Pure Farming Stories, No Business Ventures from the Start 纯种田，不要开局没几章就是各种经商的

1. 401 重 Back to 1985: Tales of the Northeast 重回1985：东北往事 Heading North向北Urban1.9M WordsCompleted These are fiery years spent feeling one’s way across a river by touching the stones, a time of thriving vitality where the bold could eat their fill, and of wild growth where big shots were everywhere. The rules of this society have never changed: the meek fear the tough, the tough fear the ruthless, the ruthless fear the reckless, and the reckless fear those who don’t care if they live or die. But even those who don’t care if they live or die fear madmen. And so, Zhou Dongbei went mad. (TV adap 86.8kReads9.6Score8.9kShelves

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   Here are a few farming novels you can check out!

2. 402 替 The Swapped Brides: Whose Fault Is It? 替嫁姐妹，谁的错！ March Knows Painting三月知画Modern Romance1.6M WordsOngoing This book has been adapted into two comic dramas: "The Swapped Brides, Whose Fault Is It?!" and the brand-new version, "Sisters Breaking Free." In a poor, remote village in the 1980s, the Tang family favors sons over daughters. Their three girls are nothing but bargaining chips for bride prices. One absurd bride swap and three exorbitant bride prices send the sisters into three difficult marriages. Struggling through the mud, bound by entanglements for half a lifetime. The long-suffering Tang s 44kReads8.4Score1.8kShelves

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   It's all about everyday family life, love and heartbreak, simple and genuine! Just like writing about things happening around us!

3. 403 穿 I Became a Good-for-Nothing, Then Rose to the Top by Picking Mushrooms 穿成废材，靠采蘑菇做大做强 Slippers拖孩Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Farming] [Daily Life] [System] [Lighthearted] [Cunning] Chen Mo transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing in a parallel world. He has nothing to his name, and his home is bare. Luckily, he gets a System: all he has to do is gather mountain produce to earn points. Ding! Congratulations, Radar function unlocked. Ding! Congratulations, Lightfoot Skill unlocked. Ding! Congratulations, twentyfold strength boost unlocked. Ding! Congratulations, ability to smell things from a hundred miles awa 7.5kReads8.6Score649Shelves
4. 404 馋 The Childhood Bride Who Has Her Eye on Her Younger Brother 馋上弟弟的童养媳 March Knows Painting三月知画Modern Romance705k WordsCompleted “Zhou Zhengdong’s legs are ruined, and so is he. He’s not even a man anymore!” Xiao Qing swallowed a bitter laugh. Her big brother was ruined? She was the only one who knew he was nothing like a cripple! In a poor, isolated mountain village, swapping marriages was the only way poor families could bind themselves together through marriage. Xiao Qing was a gentle, pretty girl, but no matter how bright her eyes were, she couldn’t escape the shackles of a swapped marriage, much less the taboos of 47Reads5.2Score—Shelves
5. 405 灾 In a Year of Famine, What’s Wrong with Having a Few Extra Skills? 灾荒年，技能多点怎么了 Easygoing Pig随缘的猪Urban3.1M WordsCompleted Chen Xiaojun is a good-for-nothing thug from the 21st century. He gets by with a storefront his parents left him, spending his days either teasing cats or playing with dogs, and flirting with young women out shopping. One day, for some inexplicable reason, he saves a little child playing by the road, only to be hit by a car and sent back to 1959. It’s an absurd and tumultuous era, but fortunately, Heaven grants him a golden finger that lets him run unlimited simulations. Thanks to it, he makes i 15.6kReads7.8Score1kShelves
6. 406 在 Being Alive 在活着 March Knows Painting三月知画Modern Romance266k WordsCompleted Ordinary people's lives unfold amid little sorrows and joys. This is the story of a working-class family: how a country woman carves out her own path through the muck of life, and how her four children quietly stretch their branches toward adulthood amid poverty and an oppressive atmosphere. The weight of single parenthood bears down on them, and time slowly changes each person's character, like paper kneaded by the wind, creased in ways no one can see. 14Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 407 觉 I Awakened Farmer Powers and Became a Major Supplier of Spirit Herbs 觉醒农民异能，我是灵药大户 Jin Zhenpangpang金真胖胖Eastern Fantasy222k WordsCompleted This is a vast world of cultivation through supernatural abilities. Follow Bai Xiaomo as he awakens the farmer profession and gets an ever-expanding spatial field of a hundred mu from the start. After binding the Farming Master System, he promptly heads to the outskirts to become a farm owner, gets abducted into a demonic sect, and makes a fortune by growing spirit herbs and raising spirit beasts to build a food chain. 320Reads5.6Score—Shelves
8. 408 医 A Medical Doctor's Soul Transmigrates Into a Fisherman's Son to Find Love and Practice Medicine 医学博士魂穿渔家子搞基又搞医 Sexy Male Model Writing a Book Live性感男模在线写书Two Male Leads492k WordsCompleted Xu Ziqi, a genius surgical doctor from the 23rd century, worked himself to death at the operating table. When he opened his eyes, he had become Xu Xiaoman, a poor fisherman’s son who had just drowned in a storm! His family had nothing, his parents cried themselves blind, and his only “inheritance” was a space pendant around his neck, containing a first-aid kit and... uh, instructions for a gestational sac? Stranded on a deserted island from the start, he casually fishes out a noble young man wh 65Reads8.4Score—Shelves

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   A story about farming by the sea, but it gets very involved in political intrigue.

9. 409 重 Reborn in the 1970s: Searching for Treasure with My Pocket Dimension 重生七零：带着空间去寻宝 Demon Star Papaya神魔星木瓜Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (Rebirth + pocket dimension + strong female lead + putting scumbags in their place + sent-down youth who knows what's coming + period setting + military marriage + sweet romance + love at first sight) In her previous life, Lin Weidan was taken in by the Zhou family, who took her kidney and used it to secure a job. In the end, Zhou Rongrong pushed her down the stairs and killed her. Reborn, Lin Weidan steals everything from her family and reports them to the authorities. As the whole family desce 12.1kReads8.4Score1.4kShelves
10. 410 三 Strategies for Shuofang in the Three Kingdoms 三国朔方策 Cao Chong Weighs Poop曹冲称翔Historical467k WordsOngoing Yellow sands sweep across Shuofang, and a lonely fortress stands beneath the setting sun. In the chaotic final years of the Han dynasty, some vie for supremacy in the Central Plains, while others struggle to hold the frontier. Amid the flames of war, the isolated fortress is cut off, surrounded by enemies on every side. With no legendary weapons or heaven-sent opportunities, he can only draw on a century’s worth of knowledge to carve out a foothold for his battered body. He gathers refugees, rec 172Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is good!

11. 411 福 With Blessed-Land Buffs, I Cultivate Steadily into an Immortal 福地增益我稳健成仙 Not a Fat Cat非肥猫Eastern Fantasy224k WordsOngoing [Cultivation + golden finger + farming + cautious living + mystery + supernatural horrors + daily life + slow burn] The road to immortality stretches on, with deadly dangers at every step. Jia Nanfeng arrives in this world of Cultivation and awakens an immortal blessed land. With a thought, the blessed land manifests, turning everything it covers into its domain. Spiritual energy gathers and grows, accelerating his cultivation and letting him master a hundred arts of Cultivation. Fertile soil fo 6Reads—Score120Shelves

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    This is alright, it's not boring farming.

12. 412 情 Love Debts 情债【李幼斌主演的电视剧】 Flowers Flourish on Brocade锦上添繁花Female-Channel Fanfiction450k WordsCompleted Also known as The Peach Blossom Luck of Sister-in-Law Jiang Qi. A lost paradise in Northeast China, a little mountain village in the Changbai Mountains: the Abandoned Village. Journey beyond a life of hardship and let this story sweep you away. The tangled affairs between men and women in the countryside, and the everyday love and hatred that bind them. So many debts of passion, so many heartbreaks. 7.2kReads8.4Score533Shelves

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    A story set in Northeast China, set in a period drama, depicting a lost paradise of love in a small mountain village in Changbai Mountain.

13. 413 二 A Second New Beginning 二次新生 Admiring the Tiny Scenery on the Moss苔上观微景Urban336k WordsOngoing [No System] [Not Reborn] [Realistic Urban Life] [Restaurant Startup] [Slice of Life] It wasn’t until the day I got divorced that I understood: closing the noodle shop wasn’t the hardest part. The hardest part was watching my ex-wife get into someone else’s car, then having to smile as I served the last pot of bone broth to my summer customers. Later, I won a bet to take over a restaurant. I thought my life was finally turning around. Until I realized that every step I took was a square on someon 15Reads—Score—Shelves

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14. 414 农 Eldest Daughter of a Farmer's Family: Fleeing Famine and Farming with a Spirit Spring Space 农家长姐：带着灵泉空间逃荒种田 Guolai Huahua果赖花花Ancient Romance2.1M WordsOngoing [Spirit Spring + Portable Space + Fleeing Famine + Infrastructure Building + Farming] Qiao Ran, an heir to a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and a family of martial artists, transmigrated! The foolish original owner was not only from a poor farming family, but was also on the verge of being sold as a wife to a fool while fleeing famine. What a miserable life! Luckily, her old farmhouse had become a portable space. It contained not only vast amounts of supplies, but also a sp 12.1kReads9.0Score1.4kShelves

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    After becoming a general's wife, seeing the soldiers who fought for their country starving, she couldn't bear it and led the wounded soldiers to clear land and cultivate crops. As the regent's wife, seeing her people suffering from hunger and cold, she wept, then pulled the court officials to the fields with her. And then… she was still farming!

15. 415 我 I Farm My Way to Ascension, Taking the Whole Village With Me 我靠种田，带全村飞升 Niannian2020念年2020Eastern Fantasy332k WordsOngoing [Ordinary Person]+ [Farming]+ [City Building]+ [No System] This is not a wish-fulfillment novel, but a slow-paced, traditional cultivation story. The focus is on farming, with cultivation as a secondary element. The protagonist unexpectedly transmigrates and discovers that this is a world of cultivation. Without the original owner's memories, he finds that this world is nothing like the cultivation novels and TV dramas he has seen. As he gradually learns how difficult cultivation is, he is also 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's purely farming, like living in the countryside, and the protagonist doesn't do business.

16. 416 穿 Transmigrate as a Wicked Old Woman Who Abandons Her Husband 穿越恶婆娘抛夫 Sweetheart Young Master甜心少爷Ancient Romance673k WordsCompleted Xi Meng transmigrates into Xi Meng, the wicked shrew from the surrounding villages who was beaten to death by her husband. Knowing she has no revenge to seek, the shrew uses her modern knowledge to build a fortune. One day, Liu Sao, one of her workers, says she's hired a reliable and hardworking laborer. Xi Meng takes one look and realizes it's the very husband who killed the original owner. When he asks to get back together, Xi Meng can only think that fate is messing with her. Chen Lei is know 28Reads—Score—Shelves

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    You could try this: a broken mirror is hard to mend, featuring various simple and honest everyday stories from neighborhoods and villages.

17. 417 开 Three Hundred from the Start, Destined to Become the Heavenly Emperor 开局三百人，成就天帝 Eternal Years永恒的岁月Eastern Fantasy447k WordsOngoing From the start, he transmigrates into the Great Wilderness and becomes a tribal chief, taking charge of a weak tribe of three hundred people. To survive in a world overrun with ferocious beasts, relentless natural disasters, and hostile tribes, watch as Ye Tian, a young man from another world, builds a heavenly kingdom on earth amid a harsh and unforgiving land! 648Reads8.3Score—Shelves

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    The "tribal farming" style, where development is done slowly.

18. 418 穿 Reborn as the Village Beauty, Living a Rural Life 穿成村花，过上田园生活 Dan Shang萏裳Ancient Romance148k WordsCompleted Zhao Yu, a college student, dies in an accident, only to unexpectedly transmigrate into the body of a farmer’s daughter in ancient times, who has been unconscious for over a year. More than a year ago, Zhao Yu, the daughter of the Lotus Village chief, accidentally fell into the village’s lotus pond. The villagers pulled her out, but she never woke up. Just as everyone was lamenting the fate of the village’s prettiest girl, Zhao Yu, who had been unconscious for over a year, finally awoke. She was 1Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 419 山 Autumn Hunting in the Mountains 山林秋猎记 Add a Little Sugar to the Rice米饭加点糖Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted In spring, there is medicinal herb soup to cure your ills. In summer, the granaries are full of food to fill your belly. In autumn, strong winds sweep over the mountains and wilds, bringing the fragrance of wild fruit. In winter, idlers weep at desolate graves. The nursery rhyme Zhao Banxia had hummed for more than twenty years came true one day~~ What about digging wild greens in spring, picking immortal melons in summer, gathering endless exotic mushrooms and fruit across the mountains in autu 18.2kReads8.8Score2.6kShelves

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    The lives of ordinary people, like hunters in the mountains, are simple and unpretentious, without any special advantages.

20. 420 不 Wasn't I Supposed to Come Here to Enjoy Life? Second Miss, I'm Busy 不是穿来享福吗？二小姐我很忙 There Are Little Fish in the Water水里有小鱼Ancient Romance815k WordsOngoing A chapter-based historical romance modeled on Dream of the Red Chamber. It has a certain learning curve and is set in an alternate Song dynasty. Every detail can withstand scholarly scrutiny. Li Yi transmigrated here to enjoy a life of comfort. By a twist of fate, she won the favor of the Dowager Consort of Prince Heng's residence, and with her father, the prefect of Qingzhou, protecting her, she lived freely and boldly. (No romantic scenes in the first 200 chapters. If that's not your thing, yo 169Reads—Score140Shelves

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    The female protagonist is the daughter of the prefect of Qingzhou. She promotes the "Essential Techniques for the Common People" in Qingzhou and engages in vegetable and flower cultivation.

21. 421 傻 The Foolish Village Head Has a System: Fleeing Famine, Hunting, and Raising the Clan 傻子里正带系统：逃荒打猎养族人 Pillow Tang Listening to Inkstones枕棠听砚Historical590k WordsCompleted Infrastructure building and farming, light fantasy, cozy, no conflict The mountain lord brings me food as I open up the land; with infrastructure and farming, my barns overflow with meat. By a twist of fate, I transmigrated into Jiang Xiaobai, a fool of a village head whom everyone despised. Luckily, I have the System to save me. The mountain lord brings food, auspicious beasts take human form, and my people trust me and work at my side. I turn their trust into resources, going from bamboo shed 144Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I just wrote this, please take a look, everyone.

22. 422 民 A Blackstone Immortal Estate in the Republic-Era Famine 民国荒年随身黑石仙府 Yang Xiaobao's Dad杨小宝他爹Urban1.6M WordsOngoing In 1938, the Huayuankou flood, compounded by famine and the ravages of war, utterly shattered Sanzhu's life. After losing his home and family, he fled with his older brother, escaping war, famine, and the Japanese army's iron heel, each step bringing them to the brink of death. But fate had other plans. Just as he forced open the gates of the Xuan Yang Immortal Estate in his desperate hour, his brother, left behind in a straw hut, did not live to see him return. This inheritance ground, home to 3.6kReads5.8Score407Shelves

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    Living a life of poverty and hardship during the famine years of the Republic of China, becoming a wealthy landlord.

23. 423 清 Qingshui Village Farmstay 清水村农家乐 The Butterfly Bone Rings蝴蝶骨响Modern Romance463k WordsOngoing When you've reached a dead end, go home, back to the vast fields and farmland. Help your parents sell peaches, grow vegetables in greenhouses, and run a farmstay. Then lead the villagers of Qingshui Village to prosperity and forge your own path as a new-generation farmer! 2.5kReads—Score165Shelves

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    This is purely a farming story, and it's beautiful.

24. 424 田 The Second Miss of the Tian Family 田家二姑娘 Xiao Hu Qingya小虎青崖Ancient Romance433k WordsOngoing “Useless girl! Sell her off to pay the debt!” She transmigrates into the body of a farmer’s second daughter, and from the start her grandmother is trying to sell her to pay her uncle’s gambling debts. Twelve-year-old Shen Jinxiu clenches her fists. “I was an orphan in my last life. Now that I finally have a family, who dares lay a hand on them!” Split up the family? Fine. She’ll leave with nothing. Live in a ruined temple? No problem. She’ll build a new house one day. Grow vegetables, sell pro 44Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 425 古 Farming in Ancient Times: From Spendthrift to the Family's Pillar 古代种田：败家子到全家顶梁柱 Little Cat Qingya小猫青崖Rural Life442k WordsOngoing His soul transmigrates into the body of a wastrel drowning in gambling debts. His legs have been broken, his wife and child are starving, and the whole village is waiting to laugh at him. When Zhao Lei wakes, Lady Liu is huddled in a corner with their five-year-old son, after crying all night. Loan sharks are at the door demanding payment. His own father slams the table and throws him out, while the family division papers declare: "No support in life, no burial in death." Everyone in the villa 90Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 426 荒 In a Famine Year, I Became a Sickly Farmer With a Spirit Field That Can Make the Whole Village Rich 荒年穿成病秧子，我有灵田富全村 Chen Shujin陈书瑾Ancient Romance155k WordsOngoing (Farming through famine + an intelligent space for analysis and prediction + satisfying clashes with officials and merchants + character growth all around, with no melodrama) A modern scientific prodigy wakes up in the body of a frail ancient-era farm girl. From the start, she is gravely ill and on the brink of death. Not only has she landed in a famine year when survival is a struggle, but as soon as she opens her eyes, she finds greedy relatives draining her dry, the whole village shunning her 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Let's go with this one, a pure farming story where the female lead studies agriculture.

27. 427 山 The Charming Country Girl 山野俏村姑 Tomus汤姆斯Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Wang Yunbao, a young man from a mountain village, falls out of a tree while picking pears and ends up mentally impaired. Then wicked people frame him, but through a strange twist of fate, disaster turns into fortune and he receives a legacy. With his own intelligence and hard work, he gradually changes his life, works hard to earn money, and ultimately becomes prosperous. A happy life is within reach! 1.2kReads7.1Score116Shelves

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    Pure farming leads villagers to prosperity!

28. 428 南 Leaving on the Journey South 南下归途离开 Shanjiu's Home杉玖家Urban371k WordsCompleted Every so often, a generation leaves home to make a living, leaving its youth behind on construction sites and streets far from home. Our fathers left the mountains with worn-out woven-plastic bags on their backs, heading south to find work. They knew nothing of polished talk. They only knew to keep their heads down and work hard, relying on brute strength to feed their families. They lived in cramped shacks, endured grueling day and night shifts, and swallowed their homesickness and grievances. 24Reads—Score—Shelves

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29. 429 最 I Turned the Poorest Border City into the Center of the World 最穷边城，被我砸成世界中心 Mr. Angry Bull愤怒的公牛先生Urban814k WordsOngoing Su Ye quits his job in Shenzhen after nearly working himself into a heart attack and returns to a remote desert town on the northwestern frontier, a place so barren even birds wouldn’t bother to shit there. He awakens a System: all thirty thousand townspeople give him 100 yuan each per day, earning him three million a day! The money can only be spent in town. The mayor is worried about attracting investment? Su Ye buys up an unfinished building and turns it into a full-immersion esports center. 771Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 430 都 Now That I’m Reborn, Why Should I Put Up With My Vile In-Laws? 都重生了，谁还惯着极品婆家啊 I've Run Out of Words想不出词了Ancient Romance384k WordsCompleted [No Romance + Farming + Putting Scumbags in Their Place + Reborn + Family Life + Building Wealth + Adorable Kids] Chen Taohua spent her whole life being meek and obedient, only to meet a gruesome end. When she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn. This time, she, Chen Taohua, would never be anyone’s punching bag again! What good does putting up with everything do? As long as you obey, there will always be endless work and hardship. Her sister-in-law is willful, unreasonable, and vicious? 88Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I highly recommend this book.

31. 431 种 Let's Farm in the Demon Realm! 种田吧！在魔界 Moonless Eye无月之瞳Eastern Fantasy323k WordsCompleted [Farming + Infrastructure + Transmigration + Management + Ensemble Cast + Subverting Expectations + Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Lin Xiaoman, a PhD in agricultural science, transmigrates to the demon realm and nearly becomes a skeleton soldier’s snack from the start. Looking at this barren land where everything is withering, and a horde of demons willing to kill one another for a bite to eat, the village official in her springs into action. Fighting and killing? No, her specialty is farming! Using m 15Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Dr. Lin Xiaoman, an agronomy expert, transmigrated into a crispy snack in the demon realm. Faced with skeletons, demons, and a desolate wasteland, she silently dug out sweet potatoes and seeds. The demon realm is a dog-eat-dog world? She implemented a work-point system, rewarding those who worked harder. Demons only knew how to destroy? She ignited the flames of industry, firing pottery and refining oil. While other demons were still fighting for a bite to eat, her production brigade had already achieved demon wheat freedom and was beginning to plan for retirement. She built irrigation canals, constructed canteens, and developed animal husbandry, using five thousand years of Chinese agricultural wisdom to create a base for common prosperity on the demon realm's wasteland. Lin Xiaoman pushed up her non-existent glasses and waved to the massive demon army behind her, ordering: "Comrades, remember our core objective—to firmly hold the demons' rice bowl in our own hands!!"

32. 432 穿 Reincarnated as an Ancient Maid, I Take the Young Master to Escape the Famine 穿成古代丫鬟带着小少爷去逃荒 Mango Lover爱芒果Ancient Romance307k WordsCompleted A slow-paced story, mainly about the heroine’s life in an imaginary dynasty. [Farming + no golden finger + imaginary dynasty + wilderness survival + not a self-sacrificing saint] The heroine transmigrates in the ordinary way, with no golden finger. She relies on the knowledge she gained in modern life to survive in the wilderness, and uses what she learned about staying alive in the apocalypse to avoid danger and seek advantage, doing her best to survive disasters and human calamities. Gu Qing s 364Reads6.7Score—Shelves

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    This book begins with the theme of survival in the wilderness, and later focuses on the protagonist's life after leaving the mountains, including farming.

33. 433 揣 Pregnant with Twins, Remarrying a Hunter, Bringing the Husband’s Family to Wealth and Eating Meat 揣双胎改嫁猎户，带夫家暴富吃肉 Little Brother Jin小金哥儿Ancient Romance1.7M WordsOngoing [Cozy farming and everyday life + adorable baby + devoted couple + doting husband + family matters + spirit-pet space that lets her understand animals] [Charming young wife * steady, reserved, devoted male lead] Fencing athlete Qiao Wantang transmigrates one day, only to have her whole family pressure her into remarrying a rough hunter! It’s all because her cousin schemed against her, leaving her unexpectedly pregnant with the hunter’s child. Her cousin steals her engagement and marries the elde 13.2kReads8.5Score1.1kShelves

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    No famine escape, slow pace, simple and realistic, a gentle and enduring story. A rough-and-tumble hunter dotes on his wife, the female lead is charming and intelligent, and there's no feeling of being oppressed. The male lead is deeply devoted and loyal, and the story is filled with heartwarming everyday moments. It's a farming novel with simple family matters, and the character portrayals are very realistic. The female lead also possesses a spirit pet space and leads her husband's family to gradually become wealthy and survive the famine. Later, the male and female leads go to the capital, where the male lead becomes an official, and the female lead secretly runs a business, making a fortune. The two twins have also grown up and are causing quite a stir in the capital! [Kiss][Admiration][Heart][Smirk][Heart][Thumbs up][Top post][Kiss]

34. 434 乡 A Village at Dusk 乡村日暮有人家 Gaga and Gaxa嘎嘎和呷呷Ancient Romance551k WordsCompleted Farming + family life + historically grounded + realistic + no transmigration + slow-paced + no formulaic tropes + no ridiculous characters + no monster fights + no leveling up + no storage space + not a power fantasy or pure romance + no high-ranking officials This is a story about a family. In a mountain village in southern Hunan, Qianqian and her family work hard to get by. They farm, grow cotton, process hemp, spin yarn, weave cloth, and do needlework. Later, she learns to dye patterned clot 125Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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    Ancient natives simply farmed, without any special abilities, systems, cheat codes, or top-tier items; all they had was a mundane daily life.

35. 435 穿 Transmigrating to the Warring States: Two Rice Balls in the Second Year of Eiroku 穿越战国：永禄二年的两个饭团 Deep Dive Premonition深潜预知Historical1.5M WordsOngoing Sengoku Japan, in the second year of Eiroku. Two rice balls save a life. No System, no golden finger. Only increasingly hazy knowledge of the future, a bold yet cautious way of handling affairs, and a man from a later age who rises from humble beginnings. Starting with nothing, he survives the chaos, stands tall, and fights his way to prominence, eventually vying for supremacy in the Sengoku era. He studies medicine and builds castles, trains in swordsmanship and spearmanship, and learns the p 2.8kReads—Score355Shelves

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    Is the Japanese Sengoku period a good example? Historically, it begins in humble beginnings, involves warfare during a chaotic era, farming and building infrastructure, shipbuilding and cannon production, vying for supremacy, with the protagonist fighting the Jurchens in the mid-stages, establishing the Liaodong Army, building treasure ships, fighting the Dutch and Portuguese in Southeast Asia, conquering India, discovering Australia, seizing the Middle East, entering the Americas, and confronting the West.

36. 436 硬 Tough Mother-in-Law: Earning Foreign Currency With One Hand, Charming the Commander With the Other 硬核婆婆：左手赚外汇右手撩首长 Good Luck, Jiajia One好运珈珈一Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted (Life at Home and Beyond + Gourmet Restaurant + Island Version of a Parents' Love Story + Silver-Haired Fiction + No Pocket Dimension + No System + Family Life + Raising Kids) Chen Xianglan is a country mother-in-law who can turn every inch of barren soil into gold. The skills she's spent her whole life mastering are all “unorthodox”: breeding pigs, helping with childbirth, farming, making sauces, choosing auspicious dates, reading the weather, and cooking food so delicious it could make the imm 16.8kReads8.6Score826Shelves

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    Not bad, you can take a look.

37. 437 逃 Fleeing the Famine, Fleeing the Famine, Reborn as a Face-Slapping Maniac! 逃荒慌逃荒慌，重生变成打脸狂！ Alone in Chang'an独自长安Ancient Romance123k WordsCompleted [Those who survive... are the real protagonists.] [Come along for a journey through an ancient Apocalypse of natural disasters and the refugee trek that follows~] Zhou Er Ya was reborn, but she got bound to some ridiculous System called the Protagonist Face-Slapping System. Whatever. It could give her food, so Zhou Er Ya was still pretty happy. But this System was a little strange... [Excerpt: [Host, would you like to spend twenty points to unlock the ability to kick someone out of thin air?] [Y 335Reads—Score—Shelves

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    First flee famine, then farm kk

38. 438 奇 Strange Soil 奇壤 Little Little Yimu Zhi小小亦木之Eastern Fantasy3.9M WordsOngoing Don't worry, this is absolutely a farming novel. A construction worker's journey of development in another world. Infrastructure, farming, culture... Think that's all there is? A whole world of possibilities! Countless races, an enormous world, hardcore development, and mysteries aplenty. A sea of stars? Just stars and the universe, or perhaps multidimensional space, or advanced civilizations? A sea of stars like that would be far too boring, wouldn't it? Could there be something more varied, gr 26.3kReads8.7Score2.5kShelves

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    With a gentle, subtle push, the prologue is unrelated to the main plot. The main story begins with survival, followed by farming, gradually growing from an individual to a tribe, and eventually expanding and strengthening the community.

39. 439 小 A Flower in a Little Village 小村里的一朵花 Listening to Lotus in the Night Rain夜雨听荷Ancient Romance173k WordsCompleted [No Transmigration + No Rebirth + Beloved by Everyone + A Touch of Ensemble Cast + Sisters Supporting One Another] Yue Ming is the village beauty. Her parents dote on her endlessly, even though one is a cripple and the other is mute. But she's no delicate flower. A peasant girl doesn't have to follow all those rules. Dare to bully her family? Then she'll fight to the bitter end! As Yue Ming works to become self-reliant, she also supports her sisters and friends. Life is hard, but they absolutely 81Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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    Pure farming, native farmer life

40. 440 乡 The Village's Domineering Divine Doctor 乡村霸道神医 She Dao佘刀Urban6.0M WordsCompleted With university graduation just around the corner after four years of study, Li Mubai suffered a double blow. His girlfriend cheated on him with a rich kid, who then hired people to break one of Li Mubai’s legs and used his father’s position as a university trustee to get him expelled. Disheartened, Li Mubai returned to the countryside, where people nicknamed him “Iron Crutch Li.” But fate took a turn. By chance, he inherited the true Iron Crutch Li’s legacy, and from then on he practiced both 20.2kReads8.9Score2kShelves
41. 441 高 After Failing the College Entrance Exam, She Finds a Farming System for Cultivators 高考失利，她捡了一个修仙种田系统 Kadoshi Sipping Milk Tea喝奶茶的卡多希Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted A completed hit novel After being set up by a two-faced schemer, Chu Xingqiao, who scored zero on the college entrance exam, returned to his rural hometown and found a farming cultivation System. Cultivate, farm. Lease a mountain, open a grilled fish restaurant, raise fish and shrimp. Pain-relieving sugarcane, miraculous papayas, and all kinds of odd farming tools. 2.9kReads9.1Score283Shelves

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    It's all about serious farming; it's the first book with a relaxed, pastoral style, very novel, yet very natural and simple.

42. 442 女 The Female Emperor’s Courtier: Growing Strong Through Farming with a Pure Yang Body 女帝裙下臣，纯阳圣体靠种田变强 The Han River Flows On汉水悠悠Eastern Fantasy295k WordsOngoing [Fantasy + Empress + dual cultivation through cauldron practice + farming + single female lead + transmigration + System] Lin Feng transmigrated to a fantasy cultivation world, only to find that from the start he was a servant about to be sold to Zhu Jinfeng, the Princess of Yangfeng County. But there was always a way out. After transmigrating, Lin Feng immediately awakened the [Farming to Grow Stronger System] and the peerless [Eternal Pure Yang Sacred Body]. As the bearer of a Pure Yang Sacred —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    "The Empress's Subservient Minister: A Pure Yang Body Grows Stronger Through Farming" blends hardcore farming details with delicate emotional slice-of-life moments. The farming sections are highly realistic and immersive, while the romance develops naturally. The cultivation system is solid and stable, emphasizing accumulation and nurturing. The book has a light, warm, and down-to-earth style, with a sense of everyday life and a relaxed reading experience, free from complex, mind-bending, or melodramatic plots. This book is suitable for readers who enjoy cultivation and farming novels, rural courtyard life, and sweet romances with a single female protagonist.

43. 443 首 The Chief Minister's Farmhouse Bride 首辅家的农门小娇妻 Cloud's End云末Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Gu Yuan woke up transmigrated as the cannon-fodder female lead in a novel, and from the start she was already at odds with the male and female leads. Knowing the miserable fate awaiting her, Gu Yuan only wanted to live to see the ending. At lightning speed, she broke off her engagement with the original male lead and picked a cripple to marry. But this cripple... was stunningly handsome. As a certified pretty-boy enthusiast, Gu Yuan was delighted. After forcing Gu Yuan to marry a “crippled husba 6.6kReads8.8Score691Shelves

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    A farming novel with time travel elements, featuring a space.

44. 444 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 33.7kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves
45. 445 穿 Transmigrated as the Ultimate Wicked Mother-in-Law 穿越之极品恶婆婆 The Easygoing Slacker Who Follows the Great Way of Nonaction大道无为的闲散懒人Ancient Romance270k WordsCompleted The sharp-tongued, stingy Li Xiaoxiao has transmigrated into the body of Li, a forty-seven-year-old widow from the Qin family in the village. Luckily, she hasn’t run into any horrible people, because she’s the feared, horrible mother-in-law everyone avoids... 1.8kReads8.8Score104Shelves
46. 446 乡 Rural Beast-Taming Miracle Doctor 乡村御兽神医 She Dao佘刀Urban3.4M WordsOngoing [Countryside, farming, miracle doctor, one heroine, decisive and ruthless.] Zhang Fan was beaten by the village bully and turned into a fool. His mother's leg was broken, and his maternal grandparents were literally driven to their deaths. Fortunately, he inherited the Mountain God's knowledge and skills in geomancy, medicine, fate reading, divination, physiognomy, formations, alchemy, talismans, artifact crafting, and animal training. He had planned to keep pretending to be a fool, but when he 8.3kReads8.6Score924Shelves
47. 447 穿 Transmigrating as the Welding-Warrior Emperor, I Join Hands with My Beloved to Secure the Realm 穿越焊武大帝，携手红颜定江山 Tan Baida谭百搭Historical291k WordsOngoing In a world torn apart by chaos, life is cheap, and from the start all you have is a pair of welding tongs that can shoot electricity? Lu Mingyuan: “If the world has fallen apart, I’ll weld it back together with my own hands!” Clear land and fertilize it → build an iron-walled fortress → found the Eternal Empire. The road to industrial domination begins! [Upgrade your territory’s buildings: ramshackle thatched hut → brick courtyard → steel fortress!] [Boost productivity: hand forging → hydraulic 10Reads8.9Score—Shelves

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    The protagonist doesn't show off or become stupid; he plays a steady, developmental character. In the early stages, he farms and builds infrastructure, and in the later stages, he recruits people and expands his territory. The plot is fast-paced!

48. 448 穿 Transmigrated to the Countryside, I Happily Became a Farmer 穿越之甘心做农女 Listening to Lotus in the Night Rain夜雨听荷Ancient Romance500k WordsCompleted The house was bare, her father was missing, her mother had just passed away, her grandmother was old, her eldest sister was of marriageable age, and her younger siblings were still small. Thinking of all this, Gao Xue closed her eyes. Even after transmigrating, she had no desire to keep living. As she teetered on the brink of death, the three siblings shared an egg, one bite at a time. For that little bit of warmth, for the family love she had always lacked, Gao Xue gritted her teeth and accepte 1.5kReads8.9Score136Shelves

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    Without labor, unable to farm, they can only start supporting their families by doing small businesses.

49. 449 乡 Rural Livestream: 100,000 Acres from the Start 乡村直播：开局10万亩地 Night of the Fish鱼之夜Urban3.1M WordsCompleted Bound to the Manor Owner System, he receives 100,000 mu of land from the start! He decisively chooses to become a great manor owner, farming, raising livestock, fishing, making use of the lush mountains and clear waters, and earning a fortune. Faced with all the wondrous items in the System Shop, An Ge also starts livestreaming. Who would have thought he’d gain tens of millions of fans? Fine food, fine wine, beautiful women, stunning scenery, luxury cars, villas, airplanes, skiing, mountain clim 14.6kReads8.9Score954Shelves
50. 450 流 You Divorced Me on the Road to Exile, So I Remarried. Why Are You Crying? 流放路上你休妻，我另嫁你哭啥！ Ru Lingyun如灵云Ancient Romance589k WordsCompleted [Modern-to-ancient transmigration + space + System + transmigrate into a book + villainess + fleeing famine + farming + making money] Xiao Qingyun wakes up one day and discovers that she has transmigrated into a book. The bad news: she has become the pathetic villainess in the story. The good news: Xiao Qingyun has read the book. To survive until the end, Xiao Qingyun uses every means at her disposal to seize Ye Sian's opportunities, all to stop Ye Sian from ever making a comeback. Only then can 92Reads—Score—Shelves

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    See? Not a single one of them uttered a sound.

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