Looking for Female-Led Farming, Business, Desert-Island Reclamation, and Infrastructure-Building Stories 求女频种田、经营、荒岛开荒、基建类小说

1. 1 被 The Hundred Officials Go Crazy After the First Emperor Hears Their Thoughts! 被始皇读心后，文武百官卷疯了！ Gu Qijin顾七堇Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [Mind Reading + Developing the Qin Empire + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Infrastructure Building + No Romance + Everyone’s Favorite + A Cast of Smart Characters] The genius PhD Gu Lingxue woke up one day and transmigrated to the Qin dynasty! With a wave of her little hand, she decided to become an official! If she became an indispensable favorite of Qin Shi Huang, wouldn’t she be able to make the rules? Just as she was drawing up all kinds of development plans, she never expected Ying Zheng to hear 20.2kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves

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   1 Book is unfinished and 2 books are finished. 1 Is originally about going to the Qin Dynasty to help the charming ancestor light up the technology tree, expand the territory, and make English no longer a subject for future generations. The heroine is a career fan of the First Emperor, with no CP or emotional connections. 2 Is the western fantasy lord infrastructure. What are the cubs running around for? All for the tribe! (Bushi) It's to take care of yourself~

2. 2 穿 Transmigrated into a Demon, I Still Have to Build 穿越成恶魔也要搞基建 May My Luck Be Overflowing让我欧气满满Modern Romance393k WordsCompleted Zhao Xingchu transmigrates to a Western fantasy demon realm and becomes a little demon cub. The annoying System insists she build infrastructure in a sunless, godforsaken wasteland. So she gets to work building, earns points, and uses them to summon big shots from all kinds of worlds to help with the construction. What do you mean, a desolate wasteland? This is the demon realm’s new countryside! Do you have automatic-flush toilets? Do you have magical fireworks? Do you have fruit juice and desse 233Reads7.2Score—Shelves
3. 3 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 1.8kReads9.0Score220Shelves

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   Nice! It matches the ordinary life I want! The most important thing is that many novels written after marriage are a mess, but this book is particularly well written.

4. 4 首 The Lucky Wife of the Grand Secretary 首辅家的锦鲤妻 Cong Yue丛月Ancient Romance3.2M WordsCompleted Only after Su Jiuyue married into the Wu family did she discover that her husband was a fool. She thought she'd been swindled. But as soon as she entered the family, it was as if Heaven itself had blessed the Wus. One happy occasion followed another, and their lives kept getting better. She went up the mountain to gather wild greens and found a lingzhi mushroom; she went down to the river to fish and found a rare, ancient fungus. Even her foolish husband turned out not to be a fool, and he came 21.5kReads9.3Score3kShelves

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   It's so good-looking, I really want to have the heroine's magical powers [laughing][laughing][laughing]

5. 5 重 Reborn: Selling Luosifen in Ancient Times 重生之我在古代卖螺蛳粉 Qiqi Xia七七侠Ancient Romance315k WordsOngoing [Transmigration + Alternate Universe + Food + Shopkeeping + Farming] A food story! No palace intrigues or household scheming, and the heroine doesn't marry into the imperial family. The whole story is lighthearted, with few nasty characters. There's no romance at first, but it comes later. This is an alternate-era setting, so don't take things too seriously. When Chu Mengning wakes up and sees her family's bare walls, she sighs and decides to rely on herself to lead her family to prosperity and 1Reads6.7Score—Shelves

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   These are so pretty

6. 6 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 2.6kReads8.5Score212Shelves
7. 7 穿 Transmigrate as the Cold-Faced Young Wife of a Disabled Husband 穿越成残疾夫君的冷面小娘子 Little Black Doesn't Eat Fish小黑不吃鱼Ancient Romance307k WordsCompleted The cold-faced doctor Shen Li was betrayed at work and transmigrated to a small village, reborn in the body of the wicked shrew A Li! In a dark, damp room without a trace of light, waves of foul stench assailed Shen Li’s nose. A little twig of a child spoke in an adorably fierce voice: “Don’t touch my brother!” Two years later, a handsome young man with a tall, slender build gently took Shen Li’s hand. His lips curled into a wild, carefree smile. “A Li, marry me and be my wife. I promise you a p 450Reads7.6Score100Shelves
8. 8 穿 I Transmigrated and Made My Fortune with Crayfish! 穿越，从小龙虾开始发家！ Always Joyful时时欢Ancient Romance1.4M WordsOngoing When a modern jack-of-all-trades transmigrates into the body of a poor farm girl in ancient times... What, you say? A water bug that wreaks havoc on the village? Ever heard of spicy crayfish? The traditional hierarchy puts merchants at the bottom? They have no status? Ever heard of the Four Great Inventions? Emperor: Reward her! Reward her! Reward her handsomely! Ennoble her! Ennoble her! Give her another title! The general slams his hand on the table. “You favor civil officials and look down on 13Reads7.4Score—Shelves
9. 9 女 A Woman Transmigrates into a Man to Flee the Famine: I’m the Tragic Novel’s Heroine’s Father 女穿男去逃荒，我是虐文女主的爹 Life Beneath the Floating Moon浮月人生Ancient Romance606k WordsCompleted [Transmigration] [Fleeing Famine] [Natural Disasters] [Space] [One Female Lead] (The protagonist has a wife and children. After transmigrating, he stays with his original wife. If that bothers you, please don't read.) Qin Beibei died. She was cooking when a gas canister exploded and killed her. But then she came back to life. After surviving ten years in the apocalypse, she found herself in ancient times. That's right, Qin Beibei had transmigrated. Not only that, she had become a man. And the 3.2kReads8.1Score290Shelves
10. 10 穿 I Transmigrated into a Widow and Raised Ten Siblings 穿越成寡妇，养育十兄妹 Young Master Fei公子斐Ancient Romance621k WordsOngoing Gu Xi, a beautiful woman with a kind heart, was caught in an accident that blew her body to pieces. Her soul transmigrated to a famine-stricken ancient era where supplies were scarce. And it gets even better: she went from being a hot beauty to a sickly widowed mother with ten children. Ha ha ha! Since she had another shot at life, she might as well greet her new life in ancient times with a smile. The grubby kids just need a wash, a rinse, and some raising. She discovers the more she looks afte 42Reads8.5Score—Shelves
11. 11 郁 Granny Yu's Daily Routine of Gossip and Retirement 郁老太的吃瓜养老日常 A Breeze to the Ear一耳清风Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Farming + food + everyday family life + no romance + building wealth + heartwarming] The troublemakers are dealt with quickly. This is pure farming, with no court intrigue or powerful nobles. Modern young woman Yu Zhiqiu gets into a car accident and transmigrates into the body of an ancient peasant woman with the same name. Her husband is dead, they are short on money and food, and she has several troublesome children to care for. So what if they’re poor? Hard work brings prosperity. Everyone i 2.7kReads8.5Score309Shelves
12. 12 流 After Being Stranded on a Deserted Island, We Face the Rest of Our Lives Together 流落荒岛后我们相伴共度余生 Song of the Azure Sky碧落笙Urban262k WordsCompleted Island survival + farming + food + infrastructure + animal husbandry. The story moves at a relatively slow pace and stays close to real life. There is no System or golden finger, no pirates, mysterious forces, or native savages, and no groups scheming and fighting one another or magical secret realms. This is a pure island-farming story about building a home and working toward a better life. 2.3kReads6.7Score165Shelves

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    This one definitely meets all your requirements. There are no pirates, no cheats, no space, no systems, no cultivators, and no savages. It's a proper, pure survival farming story, the kind that is closer to real life.

13. 13 穿 Transmigrating to the Wilds: Find a Chieftain and Start Farming 穿越蛮荒：找个族长来种田 Shiitake Mushroom and Chicken香菇滑鸡Ancient Romance3.0M WordsCompleted As a modern woman of the twenty-first century, Tao Ran says she has absolutely no interest in transmigrating. There's only one reason: life in ancient times was too hard. There were no computers, air conditioners, or cell phones, and even starting a fire to cook was a challenge. She never expected the thing she dreaded most to happen anyway, sending her back to the earliest era of her ancestors, the primitive age. Just thinking about those filthy primitives, who sometimes didn't even wear animal 543Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    A simple life without beasts [Thoughts]

14. 14 做 The First Thing I Did as a County Magistrate: Feed the Whole County 做女县令第一件事：让全县吃饱饭 Jasmine Milk Tea茉莉牛乳茶Ancient Romance3.0M WordsOngoing [Farming + infrastructure development + improving people’s livelihoods + System + a female magistrate’s rise to power] Shen Zheng opens her eyes to find she’s become a newly appointed female magistrate. The county office is so poor that plaster is crumbling off the walls, and the granary is so empty even the mice stay away. Everyone knows that the poorest county in all of Liuyang Prefecture is this very county, Tong’an. Just as she thinks she’ll have to waste three years in Tong’an before retiri 17.6kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
15. 15 穿 Transported to Prehistoric Times as an Oddity: I Stockpile Wild Greens to Feed the Whole Tribe 穿到远古当异类：我囤野菜养全族 Miaomiao Who Doesn't Eat Fish不吃鱼的妙妙Ancient Romance337k WordsOngoing [New Book, Unrated] [Ancient Farming · Tribe-Building · Stockpiling Wild Vegetables to Feed the Whole Tribe · 1v1 · Totem Warrior · The Whole Tribe Is Hooked] She takes care of feeding the whole tribe, and I take care of updating the story. Anyone here to pester me for an update, line up first to collect your wild vegetables. The whole tribe says Qing He is an oddball: she doesn't dress up, make friends, or eat meat. All she likes is stockpiling wild vegetables. When she came of age, she picked 3.9kReads—Score546Shelves

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    Good to watch, listen to it while sleeping

16. 16 退 After Calling Off the Engagement, I Built a New City in the Western Regions 退婚后，我在西域建新城 Little Ink-Pen Dumpling 1毛笔小团子1Ancient Romance436k WordsOngoing Shen Qingwu, a noblewoman of Liangzhou, is publicly jilted and exiled to the Western Regions to die. They laugh that I’ve lost my reputation, that my father’s clan has fallen, that I’m unarmed and doomed to be buried beneath the yellow sands. But they don’t know I have the Civilization VI System, and that I can turn everything I see into data. In this forgotten outpost of Dry Springs, I gather seven disillusioned people, each with a remarkable talent: a water-control fanatic, a lone-wolf general 14Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Was the engagement broken off in public? The heroine backhandedly exiled herself to the Western Regions to build a new city! With the blessing of the civilization fire system, water sources are dug, agriculture and mulberry are developed, and commerce and trade turn barren land into a Silk Road hub. The heroine without CP focuses on her career, and the plot is hard-core yet decompressing!

17. 17 千 The Trillionaire Lucky Girl: Daddy and Mommy, Love Me One More Time 千亿小福女：爹爹娘亲再爱我一次 Yuan En元恩Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Farming + adored by the whole family + pocket dimension + spirit spring + fictional setting + medical skills + no awful characters] Cheng Xingwan is born into an ancient world during a famine, bringing a fortune’s worth of supplies with her. Not only is she the family’s only girl in a century, she is also reunited in another world with her deceased parents. Her parents dote on her as if she might break, her grandparents cherish her as if she might melt, and her uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters- 1.8kReads9.0Score289Shelves
18. 18 农 Country Girl 农村妹 Hong Rong鸿溶Modern Romance22k WordsCompleted The Country Girl On the vast countryside, there lived a girl named Xiao Yan. She was born into an ordinary farming family that was not well-off. Xiao Yan was obedient and sensible from a young age, helping her parents with farm work and looking after her younger siblings. But although life in the countryside was peaceful, it offered her few opportunities to get ahead. Dreaming of a better future and hoping to change her fate, Xiao Yan set out to find work in the city as soon as she turned eighte —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Read good books every day and never tire of them

19. 19 破 From Cocoon to Butterfly: A Reborn Journey 破茧成蝶一一重生的旅程 Hong Rong鸿溶Modern Romance719k WordsCompleted Breaking Free and Becoming a Butterfly: A Reborn Journey Through Everyday City Life I. Introduction * Introducing the theme: life's transformation and rebirth * Presenting the idea: everyone can break free and become a butterfly in their own way; rebirth is an essential part of growth II. Struggle and Confusion: The Fight Before Breaking Free * Describing hardship: setbacks, difficulties, and disappointments in life * Exploring the emotions: fear, unease, and helplessness in the face of hard —Reads—Score—Shelves
20. 20 医 The Physician Consort Lan Xi 医妃兰汐 Hong Rong鸿溶Ancient Romance23k WordsCompleted The story takes place in a fictional kingdom. Lan Xi, a royal physician, meets the future emperor, the crown prince, by chance, and the two embark on a beautiful, romantic love story. Above all, this is the story of Lan Xi’s life, a woman blessed with both intelligence and beauty! My new book is out! Welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 21 陈 Chen Sen’s Life 陈森的人生 Hong Rong鸿溶Urban100k WordsCompleted The story begins with an ordinary young man named Chen Sen. He lives in a bustling metropolis, yet he always feels lost and helpless. His life is uneventful, each day repeating the same work, as if there were no future ahead. Then, by chance, he meets a wise man. The wise man tells him that life is like a movie: everyone is the director and protagonist of their own story, and they must learn to find their own path amid life’s light and shadow. The wise man’s words set Chen Sen thinking. He begin —Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 22 农 Country Girl: The Sequel 农村妹续 Hong Rong鸿溶Modern Romance517k WordsCompleted This book, The Country Girl: Continued, picks up where the earlier book, The Country Girl, left off, and is the complete version of the story. I accidentally clicked the wrong option when applying for a contract, and it ended up marked as complete. So this book begins with Chapter Ten, following Chapter Nine of The Country Girl, and covers Xiao Yan's life from starting kindergarten at three and a half until she finishes her studies and leaves home to work. Welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel 1Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 23 求 Survival Trial: Rebuilding Civilization on a Deserted Island 求生试炼：从荒岛开始重建文明 Uprooting the Catnip倒拔木天蓼Sci-Fi & Apocalypse423k WordsOngoing [The rating just opened, so it’ll keep rising!] [No Romance + Personal Growth + Leader’s Journey + Farming + Infrastructure Building + Adventure] Terrible news! Humanity has been optimized by its home planet, Ming Shu Star, then packed up and sent to other worlds. Even worse news! To put down roots in the new world, they first have to pass a deserted-island survival trial. He Dongfeng had barely come to her senses after being hit by one piece of bad news after another when she received a System 992Reads8.1Score190Shelves

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    While others only focus on snatching scattered supplies from each other, the heroine looks at the long-term development of civilization, relies on her super mental power to coordinate the overall plan, builds fortifications to hoard food, grass and water, and uses cats to help gather scattered survivors to continue to strengthen her survival power.

24. 24 进 After Moving to the City to Farm, Every Powerful Tycoon Wants Me as Their Master 进城种地后豪门权贵都想拜我为师 Cat Who Loves Houttuynia折耳根的猫Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Farming + Food + Everyone’s Favorite] Jiang Mengyun is a young woman who absolutely loves farming. From the countryside to the city, from luxurious mansions to mysterious research bases, there’s no patch of land she can’t turn into a field! Mansion owner: My multimillion-dollar mansion! It’s covered in loofah vines! School administrator: My rooftop garden! It’s full of giant radishes! Senior from her sect: My medicinal herb garden! I have to search through cabbages to find the herbs! Lu Jingyua 24.1kReads9.2Score2.5kShelves
25. 25 重 Back to the 1960s: Farming, Building a Fortune, and Raising the Kids 重回六零：种田发家养崽崽 Southern Lychee南方荔枝Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Transmigrating into the impoverished 1960s wasn’t scary. Becoming a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a book wasn’t scary either. What was scary was that her three stepsons would grow up to become major villains, and all of them, along with their upright, aloof father, would meet tragic ends. How could she let that happen? Lin Qinghe looked at the three future villains, none of whom was even ten years old, and made up her mind: changing a villain starts when they’re young! 4.2kReads9.0Score534Shelves
26. 26 福 The Lucky Baby Arrives, and the Whole Village Eats Its Fill 福宝降临，全村一起吃饱饭 Wu Nian Nian無念念Ancient Romance824k WordsOngoing After finally passing an interview with a top-100 company, I got hit by a car and died while saving a child. Why was I reincarnated so quickly? I didn't even get a chance to drink Granny Meng's soup. Judge, you said I died because of a mistake on your end. Send me back. What? I can't go back? Why are my brothers working so hard? Oh, they're doing it so I'll have a better life! Didn't I tell them all I need is good food and a good night's sleep? “Want to come home with me? I guarantee you'll eat 362Reads6.6Score—Shelves
27. 27 带 Fleeing Famine with My Family and a Space Full of Grain 带着全家去逃荒，我有空间满仓粮 Bai Yi Yi柏一意Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Fleeing Famine] [Space] [Everyone's Darling] [Feel-Good Story] [Making a Fortune] [Later: Nation-Building] Du Youling was originally a three-and-a-half-year-old girl from a farming village in ancient times. Born with extraordinary good fortune, she was nevertheless killed in her previous life after her cousin stole her luck. In this life, she has returned with a max-level System! The story opens with a drought, forcing her family to flee. Whether it's drought, locusts, or snow, this lucky littl 7.9kReads9.0Score809Shelves
28. 28 逃 Fleeing Famine for Twenty Thousand Miles, I Led the Whole Village in Building a Peach Blossom Utopia 逃荒两万里，我带全村手搓桃花源 Talent Comes and Goes才华忽有忽无Ancient Romance751k WordsCompleted Three years of severe drought have left thousands of miles of barren land, and the road is strewn with the dead and starving. Shen Nanxing, a top student at a modern agricultural university, faces a hellish start from the moment she transmigrates: her head is split open, her frail mother can't protect their last mouthful of muddy water, her little brother is on the brink of death, and her awful grandmother and second aunt are plotting to kick their whole family out. No miraculous pocket dimensi 131Reads6.7Score102Shelves

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    Who would have thought that in an escape novel, you can see hands rubbing gunpowder. The heroine makes full use of her scientific knowledge and uses modern technology to defeat ancient warlords. The feeling of satisfaction is very solid.

29. 29 流 Exiled to the Frontier: The Farmer's Eldest Sister Transmigrates to Reclaim the Wasteland 流放边关：农家长姐穿越开荒 Equatorial Tree赤道树Ancient Romance308k WordsOngoing [Transmigration + farming + satisfying read + infrastructure building] Shen Qingwu, a modern woman with master's degrees in both agriculture and water conservancy, transmigrates overnight into the body of the eldest sister in the poorest military household in Danshan County. Her father died in battle, her mother succumbed to illness, and her aunt arrives with tax collectors to block the door, seize the compensation money, and sell her ten-year-old sister to a procurer to pay the taxes. Blood run 15Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This could have been possible. The heroine traveled to the border and opened up wasteland for farming. Later, infrastructure construction continued to build farms and homes, improving the lives of local residents.

30. 30 岛 Island Survival: Reborn, She Returns to the Top of the Rankings 岛屿求生：重生归来她霸榜了 Born to Be a God生来为神Sports53k WordsOngoing [No Male Lead] [Ensemble Cast] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Heartfelt] A survival game has descended upon Earth! While everyone else is still in a daze, Ning Yi has already lived through it once! The System spreads false information, and while everyone stocks up for the height of summer, she does the opposite and hoards winter supplies, making a fortune! While everyone else is wondering where their next meal will come from, Ning Yi is already enjoying three beautifully prepared meals a day, showing —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    You can read it

31. 31 海 Four Sisters on a Deserted Island: A Doctor and a General Conquer Ancient Times 海岛四姐妹：博士将军玩转古代基 Offline Romance离线风月Ancient Romance109k WordsOngoing A shipwreck casts four modern women from different fields into a desperate situation. They become exiles of the Great Sheng Dynasty, stranded on a mysterious island far from the shipping lanes. Just as they fear they’ll be forced to repeat the tragic fate of women in ancient times, they discover they aren’t the only ones who have transmigrated. Lin Qi, a PhD in marine geology; Qin Zheng, a retired military doctor; Su Jingyi, a business prodigy; and Zhao Mingwei, a materials engineer. These four —Reads—Score—Shelves

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