Laid-Back Novels About Retiring to a Peaceful Life 休闲养老平淡小说

1. 1 四 A Pastry Chef Slacking Off in the Siheyuan 四合院里摸鱼的糕点师傅 Tomato Wonderfully Crispy Corn Sticks番茄妙妙妙脆角Male-Channel Fanfiction1.9M WordsOngoing A food blogger transmigrates to 1948. Does mentoring apprentices bring triple returns? “No Qin family, no Lou family, no hostility.” While everyone else who transmigrates into a siheyuan is busy fighting scoundrels and seizing opportunities, Shen Yan just wants to live like a lazy salted fish: as a pastry chef at a grocery store, he has little work and few worries. After work, he takes the homemade pastries from his pocket dimension, sits by the courtyard gate, cracks sunflower seeds, and watche 74.7kReads7.7Score4.3kShelves

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   #Leisure#Retirement For those looking for something calm and uneventful, these three books are definitely a good choice. They offer three different perspectives on different eras and career paths. The authors write steadily without any sense of haste. If you like this kind of writing, give it a try. If you don't, please refrain from negative comments.

2. 2 重 Reborn in 1985: A Young Man with a Bright Future 重生1985，少年大有可为 vRunning Snailvv奔跑的蜗牛vUrban2.0M WordsOngoing At forty, Shen Mo returned to 1985. The child of educated youths sent to southern Yunnan, he was left behind when his parents returned to Shanghai and divorced. “Dad has a home, Mom has a home, and I'm left all by myself. Am I just in the way...” The lyrics from a TV drama he'd once watched had become his own life. Shen Mo was now an unwanted burden, unloved by both grandmothers, but he still had his second uncle. “Xiao Mo, the city registration fee is nearly four hundred yuan, but your second u 189.4kReads8.5Score17.1kShelves
3. 3 我 I Bragged on Bihu, So Why Did the Government Take Me Seriously? 我在逼乎吹牛，国家怎么当真了 Black Dog Doesn't Like Tangyuan黑狗不爱吃汤圆Urban4.3M WordsOngoing [No System + Slow Pace + White Moonlight + No Harem + Building the Nation Through Industry] In 2011, just before the high school class divisions, Gu Yu was reborn. The first thing he did wasn’t buy lottery tickets or invest in property. He switched to the humanities track and took the seat beside Su Nian. The second thing he did was borrow her computer and post a prediction on Zhihu that no one would believe. The European debt crisis, mobile internet, digital payments, new energy vehicles, artif 170.9kReads8.8Score14.8kShelves
4. 4 美 Gourmet: The Dishes I Cook Come with Buffs 美食：我炒的菜有BUFF Cheng Mu承沐Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Gourmet] [No CP] [Everyday Life] [Heartwarming] [Healing] [Perfect with a Meal] His broad palm gently patted the snow-white skin. Fine, soft hairs brushed over his fingertips and palm, their ticklish, tingling touch so intoxicating he could hardly tear himself away. He stroked, kneaded, and patted. Ripples spread across the skin, making the tender flesh beneath quiver along with it. His long fingers gathered together, reluctant to let go, and gave it one last pinch. Then he gripped the knife an 329Reads9.1Score—Shelves

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   Leisure and Retirement. 1. Urban Life + Gourmet Food: Start with a pot of porridge to let diners experience its deliciousness. 2. Urban Life + Farming: Return to your hometown and lead your fellow villagers to attract tourists and alleviate poverty by leveraging our beautiful natural environment.

5. 5 这 This Mountain Is a Little Too Much Fun 这座山有亿点点好玩 Nine Snails九只蜗牛Urban1.0M WordsCompleted (Scenic attractions, amusement parks, farm stays, building a mountain god's domain, foldable space, raising adorable pets, helping a poor village prosper) Lin Nan returns to his hometown with a mountain god System and transforms Qingyuan Mountain, setting up farm stays, an amusement park, and a tourist attraction. Farm stay activities: picking mushrooms, digging for loaches, catching rice-field eels, gathering snails, picking wild fruit, digging for winter bamboo shoots... No matter what time of 3.5kReads7.6Score204Shelves
6. 6 渔 Fisherman: It Starts with Salvaging a Spy Device 渔民：从打捞间谍装置开始 Braised Eggplant02红烧茄子02Urban1.8M WordsCompleted Wei Hong retires from a special forces unit and returns home to make a living from the sea! What? Going out to sea depends on luck? You just have to hope the heavens throw you a bone? Wei Hong: I have a virtual Real-Time Fishing Information screen. I can see exactly what’s going on under the sea! What? The Real-Time Fishing Information screen can be upgraded? Wei Hong: Not only can it be upgraded, it gets more and more powerful. And so Wei Hong sets out on the path to fortune through offshore fi 8.3kReads8.7Score505Shelves
7. 7 重 Reborn in 1992: The System Turns Me into a Sichuan Cuisine Master 重生1992系统带我成川菜厨神 Fish Simmered Slowly文火慢炖鱼Urban153k WordsOngoing In his previous life, Xiao Cheng left home in a fit of anger. By chance, he was reborn in 1992. With the help of the System, he began his legendary journey to becoming a Sichuan cuisine chef, starting as a complete novice selling snacks, then learning how to choose ingredients, handle a knife, prepare dishes, and cook over a stove, until he stood at the pinnacle of the World Culinary Competition! Meanwhile, the people and events around him were quietly changing. Little Tiger Girl: “Brother Cheng 10Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 8 从 The Road to Rural Revitalization Begins with Selling Goods in the Countryside 从下乡卖货开始的乡村振兴之路 Instant Noodles Waiting for the Wind等风的泡面Urban544k WordsCompleted Most college graduates head to the big cities to work hard for a better life. Zhou Yi was different. After graduating from Kyoto Agricultural University, he resolutely chose to return to his hometown. Zhou Yi had always believed that the purpose of education was to gain the power to change his hometown’s poverty-stricken fate, not to escape it. Seeing one hollowed-out village after another, along with the elderly living alone and the children left behind, Zhou Yi resolved to do something to impr 91Reads7.2Score—Shelves
9. 9 喊 Calling Me a Stinking Pesticide Sprayer? What About One Hundred Thousand Mu? 喊我臭打药的！那种十万亩呢？ Loves Qianzhang Tofu爱吃千张豆腐Urban516k WordsCompleted He inherited his mother's agricultural supply shop and gained a god-tier agricultural System. His farming machinery had extraordinary properties. By selling agricultural supplies, spraying pesticides with drones, and contracting land, he carved out a unique path in the village. In the end, he became a great landowner with a hundred thousand mu of fertile fields! 1kReads8.0Score109Shelves
10. 10 网 A Netizen Called Me Useless, So I Praised His Sharp Eye 网友骂我是废物，我夸他看人真准 Uncle Yunshang云尚大叔Urban2.5M WordsOngoing Countryside slice of life + reverse parenting + loving father and filial son + lighthearted comedy + goofy livestreams + relaxing read In today's society, family relationships are growing increasingly unstable, and the show Family Relativity was created in response. The cameras focus on four families: The rich spend money like water; the elite cram day and night; the working-class parents shoulder a heavy burden... And then there's the little farmhouse in the countryside. At just 30, Lin Xian ha 11.4kReads7.9Score789Shelves
11. 11 农 Country Chef at the Wok, Villagers Want a Feast Every Day! 农村掌大勺，村民天天想吃席！ The Lonely Master孤寡大师Urban611k WordsCompleted Gu Ze transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to the top chef System. Other people who transmigrate get a food System that appears and disappears without a trace, and customers chase it down the street. But his System has just one task: cater banquets and earn ten thousand yuan a month. After Gu Ze caters a harvest feast for an entire village, his name spreads through the little town. The villagers spend every day plotting how to get a seat at a banquet. “You say you don’t know me? F 4.8kReads8.8Score385Shelves
12. 12 重 Reborn in 1987: Hosting Banquets in the Countryside 重生八七：我在农村做大席 Foodie Who Never Gains Weight吃货不长肉Urban3.0M WordsOngoing I’m the best banquet chef in Rehe Township. Hire me for your feast and I’ll make you look good! A chef and food blogger in the age of big data, he returns to the 1980s to cook village banquets. In a word... nailed it! Don’t look down on village banquet chefs. There’s money to be made, meat to eat, and no end of lively happenings to watch. Li Chun is living a full and happy life. Don’t believe me? Then come on in and see for yourself... 58.8kReads8.7Score3.2kShelves
13. 13 全 After the Whole Internet Helped Me Pin Down a Pig, I Became the Face of the Countryside 全网帮我按猪后，我成乡村代言人 Salted Fish, Flip to the Other Side咸鱼换个面Modern Romance302k WordsOngoing [Urban Farming + Growth + Intangible Cultural Heritage + Rural Development + Romance + Lighthearted Comedy] Fed up with her dead-end job, Gu Yunxiu quits and returns to her hometown, where she goes viral livestreaming herself riding a pig. Gu Yunxiu had planned to lie flat, but soon dreams of rebuilding the countryside and turning her village into a town. She expected the village to be dirt-poor and full of challenges, but her treasure trove of villagers won’t allow that. Her mother is a master 8Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Urban farming slice-of-life novel with a slow-burning development system

14. 14 中 I Won 1.3 Billion, and With Lady Luck on My Side, I’m Rolling in Wealth 中奖十三亿，锦鲤附身的我暴富了 Mo Shijin莫时衿Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [No Romance + Lottery Win + Investment and Wealth + Blessed with Luck] Yun Li, a struggling wage earner, spent her money supporting her scumbag boyfriend through school and paying for his food and other expenses, only to unexpectedly catch him cheating on her! Heartbroken and furious, she decisively got back all the money she had spent on him over the years. Then she decided to travel, clear her head, and enjoy life. On the way to the airport, though, she rescued a child about five or six years 5.5kReads8.9Score596Shelves
15. 15 重 Reborn in the 1980s: I Struck It Rich Through Demolition! 重生八零年代，我靠拆迁暴富了！ 9867Urban1.4M WordsCompleted This book was originally titled I Just Want to Run a Shop, So Why Do You Keep Demolishing It? Liao Yongming is reborn in the 1980s. He doesn't want to relive the hardships of his previous life, and hopes to fulfill his eldest grandson's wish by changing his family's fate through business. So Liao Yongming decides to sell the job his family bought for him with their hard-earned money and seize the opportunity to go into business. With the money from selling the job, he buys a shop and sets out co 10.8kReads8.0Score695Shelves
16. 16 股 I Made 500 Million on the Stock Market, Then Went Home to Live a Lazy Life 股市狂赚五亿，回县城当咸鱼 Mu Lang Ma Feng牧郎蚂蜂Urban489k WordsOngoing Get rich in the stock market, then lie flat in a county town. Lin Chenyang spent five years as a trader in Shenzhen, building a fortune of 500 million yuan. Then he signed an agreement with his boss promising never to touch stocks again, slung a backpack over his shoulder, and returned to Qinghe County. He thought he could lie flat as soon as he got back: buy an unfinished building right in the center of town and turn it into a hotel, let his lawyer cousin stand up for him, and just sit in the 70.9kReads7.0Score4kShelves

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17. 17 并 It's Not a Cheat, It Just Wasn't Turned Off 并非开挂，其实没关 Qi Qi Shi柒七识Urban1.1M WordsCompleted (Slice of life / understated / surreal / slow burn) Life on Ancient Locust Road has always been peaceful. Though my sensitivity often sends me into a tizzy, I'm, all in all, an utterly ordinary person. Does the supernatural side of the world really exist? Curious about the answer, I begin to encounter a very different world. But the new world is a lot weaker than I imagined. This supernatural side is pretty lame. 2.6kReads8.2Score176Shelves

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    #Leisure# These books are all suitable for those who want something calm and uneventful. Except for the second one, which doesn't have anything extraordinary, the others do, but they don't have that sense of urgency. Instead, they have a sense of calm. If you like them, you can take a look. If you don't like them, just don't criticize them.

18. 18 神 The Amazing Little Flower Farmer 神奇小花农 Small-Town Earl小镇伯爵Urban1.9M WordsOngoing An ordinary high school student happens to buy a secondhand book on the Way, and from then on, his life takes a different path. A top-student protagonist, but this isn't a wish-fulfillment novel, an invincible-protagonist novel, or a rebirth novel. It portrays an authentic high school life, with intelligent characters and believable events. There are no advanced martial arts, powerful officials, or influential clans. These are things that could happen to you or me. Blending cultivation element 75.4kReads8.3Score6.5kShelves
19. 19 无 Infinite Resets: In My Senior Year of High School, I Develop Controlled Nuclear Fusion 无限重置，我高三研发可控核聚变 Gray Tracks灰色轨迹Urban1.3M WordsOngoing [Physical Edition Published] [Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] [Underdog Academic Comeback] [Multiple Loops] [One Female Lead] With 100 days left until the college entrance exam, underachiever Fang Lisu gets caught in a time loop. No matter what happens today, everything resets the next day, and only his memories and abilities remain. While everyone else gets just one life, he can start over countless times... Can't memorize the vocabulary after one try? Then memorize it 300 times! Can't learn pia 22.1kReads9.2Score2kShelves
20. 20 慢 A Slow-Paced Life of Wellness and a Soul That Seeks the Same 慢穿养生人养生魂 Purple Perilla, Yellow Peach, and Ginger紫苏黄桃姜Ancient Romance1.7M WordsOngoing [Slow Transmigration] [Wellness] [No Fixed Couple] [Slice of Life] [Wellness Mascot in Three Thousand Worlds], also known as [Slow Transmigration: A Wellness Person Has a Wellness Soul] A newcomer with a rather unusual style has joined the quick transmigration world. Others bring a War God System, a Tycoon System, or a Palace Intrigue System. She brings a [Wellness System]. While her coworkers work themselves to the bone, she just wants to enjoy wellness on the clock. Wellness comes first. Compl 39.6kReads8.6Score4.6kShelves
21. 21 灵 Immortal Farming: I Cultivate the Dao Through Planting and Gain an Invincible Immortal Path 灵农修仙：种植悟道，获无敌仙途 Deep Blue 1024深蓝1024Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted Because of the 996 grind, Li Yixuan transmigrates to another world and becomes a spiritual farmer in Lingze Market, in the Southern Wilderness. While harvesting spirit plants, he accidentally discovers that he can gain insights when they ripen. From then on, Li Yixuan sets off on a fast track to cultivation through farming. The hundred arts of cultivation all begin with spirit plants. Five-element spiritual roots follow the ways of nature and are best suited to growing spirit plants. This is a w 13.1kReads8.1Score946Shelves

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    Both are pure farming and cultivation novels, focusing on daily life rather than action-packed thrills. The cultivation in these books revolves around spiritual fields, spiritual plants, and spiritual beasts, and they advocate following the natural way.

22. 22 开 From the Start, I Transmigrate into a Book: Farming and Cultivating in Seclusion with My Clan 开局穿书：苟在家族种田修仙 Deep Blue 1024深蓝1024Eastern Fantasy776k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + clan-building + farming and cultivation + comeback + golden finger + slice of life] After waking up one morning, overworked office drone Lin Qingfeng finds himself in a cultivation novel called Treading the Heavens, Riding the Azure Clouds, in the body of a cannon-fodder character with the same name. In the original story, his three spiritual roots get him sent to the Azure Nether Sect, where he dies ten years later in the aftermath of the protagonist’s fire technique. His enti 8.6kReads8.4Score717Shelves
23. 23 年 1979: Meat for My Wife and Kids 年代1979：带着老婆孩子吃肉 Village Demon Fire乡妖火Urban4.7M WordsOngoing [Rural life in the late 1970s] [One female lead] [Comedy] [Slow-paced] [Raising children] Reborn in 1979, Li Xiangdong becomes a train water-supply worker. While others are still fretting over how to make ends meet, he's already enjoying a comfortable life with his wife and children at home. (A realistic slice of life. Each character has both strengths and flaws, and not everyone is meant to be likable. If that's not what you're looking for, please move along.) 181.8kReads9.3Score11kShelves

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    This book describes the life of a train conductor in 1979.

24. 24 还 I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死 Reclining in the North高卧北Urban169k WordsCompleted From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While 166.5kReads9.8Score19.1kShelves

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    Take good care of yourself; these are things that are suitable for older people.

25. 25 女 Life with the Goddess: I Feel Like I've Seen You Somewhere Before 女神同居往事，我好像在哪见过你 Reclining in the North高卧北Urban126k WordsCompleted Li Huangxuan was a recent college graduate, stuck in a miserable nine-to-five job and always broke. Like every young person just starting out, he felt lost and uncertain about the future. He longed for a love that would leave a lasting mark. He had a crush on his coworker, Xu Wanqing, but was too timid to approach her. Then one day, his roommate moved out, and a goddess named Lin Ximeng moved in next door, turning his life upside down. A month of living together gradually drew the two of them cl 43.2kReads9.7Score4.6kShelves
26. 26 温 I Completely Succumbed to the Gentle CEO's Advances 温柔女总裁攻势下，我彻底沦陷 Reclining in the North高卧北Urban172k WordsCompleted Lin Mushi is a wealthy heiress, the very picture of beauty and privilege. Unfortunately, she is still single at twenty-five and dreams of finding a romantic love of her own. While moving, she finds a notebook and meets Zhaosheng, a kind and upright firefighter. While preparing an animated film, she also meets Yu Chenghua, a handsome, aloof artist. The two men have completely different personalities and give her two entirely different experiences. The thrill of dating them both is beyond most peo 14.4kReads9.4Score1.6kShelves
27. 27 我 My Girlfriend Has a Cheat, and Seven Divine Songs Take the Music World by Storm 我有外挂女友，七首神曲横扫乐坛 Reclining in the North高卧北Urban212k WordsCompleted Tang Yiao is a minor celebrity in the entertainment industry, stuck in a career rut and going nowhere. His company sends him to compete on a talent show for newcomers. After his former rumored girlfriend publicly announces her relationship with a popular young star, he becomes a laughingstock, enduring ridicule and mockery. Setbacks in both his career and love life send him to the lowest point of his life. By chance, while watching a livestream on his phone, Tang Yiao reunites with Jiang Xinyue, 8.2kReads9.6Score903Shelves
28. 28 从 Starting with Selling Lychees 从卖荔枝开始 Butterfly Shadows in Flowing Clouds流云蝶影Rural Life193k WordsOngoing Chen Fan worked himself to the bone in Pengcheng, tightening screws for a living, while saddled with 50,000 yuan in debt. Borrowing to repay borrowing left him with nowhere to turn. The lychee harvest was abundant, but prices at the source collapsed. In just three days, the price plunged from seven yuan to three. His family's thirty mu of lychee trees were laden with seventy to eighty thousand jin of fruit, all on the verge of rotting on the branches. Just as he was at the end of his rope, the T 21kReads—Score2.1kShelves

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    I think these two books are pretty good.

29. 29 从 It All Started with a Chili Pepper Trade 从辣椒交易开始 Butterfly Shadows in Flowing Clouds流云蝶影Urban268k WordsCompleted On modern-day Blue Star, in a coastal village in the southwest of Huaguo, the countryside was poor and remote but rich in produce. Chen An, 22, had graduated from high school and spent several years working away from home, but couldn’t make ends meet. He returned to his hometown to help his parents grow chili peppers. That year, they had a bumper crop, but buyers drove the price down to just a few cents per jin, and nobody wanted to buy them. Just as he sat worrying on the ridge between the fiel 3.5kReads6.2Score206Shelves
30. 30 佛 The Easygoing Girl's Pop-Up Restaurant 佛系小丫的不定时餐厅 Mu Fan睦梵Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted At twenty-two, Jian Dan grew tired of office life, quit her job, left the big city, and returned to a beautiful village. There, she began a pastoral life: herding geese, playing with pets, going up into the mountains and down to the sea, working from sunrise to sunset. 12.2kReads9.3Score1kShelves

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    Resign and return to the village to retire

31. 31 娇 The Sweet Young Lady Returns to the Countryside, and Her Lovesick Admirer Is Shocking 娇娇小姐回乡村，痴汉手段太惊人 Yi Shuilan易水岚Modern Romance549k WordsCompleted [Both leads’ first love + a domineering CEO from the southwest goes rural + intense romantic push and pull + quiet devotion gets a response + realistic, sweet romance] A gentle, abstinent old flame × a stunning, pure and alluring little white rabbit City girl Chen Man returns to the countryside to care for her grandmother and discovers that her neighbor is an incredibly handsome, domineering CEO. In outsiders’ eyes, Chen Man is refined and elegant. But no one has ever seen her other side. In 140.5kReads9.5Score18.9kShelves

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    [Clean romance, 1v1, CEO in the countryside, intense tug-of-war, slow and steady progress, silent devotion rewarded, realistically sweet and romantic]

32. 32 中 I Won Ten Million! I Quit on the Spot and Went Home to Farm 中奖一千万！我直接辞职回家种田 True Lord Jiuyang九阳真君Modern Romance373k WordsCompleted [The animated comic adaptation is now available] [No awful characters + Rural life + Farming + Slow-paced + Male lead marries into the female lead's family + Male lead is lovestruck] P.S. The male lead appears around chapter twenty. Song Ying hits the jackpot: she buys a lottery ticket and wins 15 million! She takes home 12 million after taxes. A fortune has fallen from the sky! Song Ying chooses to lie flat and return home to farm. She spends five million buying several apartments in the city, 19.5kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
33. 33 雾 Laid-Back Days in Miststone Forest 雾石森林的悠哉日常 Castle Gate, Castle Gate, Egg Cake城门城门鸡蛋糕Ancient Romance535k WordsCompleted [Healing]+ [A life like Stardew Valley]+ [Slow-paced] [No cheap tricks, no melodrama. This book is for everyone who hasn't yet had the chance to truly live.] Important note: No CP, no CP! I wasn't going to spoil anything, but then I noticed Tomato had tagged this as “Ancient Romance” and “Fantasy Romance,” which left me baffled. There are men in the story, and some of them develop feelings for the heroine. Isn't that perfectly natural? But it doesn't mean they're a couple. At the age of seventy 3.4kReads6.6Score474Shelves

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    A super relaxing and heartwarming story where the female protagonist transmigrates to a giant monster forest in another world and lives a leisurely and carefree life.

34. 34 开 From the Start with a Spirit Spring, I Turn My Hometown into a Peach Blossom Paradise 开局灵泉，我把老家打造成桃花源 Soft And Fiercely Adorable糯糯奶凶Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Pocket dimension and spirit spring + country life + raising pets + mutual healing, lighthearted and heartwarming] Her mother had cancer, her scumbag boyfriend was cheating on her, and he and his mistress had stolen her designs. Then she was fired from her company. With her life at its bleakest, An Nuan planned to take her mother back to their hometown to spend her final days there. Then she unexpectedly unlocked a pocket dimension and a spirit spring. Working herself to the bone for a pittance 35.1kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves

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    😘🥰🥰It's great, I love reading it. The author's writing style is humorous, and the family atmosphere is very warm. The more you read, the better it gets, and I want to read more!!

35. 35 滨 Seaside Town: The Carefree Fisherman 滨海小镇：逍遥渔夫 Dream-Only Fish梦唯鱼Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Just after the new manager fired him, he walked into a lottery shop and scratched off a 400,000-yuan jackpot. Tired of the grind of city life, Chen Xiaoyun headed straight back to his hometown, a fishing village on the coast of Nangguang Province. There, he was lucky enough to find a Shanhai Pearl by the sea. From then on, he enjoyed a leisurely life fishing, going out to sea, and raising chickens and ducks. The carefree fisherman sets sail at last! (This is entirely fictional. Just think of it 33.7kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves

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    Leisurely. Slow living!

36. 36 综 Wuxia Crossover: You Expose Me? I'll Turn the Tables and Reshuffle the Beauty Rankings 综武：曝光我？反手绝色榜洗牌 Lonely Mechanic孤独修车Male-Channel Fanfiction516k WordsOngoing In a world where martial arts heroes from every realm mingle, Murong Quan only wants to lie flat and grow stronger through sign-ins. Who could have guessed that the Heavenly Dao’s Beauty Ranking would appear, sending the ten peerless beauties, including Yaoyue, Huang Rong, and Wanwan, into a frenzy across the martial world? He was just sipping tea and watching the show when his own face appeared at number ten on the list, with a description that even said he “just wants to lie flat”! The chat gr 14kReads5.8Score1.5kShelves
37. 37 给 I Gave Mom a Million for Retirement, Then Became an Ungrateful Daughter 给妈妈百万养老金后我成了不孝女 Crossing the Autumn River渡秋江9k WordsCompleted My younger brother, who only ever mooched off our parents, suddenly suggested that each of us give Mom 500,000 yuan for her retirement. Mom praised him to the skies for being filial. I had no choice but to tighten my belt and scrape together the 500,000 yuan. Later, when Mom fell ill and was hospitalized, she insisted on using her retirement savings to pay for the surgery. “You both work hard for your money. I’ll use my own retirement savings, and you can keep yours for yourselves.” I was so mov 2Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 38 快 Quick Transmigration: Surely It’s Reasonable to Want a Peaceful Retirement! 快穿，退休了想养老很合理吧！ The God of Wealth's Little Treasure财神爷的小金宝Modern Romance3.5M WordsCompleted After retiring as the Lord of the Abyss, all I wanted was a peaceful retirement, but people and problems with no sense kept getting in the way. No matter, I have my pension. I’ll use it to build the perfect retirement life. It would be even better if the System were more reliable! Wanting to retire and enjoy my golden years is perfectly reasonable! My desire to retire has reached its peak!!! 137Reads—Score—Shelves
39. 39 都 Move Aside, I'm Going to Lie Flat and Enjoy My Retirement 都起开我要躺平养老了 Wandering Fish Wiggling游鱼摆摆Modern Romance435k WordsCompleted [Spatial spring + no romance + farming + easygoing + everyday life + slow-paced + domineering CEO and sweet, silly pets] An Ran was an ordinary girl, just like most people, working herself to the bone to make a living. Then she got lucky and was struck by a golden finger. Since that was the case, why wait around? She’d go home and live a life of leisure! “Space, are you mute? Do I have to guess everything?” “Well! Do your two dogs like watching idol dramas?” “Mom, these clothes are so small. Who 26Reads6.2Score—Shelves
40. 40 二 Retirement at Twenty 二十岁的养老生活 Ode to Antiquity赋古Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Farming + everyday life + devoted couples + sweet romance] Graduation means unemployment. Unemployed? Then it's time to settle into retirement~ Li An doesn't want to be a corporate cog working nine to five, so she heads to the countryside to live at her best friend's grandmother's place. She buys the old house, tears it down and builds a new one, then sets up a few vegetable patches to grow produce as a relaxing hobby... Villagers: You've set up your vegetable garden like you're playing hous 2.1kReads8.8Score210Shelves

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    The simple and leisurely rural life looks very comfortable and authentic.

41. 41 亲 My Relative Retired at 22 After Starting Work at One, Then Took Mom’s 670,000 Yuan Retirement Savings 亲戚1岁工作22岁退休，领走母亲67万养老金 The Waves Sound the Same涛声依旧8k WordsCompleted The day my 63-year-old mother retired, she wept and threatened to kill herself. I rushed back to my hometown from another province overnight. When I asked what was wrong, everyone in the family said my mother was mentally ill and I should leave her alone. How could my gentle, kind mother possibly be ill? After investigating, I was furious. It turned out my one-year-old nephew had been collecting my mother’s 670,000-yuan pension for 22 years! —Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 42 母 The Mother-Daughter Retirement Home 母女养老院 The Tail of a Dream梦的尾巴12k WordsCompleted A Mother and Daughter in a Nursing Home 1Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 43 养 Retirement 养老 Green Feather青羽4k WordsCompleted Their wives had issued an ultimatum: if they didn’t sort out the elderly couple’s care, they would go straight to the civil affairs bureau and file for divorce as soon as they got home. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
44. 44 我 My Retirement System Arrived Fifty Years Early 我的养老系统提前了五十年 Luo Xue洛学Modern Romance297k WordsCompleted After graduating from a prestigious university and landing a job at a top company, Lin Wei thought she was destined for greatness. Who could have guessed that after three years of grinding away for the company, she'd have no savings, alarming results on her health checkup, and a notice that her position was being “optimized” out of existence? On her twenty-fifth birthday, just as she felt her life had reached its end, she was bound to the [Golden Years Happiness System]! [At seventy-five, you ha 801Reads—Score101Shelves
45. 45 穿 Transmigrating to the 1970s, I Lie Flat! 穿越七零我躺平了！ Big Head Has a Fish大头有条鱼Urban2.1M WordsOngoing A 48-year-old man who’d chosen to lie flat transmigrates into the body of 18-year-old Li Changshun! He becomes one of the sent-down youths heading to the countryside in 1973. In Kaoshan Tun Brigade, Dongfang Commune, Dong’an County, Danjiang City, he lies in bed, keeping a low profile as he waits for the new era to arrive. (This is simply a story about the ordinary life of a sent-down youth. The writing is unassuming, and the plot moves at a fairly slow pace. It’s steeped in everyday life, not a 63.6kReads7.0Score5kShelves
46. 46 飞 Struck by Lightning During My Ascension, I Cultivate Ten Thousand Arts Alone on Blue Star 飞升被雷劈，我在蓝星独修万法 Boss Lei Keeps His Word雷老板说到做到Urban529k WordsOngoing [Single Female Lead: Kwon BoA] [Korean Peninsula] [K-Pop] [Tycoon] [Urban Cultivation] [I Alone Possess Supernatural Powers] [Invincible] [Does Not Hide His Strength] [Decisive and Ruthless] [No Harem] [No Romantic Ambiguity] [Everyday Life] [Slow-Burn] [Relaxed] At the moment of his ascension, a divine thunderbolt from the void struck Jian Xuan and sent him to Blue Star, where he became a bawling infant. Spiritual energy is scarce? He has cultivation techniques, pill recipes, and sword insigh 16.9kReads8.0Score1.7kShelves

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    A story featuring an invincible male protagonist who believes in the law and cultivates immortality, with a single female lead! A slow-burn urban romance novel, focusing on the development of the story in the early stages, followed by a sweet and heartwarming romance from the moment they meet!

47. 47 我 I Really Don't Want to Be Reborn! 我是真的不想重生啊！ Fish Meatball Hairdo游鱼丸子头Modern Romance175k WordsOngoing Her life was going smoothly, with both parents by her side. Li Zhi thought she hardly fit the criteria for being reborn, but somehow, some mechanism sent her back to 2005. She could only pound the ground in frustration. She was already an economically independent convenience store owner, so why was she back to being a broke student who had to hold out her hand and wait for pocket money from her parents?! Whatever. She had no grand ambitions. First, she'd win the lottery and achieve financial fre 367Reads—Score—Shelves

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    With money and free time, they can retire anytime [laughing emoji]

48. 48 请 Answer Me 1988, Here Comes Fu Yu 请回答1988，我付玙来了 Chang You Mu Yu常友慕鱼Female-Channel Fanfiction661k WordsOngoing Fu Yu arrives in the world of Reply 1988, two years before the show begins. What kind of story will unfold? Stay tuned! (I’m a beginner. I’m writing this fanfiction simply because I love Reply 1988. There are too few novels on this topic, and the ones out there have stopped updating. I’m doing this for no other reason than to fulfill a dream of my own. I finally worked up the nerve to write it myself. Don’t laugh, but on the first day I wrote five different openings and none of them felt right. 1.1kReads8.6Score—Shelves
49. 49 重 Reborn in a Northeastern Mountain Village: Fishing and Hunting Across Two Rivers and Two Nations 重生东北小山村渔猎两江两国 Student Tianya小学生天涯Urban4.0M WordsOngoing Please give this five stars. Please give this five stars. I don't have much education or skill, and I can't write fancy prose. I use ordinary people's language to tell an ordinary story. If you like it, I thank you for your support with a clasped-fist salute. If you don't, please be kind and don't flame me. An artist can't make a living without noble-minded patrons. I offer my thanks to all of you, my dear supporters. 41.6kReads8.2Score2.9kShelves

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    Historical fiction, rebirth, adventure stories of hunting and fishing in Northeast China, farming in the mountains, folk tales and legends, humorous and witty about everyday life.

50. 50 生 Life Is Too Hectic, So I Returned to the Countryside to Raise National Treasures! 生活太卷，我回乡养国宝！ Little Fish Niuniu小鱼妞妞Urban2.0M WordsOngoing [Healing] [Slow-Paced] [Idyllic Living] [Lots of Everyday Moments] [Easygoing] [Countryside] [Farming] A slow-paced, healing farming novel about leaving behind the rat race of city life to return to the countryside, raise protected animals, and enjoy a peaceful pastoral life~ Hope you enjoy it~ 546Reads6.9Score142Shelves

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