Novels like The Female Emperor: Starting with Farming in the Cold Palace
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- 101 After Being Exiled, the Dignified Big Shot Went Crazy Right Along with Me 流放后，端庄大佬跟我一起疯批了 “Uncle, open the door. It’s Auntie.” Jin Yuanfu transmigrates into the body of a notorious vixen who was swapped into the wrong bridal sedan chair by her own sister, then had her face ruined with a sword by her possessive childhood sweetheart. When her childhood sweetheart realizes he has married the wrong woman, he flies into a rage and sends her to Lingnan. There, she is married to the crippled adoptive father of the man who was exiled there. Their fates are bound together by a marriage contra 33.9kReads8.9Score5.9k14d adds
- 102 Reborn: An Ancient-Era Refugee's Escape 重生之古代逃荒记 [No court politics, just an ordinary hunter and an ordinary farm boy. All they want is to live a simple, peaceful life together.] On the road fleeing famine, Shen An Nian had gone hungry for so long that, after getting soaked in the rain, he came down with a severe chill. He lost consciousness, and when he finally came to, his husband and child were nowhere to be found. Later, he learned by chance that his younger brother, who had already split from the family, couldn’t bear the hunger. While Sh 2.3kReads8.9Score19214d adds
- 103 Transmigrating to a Daily Life of Solitude in the Deep Mountains 穿越之深山老林独居日常 [Transmigration] [Alternate world] [Golden finger] [Farming] [Wintering in the mountains] [Stockpiling supplies] [Family and village life] The author is a beginner. I’ve read enough stories that start with farming and turn into palace intrigue later, so I wanted to write a farming story about living off the land and spending the winter in the mountains. There’s a couple, but they don’t get together until the end! What would you do if you were told that you’d transmigrate to a remote mountain for 2.3kReads7.2Score17214d adds
- 104 Transmigrated to Ancient Times as a Handsome Farmer, This Special Forces Soldier Wants to Cry 穿越古代成农夫小鲜肉特种兵想哭 On his way home from an elite special forces competition, his plane is struck by lightning, and he transmigrates to another world. A young bachelor in the prime of his life becomes an old farmer of grandfatherly age, and is left close to tears when faced with so many mouths to feed. How can he lead this bunch of adopted kids to a better life? Only through hard work. Drawing on the martial arts passed down through his family in his previous life, as well as his maternal family's renowned Huizhou 3.5kReads8.6Score31114d adds
- 105 My Years on the Island 我在海岛那些年 All you get from the start is a life ring. You have to find all your own gear. No romance, no System, just a wilderness novice toughing it out to survive on a deserted island! They say trouble never comes alone, and it’s true. Lin Fan has just been dumped when he gets caught in a shipwreck! Let’s see how Lin Fan, a complete novice at wilderness survival, builds his own island home step by step... 1.5kReads8.1Score10514d adds
- 106 Stranded on a Deserted Island, I Survive by Scavenging 流落荒岛后靠捡垃圾为生 No romance, female-lead focus, one woman surviving alone on a deserted island After being shipwrecked and accidentally stranded on a deserted island, how do you survive? Will it be a seafood buffet, as most people imagine, or three meals a day that never fill you up? Will you enjoy endless scenic views every day, or face nothing but a monotonous horizon? Will life be as relaxing as you imagined, or will you never have a moment to rest? Maybe you'll only know if you experience it for yourself. 4.2kReads9.0Score39314d adds
- 107 A Disastrous Start, Yet He Insists on Having Both Sons and Daughters 天崩开局，绝户偏要儿女双全 [Fictional historical setting + strong female lead + taking on the terrible in-laws and family + raising children + no transmigration + no rebirth + marriage first, love later] Yinxing injured herself when she was five, losing the ability to become a mother. Even though she's beautiful and good at earning money, no family is willing to marry her, because marrying her would mean their family line would end. Only Lai Da, the old widower in the village, is willing to marry her, and he even offers d 64.1kReads8.5Score3.1k14d adds
- 108 I've Been Farming Ever Since I Transmigrated 穿越后一直在种田 [Wu Xiao never liked farming, even as a child. So what if transmigrating gave her a golden finger? She's still forced to farm both inside and outside her space!] Wu Xiao is an ordinary nobody who's been having the same dream every night lately: endlessly farming in different places! A time-traveling soldier accidentally sends her back to ancient times, where she becomes Yang Mingxi, a village girl. Seeing her caring family go hungry, she rolls up her sleeves and starts farming for their sake. Af 2.3kReads9.2Score18614d adds
- 109 I Transmigrated to a Farmhouse and Stayed Calm, Then Got Rich Through Farming 穿越农家心不慌，我靠种田发家了 [Transmigration + farming + food + everyday family life + building a fortune and a career] Lin Yunchu transmigrated into the past. When she opened her eyes, she found herself in a rural household deep in an ancient mountain. Before she even had time to lament her fate, the dire state of things left her deeply worried. This family was truly dirt-poor. She felt her stomach, which hadn’t had a proper meal in days, and couldn’t help letting out a long sigh. What kind of miserable life was this? Her 8.2kReads8.3Score74714d adds
- 110 I Just Transmigrated to Another World, and a Burly Man Bought Me to Be His Husband 刚穿异世，就被糙汉买回家做夫朗 [Two-male-lead farming story + mutual devotion + doting on each other + size difference + a little one appears in the extras] Hot-tempered, burly, bandit-like top × delicate, frail transmigrated bottom A slow-burn romance at first, then success in both love and career. [No selling braised meat or vegetable recipes] An unconventional farming story: rural life, fleeing famine, and business all feature. Wen Shixin was hit by a car while saving a child, and was also sent to 1.1kReads8.9Score10714d adds
- 111 Fleeing Famine: My Four Perfect Children, Their Mother’s a Killer 逃荒：满级四宝，娘亲杀疯了 Three years of drought have left the land strewn with corpses. Lin Wanqing, a modern expert in both agricultural science and combat, transmigrates into the body of a widow who starved to death in ancient times, with four burdensome children thrown in for good measure. The eldest is a reborn young marquis, already a schemer at eight, armed with memories of his past life and determined to expose corrupt officials. The second was born with the ability to read minds, so the schemes of their awful r —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 The Husband-Killing Old Lady Lives in Luxury and Is Doted On 克夫老太太，她吃香喝辣有人宠 [Lighthearted farming + Hilarious imperial exams + Single elderly woman + Sensible child-rearing] She transmigrates: Grandma farms, grandson takes the imperial exams. In her previous life, Xiufen was a little old lady enjoying her retirement, taking a stroll whenever she felt like it. The original Xiufen was a poor woman who had remarried four times. Just after transmigrating, Xiufen is faced with the death of her fourth elderly husband. Everyone says it was caused by that wicked old woman, he 1.8kReads9.2Score18514d adds
- 113 One Person, One House, One Mountain 一人一屋一座山 (This is a sentimental book, written for my own enjoyment. If you’re looking for dramatic conflict or feel-good stories about lying flat, you can stop here.) After growing tired of city life and marriage, Wang Nan decided to stay in the mountains and live alone after arranging his grandmother’s funeral. From then on, it was one person, one house, three meals a day, and all four seasons: farming and good food, with a calm and unhurried life. 5.4kReads9.1Score48514d adds
- 114 My Stepsister Stole My Wedding, So I Married a Hunter and Built a Wonderful Life 被继妹抢亲，我嫁猎户过红火日子 Cozy farming + devoted husband + no golden finger + no space + everyday family life An ordinary person transmigrates with no special abilities, relying on her wits to live a peaceful life. The daily life of a young couple in the mountains, with little family drama. The moment Zhang Juexia opened her eyes, her stepmother and stepsister had schemed to steal the marriage her family had arranged for her when she was little. For ten taels of silver in betrothal gifts, her stepmother married her off 9.8kReads8.8Score98514d adds
- 115 Kidnapped for 18 Years, the Shen Family Girl Returns to Her Village! 被拐18年，沈家丫头回村了！ Recently, something happened in the Shen family’s village. It wasn’t a huge deal, but it wasn’t exactly a small one, either! The little girl who was kidnapped from the home of Scholar Shen eighteen years ago found her own way back! And she didn’t just come back by herself, she brought home an old man who could be her father, to support and care for! Just think about it. The Shen family was already scraping by. The old were old, the young were young, the sick were sick, the disabled were disabled 7.4kReads8.9Score86314d adds
- 116 Every Day After Marrying a Rugged Man Is Pure Bliss 嫁给糙汉后每天都真香 1v1. Both leads are devoted only to each other. Jiang Nian is a sweet, gentle, clever heroine who isn’t self-righteous, while Fan Pingye is a taciturn hunter who dotes on his wife without restraint. At 17, Jiang Nian follows her father’s arrangement and marries Fan Pingye, the hunter feared by everyone in the village. She trusts that her father wouldn’t harm her, but she is still an inexperienced young woman, and everyone knows Fan Pingye’s fearsome reputation. The villagers say he killed count 1.3kReads6.8Score10214d adds
- 117 A Woman’s Kingdom: The Little Carpenter’s Everyday Life Spoiling Her Husband 女尊之小木匠的宠夫日常 Please follow, add the book to your shelf, and leave a comment. One tap for all three. Lin Wan is a modern office drone, working overtime every day and struggling to breathe under the weight of life. Reliable and capable, reserved and steady, and highly skilled with her hands, she takes things as they come and has no interest in competing with others. She transmigrates to an ordinary farming family in a matriarchal world. The family is not well off, and her honest, hard-working parents have more 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 A Peaceful Farming Life After the Whole Family Bought Their Freedom 全家赎身后的悠闲种田生活 [Family life] [Farming] [Gourmet] [Slow-paced] [Traveling far and wide] Slow-paced! Detailed! Gourmet! A farming novel!!! Not a power fantasy!!! No golden finger!!! A university student studying agriculture woke up to find herself transmigrated as a young maid in a marquis's manor. Her parents doted on her and her little brother was thoughtful, while her desire to farm grew stronger and stronger as she worked toward buying her freedom. After returning home, she grew potatoes and tomatoes, grafte 2.9kReads8.5Score28314d adds
- 119 A Cottage Amid the Green Hills 青山可结庐 The rating is low because this novel just came out, dears. The tags are wrong: it's historical romance and farming. In the first year of Tianyuan, something extraordinary happened in Lijiazhuang, a small village under Fengshui Township. The family of Li Zhijin was actually asking for the hand of Xu Lansi, the second daughter of the neighboring Xujiacun. The Xu family had two daughters, but the elder, Xu Jinxiu, was the real beauty, both talented and lovely, with suitors coming one after another. 3.1kReads8.9Score33214d adds
- 120 Wait, Why Has This Person Turned Down Their Husband's Cuddles So Many Times? 惊！这人为何多次婉拒夫郎贴贴？ [Two male leads + farming + sweet and lighthearted] The fool from the Xiao family took a fall and suddenly got better. At first, the villagers were simply curious, but they never expected Xiao Ming to somehow pull his dirt-poor family out of hardship. He built a new house and bought paddy fields. There was a nice hill over that way, so he bought that too. As Xiao Ming grew more capable by the day, the villagers all wondered when he would finally kick out that brother of his, who was always rushi 1.6kReads8.6Score18614d adds
- 121 After My Reputation Hit Rock Bottom, I Cleared My Name by Farming 名声烂透后，我靠种田逆袭洗白 [Farming] [System] [Family Life] [Building Wealth] [Historical Romance] The sky is falling! The moment she arrives in this world, she becomes a desperate-to-marry woman who drugged a scholar! But the mess left behind by the original owner goes far beyond that. She steals chickens and dogs, is lazy and greedy, and nearly gets beaten to death by her own grandfather. Her two uncles even take turns trying to purge the Ye family of this disgrace. Strangely, though, this foolish, wicked home-wrecker i 2.3kReads—Score21814d adds
- 122 Chen Shi Lives Next Door to Akita 秋田隔壁住陈实 Qiutian’s mother was known throughout the surrounding villages as a capable woman. She was still harvesting rice in the fields just before giving birth to Qiutian, so she named her daughter Qiutian, meaning autumn fields. When Qiutian was one, her mother went mad. Carrying her on her back, she ran around everywhere and even made her drink filthy water from a cesspit. When Qiutian was three, her mad mother fell off a cliff and died. Her father, a traveling peddler, was hardly ever home. Her five- 7.3kReads9.0Score1.2k14d adds
- 123 Wasteland Office Worker: Forced to Build a House on an Alien Planet 24/7 荒野社畜：被迫在异星007造房 Li Zhiyuan is reborn in a parallel world. He is forced to take part in a show called “Survival in the Wilderness,” hosted by an alien civilization. Other contestants: “I'm so hungry. I haven't eaten in three days.” Li Zhiyuan: “What should I eat today? Venison or wolf meat? That's a tough choice.” Other contestants: “Ah, the shelter is leaking again.” Li Zhiyuan: “This wooden house is great, but it could use a little more sunlight.” While the other contestants are still struggling to survive, Li 6.1kReads7.9Score52414d adds
- 124 Modern-Day Plant Masters Are Begged for Collaboration by the Whole World 灵植师在现代全球跪求合作 [Transmigration and Farming × Agricultural Technology × Global Face-Slapping] (Not a brainless power fantasy. It combines real agricultural science and insights into food wars, with a focus on social realities and a grounded comeback story. Readers, bring your brains!) After ten years in a vegetative state, Su Yanqiu wakes up with secret techniques for cultivating spiritual plants from the world of immortal cultivation. But Heaven's Dao sends her back, accusing her of disrupting the balance of t 2.9kReads8.4Score35914d adds
- 125 Exiled to the South China Sea, I Have a Marine Life Guide for Foraging 流放南海，赶海我有生物图鉴 Two powerful leads, farming, golden finger, happy ending, exploration, alternate historical setting Proud rascal x sunny golden retriever A slow, gently flowing story, and a very long one! (I'm really going to make it long!) A lighthearted slice-of-life story with no awful relatives, just a family working hard to make a living. Plenty of surprising facts about plants and animals, the wonders of exploring the sea, and the dangers of venturing deep into the rainforest. Every plant and tree in natu 1.6kReads9.0Score21314d adds
- 126 Farming in the Immortal Realm, Becoming the Eternal Divine Farmer 我在仙界搞农业，苟成万古神农 Farming + System + cultivation and growth + anti-trope cultivation + wits and strategy + business warfare + play the pig to eat the tiger + lighthearted comedy After transmigrating to the cultivation world, good-for-nothing spiritual roots, and a lousy acre of farmland from the start, Weng Bufan smiles as the “Heavenly Dao Farming Simulator” awakens within him. While others cultivate bitterly, I run simulations: enter spirit stones, and a century of crop growth becomes crystal clear. I can even 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 Listening to a Donkey's Thoughts: Daily Life Running a Restaurant in Bianjing 听驴心声：汴京美食经营日常 (The low rating is only because the book was just listed.) · Transmigration + Everyday food and life among ordinary townsfolk + Mind reading (the little donkey is called Xiao Ba, with “Ba” meaning gossip) + A gentle, leisurely pace + A large ensemble cast later on · A modern chef transmigrates to the Song Dynasty. In this paradise of food, she doesn’t just eat: she develops new dishes and brings ancient and modern cuisines together in a grand feast. The Shen Tinghe family moves from the outskirt 4.2kReads8.5Score51714d adds
- 128 The Family at the Foot of the Mountain 山下人家 Big news swept through the little mountain village. They said Su Zi of the Su family had been jilted, and in her shame had hanged herself from a crooked tree by the mountain. Luckily, the village’s only hunter saved her. But because another man had touched her, the barely surviving Su Zi had no choice but to marry the hunter, Li Qingshan. Some villagers secretly felt sorry for her, while others took pleasure in her misfortune. They all said Li Qingshan had been born under an unlucky star. His mo 973Reads9.0Score10414d adds
- 129 The Child Bride in Our Home 家有童养媳 [No rebirth, no transmigration, a chance encounter in troubled times, and a family blessed by heaven] When Xiangsui was eight, her father died. A rebel king had risen up, taxes were increasing, and life was unbearably difficult. Xiangsui's mother was a frail woman. Seeing that her mother couldn't possibly raise her and her younger brother, Xiangsui decided to make sure they could all survive. She sold herself to the Cheng family as a child bride, in exchange for a sack of wheat and twenty taels 2.6kReads8.9Score31914d adds
- 130 The World-Cracking Crisis: Building a Peach Blossom Haven in Ancient Times 天崩地裂局：我在古代建桃源 [Farming + System + Daily Life + Food + Soul Transmigration + Alternate World] At twenty-six, she is transported into the body of a sixteen-year-old girl after a car accident: Her father is sixty and lame; Her mother is over fifty and blind; The most devastating part is that these two treasures had a child in their old age! On the very day she arrives, her mother gives birth to a baby boy! She’s become an upgraded version of Dehua… Her home is in the middle of nowhere, with no village in front o 2kReads8.9Score19614d adds
- 131 The Farmhouse Matriarch’s Life as a Noblewoman 农门婆婆的诰命人生 [Souls swapped between ancient and modern times + lighthearted absurdity + no System] Tang Youyou and the college guy she hired end up in ancient times together. They become a trio of misfortunes: married without paperwork, mothers without the pain of childbirth, and broke without warning. One ramshackle house and six minors on the verge of a total wipeout. The King of Hell says she’ll die at the third watch, but he sends someone to kill her at the second. Tang Youyou: “It’s fine. I have free la 1kReads9.0Score12414d adds
- 132 The Little Chef's Guide to Feeding Her Family With Ancient Cuisine 小厨娘古代美食养家日常 Qin Rong is a food blogger who accidentally transmigrates to a waterside town in the Great Liang Dynasty. The original owner’s mother is looked down on by her shrewish mother-in-law and sisters-in-law for having three daughters. Meanwhile, the original owner’s father has been fooling around with another woman and wants to divorce his wife. But the original owner’s mother has a backbone, and takes her three daughters with her as she asks to leave the marriage. When Qin Rong wakes up, she can hard 7.7kReads8.8Score72714d adds
- 133 The Farm Girl Flees into the Mountains, but the System Abandons Her Halfway 农家女逃进深山，系统却半途跑路 (Original title: A Farm Girl Flees into the Mountains, but Her System Abandons Her Along the Way) [No romance + farming + cunning + stockpiling supplies + fiercely protective + no saintly heroine + no princes or generals] Fu Lianxue has had a hard life. When she was five, her mother caught her father in bed with another woman and took her own life in shame. Her stepmother beat and berated her, while her father and the entire village turned a blind eye. At last, when she turned fifteen and got he 1.6kReads8.6Score16714d adds
- 134 Disaster: From the Start, One Mountain to Call My Own. Stockpile? Farm! 天灾：开局一座山，囤货？种田！ This is a farming story. [Natural disasters + farming + hunting + fishing + food + grasslands + deep mountains + herding + healing + a nontraditional apocalypse + seclusion + daily life + sweet romance + childhood sweethearts] Just two people living in seclusion in the forest (emphasis on just two!). The whole story focuses on cozy, everyday details: growing vegetables and crops, raising chickens and geese. No golden finger, just hard work and self-reliance. Warnings: There is a romantic pairin 8.2kReads9.0Score79314d adds
- 135 Reborn to Buy a Husband and Have a Child 重生之买个汉子生孩子 [Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion + Devoted to Each Other + One-on-One Romance + Farming] Wen Qiaoyun was born and raised a farmer, and she had been one in her past life too. Her greatest wish was to own a vast stretch of land where she could make all the decisions herself. So even after she bought herself a prince for a husband, and even after she gave birth to a young heir and a little princess, her wish remained unchanged. New book: Farming: The System-Wielding Widow of the Farmhouse, pen nam 1.2kReads9.0Score10114d adds
- 136 I’m Furious! I Transmigrated to a Poor Mountain Village and Still Have to Farm 气哭！穿到穷山沟沟还要种田 [Farming + family drama + no pocket dimension + no romance in the main story + no golden finger + not a pushover] On a plank bed, a hulking, coarse man with a face covered in black stubble pins Wang Taohua beneath him. His foul-smelling mouth is about to kiss her. Wang Taohua struggles desperately, then slams her head into a pillar... Wang Taohua, a modern orphan, wakes up to find she has transmigrated to an unknown dynasty. Her father was beaten to death, her engagement was called off, and her 6.4kReads9.1Score74214d adds
- 137 The Struggles of a Farming Couple in Ancient Times 古代农家夫妻奋斗史 (Also known as: The Struggles of a Farming Couple in Ancient Times. The animated drama The Little Farming Couple is now streaming. Come watch!) [Native-Born Ancient People] [Farming] [Building Wealth] [Everyday Family Life] [Adorable Beloved Child] [Cozy Daily Life] [Imperial Examinations] A chance encounter at an apothecary gives Wang Wei'an, a lovestruck young man working at a restaurant, the idea of bringing Zhao Xiuxiu, a young embroiderer, home as his wife. Neither of them transmigrated or 18.1kReads8.4Score1.6k14d adds
- 138 Reborn as a Strongwoman, the Chubby Beauty Brings Fortune to Her Whole Family 穿成大力女，极品胖妞旺全家 Short drama: “Transmigrated as a Strongwoman, I Lie Flat and Win in Style” [farming + sweet romance + everyday life + food + building a fortune + comedy + no saintly heroine] What Old Man Jian is proudest of in his life is that his wife had a late-in-life baby and gave him a daughter, and that he raised her into a big, chubby girl. His chubby daughter only cares about looks, yet insists on marrying the poorest young man in the village. The Xiao family’s biggest regret was bringing home a fat wif 15.5kReads7.9Score96414d adds
- 139 Exiled to the Frontier: The Farmer's Eldest Sister Transmigrates to Reclaim the Wasteland 流放边关：农家长姐穿越开荒 [Transmigration + farming + satisfying read + infrastructure building] Shen Qingwu, a modern woman with master's degrees in both agriculture and water conservancy, transmigrates overnight into the body of the eldest sister in the poorest military household in Danshan County. Her father died in battle, her mother succumbed to illness, and her aunt arrives with tax collectors to block the door, seize the compensation money, and sell her ten-year-old sister to a procurer to pay the taxes. Blood run 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Sold by My Family, I Became the Mountain Village's Favorite 被家人卖掉后，我成了山里的团宠 [Transmigration + Sweet Romance + Marriage First, Love Later + A Lucky Heroine] Ye Luoxin lost her parents as a child and was taken in by her uncle’s family. Little did she know, her uncle would squander the family fortune her parents had left behind and sell her to a poor young man in the mountains. After transmigrating, Ye Luoxin thought she’d landed in a high-difficulty survival game. Who knew she’d be the apple of everyone’s eye? Mother-in-law: “This is my daughter-in-law. You Ye family memb 8.7kReads9.2Score1.1k14d adds
- 141 I Stocked a Warehouse Full in Ancient Times and Raise My Husband Through the Apocalypse 穿到古代囤满仓，天灾末世养夫郎 [Two Male Leads + Top/Bot Dynamic: Top-Protagonist + Only Each Other + Farming + Disastrous Famine Years + Stockpiling and Foraging + Slow-Paced Daily Life] (The Famine Years and Daily Life in the Mountains with My Husband) After being born into an ancient world and living there for twenty years, Qin Yunye unexpectedly learned that the disastrous famine years of history were about to begin. Having had his fill of the apocalypse, he decisively returned to the deep mountains to lie flat and live 1.2kReads8.9Score10514d adds
- 142 After My Eldest Sister Swapped Our Marriages 被长姐换亲之后 [Farming + marriage first, love later + switched betrothals + contrast couple + business + transmigration] [Available as a full-cast audiobook and comic drama] Song He dies in an accident while saving someone and transmigrates to ancient times as an ordinary farm girl. Life is hard, and even having enough to eat and warm clothes is a struggle. As the second daughter in her family, the original owner is ignored by her father and scolded by her mother. Her eldest sister is fiercely competitive, an 52.5kReads8.7Score6.5k14d adds
- 143 The Little Farmer Girl Who Brings Prosperity to Her Husband 一品小农女：旺夫从种田开始 [A cozy, cheerful farming story with delicious food and no over-the-top villains] What? The prince's fighting has brought disaster upon the common people, and we have to flee? No, no, Xiaoxi says, “I have a System. Our whole family can hide in the mountains.” What? There's a devastating snowstorm, and we have no food, clothes, or shelter, so we have to flee again? No, no, we'll keep hiding in the mountains. We can eat all the steamed buns made from fine white flour and braised pork we want. What 1.9kReads8.9Score20014d adds
- 144 The Gentle Wife of the Lame Young Scholar 跛腿小秀才的温柔妻 [Transmigrate into a Book, Low-Key, Cozy Farming Story, No Golden Finger, Simple Everyday Life, Short Novel of 100,000 Words] * Lan Ruo transmigrates into a book and becomes a young scholar’s wife. The young scholar is injured in an accidental fall and becomes lame. He’s terribly shy and blushes whenever she teases him. She can’t help herself, always wanting to tease him and watch him turn red with embarrassment. Content warning: The pace is fairly quick because this is a short novel. 3.2kReads8.9Score27714d adds
- 145 Transmigrated as a Rich Young Lady, I Enjoy Life While Working Hard 穿成富家小姐，边享受边奋斗 Transmigration + No Pocket Dimension + No Golden Finger + One-on-One Romance A cozy slice-of-life story about building a fortune Meng Nanxi goes from being a “triple-nothing” nobody with no home, no car, and no job to the wealthy daughter of an ancient-era merchant. She thinks she's hit the jackpot: goodbye, 996 workdays! Goodbye, taking the bus everywhere! Goodbye, that urban village rental where the plumbing springs a leak or gets clogged every other day! But before she can finish celebrating, 2.1kReads8.2Score20114d adds
- 146 After My Divorce, I Reached the Peak of My Life 和离后我走上人生巅峰 When Chunxiao wakes up, she discovers her household is about to turn upside down. Her husband, who has just passed the imperial examinations to become a scholar, actually wants to demote her from wife to concubine for money. He thinks his scheme is foolproof, but she’s no longer the same pushover she used to be. She quickly divorces him and returns to Yanjia Village. Faced with nothing but poverty, she starts building a business with her family. Who says a woman can’t support a household? After 5.2kReads9.0Score62514d adds
- 147 Returning to Farm Life to Dote on My Childhood Sweetheart 解甲归田独宠竹马小夫郎 [Farming story + two male leads + sweet childhood friends romance + gentle and gradual + slow-paced story about natives] Three meals a day, four seasons of peace and joy. Song Jia looked up at Lu Ning, working nearby. The bamboo shed kept the sun out. Inside, Lu Ning was shaving a piece of wood, sending shavings fluttering onto his hands and legs. A breeze brought a hint of coolness. The sky screen was deep blue, with a few white clouds drifting past now and then. A puppy slept nearby, snoring, 3.3kReads9.1Score39114d adds
- 148 Enjoying Retirement While Still Young 年纪轻轻就过上了养老生活 Also known as Who Wouldn't Want This? A Slow Life in the Mountains After transmigrating, she gains an entire mountain range and gets busy growing grain and gathering wild produce. Who knew that while climbing the mountain, she would find a man lying in a ravine? Her common sense tells her not to pick him up. Never pick up a man by the roadside, or you'll be unlucky for half your life. But later... well, she can't resist! After learning in advance that a severe drought is coming, she heads deep i 2.4kReads8.4Score18214d adds
- 149 Sold as a Concubine to the Prince's Estate, I Secretly Take It Easy in the Inner Courtyard 卖到王府做小妾后在后院偷偷咸鱼 After transmigrating to ancient times, An Zhenzhen found herself a low-status merchant’s daughter. Her father had just died, her mother had passed away years ago, and her only younger brother was an orphan her kindhearted predecessor had taken in. Her second uncle’s family had joined forces with the clan to seize all her family’s property, and now they even wanted her to become a concubine to her second aunt’s dimwitted nephew. What could she do? At the crucial moment, a trusted retainer of her 1.2kReads9.0Score10214d adds
- 150 A Bride Raised in Poverty: I Farm to Support the Heir 寒门童养媳：我靠种田发家养世子 Transmigration + farming + imperial examinations + face-slapping the worst sort of people + a mystery about her origins + storing grain for years of famine This novel has no romance, no romance, no romance. The heroine just wants to retire, lie flat, and keep 180 male models! Agronomy PhD Shen Qingci transmigrates into the body of a twelve-year-old child bride. The moment she opens her eyes, she is being sold to an old widower who beat his wife to death. She turns the tables on the scoundrel, ta 944Reads8.2Score—14d adds
