Novels like Mystery in the Mountains
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Mystery in the Mountains, best match first.
- 1 Zong Ma Kuang Ge's 2nd Book 纵马狂哥的第2本书 [Countryside] + [Sister-in-Law] + [Beauties] + [Divine Doctor] + [No System] + [Feel-Good] + [Mysticism] Li Hui is back after spending seven years in prison. He steps onto the village soil, beaming with joy... Standing at the village entrance, he shouts, “Sister-in-law, make me some dumplings!” 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Keeping House Alone in the Depths of the Countryside 乡野深处守空房 In a bitterly cold mountain village in Northeast China, all the able-bodied young men have gone away to work, leaving behind women, the elderly, and children. The long winter and empty courtyards wear people down. Loneliness isn’t some romantic affair; it’s a real, grinding ordeal for the living. A group of unfortunate women lean on one another, while Da Fei, a simple, honest young man, is the only one in the mountains willing to lend a hand. There are no sordid entanglements, only the vulnerabi 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Peerless Immortal Doctor of Peach Blossom Mountain Village 桃花山村极品医仙 Ma Xiaowei, an orphan from Taohua Mountain Village, can't make it in the city. When he returns to the village, everyone treats him like an outsider. Only Tang Taozi, the village belle, looks after him. The trouble is, she's the only one who can see her... 113Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Silly Dacheng, Come Up the Mountain with Me 傻大成，陪我上山 Wolong Village is a tiny mountain village with seven parts mountains, two parts water, and only one part farmland. The people are simple, and the scenery is picturesque, but the village is terribly poor. The men have all left to work elsewhere to make a living, leaving behind only the elderly, children, and women, along with one simple-minded young man. Life is unbearably hard... Then Li Dacheng, the simple-minded young man, unexpectedly inherits an unparalleled legacy. He transforms with the fi 12.4kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves
- 5 Wildflowers Bloom Across the Mountains: The Mountain Miracle Healer 野花开满山之山野神医 War God + no goody-two-shoes + multiple heroines + divine physician + countryside + invincible + face-slapping + getting rich + beautiful women! Wang Xiaochuan, blind and lame... At death’s door, he inherits the legacy of an immortal maiden. From then on, his divine medical skills turn the tide, save lives, and work miracles. He crushes every crooked path and brings prosperity to the region. He can bring the dead back to life and restore flesh to bones. After saving a CEO from a villain, he begi 21.3kReads7.7Score972Shelves
- 6 Beautiful Women of the Mountain Village 山村美女图 Zhao Daniu, a country boy from a mountain village, accidentally wanders into a beauty-filled grotto and obtains the Map of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains and Beauties. With the inheritance of four immortal sisters, his medical and alchemical skills soar, and his cultivation advances by leaps and bounds. He beats up local bullies, puts the scoundrels in their place, and makes a fortune through farming, all while setting out to find the reincarnations of the immortal sisters. I, Zhao Dan 1.6kReads8.8Score276Shelves
- 7 The Wildflower of the Countryside 乡野村花 College student Li Erbangzi is beaten and left disabled! When he returns to his village, he is met with nothing but ridicule. Then, by chance, he obtains the inheritance of the Emperor Venerable and undergoes a complete transformation. With the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda in one hand and the Demon-Sealing Stone in the other, he uses his peerless martial arts to dominate his corner of the world. His unmatched medical skills save lives and heal the wounded, while he rules his domain, punishes evil, a 4.3kReads8.8Score437Shelves
- 8 Urban Cultivation: The Little Divine Doctor of Peach Spring Village 都市修仙：桃源村小神医 [Modern Cultivation] [Village Miracle Doctor] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Lin Chen thought he would spend his whole life tending the peach orchard his grandfather left him in Taoyuan Village. But on his eighteenth birthday, he obtained the mysterious cultivation technique his grandfather had left behind and embarked on an invincible path of cultivation. 1.5kReads6.8Score114Shelves
- 9 The Village Girl Who Went to College 山村女大学生 [Workplace romance] [Modern romance] [Countryside] Li Wanqing and Zhao Qingshan were classmates at the provincial medical university and a couple. After graduation, Li Wanqing returned to her hometown to build a career, while Zhao Qingshan stayed in the big city to pursue greater opportunities. They began a long-distance relationship. After spending so much time apart, their relationship ran into trouble, and their years of love came to a complete end. Back home, Li Wanqing thought she had fo 242Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Village Schoolteacher 山村女教师 Yang Xiaowei and Li Li were college sweethearts. After graduation, their different choices set them on separate paths: Yang Xiaowei went to teach in a mountain village, while Li Li stayed in the city. They went their separate ways, and Yang Xiaowei married the local village chief's son. After enduring a series of hardships, including marriage, childbirth, and domestic abuse, Yang Xiaowei finally found the courage to break free from the prison of her marriage. In the end, she discovered that what 373Reads9.1Score324Shelves
- 11 The Domineering Village Chief Gets Caught 霸道村长落网记 [Rural] [Period Drama] [Tragedy] Synopsis: The domineering village chief Hu Gang, backed by his family, bullies men, preys on women, and commits every kind of evil. After Hu Ying, the heroine, is abused by Hu Gang and his son, she escapes. With Yang Jun's help, she ultimately brings down the entire Hu family. Yet Hu Ying's tragic fate is only just beginning... (You won't believe it until you read it!) 1.3kReads7.5Score103Shelves
- 12 Xiaobailou's 19th Book 小白楼第19本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Sha Gen Isn't Foolish at All 傻根一点也不傻 After his father and eldest brother die, his mother goes mad and soon passes away as well. All that remains is Shagen, a mentally challenged young man. His beautiful sister-in-law, Pan Yuting, still takes on the responsibility of caring for him. To keep the Li family line from ending, Pan Yuting secretly makes up her mind... She won't leave. She'll work hard together with Shagen...! Part Two: Overseas Development. The Xingdao forces gradually rise... They discover an ancient race among the ruins 159Reads6.8Score102Shelves
- 14 That Year, I Was Sixteen 那年拾六岁 When Li Shanyue was sixteen, her family traded her to Zhang Debiao from the neighboring village for three thousand yuan and two pigs. Zhang Debiao was a widower with two children. Everyone in the village said marrying him was Li Shanyue's fate. Li Shanyue didn't believe in fate. She smiled as she brought Zhang Debiao water and cooked his meals, cared for his two children as if they were her own, and kept the house spotless. Everyone thought she had accepted her lot. Zhang Debiao ended up wit 936Reads—Score101Shelves
- 15 The Rugged Man Returns, and the Widowed Village Goes Up in Flames 糙汉归来，克夫村炸了 Chunshui Village was notorious far and wide as a “village of husband-killers”! Women with broken palms, women with the Peach Blossom curse, women like yakshas and ghosts... Every kind of husband-killing woman from the legends could be found in this village! All the men had been cursed to die, leaving only a group of beautiful women whom everyone regarded as harbingers of misfortune. Eight years later, Wang Dakui returned with a pure yang body. This tough man, whose life was so hard that even the 2.2kReads—Score220Shelves
- 16 Love Debts 情债【李幼斌主演的电视剧】 Also known as The Peach Blossom Luck of Sister-in-Law Jiang Qi. A lost paradise in Northeast China, a little mountain village in the Changbai Mountains: the Abandoned Village. Journey beyond a life of hardship and let this story sweep you away. The tangled affairs between men and women in the countryside, and the everyday love and hatred that bind them. So many debts of passion, so many heartbreaks. 7kReads8.4Score522Shelves
- 17 County Magistrate: A Heartbreak on the Road to Power 女县长：官路情殇 The story of an ordinary female college student who starts at the grassroots level and steadily rises to become a county magistrate. After graduating, Zhang Xinyue, an ordinary college student, finds a job at the county committee. Having weathered crisis after crisis and seized one opportunity after another, she eventually takes office as county magistrate. 1.2kReads9.3Score711Shelves
- 18 The Humble Village Doctor 小小乡野村医 Tired of life in the big city, Zhou Feng returns to his mountain village! After stumbling upon the village bully in the middle of something illicit, Zhou Feng is thrown into a pond and left to drown. By sheer luck, he receives the inheritance of an ancient God of Medicine, and his life is transformed. The young miracle doctor thrives, healing the sick, saving lives, growing medicinal herbs, and raising livestock! Before long, a wealthy heiress is chasing after him, too! 10.5kReads9.1Score991Shelves
- 19 Reborn: My Leisurely Life in a Mountain Village 重生：我的悠闲山村生活 [Daily life + reborn + urban farming + period setting + career + devoted husband] In his previous life, Ye Xiaolong was a billionaire, but he suffered terribly from illness. In this life, he is reborn as a country boy and begins a leisurely life. He goes fishing and accidentally becomes a master angler! He drinks tea and accidentally grows the finest tea leaves, which wealthy buyers beg to purchase. He casually sings a song and turns it into a timeless classic. Ye Xiaolong realizes that his life 4.2kReads7.7Score287Shelves
- 20 My First Love 我的初恋情人 I met Yu on an early spring day. It was overcast and windy. He was passing by my house just as I came out of the yard. Our eyes met, and his lit up at once. He stopped in his tracks. My face flushed, and I lowered my head to look at my old cloth shoes, with my toes poking out. My family was so poor that my clothes were covered in patches. Yu didn’t seem to care about my shabby clothes. He kept walking, glancing back at my face. I didn’t know who he was or what he was doing in our village. But a 118Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Countryside's Qilin Miracle Doctor 乡村麒麟神医 [This book is so good that delicate young readers should take it easy. Click in for a surprise.] Li Xiangdong, a village idiot, was pushed off a mountain by the village bully for ruining his plans. But he survived against all odds and unexpectedly inherited the legacy of the Qilin Medicine Immortal, learning peerless martial arts, medicine, formations, and talisman craft. Breaking through the limits of an ordinary man, he became a Houtian martial artist and steadily climbed to the pinnacle of po 19.6kReads8.8Score2kShelves
- 22 The Countryside Village 乡野山村 (Countryside + fool + miracle doctor + farming + cultivation + getting rich) Wang Dazhuang, a college student from Taohua Village, was beaten into an idiot by the village bully over a dispute involving his ancestral home. While gathering herbs in the mountains for his beautiful sister-in-law, he stumbled upon the village chief’s secret affair and accidentally fell down a waterfall. He gained a Qilin physique and inherited the legacy of the Immortal Doctor. From then on, he began his rise to the 3.9kReads8.9Score493Shelves
- 23 The Carefree Divine Healer Li Gangpao 逍遥神医李钢炮 Ever since Li Gangpao inherited a legacy of medical skills, all the villagers left behind have come to him for treatment... With heaven-defying medical skills and divine techniques, he becomes a rural miracle doctor everyone envies. 1.8kReads8.0Score168Shelves
- 24 The Small-Town Farmer, Master of Medicine and Martial Arts 医武双绝小农民 Zhang Xuan was the first person from Huangni Village to get into college. But after protecting his girlfriend from the harassment of a rich playboy, he was beaten into an idiot and forced to drop out. What was even more heartbreaking was that afterward, his girlfriend Xiao Qinghan became the playboy’s girlfriend. In front of Zhang Xuan’s parents, she cursed him for overestimating himself and said he deserved to die! When Zhang Xuan returned to his village, he became a laughingstock for miles aro 21.2kReads8.2Score2.4kShelves
- 25 My Novel Is Also My Third Book 我的小说也的第3本书 2kReads7.4Score283Shelves
- 26 The Old Grandmother of Yue Family Village 岳家庄的老祖母 [A grandmother builds a business + Yue Fei's family teachings + brotherhood] A mother's love makes her strong, and she becomes the soul of her clan. One mother's thirty-year flight lays the foundation for her family's six-hundred-year legacy. During the Hongwu reign of the Ming dynasty, Yue Guangyong, the thirteenth-generation descendant of Yue Fei, dies young in Tangyin County, Henan Province, where his family has lived for generations. He leaves behind his widowed wife, Yue Yushi, and their tw 610Reads9.3Score104Shelves
- 27 The Rugged Man Next Door Is Too Wild, and the Village Beauty Blushes in His Embrace 隔壁糙汉太野，村花害羞怀里娇 [Rugged Hero + Pure Romance + Marriage Before Love + Sizzling Chemistry + Sweet Married Life + Building a Fortune] [Delicate Village Beauty VS Cold, Rugged Neighbor] The night Song Qingshan returned to the village, he heard cries coming from next door before he had even entered his own home. He climbed onto a haystack and stole a peek. Poor Wen Sui was bent over a millstone, being beaten. She trembled with pain and sobbed pitifully, looking utterly heartbreaking. The sight set Song Qingshan’s bl 18.4kReads6.5Score680Shelves
- 28 The Swallow Who Crawled Out of the Dark Abyss 从黑暗深渊中爬出的燕子 Tell me, just how unlucky can one person be? Her own father married four women, and her stepmother treated her like a thorn in her side. In the prime of her youth, she was tricked by a villain and taken away. At long last, she found a little warmth and thought she’d found love, only for it to turn out to be another ill-fated relationship. She got married, thinking she’d found a home, but her life became a complete mess. And that wasn’t the end of it! One by one, all her loved ones disappeared... 102Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 A Peaceful Little Mountain Village and a Carefree Miracle Doctor 悠然小山村，快活小神医 College student Li Xuan was left mentally impaired after someone set him up, and returned to his village as the leader of the local children. By a stroke of luck, he inherited the teachings of the Green Lotus Immortal and mastered supreme arts of medicine and martial arts. From then on, he breezed through life and rose to the top... 245Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Village Glow 村光 Zhao Dayang, a simple-minded country boy, is beaten up by the admirer of the older woman next door after she confesses her feelings for him. He unexpectedly inherits a legacy and rises to success from then on, beating up his uncle and the White Tiger Gang. The village belle, the younger girl next door, a pharmacist, and a former high school classmate all confess their feelings for him, leaving Zhao Dayang struggling to keep up… 6.2kReads8.9Score663Shelves
- 31 Secrets of the Sheep Village 羊村秘事 There’s something strange about the feng shui in Yang Village. The women are all lovely and full of life, but the men are short and ugly! No one knows why! Yang Xiaoqiang is looked down on by the whole village because of his physical disability! Then, by chance, he inherits the legacy of the sheep clan! Fire lingzhi sells for hundreds of thousands! He starts a health-supplement company and makes millions! His antelope kick is as powerful as a tiger’s, and his medical skills can bring the dead ba 19.3kReads8.7Score1.6kShelves
- 32 Flowers Beneath the Eaves 檐下花 This is a story of a woman’s journey toward self-growth beneath the eaves of a village home. She relies on no one and waits for no one. She will make her own spring bloom: she moves into a side room at her brother and sister-in-law’s home to live alone. The hushed late-night conversations between her brother and sister-in-law next door unwittingly become her belated introduction to love. 1.5kReads—Score152Shelves
- 33 Between Neighbors 邻里之间 Distant relatives are not as dependable as close neighbors, and close neighbors are no match for the folks across the street. But life is full of contradictions: without conflict, there is no struggle, and without struggle, there is no progress. Neighbors don’t always get along, either. As the saying goes, a neighbor is like a set of scales: they hope the other neighbor stays poor. 349Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 34 Kicked Out After My Second Marriage, I Thrive Back in the Countryside 二婚被赶，我回农村混得风生水起 Strong Female Lead, Feel-Good Modern Fiction, Period Setting, Building a Career, Comeback, Livestream Commerce, Getting Rich Zhou Xiaoya is forced by her in-laws to have an abortion during her second marriage. Her ex-husband marries someone new, and she leaves with nothing but her daughter, returning to her village. Everyone thinks she'll starve on the streets. Instead, she makes a fortune selling goods through her livestream, and even helps the whole village get rich. How did the woman who was 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 A Spiritual Item Master? The Village Guardian? The Miracle Doctor Arrives 开光师？守村人？妙手神医驾到 [A genius doctor, thrilling plot, a must-read for all-nighters!] The foolish young Li Xuan muddles through a profession that leaves others drooling with envy. After an unexpected awakening, he is shocked to discover that he is a Saint-grade body being kept by a mysterious power... You want to take my Saint-grade body? Go to hell... I’m no good at writing introductions, so please head straight to the story, friends. 32Reads—Score103Shelves
- 36 The Pinnacle of Country Life 乡野巅峰人生 Guaranteed to hook you from the very first page! [Miracle Doctor + Beauties + Farming + Getting Rich] After Lin Xiaofei was left paralyzed in an accident, his kind-hearted neighbor often came to look after him. He thought he would spend the rest of his life in quiet simplicity, but unexpectedly gained a cultivation inheritance. Not only did he recover, he also gained extraordinary abilities. From then on, he beat up villains, made a fortune, and leaped from rags to riches! 26.8kReads8.9Score3.5kShelves
- 37 The Moon Deep in the Cornfield 玉米地深处的月亮 That summer, her new husband publicly insulted her, saying she “looked like an eggplant.” She grabbed her bundle and ran away in the middle of the night. Su Caiying sat on the edge of the kang until well past midnight. Instead of a wedding night, all she got was humiliation. By morning, the whole village knew that the new bride of the Liu family was “bad luck for her husband.” Her man had run off on their wedding night. When the family split up, she was given half a sack of dried sweet potatoes, 8.3kReads6.4Score559Shelves
- 38 Midnight Smoke Rings' Sixth Book 午夜的烟圈的第6本书 My new work is out! You can read it 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! 70Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 39 Reborn in 1975: The Fool's Unusual Life 重生1975，傻子的别样人生 Chen Qingshan was reborn. In his previous life, production team leader Liu Fugui used him as a pawn, and someone pushed him off a cliff, where wolves devoured him. When he opened his eyes again, he was still the same easily bullied “dimwit” from 1975. But now, his eyes held nothing but frozen hatred. If everyone thought he was an idiot, then he'd play the fool to the bitter end! In the cornfield, he stood watch while Liu Fugui had an affair with Widow Chen, earning a stale steamed bun in retur 10.1kReads7.8Score824Shelves
- 40 Love Fills Peach Blossom Village 情满桃花村 [Miracle Doctor] [Countryside] [Multiple Heroines] A reborn Immortal Venerable becomes a village doctor, a powerhouse in both martial arts and medicine. He shows no mercy to local bullies, and no one protects the village beauty better than he does. The rich and powerful come to his door seeking treatment, but life or death is entirely up to him. He leads the villagers to prosperity and enjoys a carefree life with a beautiful wife. 241Reads7.2Score104Shelves
- 41 The Swapped Brides: Whose Fault Is It? 替嫁姐妹，谁的错！ This book has been adapted into two comic dramas: "The Swapped Brides, Whose Fault Is It?!" and the brand-new version, "Sisters Breaking Free." In a poor, remote village in the 1980s, the Tang family favors sons over daughters. Their three girls are nothing but bargaining chips for bride prices. One absurd bride swap and three exorbitant bride prices send the sisters into three difficult marriages. Struggling through the mud, bound by entanglements for half a lifetime. The long-suffering Tang s 42.6kReads8.4Score1.8kShelves
- 42 The Extraordinary Mountain Doctor 极品山医 [Medicine + comeback + revenge + invincibility + revitalizing the countryside] Lin Feng, a simple-minded young man from a mountain village, is gravely injured while trying to protect his sister-in-law from local thugs. By chance, he awakens an ancient mountain-healer inheritance left by his ancestors and learns peerless acupuncture and medicinal techniques. His life takes a complete turn: benefactors appear one after another, and his connections reach far and wide. He reclaims the old homestead 7.2kReads9.3Score1.4kShelves
- 43 After Returning to My Village from Prison, My Invincible Identity Is Exposed! 出狱回村后，我无敌身份被曝光！ (Blushing and steamy, wildly satisfying) A country boy gets out of prison and moves in with his big brother, but keeps feeling like someone is secretly flirting with him? Play the pig to eat the tiger, crush your enemies underfoot. Rich second-generation big brothers or anyone else, dragon or tiger, all have to bow to him! The blurb doesn’t do it justice. The story itself is absolutely thrilling. 6.2kReads9.1Score816Shelves
- 44 Tales of the Northeast: Women Who Climbed Over the High Walls of Grand Estates 东北往事之翻过深宅高墙的女人们 In 1946, on the black soil of Northeast China, Chunxiang, daughter of tenant farmer Wang Mazi, marries Liu Laogen, the landlord's son. Her father receives several acres of good farmland and dozens of silver dollars as a handsome betrothal gift. She thinks she has married into wealth and will live a secure life as a young madam, but Liu Laogen has a hidden ailment, and their marriage proves to be one in name only. Chunxiang is determined to escape the prison that has trapped her, but her greedy f 53.7kReads8.7Score3.1kShelves
- 45 At the Source of the Peach Blossom Spring 桃花源头 As Old Zhou Nian lay dying, he took Zhou Liye by the hand and told him, “Xiaoye, it's up to you to carry on the Zhou family line. If you trace our family back far enough, we go all the way to the Zhou dynasty, to King Wen of Zhou, King Wu of Zhou, Ji Chang, and Ji Fa. Our ancestors were once members of the imperial family, and our original surname was Ji. It was only after the dynasties changed that our family took the surname Zhou! Here's our ancestral genealogy and the family heirloom, this ja 107.4kReads7.7Score9.6kShelves
- 46 The Century-Old House 百年老宅 An old family home, four generations, a century of upheaval, and an extraordinary love affair. How did a penniless tenant farmer win the hearts of two beautiful daughters of an enlightened landlord? How did an honest, simple peasant seize control of the village Party secretary's post as if it were a throne, then cling to it? How did a devoted lover go from kind and innocent to cynical and world-weary? Read on to discover his tangled, unbreakable ties with four women. Through the nearly century-l 49Reads—Score102Shelves
- 47 The Village's Domineering Divine Doctor 乡村霸道神医 With university graduation just around the corner after four years of study, Li Mubai suffered a double blow. His girlfriend cheated on him with a rich kid, who then hired people to break one of Li Mubai’s legs and used his father’s position as a university trustee to get him expelled. Disheartened, Li Mubai returned to the countryside, where people nicknamed him “Iron Crutch Li.” But fate took a turn. By chance, he inherited the true Iron Crutch Li’s legacy, and from then on he practiced both 19.9kReads8.9Score1.9kShelves
- 48 The Wild Doctor of the Mountains 山野狂医 A country boy is beaten and has his right leg broken after talking back to the dean’s son, forcing him to return to his village to make a living. By chance, he inherits the legacy of a divine physician. From then on, his life takes off, and he rises to power, achieving a spectacular life beyond anyone’s wildest dreams... 7kReads9.2Score1kShelves
- 49 I Helped My Twin Brother Become a Sword Immortal 我助孪生兄弟成剑仙 A wisp of green smoke links yin and yang, as paper-crafted mysteries drift into dreams. Brothers separated by worlds meet again, and from then on, two realms share one fate. [Boy’s manga-style energy] [Early on, he doesn’t treat himself like a person; later, he doesn’t treat his opponents like people] [Lighthearted, funny daily life, with blazing, blood-pumping battles] What if burning a paper phone let you contact your twin brother, who vanished at sea? Xie Zhengze tried it. Not only did he rea 66Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 50 The Joys of a Woman Left Behind 留守妇女的快乐 In 1984, Li Guifang was left behind in a mountain village, raising two children on her own. The hardships of life had nearly crushed her. Just as she was sinking into despair, she started a new family with Lin Kun, the rough-hewn man next door. To her surprise, This older, burly man spoiled me rotten, and our life grew happier by the day. 4kReads7.1Score294Shelves
