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- 1 Apocalypse Side Character: My Loyal Bodyguard Is the Zombie King 末世女配:忠犬保镖竟是丧尸皇 (The rating just came out, but it’ll rise later) [Transmigrate into a book + unapologetically satisfying + never take abuse + infinite space + sweet romance + powerful secret identities + supernatural abilities + both devoted to each other + equally matched leads] Wen Chu transmigrates into a book, and from the very start she finds herself in the middle of the male and female leads making love. How thrilling! What? She stole the male lead’s spatial ring and spirit spring water! She awakens the o 101.1kReads8.7Score20kShelves
- 2 I Am the Zombie Progenitor, and I Usher in the Apocalypse 我!丧尸母体,开启末世纪元 [Invincible + Cold-Blooded + No Female Lead + System + Decisive and Ruthless + All Races of the Universe] One day, a blood-red sky envelops all of Blue Star, and a surge of cosmic energy floods the planet! Life on Blue Star begins to mutate. Humans awaken all kinds of physiques, and countless ability users and ancient martial arts experts emerge! According to the normal timeline, countless powerful beings would rise among humanity, and Blue Star would enter a golden age of high-level martial evo 8.9kReads7.1Score1kShelves
- 3 Zombie Mother: Infecting the World from Scratch 丧尸母体:从零开始感染世界 [Apocalypse] [Matriarch Zombie] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Humans Are Not Weakened] [Mind Games] [True Villain Protagonist] As a matriarch zombie, Wei Gong must face human players who outnumber him a hundred to one, as well as all of human civilization. Phone scams, deception, and identity swaps: watch how Wei Gong exploits human nature to win one mind game after another and turn the tables against all odds, building a zombie apocalypse from scratch! Human nature is humanity's greatest weakness, a 19.9kReads8.5Score1.8kShelves
- 4 The Zombie Queen Is Both Sweet and Flirtatious 丧尸女王她又软又撩 [Ice-type Zombie Queen × Dark, unhinged tyrant] [Two powerful leads who dote on each other + face-slapping and putting scumbags in their place + apocalypse stockpiling + past and present lives] The day she was pushed into a horde of zombies, Lin Shuyue was supposed to die, just as the plot had dictated. But she opened her silver-blue eyes and rose from the horde. “This time, I’m writing the script!” With her left hand, she freezes a thousand miles of land and crushes the zombie horde. With her r 2kReads8.6Score183Shelves
- 5 Doomsday: From the Start, I Have a Gun and Unlimited Ammo 末日:开局一把枪,子弹随便刷 [Collecting Beauties]+ [Unlimited Supplies]+ [Unlimited Ammunition]+ [Space]+ [No Saintly Hero] The apocalypse arrived, zombies overran the world, and Ye Yuan was unexpectedly reborn. He discovered the beautiful woman next door had a [3D Printing] tag above her head. He peeled it off, and 3D printing became unlimited replication. As long as he had a sample, he could replicate any supply endlessly. He could even replicate space. Holy crap, he's taking off! He replicated the inside of a shotgun's 36.6kReads7.8Score3.9kShelves
- 6 The Apocalypse's One and Only: The Zombie King's Confession, Who Could Say No? 末世独宠:尸王的告白,谁敢不爱 Wen Qiao transmigrates into an apocalyptic novel as a hapless cannon-fodder character. In the book, this character is betrayed by her most trusted fiancé and stepsister, turned into an experimental zombie, and tortured mercilessly by the two of them. She transmigrates right at the moment they set their plan in motion. To survive, she steals the antidote, floors the accelerator, and escapes the experimental base. Then, out of nowhere, she gets pregnant, and zombies keep their distance from her. W 2.6kReads8.3Score264Shelves
- 7 Zombies Are Here, and I Keep Trying to Get Myself Killed, But I Just Won't Die 丧尸来了我库库作死,还死不掉 Apocalypse + hoarding supplies + farming + fighting monsters Lin Xi is an ordinary person, timid and lacking any will to survive. When the zombies come, she simply lies flat. Reborn five minutes early, Lin Xi joins the zombies painlessly... Lin Xi dies. Reborn one hour early, she rushes home to take shelter... Lin Xi dies. Reborn one day early, she hastily stockpiles supplies... Lin Xi dies. Reborn one month early, she installs solar chargers and water purifiers... Lin Xi dies. Reborn one year e 62.1kReads9.4Score10.5kShelves
- 8 Sick Love in the Apocalypse: After Dying a Horrible Death, I Welcome the Mad Demon King Out of Prison 末世病宠,惨死后接阴疯魔王出狱 [Self-serving green-tea heroine x deranged, obsessive zombie king] [Two drama queens acting against each other] [Realistic approach, lots of romance, a grim ensemble story about the apocalypse] “Yanyan, food is running low. Take out your emergency rations so we can share them.” “Yanyan, Xiaorou was bitten by a zombie. Give her your vaccine first.” “Yanyan, the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled should go first. We'll hold them off...” After Chen Muzhou's relentless do-gooder routine, Xia Yan rea 11.9kReads7.8Score1.2kShelves
- 9 Little Zombie, I’ve Been Kept by a Crazy Villain! 小尸尸我啊!被疯批反派圈养了 [Zombie heroine + villain male lead + spoiled antics + goofy comedy + supernatural powers + System + powerful characters + sweet romance] The male lead is a villain, not a good person, and has no sense of morality. Don’t read if that bothers you. The heroine is a zombie, a goofball and a total clown. # Sweet Wine, now a zombie, stares at the street full of the walking dead with a look of utter despair. She’s arrived in this post-apocalyptic world with just one mission: bite the villain and turn 17kReads9.0Score2.1kShelves
- 10 EN After Becoming a Zombie, I Was Doted on by a Crazy Handsome Villain 变丧尸后,被疯批美男反派娇养了 [Zombie Apocalypse + Older Boyfriend + Evolution + Superpowers + Both Leads Are Inexperienced + Sweet Romance] The female lead is a zombie. She is very weak at first and depends on the male lead to survive, but evolves and grows stronger later. The male lead is possessive, obsessive, and vindictive. At first, he raises the female lead like his daughter, but his parental love turns into something else later. They are both gloomy and twisted, clinging to each other for warmth with little regard fo 9.5kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
- 11 Doomsday Evolution: The Zombie Overlord 末日进化:丧尸大魔王 A blood-red sun hangs high in the sky, and the world is transformed! An utterly ordinary little zombie faces countless perils in the apocalypse, evolving again and again until it becomes the Zombie Demon King! 7.6kReads8.9Score568Shelves
- 12 Help! I Don't Want to Be the World's Most Beautiful Woman in the Apocalypse 救命!不想在末世当绝世大美人 [Alternate apocalypse + two powerful leads + sweet romance + both leads are each other's first] Lin Buyu, captain of a special operations team, suddenly transmigrated into an apocalypse novel and became the Zombie King. The System said the world was collapsing. More terrifying than the Zombie King was the major villain Jiang Ran and his minions, whose destructive power was enough to wipe out the world. The only way to restore the world to normal was to eliminate every villain. Jiang Ran was far 42.8kReads9.2Score6.1kShelves
- 13 Apocalypse Star Crystals: I Have an Army of Contract Beasts 末日星晶:我有一个契约兽军团 [Superpower Evolution] [Egoism] [Reborn] [Dark Humor] [Early Development, Lone Wolf] [Multiple Heroines, Skip if You Mind] A meteor shower descended, and the whole world collapsed into ruin. Most people turned into terrifying monsters, while animals and plants ceased to be resources for the survivors and became hunters instead. The meteor shower also brought star crystals, which could yield extraordinary food, weapons and equipment, evolution potions, and bloodlines with supernatural abilities.. 149.7kReads8.2Score12kShelves
- 14 One Man, One Dog, One Zombie 一人一狗一丧尸 [No superpowers + no System + plot-focused + no harem] Huang Jin, a young man who secretly worked in a specialized line of business, received a call from his boss at the beginning of the zombie outbreak. His boss ordered him to stay put in C City and wait for the organization to rescue him. But time passed, and after waiting for two whole years, Huang Jin still saw no sign of anyone from the organization. He decided to head to Z City, where his boss was, on his own. Along the way, he came across 35.9kReads9.4Score3.4kShelves
- 15 The Doomsday Hourglass 末日沙漏 9.8kReads7.6Score646Shelves
- 16 Urgent! My Ex-Boyfriend Turned into a Zombie and Came Looking for Me 在线急!前男友变成丧尸找上门了 Male lead: villain, zombie big shot, possessive, devoted only to her. Female lead: useless, bratty, pampered. Mind-reading. No System, no superpowers. An apocalypse story where human nature is dark. Readers with strong morals and upright values, please stay away. The male lead is a zombie who blindly spoils the female lead. If that bothers you, don't read. One last thing: don't overthink it. This is a work of fiction, so don't apply it to real life. When the apocalypse suddenly broke out, a litt 41.1kReads9.1Score4.2kShelves
- 17 Wielding the Strongest Superpowers, I Sweep Through the Apocalypse 集最强异能于一身横扫末世 [Zombie apocalypse · No System · No rebirth · One heroine · Squad growth · Ensemble cast · Strong protagonist · Decisive and ruthless] The apocalypse arrives, and staying alive becomes the greatest challenge. Scarce supplies, zombies everywhere, terrifying mutated beasts, and… human nature under the apocalypse all turn survival into a nightmare. Shaoguang → Kaiyang → Yuheng → Tianquan → Tianji → Tianxuan → Tianshu → Yinyuan → Dongming Lighting up each star grants an ability. Everyone else gets a 146.4kReads9.0Score12.6kShelves
- 18 A Tender Rose Becomes His Cherished Favorite in the Apocalypse 温软玫瑰沦为他心尖偏宠【末世】 [A post-apocalyptic setting + a trash man’s regret + the arch-enemy villain takes the lead + love triangle drama + mutual salvation + swoony romance + romantic aesthetics + both leads are devoted to each other] [Gentle, steadfast beacon of righteousness x refined, unhinged smiling schemer (irresistibly wicked)] Even as she lay dying, Wen Yao couldn’t understand what she had ever liked about Shen Yichuan. Was it his coldheartedness, or his selfishness? As his partner, she had risked her life for 44.4kReads9.5Score5.1kShelves
- 19 Apocalypse: The Whole Company Denies the Existence of the 18th Floor 末世:全公司否认18楼存在 [Apocalypse + No System + Reborn + Mystery + One Female Lead + Zombies + Hard Sci-Fi + No Mindless Decisions + Revenge] Reborn six hours before the apocalypse, Chu Yan has not only retained his memories of the future, but also mastered the ultimate secret of genetic evolution! He can become the most powerful god in the apocalypse! He frantically stockpiles supplies, builds weapons, modifies vehicles, and saves his parents, racing against time! He will kill his enemies with his own hands and turn 3.4kReads8.7Score284Shelves
- 20 EN King of the Apocalypse! 末世之王! [Apocalypse + Rebirth + Stockpiling Supplies + Evolving Zombies + Violent Aesthetics] Lin Dong is reborn on the eve of a terrifying apocalypse, and gains a storage space. A normal person would stockpile huge amounts of supplies, food, and water. But Lin Dong buys vast quantities of raw meat and fresh blood. Because... he is about to become a zombie! Flesh and blood are the source of a zombie's power. As long as it eats meat, it can keep evolving. A zombie fed on plenty of flesh grows at a terrif 75.8kReads9.3Score6.2kShelves
- 21 Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂 Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the 27.3kReads8.9Score2.4kShelves
- 22 EN Apocalypse: Stockpiling a Billion in Supplies from Day One 末世:开局先囤十亿物资 [Apocalypse + Rebirth + Spatial Ability + Stockpiling Supplies + Ruthless, No Saintly Savior + Building a Faction] “Mr. Chen, your one hundred family buckets of fried chicken have arrived.” “Mr. Chen, your one hundred roast ducks have arrived.” “Boss Chen, your ten thousand tons of pork have arrived.” Chen Luo, known as the Void King, relied on his unmatched ability to lie low until every survivor had died. In the whole world, only monsters remained; there were no humans left. With nothing left 117kReads9.3Score9.6kShelves
- 23 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 76kReads9.5Score10.4kShelves
- 24 EN Apocalypse Game: Killing My Girlfriend on Day One 末日游戏:开局手刃校花女友 [Game Stats] [No Romance] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Invincible Protagonist] [Absolute Egoism] [Pure Wish Fulfillment] No saintly heroes allowed!!! After surviving ten years of the apocalypse, Lin Ziluo was reborn on the day the apocalypse game arrived. When he came to, the first thing he did was kill his campus crush, the girlfriend who had betrayed him and ruined his life for ten years. Unexpectedly, he activated a System that could grant him countless golden fingers. His first golden finger: Ab 131.4kReads9.4Score10.8kShelves
- 25 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey... 210.6kReads9.6Score22.9kShelves
- 26 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score209.2kShelves

























