After Becoming the Old Scoundrel in a Famine-Escape Novel, I Give Up

Name: After Becoming the Old Scoundrel in a Famine-Escape Novel, I Give Up
Author: Sweet Mangosteen

穿成逃荒文极品老头后，我摆烂了

by Sweet Mangosteen (山竹甜甜)

Status: Completed
Length: 1.4M Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Slice-of-Life Farming
Updated: 5mo ago
English: Request a translation

Read on Fanqie

Synopsis

(The rating just came in, so it's a little low. Please don't let it put you off, dear readers.)

[Transmigration + the protagonist is a real piece of work + flight from famine + System + reforming the worst of the bunch + ensemble cast + feel-good power fantasy + family squabbles]

Xu Mu was sent flying by a check from the domineering CEO's mother. When she opens her eyes again, she's transmigrated into the body of a thoroughly awful old man in an old-fashioned farming-and-famine novel.

Not only has she gone from woman to man, but she's gone from a young woman to a man in his forties in the blink of an eye. Xu Mu is completely devastated.

At first, Xu Mu just wants to slack off. This farming novel has everything: a transmigrated heroine using her wits against awful relatives, a sharp-tongued and spiteful grandmother, a vicious and ruthless grandfather, a selfish uncle's family leeching off everyone, spineless parents, a tearful older sister, and a strong, determined younger sister... There's just too much going on.

This huge family combines every kind of awful person imaginable. The original body's children alone include seven sons and eight daughters. Just burn it all down.

Xu Mu was never a saint, so she has absolutely no intention of reforming this family of terrible people and turning them into a loving, happy family.

But perhaps Heaven couldn't stand to see her laze around any longer. The “Reform the Scum” System keeps tempting her with all kinds of good stuff, and Xu Mu... eventually takes an unconventional path to reforming the worst of the bunch in a farming novel.

[The famine-flight storyline comes in the second half of the book, close to the ending]

[The protagonist is the biggest piece of work of them all! Truly awful, and the kind who can't be redeemed]

[The protagonist's values in this story do not represent the author's. This is an unhinged work. You can curse out the protagonist, but not the author (runs off holding a pot lid over their head)]

Other names

Transmigrated as the Villainous Old Man in a Farming Novel, I Won’t Change My Character穿成种田文极品老头，我不改人设Alternate title on Fanqie

Stats

586Chapters

6.6kReads · 30 days

455.2kReads · all time

444Shelf adds, last 14 days

8.0Score

More by this author

Across Worlds: I Play the Madwoman in Empresses in the Palace

In booklists 144

See all

Books That Make You Laugh Until You Wet Yourself in Every Chapter

Looking for books similar to "Gu King Ajie".

1.1kBooks59.1MViews8hUpdated

I Am Trapped in an Information Bubble! Everyone Who Passes by, Please Recommend One Completed Novel!

1.4kBooks5.8MViews8hUpdated

Share the Books That Got You Through a Reading Slump

I'm in a reading slump and have hit a wall. Please recommend something!

2.3kBooks43.4MViews8hUpdated

One Female Lead, One Female Lead, One Female Lead

I don't like harem stories. Please recommend a one-on-one romance.

1.5kBooks18.8MViews8hUpdated

Quick Transmigration: A Truly Self-Serving Female Lead Never Fawns Over Anyone

For the female lead's character, think Jiang Yuyan, Liu Xing, Jiao Liqiao, Tian Huan, Shangguan Zhi, and Guaerjia Wen Yuan. A true villainess who doesn't get redeemed, isn't out of character, doesn't fawn over anyone, isn't boy-crazy, puts herself first, doesn't let herself be pushed around, and looks down on everyone equally.

70Books3.4MViews9hUpdated

Famine-escape Stories Where the Heroine Doesn't Have to Support Others or Flee with the Whole Village

I really hate stories where the whole village flees a famine. Just have one family flee, please. Leave the whole village out of it.

297Books32.9MViews17hUpdated

The Protagonist Builds a Faction to Support Himself, Instead of Being Worked to the Bone

Looking for books like The Apocalypse Arrives: The Goddess School Beauty Begs Me to Kill Her.

1kBooks52.6MViews1dUpdated

Books So Good I Can’t Bear to Remove Them from My Shelf, Read Every Chapter from Start to Finish

Everyone, come check out the ones you like!

2.9kBooks33.9MViews1dUpdated

I'm So Tired of Books!! Any Great Reads That Can Surprise Me? Please Recommend Some!

Looking for books similar to The Age of Global Sailing.

2.4kBooks104.5MViews1dUpdated

Novels That’ll Make You Laugh Until You Can’t Breathe

Something where the female lead can change the plot.

1.4kBooks391.1MViews1dUpdated

Books That Make You Laugh Like a Maggot at Midnight, Until Your Stomach Cramps

Please recommend highly rated books where the protagonist isn't a self-sacrificing saint or an idiot. I just want a satisfying power fantasy.

1.2kBooks313.9MViews1dUpdated

Any Stories About Self-Interested Protagonists? No Self-Sacrifice, Taking the Short End, or Saintly Heroines

200Books2.6MViews1dUpdated

I've Recently Gotten into Reborn Older Women in Period-Era Stories. Any Well-Written, Completed Recommendations?

Looking for books like "The Eighties Auntie Makes Buns, Buys a House, and Raises Her Grandson (An Eighties Family)."

284Books10.8MViews1dUpdated

Every Recommendation Is Just the Same Few One-Female-Lead Novels, Please Recommend Some Different Ones

1.5kBooks12.1MViews1dUpdated

Looking for Farming or Refugee-Escape Stories With Sound Logic. Don't Treat Readers Like Idiots

697Books6.7MViews1dUpdated

Life Is So Hard, I Want a Funny Story. Make Me Laugh Until I Die

Any genre is fine, as long as it's funny, funny, funny!

1.4kBooks33.4MViews1dUpdated

Please Recommend Quick Transmigration Stories Like Song Peinian

Looking for books similar to "Quick Transmigration: I'm Really Not a Scumbag!" Stories about saving people through quick transmigration that stay true to the characters and leave you thinking about every world long after you finish.

154Books3MViews1dUpdated

Famine-Escape Stories With No Saintly Protagonists, Preferably About a Family Fleeing Together

I'm looking for books like "A Farming Girl Supporting Her Family Through Ancient Natural Disasters". 1. The heroine shouldn't play saint and feed the whole village. Ideally, the family escapes the famine on their own. 2. There can be awful relatives, as long as they're out of the picture early. No meekly putting up with everything or suffering in silence.

56Books865kViews1dUpdated

Let’s Trade Tomato Novels We’ve Been Reading for Ages and Can’t Bear to Delete 🍅🍅

1.8kBooks16.2MViews1dUpdated

The Protagonist Only Wanted to Pretend to Be a Good Person, but Ended Up Pretending for Their Entire Life

Are there any books where the protagonist only wanted to pretend to be a good person at first, but accidentally kept it up for their whole life?

573Books35.5MViews1dUpdated

Any Pure Farming Stories?

I'm looking for a farming story where the heroine stays in the countryside, tending her fields and cooking, then marries an honest, handsome farmer. Ideally, she spends her whole life in the village and never leaves. Any recommendations?

25Books858kViews1dUpdated

One Female Lead, No Harem, No Flirting Around

Please recommend novels with one female lead.

1.7kBooks41.6MViews1dUpdated

The Genre Doesn’t Matter. Just Give Me Something with Smart Characters

I won't say more. You'll understand.

2.3kBooks25.8MViews1dUpdated

Books That Help You Get Better at Scheming

Any books that can improve your ability to read between the lines?

988Books31.7MViews2dUpdated

In same booklists

Transmigrate: I Become a Terrible Old Man in Ancient Times Sadako Who Forgot Her Hair

Fleeing Famine: Four Sons Are Eating Their Family into Poverty Xingxing Zi

Exiled, I Led My Family to the Pinnacle of Life Ba Zimei

Bound to the Dutiful Son System During the Famine, the Wicked Mother-in-Law Turns Over a New Leaf Red Qiang Flute

I've Transmigrated into a Vile Old Woman, So What's Wrong with Going a Little Crazy? Lin Yanxin Hui

The Eldest Grandson of a Farming Family: Fleeing Famine with a Pocket Dimension! The Finish Line in the Opposite Direction

Fleeing Famine from the Start: Watch Me Rise to Greatness Windblown Parasol Tree

The Daily Life of the Old Lady of the Loyal and Righteous Marquis of Taian's Household Demon Thirteen

A Talent for Aiding the State from the Start? I Follow the Way of a Treacherous Minister On Cue

Transmigrated into a Famine-Escape Novel: I Snatched the Heroine’s Space from the Start Egrets in the Deep Woods

A Woman Transmigrates into a Man: The Young Lad Takes a Wife and Has a Child Wuli

Female-to-Male: So Men Can Be Bewitching Too Fu Daqiang

Transmigrated Into a Terrible Old Woman, She Takes the Whole Family in Hand and Lives It Up Confused Jingjing

After I Transmigrated as a Girl, I Became Ridiculously Handsome Yu Yi

Transmigrated into a Farming Novel as the Wicked Mother-in-Law Red Bean Paste

The Li Family of Xishan Walking Pebble

Transmigrated as the Marquis’s Old Madam, All I Want Is to Take It Easy Qidian Girl

Reborn: Whoever Messes with Me, I Tear Them Apart Old Ox Eats Immortal Grass

A Transmigrated Woman Becomes a Man in Siheyuan: From the Start, I'm Silly Zhu Jin Zhi Le

Reborn as the Marquis's Dowager, I Lead My Grandchildren to New Heights The One from Old and New Dreams

See all novels like After Becoming the Old Scoundrel in a Famine-Escape Novel, I Give Up More Ancient Romance novels

Reader comments 50

Google Translate

I absolutely love it! I've finally found the real deal. The whole internet is full of stories using the "ultimate" label to lure readers in and exploit them. I've had enough. I really dislike this kind of poverty alleviation-style rural life. Why do the heroines have to work themselves to the bone? It's so much better to let others do the dirty work. This is truly wonderful. Because from the perspective of someone who lives an ultimate life, it's so incredibly satisfying.
277 likes1y ago
The character design is so relatable; who would willingly sacrifice for someone else's child after transmigrating into a world of strangers? 😅😅😅 It stands out from the cliché transmigration stories and is truly captivating. The author is fantastic! Please update with lots and lots of new chapters! 😄😄😄
152 likes1y ago
It's very interesting and well-written. Actually, I think that although Xu is the main character, Meiyun is also very interesting, almost like a second main character. Xiao Huan became a general without getting married; the royal girl seized power. How wonderful! Based on my personal fondness for Meiyun and the protagonist's gender, this is an activity in Yixing. I really can't take it anymore!
111 likes1y ago
It's so good! I rarely watch this kind of thing. I've seen it a few times before but never clicked on it. Then I don't know how I saw it again, so I clicked on it to see how it was. I thought it wouldn't be to my taste, but once I started watching, I couldn't stop. The protagonist's life is so comfortable.
92 likes1y ago
It's incredibly good! Aside from quick transmigration novels, it's the only one I've read where the female transmigrates into the male body. It's not cliché at all. Anyone who can get through the first 15 chapters (mainly because the repeated introductions of family structure and members can be a bit tiresome) will definitely become addicted. This is amazing!
87 likes1y ago
I've read no fewer than a hundred farming novels, and I managed to finish this one and found it quite good. Overall, I'd give it a 9 or higher if I were to lower the score. It's a short, unconventional farming family story, a family ensemble piece with many characters, strong drama, interesting content, good writing style, and sound logic without major flaws.
84 likes1y ago
The characters are all vividly portrayed! The subject matter is fresh and rare, and the writing is lively and humorous; I personally love it! However, it requires some patience to read, as there are quite a few characters, and it can be a bit mentally taxing at times. 🧠 It's a shame they only added this at chapter 500... It seemed like the story was good even without the romance.
77 likes6mo ago
It's great! This avid bookworm says it's so good, I can't get enough! I was too arrogant for not seeing what happened next; I can't stand women transmigrating into men and taking concubines 🥺
71 likes7mo ago
A truly interesting book. After reading so many books with stereotypical protagonists embodying truth, goodness, and beauty, it's refreshing to see a genuinely selfish protagonist. I hope this character remains consistent. Some people aren't kind, but that doesn't mean they're malicious; most are driven by self-interest. The author portrays this aspect brilliantly.
70 likes1y ago
This book is surprisingly good! I actually caught up with it. It's the first book I've read so carefully in my reading history. I really love Xu Da'an, hahaha, he's so funny and witty! But I don't really like Xu Wanhui, and because of that, I don't like Liu Meiyun who spoils her so much. To be honest, aside from that one, the other characters are all very well-developed. I love them! 💕💕💕
49 likes1y ago