Novels like A Corrupt Village
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A Corrupt Village, best match first.
- 151 My Novel Is Also My Third Book 我的小说也的第3本书 2kReads7.4Score283Shelves
- 152 Reborn in 1976: The Village Belle Clings to Me from the Start 重生1976，开局村花赖上我 [Educated-youth story + not a wish-fulfillment tale + everyday life + reborn + master of laying low + witty and irreverent] Read with caution. In his previous life, after returning to the city, he went to college, pursued scientific research, and won award after award. But an accident left him reborn as an educated youth in a small village. This time around, he only wants to put down roots in the village and live a quiet life. But you can’t hide a pearl in the mud. He ends up making an even bigg 3.5kReads8.7Score170Shelves
- 153 Li Dazhuang, the Miracle Doctor of the Village 妙手村医李大壮 [Countryside + Miracle Doctor] Mogutun is nestled between mountains and water, with beautiful scenery and clear streams. All the village’s young men have gone away to work, leaving only the fool Li Dazhuang behind in this remote mountain village... 3.6kReads8.7Score381Shelves
- 154 Fireworks on the Islet, Where People Make Their Homes, Starting in the 1970s 洲上烟火有人家，从七十年代开始 [Rural Romance] [Family Life] [Educated Youth Teacher] [Neighborly Disputes] [Eerie Shadows in the Village] [Country Living and Laughs] This book has no pocket dimension, no System, and no transmigration or rebirth. It tells only of ordinary people’s rural lives and the hard-won warmth and bustle of everyday life through years of hardship. The story begins in the 1970s and follows several families living in the countryside. Among them are educated youths sent to work in the villages, militia mem 109Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 155 City Nights: Conquer, Go Wild, Make Some Noise! 都市夜，征服，燥躁造噪！ [Miracle doctor, multiple heroines, urban cultivation] With astonishing medical skills in his left hand and peerless martial arts in his right, this mysterious young miracle doctor descends the mountain at his master’s command to cultivate his heart in the mortal world. But he never expected to run into something so absurd on his very first day... 6Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 156 I'm a Lie-Flat Guy, but My Beautiful Wife Refuses to Divorce Me 我躺平汉，漂亮老婆不肯离婚 Chen Shuai was reborn. In his previous life, he was a lazy freeloader who did nothing but lie flat and loiter around the neighborhood. Now it was his responsibility to earn money and support his family, all for the sake of his beautiful wife! Her best friend said, “Hurry up and get a divorce. Even I can't stand watching this anymore. You're the one making all the effort. When will it end?” His father-in-law said, “You should go out and hear what people say about you. A big, strapping man like yo 67Reads6.8Score169Shelves
- 157 Wildflowers in Bloom 野花生香 Mumian Village lies along a river that flows from west to east. The village’s handsome young man, Chu Tiansheng, is fishing by the river. Overcome by the heat, he jumps in for a swim, when suddenly he hears a scream! 8.9kReads9.0Score920Shelves
- 158 The Dragon Rules the Four Seas 龙御四海 This book is also known as Dragon Ruling the Four Seas. High-octane wish fulfillment, the return of a powerhouse, and a hot-blooded miracle doctor. After three years of being treated like a doormat, my sister-in-law tricked me into going to her room... Chu Yang spent three years as a live-in son-in-law, only to be divorced and humiliated by his ex-wife, thrown out of her home, and beaten so badly he ended up hospitalized. But then he unexpectedly awakened the Dragon Gate legacy passed down by hi 619Reads8.9Score149Shelves
- 159 Transmigrated to 1983: I Became the Strongest Ugly Woman 穿到1983，我成了最强丑妇 If you’re under twenty, I suggest you look at the title and move on. If you’re in your thirties, just read the first few chapters. If you’re in your forties, I suggest starting with the chapters titled “Three Years Later” or “Five Years Later.” If you’re in your fifties, be sure to read the whole book carefully. The story is lively, but what it tells is life itself. This book is for people like me, growing old and looking for love and companionship. If you’ve loved and hated, and haven’t lost fa 419Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 160 Showbiz in the City: From the Start, I Can Hear Auntie's Inner Thoughts 都市娱乐：开局听到阿姨心声 After unexpectedly obtaining a meteorite, a deaf teenager gains super hearing. He leaves his mountain village for the provincial capital, finds love, buys an island, and builds a business empire. Along the way, he crosses paths with the children of officials, business tycoons, and cultural luminaries, speeding ever onward as he witnesses a legendary life. Ye Ming can hear sounds ordinary people cannot, as well as all kinds of secrets... 1.2kReads5.8Score100Shelves
- 161 From the Start, I Married the Village Belle 山村开局娶村花 [Rural Life + Miracle Doctor] The beautiful Shen Xiangyu fell gravely ill and was abandoned by her gambling-addict husband. Lin Yun traded a few acres of land for Shen Xiangyu, the village’s most beautiful woman. Everyone thought it would end in tragedy, but Lin Yun unexpectedly awakened his ancestors’ legacy, the Nine Heavens Immortal Spirit Art, and began his rise to success! From then on, Shen Xiangyu and Lin Yun lived a life of happiness beyond anyone’s imagining! “Xiangyu, I’m going to spoi 4.4kReads9.3Score977Shelves
- 162 Rural Love: The Marriage Swap 乡村爱情之换亲 The village looks peaceful, but undercurrents churn beneath the surface. Love, family affection, and illicit affairs intertwine to create a sweeping portrait of life. The beautiful village flower is forced to marry the poorest man in the village, and their story begins... 5.6kReads8.8Score460Shelves
- 163 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
- 164 The Peerless, Carefree Little Miracle Doctor 绝世逍遥小神医 [Rural life + urban cultivation + building wealth + plenty of heroines] The fool Zhao Tiezhu was thrown into an ancient well after rescuing Li Mei'e, a village woman being bullied by the local tyrant. By chance, his blood awakened the remnant soul of a Dragon Maiden inside the well, and he inherited her legacy. With secret medical arts, he heals the sick and saves lives, builds his fortune, cultivates immortality, and grows stronger. From then on, he rises to the pinnacle of life! 12Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 165 The Countryside’s Strange Doctor 乡村怪医 [Traditional Chinese medicine + miracle doctor + countryside + beauties + getting rich + patriotism] Reborn in Shanling Village, Yang Xia obtains a miraculous Chinese medical text, Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold. One of its prescriptions contains a wondrous world called Spirit Medicine Mountain, where precious medicinal herbs grow across the slopes, including thousand-year-old ginseng and ten-thousand-year-old lingzhi. The mountain is also home to Sun Simiao, a Medicine King who h 3.9kReads9.2Score480Shelves
- 166 A Woman Named Chunxiu 一个叫春秀的女人 [Period drama + everyday family life + marriage + building a career + personal growth] I married a state-owned enterprise worker, and after years of trying, I finally had a son. Then, just as my husband was sent to prison, my mother-in-law branded me a bringer of bad luck and threw me out of the house. Qiu Yue, widowed and bullied, and Wang Feng, tormented by domestic abuse, shared my fate. The three of us hard-done-by women joined forces, working, doing business, and opening a factory. We neede 9.3kReads8.1Score784Shelves
- 167 Finding True Love Inside and Outside Marriage in Midlife 人到中年婚姻内外寻找真爱 Yang Duo is a flower in full bloom. Though she’s forty, she’s still young and beautiful. A woman in pursuit of true love, she yearns for romance and has spent her life exploring and experiencing it. A passionate love affair that nearly cost her life in her youth, a joyless marriage in middle age, and an unexpected encounter outside her marriage: whenever she falls for someone, she loves with wild abandon and suffers heartbreak that tears her apart. Her three close friends have very different l 638Reads8.7Score101Shelves
- 168 A Cold-Blooded Emperor's Lifelong Love 冷血帝王之一世情长 [Two powerful leads, satisfying revenge, sweet romance, special agent transmigration, no pocket dimension] The modern-day “Ghost Doctor” and “Living King of Hell” somehow transmigrated. Upon opening her eyes, she found: One white-lotus younger sister, One scumbag father, One evil stepmother, One scumbag fiancé, And wait, Are you sure this is the kind of setup the great Ghost Doctor should have? Fine, throw in one icy-faced King of Hell too. Oh, this one seems like a better match for me... 918Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 169 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
- 170 Proud and Unbowed 傲骨 Ye Zhenzhen, a workplace rookie, has always led a quiet, easygoing life. But after accidentally saving a mysterious female tycoon, she enters a multinational corporation and begins a series of professional skills training courses. She thinks it will be nothing more than a fun game of repaying a debt of gratitude, but unexpectedly gets caught up in a high-stakes corporate takeover and a battle between capital giants. Elite returnee Su Tong has always dominated the workplace, but after saving a f 3.7kReads9.6Score566Shelves
- 171 A Love Letter in the Loess 黄土情书 In 1982, a severe drought grips northern Shaanxi. Thirty-year-old village teacher Wang Pu squats on a cracked field ridge, clutching the betrothal money his mother has wrapped in red cloth. The last unmarried man of his age in the village has no idea his life is about to change that very night. When he rescues a young woman in a Lenin suit from a collapsed grain depot, the English copy of Jane Eyre in her suitcase tears open his stunted emotional world. When a village teacher’s love for a “troub 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 The Carefree Country Doctor 乡野逍遥神医 (Peerless Village Woman) Li Fugui is a fool, as the saying goes, a few bricks short of a load. But by a stroke of luck, he obtained a mysterious inheritance. He originally only wanted to be a humble village doctor, but even a king gets bored! So when gods stand in his way, he slays them; when demons stand in his way, he vanquishes them. Watch as this fool climbs to the pinnacle of life. 4.5kReads9.2Score548Shelves
- 173 The Fool and the Bun Beauty 傻子与包子西施 The fool Yang Luo saves someone and nearly dies, but gains the inheritance of the Medicine King and Immortal Doctor. Cultivation techniques, sacred medical texts, medical skills, secret arts… See how he uses his fortuitous encounter to heal the sick and save lives, practice medicine and seek the Dao, lead the villagers to prosperity, and climb to the pinnacle of life. This introduction can’t do the story justice. Read the main text for details… 2.9kReads7.5Score196Shelves
- 174 My Sister-in-Law Turned Sickly Obsessed, So I Took Shelter at My Beautiful Aunt's Home 嫂子竟成病娇，我去美姨家避风头 [Yandere] [System] [The Heroine's Regretful Pursuit] You've seen a simp, right? If simping for one person makes you a simp, what about simping for three? Well, Gu Yanzhi is exactly that kind of guy. For three years, he's been simping for three people at once, and every one of them has an extraordinary background… Click in and witness Gu Yanzhi's glorious journey. 5kReads8.6Score375Shelves
- 175 The Allure of Painted Lips 艳唇之惑 A romantic encounter. Most handsome men have had one, but for someone obsessed with beautiful lips, it's like discovering an ancient treasure... Xi Mengyao, the heiress and CEO of one of Yanjing's top families, is the finest pair of lips of them all. The surprising thing is, when Shu Muyan, a retired special forces king, rescues her, he steals the first kiss from the most coveted lips of all. And so the story begins... 108Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 A Temporary Romance at the Factory! 工厂里的临时爱情！ Wang Dali had just left his rural hometown to find work in the city. After his night shift, he returned to his rented room. As he snapped the key in the lock, he heard a woman's cries from inside. From that day on, life opened up an entirely new world for him. Every day that followed was an adventure. 307Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 177 Village Uproar 村闹 Synopsis: [Rural Life + Miracle Doctor + Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Betrayed by someone, Jiang Xiaochuan went to their home for revenge, only to be beaten half to death. By a twist of fate, he gained a mysterious inheritance! From then on, he defied fate, put every doubter in their place, and steadily climbed to the top... 2.8kReads9.0Score403Shelves
- 178 You Silly Boy, You're Home! 傻小子，回家了！ Qingshui Village, by the Qingshui River Sizhu became mentally disabled after an accident. One day, while sleeping by the river, he stumbled upon the village bully picking on his neighbor, Shao Tingting. That was the beginning of a wonderful and extraordinary life. 280Reads8.9Score177Shelves
- 179 My Best Friend Tricked Me into a Demon’s Den 闺蜜骗我入魔窟 My best friend tricked me into entering a demon's lair 383Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 Chen Wei, Village Doctor 乡村神医陈伟 [Countryside + Miracle Doctor + Urban Cultivation + Farming] Chen Wei was beaten into an idiot while in college and returned to his village in despair. He relied entirely on the care of his neighbor’s sister-in-law, until he unexpectedly obtained an immortal inheritance. From then on, he healed the sick and saved lives, farmed and raised livestock, and founded a company, steadily climbing to the pinnacle of life. 1.7kReads7.5Score182Shelves
- 181 The Invincible War Dragon of the Mountain Village 山村无敌战龙 Everyone in Qingshan Village knows that Chen Dong is an idiot. Until one day, the wealthy family’s Dragon Commander, who had been a fool for three years, awakens once more. The remote mountain village is thrown into an uproar... 6kReads9.2Score873Shelves
- 182 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! 10.5kReads9.1Score1kShelves
- 183 Zhao Ergou, a Left-Behind Youth in the Countryside 乡村留守青年赵二狗 [Countryside + Farming + Miracle Doctor + Modern Romance] This is absolutely worth reading. If you read the first chapter and don’t like it, follow the internet cable and come hit me. Zhao Ergou and Qingshan Village share an unbreakable bond. After graduating from university, he returned to the village to become its village doctor. By a stroke of luck, he gained mysterious powers and led the entire village to start businesses and get rich... 3.3kReads7.0Score265Shelves
- 184 Chronicles of Crossing the Sea of Suffering 渡苦纪 A true story, an autobiographical account. Born in the mountains, raised by a single parent, I had a lonely and difficult childhood. A widow and her six children, dropping out of school, sleeping in a pigsty. I left home at fourteen. At fifteen, I was set up and nearly married off to a deaf-mute man of utterly vile character. After the wedding, I raised twins while living in a rabbit hutch. I encountered a demonic ex-husband and endured every kind of hardship over the course of forty years. Afte 149Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 My Aunt Is Powerful and Holds an Unshakable Position! 阿姨位高权重，权势滔天！ My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1.3kReads8.3Score103Shelves
- 186 The Woman with Five Marriages 五婚女人 Among contemporary Chinese literature's portrayals of rural women's lives, Zheng Guozhen's story grips readers with its astonishing realism and tragic depth. Through an ordinary rural woman's five failed marriages, this novel sketches the hardships of rural women's lives and inner worlds during China's social transformation in the 1990s. From an arranged marriage imposed by her parents to a self-serving union built on dependence on power, from an emotional wasteland scarred by violence to a brie 1.9kReads7.9Score245Shelves
- 187 An Ordinary Family 平凡一家人 Every era in which an ordinary family lives is unique and impossible to repeat. The hardships of difficult times, the years of struggle and deprivation, the pain that cannot be put into words, and the fiery passion of a new age, the spirit of never giving up and striving onward, the stories of joy and sorrow: all shine brightly through every ordinary day. Life is the passing down of the human spirit. Everyone in an ordinary family has something worth preserving and building upon. Life is a flame 3.2kReads8.9Score291Shelves
- 188 Bad Boy, You're Shameless 坏小子，好无耻 People can be so strange sometimes, Love and hate go hand in hand. The naive boy, Su Mubai, Accidentally catches a glimpse of the school beauty, Wu Xiaoyan, Batheing by the stream at the village entrance... Love takes root at the sight of her beauty, like a lotus rising from the water. But what happens next, Hate takes shape at the police station, after a brutal beating... Love... Hate... Who was right and who was wrong? Who can say for sure… 667Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 Among the Mountains 山野间 [Countryside + Miracle Doctor + Farming + Getting Rich] Baichuan Village was nestled between beautiful mountains and clear waters. Yet all the men from its poor mountain valley had gone away to work. Those left behind were either lazy or wicked, along with one big fool: Li Dazhu. By a twist of fate, the simple-minded Li Dazhu was bitten by a strange snake and swallowed a fire toad. He suddenly came to his senses and, on top of that, unexpectedly obtained an ancient book. Once a fool who had live 7.2kReads9.2Score866Shelves
- 190 Reborn to Earn Trillions, and You Ask Why I Haven't Found a Wife 重生赚万亿，你问我咋没找到老婆 [No System + reborn village chief + developing a village + business warfare + feel-good story] The great roc rises with the wind one day, soaring ninety thousand li. After being reborn in 2006, Cao Fengqi returned from studying abroad to his hometown and the Cao clan. To make up for the regrets of his previous life, he became village chief once more. Before: Marrying into this dump of a village only takes a lovesick fool. Little do they know that their future children will need the sharpest mind 6.3kReads8.7Score392Shelves
- 191 The Absolute Man 绝对男人 [Traditional] [Realistic + hardship + inspirational] [Some angst] His mother died, his father was paralyzed, his stepmother suffered a mental breakdown, his older siblings kept running into trouble, and his younger siblings were still minors. At just sixteen, this outstanding student had no choice but to become the family’s sole support, shoulder his father’s enormous debts, and endure all kinds of unfairness and setbacks. Still, he refused to give up... This isn’t a wish-fulfillment story. Ther 22.2kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves
- 192 Huo Lan Dao Feng’s 67th Book 火岚刀锋第67本书 A new work is here! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 The Secret of the Dongguan Sisters 东莞姐姐的秘密 "Roaming the Martial World" "Multiple Heroines" Chen Yang and Wang Tao grew up together. By chance, they became disciples of a great master and headed north to Guancheng to seek out Chen Yang’s older sister, Xu Chunhua. When they arrived, they discovered things were nothing like they had imagined. From then on, they chose different paths, and each of their lives changed beyond recognition… 505Reads—Score—Shelves
- 194 From Village to City: Their Lives Swept Along by the Tide of the Times 从村到城，她们在时代洪流里沉浮 Their fates seem to repeat across generations. Three generations of women all grew up under the shadow of fathers who left or divorced their mothers. Raised in households with only their mothers, the women share similar traits: resilient and adaptable, dignified and self-assured, hardworking, and devoted to living life well. From the countryside to the city, women of the new era have finally welcomed a spring of their own. Their lives have become richer and more colorful, full of endless possibi 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 After Holding My Big Sister-in-Law, Are You Going to Start Building a Crime Empire? 抱着大嫂后，你要开始黑道发家？ 3.8kReads8.3Score317Shelves
- 196 Before We Destroy the World, Slay the Gods 在我们毁灭世界之前，杀穿诸神 As four-dimensional Outer Gods cross into our world and devour it, humanity sinks into ruin. They stand between heaven and earth, and with the fiery passion of youth, boldly proclaim to the world: Not an inch of the Nine Provinces will be surrendered. If the world is doomed, then we will slaughter every god and remake heaven and earth! 15Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 197 The Foolish Doctor of the Fishing Village 渔乡傻医 A good-for-nothing young man accidentally drowns, but somehow turns his misfortune into a blessing. Not only does he survive, he also inherits the power of a true dragon and gains peerless medical skills. From then on, he begins his journey to turn his life around! 1.2kReads9.2Score939Shelves
- 198 True Love Can’t Stand the Light, So She Married a Fool 真爱见光死，她嫁给傻子 At nineteen, He Yang met Chen Mo for the first time. Her card got swallowed, and she grabbed him by the sleeve. The restraint of a middle-aged man and the recklessness of a young woman threw everything into chaos from that day on. She married a fool as a cover, just so she could stay by his side. Years later, when she had everything, she finally realized that the person she loved had never been him. It was the respectable life that man represented, a life beyond her reach. Amusingly, the fool wh 76Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 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. 345Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 200 The Qinling Mountain Herb Gatherer 秦岭采药人 After graduating from junior high in the 1990s, rural boy Huang Yang was admitted to the Sanqin Forestry School, a thousand miles from home. His family was poor, so he studied while going into the mountains to gather medicinal herbs and earn money. After obtaining a mysterious jade-bamboo-root pendant, he embarked on a life of extraordinary good fortune. He opened plantations and a tourism company, leading his fellow villagers to prosperity… Urban life, miracle doctor, fighting villains, farming 7.2kReads9.1Score956Shelves
