Novels like I Opened a Restaurant in the Apocalypse
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- 101 Starting a Farm in the Apocalypse 在末日里开农场 When Shen Liang opened his eyes, he found himself inside a book he had read, one starring an arrogant male lead and a saintly female lead. He had become one of the cannon fodder characters in the heroine's path to success. Shen Liang felt a little disheartened. Luckily, transmigrating had come with a farm System. In the Apocalypse, he could claim a mountain and enjoy a leisurely life growing crops and selling goods. Sometimes he could even grow mutated plants, like fire-breathing devil peppers a 4.4kReads9.2Score535Shelves
- 102 Apocalypse: The Heroine Goes on a Rampage with Billions in Supplies 末世，女主她拿百亿物资杀疯了 Original title: In the Apocalypse, the Heroine Slaughters Her Way Through with Billions in Supplies [Apocalypse + Reborn + Farming Space + Plane Trading System + Stockpiling + Building a Base] A powerful male lead and a powerful female lead, an unapologetically self-serving power fantasy, and utterly indulgent romance. No saintly heroine!!! In the fifth year of the apocalypse, Su Luo blew herself up to take her wicked stepsister down with her and get revenge. When she opened her eyes again, she 20.9kReads9.1Score2.4kShelves
- 103 Supermarket Across the Myriad Worlds: I Trade Buns for Technology for My Country 万界超市：我用包子给国家换科技 [No romance + supermarkets across different planes + running a business + seeking the motherland’s protection] When intern Jiang Wanwan refused to go bungee jumping at a company team-building event, her boss gave her a hard time. In a fit of anger, she fired him. While unemployed at home, she unexpectedly got a Myriad Worlds Supermarket System. Open supermarkets in other planes? No way. What if she ran into danger? The System was desperate for her to earn money and level up, so it had no choice 12.6kReads8.9Score1.3kShelves
- 104 Spiritual Qi Revival: I Open a General Store to Get By 灵气复苏：开个杂货铺混日子 [Spiritual qi revival + System + urban + comedy + no female lead] Tang Bai's three great loves: eating, getting himself into trouble, and making a little pocket money. An unexpected transmigration brings him a general store and sets him on a very different path in life. 16.4kReads9.0Score2.8kShelves
- 105 I Joined Forces with a Plane-Hopping Supermarket and My Country to Drive Development 我携手位面超市和国家搞发展 (The animated drama adaptation of this novel is now available. If you’re interested, check it out under the title “Fatherland, I Want to Turn In My Interdimensional Supermarket.” Season two is also out.) A nation-building story. The heroine is a supporting character, and there’s no romance. Ordinary woman Tang Qingxi quits her job and goes home to open a supermarket. After finally getting everything ready, she opens the door to start business, only to discover that her supermarket has transmigr 24.6kReads9.3Score2.1kShelves
- 106 You Have a New Thirst-Quenching Drink Order 您有新的渴了么订单 [Character development + business simulation + infrastructure building + healing + no romance + a touch of court intrigue] They say the emperor was corrupt and incompetent, and Heaven sent down divine punishment. Not a drop of rain had fallen on this land for nearly twenty years, and countless people had died of thirst. Then, all of a sudden, a milk tea shop opened in the desert. In spring, there were all kinds of ice-cold fruit juices, along with seasonal drinks like cherry blossom and lychee b 13.4kReads9.4Score1.9kShelves
- 107 Quick Transmigration Across Planes: I Own a Little General Store 位面快穿，我有一间小杂货店 [No romance + no male lead + general store + ensemble cast + doing business in various novel worlds, including storylines where the heroine gets help] [Main characters: Su Ling + a calico cat] After waking up one day, Su Ling finds that her general store has bonded with a planar trade System, and she transmigrates into a book. First book world: a lucky heroine in a story set during the era of rationing. A general store suddenly appears on the hill behind Dawang Village. It has more goods tha 52.7kReads9.3Score4.7kShelves
- 108 My Suppliers Span Three Thousand Small Worlds 我的供货商遍布三千小世界 Sang Yi’an worked so much overtime that she nearly dropped dead. After being brought back from the brink, she immediately quit her job and opened a small supermarket. Her relatives and friends didn’t think much of it, convinced it would go out of business. Sang Yi’an didn’t care. She wasn’t trying to make a fortune, just enough to cover her daily expenses, as long as she didn’t have to work overtime and stay up all night. Little did she know, her supermarket started acting up every night at midn 22.5kReads8.9Score2.2kShelves
- 109 Fantasy World: A Heavenly Secrets Pavilion from the Start 玄幻：开局一座天机阁 Ye Xu transmigrates into a fantasy world and awakens the Heavenly Secrets System, obtaining a Heavenly Secrets Pavilion from the start. He can see the future and understand the past, judge yin and yang, and discern the Five Elements. Beneath the Heavenly Dao, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion can calculate everything in the world. The Great Emperor Ziwei: “I swept across the universe and stood undefeated, yet I rank eleventh on the Great Emperor List?” The Dao King: “The story about me murdering my 4.7kReads8.5Score579Shelves
- 110 Building a Scenic Attraction, My NPCs Are from Ancient Times! 打造景区，我的NPC来自古代！ [The short drama adaptation is now available] Qin Yao had just arrived in a parallel world when he inherited a tourist attraction! But to his surprise, it was on the verge of bankruptcy. There weren’t any attractions to speak of, and he couldn’t even afford to hire NPCs. He was about to sell the place, since the land alone was worth a fortune. But Qin Yao never expected to bind himself to an NPC System! The System had only one function: it could bring people from the pages of history to work as 66.8kReads9.2Score6.1kShelves
- 111 Apocalypse Survival: I Can See Hidden Hints 末世求生：我能看到隐藏提示 When Zhang Chen woke up, he discovered that billions of people had been transported to a post-apocalyptic world! Surviving became everyone’s shared goal! But Zhang Chen could see hidden information: [Congratulations! This room has no zombies, and it also contains a Level 1 supply crate!] [This mutated fruit looks sweet and delicious, but one bite will kill you!] [The meat of a mutated rat can stave off hunger, and temporarily increase your strength!] While everyone else cautiously explored this 31kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
- 112 Natural Disasters from the Start: I Hoard a Hundred Billion in Supplies and Win by Doing Nothing 开局天灾，我靠囤百亿物资躺赢 [Post-Apocalyptic World + Reborn + Spatial Storage + Stockpiling + Pets + Slice of Life] (Available in print; the short drama and motion comic are now streaming) In a post-apocalyptic world of natural disasters, only the fittest survive. Typhoons, floods, extreme cold and heat, earthquakes, tsunamis, insect plagues, acid rain… After struggling to survive for three years in the apocalypse, Jiang Ning met a miserable death. Reborn three days before the end of the world, she seizes the advantage, r 60.1kReads9.3Score5.3kShelves
- 113 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 7.6kReads5.8Score316Shelves
- 114 Twin Rivers: Bloodbath in Republican-Era Shanghai 双川民国之沪上血战 Su Tianci has spent 25 years as a working stiff. After leaving the military, he has the job he earned stolen by someone with power and influence. His attempts to seek justice come to nothing, and with the other side's overwhelming influence, he has no choice but to become a delivery driver. Who could have guessed that while performing a good deed, he'd be struck by a heavy truck and sent straight to the Republican era? Then his transmigration golden finger turns out to let him travel between the 172Reads7.2Score149Shelves
- 115 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Red-Hot Years 两界穿梭之火红年代 Li Xiaren is an ordinary office worker, trudging through grueling days that start at eight in the morning and end at midnight. One day, after finally getting several months of back pay, he plans to give himself a well-deserved break. Who could have guessed that eating a grilled kidney for no apparent reason would send him back to the 1970s when he woke up? Luckily, he discovers he can return to 2025, and so two completely different eras open up before him!!! 254Reads7.6Score101Shelves
- 116 A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金 Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More 532Reads7.7Score135Shelves
- 117 EN Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力 [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na 333.1kReads9.7Score43.5kShelves
