Novels like I Gave Up College and Made a Fortune with Animals!
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- 1 I Went Home to Farm, and a Dragon Became My Patron 回家种地，蛟龙给我做靠山 A lovesick fool, cancer, unemployment: Wang Fengyun, a country boy, has failed at working in the city and at life in general. He has no car, no house, no wife, and no savings. But he did take away the city’s most precious treasure: a failed dragon! From then on, he lives a leisurely, carefree life in the countryside, earning a little money, farming, raising adorable pets, and doing good deeds. With his old ox, white pig, and black dog at his side, he rules the village, picks on hooligans, and ta 577Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 2 The Unrivaled Divine Farmer 绝世神农 To help his family rise to prominence in a prosperous age, Xu Zhengmu steps forward. He studies medicine and martial arts, saves lives, grows vegetables and sells fruit, and leads the villagers to prosperity through hard work. He turns a remote mountain village into a paradise on earth, a land of immortals that draws crowds of tourists. The little animals at home adore him, the villagers respect him, the great families of China fear him, and the world’s top powers dread him. “Xiao Mu, I’ll take 851Reads8.7Score104Shelves
- 3 A Laid-Back Dad Raises Kids and Walks His Pets 青山奶爸遛宠带娃 Handcrafted by the author, with no AI: [Reborn] + [Pocket Dimension] + [Caring for a Baby] + [Adorable Pets] + [Working Hard to Make Money] + [Brotherhood] = [Urban Farming + Everyday Life] + [Advanced Martial Arts + Special Abilities + A Touch of the Supernatural] + [Disaster] Ye Tian was a top mercenary and agent before being reborn. In his new life, he raises Niuniu (Ye Tiantian), the adorable daughter of the captain who sacrificed herself to save him. With a few cute pets, a group of friends 60.3kReads8.8Score5.3kShelves
- 4 A Farming Life for One Person and One Vine! 一人一藤蔓的种田生活！ Transmigration + Alternate World + Spatial Dimension + Wood-Type Superpower + No Romance + Farming + Stockpiling Supplies + Food + A Little Vine + Period Story + Superhuman Strength + Living Alone in the Mountains + Peaceful Daily Life + (I love my daughter! She’s happy, thank you!) Also known as: A Farming Life with One Person and One Vine! A diary-like story! A diary-like story! A diary-like story! Important things are worth saying three times! It’s a story about watching the sun rise and set 4.9kReads8.4Score672Shelves
- 5 No Joke, Even the Dogs in My Homeland Know How to Farm 不开玩笑，我种花家的狗都会种田 Female lead, no romance, farming, System, livestreaming Just before she dies from overwork, office drone Xiao Man wishes that in her next life, she won’t have to be human again. Then she’s reborn as a dog. Being a dog isn’t so bad. Her human’s family has fields, farmland, and an orchard, making it a perfect place for a dog to live. And so Xiao Man begins a carefree life in the countryside. Until one day, an accident leaves her human’s family with a glut of unsold crops, plunging the whole house 557Reads9.3Score105Shelves
- 6 Pregnant with Twins, Remarrying a Hunter, Bringing the Husband’s Family to Wealth and Eating Meat 揣双胎改嫁猎户，带夫家暴富吃肉 [Cozy farming and everyday life + adorable baby + devoted couple + doting husband + family matters + spirit-pet space that lets her understand animals] [Charming young wife * steady, reserved, devoted male lead] Fencing athlete Qiao Wantang transmigrates one day, only to have her whole family pressure her into remarrying a rough hunter! It’s all because her cousin schemed against her, leaving her unexpectedly pregnant with the hunter’s child. Her cousin steals her engagement and marries the elde 13.2kReads8.5Score1.1kShelves
- 7 My Peaceful Life in the Mountains 我的悠然山居生活 A doctor at a top-tier hospital, struggling to make ends meet in a big city, overexerts himself and collapses after coughing up blood. By chance, he receives the favor of the Nature of All Things System. From then on, he gains an affinity with plants and animals. He quits his job and returns to a small mountain village, where he chases dogs, catches chickens, plants an orchard, tends vegetable plots, raises fish, and plays with children. He lives an idyllic life while leading the villagers on th 1.9kReads6.1Score—Shelves
- 8 After Returning Home to Farm, I Bound Myself to the Rich Beauty System 回家种田后，我绑定了白富美系统 [The heroine only wants to farm, no romance, a cozy everyday story] Lin Anshu is an ordinary, lowly office drone. Her company is rife with cutthroat competition, and her boss loves docking pay and dangling empty promises. She spent a whole year working in fear and trembling, only to find she owed the company 1,800 yuan when she checked her year-end bonus. She’d be better off going home to farm. Whoever wants this lousy job can have it. In a fit of anger, Lin Anshu fired her boss on the spot, pac 4.2kReads9.1Score382Shelves
- 9 I'm a Lucky Little Darling, Blessed with Good Fortune Every Step of the Way 我是福运小奶包，一路亨通旺旺旺 (Full-cast audio drama + animated series now available) [Farming + beloved by all + lucky treasure + super strength + foreknowledge] To keep the family from being swallowed up by greedy relatives, Qingbao's mother claims she has given birth to a boy. Just then, her father dies on the battlefield, and her mother is frail after a premature birth. Her four gaunt, underfed sisters do their best to keep the family afloat. But little Qingbao is born with a halo of good fortune, and one lucky thing aft 8.7kReads8.9Score769Shelves
- 10 From the Start with a Spirit Spring, I Turn My Hometown into a Peach Blossom Paradise 开局灵泉，我把老家打造成桃花源 [Pocket dimension and spirit spring + country life + raising pets + mutual healing, lighthearted and heartwarming] Her mother had cancer, her scumbag boyfriend was cheating on her, and he and his mistress had stolen her designs. Then she was fired from her company. With her life at its bleakest, An Nuan planned to take her mother back to their hometown to spend her final days there. Then she unexpectedly unlocked a pocket dimension and a spirit spring. Working herself to the bone for a pittance 33.7kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves
- 11 Rural Livestream: 100,000 Acres from the Start 乡村直播：开局10万亩地 Bound to the Manor Owner System, he receives 100,000 mu of land from the start! He decisively chooses to become a great manor owner, farming, raising livestock, fishing, making use of the lush mountains and clear waters, and earning a fortune. Faced with all the wondrous items in the System Shop, An Ge also starts livestreaming. Who would have thought he’d gain tens of millions of fans? Fine food, fine wine, beautiful women, stunning scenery, luxury cars, villas, airplanes, skiing, mountain clim 14.6kReads8.9Score954Shelves
- 12 Eldest Daughter of a Farming Family: Fleeing Famine and Growing a Prosperous Life 农家长姐：逃荒种田过红火小日子 A birthday cake turns Sun Lele from modern times into Zhou Taohua of the Great Yu Kingdom. To make sure her foolish older brother and three younger brothers have enough to eat and warm clothes to wear, she works hard at farming! But something seems off about this village. Aren’t they all being a little too nice to her? She has no parents, no golden finger, and no influential background. But she can have a fiancé: you teach, and I’ll farm. See how Zhou Taohua grows vegetables and grain and raises 8.3kReads9.3Score756Shelves
- 13 EN With a Pocket Dimension in Hand, Farming and Walking Dogs 空间在手，种田遛狗 [Male-oriented opening: Get a spiritual spring space, go home to farm and raise dogs. Male-oriented ending: Sweep every race across the Myriad Worlds into the trash] A rural farming story set in a mountain village. The protagonist stumbles upon a fortuitous opportunity and figures out cultivation on his own. A laid-back cultivation novel with no System, but with a space. Later on, it has two male leads, a father and son, and changes maps after about a thousand chapters. Ye Huan, who works in a b 27.2kReads9.1Score2.5kShelves
- 14 Marry a Wife to Cut My Taxes? I Started by Supporting My Beautiful Bride 娶妻抵税？从养活美娇媳妇开始 [No System + alternate world + farming + hunting + slow burn + not a wish-fulfillment story + political intrigue and warfare + competing for supremacy in troubled times] “Yucheng, do you want a wife or not? Just say the word and I’ll send one over.” “Then go ahead and send her over.” Shen Yucheng thought it was just a joke, never expecting to actually end up with a beautiful wife. The dynasty is in its final years. Warlords carve up the land, and refugees are everywhere. With nothing but bare wa 26.6kReads8.2Score2.1kShelves
- 15 Transmigrated to Prehistory: My Mom Burns Incense and Makes Offerings to Me Every Day 穿到原始：我妈天天给我烧香上供 [Everyone’s Favorite + Transmigration + Pocket Dimension + Farming + Infrastructure Building + Ancient Times + No Romance + Serving the Motherland + Apocalypse] Household Guardian! Please keep my daughter safe and bring her home! Jiang Xiuyun reverently placed three sticks of incense in front of the shrine. After going hungry for three days in primitive society, Jiang Hua grabbed a huge steamed bun that had suddenly appeared and took a bite! The Household Guardian has answered her prayers! When 10.2kReads9.4Score1.2kShelves
- 16 Playing a Life Sim in an Otome Game 在乙女游戏里做生活玩家 [Animated comic now available] [There are a thousand kinds of love] [Everyday cultivation + No CP + Cozy + Not a power fantasy] "Want to fall in love? Then come to [Die Without Romance]! Gentle, tsundere, alluring, aloof, gloomy, masters, senior and junior fellow disciples, half-demons... Whatever you like, we've got it! Come and win them over!" Su Tangxing: No, thank you. She'd rather live a good life and enjoy her cultivation. References: Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang, Baopuzi, Classic o 19.5kReads9.5Score3kShelves
- 17 After Getting Canceled Online, I Became a Sensation by Farming 被全网黑后，我靠种地爆红全网 Original title: After Being Hated by the Entire Internet, I Became Famous by Farming! [Farming] [Not focused on the entertainment industry] [Selling produce] [Livestream] [Raising children] [Cozy] [Everyday life] [Healing] [Romance] Jiang Wanning, a spirit-plant cultivator, transmigrated into the body of a female celebrity hated by the entire internet. Everyone was calling for her to get out of showbiz. Jiang Wanning was happy to take their advice. She packed up and headed back to her hometown i 38.5kReads9.1Score2.4kShelves
- 18 All I Can Do Is Grow Vegetables and Cook, Yet I Became Cultivation World's Top-Tier Star 只会种菜做饭，却成了修真界顶流 [Hilarious and Heartwarming + Food + Farming + A Touch of Modern Cultivation] She inherited a cultivation legacy, and her innate talents were cooking and growing vegetables. She became the leader of a sect, but living in poverty was the norm. From the start, all she had was a ramshackle building, a patch of wasteland, and half a mountain forest. A leader with no great ambitions and four idle disciples. Sect leader Jiang Tingyun said, “In modern society, spiritual energy has dried up. Cul 23.9kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
- 19 Reborn in a Northeastern Mountain Village: Fishing and Hunting Across Two Rivers and Two Nations 重生东北小山村渔猎两江两国 Please give this five stars. Please give this five stars. I don't have much education or skill, and I can't write fancy prose. I use ordinary people's language to tell an ordinary story. If you like it, I thank you for your support with a clasped-fist salute. If you don't, please be kind and don't flame me. An artist can't make a living without noble-minded patrons. I offer my thanks to all of you, my dear supporters. 41.1kReads8.2Score2.8kShelves
- 20 Beachcombing: From the Start, One Sand Shovel Wins Me the Whole Beach 赶海：开局一把沙铲承包整个沙滩 (Daily life + lighthearted + beachcombing + tycoon) I dropped out of a top university and spent two years back in my hometown fishing village. Once the village's golden boy, I became a good-for-nothing everyone despised. Then one day, I discovered I could see my own luck stat and exchange points for beachcombing tools through a virtual screen. From then on, my life was like I had cheats enabled. With a sand shovel, I could easily earn thousands in a day. With a spade, I even dug up a whole bucke 130.1kReads9.4Score12.3kShelves
- 21 I Became a Fussy Old Lady: While Everyone Else Fled the Famine, I Reclaimed the Land 穿成作精老太，别人逃荒我开荒 (No space, no System, no romance. A short drama with the same name has already been released. A warm, rustic story. Everyone says they wouldn’t survive three episodes after transmigrating into a chaotic era. Read this book, and you’ll survive ten more!) She transmigrated into a book, becoming the villainous aunt who abused the protagonist in a male-oriented novel, and was destined to be killed off. Jiang Zhi didn’t cling to the protagonist. She left him behind and relied on her extensive knowled 85.9kReads9.5Score8.2kShelves
- 22 System: The Savage Lands Crown Princess Just Wants to Herd Sheep 系统：蛮荒太子妃只想放羊 Also known as The Ambition Isn't Great: Just You and the World A Qi is clever and innocent. Her eldest brother is honest and just wants enough to eat; her second brother is sharp and wants to see the world. Their aunt is always fierce when chopping wood, their father is a wonderful cook, and their grandfather can recognize twenty characters, though he gets thirteen of them wrong. Their ambitions weren't great, but somehow they ended up winning the world. Content warnings: ... 30.3kReads9.6Score3.8kShelves
