Novels like A Family of Six Is Starving, but My System Keeps the Pantry Full
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- 1 What’s Wrong with a Blind Person Being Cautious? 我一个瞎子谨慎点怎么了？ [Cultivation with no System, no rebirth, and no golden finger + no romance + clear-headed protagonist + lighthearted daily life + slow burn] A prodigy appears out of nowhere on the Xumi Continent. She wields soul arts in her left hand and control arts in her right, tramples all the other young geniuses underfoot, and is blind to boot. You lot can’t get through a day of cultivation without wind or rain, and every mission ends with someone getting hurt or refusing to go. Move aside. Watch how it’s 89Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 2 Quick Transmigration: This Cannon Fodder Is Up to No Good 快穿之这个炮灰很邪门 [Strong Female Lead, Feel-Good Story, No Fixed Couple, Woman on Top] Wen Nuan looked like a “perfectly normal” person when System 002 bound itself to her. It thought she would be a disposable tool who dutifully completed missions and helped it meet its performance targets. But in the very first world, this woman completely fooled it. In the first world, she became a young woman in the 1970s who should have married properly and lived as a glamorous rich wife. Instead, a reborn woman cut in and 5.8kReads8.1Score48214d adds
- 3 Who Needs a Day Job? I Became a Tycoon with Trash from My Spatial Farm 谁家打工人靠空间农场垃圾成首富 This novel has been adapted into a comic. The heroine only cares about making money! Making money! Making money! No needless fretting. [No CP] Lin Chu graduated from a junior college and spent years struggling in real estate, only to hit a slump in the housing market. She not only failed to make money, but was also fired after offending a coworker. She had no friends or social life, and her mother had taken the hundred thousand yuan she'd painstakingly saved. Now she could barely afford next mon 24.9kReads8.4Score3.5k14d adds
- 4 Biding My Time in the General's Manor 苟在将军府 Xia Heng transmigrated into a romance novel she had once relentlessly mocked. Then she discovered that The lovesick heroine had a fortune at her fingertips! The unhinged hero had secured the throne! The background male character was unbeatable! And Xia Heng herself, a sacrificial extra who was supposed to die from the start, was constantly testing the limits of the main cast! Xia Heng: Thanks for asking. I just want to stay alive! 12.4kReads9.0Score97614d adds
- 5 The Worthy Consort Is Still Taking It Easy Today 贤妃今天也在咸鱼 In the harem of Emperor Chenyuan of the Great Jin, there is a dignified and gentle empress, a charming and lovely Noble Consort, a peerlessly beautiful Consort Li, and a clever, kindhearted Consort Hui. Talented women abound, and the competition is fierce. Han Shuyi looks left and right, but can't find a niche for herself as Worthy Consort. Oh, well. Competing for favor now and then while choosing to lie flat the rest of the time: that's the real truth of life in the harem. * As emperor, Meng Ti 21.5kReads8.2Score2k14d adds
- 6 The Coffin Maiden of Southern Xinjiang's Cultivation Record 南疆棺女修仙记 [No CP, no CP, no CP, no romance: a female lead who cultivates immortality through corpse control in southern Xinjiang. If someone wrongs her, she gets revenge on the spot instead of bottling it up!!!] After watching a hospital dispute, she somehow transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation. Luo San is completely unfazed. As long as she's strong enough, anywhere can be home. But when she looks at the little white jade coffin hanging from her waist, she falls silent. She's not a sword cul 2.5kReads8.9Score27214d adds
- 7 Turning a Tragic Romance into Horror: No Grudges Last Longer Than a Page Turn 虐文爆改惊悚流，主打没有隔页仇 [Romance with a female lead and male love interest: warning] [A battle of predators runs throughout] [The male lead goes crazy later on, but the heroine stays cold-blooded and in control] For no apparent reason, Xin Que transmigrates into a romance novel about a man who deludes himself into thinking all is well, then tries to win back his ex in a torturous, drawn-out saga. The original plot's big idea is that even though the heroine loses her life, the male lead loses the love of his life, so he 7.3kReads9.0Score1.1k14d adds
- 8 Senior Sister, Stop Hiding. You're Already Invincible 师姐别苟了，你都已经无敌了 [No romance + Invincible + Cautious] Tang Shi transmigrated to another world, into a realm of immortal cultivation. With poor aptitude, she couldn’t keep up with the ambitious, but she couldn’t even slack off properly. She was tired of it all. Might as well let the world end. If she was lucky, she’d be dead by tomorrow. “Ding! You have been bound to the Retirement System. For every extra day you live, the System will grant the Host a certain amount of cultivation.” Tang Shi: “I suddenly feel lik 8.1kReads8.2Score72214d adds
- 9 Bloodstained Kyoto 血色京都 Li Nanle and Huo Yunxia were companions in the apocalypse who could trust each other with their lives. They survived together for ten years. Then one day, they transmigrated together, changing from peers into sisters eight years apart in age. Huo Yunxia had a cheerful disposition. After leaving the apocalypse, a world of daily bloodshed, and arriving in the feudal past, she had just one dream: to win a man's heart, have three or five children, and grow old together. Huo Yunxia got married and mo 14.8kReads8.8Score1.3k14d adds
- 10 Just Arrived in Republican-Era China, I Have Nothing but Money 刚到民国，除了钱，一无所有 Su Ning transmigrated into a series of novels set in the Republic of China era. The good news: she had a System. Better yet, the System's reward pool held a full ten billion. Once she spent it all, Su Ning could return to the modern era and live happily as a billionaire. The bad news: the System was called "The Rich Are Heartless"... In the turbulent Republic of China, she had to play a villain who was rotten to the core. Determined to stay alive, Su Ning racked her brains to become relatives wi 94.8kReads8.7Score10.1k14d adds
- 11 After Spending Money, Five Powerful Families' Heirs Fight to Be My Dad 氪金后，五个豪门大佬争着做我爸 [No CP + elite circles + moonlight muse + showbiz + wild imagination + adored by all + fictional world + golden finger + feel-good story + secret identities + top heiress] After Jing Shishu died, she discovered she was merely a character in a pay-to-play game called “Across Time and Space.” The worst part was that the player controlling her was miserly, never spent a cent, and couldn’t even customize her face. As a result, she was ugly and poor in every life. Furious, she shouted at the heavens, 7kReads9.2Score80314d adds
- 12 A Tycoon Transmigrates into a Book: She Dominates the Ultimate Game of Power 神豪穿书：她在顶级权力游戏通吃 [A non-formulaic tycoon story + power struggles + strong female lead + multiple male leads + sex-focused relationships + BG] Question: What’s it like to get bound to a tycoon System that rewards you for spending money on love, only to be focused on gaining power? Thanks for asking. I just got off the plane, and the System is clinging to my leg, crying and begging me to stop. I transmigrated into a world stitched together from several melodramatic novels. In this chaotic script, where pr 12.4kReads9.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 13 The 1970s: Everyone Can Be the Protagonist, Except Me 七零：人人都能当主角偏我不行 Everyone Is Evil, But There Are Good People Too [Romance included! If you have conventional values, don't read!!!] To get a chance to perform, Xu Lingwan locks her stepsister He Qingning in the restroom. Just as she's about to leave, something called a System binds itself to her. The System tells her that she's the vicious supporting female character, while He Qingning is the heroine. Since she bullied the heroine, her reputation will be ruined, and she'll eventually disappear without a trace. 21.3kReads9.0Score2.2k14d adds
- 14 Transmigrate Into a Book Set in the 1970s: The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead Gives Up and Takes It Easy 穿书七零：炮灰女配咸鱼了 [Period setting + Transmigrate into a book + Spatial powers + Married] She wakes up as the central figure at a funeral, having transmigrated into a period novel as a spiteful, selfish woman. Well, in that case, she might as well let loose. Her persona is already established, and she has a golden finger. Why work hard when she could have a wonderful life without lifting a finger? Liu Qingqing declares, “I’m going to be a couch potato.” 18.4kReads9.3Score1.8k14d adds
- 15 I Feared Pain, So I Forged Myself into the Toughest Woman 因为怕痛，我把自己炼成最硬女人 [No romance, though the bonus chapters may have a romantic subplot] Chu Jiao was walking along minding her own business when someone who jumped from a building hit her, leaving her covered in blood. She died on the spot. When she woke up, she discovered she had transmigrated into a xianxia novel as a plot device. In the novel, Chu Jiao was a diligent human shield. Whenever the female lead was in mortal danger, she would show up right on cue and take every blow for her, like a walking shield. Th 25.5kReads8.2Score3.3k14d adds
- 16 The Female Side Character Only Wants to Cultivate 女配她只想修仙 [Urban Cultivation + Spiritual Qi Revival + Strong Female Lead + Feel-Good + System] No. 09 did everything it could to explain to Ji Ling how to be a properly wicked female supporting character! Ji Ling wanted to laugh right in its face. Give everything for the male and female leads, and die for them if necessary? You must be dreaming! “Host, follow the plot!” “Isn’t cultivation way better?” … “Host, that’s the female lead. Go pick a fight with her!” “Want me to twist her head off?” … “Host, t 3.4kReads9.0Score37214d adds
- 17 A Rich Heiress Transmigrates into a Spoiled Youth Educated Woman and Makes It Big with Her Space 白富美穿成作精知青，带空间拽爆 [New book: Sixties: The Little Educated Youth Reclaims Her Body, Then Goes Completely Off the Rails. No Angst, Just Pure Satisfaction. Come on in if you like that!] [Space + Sweet Romance + Farming + Strong Female Lead + Feel-Good Revenge + Scum-Taming] Lin Jingyue was a rich beauty who loved slacking off and taking life as it came. She spent all day living off her family and waiting to die, and had little conscience to speak of. Who could have guessed that life would take a sudden turn? One day 49.2kReads9.1Score5.1k14d adds
- 18 Infinite: The Heroine Awakens in a Black Coffin 无限：女主在黑棺里苏醒了 The great masters in other stories are all ethereal immortals, riding flying swords. Yin Qing is different: she rides... a coffin. An infinite-flow novel. Not every story arc is horror-themed; all kinds of worlds make an appearance. (No romance, lighthearted, suitable even for the easily frightened.) 3.9kReads9.2Score46314d adds
- 19 The 1970s: The Glamorous Heiress Transmigrates into a Book with a Trillion-Dollar Fortune 七零：美艳娇气包带千亿资产穿书 The young lady never lived through that era, so you can't expect her to have the same spending habits as ordinary people. [Not a poverty-relief story] [Sweet romance + period setting + transmigrate into a book + golden finger + feel-good power fantasy] [Both are virgins, one-on-one romance] Shanghai–Beijing–Hong Kong [Warning: The heroine is spoiled and not truly kind or beautiful inside! The hero is a lovesick fool! Don't get hung up on prices! If there are any plot holes, just treat them as au 24.9kReads9.2Score2.5k14d adds
- 20 The Daily Life of a Laid-Back Concubine After Transmigrating 穿越之闲鱼妾室的日常 [Transmigration + household and palace intrigue + no golden finger + devoted love later on] Zhang Xinian transmigrated into the body of a concubine in Prince Jing’s household. Above her was the princess consort, backed by powerful connections and ruthless in her methods. Beside her was a brainless side consort with overwhelming fighting prowess. Below her, a reborn woman and a transmigrated woman were locked in fierce competition. Zhang Xinian trembled with fear. She had no golden finger and did 104.7kReads9.4Score12.2k14d adds
- 21 Transmigrating to the 1970s: The One-Shot System Takes Me to New Heights 穿越七零：秒杀系统带我飞 The rating just came out, so it’ll go up later! 1970: I Have a Golden Finger and a Maxed-Out Family Ding! Your limited-time flash-sale System has been bound! Wen Jingshu, an English major in graduate school in 2024, was halfway through studying for the civil service exam when she transmigrated. When she woke up, she’d become a graduate student in trade and economics in 1970. Her father was a police bureau chief, her mother a section chief at the agricultural bureau, her eldest brother a battalio 64.7kReads8.5Score8.1k14d adds
- 22 Sorry, I’m Crazy. Keep Your Weirdness Away 抱歉，我有疯病，诡异勿扰 [Dark Fairy Tales + Horror Game + Livestream + Hilarious + No Romance + Unconventional Ending] My name is Shi Yu, and I'm mentally ill. One moment I was asleep, and the next I had been transported into a horror game called “Little Red Riding Hood.” Black smoke was rising from Mom's head, and the cake meant for Grandma had been mixed with an unidentified kind of minced meat... The game was being livestreamed to the entire world in real time. People watched in astonishment as, while the other p 21.1kReads9.4Score2.7k14d adds
- 23 Interstellar Mecha: The Frail Commander Takes on Seven Alone 星际机甲：病弱指挥官单挑一穿七 (Please read the first page of the main text for content warnings.) [Apocalypse, Interstellar, Strong Female Lead, Face-Slapping, Everyone Loves Her] Apocalypse enforcer Xu Lingqu transmigrates and becomes an unpopular, sickly adopted daughter of a general. Despite a constitution that leaves her fainting every three steps and coughing up blood every five, she's sent to the command program at the Imperial Military Academy. Command is great, command is wonderful. Commanders can sit safely behind 53.9kReads9.5Score7.7k14d adds
- 24 Post-Apocalyptic Scavenging: I Turn Trash into Treasure and Coast to Victory 末日拾荒：我靠变废为宝一路躺赢 [Infinite-Tower Style + Apocalypse + Natural Disasters + Pocket Dimension + Stockpiling + Strong Female Lead + Upgradable Safe House + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Male Lead Appears Later] Forensic examiner Lin Chu is suddenly dropped into an infinite apocalypse. Other people see zombies: “Oh my god, those bloody, mangled monsters! Stay away!” Lin Chu sees zombies: “206 moving bones! Walking points! The more, the better!” Drawing on her professional experience, she quickly adapts to the bloody apoc 43.6kReads9.5Score5.9k14d adds
- 25 A Beautiful Bad Woman’s Quick Transmigration Journey Through the Eras 美丽坏女人的年代快穿之旅 [Quick transmigration through different eras + self-serving heroine + a touch of outlaw spirit + flower-soul dimension + Heavenly Secrets Mirror (damaged)] Note: The heroine is stunningly beautiful, but she is NOT universally adored! Xia Zhizhi comes from another world where men are beastmen whose true forms are wild animals, women are called Rui, and their souls take the form of flowers and trees. The Rui, who are responsible for reproduction in that world, are extremely rare and delicate, so b 33.5kReads8.5Score1.9k14d adds
- 26 EN Surviving the Apocalypse: Stock Up on Food and Weapons 末世降临不要慌，先囤粮食后囤枪 [Apocalypse rebirth + stockpiling supplies + space + no romance + infrastructure building + ruthless heroine] Jiang You never dreamed that she would evade the zombies’ claws only to be betrayed by the very family she had protected. Years later, she destroyed the research center where she’d been imprisoned. Everyone who betrayed her? Dead! The base that turned against her? Wiped out! Who waits until the next life to get revenge?! With her revenge complete, Jiang You ran out of her supernatu 59kReads9.2Score6.2k14d adds
- 27 After Faking Nobility, I Became a God 假冒贵族后我成神了 [Fake aristocrat + true queen + secret identities + everyone’s favorite + nation-building + personal growth] Luo Wei transmigrates into the body of a lowly commoner who passed herself off as a noble girl to enroll at school. Her identity is about to be exposed, and she’ll be despised and cursed by the entire school before being hanged at the gallows in the marketplace. Luo Wei: What’s there to be afraid of? I just have to pretend to be a noble. As someone from the twenty-first century, I can act 127.9kReads9.5Score13.9k14d adds
- 28 Quick Transmigration: The Max-Level Big Shot Gets the Cannon Fodder Script 快穿当满级大佬拿到炮灰剧本 When the Cannon Fodder System has no other choice, it grabs a random lackey, never expecting to latch onto a max-level expert! From then on, it gets to coast to victory. In the heroine's story, the lives of cannon fodder characters are always turned upside down by her. No matter how innocent they are, cannon fodder can only ever be cannon fodder, a stepping stone on the heroine's road to happiness. Then Guihua transmigrates into the cannon fodder characters of various little worlds. Guihua says: 27.5kReads9.4Score2.3k14d adds
- 29 Could I Really Get Canceled in a Rules-Based Horror Game? 我还能在规则怪谈里塌房不成？ [Infinite-Flow + Rules-Based Horror + Horror Game + Strong Female Team + A Group of People With Questionable Sanity] Just before their debut, the group Shili belonged to was betrayed by a bandmate, who framed them for bullying. Their debut fell through, while the bandmate won netizens’ sympathy and relaunched her career to great success. To this day, Shili’s social media accounts are still flooded with abuse from the other girl’s rabid fans. As luck would have it, in the third year after the com 63.5kReads9.6Score7.5k14d adds
- 30 Quick Transmigration: Everyone Knows I'm a Good Person 快穿：所有人都知道我是好人 Across three thousand small worlds, there are countless wicked women. Shu Jiao’s task is to make things right for the people whose lives were ruined by all kinds of wicked women. From then on... [World One: I’m a spendthrift? The nation will support me.] She’s kind, generous, patriotic, and beautiful. So what if she likes spending a little money? Let her have it! [World Two: The marquis’s daughter who lies all the time.] Lies? What lies? She’s so gentle and kind. How could she possibly lie? [Wor 129.8kReads9.4Score5.7k14d adds
- 31 EN The Infinite Reset: A Side Character's Journey to Immortality 女配修仙，但是无限读档 [No romance, an absolutely massive golden finger, carefree cultivation, fighting monsters and leveling up] What happens when a cannon-fodder supporting heroine gains the ability to reload infinitely... Bad spiritual roots from the start? Reload and try again. Can’t win the sect tournament? Reload and try again. A secret realm full of danger? Reload to avoid every danger and collect every rare treasure. Offended a high-ranking cultivator? Even with just a 1% chance of success, keep reloading thro 74.2kReads9.4Score9.9k14d adds
- 32 Driven to Death by Her Cultivator Mistress? I Take Up My Sword and Storm the Ninth Heaven 被修仙外室逼死？我提剑杀上九霄 [Power fantasy, a female lead who begins as a villain and turns righteous, no transmigration, no rebirth] Only when she was dying did Li Fu learn why she could never defeat her husband's mistress, Huayue. It turned out that beyond this world lay a realm of cultivation. Huayue had come from that realm. With Taoist magic at her command, there was no way Li Fu could ever beat her. Tortured, skinned, and dismembered, Li Fu was abandoned by everyone and died after enduring every kind of suffering. Ho 78.3kReads9.6Score10.3k14d adds
- 33 The Top-Ranked Road Survivalist Says She'll Walk to the End of the Road 公路求生榜一说她要走到公路尽头 Strong female lead, no romance, no romantic subplots, clear-headed protagonist, ensemble cast, team-focused. Qi Xu wandered alone along this highway filled with danger and death for nearly four years. With disasters striking endlessly and monsters growing ever stronger, she gradually transformed from a frail woman who could not even kill a chicken into a seasoned player who killed without hesitation. Yet she still died regrettably inside a dungeon... Just before her death, she triggered the prec 434kReads9.4Score40.6k14d adds
- 34 EN Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 [Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w 998kReads9.5Score85.8k14d adds
- 35 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批 The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 234.9kReads9.7Score27.6k14d adds
- 36 I Saved the Entire Sect by Giving Up 我靠摆烂拯救了全宗门 (The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh 217.1kReads9.6Score24.3k14d adds
