Novels like Tales of Rural Northeast China
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Tales of Rural Northeast China, best match first.
- 1 Northeast China: Tales from 1975 1975年的东北往事 Adapted from a true story set in Northeast China, with a touch of romanticism. The characters are mostly drawn from real life, yet rise above it. They are ordinary people who work hard. In them, we see reflections of our grandparents, our parents, and even ourselves. 10.4kReads7.6Score71014d adds
- 2 The Start of Spring 开春儿 In 1978, in a small county town in Northeast China, twenty-year-old Lan Xinhua crouched outside the radio station window, pressing her ear to the glass to listen to the people inside. She thought: Why can’t I be the one speaking through that loudspeaker? She hadn’t finished middle school, made countless spelling mistakes, and spoke Mandarin with a strong corn-country twang. But she had a beautiful voice and a heart that refused to give up. From a village girl to a county radio announcer, from lo 647Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Northeastern China in 1979 1979年东北往事 In the late autumn of 1979, twenty-year-old Liu Xiaocui was sexually assaulted one night. The news spread through every village for miles. Her husband’s family called off the engagement, rumors ran wild, and everyone said she was “immoral,” “ruined by a man,” and “no longer pure.” In an era when a woman’s reputation was worth more than her life, something like this could make it seem as if her whole life was over. 5.8kReads6.9Score33614d adds
- 4 Tales from the Northeast: Outwitting My Wicked Mother-in-Law 东北往事：和恶婆婆斗智斗勇 This is a true story. In it are the faces of our parents' generation, our childhood, our friends, our youth, and all the years we've lived through. 701Reads—Score10114d adds
- 5 Seventy Years in a Northeastern Family 东北人家的七十年 Based on real events, with artistic embellishments. In these people, we see our grandparents’ generation, our parents’ generation, and ourselves. This story of striving on the black soil is filled with the resilience and wisdom of ordinary people in a momentous era. 1.7kReads8.2Score12514d adds
- 6 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
- 7 Author Jiang Bula's Tenth Book 作者姜不辣第10本书 She never dreamed that in just one morning, she and her husband would be parted forever by death! At thirty-two, Yu Changping became a widow. Being a widow is hard! Being a young widow is even harder! Being a young, beautiful widow is harder still! Being a young, beautiful widow with four children is practically eighty-one levels of hardship! Life is a journey, from beginning to end. Going around in circles, stumbling over hills and hollows. 784Reads9.1Score10014d adds
- 8 1991: I Become the Richest Man in Coal City 年代1991：我在煤城当首富 In 1990, in a coal city in Northeast China, Bai Hongguang, a discharged reconnaissance soldier, returns home. His whole family is crammed into a tiny house. His father is an ordinary mine worker, his younger siblings are still hungry and needy, and they're so poor they can barely afford to eat! Then he unexpectedly activates his personal System. Protecting his family and following the rules unlocks enhanced combat skills and the ability to anticipate danger, while scarce coal coupons and connect 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The 1980s: I Married the Right Divorced Man, with Meat and Grain Filling Our Home 八零：嫁对二婚郎，肉满缸粮满仓 Not reborn + not transmigrated + everyday family life + a fiercely protective stepmother (male lead is not a virgin; female lead is). In the 1980s, in the Su family’s humble home, Su Tang is branded the village’s most sharp-tongued “old maid” at twenty-eight, after putting off marriage years earlier to support her younger brother’s education. Su Tang is tough yet resilient. She keeps chickens and rabbits in the same courtyard and lives with quiet dignity, while secretly longing for warmth. Yu Mi 1.8kReads7.3Score14914d adds
- 10 Obsession Reborn in 1982: The Changbai Mountain Hunting King Provides for His Whole Family 执念重生82：长白山猎王养全家 Zhang Jianjun, a lifelong bachelor, is reborn in 1982. His family had once been happy, but in his previous life, disaster struck, leaving the family broken and its members dead. In his previous life, he worked as a forest ranger all his days. He hunted in the mountains, fished in the rivers, and dug for ginseng and gathered herbs in the wilderness. He knew the ins and outs of the forest like the back of his hand. Returning to the time before tragedy strikes, he is determined to protect his famil 120.8kReads8.3Score9.7k14d adds
- 11 A Ridiculous Love Debt 荒唐情债 Traditional period setting + realistic daily life + family and village affairs + ensemble cast In 1985, Yang Yun was already a married woman, yet she lived a life purer than a blank sheet of paper. Her new husband already had an old flame, and the woman was well into her forties. Faced with such a disgrace, Yang Yun had to fight back while staying on guard against the village men with ulterior motives. The seemingly peaceful little mountain village had long been seething beneath the surface, hid 36.3kReads8.5Score1.6k14d adds
- 12 Keeping House Alone in the Depths of the Countryside 乡野深处守空房 In a bitterly cold mountain village in Northeast China, all the able-bodied young men have gone away to work, leaving behind women, the elderly, and children. The long winter and empty courtyards wear people down. Loneliness isn’t some romantic affair; it’s a real, grinding ordeal for the living. A group of unfortunate women lean on one another, while Da Fei, a simple, honest young man, is the only one in the mountains willing to lend a hand. There are no sordid entanglements, only the vulnerabi 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Women on the Wasteland 荒土上的女人 In the winter of 1985, Liu Shuhua married into the Zhao family. On the third day after the wedding, she flipped her father-in-law’s dining table and declared in front of the whole village, “My husband may be slow-witted, but from now on, I’m in charge of this family.” No one dared cross this sturdy, sharp-eyed shrew. But misfortune struck: her husband, Zhao Daqiang, was left paralyzed after a truck accident while hauling goods. Creditors blocked the door, her brother-in-law stole her belongings 175Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 14 Reborn in the 1980s: A Female Spirit Medium Builds a Temple for the Five Immortals 重生八零：女出马仙建了个五仙庙 The ratings have just come in, and they'll slowly climb. [Period setting + rural life + Northeast China's Five Immortals + family squabbles + women fighting] Pure feel-good escapism. Ma Yumei wakes from a nightmare to find herself in the familiar, shabby house. The joy of being reborn and her hatred for her past life mingle in her heart. She silently vows that this time, she won't be a pushover for anyone to bully. Those who wronged her will pay! Family shame should stay private? Pah! The whole 2.2kReads8.8Score26014d adds
- 15 Jiang Zhu's 12th Book 江煮第12本书 Gen Zhuang grew up without parents, struggling to make it on his own! After a bet with the villagers led him into Demon-Hiding Ravine, he was struck by heavenly lightning. Luckily, Meier helped him undergo a complete transformation, giving him a tall, handsome, sunny appearance and extraordinary gifts! From then on, he had a special skill, And with this divine treasure, he conquered all and rose to the pinnacle of life! Under his leadership, the villagers embarked on a golden road to prosperity. 11.1kReads8.8Score86114d adds
- 16 Xing’an Mountains, 1983: Reborn to the Glory of a Hunter 兴安岭1983：重生之猎户荣耀 In 2025, Cao Jinxue, now in his sixties, drew his last breath in a ramshackle mountain hut, only to be reborn at nineteen. When he opened his eyes, his parents were alive and his three sisters were in the prime of their youth: his eldest sister had just finished her postpartum confinement, his second sister was discussing marriage, and his youngest sister was still in high school. In his previous life, he had caused trouble at every turn and dragged his whole family into ruin. This time, he grip 127Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Northeastern Tales: The Marriage Swap 东北往事之转亲 Period setting + rural life + everyday family matters + farming + building a fortune + a touch of ensemble cast Three women make quite a show. The madman Guo Lixin mistakes Ding Xiang for his deceased girlfriend and follows her around every day, calling her his wife. But Ding Xiang’s father only wants to trade his daughter for a marriage connection for his good-for-nothing son. Guo Limei grits her teeth. Fine, let him trade her. She’s getting married for the second time anyway, and already has a 9.4kReads8.9Score94714d adds
- 18 Hunting in the Greater Khingan Range 狩猎兴安岭 On the eve of the 2025 Lunar New Year, after a lifetime of ups and downs, Northeast China native Ran Weidong gets drunk at a class reunion and suddenly is reborn forty-two years in the past, to the day he secretly went hunting in the mountains. He easily takes down the wild boar, and everything gets off to the best possible start. He heads into the hills, goes hunting, and, when he has time, digs up a huge ginseng root in the Greater Khingan Mountains. Life in the 1980s isn’t so bad after all. T 498Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 19 The Wilderness Survival Expert Transmigrates to the 1960s 野外生存大师穿越六零年代 Chen Yu, a wilderness survival expert from the 21st century, transmigrates to Northeast China in the 1960s after an accident. Relying on his survival skills, he hunts in the mountains. While everyone else is scraping by on bran and wild greens, Chen Yu gives his family a life with meat at every meal... 79Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 20 Reborn with the Ultimate System for Chinese Street Food 重生之，中华小吃最强系统 A disastrous start: a programmer fresh out of school, reborn amid the cutthroat competition of the industry. By a stroke of luck, he gets bound to a System and sets out to revive China’s famous street snacks. Bowl after bowl of simple, unassuming food leaves countless customers overwhelmed, some even breaking down in tears. The Strongest System Missions By completing a series of System missions, the protagonist obtains recipes and preparation methods for every ingredient. After Li Long recreates 13Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 21 Hunting in '83: Back to the Golden Age of the Xing'an Mountains 狩猎八三：重回兴安岭黄金年代 The winter of 1983, in the Greater Khingan Mountains of Northeast China. When 59-year-old forest ranger Leng Zhijun wakes up, he finds himself back on the snowy plains at age seventeen, at the tragic turning point that left him disfigured, forced his younger sister into an arranged marriage, and drove his parents to exhaustion and illness. In his previous life, he and his childhood friend Liu Zhengang recklessly hunted a wild boar and nearly died beneath its tusks. This time, drawing on his pas 1.6kReads5.9Score12914d adds
- 22 Reborn in 1976: From the Start, I Sold My Sister-in-Law! 重生1976：开局卖了小姨子！ [Period setting + no System + hunting + two sisters + mountain foraging + devoted husband + pocket dimension + farming + invincible] Business tycoon Li Changhai is reborn in 1976, on the very day he sold his sister-in-law and drove his wife to hang herself! Given another life, he swears to change his fate, make up for the regrets of his previous life, and repay his wife and children many times over! To escape their life of poverty, Li Changhai heads into the mountains to dig for ginseng, and pic 17.5kReads7.9Score1.7k14d adds
- 23 Hunting in the Greater Khingan Range: A Hunter's Life in Northeast China 赶山兴安岭：狩猎大东北 Cao Erxi, a 61-year-old nightclub security guard in Dongguan, gets drunk and is reborn at the end of his life, back in the Greater Khingan Range in 1983. That year, at nineteen, he took his younger brother into the mountains, where they encountered a wild boar. His brother died a tragic death, his elder sister froze to death, and he ended up drifting through the underworld. Now that he has returned to the past, hunting knife in hand, he swears to rewrite his fate! From shooting squirrels with a 4.5kReads6.0Score10114d adds
- 24 Hunting in 1983: Atop the Greater Khingan Mountains 狩猎1983：东北兴安岭之巅 "Bang!" The roar of a double-barreled shotgun shakes snow from the pine branches. Zheng Huawei's reborn legend begins in the morning mist of the Greater Khingan Range! The son of a hunter who spent half his previous life in misery, he is reborn in a northeastern forest camp in 1983. This time, he will use forty-two years of hunting experience to carve out a path through this frozen wilderness! "Remember, a true hunter needs a steady aim and a ruthless heart!" When a four-hundred-jin bear rears 305Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 25 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
- 26 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
- 27 Reborn: Heading into the Mountains with My Childhood Sweetheart in the Greater Khingan Range 重生后：带着小青梅赶山在兴安岭 Wang Qian, captain of a forest patrol team, got drunk at his retirement banquet and was reborn in the winter of 1983, the year that changed his fate. At seventeen, he stood once more in the snow of the Greater Khingan Range, with his childhood sweetheart Du Xiaohe and his loyal dog, Dahuang, alive by his side. In his previous life, they encountered a wild boar that day. Du Xiaohe died tragically, and he bore the blame, living alone for the rest of his life. This time, he returned with more than 2.8kReads6.2Score21714d adds
- 28 Hunter's Comeback: Reborn to Hunt and Gather Ginseng in Changbai Mountain 猎户逆袭：重生长白山打猎采参 [Reborn in the Snowy Mountains: This Time, I’ll Become the Hunting King!] In 1983, an accident in the Changbai Mountains sent Cao Dalin, a down-and-out middle-aged man, back to the age of sixteen. In his previous life, he was crippled while hunting wild boar and endured everyone’s scorn. This time, he’s reborn with forty years of hunting experience and swears to change his fate! “Black Panther, this time, we’re both going to be all right!” Cao Dalin stroked his beloved dog’s head, his gaze bur 149Reads6.3Score11214d adds
- 29 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
- 30 Reborn in the Nineties: A Country Girl's Rise to Riches 重生九零，农女逆袭当富婆 Reborn + a rural woman's rise + making a fortune + taking down scumbags At the entrance to a garment factory, reborn Wu Xiaolan's grape juice stand becomes a hit. Her rivals cut prices? She launches a new product: cold skin noodles. Management makes things difficult? She leads the way in securing the first license for a mobile food stall. Short on workers? She brings together a feisty girl who sells eggs on the black market, a quick-witted young woman who works at a snack shop, and the village c 134Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 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
- 32 Reborn as a Young Northeast Hunter with an Arsenal 带着武器库，重生东北小猎户 A special forces soldier infiltrates an enemy faction’s armory, only to discover that it was a plot to eliminate him. His soul, along with the entire armory, arrives in the Northeast, where he becomes a poor young hunter, inheriting his predecessor’s wretched life. With his arrival, things gradually reach new heights. 15.6kReads8.8Score1k14d adds
- 33 Childhood in the Old Days 旧时光里的童年 The author recalls a rural childhood in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province, during the 1970s and 1980s. The book describes rural life and the changes brought about by the household responsibility system in the early days of reform and opening up, along with the joys and hardships of the author’s childhood before the age of ten, major family upheavals, and the warmth and coldness of human nature. 39Reads—Score314d adds
- 34 The Old Grandmother of Yue Family Village 岳家庄的老祖母 [A grandmother builds a business + Yue Fei's family teachings + brotherhood] A mother's love makes her strong, and she becomes the soul of her clan. One mother's thirty-year flight lays the foundation for her family's six-hundred-year legacy. During the Hongwu reign of the Ming dynasty, Yue Guangyong, the thirteenth-generation descendant of Yue Fei, dies young in Tangyin County, Henan Province, where his family has lived for generations. He leaves behind his widowed wife, Yue Yushi, and their tw 610Reads9.3Score10414d adds
- 35 Reborn in 1958: From Fool to Mountain Hunter 重生1958：从傻子到山林猎人 A King of Soldiers is reborn in 1958 as a village fool who was nearly beaten to death. One blow from a club jolts him awake. His blood feud remains unsettled, and now another attempt on his life is underway. He flees into the mountains and takes over a place said to be cursed. An educated youth reports him? His enemies try to kill him? He sneers. In these lawless mountains, he makes the rules. 11.5kReads7.2Score89414d adds
- 36 Period: My Pocket Farm Has Been Exposed 年代：随身农场被曝光了 My name is Yi Nanping, and I used to have plenty of regrets. By a stroke of luck, I was reborn in the 1980s with my family farm. To get married, I pressured my father into borrowing money, and he came back with a stack of IOUs that said, “No need to pay it back.” I dumped the trashy woman, sold a few chickens, ducks, and geese, and life became a lot more cheerful. I found my big brother a job, helped my uncle marry a wife, and made sure my younger siblings could enjoy going to school. What? I on 337Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 37 The Knocking Blade, the Love-Seeking Sword 叩扉刀，问情剑 [Lighthearted comedy + ancient martial arts + alternate history + fun historical fiction + a touch of power fantasy] Ever since Xiao Yun obtained a magical space treasure, he has roamed the land righting wrongs, rescuing a few beauties along the way, and doing good deeds. All in all, life has been pretty good. But in times of chaos, a good emperor is still a necessity! Just a story, no tedious fight scenes! 1Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 38 The Rugged Man Returns, and the Widowed Village Goes Up in Flames 糙汉归来，克夫村炸了 Chunshui Village was notorious far and wide as a “village of husband-killers”! Women with broken palms, women with the Peach Blossom curse, women like yakshas and ghosts... Every kind of husband-killing woman from the legends could be found in this village! All the men had been cursed to die, leaving only a group of beautiful women whom everyone regarded as harbingers of misfortune. Eight years later, Wang Dakui returned with a pure yang body. This tough man, whose life was so hard that even the 2.4kReads—Score22714d adds
- 39 Reborn in 1978: The Medical God and His Ex-Wife's Regrets Before the College Entrance Exam 重生1978医神高考前妻悔断肠 Jiang Weidong, an internationally renowned medical authority, suddenly falls gravely ill and dies during an interview with the BMJ. When he opens his eyes, he has transmigrated to Jiangzhuang in Huaxia in 1978, becoming the son of a country doctor who shares his name. Bringing with him a lifetime of medical expertise from his previous life, he picks up his pen and conquers the college entrance exams, earning top honors. With his superb medical skills, he overcomes every obstacle and heads to the 18.9kReads6.8Score2.4k14d adds
- 40 Reborn in the ’70s: I Make a Fortune Through Hunting 重生年代：我靠狩猎富甲一方 Reborn in the 1980s, Lin Zinuo found that her grandfather had just passed away, her father had broken his leg, and the family was burdened with a huge debt. As the eldest daughter, she stepped up and solved the family’s crisis by hunting. To her, the endless, dense forest was an inexhaustible vault: wild boars, roe deer, sika deer, black bears, and leopards were all sources of wealth. The new novel, Demonic Arts Reversed: I Prove the Way to Immortality with Forbidden Techniques, has been uploade 1.4kReads8.8Score13114d adds
- 41 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
- 42 Between Neighbors 邻里之间 Distant relatives are not as dependable as close neighbors, and close neighbors are no match for the folks across the street. But life is full of contradictions: without conflict, there is no struggle, and without struggle, there is no progress. Neighbors don’t always get along, either. As the saying goes, a neighbor is like a set of scales: they hope the other neighbor stays poor. 345Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 43 Northeast Tales: A Love That Never Wavers 东北往事之情深不悔 No transmigration, no System. A realistic romance set in the countryside of Northeast China. If you cry easily, don’t read this. I’m afraid you won’t be able to stop! Zheng Sichun had a life full of hardship. When she was born, her own grandmother had her thrown into Wolf Ravine, where she was rescued by the drunkard Zheng Bao. At a young age, she narrowly escaped a villain’s clutches. After her brother accidentally killed someone, the siblings fled the home they’d lived in for eight years! At t 11.7kReads9.5Score1.5k14d adds
- 44 A Ghost Farted and Died 有只鬼放个屁死了 This book is made up of ten short stories: “The Big Yellow Dog,” “The Nine-Headed Demon,” “Block,” “Xisha Pit,” “Cuckoo” “Ghostly Wailing,” “Madman,” “Swing,” “Blue Carp,” “The Hundred-Year-Old Tree” Title: A Ghost Died After Farting = Horror + Comedy + Tragedy The stories vary in length, and their plots range from salty to bland. The whole book is easy to understand, with plain and straightforward language. This story is entirely fictional. Please read responsibly. Do not be superstitious, and 2kReads9.5Score22214d adds
- 45 Doing Backbreaking Labor with My Butt Sticking Out in the Sixties 我在六零撅着屁股干苦力 Qiao Mai, a young woman of the new era, accidentally travels back to the bitterly cold, impoverished Northeast in the 1960s. As soon as she arrives, she's in danger of starving or freezing to death, and can only struggle forward, doing her best to survive one step at a time... The heroine is hardworking and determined, with a modest golden finger. She and the male lead live an ordinary but hopeful life, full of everyday family matters and cozy, heartwarming moments. 8.2kReads8.7Score58614d adds
- 46 Back to 1973: I Have a Sign-In System 重回1973，我有签到系统 A wage slave among wage slaves was summoned to work overtime in the middle of the night. On his way home at dawn, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse sent him back to the fervent era. Armed with an incomplete cultivation sign-in System, let's see how he makes his mark in those turbulent times. 16.4kReads6.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 47 Hunting in the Mountains: Building a Happy Life with My Lame Wife 赶山：带跛脚媳妇过上幸福生活 [A Grounded Period Novel + No Pocket Dimension, No System + Wife and Sister-in-Law + Animal Companions + Hunting + Food + Business + Farming + Gathering Herbs] Xu Yi, a modern-day wage slave, accidentally takes the wrong medication while being treated for depression and dies. He transmigrates into the body of Xu Yi, a man with a severe intellectual disability in a mountain village in the early 1980s. To his surprise, he has a beautiful, fair-skinned wife who limps, as well as an adorable six-yea 16.3kReads7.8Score1.2k14d adds
- 48 An Eighties Gofer Marries into a Family of Lovers 八零工具人嫁入恋爱之家 I was one of the heroine’s many useful sidekicks, the one who walked three thousand kilometers to bring back a stone for her. If the heroine thinks it looks nice and wants it, she can have it. If that’s not enough, I’ll go pick up more. The heroine wants to use me as a foil, claiming city folk can’t compare to country folk, and educated people can’t compare to illiterates? Fine, you win! When my mother tried to brainwash me into being a sucker, I put a stop to it with one clean strike. My abusiv 5.3kReads8.0Score30914d adds
- 49 Rural Sisters-in-Law 农村妯娌 This is a story of war and peace between two women, and also a miniature epic chronicling the transformation of rural China from collectivization to the modern era. When the well in Liuxi Village was filled in and running water reached every home, the women who had once argued, wept, and whispered secrets beside that well proved through their lives that time can bury old grudges, and that a resilient spirit can blossom in the soil. 2.3kReads7.1Score26214d adds
- 50 Transmigrating to the 1970s, I Lie Flat! 穿越七零我躺平了！ A 48-year-old man who’d chosen to lie flat transmigrates into the body of 18-year-old Li Changshun! He becomes one of the sent-down youths heading to the countryside in 1973. In Kaoshan Tun Brigade, Dongfang Commune, Dong’an County, Danjiang City, he lies in bed, keeping a low profile as he waits for the new era to arrive. (This is simply a story about the ordinary life of a sent-down youth. The writing is unassuming, and the plot moves at a fairly slow pace. It’s steeped in everyday life, not a 62.6kReads7.0Score4.9k14d adds
