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- 101 After Bankruptcy, My Ancestors Forced Me to Farm and Reclaim Wasteland 破产后，祖宗逼我种地开荒 After Chen Yu goes bankrupt, he's forced to sell off the family assets and return to his hometown in the countryside. By chance, he inherits a legacy from his ancestors and is made to farm and reclaim wasteland for planting trees. Unexpectedly, in the process of farming through both hardship and joy, he carves out an entirely new path. From then on, he embarks on another entrepreneurial journey and leads the people of his hometown to prosperity. 364Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 After My Reputation Hit Rock Bottom, I Cleared My Name by Farming 名声烂透后，我靠种田逆袭洗白 [Farming] [System] [Family Life] [Building Wealth] [Historical Romance] The sky is falling! The moment she arrives in this world, she becomes a desperate-to-marry woman who drugged a scholar! But the mess left behind by the original owner goes far beyond that. She steals chickens and dogs, is lazy and greedy, and nearly gets beaten to death by her own grandfather. Her two uncles even take turns trying to purge the Ye family of this disgrace. Strangely, though, this foolish, wicked home-wrecker i 2.3kReads—Score21814d adds
- 103 Abandoned in a Famine, I Turn Around and Build a Hidden Utopia 荒年被弃，反手打造世外桃源 [No CP, Natural and Man-Made Disasters, No Golden Finger, Just Started Getting Ratings] Shen Qingsui had barely transmigrated when she became a young widow, abandoned by the entire village in a year of famine. Behind her were a frail mother-in-law and a little child. Ahead lay certain death. She picked up a woodcutter's ax and gave a cold laugh. "Fine, I'll take on these 'burdens'!" Later, the people who had abandoned her regretted it bitterly. Every "burden" she'd saved along the way became a c 4.5kReads8.0Score58814d adds
- 104 The Marquis’s Household Laborer: The Eldest Sister Returns Home to Farm 侯府打工人之长姐的回乡种田日常 [Transmigration + farming + medicine + spatial powers + special abilities + family life] Zhao Yunyuan, a top modern pharmaceutical researcher, transmigrates overnight into the lowliest maid in a marquis's household. The good news: She earns her freedom by taking credit for a meritorious deed and can return to her hometown. The bad news: She is seventeen, and the authorities are forcing her to marry. If she cannot find a husband within a month, the government matchmaker will arrange one for her. 1.6kReads7.3Score16814d adds
- 105 Reporting to the General: Your Wife Just Wants to Be a Widow in the Countryside 报告将军，夫人只想在乡野当寡妇 She transmigrates and gets her fiancé stolen right from the start. No big deal! Ming Zi is even grateful to her white-lotus cousin for taking that scumbag off her hands. But what's with this alternate-era country where any woman still unmarried at fifteen gets forcibly assigned a husband by the state? And once you get assigned a husband, you have to accept him, even if he's a fool or disabled! The cousin who stole her fiancé, along with her step-grandmother, have already gone to the county offic 562Reads8.9Score10014d adds
- 106 The Prosperous Little Life of a Farming Couple in Ancient Times 古代农家夫妻的红火小日子 (Also known as: A Clearwater Home, A Rural Tale) [Ancient-era farming / fictional map blending north and south / ensemble cast of locals, each the protagonist of their own life / no transmigration / no rebirth / no pocket dimension / no golden finger / country living / a slow, steady pace] The full-cast audiobook is now available. Come give it a listen! Four different comic-drama adaptations are now available. Come watch! A lovely book to pass the time when you have nothing better to do. Thi 155kReads9.2Score12.7k14d adds
- 107 Opening Up the Wilderness in Ancient Times, Starting with Three Days to Live 古代开荒，从三天寿命开始 [Ancient farming + food + rural prosperity + adorable pets + a touch of cultivation] Jiang Liuyue transmigrates into the body of a sickly girl in ancient times. She and her mother are driven from their home and end up in a poor mountain village, where she has only three days left to live. [Ding! Host, you have only three days left to live!] Little Hoe: I can help you reclaim wasteland and extend your life. That's all you need. Little Spirit Pet: Treasure hunts are great fun. Madam Du: Buy as man 960Reads9.1Score19414d adds
- 108 A Corporate Drone’s Idyllic Farm Life 社畜的悠闲农家 [Farming + entrepreneurship + sweet romance + underdog comeback] After being driven to the brink by a 996 work schedule, Lin Yuming receives an unexpected gift after his grandfather dies: a rundown country guesthouse covered in cobwebs. [First day back in the village after quitting his job] Villagers gossip: “So the city slicker who went off to make it big finally remembered us? Don't come crying when you blow through your family's savings!” The guesthouse: weeds taller than people, a roof tha 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 Unbelievable! The Scheming Grand Secretary Is Comatose, Yet He Still Got Me Pregnant 绝了，腹黑首辅昏迷了还让我生崽 (Rebirth + transmigration + spirit spring space + slow burn + sweet romance) Craftsman Wen Ruan unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of an ugly peasant girl in ancient times who shared her name. She was saddled with debt and a one-year agreement. Seeing her younger siblings sincerely stand up for her, Wen Ruan decided to roll up her sleeves and get to work! She took the bamboo weaving from her space and sold cricket cages and handicrafts, repaired the house, bought land, and sent her younger 15.4kReads9.2Score3k14d adds
- 110 The Supporting Character Strikes Back: The Beloved Little Country Doctor 炮灰逆袭：团宠农家小医妻 [Double doting + farming + putting scumbags in their place] Shen Yao transmigrates into the story as a doomed female supporting character! Her father is dead, her mother has remarried, and now her stepfather's family is scheming to sell her off? Hmph. She'll take on the shameless troublemakers, raise her younger brother, and call off an engagement while she's at it. But right after she breaks it off, a rugged man latches onto her and stubbornly insists on marrying into her family. Everyone: “Tha 9.8kReads9.0Score1.3k14d adds
- 111 Nearly Sold Off, She Was Taken Home and Cherished by a Hunter 差点被卖后，她被猎户娶回家娇宠 [Transmigration + Farming + Sweet Romance + Both Leads Untainted + Lighthearted Comedy] Zhao Qinyao was almost sold off as a concubine when a hunter bought her and took her home. She had expected to live on scraps, but married life turned out to be wonderfully comfortable. The only downside was that the hunter, who was cold-faced whenever he went out, became far too enthusiastic once he got home. She just couldn't handle him! 1.4kReads9.0Score13614d adds
- 112 Country Life in Ancient Times: Jiang Yue, the Farmer’s Daughter 农女姜月的古代田园生活 [No Romance + Farming + Food Business + Animal Husbandry + Family and Village Life + Slow-Burn] Jiang Yue, a farmer's daughter with an unusual fate, was divorced and sent home. She fell ill and died. Jiang Yue, a modern single woman past her prime, was caught in a flash flood while traveling. When she opened her eyes again, she had become Jiang Yue, a seventeen-year-old divorcée abandoned in ancient times. Her family is desperately poor, but they stick together through thick and thin, and the 76Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 113 The Struggles of a Farming Couple in Ancient Times 古代农家夫妻奋斗史 (Also known as: The Struggles of a Farming Couple in Ancient Times. The animated drama The Little Farming Couple is now streaming. Come watch!) [Native-Born Ancient People] [Farming] [Building Wealth] [Everyday Family Life] [Adorable Beloved Child] [Cozy Daily Life] [Imperial Examinations] A chance encounter at an apothecary gives Wang Wei'an, a lovestruck young man working at a restaurant, the idea of bringing Zhao Xiuxiu, a young embroiderer, home as his wife. Neither of them transmigrated or 18.1kReads8.4Score1.6k14d adds
- 114 Pearl the Farmer’s Daughter and Her Leisurely Life 农女珍珠的悠闲生活 She knows nothing about farm work or crops, yet she becomes a country girl. The mountains stretch on and on, and the scenery is lovely, with abundant water, but her family is poor and their house is shabby. Her father is simple and honest, her mother is mute, and her younger brother is frail. At least there are no nasty relatives. She has no skills and owns next to nothing, but fortunately, she has a pocket dimension. With her family in tow, she leisurely heads for a brighter future. A handsome 3kReads9.0Score29914d adds
- 115 The Family at the End of the Village 村尾人家 [Fictional setting + cozy farming + everyday family life + slow-burn slice of life] With no love from her father or stepmother, Tian Xiaoxi has endured years of torment. Now she is forced to marry Chen Jiawang, a cripple from the neighboring village. She thinks she is doomed to sink into a mire with no hope of ever turning her life around. Little does she know that the man fell in love with her at first sight long ago. After they marry, he cherishes her dearly. They have a lovely son and daug 20.6kReads9.1Score1.1k14d adds
- 116 Spring Comes to the Mountain Woods 山木逢春 [Two formidable leads + court intrigue + kindred spirits + growing together + long live idealism] Censor Zhou Huaiyue is ordered to investigate a fire at the salt warehouse. A token belonging to the Fang family is found in the ashes. Armed with an imperial edict, he turns the Fang family’s estate upside down, determined to find the statue of an evil god rumored to be enshrined in their inner residence. He doesn’t find the statue. Instead, he brings out a young woman who seems detached in both 43Reads—Score13514d adds
- 117 The Handsome Husband of the Stone-Faced Hunter 冷面猎户家的俏夫郎 The rating has just come in. [Two male leads + farming + devoted couple + fictional ancient setting + natives of the world + sweet romance + food] Gu Zheng, the hunter from Xinghua Village, is famous for being cold and aloof. People say he lost his parents when he was young and still carries a place in his heart for his fiancée, who died early. He’s probably destined to remain a bachelor for the rest of his life. Then, one spring, he found a dusty little sparrow at Gongshan Shrine. Su Qiao was a 1.4kReads8.4Score12514d adds
- 118 Farming in Ancient Times and Outwitting My Terrible In-Laws 古代种田，和极品婆家斗智斗勇 A death notice saying she fell in battle is the worst possible start for Shen Nan after she transmigrates. Behind her are shameless relatives watching like hungry wolves, eager to devour her alive. Before her are two young children crying for food. No golden finger, no savior. She is just an ordinary widow pushed to the brink. From farming until the skin on her fingers splits, to setting up a stall on a bustling street corner, to running a little shop through stormy times, every step is soaked 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 Su Family's Tao 苏家阿桃 [Marriage first, love later + no transmigration or rebirth + farming and imperial examinations] At the age of fifteen, Su Tao became engaged to Li Sanlang, whose family owned a cloth shop in town. Barely six months later, Li Sanlang found a more advantageous match and decided to get engaged to the county magistrate’s illegitimate daughter. He made up a baseless excuse and broke off his engagement to Su Tao. Rumors spread, and people said Su Tao would have no choice but to become a butcher’s conc 6.9kReads9.1Score77314d adds
- 120 The Blessed Girl of the Farming Village 农门福女 No System + No Pocket Dimension + No Palace or Household Intrigue + Food A food blogger from the 21st century transmigrates to an unknown dynasty. She has a widowed grandmother and mother to support, along with twin younger brothers and a baby sister. Looking at their dilapidated thatched hut and her frail siblings, Li Qinghe rolls up her sleeves and gets to work, determined to lead the whole family to prosperity. Putting her past-life skills to use, she starts with a street stall, then opens a 685Reads8.6Score10214d adds
- 121 The Minister I Brought Home: My Wife Is a Feast for the Eyes 家养权臣：娇妻秀色可餐 Song Yu knew that Shen Sanlang, who seemed frail and sickly to outsiders, would one day rise to high office and wield power over the court. She didn't care how rich or powerful he might become. She only hoped he wouldn't torment her to death like he did in the original book. After transmigrating into a book, she didn't squander his family's fortune, drive his mother to her grave, or sell off his younger siblings. She even helped grow the Shen family's restaurant business. So, once he earned his 716Reads8.7Score10514d adds
- 122 Cake Above All 糕糕在上 Transmigration - Cozy Daily Life - Lighthearted - Slow Burn Gu Li is a nationally certified pastry chef. Because her body and soul have yet to fully settle into one another after transmigrating, she has become the village idiot, famous for miles around. After more than ten years of being treated like a fool, Gu Li has recently grown troubled. To avoid paying the head tax, her family has actually decided to send her to a landlord as a concubine. Being a concubine is out of the question. Making pa 8.6kReads9.1Score1.1k14d adds
- 123 A Village at Dusk 乡村日暮有人家 Farming + family life + historically grounded + realistic + no transmigration + slow-paced + no formulaic tropes + no ridiculous characters + no monster fights + no leveling up + no storage space + not a power fantasy or pure romance + no high-ranking officials This is a story about a family. In a mountain village in southern Hunan, Qianqian and her family work hard to get by. They farm, grow cotton, process hemp, spin yarn, weave cloth, and do needlework. Later, she learns to dye patterned clot 122Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 124 Transmigrated as a Rich Young Lady, I Enjoy Life While Working Hard 穿成富家小姐，边享受边奋斗 Transmigration + No Pocket Dimension + No Golden Finger + One-on-One Romance A cozy slice-of-life story about building a fortune Meng Nanxi goes from being a “triple-nothing” nobody with no home, no car, and no job to the wealthy daughter of an ancient-era merchant. She thinks she's hit the jackpot: goodbye, 996 workdays! Goodbye, taking the bus everywhere! Goodbye, that urban village rental where the plumbing springs a leak or gets clogged every other day! But before she can finish celebrating, 2.1kReads8.2Score20114d adds
- 125 A Down-and-Out Marquis’s Heir? Perfect, I’ll Take Him Home as My Husband 落魄侯门世子？正好扛回家做相公 (Transmigrated into a book + farming early on + political intrigue later + immensely strong heroine who fiercely protects her own + scumbag reborn to make amends) Lin Wan, heir to a family of ancient physicians, unexpectedly transmigrates into a book and becomes the male lead's ill-fated original wife. Her parents died young, her grandparents favor the other children, and her uncles are eyeing the family fortune. On top of being dirt poor, she also has a little brother to care for. Lin Wan says 1.2kReads8.6Score10914d adds
- 126 Transmigrated to a Famine Year, I Stockpile Supplies Like Crazy 穿越荒年之我疯狂囤物资 Complete, come and read! Also known as How I Hoarded Supplies Like Crazy During the Famine Years [Natural Disasters + Hoarding + Daily Life + Food + Hunting + Farming + No Awful Relatives + No Royal Connections + Warm and Healing, They Stay in the Mountains at First] A word of warning: There's little romance. She has spatial storage, but no ridiculous golden finger. The space is just for storing and hoarding things. When Xu Han woke up, she discovered she'd transmigrated and been sold by her awf 3.5kReads8.2Score24014d adds
- 127 Transmigrating into the Mountains: A Farmer Widow’s Easygoing Life 穿越深山，农家小寡妇的悠哉日常 (No romance, farming, no golden finger, no imperial power struggles, no awful relatives, building a fortune, everyday family life, livestock raising) Wen Li woke up one day in the body of a young widow. Well, she got to be a mom without the labor pains, and there was no man in the picture. Not bad. Looking at her family of frail and elderly relatives, their home practically bare, she rolled up her sleeves and got to work. She led them in farming, selling medicinal herbs, curing persimmons, and g 1.2kReads8.8Score11114d adds
- 128 A Husband from the Heavens: I’m Busy Getting Rich Through Farming 天降夫郎：种田暴富我很忙 [Two male leads + 1v1 + farming + transmigration + no golden finger + face-slapping + healing] Lin Yi, a second-year graduate student in agricultural science, fell off a cliff while trying to save his advisor. When he woke up, he had become a ge'er in an imaginary dynasty. His grandparents treated him coldly, and his uncle and aunt were cruel, so Lin Yi schemed to attach himself to Qin Qing, a hunter who had just returned from military service, and escaped his living hell. From then on, he gathe 2.2kReads8.6Score28414d adds
- 129 Three Meals, Four Seasons, Two Hearts 三餐四季一双人 The Marquis's household is in ruins? Don't worry! Li Suxin takes her daughter and begins a life on the run! Shh! Her daughter is now called Deng Yazhen... After crossing three thousand li and finding hope after hardship, they arrive in Shanshui Village. The "older widow" Li Suxin remarries for the first time, bringing her daughter along. Farming, growing vegetables, raising chickens, ducks, donkeys, and sheep... Everything is a fresh start. They say three women make a whole show. After remarr 145Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 130 Hunting in the Ural Mountains 乌拉尔山赶山记 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 1.2kReads9.0Score17514d adds
- 131 Young Master, This Time You Can Finally Forget Your Ex 太子爷，这回终于可以忘记前女友 [A cold-faced, devoted young master vs. a beautiful, clever top student] [The substitute takes her place + brothers turn against each other + the real and fake heiresses] Before her biological parents found her, Shang Yanchi went by another name. This one seemed to bring her good luck. The fake heiress schemed to steal her place, but she took the fake heiress’s arranged-marriage match without even breaking a sweat. The love meant for her was delayed, but it came at last! 175Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 After My Divorce, I Reached the Peak of My Life 和离后我走上人生巅峰 When Chunxiao wakes up, she discovers her household is about to turn upside down. Her husband, who has just passed the imperial examinations to become a scholar, actually wants to demote her from wife to concubine for money. He thinks his scheme is foolproof, but she’s no longer the same pushover she used to be. She quickly divorces him and returns to Yanjia Village. Faced with nothing but poverty, she starts building a business with her family. Who says a woman can’t support a household? After 5.2kReads9.0Score62514d adds
- 133 The Chief Minister's Farmhouse Bride 首辅家的农门小娇妻 Gu Yuan woke up transmigrated as the cannon-fodder female lead in a novel, and from the start she was already at odds with the male and female leads. Knowing the miserable fate awaiting her, Gu Yuan only wanted to live to see the ending. At lightning speed, she broke off her engagement with the original male lead and picked a cripple to marry. But this cripple... was stunningly handsome. As a certified pretty-boy enthusiast, Gu Yuan was delighted. After forcing Gu Yuan to marry a “crippled husba 6.5kReads8.8Score68414d adds
- 134 Reclaiming the Wilderness: Chun Zhi the Widow's Farming Life 深山开荒，寡妇春枝种田记 [Mountain farming, no romance, family life, business and fortune-building, raising children, a slow and steady pace] Gu Chunzhi falls out with her in-laws, putting an end to years of swallowing her grievances. Holding eight-year-old Xiao An by the hand and leading three-year-old Niuniu with the other, the woman her in-laws considered a burden turns and walks into the barren mountains behind the village. She has no golden finger, no influential benefactors, only a hoe, a woodcutter's axe, a few s 713Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 135 Life Alone in a Strange World 陌生世界的独居生活 [Farming and stockpiling supplies · extreme weather · no golden finger · no romance · slow-paced] Lu Siyue never imagined that she’d wake up in a strange world. Her familiar family was gone, and the surroundings were unfamiliar too. How would a helpless young woman, unable to lift a hand against even a chicken, manage to survive? A plain, everyday survival story. No dark side of human nature, and no wish-fulfillment scenes about getting rich and beautiful overnight! Life here is like living in t 458Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 136 I Reincarnated as a Fake Widow in a Farming Family, and This Man Is So Clingy 穿成农家伪寡妇，这个男人太黏人 After Zhao Weiran, an older unmarried woman in modern times, was found dead on the street with her throat slit, she transmigrated into the body of Zhao Dani, a pretend widow. She planned to gather herbs, farm the land, raise a child, and follow the ultimate path to happiness as a heroine with land, money, and a kid. But she never expected her husband to come back from the dead and treat her with such patience, tenderness, and care. Well, she wasn’t one to be coy. If she was in love, she’d admit 169Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 137 Exiled to Western Shu to Reclaim the Wilds, the Ace Agent Dotes on the Future Chancellor 流放西蜀开荒，王牌特工娇养首辅 [An elite agent transmigrates + exile + pioneering + ensemble cast + strong heroine and hero + doting on her husband] An ace agent transmigrates, only to find herself and her whole family sentenced to exile. A troublemaking official? One elbow strike takes him down. Bullies next door? One slap sends them packing. No water in the barren mountains? She digs a spring out with her bare hands. Along the way, she takes in a fallen former chief minister: he looks aloof and refined, but he's full of 33Reads—Score11614d adds
- 138 A Poor Farm Girl's Endless Good Luck 农家苦女好运连连 Poor Jiang Sanniu never gets enough to eat or warm clothes at the Jiang family’s home. Her father doesn’t care for her, her mother doesn’t love her, and her family often beats and scolds her. By a twist of fate, a married couple from the Zheng family buys her to be their daughter. From then on, her luck keeps improving, and in the end the Zhengs dote on her like she’s the most precious thing in the world. 44Reads—Score314d adds
- 139 The Most Miserable Transmigration: Surviving Seven Years of Famine 最惨穿越，度过七年灾荒 No romance, farming story. Farming + space + natural disasters + stockpiling No royal relatives, but there is a pocket dimension. Gu Liang transmigrates into the family of an ordinary peasant in ancient times. Apart from a pocket dimension for storing things, he has no other golden finger. The price is that he must survive seven years of disaster: three years of drought, two years of floods, one year of plague, and one year of war. Follow Gu Liang as the eldest grandson of the Gu family and see 5.2kReads7.8Score35814d adds
- 140 Alone 甚独 She has no golden finger, no powerful backer, and not even any special skills worth mentioning. With a moderate case of laziness and a terminal case of gluttony, she transmigrates more than 1,700 years into the past, to a time when cucumbers have only just become widespread, and cries out to the heavens: “Either switch me with someone else or strike me dead!” “It’s fine!” her mother says. “You have royal blood. If you round things off, you’re a runaway princess!” “Don’t worry!” her father says. 2.1kReads9.3Score21414d adds
- 141 Graduation Means Unemployment: The Joys of Growing Melons in the Countryside 毕业即失业：农村种瓜乐趣多 From the start, it's “hell mode”: Huang Pu suffers one job-hunting defeat after another in the city, crushed by the label “unemployed upon graduation.” Rejecting the rat race, he flees back to the countryside with nothing but his diploma, declaring that he'll grow “premium-priced melons” on farmland and build a landscaped melon farm. But village bully Han Erhu makes trouble at every turn, while the villagers look on coldly. With no resources or connections, how can Huang Pu defy the odds and cha 53Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 After I Transmigrate, I Build a Fortune with My Stingy Old Dad 穿越后，带着抠门老爹发家致富 [Farming + Beloved by the Whole Family + Daily Life + Food + Alternate World + Transmigration] Liu Changning was transmigrated into her mother’s womb. Her father is miserly to an extreme. Her mother is very open-minded. She is the youngest daughter in the family, with four older brothers. The Liu family is dirt poor. Their house is so shabby they can see the stars through the roof... But ever since this youngest daughter arrived, Old Liu has noticed that the family’s life keeps getting better an 3.2kReads8.6Score25214d adds
- 143 Chen Shi Lives Next Door to Akita 秋田隔壁住陈实 Qiutian’s mother was known throughout the surrounding villages as a capable woman. She was still harvesting rice in the fields just before giving birth to Qiutian, so she named her daughter Qiutian, meaning autumn fields. When Qiutian was one, her mother went mad. Carrying her on her back, she ran around everywhere and even made her drink filthy water from a cesspit. When Qiutian was three, her mad mother fell off a cliff and died. Her father, a traveling peddler, was hardly ever home. Her five- 7.3kReads9.0Score1.2k14d adds
- 144 The Hunter General's Little Country Wife 猎户将军的田园小娇妻 [Farming + Adorable Kids + Sweet Romance, One-on-One] [Gentle, Tender, and Principled Heroine + Handsome, Rough-Around-the-Edges, Devoted Hero with Exceptional Martial Skills] Su Jingyue, a university student majoring in fashion design, transmigrates into another world and becomes a destitute young lady of unknown origins. She is rescued by Chu Ci, a hunter around her age. His parents have passed away, leaving him with a pair of pitiful fraternal twin siblings. Looking at the miserable little gi 2.3kReads9.0Score24714d adds
- 145 Growing Melons, Vegetables, and Crops 种瓜种菜种田 The silly girl from the Shi family suddenly isn’t silly anymore. And trailing behind her are five nearly grown boys, who turn out to be her own brothers. The girl leads them to plant melons in the sandy field behind the village. The yard-long beans climb all over their trellises, the greens are tender and fresh, and the grain hangs heavy on the furrows. The neighbors may gossip and bicker, but luckily there’s the open-minded Grandma Shi to keep things in check. They plant in spring and harvest i 8.2kReads8.0Score72214d adds
- 146 Reborn to Buy a Husband and Have a Child 重生之买个汉子生孩子 [Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion + Devoted to Each Other + One-on-One Romance + Farming] Wen Qiaoyun was born and raised a farmer, and she had been one in her past life too. Her greatest wish was to own a vast stretch of land where she could make all the decisions herself. So even after she bought herself a prince for a husband, and even after she gave birth to a young heir and a little princess, her wish remained unchanged. New book: Farming: The System-Wielding Widow of the Farmhouse, pen nam 1.2kReads9.0Score10114d adds
- 147 I've Been Farming Ever Since I Transmigrated 穿越后一直在种田 [Wu Xiao never liked farming, even as a child. So what if transmigrating gave her a golden finger? She's still forced to farm both inside and outside her space!] Wu Xiao is an ordinary nobody who's been having the same dream every night lately: endlessly farming in different places! A time-traveling soldier accidentally sends her back to ancient times, where she becomes Yang Mingxi, a village girl. Seeing her caring family go hungry, she rolls up her sleeves and starts farming for their sake. Af 2.3kReads9.2Score18614d adds
- 148 After My Eldest Sister Swapped Our Marriages 被长姐换亲之后 [Farming + marriage first, love later + switched betrothals + contrast couple + business + transmigration] [Available as a full-cast audiobook and comic drama] Song He dies in an accident while saving someone and transmigrates to ancient times as an ordinary farm girl. Life is hard, and even having enough to eat and warm clothes is a struggle. As the second daughter in her family, the original owner is ignored by her father and scolded by her mother. Her eldest sister is fiercely competitive, an 52.5kReads8.7Score6.5k14d adds
- 149 Every Day After Marrying a Rugged Man Is Pure Bliss 嫁给糙汉后每天都真香 1v1. Both leads are devoted only to each other. Jiang Nian is a sweet, gentle, clever heroine who isn’t self-righteous, while Fan Pingye is a taciturn hunter who dotes on his wife without restraint. At 17, Jiang Nian follows her father’s arrangement and marries Fan Pingye, the hunter feared by everyone in the village. She trusts that her father wouldn’t harm her, but she is still an inexperienced young woman, and everyone knows Fan Pingye’s fearsome reputation. The villagers say he killed count 1.3kReads6.8Score10214d adds
- 150 A Bride Raised in Poverty: I Farm to Support the Heir 寒门童养媳：我靠种田发家养世子 Transmigration + farming + imperial examinations + face-slapping the worst sort of people + a mystery about her origins + storing grain for years of famine This novel has no romance, no romance, no romance. The heroine just wants to retire, lie flat, and keep 180 male models! Agronomy PhD Shen Qingci transmigrates into the body of a twelve-year-old child bride. The moment she opens her eyes, she is being sold to an old widower who beat his wife to death. She turns the tables on the scoundrel, ta 944Reads8.2Score—14d adds
