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- 1 Farming and Building in Ancient Times 在远古，种田基建 (Transmigration + farming + infrastructure + food + survival) I went camping by the sea with my best friend to watch the sunrise, then woke up in a forest. I find companions, gather wild produce, search for food, farm, and build. There are no wars, no love-hate entanglements, just a calm, ordinary survival story. Completed: "Transmigrated Farmer Girl: Making a Fortune in Peach Blossom Village" Transmigration + no golden finger + romance + helping the villagers make money What does it feel like t 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Building Infrastructure in a Famine-Stricken World 我在灾荒位面搞基建 [No Romance, Strong Female Lead, Business, Farming, Infrastructure, Incredibly Satisfying!] After getting into an online fight with haters at home and passing out, Zhu Qing wakes up to discover that she has cancer and only a few days left to live. In her despair, she binds to a System and begins a new life running a shop in another world. Disasters and wars plague the Liang Dynasty, driving the people to despair. Countless families sell their children just to afford a meal. A strange shop appear 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 I Build a Nation, Fight Poverty, and Develop Infrastructure in Ancient Times 我在古代定国扶贫搞基建 Lou Yueling has just finished her studies and received a hundred houses. Before she can even start taking it easy, she wakes up as the poorest consort in the harem. With no other choice, she stays and binds herself to a Favorable Consort System. Then she discovers she's deeply in debt to the emperor, so she has no choice but to start working herself to the bone all over again. Taking it easy is out of the question. It's all for the sake of getting by! Unexpectedly, through a twist of fate, the e 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Create Your Own City 请创建属于你的城市 No killing. No revenge. No wiping out entire families. The protagonist, Shi Tie, is gentle and humble. He is interested only in maintaining and expanding his city, and shows his bravery only when protecting its safety. You can call him a pushover, but he reads people well. He devotes himself to building a city, creating an age of peace and law in a chaotic world where strength reigns supreme. No heroine, no romance. After suddenly finding himself in unfamiliar surroundings, Shi Tie reluctant 151Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 After Calling Off the Engagement, I Built a New City in the Western Regions 退婚后，我在西域建新城 Shen Qingwu, a noblewoman of Liangzhou, is publicly jilted and exiled to the Western Regions to die. They laugh that I’ve lost my reputation, that my father’s clan has fallen, that I’m unarmed and doomed to be buried beneath the yellow sands. But they don’t know I have the Civilization VI System, and that I can turn everything I see into data. In this forgotten outpost of Dry Springs, I gather seven disillusioned people, each with a remarkable talent: a water-control fanatic, a lone-wolf general 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Cities: Skylines: Rush Hour 都市天际线：尖峰时刻 [System + Infrastructure Development + Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce] The protagonist starts in a tiny fishing village and uses the System to lead it through steady growth, from a town to a county-level city, then a regional leader, and finally an international metropolis. 149Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 A Great Famine in Daqian from the Start: I Grow Crops to Build a Rich Nation 开局大乾饥荒，我靠种田富可敌国 He transmigrates to ancient times and finds himself in the middle of a three-year famine from the start: a thousand miles of scorched earth, with people driven to eat their own children! The powerful hoard goods and treat human lives as worthless. Just when all hope seems lost, Lin Yuan, a top agricultural university graduate, smiles. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, curved plows... While everyone else is gnawing on tree bark, his granaries are already overflowing! “What? The court wants to requisition 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Poor-Born Phoenix’s Infrastructure-Building Journey 寒门凰女的基建狂魔之旅 Farming and Infrastructure + Education to Strengthen the Nation + No Romance, Family Focus + Female Independence and Growth + Widow + Family Bonds + No Romantic Entanglements + Strong Female Lead Tone: A warm, ensemble-style farming story focused on family bonds and devotion to the nation, with light comedy woven in. The antagonists are mostly shortsighted local gentry or rigid officials, with no complicated household infighting. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Beast World: Fifty Is the Perfect Age to Make Your Mark! 兽世：50岁正是闯的年纪！ [Beast-World Farming + Infrastructure Building + No CP + No Childbearing + Turning It Over to the State!] Zhou Jinsui appeared in the beast world, holding her newborn granddaughter. Before her stood a beastman male lead, eyeing them hungrily. Behind her was a System full of tricks. The System kept whispering temptations in her ear: “If your granddaughter gives the male lead a child, you’ll get ten thousand points. Save up enough points and you can go home. Listen to me: have ten first!” Zhou Jin 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 A Woman Reborn as a Woman Leads Her Family and Country to Prosperity 女穿女，带领家国走繁荣 (Strong heroine, infrastructure, feel-good story, no System, steady updates) No CP. If you love stories with a powerful female lead, you’re in luck! Chu Ci, a science PhD from the 21st century, transmigrated to the Longteng Dynasty. Soon after arriving, she was caught up in a disaster that befell the Chu family. Framed by the Right Chancellor, she went from a noblewoman of the capital to a humble county magistrate, taking over her father’s post. Songyang County. Assistant county magistrate An Bi 741Reads8.8Score10314d adds
- 11 The Metaphysics Master Makes Waves in the Wasteland by Farming 玄学大佬靠种田轰动废土世界 Lu Liuhe, a top demon hunter of the 21st century, wakes up as an orphan in a wasteland world. Eighty percent of this world's land is contaminated. At Base Nine, which is facing a food crisis, food is the most profitable commodity. So poor she has to beg for a living, Lu Liuhe is determined to become a great farmer. To get clean soil suitable for cultivation, she sets out on a journey to dig up earth in the wilderness. Outside the base, danger lurks at every step. Mutant rats as big as elephants, 5kReads9.2Score69914d adds
- 12 The Whole Family Transmigrates: Fleeing Famine, Without Even a Golden Finger! 全家穿越：逃荒！还没金手指！ [The whole family transmigrates + the entire clan flees famine + natural disasters + farming + business + infrastructure + war + imperial examinations + family darling + feel-good power fantasy] First, I have to say that I absolutely love YTT Taotao’s We All Transmigrated as a Family. I’ve reread it countless times. But there were a few parts I wished had gone differently, so I decided to write my own book. The characters and social structure at the beginning are similar to Taotao’s work, so you 73Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 13 I Build Infrastructure in Ancient Times 我在古代搞基建 [Woman Disguised as a Man + Infrastructure Building + Career-Focused + Fiercely Protective + Clear-Eyed Heroine] Original title: Building Infrastructure in Ancient Times Tang Yixuan, a brilliant engineer, transmigrates into the body of a woman who has taken her brother’s place as the new magistrate of Qingchuan County. To stay alive, she racks her brains and exhausts every resource at her disposal. She builds waterworks, raises tall buildings, paves roads with concrete, and constructs a city. Be 4.4kReads9.1Score57114d adds
- 14 Transmigrated as a Spoiled Noblewoman, She Was Exiled to a Poor Mountain Village 穿成娇蛮贵女，她被发配到穷山沟 Zhao Liang died, and Zhao Liang woke up in another world. She had become the notorious, domineering, and utterly unhinged young lady of the capital. With a reputation in the capital so foul that no one could stand her, she had no choice but to obey her family and retire to the impoverished mountain village where her family originated. Zhao Liang: I’m leaving behind the backbreaking life I had in my previous life. I’m going to be a happy freeloader and lie flat in retirement! Long live lying flat 312Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 15 Who's Best at Qin Dynasty Infrastructure? The Food System Is Here to Help 秦朝基建哪家强美食系统来帮忙 Note: The female lead has no romance. The central idea of this story is the proper use of a food System: selling food, no; building infrastructure for the Qin Empire, yes. [In our country, "sir" is a gender-neutral form of address. The System has no gender, so it has been addressed with the neutral term "sir." If you think that because foreign men have been translated as "sir" in modern times, the word means male, and thus the System should not be called "sir," please avoid this story.] [As for 2.5kReads9.2Score31014d adds
- 16 Qingshui Village Farmstay 清水村农家乐 When you've reached a dead end, go home, back to the vast fields and farmland. Help your parents sell peaches, grow vegetables in greenhouses, and run a farmstay. Then lead the villagers of Qingshui Village to prosperity and forge your own path as a new-generation farmer! 2.5kReads—Score16014d adds
- 17 Global Survival: My Territory Is the Only Pure Land 全民求生：我的领地是唯一净土 [Global Survival] [Infrastructure Building] [Farming] [Strong Female Lead] [City Lord] The entire world is transported to another realm. From the start, everyone gets a small wooden shack, and they have to earn all their own resources. Some people are on islands, some in deserts, and others in primeval forests. They chop down trees to upgrade their wooden houses and stave off hunger with wild grass and berries. Those who survive for a month can summon their families to join them. While others ar 8.5kReads9.1Score83414d adds
- 18 Transmigrate Into a Book: Escape from Famine 穿书之逃荒记 Note: No romantic pairing The setup: Chu Yanting, a notoriously bad writer whose novel was left unfinished, transmigrates into her own story as the unfortunate heroine who dies in childbirth. According to the plot, she has 30 days left to live. With disasters striking one after another and war breaking out, she has to care for a family of elderly people, children, and women. Yet the transmigration god only gives her a miniature pocket dimension measuring 0.1 square meters… Request: Please give t 3.6kReads9.2Score33814d adds
- 19 Transported to a Year of Famine, I’ll Feed My Whole Family Meat, Not Tree Bark 穿到荒年，啃啥树皮我带全家吃肉 This book has been adapted into short dramas: The Hunter King: Steamed Buns and Meat at Every Meal During the Famine; The Whole Village Chews Tree Bark in the Famine, While I Gorge on Meat with My Family; No Food After the Locust Plague, but My Granary Is Piled High. [Farming + Power Fantasy + System + Lighthearted Comedy + Cozy Daily Life] Gu Zhouyuan opened his eyes to find himself as the third son of the Gu family in ancient Datong Village. Lazy, gluttonous, and good for nothing, he was hated 36.1kReads8.5Score2.7k14d adds
- 20 From the Start with a Spirit Spring, I Turn My Hometown into a Peach Blossom Paradise 开局灵泉，我把老家打造成桃花源 [Pocket dimension and spirit spring + country life + raising pets + mutual healing, lighthearted and heartwarming] Her mother had cancer, her scumbag boyfriend was cheating on her, and he and his mistress had stolen her designs. Then she was fired from her company. With her life at its bleakest, An Nuan planned to take her mother back to their hometown to spend her final days there. Then she unexpectedly unlocked a pocket dimension and a spirit spring. Working herself to the bone for a pittance 37.2kReads9.2Score2.3k14d adds
- 21 Running a Women’s Federation in Ancient Times 我在古代办妇联 [No CP + business and farming + infrastructure building + strong female lead + feel-good story] Zhu Ling spent a happy hundred years lazing around at the Time-Space Bureau... only to end up six hundred million in debt! To pay it off, she was forced to bind herself to a Debt Collection System and begin her grueling repayment journey. Thus, Zixiao Kingdom gave rise to a legendary female tycoon. They say she started out selling tofu, struck it rich with konjac, and then parks, supermarkets, chain h 2.1kReads9.3Score26714d adds
- 22 The First Thing I Did as a County Magistrate: Feed the Whole County 做女县令第一件事：让全县吃饱饭 [Farming + infrastructure development + improving people’s livelihoods + System + a female magistrate’s rise to power] Shen Zheng opens her eyes to find she’s become a newly appointed female magistrate. The county office is so poor that plaster is crumbling off the walls, and the granary is so empty even the mice stay away. Everyone knows that the poorest county in all of Liuyang Prefecture is this very county, Tong’an. Just as she thinks she’ll have to waste three years in Tong’an before retiri 17.4kReads9.2Score1.9k14d adds
- 23 I Want to Lie Flat, but My Strength Won't Let Me 想躺平，怎奈实力不允许啊 If you like stories that jump straight into fighting and killing, with life-or-death stakes, this one may not be for you. The heroine isn't naturally inclined to seek power or kill. For a long time at the beginning, she enjoys peaceful days filled with family life and everyday trivialities. They are the easiest, most carefree years of her life, and a crucial period for gathering supplies and building the reputation she will need when she later rises up. When natural disasters and human calamitie 715Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 From the Start, I Reported Everything and Built the World with Summoned Players 开局上交：我靠召唤玩家搞基建 [No CP] [World-Building] [Fourth-Dimensional Disaster] [Players] [Zombies] [Undead] [Ensemble Cast] [Behind-the-Scenes Boss] #IWantToHandOverAnotherWorld# The moment Yun Lan suddenly gained a small world, she came clean to the state! After that, an unprecedented full-dive game, Zombie Nation, officially launched online! -- Before the game launched -- Netizens: Fake! Fake! Fake! A scam to fleece us! -- After the game launched -- Netizens: Give me an invite! Give me an invite! Hurry up and open th 18.1kReads9.1Score1.8k14d adds
- 25 After Reaching Max Level in the Wasteland, I Transmigrated to a Famine Year and Became Empress 我在废土满级后，穿越荒年当女帝 A satisfying infrastructure-building power fantasy, not a matriarchal-world story. Ruan Xiang, ruler of the largest base in the wasteland, transmigrated into one of the refugees fleeing famine in ancient times. Finding water, irrigating fields, building filtration ponds, making bricks and building kilns, teaching people to read, pressing oil… To survive better, Ruan Xiang gathered every worker she could. Until she discovered that the imperial court was growing weak, the ministers were afraid 9.2kReads9.1Score1.1k14d adds
- 26 Fleeing Disaster: Our Whole Family Transmigrated to Ancient Times to Survive 天灾逃荒：全家穿到古代求生存 [No romantic pairing + farming + infrastructure development + exile + famine migration, a pure plot-driven novel] Ji Xingran never imagined that simply climbing a mountain would result in their family of three transmigrating. They even transmigrated into a group of exiles headed toward a bitterly cold land. Fortunately, all three family members' backpacks became spatial storage, and Ji Xingran also gained special survival skill points that allowed them to predict the weather, gather wild fruit, 13.1kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 27 Transmigrated into an Ancient Apocalypse, I Use My Family Fortune to Build Infrastructure 穿进古代末世，靠着家底搞基建 [Strong Heroine + Natural Disasters + Zombies + Infrastructure Building + No Superpowers + No CP] Wei Xiyin transmigrates, born into a noble family as its legitimate daughter. She thought she'd been handed the script for a family power struggle, but who could have expected a zombie outbreak on the way back to her hometown? Then plants and animals begin to mutate, and extreme weather sets in. Her entire worldview collapses in an instant. There are no cars, no canned food, no high-tech weapons, an 11.1kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 28 I Only Want to Be a Military Doctor, So Why Are You Making Me Empress? 我只想当军医，你们让我当女皇？ [Feel-good revenge + transmigration + System + medicine + nation-building + conquering a chaotic age + empress + cheat powers] Medical student Liu Yi transmigrates into a war-torn age. The world is in chaos, the imperial court has fallen, and ordinary people can barely survive. But she brought along her all-purpose doctor System. System: “I can give you medical equipment.” System: “I can give you medical books.” System: “I can give you an entire modern hospital.” System: “Your goal is to becom 10kReads9.5Score2.3k14d adds
- 29 Transmigrating to Ancient Times: Three Women, Countless Dramas 穿越古代：三个女人N台戏 [Ensemble cast + group transmigration + farming and commerce + military service and medicine + self-reliance and perseverance, an uplifting and satisfying story, slow burn, everyday slice of life] A car accident sends three women transmigrating to the unfamiliar Great Wu Dynasty, where they land in a bandit’s den from the start. Zhu Mingyue: “Watch me make a fortune with two deadweights in tow.” Duan Xiaotang: “Watch me bring stability to every corner of the realm with two teammates.” Lin Wanwan 27.9kReads9.4Score2k14d adds
- 30 Big Brother Goes to Cultivate Immortality, Little Brother Comes to Farm 哥去修仙，种田弟来 [No System] [No Items] [Farming] [Management] [Science + Metaphysics] After transmigrating to the cultivation world, with no System and no wise old mentor, he has to flee for his life from the start... While others are still fighting to the death over half a tattered manual or killing for a few cultivation supplies, Chen Fei glances at the data from the Spirit Realm: 80,000+ Yellow-tier techniques collected, 5,000+ Black-tier techniques, Earth-tier... The traditional path to immortality: Kill → 6.2kReads7.5Score40414d adds
- 31 She Held a Reunion Feast, and the Entire Court Showed Up? 她办个同窗宴，满朝文武都来了？ [Group transmigration + ensemble cast + no System + imperial examinations + everyday academy life in the early story + political intrigue in the middle and later story] (Everyone is highly intelligent and career-driven; the heroine has no romance) An earthquake sent Zhu Lan and her entire class of top students into a book, where they became a notorious group of failures! How could they turn things around? Oh, apparently all they had to do was pass the highest-level imperial exam. What a relief! 10.4kReads9.1Score1.9k14d adds
- 32 From Toddler Prince to Sovereign of All Under Heaven [Infrastructure] 从奶娃诸侯王到天下共主【基建】 Original title: From Infant Prince to Ruler of All Under Heaven: Infrastructure Building [Feel-good power fantasy + adorable toddler from the start + gaming cheat + infrastructure building + farming + war + family and country + cute pets + romance?] [Serious Synopsis] If you come from across the sea and travel west, you will eventually find a prosperous city unlike anything in this world. It is the fiefdom of His Highness, the Prince of You: Youzhou. At the end of the dynasty, the land is strew 171.1kReads9.3Score18.7k14d adds
- 33 The Savings System Summoned Me to Another World to Become a Rich Woman 我被存钱系统召唤到异世界当富婆 [Travel Between Two Worlds] + [Modern-Day Fantasy] + [System] + [Farming] + [No Romance] + [Food Business] + [Livestream] + [Building Wealth] + [Infrastructure] + [Redemption] Other people's Systems shower their Hosts with money and perks. Mine is all about being broke, forcing me to make money through street vending and hand over every last cent. I make a million a day Livestreaming skewers made with handsome men from the mall, only for the System to order me to turn off tips. I have to build 1.3kReads—Score10414d adds
- 34 I Became a Fussy Old Lady: While Everyone Else Fled the Famine, I Reclaimed the Land 穿成作精老太，别人逃荒我开荒 (No space, no System, no romance. A short drama with the same name has already been released. A warm, rustic story. Everyone says they wouldn’t survive three episodes after transmigrating into a chaotic era. Read this book, and you’ll survive ten more!) She transmigrated into a book, becoming the villainous aunt who abused the protagonist in a male-oriented novel, and was destined to be killed off. Jiang Zhi didn’t cling to the protagonist. She left him behind and relied on her extensive knowled 85.9kReads9.5Score8.1k14d adds
- 35 Reborn as a Wicked Foster Mother: I Raised the Villainous Tyrant All Wrong 穿成恶毒养母：把反派暴君养歪了 [No romance + teaching + adorable kids + farming + building wealth + infrastructure] A warm, slice-of-life story Zhang Ziruo transmigrates into the role of the evil adoptive mother of a tyrannical villain, destined for a tragic end. She plans to win the villain’s favor while he is still young, only to discover that he has been reborn... Taking stock of her new circumstances, she decides to open a school and become a teacher! She’ll raise the villain to be a virtuous, capable, open-minded, and po 15.2kReads9.5Score2.2k14d adds
- 36 Transmigrating into a Chaotic Age, the Mad Princess Builds a Nation Through Robbery 穿乱世，疯癫公主她靠抢劫建国了 [Transmigrate + Struggle for Supremacy + Chaotic Era + Powerful Female Lead + Fleeing Famine + Infrastructure Building + No Romantic Pairing + Portable Space] Original title: Transmigrating Through Chaotic Times, the Mad Princess Builds a Nation by Robbing Others When Jiang Jin awoke, she discovered that she had become a princess of a fallen kingdom and was being sent to Liang City to become a plaything for the barbarian Jiao Liang. She thought about it and decided it would be better for others 147.3kReads9.5Score18.2k14d adds
- 37 Who Gets It, Guys? The First Emperor Snatched My System 家人们谁懂啊，系统被始皇截胡了 [Main story has no romance, and is set in an alternate Great Qin. Not everything is historical: a mix of history and comedy] "The final bonus chapter is for readers' satisfaction and has a hint of romance. If that bothers you, feel free to skip it" Good news: Li Jiang transmigrates to the Qin dynasty and gets to see her idol in person. At last, she lays eyes on the legendary ancestor, nearly two meters tall, with thick brows and big eyes. She gets to watch the First Emperor unify the Six Kingdom 27.3kReads9.4Score4k14d adds
- 38 My Emperor Father Can Read Minds 我的皇帝父亲会读心 [Infrastructure Building Focus ✚ Mostly Comedy ✚ Not Historically Accurate ✚ No Romance] Emperor Wei prided himself on being a wise ruler. His ministers served him well, his harem was harmonious, and his children were clever and filial. That is, until he was struck by lightning. Afterward, he gained the ability to read minds, and finally learned that everyone around him was two-faced, saying one thing while thinking another! Emperor Wei was devastated. So he had been such a failure as an emperor 56.5kReads9.3Score5.3k14d adds
- 39 After Faking Nobility, I Became a God 假冒贵族后我成神了 [Fake aristocrat + true queen + secret identities + everyone’s favorite + nation-building + personal growth] Luo Wei transmigrates into the body of a lowly commoner who passed herself off as a noble girl to enroll at school. Her identity is about to be exposed, and she’ll be despised and cursed by the entire school before being hanged at the gallows in the marketplace. Luo Wei: What’s there to be afraid of? I just have to pretend to be a noble. As someone from the twenty-first century, I can act 127.9kReads9.5Score13.9k14d adds
- 40 After Transmigrating to a Year of Famine, I Became the Worst Mother-in-Law 穿到荒年后，我成了极品恶婆婆 [Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + adorable kids + no male lead] Cheng Wanqun woke up in the body of a 33-year-old farmer's wife in ancient Dahuang Village. Her four sons were kneeling by the bed, calling her Mother, and her daughter-in-law had another grandchild on the way. After being single her entire life for 33 years, she'd suddenly become a mother-in-law and grandmother. Raising four sons was already hard enough, but then disaster struck: locust plagues, droughts, snowstorms. 68.1kReads9.4Score7.6k14d adds
- 41 She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反 [Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and 106.8kReads9.5Score12.4k14d adds
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