Novels like How Can We Flee Before We’ve Even Started Living?
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as How Can We Flee Before We’ve Even Started Living?, best match first.
- 101 A Feisty Farm Wife Who Loves to Till the Land 农门辣妻喜耕田 A certain pampered tiger, born into luxury and lying low to escape trouble, crosses paths with Gu Wenyin, who transmigrates here and vows to overcome poverty, grow prosperous, and build a better life. The fierce tiger becomes a dog, and if anyone dares lay a hand on his little wife, he’ll bite them without hesitation! Little wife Gu Wenyin, when are you going to bite me?! 2.7kReads9.0Score316Shelves
- 102 Raising Children in an Ancient Farming Family After Becoming an Old Woman 穿成老妇后的古代农家养娃日常 [Alternate history + everyday life + raising children] A people-pleaser? You’ve heard of people becoming parents overnight, but have you ever seen someone’s seniority jump several generations all at once? She became a grandmother... A modern woman in her twenties turns into a widow in her forties? Holding her grandson, who had nearly been sold by his own mother, Luo Yunyi sighed helplessly. What else could she do? She couldn’t exactly go and die, could she? She’d just have to make the best of it 300Reads7.4Score101Shelves
- 103 Reborn at Forty: After Leaving My Husband and Children, I Found Love Again 重生四十：抛夫弃子后迎来第二春 [The rating was just posted, so please don’t mind it] [Period] [Reborn] [Feel-Good Story] [No Golden Finger] [Everyday Family Life] Jiang Yanmei was reborn in the year 2000, when she was forty years old. At the time, she had just discovered that her husband was secretly supporting his first love, while her high-school senior son threatened to jump off a building unless she let him drop out and work so he could be with his young girlfriend… She thought back on a life spent giving everything to th 3.3kReads8.5Score271Shelves
- 104 Granny Feng Is Reborn in the 1980s: Her Ungrateful Children Need a Lesson 冯老太重生八零，不孝子女欠收拾 Granny Feng had spent her whole life striving to be strong and doing everything for her children. But in her old age, not one of them cared for her. Her youngest daughter even hated her to the core. Lying on a cold bed, feeling the pangs of hunger in her stomach and the stinging pain of bedsores on her back and thighs, breathing in the stench of the room, she laughed. She laughed until she could not stop, until tears streamed down her face. If she had known that the children she had loved with h 7.8kReads6.2Score548Shelves
- 105 The God of War's Trial: The Bathhouse Scrubber's Brazen Scam 战神历劫：搓澡石的硬核碰瓷 The God of War’s Tribulation: The Bathing Stone’s Hardcore Scam 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 The Happy Life of a Rural Grandma After Transmigrating to the 1960s 穿成六零后农村老太后的幸福生活 A white-collar city worker in her thirties woke up one day to find she'd become Liu Mei'e, a rural woman born in the 1960s. She gets a pension of 1,500 yuan a month and spent her whole life worrying herself ragged over her three children, only to be despised by them. Even after giving them her entire pension, she got no gratitude in return. Fine, she might as well retire early. Now that she'd completely let go of her children and stopped looking after them, it was time to enjoy her retirement... 408Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 107 My Grandmother Is a Bit of a Character 我家祖母有点皮 In the battle to defend the southern frontier, Marquis Wu'an, his three sons, and one daughter-in-law fought to the bitter end. All five members of the family gave their lives for their country. When the old madam heard the terrible news, she fell gravely ill and never woke again. But when the person in the bed opened her eyes, she was Qi Lin, from a thousand years in the future. The family was renowned for its loyalty, but all that remained was a bunch of unruly children. With no grown men left 91.3kReads9.1Score17kShelves
- 108 A Good Mother-in-Law’s Guide to Self-Cultivation 好婆婆修炼手册 As an outstanding member of the Space-Time Administration, Jiang Cen has won the prestigious title of “Top-Performing Host” year after year. Everyone loves her, flowers bloom wherever she goes, and newcomers practically bow down in awe. Then one day, Jiang Cen gets tired of it all. She has seen it all and no longer wants to do missions; she just wants to enjoy her retirement. But what’s this Good Mother-in-Law Training Manual? What happened to retirement? Facing all kinds of daughters-in-law, Ji 527Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 109 In a Year of Famine, I Become a Terrible Mother-in-Law and Am Forced to Raise the Kids 荒年，穿成极品婆婆后我被迫养儿 No CP + farming + food A mighty cultivator from the cultivation world suddenly transmigrates into the body of a selfish, mean-spirited farm granny. Gu Yun feels utterly despairing. Even more horrifying, she seems to have skipped every step and gone straight to a house full of children and grandchildren. Her eldest son has a fiery temper, her second son is a big, clueless oaf, her third son is a rascal who is always stealing chickens and dogs, and her fourth son is a self-righteous scholar. Her e 63Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 110 After Separating from Grandma, the Four of Us Made Our Fortune Farming 和奶奶分家后，母女四人种田发家 Wang Qiuyue transmigrated into the body of an eight-year-old country girl. Her father was gone, her grandmother didn’t love her, and her aunts and uncles schemed against her. She lived with her mother and two older sisters in a ramshackle house. Watch her work hard, earn silver, buy shops, marry off her sisters, and turn down princes. How rare are wealth and glory? If freedom is at stake, she can give them all up... 362Reads9.0Score104Shelves
- 111 The Coal Tycoon’s First Wife Is Reborn 煤老板的原配重生了 No romance. This is the daily life of a sharp-tongued grandma who loves helping the weak and standing up for what's right. The main rule is: she won't put up with even the slightest injustice! Cao Lihua celebrates her ninetieth birthday, then leaves her old home with deep regret and bitter dissatisfaction over the way she lived in her previous life. To her surprise, she opens her eyes and finds herself back at sixty. Hey, why couldn't I have gone back a little further? She quickly gets divorced, 2.2kReads8.3Score220Shelves
- 112 Transmigrated as a Farmer’s Old Wife, I Lead My Children and Grandchildren to Flee the Famine 穿成农家老妇，我带着儿孙去逃荒 [Fleeing famine + adorable children + daily life + feel-good story + dimensional space + years of disaster] Shen Yulan, a mature woman who never married, decides to follow the latest trend and transmigrates into an elderly peasant woman in ancient times. She may be only thirty-four, but she already has four children and four grandchildren, and her entire village is fleeing famine. Luckily, her sprawling hundred-mu agritourism estate comes with her. While the villagers eat grass on the journey, h 1kReads8.9Score110Shelves
- 113 Seven Useless Sons: The Feisty Old Lady Beats the Whole Family 7个儿子太渣，极品老太揍全家 After being shot in the head in the apocalypse, Jiang Man wakes up transmigrated into the body of a fifty-year-old woman. The old woman has seven sons, all of them scoundrels. They are fighting to split up the family, and all twenty-eight members of the household have their own agendas, leaving the place in chaos. Jiang Man: You want to split up the family? Fine, I’ll grant your wish! But unexpectedly, the original owner’s soul is still around. She begs Jiang Man not to split up the family and g 2.8kReads7.5Score257Shelves
- 114 In a Famine Year, Grandma Sun Stockpiles Grain to Survive 荒年，孙老太囤粮度饥荒 [Family life + farming + slow and steady progress + not a power fantasy + drought + no romance] “Eldest daughter-in-law, second daughter-in-law, give me one month. If you still want to split up the family then, the eldest won’t have to support me in my old age either!” Qiao Yu has become the biased old woman in a book. She looks down on girls as money-losing burdens while treating her own daughter like a treasure. To keep her son-in-law from divorcing her daughter, she even considers selling her 356Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 115 Transmigrated as a Short-Lived Old Woman, I Lie Flat to Avoid Being Mistreated 穿成短命老妇咸鱼躺平才不受气 No romance. The heroine is past menopause and enjoying her retirement; her greatest pleasure is teasing her grandsons and saving up dowries for her granddaughters. The original owner was a farmer's widow. Her eldest son in the capital sends her a pension, while her younger son and his family live nearby, obedient and devoted. At just 48, she's already living the retirement life office workers can only dream of. She even has three lively, adorable grandsons. This life is so wonderful it feels lik 454Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 116 Reborn as a 70-Year-Old Woman, Forced to Get Her Life Together 穿成70老太，被迫摆正心态 [1970s + golden finger + no romance + family and daily life + light ensemble cast + never putting up with mistreatment] She transmigrated, she really transmigrated. Even Lu Xiang gets to experience something this trendy. But when she takes a closer look at the broken-down house, the family fighting like chickens and dogs, and her own dark, wrinkled face… It feels like the sky is falling. She’d be better off reincarnating all over again. Recently, Hu Yu has noticed something strange happening at 1.6kReads7.5Score123Shelves
- 117 A Northeast Matriarch Marries into Taipei, Takes on the Tycoons, and Protects Her Daughter 东北老太嫁台北，斗豪门，护闺女 [Short Drama and Comic Adaptation Now Available] Su, a woman who had spent most of her life working at a roadside inn in Northeast China, had never once imagined becoming anyone's stepmother. But with her daughter's life hanging by a thread, she was willing to risk everything. She accepted her in-law's proposal on the spot. From then on, her daughter's mother became her mother-in-law, her senior fellow apprentice became her husband, and she became the rightful matriarch of the Lin family in Taip 13.7kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
- 118 Transmigrated with a Pocket Dimension into the Body of a Fierce Old Farmwife 带空间穿成超凶的农家老太婆 Feel-good power fantasy + no romance + lighthearted + strong fighter + modern firearms (An alternate-world story. An alternate-world story. Don’t compare it to any real dynasty. No romance, no romance, no romance. There are modern firearms, firearms... If that’s not your thing, don’t read!) The story continues after the main arc, with extra chapters. Zhu Hanyue, queen of the apocalypse, died in battle when her energy ran out, only to transmigrate into the body of Zhu Guixiang, a village woman in 4.8kReads9.1Score427Shelves
- 119 A Widow’s Good Life in Ancient Times 穿成老妇后在古代吃香喝辣 [No romance + farming + cute pets + System shop + everyday family life] Ma Yufen, a married, childless, 40-year-old woman, transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a nearly fifty-year-old widow with four sons and two daughters. Her life of utter poverty leaves her desperate. Luckily, her modern-day pet dog has a shop and pocket dimension bound to it, and it transmigrates right along with her. With this golden finger, Ma Yufen’s life starts to improve. To secure her retirement, she raises her c 6.1kReads8.9Score538Shelves
- 120 After Becoming the Ultimate Old Lady, All I Want Is to Take It Easy 穿成极品老太太后我只想摆烂 [Elderly Woman + Farming + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Golden Finger + Adorable Kids + No Male Lead] What’s it like to become an ancient rural granny whom everyone hates from the start? Lin Ruyi says it’s a bit hard to stomach. She was once a trillion-yuan CEO who lived boldly and did as she pleased. All she did was refuse to go on a blind date, and her own father smacked her off to meet the King of Hell with a thermos. When she opened her eyes again, a gaggle of grown sons were kneeling before he 1.2kReads8.7Score164Shelves
- 121 The Li Family of Xishan 西山李家 The once-prosperous Marquis’s Estate was so destitute it could barely afford its next meal. Then, overnight, she transmigrated into the body of the estate’s Old Madam. No household intrigue or palace scheming for her. She was a skilled farmer, ready to take on the world. She reclaimed barren slopes, planted watermelons, expanded her sweet potato fields, and turned wasteland into a treasure trove. Others laughed at her ridiculous schemes, but with her farming know-how, she raised the entire estat 6.3kReads8.1Score706Shelves
- 122 After Marrying the Sickly Heir to Bring Him Good Fortune, My Whole Family Became Rich 给病秧子冲喜后，全家暴富了 [Farming + System + Everyone’s favorite + Slow burn] Jiang Yunyao transmigrates into the body of a six-year-old girl, lying in a ruined temple with a fever that won’t break. She nearly dies just after arriving in this world. Luckily, a kind soul gives her food and shelter, then takes her home to be a sickly young man’s child bride, meant to bring him good fortune. Her husband’s family falls on hard times and is exiled, and her husband is so ill he could die at any moment! Just as Jiang Yunyao is 331Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 123 The Old Lady Is Ready to Turn Her Life Around 极品老妇要翻身 [Farming + System + Divine Doctor] She transmigrated into a book, and even became the villain’s wretched mother in the original story? Looking at her four badly raised, rebellious sons, Qiao Yuluo trembled with fear. Luckily, she still had a System that was a real pain in the neck. The pain-in-the-neck System: “I may have accidentally bound myself to the male lead, but my heart belongs to you, Qiao Qiao!” And so The System turned the original heroine into her daughter-in-law. It turned her eldes 300Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 124 Think I'm a Fool? Reborn in the Seventies, the Old Lady Throws Her Weight Around 当我冤种？重生七零老太作威作福 [Seventies era + ensemble cast + everyday family life + a fool finally wakes up + face-slapping + putting scumbags in their place + satisfying read] A husband who gives everything, a biased wife, and a daughter blinded by love ruined this family! At seventy, with late-stage lung cancer and ungrateful children before her, Wang Shuzhen finally understood the truth of life. Rather than drag out a miserable existence, she might as well leave cleanly and decisively, so no one would have to hold anyon 625Reads7.5Score107Shelves
- 125 A Confident Old Lady Uses Reason to Win in a Melodramatic Drama 自信老太在狗血剧里以理服人 Wang Cuihua is a trendsetter at the cutting edge of fashion. At seventy, she’s still active in her square-dancing group. Her greatest hobbies, besides dancing, are watching short dramas. Who could have guessed that while watching one, the pathetic heroine would raise her blood pressure so much that she’d have an attack? In an instant, she was transported into the world of short dramas. From then on, the short-drama world got its strictest, sharp-tongued mother yet. She scolds the pathetic heroin 59.1kReads9.2Score4.3kShelves
- 126 An Overworked 22-Year-Old Dies Suddenly, Wakes Up in a 60-Year-Old's Body, and Decides to Lie Flat. No More Sunset Romance! 二十二岁社畜猝死，魂穿六十老太躺平，黄昏恋退退退！ A 22-year-old wage slave drops dead, then transmigrates into the body of a 60-year-old woman and decides to lie flat. No more twilight romance! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 Transmigrated into an Old Woman 穿越成为古代老妇 No romance, a wholesome story about an old lady Song Xinyue, a modern woman, accidentally transmigrates to an alternate ancient world and becomes a forty-year-old woman. She also gets five wonderful sons and a daughter who dreams every day of marrying into a wealthy family. What can she do? She can only grit her teeth and raise her badly behaved children while rolling up her sleeves and working hard. Poverty, locust plagues, and turmoil: she overcomes them all! 777Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 128 The Grandmother Doted on by Her Children and Grandchildren Is Absolutely Ruthless 儿孙们宠着的老太太穷凶极恶 Transmigration + Everyone’s Darling + Sweet Romance + Strong Female Lead Qiao An transmigrates into the body of an elderly woman in ancient times. Her husband killed the son of a powerful noble and fled. Her two grown sons were exiled, and her daughters-in-law got divorce papers and returned to their parents’ homes. Now she has to raise her two underage children and support four grandchildren all by herself. To top it all off, she’s a transmigrator without a golden finger! Everyone says they’re 72Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 129 I Became a Love-Struck Farmer’s Wife, and Now I’m Retiring Early 穿成恋爱脑农妇，我要提前养老 [Traditional historical romance + farming + strong heroine and hero + a prince who spoils his wife] Jiang Yu, who received a modern education, transmigrates to another world. After a fierce inner struggle, she accepts reality. Since she cannot go back, she might as well figure out how to make money. After all, money is the foundation for making a living anywhere. Farming, doing business, honoring her parents, raising her children... Someone covets the recipes she relies on to support her fami 5kReads9.2Score713Shelves
- 130 The Fierce Granny of the 1970s Remarries a Military Officer and Tears Into the Villains! 七零狂暴老太，改嫁军官撕极品！ [Reborn + period setting + military marriage + revenge + face-slapping and punishing scum + System] Wang Huizhen worked herself to the bone her whole life. After marrying Chang Wenxin, a teacher, he kept her shut inside the house to bear him sons. But she gave birth to nine daughters before finally having a son! After one tragedy after another befell her nine daughters, Chang Wenxin still forced her to wait on their precious son and his family. At ninety, after she was diagnosed with terminal ca 1.8kReads8.0Score—Shelves
- 131 Transmigrated as the Ultimate Wicked Mother-in-Law 穿越之极品恶婆婆 The sharp-tongued, stingy Li Xiaoxiao has transmigrated into the body of Li, a forty-seven-year-old widow from the Qin family in the village. Luckily, she hasn’t run into any horrible people, because she’s the feared, horrible mother-in-law everyone avoids... 1.8kReads8.8Score108Shelves
- 132 I Became an Old Woman and Was Bound to the Prime Minister Training System 穿成老妇后被绑定了首辅养成系统 At twenty-six, Rong Qiao got drunk one night and transmigrated. Not only did she become a grandmother with a house full of grandchildren, she was also bound to the Prime Minister-Raising System. System: Reward: one chicken! Reward: one cow! Reward... The children asked, “Mother, where did all this come from?” Rong Qiao: “Uh... your late father sent it all.” System: “...” The children asked, “Mother, can we meet Father?” Rong Qiao: “System, they're your children too. You can't just stand by!” Sys 97Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 133 My Granddaughter Is a Lucky Star, While I'm the Unlucky One 孙女是福星锦鲤，我是霉星极品 Liang Qing'e of Hewan Village has a terrible reputation. People in every village for miles around say she can't keep a leftover bun even in a doghouse, and that the Lin family's second branch has only grown poorer under her management. Whenever the family earns even a single extra coin, she spends it all on food, drink, and household needs. The three daughters-in-law who married into the family have learned to do the same: they never save a scrap of food, and even a dog couldn't keep two ounces 113Reads7.5Score158Shelves
- 134 I Became the Worst Mother-in-Law, and My Eight Villainous Brats Dared Not Turn Bad 穿成极品婆婆八个反派崽子不敢烂 (Strong female lead + feel-good power fantasy + gutsy, clever heroine with a sharp tongue + heartwarming + family life) I just want to say, you'll regret it if you don't read this!!! Xia Nianchu transmigrates into a 33-year-old wicked mother-in-law. Her original body's husband, Shen Qinghe, has terrible luck and was conscripted. There has been no word from him for five or six years. Xia Nianchu is fair-skinned and beautiful, and at 33, she has given birth to eight children. The eldest, Shen Zhix 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 The Farmhouse Matriarch’s Life as a Noblewoman 农门婆婆的诰命人生 [Souls swapped between ancient and modern times + lighthearted absurdity + no System] Tang Youyou and the college guy she hired end up in ancient times together. They become a trio of misfortunes: married without paperwork, mothers without the pain of childbirth, and broke without warning. One ramshackle house and six minors on the verge of a total wipeout. The King of Hell says she’ll die at the third watch, but he sends someone to kill her at the second. Tang Youyou: “It’s fine. I have free la 1kReads9.0Score131Shelves
- 136 Transmigrated as a Miserable Old Woman, I Get Forced to Bind Myself to a Nation-Building System 穿成极品老妇后，被迫绑定强国系统 [Fleeing famine, farming, strengthening the nation, System, old woman, wish-fulfillment] Qiao Lan, a successful woman in her prime, opens her eyes to find herself an evil old woman nearing fifty who sells her children and grandchildren. She also has a 1980s nation-strengthening System bound to her. This is clearly a desperate flight through a time of chaos, and you’re talking to me about strengthening the nation?! With no other choice, Qiao Lan sets out to strengthen the nation: She sets her chi 44Reads8.9Score106Shelves
- 137 Reborn in the 1970s: Granny Li Pummels Her Terrible Family 重生七零：李老太爆锤全家极品 Li Jingui is reborn. A slice-of-life family story with a lightly ensemble cast and satisfying face-slapping. Fifty-year-old Li Jingui is reborn. Thinking about the foolish things she did in her past life for the sake of her three sons makes her want to slap herself. Fortunately, she’s been reborn, and there’s still time to change everything. In this life, she’ll set her family straight and crush every last troublemaker! 9.5kReads7.9Score910Shelves
- 138 The Farm Girl Next Door Has a Little Patch of Land 农家青梅有点田 An ordinary girl from a farming family, Gu Moli met a tragic end in the inner chambers of a wealthy household. Even a year after her death, she still couldn’t understand why the mistress of the household had wanted her dead. After her childhood sweetheart from next door gathered her remains, Gu Moli opened her eyes and found herself back at the moment she had been asked whether she would go to the capital or take some silver and return home. This time, Gu Moli chooses to take the old madam’s rew 861Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 139 Reborn, the Confused Mom Who Favored Sons Takes on Everyone 重男轻女糊涂妈，重生干翻全场 Their muddleheaded mother had always favored sons over daughters, but suddenly she started treating her girls with the utmost care, fussing over them and asking after their well-being. The three sisters thought something was off. Had their mother found a new, more convenient way to sell them? They decided to keep an eye on her in secret. Day N of watching: Mother bought each of her three daughters a house. Day N+1: Mother helped all three daughters launch their careers. Day N+N: Mother made hers 319Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 140 Transmigrated into a Farming Novel as the Wicked Mother-in-Law 穿成种田文里的恶毒婆婆 Deng Yu and her hapless ex-boyfriend are fighting over their breakup when they both fall from a balcony and transmigrate into a book. She becomes a nasty, malicious mother-in-law, while he becomes the village's only old bachelor. He thinks she's lazy, so she buys his family's land and makes him toil away in the fields while she sleeps at home. He laughs at her for being an old widow, but her three wonderful daughters-in-law are all incredibly fertile. She has children and grandchildren all aroun 105Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 141 I Became the Wicked Stepmother Who Was Cannon Fodder in a Period Novel 我穿成了年代文女主的炮灰恶婆婆 After dying of a serious illness, Yang Mei transmigrates into the body of a village woman in the 1970s and becomes the hateful mother-in-law everyone despises. After inheriting the original owner's memories of her past life, Yang Mei sets some goals for the future: First, make the most of this healthy body. Sleep until she wakes, eat meat until she's full, and enjoy life to the fullest! The only problem is, right now every household eats coarse-flour flatbreads, so that's going to be tough. Seco 558Reads9.1Score101Shelves
- 142 A Broken Hut from the Start: The Vicious Mother-in-Law Turns the Whole Family’s Fate Around 开局破茅屋，极品婆母带全家改命 [Everyday Family Life + Slow and Steady + Husband and Wife Both Transmigrate into a Book + Farming + Imperial Examinations] Yun Ge transmigrated into a book as a biased, villainous mother-in-law. From the start, all she had was a dilapidated thatched hut. Her eldest son was a mama's boy, her second son held a grudge against her, her third son was a talented but ungrateful wolf, and her fourth son was a gambler. Her three-year-old granddaughter was so hungry she was skin and bones, and cried as s 1.4kReads9.1Score154Shelves
- 143 The 90-Year-Old Matriarch Runs the Family: Putting Her Useless Children and Grandchildren in Their Place 九零老太掌家：专治极品儿孙 Transmigration + a lightly ensemble cast + no golden finger + no CP + the 1990s + everyday family life + lighthearted comedy Zhang Hongying transmigrates to the 1990s, only to find herself in the body of an infamous old country woman. But that's fine. She's convinced that under her leadership, the whole family will go out and earn money while she sits back and happily collects it. Anyone who won't listen can get lost. But how did the family end up getting paid for a demolition relocation while t 12.3kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
- 144 After Freezing to Death, Grandma Qian Is Reborn and Beats the Whole Family Into Submission 被冻死后，钱老太重生打服全家 [Reborn in a Bygone Era + No Golden Finger + Everyday Life + Family Squabbles] In her previous life, Old Madam Qian poured her heart and soul into raising her three sons and two daughters. Even when she and her husband went without, she made sure her children and grandchildren had enough to eat and drink. She thought that after giving her family everything, even if she couldn’t enjoy a comfortable old age, at least she’d have a place to live and food to eat. But the truth was that her three sons 2.9kReads8.5Score233Shelves
- 145 The 1990s: After the Old Lady Gives Up, Her Luck Soars! 九零：老太婆摆烂后却气运爆棚！ Liu Chunhua's life was a miserable one. She lost her husband in middle age and her son in her later years. All her life, she worked like an ox for her lazy, gluttonous younger son's family. Her son and daughter-in-law were lazy and greedy. No matter, she would scavenge through garbage to feed them. Her grandson was a delinquent, idle and addicted to gambling. No matter, she would sell everything she owned to pay off his debts. For the sake of this family, she spent all the compensation money her 339Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 146 The Old Ancestress Doesn't Want to Follow the Plot 老祖宗她不想走剧情 Only after she died did Old Madam Huang learn that she had been living in a book. In the story, she was foolish, ignorant, and all looks with no brains. Her younger son, a high-ranking official, should have been the one she relied on, yet she had somehow become obsessed with protecting her eldest and second sons. In the end, she let their two households cause a terrible disaster, dragging the whole family into confiscation and exile. During the journey into exile, her eldest and second sons foun 545Reads8.3Score100Shelves
- 147 What?! The Vicious Old Lady Strikes It Rich Thanks to Her Lucky Granddaughter 惊！极品老妇她靠锦鲤小孙女开挂了 [A fabulous old woman + a blessed granddaughter + building a fortune + raising children and crushing scoundrels + no romance] Yang Mei transmigrates into an unfinished farming novel, becoming the wicked, over-the-top grandmother of the little heroine, who is destined to turn evil. The original owner favored boys over girls, was stingy to a fault, and never listened to reason. Her granddaughter has an extraordinary background, and the villain is in for trouble. A ruined character image is no big 106Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 148 Transmigrate into a Book as a Blessed, Wicked Mother-in-Law, and Lead My Good-for-Nothing Kids to Wealth 穿书福运恶婆婆，带渣崽崽们暴富 [Farming, family squabbles, building wealth, a woman transmigrates into a book as an older mother-in-law] After staying up all night reading a novel, I opened my eyes and found myself transmigrated into a book. Talk about bad luck. Of all people, why did I have to become her? I ended up as the silly, sweet heroine’s stepmother, the villainess’s biological mother, and a wicked farm wife with a whole brood of useless kids. Zhang Jing complained, “Well, this is great. No more nagging me to get 699Reads8.9Score107Shelves
- 149 A Country Woman's Path to Wealth 农门婆婆的发家致富路 [Alternate Setting + Family Life + Cozy Everyday Moments + Building a Fortune + The Whole Family United + No Romance, No CP] Before she opened her eyes, she was an unmarried thirty-year-old with a million followers, a short-video creator specializing in country life. She filmed videos and took advertising gigs now and then, living a relaxed, comfortable life full of flavor. After she opened her eyes, she was a forty-year-old widow with four sons, two daughters, and grandchildren as far as the ey 2.5kReads8.0Score236Shelves
- 150 A Bracelet Linking Past and Present: A Farmwife’s Life Among the Everyday 镯通古今，农妇深耕烟火人生 [No romance + travel between two worlds + farming and making money + heroine's growth + mending parent-child relationships + face-slapping the scumbag] Hong Ying spent half her life meekly enduring hardship. Her children went hungry and were bullied, while all she could do was give in with tears in her eyes. Then the wooden bangle on her wrist gave her the power to travel to the modern world. She took odd jobs, earned steady money, and from then on, put white rice on the table every meal. She be 9.9kReads8.6Score1kShelves
