Novels like Marrying the Future Top Scholar, a Brooding Young Man
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- 1 The First Secretary’s Wife Is Pampered Every Day 首辅夫人娇宠日常 Su Niannian, a childcare specialist, accidentally transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a real village girl. She has a scholar father who keeps failing his exams and five younger siblings who are always hungry. The family is so poor their pockets are practically ringing with emptiness, but that cannot shake her determination to make them prosperous. Putting her talents to work, she opens a shop and joins a medical clinic. Not only does she achieve her goals, she also wins the heart of an ex 85Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 2 My Scholar Husband, Come Give Me a Hand 秀才相公帮帮忙 After transmigrating, Zhao Lianxin, unloved by her parents and ignored by her grandparents, wants only to get out of the house and make a fortune. She thinks that getting soaked while saving a man will ruin her reputation and let her leave home as she wishes. But then a refined scholar appears, insisting he take responsibility for her. She’s completely confused. She clearly saved his father! What’s she supposed to do? She just wants to live carefree on her own, and she’s not ready to get married 149Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 3 I Become the Late Wife of the Grand Justice of the Dali Temple 穿成大理寺卿早亡的发妻 [Farming + Political intrigue + Sweet romance + Healing] [No strong female lead, System, or pocket dimension! The first part focuses on farming to make a living; later, she gets involved in palace and household intrigue to help the male lead’s father clear his name, but the romance between the leads remains the main focus!] With nothing but bare walls at home, the second son of the Xiao family spends fifteen taels of silver on a slender beauty from Yangzhou. But aside from being thin, she’s plai 613Reads7.2Score113Shelves
- 4 I Brought a Supermarket to Ancient Times to Raise a Chancellor 我带超市穿到古代养丞相 Luo Yunqi somehow transmigrates into a book with her supermarket, becoming the discarded wife of the man destined to be prime minister. Familiar with the plot, she decides to cling tightly to the future prime minister, figuring that even if he divorces her, she can at least get a decent settlement! The problem is that her supermarket System has somehow bonded with Han Ye, the book’s male lead. To keep from starving, Luo Yunqi has no choice but to dote on her husband as much as possible. One day, 225Reads6.0Score101Shelves
- 5 After Becoming Cannon Fodder, I Reformed the Villainous Chief Minister 穿成炮灰后，我改造了反派首辅 Yu Xiaodao transmigrates into a book and becomes the cannon-fodder female supporting character who supposedly won't survive past chapter three! She doesn't want to die! To stay alive, she decides to run away... But whenever she stays away from the book's main villain, Ji Chen, her body suffers a backlash! Aaaah! Yu Xiaodao feels like she's going crazy. She's obviously just a pig being fattened up for slaughter! But she doesn't want to die. So she decides that since she can't escape, she'll chang 353Reads8.8Score107Shelves
- 6 The Farmer's Young Stepmother: Making a Fortune as a Merchant with a General's Support 农家小后娘：背靠将军做皇商 [Devoted husband + pocket dimension + adorable child] Gu Yu transmigrates with a pocket dimension full of supplies, becoming a “widowed” stepmother in a small village in the Great Liang Dynasty. With the pitiful child her bargain-bin husband took in, she sets out to raise a child and build wealth in ancient times. But just as she's getting used to raising the child, her supposedly long-dead bargain-bin husband returns from the battlefield! And it turns out he's now the Great General Zhenuan of t 157Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 7 The Farmer's Family Darling: The Prime Minister Is Smitten Again 农门团宠：丞相又真香了 What? A modern-day playgirl has transmigrated into the role of a penniless, wicked supporting character? What? She’s broke and has been forced to bind herself to a useless System that demands absolute loyalty? What? Her scholar husband is ice-cold toward her and even declares he’ll never touch her as long as he lives? Su Ruyue has been dealt a terrible hand, but she isn’t worried in the least. She builds her career, opens shops, and constructs a private estate, going from a lazy nobody to the id 891Reads9.2Score122Shelves
- 8 Married to a Villainous Minister 奸臣之妻 Yu Jiao woke up to find herself a poor farm girl in a house with bare walls, with barely enough to eat. Thinking she was the heroine of a farming novel for female readers, she set about treating illnesses, doing business, and farming, rolling up her sleeves to build a fortune and reach the top of the world. Later, her sickly cousin pulled off one success after another: passing all six examinations, placing first in all three stages, entering the Hanlin Academy, and rising rapidly through the ran 2.9kReads8.5Score355Shelves
- 9 The Farmer's Beloved Daughter: A Max-Level Expert with a Pocket Dimension 农家娇女：满级大佬有空间 [Also known as: After Transmigrating with a Pocket Dimension, the Heir Becomes Her Devoted Suitor] A genius poison doctor transmigrates. From the start, she has three thatched huts with drafts coming in from every side, a meek and easily bullied adoptive mother, and a pair of twin younger siblings who are still crying for food! Her home is bare, her situation is wretched, her relatives are awful, and her grandparents are heartless! Fortunately, she excels in both medicine and poison, has the Sys 1.8kReads9.1Score270Shelves
- 10 After Transmigrating as the Powerful Minister's Cannon-Fodder Ex-Wife, I Turned My Life Around Through Farming 穿成权臣炮灰前妻后我靠种田逆袭 [Sweet romance + farming + adorable babies] Jiang Yu wakes up one morning to find that she's gone from being a food blogger with millions of followers to a cannon-fodder villainess with a tragic fate. Luckily, fate has been kind to her: the male lead, who will one day rise to the highest office in the land, is currently just a younger brother who has failed the imperial exams twice. Armed with a farming System, Jiang Yu builds her fortune step by step, going from a village woman to a wealthy bus 299Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 11 Transmigrating as the Stepmother of Three Little Villains 穿成三个反派崽崽的后娘 (Adored by everyone, cozy, devoted couple, no palace or household intrigue) Bai Lu got married as soon as she transmigrated, and she was a little dazed. Faced with a bare house, enormous debts, and three hungry children, Bai Lu rolled up her sleeves and got straight to work. Drawing on her past life, she teamed up with her handsome husband to earn money, support the family, raise the children, farm the land, and fix up the house. Her two sons were one scholarly and one martial, while her adorabl 291Reads9.2Score105Shelves
- 12 The Immortal Village of Peach Blossom Spring 桃源仙村 To pay off his student loans, Qin Ye worked himself to the bone after graduation, taking endless overtime shifts until heart failure forced him to quit and return to his hometown. While fishing for shrimp, he discovered a damaged pocket space belonging to the Land God. To restore its dried-up spiritual spring, Qin Ye searches the mountains for rare treasures to transplant into the space. He uses the spring water to grow crops and raise fish, takes geese for a stroll and teases monkeys, rides a f 3.1kReads8.8Score222Shelves
- 13 The Village Tyrant's Big Sister-in-Law: Getting Rich and Raising Kids With Her Pocket Dimension 村霸长嫂：带着空间暴富养崽崽 [Beloved by Everyone + Pocket Dimension + Spirit Spring and Fertile Fields + All-Purpose Shop + Medicine + Communicates with Animals] New book: After Learning to Understand Animal Speech, the Entire Back Mountain Became My Granary Wang Yixin transmigrates into the body of an ugly country woman who made a nuisance of herself, liked eating and drinking but not sleeping around, and was hopelessly addicted to gambling. She plans to get rich and then keep a pretty young man, but her seemingly gentle, 1.5kReads9.1Score172Shelves
- 14 The Rough-Hewn Scholar's Sweet Little Wife 糙秀才的软糯小娇妻 For Li Qian, an avid reader of old books, transmigrating isn’t unusual. What is unusual is that a woman who’s never been in a relationship now has a “scholar husband.” At their first meeting, Li Qian was moved to tears. The handsome, refined scholar husband she’d been promised was actually a rugged butcher with pig’s blood all over his hands! Li Mo watched his mother’s “capable” “foolish wife” get chased around the courtyard by a chicken, running and bawling the whole way. His expression grew ev 3.5kReads9.2Score403Shelves
- 15 A Peaceful Mountain Village 悠然山村 Life is about more than just getting by in the here and now. There are also... a daughter and fields. After leaving the bustling city and returning to his hometown, he unexpectedly acquires a mountain god’s realm. He plants crops and vegetables, picks fruit in the fields, climbs trees to raid bird nests. It’s all easy and relaxing. He raises chickens and walks the dog, goes into the mountains to look for herbs, and catches shrimp and crabs in the river. There’s no shortage of fun in the wild. Da 4.8kReads8.8Score372Shelves
- 16 A Stepmother’s Struggle in the Countryside: Make a Fortune and Save My Benefactor 农门继女奋斗路，挣钱暴富救恩公 It took Xia Xiang four years to go from Cheng Cheng to Yin Xiaxiang! For those four years, she searched endlessly for a way back. Unfortunately, fate was against her. She exhausted herself and ended up covered in wounds, yet got nowhere. She accepted her fate and thought she would simply settle down and live as a farmer’s daughter. But life is unpredictable. Her stepfather was suddenly involved in an accident, and a severe drought struck, leaving the rice paddies with no hope of a harvest. To ma 19.2kReads9.1Score2.1kShelves
- 17 The Sweetest Little Darling from a Farming Family 农家崽崽是个小甜宝 [Historical Fantasy Writing Contest] One moment, Zhao Xiangyou was fighting zombies in the apocalypse. The next, she had become a baby girl in an ancient farming family, with dozens of embroidery needles hidden inside her body. She spent three years exhausting her powers to remove the needles, only to be pushed down a hillside and nearly die! In her despair, a little wolf cub carried Zhao Xiangyou home. The cub, Qin Shaoan, was considered a jinx by the villagers. Anyone who got too close to him 6.6kReads9.3Score973Shelves
- 18 The Darling of the Farmstead: Raising the Young Lord Chief Secretary 农门团宠：娇养首辅小夫君 She transmigrates into a book! She’s become a brainless, vicious female cannon fodder in an imperial-examination novel. The original owner was spoiled and doted on from childhood, and even had a frail child husband. She bullied and humiliated him, and even planned to sell him off... But who could have guessed that this frail little husband was actually a brilliant, devious, and villainous mastermind? He endured humiliation, came first in all three imperial examinations, rose to the highest ranks 7.9kReads8.9Score825Shelves
- 19 The Tough Farmer's Wife: The Chief Minister Is Wooed Again 农门悍妻：首辅大人苏又撩 Song Zhaoxi transmigrates into a book and becomes the male lead’s foolish ex-wife, married off to bring him good fortune. Despicable relatives, a bare-walled home, and a miserable life. Song Zhaoxi wipes away a bitter tear, rolls up her sleeves, and gets rich. The despicable ones line up to kneel and sing her praises! The only person she fears is the male lead, known as the Living King of Hell. Luckily, she got the supporting female character’s script, so she can run away whenever she wants! - E 8.3kReads9.2Score858Shelves
- 20 Fleeing Famine: She Can't Handle Her Disabled Husband After Marrying the Young Lord 逃荒：嫁给残疾世子后她吃不消了 [Pocket dimension, farming, sweet romance] Qin Muyao transmigrated into a book and became the substitute bride of a disabled young lord, who would later become a tragic, formidable villain. She was the final straw that broke him! She was terrified! On the road fleeing famine, she used her pocket dimension to grow crops and fed the powerful man every day. After they were exiled to the countryside, she built a business from scratch, opened shops, and pampered the villain. By day she worked diligen 4.4kReads9.1Score523Shelves
- 21 I Became the Whole Village's Favorite After Becoming a Wicked Stepmother 穿成恶毒后娘我成了全村的团宠 Assassin Xiang Qingyao had retired from the killing trade when a plane crash sent her into the body of an ugly widow in a farming village. Now she has to raise four odd little brats. Xiang Qingyao wonders, should she just die again? Her vile relatives want to sell them for cash. Xiang Qingyao says, “Come on, tell me how you want to die.” A guileful but honest, good-natured young man says, “Qingyao, I’ll do anything you ask. Just don’t leave me.” A handsome, flirtatious young county magistrate sa 7kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves
- 22 Transmigrated as the Chief Minister’s Lucky Child Bride 穿成首辅的锦鲤童养媳 [Transmigrates into a book + space + lucky heroine + sweet romance: a sweet, adorable, straightforward heroine VS a sinister, scheming hero who seems innocent on the surface] Wen Nuan never dreamed that she would transmigrate into a book the moment she woke up! She had become the future Grand Secretary's child bride, destined to die young, and she wouldn't even survive three chapters! Looking at the Grand Secretary, so elegant and handsome he seemed like an immortal, she swallowed. Should she se 4.3kReads9.1Score556Shelves
- 23 I Transmigrated into a Book, but the Powerful Male Lead Won't Play by the Rules 穿书，权臣男主不按套路出牌 (Mutual devotion + tsundere + sweet romance) Fu Jing transmigrates into the novel The Most Powerful Chief Councillor of Wanxiang as Ruan Jing, the male lead's ill-fated stepsister. Without the protagonist's halo, a golden finger, or a pocket dimension, how can she turn her tragic fate around... 4.5kReads8.9Score304Shelves
- 24 Transported to a Year of Famine, I’ll Feed My Whole Family Meat, Not Tree Bark 穿到荒年，啃啥树皮我带全家吃肉 This book has been adapted into short dramas: The Hunter King: Steamed Buns and Meat at Every Meal During the Famine; The Whole Village Chews Tree Bark in the Famine, While I Gorge on Meat with My Family; No Food After the Locust Plague, but My Granary Is Piled High. [Farming + Power Fantasy + System + Lighthearted Comedy + Cozy Daily Life] Gu Zhouyuan opened his eyes to find himself as the third son of the Gu family in ancient Datong Village. Lazy, gluttonous, and good for nothing, he was hated 36.6kReads8.5Score2.7kShelves
- 25 After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Became the Wicked Stepmother of Three Villains 穿书后我成了三个反派的恶毒后娘 Original novel of the short drama After Transmigrating into a Book, I Became the Stepmother of Three Villains [Storage Space + Farming + Power Fantasy + Devoted Couple + Adorable Villainous Children] Ji Zhihuan went from being an S-rank member of a special forces team to transmigrating into a book as a cannon-fodder female character who dies in Chapter Three. She married Pei Yuan, a former war god who was as good as dead, and became the stepmother of three future villains. She was the first ste 8.8kReads9.3Score1.1kShelves
- 26 I Stocked My Fridge and Transmigrated into a Book, Then Married the Fiercest Chief Minister 囤满冰箱穿书，我嫁了最猛首辅 [Marriage Before Love] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Both Leads Are Each Other's Only One, and the Heroine Is the Original Owner of Her Body, While the Hero Has Not Been Reborn] Wen Nuannuan recently discovered that her refrigerator was malfunctioning: any food she ate would automatically replenish itself! Thinking she was about to strike it rich, Wen Nuannuan did everything she could to stuff the refrigerator full. But the very next day, she transmigrated into a book in spectacularly disastrous fa 61.3kReads9.0Score6.7kShelves
- 27 The Farmer's Delightful Daughter Is Busy Planting Crops 农家娇女忙种田 (A warm-hearted transmigration story, with no awful relatives) I transmigrated into a farming family and found myself with a large courtyard and a house with gray-brick walls, along with a few acres of good farmland. The only problem was that the money box was empty. But that was no big deal: my grandparents doted on me, my parents loved me, my brothers got along with me, and the neighbors were kind and united. Bai Xia was sure that getting rich and living a comfortable life would be a piece of 17.3kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves
- 28 The Wealthy Little Maid 富贵小丫鬟 She wakes up to find she has transmigrated into a little maid at the Duke of Tang's mansion. In the wealthy and comfortable manor, Yun Shu begins a leisurely life, growing up sheltered by riches and splendor. She sets out to earn more money and buy lots of farmland, all so she can become a little landowner someday and enjoy a happy, comfortable life. But that dull-witted general just doesn't know when to give up. Once he gets his hands on something he wants, he refuses to let go, and now he won' 4.6kReads9.0Score686Shelves
- 29 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
- 30 The Savings System Summoned Me to Another World to Become a Rich Woman 我被存钱系统召唤到异世界当富婆 [Travel Between Two Worlds] + [Modern-Day Fantasy] + [System] + [Farming] + [No Romance] + [Food Business] + [Livestream] + [Building Wealth] + [Infrastructure] + [Redemption] Other people's Systems shower their Hosts with money and perks. Mine is all about being broke, forcing me to make money through street vending and hand over every last cent. I make a million a day Livestreaming skewers made with handsome men from the mall, only for the System to order me to turn off tips. I have to build 1.2kReads—Score103Shelves
- 31 EN After Becoming the Villainess, I Clear My Name Every Day 穿成恶女后每天都在洗白 [Everyone’s Darling + Adorable Kids + Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy]: Transmigrating into a lovesick woman, Tang Zhuyun wakes up in the middle of a scene where she’s climbing into a man’s bed. She turns around and runs. Forget this bed, she’s not getting in! Who needs a man when her father is the top scholar, her brother is the top scholar, and even her son will be the top scholar? They’ll protect her, so she can do whatever she wants! As a master physician, she’ll focus on her career, save lives, and k 33.8kReads9.3Score4.7kShelves
- 32 Cultivating Immortality by Raising a Horde of Monsters: What Are You All Panicking About? 修仙，我就养群妖怪，你们慌什么 [Transmigration! Reborn! Lighthearted + lively + satisfying + funny + leveling up and fighting monsters!] Lin Chuyi failed her tribulation and was reborn in a tiny mountain village where they ate just two meals a day. With her soul damaged, she spent years in a daze. Then she suddenly rose to prominence, leaving everyone dumbfounded! She raises spirit beasts, takes in monsters, and leads her family in leveling up as they fight monsters! When her adoptive father returned from the army, he stared 50.7kReads9.5Score7.2kShelves
- 33 After Reincarnating as a Wretched Old Woman, I Just Want to Live a Laid-Back Life 穿成极品老妇之后只想当咸鱼 The old woman was a real piece of work. She drove her eldest daughter-in-law to her death, then doted on her second son, who passed the highest imperial exam and married the daughter of the prime minister. She even encouraged him to favor his concubine and neglect his wife. In the end, the prime minister had the whole family killed. The old woman suddenly came back reborn, only to be scared to death by what she had experienced in her previous life. Manxing, a promising 25-year-old woman, transmi 31.1kReads9.4Score4.3kShelves
- 34 The Whole Family Transmigrates: 18 Ways to Survive in Ancient Times 全家穿越：古代生存十八法 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
- 35 System: The Savage Lands Crown Princess Just Wants to Herd Sheep 系统：蛮荒太子妃只想放羊 Also known as The Ambition Isn't Great: Just You and the World A Qi is clever and innocent. Her eldest brother is honest and just wants enough to eat; her second brother is sharp and wants to see the world. Their aunt is always fierce when chopping wood, their father is a wonderful cook, and their grandfather can recognize twenty characters, though he gets thirteen of them wrong. Their ambitions weren't great, but somehow they ended up winning the world. Content warnings: ... 30.2kReads9.6Score3.8kShelves
- 36 After Transmigrating to a Year of Famine, I Became the Worst Mother-in-Law 穿到荒年后，我成了极品恶婆婆 [Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + adorable kids + no male lead] Cheng Wanqun woke up in the body of a 33-year-old farmer's wife in ancient Dahuang Village. Her four sons were kneeling by the bed, calling her Mother, and her daughter-in-law had another grandchild on the way. After being single her entire life for 33 years, she'd suddenly become a mother-in-law and grandmother. Raising four sons was already hard enough, but then disaster struck: locust plagues, droughts, snowstorms. 67.7kReads9.4Score7.6kShelves
- 37 EN The Bystander's Self-Cultivation in a 1970s Transmigration Novel 穿书七十年代吃瓜群众的自我修养 Have you ever transmigrated to a different scene just by blinking? Lin Yuzhu has. She transmigrated in a daze to the 1970s. No, she transmigrated into a book. She has a System, and the female lead is there too. There are also supporting female characters, but she isn't one of them. She's just an onlooker who wandered into the story by mistake. As an onlooker, she gets to watch the drama unfold every day. She doesn't want other people's dogs, and she doesn't get involved in other people's busines 95.8kReads9.6Score8.7kShelves
- 38 Cherishing Flowers 惜花芷 [The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Hu Yitian and Zhang Jingyi] After keeping her talents hidden for fifteen years, Hua Zhi thought she could spend her life as a proper aristocratic young lady, living in peace. But when the Hua family’s fortunes collapse, she has no choice but to reveal her sharp edge and hold the storm-tossed household together. Being out in public becomes the norm, and so does galloping through the streets. When all else fails, she even carries a coffin on he 18.6kReads9.6Score4.2kShelves
