Rural Novels About Simple, Everyday Life 平淡生活的乡村文

1. 101 故 Hard to Leave Home: A Middle-Aged Unemployed Man's Return to His Hometown to Start a Business 故土难离之中年失业者返乡创业路 Zi Ling, Who Loves Ham and Bamboo Shoot Soup爱吃火腿鲜笋汤的紫灵Urban378k WordsCompleted After losing his job in middle age, Yang Yu follows his wife's advice and returns to his hometown to look for opportunities. Through conversations with his family, he witnesses the changes of the times. Inspired by the love of family and friendship, he gradually breaks free from his confusion and helps develop agriculture in his hometown. A hometown is the place you fight tooth and nail to escape when you're young, and fight tooth and nail to return to when you're old! —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The story describes the protagonist's journey from confusion after unemployment to determination of entrepreneurial goals to success. It mainly reflects the feelings of rural migrant workers returning home after falling leaves, as well as some insights into the regrets of life. The book is written by myself, there is no space, no system, and it is relatively realistic.

2. 102 吾 My County Magistrate Boyfriend Is Growing Up 吾家县长男友初长成 Wan Qian, Who Loves Cantonese Soup爱吃广府汤的万千帝主Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Rural revitalization · Workplace maneuvering · Intellectual romance · Family warmth] [Healing] [A gentle, steady pace] [Leaves a lasting impression] [Public sector] [Contemporary realism] Here, you’ll find: √ How a highly intelligent male and female lead pursue their careers while falling in love √ Solid, compelling depictions of rural revitalization and the political landscape √ Warm, witty, and insightful family life and intergenerational communication √ The respectful, restrained, profound 1.2kReads8.0Score112Shelves

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   Civil servants return from cities to rural areas, and rural areas are revitalized. Urban + Rural Daily Life is a high-quality article that combines "reality with romance" and "the workplace within the system + the game of power". It contains family life, rural fireworks, and family bonds, and is a good story with texture, warmth, and comfort.

3. 103 陌 Life Alone in a Strange World 陌生世界的独居生活 A Salaryman Who Hates Working不爱工作的上班族Modern Romance395k WordsCompleted [Farming and stockpiling supplies · extreme weather · no golden finger · no romance · slow-paced] Lu Siyue never imagined that she’d wake up in a strange world. Her familiar family was gone, and the surroundings were unfamiliar too. How would a helpless young woman, unable to lift a hand against even a chicken, manage to survive? A plain, everyday survival story. No dark side of human nature, and no wish-fulfillment scenes about getting rich and beautiful overnight! Life here is like living in t 484Reads6.7Score—Shelves

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   Pure farm stocking article, plain and warm

4. 104 狠 A Cruel Mother, a Broken Home, and Me, Unbroken 狠心的妈，破碎的家，不屈的我 If You’re No Eagle, Don’t Be a Snail不是雄鹰做蜗牛Urban3.2M WordsOngoing [Male-Oriented, Rural, Family, Comeback, Power Fantasy, Inspirational] Abandoned by his own mother, abused by his stepmother, and struck by his father's sudden misfortune. Su Yang, a poor boy from the mountains, has been left battered by his family's cruelty. With no one to lean on and no support to count on, he can only fight his own way to survival. He studies hard, weathers turmoil on campus, and makes his way in the business world. His heartless relatives come crawling back to latch onto his 20.2kReads8.1Score1.8kShelves

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   The ups and downs of the inspirational life story of a boy from a mountain village are deeply touching.

5. 105 那 That Village, Those People, That Fool 那村那人那傻瓜 Lucky Treasure福宝Ancient Romance174k WordsCompleted One field, one home, and two people: a simple life shared for a long time is what really matters! A hardworking, kindhearted country girl vs. a devoted, doting husband who treats her like a loyal puppy. A warm and simple story of everyday family life! This story takes place in a small village. Hehua, the eldest daughter of the Li family in the west of the village, married Changsheng, who lived in the east... Changsheng never spoke to anyone and couldn't recognize his neighbors. He didn't even kn 40.1kReads9.6Score4.9kShelves

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   These two books!!!!

6. 106 金 A Golden Marriage 金婚 IMCModern Romance442k WordsCompleted One is a fool in everyone's eyes, the other a young hoodlum in the village's eyes. Yet fate ties them together. Zhou Xing always thought himself above others, but never imagined he'd marry a fool and fill a whole house with children, boys and girls alike. What's more, in this life and the next, and the life after that, he only wants to be with her. At first, Li Zhi'an was terrified of living under the same roof as Zhou Xing, that bad man. Gradually, she came to accept him. In the end, she decide 21.2kReads9.3Score2kShelves
7. 107 返 The One Who Returned Home 返乡的人 Zhen Huan from Jade Island玉岛的甄嬛Modern Romance322k WordsCompleted An ordinary young man with no education, connections, or family background, going from the countryside to the city and then back again. We are the ones born in the seventies and eighties, running as fast as we can... The accident seemed to have been foretold, but so much still took us by surprise. For example: losing our jobs... 27Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Rural literature about ordinary life

8. 108 荷 Lady He Xiang 荷香娘子 Zhen Huan from Jade Island玉岛的甄嬛Ancient Romance154k WordsCompleted I wrote this to earn coins. I don’t have an outline, so I’ll just make it up as I go. They won’t approve it unless it’s at least fifty characters, so what can I say to pad it out? Handsome guys and lovely ladies passing by, have you ever dreamed of living in the countryside? 137Reads8.3Score—Shelves
9. 109 重 Reborn in 1960: I Have a Divine Cauldron Space 重生60，我有神鼎空间 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban2.8M WordsCompleted Zhao Guoqiang died alongside the demolition crew, never imagining that the incense burner in his own main room was a divine artifact. After accidentally becoming the master of the Bronze Divine Cauldron, he was reborn as another man named Zhao Guoqiang. Inside the cauldron's space were towering mountains, lakes, and mighty rivers. What delighted him even more was that the cauldron could condense holy water. Time already flowed ten times faster inside the space than in the outside world. With the 570Reads7.4Score114Shelves

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   Three books are recommended: growing rice and vegetables on the river, raising rabbits in the valley, growing fruit trees on the hillsides, growing ginseng on the mountain walls, bamboo cooking boxes, stationery boxes, water cups, sandals, relying on the mountains to eat, relying on the water to eat water, and raising wild boars and rabbits in the space. All kinds of whimsical ideas will allow you to experience a different era of literature.

10. 110 四 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Control the Life and Death System 四合院：开局掌控生死系统 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban1.8M WordsCompleted From the start, he gets a Life and Death System and hypnosis abilities, sending him straight to the top. The Life and Death System can extract life force from anything alive, including animals, plants, fish, and humans. It can also pour life force into any living thing, though the effect is halved. Extracting life force from a century-old tree yields fifty years' worth, which can be poured into a sapling to instantly make it grow to the size of a fifty-year-old tree. Animals work the same way: e 14.4kReads8.1Score858Shelves
11. 111 我 I Fish with Dragon Blood, and Every Fish and Shrimp in the Sea Goes Wild 我用龙血钓鱼，海中鱼虾都疯了 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban1.3M WordsCompleted Fishing with dragon blood sends every fish and shrimp in the sea into a frenzy. Tempering my body with dragon blood and making a name for myself with dragon fists. I use dragon dung and urine in my space to grow ginseng and tea plants. Every year, I drip another drop of dragon blood beneath the tea plants. Regularly drinking the tea they produce delays aging, strengthens the body, promotes longevity, fortifies the bones and sinews, beautifies the skin, turns white hair black, and even boosts vir 726Reads8.5Score173Shelves
12. 112 我 In 1979, I Helped the Whole Village Become Ten-Thousand-Yuan Households 我在七九帮全村成就万元户 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban267k WordsCompleted Chen Sheng and seven good friends explore the Nanshan Cave and obtain the innate spiritual treasure, the Boundary-Breaking Pearl, which lets them travel back and forth to an era thirty years in the future. From then on, they begin a career smuggling goods between the two worlds. Back home, they open brickworks, a sand quarry, clothing factories, and furniture factories. They buy up centipedes and leeches, and become the first in the world to cultivate bamboo fungus commercially. Once every house 590Reads8.0Score—Shelves
13. 113 山 The Village Schoolteacher 山村女教师 Evening Rain0208暮雨0208Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Yang Xiaowei and Li Li were college sweethearts. After graduation, their different choices set them on separate paths: Yang Xiaowei went to teach in a mountain village, while Li Li stayed in the city. They went their separate ways, and Yang Xiaowei married the local village chief's son. After enduring a series of hardships, including marriage, childbirth, and domestic abuse, Yang Xiaowei finally found the courage to break free from the prison of her marriage. In the end, she discovered that what 359Reads9.0Score309Shelves

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    These books have touched my heart [licking the screen] (screaming like crazy) (random Channeling) (yelling and beating chest) (screaming) (twisting) (creeping in darkness) (crawling) (twisting) (squirming darkly) (rolling) (crawling violently) (twisting) (spasmodic) (snarling) (creeping) (growling) (crawling) (split) (walking ashore) (twisting) (pain) (creep) (twisting and walking) (attack regardless of target)

14. 114 改 Reforming My Good-for-Nothing Husband, Starting at Age 20 改造废物老公，从20岁开始养老 Teletubby Without an Antenna没有天线的天线宝宝Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period story x making money x family and village life x a touch of ensemble cast x raising kids] Lin Hui has a dream. In it, she turns fifty after spending twenty-seven years as a widow, struggling to raise her children, only to develop cancer and die before she can enjoy life. When she wakes, she finds herself back in 1980, the year she just married Xu Dongsheng, the “lazy bum” of the surrounding villages. She grits her teeth. She absolutely cannot let her life follow the path in her dream. Fr 49.8kReads9.1Score6.3kShelves
15. 115 1 1987: No Sleep Tonight 1987：今夜不眠 Fully Equipped RV房车齐全Urban2.8M WordsCompleted “Mom, is his head stuck in a door or something? Maybe we should take him to the hospital?” When Lu Hao wakes up, he discovers that he has been reborn, back in 1987, when he had nothing to his name. Behind him stands a beautiful woman in her early twenties, her face streaked with tears and her body covered in scars. Beside her is a little girl, staring at him with wide, caring eyes. 40.9kReads9.0Score4.3kShelves
16. 116 传 Legend of the Countryside 传奇乡村 Yaoyue妖月Urban1.7M WordsCompleted Although women from the mountains may not know how to dress up as well as city girls, they make up for it with their natural, down-to-earth charm. Years of hard work and the nourishing mountain air mean they usually have great figures. 3kReads8.8Score351Shelves
17. 117 有 There Was a Girl Named Xiaohua 有个女孩叫小花 My Little Warm Jackets我的小棉袄们Modern Romance420k WordsOngoing My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! This book captures some of the culture and food of rural northern Fujian in the 1980s and 1990s. Follow Xiaohua and her family as they work hard and lead warm, ordinary lives. No exaggeration, melodrama, or foolish antics. It’s not a feel-good power fantasy, and there’s no rebirth or transmigration. There’s no golden finger, just 33Reads8.9Score—Shelves

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    It is a true, warm and ordinary rural life story, with the geographical and humanistic characteristics of rural areas in northern Fujian. Start with a girl's story…

18. 118 重 Back to 1983: Hunting in the Anling Mountains 重回83，我在安岭赶山狩猎 Sakura Nineteen樱十九Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Period] [No System] [Not adapted] [Hunting] [Mountain foraging] [One female lead] [No cultivation or fantasy] Xu Guo unexpectedly returns to 1983 and his youth. It’s an era when you can knock down roe deer with a stick, scoop up fish with a dipper, and find pheasants flying right into your cooking pot. Faced with the resource-rich Northeast, Xu Guo takes up falconry, raises hunting dogs, marries his childhood sweetheart, shoulders his shotgun, hunts game, and digs for ginseng. The game in the A 5.3kReads8.5Score273Shelves

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    Don't worry, plain country writing

19. 119 秦 Qin's Replacement: A Bricklayer Rewrites Three Hundred Years of Qin History 秦替：泥水匠改写了三百年秦史 Heaven's Way Is Strong6729天行健6729Historical1.3M WordsOngoing Qin's Substitute In 1991, Zhang Daode, a boy from a small town in southwestern Hunan, studied hard and earned excellent results on his high school entrance exam. But someone with power took his place, crushing his hopes of continuing his education and forcing him into a life at the bottom of society as a bricklayer who knew nothing but hardship. Then a sudden fall at a construction site turned his life upside down. When he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated to the end of the Warring States p 1.7kReads9.2Score191Shelves

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    There are many rural stories

20. 120 青 Qingshi Pass, Pear Tree Grove 青狮口，梨树林 Heaven's Way Is Strong6729天行健6729Urban366k WordsOngoing The Green Lion’s Mouth, the Pear Orchard follows Zhang Yunxi’s life as its narrative thread, setting it against the vast backdrop of a century of change in rural China. In Qingshikou Village, in the land of Xiangchu, it unfolds as an epic etched in the rings of the earth. From the many wars of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, to the farming and pioneering spirit of the early Republican era, to protecting homes and forests during the War of Resistance Against Japan, from collective labor i 1Reads8.3Score—Shelves
21. 121 重 Reborn in 1958: What Am I Supposed to Do Without a Golden Finger? 重生五八：没有金手指我该怎么办 Qiu Ming of Nanyang Ancient City南阳古城的仇明Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (The 1950s + Rebirth + Supernatural Ability + Ordinary Protagonist + Making a Fortune) This story is entirely fictional. Don’t compare it to history. If you don’t like it, please don’t read! In this unusual era, it’s truly hard to live well without some kind of supernatural ability, so the heroine of this book has one! Everyday family life, unfolding at a gentle pace. Feng Qingqing is reborn in the body of her young aunt, who died prematurely in her previous life. The story starts in 1958, which 972Reads6.9Score—Shelves

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    Rural Literature Chronology

22. 122 六 The Man with Six Marriages 六婚男人 Little Pear Blossom O小梨花OModern Romance301k WordsCompleted A marriage spanning half a century, full of ups and downs, and one man's six sorrowful, blood-stained journeys into wedlock. In the late 1970s, at a state-owned coal mine in Northeast China, Kim Dazhuang, an ethnic Korean Chinese who had returned from Korea, was tall and burly, with a fiery temper. He sweated through his work amid the roar of steam locomotives. Over the course of his life, he went through six marriages. Each time, he entered with hope, only for almost every one to end in heartbr 27Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Five men and six women!

23. 123 我 My Dongguan Dream: Sister Mei 我的东莞梦：媚姐 Zeng Yi曾呓Urban2.3M WordsOngoing Sister Mei's advice to me: The women at entertainment venues are just for looking. Don't get serious with them. Sister Mei also said: Don't get any ideas about me, either. [A story about working for a living, perhaps with a little of me, you, and him in it.] 152.7kReads8.8Score11.3kShelves

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24. 124 岳 The Old Grandmother of Yue Family Village 岳家庄的老祖母 Mountainside Man in the Rain雨落山人Historical107k WordsCompleted [A grandmother builds a business + Yue Fei's family teachings + brotherhood] A mother's love makes her strong, and she becomes the soul of her clan. One mother's thirty-year flight lays the foundation for her family's six-hundred-year legacy. During the Hongwu reign of the Ming dynasty, Yue Guangyong, the thirteenth-generation descendant of Yue Fei, dies young in Tangyin County, Henan Province, where his family has lived for generations. He leaves behind his widowed wife, Yue Yushi, and their tw 1.6kReads9.2Score104Shelves

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    Rustic country writing!

25. 125 老 Old Huang and Old Hei 老黄与老黑 Shan Ye Yiyuan山野艺媛Urban430k WordsOngoing [Period Drama] [Countryside] [Married Life] Set in the early 1980s, this novel tells the story of four families, the Lins, Wangs, Lius, and Chens, in an unremarkable village on the Loess Plateau in the Great Northwest. They scheme and struggle against one another, while brothers and sisters-in-law within each clan bear their own grudges and grievances. But it is better to resolve enmity than let it fester. Lin Junjie is the first young man in the village to get into college, bringing honor to th 50Reads7.4Score—Shelves

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    A chronicle with rural themes, suitable for middle-aged and elderly people to read!

26. 126 乡 Rural Chronicle 乡村纪实 Mountain Dewdrop山野露珠Urban260k WordsCompleted The little details of life, all those everyday moments, come together to paint a picture of a changing countryside. Generation after generation pursues its dreams, working hard in the mountain valleys. They make it through the winter, then the hills turn green in spring. Summer crops blanket the mountains, and autumn is always a season of joy. 239Reads8.4Score—Shelves
27. 127 为 A Career in Public Service 为民官路 At Ease and Unrestrained安心无忌Urban1.8M WordsOngoing [A gritty, realistic tale of ambition and struggle in the government ranks] In 1990, top student Zhen Weimin offends the wrong people and gets kicked down to a poor rural township. Everyone thinks his life is over. But he is determined to make flowers bloom among the thorns. He breaks through obstacles with his knowledge and grounds himself in his conscience, with every step in sync with the pulse of the times. Starting in the township, he moves forward one step at a time. This is a true chronic 12.4kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves

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    This book is very good and worth recommending

28. 128 乡 The Foolish Country Doctor, Protector of His Second Sister-in-Law 乡野傻医，独护二嫂 Moonlit Night with the Wind月夜随风Historical442k WordsCompleted Framed by the village bully and thrown into a deep pool, the simple-minded Er Zhu accidentally unlocks his family’s ancestral medical arts! With a single hand, he uses miraculous needles to save children and punish local tyrants. Naive in public, fierce in private, he devotes himself to protecting his frail second sister-in-law. The real show is only just beginning... 2.2kReads8.3Score190Shelves

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    It's so exciting. It's so cool.

29. 129 前 My Ex's Stupidity Tax: His Wife Valued at 200,000 前夫哥的智商税：老婆估值二十万 Moonlit Night with the Wind月夜随风35k WordsCompleted The Ex-Husband's Stupidity Tax: His Wife Is Worth 200,000 379Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 130 床 I Found 100,000 Yuan Under the Mattress and Finally Understood My Late Wife's Intentions 床垫下翻出十万块，我才懂亡妻的苦心 Moonlit Night with the Wind月夜随风Marriage & Romance12k WordsCompleted I found a hundred thousand yuan hidden under the mattress, and only then did I understand my late wife's painstaking intentions. 642Reads—Score103Shelves
31. 131 误 After Wandering into the Changing Room, I Had a Cool Coach Chasing Me Down to Teach Me to Swim 误闯更衣室后，高冷教练追着教我游泳 Moonlit Night with the Wind月夜随风Marriage & Romance12k WordsCompleted After Wandering into the Locker Room, the Ice-Cold Coach Keeps Chasing Me to Teach Me How to Swim 415Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 132 合 Room 302: A Wage Earner Clears His Father's Name Against All Odds 合租302：打工仔逆风洗清家父冤案 Moonlit Night with the Wind月夜随风Marriage & Romance14k WordsCompleted Roommates in 302: A Wage Earner Clears His Father's Name Against All Odds 617Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 133 诡 Haunted by a Bewitching Dream: I Killed That Ghost King Nine Times 诡梦缠情：我杀了那尊鬼王九次 Moonlit Night with the Wind月夜随风7k WordsCompleted Haunted by a Bewitching Dream: I Killed the Ghost King Nine Times 84Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 134 撞 Caught Them in the Act, Then Scalded Someone with Boiling Water 撞破好事，滚水烫人 Moonlit Night with the Wind月夜随风Marriage & Romance12k WordsCompleted Caught Them in the Act, Got Scalded with Boiling Water 469Reads—Score—Shelves
35. 135 别 Don't Mess with a 42-Year-Old Woman: She's Got All the Evidence 别惹42岁姐姐，她手里全是证据 Moonlit Night with the Wind月夜随风9k WordsCompleted Don't Mess with This 42-Year-Old Woman, She Has Evidence on Everyone 282Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 136 婆 After My Mother-in-Law Had a Stroke, I Found 800,000 Under Her Bed 婆婆中风后，我在她床底翻出了八十万 Moonlit Night with the Wind月夜随风7k WordsCompleted After My Mother-in-Law Had a Stroke, I Found 800,000 Yuan Under Her Bed 150Reads—Score—Shelves
37. 137 顾 President Gu, Please Cooperate with Your Treatment 顾总，请配合治疗 Moonlit Night with the Wind月夜随风Marriage & Romance10k WordsCompleted Mr. Gu, Please Cooperate with Your Treatment 556Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 138 灵 Spiritual Qi Revival? Plants and Animals Have All Mutated 灵气复苏？动植物都变异了 A 360-Month-Old Baby三百六十个月的宝宝Urban570k WordsCompleted Yan Jun's father was bitten by an unknown insect back in his hometown, so Yan Jun had to return to take care of him. While staying at home, he never expected that he would discover he could sense mutated animals and plants... 1.9kReads6.7Score119Shelves

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    This book is about farming developed in my hometown.

39. 139 洲 Fireworks on the Islet, Where People Make Their Homes, Starting in the 1970s 洲上烟火有人家，从七十年代开始 He Xinhe何心荷Modern Romance593k WordsCompleted [Rural Romance] [Family Life] [Educated Youth Teacher] [Neighborly Disputes] [Eerie Shadows in the Village] [Country Living and Laughs] This book has no pocket dimension, no System, and no transmigration or rebirth. It tells only of ordinary people’s rural lives and the hard-won warmth and bustle of everyday life through years of hardship. The story begins in the 1970s and follows several families living in the countryside. Among them are educated youths sent to work in the villages, militia mem 92Reads8.3Score—Shelves

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    Good books should not be hidden, highly recommended

40. 140 山 Mountain Village Kids: A Rural Family in the Eighties and Nineties 山野儿女八零九零山村一家子 Gathering Stars Toward the Warmth揽星向暖Modern Romance61k WordsOngoing [Southwestern Mountain Village in the 1980s] [Family Life] [Romance] [Realistic] [Ensemble Family Saga] [Family Ethics] In remote Lijia Slope, the two Guan sisters both marry into the Li family. Two couples with very different temperaments raise six children, each with a completely different personality. The tides of change sweep through the countryside. Traditional arranged marriages gradually fade away, while free love begins to take root. The six young people stand at a crossroads in life: s 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Ordinary life rural articles, close to life, micro-group portraits, vivid characters, worth reading

41. 141 蒸 The Sun and Moon in the Steamer 蒸屉里的日月 Deep Plowing in Spring春日深耕Modern Romance324k WordsCompleted Set against the changes sweeping the northern countryside in the 1990s, this story follows an ordinary rural woman as she spends half her life juggling household chores, conflicts with her sisters-in-law, small business ventures, and her children’s education. With only an elementary-school education, she supports her family with her skill at making steamed buns, putting her son through college and helping him build a life of his own. She lives through the transition from earthen houses to brick 281Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I recommend "The Sun and Moon in the Steamer", no blood, no time travel, no rebirth, simple and sincere ~ [As the years pass, time changes, what changes is the passing years, what remains unchanged is the fireworks in the world, this life of a person is actually the same as steamed buns. When the heat is up, they will be cooked naturally. When the heat is not enough, they will be raw even if the lid is lifted.]

42. 142 桃 A Garden of Students, Growing Old Together in Love 桃李满天下恩爱共白头 Bright Sunny Day灿烂晴天Modern Romance42k WordsCompleted Wu Xiaomin was a country girl, born and raised in the countryside, but she had always been a good student and was naturally beautiful. Unfortunately, after she started high school, her surroundings changed dramatically, leaving her confused and lost. In her sophomore year, she met a new homeroom teacher who helped her find her way again. After graduating from college, Wu Xiaomin gave up a job placement back in her hometown and introduced a female college classmate to her former high school teach 1kReads—Score—Shelves

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    The heroine originally worked in real estate sales in the city, but the real estate industry declined due to the epidemic. The heroine returned to her hometown to develop her career.

43. 143 长 After the Eldest Sister Split the Family, She Stockpiled Grain and Built a House, Driving Them All Mad! 长姐分家后，屯粮盖房气疯全家！ Li Ziyaoyao李子妖妖Ancient Romance2.4M WordsOngoing [Transmigration and rebirth + building wealth + marriage before love + both leads devoted only to each other + political intrigue] Lin Qinghuan was doing a good deed and saving someone when she was suddenly hit and sent to Peach Blossom Village, the most remote village in an unknown dynasty. Her parents died young, her grandparents don't love her, and they constantly scold and beat her. Now they want to sell her as a concubine to the fat, lecherous Liu Yuanwai? Having transmigrated here, Lin Qin 4.4kReads8.6Score319Shelves

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    After leaving the Lin family, he can really do what he wants, and he can also learn to read, which is really great.

44. 144 邻 Between Neighbors 邻里之间 Recluse Qingxu清虚散人Urban163k WordsCompleted Distant relatives are not as dependable as close neighbors, and close neighbors are no match for the folks across the street. But life is full of contradictions: without conflict, there is no struggle, and without struggle, there is no progress. Neighbors don’t always get along, either. As the saying goes, a neighbor is like a set of scales: they hope the other neighbor stays poor. 266Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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    The Yellow Earth Country Novel is here

45. 145 我 My First Love 我的初恋情人 Recluse Qingxu清虚散人Modern Romance164k WordsCompleted I met Yu on an early spring day. It was overcast and windy. He was passing by my house just as I came out of the yard. Our eyes met, and his lit up at once. He stopped in his tracks. My face flushed, and I lowered my head to look at my old cloth shoes, with my toes poking out. My family was so poor that my clothes were covered in patches. Yu didn’t seem to care about my shabby clothes. He kept walking, glancing back at my face. I didn’t know who he was or what he was doing in our village. But a 75Reads—Score—Shelves
46. 146 换 Married Off in 1985: Shen Lan's Bittersweet Life in the Countryside 换亲1985农家沈兰的悲喜人生 Wen Zhi Yi'an闻之易安Modern Romance580k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Rural Life + Farming + Family Matters + No Golden Finger + No System] The years flowed gently, until old dreams faded; time stretched on, leaving one to sigh at the loneliness. Shen Lan, a kind and resilient country girl, once dreamed of a modest but peaceful life. But fate played a cruel joke on her. For her brother's future, Shen Lan honored her father's dying wish and arranged a marriage swap for him. She married into a poor, backward mountain village, beginning a life full 156Reads8.5Score—Shelves

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47. 147 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. 15.8kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves

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    1. The heroine was tired of city life, so she resigned and returned to her hometown. She began a life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset. She walked her geese, petted them, went up the mountains, and went to the sea. There was also a sweet country love! 2. The heroine was reborn and returned to the day after she graduated from college. She was hesitating whether to choose the choice of her previous life. When she was an unknown screw, she accidentally discovered that she was pregnant with a baby and received a spiritual spring. This... She was no longer a screw, and returned to the countryside to start her pastoral life... An authentic and comfortable rural life... Oh! The baby's father is also chasing after her... [Love] Dang Dang Dang [Love] Donuts is here with the books she loves to read👀

48. 148 小 Xiao Dai Farms and Raises Her Child 小黛种田养娃 Loneliness Is Coming孤独将至Modern Romance587k WordsCompleted [Spirit spring + everyday country life (with a small ensemble cast)] A heads-up: [The heroine returns to the countryside to make a fortune! The male lead appears late, so don't fuss over prices. Don't compare it to real life, and if anything seems unrealistic, just assume it's an author's invention!] In her previous life, Dai Fanfan graduated from college and spent ten years twisting screws at a steel mill. After a nap, she wakes up back at her college graduation reunion! Before she can even thi 4.5kReads9.1Score490Shelves
49. 149 农 Everyday Ways to Prosper on the Farm 农家致富日常 Rain Falls Over Jiangnan江南雨纷纷Ancient Romance2.7M WordsCompleted [Farming + Street Stalls + A Gentle Pace + Everyday Family Life] This is a warm and cozy farming story with no outrageous villains. It's a warm, funny daily-life story about a family focused on making money. There are no villains and no golden fingers. The main characters are ordinary people without any golden fingers, and the whole family works together to build a better life, with a focus on the gentle rhythms of everyday life. At daybreak, smoke rose from the chimneys of many homes in Peach B 13.6kReads9.0Score1.4kShelves
50. 150 回 After Returning Home to Start a Business, I Picked Up a CEO 回乡创业后我捡了个霸总 Wanwan, Not Bowl Bowl是菀菀不是碗碗Modern Romance523k WordsCompleted The city is full of tricks. I'm heading back to the countryside! Feng Shuyu is determined to return to her hometown and lead the villagers to prosperity. Veterinary care, cooperatives, infrastructure, resource exchanges, advice and planning: money comes rolling in! She never expected a strange man to appear on her road to riches. He's particular about everything, and somehow even shoveling cow manure doesn't stop him from giving off the air of a domineering CEO. Feng Shuyu stared at him, momenta 210Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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