Novels like I Quit! Back to the Village to Herd Cattle
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as I Quit! Back to the Village to Herd Cattle, best match first.
- 1 The Soldier King Hit Me Right in the Heart, Dong Ge, Count Me In 兵王戳中心巴，东哥带我一个 [Warrior King] [Hunting] [Thrilling Action] [No Rebirth] [No System] Warrior King Xiao Dong returns home after leaving the military, only to find his house stripped bare and the main residence sealed off. In this village, where supplies are scarce and people are restless, the village chief, Wang Fugui, throws his weight around and keeps the villagers in fear. Xiao Dong carries a two-hundred-jin wild boar down the mountain, striking fear into the whole village, only to get a disdainful snort from 298Reads8.8Score10314d adds
- 2 Wang Tietou’s Struggle 王铁头的抗争 Wang Tietou had hoped to live a quiet life, but hardships came one after another, leaving him no choice but to keep fighting back. The burdens of life pressed down on him until he could barely breathe. Only by continuing to struggle did Tietou finally reach a better tomorrow. 144Reads8.2Score10214d adds
- 3 You're a Major Farmer, So How Are You This Good at Martial Arts? 你一个种植大户，武功也这么高？ Jiang Yue, an ordinary college senior, was falsely accused after coming to someone's aid and was expelled from school. After returning to his hometown, he unexpectedly unlocked the legacy of the Azure Emperor, gaining the Azure Auspicious Divine Stone and the Azure Auspicious Art. From then on, he could turn the impossible into reality, make all things grow, and heal the living beings of three realms. Jiang Yue went from an ordinary young man to a leading mogul in agriculture and food, while his 4.4kReads7.1Score39814d adds
- 4 Wang Xiaoye's Extraordinary Life 王小叶的妖孽人生 Wang Xiaoye has faced life and death twice and seen the coldness of a world that looks down on the poor. Determined to fight an unfair fate, he uses his medical skills to earn his first fortune and begins planning an ambitious future: growing medicinal herbs, building pharmaceutical factories, developing places to live, and more. Starting from the countryside, he makes his way to the city and into the world of ancient martial arts! 292Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 5 An Ordinary Small Farmer 平凡小农民 I'm an ordinary country boy, a small-time farmer who got into university but couldn't attend. No one knows how bitter that makes me feel. Helplessness, uncertainty, confusion, and the feeling that there's nothing I can do are enough to drive anyone mad. When you have no one to rely on, what good is confidence? When you have no power or influence, what good is money? Only women can be my cure... 618Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 You Sent Me Back to the Village to Start a Business, So Why Are You Chasing Girls? 让你回村创业，你竟然泡妹子？ (Nostalgic 1990s + business simulation + everyday life + fond memories + ...) Li Guofu transmigrates back to the 1990s, starting out with nothing but a small convenience store. Ding! Host, please make a choice. Choice One: Lie flat now and receive a million yuan. Choice Two: Start with the convenience store, embark on the road to wealth through business, and become the hope of the whole village... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Countryside’s Super Village Doctor 乡野超级村医 [Countryside, divine doctor, play the pig to eat the tiger] Zhou Xiaomo is known beyond the borders as the invincible Demon Dragon. His iron fists have beaten the world. Who dares challenge him? Now he has returned home in glory, using his miraculous hands to heal the sick. Even the neighbor’s sister-in-law says he’s wonderful. I, Zhou Xiaomo, am the village doctor. Whoever dares mess with me, I’ll send them spiraling into the sky! 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The King of Pig Farming: The Most Beautiful Northeast Pig 养猪大王，最美东北农猪 [Spatial farm] + [Everyday food] + [Country life] Wang Dabiao found a treasure and unlocked a mysterious farm. He picked more vegetables and fruit every day than he could eat, but couldn’t sell them either. Wang Dabiao stamped his foot. “Forget selling them! I’m going back to my rural hometown to raise pigs!” His strawberry-fed pigs had tender, juicy, delicious meat, and people said eating it could even prolong your life. City folk desperately waved their money around, trying to buy his strawber 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Shier San's 17th Book 十二三第17本书 A new work is here! You can read my stories on Fanqie Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Li Fugui's Country Life 李富贵的乡土生活 [System] [Period Piece] [One Female Lead] Li Fugui, one of the Four Calamities of Huayang Village, was a lazy good-for-nothing. After being looked down on while working away from home, he had no choice but to return to the village and live off his parents. On the way back, he stumbled upon a System and embarked on a legendary journey. He learned to farm, raise livestock, treat illnesses, fight, and cook... A fantastic read. If you enjoy it, please follow the story. 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Now That I've Been Reborn, What's Wrong with Letting Dad Take a Shortcut? 都重生了，让父亲走点捷径怎么了 (Reborn Sweet Romance + Heroine Is a Miracle Doctor + Strong Hero and Equally Strong Heroine + Satisfying Revenge + Fortune and Prosperity + Food) Despite exhausting everything she had learned in her life, she couldn't save the life of someone dear to her. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to 1978. Before her stood an abusive, gambling-addicted grandfather, a gravely ill grandmother, and a family with not a penny to its name. In this life, she would become the strongest golden fin —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The System Sets Me Up, So I Split My Time Between City and Countryside 系统给我下套，城市农村两边跑 No refunds for laughing! A hilarious, witty, totally brainless power fantasy… From catching grasshoppers in the countryside to rescuing a frog from a snake’s jaws, then heading to the city to court death and take on all kinds of bizarre System missions. Li Goudan is gradually crushed by the System and tormented and mocked by villains, until he finally realizes the secret to success: relying on his own efforts to turn his life around and become the richest man in the world.… 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Auntie Yang 杨姨 [Short-to-Medium Contemporary Romance] Auntie Yang is my mom's best friend. She's beautiful and elegant, and this time she came all the way to the city where I go to school just to see me. I never expected her to have so many feelings for me. 47Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Rural Shenanigans 乡村滥 Tugen, a country boy, rises from an ordinary young man to a man of immense wealth. But no matter how capable he becomes, he never loses his simple nature. He remains kind, honest, and upright. 324Reads8.8Score10314d adds
- 15 A Country Man Rules the Deserted Island 乡下男人称霸荒岛 A storm at sea leaves us stranded on a deserted island. Luckily, I’m a country man who knows how to farm and fish. What? There are other people stranded on the island too… 1.2kReads6.0Score14114d adds
- 16 Poor Chuntao and Her Men 贫女春桃和她的男人们 A period story, rural life, family and village gossip, realism, romance, and an ensemble cast After her former husband dies, Chuntao moves to town and opens her own vinegar workshop. As she runs her business, she meets many people who offer her plenty of help, and her vinegar business grows bigger and bigger. In the end, through her own hard work, Chuntao makes a fortune and meets a man she can entrust her life to. 7.2kReads6.3Score33014d adds
- 17 Strange Romance in the Countryside: Mo Wu’s Healing Fragrance Protects the Homestead 乡野奇情：墨武医香守田园 After years of exhausting work in the city, he resolutely returns to his hometown to pursue his dream of a pastoral life. He leases a mountain, plants fruit trees and medicinal herbs, digs a fishpond, and shares his countryside life on Douyin. He teaches himself medicine to save lives, practices martial arts to strengthen his body and will, and studies calligraphy to cultivate his character. Along the way, he meets the woman he has always cherished, and their relationship is full of twists and t 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Xiangshui Village on Xiangshui Bay 响水湾上的响水村 The story takes place in a small mountain village in the early 1980s. A group of colorful ordinary people work hard to bring a series of changes to their village as it keeps pace with the times. The story moves at a varied pace, capturing the rhythms of life in that era. Through vivid prose, the author unfolds scenes from the past one by one, evoking the unforgettable spirit of the 1980s. Let us return in our imagination to a landscape of lush green hills and clear waters. Xiangshui Village, on 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 For a Better Life 为了生活更美好 Set in contemporary times, this novel explores the effective transition from poverty alleviation to rural revitalization. Against the backdrop of a great era, an imbalanced population, the preference for sons over daughters, and a mass influx of migrant workers into the cities have left many young men in the countryside unable to find partners. Sun Jiawei is one of them. Hoping to find a girlfriend, he goes to Shanghai for work, only to suffer the miserable ordeal of having his engagement broken 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Wild Mountain Blossoms 山野花香 [Rural Life + Miracle Doctor] After spending a year as a fool, Qin Xuan returned from cultivating the Divine Farmer Immortal Scripture. With astonishing martial arts in his left hand and peerless medical skills in his right, he led the villagers to prosperity, growing vegetables, building factories, and opening farm stays... He charged ahead, transforming Stone Village into the “World's Number One Village”! Watching the countless reporters who had come to interview him, Qin Xuan said with utter 1.9kReads8.9Score16114d adds
- 21 Silly Er Zhu, Why Don’t You Marry Me? 傻二柱，要不你娶了我吧 (Miracle doctor + countryside + making money + city life + fiery adventure) The fool Li Erzhu accidentally stumbles upon a conspiracy and unexpectedly gains an inheritance, setting him on the path to the top. He can bring the dead back to life and regrow flesh on bare bones. With his inherited powers, he heals the sick, stands up to the village bully, and leads the countryside to prosperity. 74Reads7.1Score10114d adds
- 22 Country Doctor: The Foolish Donkey 乡村神医大傻驴 (Countryside + Divine Doctor + Getting Rich) Wang Dazhuang was beaten so badly that he became simple-minded, going from a promising young man in the village to a fool everyone despised. But one night, his life suddenly changed. “You look down on me for being a peasant? Sorry, I can grow crops and become richer than a nation, and my premium vegetables are every rich lady’s dream!” “Jealous of my beautiful female companions? Sorry, this is nothing. I have plenty more where they came from!” “Everyo 189Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 23 The 4th Book by Zhe Ci Wo Yao Huo 这次我要火的第4本书 50Reads6.8Score11414d adds
- 24 Book 7 by Xiao Mao Bei Yu Chi 小猫被鱼吃的第7本书 [Countryside]+ [Miracle doctor]+ [Getting rich]+ [Feel-good power fantasy] A fool from Taoyuan Village unexpectedly gains a legacy and awakens miraculous healing skills after an accident. From then on, he turns his fate around, leads the whole village to prosperity, and helps everyone live the high life. 8Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 25 Back from the Army, I Raise Racing Pigeons 退伍回家养赛鸽 Once you enter the pigeon world, it's as deep as the sea. As the saying goes: "Poor people play with cars, rich people play with watches, and if you want to get rich overnight, raise birds." I have no skills or education, but at least I know how to raise birds. I especially like this saying: "Look toward distant mountains and press on; know what you don't know and strive to improve." Raising racing pigeons is a journey of learning and growing through constant failure, drawing lessons and experie 88Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Reborn in 1978: My Gorgeous Stepmother Hunts the Grasslands with Me 重生78，绝色继母随我草原狩猎 [Reborn + Period Setting + Hunting + Business + System + One Female Lead] Chen Yang returns to 1978, the era of the educated youth, and unexpectedly reunites on the grasslands with Xue Qing, his previous life's brilliant and striking stepmother. To stop her from heading down a dead-end path, Chen Yang takes her onto horseback and deep into the wild, windswept grasslands. This time, he intends to hunt not only wolves and eagles with her, but also seize the wonderful, radiant life that lies before 1.2kReads7.0Score14214d adds
- 27 Invincible: It Began When I Returned to the Village to Marry the Miao Saintess 无敌，从回村迎娶苗疆圣女开始 [Countryside + Divine Healer + Farming] [A cozy farming story, not an invincible-hero story] [Awkward] This book is complete, so you can read it without worry. After graduating and returning to his village, Chen Chao runs a small clinic with Zhang Qinglian, a saintess from the Miao region. He leases barren hills to raise wild boars and free-range chickens. He leases greenhouses and leads the whole village to prosperity. Using his special medical skills, the village’s wild boars and free-rang 248Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 28 The Village Belle Blooms 村花朵朵开 With his clever mind, Lu Xiaole makes a success of himself in the village and enjoys one stroke of good luck after another. As he gets rich, he also leads the villagers onto the path to shared prosperity. 4.5kReads7.5Score40914d adds
- 29 The Blind Village Doctor, Kang Ge 瞎子村医，康哥 [Countryside + Farming + Miracle Doctor + Urban Life] A blind young man from a small village unexpectedly receives an extraordinary legacy. From then on, he secretly takes on the forces in the village that have committed countless evils, while beginning his own rise from the bottom. Step by step, he reaches the pinnacle of success, earning the admiration of those around him as he watches the world’s changing fortunes with a smile… [This book is entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coin 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 A Single Man's Worries 单身男的烦恼 Yang Zhuang moves from the city back to the countryside. In an era when men outnumber women, the 26-year-old has weathered many hardships before finally marrying a beautiful wife. He also starts a business. But life is full of surprises. The people and events around him keep influencing him, and he and his friends create one extraordinary story after another amid the fields and wide-open countryside... 293Reads7.8Score10514d adds
- 31 A Love Affair Across Half a Lifetime 半世情缘 After a lifetime, the most painful thing is still parting. Chen Xiang has lived through love and affection, hardship and helplessness. Come along with this book, and let’s take a look at one man’s life so far. Who loves him? Whom does he love? Hardship and good fortune go hand in hand. Career and true love are both part of his life! What kind of lives do the people around him lead? This is a realistic story. Very realistic. 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 The Overworked Office Drone Quits the Rat Race and Returns to the Village to Forage 社畜反卷，我要回村挖野菜 [Rejecting the rat race] [Food + country living + a little golden finger] Meng Wanchun was a textbook overworked office drone. Hoping to buy a home in a big city, she joined a publicly listed company straight out of college and became one of society's many tiny cogs, working around the clock. She was finally close to making it: once the project was finished, she'd get promoted, receive a bonus, and buy a home outright. But then she fell ill, and someone else snatched both the project and the pos 128Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 33 The Peerless Immortal Healer in the Mountain Village 极品仙医混山村 He's a poor young man who unexpectedly turns his life around. He just wants to farm honestly and make a living, but somehow people keep trying to cozy up to him. Wang Xiaoer is baffled. “I'm not even handsome, so why am I so charming?” 58Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 34 Peach Blossom Village, by the Gentle Waters, the Big Fool Zhu! 桃花村，柔水畔，大傻柱！ [A tasty read for kindred spirits. Come on in, but youngsters, stay away.] After his girlfriend cheated on him with a rich heir, Wang Dazhu was beaten into a concussion and sent back to his village. Chuntao took pity on him and cared for him devotedly for years. Who would have thought Wang Dazhu would inherit the River God’s legacy and gain extraordinary abilities? He’d only wanted a quiet life with his sister-in-law, but reality set him on the road to building a business and getting rich. W 749Reads8.3Score13614d adds
- 35 The Divine Farmer of the Countryside 乡野神农 Li Yu had just graduated from college when his girlfriend of four years dumped him. Then he was diagnosed with cancer. Disheartened, he returned to Anning Village, where he’d grown up, planning to spend his remaining days with his parents. But by a twist of fate, he obtained the legendary Chaos Pearl and embarked on a path to turn his life around... 2.2kReads8.6Score21914d adds
- 36 Peace Year After Year Wherever the Sophora Blossoms 槐花开处岁岁宁 At the entrance to Huaihua Alley in Feng County, there is a breakfast shop where a long line forms every morning. Xu Ning's family lights the stove before dawn, steaming buns, cooking porridge, frying pancakes, and deep-frying pastries. Their life isn't affluent, but it's stable and grounded, busy and fulfilling amid the warmth of the kitchen. She thought that if she stayed in this little corner of the world, she could enjoy the peaceful retirement she wanted. But as she casually came up with mo 8.2kReads7.3Score1k14d adds
- 37 Sis, Take It Easy with the Flirting 姐姐，轻点撩 A Shui, a young man from Longjiagou, heads to the city for work and temporarily stays with Jingxiang, a woman from his village. Gradually, A Shui notices that Jingxiang is acting stranger and stranger toward him. He also discovers an indescribable side of urban life. P.S. This book is all about getting back to the essence of web-novel wish fulfillment. Back when web novels first became popular, they were called wish-fulfillment novels. Readers are welcome to see for themselves. 18.3kReads7.5Score81614d adds
- 38 The Cartwheel Pole 轱辘杆子 At forty, bachelor Wang Gulu lives alone in his ancestral home with a few acres of poor farmland. He leads a quiet, lonely life amid the village gossip, until one day Li Qing, a city girl fleeing an arranged marriage, bursts into his courtyard and turns his monotonous world upside down. Stubborn college student Li Qing has fled to this remote village to escape her family’s plans for her marriage. At first, the two people from different worlds are constantly at odds, but living together graduall 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 A Family in Northeast China 东北一家人 Set in a remote rural village in Northeast China, from the 1970s to the 2020s, this novel tells the inspiring story of Tian Zhuzi and his five children. When the Cultural Revolution began, Tian Zhuzi left school and returned home to farm. He married and had children. Living in the countryside, he longed for a son who could provide labor and become the family’s pillar. Despite the pressure of the national family-planning policy, he had four daughters in a row before finally getting his wish and h 1.2kReads8.9Score10014d adds
- 40 Reborn in 1980: The Village Beauty Can Read Fortunes 重生1980：村花媳妇会算卦 The live-action short drama and comic adaptation are now available. If you're interested, click the “More Adaptations” button in the bottom right to watch. Longtime bachelor Lin Feng finally gets his lucky break: he transmigrates back to the 1980s and marries a village beauty so stunning she's almost too beautiful to be real. She has a tiny waist, long legs, and a captivating smile. The only problem is, she's an idiot! But Lin Feng loves her to death, because this girl has an astonishing talent: 12.2kReads8.2Score98614d adds
- 41 I Quit My Job and Returned to the Village, Where I Met the Boy Next Door Again 裸辞后，回村再遇邻家哥哥 [Contemporary Romance] [Rural Romance] [Older Singles] [Healing] When they were children, Meng Ru was always following Xu Yan around. After years apart, they meet again at Xu Yan’s blind date banquet, yet they act like strangers. Xu Yan seems to be making advances under pressure, but beneath it all, his feelings are genuine. One day, Xu Yan half-jokingly tests the waters: “Meng Ru, be my girlfriend.” Only then does Meng Ru realize he wasn’t forced to court her. But faced with reality, what choic 142Reads6.1Score10614d adds
- 42 After Returning Home to Start a Business, I Picked Up a CEO 回乡创业后我捡了个霸总 The city is full of tricks. I'm heading back to the countryside! Feng Shuyu is determined to return to her hometown and lead the villagers to prosperity. Veterinary care, cooperatives, infrastructure, resource exchanges, advice and planning: money comes rolling in! She never expected a strange man to appear on her road to riches. He's particular about everything, and somehow even shoveling cow manure doesn't stop him from giving off the air of a domineering CEO. Feng Shuyu stared at him, momenta 172Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 43 I Have a Vegetable Garden 我有一个菜园子 No romance, just a pure farming story with no melodramatic twists. All it has are childhood friends, a kind grandmother, best friends who help each other heal, and friendly neighbors. They all look down on me, and I have no one to blame but myself. No one will help me reach for the clouds, and I can't get there on my own. If I had even a little talent, I wouldn't be completely talentless. Rather than push myself harder, I might as well give myself a break. Why must people always strive to climb 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 After Being Laid Off, My Wife and I Returned to the Village to Raise Pigs 下岗后，我和老婆回村养猪 [Farming]+ [Rural Life]+ [Period]+ [Family Matters]= [Rural Prosperity] Why leave a perfectly good factory job and return to the village to farm? The whole village is waiting to laugh at him, but he'll prove them wrong. His road to prosperity begins with raising pigs. Watch him transform from a laid-off worker into a “leader in rural revitalization.” 111Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Secrets in the Rose Villa 蔷薇别墅里的秘密 Chen Xiaorong was born in the countryside. Her parents didn’t love her, and her prospective in-laws were all awful people. She was clever and decisive, beautiful and poised, and brimming with ambition. She earned top marks to get into university, but nobody supported her. She was willing to run away from her wedding and travel far from home to study on her own. The road ahead was difficult. When she faced endless darkness, the warmth he gave her became a ray of light that illuminated her heart. 12.9kReads8.8Score76014d adds
- 46 Lin Xiaomin’s Old Days in the Village 村姑林小敏的旧时光 A girl's coming-of-age story in a rural family bound by feudal traditions. Her father calls her a slut, and her best friend betrays her. Family, friendship, love... If she isn't defeated, she will be reborn. 145Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Writing and Lying Flat on the Northern Frontier 我在北境边境笔耕躺平 Orphan Lu Ze had had enough of workplace hypocrisy and the clamor of the city. He took his entire fortune of 560,000 yuan and headed for the northeastern border, where he found an empty village that had been erased from the map: Wangbeitun. As the youngest border resident in Wangbeitun’s history, his life went like this: · Annual income: a few hundred yuan from writing flop novels, plus a 3,500-yuan border-resident subsidy. The main goal was simply to stay alive. · Daily KPIs: write 4,000 words 264Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 48 Unbelievable! I Just Returned to the Village, and the National Treasures Are Lining Up to Be Adopted! 离谱！刚回村，国宝排队求收养！ [No System + No livestreaming + No female lead + Memes + Cute pets + Farming + Healing] “Dahuang, tomorrow I’m taking you to town to get your balls snipped.” “What the hell! Lin Ye, are you even human? I’ve stopped chasing after females, all right?!” After one teasing remark, Lin Ye was shocked to discover that he could understand every animal’s muttering! As a veterinarian with a conscience, Lin Ye was thrilled: his golden finger had finally arrived! But he never imagined that his first patient 2.9kReads8.0Score37814d adds
- 49 Sparks Among the Waves of Wheat 麦浪里的星火 In 1983, in Liushutun, on the Jizhong Plain, the winds of reform swept into this isolated village. Seventeen-year-old Lin Qiusui was facing the hardest choice of her life. The household responsibility system brought more than the division of land; it also stirred up hidden currents within the three-generation Lin family. The sparks from Grandpa Lin Mancangs pipe as he tapped it against the edge of the kang, her father Lin Jianguo’s hunched back in the family’s assigned fields, and her little sis 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Hui Long's Thirteenth Book 辉龙第13本书 Zhao Shi's soul transmigrates into the body of a simpleton in 1987. A remote little village, and a beautiful sister-in-law. With opportunity and danger side by side, what kind of remarkable feats will Zhao Shi accomplish? Zhao Shi, bold and full of ambition, is here to give you the answer! 52Reads7.4Score1114d adds
