Classic Fishing and Foraging Novels, Highly Rated Gems! 经典赶海钓鱼🐟小说，高分佳作！

1. 101 末 Doomsday Island: I Pick Up a Big Shot and Start Farming Together 末日孤岛：捡个大佬一起来种田 Left and Right, Just Right左宜右有Sci-Fi & Apocalypse468k WordsOngoing [Island Farming] + [Slow Pace] + [Max-Level Expert] + [Cozy and Healing] + [Good Food] + [Sweet Romance, No Angst] Three hundred years ago, a cataclysm struck Earth, leaving the world with nothing but countless isolated islands. Floods, scorching heat, extreme cold… Humanity has been reduced to primitive farming and hunting. While survivors fight over half a moldy loaf of bread at sea, Mu Yao is reclining on a beach chair on her own island, enjoying chilled lychees from her refrigerator. She pos 2kReads8.4Score217Shelves

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   This one fits the bill perfectly, highly recommended! It's a post-apocalyptic island farming novel. It's simple and peaceful, with no awful characters or superpowers, just the female protagonist farming alone on a deserted island. She works hard every day just to make ends meet. She weaves fishing nets by lamplight at night and picks tomatoes covered in dew from her garden in the early morning. Life is slow, but warm. The male protagonist gives up his powerful status to live this slow life with her, because he has found true peace.

2. 102 开 Catching a Giant Softshell Turtle from the Start 开局垂钓巨型甲鱼 The Qu Family瞿氏家族Urban374k WordsCompleted Giant catches + snapped rods + System + fishing + magical bait + reservoir Also known as: Catching a Giant Softshell Turtle from the Start In a bustling, noisy city, Qu Zeyu had once been a high-flying white-collar worker. Handsome and talented, he was widely regarded at the company as a promising young star. However, a scandal sparked by a woman unexpectedly dragged him into the company's internal power struggle, ultimately getting him laid off. That day, Qu Zeyu walked into the office as usual 419Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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   Fishing for giant fish is exciting

3. 103 八 The Eighties on a Seaside Island: A Military Wife Riding the Wind and Waves 八零海岛：乘风破浪的军嫂 Joyful Songs and Laughter欢歌笑语Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted Rebirth + military marriage + golden finger + ocean treasure hunting Reborn in 1982, Lin Caidie comes to her senses and immediately sets about breaking off her engagement. In this life, she absolutely won’t walk into that fire pit again. She’s going to pursue her own happiness. Huh, she has a golden finger too? From then on, the ocean is her own backyard. 6.3kReads9.0Score849Shelves

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   These novels about beachcombing are all very good, especially the first one. Once you start reading, you can't put it down. They are all stories of self-improvement and struggle.

4. 104 赶 Beachcombing: I Strike It Rich with a Lucky Beachcombing Tool 赶海：从幸运赶海夹开始暴富 The Wolf Isn't Ruthless Enough狼太不够狠Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Tidepooling + Fishing + Lighthearted + Everyday Life + Tycoon] After transmigrating to a small fishing village, Cao Dapeng discovered that he could see a different symbol on every fish. Successfully catching a fish earned him a corresponding reward that he could cash out. Catch a grouper marked with ¥, and 350 yuan lands in his bank account. Catch an octopus marked with ⚔, and he can cash out a lucky tidepooling grabber. Catch a green sea turtle marked with ☯, and he can cash out an underwater 5kReads8.4Score360Shelves
5. 105 赶 Gathering Seafood: I Can See Life Points in the Sea 赶海，我能看见海中生命点 I Love Brewing Tea我爱冲茶Urban190k WordsOngoing Everything in this book is made from scratch! A laid-back story about beachcombing, sea fishing, and everyday life. He survived three years of the pandemic and figured that if he just kept his head down and did his job, everything would be fine. But nothing is more brutal than the layoffs he never saw coming. The bad news? His name was on the list. With no choice, he packed his things and left the job where he’d worked so hard as a wage slave. Li Wen planned to visit his parents back in his home 42Reads—Score138Shelves

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   This one is alright!

6. 106 为 To Snag a Village Entry Slot, Rich Women Worldwide Hurl Billions at It 为抢进村名额，全球富婆怒砸百亿 Old Meow Mister老喵先森Urban1.4M WordsCompleted [Fishing by the Sea] [Tycoon] [Countryside] [Fishing] [Livestream] Zhou Yang, whose net worth was over a hundred million, lost everything overnight, and his wife ran off. Just as he was about to step onto the rooftop, he suddenly acquired the strongest Countryside Upgrade System. After upgrading his family’s fish pond, it actually turned into the sea. From then on, things quickly got out of hand. All kinds of rare sea fish appeared, drawing in all sorts of fishing enthusiasts. From that day on, 3.7kReads7.3Score240Shelves

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   Let me recommend my book. Quality guaranteed, fresh opening, currently over 700,000 words, quite substantial. Those of you experiencing a reading slump should definitely check it out! I guarantee you won't be disappointed!

7. 107 重 Back to an 80s Fishing Village: Quietly Becoming a Seafood Tycoon 重回80小渔村，苟出个海鲜大亨 Coughing Old Cuckoo咳嗽老杜鹃Urban203k WordsOngoing [Rebirth + period setting + pocket dimension and spirit spring + making up for past regrets + reformed drifter + family squabbles + one heroine + sisterly bonds + farming and raising children] Yang Yi was just out fishing when his line flew into a power line. When he woke up, he had returned to 1980. His parents had been swept away by a storm and stranded on a deserted island, their fate unknown. His eldest sister was about to take pills and die under the pressure after he stole money to gamble. 115Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Rebirth + beachcombing + adorable pets + business management + everyday family life + making up for regrets + romance + ... You'll know once you read it.

8. 108 穿 Transmigrating to a Fishing Village: Lying Flat in Hong Kong 穿越小渔村之润去香江躺平 Yang Erxiao杨二笑Urban243k WordsOngoing (Period setting, pocket dimension, treasure hunting at sea, daily life, Hong Kong) Chen Hao arrives in an Eighties-era fishing village on the coast of Fujian with a pocket dimension. Through a twist of fate, he makes his way to Hong Kong, where he and his family lie flat, raise fish on rafts, buy fishing boats, build a submersible and a house, and collect all kinds of things. (You think I'm writing, but actually I'm watching short videos and editing pictures 🫢) 1.2kReads—Score124Shelves

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   Beachcombing, fish rafts, fishing

9. 109 日 Paying One Billion in Taxes a Day, and You Call This a Village Collective Enterprise? 日交税十亿，你说这是村集体企业 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban523k WordsCompleted Zeng Fanchao, the richest man in Beihu Province, catches the eye of people who want to seize his family fortune for free. When he refuses, Liu Batian, a prison warden who holds the low ninth rank, sends men to sever his tendons, force-feed him a drug that robs him of his voice, and throw him from a cliff over a hundred meters high. He crashes down onto the land temple beneath the cliff, smashing it to pieces. His own body is shattered, too, but the blood flowing from him is mysteriously absorbed 637Reads6.4Score—Shelves

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   Dragon Blood Fishing specializes in catching giant fish. We offer various fishing methods: fishing, beachcombing, using traps, diving, and seine nets. We've caught lobsters over two meters long and weighing forty pounds, king crabs larger than millstones and weighing over a hundred pounds, and fish weighing hundreds or even thousands of pounds. Isn't that amazing?

10. 110 重 Reborn in 1960: The System Helps Me Rule the Hunting Grounds 重生60：系统助我猎界称雄 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban345k WordsCompleted Li Changsheng became a thirty-year mortgage slave after buying a home with no down payment. With housing prices falling and his job gone, he was on his way home when he kindly helped an elderly person who had fallen, only to be extorted by them. So he simply dragged them along to die with him, ridding the world of two bad people. Unexpectedly, he then received a Cloning System and transmigrated, reborn into the body of another Li Changsheng in 1960. See how Li Changsheng uses the Cloning System 992Reads6.1Score—Shelves
11. 111 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 617Reads8.0Score—Shelves
12. 112 重 Reborn as a Cow: Ruling the Dark Planet 重生成牛：称霸黑暗星球 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban113k WordsCompleted Ye Daniu transmigrated and was reborn in the body of an African buffalo that had just been killed by a lion. Using human intelligence, he killed the lion and became the King of the Buffaloes. From then on, the African buffaloes began practicing martial arts and forming battle formations, wiping out prides of lions and packs of wolves. They exterminated the hyenas, unified the grasslands, and became its overlords. When the apocalypse arrived, the King of the Buffaloes led herds of buffaloes, zebr 142Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 113 一 A Family of Three Goofballs Transmigrates to 1959 and Turns the Whole Clan Upside Down 一家三颠穿越59年代，掀翻全族 Rapid1急速1Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Synopsis: The whole family transmigrates + 1950s + space + difficult relatives + years of famine + family life + island + fishing + System + no brainless decisions Lin Haishen and his wife, Huang Shuyao, went skydiving to celebrate their son Lin Yanxi's twentieth birthday. They plunged from the sky and seamlessly crossed into another era, arriving in an island fishing village in 1959. From the start, they got straight to work, wielding a butcher's knife with impressive skill. Clan leader: “This 3.3kReads9.2Score329Shelves

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    New book recommendation.

14. 114 两 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The 1970s 两界穿梭之七零年代 Trying to Stay Alive2努力活着2Urban3.2M WordsOngoing Wu Xiaoyao is a working-class nobody, a corporate drudge who likes to unwind by grilling skewers and letting loose whenever he has a bit of free time. But an out-of-control dump truck sends him hurtling back to the fiery age of the 1970s. What surprises him is that he can travel back and forth between the seventies and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before him. 131Reads7.6Score—Shelves

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    It's Stephen Chow's acting partner and every time he appears...

15. 115 两 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Red-Hot Years 两界穿梭之火红年代 Trying to Stay Alive 999努力活着999Urban2.9M WordsOngoing Li Xiaren is an ordinary office worker, trudging through grueling days that start at eight in the morning and end at midnight. One day, after finally getting several months of back pay, he plans to give himself a well-deserved break. Who could have guessed that eating a grilled kidney for no apparent reason would send him back to the 1970s when he woke up? Luckily, he discovers he can return to 2025, and so two completely different eras open up before him!!! 254Reads7.6Score101Shelves
16. 116 在 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Strive for Happiness努力幸福Urban1.5M WordsOngoing Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 7.4kReads5.8Score297Shelves
17. 117 双 A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金 Striving to Stay Alive8888努力活着8888Urban3.3M WordsOngoing Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More 532Reads7.7Score135Shelves
18. 118 双 Twin Rivers: Bloodbath in Republican-Era Shanghai 双川民国之沪上血战 Good Luck Keeps Coming好运不断Urban2.6M WordsOngoing Su Tianci has spent 25 years as a working stiff. After leaving the military, he has the job he earned stolen by someone with power and influence. His attempts to seek justice come to nothing, and with the other side's overwhelming influence, he has no choice but to become a delivery driver. Who could have guessed that while performing a good deed, he'd be struck by a heavy truck and sent straight to the Republican era? Then his transmigration golden finger turns out to let him travel between the 172Reads7.2Score149Shelves
19. 119 两 A Trader Between Two Worlds: From 1988 to 2025 两界倒爷从1988到2025 Striving to Stay Alive8888努力活着8888Urban469k WordsOngoing Su Tianci was an unemployed street loafer in 1988. He was planning to head into the mountains to hunt for some meat, but accidentally fell off a cliff. When he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated to 2025, an age of booming economic growth. Even more astonishingly, two vastly different eras now lay before him, and he could travel back and forth between them. 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
20. 120 双 Two Transmigrators’ Road Through the Great Ming 双穿大明之路见不平 Trying to Stay Alive 999努力活着999Historical265k WordsOngoing Su Tianci, a modern-day wage slave in 2026, was getting a foot massage at Red Romance when, for no apparent reason, he transmigrated to the war-torn Ming dynasty. Things were hellish from the start, but luckily, he could actually return to 2026! Two vastly different eras now lay before him. 465Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 121 深 Deep-Sea Ranching 深海放牧 Riding a Tortoise to Town骑着乌龟上街Urban288k WordsCompleted As a college student who had just graduated, Chu Zhen found that even hauling bricks at a construction site no longer seemed like an option. Meanwhile, it looked like his childhood sweetheart had other ideas, too. Just as he was preparing to live off his parents, the jade pendant his grandfather left behind turned out to be his greatest chance to turn his life around. Watch as he tames the ocean and rises from an ordinary nobody to a fishing tycoon who can stir up the seas! How will he defy fate 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The new book has no rating yet, but it has the potential to be a bestseller! Chu Zhennan, an ordinary person, uses a jade pendant to understand the language of fish, explores the deep sea, and earns money by fishing. He works alongside a single female lead, making for a satisfying and addictive read!

22. 122 到 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库 Ling Ling Qi Xuan泠泠七炫Modern Romance913k WordsCompleted An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan 1kReads—Score—Shelves

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    A fantasy novel set in the 1940s, featuring a young ghost-catching master who goes on a rampage in the city.

23. 123 史 The Poorest County Magistrate's Wife in History Leads the Whole County to Prosperity 史上最穷县令夫人带全县百姓赚钱 Ling Ling Qi Xuan泠泠七炫Ancient Romance993k WordsCompleted Hang Ying, head of a reclusive modern-day clan, dies during an expedition and transmigrates into Yingzi, the wife of Xu Mengran, a penniless county magistrate in the Great Chu Empire. Who ever heard of a county magistrate being poor? Well, this one wears a patched robe, and his wife earns money washing and mending clothes to help him pursue a career in the imperial examinations. They have no maids or guards, the yamen runners look down on them, and a rich young lady even comes to their door to b 570Reads7.0Score—Shelves
24. 124 两 Between Two Worlds: 1949 两界穿梭之一九四九年 Trying to Stay Alive2努力活着2Urban226k WordsOngoing No morals + a little cruelty to beasts + everyday life at the heart of it Su Tianci transmigrates to Beiping in 1948, where his daily life revolves around tormenting beasts. Our protagonist has no manners and often does things without playing fair. The main idea is simple: if I have no morals, you can't morally blackmail me... [Putting the facts aside, is the author wrong to want to earn a little more tuition money? We shouldn't think only of ourselves; we need to consider the author too. I've m 3.2kReads—Score203Shelves

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    Come and be Zhang Zuolin's swordsman

25. 125 双 Traveling Between Two Worlds to Fight in Korea, I Beat Up the Americans 双穿抗美援朝，我暴打美国佬 Trying to Stay Alive 999努力活着999Historical632k WordsOngoing In 2026, overworked wage slave Su Tianci gets his writing royalties. He plans to go out for a foot massage with the full-service treatment, as a reward for himself. But he never expects to open his eyes and transmigrate to a battlefield engulfed in war. There’s no water, medicine, or food. Fortunately, he can return to 2026. Two vastly different eras now lie before him. 24.7kReads7.2Score1.7kShelves

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    I also learned from Wu Youde

26. 126 双 Crossing Between Two Worlds: From the Start in 1952, I Was Already a County-Level Cadre 双穿一九五二开局就是正科级 Good Luck Keeps Coming好运不断Urban442k WordsOngoing In 2026, Su Tianci accidentally transmigrated to the war-torn Korean battlefield. Fortunately, he had brought along a pocket dimension. The System grabbed a bucket and ran. To return to 2026, he had to reach the siheyuan. Two vast eras lay before him. 28.8kReads5.5Score1.6kShelves
27. 127 赶 A Life of Tidal Foraging: Back to a Fishing Village in 1983 赶海人生：重回1983小渔村 Writing for the People执笔问苍生Urban2.9M WordsOngoing A short drama based on the novel is now streaming. In old age, Yang Jianguo jumps into the sea to save someone, only to be swept back by a wave to 1983, just as the villagers are offering a sacrifice to the Dragon King. A dragon pearl? I don’t want it. I want to save my beautiful wife. So what if I have two daughters? My girls are treasures. By the time people are just starting to trade clams and become ten-thousand-yuan households, Yang Jianguo’s fleet already rules the Yellow Sea. In this life 39.1kReads8.1Score2.6kShelves

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    The ultimate beachcombing masterpiece, a must-see for Tomato (a popular Taiwanese filmmaker).

28. 128 钓 Fishing: My Sea of Bitterness Can Raise Fish 钓鱼：我的苦海能养鱼 White Cloud Ghost白云鬼Urban233k WordsOngoing Life is a sea of suffering, and the sea of suffering saves lives. When life reaches its lowest point, perhaps that’s when the suffering finally ends and better days begin. As Jiang He teeters on the brink of death, he is saved and awakens a sea of suffering. He can store the fish he catches, raise them, and help them evolve. Starting with a fishing rod and a tiny stall, he sets off on a journey of mutual salvation. He fishes, she sells the fish, he earns money, and she supports the family… 303Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Easygoing daily life: farming, fishing, raising fish, running a shop, raising kids, supporting a family [laughs]

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