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- 1 A Quiet Life Farming and Guarding the Mountain in the Apocalypse 末世的守山种田生活 [Primarily an Apocalypse story] + [Pocket dimension] + [A little infinite-flow] The gentle, beautiful (crossed out) powerhouse Lin Banxia is finally leaving the infinite-flow world. Her friends in that world and some of the players are heartbroken. They survived so many instances thanks to her leadership. What will they do without their powerhouse to rely on? But the bosses and NPCs in the infinite-flow world are thrilled. Lin the Skinflint, feared by every ghost and monster, is finally leaving. 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 A Farming Life in the Reborn Apocalypse 重生末世的种田生活 [Natural Disasters + Rebirth + Space + Stockpiling + Special Abilities + Mutant Plants + Strong Heroine + No Romance] (The overall tone is warm and cozy, with no zombies and plenty of youthful passion.) Reborn before the apocalypse, Mo Li stockpiles millions of supplies so her family can live in comfort and luxury! Adorable pets at her left hand, exotic pets at her right. Together with friends and companions she meets after the apocalypse, she joins forces with the government and fights monsters 11Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 3 Apocalypse: My RV Is a Mobile Fortress 末世天灾：我的房车是移动堡垒 [RV upgrades + farming and business management + character growth + powerful allies] In the apocalypse, I sold my house to stock up on supplies, then drove my RV around eating hot pot and making all of humanity drool with envy! The outdoor temperature hit 65°C, turning the city into a giant steamer. Survivors hid in damp, gloomy basements, killing one another over a single rat. Above ground, amid the ruins, a huge, pitch-black RV rolled smoothly over bleached bones. Inside, the leather sofa was 158Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 4 Natural Disasters and the Apocalypse: Building a Doomsday Fortress Beside a Cemetery 天灾加末世，坟地旁搞末日堡垒 A slow-paced story of everyday life and running a business, keeping a low profile from beginning to end. No saintly characters in the family. No spatial storage, no special abilities, just a disaster countdown alert System. The female lead is Zhang Yue, and the male lead is Xu Yang. No melodramatic plots involving exes or revenge. [The whole disaster package: extreme cold + polar nights + viruses + acid rain + mutations + earthquakes + polar days + extreme heat + fortress farming + gourmet food 11.4kReads8.4Score85014d adds
- 5 Apocalypse and Natural Disasters: I Raise My Whole Family with a Farming Game 末世天灾，我靠种田游戏养全家 [Stockpiling + farming game + male-oriented, no romance + natural disasters + higher-dimensional lifeforms] [The male lead isn't the strongest. He can't destroy everything in an instant, and he isn't cold-blooded. Every member of the team has a role to play.] One day, two suns appeared in the sky. At first, no one paid any attention to it, until one disaster after another began to strike. Humanity finally realized that the twin suns marked the beginning of the apocalypse. Sandstorms, torrential 1.7kReads8.1Score12914d adds
- 6 I Divorced, Took My Child Home, and Went Live Just as the Apocalypse Began 离婚带娃回老家直播遇到末世 After getting a haircut for ten yuan and spending ten days in detention, she divorced, took the compensation money, and brought her child to live on the outskirts of town, where she started livestreaming her old-house renovation and selling products. But just as she finished fixing up the house, a zombie virus broke out. After locking the doors and windows, Qiao Anan took stock of her supplies. She had two bunches of bok choy, half a sack of potatoes, four tomatoes, five crucian carp, ten eggs, 2.1kReads9.0Score25114d adds
- 7 I Save the Wasteland Apocalypse with Cheating Fruit 我靠出轨水果拯救废土末世 [The comic adaptation under the same title is now streaming on Tomato! Yay! No CP + wasteland farming + voluntarily turning everything over to the government + goofy wish fulfillment] (The rating just came out, and there aren't many words yet. It should rise later.) In the seventh year of the wasteland, fruit had gone extinct. Qiao Manzhi transmigrated with an entire orchard, thinking she'd gotten an unbeatable start. Then she discovered that the outside world was swarming with espers and mutate 2.6kReads8.0Score45714d adds
- 8 I Ruined the Apocalypse, Then Took My Powers and Started Farming 毁了末世的我带着异能去种田 [Not a wish-fulfillment story + Farming Space + Cozy Daily Life + Farming and Business] After being reduced to ashes in the apocalypse, Lin Xiaohe wakes up in an alternate dynasty. Armed with supernatural abilities, she plants fields and opens shops, eventually becoming a renowned imperial merchant. To repay a kindness, Lin Xiaohe casually treats the young Master Zhou, never expecting to get tangled up with him. Zhou Jingting was born into a general's household. Everyone says a merchant's daught 1.9kReads8.6Score23114d adds
- 9 Doomsday Island: I Pick Up a Big Shot and Start Farming Together 末日孤岛：捡个大佬一起来种田 [Island Farming] + [Slow Pace] + [Max-Level Expert] + [Cozy and Healing] + [Good Food] + [Sweet Romance, No Angst] Three hundred years ago, a cataclysm struck Earth, leaving the world with nothing but countless isolated islands. Floods, scorching heat, extreme cold… Humanity has been reduced to primitive farming and hunting. While survivors fight over half a moldy loaf of bread at sea, Mu Yao is reclining on a beach chair on her own island, enjoying chilled lychees from her refrigerator. She pos 3.4kReads8.4Score45314d adds
- 10 Disaster: From the Start, One Mountain to Call My Own. Stockpile? Farm! 天灾：开局一座山，囤货？种田！ This is a farming story. [Natural disasters + farming + hunting + fishing + food + grasslands + deep mountains + herding + healing + a nontraditional apocalypse + seclusion + daily life + sweet romance + childhood sweethearts] Just two people living in seclusion in the forest (emphasis on just two!). The whole story focuses on cozy, everyday details: growing vegetables and crops, raising chickens and geese. No golden finger, just hard work and self-reliance. Warnings: There is a romantic pairin 8.2kReads9.0Score79314d adds
- 11 Farming: Building a Fortune in Ancient Times 种田：我在古代发家致富 [Farming + No Toxic Family Members + Beloved by Everyone + Building Wealth + Heartwarming] Tang Lingling transmigrated into the Great Yao Kingdom, becoming a member of an ordinary family whose parents and grandparents had all fled famine. The family had barely any land and could only scrape by. Fortunately, both her parents were alive, the family got along well, and she also had a golden finger: a Species Collection System. She could collect species from the world and sell them to the System for 4.3kReads9.0Score48414d adds
- 12 Farming After the Disaster: I Become a Lord Through My Superpowers 灾后种田我靠异能成领主 [Superpower Golden Finger + Farming + Shop + Infrastructure + Post-Catastrophe Apocalypse + Pets] Liu Su managed to survive ten years of disasters. When she heard that people could finally go outside, she nearly howled at the sky three times. At last she could go out and eat well! Whoever wanted those coarse-grain buns could have them. She was done with them! But someone help her: why was the farm's whole vibe so strange? Other people's farms meant working hard for three hundred days, overcoming 8.2kReads9.0Score73014d adds
- 13 On the Wasteland, I Scavenge My Way to a Home in the Safe Zone 废土之上，我靠拾荒在安全区买房 Female lead: Chu Ci, transmigrated from another world. Male lead: Ji Xuan, a mercenary suffering from genetic collapse. The story mainly focuses on scavenging and farming, with a slow-burning romance woven through it. Note: The two only want to live a good, quiet life of their own. There is no plot about saving all of humanity. The story follows ordinary people at the bottom of society as they struggle to survive in a harsh environment. After the apocalypse, on this 28.3kReads9.3Score2.6k14d adds
- 14 A Soft, Sweet Little Dumpling Farms with Her Space and Turns the Whole Apocalypse Upside Down 软糯团子带空间种田炸翻了全末世 [Apocalypse]+ [Interstellar]+ [Adventure]+ [Sweet romance]+ [Not a strong female lead] Yuan Yuan, who had been imprisoned for a long time, is reborn after an explosion in the underground world. After escaping, she thinks she'll have to spend the rest of her life on the run, but then she meets Fu Chen, the great hero she saw on TV in her previous life. Overjoyed, she joins him, only to discover that he isn't a hero at all. He's a short-tempered, irritable demon! Fu Chen curls his lips into a fain 5.4kReads9.3Score62714d adds
- 15 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 4.4kReads9.2Score53614d adds
- 16 Stockpiling Supplies in the Apocalypse 末世囤货记 [Apocalyptic Disasters + Pocket Dimension + No Romance + Stockpiling + No Saintly Protagonist] Xu Xiaoyan works as a warehouse manager at a supermarket. One day, she suddenly gains a pocket dimension and suspects the apocalypse is coming, so she starts frantically stockpiling supplies. After enduring a series of disasters, including an epidemic, an insect plague, extreme heat, and earthquakes, she follows rescuers to a survivor base. But the base is short on resources, and humanity is put to the 18.2kReads8.6Score1.9k14d adds
- 17 Natural Disasters Strike: I Scavenge for Junk in Dungeons 天灾降临：我在副本里捡破烂 When Ji He transmigrated, she thought she'd gotten the script of a business tycoon. She worked hard to make money, all so she could count it until her hands cramped. Then she suddenly discovered she was in a post-apocalyptic survival story. She refused to accept it. But what could she do? With the belief that a miserable life is better than a quick death, Ji He did her best to keep her head down. She worked by day, dug tunnels at night, and even ran a dungeon whenever she had time. She lived by 14.7kReads8.9Score1.1k14d adds
- 18 Fleeing Famine and Farming: The Eldest Daughter of the Farmhouse Keeps the Family Fed 逃荒种田，农门长姐养家忙 This story has no space, is not a feel-good power fantasy, and its famine-flight scenes are adapted from historical accounts of ordinary people fleeing famine in different periods. The heroine is only eight years old, so escaping with her whole family in tow is very hard, incredibly hard. If you’re looking for a feel-good power fantasy, please move on. Don’t read to the end, decide the main characters have suffered too much, feel bad, and then leave a negative review. Writing is hard, so please 33.5kReads9.4Score4.1k14d adds
- 19 Train Survival Begins as My Home Planet Explodes 从母星爆炸开始列车求生 [Supernatural evolution] [Civilization collection] [Theism] Their home planet explodes, and humanity escapes into the depths of space aboard interstellar trains. Chen An becomes a train conductor, carrying passengers through the struggle for survival among the stars and creating a unique civilization of his own: the Fuyao Civilization. Under his direction, the passengers sweep across the stars like locusts. They develop technology, plunder species, destroy empires, and trample civilizations. Cou 35.2kReads8.9Score2.9k14d adds
- 20 The Apocalypse: I Drew a Team of God-Tier Traveling Frogs 末世，我抽奖神级旅行青蛙团 [Farming + daily life + lighthearted fun + building + beast taming = ?] When the apocalypse game arrived, Qin He bound himself to a God-tier Traveling Frog System. He took naming his little frogs very seriously, despite being hopeless at coming up with names. Da Vinci: I have to find a pretty female zombie to be my master's wife. Cheng Yaojin: I bring two axes back from every trip. Is there a problem with that? Ding Chunqiu: As a poison dart frog, I'm a real assassin. Search for items? No, I wan 18.5kReads9.3Score1.9k14d adds
- 21 EN Oh No! The Little Zombie Accidentally Became a Big Shot 糟糕！小丧尸一不小心就成了大佬 [Apocalypse x food hoarding x devoted couple x sweet romance x little zombie heroine x super badass, high-output hero] Torrential rain, typhoons, tsunamis, thunderstorms, the disappearance of Earth's magnetic field, zombies, monsters, supernatural abilities, and more... Congratulations, you've entered the main storyline of the apocalypse. The whole world is about to be reshuffled. From here on, survival depends on your life, your luck, and yourself. - While everyone else is still screaming in a 76kReads9.5Score10.4k14d adds
- 22 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 59.5kReads9.3Score5.3k14d adds
- 23 EN Too Many Reborn Heroes? Time to Bring in the Government 重生者太密集？我带国家队下场 (A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for 123.7kReads9.7Score17.5k14d adds
