 游戏降临，我是唯一玩家 Milk Tea with Just a Little Sugar奶茶只喝微糖No CP935k WordsOngoing (Post-apocalyptic road adventure. Bai Shan had taken a break from school and stayed home, spending all day hooked on a game called Dominator of Tomorrow. Global evolution, random disasters, and bizarre creatures everywhere. With its gorgeous, lifelike graphics and grand, uncanny world, the game had Bai Shan completely hooked. In the game, she could build her own RV to fight disasters and monsters. She could also acquire weapons, firearms, occult items, and ot 49.6kFavorites38.8kClicks/ch186.1kGifts
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Unsuspended, it's beautiful!
18 The NPC Doesn’t Want to Be Number One on the Server NPC不想当全服第一 You Fei有妃No CP1.8M WordsOngoing [The main story is complete. Extra chapters are being updated, so it's ready to binge!] [For completed Western fantasy stories, check out the author's page: A Guide to Surviving in Another World and I Became the Sea King After Summoning Players. Plenty to read, so dig in!] Blurb: When Iris woke up, the world around him seemed to have changed. First, a dense health bar appeared above his pet's head. Then strange names and descriptions appeared on the things around him. Even his own body had chang 44.6kFavorites40.2kClicks/ch242.1kGifts
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The author's other fantasy game, "Hero," is also good; I found it hard to get into the later parts of this one.
19 Draw a Curse, Rule the Universe 画个诅咒，统治宇宙 Pang Ha胖哈Romance1.9M WordsCompleted Synopsis: My new novel, After the Demolition, My Whole Family Made the Pig-Butchering Scam List, is now underway on my author page. Forthcoming novel: Can Unlimited Failures Only Deduct Love? Please add it to your favorites. Thank you!~ P.S. For completed novels with strong female leads in the same vein, see my author page: After the Spiritual Qi Revival, The Great Arcanist Is Making Money Again Today, Old Wang Is Away, So We’re Clearing the Wilderness, and Hold Tight to the Wrench in Your Han 43.2kFavorites44.7kClicks/ch375.1kGifts
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StarCraft, it's great! The battle of wits is exciting!
20 Born to Act 天生戏骨 Qin Yao沁杳Romance780k WordsCompleted From an obscure D-list nobody to a sweep of all five major Chinese-language film awards, then to a sweep of the three major European film awards as Best Actress. Shi Yin lives by one motto: See it, want it, get it! System: Okay! Leave it to me :) Someone: Do not disturb, busy fangirling. Clear-headed and ambitious actress vs Half-dead-on-her-feet and perfectly ordinary (?) rich guy [Reading Guide] 1. A traditional entertainment-ind 41.8kFavorites49.8kClicks/ch162.1kGifts
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Entertainment industry articles
21 The First Lord [Global Survival] 第一领主[全民求生] Gathering Starlight and Frost挽星霜Romance717k WordsCompleted Li Zhao transmigrates into the hottest survival game of the moment, a game played by everyone. Every player of Doomsday Descends knows that the number-one powerhouse on the leaderboard, Zhao, has the stamina of ten people. When she tops the Territory Points Leaderboard, the Survival Time Leaderboard, the Achievement Points Leaderboard, and countless others, players across the public chat copy and paste: You worked yourself to the bone just to claim the top spot! Are you trying to kill yoursel 35.9kFavorites47.4kClicks/ch57kGifts
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Lord's Infrastructure Building
22 Becoming a Doctor With a Sign-In System 带着签到系统当医生 Just Passing Through时逢而已Romance945k WordsCompleted [Thanks for your support! The main story is complete. For more medical novels, please add "Prison Doctor Gone Wild (The 1970s)" and "Huh? I'm Really Not a Medical Genius!" to your reading list. You can also check out the completed novel "Taking Over the Operating Room"!] Xu Yunke caught the transmigrate-into-a-book trend and became a colleague of the male supporting character at the hospital, a tool-like female character who appeared for only a few dozen words. The novel was called "Reborn in 35.6kFavorites47.2kClicks/ch80.6kGifts
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Medical system novels are relatively rare, featuring a lot of professional knowledge, and the female lead is practically a goddess.
23 [Wuxia Crossover] Stardew Valley, but Make It a World of Martial Arts [综武侠]肝露谷，但快意江湖 San Manzi三蔓子Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [Complete, with bonus chapters being released] ★Coming soon: The Immortal Inn Management RPG! and [Wuxia Crossover] You Call This an All-Achievements Player?! Please add them to your reading list. Blurbs at the end.★ Stardew Valley: Wuxia DLC is a special expansion for Chinese players. [A more realistic jianghu! Freely explore an enormous 400-kilometer map!] [More ways to play! Farming, romance, gathering, mining!] [More iconic characters! Chu Xiangshuai, Four Eyebrows, flying daggers and swi 35.5kFavorites40.2kClicks/ch285kGifts
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Doujin
24 Survival: The Safe House Is a Magic Academy 求生：安全屋是魔法学院 Pear Blueblue梨蓝蓝No CP835k WordsOngoing After finishing his college entrance exams, Jing Ke walked out of the exam hall, expecting to enjoy a carefree summer vacation. But the next moment, a survival game began. [All survivors, welcome to the game. Gather resources, upgrade your safe house, and hold off monster invasions and natural disasters!] Fog shrouded the area. Everyone started with only a 2×2 plot of land and a basic safe house. Monsters appeared promptly at eight every night, and natural disasters could strike at any time. 29.9kFavorites25.1kClicks/ch186.3kGifts
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It's so beautiful!
25 Stockpiling Supplies in a Doomsday Safe House 末日安全屋囤货求生 Gathering Starlight and Frost挽星霜Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Jiang Qibai, a survival-game enthusiast, was heading home from work when she stepped into empty space, fell into a sewer, and landed inside an apocalyptic game. Every player awakens a talent. The System's cheerful voice rang out: [Congratulations! You have gained the talent: Achievement Hunter!] [Achievement Hunter: You have access to a more extensive achievement system than other players.] [Achievement unlocked: Where the Hell Did the Manhole Cover Go?! Reward skill: Sword, Come! Summon a 29.8kFavorites28kClicks/ch80.7kGifts
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Looks great, looks great, infinite flow!
26 Lord Simulator [Worldbuilding] 领主模拟器[基建] Gathering Starlight and Frost挽星霜Romance533k WordsCompleted More completed novels are available in my collection. Anpo transmigrated into the Western fantasy-style city-building game she used to play. From the start, she was sent to the frontier and became the impoverished lord of a border territory. The Emerald Territory was sparsely populated, and its people couldn't get enough to eat. Seeing the desolate state of the territory's only city, the steward burst into tears. “Lady Anpo is a duchess of noble birth. How could they exile you to such a remote 25.8kFavorites35kClicks/ch31.4kGifts
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Lord's Infrastructure Building
27 Getting Ready to Become a Star [Showbiz] 成为巨星前的准备工作[娱乐圈] Three Salts Two Teas三盐二茶Romance495k WordsCompleted [Unrestricted chapter comments are now open~] Zhu Ci, terminally ill and with little time left to live, had only celebrity fandom to distract her. But the wretched entertainment industry kept stabbing her in the back! The day before yesterday, some young actor was exposed for secretly contacting a fan-site manager; Yesterday, a gorgeous rising star announced she was dating a frog-like guy; Today, a veteran actor whose career had just revived saw his devoted-husband image collapse after he was ca 21.6kFavorites37kClicks/ch40.2kGifts
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Entertainment industry articles
28 A Poor Student's Guide to Making Money [Online Game] 穷学生的赚钱之路[网游] Xiao Shi, You Little Scumbag小时你个渣渣Romance636k WordsCompleted [The book review section is at the very bottom of my column] [Please, please leave a rating once it's complete!] Gu Yiyi is very poor. To earn money for living expenses, she follows her best friend into an online game and becomes a professional player for hire. As she gradually learns more about the game, she discovers that it has all kinds of people: a flirt who keeps a harem of admirers, a junior sister who gets so terrified by a snake in the game that she runs a fever for days, a pampered pr 16.5kFavorites27.3kClicks/ch32.3kGifts
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Online game novels
29 Transmigrating Into a Farmer's Family to Take the Imperial Exams 穿入农家考科举 Leaning Jade Green, Serene倾碧悠然Romance1.8M WordsOngoing I update this story with nine thousand words a day. Please add my upcoming story "The Little Maid" to your favorites. It's in my author profile~ Meng Nan wakes up one day to find himself transformed into a scholar whom the entire family in Peach Blossom Village has been supporting. The scholar is a spoiled, dissolute rogue who squanders the family's money and offends the wrong people, then drops dead. Meng Nan can't afford to pick a fight, and revenge is out of the question. He decides to go 15.9kFavorites18.5kClicks/ch87.5kGifts
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Good read, a novel about the imperial examination system.
30 Is Zhizhi Going to Start Hitting the Books Today? [The 1970s] 知知今天开始卷了吗[七零] Bewitched Smile迷花眼笑Romance592k WordsCompleted Reborn in 1970, with eight years to go before Reform and Opening Up, and just two days before Xia Suzhi is sent to the countryside. They say the male lead is only eight, and she's only six. According to the usual rebirth plot, she should cling to the male lead, crying and begging not to be sent back to her hometown. Then, using her status as the orphan of a martyr, she should stay with his family, grow up as his childhood sweetheart, weather all kinds of trials, and get a happy ending. But in 12.4kFavorites44.5kClicks/ch9.1kGifts
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The development of culture over time
31 My NPCs Are All Real People from the Past 我的NPC都是真古人 Behold the Mountains, See the Stones观山见石No CP720k WordsCompleted [Please add my column novel, Making Mount Tai by Hand, with the First Emperor as My Divine Messenger, to your reading list] Xin Yun woke up to find herself inheriting her ancestral estate out of the blue: a barren mountain and a ramshackle house. She also got a System out of nowhere. Every day, it pushed her to make money and work hard, turning her inheritance into a world-famous, top-tier experience park. Xin Yun, a paycheck-to-paycheck office worker: Who? Me? Xin Yun, a happy-go-lucky slack 9.4kFavorites11.8kClicks/ch17.9kGifts
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Ha ha
32 Monsters on the Road: Building a Village and Stockpiling to Survive 妖魔公路，建村囤货求生 Pang Ha胖哈Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [The Path of the Gods: Extreme Survival has arrived: The gods have laid out a journey, monsters lie in wait, and humanity is besieged on all sides. There's only one way to survive. A wilderness adventure inspired by Journey to the West and ancient Chinese mythology, with road-trip survival, stockpiling, management, and strategy.] [Introductory Instance: The City Is Rotting] Hunger: 85%. Pure, natural substances decay more slowly. The more honest a product's ingredients list, the more likely it 7.4kFavorites7.3kClicks/ch53.4kGifts
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Looks good, chubby hahaha

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