Novels like The Farmer’s Castoff
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Farmer’s Castoff, best match first.
- 1 The Country Apothecary: The Villainess Becomes Everyone’s Darling 田园药乡：恶毒女配成团宠了 Jiaojiao transmigrated into a story, cast as the vicious supporting villainess. As the male lead's wicked stepsister, she made life hell for everyone, and her brothers and sisters-in-law hated her to the bone. How was she supposed to play this role? Forget it. If she couldn't afford to provoke them, she could avoid them. Better to marry off early and wreak havoc on some random passerby. But then, one by one, they all changed their tune. Her parents begged her to stay, her brothers competed to sp 9.6kReads9.0Score1kShelves
- 2 So Sweet! My Unconventional Beast Husband Can Handle Anything 超甜：我那不正经的兽夫贼扛事 Sweet One-on-One Romance After Qing You transmigrated to the Beast World, she caught the attention of a man with short silver hair, a cold, stern face, and an air of untamed danger. His solid, sculpted muscles, their size difference, and those vivid green eyes constantly fixed on her made Qing You feel like he could crush her in one hand. There was no domestic violence after they became mates, but he was so wild and direct that Qing You often couldn’t keep up. Her back would ache, or her legs wo 10.9kReads8.9Score841Shelves
- 3 The Lucky Wife of the Grand Secretary 首辅家的锦鲤妻 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 17.1kReads9.3Score2.7kShelves
- 4 The Beloved Darling of the Farmer's Family 农家团宠娇娇女 Tangbao has lost her parents, and none of her relatives are willing to take her in. They say she brings bad luck. To make up the number eight, which sounds like “prosperity,” Old Madam Yang, who already has seven grandsons, brings Tangbao home. Everyone says the Yang family is doomed now that they’ve taken Tangbao in. But instead of falling on hard times, they become one of the most powerful families in the Great Zhou! The Yangs do have tempers, though. Whenever someone says Tangbao brings bad l 11kReads9.3Score847Shelves
- 5 Marrying the Chief Minister in a Year of Famine, the Lucky Wife Brings Him Endless Fortune 饥荒年嫁首辅，锦鲤娇妻超旺夫 [Signed for publication] [Cozy Farming + Miracle Doctor + Adorable Kids + Devoted Couple + Doting Husband] [Sweet young wife + Reserved, steady, devoted and deeply affectionate male lead] The moment Chu Yue opened her eyes, her gambling-addicted father had already given her to the Lu family in the mountains as a bride. A rickety, dilapidated house, two young brothers-in-law, and a mother-in-law who was always sick. Chu Yue said that as long as the family worked together, none of that was a probl 26kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
- 6 Sweet and Sultry! The Little Fairy in the Abstinent Instructor's Arms Is Irresistibly Alluring 甜欲！禁欲教官怀里的小仙女超撩 [Sweet! Adorable! Steamy! Flirty! Absolutely worth reading, trust me!] [Stunning, seductive ballet superstar VS abstinent, untamed heir to a powerful Beijing family. Off-the-charts chemistry, and both are inexperienced in love.] Known as the most beautiful woman in Beijing's elite circles, Xia Tian has fair skin, exquisite looks, a graceful figure, and the guts to flirt. At eighteen, Xia Tian met Gu Cenxi. He saved and protected her, and she fell for him at first sight. She loved him, wanted him 5kReads9.4Score723Shelves
- 7 I’m at My Wits’ End! Four Sons and a Daughter Send Me to College in the 1970s 麻了！四儿一女供我在七零读大学 [Grandma with incredible fighting power, five adorable kids, mostly everyday life, some awful people, but the protagonist is utterly invincible, satisfying revenge] An Xiaoyun unexpectedly awakens and learns that she is a doomed side character in a lucky heroine story. She is about to die in childbirth, taking her baby with her. Her husband will die after falling into a river from grief, and their four sons will burn themselves out for the lucky heroine, meeting horrible ends. An Xiaoyun is furi 10.5kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves
- 8 Steady Cultivation: From the Start, My Perk Is Work-Life Balance 稳健修仙：开局词条劳逸结合 [Cultivation · Cautious Protagonist · Playing the Fool to Catch the Wise · Traits · Fame · Lie Flat · Longevity · Farming] (This book has been adapted into a short drama and an animated comic.) Su Yuan is reborn in a cultivation world and discovers that the path to cultivation is full of obstacles: he has no talent, no resources, and no connections. Luckily, he activates a System and obtains Traits with astonishing effects! [Work and Rest in Balance]: You’re great at balancing work and rest. The 44.7kReads8.2Score3.5kShelves
- 9 The Spoiled Couple’s Mutual Admiration 纨绔夫妻互捧日常 Su Yu'an is forced to marry Jiang Qiyun, the eldest son of the Marquis of Rongyang and the leader of Kyoto's four notorious young lords. Everyone in Kyoto waits for the two of them to make fools of themselves, but instead, they see a couple constantly praising each other. Jiang Qiyun: My wife is clever and brilliant. She brings good fortune to her husband and keeps our home safe! Su Yu'an: My husband is as handsome as a jade tree, shielding me from wind and rain! Kyoto's nobles: Are you talking 18.3kReads9.1Score2.2kShelves
- 10 You Dumped Me After I Passed the Scholar Exam, So Why Are You Crying Now That I’m Rich? 中秀才就休妻，我暴富你又哭什么 The moment Ye Caiping opened her eyes, she found herself a divorced woman, with her sister-in-law back home sharpening a knife against her. It wasn't that her sister-in-law was unreasonable. The original owner of this body was simply too awful! How awful? Here, take a look: Whenever her husband's family needed to build a house, if there was even a single grain of surplus food at her parents' home, she'd come sniffing around like a mad dog and take it all. So her mother-in-law could eat meat ever 33.6kReads9.3Score5kShelves
- 11 I Married the Sickly Chief Minister with a Farming System, and He Flirts with Me Every Day 带种田系统嫁病娇首辅，日日被撩 [Farming + putting scumbags in their place + strong heroine + sweet romance + devoted couple] Lu Zhaozhao, head of a family of merchants, accidentally gets bound to a farming System that brings her into a lucky-charm farming novel called The Imperial Consort of the Peasant Household. There, she becomes a cannon-fodder supporting female character who dies as soon as she appears. When she opens her eyes, she has to choose between two newlywed husbands. She faces a greedy, vicious mother-in-law, th 38.8kReads9.3Score3.6kShelves
- 12 Reborn as the Empress Dowager, I Just Want to Take It Easy 穿成太后只想咸鱼 “Pay attention: this is a story with a strong female lead, no male lead, and no romance.” After transmigrating, she became the most exalted woman in Yun Zhao. She thought she could live a carefree life of wealth and luxury, but danger closed in from every side, with pitfalls everywhere. It was not just her reputation at stake, but her life. The emperor dreams of ruling in his own right? Here, take the imperial seal. Go play by yourself, kid! The consorts are fighting for power in the palace? Tos 15.3kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
- 13 Reborn as the Abusive Novel’s Male Lead’s Mother 穿成虐文男主他妈 [Short story contest] [Foodie fiction] [A sweet little treat] Overnight, she transmigrates into a book with a baby in her belly whose father is unknown. On closer inspection, the baby turns out to be the male lead from the tragic novel she read before. He's a poor little thing whose father doesn't care for him and whose mother doesn't love him. Penniless, Ding Sha relies on her excellent cooking skills to become the food goddess of a construction site. Spicy diced chicken, cured pork with garlic 30.8kReads9.6Score3.7kShelves
- 14 The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了 [Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of 125.4kReads9.6Score17kShelves
