A Simple Life in the Ancient Countryside, With Farming and No Court Politics or Martial World 平淡生活，没有朝堂江湖，就是古代农村种田文。

1. 1 穿 I Stocked a Warehouse Full in Ancient Times and Raise My Husband Through the Apocalypse 穿到古代囤满仓，天灾末世养夫郎 Little Courtyard on South Mountain南山小院Two Male Leads631k WordsOngoing [Two Male Leads + Top/Bot Dynamic: Top-Protagonist + Only Each Other + Farming + Disastrous Famine Years + Stockpiling and Foraging + Slow-Paced Daily Life] (The Famine Years and Daily Life in the Mountains with My Husband) After being born into an ancient world and living there for twenty years, Qin Yunye unexpectedly learned that the disastrous famine years of history were about to begin. Having had his fill of the apocalypse, he decisively returned to the deep mountains to lie flat and live 1.2kReads8.9Score109Shelves

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   A story about two male protagonists living a simple, rural life in the mountains, focusing on everyday family matters and a slow-burning, steady flow of life.

2. 2 穿 Back to Ancient Times: Weathering Disasters with My Husband 穿回古代，携手夫郎渡天灾 Little Courtyard on South Mountain南山小院Two Male Leads532k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + apocalyptic disaster + farming + spirit spring + pocket dimension + gourmet food + slow-paced slice of life + husband + marriage before love + growing husband] Qin Feng returned to ancient times with a golden finger and married Xie Li, the young husband who had volunteered to marry him to bring him good fortune. His young husband was wonderful in every way, except he was a little too thin. Qin Feng would have to feed him up properly, with chicken soup and spirit spring water. 455Reads9.0Score103Shelves
3. 3 穿 After I Transmigrate, I Build a Fortune with My Stingy Old Dad 穿越后，带着抠门老爹发家致富 The Red Bean Bun Has No Filling红豆包没有包Ancient Romance515k WordsCompleted [Farming + Beloved by the Whole Family + Daily Life + Food + Alternate World + Transmigration] Liu Changning was transmigrated into her mother’s womb. Her father is miserly to an extreme. Her mother is very open-minded. She is the youngest daughter in the family, with four older brothers. The Liu family is dirt poor. Their house is so shabby they can see the stars through the roof... But ever since this youngest daughter arrived, Old Liu has noticed that the family’s life keeps getting better an 3.4kReads8.6Score264Shelves

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   Check out this one! It's a pure farming novel, no cheat codes, and it's quite funny 🤭

4. 4 逃 After Fleeing Famine, My Sister and I Married the Brothers Next Door 逃荒后，我和阿姐嫁给隔壁兄弟 The Running Garfield奔跑的加菲猫Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Fleeing famine + family life + farming + slow-paced and steady + heartwarming] A devastating flood that swallowed the south left the Su sisters homeless and orphaned. To protect themselves on the road as they fled famine, the two peerlessly beautiful sisters chose to disguise themselves as ugly servants. After traveling a thousand li to Longnan, they were settled by the local authorities, and a matchmaker arranged their marriages. Faced with a life-changing decision, the sisters spoke in unison 8.7kReads8.1Score837Shelves

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   A pure farming story, focusing on everyday family life and the family's efforts to make ends meet; no awful characters.

5. 5 荒 Everyone Else Chews Tree Bark in the Famine, While My Family Devours Meat by the Mouthful 荒年家家啃树皮我家咔咔炫大肉 Just for a Laugh只增笑耳Ancient Romance671k WordsOngoing (Ancient-era farming + cozy everyday life + sweet romance + transmigration + space System + family squabbles + building a fortune + devoted to each other) Yiduo transmigrates to an impoverished mountain village in ancient times with her mother. It’s a year of famine, and on top of that, a creditor shows up demanding repayment. If they can’t pay what they owe, she’ll be forced to marry the landlord’s sickly son. After the village head goes to great lengths to mediate, both sides agree that the de 41Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Ancient rural farming stories depict heartwarming daily life and the simple joys of human interaction.

6. 6 种 Growing Melons, Vegetables, and Crops 种瓜种菜种田 Walking Pebble行走的石头子Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The silly girl from the Shi family suddenly isn’t silly anymore. And trailing behind her are five nearly grown boys, who turn out to be her own brothers. The girl leads them to plant melons in the sandy field behind the village. The yard-long beans climb all over their trellises, the greens are tender and fresh, and the grain hangs heavy on the furrows. The neighbors may gossip and bicker, but luckily there’s the open-minded Grandma Shi to keep things in check. They plant in spring and harvest i 8.4kReads8.0Score723Shelves

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   This perfectly matches your requirements; it's a pure farming story, about everyday life and how people get rich through farming.

7. 7 四 Joy All Year Round 四季常欢 Wild Dreams Year After Year狂想年年Ancient Romance267k WordsCompleted Chang Huan transmigrated. Before transmigrating, she had been an ordinary office drone in the modern world, living a peaceful, uneventful life. But she never expected the apocalypse to arrive out of nowhere and shatter her quiet existence. Though she had a plant-based ability, it was pretty useless in the early stages, and life in the apocalypse was far from easy. Whenever she went out to search for supplies, she had to stay on guard against zombie hordes and watch out for betrayal by her compan 880Reads8.1Score109Shelves

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   The female protagonist is a time traveler, while the male protagonist is a native. Together, they work hard to build their wealth. Their lives revolve around the village, the town, and at most, the county seat. The writing style leans towards slice-of-life, focusing on food, raising children, and a simple, heartwarming story.

8. 8 架 Alternate Ancient China: Building a Fortune in Jiangnan 架空古代：江南人家经营致富日常 Rain on Riverside Flowers汀花雨Ancient Romance2.4M WordsOngoing [Ancient-Style Business and Wealth-Building] + [A Jiangnan Family] + [Everyday Family Life] + [Lighthearted, Sweet, and Satisfying] A lighthearted, stress-relieving story about the everyday business and family life of a small household in peaceful Jiangnan, filled with warmth, joy, kindness, and ordinary domestic moments. It tells the story of common people in ancient times. The main characters are not princes or ministers, nor are they members of noble or aristocratic families. From the very st 73kReads9.3Score7.4kShelves

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   Ordinary daily life, each with its own unique charm. No court politics, just three meals a day, and the everyday routines of family. 😘 I finished watching it quite a while ago, so I won't summarize it here. I easily mix up the content. ❤️

9. 9 兽 Beast World: Are All You Big Tigers This Clingy? 兽世：你们大老虎都那么粘人吗 Rong Yu榕榆Two Male Leads898k WordsCompleted [One-on-one + two male leads + beast world + transmigrate + sweet romance + System + happy ending] Veterinarian Jiang Sui'an died in an incident involving an angry patient, and when he opened his eyes again, he was dangling in midair above an enormous fluffy creature. Jiang Sui'an: “???!!!!” Where the heck have I ended up? Hu Bai was overjoyed. Not only had he completed his adult hunting trial ahead of schedule, he had also found an incredibly beautiful demi-beast. Luckily, now that he was an ad 7.9kReads9.1Score967Shelves
10. 10 篱 South Mountain Beyond the Garden Fence 篱笆院里见南山 Qian Jin na千谨naAncient Romance432k WordsCompleted This is at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, in a cottage behind a bamboo fence. Li Zhu is a refugee who fled from who knows where. Her clothes are tattered, her face is gaunt and yellow, and her hair is cropped to her ears. When she first arrives in Nanshan Village, the villagers think she's a man who doesn't know any better. Who else would cut their hair so short? It shows no respect for one's parents. Li Zhu says her husband's family cast her out. She was a second wife, and after her husband's d 705Reads7.6Score109Shelves
11. 11 青 A Cottage Amid the Green Hills 青山可结庐 Zeng Pig Milk Tea曾猪奶茶Ancient Romance297k WordsCompleted The rating is low because this novel just came out, dears. The tags are wrong: it's historical romance and farming. In the first year of Tianyuan, something extraordinary happened in Lijiazhuang, a small village under Fengshui Township. The family of Li Zhijin was actually asking for the hand of Xu Lansi, the second daughter of the neighboring Xujiacun. The Xu family had two daughters, but the elder, Xu Jinxiu, was the real beauty, both talented and lovely, with suitors coming one after another. 3.1kReads8.9Score335Shelves
12. 12 乌 Hunting in the Ural Mountains 乌拉尔山赶山记 Ten Thousand Coins for a Fight斗十千千Ancient Romance554k WordsCompleted She opens her eyes and has transmigrated into the body of a mute slave girl who is being sold. She is bought and married off to a mountain man with no household registration, living deep in the border mountains. The frontier is bitterly cold, and the forests stretch far and wide. Liang Chong's situation is disastrous from the start, but she manages to buy her freedom by foraging in the mountains and farming, eventually living in the Ural Mountains where “a stick brings down a deer, a dipper scoo 1.3kReads9.0Score172Shelves
13. 13 你 You Retired Too? What a Coincidence, So Did I! 你也退休了？好巧，我也是！ Qian Jin na千谨naAncient Romance340k WordsCompleted [Romance included; historical romance; there may or may not be awful relatives (I haven’t written any before, so I’m still working them out)] Xie Yu was an ordinary palace maid who became an ordinary female official. She longed to leave the palace, and at last her dream came true. With the savings she’d earned during ten years of palace work and her battered old bundle on her back, she returned to the hometown she’d been away from for so long. Her dream was to build a little home, open a small s 1.2kReads8.8Score106Shelves
14. 14 穿 After I Transmigrated, Animals of All Kinds Helped Me Get Rich and Spill the Tea 穿越后，各种动物带我发家又吃瓜 Doesn't Eat Piggies不吃猪猪Ancient Romance957k WordsCompleted No romance!!! (This is important, so it comes first.) Jiang Yu, director of a veterinary clinic, transmigrated one day and became the notorious terror of Jiangjiagou. A bad temper came standard, and her fiery personality was an added bonus. Armed with a straw broom, she opened with a few hard whacks to the backside of a blabbermouth. Jiang Yu, a self-proclaimed couch potato, had planned to slack off. Then she unexpectedly discovered that her veterinary clinic had come along with her as a pocket 458Reads7.8Score102Shelves
15. 15 听 Listening to a Donkey's Thoughts: Daily Life Running a Restaurant in Bianjing 听驴心声：汴京美食经营日常 Golden Flowers in Full Bloom金花朵朵Ancient Romance579k WordsCompleted (The low rating is only because the book was just listed.) · Transmigration + Everyday food and life among ordinary townsfolk + Mind reading (the little donkey is called Xiao Ba, with “Ba” meaning gossip) + A gentle, leisurely pace + A large ensemble cast later on · A modern chef transmigrates to the Song Dynasty. In this paradise of food, she doesn’t just eat: she develops new dishes and brings ancient and modern cuisines together in a grand feast. The Shen Tinghe family moves from the outskirt 4.2kReads8.5Score515Shelves
16. 16 被 After Being Cast Aside: Cui's Daily Life 被休后，崔娘子的起居日常 Dingdong Jiuj iu叮咚酒酒Ancient Romance664k WordsCompleted [Born into an Ancient Era + Alternate History + Strong Female Lead + Historical Romance + Lighthearted Daily Life + Male Lead] Cui Xiao, a modern-day corporate drone, died after pulling an all-nighter at work. When she woke up, she discovered she’d been born into the Cui family of the Da Li Dynasty. She was ready to lie flat and enjoy a life of having everything handed to her, but things turned out to be more complicated than she’d imagined. First, she was unlucky enough to get stuck with an irr 5.6kReads8.9Score578Shelves

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    Both of these books depict ordinary daily life in ancient times, and the writing style is very heartwarming.

17. 17 吾 Wherever My Heart Is at Peace, That Is Home 吾心安即吾乡 My Left Eyelid Keeps Twitching左眼皮跳啊跳Ancient Romance439k WordsCompleted A few acres of fields, a few children, and chickens, ducks, pigs, and cattle to call my own. -- “Could we go to your home in our next life?” “Are you silly? This is my home! You, the children, and everything else... This is the only place I call home.” 2kReads8.4Score117Shelves

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    The first book features a native female protagonist who flees famine to the Northwest, marries, has children, farms, and becomes wealthy. The second book features a female protagonist who starts out mute but is later cured, accumulates wealth by moving through mountains, buys land, and grows medicinal herbs to become rich.

18. 18 穿 Transmigrate and Flee the Famine, Farming to Bring Good Fortune to the Whole Family 穿越逃荒，种田旺全家 Sugar in the Sugar糖糖里糖Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [No Pocket Dimension + No Awful Relatives + Fleeing Famine + Farming + Everyday Family Life + The Whole Family Working Together Toward a Better Future] A PhD in agricultural science wakes up in the body of a farm girl. Nestled between mountains and water, her village is hit by both drought and earthquakes. Her family is loving, and there are no awful relatives. The thousands-of-miles journey to escape famine is fraught with danger. She farms and does business, leading her whole family to a bette 3.7kReads8.3Score313Shelves

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    A simple life, without kings or generals.

19. 19 分 Breaking with My Toxic Family, Buying Mountains and Land to Make Us All Prosper 分家断亲踹极品，买山买地旺全家 Sugar in the Sugar糖糖里糖Ancient Romance442k WordsCompleted [Transmigration] [Marriage Swap] [Farming and Getting Rich] [Face-Slapping] [Devoted Husband] [Fighting Over Her] Li Wanqing, who came from the modern world, transmigrates into the body of Huya, a child bride in ancient times, on her wedding night. She arrives just in time for a dramatic scene of catching an adulterer, and the worst part is that she is the one being caught. Before she can figure out what's going on, she's told her husband has been swapped, and her new groom is the scholar younge 1.4kReads8.2Score133Shelves
20. 20 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 13kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves

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    1. A heartwarming farming story without any overpowered characters or cheat codes. The family in Peach Blossom Village focuses on making money, saving up for a better life through the simple joys of everyday life. The gentle, enduring warmth of their lives is incredibly comforting. 2. The female protagonist transmigrates into the body of an orphaned farm girl. She develops her business using mushrooms and lacquer trees from the mountains. There's no system or cheat codes; it's all about the realism of earning a living through hard work. 3. Not a wish-fulfillment story, but rather the daily life of a girl from a neighboring village after marrying a man and focusing on farming. Picking mushrooms and planting fruit trees in the mountains, the young couple quietly saves money; their lives are filled with a down-to-earth warmth amidst the ordinary.

21. 21 种 Who Starts Farming by Sending Three Piglets as a Gift? 种田谁家男主开局送礼送三只猪崽 Green Robe青裳Ancient Romance1.7M WordsCompleted Completed. Dive in without worry! (Farming + No golden finger + Family life + Romance + Building a fortune + Cozy + No awful characters) No System! No pocket dimension!! No golden finger!!! No awful characters!!!! (We’ve said it three times because it’s important. The male lead appears late. The story focuses on building a career, with romance as a side plot x3.) Baihua Cave is a village deep in the mountains, home to nearly a hundred households. Everyone says it’s a poor and remote backwater. S 23kReads9.0Score2.5kShelves
22. 22 农 Daily Life in the Countryside 农家田园日常 Flowers Scatter Across the Galaxy花漫星河Ancient Romance696k WordsCompleted Tian Qingqing, a young woman from the Tian family in Xiaohe Village, married Zhao Shitou from the neighboring village. Zhao was twenty and had never married. By a twist of fate, he fell for Tian Qingqing, and a matchmaker brought the two together. After marrying, the young couple worked as a team and built a peaceful, cozy life together. (Please note: This is not a wish-fulfillment story or a story about a strong female lead. It's simply about a young couple in an ancient farming village, pickin 944Reads7.0Score100Shelves
23. 23 穿 Transmigrated to the Deep Mountains: Farming, Foraging for Mushrooms, and Selling Herbal Jelly 穿越深山老林，种田捡菌卖冰粉 Cheng Siyuan橙思源Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Liu Li Xia transmigrated to a remote mountain valley, where the family had barely a roof over their heads and went hungry every day. To make matters worse, the heavens refused to give her any golden finger at all. Raised under the red flag, she had never imagined hunger could feel so awful. She wanted food. A big bowl of rice. And plenty of meat, too. How could someone who knew nothing about farm work or crops achieve this “great ambition” in another world? 6kReads8.9Score511Shelves

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    No backstabbing, no awful people, just a simple, ordinary life.

24. 24 被 Driven from My Ancestral Home, I Feast with My Family 被逼出祖宅我带家人大鱼大肉 Let Go of the Promise放下了诺言Historical1.3M WordsCompleted Li Yongsheng wakes from a deep sleep to discover that he has transmigrated. Still dazed, he hears people arguing. His uncle, a scholar who had passed the first imperial exam, stole someone's jade pendant and was confronted over it. The family hurriedly held a discussion and made Li Yongsheng's honest, simple father take the blame. His mother was utterly unwilling, but she couldn't withstand the barrage of pressure. Fortunately, after the pendant was returned, the other party didn't pursue the ma 10.2kReads8.7Score855Shelves

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    Beautiful! Highly recommended! 🙂❤️❤️❤️❤️👍

25. 25 穿 Transmigrated with Three Kids! A Ruinous Start, a Road to Riches! 穿越带仨娃！天崩开局致富路！ Let Go of the Promise放下了诺言Historical1.2M WordsCompleted Li Tianming was done for. He lay motionless in a drafty thatched hut. He was a graduate student researching traditional Chinese medicine and herbal remedies, but after a loose-lipped remark, he tasted an herb and somehow transmigrated into the body of a pauper. Being poor wasn't the problem, and he could even accept being in his thirties. But the body was in terrible shape: its former owner had drunk himself to death, leaving Li Tianming with three children outside, wailing their hearts out! A d 21.6kReads8.1Score1.7kShelves
26. 26 大 The Strong Farmer Girl's Leisurely Life 大力农女的悠闲生活 Snowflakes Falling on a Winter's Day冬日雪花飘Ancient Romance656k WordsCompleted Luo Jinyun had just gotten into university when she transmigrated, becoming a baby still in the womb. That wasn’t even the worst of it. Her new family was desperately poor. At least they had no awful relatives, which was what pleased her most. 594Reads6.6Score—Shelves

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    Having just been admitted to university, I transmigrated into the body of a baby in an ancient womb. I have no system, no spatial ability, my family is extremely poor, and I was born with superhuman strength, gathering, and delicious food.

27. 27 吧 One Little Kiss, and the Rugged Man Goes Wild, Sweet-Talking Me into Coming Home 吧唧亲一口，糙汉疯了诱哄我回家 Little Bun小面包Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted A story about poverty alleviation, perfect for readers interested in civil service exams and public-sector jobs! [Energetic sweet girl & rugged man who’s crazy about sugar] [Transmigration + Farming + Substitute Marriage + Making a Fortune + Pocket Space + Rural Revitalization] She spends her very first day in another world getting married, and her rugged husband is studying an illustrated manual right in front of her?! What a wild start. Lin Baochu says, “I can’t take this. I really can’t!” A s 4.2kReads8.5Score408Shelves

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    This book takes place far from the imperial court, where the female and male protagonists take charge of their own lives and recruit people to help alleviate poverty.

28. 28 全 The Whole Family Transmigrates: 18 Ways to Survive in Ancient Times 全家穿越：古代生存十八法 The Butterfly Doesn't Want To蝴蝶不愿意Ancient Romance3.1M WordsCompleted The whole family transmigrates to ancient times after an accident. Whether that counts as good luck or bad luck is anyone’s guess. They’ve barely woken up when they find out the family has no money, no land, and a mountain of debt to repay. Not one of them has a golden finger, either. But the dog that came along with them is rather interesting. Could it be some kind of divine hound? This big family has to put food on the table, keep the household harmonious, and make progress in their studies. W 49.5kReads9.5Score5.3kShelves

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    A farming novel with a rating of 9.5 or higher, featuring a simple yet hilarious life of farming and getting rich, with funny moments of beating up awful relatives! You'll laugh so hard you'll wake up in the middle of the night and want to punch me!

29. 29 寒 A Bride Raised in Poverty: I Farm to Support the Heir 寒门童养媳：我靠种田发家养世子 Xiuyun Zhi岫云织Ancient Romance474k WordsCompleted Transmigration + farming + imperial examinations + face-slapping the worst sort of people + a mystery about her origins + storing grain for years of famine This novel has no romance, no romance, no romance. The heroine just wants to retire, lie flat, and keep 180 male models! Agronomy PhD Shen Qingci transmigrates into the body of a twelve-year-old child bride. The moment she opens her eyes, she is being sold to an old widower who beat his wife to death. She turns the tables on the scoundrel, ta 876Reads8.2Score—Shelves
30. 30 恶 The Villainess Redeemed! The Family She Ruined Can Be Saved 恶女洗白！被祸害的一家人有救了 Firework Tree烟花树Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Signed for print publication [farming + transmigration + medicine + family life + building wealth + fleeing disaster + devoted romance] Clear-headed heroine vs. loyal, devoted hero Lu Qingqing, who holds doctorates in both Chinese and Western medicine, transmigrates into the body of a wicked woman. She bullies the elderly, beats children, and even kicks sick old dogs on the roadside. Because of her, her father loses the general store he spent his life working for. For her sake, her eldest brothe 78.1kReads8.9Score9.3kShelves
31. 31 种 Farming and Supporting the Family: Reborn as a Hunter's Young Wife 种田养家：穿成猎户家的小娘子 Nine-Tailed Susu九尾苏苏Ancient Romance143k WordsCompleted Transmigrate to ancient times + no golden finger + farming + raising children + getting rich + a cozy pastoral life Lin Wu was a food video blogger. After being bitten to death by a zombie, she transmigrated into ancient times and woke up in the body of Lin Wuniang, a woman who looked just like her. She found herself in a hunter's home, with a fiancé to boot. Li Qingshan came home in the middle of the night. The moment he stepped through the door, someone mistook him for a thief and clubbed hi 148Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I highly recommend this book I recently read; it's incredibly good! It's a simple, heartwarming slice-of-life story about farming, without any overpowered plot devices.

32. 32 种 Farming and Business: I Just Want to Make Money, Pay Off My Debts, and Lie Flat 种田经商：我只想赚钱还债后躺平 A Bubble of Foam一个泡泡沫Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Farming] [Getting Rich] [Everyday Family Life] [Cozy Daily Life] [Gourmet] [Slow-Paced] [No Awful Relatives] [No Imperial Authority, Just Ordinary People's Lives] Xia He had just paid off her mortgage and bought a new car when a sudden car accident sent her into the body of a peasant girl in ancient times. From the start, her family had nothing but bare walls, and they were deep in debt from paying for her medical treatment. Fortunately, her grandparents doted on her, her parents spoiled her, a 8kReads8.2Score695Shelves

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    This book meets the criteria: it contains no imperial power and no top-tier items.

33. 33 揣 Pregnant with Twins, She Remarries a Hunter and Leads His Family to Wealth and Plenty 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, slow pace, simple and realistic, a gentle and enduring story. A rugged 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 famine years. If you're interested, I highly recommend this book, "The Life of Ordinary People in the City."

34. 34 村 The Family at the End of the Village 村尾人家 Qing You清优Ancient Romance6.5M WordsOngoing [Fictional setting + cozy farming + everyday family life + slow-burn slice of life] With no love from her father or stepmother, Tian Xiaoxi has endured years of torment. Now she is forced to marry Chen Jiawang, a cripple from the neighboring village. She thinks she is doomed to sink into a mire with no hope of ever turning her life around. Little does she know that the man fell in love with her at first sight long ago. After they marry, he cherishes her dearly. They have a lovely son and daug 20.7kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves

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    Plain and ordinary, no time travel, no cheat codes.

35. 35 穿 Reborn as the Eldest Sister of a Farming Family, I Grow Rich with My Own Garden 穿成农家长姐，自带菜园发家致富 Long Sleeves, No Dancing Skills长袖不善舞Ancient Romance312k WordsOngoing [Farming + Pocket Space + Business and Wealth + Raising Kids + Everyday Family Life] Her mother died in childbirth, and her father was conscripted into military service and reported dead in battle. Her aunt dropped the pretense and tried to take Yu Daya's house to find a wife for her own son. When that failed, she refused to call a doctor for Daya's sick younger brother. Daya secretly boiled an egg for him, and her own grandmother beat her to death with a rolling pin. Then Yu Wan arrived in her 9Reads—Score112Shelves

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    A simple and cozy daily life, without princes or generals.

36. 36 携 With Dad and Mom in Tow, Three Sisters Grow Rich Through Farming 携父带母，三姐妹靠种田致富 Tao Lulu陶陆陆Ancient Romance542k WordsOngoing The Tu family was once wealthy, but with a wastrel in the family, they eventually lost everything and had to return to the countryside. Life there was no easier. Since Tu's grandfather's generation, the family had only had one daughter. She married a man who joined her family, and together they had three girls. Ever since, the gossip about the family having no male heir had never stopped. The villagers all said that with a son-in-law living in the Tu household and only three daughters, the famil 46Reads8.1Score104Shelves
37. 37 穿 Transmigrate: Watch Her Make the Most of Life in the Deep Mountains 穿越，看她玩转深山 Chubby Baby胖胖多宝宝Rural Life205k WordsCompleted A 21st-century wage worker transmigrates to a farm deep in the mountains of Southwest China. See how the young farmer girl Lin Maisui leads her family up the mountains and down to the rivers to work the land. It turns out that life in the mountains is the idyllic rural dream Lin Maisui longed for in her previous life but could never attain. 118Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's about farming in the village, the cozy daily life of farming, three meals a day, and the four seasons.

38. 38 空 After My Spatial Powers Awakened, the Shen Family’s Ninth Daughter Went on a Rampage 空间觉醒后，沈家九娘杀疯了 Chubby Baby胖胖多宝宝Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Transmigration · Pocket Dimension · No Romance · Farming · Building Wealth · Female Growth · Slow Burn The whole village was stunned on the day the ninth daughter of the Shen family was made a princess. Before she turned eight, she was a little girl who gathered wild vegetables by the field ridges. After she turned eight, she became a transmigrator who awoke with a pocket dimension. She builds schools, offers up grain seeds, saves the heir to the throne, opens restaurants, and builds mountain 58Reads—Score—Shelves
39. 39 克 The Couple Cursed to Bring Misfortune to Each Other Strike It Rich 克夫克妻的小夫妻发达啦 Yan Zhiqing言之清Ancient Romance262k WordsCompleted (No rebirth, no transmigration, no golden finger. Everyday family life, a slow and steady pace.) Less than a year after Li Xiaotao married into her husband's family, he died of illness, leaving her branded as a husband-killer. Driven back to her parents' home, Li Xiaotao struggled for three years to raise her child. She ate less than a chicken and worked harder than an ox. In the end, her family married her off to a man said to bring death to his wives. A husband-killer and a wife-killer: toget 1.1kReads—Score105Shelves
40. 40 重 Reborn in the Wilderness Era 重生野生时代 The Heart Moves with the Fruit心随果动Historical2.4M WordsCompleted This novel is about transmigrating to the age of primitive tribes, into a matriarchal society. Together with the clever and spirited (Grass), the gentle and docile (Butterfly), and the simple-minded (Stone), the protagonist leads a small tribe to become the greatest tribe and unite the Lost Continent. 1.7kReads8.7Score121Shelves

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    Life is very ordinary

41. 41 离 This Is Ridiculous! I Transmigrated to Ancient Times and Ran into My Late Mom? 离谱！穿越古代遇上过世的老妈？ Little Fish Is Slacking Off Again Today小鱼今天也摆烂Ancient Romance223k WordsCompleted No pocket dimension, no System, no wealthy-family power struggles, no princes or nobles! A cozy, everyday story + farming and business, all about a peaceful life and being content with modest prosperity. Lin Xi, a wage slave working late into the night, unexpectedly transmigrates to an impoverished farming family in ancient times. The biggest surprise is that she reunites there with her mother, who passed away long ago. No golden finger, no lucky breaks or shortcuts. She relies on the little cle 210Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Completed!! Highly recommended! An incredibly heartwarming ancient Chinese farming story that's absolutely addictive!

42. 42 无 After Becoming a Mom Without the Pain, I Turned My Whole Family into Winners 无痛当娘后我带飞了全家 Daydreaming Brick Expert白日梦砖家Ancient Romance347k WordsCompleted (Volume One is complete and can be read on its own!) An ancient-world, tough yet tender country man x a kind, capable modern-day young woman [Transmigration + Farming + Food + Family life + Raising kids + Cozy everyday life] After transmigrating, A He just wanted to have a word with Heaven! Why did everyone else who transmigrated become royalty or a noblewoman? She alone had ended up in the body of a village girl whose ambitions reached for the sky, in a family so poor they had nothing to eat af 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A very simple farming novel; the male and female protagonists are both ordinary people.

43. 43 花 When the Flowers Bloom 花若盛开 In an Old Friend's Heart故人心上Ancient Romance1.7M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + No Pocket Dimension + No Golden Finger + Farming + Business + Food + Growth-Oriented Career-Driven Female Lead + Growth-Oriented Male Lead + Not a Goody-Two-Shoes + One-on-One Romance] She transmigrates into the twelve-year-old granddaughter of a rural scholar. Her grandmother is long dead, her parents have vanished without a trace, and her grandfather has just died. To escape the unreasonable harassment of unscrupulous clan members, she leaves her hometown with her seven-year- 14.1kReads8.7Score1.7kShelves

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    This is a heartwarming and simple farming novel. There are no special abilities or cheat codes. It's positive, with a clear plot and interconnected storylines that keep you hooked. The female protagonist is intelligent, generous, kind, and has a sharp edge. It's a super enjoyable farming novel!

44. 44 穿 I Transmigrated with a Supermarket, and the Village Chief Made Me One of Them 穿越自带超市，村长让我来当 Lian Qiuchi涟秋池Historical1.0M WordsCompleted [Ancient rural life + warm daily life + farming + easygoing and harmonious + no nasty characters + no female lead + no romance] Li Huaixi transmigrates. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a fool's body, surrounded by piglets in a pen, a muddy courtyard and a thatched hut, with his third uncle next door... His family is so poor they can barely scrape by, but life goes on. Bringing a supermarket with him, Li Huaixi sets about slowly revitalizing the whole village of Xiaozhuang! He digs irrigati 4.3kReads8.4Score338Shelves
45. 45 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? 56Reads8.3Score—Shelves

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    Simplicity is the best

46. 46 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 457Reads6.7Score—Shelves

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    A simple farming and hoarding story, plain and uneventful, without any special abilities, romantic pairings, or the possibility of becoming an official or getting rich overnight.

47. 47 村 Every Family in the Village Fends for Itself 村庄儿女各当家 July Hasn't Arrived Yet七月还没来Ancient Romance566k WordsCompleted [A fictional setting, ensemble cast, family and village life + a slow, steady pace + no rebirth or transmigration] Village children and little stories of farm life, simple and heartwarming, with no awful characters. When a man comes of age, he marries; when a woman comes of age, she weds. Zhou Baochun is about to leave her family home and become a wife. Her in-laws have “a bad reputation,” but the marriage was arranged long ago. Life with her mother-in-law, the neighbors, and the fields. There a 10.5kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves

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    Group portrait + daily life in the fields

48. 48 穿 Transmigrated to Ancient Times, I Keep My Head Down and Grow Up 穿到古代苟着长大 Sikong Zhiyu司空执与Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted After an ordinary woman dies, she transmigrates to another world. She is no self-sacrificing heroine! No pocket dimension, no System, no golden finger, and no awful relatives! There is a romantic pairing! This is a story of struggle built on her own experience and hard work, with farming and business management. The pace is unhurried, and life is slow. If that's not your cup of tea, please don't flame me! Any resemblance to other works is purely coincidental! 2.3kReads8.9Score135Shelves

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    Ordinary life, not the martial arts world or the imperial court, but development from the bottom up.

49. 49 身 A Beautiful Farming Life in Another Body 身穿之美丽种田记 Listening to Lotus in the Night Rain夜雨听荷Ancient Romance817k WordsCompleted (No System, no golden finger, just an ordinary person with sound values) This isn’t a get-rich-quick wish-fulfillment story, nor is the heroine a lone beauty who needs no one. She has a grand vision for her family: one flower alone doesn’t make spring, but a hundred flowers in bloom fill the garden with spring. After taking part in a Hanfu event, Zhao Meili unexpectedly found herself in ancient times, where she was rescued by Guo Ping, a hunter. With no household registration, Zhao Meili couldn 2.4kReads8.9Score224Shelves

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    A farming story with no special background or identity, peaceful and harmonious, focusing on everyday family life.

50. 50 一 All I Want in Life Is Half a Heart’s Contentment 一生只求半称心 Hedge Shadow篱影Modern Romance582k WordsCompleted The comic adaptation is coming soon! [Traditional] [No gimmicks] [Not a power fantasy] [No cheat abilities] In the 1970s, Li Laoman had no sons, so he wanted to find a live-in son-in-law for his third daughter, Li Fan. Li Fan refused and stole her second sister Li Ting's fiance instead! Now Li Ting had not only lost her man, but also had to take on the responsibility of finding a live-in son-in-law for her younger sister. With Li Laoman pressuring her, she had no choice but to take Zhong Wensong 9.6kReads8.9Score810Shelves

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    It's too bland, just a rural-era story.

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