Novels like Taking Barren Fields Back to the Past
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Taking Barren Fields Back to the Past, best match first.
- 1 Reborn in the 1980s: Living Off the Mountains 重生八零之靠山吃山 He was tricked into leaving the mountains, and it ruined his whole life. Given another chance, Xu Wangshan decides to stay in the mountains. Gathering chestnuts, picking mushrooms, digging up mountain delicacies: he can make money from it all. Pheasants, wild rabbits, wild boars, black bears: once he shoulders his hunting rifle, they're all his for the taking. While others scrape by on gruel and greens, his family feasts on delicious food and drink. As for the swindler and his accomplices, he'll 0Votes7.9kRecs33.6kFans
- 2 Wasteland Commander 末世指挥官 Bombers roar across the sky! Main battle tanks thunder across the wasteland! Cruisers cut through the waves! A million troops annihilate the zombie horde! Explosions! Dust clouds! Flames! Mushroom clouds blot out the sky! A city of war rises in the apocalypse! Giant cannons aim into the distance! The survivors sing! The resistance trembles in fear! All these miracles began with a folder belonging to Tang Zheng! 0Votes79.1kRecs160.3kFans
- 3 Reborn as India’s Richest Man 重生印度当首富 When Jogo regained consciousness, he found that he had been reborn as Jogo Gupta, a sixteen-year-old boy from a middle-class family in Mumbai in 1986. He could have just lain flat. His family had a decent income, and he attended an expensive private international high school. But his father had just gone bankrupt, owing the bank a million in loans. They'd gone from millionaires to a million in debt. To keep their home and avoid losing everything and ending up in the slums, Jogo first had to repa 0Votes30.6kRecs106.4kFans
- 4 1994: The Vegetable Farmer's Comeback 1994：菜农逆袭 Vegetable farmer Chen Jiazhi returns to 1994. That year, he is 21. He leaves home for Huacheng and begins his first stint as a vegetable farmer. Then the rookie farmer is hit by one disaster after another: the rainy season rots his crops at the roots, torrential rain wipes out his harvest, typhoons bring floods, heat waves bring drought, and then a cold snap strikes... Now he has a chance to start over. For vegetable farmers, terrible weather is both a disaster and an opportunity. (Farming + Dai 29Votes116.3kRecs174kFans
- 5 The Shadow of the Dao 道影 All conditioned things are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows. Everything in this world is no more than a blemish in the eye, a bubble on the water, the scorching sun on a spring day, or the dew at dawn. None of it is real. And even the everlasting legacy of a thousand generations comes from the stars and returns to the stars. Countless planes and billions of living beings, immortals and mortals alike, struggle to cross the sea of existence in a dream. Are they not just reflections of 28Votes108.9kRecs160kFans
- 6 My 1995 Small Farm 我的1995小农庄 With a pocket paradise in hand, Chen Ling returns from a prosperous future to 1995 and unwittingly creates a secluded utopia... He raises chickens and ducks, plays with the dogs, and tends the cattle. On quiet days, he spends two or three days hunting in the mountains. When work is busy, he sweats in the fields, and gold and silver pile up at home. The honey from the cliffs is delicious, and the fish and shrimp in the streams are a delight. He fishes, picks melons, and plants fruit trees. Tucked 1Votes229.2kRecs296.6kFans
- 7 A Door in My Mind 脑海带着一扇门 Jiang Xiaochuan transmigrates to another era in a parallel world. In these times of scarcity, he uses his pocket dimension and supernatural abilities to improve life for himself and his family. While everyone else is limited to just six liang of meat a month, Jiang Xiaochuan's family secretly eats their fill. While others struggle to find cotton in winter, he grows it in his pocket dimension. An ageless protagonist returns to the era of ration coupons. He keeps his head down and gets by... Pocke 0Votes476.7kRecs541.1kFans
- 8 The Road to Immortality Begins as a Hunter 长生从猎户开始 Li Yuan transmigrated into a martial-arts world where demons and ghosts lay in wait, becoming an ordinary hunter. Struggling simply to survive, he only discovered that his golden finger had finally arrived after he gained a wife. The stars shift, the seas transform into mulberry fields, mountains and rivers change, but I remain unchanged. 0Votes86.6kRecs746.3kFans
- 9 EN My Immortal Dad 仙父 “I transmigrated, and so did my dad.” Li Ping'an had already arranged everything. He'd secured a solid livelihood for his old man back in the mortal world and pulled strings to get himself into an immortal sect. Then he planned to dedicate himself to the path of immortality and stake everything on his chance to become an immortal. But on the day he went for an aptitude test in the mortal world, everything changed... [A lighthearted xianxia comedy with an everyday-life feel. The author has comple 5Votes438.2kRecs1.6MFans
- 10 Heavenly Official of Blessings and Virtue 福德天官 When the false is taken for true, even the true becomes false; when nothing is mistaken for something, even something becomes nothing. A fake Earth God: I shall become the cycle of reincarnation! A real Earth God: Once I kill you, I’ll set up a grand feng shui formation and give you a nice-looking burial mound. A fake Earth God: Great virtue bears all things. A real Earth God: Not bad. I’ll take that. Heavenly treasures belong to whoever has the virtue to claim them. Fake Earth God: Honest and s 4Votes180.5kRecs446.1kFans
- 11 EN Reborn, Who Needs Romance? 都重生了谁谈恋爱啊 After struggling all the way to the age of thirty-eight without being able to afford a home, he is told that getting married requires paying a bride price of three hundred thousand yuan first. He has scrimped and saved for most of his life, worked himself to the bone, but where did all the money go? Who exactly earned it all? Jiang Qin, reborn at eighteen with countless grievances weighing on him, opens his eyes with only one thought: start a business and make money. Step one: take back the lo 275Votes1.4MRecs11MFans
- 12 EN My Life Among the Uncanny 我的诡异人生 In the age of declining magic, evil ghosts have returned, and there is no way out for humanity. A watch passed down to Su Wu by his late parents lets him travel between the past and the future. Ancient traditions lost to the past, taboos passed down by word of mouth, and crafts buried in the dust can all flourish again. In the Hidden Treasury Domain, there are methods for binding evil ghosts with scriptures, offerings, and one's own body; In the Kitchen God Sect, there is the craft of refining o 91Votes658.9kRecs1.9MFans
- 13 EN Unscientific Beast Taming 不科学御兽 This is another world where beast taming is the norm. Animals, plants, elements, undead, machines... Nine-Tailed Flame Foxes, Ancient Trees of Life, Thundercloud Spirits, Skeleton Lords, mechanical shipgirls, even antique swords and blades that have birthed spirits can all become companion beasts. The humans who contract with, raise, and command them are collectively known as beast tamers! Shi Yu, a scholar of mythology and an 97Votes2.6MRecs6.8MFans
- 14 EN This Game Is Too Realistic 这游戏也太真实了 This game is way too realistic! Hauling bricks, running errands, picking up trash, delivering packages... At most, a company can make you experience the hardships of working 996. Here, you can experience 007 on super speed. All right, enough talk. The great Administrator has called me to haul bricks. The Administrator says that as long as we work hard and offer up our livers, next month he can get himself another brand-new set of power armor. Then he’ll take us to explore a whole new map, where 467Votes4.9MRecs9.4MFans
