Novels like Great Towers Rise from the Ground, and This Old Woman Fends for Herself on the Road to Famine
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Great Towers Rise from the Ground, and This Old Woman Fends for Herself on the Road to Famine, best match first.
- 51 Fleeing Disaster? No Problem! My Best Friend and I Stocked Up on Supplies 逃荒？没事！我和闺蜜囤足了物资 Poor Lu Qi and Xiu Xiu had finally turned all their family assets into supplies and packed them into their storage space, only to transmigrate in the worst possible way! But come on, heavens! Could you have sent them somewhere decent? Why dump them in some godforsaken mountain ravine? A mountain ravine would be bad enough! But why does everything have to be in the grip of a terrible drought, with not a blade of grass in sight? At least they brought their immense fortune with them. Watch as t 1.2kReads8.9Score10714d adds
- 52 Eldest Daughter of a Farmer's Family: Fleeing Famine and Farming with a Spirit Spring Space 农家长姐：带着灵泉空间逃荒种田 [Spirit Spring + Portable Space + Fleeing Famine + Infrastructure Building + Farming] Qiao Ran, an heir to a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and a family of martial artists, transmigrated! The foolish original owner was not only from a poor farming family, but was also on the verge of being sold as a wife to a fool while fleeing famine. What a miserable life! Luckily, her old farmhouse had become a portable space. It contained not only vast amounts of supplies, but also a sp 12.9kReads9.0Score1.5k14d adds
- 53 Transmigrated as an Elderly Woman in Exile: I Take My Family on the Run with My Space 穿成流放老妇：带着空间拖家逃荒 [Older woman + flight from famine + adorable kids + pocket dimension + farming + not historically accurate] After being single for thirty years, a woman suddenly transmigrates into the body of a thirty-five-year-old widow, just as her whole family is being exiled. This from the start isn’t the worst part. It gets worse when they run into refugees fleeing famine who try to rob them! Luckily, she has a hospital pocket dimension stocked with supplies, and even the trash in its waste room can come i 3.1kReads9.2Score41614d adds
- 54 Portable Space: I Flee Famine in Ancient Times with Trillions in Supplies 空间：我带着千亿物资在古代逃荒 [Completed] Everyday life on the run from famine + food + farming and business One moment, she was killing zombies in the apocalypse. The next, she had transmigrated to an ancient-era refugee trail. But with a space full of supplies at her disposal, Gu Anran said, “Don't panic!” Haggard and starving on the road? Short on food and clothes? None of that was going to happen! With her good looks and a knack for getting things done, Gu Anran used her space in one hand and her special abilities in the 3.5kReads9.1Score26914d adds
- 55 The Whole Family Transmigrates: Taking Mom and Dad on the Run 全家穿越，带着爸妈去逃荒 This is a slow-burn, light power fantasy that falls somewhere between male-oriented and female-oriented fiction. No horrible relatives, no mistresses or innocent white lotuses, and no palace or household intrigue. The male lead is a discharged soldier and low-ranking local official. He transmigrates with his wife and son, his in-laws, and his sister-in-law’s family. As soon as they arrive, they have to flee famine. The male lead builds a group from his clan along the way, turning the tables on b 9.8kReads9.1Score74914d adds
- 56 Transmigrated to Ancient Times, I Keep My Head Down and Grow Up 穿到古代苟着长大 After an ordinary woman dies, she transmigrates to another world. She is no self-sacrificing heroine! No pocket dimension, no System, no golden finger, and no awful relatives! There is a romantic pairing! This is a story of struggle built on her own experience and hard work, with farming and business management. The pace is unhurried, and life is slow. If that's not your cup of tea, please don't flame me! Any resemblance to other works is purely coincidental! 2.3kReads8.9Score14114d adds
- 57 The Apocalyptic Disaster: A Farm Girl Fends for Herself on the Run 天灾末世：农家孤女独自逃荒 [Space + Natural disasters + Apocalypse + Turbulent times + Fleeing famine + No romance + Strongwoman + Lone wolf] Su Xia spent years struggling to survive in the apocalypse before a meteorite struck her. In an instant, she transmigrated to a turbulent era plagued by natural disasters. There had been no rain for a long time, and every household in the village was struggling to make ends meet. Her father worked himself to death, her mother remarried, and her granny made her work without letting h 13.8kReads8.8Score1.3k14d adds
- 58 Abandoned While Fleeing Famine, I Took My Pocket Dimension Deep into the Mountains to Farm 逃荒被丢下，我带空间躲深山种田 [Pocket dimension + fleeing famine + farming + making a fortune] Shen Shiqing struggled to survive in the apocalypse. She never expected that after transmigrating, she would have to flee famine all over again, and be abandoned on top of that! Looking at her frail younger siblings and the road ahead, with no idea where it would lead, she thought: What’s there to be afraid of! Her powers and pocket dimension came with her. Gazing at the lush, rolling mountains in the distance, Shen Shiqing decided 11.7kReads8.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 59 Spirit Spring Space: Reincarnated as the Disabled Chief Secretary's Vicious Wife 灵泉空间，穿成残疾首辅恶毒原配 (Publication deal signed) [Flight from famine + pocket dimension + medicine + farming + imperial exams + one-on-one, both leads devoted only to each other] Song Jin transmigrated into a book, becoming the selfish, unbelievably stupid and malicious female supporting character. From the start, she was plunged into a mini ice age and forced to flee with her whole family. In the book, the original Song Jin not only abandoned her disabled husband and ran off on her own when disaster struck, she also 15.4kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 60 From the Start, I Used My Spatial Realm to Take All the Supplies When the Family Was Raided 开局抄家，我用空间把物资全收了 Guo Yunxi had only just transmigrated into the legitimate daughter of a first-rank general when her entire clan was confiscated and exiled. She let out a cold laugh and immediately used her spatial ability to empty the entire General's Manor. The enemies who arrived excitedly to confiscate it were left dumbfounded... Confiscation of property? Exile to the wilderness? She possessed a space stocked with food and kept her entire extended family alive. Drought? Water shortage? Her spiritual spring 14.9kReads9.1Score1.2k14d adds
- 61 I Transmigrated to a Famine Year and Became a Widow, So I Raise Kids with My Pocket Dimension 穿到荒年成寡妇，我靠空间养娃 [Farming + Famine + Adorable Kids + Pocket Dimension + Infrastructure + Grand Ambitions] (The story hits its stride after chapter 15) After years of being single, Shen Qingyun wakes up to find she's become a married woman in ancient times, with three sons of her own! Worst of all, famine has struck. Not a blade of grass grows, and corpses litter the land! Eldest son: “Mom, this is the last of our money!” Second son: “Mom, this is the last pound of millet in the house!” Youngest son: “Mommy, here 4.5kReads9.0Score58414d adds
- 62 On the Road to Fleeing Famine, I Thrive With the Sign-In System 逃荒路上，我靠签到系统风生水起 No romance! A System, lots of food, slow transmigration, and five or six farming stories~ Jiang Mingyue died saving someone. When she opened her eyes again, she had become a young widow in ancient times. Her children were small, her in-laws made her life miserable, and worst of all, war was about to reach them! How could she protect her two young children while fleeing through a land overrun with refugees and bandits? No problem. She had a farming sign-in System! “Ding! Sign-in successful! Yo 7.4kReads9.3Score75414d adds
- 63 The Villainess Redeemed! The Family She Ruined Can Be Saved 恶女洗白！被祸害的一家人有救了 Signed for print publication [farming + transmigration + medicine + family life + building wealth + fleeing disaster + devoted romance] Clear-headed heroine vs. loyal, devoted hero Lu Qingqing, who holds doctorates in both Chinese and Western medicine, transmigrates into the body of a wicked woman. She bullies the elderly, beats children, and even kicks sick old dogs on the roadside. Because of her, her father loses the general store he spent his life working for. For her sake, her eldest brothe 81.2kReads8.9Score9.2k14d adds
- 64 You Won’t Let My Daughter Sit at the Table? Fine, Then Nobody Eats! 不让女儿上桌？行，那就都别吃！ [Raising kids + building everything from scratch + feel-good story] Shui Qing opened her eyes to a dilapidated house, half a black wheat bun, and five pale, undernourished children looking at her with concern. Her sister-in-law said coldly, “Second sister-in-law, Sanzhu only bumped into you by accident. He's just a child. Why hold it against him?” “Your daughters are old enough to be sold off to marry their cousin and carry on the Fan family line. It's their good fortune.” Her biased mother-in-l 12.3kReads9.2Score1.9k14d adds
- 65 Transmigrate Into a Book: Escape from Famine 穿书之逃荒记 Note: No romantic pairing The setup: Chu Yanting, a notoriously bad writer whose novel was left unfinished, transmigrates into her own story as the unfortunate heroine who dies in childbirth. According to the plot, she has 30 days left to live. With disasters striking one after another and war breaking out, she has to care for a family of elderly people, children, and women. Yet the transmigration god only gives her a miniature pocket dimension measuring 0.1 square meters… Request: Please give t 3.6kReads9.2Score33814d adds
- 66 I Transmigrated to a Famine Year: Fleeing with My Laid-Back Dad 穿越荒年，我和老六爹的逃荒路 [No romance + fleeing famine + farming + pocket dimension] Note: Don't compare this novel to reality. It's not a documentary. No romance, no romance, no romance. Important things must be said three times. The first novel starring Chang'an and Gu Laoliu. If you don't like it, close the page and go read something you do like. Don't leave nasty comments. Writing isn't easy, so please be respectful. Thank you! When she opened her eyes, Gu Chang'an had transmigrated from an apocalypse, where she had 13.7kReads9.1Score1.6k14d adds
- 67 We Just Had Our Home Confiscated, and Now It's the Apocalypse? I'm Stockpiling Supplies in Ancient Times to Escape the Famine 刚抄家又末世？我在古代囤货逃荒 [Apocalyptic Disasters + Medicine + Superpowers + Spatial Storage + Stockpiling Supplies + No Saintly Heroine] Su Hua transmigrates into a book. She isn’t the heroine or even a supporting character, just a complete sucker who isn’t even important enough to have her name mentioned. In three days, her family will be confiscated and she’ll be exiled. Three months later, she’ll face extreme heat, heavenly fire, earthquakes, tsunamis... The world will turn into a map straight out of the Classic of Mo 27.8kReads9.2Score2.8k14d adds
- 68 Are You Crazy? Our Whole Family Transmigrated with a Supermarket 疯了吧！我们全家带着超市穿越了 Would you believe it? Just because they complained about a novel, the whole family was transmigrated into a farming story, supplies and all! A useless father, a shrewish mother, and a selfish, nasty eldest daughter? They beat up the male lead’s father, scratched the female lead’s mother, and tore up the female lead’s new clothes? Everyone in the village knows the Ye family is so poor you can hear the wind whistling through their pockets. Even mice that wander into their house shake their heads 14.8kReads9.3Score2k14d adds
- 69 The Beloved Farm Girl Wins by Doing Nothing on the Road to Escape 空间：团宠农女她在逃荒路上躺赢 As natural disasters and human calamities struck, barbarians invaded and warfare raged without end. The old Shen family joined the villagers on the road to escape famine. But hunger and cold were no concern: the Shen family had a beloved good-luck charm who brought them blessings. Wild boars came knocking, pheasants and rabbits ran right into their cooking pot, and game could be gathered in droves. She knew medicine and had a pocket dimension, and she saved children and cured the sick. But why d 11.3kReads9.4Score1.1k14d adds
- 70 The General's Abandoned Daughter Flees the Famine with Her Adorable Child 将门弃女：拖着萌宝去逃荒 New title: “Plane-Space Adventures: I Crossed Over with a Light Sniper Rifle.” It’s another strong female lead farming story: gentle and heartwarming at first, then wildly satisfying later on. Meng Qingluo, a special forces ace, is blasted into the sky by a villain’s bomb while rescuing hostages. When she opens her eyes, she finds herself in ancient times, in the body o 16.3kReads9.4Score2.7k14d adds
- 71 Eldest Daughter of a Farming Family: Fleeing Famine and Growing a Prosperous Life 农家长姐：逃荒种田过红火小日子 A birthday cake turns Sun Lele from modern times into Zhou Taohua of the Great Yu Kingdom. To make sure her foolish older brother and three younger brothers have enough to eat and warm clothes to wear, she works hard at farming! But something seems off about this village. Aren’t they all being a little too nice to her? She has no parents, no golden finger, and no influential background. But she can have a fiancé: you teach, and I’ll farm. See how Zhou Taohua grows vegetables and grain and raises 7.8kReads9.3Score71414d adds
- 72 Come On, Surely the Whole Family Didn't Transmigrate 别闹，不会真有全家穿越这种事吧 The Xia family had been looking forward to their self-driving trip along the eastern coast for ages. They never expected a typhoon to sweep all four of them back a thousand years. When they opened their eyes, the people were still the same four, but... the era was completely different! Come on! How can a whole family transmigrate together? Even worse, as soon as they arrived, they found themselves facing poor harvests and one disaster after another. Fleeing? No way. They were just following the 15.7kReads9.2Score1.9k14d adds
- 73 Transmigrated into an Ancient Apocalypse, I Use My Family Fortune to Build Infrastructure 穿进古代末世，靠着家底搞基建 [Strong Heroine + Natural Disasters + Zombies + Infrastructure Building + No Superpowers + No CP] Wei Xiyin transmigrates, born into a noble family as its legitimate daughter. She thought she'd been handed the script for a family power struggle, but who could have expected a zombie outbreak on the way back to her hometown? Then plants and animals begin to mutate, and extreme weather sets in. Her entire worldview collapses in an instant. There are no cars, no canned food, no high-tech weapons, an 11.1kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 74 Transmigrate to the 1960s: A Spatial Realm of Trillions in Supplies to Support Educated Youths 穿越六零：空间千亿物资养知青 [The 1960s + Trillion-Yuan Supplies + Personal Space + Educated Youth + Transmigrate + Both Leads Are Virgins + Sweet Romance + Patriotic] She wakes up one morning and transmigrates to the 1960s~ What? Her whole body has traveled through time! She's an undocumented person with nothing to eat or drink, and not a penny to her name! No! She's ten years younger, a radiant eighteen-year-old beauty. No! She dreamed of the past in advance, so her money, ration coupons, and identity documents were all p 3.4kReads9.0Score37014d adds
- 75 Reborn as a Farmer's Little Lucky Charm, I Cheat My Way Through the Famine Escape 穿成农家小福宝，逃荒路上开挂了 The Li family has a whole brood of boys, and at last they’ve had a little girl! Too bad it happened while they were fleeing famine… Granny Li: What are we going to do? Our precious little darling has no milk! Jiayin blows a spit bubble and waves her tiny hands: Don’t worry, I have a space and food of my own! And so… Fourth son Li: Ma, I found a nanny goat by the road! Fourth son Li’s wife: Ma, this rabbit ran right into a tree by itself! Third son Li: Ma, I went to fetch water, and a huge fish j 27.7kReads9.4Score3.4k14d adds
- 76 Fleeing Disaster: Our Whole Family Transmigrated to Ancient Times to Survive 天灾逃荒：全家穿到古代求生存 [No romantic pairing + farming + infrastructure development + exile + famine migration, a pure plot-driven novel] Ji Xingran never imagined that simply climbing a mountain would result in their family of three transmigrating. They even transmigrated into a group of exiles headed toward a bitterly cold land. Fortunately, all three family members' backpacks became spatial storage, and Ji Xingran also gained special survival skill points that allowed them to predict the weather, gather wild fruit, 13kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 77 You Take the Imperial Exams, I Farm: A Paper-Thin Couple Braving the Famine 你科举我种田，塑料夫妻闯荒年 [Farming + food + pocket dimension + stockpiling grain + fleeing famine + business + sweet romance + everyday life] After Jiang Qingyue’s soul is mistakenly taken, she receives the ultimate transmigration starter pack. She thought she’d get to live a cheat-powered life, railing against heaven, earth, and everything in between. Instead, she transmigrates into the body of a fat, lazy, greedy, slippery woman and marries a man who hates her to the bone. Song Yan died unjustly in his previous life an 44.6kReads9.0Score3.5k14d adds
- 78 She Held a Reunion Feast, and the Entire Court Showed Up? 她办个同窗宴，满朝文武都来了？ [Group transmigration + ensemble cast + no System + imperial examinations + everyday academy life in the early story + political intrigue in the middle and later story] (Everyone is highly intelligent and career-driven; the heroine has no romance) An earthquake sent Zhu Lan and her entire class of top students into a book, where they became a notorious group of failures! How could they turn things around? Oh, apparently all they had to do was pass the highest-level imperial exam. What a relief! 10.4kReads9.1Score1.9k14d adds
- 79 Exiled from the Start, I Become the Beloved Darling of Evil Valley 开局流放，我在恶人谷当团宠 [Strong heroine, pairing with Bai Yu] She was a test subject at a secret underground research facility in the twenty-first century, designation Zero. She could retrieve objects from thin air and had no empathy. One day, she was reborn and transmigrated to an ancient farming household. A natural disaster struck right after she was born, and her whole family was exiled when she was barely a month old. Everyone around her said she was a harbinger of disaster. Grandma Su let out a cold laugh, hoist 19.4kReads9.5Score3.6k14d adds
- 80 Fleeing Famine: My Whole Family Is Reborn 逃荒，我全家都是重生的 [Dreams of the Future + Whole Family Reborn + No Romance] In her previous life, Su Yin, her mother, and her aunt were brutally killed by rioters. In the blink of an eye, the three of them were reborn together. Before the rioters stormed their village, they took refuge in Xinghua Village, where their uncle lived, and fled in advance. On the road as refugees, they ran into Su Yin’s abandoned, blindly filial father. They thought he’d be dead weight, but it turned out he could see the future, and hi 66.8kReads9.4Score7.9k14d adds
- 81 Fleeing Famine and Farming: The Eldest Daughter of the Farmhouse Keeps the Family Fed 逃荒种田，农门长姐养家忙 This story has no space, is not a feel-good power fantasy, and its famine-flight scenes are adapted from historical accounts of ordinary people fleeing famine in different periods. The heroine is only eight years old, so escaping with her whole family in tow is very hard, incredibly hard. If you’re looking for a feel-good power fantasy, please move on. Don’t read to the end, decide the main characters have suffered too much, feel bad, and then leave a negative review. Writing is hard, so please 33.3kReads9.4Score4.1k14d adds
- 82 Transmigrating into a Refugee Exodus: I Use the System to Raise an Emperor 穿越逃荒：我靠系统扶持一代帝王 Gu Jiu unexpectedly transmigrated to ancient times, where everything was already inconvenient. Then disaster struck. With no other way to survive, she clung desperately to the person who had saved her. With her benefactor by her side, she had nothing to fear on the road to refuge. What could she do when disease, hunger, wild beasts, and villains all came at once? Bring it on! She was a jack of all trades with a System pocket dimension, capable of taking down anything. (Xie Zhan: You can't put o 35.8kReads9.5Score4.7k14d adds
- 83 Back to the 1960s: Farming, Building a Fortune, and Raising the Kids 重回六零：种田发家养崽崽 Transmigrating into the impoverished 1960s wasn’t scary. Becoming a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a book wasn’t scary either. What was scary was that her three stepsons would grow up to become major villains, and all of them, along with their upright, aloof father, would meet tragic ends. How could she let that happen? Lin Qinghe looked at the three future villains, none of whom was even ten years old, and made up her mind: changing a villain starts when they’re young! 3.8kReads9.0Score48914d adds
- 84 Cultivating Immortality by Raising a Horde of Monsters: What Are You All Panicking About? 修仙，我就养群妖怪，你们慌什么 [Transmigration! Reborn! Lighthearted + lively + satisfying + funny + leveling up and fighting monsters!] Lin Chuyi failed her tribulation and was reborn in a tiny mountain village where they ate just two meals a day. With her soul damaged, she spent years in a daze. Then she suddenly rose to prominence, leaving everyone dumbfounded! She raises spirit beasts, takes in monsters, and leads her family in leveling up as they fight monsters! When her adoptive father returned from the army, he stared 46.9kReads9.5Score6.6k14d adds
- 85 After Transmigrating to a Year of Famine, I Became the Worst Mother-in-Law 穿到荒年后，我成了极品恶婆婆 [Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + adorable kids + no male lead] Cheng Wanqun woke up in the body of a 33-year-old farmer's wife in ancient Dahuang Village. Her four sons were kneeling by the bed, calling her Mother, and her daughter-in-law had another grandchild on the way. After being single her entire life for 33 years, she'd suddenly become a mother-in-law and grandmother. Raising four sons was already hard enough, but then disaster struck: locust plagues, droughts, snowstorms. 68.6kReads9.4Score7.7k14d adds
- 86 The Family's Beloved Girl: The Cannon-Fodder Darling of Her Terrible Family 七零团宠：极品家人的炮灰娇娇女 [Brooding, Brawny Man + Sweet Wife + Completed] Lu Jiajia is delicate and soft. Then, in the blink of an eye, she becomes a useless cannon-fodder character in the 1970s, with a whole family of vicious oddballs in tow. Yet in an era that favors men above women, she is the apple of her family’s eye. Her father and mother: “Jiajia is our precious girl. She deserves to be spoiled.” Her brothers: “My sister is frail and sickly. How could she do farm work!” Lu Jiajia: “…I want the ultimate winning han 127.6kReads9.4Score11.9k14d adds
- 87 The Whole Family Transmigrates: 18 Ways to Survive in Ancient Times 全家穿越：古代生存十八法 The whole family transmigrates to ancient times after an accident. Whether that counts as good luck or bad luck is anyone’s guess. They’ve barely woken up when they find out the family has no money, no land, and a mountain of debt to repay. Not one of them has a golden finger, either. But the dog that came along with them is rather interesting. Could it be some kind of divine hound? This big family has to put food on the table, keep the household harmonious, and make progress in their studies. W 49.5kReads9.5Score5.3k14d adds
- 88 After Fleeing the Chaotic Era, I Became the Founding Empress 乱世逃亡后，我成了开国女帝 [Publication rights signed] [Strong heroine + political intrigue + turbulent times + power struggles + ensemble cast] She’s fleeing from the start, a female warlord in a chaotic age. Lin Zhihuang, originally named Lin Zhihuan, transmigrates as a county magistrate’s daughter, only to find tens of thousands of refugees attacking the city from the start! While others transmigrate into palace or household intrigue, she transmigrates straight into a chaotic age and a desperate flight from famine. The 88.6kReads9.4Score12.3k14d adds
- 89 I Brought a Fortune to the 1970s and Became the Boss of the Family 带着巨额财产穿七零，成家中一霸 Period drama + military marriage + pocket dimension + family life On the first day after Lin Xiangnan transmigrates, her family gets into a huge argument over sending someone to the countryside. At first: “So what if I have to go to the countryside? I've got hundreds of millions of supplies in my pocket dimension. How could I possibly fail to get by out there?” After helping her second great-uncle weed his fields for two days: “There's no way I'm going to the countryside. I'm lazy, gluttonous, a 109.9kReads9.3Score9.3k14d adds
- 90 Offending the Imperial Daughter 惹金枝 (Film and television rights have been sold. The physical book will be available for preorder on July 10 at 19:00.) Shi Buyu was born smiling. At that moment, lightning flashed and thunder roared, collapsing a row of outbuildings in the Shi family compound. Days of torrential rain brought devastating floods and countless victims. Rumors soon spread through the capital that she was a disaster star sent into the world. But she was as precocious as a demon, with a photographic memory, and learned bo 250.6kReads9.7Score29.2k14d adds
- 91 EN The Bystander's Self-Cultivation in a 1970s Transmigration Novel 穿书七十年代吃瓜群众的自我修养 Have you ever transmigrated to a different scene just by blinking? Lin Yuzhu has. She transmigrated in a daze to the 1970s. No, she transmigrated into a book. She has a System, and the female lead is there too. There are also supporting female characters, but she isn't one of them. She's just an onlooker who wandered into the story by mistake. As an onlooker, she gets to watch the drama unfold every day. She doesn't want other people's dogs, and she doesn't get involved in other people's busines 93.7kReads9.6Score8.5k14d adds
