Salted Fish Transmigrated Into An Apocalyptic Book

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Jiang Miaomiao transmigrated into an apocalyptic book and became an insignificant cannon fodder. Considering all the brutal encounters behind, she decided to lie down and peacefully wait for death. She stayed at home and lived as long as she could.

In order to eat and drink well before she dies, she stored a lot of supplies.

Unexpectedly, one day a man broke into her house and was even more salty than her. He stayed and refused to leave. Her three boxes of potato chips were eaten up by that man. Her six boxes of river snail rice noodles were eaten up by that man. Her ten boxes of walnuts were also gnawed by that man!

Jiang Miaomiao was furious and decided to drive him out. So she secretly followed him in the middle of the night and saw him walk into a horde of zombies with a knife on his hands. He looked handsome as he easily killed those zombies.

The man came back and washed the blood stains. She was pushed to wake up while she was pretending to be asleep, “Give me a spicy duck neck.”

Jiang Miaomiao gave it to him decisively with both hands, “Eat, it’s all yours!”

A magical thing happened since then, her supplies… Why is it continuously increasing?

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adrynivivi
adrynivivi rated it
August 18, 2020
Status: Completed
honestly I thought it would be one of those cliché stories but it was better than expected and even though it may seem weak at the beginning and good apart from the fact that one looks more at the main couple almost the whole story < (˘ ³˘) /?✨ (۶•౪•) ۶?٩ (•౪•٩) ✨
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honingzoet
honingzoet
December 21, 2023
Status: --
when you're reading this, just like someone else said, don't go to the site that's linked after ch19. it's riddled with ads and viruses and is just poorly edited MTL. there's basically no difference if you just read off mtlnovel. com

at the beginning there was a lot of convenient things happening, like the ML somehow magicking menstrual pads and other objects out of thin air. there's convenient supermarkets conveniently stocked with exactly what they need, and there's even moments at the start where the ML literally gets mobbed by zombies... more>> but comes out unscathed, somehow not being bitten and when he's bitten again and nothing happens to him. obviously, I thought there was something more to him since he's a walking deus ex machina.

Spoiler

but then he gets bitten again and... for some reason, it actually affects him now? when before he was seemingly immune? what?

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this really disappointed me because it ended up that yeah, it was all for plot convenience. I expected something more interesting and it made the male lead more interesting to me when I thought he was some enigma : (the novel had a lot of potential and things that could've been interesting but the author went with a boring path. super sad. dropped it at ch52 bc it got boring <<less
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greenHills
greenHills rated it
December 11, 2023
Status: Completed
4.6? Rated up for characterization.

I really liked the MC and ML's interactions. The ML is (typically) rather OP, but not the cold, silent Mr Perfect type at all. He's also a salted fish sometimes, they bicker over chores. He discovers video games and spends all night playing MOBAs and Civ5/6. She doesn't accept all of the decisions he makes and they disagree. It's not smooth and perfect and instant-love even though he's a bit of an OP everyman, so their interactions feel more natural.

This novel is really refreshing and cute,... more>> despite the whole zombie apocalypse. As a fluffy romcom, it's very nice.

As other reviewers have noted, there are quite a few plotholes. Despite that, this is still a fun romcom and is mostly character-focused, so I'm not rating it down because it accomplishes the apocalypse romcom slice-of-life thing pretty well. They're logical gaps that exist but they don't ruin the novel's enjoyableness, imo.

I'm still going to note a bunch of them, though.

Spoiler

There's a scene where they're in a bas**ent and burying nightsoil in the corner because they have to survive a zombie wave and can't get out. But at that point, the zombies are still mainly detecting humans based on scent, which they're aware of and have already made use of. So:

A: is there really no way they wouldn't have saved/tried to get any zombie blood to splash on the outside of the tub against the door to disguise their scent? B: why excrete in a corner when you know detection is scent-based, and not against the doorway? Yes, the air might be more foul if that's the only inlet, but living is rather a bigger issue, and besides, I doubt a bas**ent with 0 other vents would be aerated enough for decent survival if they're down there for over a week.

At some point, we discover that these zombies aren't picky (they've eaten insects and animals at the market) and therefore aren't exclusively cannibals; they basically just scent for "living creature". We don't see them digging through sewage for "human waste remains". So C: no matter whether they're excreting in a corner or not, it has to be pretty foul after over a week. How are that many zombies unable to detect them past the scent of zombie blood, but able to detect them in the bas**ent even though it probably smells foul enough to cover up?

The water in another villa is supplied via artificial lake. They bury a kid zombie near the lake at some point, which later gets dug up by other zombies, so it's not sectioned off. They boil the water but don't filter it in any other way, iirc. Like, even if zombies don't go into water voluntarily, none of the hordes/victims have gotten shoved in? Yeah right. That lake is full of dead body virus water, bro.

Speaking of potable water, why would you order purified water, buckets for tap water, and then fail to buy/pick up water purification tablets? Or barring that, chlorine bleach for water disinfection? Bleach is pretty common in most households, and potable water is one of the top survival needs. If the MC can download shitty Easy Recipe books, she can download a wilderness/general survival guide.

They run into a well-maintained high-end indoor pool at a later point; if the water's still clear months into the apocalypse, pool chlorine should be readily available somewhere near. But the MCs never bother with water purification/disinfection despite the zombie virus outbreak.

A 5-day-long megarain isn't going to flood a modern city to the 15th floor of a skyscraper, even if it's situated in a basin. The fact that zombies were able to perceive the MCs on the 15th-17th floors of the building is also really unbelievable.

Yes, the zombies gradually upgrade and are able to sense light/sound and not just "fresh food smell", but they're over 150 feet above ground, give or take. The abandoned villas and buildings they loot are abandoned and mostly zombie-free, so most zombies seem to just go wherever they think food is. There's no reason for them to randomly clamber up 17 floors of a fire escape for the MCs.

Later on, they briefly live on a nice island and are pretty self-sufficient re:food. But if seafood is so abundant and zombies can't traverse the oceans, there's no way the military wouldn't have taken note of that and set up camp on an island base instead. Sure, the MCs don't have the resources to carpet bomb the zombies there at the start, but the army obviously does, and if they have enough fuel to fly survivors out to bumf*ck nowhere in the Tibetan mountains, they can operate boats to get them to a island, especially one with a climate decent enough to grow things on. If you can operate a base on geothermal energy, why can't you use hydropower? Since the base in the mountains is the sixth base, then it's also not a matter of that specific base having super-powerful-secret-immovable-research tech or something.

Regarding the virus itself... why are there no zombie animals? If the killer pre-zombie virus can mutate enough to backfire on the World Domination Group trying to forcibly depopulate and cause a global zombie apocalypse, surely it can mutate enough to transmit from humans to other creatures.

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^putting all of that like that makes it sound really bad, but it's a fun and charming novel despite that lol.

I think some people are too hard on the FL's initial "welp guess I'll die" attitude. She reads a book where basically everyone except the ML and FL die or go through loads of struggling, and even military-type people on rescue teams almost get totally wiped out. She knows she's a very average middle class girl without any skills really suited to apocalypse survival (later, we find out she studied design). Sure, she has 3 days to prep, but the body she transmigrates into isn't rich or outstanding in any way; she could've prepared somewhat better resources, maybe, but that's about it. The book doesn't feature any superpower awakenings, and does feature a lot of cities getting wiped out by zombies, and it takes 10 years of hard struggle in the original to restore civilisation. Knowing all of this... would you really have that much hope for survival? <<less
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ntww12
ntww12 rated it
July 18, 2023
Status: Completed
I absolutely enjoyed reading this story and totally would be 100% like the FL if ever I was stuck in an apocalypse situation. I feel a lot of readers are very mean towards our FL's laziness and unwillingness to take risk, but it is a part of human nature and her fear is very real. I'd be like that too.

I like how the story progresses from her wanting to die instead of being bitten to being brave enough to be part of rescue teams for love. It just feels like... more>> a very realistic down-to-earth apocalypse story which I really enjoyed.

ML is very doting as well and I absolutely love how he only has one small gold finger (not to be infected initially) and still gets hurt and requires FL's help.

Their banter is so hilarious and fun to read as well.

Thoroughly enjoyed this! <<less
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Potatoxxcake
Potatoxxcake rated it
May 5, 2023
Status: Completed
The novel is slice of life in the apocalypse world. Our MC is s*upid and really annoying in the beginning. But I would just say she’s just a normal girl who is so ready to die, and doesn’t want to do anything to survive. Her lack of motivation is probably a turn off to many people, but it’s understandable on her part. She does have great character development at the end.
our ML is old in age (48), but he lost 20 year of his life because he got locked... more>> in a lab as a mouse lab. He doesn’t age after he got caught to do that zombie virus test. Our ML is not that OP but he’s strong, he’s almost die many time.
There’s almost no other side characters appear till the very end. Basically, just the two of them and a dog living together.
their romance is a slow burn one and ML is quite insecure about his past that he cannot accept that MC actually want to be with him in the beginning. They both caught feeling at about the same time but MC is more straightforward while ML is still insecure. <<less
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matty1212
matty1212 rated it
March 29, 2023
Status: --
Jiang Miaomiao is very s*upid and has been set up to fail in a possible apocalypse.

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Spoiler

I feel like the author tried to create a dumb but funny girl persona to give the story a comedic feel. (Tried and failed).
Everything the protagonist does seems very s*upid, bordering on the irrational.
She transmigrated into the body of a poor college girl three days before the [No System] apocalypse and just assumed it wasn't worth the effort to survive.
So for that reason, she decided to spend all her savings on a place to stay and on groceries (in addition, in those 3 days she opened a Live account to show how to survive the apocalypse, going viral on the app, which for me was pure s*upidity.)

Remember that she is poor, but she spent 10, 000 to rent a villa and the rest of the money was used to buy groceries that would hypothetically last 3 months, a few hundred buckets of purified water and a generator.

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After the ML appeared I gave up on continuing, I can't swallow. <<less
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novel.junkie
novel.junkie rated it
January 26, 2023
Status: Completed
The MC transmigrates into a an apocalyptic novel, a zombie outbreak is imminent but since she knows about it, she prepares a lot to survive for a while. She is not interested in escaping and fighting for her life, she simply wants to eat and drink comfortably and plans to die a comfortable death (su*cide) if her supplies run out or if she encounters zombies. I found her relatively realistic, I could relate to her mindset a bit. She's not especially outstanding and there were some things I disagreed with... more>> but all in all I didn't have a problem with her, since her actions/feelings/mindset were not unjustified (e.g. Due to her past). She undergoes a lot of change (mindset, physical capabilities etc.) throughout the novel, mostly due to the ML. It's practically them two against the world which, of course, creates a really special bond between them.

It's not the standard action oriented apocalyptic novel; of course there are action elements, but it's not the focal point and there are no OP characters, although the ML is really strong and resourceful. It's primarily a slice of life with many seemingly mundane moments, but that made it somewhat realistic. There are a lot of ups and downs, it made me laugh, cry and honestly made me think about a lot. The ML is the MVP of the story and has, let's just say, an unusual past and special circumstances. So for a long time we are left wondering what that is all about which adds another factor that keeps the interest. The romance takes some time to develop and does so realistically, so I won't complain.

It has less than 60 chapters but they aren't short, it took longer than expected to finish. I read the rest of the novel through mtl and didn't have a lot of difficulty understanding it. Some parts may seem a little boring but that's just the slice of life aspect of it, it was enjoyable and unique
Spoiler

the origin of the "zombie outbreak" surprised me as well as the fact that there even was a realistic origin

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I will definitively be thinking about it for some time. <<less
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Calvinaaa
Calvinaaa rated it
February 24, 2021
Status: Completed
Very nice story. And easy to read. Ee can visual the day when zombie coming, that what gonna happen. How to survive it bla bla bla

Really nice read. Try it
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199sweetheart
199sweetheart rated it
September 20, 2020
Status: Completed
I enjoyed reading it. At the beginning, the story seems kind of boring especially because the MC is so lazy and a scaredy cat who always want to give up and die. But she become stronger and her character development is very good and enjoyable to read.

The zombie apocalypse in this story is very realistic and very scary for me. Especially because there is no power, zombie nucleus etc in this story. This makes it more realistic and add tension to the story. But bear in mind this zombie apocalypse... more>> story is more slice of life + romance rather than adventure + thriller kind of story

The romance between the MC and ML is so cute and I really like reading about them. In the beginning (like the in the first few chapter) ML seems kind of boring and annoying but he gets better when we gets to know him and he is really sweet and dependable.

Overall, a nice and short story story to read. <<less
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Yohannah16
Yohannah16 rated it
September 16, 2020
Status: c1
It has a good plot for a zombie apocalypse theme. Other stories like this are so idiotic. I like that the characters learned and developed. You may find the MC annoying but I think some people would have that kind of thought if you are in zombie apocalypse too.

This story worth MTLing. Its very easy to read.
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weepingbadwolf
weepingbadwolf rated it
January 25, 2024
Status: Completed
it's very nice and approach the more slice-of-life being in the middle of the apocalypse not everyday is killing zombies and fighting for their lives. Sometimes is about rationalizing food and water, look for energy, miss vegetables and meat, raise a dog and fall in love with middle-aged man who broke our in your little home and went out to look for pads in the middle of the zombie apocalypse

good read, the couple growth was on point - though there's little moments where MiaoMiao's tsundere-eske personality made me very mad.... more>> But certainly a enjoyable experience <<less
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chande
chande rated it
January 19, 2024
Status: Completed
I think this novel was a bit overrated? It's not that the story was bad but it was full of plot holes and inconsistencies throughout the story. Also, the arc where MC and ML tried to survive together in the city got a bit boring over times because the pace was so slow. But then, the pace suddenly got faster when they were brought to the base and in the end, suddenly years already past just like that.

I also didn't like the ending much. Not because MC and ML didn't... more>> choose to live in glory but because how the government treated ML after making him guinea pig for 3 years.

Spoiler

He should be hailed as a hero without any condition but the government told him that they could only give him glory after he joined an endless rescue mission around the world. Really? After what he had been through?

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Kreya
Kreya rated it
October 30, 2023
Status: c5
I know it was supposed to be funny, but I really can't with how dumb she is. This is why I don't really read apocalypse themed novels with Female leads. As a female myself, I tend to be more critical with them as I do know most of the common sense girls should have, compared to male leads. Example:

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Spoiler

She got 3 months to prepare but she forgot to buy menstrual products? How? It comes every month so it's hard to miss unless you are irregular, which wasn't really stated so far

And when she did have her period, she used a tissue as an alternative, which isn't bad but u could've made a reusable cloth napkin with the things you had.

And when she had to dispose of the bloody tissues, she decided to burn it? Like girl you're in the middle of an apocalypse the smell of blood wafted through attracting zombies. You could've just flushed it in the toilet, or maybe wrapped it up and throw it hard outside or something?

And really, when you saw all those things served to you that you know weren't part of your inventory, you really believe you just haven't noticed it before, like the freaking car!?

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Oh well. I guess this was really more comedy heavy, and not supposed to be taken seriously but I can't shut down my head to that extent and just let these minor details go, especially in an apocalypse setting. One of my favourite aspects of apocalypse novels are theirbull buying/preparing for the apocalypse as well as their ability to survive.

I get she was put more emphasis on enjoying her remaining life rather than surviving, but still hoped she put a little more thought into it. <<less
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Renaechan
Renaechan rated it
October 4, 2023
Status: Completed
I thought this would be a quick funny romance. It is really a gripping dystopian novel with a slow burn romance on the side. For a novel that is only 58 chapters it did not feel short at all and actually took a few days to read. It also wraps up really well and it didn’t feel like it left a bunch of things unexplained. For a novel originally based on the story of the main male and female lead it sure didn’t involve much of them in the storyline... more>> though. <<less
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cosmicpeach
cosmicpeach
July 9, 2023
Status: Completed
4.3 ⭐

How should I explain this... It's truly a slice of life during an apocalypse.

For the past 5 years I really can't watch/read any zombies stories because it scares me more than any horror ghosts story but decided to give this novel a chance. I almost dropped it in the middle because I'm too scared!! But fortunately I didn't give up, because, again, it's a slice of life with ROMANCE!

As the others have said, you may hate our FMC's personality in the beginning of the novel but as for me,... more>> she just reminds me of myself because I would do the same if I'm in her position so I don't really mind. Also, yes, she got a character development!

I also liked our ML, he was not OP but capable and always did his best to do anything that our FMC wants.

A lazy FMC x an understanding ML. I want someone like him for myself lol

I kinda got bored on the second half and almost give this novel a 4 star but fortunately the Author ended the story beautifully. So yeah, I like it! <<less
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sovoy
sovoy
November 13, 2022
Status: c5
Idk why people are so pleased with this novel. I'm super annoyed. Look at how dumb the MC is.

Minor spoilers:

She bought a small generator and some barrels of oil to power it, but ultimately couldn't use it because it was too noisy and attracted the zombies.

... more>> She didn't prepare any non electricity powered extracurricular activities except some paint. I don't think she even prepared any offline activities she could enjoy even if she was able to use her generator, or maybe the author will magically include that later.

And this part is the absolute worst.

She actually thought that she wouldn't get her period and didn't buy anything for that, no pads no tampons no cups. And when her aunt finally came, she could only use tissue and a plastic bag. She never even thought of using a piece of cloth.

Idk if this novel gets better later but for now I can no longer enjoy it because I am so angry about how s*upid this MC is. I know this is supposed to be a comedy novel but the level of s*upidity is just too much. <<less
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raindroptree
raindroptree rated it
May 25, 2022
Status: c14
Not very funny, though tries to be. It's a slice of life in a zombie apocalypse. They do normal daily tasks and rarely experience anything interesting, then go back to their boring lives. I eventually skimmed through it to get to something interesting... very true to the slice of life tag.
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di_immortales
di_immortales
April 30, 2022
Status: Completed
It was really cute and fluffy <3

The interactions between the FL and ML were beautiful and I wish there was more.

And.. In fact, my first thought was that the ML was a regressor haha.. Idk why..

But anyway, coming back to the point. I loved it. It's wonderful. And I love how the MC doesn't gravitate from the original concept of a salted fish. :)
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Nelle
Nelle
April 5, 2022
Status: c37
MC is really laid back in life while ML is our manly and very handy lover. They have a good compatibility with each other despite all their bickerings. Although I did not laugh in any of the scenes yet, but this is indeed comedy. Although I'm getting bored so I'll drop this for now.
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Jiannaaaaaa
Jiannaaaaaa rated it
February 4, 2022
Status: Completed
1000/100. This novel is so good. Although the MC is really a salted fish and not a superpowered female lead, it was more realistic and her interaction with the ML is kind of funny. To all the people who saw this, do not hesitate to read it. It's worth it. Besides there's nothing wrong with taking risks, just try it out. You can drop it if it's not to your liking.
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