Novels like Happiness Is Coming Home to Farm
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- 1 Wang Xiaoye's Extraordinary Life 王小叶的妖孽人生 Wang Xiaoye has faced life and death twice and seen the coldness of a world that looks down on the poor. Determined to fight an unfair fate, he uses his medical skills to earn his first fortune and begins planning an ambitious future: growing medicinal herbs, building pharmaceutical factories, developing places to live, and more. Starting from the countryside, he makes his way to the city and into the world of ancient martial arts! 314Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 2 An Ordinary Small Farmer 平凡小农民 I'm an ordinary country boy, a small-time farmer who got into university but couldn't attend. No one knows how bitter that makes me feel. Helplessness, uncertainty, confusion, and the feeling that there's nothing I can do are enough to drive anyone mad. When you have no one to rely on, what good is confidence? When you have no power or influence, what good is money? Only women can be my cure... 660Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 You Sent Me Back to the Village to Start a Business, So Why Are You Chasing Girls? 让你回村创业，你竟然泡妹子？ (Nostalgic 1990s + business simulation + everyday life + fond memories + ...) Li Guofu transmigrates back to the 1990s, starting out with nothing but a small convenience store. Ding! Host, please make a choice. Choice One: Lie flat now and receive a million yuan. Choice Two: Start with the convenience store, embark on the road to wealth through business, and become the hope of the whole village... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 I Lay Flat Back in My Hometown and Found a Partner by the Roadside 躺平回乡，路边捡了个对象 [Two Bakery Owners vs. a Worker Returning to Her Hometown to Lie Flat] After being hit by both a layoff and a breakup, Lin Qingqing's depression worsens, and she gives up her rental and returns to her hometown. On her way home after researching products to sell, Xie Yang knocks Lin Qingqing into the hospital. One evening, after he has cared for her devotedly and she has recovered, he pulls her close and asks, “Lin Qingqing, can I kiss you?” Lin Qingqing: “Get lost!” Later, conversations like thi 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Countryside’s Super Village Doctor 乡野超级村医 [Countryside, divine doctor, play the pig to eat the tiger] Zhou Xiaomo is known beyond the borders as the invincible Demon Dragon. His iron fists have beaten the world. Who dares challenge him? Now he has returned home in glory, using his miraculous hands to heal the sick. Even the neighbor’s sister-in-law says he’s wonderful. I, Zhou Xiaomo, am the village doctor. Whoever dares mess with me, I’ll send them spiraling into the sky! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Childhood Memories of My Hometown 故乡的童年回忆 Childhood Memories of Home 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Let Go of That Village Beauty and Let Me Have Her 放开那个村花，让我来 Su Mu, a veteran, traveled far and wide before finally choosing to return to his hometown. There, he devoted himself to rural development, helping people escape poverty, taking on local bullies, and protecting the village beauty. In my territory, I make the rules! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Happiness, Keep Going 幸福，走下去 After 2000, people’s lives continued to improve. With government support, a small village in northern China prepared to demolish the houses in its low-lying areas and build a more modern new village on higher ground, where it would be better suited for people to live. At the same time, Wang Meng, Wang Zhen, and Xu Lu faced the most important choices of their lives. Wang Zhen had always been a well-behaved girl. To help her family raise money to build a house, she followed her parents’ arrangemen 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Chen Guang of the Countryside 乡野陈光 This book recounts the bizarre life of Chen Guang through his boyhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. His irreverent nature and hatred of evil reveal his loyalty to his friends and his reckless, carefree way of life. Outraged by the injustices of the real world, he longs to sweep away every evil and injustice on earth. Then, without even realizing it, he falls in love for the first time, leaving him confused, hesitant, and uneasy! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 A New Beginning in the Sunshine 向阳处，新生路 A New Beginning in a Sunlit Place —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 We're All Post-90s 我们都是90后 A group of children living in a remote mountain village, a life of poverty and happiness, and memories unique to those born in the 1990s. They search for traces of their youth and keep a secret for life. From primary school through middle school and high school, then into the working world, they weather life’s ups and downs. The place they once most wanted to escape from eventually becomes the place they most want to stay. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The King of Pig Farming: The Most Beautiful Northeast Pig 养猪大王，最美东北农猪 [Spatial farm] + [Everyday food] + [Country life] Wang Dabiao found a treasure and unlocked a mysterious farm. He picked more vegetables and fruit every day than he could eat, but couldn’t sell them either. Wang Dabiao stamped his foot. “Forget selling them! I’m going back to my rural hometown to raise pigs!” His strawberry-fed pigs had tender, juicy, delicious meat, and people said eating it could even prolong your life. City folk desperately waved their money around, trying to buy his strawber 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 After Quitting My Job, I Raised Chickens and Reached the Peak of Life 辞职后，我靠养鸡走上人生巅峰 [Farming + sweet romance + countryside + everyday life + fantasy romance] As a 997 corporate drone and a veteran anime fan, Shi Nianlin had one goal in life: Become a rich woman and keep a handsome man. Who could have expected that she’d be diagnosed with cancer one day, crushing her dream? To fulfill one small wish of her parents’ before she died, she quit her job and returned to her hometown. On the first day, she met a talking squirrel and a haughty rooster. On the second day, she discovered 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Rural Shenanigans 乡村滥 Tugen, a country boy, rises from an ordinary young man to a man of immense wealth. But no matter how capable he becomes, he never loses his simple nature. He remains kind, honest, and upright. 319Reads8.8Score103Shelves
- 15 Farming in the Mountain Village: Erlang Shen's Hound Is My Dog 山村种田：哮天犬是我的狗 [Farming and raising chickens] [A laid-back mountain village] [Adorable pets and delicious food] Yang Shu only meant to go home and take over the chicken farm, but then Erlang Shen's dog, Xiaotian, dropped from the sky and insisted he was the Chosen One. And so began a mysterious, amusing life in the mountain village. Raising chickens, walking dogs, fishing, hunting birds, watching eagles soar and bears dance: there's never a dull moment. It was an ordinary chicken farm, until all kinds of birds 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Poor Chuntao and Her Men 贫女春桃和她的男人们 A period story, rural life, family and village gossip, realism, romance, and an ensemble cast After her former husband dies, Chuntao moves to town and opens her own vinegar workshop. As she runs her business, she meets many people who offer her plenty of help, and her vinegar business grows bigger and bigger. In the end, through her own hard work, Chuntao makes a fortune and meets a man she can entrust her life to. 7kReads6.3Score322Shelves
- 17 Dust Settles in the Mortal World 尘落人间 Jinhai Niang says that life is all about suffering. If you don't suffer one way, you'll suffer another. Once you've endured your share, it's time to go. No System, no transmigration, just a straightforward story... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 When the Heart Lotus Blooms 心莲花开 Xinlian, a beautiful country girl, heads to the bustling city with dreams in her heart while still young and naive. But she suffers setback after setback in both love and her career. By a twist of fate, she meets friends who share her ideals, and Xinlian decides to return to her hometown and start a business. At last... Set against the rural countryside of the 1980s, this story reveals the truths of life through its quiet, everyday moments! Perhaps everyone can see a little of themselves in thes —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Xiangshui Village on Xiangshui Bay 响水湾上的响水村 The story takes place in a small mountain village in the early 1980s. A group of colorful ordinary people work hard to bring a series of changes to their village as it keeps pace with the times. The story moves at a varied pace, capturing the rhythms of life in that era. Through vivid prose, the author unfolds scenes from the past one by one, evoking the unforgettable spirit of the 1980s. Let us return in our imagination to a landscape of lush green hills and clear waters. Xiangshui Village, on 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 I Fired My Boss and Went Home to Build a Utopia 炒了领导鱿鱼，回家建桃源 He earned a pittance while working like an ox. After arguing with his supervisor, he quit his job. Then an accident awakened a pocket dimension, and he went home to live like an immortal. 172Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 21 One Night at the Casino 赌场一夜。 One Night at the Casino. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Hold My Hand, and You’ll Never Get Lost, No Matter How Far We Go 牵着我的手，走多远都不会丢 “Sis, come catch me! Come catch me!” Watching her little brother swim farther and farther away, Xiaoxi calls out to him, but he doesn’t respond. She hurriedly takes off her shoes, but by the time she looks up, her brother has vanished from sight. Panicking, Xiaoxi leaps into the river with a splash and swims as fast as she can toward where he was, calling desperately, “Xiao Jiang! Xiao Jiang, where are you? Come back!” The only answer is the sound of her own hands beating the water, especially o 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Li Fugui's Country Life 李富贵的乡土生活 [System] [Period Piece] [One Female Lead] Li Fugui, one of the Four Calamities of Huayang Village, was a lazy good-for-nothing. After being looked down on while working away from home, he had no choice but to return to the village and live off his parents. On the way back, he stumbled upon a System and embarked on a legendary journey. He learned to farm, raise livestock, treat illnesses, fight, and cook... A fantastic read. If you enjoy it, please follow the story. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Invincible: It Began When I Returned to the Village to Marry the Miao Saintess 无敌，从回村迎娶苗疆圣女开始 [Countryside + Divine Healer + Farming] [A cozy farming story, not an invincible-hero story] [Awkward] This book is complete, so you can read it without worry. After graduating and returning to his village, Chen Chao runs a small clinic with Zhang Qinglian, a saintess from the Miao region. He leases barren hills to raise wild boars and free-range chickens. He leases greenhouses and leads the whole village to prosperity. Using his special medical skills, the village’s wild boars and free-rang 255Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 25 I Bound Myself to a System, Then Went Home to Farm 绑定系统后，回家种田 An accident makes her give up her high-paying city job and return to her hometown. With the System’s help, she begins her farming journey. From then on, she won’t be the only one whose life changes. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 A Simple Life in Prehistoric Times 平淡的远古生活 I quit my job to travel and clear my head, but on the mountain, someone in the middle of an argument accidentally shoved me off a cliff. When I woke up, grass towered over me, the trees in the forest were enormous, the animals and plants were twice their present-day size, and there were two suns in the sky. I'd call this place prehistoric. Let's see how I survive in this uninhabited world. Winter is coming, so I need to stockpile food quickly. When spring comes, will I find a way back, or will I 89Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 27 Flirting with a Soldier While Building a Resort 一边勾搭兵哥哥，一边打造度假村 [Lottery Win + Modern Farming + Returning Home to Build Wealth + One-on-One Romance, Both Leads Have Had No Prior Relationships] Wen Nuan had been a wage slave for three years, drifting through each day and using every trick in the book to wrangle her boss for a salary of three thousand yuan. Just as she thought she'd have to live like this for another fifty years, her luck finally changed. A lottery ticket she'd bought at random on the way home won her a hundred million. Faced with this huge 632Reads6.4Score107Shelves
- 28 Meat at Every Meal, and Grandma's Family Is Furious! 顿顿吃肉，奶奶一家气疯了！ In his previous life, he became a sucker just to marry the woman of his dreams. His family was ruined, and he ended up raising another man's son. Given a second chance at life, he refuses to be a sucker again. He dumps the gold-digging woman and decides to help his whole family make money, build a fortune, and create a better life. 402Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 29 Riding the Winds and Waves in Peach Blossom Village 我在桃花村乘风破浪 [Dual happy ending, 1v1, gentle and abstinent older man + pure and alluring little white rabbit returning to her hometown + a slow-growing romance] In the beautiful Peach Blossom Village, fate brings two very different souls together. Lin Haoshen is a domineering CEO who has returned home to help develop his hometown. He can negotiate multimillion-yuan deals in the business world and get his hands dirty planting vegetables, making him an outstanding example of rural and urban life coming togethe 523Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 30 Auntie Yang 杨姨 [Short-to-Medium Contemporary Romance] Auntie Yang is my mom's best friend. She's beautiful and elegant, and this time she came all the way to the city where I go to school just to see me. I never expected her to have so many feelings for me. 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Shier San's 17th Book 十二三第17本书 A new work is here! You can read my stories on Fanqie Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Want to Farm? I’m a Natural 种田吗？我贼溜 A picky, high-combat-power seme vs. a gifted farmer and cook uke In this world, you are the light Before him stretched a rice paddy swaying in the breeze. Qiao Zhi tilted his head, counting how much longer until he could eat soft, sticky white rice. Beside him, a tall man held a hoe in one hand and a dog in the other, looking perfectly content. “I’m hungry. Let’s go home and eat.” “Let me finish planting this row.” “We’re having braised pork tonight.” “Let me finish planting this row.” “I want t 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Reborn in 1980: The Village Beauty Can Read Fortunes 重生1980：村花媳妇会算卦 The live-action short drama and comic adaptation are now available. If you're interested, click the “More Adaptations” button in the bottom right to watch. Longtime bachelor Lin Feng finally gets his lucky break: he transmigrates back to the 1980s and marries a village beauty so stunning she's almost too beautiful to be real. She has a tiny waist, long legs, and a captivating smile. The only problem is, she's an idiot! But Lin Feng loves her to death, because this girl has an astonishing talent: 12.3kReads8.2Score1kShelves
- 34 I Quit My Job and Returned to the Village, Where I Met the Boy Next Door Again 裸辞后，回村再遇邻家哥哥 [Contemporary Romance] [Rural Romance] [Older Singles] [Healing] When they were children, Meng Ru was always following Xu Yan around. After years apart, they meet again at Xu Yan’s blind date banquet, yet they act like strangers. Xu Yan seems to be making advances under pressure, but beneath it all, his feelings are genuine. One day, Xu Yan half-jokingly tests the waters: “Meng Ru, be my girlfriend.” Only then does Meng Ru realize he wasn’t forced to court her. But faced with reality, what choic 152Reads6.1Score106Shelves
- 35 After Being Laid Off, My Wife and I Returned to the Village to Raise Pigs 下岗后，我和老婆回村养猪 [Farming]+ [Rural Life]+ [Period]+ [Family Matters]= [Rural Prosperity] Why leave a perfectly good factory job and return to the village to farm? The whole village is waiting to laugh at him, but he'll prove them wrong. His road to prosperity begins with raising pigs. Watch him transform from a laid-off worker into a “leader in rural revitalization.” 111Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 For a Better Life 为了生活更美好 Set in contemporary times, this novel explores the effective transition from poverty alleviation to rural revitalization. Against the backdrop of a great era, an imbalanced population, the preference for sons over daughters, and a mass influx of migrant workers into the cities have left many young men in the countryside unable to find partners. Sun Jiawei is one of them. Hoping to find a girlfriend, he goes to Shanghai for work, only to suffer the miserable ordeal of having his engagement broken 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Abandoned Wife Xiumi: Painting Smiles with Tears 弃妇秀米：蘸着眼泪画笑容 Xiumi's story is based on the true story of my neighbor's mother and was adapted with her permission. At seventeen, Xiumi became an abandoned wife just six months after getting married. Her husband ran away with someone else, and Xiumi gave birth to his child. Decades later, Xiumi had seen her parents-in-law off and raised her daughter. Her daughter was studying for a master's degree in Shanghai, while Xiumi remained in the old house until her husband returned... But after coming back, her husba 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Rustic Romance 乡野风月 Young Liu Feng becomes a country doctor, righting wrongs and healing the sick with miraculous skill... 53Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 39 The Female Property Manager 女房管 [Comedy + Inspiration + Self-Redemption + A Working Person's Handbook + Workplace] [Comedy + Inspiration + Self-Redemption + A Working Person's Handbook + Workplace + Career Advancement] Following a working girl from age twenty to fifty, this story reveals the hardships faced by ordinary workers. This novel gives working people a voice. If you love hardship, there will always be more hardship to bear. If you want to turn your life around, you can build a good life. Looking back on those years of 19Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 40 Livestreaming with Grandma 我和姥姥一起做直播 After divorcing, Wen Huilin returned from the capital to her hometown in the Northeast. She started streaming cooking with the grandmother who raised her, documenting everyday rural life and sharing endless fun. Over time, her fans grew dissatisfied and urged her to start a company selling agricultural products. Wen Huilin came up with all sorts of excuses to turn them down, and so began the tug-of-war between streamer and fans! 277Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 41 Back in the Village to Farm: My Bracelet Holds a Pocket Dimension 回村种田：我的手镯带随身空间 [Livestreaming + Farming + Pocket Dimension + Rural Prosperity + Slow Burn + Romance + One-on-One, Both Pure] Right after graduation, Jiang Zhi found herself in a nightmare scenario from the start: her mother was hospitalized for surgery, and she hit a wall at every turn in the big city. She made up her mind: No more rat race! She'd go back home, take over fifty mu of wasteland, and become a carefree farm owner! She thought she'd be stuck in a backbreaking life with her face to the soil and her 2.9kReads6.8Score348Shelves
- 42 A Love Affair Across Half a Lifetime 半世情缘 After a lifetime, the most painful thing is still parting. Chen Xiang has lived through love and affection, hardship and helplessness. Come along with this book, and let’s take a look at one man’s life so far. Who loves him? Whom does he love? Hardship and good fortune go hand in hand. Career and true love are both part of his life! What kind of lives do the people around him lead? This is a realistic story. Very realistic. 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 My Mother Was Kidnapped 我那被拐来的母亲 Every woman abducted by human traffickers is denied the freedom to choose her own husband. They can only do as they are told and marry a man they have met just once. Whatever his circumstances, they have no choice. And so, my mother and father became a family. 1.6kReads8.9Score101Shelves
- 44 I'm Done Being a Wage Slave. Isn't It Better to Go Home and Farm? 社畜不干了，回家种地不香么 [Farming + space + livestreaming + koi luck] When her grandmother falls seriously ill, her boss refuses to let Gu Wenyin take time off, so she quits in a fit of anger. When she returns to her hometown, she discovers she has unexpectedly bound herself to a lucky space and won ten million yuan. She pays for her grandmother’s surgery, leases a mountain and farmland, opens a small shop, and watches her farming business thrive. Soon, she’s living a relaxed retirement, lying flat. The lucky-space koi, 406Reads8.7Score106Shelves
- 45 The Tough Guys of Tieling Village 铁岭屯茬子有点彪 Wang Dana, the village fool from Tieling Tun, tries to win over the village beauty, Zhao Xiaofang, and talks his childhood friends into forming the “Rural Revitalization F5.” Their plans to get rich turn into an absurd comedy: their livestream sales team all end up with snake-spirit faces, they convert a tractor into a rotating Michelin-starred restaurant, and a snowfield pork-knuckle race ends in a latrine collapse… When cornfield economics meets magical realism, the village’s steel-hearted men 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Remembering My Childhood 忆余童稚时 I feel like the pace of society is too fast these days. So many things I want to hold on to slip away, including memories. I'm afraid I'll forget them one day, so while I still remember, I'd better write them down. You're welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Overworked Office Drone Quits the Rat Race and Returns to the Village to Forage 社畜反卷，我要回村挖野菜 [Rejecting the rat race] [Food + country living + a little golden finger] Meng Wanchun was a textbook overworked office drone. Hoping to buy a home in a big city, she joined a publicly listed company straight out of college and became one of society's many tiny cogs, working around the clock. She was finally close to making it: once the project was finished, she'd get promoted, receive a bonus, and buy a home outright. But then she fell ill, and someone else snatched both the project and the pos 126Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 48 With Two Pocket Dimensions, I Farm and Stockpile Grain in the Seventies 双空间在手，七零种田囤粮忙 [Space + no romance + farming + a touch of ensemble cast] Good news: Jiang Nan has transmigrated from the apocalypse. Bad news: She’s landed in the 1970s, an era of scarce food and clothing. But it’s fine. She has a double space. This is a farming novel in the most literal sense: the heroine’s true love is farming. Her career takes a back seat, though it also has to do with farming. A slow-paced slice-of-life story about family and everyday life, with no romance, a growing heroine, and a healing 116Reads6.2Score104Shelves
- 49 The Peerless Immortal Healer in the Mountain Village 极品仙医混山村 He's a poor young man who unexpectedly turns his life around. He just wants to farm honestly and make a living, but somehow people keep trying to cozy up to him. Wang Xiaoer is baffled. “I'm not even handsome, so why am I so charming?” 58Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 50 Transmigrating to Prehistoric Times: A Carefree Life of Farming 穿越远古：悠哉种田 Mu He accidentally slips and falls off a cliff while on a mountaintop. When she wakes, she discovers she has transmigrated to an endless prehistoric forest. She does everything she can to survive in the ancient wilderness! Farming, gathering salt, weaving cloth, building a house, raising livestock, mining, and providing medical care, she slowly expands her shelter and enjoys a leisurely, pastoral life in primitive society! No golden finger, no pocket dimension, just a simple, peaceful farming st 123Reads8.4Score—Shelves
