Novels like Wasteland: One Survival Gadget a Day
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- 101 I Awakened a Dao Companion Synthesis System 我觉醒了道侣合成系统 (Not a mindless power fantasy. Don't read if that's not your thing.) Ten years after transmigrating, Zhou Ding finally worked up the courage to send a message to the campus belle of the "Chosen One University": Hey, want to become cultivation partners? I've got plenty of yang energy! That night, the campus belle died… 58.7kReads7.9Score5kShelves
- 102 That Summer, I Healed Myself 那个夏天，我治愈了自己 That Summer, I Healed Myself 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 Survive by Drawing Cards: One Legendary Card a Day for Everyone 全民抽卡求生，每天一张传说卡 [Survival + Ensemble Cast + Cards + Sane Values + Chinese-Style Incubus + Growing Protagonist + Classic Heroic Adventure] The Endless Road opened, and the entire world was plunged into an unstoppable death march. Monsters were everywhere, danger lurked at every turn, puzzles arose in desperate situations, and madness stretched on without end. It was a road to hell with no end, walked on foot as the sun and moon turned, year after year. Forward! Keep moving forward! Don't stop! Stop, and you die! 79.3kReads8.4Score9kShelves
- 104 Isn't This a Death Note? Why Is Everything Being Given Away?! 不是死亡笔记吗？怎么全变给了！ [Not Fanfiction] + [Meme References] + [Wild Imagination] + [Absurd, Unhinged Comedy] + [Godlike Characters] When anything is born, it produces a notebook. Anyone who owns one can form a contract with the angel bound to that notebook and become a godlike being. Yue Shenye looks at the notebook in his hands, and all the humiliations of the past come flooding back. He grips his pen tightly. “I want every last one of you dead!” The ballpoint pen sweeps across the page, filling it with names. Then t 19.5kReads8.7Score2.4kShelves
- 105 The Apocalypse’s Most Ruthless Survivor 末世之第一狠人 [Apocalyptic Catastrophe + Racial War + Struggling to Survive + Farming] Blue Star has existed for 4.6 billion years and endured five mass extinctions. Yet the wealth accumulated over all that time was exhausted by humankind in a mere few centuries! The Way of Heaven takes from what is abundant to make up for what is lacking. The way of man is different: it takes from what is lacking to serve what is abundant. Humanity has always taken and destroyed, never given anything back! What has humanity 7.5kReads8.1Score489Shelves
- 106 In Search of Fate in the Weiwei Realm 寻命维维界 The protagonist, Liu Zhongyi, transmigrates to the world of Weiwei, where two great guardian gods descend from the heavens and identify him as the chosen one… In this world, cultivating immortality is forbidden. He must find five beautiful women, each associated with one of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and gain supernatural powers in order to save the world of Weiwei… This is a lighthearted comedy, full of foreshadowing, gripping twists, and constant surprises. Join 846Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 107 Jujutsu Kaisen: As a Special Grade, I Went to Fight the Myriad-Year Corpse Immortal 咒回：特级的我去打万业尸仙了 [System] [The Myriad Worlds] [Cursed Combat] [Exhilarating Battles] Xia Jie, bound to the Challenge Space, can challenge every powerful fighter across the Myriad Worlds, including Sukuna, the Giant Shark King, Miracle You, the Corpse Immortal of Ten Thousand Industries, Gatanothor, the Hand of God, Hellstar, Boros, Yhwach, the Anti-Spiral King… Challenge Space: "Will you win?" Xia Jie: "I'm guaranteed to die, but it'll be worth every penny!" Fortunately, every time he dies, he can rewind ti 40.7kReads9.0Score4.7kShelves
- 108 I Helped My Relatives Escape the Zombie Horde, But They Still Keep Pressuring Me to Marry and Have Kids 我帮亲戚们躲过了丧尸潮，但他们还是催婚催生 I Helped My Relatives Escape the Zombie Horde, but They Still Keep Pressuring Me to Get Married and Have Kids 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 A Down-and-Out Life: Chen Chu Rises 落魄人生之陈楚崛起 [Moral Ambiguity + Goddess Collector + Forest Lumberjack + Peerless Divine Arts + Making Money Through Deception + Hundred-Billion Business Empire + Alternate Dimensions + Parallel Universes + Time Travel + Mysterious Alien Planet + The Extravagant Second District of the Human World + Mysterious Underground Third District + Comedy + Laying Low to Grow Strong] Inside the ring's spatial realm, he accidentally discovers alternate dimensions, parallel universes, time travel, and a mysterious alien p 1.1kReads8.0Score—Shelves
- 110 Everyday Life in the City: A Rich Heir in Beijing 都市日常：富二代在京城 "Love in the Mortal World: My Wild Wife in the Capital" My name is Tang Feng. I used to be a combat sports athlete and achieved some impressive results. After retiring, I started a new life. I came to the capital to experience life, embarking on a winding, realistic, and thrilling journey. From the start, I shared a rental apartment. The landlady would later become my wife. She was beautiful and wild. 2kReads8.7Score144Shelves
- 111 Dungeons & Dragons: My Sect Master Is the System! DND：我的宗主是系统！ DND 5e 2014 rules. Also known as From the Start, a Useless System Girl, So I'll Raise My Own Cheat; The System's Too Weak to Fear, I'll Turn It into a Superpower; You Called the System Garbage, So How Did It Become Invincible for Me?; DND: My Sect Master Is a System; The Legacy Is Broken, But I Have the Full Rulebook. One female lead. There will be factional disputes, but no harem... Volume One: Spring Winds of the Northern Frontier, complete. Volume Two: The Lost Gods, complete. Volume Three: T 3.8kReads5.5Score458Shelves
- 112 Eerie: Others Choose Ugly Wives, but I Choose the Most Beautiful 诡异：别人选丑妻，我偏选最美的 My name is Si Ling, and I transmigrated. The good news: I was bound to a daily hint System. I knew I was set. The bad news: This world has a bizarre rule. Newcomers have to get married. If they don’t, they drop dead. The even worse news: The more beautiful the wife, the more dangerous she is. So the old-timers all agree: pick an ugly one. The uglier she is, the safer she’ll be, and the longer you’ll live. That was what I thought, too, until my System gave me three hints… So, with everyone 5.3kReads5.4Score344Shelves
- 113 648 to Become the Creator God! The Technology Is All Real! 648当创世神！技术全是真的！ [Theistic civilization + ensemble cast + uplifting the real world + global hegemony + fiercely protective + behind-the-scenes mastermind + development and growth + interstellar conquest in the later stages] (An unserious introduction: Oil? Food? Population? Territory? Continents? Planets? What's yours or theirs? It's all bestowed on me by the Father God.) A serious introduction: Give time to civilization, and civilization to technology. Above the river of time, I chart the ultimate destiny of ci 120.2kReads8.8Score12.1kShelves
- 114 I Never Transmigrated, Yet I Became the Sect Leader of Beauties From Ancient Times 我没有穿越却给古代美女们当掌门 "Righteous and wicked in equal measure + Goddess collector + Forest lumberjack + Peerless divine arts + A hundred-billion business empire + Otherworldly space + Female disciples of the Qiankun Sect + Elven goddess + Dwarven saintess + Winged princess + Lizardfolk + Building an elven city + Battle to defend their homeland + Comedy and humor + Laying low and growing stronger" Chen Chu accidentally discovered an otherworldly space inside the storage ring his master had given him. There, he found th 199Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Revolutionizing the Qing: A Changing Era of Self-Strengthening 革清：自强变局 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 128.3kReads9.1Score8.4kShelves
- 116 Film and TV Crossover: Starting with The Kung Fu Master 影综：从一个人的武林开始 Cui Ye wants to cure his son's illness; He Yuzhu doesn't want to be anyone's live-in son-in-law anymore; Fan Debiao hopes to return home in glory; Zhou Bingkun wants to change the difficult lives he and Zheng Juan have led; Shen Xing wants to help several friends in Sanbianpo... After unexpectedly obtaining the Myriad Worlds Wish-Fulfilling System, your dreams are mine to fulfill! A Man's World, Ma Dashuai, Sandstorm, Blood-Color Romance, A Lifelong Journey, Romance of Our Parents, Chess Player, 21.5kReads7.8Score658Shelves
- 117 Civilization Collapses, and the Ancient Era Reappears 文明崩塌，上古纪元重现 The comic adaptation is now available. [Apocalyptic Disaster] [Realistic Style] [Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] [Character Growth] [Slow Burn] [Ensemble Cast] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Smart Protagonist] [Survival] [Global Evolution] [Spiritual Qi Revival] [Invasion from Another World] The apocalypse arrived. Earthquakes, tsunamis... volcanoes erupted one after another, and the global ecosystem completely collapsed. Plants grew wildly overnight, swallowing cities. Vines hung hundreds of corpses u 379.8kReads8.5Score50.4kShelves
- 118 EN The Grim Apocalypse Approaches, Luckily I Have a Simulator 诡秘末世将临，还好我有模拟器 [Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Lovecraftian Horror + Multiple Female Leads + Overwhelmingly Invincible + Ruthless and Decisive] The apocalypse will arrive in seven days. Fortunately, you have a simulator... [Apocalypse simulation started] [Choose one of the following talents: “Demon Contract (Gold),” “Resurrection of the Dead (Gold),” “World in the Mirror”...] [...] [Day One: The sun no longer rises. The apocalypse arrives as scheduled...] [Day Two: The temperature plummets. Citizens scramble fo 17.4kReads7.1Score1.5kShelves
- 119 I Moved into Dorm 404 and Uncovered a Deadly Campus Mystery 住进404宿舍，我看破校园凶局 Feng shui, the supernatural, campus life, society: everything you're looking for is here! A story is just a story. Even if someone has experienced something similar in real life, I hope you'll still treat this as just a story! Don't get too caught up in it! Finally, may you, dear reader, stay safe and well! 33Reads—Score104Shelves
- 120 Eerie: Something's Not Right with This Novel 诡异：这个小说不对劲 Instance difficulty: Easy, Normal, Hard, Nightmare, Hell. Lin Han is in a different parallel universe in every instance, and the plots are independent, so you can read them in any order. Lin Han is clever and resourceful, bold and decisive, and really damn awesome. 58Reads—Score163Shelves
- 121 Dungeon Missions? I Can Choose All the Rewards 副本任务？我奖励能全选 (Just received a rating) (No female lead, System-focused, Infinite Flow, Talent-focused, decisive and ruthless, no artificially weakened combat power, rapid power growth) Lin Qi, an utterly ordinary new graduate. On his way to a job interview, he encounters a supernatural incident and gets pulled into a deadly game called an “instance.” For every instance he clears, the System offers rewards including techniques, attributes, equipment, and supernatural abilities, but each person can take onl 50.1kReads8.0Score5.1kShelves
- 122 Kill That Tomato Writer 杀死那个番茄作家 [Many years later, facing the firing squad, Kareni Na Ka will recall the afternoon when I dragged him into the book.] “Can I really write the blurb like this...?” “Tsk, I’m imitating One Hundred Years of Solitude.” “Who even reads One Hundred Years of Solitude these days? Do you read it?” “Then... should we change it?” “Never mind, let’s keep it. Nobody reads blurbs anyway.” 1.5kReads—Score148Shelves
- 123 After the Cataclysm 浩劫余生 A cataclysm turns the world into a lawless wasteland. Some take shelter in fortresses, some hide in the wilderness, and others are transformed into different creatures by radiation. The world splits into two extremes. The powerful possess cutting-edge technology and shut themselves away from the chaos behind fortresses that rise from the ground. In migrant camps rife with danger, where people resort to eating their own children, a hunter struggling to make ends meet sets out on a rugged path to 17.8kReads8.7Score1.4kShelves
- 124 Master of the Game 神操手 After nine lives, can he escape his shackles? Can cultivating through code create a miracle? A seasoned spirit hunter starts out with a wronged spirit in tow and faces Hell-level difficulty from the start: Should he lie flat, or break free of his shackles? The One-Line Chasm, Soul-Eater Forest, the Inspection Team... The clues to extending his life point to the Guardian of the Abyss, locked away inside a ward. But when he risks his life to reach the Hall of Ten Thousand Clans, he discovers it is 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 My Whole Family Is Sickly, but Our Wasteland Scavenging Luck Is Off the Charts 全家病弱，废土拾荒运道嘎嘎旺 [Wasteland Scavenging]+ [Romance]+ [System]+ [From Weak to Strong] Leng Xuan accidentally transmigrates into the wasteland and into the body of an idiot. From the start, she is exposed to intense radiation and left on the brink of death. Her disabled mother sells the formula meant for her infant siblings to buy purification medicine and save her life. Her idiot father also gives up his only chance to survive for her. Moved by her new family's love, she swears to survive in this world and find a 9.7kReads8.9Score955Shelves
- 126 Reborn in 1985: A Young Man with a Bright Future 重生1985，少年大有可为 At forty, Shen Mo returned to 1985. The child of educated youths sent to southern Yunnan, he was left behind when his parents returned to Shanghai and divorced. “Dad has a home, Mom has a home, and I'm left all by myself. Am I just in the way...” The lyrics from a TV drama he'd once watched had become his own life. Shen Mo was now an unwanted burden, unloved by both grandmothers, but he still had his second uncle. “Xiao Mo, the city registration fee is nearly four hundred yuan, but your second u 189.4kReads8.5Score17.1kShelves
- 127 My Trainee Class Became Top of the School, and Now the Parents Want a New Homeroom Teacher 实习教出金牌班，家长要换班主任 [Wild ideas + System + no pent-up frustration + buffs + cards + traits + wish-fulfillment novel] After graduating, Lu Qian becomes the intern homeroom teacher of Senior Two, Class Seven. On his first day at work, he awakens the [Strongest Teacher System], which gives students buffs to improve their learning efficiency and talent. What other students learn in a day, the students of Class Seven learn in an hour. While other students grow tired from studying, the students of Class Seven remain ener 501.7kReads9.2Score53.9kShelves
- 128 Honkai: Star Rail, After Dying 47 Times, I’ve Decided to Go Buy 崩铁，死了47次，我决定去买 Qiye is a Light Cone peddler who has crashed 47 times and still managed to take off again. Every day, he tries to figure out how to sell his Light Cones. He thinks his Light Cones are high-quality and affordable, so why does every customer turn around and hunt him down after buying one? "So what if they have a tiny side effect? Compared to the powerful effects of the Light Cone, what's the big deal?" "You call this tiny?" Jing Yuan gritted her teeth, stuck in the body of a petite girl. "How inso 50.6kReads8.7Score2.3kShelves
- 129 Reborn: I'm a Samurai in Japan's Warring States Period 重生之我在日本战国当武士 Are you tired of Chinese historical novels that all feel the same? Follow the author's writing and step into the world of Japan's Sengoku period! This book does not touch on Ming dynasty politics, nor does it involve invading the Ming dynasty or Korea. Please be a rational patriot. If you don't like it, just move on to another book. Here is the synopsis! Li Shan, a martial arts fanatic from the Celestial Empire and an outdoor survival enthusiast, ventured deep into the Amazon rainforest to film 114.4kReads9.2Score9.4kShelves
- 130 Sleeping Boosts My Talent! 我睡觉能提升天赋！ After sleeping for five years, Gu Bai wakes up having created a transcendent cultivation technique and entered the transcendent realm! After sleeping for ten years, Gu Bai wakes up having created a strength amplification method that boosts his power ninefold! After sleeping for a hundred years, Gu Bai wakes up having created a star cultivation method that absorbs cosmic energy to strengthen him! After sleeping for a thousand years, Gu Bai wakes up having created a stellar devouring method. He fe 4.1kReads8.6Score425Shelves
- 131 Doomsday: The Blackflame Emperor 末日：黑炎帝君 [Doomsday] [Superpowers] [No saintly self-sacrifice] [Intelligence] [Decisive and ruthless] Humanity still strained to open its eyes and gaze up at the stars, filled with imagination and longing for the unknown. What no one knew was that soon, even this tiny world would no longer belong to them. 902Reads9.3Score105Shelves
- 132 The Righteous Sect's Leader Slacks Off, and the Female Demon Comes Knocking 正道第一宗摆烂，女魔头找上门了 [Defying the master and seducing the disciple + multiple heroines + a touch of yandere + System + daydream simulations + angst and sweetness, but overwhelmingly sweet] [Also known as: Daydream Simulation: Why Are the Fairies Showing Up at My Door?] My name is Xie Ci. I was raised by a beautiful master and grew up in the foremost sect of the righteous path. But my talent is mediocre. Okay, it's terrible. After eighteen years of cultivation, I'm only at the ninth level of Qi Refining and just can' 28Reads—Score211Shelves
- 133 1870: From Coolie to Underworld Emperor 1870：从猪仔到地下皇帝 The Gold Mountain of Jinshan, the Nine of Chen Jiu. Cast into exile overseas from the start, with nothing but the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled, how can he carve out a path to survival amid the anti-Chinese tide? Chinese tong factions fighting among themselves, Irish gangs closing in, officials signing discriminatory laws... Beneath this immigrant city flows a river of gold that devours all who enter it. The anti-Chinese tide is rising ever higher. Chen Jiu's six thousand disciples 13.9kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
- 134 I Really Don't Want an Apocalypse 我真的不想有末世啊 [Zombies + smart plot + supernatural abilities + no System + no pocket dimension + male lead isn’t reborn + ordinary people’s daily lives] When the zombie apocalypse really comes, how long do you think you’ll survive? You think that because you’ve stocked up on food and water, you can hide out in your apartment building and wait it out? What will you do if the building you’re hiding in catches fire? After the zombies in the building die, can you stand the stench of their rotting corpses, the swa 1.3kReads6.1Score100Shelves
- 135 The True Heiress Returns with Her Metaphysical Powers, and Her Wealthy Family Begs Her to Stop Setting Up a Stall 玄学真千金归来，豪门全家跪求别摆摊 The Metaphysical True Heiress Returns, and Her Entire Wealthy Family Begs Her to Stop Setting Up a Fortune-Telling Stall 749Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 The Unchosen Phoenix Returns 未择凤归 She was born as a sacrifice, fashioned to be tortured to death by the Heavenly Way. Yet she fought to survive, crying out, "I am not a sacrifice." Twenty years of hatred between master and disciple conceal a sea of despairing love and hate, born of the previous generation's karmic ties. She must hate her, to deceive the Heavenly Way and protect the blade in her arms, destined to break. Nine lineages, nine disciples, nine utterly different paths to death. One dies in the very year she most want 949Reads—Score101Shelves
- 137 EN Who Removed the Exit Button from My Xianxia Game? 谁把我仙侠游戏退出键扣了？ At first, I only wanted to create a fresh account for a holographic xianxia game... I had already selected the highest difficulty, simply to roll a better spiritual root and sell the account. But then... can someone tell me where the exit button is? Where did my enormous game exit button go? 366.2kReads8.5Score41.9kShelves
- 138 Mutated Wasteland: Exotic Delicacies on the Tip of the Tongue 变异废土，舌尖上的异种美食 [Mutant Disaster] [Gourmet] [Slice of Life] [Business and Farming] How many times more protein do mutated creatures have than beef? Having just arrived in this world, Liu Bi was shocked by his own thought. He awakened a Master Chef System on land polluted by spores. Was something wrong here? Could every kind of mutated creature be turned into a gourmet dish? Then hurry up and serve it! A specialty restaurant on the edge of the safe zone, serving unconventional comfort food in the midst of everyd 9.2kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
- 139 The Day the White Tower Fell 白塔倾倒之日 The author has fallen into a black hole. Signal lost, updates suspended, and the text has been replaced with filler. I've run off with the original manuscript. I'll come back and fill in the gaps once I've stolen some inspiration from a parallel universe. Farewell for now, fellow readers! 132Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 The Lazy God Cultivates 懒神修仙 Xu Renjie, a good-for-nothing with all five spiritual roots, is widely known in the cultivation world as the ultimate slacker. While others cultivate, he sunbathes. While others fight over treasures, he takes a nap. When refining pills, others proceed with extreme caution. Xu Renjie dumps ten batches of ingredients into one cauldron so he can have more days to play. If the furnace explodes, that's a perfect excuse for a break. A beast tide arrives? He doesn't even lift an eyelid. He pats the spi 721Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 I’m Just a Delivery Guy, So How Did I Become the Savior of the World? 我只是送外卖的，怎么就成了救世主 I’m Just a Delivery Driver, So How Did I Become Humanity’s Savior? 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Thriving as a Wasteland Scavenger 废土拾荒赢麻了 [Apocalypse, Superpowers, Strong Female Lead, No Romance, Farming and Scavenging] Original title: "Thriving in the Wasteland by Scavenging" / Shen Qixing, who survived the apocalypse for six years, is reborn in a wasteland. Danger lurks everywhere. Humanity has fallen from the top of the food chain to the bottom, and people must constantly face the threat of intense radiation. Her circumstances from the start are truly miserable: she has transmigrated into the body of a girl with moderately dama 17kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves
- 143 The First Day After I Was Reborn, My Whole Family Wanted Me Dead 重生后第一天，全家想让我死 On the First Day After I Was Reborn, My Family Wanted Me Dead 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 Don't Move, This Is a Robbery! 别动，打劫！ My name is Agua. I’m eighteen, gifted beyond measure, and as beautiful as a flower. As you can see, I’m a veteran bandit, or you could call me an expert in the redistribution of wealth. From beggars to kings, there’s no one I won’t rob. I’m already a legendary bandit known across the continent, but I wasn’t always this good. This is the story of how I became a legendary bandit. 7.6kReads9.1Score778Shelves
- 145 Strange Tales of the Mountain Village: The Drought Demon and the Drought 山村异闻录之旱魃与旱灾 Strange Tales from the Mountain Village: The Drought Demon and the Drought —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 I Never Expected to Win, but a Billion-Yuan Jackpot Hit Me 我真没想中奖却被10亿大奖砸中了 I Never Expected to Win, but a Billion-Yuan Jackpot Fell into My Lap 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 Apocalypse Fence-Sitter: Swearing Brotherhood with an Eighth-Rank Corpse King from the Start 末世墙头草：开局结拜八阶尸王 [Comic adaptation now available] [No System + Absurd Humor + Riding Coattails + No Saintly Heroine + Order Half-Collapsed + Harem] [Everyone's Favorite + Everyday Life + Friendship + Lighthearted, Easy Read] Li Xingyue was terminally ill, but after a night of heavy drinking, he somehow wound up in the tenth year of the apocalypse! Right after that, he ran into the Four Zombie Kings, who had just finished slaughtering a city... But after being bitten, he didn't mutate. Instead, he even healed him 208.2kReads8.3Score33kShelves
- 148 Everyone Fishes in the Apocalypse: SSS-Rank Caught from the Start 全民末世垂钓：开局钓到SSS级 A “fishing game” quietly appears on the phones of ten billion people around the world. It can't be deleted, and only its owner can open it. The game is simple: all you have to do is fish to earn rewards and experience... The higher your level, the more times you can fish. One of those ten billion people, Chen Ming presses the fishing option out of curiosity. [Fishing successful! Congratulations, you've obtained the SSS-rank skill: Infinite Fishing!] At first, everyone thinks it's just a game 9.1kReads7.9Score600Shelves
- 149 People, Come Pet This Kitty 人，快来摸摸本喵 [Urban Exploration + Food + Lighthearted Healing + Light Fantasy] (The heroine is a cat and will never turn into a human!) Tang Miao, a delivery worker who died suddenly in her rented apartment, was reborn in a cardboard box as a scrawny orange kitten. She had no System and no golden finger. She was just a stray cat who could be caught by animal control at any moment. But she decided to use her nine lives to visit every city she never got to see in her previous life. She took shelter from the ra 16.8kReads9.4Score2.8kShelves
- 150 The Kunlun Myth: The Hidden Immortal of Primordial Chaos 昆仑神话之混元仙隐 Beneath the moon, he meets an immortal and a beauty, their fates bound across three lifetimes as they cultivate to immortality. Destined across three lives and three worlds! A charming beauty who has barely seen the world! 23Reads—Score—Shelves
