Novels like There's a Sacred Mountain in My Backyard
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- 1 Mountain Treasures 山货 The story follows the old tales of the protagonist, Huang Jinshan, beginning in the Republican era and continuing through his family's move south to Guangdong. It recounts the strange and wondrous things the male lead encounters while trading in local produce and venturing deep into the forests. There are rare beasts, exotic birds, and natural treasures hidden in the mountains, as well as treasures left behind by people of past dynasties. His explorations and treasure hunts are full of danger an 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Ginseng Growers of Wildman Valley 野人沟种参人 What’s it like to swallow a ginseng spirit who loves playing tricks? Cultivate immortality? Become a god? No, no, no. I’d rather grow ginseng, pick wild fruit, flirt with pretty girls, and earn a little spending money. I wouldn’t become an immortal even if you offered me the chance! 286Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 3 The Countryside’s Supreme Divine Farmer 乡村之极品神农 His gold-digging girlfriend dumps him. Though penniless, he still helps a beggar, and is rewarded with a miraculous medicine. 283Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 4 Hunting in the Mountains: I Started as a Forest Ranger in the Greater Khingan Range 赶山：从在兴安岭做护林员开始 [Mountain foraging and hunting + no System + no spatial storage + village chief's daughter + face-slapping] “My name is Liang Shangen, and these mountains are my roots!” After transmigrating into the body of a forest ranger named Liang Shangen in 1978, he changed the timid, spineless personality of the original Liang Shangen. With the Greater Khingan Mountains at his back, treasures were everywhere. Live off the mountains if you live by the mountains; live off the sea if you live by the sea. Wha 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Leisurely Little Farmer 悠闲小农民 A college graduate returns to the countryside while unemployed. By chance, he comes across a treasure and begins a very different life... 541Reads5.8Score102Shelves
- 6 Frontier Little Landowner 边疆小地主 After her parents passed away, Lin Yu took over the forest farm where they had worked. From then on, she lived a leisurely country life with just herself, a dog, and two sheep. Think that sounds boring? Wrong. After she got the Little Landlord System, life only got more and more exciting... 422Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 7 After Marrying the Mountain Man to Bring Him Good Fortune, the Farming Girl Becomes Everyone’s Favorite 给山里汉冲喜后，小农女被团宠了 A genius medical PhD transmigrates to a year of severe drought and famine, where the dead litter the land. As if that weren’t enough, she’s sold to bring good fortune to a man in a vegetative state. Don’t panic! Her medical research space came along too. With the space in hand, the world is hers! Su Wan goes up the mountain to dig for wild greens and comes back with a huge wild ginseng root. She stumbles into a cave and finds silver ingots... Can’t buy grain even with money? No problem. She can 1.4kReads7.7Score196Shelves
- 8 We Split Up From the Start. I'm Getting Rich, So Why Are You Crying? 开局就分家，我暴富你们哭什么？ (Entirely handwritten, 0 AI) Su Mingyue, a soldier king, transmigrates to an ancient famine-stricken era and becomes a widow with four children to raise. Drought after drought leaves her family with nothing to eat. But she doesn't panic in the slightest. Behind her house, the verdant mountains are full of wild rabbits, wild boars, black bears, ginseng, and reishi mushrooms. While others chew tree bark and grass roots, she hunts in the mountains and leads her family to turn their fortunes around. 195Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Wild Little Immortal Farmer 狂野小仙农 Yang Chen has a dream: one day, he will become the richest man in Niutou Village! An accident leaves him facing a life-or-death choice, and he receives a legacy. The True Scripture of the Jade Maiden? How is he supposed to practice it? Things are about to get interesting... Beautiful women come flocking to him, and wealth and status are within easy reach. Huh? It seems that being the richest man in a little village isn't enough. Is he going to defy fate and change his destiny? 19Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 10 The Shennong Secret Realm: Mountain Strongmen 神农秘境之大山强人 Xu Wenqiang, a college graduate from the mountains, quit his job and returned to his hometown because he could no longer tolerate his boss’s oppression. Eager to start a business back home, he never expected a chance encounter to completely transform his life. Not only did he find love, he also grew into a business tycoon. This is the inspiring story of a young man with a dream. 108Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 11 After Returning to the Village, I Live a Reclusive Life in the Hundred Thousand Mountains 回村后，宅在十万大山享受生活 A single heroine, with a lighthearted, everyday farming story. After graduating, Li Xiangdong returned to his hometown and spent a year holed up at home. He went from being the promising kid everyone talked about to a jobless layabout who lived off his parents and became the subject of local gossip! Then one day, while accompanying his father to their old Miao village to pay respects to their ancestors, Li Xiangdong unexpectedly acquired a mysterious totem tattoo… From then on, his life was lik 1.1kReads7.5Score100Shelves
- 12 Island Life: The Leisurely Fisherman 海岛生活，悠闲渔夫 After being laid off, Lu Ran starts a new life on an island. By chance, he obtains a magical conch shell, unlocks the Conch Space, and inherits the legacy of Haiyun Island. The Haiyun Pearl inside lets him explore the entire ocean freely and even breathe underwater. From then on, he begins living the leisurely life of a fisherman. And sets out to conquer the entire ocean! 1.1kReads6.2Score104Shelves
- 13 I Own a Peach Blossom Paradise 我有一座桃花源 After unexpectedly inheriting a Mountain God's legacy, a down-and-out young man becomes a reclusive master. He also carries a small pocket dimension with him, where he can grow vegetables and raise livestock with ease. He feeds the chickens, plays with the dogs, hunts in the mountains, and catches shrimp in the river. He can make money while enjoying a leisurely life. Like a dragon entering the sea or a tiger returning to the mountains, Ning Xiaomin sets out on the path to the pinnacle of succes 1.3kReads7.8Score142Shelves
- 14 The Divine Jade of Creation 造化神玉 After Liu Haonan is injured at home during his college internship, he unexpectedly obtains a divine jade. Its powers are astonishing. It helps him lead the villagers to prosperity, develop a tourist attraction, sell local specialties, promote rural culture, and win the heart of a beautiful woman. 1.1kReads7.1Score101Shelves
- 15 Still Caught in the Rat Race? Why Not Go Home and Pick Mushrooms? 还在内卷？不如回家捡蘑菇 Ye Su suddenly awakens a System that gives him a hundredfold reward for picking mushrooms. He promptly leaves the big city, where he has to risk his life to get ahead, and returns to the mountains in his hometown to forage for mushrooms. Termite mushrooms, matsutake, black truffles, bolete mushrooms, red mushrooms. One after another, all kinds of precious mountain mushrooms become his spoils. He returns home, finds a beautiful, pure-hearted village girl, and starts his Tycoon life by picking mus 2.3kReads8.7Score146Shelves
- 16 Reborn: Treasures Abound in the Mountain Village 重生之山沟沟里宝贝多 This book tells the story of a veteran who served in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, then returned to his hometown to farm after leaving the military. After being reborn, Wu Changgeng returns to 1979. At forty-three, he is a middle-aged man whose parents have passed away and whose wife has left him. With only two acres of poor farmland, he hunts in the mountains, mines asbestos, harvests raw lacquer, gathers medicinal herbs, and leases forest land, gradually building a prosperou 213Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 17 Xing’an Mountains, 1983: Reborn to the Glory of a Hunter 兴安岭1983：重生之猎户荣耀 In 2025, Cao Jinxue, now in his sixties, drew his last breath in a ramshackle mountain hut, only to be reborn at nineteen. When he opened his eyes, his parents were alive and his three sisters were in the prime of their youth: his eldest sister had just finished her postpartum confinement, his second sister was discussing marriage, and his youngest sister was still in high school. In his previous life, he had caused trouble at every turn and dragged his whole family into ruin. This time, he grip 133Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Unmatched in the Annals of History 青史无双 Unmatched in the Annals of History —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 I Told You to Clear the Land, Not Dig Up a Treasure Vault! 让你开荒，不是让你挖藏宝库！ [Special constitution, no System, livestreaming, treasure hunting, countryside, community building] Lu Ran quit his job, returned to the countryside, and started livestreaming rural life. He didn’t expect it to be quite so different from what he’d imagined. He clears the yard and digs up a jar of Yuan Shikai silver dollars! He tends the vegetable patch and somehow digs up an antique! He goes up the mountain looking for wild mushrooms and finds a century-old wild ginseng root. He plants a tree an 703Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 20 A Hunter Reborn in the 1960s, Heading to the Northeast Countryside with a Pocket Dimension 猎户重生在六零，下乡东北有空间 [Transmigration and rebirth] [Hunting in the Greater Khingan Range] [No System] [All kinds of wild animals] [One heroine] [Alternate history] This new book has only just come out, so its rating is low. The content is excellent, so feel free to invest! Chen Ping'an, who operated a tower crane at a foreign port, was crushed to death and reborn in Nanluoguxiang at the end of the 1960s. What? From the start, he's being sent to the countryside, all the way to the Great Northern Wilderness to work as 710Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 21 Lost in the Deep Mountains, I Use the System to Hunt for Wild Ginseng 穿到深山，我用系统搜刮山里人参 [Farming + feel-good fantasy + System + transmigration + no male lead] Zhao Xiaoli wakes up as an orphaned street child. She is only thirteen herself, yet she has to look after the three younger brothers her parents left behind, one of whom is still an infant, crying for milk. That would be no big deal, since she has a trading System and can eat and drink her fill even in the famine years. When natural disasters strike, she saves everyone in the village and accidentally becomes the village's dar 492Reads8.6Score100Shelves
- 22 For Whom the Bell Tolls 警钟为谁而鸣 For Whom the Bell Tolls 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Su Wanning, the Beauty of Jinling 金陵花魁苏婉凝 Su Wanning, Jinling's Most Beautiful Courtesan 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 My Days of Survival on a Deserted Island with a Goddess 我和女神荒岛求生的日子 After an accident, I and several beautiful women were stranded on an isolated island, cut off from the rest of the world. The island was mysterious and unpredictable. But driven by our desire to survive and our longing for civilization, we had no choice but to change ourselves...! 1kReads8.6Score101Shelves
- 25 The Return of Medicine 药归 The mole at the corner of my left eye lets me see the spirits of every medicinal herb. Cassia Twig is a young man bathed in summer sunshine. Chinese Angelica carries seventy years of longing. Aconite, tempered through seven cycles of water and fire, can draw the fading yang energy back into someone on the brink of death. They have seen Zhang Zhongjing’s snow, basked in the sun with Sun Simiao, and followed Li Shizhen over cliffs. With this band of ancient herb spirits at my side, I run a litt 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 After Learning to Understand Animals, I Hiked into the Mountains with a Sack and Struck It Rich 听懂兽语后，我扛麻袋进山捡钱 (Xie Shiyu, sharp-tongued and hard-fisted, versus Xia Ling, a cunning, venomous-tongued hypocrite) To force Xie Shiyu to marry a fool in exchange for a hefty bride price, her grandparents drove her father to his death, then refused to buy him a coffin or give him a proper burial! With no other choice, Xie Shiyu went to borrow money from her childhood sweetheart, who supposedly liked her too. Instead, she overheard him and his mother plotting to ruin her and marry her without spending a penny! If 11.7kReads8.6Score619Shelves
- 27 The Power of the Formless 无行之力 The Power of No Conduct 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Su Wanqing's Story of Joy 苏晚清欢记 Su Wan's Qinghuan Chronicle 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 A Race for the Throne: Who Will Claim Victory? 逐鹿天下，鹿死谁手 Compete for the Realm: Who Will Claim the Prize? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Myriad Aspect Clone: Ascend Straight to the Ninth Heaven Through Tribulation 万相分身：渡劫直上九重天 Ten Thousand Aspects, One Avatar: Transcend the Tribulation and Ascend Straight to the Ninth Heaven 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Reborn in 1988: I Start Digging for Ginseng in the Mountains! 重生88，从大山挖参开始！ [Reborn + Northeast China + digging for ginseng + making money] Li Ze remembered how, before he was reborn, his father had dug up wild ginseng and become one of the village’s wealthiest men, only to be tricked out of the bride price and reduced to poverty. Whenever he thought about it, he’d get up in the middle of the night and slap himself twice! Luckily, he was reborn. He knew exactly who was good and who was bad, so why not get a new wife? The vast forests of Northeast China in the 1980s were 2.9kReads6.8Score163Shelves
- 32 Our First Meeting at Broken Bridge, West Lake 西湖断桥，初相逢 Our First Meeting at Broken Bridge on West Lake —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Jiangnan Guesthouse: Homeward Clouds 江南民宿，云归居 Jiangnan Guesthouse: Cloudrest Lodge —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Reborn in the 1970s: Hunting in Northeast China 重生70年代，我在东北赶山打猎 Urban farming + period piece + everyday life + 1970s rural charm + hunting Hunting expert Lin Yong was reborn in the 1970s in the Changbai Mountains of Northeast China. With his exceptional hunting skills and the advantages of a reborn man, he led his family to prosperity one step at a time. Raid wild duck nests, club roe deer, hunt black bears, and catch kaluga sturgeon! While other families ate husks and wild greens, we had meat at every meal! When wild boars ran rampant and tigers roamed the 132Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 35 A Beauty in Troubled Times, Her Grace Beyond Compare 乱世佳人，风骨胜红颜 A Beauty in Turbulent Times, Her Spirit Outshines Her Looks —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 A Glimpse of Beauty in a Dream, At Last We Meet 惊鸿入梦，终得相逢 A Glimpse of Beauty in a Dream, At Last We Meet Again —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Hunting in '83: Back to the Golden Age of the Xing'an Mountains 狩猎八三：重回兴安岭黄金年代 The winter of 1983, in the Greater Khingan Mountains of Northeast China. When 59-year-old forest ranger Leng Zhijun wakes up, he finds himself back on the snowy plains at age seventeen, at the tragic turning point that left him disfigured, forced his younger sister into an arranged marriage, and drove his parents to exhaustion and illness. In his previous life, he and his childhood friend Liu Zhengang recklessly hunted a wild boar and nearly died beneath its tusks. This time, drawing on his pas 1.6kReads5.9Score131Shelves
- 38 Searching for Herbs in the Deep Mountains, I Swallowed a Thousand-Year-Old Dragon's Saliva 深山寻药，我竟吞下千年龙涎 To save his ailing mother, the young Chen Guang ventures into a forbidden area of Changbai Mountain, where he accidentally awakens a heaven-defying divine eye that can see the true nature of all things. From then on, barren land is a treasure trove beneath his feet, yielding mountains of golden grain, while poisonous weeds appear to him as miracle herbs capable of bringing the dead back to life. With a touch, he turns stone into gold, leads a poor mountain village to defy fate, and builds a busi 25Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 39 A Famine, Three Kids in Tow: This Tough Farmwife Strikes It Rich 穿到荒年一拖三，飒爽农妇血赚了 Modern military doctor Xie Yushu dies suddenly on the job and wakes up as an ancient peasant bride, also named Xie Yushu. Her husband is a rough-hewn cripple, and neither of her two children is her own. Above her is a sharp-tongued, biased mother-in-law; below her, selfish and greedy sisters-in-law. She has three ramshackle rooms, not an inch of farmland, and famine has struck. Xie Yushu grits her teeth and decides she can still play this awful hand! She rolls up her sleeves, hunts and gathers m 5.3kReads9.3Score855Shelves
- 40 I Quit My Job and Returned to My Hometown to Build the Most Beautiful Home 辞职回老家，建设我的最美家乡 [Daily Life] [Unity] [Development] [Farming and Helping the Whole Village Get Rich] [No Scheming or Cheap Tricks] [Heartwarming] On his very first trip into the mountains, he discovers five wild ginseng roots that are a hundred years old! By chance, he also finds wild Longevity Grass, a "man's gas station," which sells for ten thousand per root! Then he stumbles across wild black goji berries, worth five thousand per pound! A pet that understands human speech, and a protagonist who can talk to a 7.8kReads8.9Score724Shelves
- 41 The First Farmer 第一农夫 He thought they were the best of friends, but his friend was actually the enemy who stole his wife and even tried to kill Lin Feng. Luckily, Heaven had other plans: Lin Feng survived against all odds and stumbled upon the greatest opportunity in the world. Watch as the world's top farmer takes revenge and makes his mark in both the countryside and the city. 6.2kReads8.9Score932Shelves
- 42 Hunting in the Greater Khingan Range: A Hunter's Life in Northeast China 赶山兴安岭：狩猎大东北 Cao Erxi, a 61-year-old nightclub security guard in Dongguan, gets drunk and is reborn at the end of his life, back in the Greater Khingan Range in 1983. That year, at nineteen, he took his younger brother into the mountains, where they encountered a wild boar. His brother died a tragic death, his elder sister froze to death, and he ended up drifting through the underworld. Now that he has returned to the past, hunting knife in hand, he swears to rewrite his fate! From shooting squirrels with a 4.4kReads6.0Score101Shelves
- 43 Transmigrating Into the Life of My Dreams 穿越梦想生活 [Space + Hoarding Supplies + Transmigration from Modern Times to Ancient Times + Natural Disasters + Fleeing Famine] Qian Chunhua, who had been single her whole life, transmigrated with a space full of supplies. She got the children she had long dreamed of before transmigrating. To her surprise, one of the children had been switched at birth. After setting things right, she took the three children with her to dodge natural disasters and evade the ravages of war... In the end, she raised all thre 5.5kReads8.9Score708Shelves
- 44 The Golden Scepter 黄金权杖 The Golden Scepter 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Phoenix Girl Soars 凤女凌云 The Phoenix Maiden Soars to the Heavens —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Mountain Foraging: My Relaxed Life Raising Takin in the Qinling Mountains 赶山：我在秦岭养羚牛的悠闲日子 (Mountain foraging + hunting + fishing + pets + daily life + lighthearted) Zhou Qingshan, a veterinarian, transmigrated and was reborn in a small village in the Qinling Mountains in 1982. He awakened the Spirit of All Things System. When he goes fishing or shrimping, he always gets a huge haul. When he heads into the mountains to hunt, he returns laden with game. Even the wild weeds trampled underfoot by the roadside are valuable medicinal herbs. The cattle he raises are the Qinling Mountains' " 589Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 47 A Military Marriage in the Seventies: The Tough Daughter-in-Law of the Alley 年代军婚，小巷里的彪悍儿媳 Transmigration + 1970s Setting + Points for Punishing Villains + Tough Heroine + Treasure Hunting + Sweet Romance While other people had one foot in Tsinghua and the other in Peking University, Su Wanwan slipped on both feet and ended up in the countryside, where she was immediately pressured into marriage... What? The guy's a greasy old man, and he beats his wife? A man like that doesn't deserve to get married. Su Wanwan was furious. She beat up the wife-beater and took care of her horrible sec 57Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 48 Hunting in the 1970s on Ailao Mountain 哀牢山之70年代赶山狩猎 Two unfamiliar souls transmigrate to an unfamiliar era. A mysterious legacy of mountain hunting. Thrilling hunts. Fierce pets. Mighty mounts. Exciting treasure hunts, and the cultures and traditions of many ethnic minorities. Follow this warmhearted couple as they take you into a different era. 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Qinling Mountain Herb Gatherer 秦岭采药人 After graduating from junior high in the 1990s, rural boy Huang Yang was admitted to the Sanqin Forestry School, a thousand miles from home. His family was poor, so he studied while going into the mountains to gather medicinal herbs and earn money. After obtaining a mysterious jade-bamboo-root pendant, he embarked on a life of extraordinary good fortune. He opened plantations and a tourism company, leading his fellow villagers to prosperity… Urban life, miracle doctor, fighting villains, farming 7.3kReads9.1Score972Shelves
- 50 Hunting in 1983: Atop the Greater Khingan Mountains 狩猎1983：东北兴安岭之巅 "Bang!" The roar of a double-barreled shotgun shakes snow from the pine branches. Zheng Huawei's reborn legend begins in the morning mist of the Greater Khingan Range! The son of a hunter who spent half his previous life in misery, he is reborn in a northeastern forest camp in 1983. This time, he will use forty-two years of hunting experience to carve out a path through this frozen wilderness! "Remember, a true hunter needs a steady aim and a ruthless heart!" When a four-hundred-jin bear rears 312Reads5.5Score—Shelves
