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- 1 The Space-Farming Girl Leads Her Family Through Famine 空间农女,带着全家种田逃荒 After unexpectedly gaining access to a farm space, Yan Zhizhi began stockpiling food. She never expected to transmigrate to ancient times as a ten-year-old girl. Her father had just died, her beautiful and frail mother needed looking after, and there was another baby on the way, ready to become her little brother or sister. Yan Zhizhi: “...” Damn it, Heaven! Are you trying to work me to death? And that wasn’t even the worst of it. In an age when people depended on the weather for their livelihoo 2.6kReads8.6Score222Shelves
- 2 Stockpile Grain and Meat Before Fleeing the Famine, and Live Well in Chaotic Times 逃荒前囤粮买肉,乱世生活美滋滋 (Magic space + fleeing famine + supernatural golden finger + family life + food + natural disasters) This book fell apart. Don’t read it, please don’t read it, it’s awful! Bai Huanxi, a ninth-level lightning ability powerhouse from the apocalypse, was exhausted after completing a mission. She drank too fast, choked, and died! When she wakes up, she discovers she’s become the female lead’s foil in a novel! The female lead, Bai Linglong, is the county magistrate’s legitimate daughter. Born blessed 5.4kReads7.8Score475Shelves
- 3 After Fleeing Famine with Trillions in Supplies, I Farmed and Raised a Handsome Husband 带着千亿物资逃荒后我种田养娇夫 (Fleeing famine + adorable children + farming + devoted couple + doting husband) Shen Moxue, a retired special forces soldier, longed for a rural life and bought a farm. Instead, she transmigrated into the body of a county magistrate’s daughter, bringing with her a trillion yuan worth of supplies from an entire cargo ship. Her younger siblings are still children, her fiancé and his mother are vicious, and the journey to escape famine is filled with disasters and danger. But she stays calm and un 1.3kReads9.2Score207Shelves
- 4 My Whole Family Transmigrated to the Road to Exile, and I Burst Out Laughing 全家穿越到流放路上,我笑了 [The whole family transmigrates + the whole village gets rich + farming and business + cozy and heartwarming, no awful characters + infrastructure] Zhi Qing transmigrates with her parents and becomes part of a respected family of grassroots village officials in ancient times. She even brings along the research database in her head. Whatever information she needs, one quick tap and the whole world is at her fingertips. Soon they have a flower garden, a vegetable garden, and an orchard, as well as 809Reads9.1Score101Shelves
- 5 Fleeing the Famine: Don’t Worry, Brother and Sister-in-Law! My Storage Space Is Full of Supplies 逃荒:兄嫂别怕!我空间里有物资 Liu Xiaoyun, who worked for a twenty-second-century international security company, transmigrated to an imaginary ancient era. Just after arriving, she faced years of famine and war, and her parents died of illness. She fled with her sister-in-law, her brother, and her two young nephews alongside the villagers. The journey was full of hardships and dangers: when they encountered wild beasts, she fought them; when they ran into bandits, she took them on. Every so often, she was also tested by hum 9.5kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
- 6 My Portable Courtyard: Farming and Fleeing Famine in Ancient Times 随身小院我在古代逃荒种田 She transmigrated into a widow whose husband died right after their wedding. Her in-laws called her a “bringer of bad luck” and planned to throw her into a pond to drown. Lin Wei jumped into the river and woke with a golden finger: a pocket dimension. As drought spread and grain prices soared, others fought over muddy water and chewed tree bark, while she used her pocket dimension to stock up and eat her fill. On the road fleeing famine, she faced locust plagues and bandits, but made careful pla 1.4kReads6.2Score—Shelves
- 7 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 11.6kReads8.9Score1.1kShelves
- 8 Portable Space: I Flee Famine in Ancient Times with Trillions in Supplies 空间:我带着千亿物资在古代逃荒 [Completed] Everyday life on the run from famine + food + farming and business One moment, she was killing zombies in the apocalypse. The next, she had transmigrated to an ancient-era refugee trail. But with a space full of supplies at her disposal, Gu Anran said, “Don't panic!” Haggard and starving on the road? Short on food and clothes? None of that was going to happen! With her good looks and a knack for getting things done, Gu Anran used her space in one hand and her special abilities in the 3.5kReads9.1Score279Shelves
- 9 The Apocalyptic Disaster: A Farm Girl Fends for Herself on the Run 天灾末世:农家孤女独自逃荒 [Space + Natural disasters + Apocalypse + Turbulent times + Fleeing famine + No romance + Strongwoman + Lone wolf] Su Xia spent years struggling to survive in the apocalypse before a meteorite struck her. In an instant, she transmigrated to a turbulent era plagued by natural disasters. There had been no rain for a long time, and every household in the village was struggling to make ends meet. Her father worked himself to death, her mother remarried, and her granny made her work without letting h 13.7kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
- 10 From the Start, I Go Hungry for Three Days Straight, Then Make a Fortune Everyone Envies 开局三天饿九顿,发家致富招人馋 Liu Siyu wakes up to discover that she has transmigrated. Above her is a sharp-tongued stepmother, below her a brother as thin as a skeleton, and around them are three shabby thatched huts. With barely enough food to last from one meal to the next, she raises an eyebrow, rolls up her sleeves, and gets to work. What? That wicked old wolf of a step-grandmother wants to sell her to an old man as a good-luck bride? How can she put up with that? She grabs a kitchen knife and starts swinging... The vi 949Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 11 Mind Reading and a Rental Home: I Transmigrate and Make the Whole Village Drool 读心术,带着出租屋穿越馋哭全村 [Farming + portable space + mind-reading + doted-on by the whole family + medicine + building from nothing + feel-good power fantasy] [A heads-up: This is mostly a heartwarming slice-of-life story, with one main goal: pure satisfaction! The heroine never has to suffer in silence. If someone wrongs her, she gets even! She is no self-sacrificing saint!] After graduating from a university of Chinese medicine, Jiang Fubao transmigrates to a fictional world with a rented apartment that automatically 9.3kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
- 12 Come On, Surely the Whole Family Didn't Transmigrate 别闹,不会真有全家穿越这种事吧 The Xia family had been looking forward to their self-driving trip along the eastern coast for ages. They never expected a typhoon to sweep all four of them back a thousand years. When they opened their eyes, the people were still the same four, but... the era was completely different! Come on! How can a whole family transmigrate together? Even worse, as soon as they arrived, they found themselves facing poor harvests and one disaster after another. Fleeing? No way. They were just following the 16.1kReads9.2Score2kShelves
- 13 Fleeing Disaster: Our Whole Family Transmigrated to Ancient Times to Survive 天灾逃荒:全家穿到古代求生存 [No romantic pairing + farming + infrastructure development + exile + famine migration, a pure plot-driven novel] Ji Xingran never imagined that simply climbing a mountain would result in their family of three transmigrating. They even transmigrated into a group of exiles headed toward a bitterly cold land. Fortunately, all three family members' backpacks became spatial storage, and Ji Xingran also gained special survival skill points that allowed them to predict the weather, gather wild fruit, 13.3kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
- 14 I Stocked My Fridge and Transmigrated into a Book, Then Married the Fiercest Chief Minister 囤满冰箱穿书,我嫁了最猛首辅 [Marriage Before Love] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Both Leads Are Each Other's Only One, and the Heroine Is the Original Owner of Her Body, While the Hero Has Not Been Reborn] Wen Nuannuan recently discovered that her refrigerator was malfunctioning: any food she ate would automatically replenish itself! Thinking she was about to strike it rich, Wen Nuannuan did everything she could to stuff the refrigerator full. But the very next day, she transmigrated into a book in spectacularly disastrous fa 61.3kReads9.0Score6.7kShelves
- 15 Fleeing Famine: My Whole Family Is Reborn 逃荒,我全家都是重生的 [Dreams of the Future + Whole Family Reborn + No Romance] In her previous life, Su Yin, her mother, and her aunt were brutally killed by rioters. In the blink of an eye, the three of them were reborn together. Before the rioters stormed their village, they took refuge in Xinghua Village, where their uncle lived, and fled in advance. On the road as refugees, they ran into Su Yin’s abandoned, blindly filial father. They thought he’d be dead weight, but it turned out he could see the future, and hi 70kReads9.4Score8.4kShelves
- 16 Fleeing Famine and Farming: The Eldest Daughter of the Farmhouse Keeps the Family Fed 逃荒种田,农门长姐养家忙 This story has no space, is not a feel-good power fantasy, and its famine-flight scenes are adapted from historical accounts of ordinary people fleeing famine in different periods. The heroine is only eight years old, so escaping with her whole family in tow is very hard, incredibly hard. If you’re looking for a feel-good power fantasy, please move on. Don’t read to the end, decide the main characters have suffered too much, feel bad, and then leave a negative review. Writing is hard, so please 33.5kReads9.4Score4.1kShelves
- 17 I Married the Sickly Chief Minister with a Farming System, and He Flirts with Me Every Day 带种田系统嫁病娇首辅,日日被撩 [Farming + putting scumbags in their place + strong heroine + sweet romance + devoted couple] Lu Zhaozhao, head of a family of merchants, accidentally gets bound to a farming System that brings her into a lucky-charm farming novel called The Imperial Consort of the Peasant Household. There, she becomes a cannon-fodder supporting female character who dies as soon as she appears. When she opens her eyes, she has to choose between two newlywed husbands. She faces a greedy, vicious mother-in-law, th 38.8kReads9.3Score3.6kShelves
- 18 I Became a Fussy Old Lady: While Everyone Else Fled the Famine, I Reclaimed the Land 穿成作精老太,别人逃荒我开荒 (No space, no System, no romance. A short drama with the same name has already been released. A warm, rustic story. Everyone says they wouldn’t survive three episodes after transmigrating into a chaotic era. Read this book, and you’ll survive ten more!) She transmigrated into a book, becoming the villainous aunt who abused the protagonist in a male-oriented novel, and was destined to be killed off. Jiang Zhi didn’t cling to the protagonist. She left him behind and relied on her extensive knowled 86kReads9.5Score8.2kShelves
- 19 System: The Savage Lands Crown Princess Just Wants to Herd Sheep 系统:蛮荒太子妃只想放羊 Also known as The Ambition Isn't Great: Just You and the World A Qi is clever and innocent. Her eldest brother is honest and just wants enough to eat; her second brother is sharp and wants to see the world. Their aunt is always fierce when chopping wood, their father is a wonderful cook, and their grandfather can recognize twenty characters, though he gets thirteen of them wrong. Their ambitions weren't great, but somehow they ended up winning the world. Content warnings: ... 30.2kReads9.6Score3.8kShelves
- 20 After Reincarnating as a Wretched Old Woman, I Just Want to Live a Laid-Back Life 穿成极品老妇之后只想当咸鱼 The old woman was a real piece of work. She drove her eldest daughter-in-law to her death, then doted on her second son, who passed the highest imperial exam and married the daughter of the prime minister. She even encouraged him to favor his concubine and neglect his wife. In the end, the prime minister had the whole family killed. The old woman suddenly came back reborn, only to be scared to death by what she had experienced in her previous life. Manxing, a promising 25-year-old woman, transmi 31.1kReads9.4Score4.3kShelves
- 21 After Transmigrating to a Year of Famine, I Became the Worst Mother-in-Law 穿到荒年后,我成了极品恶婆婆 [Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + adorable kids + no male lead] Cheng Wanqun woke up in the body of a 33-year-old farmer's wife in ancient Dahuang Village. Her four sons were kneeling by the bed, calling her Mother, and her daughter-in-law had another grandchild on the way. After being single her entire life for 33 years, she'd suddenly become a mother-in-law and grandmother. Raising four sons was already hard enough, but then disaster struck: locust plagues, droughts, snowstorms. 67.7kReads9.4Score7.6kShelves




















