Novels like In the Lean Years, I Helped My Five Younger Brothers Build a Fortune
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as In the Lean Years, I Helped My Five Younger Brothers Build a Fortune, best match first.
- 1 After My Betrothal Was Broken, I Fled Famine with Grandma and My Little Brother 被退婚后，带奶奶和弟弟逃荒种田 After failing to survive her tribulation, Qin Yue is reborn as a farm girl who died after crashing into the home of her former fiancé. Her family is so poor they can barely afford to eat. Qin Yue: No problem. I’ll go hunting! Her former mother-in-law makes unreasonable demands and insists on compensation. Qin Yue: If you show me no mercy, I’ll show you none. Let’s settle the accounts! On a trip to town, she catches the eye of an evil cultivator. Qin Yue: I’ll find a chance to beat him to death! 655Reads9.0Score10314d adds
- 2 After Transmigrating as the Powerful Minister's Cannon-Fodder Ex-Wife, I Turned My Life Around Through Farming 穿成权臣炮灰前妻后我靠种田逆袭 [Sweet romance + farming + adorable babies] Jiang Yu wakes up one morning to find that she's gone from being a food blogger with millions of followers to a cannon-fodder villainess with a tragic fate. Luckily, fate has been kind to her: the male lead, who will one day rise to the highest office in the land, is currently just a younger brother who has failed the imperial exams twice. Armed with a farming System, Jiang Yu builds her fortune step by step, going from a village woman to a wealthy bus 297Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 3 I’m Furious! I Transmigrated to a Poor Mountain Village and Still Have to Farm 气哭！穿到穷山沟沟还要种田 [Farming + family drama + no pocket dimension + no romance in the main story + no golden finger + not a pushover] On a plank bed, a hulking, coarse man with a face covered in black stubble pins Wang Taohua beneath him. His foul-smelling mouth is about to kiss her. Wang Taohua struggles desperately, then slams her head into a pillar... Wang Taohua, a modern orphan, wakes up to find she has transmigrated to an unknown dynasty. Her father was beaten to death, her engagement was called off, and her 6.4kReads9.1Score74214d adds
- 4 Farming: Building a Fortune in Ancient Times 种田：我在古代发家致富 [Farming + No Toxic Family Members + Beloved by Everyone + Building Wealth + Heartwarming] Tang Lingling transmigrated into the Great Yao Kingdom, becoming a member of an ordinary family whose parents and grandparents had all fled famine. The family had barely any land and could only scrape by. Fortunately, both her parents were alive, the family got along well, and she also had a golden finger: a Species Collection System. She could collect species from the world and sell them to the System for 4.2kReads9.0Score47014d adds
- 5 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
- 6 The Country Apothecary: The Villainess Becomes Everyone’s Darling 田园药乡：恶毒女配成团宠了 Jiaojiao transmigrated into a story, cast as the vicious supporting villainess. As the male lead's wicked stepsister, she made life hell for everyone, and her brothers and sisters-in-law hated her to the bone. How was she supposed to play this role? Forget it. If she couldn't afford to provoke them, she could avoid them. Better to marry off early and wreak havoc on some random passerby. But then, one by one, they all changed their tune. Her parents begged her to stay, her brothers competed to sp 9.9kReads9.0Score1.1k14d adds
- 7 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 15kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 8 The Old Woman Is Reborn Before the Demolition, and Beats Her Evil Son and Vicious Grandson with a Stick 老太重生拆迁前，棒打恶子毒孙 Old Madam Zhou spent her whole life worrying herself sick over her four sons. She even divided the property and cash she received from the demolition compensation among them. She thought she had treated them all equally and taken each son into consideration. But in each son’s eyes, she was biased, and they all resented her and refused to support her. Old Madam Zhou should have been enjoying her retirement, but instead, at her advanced age, she survived by collecting trash and eventually died of 52.2kReads8.6Score2.9k14d adds
- 9 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 8.1kReads9.3Score73614d adds
- 10 I Became a God After Surviving the Trial of Love 渡情劫后成功封神 Bai Yan, the legitimate daughter of a family of military commanders, came down from the mountains after mastering her art so she could return to her home in the capital and overcome her romantic tribulation. At the city gate, the emperor stopped her and ordered her burned as a sacrifice to Heaven and Earth. She also learned that her birth parents had abandoned her because of rumors calling her an ill-fated poison maiden. To clear her name, Bai Yan took responsibility for treating the plague and 155Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 She’s Soft-Waisted and Playful, and the Chaste Imperial Uncle Bewitches Her Every Day 她腰软灵趣，禁欲皇叔日日勾心魂 Word has it that Prince Rong has specifically asked to marry the Taifu’s infatuated legitimate daughter. The whole city says it’s downright shocking! Just a few months ago, hadn’t Prince Rong threatened to kill that lovesick fool? At the Taifu’s residence, a certain lovestruck young woman looks at a room full of betrothal gifts and pulls a long face. “Someone, please! Can you send all this back?” The noble young ladies of the capital burst out swearing. “Have some shame, will you?” 19kReads9.4Score3.1k14d adds
- 12 The Poorest County Magistrate's Wife in History Leads the Whole County to Prosperity 史上最穷县令夫人带全县百姓赚钱 Hang Ying, head of a reclusive modern-day clan, dies during an expedition and transmigrates into Yingzi, the wife of Xu Mengran, a penniless county magistrate in the Great Chu Empire. Who ever heard of a county magistrate being poor? Well, this one wears a patched robe, and his wife earns money washing and mending clothes to help him pursue a career in the imperial examinations. They have no maids or guards, the yamen runners look down on them, and a rich young lady even comes to their door to b 611Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 13 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库 An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan 1.3kReads—Score10714d adds
