Novels like Sha Gen Isn't Foolish at All
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- 1 A Country Bumpkin’s Triumphant Comeback 山村匹夫强势逆袭 [Period] [Mountain Village] [Daily Life] [Realistic] [Comeback] Everyone says coptis root is bitter, but his childhood was even more bitter. A mountain village, a beautiful young widow, and a boy: together, they write a new chapter in their fates. 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I Dumped My Handsome Wife-Beater and Married an Ugly, Scarred Man 甩了家暴美男，嫁给刀疤丑汉 Period drama + rural life + family squabbles + workplace + nightlife + second marriage + entrepreneurship In the early 1980s, rural woman Wang Xiuhong was abused by her handsome husband, Zhao Dayong. After enduring humiliation, she left with nothing. She went to the city to make a living, suffered bullying at a food factory, and was fired. With nowhere else to turn, she ended up at a nightclub. There she met Yang Jun, a discharged soldier with a face full of knife scars, and the only person in t 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I Started a Company Where No One Has to Work 创业开了家不用上班的公司 After Du Tao was framed and forced to leave his job, he started his own business and opened a company where nobody had to go to work. A traffic accident brought him, by chance, into contact with Li Mimi, the daughter of Dongsha Province's richest man. He also unexpectedly gained the ability to see the future. Li Zunhai, Dongsha's richest man, cares deeply about social status and refuses to accept a poor nobody like Du Tao. Unwilling to live off his girlfriend, Du Tao uses his powers to conquer t 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Spring Sunshine Over the Countryside 暖春照乡野 [Village Life]+ [Period]+ [Rugged Man]+ [Family Life]+ [Angst Before Romance]... Yang Wei’s elder brother, Yang Ming, died unexpectedly, leaving his widowed sister-in-law to raise him all alone! Now that her younger brother-in-law is grown, will Chuntao remarry, choose to spend her life with Yang Wei, or grow old alone? What will Yang Wei decide? What does his father think? What do Chuntao’s parents say? A whole host of questions now stand before them! But those are only minor problems. The real 84Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 5 At the Source of the Peach Blossom Spring 桃花源头 As Old Zhou Nian lay dying, he took Zhou Liye by the hand and told him, “Xiaoye, it's up to you to carry on the Zhou family line. If you trace our family back far enough, we go all the way to the Zhou dynasty, to King Wen of Zhou, King Wu of Zhou, Ji Chang, and Ji Fa. Our ancestors were once members of the imperial family, and our original surname was Ji. It was only after the dynasties changed that our family took the surname Zhou! Here's our ancestral genealogy and the family heirloom, this ja 107.4kReads7.7Score9.6kShelves
- 6 The Beautiful Bride of Flower Village 花村美娇娘 The Zhao family should have been one of the largest clans in Zhaojiagou. The village had once been thriving, but an accident took all the Zhao family’s able-bodied men. Left behind were orphans and widows throughout the village, along with Zhao Ergou, an orphan raised on food given by the neighbors. As the last surviving bloodline of the Zhao family, Zhao Ergou was cherished by everyone in the village. Everyone hoped that Zhao Ergou could lead the villagers and restore Zhaojiagou to its former g 643Reads8.5Score148Shelves
- 7 Thorns and Moonlight 荆棘和月光 My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Deadly Rose: Love, Hate, and Revenge 夺命玫瑰之爱恨情仇 [Rural]+ [Period]+ [Romance]+ [Revenge]…. In the 1990s, college student Yin Meigui gave up her promising future and willingly married Zhang Sheng, a simple, honest farmer. Ever since she arrived in the village, villagers who had come into contact with her began dying one after another in mysterious circumstances, without warning or a trace left behind. The police were at a loss, and the whole village was gripped by panic. Everyone suspected she was the killer, yet no one could find a shred of ev 265Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 9 The Butcher's Fierce Wife Is My Third Sister-in-Law 卖肉悍妇是我三嫂 When Wang Xiuying was eighteen, she chased two men through the streets with a shoulder pole. Everyone in the village said she was too fierce. Who would dare marry her? And yet my useless third brother insisted on marrying her. On their wedding night, she laid down three rules: from now on, I make the decisions at home; don't let anyone bully you again; wherever I point, you hit. We all thought our third brother had married a tigress and that their life together would be impossible. But who could 968Reads—Score100Shelves
- 10 A Comeback After Twenty Years of Widowhood 守寡二十年逆袭 [Period Drama + Strong Female Lead + Farming + Family Life + Widow's Comeback + Single Mother] On her wedding night, her husband is crushed to death by a roof beam, and Liu Chunhong becomes the "husband-killing jinx." Her mother-in-law forces her to give birth to her posthumous child, then turns on her and throws mother and daughter out while she's still recovering from childbirth. Her sister-in-law blocks the door and yells, "A married daughter is like water poured out!" With nowhere else to tu 7.3kReads6.9Score375Shelves
- 11 The Awakening of Guixu 归墟的苏醒 The story takes place in a remote town. A series of bizarre disappearances leads the young detective Lin Yu to an abandoned warehouse, where he discovers an entity known as the “Guixu.” It is neither a monster in the traditional sense nor another dimension, but a membrane beneath the world: a conscious being that has slept for billions of years. It is both the embodiment of the “void” in the collective human consciousness and a fundamental structure of the world itself. The central conflict revo 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 There’s a Real Man in Wild Boar Village 野猪村有个纯爷们 [Hunting + Multiple Heroines + Feel-Good Story + Northeastern Dialect + Farming + System] The protagonist is an orphan, but he's strong and healthy. The mother and daughter next door help him obtain the System: Communicating with All Things. Other people take rifles into the mountains to hunt. He goes into the mountains empty-handed, yet every time he manages to sweet-talk animals into coming back down with him. Chickens, ducks, fish, wild boars, deer, roe deer, all kinds of animals. Most bizarr 10.9kReads6.2Score1.1kShelves
- 13 Legend of the Countryside 传奇乡村 The poor village of Taohua, looked down on by everyone, changes completely after Chen Hao returns. He knows herbal medicine, is good at farming, and can turn barren hills into treasure troves. One after another, the pretty girls in the village start seeing him in a new light. He solves problems and builds up local industries. Tenderness hides in the green hills, and a legend takes root in the countryside. 3.7kReads8.8Score403Shelves
- 14 The Jade-Faced Asura's Cherished One 玉面修罗的掌心宠 A tale of warlord clashes, love and hatred for family and country, and the struggle between love and power. My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Qipao's Willow Waist 旗袍柳腰 A cheongsam and a willow-slim waist 2.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 16 High-Heel Mystery (Sequel) 高跟疑云（续） The High-Heel Mystery (Part Two) 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Light Breeze's 24th Book 淡淡清风第24本书 College student Su Tie is crippled by someone and sent back to his village, where he unexpectedly inherits the legacy of a goddess. He gains heaven-defying cultivation arts, top-tier medical skills, yin-yang techniques, talismans and curses, and can do just about anything. The young man makes a comeback and climbs step by step to the peak of his life. 44Reads6.1Score109Shelves
- 18 Chunhua's Happiness 春花的幸福 Period drama + countryside + political intrigue A woman from a mountain village believes only love can save everything. In her dictionary, poverty is nothing to fear, having no power is nothing to fear, and having no money is even less of a worry. But life's cold rain repeatedly douses her gentle heart, and she learns that money and power can indeed take precedence over love and marriage. The moment her boyfriend appears with the woman he loves, she realizes that the one she needs to save is her 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 A Bitter Girl’s Rebirth 苦妹之涅槃重生 Inside Ku Mei’s five-year-old body lived the soul of someone who had died with a heart full of hatred. Reborn, she faced a spiteful grandmother who beat and berated her, a cold grandfather who enabled the abuse, and a mother who could only weep helplessly. Ku Mei concealed her boundless hatred and memories of her past life, pretending to be timid as she carefully plotted her every move. She outsmarted her relatives and broke free of her shackles, starting with a bottle of chili sauce from the mi 118Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Shirt Buttons of a Beijing Girl 北京大妞的衬衫纽扣 A Beijing Girl’s Shirt Buttons 186Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Village Elders Taught Me Cultivation, but All I Learned Was How to Cook Snails 全村大佬教我修仙，我学会了煮螺 My name is Yu Xiaoyao, a healer led astray by ten powerful masters. The Sword Maniac taught me swordsmanship, so I trained a flying sword the size of a fingernail that’s only good for slicing fruit. The Bruiser taught me boxing, and I invented my own “Trash-Talk Fist,” cursing until my opponents lose their nerve. The Wine Immortal taught me spells, but all I know is “Blind You Silly,” which makes enemies cover their eyes and roll around. No healing required. As for the ancient divine weapon, t 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Li Dongyuan, the Golden Essence Divine Doctor 金元神医李东垣 Synopsis: In the chaotic years of the Jin and Yuan dynasties, Li Gao abandoned commerce to study medicine under Zhang Yuansu. He developed the Spleen and Stomach theory and founded the School of Nourishing Earth. Through his writings and the many students he trained, his ideas had a lasting influence and remain relevant to modern disease treatment. "The Renowned Jin-Yuan Physician Li Dongyuan" takes you on a journey through his remarkable medical career. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Reborn as a Fool: The System Really Understands What Men Want 傻子重生：系统真懂男人心 The Fool was once a dim-witted child from a wealthy family, but after certain events, both of his parents died. From then on, the Fool lived alone in a dilapidated earthen house. Fortunately, the kind mother and daughter next door helped him time and again, allowing him to start a new life... See how the Fool deals with his enemies. 172Reads6.5Score118Shelves
- 24 Wild Tales from the Countryside 乡村荒唐故事 The story is about Wang Dahua’s father, Lao Budai, who coveted the bride price and married Dahua off to a man with a mental illness. Liu Ermao, the man who had loved her before the wedding, became the live-in son-in-law of her younger sister, Erhua… Family, marriage, morality… Our story begins in that absurd era… 14.9kReads8.4Score923Shelves
- 25 A Lone Boat by the River 河边的孤舟 Chen Shan, a young woman born into a middle-class family during the Republic of China era, fell into poverty after her father died. She weathered the tumult of the War of Resistance, the civil war, and the founding of New China. 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The River’s Song Never Sleeps 江声不眠 Set during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, this epic tells the story of progressive journalist Lin Yu and refined young lady Su Yao. They meet, come to understand and love each other amid the turmoil, and join forces in pursuit of their ideals and their cause. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Dusty Tales from the 318 Sichuan-Tibet Highway 318川藏线上的风尘往事 Broke female travelers + Highway 318 + Sichuan-Tibet route + hitchhiking + road trip + finding a wife My company was laying people off, and I was one of them. As if things weren't bad enough, my wife ran off with someone else. Down in the dumps, I headed west toward Tibet. This is the story of a beat-up camper van, the Sichuan-Tibet stretch of Highway 318, and more than thirty women with nowhere else to turn. Every one of their stories is more exciting than my miserable life. 33.6kReads8.2Score2.2kShelves
- 28 The Insurance Saleswoman 保险公司的女业务员 Her name is Chen Xi. She dropped out of high school early and entered the workforce at a young age. She wanted to find a factory job and live a steady life, but she couldn't escape the factory supervisor's unwelcome advances. Unwilling to put up with it, she quit without hesitation and ventured into the insurance industry. With no connections and no tricks, she relies only on hard work and determination. An ordinary girl's life: she has to carve out her own path. The names in this story are use 2.1kReads7.2Score100Shelves
- 29 The High-Heeled Shoe Mystery 高跟疑云 My wife works at a joint-venture company and was recently promoted to head of the human resources department. Lately, she has been working late all the time. I couldn't understand it. What was there to keep HR working overtime for? Yesterday, I went to Guangzhou on a business trip. I was supposed to be gone for several days, but something urgent came up at the company, so I returned early. I wanted to surprise her and didn't tell her. When I got home at eleven that night, the house was empty. I 518Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Reborn as a Northeastern Fool: Fools Really Are Lovable 东北傻子重生：傻子真是招人爱 [Multiple Heroines + Revenge + Farming + Scheming] Chen San is from the 1940s and lives in the mountains of Northeast China. In his previous life, he was a fool. Before he died, he watched as both his sisters-in-law were taken away, then starved to death in a dilapidated earthen house. Reborn after death, this time he will make sure his sisters-in-law have enough to eat and warm clothes to wear, and protect them forever as they live together with him in the mountains. 453Reads6.5Score104Shelves
- 31 The Countryside: The Village Young Master's Extraordinary Life 乡村：村少的妖孽人生 A country boy despised by the village chief's wife gets involved with a wealthy young man's woman in town. When the affair is exposed, he has no choice but to flee the town in the dead of night and seek his fortune elsewhere. Will he live in obscurity from then on, or fight his way to a life of wealth and glory? 14kReads9.0Score1.5kShelves
- 32 Xia Hua, the Village Girl 村女夏花 [Realistic rural life + slow burn + heroine’s growth + family and everyday life + face-slapping the scoundrels] Lin Xiahua’s husband is dead. With two children and a dimwitted older brother to support, she has become the most tempting target in Hama Gou Village. Burdened with her family, without a single plot of land, and with her mother-in-law threatening to sell her by the pound to an old widower and his son! To survive, Xiahua learns to navigate all kinds of men and women. She smiles and char 81Reads7.0Score105Shelves
- 33 The Newlywed Young Widow 新婚小寡妇 In the winter of 1976, Li Yanmei was newly married when her husband died. Branded a “husband-killing” jinx, she was pregnant when her cruel in-laws threw her out with nothing. On a stormy night, she gave birth in a melon shed. Starving and freezing, she swallowed the slur “loose woman” along with her tears. For the little one in her arms, she wiped away her tears and turned humiliation into a stepping stone. She went from selling goods at a black-market stall to reclaiming land for farming, from 1.6kReads6.5Score103Shelves
- 34 The Absurd Goings-On in Yeling Village 野岭村的荒唐事 All kinds of ridiculous things happen in Yeling Village, nestled among barren mountains. By chance, Ma Xiaomao comes into possession of a heavenly book and gains ancient medical skills. He makes his mark in medicine and pharmacy, devotes himself to healing the world, wins the village chief's daughter's heart, and becomes famous for punishing evil and promoting good! 4.4kReads9.0Score520Shelves
- 35 Period: I Bound Myself to a System That Meddles in Everyone's Business 年代：我绑定了多管闲事系统 People transmigrate every year. This year, it happened to be my turn. Li Xiang never dreamed he’d hit the jackpot and transmigrate to the 1960s, becoming Li Xiangbei, the village’s notorious little troublemaker. A shabby house, ragged clothes, and food that scraped his throat: he begged every god in the heavens to let him go home. If he couldn’t go home, couldn’t they at least give him a golden finger? And so he really did get one. He ought to have been thrilled, but what was this “Mind Your 256Reads7.1Score108Shelves
- 36 She Pushed Her Best Friend Toward Her Husband 她把闺蜜推向了丈夫 Keep your home safe from fire, thieves, and your best friend. When a wife spots signs that something is off with her husband, she wonders if she’s just being paranoid. Still, she stays alert. Things take a winding course, and each time there seems to be a reasonable explanation. But the clues keep piling up, and she can’t help confiding her doubts to her best friend. In the end, the evidence of an affair gradually points to the best friend. 267Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Great Yong's First Empress and Medicine Merchant 大庸第一女皇药商 [Fictional ancient setting] [Strong female lead] [Soul transmigration] Tang Yiru, daughter of the Great Yong's famed physician and top scholar Tang Wenxu, transmigrates into a farming family. The original owner had a brown birthmark and was forced by her stepmother to marry a lame hunter. After enduring terrible abuse, she died beneath a fire poker. Now inhabiting her body, Tang Yiru awakens the Cloudmist Mountain realm her father left behind, accompanied by a thousand-year-old lotus spirit. She 185Reads8.8Score104Shelves
- 38 The Village Girl Who Went to College 山村女大学生 [Workplace romance] [Modern romance] [Countryside] Li Wanqing and Zhao Qingshan were classmates at the provincial medical university and a couple. After graduation, Li Wanqing returned to her hometown to build a career, while Zhao Qingshan stayed in the big city to pursue greater opportunities. They began a long-distance relationship. After spending so much time apart, their relationship ran into trouble, and their years of love came to a complete end. Back home, Li Wanqing thought she had fo 242Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Fifty Years of Bride Price: In 1974, It All Began with a Broken Engagement 彩礼50年，1974从悔婚开始 In the bitter winter of 1974, Zhao Shuangzhu publicly called off his engagement and was given three days to come up with a hundred yuan for the bride price. He swallowed his pride and borrowed from every neighbor he could, took the old folks’ burial savings, and went into the mountains at night to hunt rabbits and trade them for cash on the black market. Dodging the market inspectors, he stumbled through the hardest hurdle of his life. He spent the rest of his life marrying, raising children, an 93Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Period: He's Set His Sights on the Village Chief's Daughter 年代：他盯上村长闺女 In 1982, in a mountain village in Northeast China, 26-year-old Cuier was widowed and raising a child. She suffered constant abuse at the hands of villains and could only endure it to protect her daughter. Her late husband’s younger brother, Erjun, returned home after leaving the army. Upright and resolute, he repeatedly stepped in to protect his sister-in-law. They warmed one another through hardship, and feelings quietly blossomed between them. At last, they had something to look forward to. Bu 8.9kReads7.9Score545Shelves
- 41 The Peanut-Drying Production Line Can't Warm the Hearts of the Insatiably Greedy 花生烘干流水线暖不了贪得无厌的人心 A peanut-drying production line can't warm the hearts of the insatiably greedy. 67Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 A Crazy, Love-Filled Life 疯狂去爱的快活人生 If you meet the right person at the wrong time, don’t hesitate or waver. Be bold and love them madly. Throw yourself into it without a shred of shame, and you’ll find that life can be a whole lot of fun... 25.4kReads7.2Score1.8kShelves
- 43 An ER Doctor Can’t Cure a Mad Dog, But Can Treat Its Owner 急诊医生治不了疯狗，但能治狗主人 An emergency doctor can’t cure a rabid dog, but they can treat its owner. 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 My Second Brother: Two Young Men Venture into the Northeast 我的二哥之二小闯东北 My second older brother ran away from home when he was twelve, heading northeast with a child from the neighbors’ family. The two of them endured countless hardships to make it there, only to find themselves in the wolf’s den and the tiger’s lair. And so began a story no one could ever forget. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 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. 2.3kReads7.1Score255Shelves
- 46 My Mother, Wang Juzhen 俺娘王菊珍 [Based on real life + hardship + historical era + the struggles and perseverance of ordinary people at the bottom of society] This is not a feel-good power fantasy. The protagonist of this book is my beloved and respected great-grandmother, a poor old woman who struggled through the surging tide of an era. Wang Juzhen never had an easy life. Her parents starved to death while fleeing famine, her own sister sold her for a mouthful of grain, and a landlord lusted after her. Only Wang Long gave her 106Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Reborn as Han Xin, I Defeat Xiang Yu and Liu Bang to Unite the World 魂穿韩信灭项羽刘邦一统天下 Soul Transmigration and Rebirth + Historical Research + Power Progression and Conquest + Changing History + A World of Beauties In 196 BC, inside the Bell Chamber of Changle Palace, Xiao He and Empress Lu stand side by side at the top of the steps. Han Xin: "I regret not taking Kuai Tong's advice. I was deceived by women and children. Was this not fate? In my next life, I'll kill Liu Bang and sleep with Lü Zhi!" Han Ke, a graduate student in history at Peking University, wakes up to discover tha 270Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Home on a Unicycle 独轮车上的家 The novel follows Liu Shouren and his family from the late 1970s to the present day. As society changes and the countryside is transformed, they weather a tumultuous journey. Through stories from in and around the village, it portrays the lives, resilience, struggles, and growth of countless ordinary rural families across China... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Domineering Village Chief Gets Caught 霸道村长落网记 [Rural] [Period Drama] [Tragedy] Synopsis: The domineering village chief Hu Gang, backed by his family, bullies men, preys on women, and commits every kind of evil. After Hu Ying, the heroine, is abused by Hu Gang and his son, she escapes. With Yang Jun's help, she ultimately brings down the entire Hu family. Yet Hu Ying's tragic fate is only just beginning... (You won't believe it until you read it!) 1.3kReads7.5Score103Shelves
- 50 After Marriage, She Got Hooked 婚后，她上瘾了 After Marriage, She Became Addicted 260Reads—Score—Shelves
