Novels like Sha Gen Isn't Foolish at All
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- 51 Water Willow 水性杨花儿 (The rating was just added and will rise. It's already going up!) Neighbor Guo Hongmei ran off with another man? What? That man is Yang Hua'er's husband, Zhao Dashan? Talk about gossip coming right back to bite you. They say nine out of ten people born in the Year of the Sheep are fated to have a hard life, but Yang Hua'er doesn't believe in fate. Even without a man, she can still make a warm and happy life for herself. 9.8kReads8.2Score657Shelves
- 52 My Sister-in-Law's Youth 嫂子的青春 Su Pingping had a happy, loving family, but after her husband died, everything changed dramatically. Having endured the hardships of life and the confusion of love, her attitude toward romance gradually... 4.1kReads6.4Score327Shelves
- 53 The Lingering Warmth of the Earthen Bed 土炕上的余温 The quarry in the hills behind Laojing Village buried the men from half the village. All that remained were a village full of widows and children crying from hunger. Thirty migrant miners moved into the workers' barracks, all strapping bachelors. The widows cursed men to their faces, then dug out their floral jackets at night and deliberately walked past the barracks. Each of the three widows had her own reasons: one wanted a protector to help raise her child, one hoped to get some rice and flou 12.1kReads8.9Score768Shelves
- 54 San Biaozi 三彪子 In 1980, in Kaoshan Village on the banks of the Songhua River, the Gao family’s fifth child is born. Dubbed “San Biaozi” because he is a bit dim, he grows up amid poverty and gossip. His mother bears the painful memory of having been assaulted, while his father quietly shoulders the burden of their broken family. San Biaozi drifts through life in a daze, but after a string of fires, people begin to suspect him of arson. While working the night shift guarding the grain depot, he learns to smoke. 708Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 The Country Bumpkin's Immortal Path Defying Heaven 乡村傻子逆天仙途 After Jiang Dongming was pushed off a cliff by his best friend and spent three years in a daze, he wakes to find himself with a paralyzed factory-director wife and a quirky sister-in-law who spends all day causing trouble. With nothing but bare walls at home and his parents suffering humiliation, he is fortunate enough to inherit an immortal art. From then on, he soars to success and rules the city. 6.8kReads8.9Score916Shelves
- 56 That Year, I Was Sixteen 那年拾六岁 When Li Shanyue was sixteen, her family traded her to Zhang Debiao from the neighboring village for three thousand yuan and two pigs. Zhang Debiao was a widower with two children. Everyone in the village said marrying him was Li Shanyue's fate. Li Shanyue didn't believe in fate. She smiled as she brought Zhang Debiao water and cooked his meals, cared for his two children as if they were her own, and kept the house spotless. Everyone thought she had accepted her lot. Zhang Debiao ended up wit 936Reads—Score101Shelves
- 57 Flowers Beneath the Eaves 檐下花 This is a story of a woman’s journey toward self-growth beneath the eaves of a village home. She relies on no one and waits for no one. She will make her own spring bloom: she moves into a side room at her brother and sister-in-law’s home to live alone. The hushed late-night conversations between her brother and sister-in-law next door unwittingly become her belated introduction to love. 1.5kReads—Score152Shelves
- 58 Miracle Doctor: I Saved Two Women, and Now They Insist on Marrying Me 神医：救了俩姑娘，她们非要嫁我 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to keep writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1.3kReads6.7Score137Shelves
- 59 Old Huang and Old Hei 老黄与老黑 [Period Drama] [Countryside] [Married Life] Set in the early 1980s, this novel tells the story of four families, the Lins, Wangs, Lius, and Chens, in an unremarkable village on the Loess Plateau in the Great Northwest. They scheme and struggle against one another, while brothers and sisters-in-law within each clan bear their own grudges and grievances. But it is better to resolve enmity than let it fester. Lin Junjie is the first young man in the village to get into college, bringing honor to th 56Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 60 The Young General’s One True Love 少年将军独倾心 Su Yao gazes at her increasingly pale reflection in the bronze mirror, her heart bitter. Her husband’s death has left her fate hanging by a thread. Her greedy father and the complicated household are all driving her toward a dead end, until a tall figure clad in silver armor enters her sight. He is Zhao Haotian, a young general and the household’s second son, as well as her only chance at survival. A struggle for survival and love quietly unfolds within the sprawling estate. Su Yao plans her eve 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 The Charming Village Girl Doesn't Give Her Heart Away 俏村花她不走心 People say that a widow’s doorstep invites trouble, but Chunfang isn’t afraid. She goes out of her way to surround herself with men. After years of struggling in the dirt, she’s seen through it all: you can’t rely on a man’s heart, but you can rely on his money and connections. So she smiles as she plays several men against one another. One helps her come up with the cash, another finds her a market for her goods. The villagers call her shameless. Chunfang sneers. “How much is a reputation worth 20.9kReads8.0Score1.2kShelves
- 62 Kicked Out After My Second Marriage, I Thrive Back in the Countryside 二婚被赶，我回农村混得风生水起 Strong Female Lead, Feel-Good Modern Fiction, Period Setting, Building a Career, Comeback, Livestream Commerce, Getting Rich Zhou Xiaoya is forced by her in-laws to have an abortion during her second marriage. Her ex-husband marries someone new, and she leaves with nothing but her daughter, returning to her village. Everyone thinks she'll starve on the streets. Instead, she makes a fortune selling goods through her livestream, and even helps the whole village get rich. How did the woman who was 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 The Lane House 2: A Difficult Road 小巷人家2艰难之路 Zhuang Tunan injured his leg working overtime during the New Year holiday, then accompanied his parents back to the old alley. Li Jia wanted to stay by his side, but her family was always against it. Lin Dongzhe finally made something of himself and became a boss, while Zhuang Xiaoting returned to the alley pregnant. To prove himself, Zhuang Tunan started selling books and newspapers at the entrance to the alley, and tutored the neighborhood children on the side. Life was comfortable enough, but 14.6kReads6.7Score334Shelves
- 64 The Beautiful First Half of Her Life 美艳的前半生 The story takes place in a rural village in Hebei in 1999. Meiyan has been sweet, beautiful, and clever since childhood, and everyone in the village agrees she's the local beauty. After failing her university entrance exams on her second attempt, she has no choice but to face the path fate has laid out for her. Swept up by Li Gangqiang's relentless pursuit, she gives him everything. But on the very day he steps through the gates of college, he gets together with another woman. Betrayed, Meiyan s 10.3kReads7.1Score228Shelves
- 65 The Woman with Five Marriages 五婚女人 Among contemporary Chinese literature's portrayals of rural women's lives, Zheng Guozhen's story grips readers with its astonishing realism and tragic depth. Through an ordinary rural woman's five failed marriages, this novel sketches the hardships of rural women's lives and inner worlds during China's social transformation in the 1990s. From an arranged marriage imposed by her parents to a self-serving union built on dependence on power, from an emotional wasteland scarred by violence to a brie 1.8kReads7.9Score238Shelves
- 66 The Village Doctor: Xu Xiaofan Rules the Countryside 乡村神医，徐小凡纵横乡野 Xu Xiaofan, a fourth-year medical student, is unexpectedly blacklisted by the hospital and expelled from school. After returning to Taohua Village to work as its village doctor, he happens upon the legacy of the Golden Toad Immortal. From then on, his medical skills reach the heavens and his fortunes soar, carrying him to the pinnacle of life. One day, after achieving fame and success, Xu Xiaofan gazes at the moon and sighs, “People in Taohua Village may scheme against one another, but we’re tru 9.4kReads8.1Score709Shelves
- 67 Xia Guangnuan's First Book 霞光暖暖的第1本书 [Period Setting + Realistic Rural Life + Family Matters + Adultery + Beloved by Everyone + A Woman’s Growth] Hong Xing is a village doctor, twenty-three years old, and the mother of two daughters. Only after her husband dies unexpectedly does she discover that the man who always seemed so honest and quiet, a man who could hardly get a word out even if you beat him with three sticks, had betrayed her. Her whole world collapses. She had always followed the rules of a virtuous wife, respected her p 1.3kReads7.9Score131Shelves
- 68 The Rugged Man Next Door Is Too Wild, and the Village Beauty Blushes in His Embrace 隔壁糙汉太野，村花害羞怀里娇 [Rugged Hero + Pure Romance + Marriage Before Love + Sizzling Chemistry + Sweet Married Life + Building a Fortune] [Delicate Village Beauty VS Cold, Rugged Neighbor] The night Song Qingshan returned to the village, he heard cries coming from next door before he had even entered his own home. He climbed onto a haystack and stole a peek. Poor Wen Sui was bent over a millstone, being beaten. She trembled with pain and sobbed pitifully, looking utterly heartbreaking. The sight set Song Qingshan’s bl 18.4kReads6.5Score680Shelves
- 69 Reborn in a Desperate World, I Save Lives with Medicine! 胎穿绝境求生，我靠医术济苍生！ [Reborn in the womb] [Master physician] [Ancient setting] [Slow burn] In his previous life, Tang Wenxu was an unfulfilled veteran of traditional Chinese medicine. Handsome and talented, with superb medical skills, he refused to curry favor with the powerful and was always generous to others, yet lived in poverty all his life. His mother and younger brother died of tuberculosis. Though he had the medical skills to help them, he was powerless to save them. At the age of eighty-six, he closed his e 275Reads9.1Score148Shelves
- 70 The Plains' True Colors 平原底色 Beginning in the twenty-first century, this novel follows Fang Lizhu, a child of the post-80s generation growing up in the rural Jianghan Plain of central China. Through Fang Lizhu's education, work, and the many people he meets and events he experiences, the novel portrays how life has changed for people across the plains since the start of the new century. It also depicts the many ways ordinary people respond to sweeping changes in a new era and a shifting social landscape: the choices they ma 17Reads—Score114Shelves
- 71 Love Debts 情债【李幼斌主演的电视剧】 Also known as The Peach Blossom Luck of Sister-in-Law Jiang Qi. A lost paradise in Northeast China, a little mountain village in the Changbai Mountains: the Abandoned Village. Journey beyond a life of hardship and let this story sweep you away. The tangled affairs between men and women in the countryside, and the everyday love and hatred that bind them. So many debts of passion, so many heartbreaks. 7kReads8.4Score522Shelves
- 72 Childhood in the Old Days 旧时光里的童年 The author recalls a rural childhood in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province, during the 1970s and 1980s. The book describes rural life and the changes brought about by the household responsibility system in the early days of reform and opening up, along with the joys and hardships of the author’s childhood before the age of ten, major family upheavals, and the warmth and coldness of human nature. 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Wei Wanqiao, the Village Girl 村女魏晚荞 In 1987, in Loess Village in eastern Henan, Wei Wanqiao learned to weave homespun cloth and dye it with plants from her grandmother as a child. Her weaving and dyeing skills were renowned far and wide. But in her parents' eyes, she was no more than a bargaining chip for a bride price. To raise the money for her younger brother's marriage, they secretly accepted a bride price from Zhao Erhun, a gambler from the neighboring village, and planned to force her into marriage. Refusing to accept her fa 84Reads—Score103Shelves
- 74 The Mountain Doctor 山野妙手小医圣 [Urban + rural + miracle doctor + multiple heroines + hot-blooded + wish fulfillment] Wang Tiezhu, a simple-minded young man from Taoyuan Village, often went into the mountains to work alongside the widow Lin Wan'er. One day at noon, the two rested in the shade of a tree beside a field ridge. A village rogue who had been tailing them for a long time suddenly sprang from the bushes, intent on taking advantage of Lin Wan'er. The foolish lad everyone looked down on had always been treated kindly by 3kReads—Score169Shelves
- 75 The Swapped Brides: Whose Fault Is It? 替嫁姐妹，谁的错！ This book has been adapted into two comic dramas: "The Swapped Brides, Whose Fault Is It?!" and the brand-new version, "Sisters Breaking Free." In a poor, remote village in the 1980s, the Tang family favors sons over daughters. Their three girls are nothing but bargaining chips for bride prices. One absurd bride swap and three exorbitant bride prices send the sisters into three difficult marriages. Struggling through the mud, bound by entanglements for half a lifetime. The long-suffering Tang s 42.6kReads8.4Score1.8kShelves
- 76 Brother-in-Law, Brother-in-Law 姐夫姐夫 The story begins with the older sister, Da Qiao, being caught in bed by an old classmate ten years ago. She lived a lavish, debauched private life and cultivated the image of a rich woman. Ten years later, she uses seduction to take revenge on a female university professor... The story takes its time and stays close to real life, showing the everyday hardships faced by ordinary people at the bottom of society. I hope you enjoy it! 2.2kReads6.7Score161Shelves
- 77 The Moon Deep in the Cornfield 玉米地深处的月亮 That summer, her new husband publicly insulted her, saying she “looked like an eggplant.” She grabbed her bundle and ran away in the middle of the night. Su Caiying sat on the edge of the kang until well past midnight. Instead of a wedding night, all she got was humiliation. By morning, the whole village knew that the new bride of the Liu family was “bad luck for her husband.” Her man had run off on their wedding night. When the family split up, she was given half a sack of dried sweet potatoes, 8.3kReads6.4Score559Shelves
- 78 Rouge in the Tulou 土楼里的胭脂 In the Jianghuai region during the Republic of China era, earthen fortresses rise tall. The beautiful widow Qin Yuening is seized by the bandit Shen Keji, and a “wife-for-hire contract” seals her fate in his rough bandit stronghold. She once hated him to the core. She fled, tried to kill him, and even hung from the rafters rather than submit. He spends half his life conquering territory, all for the day she says, “I will.” When war reaches their doorstep, their bloodstained hands finally clasp t 1.9kReads—Score249Shelves
- 79 Chasing Dreams in the Countryside, with Thorny Roads to Love 乡村逐梦，情路荆棘 Li Xiangqin and Zhao Xiaobing were college classmates and a couple. After graduation, Li Xiangqin returned to her hometown to build a career, while Zhao Xiaobing was unwilling to leave the big city, so they began a long-distance relationship. As time went by, their values and outlooks diverged. They often argued and struggled to understand each other, until their relationship finally fell apart. Because of her family’s circumstances, Li Xiangqin married the son of the richest man in her village. 227Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 The Long-Suffering Younger Sister 苦妹 This is a bloodcurdling, suffocating epic of female suffering. It tells the tragic story of a woman called Ku Mei, whose life was mercilessly crushed by fate over more than half a century, from the early 1960s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. In 1960, during a famine-stricken winter, she was born the second daughter in her family and named Pan Di, “Hoping for a younger brother.” From then on, her grandmother saw her as a “jinx” and branded her Ku Mei, “Bitter Girl.” In a family that 3.3kReads8.8Score404Shelves
- 81 The On-Screen CEO Is Actually a Puppy in Private 荧幕霸总私下竟是小奶狗 · Two top-tier stars | Mutual secret crushes | Livestreamed dating show | The whole internet swoons · Cold on the outside, pure-hearted and devoted actor x gentle yet strong-willed, healing actress. In public, he's a cool, abstinent screen idol who commands the room. In private, he's a loyal puppy who can only gaze at her with longing. Chen Caifu never imagined she'd join a dating show with her senior, Lin Jia, whom she'd secretly loved for years. In front of the cameras, he's a distant, refined 469Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 San Francisco Blood Prison: My Husband Is Hiding Evidence of Three Clans' Massacre 旧金山血牢：我丈夫藏着三族灭门证据 San Francisco Blood Prison: My Husband Is Hiding Evidence of the Massacre of Three Clans —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 My Days and Nights Imprisoned by My Best Friend's Yandere Little Brother 我被闺蜜病娇弟弟禁锢的日日夜夜 The Days and Nights I Was Kept Imprisoned by My Best Friend’s Yandere Brother 2.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Fireworks on the Islet, Where People Make Their Homes, Starting in the 1970s 洲上烟火有人家，从七十年代开始 [Rural Romance] [Family Life] [Educated Youth Teacher] [Neighborly Disputes] [Eerie Shadows in the Village] [Country Living and Laughs] This book has no pocket dimension, no System, and no transmigration or rebirth. It tells only of ordinary people’s rural lives and the hard-won warmth and bustle of everyday life through years of hardship. The story begins in the 1970s and follows several families living in the countryside. Among them are educated youths sent to work in the villages, militia mem 116Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 85 A Motherless Child, Cared for by His Sister-in-Law 没妈的孩子，嫂子疼 [Period drama + No System or storage space] After my adoptive parents died in a car accident, my older brother Zhang Dakui and I depended on each other. Ever since Dakui brought my sister-in-law Liu Chunmei home, our lives changed. And so did my life... 98Reads6.2Score112Shelves
- 86 Tales of the Northeast: Women Who Climbed Over the High Walls of Grand Estates 东北往事之翻过深宅高墙的女人们 In 1946, on the black soil of Northeast China, Chunxiang, daughter of tenant farmer Wang Mazi, marries Liu Laogen, the landlord's son. Her father receives several acres of good farmland and dozens of silver dollars as a handsome betrothal gift. She thinks she has married into wealth and will live a secure life as a young madam, but Liu Laogen has a hidden ailment, and their marriage proves to be one in name only. Chunxiang is determined to escape the prison that has trapped her, but her greedy f 53.7kReads8.7Score3.1kShelves
- 87 Wild Lilies of the Mountain Village 山村野百合 An eighteen-year-old village beauty married a thirty-three-year-old simpleton. A month after their wedding, her husband drowned, and she was branded a woman who brought death to her husband… This story offers a true-to-life account of the loves and hatreds, joys and sorrows of ordinary rural people. It faces the ugliness and greed of human nature head-on, while reflecting on the sincerity and warmth found in this world. 276Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 My Younger Sister Sent Me to Entertain Men, but After I Fell Off a Cliff, the Entire Kingdom of Women Adored Me 被亲妹妹安排四处应酬，坠崖后全女儿国偏爱我 My younger sister pushed me into one social engagement after another. After I fell off a cliff, the entire kingdom of women doted on me. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 The Cultivation Trickster Who Made It into 749 修仙小神棍，修进749 Liu Dabao was an orphan picked up by Liu Changgen of Wolong Village. Known as a “half-immortal,” Liu Changgen was famous for miles around and nicknamed “the old quack.” Besides treating headaches and fevers, he was especially skilled at gynecology and other difficult ailments. Liu Dabao graduated from a traditional Chinese medicine university, but not only could he not find a job, his girlfriend also left him for a rich heir with a Land Rover. After returning to the village to inherit his mentor 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 Tiezhu's Fate 铁柱的命 In the 1990s, the twenty-year-old Tiezhu, whose given name was Gao Fei, was handsome, dashing, and well educated. He studied hard, hoping to change his fate through knowledge and escape the countryside. But fate kept playing tricks on him, making him fail time and again. Disheartened, he found the courage to face life again with encouragement from Yanhua, the village beauty. His excellence always won him admirers. After meeting different women, he gradually realized who loved him most. Sadly, by 5.3kReads6.8Score207Shelves
- 91 The Pinnacle of Country Life 乡野巅峰人生 Guaranteed to hook you from the very first page! [Miracle Doctor + Beauties + Farming + Getting Rich] After Lin Xiaofei was left paralyzed in an accident, his kind-hearted neighbor often came to look after him. He thought he would spend the rest of his life in quiet simplicity, but unexpectedly gained a cultivation inheritance. Not only did he recover, he also gained extraordinary abilities. From then on, he beat up villains, made a fortune, and leaped from rags to riches! 26.8kReads8.9Score3.5kShelves
- 92 Picking Up a Wife on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway: My Story with a Budget Traveler 川藏线捡媳妇：我和穷游女的故事 I’m well into my thirties, out of work, and my wife has left me. I watched outdoor vloggers on short-video apps making money while cuddling up to women, and slapped my thigh: Why shouldn’t I be able to do that? I gritted my teeth and bought a secondhand camper van. I called it chasing poetry and distant horizons, then hit National Highway 318. Really, I just wanted to see if I could find myself a wife along the Sichuan-Tibet route. Who would have thought I’d find all kinds of stories instead 9.8kReads7.0Score773Shelves
- 93 Imprisoned by Love, She Has Nowhere to Run 囚爱，她无处可逃 [Both leads are sexually inexperienced + forced love + age gap + obsessive and possessive; proceed with caution if this bothers you] Li Sihan is the heir apparent to the wealthy Li family in City A and the group’s sole successor. He is uninhibited, arrogant, and untamable. Ye Xingwan is secretary to the chairman of the Li Group. Though she comes from a poor family, chairman Li Nanting funded her education, allowing her to graduate and join the company. He trusts and values her greatly. The two s 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 94 The Mark of Kindness 善良的印记 The Mark of Kindness 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 A Cross Mark in the Palm of My Hand 掌心有十字纹 Other people turn their imaginings into stories. I only write about things that really happened to me. My name is Song San. I served in the military, worked as a section chief, and spent three years in a vegetative state. After waking up, I opened a traditional Chinese medicine clinic. A sign outside read: Fortune-telling, feng shui, and difficult medical cases also welcome. Some call me a miracle doctor; others call me a charlatan. Only I know that I learned everything I can do during those thr 693Reads8.9Score120Shelves
- 96 A Good-for-Nothing with No Soul, I Am the Wolf Clan's Saintess of Ten Thousand Years 废柴无魂，我是狼族万年圣女 A good-for-nothing with no soul: I am the Wolf Clan's Saintess of Ten Thousand Years —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 My Wife Is a Yoga Instructor 我的老婆是瑜伽教练 My Wife Is a Yoga Instructor 2.6kReads—Score—Shelves
- 98 Middle Age, and My Marriage Is an Empty Shell 人到中年，婚姻只剩空壳 From innocent young love to an unexpected pregnancy before marriage, she blundered into a marriage she’d never truly wanted. Before the wedding, her mother-in-law schemed constantly and was stingy, refusing to give even a penny in bride price. From the moment she entered the family home, she felt wronged and began to harbor resentment. After the wedding, her husband proved to be a complete mama’s boy: mediocre, unambitious, and incapable of taking responsibility. He did whatever his mother told 3.4kReads—Score169Shelves
- 99 Outsiders Join Forces with My Wife to Set a Trap, but I'm the One Who Breaks It 外人联手妻子做局，我才是破局人 A 35-year-old algorithm genius at a major tech company is framed by his boss and laid off. His cheating wife conspires with outsiders to seize his assets and custody of their child. His father dies in grief after being scammed with an AI face-swap. Just as he hits rock bottom, an accidental electric shock links him to the bioenergy of the future, the year 2080, awakening cutting-edge electromagnetic wave tracing technology! He tears his treacherous wife and her lover apart, takes down his unscru 79Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Love Between Two Generations: An Inescapable Bond 两代情之逃不出的羁绊 A bloody maelstrom was set in motion by a marriage swap in the late 1980s. One bride died, and the other fled. The humiliation Hua'er endured on her wedding night is enough to make anyone blush with shame, while the hardships Zijun faced as she fled her marriage are deeply moving. Though the story is named for two generations, it is really about three generations and the sweeping changes in their views on love, marriage, and life. It also shows China's tremendous economic boom and the profound s 5.4kReads9.0Score741Shelves
