Ancient-Era Famine Escape Stories. Why Are They All Female-Oriented? 古代逃荒类型。那些小说怎么全是，女频文啊，

1. 1 暴 The Violent Scholar: From Fleeing Famine to Becoming an Earthly Immortal 暴力书生：从逃荒路到陆地神仙 Evergreen Tea Tree茶树长青Historical2.4M WordsCompleted After giving birth to ten beautiful granddaughters, the Zhang family finally had a precious grandson, Zhang Anping! The Zhangs had counted on the clever Zhang Anping to become the top scholar and then the prime minister! But who could have expected that he would be born into a time of chaos, when everyone was fleeing famine? A scholar was useless in a crisis! Still, why were chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep running around everywhere along the escape route? Other families were selling their sons 9.2kReads8.6Score976Shelves
2. 2 穿 Transmigrated as a Small-Time Landowner 穿越小地主 Useless in Battle战五渣Historical1.5M WordsCompleted I've transmigrated! Really transmigrated! Other people transmigrate and get a golden finger or a System. Zhan Hui, on the other hand, arrives in an ancient world entirely alone, his soul sent to another realm. He thinks this is a pretty rotten deal. If he wants a good life, he'll have to rely on himself. But since he's here, he might as well become a little landlord with a thousand mu of fertile land. Follow Zhan Hui as he goes from being on the verge of starvation to becoming a landowner in ano 1kReads8.7Score106Shelves

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   Come on, male-oriented!

3. 3 穿 Transmigrated as a Useless Prince? Watch Me Build a Technological Dynasty 穿越成废物王爷？看我缔造科技王朝 A Thought in the Mortal World一念红尘Historical1.1M WordsCompleted His father died, and his eldest brother ascended the throne. The new emperor covets him and wants him eliminated at once? The powerful ministers look down on him and scheme against him at every turn? He refuses to lie flat and wait for death! Brew wine and stockpile grain, make paper and print books, invent gunpowder, barbecue, skewer hotpot... There is nothing Lu Zhuo can't accomplish, and nothing he can't invent. A grand era of technological empire is about to begin! Aristocratic nobles: Your 1.4kReads8.8Score125Shelves
4. 4 逍 The Carefree Little Landlord 逍遥小地主 Block the West Tower堵上西楼Historical3.0M WordsCompleted He was lucky enough to transmigrate, and even into the family of a wealthy landlord. He'd never have to worry about food or clothes, but he had no intention of wasting his life doing nothing. So Fu Xiaoguan casually set a few things in motion, never expecting the impact to be so enormous. The emperor wants to make him a first-rank official, the princess wants him as her husband, the daughter of the Minister's household refuses to marry anyone else, the barbarians want his head, the Yi Kingdom wa 37.2kReads8.9Score4.3kShelves
5. 5 大 The Earth God of Great Zhou 大周土地公 Lone Boat Herding Clouds孤舟牧云Eastern Fantasy5.6M WordsCompleted [Quality guaranteed across 5 million characters. Feel free to bookmark and enjoy!] He transmigrates into the world of Sword and Fairy and becomes the lowest-ranking Earth God. Relying on the incense offerings of the spirits in the wilderness, such as weasels, foxes, rats, hedgehogs, and snakes, he grows stronger step by step and establishes a clan of immortals. He teaches weasels to lay bricks, foxes to tell stories, rats to mint coins, and pythons to sail the seas... Starting out as an Earth Go 27.3kReads9.0Score3.3kShelves
6. 6 穿 I Transmigrated as a Prince, and I’m Done Trying 穿越之王爷我摆烂了 Miao Qiqi喵柒柒Two Male Leads307k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads + Sweet Everyday Romance + Happy Ending] Qin Huanzhi, who died of stomach cancer in the modern world, transmigrates into the body of a prince with the same name. To his surprise, the prince had been adored by everyone, but had managed to get himself killed. Now Qin Huanzhi has been reborn in his place, with such a powerful background that he might as well take it easy. But as he lounges around, he finds himself growing more and more attached to his young bodyguard. “It's fine if 4.1kReads9.5Score577Shelves
7. 7 穿EN Trapped in a Novel: The Stunning Villain and the Darkened Hero's Obsessive Love 穿书：绝美反派被黑化男主强制爱 Cheng Nezha城哪吒Two Male Leads471k WordsCompleted (Complete) BL + both leads are chaste + transmigrate into a book + cultivation + confinement Straight man Ning Ke wakes up one day inside the cultivation novel written by his younger sister. From the start, he’s destined to be the villain, tortured and killed by the male lead! Fortunately, a System appears at the crucial moment and binds itself to him. It turns back time and sends him to the male lead’s past to fix plot holes and keep himself alive! So Ning Ke dons secret identities and, one aft 10.9kReads9.6Score1.7kShelves
8. 8 我 Livestreaming the Building of an Aircraft Carrier in the 1990s 我在九十年代直播建航母 You Are All Gods of Beauty诸君都是颜帝Urban1.4M WordsOngoing Fang Mo transmigrates to the 1990s in a parallel world, backed by a steel company. His first move is to buy up the wreckage of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk. Wreckage? No problem! With his Trans-Dimensional Livestream System, he broadcasts to the 21st century, where a billion viewers support building an aircraft carrier in the 1990s! Eagle Sauce: The Ulyanovsk has been brought back to life? Fang Mo: Nuclear power, dual-band phased-array radar, electromagnetic catapults. Want to 86Reads9.2Score—Shelves
9. 9 开 Fleeing Famine from the Start, I Keep a Low Profile and Become a Powerful Figure in Troubled Times 开局逃荒，苟在乱世做权贵 When Young, I Didn't Know Leopards Were So Great年少不知豹豹好Historical504k WordsCompleted Lin Rui, who’d gone back to his hometown to loaf around, transmigrates into a chaotic era: warlords fight for power, foreign tribes invade, the emperor is weak, and the people are displaced. The foreign cavalry is about to reach the capital, and the emperor and officials have already fled. Unfortunately, Lin Rui has transmigrated into a poor commoner, with barely a copper to his name. Fortunately, his mansion has come along too. Its functions are stingy and pretty useless, but at least it keeps 10.1kReads8.6Score780Shelves

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   These are some similar novels I've listed. No female-centric stories, no famine relief romances, and no female-oriented novels.

10. 10 兵 War Forces Me to Flee? I Can Summon Peerless Generals 兵灾逼我逃难？我能召唤绝世猛将 Daoist Wick灯芯道人Historical1.0M WordsCompleted [Lean times + farming family + war and disaster + stockpiling supplies + exchange shop + alternate history + daily life + survival] [An ancient-world take on post-apocalyptic survival] Xu Changshou transmigrates into the body of a six-year-old farm boy. It is a year of famine, and his family has nothing to its name. How will he feed his large family? Fortunately, he has an exchange shop: [Unpolished rice, two copper coins per jin, limit of three jin per day.] [Fattened pork belly, ten copper coi 12.7kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves
11. 11 你 You Hoard Grain While They Starve, and My System Is Awesome 你们闹荒我囤粮，我的系统就是牛 Immortal Lord Tai Xuan仙君太玄Urban1.6M WordsOngoing [Secret Identities] [Low Aggression] [Comedy] [Period Setting] [System] [Male Lead] [Transmigration] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Easygoing] [Black Technology] [Stirring Up Trouble] I was reborn in the 1960s or 70s, with no food and no clothes. Luckily, I have a critical-hit System. Congratulations, Host, you've drawn a chicken drumstick. Critical hit: 100 times. Reward: 100 chicken drumsticks. Oh, finally, I've got something to eat... After eating my fill, I even have to help the country rise to 29.3kReads8.8Score1.6kShelves
12. 12 乞 A Beggar Fleeing Famine: Just Stay Alive 乞丐逃荒，不死就行 Fish Who Talks Too Much鱼多嘴Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted A little beggar on the streets of Sanxi Town, known by the nickname Bamboo Viper. For the first ten years or so, he barely managed to scrape by. When floods struck the Two Huai regions, he somehow survived and, for reasons he couldn't explain, fled the disaster with a string of little ones in tow. He took in children, learned to fish, and cleared land to farm. A beggar makes mistakes, is fiercely protective of his own, and tries his best to become a good older brother. The siblings go from havin 5.4kReads9.3Score674Shelves
13. 13 穿 Transmigrate to a Famine Year with a Pocket Dimension: No Fear of Disasters or Pests 穿越荒年空间有，天灾虫灾不在怕 Loves Pineapple and Grapes爱吃菠萝和葡萄Ancient Romance210k WordsCompleted (Farming + Famine + Cuisine + Pocket Dimension) Some of this story's setting and locations have been adapted with reference to real historical famines, but the dynasty is fictional and the events are made up! Please don't scrutinize the historical details! Su Baoxin only took a nap, yet she transmigrated to an unfamiliar dynasty! Good grief, she hadn't even gotten the chance to enjoy a lie-flat life before she transmigrated into a famine, with nothing to eat or drink! A frail, beautiful mother, 7Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It has both male and female perspectives 😳😳

14. 14 抄 My Family Was Seized and Exiled: I Emptied the National Treasury and Fled the Famine! 抄家流放：我搬空国库去逃荒！ A Ripple一抹涟漪Historical1.0M WordsCompleted Just after transmigrating here, Yan Yun’s father, eldest brother, and second brother were beheaded at the border by the emperor on charges of plotting rebellion, because their achievements had become a threat to the throne! But in consideration of the three men’s illustrious military service, their family was spared. They escaped the death penalty, but couldn’t avoid punishment! The whole family, young and old, was exiled to a desolate land! Fine, exile us, then! But his eldest and second brothe 32.3kReads8.8Score2.8kShelves
15. 15 天 Fleeing Disaster: Our Whole Family Transmigrated to Ancient Times to Survive 天灾逃荒：全家穿到古代求生存 One Meal a Week一周一饭Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [No romantic pairing + farming + infrastructure development + exile + famine migration, a pure plot-driven novel] Ji Xingran never imagined that simply climbing a mountain would result in their family of three transmigrating. They even transmigrated into a group of exiles headed toward a bitterly cold land. Fortunately, all three family members' backpacks became spatial storage, and Ji Xingran also gained special survival skill points that allowed them to predict the weather, gather wild fruit, 13.3kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
16. 16 古 Ancient Apocalypse: Stockpiling Supplies to Survive the Flight from Famine 古代末日：囤物资逃荒生存 Memories Like a Dream如梦记忆Ancient Romance400k WordsCompleted [Ancient apocalypse + low-level martial world + woman transmigrates into a man's body + space + infrastructure building] An accident sent Lin Zhi's jade pendant, which she had worn for years, carrying her through space and into ancient times. After arriving in the past, she discovered that not only had her gender changed, but this ancient world was far from an ordinary one. The world was undergoing a turbulent transformation, shifting from an ordinary small world into a low-level martial world. 1.1kReads7.3Score103Shelves
17. 17 穿 Transmigrating: From Local Rascal to Regional Warlord 穿越，我从二流子混成了一方霸主 Pig Eight-Flower's Brother猪八花她哥Historical412k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + Feel-Good Story + Absurd Comedy + Wild Ideas + Comeback] Yang Li, an engineering student, is hit by a car driven by a drunk while saving a child, and transmigrates to ancient times. What? He’s become a good-for-nothing whom everyone despises? His family is poor, yet he’s been gambling, and now the creditors are at the door, threatening to seize his son and daughter as payment? This is absurd beyond belief. What can he do? He can only hurry up and earn money to pay off his debts 13Reads6.3Score—Shelves

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    Desertion and famine, male-oriented, the male protagonist gets rich in the early stages, and later becomes a lord who controls a region and builds a modern city.

18. 18 异 A Powerful Outsider on the Road to Escape the Famine 异世大佬，逃荒在路上 Yi Zhi You Lan一致幽兰Ancient Romance612k WordsCompleted Cheng Jin, a cold-blooded assassin who transmigrated from another world, must figure out how to survive with the Cheng family in an ancient rural village. When foreign invaders arrive to kill, burn, rob, and pillage, she leads the whole village on a desperate flight. Along the way, she crosses towering mountains, ventures into dense forests, fights wolf packs, falls in love, and deals with a few despicable characters. This assassin’s quiet little life is the envy of everyone around her... 512Reads7.5Score—Shelves

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19. 19 全 My Whole Family Transmigrated into a War Zone. Don’t Panic, We Have the System 全家穿战乱，别慌，系统加持中 A Pheasant, Not a Phoenix山鸡不是凰Ancient Romance605k WordsOngoing A family of three is transmigrated to ancient times. They open their eyes to find a war just beginning, in a backward rural region of the central plains, and with not a penny to their name. Fortunately, each of them has a special advantage. Mom has a space and is in charge of stockpiling supplies. Dad has an intelligent map and is an expert at planning escape routes and defending against attacks. Their son has an arsenal of weapons and is determined to turn everyone into heroes who can stand up 223Reads8.6Score—Shelves

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    A family of three travels back in time to escape war and chaos. They have a spatial ability, a shopping system, and an ancient navigation map. They update daily!

20. 20 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 348Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is a novel about fleeing from natural disasters in the early stages, but it will include farming elements later on. It features a system with an in-game store where you can exchange items. The system involves earning points by slapping the protagonist's group in the face. These points can then be redeemed for goods.

21. 21 倒 The Unlucky One: Exiled, Then Fleeing Famine 倒霉蛋流放又逃荒 Abundant Harvest丰一足十Historical231k WordsOngoing [The unluckiest of the unlucky + a nobody at the bottom of society + getting battered by life + stumbling upon an opportunity + surviving in the wilderness + going from underdog to success]. A low-level nobody is born unlucky. One careless mistake lands him in prison, where he is sentenced to exile and military service. On the road to exile, Heaven takes pity on him and grants him a golden finger. He picks up a transmigrated girl fleeing famine, and she and the others gradually help him rise to —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Exiled for three thousand miles to escape famine, like Liangshan Marsh: spending the famine year on an island in the middle of the river.

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