Novels like Nine-Tenths Foolish
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Nine-Tenths Foolish, best match first.
- 1 From Barnyard Chicken to Phoenix 土鸡变凤凰 From Country Bumpkin to Cinderella 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Please Don't Let Me Down Again: Stay, Say Thanks, and Embrace 请不要再辜负，陪伴、道谢和拥抱 Please stop taking for granted the people who stay by your side. Keep company, say thank you, and offer a hug. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 What Lies at the End of Love? Parting 爱的尽头是什么？离别 What lies at the end of love? Parting. 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Ten Years Crossing the Mortal World 十年渡人间 Restless! Sometimes it's not just the weather. More often, it's life's uncertainties. When you can't take charge of your own life, how could you not feel restless? After being restless for too long, you start hoping to find a little everyday warmth. That's right, only things with the warmth of everyday life can last, and only they can keep you coming back for more. The leads' marriage falls apart, and the female lead reflects on her life. Ten years after graduation, she rises from a low-level cu 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Overworked Real Estate Customer Service Agent 被卷的地产女客服 A Sheng, a young man from the countryside, raises his little extraterrestrial brother, Xiao Xing, on his own. At just five years old, Xiao Xing has the ability to read minds. To make a living, A Sheng takes his brother to the city and lands a low-level sales job at a struggling car dealership. New to the business, A Sheng is pushed around by his colleagues and repeatedly hits a wall because of his inexperience. Fortunately, Xiao Xing secretly lends a hand, accurately seeing what customers really —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Dreams of the Green Fields 绿野梦 In a turbulent era, Zhao Gen, who had gone away to train as a mason, brought home a beautiful wife named Yanli. A compulsive gambler, he abandoned her without a word. With no one to rely on, Yanli learned all kinds of farm work just to survive. One day, while gathering firewood deep in the mountains, she met with an accident and was rescued by Chun Gen, a man with an ugly face. Zhao Gen remained missing for years. Out of gratitude, Yanli and Chun Gen eventually got together. Just as they were se 35Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 7 Wading Across the River of Life 趟过人生河 Ren Tianxing was born into humble circumstances, yet he defied the odds. Hoping to change his lot in life, he endured hardship after hardship... only to be left with regrets... This novel pays tribute to all those who spend years away from home, working to support their families. You work so hard. Like all of you, the protagonist Ren Tianxing lives far from home, drifting and wandering through a life at the very bottom, yet he keeps striving... —Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 8 Xue Mei's Story 雪梅的故事 Bare, barren loess hills. Ravines and ridges wind their way into the distance. This is where the story’s heroine, Xuemei, spent her childhood, grew into a shy young woman, and endured until she became a mature wife. She works hard, cultivating this poor yellow earth, and sings the praises of the diligence and simplicity of rural women in the new era. 148Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Rural Chronicle 乡村纪实 The little details of life, all those everyday moments, come together to paint a picture of a changing countryside. Generation after generation pursues its dreams, working hard in the mountain valleys. They make it through the winter, then the hills turn green in spring. Summer crops blanket the mountains, and autumn is always a season of joy. 212Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 10 Reborn in 1978: Sharpening My Blade Against the Great Powers 重生七八，磨刀霍霍向列强 (Period drama + ruthless action + reborn + System) Chu Xing's military parents were murdered, and his younger sister was sold. Even when he died, he had been unable to avenge his parents or find his sister. Reborn in his fifteen-year-old body, he acquired a System by a twist of fate. In this life, he swore to find his sister and avenge his parents. But these two seemingly simple goals were fraught with danger. And from the very beginning, he had fallen into a carefully laid trap set by the Syste —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Old Huang and Old Hei 老黄与老黑 [Period Drama] [Countryside] [Married Life] Set in the early 1980s, this novel tells the story of four families, the Lins, Wangs, Lius, and Chens, in an unremarkable village on the Loess Plateau in the Great Northwest. They scheme and struggle against one another, while brothers and sisters-in-law within each clan bear their own grudges and grievances. But it is better to resolve enmity than let it fester. Lin Junjie is the first young man in the village to get into college, bringing honor to th 56Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 12 Reborn, I Won't Be a Simp: The White Lotus Chases After Me 重生不当舔狗，白莲花倒追 In his previous life, Wang Yunfeng grovelled at the feet of a fake innocent woman. When someone framed him and broke both his legs, she turned on him and left. Crippled and miserable, Wang Yunfeng eventually died beneath an overpass. Wang Yunfeng was reborn on the night he was sent to the countryside as a sent-down youth and a wild boar broke his leg. This time, he defied fate and escaped that tragic night. From then on, he learned to make veterinary medicine, stumbled upon lucky opportunities, 216Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 13 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. 7kReads8.4Score52214d adds
- 14 Flowers Born of the Earth 土生花 The land is silent, yet it can hold all the hardships endured by three generations. On the barren yellow earth, three generations of women are pressed into the mud by fate, bound hand and foot by patriarchy, and slowly tortured by life. They have no choices and nowhere to turn. They don’t even dare to cry aloud. All they can do is endure the darkness, bear the despair, and keep going through days that have been ground to dust, sustained by sheer will. Yang Jinlian is deaf and stutters. All her 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Whose Youth Is Without Scars? 谁的青春不带伤 In the eighties and nineties, I was a child too. I went from being confused and bewildered to a rebellious teenager, from a student whose ideals shone bright to a laborer struggling through hardship. Friendships faded and were forgotten; my first love left a deep mark before ending in heartbreak. Being young means constantly growing up. 87Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Tales of Xizhou in the 1980s 80年代西州往事 This is a story about youth, and a story about growing up. It is filled with passionate brotherhood, the innocent love of childhood sweethearts, clashes of steel in the streets and alleys, and the struggles and choices people face in the tides of a changing era. Most importantly, it captures the warmth unique to that time: the unreserved sincerity between people, a purity that seems almost like a luxury today. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 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—14d adds
- 18 Wild Lilies of the Mountain Village 山村野百合 An eighteen-year-old village beauty married a thirty-three-year-old simpleton. A month after their wedding, her husband drowned, and she was branded a woman who brought death to her husband… This story offers a true-to-life account of the loves and hatreds, joys and sorrows of ordinary rural people. It faces the ugliness and greed of human nature head-on, while reflecting on the sincerity and warmth found in this world. 272Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Hidden Wife 隐妻 [The comic adaptation is now available! Tap “Adaptation Theater” in the lower-right corner of any page of this book to watch instantly. The original novel and short drama each have their own appeal. Share it with your friends!] No rebirth, no transmigration, and no System golden finger, just the true golden years of an entire generation! Having fled an arranged marriage, he joins the tide of migrant workers heading south. In a southern metropolis brimming with both opportunity and challenges, he 790Reads6.2Score10014d adds
- 20 I Transmigrated to 1976 and Became a Rogue Scholar 穿越到1976年成痞儒 My new work is out! Welcome to Tomato Literature. I am a storyteller and inheritor of Guangdong's Cantonese and Guangfu culture. I have worked in cultural media for many years and am especially interested in the Guangfu culture of the Pearl River Delta. I hope to tell the story of a red artist who is reborn in 1976 as a seven-year-old boy in a waterside town in Guangdong Province, a child who is neither wholly good nor wholly bad, and who sets out on a new path to becoming a roguishly charming C 162Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Great Pagoda Tree at the Village Entrance 村口那棵大槐树 The 1960s: too few clothes and too little food! In remote Tianshui Village, everyone was struggling to stay alive! Every character is a vivid reflection of that era. They have no golden fingers and they don't transmigrate... so they can only fight tooth and nail against life and fate just to survive! Girls especially had a harder time of it in those days. Listen to the names: Dai Xiao, Huan Xiao, Zhaodi... You can tell at a glance they were named by parents hoping for a son. Back then, many girl 62Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Reborn in 1970: The Village's Educated Youth Beauty Takes Them All in One Swoop 重生七零，知青村花一锅端 [Period Setting + Rags to Riches + Multiple Women + Supermarket Space + Everything Made by Hand] When he wakes up, Wang Qiulin finds himself lying on a small wooden bed in the 1970s. Nearby, he hears his fiancée plotting to sleep with another man, then pin the whole thing on him afterward to extort money. Wang Qiulin knocks them both out. He takes the woman as interest, leaves the blame for the cheating couple to bear, and poses as the victim, using the chance to break off the engagement and rui 26.4kReads6.2Score3.4k14d adds
- 23 Period: A Carefree Little Life Starting with Going to the Countryside 年代：从下乡开始的自在小日子 After accidentally transmigrating to the 1960s, Zhou Yunhuai becomes an educated youth about to be sent to the countryside for a stint in the production brigades. But there's no need to worry. With a pocket dimension at his disposal, he might actually find country life more comfortable… 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 24 My Mother, Wang Juzhen 俺娘王菊珍 [Based on real life + hardship + historical era + the struggles and perseverance of ordinary people at the bottom of society] This is not a feel-good power fantasy. The protagonist of this book is my beloved and respected great-grandmother, a poor old woman who struggled through the surging tide of an era. Wang Juzhen never had an easy life. Her parents starved to death while fleeing famine, her own sister sold her for a mouthful of grain, and a landlord lusted after her. Only Wang Long gave her 109Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 With a Start This Bad, I'm Not Taking the Loss 开局这么烂，吃亏我不干 Born under a peach-blossom fate, where it’s me or him: flirtatious men and women, face-slapping, and putting scumbags in their place. On a snowy night, in an earth cellar, on a heated kang in the Northeast, in a remote mountain village, poor Liang Laonian sees something he shouldn’t. Under immense pressure and with no one to turn to, he can only keep quiet. Later, Liang Daqing is born, his bloodline a mystery. As a child, he was lazy, sly, greedy, and slippery. As a teenager, he was rebellious 772Reads8.4Score10514d adds
- 26 A Comeback After Twenty Years of Widowhood 守寡二十年逆袭 [Period Drama + Strong Female Lead + Farming + Family Life + Widow's Comeback + Single Mother] On her wedding night, her husband is crushed to death by a roof beam, and Liu Chunhong becomes the "husband-killing jinx." Her mother-in-law forces her to give birth to her posthumous child, then turns on her and throws mother and daughter out while she's still recovering from childbirth. Her sister-in-law blocks the door and yells, "A married daughter is like water poured out!" With nowhere else to tu 7.8kReads6.9Score38614d adds
- 27 My Husband Cheated, So I Swapped Husbands with His Mistress to Change Our Fates 老公出轨，我和小三换夫改命 A new novel currently being serialized, with its rating just posted! [Not a wish-fulfillment story] [Period setting + remarriage + devoted husband + marriage first, love later] [Some ensemble cast elements] [No System] [No pocket dimension] [Realistic everyday life] In the height of summer in 1977, Xu Nan, a temporary worker at a machinery factory, caught her husband, Cheng Peng, having an affair with Liang Yan Min, an employee at the same factory. To protect his reputation and prospects, Cheng 16.9kReads8.4Score1.2k14d adds
- 28 Song of Red Mountain 红山之歌 Told through the perspectives of A Meng and Sha Na, this book, originally titled Song of Hongshan, follows two generations of Hongshan healers as they save lives, and tells the stories of the generations of Hongshan people around them as they face birth, aging, illness, death, and struggles against fate. Through these stories, it also reveals the Hongshan people's simple kindness and their resilience in the face of hardship. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Butcher's Fierce Wife Is My Third Sister-in-Law 卖肉悍妇是我三嫂 When Wang Xiuying was eighteen, she chased two men through the streets with a shoulder pole. Everyone in the village said she was too fierce. Who would dare marry her? And yet my useless third brother insisted on marrying her. On their wedding night, she laid down three rules: from now on, I make the decisions at home; don't let anyone bully you again; wherever I point, you hit. We all thought our third brother had married a tigress and that their life together would be impossible. But who could 986Reads—Score10514d adds
- 30 The Young People of Chemen Courtyard 车门院里的年轻人 This is a symphony of destinies spanning generations. In a small courtyard in northern China in the 1970s, several families struggle and drift with the tides of the times. Lei Shaxiao, an orphan whose parents died young, falls in love with Aiai, another orphan from the neighboring courtyard. They were an ordinary couple, but amid the raging currents of the era, Shaxiao rises to become a renowned lawyer who commands the room. Money, power, and desire come one after another. He loses himself in th 35Reads—Score314d adds
- 31 Transmigrating into a Book in the 1980s: The Good-for-Nothing Big Brother’s Comeback 穿书八零：对照组废柴大哥的逆袭 One punch landed, and Shi Huajun, a young man from the modern world, transmigrated into a book. He became the most pathetic side character in a period novel: an unemployed, good-for-nothing older brother who had returned to the city in the 1980s, a laughingstock whom everyone in the crowded courtyard looked down on. In the original story, he was beyond help, slumped in a tiny ten-square-meter room and doing nothing for more than a decade. His wife was used as someone else’s pawn, forced to tak 621Reads8.3Score10314d adds
- 32 A Motherless Child, Cared for by His Sister-in-Law 没妈的孩子，嫂子疼 [Period drama + No System or storage space] After my adoptive parents died in a car accident, my older brother Zhang Dakui and I depended on each other. Ever since Dakui brought my sister-in-law Liu Chunmei home, our lives changed. And so did my life... 98Reads6.2Score11214d adds
- 33 My Father's Era of the Fortress Villages 父亲的崮时代 Yimeng Mountain is a work of documentary fiction about the second generation of military-industry workers, telling the true story of the mysterious “Third Front” military factories. It retraces how the children of Third Front workers and their parents pressed on through successive waves of change. “Good people and good horses head to the Third Front.” The companies were reorganized and moved out of the mountains... They rose from the ashes as a red-culture base, as the home of China’s peaches, a 10Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 34 Forbidden Zone Hunter 禁地猎人 His parents favored his older brother, who took over Lin Mo’s assigned job after he graduated from high school. Lin Mo was forced to go to the countryside in Northeast China in his brother’s place. Hardship was everywhere. The lack of food and constant hunger tested not only their will to live, but also their humanity. Tales of ghosts and monsters were rampant in the village, and the villagers feared the nearby mountains, treating them as forbidden ground. The lame old principal of the village s 39.7kReads8.6Score1.8k14d adds
- 35 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 137Reads—Score714d adds
- 36 Middle-Aged in Shanghai: I’ve Hidden My Medicinal Wine Ability for 20 Years 上海中年：我藏药酒异能苟20年 In 2006, Shanghai was swept up in a wave of reform. Large numbers of veteran workers at state-owned enterprises were laid off, and a lifetime of stability vanished overnight. At forty, Zhang Jianguo saw his eighteen years of service wiped out. His buyout compensation was slashed, and in middle age he had no one to rely on while raising a young daughter. To feed his family, he took grueling construction jobs, did backbreaking labor, suffered wage deductions, and endured bullying, struggling eve 88Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Two Years After Forgiving Her Affair, I Asked for a Divorce 原谅她出轨两年后，我提出了离婚 In middle age, I discovered that my devoted wife had been cheating on me. Everyone thought I had forgiven her. No one knew the patience and wisdom a man could bring to bear. I spent two years getting ready. Then, after two years, I would give her and her lover the perfect revenge. [A fan's words] If I were 20, I'd grab a knife and go fight. If I were 30, I'd slap her hard and divorce her. But I'm 45, and I have more than just age: I have wisdom. What I want is to secure the greatest benefit for 2.5kReads6.9Score11914d adds
- 38 The Twin Cities in Disguise 双城假面 (Long-distance relationship + married couple + betrayal) Married for seven years, living apart for five. By day, they are a loving couple who video-call each other, but in the stillness of the night, they become prisoners of their own desires. When betrayal crosses the line from emotional to physical, their carefully worn masks are torn to shreds... 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 San Biaozi 三彪子 In 1980, in Kaoshan Village on the banks of the Songhua River, the Gao family’s fifth child is born. Dubbed “San Biaozi” because he is a bit dim, he grows up amid poverty and gossip. His mother bears the painful memory of having been assaulted, while his father quietly shoulders the burden of their broken family. San Biaozi drifts through life in a daze, but after a string of fires, people begin to suspect him of arson. While working the night shift guarding the grain depot, he learns to smoke. 751Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Aunt Mei 媚姨 Male Lead: Ding Yuan Female Lead: Liu Meiyi No one is reborn, and there is no System. This is an era of struggle belonging to the older generation! That year, Ding Yuan earned top marks in the imperial examinations, only to have his life stolen from him when his stepmother conspired with her family to switch his results. His father, unaware of the truth, set out on a rainy night to sell goods in the mountains and raise money for Ding Yuan to retake the exams. But the tractor overturned in a ravi 5.6kReads8.8Score47914d adds
- 41 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... 5.6kReads8.8Score46014d adds
- 42 Where the Spring Tide Rises, Falling Blossoms Fly 春潮起处落花飞 [Urban Life + Countryside + Campus + Period Setting + Modern Romance + Childhood Sweethearts + Family + Marriage and Romance + Youthful Inspiration + Strong Female Lead + Building Wealth] Love and hate flow east with the river; partings and reunions scatter like falling flowers. Ice and fire, blood and tears, humiliation and glory, failure and success: every flavor of life can be found in "Where the Spring Tide Rises, Falling Flowers Fly"... Set from the 1970s through the turn of the century, ag 8Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 43 A Bitter Girl’s Rebirth 苦妹之涅槃重生 Inside Ku Mei’s five-year-old body lived the soul of someone who had died with a heart full of hatred. Reborn, she faced a spiteful grandmother who beat and berated her, a cold grandfather who enabled the abuse, and a mother who could only weep helplessly. Ku Mei concealed her boundless hatred and memories of her past life, pretending to be timid as she carefully plotted her every move. She outsmarted her relatives and broke free of her shackles, starting with a bottle of chili sauce from the mi 121Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Spring Stirs in the Countryside 农村的春潮涌动 Since the reform and opening-up began, the Zhao family in Ganquan Village has undergone tremendous changes. Jianping and Jian'an started a brick factory and a home-renovation company. What stories will they encounter, and what of their love lives? Which of them will strike it lucky in the business world? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Reborn in the 1990s: I Won't Be a Doormat 重生九零：不做老实人 At middle age, Qiao Wei had accomplished nothing and was facing a midlife crisis. Even the least successful among his siblings was worth tens of millions, while he was stuck in a small county town earning a salary that kept him from starving but would never make him rich. By comparison, his wife called him a good-for-nothing every day, and his son blamed him for being useless. There were countless ordinary people like him. He was content with his lot and didn’t think his life was bad. He was hea 6.7kReads7.5Score40314d adds
- 46 Transmigrating into a Book: The Stepfather in a Period Novel 穿书之年代文里的继父 (The new book’s rating just opened, everyone. It’ll go up!) 1970s setting + sign-in System + raising kids + mutual devotion. The moment I open my eyes, I’ve transmigrated into a period novel and become the cannon-fodder stepfather who abused his stepchildren and eventually died miserably in a cowshed. I look at the three thin, malnourished children staring at me in fear, and their gentle, resilient but distant teacher wife. I silently activate the Daily Sign-In System. Today, a pound of meat. 98Reads6.0Score11814d adds
- 47 The Man with Six Marriages 六婚男人 A marriage spanning half a century, full of ups and downs, and one man's six sorrowful, blood-stained journeys into wedlock. In the late 1970s, at a state-owned coal mine in Northeast China, Kim Dazhuang, an ethnic Korean Chinese who had returned from Korea, was tall and burly, with a fiery temper. He sweated through his work amid the roar of steam locomotives. Over the course of his life, he went through six marriages. Each time, he entered with hope, only for almost every one to end in heartbr 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Hunting in the Changbai Mountains Since 1969 从69年开始的长白山狩猎生活 Li Weidong transmigrated into the body of a young intellectual sent to work in a production team at the foot of the Changbai Mountains. He met young people who had come from all over the country to help develop the region, and got to know a group of hunters on the mountains who, like him, made their living hunting. During those years of hunting in the mountains, he experienced all kinds of things: laughter, worries, and sorrow. Li Weidong gained not only prey, but also family, friendship, and 23.8kReads8.5Score1.7k14d adds
- 49 Reborn in 1977, I Marry the Girl of My Dreams from the Start 重生1977，开局娶白月光知青 If spring winds could pity the flowers, would you let me be young once more? Zhang Pan woke up to find himself back in 1977! As long-forgotten memories came alive, the young man faced a choice that would determine his fate. He would fight against the current... 636Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 50 Reborn in a Chaotic Age: Dawn Breaks, and Glory Shines Again 重生乱世之破晓曙光再辉煌 Rebirth + Patriotism + Revenge + Family + Pocket Dimension + Farming + Period Drama (This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.) In his previous life, Liu Pingkou lived through a time of turmoil. The Japanese army killed the adults in his family, leaving him, his younger sister, and his twin younger brother to survive in a cellar. Once it was safe, he couldn't afford to raise his siblings, so he entrusted them to kind strangers. After the founding of the country, h 3.1kReads6.9Score16714d adds
