Novels like Little Tao the Maid's Escape from Famine in a Chaotic Era
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- 1 One Day, I Transmigrated: Farming in Ancient Times 一朝穿越：我在古代忙种田 [Alternate universe + ancient setting + farming + cozy family life + no awful people + no spatial golden finger] Zhang Yue, a modern woman, unexpectedly transmigrates and becomes a young girl in an ancient farming family who shares her name. Her parents are kind, her family sticks together, and she has a pair of boy-and-girl twins. Money is tight, and life is hard? Drawing on the knowledge she accumulated in her previous life, she makes tofu, grows shiitake mushrooms, and tends the fields. One s 64Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Marquis’s Estate Maid Is Busy Farming 侯府丫鬟种田忙 In her previous life, Cuizhu refused to be sent back to the countryside to marry a poor farmer, so she climbed into her master’s bed. Though she got her wish and became a concubine, she ultimately died in a mass grave. Given another chance by fate, Cuizhu decides to find an honest man and live a good life. She is Cuizhu, and she should live freely and resiliently in the mountains. 82Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 3 I Became a Maid in the Marquis's Household, So I Packed Up and Ran Away 穿成侯府丫鬟，我选择卷铺盖跑路 Liu Xinglan was a military doctor. She died while rescuing people on the battlefield. When she opened her eyes again, she was a maid attending the old madam of a marquis's household. And so began her delightful days of eating, gossiping, watching the drama, and waiting for death to take her. When the heir's concubine asked her to help her escape, she turned around and reported her. Then she thoughtfully handed her a stick and asked, “Which leg should I break?” Her original goal was always to mak 1.3kReads6.8Score10314d adds
- 4 Reforming the Wicked Little Maid 改造恶毒小丫鬟 This is a work of fiction set in an imaginary world. The heroine is self-reliant and independent. There’s nothing wrong with wanting a better life, but making others pay for your dreams is out of the question. See how the Reform System turns a greedy, vicious little maid into a success, helps her earn her freedom and return home, and then find ways to give her family a better life, as she and the person she loves walk hand in hand toward a happy future. Note: The heroine is sold into servitude a 118Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 5 The Farm Girl Next Door Has a Little Patch of Land 农家青梅有点田 An ordinary girl from a farming family, Gu Moli met a tragic end in the inner chambers of a wealthy household. Even a year after her death, she still couldn’t understand why the mistress of the household had wanted her dead. After her childhood sweetheart from next door gathered her remains, Gu Moli opened her eyes and found herself back at the moment she had been asked whether she would go to the capital or take some silver and return home. This time, Gu Moli chooses to take the old madam’s rew 841Reads8.9Score10114d adds
- 6 A Former Maid's Farming Life After Leaving the Manor 古代出府丫鬟种田记 [The rating just came out and will rise + farming + native heroine + no golden finger + building a fortune] Cheng Fuer was unexpectedly sold and spent ten years as a servant girl. At last, she traded a scar for her freedom and left the household. When she returned home, she found everything had changed. Her elder brother was in prison, her sister-in-law was frail, her nephew was mute, and the family home was dilapidated, without even an iron pot... Cheng Fuer waved it off. None of that mattered. 434Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 7 Oh No! I Just Transmigrated and Now I Have to Flee 天呐！刚穿就要逃荒 [No CP, fleeing famine in the early chapters, then running a small business later.] Lin Dongzhi, a woman from the apocalypse, blew herself up to take down the Zombie King. When she opened her eyes again, she had become a pitiful girl who had been kidnapped and sold. On the road as refugees, her buyers ruthlessly shoved her in front of a blade to take the hit. In the end, they abandoned her, and she died of her injuries. The original owner's greatest wish was to find her family and reunite with t 78Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 8 Su Yue’s Forest Homesteading Life 苏月的森林开荒种田日常 Transmigration + wilderness farming + secluded mountain life + sinkhole cave + male lead After falling off a cliff, geologist Su Yue transmigrates to an ancient primeval forest. Behind a waterfall, she discovers a perfect cave in a sinkhole. A curtain of water conceals the entrance, a natural vent opens in the ceiling, and an underground stream provides water. Over three years, she cultivates vegetable plots like terraced fields, while dried meat and medicinal herbs hang all over the rock walls. 414Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Transmigrated as a Maid, I Slay Them All with My Inner Voice! 穿越丫鬟，靠心声杀疯了！ [Transmigration + lighthearted + the whole household can hear inner thoughts + helping the master + hard work + chance encounters + alternate history] Armed with nothing but a rag and a broom, she uses her inner thoughts to help the marquis’s family avert disaster from the start! The heroine is an ordinary, unsuccessful online novelist who set herself a goal of writing ten thousand words a day. She writes all day and gets nowhere, until she accidentally transmigrates into a brutally tragic novel 146Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 10 A Maid's Rural Life After Leaving the Household 出府小丫鬟的农家日子 The young master of the Qian household is gravely ill. An old monk predicts that no one born in the Year of the Tiger can remain in the household, so Taohua, a young kitchen maid, is dismissed and returns to Little River Village. But this time, things won't go as they did in her previous life: she won't have her reward money stolen or be married off to her cruel cousin. This time, Taohua will use her cooking skills to earn money and give her parents and eldest brother a better life. 1.1kReads7.7Score10814d adds
- 11 The Marquis’s Manor Maid Wants to Buy Her Freedom 侯府丫鬟想赎身 The heroine, Zhao Qingqing, transmigrates to ancient times and becomes the eldest girl of the Zhao family’s second branch. As soon as she arrives, they have to flee a famine. Her hard-hearted grandmother looks at the five-year-old burden and decides to sell her for two jin of millet. She is sold to the Marquis’s household as a maid and works hard to earn her freedom. 1.1kReads6.6Score10114d adds
- 12 After Gaining Her Freedom from Slavery, the Eldest Sister Returned Home to Farm 脱离奴籍后，长姐回家种田了 [Both leads are devoted only to each other, one-on-one romance, farming, business] After going to great lengths to free herself from her status as a slave, Li Qiuchi traveled thousands of miles back to the countryside. What she found was a dilapidated thatched cottage and a struggling family. Even though they worked the fields like old oxen, they could barely feed everyone. With the help of her pocket dimension, Li Qiuchi planted grain in wasteland and raised plump chickens, ducks, and pigs. The 2.1kReads8.4Score15414d adds
- 13 Getting Rich with My Reborn Parents 我和重生的爹娘一起发家致富 Farming × Rebirth × Transmigration × Alternate History The heroine's perspective: Miao Sang Sang was transmigrated into the womb of a peasant woman in ancient times. She thought she was doomed to a hard life, but it turned out her parents weren't at all what she'd imagined. It was one thing for them to be super nice to her. They were also incredibly hardworking farmers. The reborn couple's perspective: In their previous life, the couple had been exploited all their lives by their biased parent 9.4kReads8.4Score1.3k14d adds
- 14 Reborn as the Wicked Side Consort, I’m Forced into Exile with the Deposed Crown Prince 穿成恶毒侧妃，被迫随废太子流放 (Exile + Farming + Infrastructure Building + Political Intrigue + Special Abilities) She opens her eyes to a dilapidated house, a cold-faced man covered in injuries, and a life in captivity... Shen Qingqing is about to break down! Even worse, the cold-faced man is the recently deposed crown prince, and she is his wicked secondary consort. The original owner was blinded by love. For the sake of the man she loved, she willingly became his pawn, schemed her way into becoming the crown prince’s seco 14Reads—Score11114d adds
- 15 Transmigrating to the Northern Song: A Wet Nurse’s Daughter’s Life in the Kitchen 穿越北宋：奶娘女儿的厨娘日常 [Farming and Food] [Everyday Street Life] [Slice of Life] A modern girl woke one day in the Northern Song dynasty as the daughter of a wet nurse in an official's household. She watched the scheming around the county magistrate's legitimate daughter, the girl her mother had nursed, the tenth daughter of the Li family. Now called Tan Yawen, with the childhood nickname Wenjie'er, the little girl thought it over and over. Become the tenth young lady's personal maid, as her mother wanted? No, no. Ser 1.3kReads8.1Score12414d adds
- 16 A Bountiful Harvest in the Great Qi 穗满大启 [Farming and Business + No System + Building Wealth + Two Best Friends Transmigrate Together + Feel-Good Infrastructure Building + Strong Female Lead Focused on Her Career] An agricultural science expert transmigrates into the body of a poor widow in the Great Qi dynasty and fights her way to a living, step by step, starting from a broken house and barren fields. My name is He Sui. I was born with a name that goes hand in hand with grain. I built a shelter from waste wheat stalks and grew fresh 75Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 The Seven Stars Transmigrated: The Marquis’s Daughter Farms Her Way to Winning Over the God of Coastal Defense 七星穿越，侯女种田拿下海防战神 Group transmigration + legitimate daughter of a noble marquis's household + agricultural science and farming + devoted one-on-one romance + light political intrigue Ning Zhao looks up and sees Ling Gu standing in a parasol tree. She asks in confusion, “General, what are you doing up there?” The General Who Pacifies the North, once commanding a powerful coastal defense force and slaughtering pirates like a wrathful demon, lowers his head. For once, he is disarmingly sincere and at a loss for wor —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Yanran the Maid 丫鬟嫣然 Before she turned eleven, Zheng Yanran thought her family would protect her and that she would live a carefree life forever. After she turned eleven, she learned that as a hereditary servant of the marquis's household, her life and death were in her master's hands... 9Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 19 The Life of a Farm Girl and Her Maid 农女丫鬟的一生 (No rebirth or transmigration, romance-focused, not a wish-fulfillment story, marriage first and love later, unrequited love) She sold herself into servitude as a maid and only wanted to save enough silver to settle down somewhere quiet. Who would have thought she’d be dragged into the struggles surrounding the eldest young master of the Qin family? After his own relatives conspired to cripple his legs, he fell into despair. She decides to help him escape that hell where people devour one anothe 4.5kReads8.9Score49714d adds
- 20 Apocalyptic Disasters: A Strongwoman Braves the Famine Road Alone 末世天灾，大力女独自去逃荒 [Pocket dimension + no romance + super strength + infrastructure building + no do-gooder heroine + no team-ups + drought + floods + extreme cold] Gu Qing is a woman from the apocalypse. As soon as she transmigrates, her own mother nearly sells her to a human-meat bun shop. Her awful parents deserve to die, so she strips the house bare and breaks both their legs. Let’s see how they survive the disasters. From here on, one catastrophe after another is about to strike: first drought and plague, the 918Reads6.4Score10014d adds
- 21 A Little Maid’s Daily Struggle 小丫鬟奋斗日常 [A little maid struggles to survive in a grand estate and dreams only of freeing herself from her indenture, in a fictional historical setting] Qing Yun transmigrates overnight into the body of a little girl who has just been sold to a broker. In a year of famine, a single dou of rice changes Qing Yun's fate, turning her from a farmer's daughter into a menial maid in an official's household. In the depths of a grand estate, life is as cheap as grass. Qing Yun stays on high alert, afraid of losin 1.4kReads8.7Score10114d adds
- 22 A Retired Maid's Everyday Life Raising Children 退休丫鬟的养娃日常 [No pocket dimension + no System + adorable children + ordinary, cozy daily life] Gu Xiaoyu is a little embroiderer from a wealthy household. She has survived for years by keeping her head down and has no ambition to climb the social ladder. When she leaves the estate, she chooses the best all-around match among her many suitors: a young physician. Ji Ziyan spotted a little maid at the estate while making a house call with his master. When he later realized he had a chance, he acted quickly and 5.1kReads7.3Score43914d adds
- 23 Transmigrate and Flee the Famine, Bringing the Whole Family's Country-Style Feast into the Mountains 穿越逃荒，全家带着农村大席进山 "Fleeing Famine, Farming, Transmigration, Spatial Realm" "This Is No Peach Blossom Utopia, and This Is No Story of One Family Thriving Alone" Shen Yuying and her family transmigrated into a novel as a cannon-fodder foil family, abandoned by others while fleeing famine and forced to take refuge in the mountains. Thankfully, their belongings came with them, but those supplies wouldn't last long. If they wanted to survive, they'd have to work hard! 502Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 24 A Feisty Farm Wife Who Loves to Till the Land 农门辣妻喜耕田 A certain pampered tiger, born into luxury and lying low to escape trouble, crosses paths with Gu Wenyin, who transmigrates here and vows to overcome poverty, grow prosperous, and build a better life. The fierce tiger becomes a dog, and if anyone dares lay a hand on his little wife, he’ll bite them without hesitation! Little wife Gu Wenyin, when are you going to bite me?! 2.8kReads9.0Score32514d adds
- 25 Transmigrate to Farm the Land: A Farmer’s Daughter and a Hunter Make Ends Meet 穿越种田，农女和猎户的养家日常 (Transmigration, farming, no golden finger, a slow and steady pace, love growing over time, a simple and cozy life, and everyday family affairs.) * Also known as: Springtime in the Fields * The story stays in a small mountain village. There will be no trips to big cities or the capital! * The heroine is no peerless beauty, just an ordinary person. * Ji Wenhe, an ordinary office worker, wakes up one day to find she has transmigrated. Their poverty is beyond words: a cold, bare cave, not a decent 351Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 26 Married Off to a Lame Hunter, I Eat Meat at Every Meal During the Famine 被嫁给瘸腿猎户，饥荒年顿顿吃肉 [Transmigration + farming + medicine + hunting + herb gathering + System + shop + space] P.S. No capital city, court politics, princes, or generals. Just a simple, cozy farming life with a small ensemble cast. Ling Xi had suffered from heart disease since childhood. Her father never cared for her, and neither did her mother. After finally making it through her probationary period as a doctor, she suffered another attack and died. When she opened her eyes again, she had become Lin Xi, a girl sold 38.6kReads8.4Score3.7k14d adds
- 27 On the Road to Escape Famine, Big Sister Gathers Mushrooms, Hunts, and Stockpiles Food 逃荒路上长姐忙，捡菌打猎怒囤粮 (The new book has just received its opening rating, but it’ll gradually rise! Thanks for your support!) [Famine escape + farming + stockpiling food in advance + pocket dimension with spirit spring + cozy everyday life + no romance + powerful golden finger, can lie flat whenever she wants + no generals, crown princes, or princes, just a peaceful life in the mountains] Shen Xiu transmigrates and learns in advance that a once-in-a-century natural disaster will strike in six months, bringing drought 2.5kReads8.2Score27914d adds
- 28 Farming and Supporting the Family: Reborn as a Hunter's Young Wife 种田养家：穿成猎户家的小娘子 Transmigrate to ancient times + no golden finger + farming + raising children + getting rich + a cozy pastoral life Lin Wu was a food video blogger. After being bitten to death by a zombie, she transmigrated into ancient times and woke up in the body of Lin Wuniang, a woman who looked just like her. She found herself in a hunter's home, with a fiancé to boot. Li Qingshan came home in the middle of the night. The moment he stepped through the door, someone mistook him for a thief and clubbed hi 140Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Farm's Eldest Daughter: Farming by the Sea to Build a Prosperous Life 农家长姐，靠海种田奔小康 [Farming + No Romance + Raising Kids + Everyday Family Life + Foraging by the Sea + Building Wealth] Shen Yining survived ten years in the apocalypse. While all the big shots went to fight the Zombie King, she was killed by the shock waves and transmigrated to ancient times. She's landed in a complete mess from the start! Her uncle wants to steal her family's fields, while her aunt plans to sell her little sister to a landlord. Shen Yining sets off north with her younger siblings and settles in 785Reads6.6Score10314d adds
- 30 The Fiery Farm Girl: Growing Crops and Getting Rich 泼辣农家女，种田又致富 [Transmigrate] [Deal with Awful Relatives] [Scavenge and Farm] [Get Rich Through Food] [No Pocket Dimension or Superpowers] After transmigrating into the body of a little girl in ancient times, Wu Ying has to deal with her awful mother and stepfather from the start. Then she stumbles upon a bat cave in the mountains behind her home, securing her first fortune! Dipping sauce, fish balls, and one idea after another... Farming, cooking, and running a stall: making sure her family has enough to eat 55Reads—Score10514d adds
- 31 The Prince’s Manor Maid Returns to Her Hometown 王府的婢女回乡啦 Transmigration + farming + a nearly useless pocket dimension Zhou Yueqiao transmigrated and was born as a little country girl. Her life was a disaster from the start, and that wasn’t even the worst of it. During a drought, her grandparents kicked the whole family out, and they nearly starved to death. Seeing her foolishly filial father, timid mother, older brother with a broken leg, and younger siblings on the brink of starvation, she gritted her teeth and sold herself. From then on, she became 1.8kReads7.0Score13014d adds
- 32 The Senior Maid’s Guide to Climbing the Ranks 大丫鬟升职手册 [Alternate Universe] [Slow Burn] [No Transmigration, Rebirth, or Wish Fulfillment] [1v1] From a little maid whom anyone could pick at will from a slave trader, to the trusted personal maid of the Grand Secretary’s wife, to the owner of the Yun Embroidery Workshop, and finally to Empress Xiaohuiwen, posthumously honored by the founding emperor of the new dynasty, Yun Yan is like a tenacious blade of grass: she never gives in. Author’s note: 1. The heroine has no secret noble identity. She is an o 4.5kReads8.8Score50114d adds
- 33 A Field, a Hearth, and My Heart for You 一田烟火，一心予你 Everyone thought Lu Tiezhu was all brawn, good for nothing but hunting in the mountains and working the fields. No one knew that at night he hid a heart full of wild desire, holding himself back for three years, all for Liu Ya'er. One embrace by the pool shattered every last bit of restraint. He coaxed her into giving in, clumsy but passionate: this life, he would cherish only her. Before the wedding, he was cautious at every turn; after it, he clung to his wife every night. So what if they live 6.7kReads7.4Score57614d adds
- 34 A Bountiful Farm: A Country Girl Becomes a Landowner 锦绣桑田：农女当家做地主 [Ancient Farming] [Alternate Dynasty] [Neither Lead Is Reborn, Transmigrated, or Has a Pocket Space or Golden Finger] [Rural Life in Ancient Times, Slow and Steady] [Marriage Before Love] The initial rating has just come in. Let's see if it can climb from here. Please leave lots of comments! This story has no lords and ministers, no courtly intrigue. It is about the everyday lives of ordinary people, not a face-slapping power fantasy. The main story follows a farming couple as they work the la 2.1kReads6.4Score19414d adds
- 35 Yu Gui’s Little Everyday Life 于归的小日子 Yu Gui entered a blind marriage and was wed to a hunter. She thought she was in for a hard life, separated from her family, but unexpectedly, her husband doted on her like she was the most precious thing in the world. This is a sweet, gentle story about the ordinary rhythms of life in ancient times. Life is already hard, so let's not make it heartbreaking too. 2.3kReads8.2Score26614d adds
- 36 The Country Girl’s Road to Success 农女青云记 After transmigrating, Huo Xiaoyue became Huo Dongyue, one of the many poor peasants in Yunshan Village. Her parents were gone, and she had a little brother at home. She figured that if fate had arranged things this way, perhaps it was all meant to be. Here, she had new family who cared for her, cherished her, and truly had her best interests at heart. So she decided to make the best of it and stop dwelling on the past. From now on, she was Huo Dongyue. The village was terribly poor. No matter, t 1.1kReads9.0Score10214d adds
- 37 Zhiyi Wan 知意晚 [Transmigration to a fictional world + general + farming + a criminal slave’s rise + making a fortune + comedy + sweet romance + everything handmade] Also known as "The Young General Is a Closet Lover, So Why Does He Keep Coming to Her Bed Every Night?" Other people transmigrate and become young ladies. She transmigrated and became a criminal slave? She had to rise above it all! A scholar? She could have him wrapped around her finger with a snap! She accidentally badmouthed the stern-faced young 804Reads9.1Score44114d adds
- 38 A Retired Maid Marries into a Wealthy Family: A Confident and Capable Mistress of the House 退休丫鬟嫁大户，当家主母飒又稳 A purely historical romance: family life, a merchant couple, a slow-paced farming story, devoted leads, sweet married life, and a little bit of household intrigue later on. A quick-witted former maidservant versus a handsome, cunning young merchant. The heroine is strong-willed. There’s a saying: “Better to marry a servant from a great household than a girl from a humble one.” It means that maids raised in wealthy households are often well-read and well-mannered, while girls from humble homes of 3.8kReads8.1Score40414d adds
- 39 The Foolish Mother Awakens, and the Whole Village Begs Her to Stay 傻娘一朝觉醒，全村人求我别走 [Farming] [Portable Space] [Raising Kids] [Domestic Drama] [Everyday Life] [Transmigrate] [Medicine] [Building Wealth] A medical PhD dies suddenly and transmigrates, opening her eyes in a famine-stricken year as a peasant woman on the verge of death. Her husband's fate is unknown, and her awful relatives are watching her like hawks. "You're a fool who's about to die. We'll raise your kids and farm your land for you!" On the brink of death, she unexpectedly awakens a portable space. Antibiotics, 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 A-Hao the Maid's Life of Wealth and Comfort 小丫鬟阿好的富且贵日常 When Guan Jiu was born, the sky was filled with rosy clouds. The midwife said she was a bringer of good fortune. When she was five, a flash flood destroyed her village and killed her family. To save her friends, she sold herself into servitude, and a matchmaker sold her to the Duke of Weiguo’s residence in the capital. She became the senior maid who attended to the Fourth Young Master, Lu Mingzhi, in his study, the secret author of Anjing’s bestselling storybooks, and a successful businesswoman. 2.4kReads9.0Score26014d adds
- 41 The Clever Country Doctor's Wife: He Farms and Studies, I Weave Brocade 农门巧医妻：夫君耕读我织锦 [Transmigrated woman and native man, ancient-era farming, imperial exams, medicine, court politics, with children] Su Yanzhou had been clever from a young age, and his teacher saw him as a promising candidate for the imperial exams. His father died when he was fifteen. Then he broke his leg in an accident and became lame. Just before their wedding, his fiancée's family came to break off the engagement, and she married his cousin instead. Su Yanzhou went from being everyone's favorite and a sour 5.3kReads7.7Score57214d adds
- 42 Reborn as a Foolish Girl, I Start by Beating Up My Wicked Mother-in-Law! 穿成傻女，就从暴揍恶婆婆开始！ [Amazing System + stockpiling supplies in a pocket dimension + fleeing famine across a thousand miles + devoted couple] Zhao Yan, a special police officer, died alongside a serial killer while rescuing a hostage. She transmigrated into the body of an idiot from ancient times who had the same name as her. Her useless husband had been sent to perform labor service five years ago and had not been heard from since. Her vicious mother-in-law wanted to sell the original owner’s daughter, whom she ha 2.3kReads8.6Score28814d adds
- 43 I Got Rich After Using a Black Hole to Make Compost 拿黑洞沤肥后我暴富了 I Got Rich by Composting With Black Holes 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Delicate Little Maid 玲珑小丫鬟 After waking up, Lu Linglong finds herself reborn as the newborn daughter of a scholar's wife. Though her family is not wealthy, she is showered with love. Then everything changes: she becomes a little maid in the Marquis's household, where she grows up under its protection. She opens shops and buys farmland, all to make more money. Once her parents' enemies have been dealt with, she returns to the capital at last, and Lu Linglong can finally begin a new life. Only those who share both hardship 417Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 After Cutting Ties with My Family, I Went Deep into the Mountains with a Disabled Hunter 断亲后，我跟残疾猎户进深山 After Cutting Ties with My Family, I Enter the Mountains with a Disabled Hunter 112Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Sold as a Maid, I Became a Lady of Rank with the Sign-In System 被卖为丫鬟后，我靠签到系统成为诰命夫人 Ding Jingzhu wakes up to find herself as Wang Sanni, a gravely ill woman in Xia’an Village. Her father doesn’t care for her, and her mother doesn’t love her. Fortunately, she has a sign-in golden finger. She works as a maid, goes into business, and becomes a first-rank noblewoman. Will the young scholar who comes to copy books be willing to share a happy marriage with her? Flowers and moonlight blur together; through the curtain, they seem to vanish from sight. May I take your hand and step bene 812Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 47 Spring Mountains After the Rain 雨后春山 The rating has only just been posted, so it will go up later. In spring, they forage for wild greens; in summer, they harvest sweet potatoes; in autumn, they gather chestnuts; and in winter, they hunker down at home. In a simple little village, a simple family lives its quiet life, counting out one copper coin at a time. 2.5kReads7.3Score26514d adds
- 48 Wild Greens from the Start? This Apocalypse Expert Refuses to Go Hungry 开局吃野菜？末世大佬她不想吃苦 [Farming + everyday family life + no romance] Lin Yao transmigrated from the apocalypse to a small village in ancient times. From the start, her home was bare as a wasteland, but to her it was practically a treasure trove. She had plenty of strength and ways to get things done. As long as she could eat her fill and stay far away from the apocalypse, it was a good place to be. She had special abilities, plus a lottery System, and her luck was on a roll. Becoming a widow right off the bat was a bl 6.9kReads8.8Score79114d adds
- 49 The Little Maid and the Embroidered Uniform Guard 小丫鬟和锦衣卫 Xia Chu’s whole family are hereditary servants of a marquis’s household. If nothing changes, her descendants will be servants there too. So she has always had a goal: she doesn’t want to spend her whole life as a maid. She wants to buy her freedom, acquire a house and land, and become a little rich woman in ancient times. It’s an ambitious goal, so for now she can only start out as the young lady’s personal cook. But the brocade-clad guard chief next door insists on making advances toward her. W 3.3kReads8.4Score30214d adds
- 50 A Maid’s Daily Life in the Northern Song Dynasty 北宋丫鬟日常 [Slice-of-life + ensemble cast + a little family intrigue + slow burn + no romance] Mingzhu transmigrates and discovers she has arrived in a family of officials in the Northern Song dynasty. Her father is the chief steward of the outer household, her mother manages the inner household, and her elder sister is a first-class maid in the eldest young lady’s rooms. She has plenty to eat and wear, and people to wait on her. Among the servants, she has one of the best backgrounds. Mingzhu had planned 8.2kReads7.2Score97714d adds
