Infrastructure Development 基建

1. 1 玩 Has the Player Ascended the Throne Today? [Infrastructure] 玩家今天登基了吗[基建] Pudding Milkshake布丁奶昔Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Plants have gone extinct in the wasteland world, and famine has swept across all of humanity. With nowhere else to turn, people can only earn food through games. Li Moyan knows nothing about any of this. She leisurely tends her fields in a game of conquest. Her livestream audience is deeply disappointed. Not only can she not compete for food, but she might even die in the game and become a laughingstock to the other districts. As it turns out, Li Moyan, whom nobody had any faith in, not only s 7.9kFavorites12.9kClicks/ch14.3kGifts

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   There are quite a few bugs, but it's still watchable. There's not much romance, almost none. The prices are ridiculously high—four taels of silver for a bed! Also, the leadership is clueless; the female lead has to do everything herself. Don't they have any subordinates? A town of over ten thousand people only has a guard of a little over a hundred, and this is in a chaotic world—such a small guard is absurd!

2. 2 睡 I Woke Up to Find the Game I Made Had Become Reality 睡醒发现我做的游戏成真了 Dreams Fill the Branches梦满枝Romance841k WordsCompleted Ye Bai froze her body ten thousand years ago. When she woke up, Blue Star had entered the interstellar age. As an ancient human, simply staying alive meant paying exorbitant fees to filter out all kinds of viruses and radiation. Just when she was at her wits’ end, she looked up and saw a massive game advertisement stretching across half the sky. Back in her own era, Ye Bai had been a well-known game developer. The giant screen was advertising The Myriad Worlds, the unreleased game she had made 88kFavorites177.5kClicks/ch151.4kGifts

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   It's alright, but the infrastructure aspect is too limited. Infrastructure is basically just upgrading your territory and building certain structures, and that's it. It focuses more on the female protagonist's adventures exploring the divine realm. I prefer seeing how residents react after territory changes and how residents or nobles from other territories migrate. The player doesn't get much screen time. The final universe setting is somewhat interesting. While there is a male protagonist, he's practically negligible—or rather, the male character with the most screen time. The female protagonist doesn't seem to have any interest in that at all.

3. 3 华 Ancestors of Huaxia, Help Me Become Emperor! 华夏先祖，助我为帝！ Three Thousand Great Dreams三千大梦No CP901k WordsCompleted [Chinese Poetry Becomes Divine Skills, Helping the Female Lead Slaughter Her Way to Ascension] Synopsis This is a world where bloodlines reign supreme. Those with powerful bloodlines can summon famous ancestors to fight for them. The lowborn have no hope of ever rising above their station. They are slaves, sacrifices, and cultivation vessels. Jiang Yu transmigrated into the body of one such "lowborn." She hated this world with all her heart. Who doesn't have ancestors?! Ancestors of Huaxia, 71.9kFavorites119.4kClicks/ch102.9kGifts

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   Generally, the infrastructure development only starts in the second half, and the story before she becomes an empress is mostly fantasy.

4. 4 我 Building Infrastructure at Sea 我在海上搞基建 Naturally Serene恬然天然Romance403k WordsCompleted Going premium on August 18. Thank you all for your support! One second, she was calmly playing a city-building game. The next, she had been transported into its world. Su Lesi gazed at the water-planet world before her, made up entirely of oceans. Thanks for asking. I'm freaking out qwq Goodbye, Mom. Tonight I'm sailing away. Don't worry about me. I've got the oars of joy and wisdom. Su Lesi thought that becoming the most prestigious captain in the water-planet profession would put her on top 4.9kFavorites10kClicks/ch3.2kGifts

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   It's alright.

5. 5 我 Building Infrastructure in Heaven 我在天堂搞基建 Meow Is Very Meow喵很喵No CP470k WordsCompleted Jinkui transmigrated to Heaven, where every day she had to work, work, and work. Almost driven mad by her job, Jinkui quit in a fury, determined to enrich her inner life! One day, in some year, in some month... The Demon King, bored out of his mind, waved a hand and sent a group of underlings to bother the bored angels and see if they could tempt any of them into falling. The demons arrived in Heaven, brimming with fighting spirit, and found a food court, a theater, an amusement park, a shoppi 6.8kFavorites16.6kClicks/ch4.3kGifts

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   It's alright, the novelty is that it involves infrastructure construction in a Western paradise.

6. 6 无 Regardless of the Wei and Jin Dynasties 无论魏晋 Moon Beneath the Nine Provinces九州月下Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Wei Jin has spent sixteen years in ancient times after transmigrating there when chaos suddenly breaks out. Entrusted by the head of the household to take the young master and flee to Lingnan, she is living from day to day when, by chance, her cheat ability awakens. She can summon people from the modern world a thousand years in the future to develop a base, as long as they agree and don’t ask to be paid. Today’s headline: The real-world game No Matter Wei or Jin launches, taking you on a t 148.9kFavorites327.4kClicks/ch554.8kGifts

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   Hmm, how to put it... It's incomprehensible that a player's account can be used by others to level it up. This is supposed to be a fully immersive game for real-world players, and this is unacceptable. They say there's infrastructure, but the various technologies aren't really described. If the system directly provided them, that would be one thing, but the system barely appears, and there's no game panel for accepting quests; everything is done through the female protagonist's verbal instructions. It's incomprehensible. And even after so much time has passed, it's still the same initial hundred summoned players. If a player dies, can their account be restarted? Furthermore, there's been no real-world feedback on this game, so I dropped it before I even saw the paid subscription option.

7. 7 靠 I Became a Lord with the Sign-In System 靠签到系统当领主 Moonlit Tangyuan月上汤圆儿Romance651k WordsCompleted Upcoming story: Is the Tavern Open Today? The blurb is at the end. Guan Yihe survives to the end of the beta test for The Apocalypse of Tianyuan Continent, earning three one-of-a-kind rewards: a Lord's Token, an S-rank talent, and a hidden race. On the day the game launches, she discovers that she has transmigrated into the game, becoming a lowly survivor in the apocalypse-stricken Tianyuan Continent. Guan Yihe, the violent big shot, silently opens her S-rank talent: t 11.9kFavorites25.7kClicks/ch12.7kGifts

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   The Lord System's infrastructure is 70% complete, and it tells me there's a male protagonist. Looking at the table of contents, it says he's become a god; I thought there wasn't one. A bunch of people asked before, and the author was vague. Hehe.

8. 8 我 The Game I Played Became Reality 我玩的游戏成真了 Southern Island Cherry南岛樱桃Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Gods at War is a strategy mobile game packed with different ways to play. Players draw a divine role, meet believers, choose a development path, expand their divine domain, and compete against one another. Our protagonist is incredibly lucky at games, the sort who can pull a miracle with a single draw. For example, in this game, one pull landed her the only unique divine role: God of Luck. The night she drew it, the game became real. * The heroine: I’m going to make the gods of the sun, moon, wi 49.1kFavorites118.1kClicks/ch113.7kGifts

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   The premise was great from the start, but it got a bit weak later on; it's basically a wish-fulfillment story with little to no infrastructure development, relying mainly on the female lead's lucky draws.

9. 9 异 Life as a Lord in Another World 异界领主生活 Light Clouds, Faint轻云淡Romance351k WordsCompleted Alice's friend recommended an adventure game to her. After years of spending money and grinding, she maxed out her character's levels and became the top player on the server. (Mage Lv. 99, Swordsman Lv. 99, Blacksmith Lv. 99, Alchemist Lv. 99, Chef Lv. 92) One day, she transmigrated, inherited an estate, and became its lord. A few years later, the richest territory in the empire had been established. [Blacksmithing, making potions, crafting scrolls: there's nothing she can't do] [Magic setting, 94.3kFavorites297.5kClicks/ch206.5kGifts

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   Western fantasy lords are bound to a game system.

10. 10 我 I Became a Lord by Drawing Cards 我靠抽卡当领主 lesliyaRomance481k WordsCompleted [Entering premium serialization on September 11. Your support is welcome and appreciated.] In this world plunged into sudden darkness, only light blessed by the gods can offer a future. That's what the local natives say, but Mo Bei doesn't believe it. This is clearly the new expansion for the public beta of “Glorious Continent”: the Age of Shadows. So here's the question: as a “lord-type player,” how is she supposed to survive on this otherworldly continent that feels both like a game and like r 24.6kFavorites62.2kClicks/ch13.6kGifts

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    Everyone who transmigrates to another world has a binding system.

11. 11 绑 Bound to a System, I Become the Strongest Planet Lord 绑定系统成最强星球主 Yi Yu熠雨Romance439k WordsCompleted ---Blurb--- Chu Qiyu transmigrates to the interstellar era and becomes a notorious good-for-nothing, recently cast out by a top-tier star family. She owns a barren, desolate planet with barely any spiritual energy and not even a single weed, and she's drowning in debt. Fortunately, she binds herself to a Paradise System and gradually turns the barren planet into a paradise. All sorts of priceless, impos 5.5kFavorites14.5kClicks/ch3.8kGifts

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    I don't quite remember, maybe.

12. 12 论 When It Comes to Drawing Cards, I've Never Lost 论抽卡，我从来没输过 Young Master Muhan暮寒公子Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [New novel: I Crush the Cultivation World with My Secret Identities, now underway] [The full novel is complete. The blurb didn't turn out well, so I'm not fussing over it anymore. At its heart, this is a powerful heroine's rise-to-the-top story, and every card you could want is here. The clicks speak for themselves: readers who made it through the first ten chapters all stayed. Little angels, feel free to try a few chapters. This is how we all met!] Blurb One: After transmigrating to a continen 206.4kFavorites378.7kClicks/ch871.6kGifts

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    It's not bad. The only problem for me is that there's a male lead.

13. 13 二 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 female lead gets a spoiler, but only half of it. Her mission is to destroy the country. Because the spoiler is only half complete, she assumes the person in the spoiler is a loyal minister, so she doesn't need him and finds other ministers to help her bring about the country's downfall. However, she doesn't realize that the loyal ministers she thought were loyal are actually treacherous, and the ministers she found were all capable, which actually makes the country better and better.

14. 14 带 Taking a Life-Sim Game to Ancient Times 带着生活游戏去古代 Mu Yan穆烟Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Congratulations, you killed a frog. Experience +1, frog meat +1, copper coin +1] [Congratulations, you triggered a surprise drop: Croak Croak *1 (single-use item, can imitate a frog's call)] [Congratulations, you leveled up. Butcher (Level 3): 0/30. Level-up reward: socks (pair) *1] After transmigrating, Tian Tang reached the pinnacle of life with her bound life-simulation game. Goal: Conquer the world, and the sea of stars! PS: This story features a strong female lead, with the male 23.5kFavorites82.8kClicks/ch32.2kGifts

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    The game system allows for building upgrades, and while there's a male protagonist romance storyline at the end, it's practically nonexistent.

15. 15 我 I’ll Be Empress! Who’s Against It, and Who’s in Favor? 我要当女帝，谁反对，谁赞成？ Hate Summer讨厌夏天No CP5.1M WordsCompleted Transmigrate to a fictional world and live honestly as a dainty young lady? Congratulations, you have a 99% chance of being promised to the village butcher. Make your own way and earn a fortune like crazy, becoming a rich heiress? Congratulations, you have a 99% chance of becoming the county magistrate's thirteenth concubine. Be beautiful and work hard to become an imperial consort? How is that any different from the first two? I can fight, I'm not afraid to die, I'm crazy, I want to become an e 19.9kFavorites42.1kClicks/ch40.6kGifts

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    The nonsensical style of the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, focusing on infrastructure construction and conquering the world, is quite good. However, the female lead's personality and the plot's tendency to rely on exaggerated techniques become boring after a while, somewhat similar to the exaggerated style of Stephen Chow's films.

16. 16 我 I Stand Above Billions of Lives 我立于亿万生命之上 Hate Summer讨厌夏天No CP5.4M WordsCompleted Other people start with a knife and a dog. I don't even have a stick for firewood. Other people start out as pampered young ladies from wealthy families. I'm a beggar about to starve to death. Other people help an old man across the street and meet the emperor, or save a little beggar and meet a peerless general. Their luck shines at every turn. I'm hated, attacked, hunted, and ambushed every step of the way, fighting to survive by the skin of my teeth. Other people are kind and beloved by all. 16.7kFavorites27.5kClicks/ch39.1kGifts

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    Similar to another novel about an empress, this one is nonsensical and set in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. I agree that this author writes mostly of this kind.

17. 17 定 Empress Ding'an 定安女帝 Orange Juice Thanks橙汁感谢No CP557k WordsCompleted Announcement! This novel will be available to read for a fee starting November 24, 2021! I hope you'll support it! Hehe~ Original title: I Livestream as an Empress in Ancient Times In the spring of Year Twelve of the Shiyuan era, Princess Shen Luojue of the Dazhuang Dynasty went to a temple to pray for blessings, was brutally murdered, and woke up with someone else inside her. An interstellar livestream System brought Shen Luojue to this parallel world. The Dazhuang Dynasty had stood for a hund 10.1kFavorites14.3kClicks/ch8.7kGifts

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    It's alright, I don't quite remember.

18. 18 部 Tribal Uprising: A Reality Show About Building a Settlement 部落崛起真人秀基建 Jing Liushang静流裳No CP334k WordsCompleted Everyone on Earth thinks this whole thing is utterly ridiculous. Aliens have discovered us. We have to join the Interstellar Alliance to survive. To join, we have to pass an assessment. And the assessment is... a reality show?! Become a tribe chief, lead your tribe, survive, stand out among 78,990 tribes, win the audience's affection, and get enough votes to join the Alliance! Qin Zhen never imagined that one day she would be one of the ten lucky (un)fortunates out of seven billion people. Repre 2.9kFavorites9.6kClicks/ch2kGifts

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    Generally, it's just that the first book of this type I've read is quite novel.

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