Novels like A Ridiculous Love Debt
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A Ridiculous Love Debt, best match first.
- 1 Reborn in the 1980s: The Space-Age Millionaire 重生八零：空间小富婆 She died a horrible death in 2023, then was reborn in 1980 and bound to an against-the-heavens spirit spring space. She takes down her awful relatives and kicks her scumbag boyfriend and his shameless mistress to the curb. Starting with a street stall, she builds a business empire and leads her whole family to victory, while her enemies regret everything until their guts turn to ash! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Power Struggles in the Countryside: The Rise and Fall of a Great Clan over Thirty Years 乡村权斗：望族兴衰三十年 Who in the surrounding villages doesn’t know the Wang family, the top-tier clan? After three generations of careful work, their family business flourishes. Every wedding and funeral stirs up the whole village, while the Zhao family, forever trying to compete, always comes in second. Then Li Yingqin, a bride from outside the village, marries into the Wang family compound. She is fiery and perceptive, unwilling to be trapped by old rules and pushed around. One marriage becomes the turning point th —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Ordinary as You and Me 平凡如你我 This is a story set in a small village in southern Henan. Rong Yu and Wei Ping have known each other since childhood and weathered many storms together. From the “communal canteens” of 1958 to the restoration of the college entrance examinations; from the people’s communes to the household responsibility system, their ordinary life of mutual support and companionship unfolds like a simple yet moving song. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 When the Village Blooms 村暖花开 Liu Mei has been as kind to me as a mountain. No one is allowed to bully her, including her husband. One day, I discovered that her husband actually wanted to bully her. I couldn't stand by and let that happen... 69Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 5 Rural Romance: Officer Ji’s Special Devotion 乡村爱情之季警官的独宠 After graduating from an arts school, Ye Xiyi had seen enough of the entertainment industry’s twists and turns. She chose to return to the countryside with her considerable assets, to keep her elderly grandmother company and do what she loved! Ji Xubai had once been an anti-drug police officer. During an undercover operation, he endured terrible suffering. After the operation succeeded, his nervous system was left in disarray, and he received long-term psychological counseling. His parents could 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Jing River Flows East 泾水东流 My new work is out! This story takes place in the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi. You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel, and I hope you’ll enjoy it. The story begins with two brothers fleeing famine in another region and arriving on the Guanzhong Plain. After settling near the Jing River, they begin the hard work of building a life for themselves. Starting with nothing, they eventually buy land, build a home, and establish a foundation for their family. Generation after generation, they pass do 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Rural Love: A Passion That Sets the World Ablaze 乡村爱情之风月燎原 Chen Yu, a poor boy raised by the kindness of many households, merges souls with an unknown office worker and activates the Skill Proficiency System! He can farm the land and repay people’s kindness at the same time: support a tofu workshop, help an orchard, and make Xiangxiu Clinic famous with one decisive battle! He’ll help the villagers build a happy life. The romance of the countryside is best when it spreads like wildfire! 139Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Beneath the Great Banyan Tree 大榕树下 A country romance starring Hong Tiangao, the genius of Hong Family Village, and the beautiful Hong Qing'er, childhood sweethearts who grew up together. Amid the turmoil of the world, the young people hold on to their innocence. As social progress quietly sweeps away the countryside's poverty, it also takes away one cherished love after another... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Country Love: Wang Xiangxiu, the First Party Secretary 乡村爱情之第一书记王香秀 385Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 10 Rural Love: I Got Rich with the Top Student System 乡村爱情之我靠学霸系统暴富 Liu Shihuan transmigrates into the world of Country Love. Liu Neng becomes her father, Liu Ying becomes her older sister, and she even binds herself to a top-student System. Every day, she listens to the village gossip while working hard to study and make money. 291Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 11 Country Love: Zhao Yutian, I’m Definitely Not Staying with You Anymore 乡爱：赵玉田我指定不跟你过了 Over the more than ten years she spent building a life with Zhao Yutian, they had two adorable daughters, a flower farm, and a bed-and-breakfast. To outsiders, it all looked pretty good. But Liu Ying knew in her heart that the man who shared her bed had never loved her. Step by step, she had made her way from Kaiyuan Town back to Xiangya Mountain. The blisters on her feet were all thanks to the foolishness she’d shown back then. Now the children were grown and no longer needed her to look after 1.9kReads8.7Score139Shelves
- 12 Country Love: Transmigrated as Xie Yunqiang? 乡爱：穿越成谢云强？ When the story of Rural Love starts over, I become Xie Yongqiang, the man who’s been called a “good-for-nothing” for half his life. No System, no golden finger, just foreknowledge of the future and a heart that refuses to keep swallowing indignities. I’ll make Xie Guangkun understand that his son isn’t his appendage. I’ll help all of Xiangya Mountain grow prosperous. This time, the story of Xiangya Mountain begins anew with Xie Yongqiang. 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Childhood Bride Who Has Her Eye on Her Younger Brother 馋上弟弟的童养媳 “Zhou Zhengdong’s legs are ruined, and so is he. He’s not even a man anymore!” Xiao Qing swallowed a bitter laugh. Her big brother was ruined? She was the only one who knew he was nothing like a cripple! In a poor, isolated mountain village, swapping marriages was the only way poor families could bind themselves together through marriage. Xiao Qing was a gentle, pretty girl, but no matter how bright her eyes were, she couldn’t escape the shackles of a swapped marriage, much less the taboos of 49Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 14 Country Love Reborn: I'm Wang Xiaomeng 乡村爱情重生之我是王小蒙 [Country Love fanfic] [A troublemaking System] I’m Wang Xiaomeng, and I’ve been reborn. I’m back in the year Xie Yongqiang graduated from college. This time, I’m going to live my own life. I won’t be a pushover who lets Xie Guangkun bully me into giving in anymore. I’ll keep a firm grip on my factory. The factory is mine, and so is my child. Xie Yongqiang can do whatever he wants! Turns out I’m the domineering CEO of Ivory Mountain! This time, I’ll partner with Liu Yishui, get Wang Dana to inves 109Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Rural Romance: Building an Ivory Mountain Just Like You 乡村爱情打造你一样的象牙山 My new work is here! Welcome to read it on Fanqie Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 21.9kReads—Score1.4kShelves
- 16 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. 10.4kReads7.6Score710Shelves
- 17 Liu Ying Is Reborn, and There's No Way I'm Staying with Zhao Yutian 刘英重生，我指定不跟赵玉田过了 Liu Ying was reborn, but unfortunately, she returned just after her father had held that ill-fated pregnancy celebration. She'd thought, as in her previous life, it would turn out to be a false alarm. But to her surprise, she really was pregnant. Just as Liu Ying was wondering what to do, she discovered that Zhao Yutian had also been reborn. See how Liu Ying matches wits with Zhao Yutian and exposes the Zhao family's false, virtuous facade. Watch Liu Ying start a business, become more beautiful, 734Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Qian Family of Taihang: From Rags to Riches 太行钱家，从穷根到首富 At seven, he became the village's great-grandfather. Bald as an egg and so poor that the whole village mocked him! With half a copy of the Herbal Compendium, he saved lives. With sheer courage, he plugged a breach and dug an iron mine! When a drilling accident struck, he jumped down to serve as a human support beam. When the funding ran out, he got down on his knees and begged, determined to rise again! From a hungry, bald kid to a mogul worth billions who built a city! After making five million 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The King of Pig Farming: The Most Beautiful Northeast Pig 养猪大王，最美东北农猪 [Spatial farm] + [Everyday food] + [Country life] Wang Dabiao found a treasure and unlocked a mysterious farm. He picked more vegetables and fruit every day than he could eat, but couldn’t sell them either. Wang Dabiao stamped his foot. “Forget selling them! I’m going back to my rural hometown to raise pigs!” His strawberry-fed pigs had tender, juicy, delicious meat, and people said eating it could even prolong your life. City folk desperately waved their money around, trying to buy his strawber 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Country Love: Reborn as Wang Xiaomeng 乡村爱情之重生我是王小蒙 She transmigrates into the world of Country Love before the story begins, becoming 17-year-old Wang Xiao Meng. With a study System of her own, she helps Wang Lao Qi open a tofu factory and become the richest man in Ivory Mountain. After graduating, she returns to her village to build up her hometown, keeps her distance from Xie Yong Qiang, and gets together with Bai Qing Ming. She changes the protagonists’ lives: Liu Ying and Yu Tian split up, Xiang Xiu finds a suitable partner, and Yong Qiang r 867Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 21 Country Love: Liu Neng’s Son, Liu Yu 乡村爱情刘能儿子刘宇 Liu Yu woke up to find himself not at home, but in a dormitory. Memories flooded his mind, and he realized that he was now a university student about to graduate. Just as he was getting ready to make his mark, he discovered that he had transmigrated into the world of Country Love as Liu Neng’s son, a character who didn’t exist in the original story. He had also awakened a System. Now he could only build his career in this world. 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Wang Xiaomeng Returns to Country Love 王小蒙重回乡村爱情 My new work is out! Feel free to check it out on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 83Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Left-Behind Child and His Grandfather, the Butcher 留守儿童与他的杀猪匠爷爷 When the youngest was five, his mother, egged on by his grandmother and several uncles, abandoned him and ran off. His father had to leave for work, so the youngest had no choice but to stay behind at his butcher grandfather's house, becoming a "left-behind child nobody wanted"... 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Country Love: I’m a Male Doctor, and I’ve Heard Enough 乡村爱情：我男科大夫，听麻了 Lin Heng transmigrates to Xiangya Mountain and gets the [Gossip System]. Every time he hears gossip from the village, he earns points, which he can use in the shop to redeem anything he wants. From then on, Lin Heng rules Xiangya Mountain. Xiangxiu: Heng, can I come over tonight and give you a foot massage? Wang Xiaomeng: Heng, can you really help me grow my tofu factory? Liu Ying: Heng, come over to my place when Yutian isn’t home, okay? Chen Yannan: Heng, I want to be your assistant. I won’t e 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Azaleas on That Mountain 那山杜鹃 A Memorial to Forget, Thirty Years After Graduation An unexpected torrential downpour, an unforgettable memory, and people struggling onward... Xuefeng Mountain, also known as Meishan, is a place shrouded in mystery. Every April, its slopes are blanketed with brilliant red azaleas. At the foot of Xuefeng Mountain stands a middle school called Xuefeng No. 1. Bai Wenxiu spent his high school years at Xuefeng No. 1... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 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. 706Reads—Score101Shelves
- 27 By the Lotus-Picking Lake 采莲湖畔 [1980s | Rural Coal Mines | The Struggles of an Ordinary Man] In 1991, by the shores of Lianhua Lake in southern Shandong, Zheng Qiang grew up in the countryside. His father worked in the coal mines year-round, while his mother held the family together on her own. The mine's coal dust bore witness to his youth. After graduating from vocational school, he returned home to teach in a village. His meager salary left him facing a choice: Was staying behind in the countryside a way to repay his fami 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Shisan A's Third Book 仕三啊的第3本书 [Countryside + Miracle Doctor + War God] [The face-slapping is insanely satisfying. If you won't back down, then fight, and fight to the death!] During a great battle on the northern frontier, Gu Qingyun was stabbed in the back by a treacherous foe and gravely wounded. In his final moments, he had planned to return to his village to pay respects to his father, but little did he expect that a way out would appear when all seemed lost... 111Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 29 Tales of Rural Northeast China 乡村东北往事 An accident leaves the family drowning in debt. Their eighteen-year-old daughter-in-law is bullied time and again, forced to grit her teeth and protect herself and her husband, who is barely clinging to life. Northeastern women may seem tough on the outside, but inside they are just as helpless. Holding on to her principles and protecting her family become her only resolve. 1.9kReads7.4Score153Shelves
- 30 Reborn into Country Love 重生乡村爱情 Wang Shui Sheng is watching Country Love while updating the System, Xiaomi’s HyperOS. When he sees Wang Mu Sheng, he thinks, “This guy was dealt a great hand and played it terribly!” Just then, the System finishes downloading. During installation, the phone overheats and something goes wrong. Wang Shui Sheng is reborn as Wang Mu Sheng, bringing along his phone with its freshly updated HyperOS. From then on… 452Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 31 The Young Uncle Comes to Xiangya Mountain with a System 象牙山之小叔带着系统走来了 When he wakes up, Xie Tianyang finds himself lying on a kang bed in 2002. Before him is the big-backed TV from his grandparents' generation, and the calendar in his hand clearly reads June 16, 2002. He's actually transmigrated into the world of Country Love! To make matters even more absurd, he's become Xie Guangkun's younger uncle, with a seniority in Ivory Mountain high enough to crush anyone. Before he can process this surreal situation, a flower-patterned pig System munching on a cucumber po 524Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 A Lifelong Wish 一生之愿 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Love in Those Days 那年爱情 I was born in the countryside in the 1970s. This book recounts my extraordinary upbringing, followed by all the ups and downs of getting married, starting a family, and raising children. At its heart is the clash between my generation’s outlook and that of my parents, whose views on marriage, love, and life were shaped by their era, as well as the clashes with my own children’s generation. Life is an experience we pass through, with no right or wrong. People in every era have their own beliefs, 343Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 34 Shier San's 17th Book 十二三第17本书 A new work is here! You can read my stories on Fanqie Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 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. 1.7kReads8.2Score125Shelves
- 36 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. 5.8kReads6.9Score336Shelves
- 37 Rural Love: I Never Meant to Be a Casanova 乡村爱情：我真没想当海王啊 305Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Those Things That Happened in the Mountain Village 山村里的那些事儿 A young man from a mountain village leads the villagers on the road to prosperity. With the help of the women by his side, he overcomes every obstacle, makes his mark on the world, and ultimately rises to wealth and success. 207Reads8.9Score105Shelves
- 39 The 11th Book by Putao Hen Haochi 葡萄很好吃第11本书 [Miracle Healer + Countryside + Farming + Getting Rich + Invincible + Ruthless] Zhang Xiaofan is an orphan taken in by an old hunter from Taoyuan Village. He grows up eating meals provided by the villagers and wearing clothes donated by them. By chance, misfortune turns to fortune when he receives an astonishing inheritance. From then on, he cultivates both medicine and martial arts, and the poor mountain village becomes a secluded paradise. 77Reads7.5Score100Shelves
- 40 Country Love: From the Start, Wang Xiaomeng’s Dad Is Hunting Me Down 乡爱：开局就被王小蒙她爹追杀 Reborn in the world of Country Love, Lin Muyuan is determined to break the curse of Ivory Mountain: “You can come, but you can never leave.” With a spiritual spring and extraordinary learning ability, he gets into Peking University and becomes a master physician. However, an unexpected turn of events makes him give up his life in Beijing and return to Ivory Mountain Village. How will he face the girls he let down six years ago? Wang Xiaomeng, who could barely eat or sleep for thinking about him 4.6kReads5.5Score165Shelves
- 41 The Love and Grudges Between the Three Big Shots of Xiangya Mountain 象牙山三巨头之间的爱恨情仇 The three big shots of Ivory Mountain: love, hate, and all kinds of hilarious mishaps. There's the stammering Liu Neng, Zhao Si with his twitching mouth, and Xie Guangkun, who loves to show off. It's super funny. If you don't laugh, curse the author a couple of times before you go. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Growth of a Dust Flower 尘埃花成长记 As a child, Yuemei watched her parents die cruelly right before her eyes. Yet she still had to show filial devotion to the person who had caused her father’s death… At just ten years old, Yuemei carried her baby sister, who was crying from hunger, out into the night to find milk for her… After barely making it through a childhood of hardship, she faced another blow at seventeen: her younger sister, Yueru, was sold to a bathhouse… What will become of the sisters? Read on to find out. Please be 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Laibao 来宝 Zhang Laibao is the only girl in the Zhang family of Wangshan Village. Her parents, grandparents, and four older brothers dote on and protect her as she grows up carefree, innocent, lively, adorable, and clever. Then, at the age of six, she meets a mute boy, the man who will make her heart skip, ache, and break for the rest of her life! He has crossed time and space from the previous century, following her for the sake of their love in a former life...! Together, they embark on a poignant, earth 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 My Escape from the Mountain Village 逃离山村的经历 [A realistic story of an ordinary country boy’s inspiring growth + not overpowered + no transmigration + no System] This is a tearjerker to follow in the tradition of “Mom, Love Me Once More,” another heart-wrenching story guaranteed to bring you to tears. If you cry easily, don’t read it, because I’m afraid you’ll end up sobbing. Lingling loses both her parents when she is little. All she has left is a brother five or six years older than her and an elderly grandmother. Unable to bear the pain 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 For a Better Life 为了生活更美好 Set in contemporary times, this novel explores the effective transition from poverty alleviation to rural revitalization. Against the backdrop of a great era, an imbalanced population, the preference for sons over daughters, and a mass influx of migrant workers into the cities have left many young men in the countryside unable to find partners. Sun Jiawei is one of them. Hoping to find a girlfriend, he goes to Shanghai for work, only to suffer the miserable ordeal of having his engagement broken 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 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—Shelves
- 47 The Country Farmer 乡野小农民 Ma Laixi was no longer the boy he used to be. He went from being bullied by everyone to turning the tables against all odds, and it took him just one night… 103Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 48 The Mountain Doctor and the Little Woman 山野神医小女人 [Divine Doctor] [Get Rich] [爽文] After Wang Tiezhu was beaten up by the village bully, he unexpectedly inherited the legacy of a divine doctor. From then on, he began turning his life around, enjoying carefree days and the sheer thrill of it all. 28Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 49 Film and TV Crossover: Rising to the Top in Xiangyashan 综影：崛起于象牙山 [A New World Where Multiple TV and Film Universes Collide! Rural Life + Entertainment + Career + One Heroine] Wei Lai dies at the hands of a violent criminal in what appears to be an accidental kidnapping. While his soul drifts through the void, he meets the supercomputer Saiwei, his golden finger. Saiwei takes Wei Lai to a world where TV and film universes overlap. There, Wei Lai experiences the warmth of parental love, something he rarely knew before. Though brief, it is like a beam of light 653Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 50 The Village Belle Blooms 村花朵朵开 With his clever mind, Lu Xiaole makes a success of himself in the village and enjoys one stroke of good luck after another. As he gets rich, he also leads the villagers onto the path to shared prosperity. 4.5kReads7.5Score409Shelves
