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- 1 I Just Want to Get Through College in Peace! 我只想好好上大学啊！ [Lighthearted Everyday Comedy] + [One Heroine] + [No System] + [Not Reborn] + [Sweet Romance] Lin Chen is Jiangcheng University’s undisputed king of embarrassing himself. On the very first day of school, he barges into the women’s dormitory and gets roasted on the spot by the icy senior Su Yao until his brain practically melts. The next day, he winds up with Xia Xiaoyu, a food-loving desk mate who’s always asking, “Bro, want some spicy strips to keep you alive?” College life is totally “doomed”! 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Apocalyptic Disasters: The Food Delivery Worker Who Saved the World 末世天灾：送外卖的我拯救世界 [Natural Disasters and the Apocalypse] + [No saintly do-gooder] + [No System] + [Decisive and ruthless] Originally, Lin Bei was just an ordinary delivery worker in Jiangzhou, living a simple life of “work for a day, eat for a day.” The wind and rain on his delivery routes were the biggest upheavals in his life. But that night, howling gales swept in, carrying the gloom of the apocalypse. Blinding sandstorms blotted out the sky, floods brought the city to a standstill, phone signals vanished, an —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Plane Crash: I Conquered a Desert Island with Nothing but a Dagger 飞机失事，我靠一把匕首称霸荒岛 [Deserted Island Survival + Beauties + One Female Lead + Adventure] After a plane crash, Xiao Yan and a beautiful flight attendant find themselves stranded on a deserted island. Armed with a little wilderness survival experience, they begin an exhilarating fight to stay alive. 633Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 4 Wilderness Livestream: The Beloved Heiress’s Image Comes Crashing Down 荒野直播：团宠千金她人设崩了 [Sweet on the outside, wild at heart, a secret-identity powerhouse heroine] VS [Cold on the outside, secretly in love until it comes true, the male lead] Ridiculously over-the-top and brainless, the ultimate brainless power fantasy!!! Ye Jinluo is an utterly ordinary “sweet girl” who has just been reunited with the Ye family, a top medical dynasty. Her eldest brother, a leading figure in medicine; her second brother, the richest man in the country; her third brother, a top racing driver; and her 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Wake Me Up in Five Thousand Years 五千年后叫醒我 An ordinary person, on an ordinary trip. It changed the course of his life. After brushing past death time and again, he developed nerves of steel. Maybe you could do it too, if you were in his shoes. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Stranded on a Desert Island: The Forbidden Sea 荒岛求生之禁忌海域 [No System]+ [Deserted Island Survival]+ [Retired Navy]+ [Fantasy Adventure]+ [Mild Lovecraftian Horror]+ [Vanished Creatures] Their ship is attacked in the open sea! Retired navy man Shi Yuan escapes on a lifeboat with his friends, but the storm scatters them, leaving him to drift alone to a forbidden deserted island. While searching for his friends, he rescues a girl pursued by a wolf pack, only to discover that a hijacked plane has crashed on the shore! His friend’s wound is infected and he i 19Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 7 Deserted Island Survival: Fifteen Years on a Deserted Island 荒岛求生：十五年荒岛日记 [Stranded on a deserted island] [Wilderness shelter] [Handmade pottery] [Salt refining and iron smelting] [Battling wolf packs] [Ideal utopia] A college student with a dream sets out to see the world, only to find himself stranded on a deserted island before he can fulfill his ambitions. No female lead, and the protagonist isn't a bleeding heart. His only concern is the will to survive. This is the story of his transformation from a weak college student into a wilderness survival expert. With sh 2.4kReads7.1Score149Shelves
- 8 Oracle Island: The Rules of Survival 神谕之岛：生存法则 Oracle Island: The Rules of Survival 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Deserted Island Survival Adventure 孤岛求生历险记 [Survival + multiple female leads + no System + adventure] After a shipwreck, Gu Chen and a group of survivors were stranded on a massive deserted island. With danger lurking everywhere, they embarked on an unforgettable adventure to stay alive… 3.8kReads8.2Score299Shelves
- 10 Livestream: The Wild King Dad Begins with Wilderness Survival 直播：野王奶爸从荒野求生开始 [No System, no golden finger, little romance between the leads. He rises through his own ability, one step at a time.] At the end of his "poor" road, mired in hardship, he is suddenly drawn to a flyer for a wilderness survival livestream challenge. It seems his life is about to take a turn. He takes his daughter along to tackle wild forests, scorching islands, and rainforests, facing the most primal threats to survival head-on. A venomous snake? Bring it on! A wild boar? Bring it on! A pack of w 14Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 11 The Theory of Wilderness Evolution 荒野进化论 [Wilderness Survival]+ [Genetic Modification]+ [No Female Lead]+ [Constant Challenges]+ [System Barely Makes an Appearance] Lin Yue is strong on theory and has no practical experience. He can recite Chapter Three of the U.S. Army Survival Manual, but failed three times the first time he tried to start a fire outdoors. Then he was struck by lightning. When he woke up, a strange mark had appeared on his wrist, and a panel had appeared in his mind. It said that his genes contained ten locks that ne 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Desert Island Survival: My Traits Can Locate Treasure Chests 荒岛求生：我的词条能定位宝箱 [Survival] [Stockpiling Supplies] [Talents] [Island] [Data-Driven] [Game] [Online Game] [Disaster] Humanity transmigrates en masse, and from the start, everyone gets an island of their own. Cold, exhaustion, hunger, wild beasts: everyone has to face these hardships. While others struggle to take a single step because of the unknown dangers on their islands, Lin Sheng relies on his unique danger-sensing talent to spot potential threats before anyone else. [Safe Zone (10m)] Scan result: 1 Diamond 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Qilin Blood: Wilderness Survival for National Fate 麒麟血：国运荒野求生 The Global National Destiny Game has begun! Contestants are randomly selected from every country and sent into a perilous wilderness in another world to survive. As contestants endure the trials of the wilderness, the real world receives resource rewards! If a contestant falls, their country will suffer a merciless national destiny penalty! Zhang Qi, who possesses Qilin blood, is selected. Surrounded by ferocious beasts, battered by wave after wave of extreme disasters, and facing countless trap 32.2kReads8.0Score2.6kShelves
- 14 Apocalypse: Wilderness Survival Evolution System 末世：荒野求生进化系统 In a post-apocalyptic wilderness, everyone must rely on their wits and courage to survive against impossible odds. Lu Yunfei is accidentally thrust into this brutal world. With survival skills granted by the System, he starts from nothing and gradually builds a shelter, cultivates fertile fields, and hunts for food. But the greatest danger in the wilderness isn't the ferocious beasts. It's the unknown threats lurking in the shadows. In this desolate and dangerous land, every battle and every exp —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Adventure Livestream: Unraveling Myths and Ruins 直播探险：解密神话与遗迹 It begins in the scorching Egyptian sun, amid the golden sands. He was an ordinary graduate of a junior college, yet with burning passion and a constant stream of jokes, he stirred myths that had slept for millennia. Every step falls at the crossroads of history and reality. Hieroglyphs are no longer lifeless symbols, but riddles left behind by the ancients; underwater ruins are more than legends, they hold the codes to an entire lost civilization. Trouble comes one blow after another: shifting —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Wilderness's Ten-Million-Dollar Gamble 荒野的千万赌局 A Million-Dollar Gamble in the Wilderness —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Island: Back to Civilization 海岛：重返文明 [Desert island survival + one heroine + farming + realistic + hardcore + no System + no golden finger + true love] A sudden shipwreck leaves a group of people from all over the world stranded on an island. In this lawless place, beyond the reach of morality, the ugliness of human nature is magnified without limit. The pressure of the natural world mounts, and the struggle for resources between people grows ever fiercer. Follow our protagonist, Xue Yi, as he goes from a clueless student to a deci 80Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 He Wakes Up Trapped in the Wilderness: Watch Him Fight to Survive 一觉醒来被困荒野且看他如何求生 A corporate wage slave wakes up to find that he has transmigrated into the body of a young man in an ancient wilderness. He has no memories of the original owner, no golden finger, and no System to help him. Alone, he is trapped in a perilous mountain forest, where deadly beasts and scarce food and water threaten his life at every turn. The road ahead is full of unknown dangers. Watch an ordinary nobody fight for survival and carve a way out of a wilderness riddled with deadly traps. 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 National Fate Survival: I Awaken an EX-Rank Talent from the Start 国运求生：开局觉醒EX级天赋 National fortune livestream + wilderness survival + System + farming + infrastructure building + slow-paced + multiple races + multiple heroines. A high-dimensional trial descends, and a national fortune livestream sweeps across Blue Star! Chosen ones from every country are dropped into separate wilderness survival instances, where the rise and fall of their tribes directly affects their nations’ fortunes. Yang Fan, a transmigrator, unexpectedly becomes Huaxia’s chosen one. He awakens a golden f 20Reads—Score105Shelves
- 20 Lost Divine Realm: Master of the Deserted Island 失落神域：荒岛主宰 A sudden plane crash sends hundreds of passengers aboard an international flight plunging onto a mysterious island in the Pacific that does not appear on any map. Here, the laws of civilization vanish overnight, leaving primitive instincts and the urge to survive as the only truths. Lin Yue, an ordinary young business student who seems unremarkable in the city, struggles to survive in this living hell with his amateur outdoor skills and a levelheadedness far beyond that of most people. He watche 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Deserted Island Survival: I'm the Fishpond Master by the Sea 荒岛求生：我在海边当鱼塘主 My new work is out! You're welcome to 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! 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 I'm an Exploration Streamer, but the Police Beg Me to Go Live 我，探险主播，但警方哭求我开播 Chen Feng bound himself to a livestream exploration System. As long as his explorations earned emotional reactions from viewers, he could receive all kinds of rewards. He had planned to become an exploration streamer who put on stunts, but his livestreams took an increasingly bizarre turn: every expedition turned up body parts, and he stumbled across clues to unsolved cases every few steps! Other streamers explored remote mountains; he dug up a burial site from a dismemberment case. Other stream 6Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 23 Deserted Island: A Survivor’s Ten-Million Prize Pool 孤岛：幸存者的千万奖池 [Surrounded by people, yet still stranded on an island] As a wave of global economic recession hits, industries across the board are struggling. People desperate to get rich sign up for a survivor game hosted by a mysterious sponsor, competing for a ten-million prize. Who will take home the prize money? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Livestream: Building the Ultimate Wilderness Survival Experience 直播：打造最强荒野求生 [Livestream] [Wilderness] [Mercenaries] [Ultimate Genre Mashup] “Who else gets it, guys? I only wanted to survive in the wilderness and make a living, but I ended up getting kidnapped and forced to become a mercenary!” Zhang Xiang, an outdoor survival streamer with over ten million followers across the internet, never expected that during a trip to South Africa, he would be kidnapped by a local gang and meet a mercenary named Ivan... (The first fifty chapters are about wilderness survival. After —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Survival on a Deserted Island: From the Start, I Found a School Beauty in White Stockings 荒岛求生：开局捡到白丝校花 [No System + Survival + Ruthless and Decisive + No Saintly Heroics + Multiple Heroines + No Cultivation] A shipwreck leaves a group of people stranded on a deserted island. Lin Tian, a former special forces soldier, is betrayed by his colleagues and chooses to live on his own. To his surprise, he finds a beautiful schoolgirl in white stockings from the start. Drawing on years of wilderness survival experience, he builds shelters and makes all kinds of tools, living a comfortable little life. But 531Reads6.5Score103Shelves
- 26 Exploring a Mysterious Island: The Ultimate Survival System 开拓神秘岛：最强求生系统 [Deserted Island Adventure + System + Power Fantasy + No Female Lead + Monsters] After a plane accident, Jiang Xiaobai is stranded on a mysterious island. When he unexpectedly activates a System, he sets off on an incredible life of his own. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Desert Island Survival: Life on the Island with the Goddess 荒岛求生：我和女神在海岛的生活 [Beautiful CEO + Highly Intelligent Villains + Hard-Core Survival] A retired mercenary returns to his home country at the request of an old friend to serve as a bodyguard. The Crimean royal cruise ship is destroyed along the way, leaving him stranded on an island, where he runs into a beautiful CEO. From the start, all he has is a dagger and a lighter. He can take on pirates in a fight, then turn around and charm the ladies with his smooth talk. 718Reads8.2Score102Shelves
- 28 Surviving on a Deserted Island with a Goddess 与女神荒岛求生的日子 After a plane crash, Chen Yang is stranded on a deserted island. With no rescue in sight and danger all around, watch how he fights to survive. Thrilling, perilous, and hilarious, with moments of warmth, this is no ordinary island adventure. 513Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 29 Desert Island: My Fate Is in My Own Hands 荒岛：我命由我不由天 [Survival + No System + Ruthless + Multiple Heroines + No Goody-Two-Shoes + Building + Comedy] A shipwreck leaves everyone stranded on a mysterious deserted island. Rules, class, wealth, and status all vanish without a trace. Survival becomes the only thing that matters. Struggle against the heavens, the earth, and other people: what fun! 146Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 30 Life on a Deserted Island with a Female Star 我和女明星的荒岛生活 I'm an amateur photographer. Some time ago, someone hired me to shoot a few short videos about surviving on a deserted island. Yesterday we finished filming the last episode, and the crew celebrated with drinks. I remember a lot of people kept trying to get me drunk, and I drank quite a bit. After that, I have no memory of what happened. 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Deserted Island Survival: From Veterinarian to Island Lord 荒岛求生：从兽医到岛主 The protagonist, Ou Zimo, is a veterinarian. While treating a bull, he is kicked straight onto a deserted island. Starting with making fire by rubbing sticks together, he gradually learns to survive while treating the animals on the island. With one female lead, the story features chopping trees, hunting, building a house, farming, raising livestock, and gathering supplies. Together, they build a home on the island. But as they explore further, they discover that the island is far more complicat 67Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 They Asked Me to Survive in the Wilderness, So I Built a Tribe? 让挑战荒野生存，你建立部落了？ Luo Chen transmigrated to a parallel world and joined the Jixing Mountain Cup wilderness survival challenge. The challenge brought 100 contestants together on the same mountain, including top-tier stars, famous streamers, wilderness survival experts, and ordinary people. Survive for one month and earn one million. Survive for two months and earn three million. Survive for three months and earn five million... The last contestant standing would win a prize of 100 million. Just as Luo Chen was so 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Three Brothers Stranded on a Deserted Island 荒岛求生三兄弟 A sudden shipwreck sweeps Wang Lei and his two brothers onto a deserted island. Primitive and mysterious, it is filled with dangers and challenges they know nothing about. Stranded with scarce supplies in a harsh environment, Wang Lei has no choice but to rely on his iron will and exceptional intelligence to lead his companions in a battle for survival against nature. Yet the island is more than just a barren wasteland. As time passes, the protagonist begins to uncover the secrets hidden within 261Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 34 Stranded on a Deserted Island with My Goddess Coworker 我和女神同事流落荒岛 [New author] [4,000 words daily] It was supposed to be a fun company team-building trip, but no one expected them to be caught in a mysterious plane crash and stranded on an uncharted island, forced to fight for survival. See how Wang Li leads the company’s goddess through the struggle to survive and confronts the darker side of human nature... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Sword of the Three Paths 剑决三途 After transmigrating, Liu Mo meets Charlotte through a twist of fate and sets out on a quest to find the Three Saints... Whether facing the dangers lurking in the Forbidden Forest or the relentless pressure of the Nine Nether Venerable, all are merely obstacles along the road, and a single sword will cut through them! The world stretches far, the wind blows wild. Hand in hand, we’ll stay together until our hair turns gray! But parting in life and death is the fate we cannot escape... “If we meet —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Days Stranded on a Deserted Island with My Female Classmate 与女同学流落荒岛的日子 Yang Yi worked as a waiter on a cruise ship. As luck would have it, some of his college classmates were also aboard for a vacation. But then the ship was caught in a massive storm and sank into the vast ocean. Yang Yi and a group of survivors ended up stranded on a deserted island. Relying on the survival skills he had learned since elementary school, he led the others on a difficult struggle to stay alive... 1.5kReads7.2Score106Shelves
- 37 Stranded on a Desert Island? With Me Here, We're as Good as Safe 流落荒岛？遇上我这不就稳了么 A plane crash left me stranded on a deserted island with my female boss. After a misunderstanding made her give me a hard time at every turn, now she has to rely on me to survive. Life really has a way of turning things around. Giant, terrifying creatures, a horrifying mutated virus, a mysterious cannibal tribe: danger came one after another... 581Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 38 Stranded on a Desert Island, I Built a Comfortable Life 流落荒岛过上小康生活 Wan Yi had been having a rough time at work, so she went abroad to clear her head. Little did she know that the plane would hit severe turbulence, break apart, and leave her stranded on a deserted island. Let’s see how Wan Yi manages to survive against all odds. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Deserted Island Survival: From Zero 孤岛求生：从零纪元 A hymn to humanity’s will to survive, resilience, and creativity. It shows how knowledge, practice, patience, and failure can gradually move a person from a completely primitive state toward the beginnings of civilization. The protagonist, Lin Fan, is an ordinary modern city dweller, not a survival expert. He has basic common knowledge, including a middle-school-level understanding of physics, chemistry, and biology. He is observant and patient, thinks logically, and can gradually steady himself —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Desert Island Survival: Escape 孤岛求生：逃离 The grind of 996 workdays leaves people gasping for breath, and the pressure of the workplace makes us lose our way. What is it we really want? Wang Yu’s unexpected stranding may offer us a way to think about it. 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Me and My Hapless Dog on a Deserted Island 我和我的冤种狗在荒岛 A deserted-island survival story with a focus on building and farming. No flashy gimmicks. If you enjoy realistic survival fiction, feel free to follow along. After a plane crash, TT and I were lucky enough to survive, but we were stranded on a deserted island. With no tools and no outside help, I could only rely on my own hands and professional skills to improve our situation. I carved out a stone shelter, dug channels to bring in water, cleared land for crops, and penned up wild animals, grad 81Reads8.1Score157Shelves
- 42 An Angler's Desert Island Survival 钓鱼佬之荒岛求生 (Smart protagonist, classic feel, faithful to the original survival genre, one heroine, no angst) Li Mo was fishing at sea when a storm swept him away and stranded him on an island. Forced to survive alone, he builds a house, farms, raises livestock, makes pottery, catches fish, ventures out to sea, and goes on adventures. This is the most primitive, classic, and realistic kind of deserted-island survival story. You’ll get a taste of the same survival conditions faced by Bear Grylls and Ed Staff 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Stranded on a Desert Island with Beautiful Women for Company! 荒岛求生，红颜佳人为伴！ After a cargo ship strayed off course and ran aground, Liu Chuang was stranded on a deserted island. On this perilous island, surrounded by the ugliness of human nature and unknown dangers, Liu Chuang must rely on his own skills to protect the beautiful women who have fallen into misfortune and lead them onward. 635Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 44 Girl, Let Go of My Body 丫头，放开我身体 Always pushing the limits, but never crossing the line. I open my eyes and discover I’ve transmigrated. And not just any transmigration: a triple transmigration. What am I supposed to do about this? A child of eight or nine is living inside my mature, gorgeous body, while my soul has transmigrated into the body of a strapping young man in his prime. This is a mess. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Wilderness Survival: Everyone Else Suffers While You Live It Up 荒野求生：大家吃苦，你小子享福 Wilderness survival + single heroine + farming + livestreaming + beast taming + shelter Liu Xiaoyu, an unemployed drifter, was lucky enough to win the last ticket for a wilderness survival challenge and set off for Harlun Continent, a forbidden land to humanity. On this wondrous continent, he builds a shelter, searches for water, and makes delicious meals over an open fire. Step by step, he grows bigger and stronger. 108Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Desert Island: I’m Eating Buns from the Start 荒岛：开局我在吃包子 "Wow, that smells amazing!" Chu Yang was about to tuck into some hot buns in his dream when a loud shout jolted him awake. Huh! Where am I? There was no familiar hometown, no kind-hearted mother. All he could see was a desolate beach. And a stunning beauty with a cold, haughty air... 86Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 47 The Long Road to Wilderness Survival 荒野求生之路漫漫 A company team-building trip ends with a crash landing in a misty forest. In the wilderness, all status and connections count for nothing. Watch as Chen Fan, an ordinary employee, turns his fortunes around and rises to the top. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 My Island Diary with the Auntie Next Door 我和邻家阿姨的孤岛日记 [No System + Deserted-Island Survival + Forbidden Age Gap + Power Struggles] A luxury cruise ship mysteriously capsizes in a storm. When Qin Mu wakes on an unfamiliar shore, the only person beside him is the neighborly Auntie Zhou Xiaoxue. As the tide recedes, revealing reefs carved with strange symbols, the fog-shrouded island begins writing a new law of survival in the blood of the living. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Transmigrated Into a Book: Moonlight in the Regent’s Palm 穿书之摄政王掌心的月光 Modern-day Su Qing has poured all her passion into a loveless marriage. Her husband has someone else in his heart, and everything she does for him is a joke. After an accident, she transmigrates into an old-fashioned romance novel as the cannon-fodder daughter of a prime minister, hopelessly in love with the regent. Having seen through the plot, Su Qing decisively gives up on romance. Building a career is the right path, not revolving around a man. Medical clinics, silk shops, medicinal herb fie —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Calamity of Shambhala 劫起香巴拉 What earth-shattering secret lies hidden in the nine-pronged vajra? Does the Kingdom of Shambhala really exist? Want to know why all sides are fighting over the nine-pronged vajra of Master Padmasambhava? Want to witness the upheaval in Tibet at the start of the liberation era, as old nobility, Indian monks, and British and American agents wage a secret war across the snowy plateau? Want to experience the artillery fire of the Chamdo Campaign and see how Tibetan doctor Tsering leads the People's 5Reads—Score—Shelves
