Novels like 1988: Starting with a Vegetable Greenhouse
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as 1988: Starting with a Vegetable Greenhouse, best match first.
- 1 Back to 1981: Life in a Mountain Village 重回1981小山村 She returns to 1981, when her husband and his three brothers still live together as one family. Yang Chunyan doesn't want to spend the rest of her life lonely and helpless, so she sets out to help her family achieve modest prosperity, little by little. Farming, gathering herbs, planting crops, building wealth... [A story set in the 1980s, about everyday life in a village in the mountains of southwest China, with no outrageous characters] 2Votes51.8kRecs63.6kFans
- 2 Yu-Gi-Oh!: From Casual Player to Soul Player 游戏王：从云玩家到魂玩家 It's over! Bing He transmigrated into the Yu-Gi-Oh! world, only to discover that his name didn't include the character “Yu”! What's more, he had absolutely no idea how to play cards. He was the very definition of a casual fan! At this rate, even if he struggled for half his life, someone could still take all his possessions at any moment with a Shadow Game! If that's the case, then he has no choice but to learn! He too will become a duelist who plays for the soul, not for a partner! 35Votes27.5kRecs41.2kFans
- 3 The Gourmet Intelligence King 美食情报王 Thirty-year-old Chen Zhou finds himself in a difficult place in life. Then one day, he gets bound to the [Food Intelligence System], and his life takes a new direction. [Neighborhood Scuttlebutt (Rare)]: A banquet chef’s steamed bun recipe is tucked inside a secondhand copy of Practical Tractor Repair. The book is being sold at a stall on the northwest corner today. [Ingredient Alert (Common)]: A Boston lobster at Boss Xie’s seafood shop will die by accident this evening when the oxygen pump lea 0Votes25.9kRecs82.7kFans
- 4 Fishing and Hunting in the 1980s 八十年代渔猎日常 Reborn, Li Changle looks at his cold-hearted wife, his eldest son who worries about everything, and his sweet younger son, a miniature version of his older brother. In this life, he stops being a fool with his head in the clouds. He rolls up his sleeves, keeps his feet on the ground, and devotes himself to a warm home with his wife and children... By day, he catches giant blue lobsters and big rice fish in underwater caves. At night, he checks his fish traps and finds fish crowding the ponds, cr 352Votes266.4kRecs179.6kFans
- 5 Showbiz: 1990 文娱：1990 The highly controversial author, screenwriter, producer, talent scout in the music industry, and film company owner Zhang Yan once summed up his life as follows: The rise of an opportunist, the downfall of a lovestruck man... 2Votes88.8kRecs79.3kFans
- 6 I'm the Only One Who Dreams 全人类只有我做梦 This is a world without dreams. Once people fall asleep, they lie unconscious until they wake. But one day, a person who could dream appeared in this world. He fell into that empty dream world. It was chaotic, desolate, twisted, and lawless… To protect himself, he brought some things in. And he also took some things out, returning them to those “people without dreams.” 42Votes26.4kRecs56.8kFans
- 7 A Gold Rush Beginning in 1984 从1984开始的淘金生涯 In the 1980s, as the ban on gold prospecting gradually eased, countless people with dreams of getting rich overnight poured into the Altai Mountains, famed since ancient times as a mountain of gold. Deep in the mountains lie gold and jade; beneath them are bones consumed by greed. It was a perilous underworld where you lived by the blade. Zhou Jingming returns to 1984 to forge a new gold-rush legend. 10Votes71.1kRecs126.4kFans
- 8 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
- 9 EN Mythical Dao of Ghosts 诡道神话 This is a world where ghosts and mythology intertwine, and countless ghosts and deities have emerged from familiar myths and legends. The Heart-Split Star Lord hanging upside down in midair, the Water-Dividing General wandering the deep sea, the Jiazi Grand Marshal seated atop the clouds... Who could have imagined that the end of a mortal's cultivation would be to become one ghost or deity after another? 0Votes87.3kRecs283kFans
- 10 Reborn in 1997: Solving Cold Cases at the City Bureau 重生97，我在市局破悬案 Police records clerk Zhou Yi is reborn in 1997, back when he had just joined the police force. Dismemberment cases, arson cases, shootings... The files on all those cold cases he had pored over out of boredom in his previous life now come back to him one by one. Perhaps this time, he’ll get the chance to solve those cases and bring every crafty killer who escaped justice to face the law! 1.4kVotes211.1kRecs660.2kFans
- 11 They Said We'd Convert the Military to Civilian Use, So What's with This Gas Canister? 说好军转民，这煤气罐什么鬼？ Wang Ye was reborn and returned to 1982. A graduate of Huaqing University, he volunteered to become the director of the Red Star Military Industry Factory and carry out military-to-civilian conversion reforms. “They said this was military-to-civilian conversion, so what is this gas cylinder supposed to be?” When the senior officials saw the first product Wang Ye had developed for the Red Star Military Industry Factory, they were left completely dumbfounded! And all of this was because Wang Ye un 0Votes216.4kRecs716.1kFans
- 12 EN Rebirth in 1981: Hunting and Fishing in the Northwest 重生八一渔猎西北 Li Long, carrying many regrets from his previous life, was reborn in 1981. That year, the land hadn't yet been divided among the households. He was still unmarried, his older brother hadn't died in a fall because of him, his sister-in-law didn't yet despise him, and his nephew and niece were growing up healthy. The root cause of all the troubles that would plague the future hadn't happened yet. There was still 96Votes552.9kRecs1.6MFans
- 13 The Transformation of a Wet Egg 湿卵胎化 Born from eggs, wombs, moisture, or transformation, each follows its own course. Egg-born beings arise from desire, womb-born beings from passion, moisture-born beings from contact, and transformed beings from separation. Reincarnation has always been a specialized skill, but Ji Ming has mastered all four kinds: moisture, egg, womb, and transformation. From then on... he could be a bird or a flower, a fish or an insect, a fox of the wilds or a rat of the shrine, a poo 43Votes249.6kRecs576.4kFans
- 14 A Doctor's Journey in Tokyo 东京医途 After being reborn in a parallel version of Tokyo, Kiryu Kazusuke struggled for ages to write just one sentence: “My high school grades weren’t great.” With no other choice, he gave up writing and went into medicine. Luckily, he could see the girls’ timelines. Every choice he made earned him a corresponding reward, such as surgical skills, medical papers, or an extra sum in his bank account. Before long, he had figured out three things: First, someone who truly likes you won’t care what color Po 406Votes140.3kRecs565.3kFans
- 15 EN Surviving In A Martial Arts World To Become A Saint 苟在武道世界成圣 With a destiny in hand, survive by keeping a low profile! Chen Qing transmigrates into a chaotic age where martial arts reign supreme and human lives are as worthless as grass. From the start, he is a poor fisherman's son in Yazi Bay. His father was conscripted for forced labor and never returned, leaving a widowed mother and her orphaned child to be squeezed by government taxes and the gang’s “Dragon King incense offerings,” struggling on the brink of starvation. But there’s always a way forwar 1.6kVotes606kRecs2MFans
- 16 EN Wasteland Border Inspector 废土边境检查官 After transmigrating to a wasteland plagued by infected creatures and endless disasters, Cheng Ye becomes a border inspector in Happiness City. Every survivor hoping to join the city must undergo careful questioning and inspection to prevent any infected creatures from slipping inside. But Cheng Ye soon discovers that these creatures are nothing like he imagined! There are Whispering Tentacles, which can bring the dead back to life and survive through sheer obsession. There are Death Dandelions, 1.2kVotes331.5kRecs1.1MFans
- 17 EN 1984: Starting with a Sichuan Restaurant 1984：从川菜馆开始 Also known as Sichuan Flavors, Human Life [Period piece, food, everyday life, farming] Food blogger Zhou Yan is reborn in 1984. From the start, he takes over a bankrupt Sichuan restaurant. In this era of scarce supplies, he'll give diners a taste of truly exceptional food! Qiaojiao beef, couple's lung slices, mapo tofu, Dongpo pork knuckle, rabbit cooked in boiling water... Stir-fried, seared, braised, steamed, deep-fried, boiled, marinated, smoked... Sichuan cuisine has a hundred flavors, with 11.3kVotes718.8kRecs1MFans
- 18 The Wolf of Los Angeles 洛杉矶之狼 In North America, there are many paths to power and wealth. Hock heads straight for Los Angeles and chooses the entertainment and media industry. The media is like sunlight: it doesn't just illuminate the bright side. Every word and every image that appears in the media is carefully designed to shape public opinion and manipulate the public. 9Votes339.9kRecs269.6kFans
- 19 EN Immortality Starts With Alchemy Dao Grandmaster 长生从炼丹宗师开始 A hermit becomes an immortal, coming and going among the azure peaks. Yin and yang are forged in the furnace; the Great Dao lies within the heart. Luo Chen transmigrates to the cultivation world. With a proficiency panel, he practices alchemy and breathing techniques, studies spells and arts, and advances step by step along the path to immortality. (Skips the Mortal World and begins directly in the cultivation world.) 51Votes97.5MRecs1.4MFans
- 20 What's Wrong with One More Person Getting Rich Later? 多我一个后富怎么了 He started out studying medicine but never practiced, then sold TVs, ran into Zhou Huihui, and moved into the sharing economy, where deposits went unrepaid. Next came real estate, where he found some success. At last, he picked a prime property, but never got to top it out… In 2008, Yu Xing woke from a dream to find himself back on the eve of the financial crisis, with his investments in the red. That was the year industry giants took shape and capital awoke. He could only struggle to build his 1.7kVotes1MRecs885.5kFans
- 21 EN Rise of an Esoteric Academy Monk 从密修学院僧开始 [Nonsense] [Forced connections] [Far-fetched interpretations] [Poorly expressed] An ancient scripture with no words, a timid monk, centuries of chance encounters, and enlightenment in a single lifetime. It all begins at a scripture academy called the Endless White Pagoda Temple, with a monk from the Esoteric Cultivation Academy 18Votes222kRecs307.5kFans
- 22 EN Journey to the West: The Roadblock! 西游：拦路人！ Transmigrating into Journey to the West, he awakens the Roadblocker System. As long as he stops Tang Sanzang and his disciples from continuing their pilgrimage at each trial, he can receive rewards. Block them for three days, reward: the Art of Moving Mountains Block them for seven days, reward: Six-Turn Golden Elixir Block them for half a month, reward: True Dragon Pearl Block them for one month, reward: Acquired Spirit Treasure: Five-Flame Divine Fan Block them for one season, reward: Divine A 424Votes179kRecs861.5kFans
- 23 The Los Angeles Detective 洛杉矶神探 A detective transmigrates to America and becomes an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. After getting over his initial confusion, he solves one baffling case after another and earns international renown, becoming known as the most legendary detective in history... 2Votes289.6kRecs397kFans
- 24 EN The Immortal Craftsman's Creation 仙工开物 Deep inside a volcano, an immortal palace of mechanisms left behind by ancient sages awaits its successor. His mother risked her life to obtain its immortal seal, entrusting it to Ning Zhuo with her dying breath. The Buddha’s Heart-Demon Seal! Save yourself and become a Buddha; save others and turn them into demons. With the seal in hand, one can lightly imprint the heart and command mechanisms as easily as feathers. Others grow weary and burdened when controlling them, but Ning Zhuo can command 550Votes3.6MRecs4.4MFans
- 25 EN Lying Low While Cultivating Immortality in Two Worlds 苟在两界修仙 The fortunes of the years, the turning of spiritual influences, the transformations of yin and yang: these are but minor achievements of the Year Keeper… This is the story of a young man who transmigrates between two worlds to cultivate immortality, and strives to become a Year Keeper… 208Votes701.7kRecs1.3MFans
- 26 I'm Not Going to Be a Trainer This Time 这次不当训练家了 Zhishu transmigrates to the Pokemon world, inherits a ranch, and gains the ability to grant Pokemon mysterious powers through his cooking. As a result, the Pokemon on the ranch undergo some rather unusual changes. A Miltank that can use [Super Roll] with no blind spots or recovery time, a Cyclizar so fast it leaves afterimages wherever it goes, and a twin-tailed Tinkaton with Huge Power that can send a Snorlax flying with a single swing... Wild trainers who hear about it make a special trip to 0Votes317.6kRecs574.4kFans
- 27 EN One Dragon Against the World 以一龙之力打倒整个世界！ [Guided by a true dragon: no wild assumptions or careless writing] Steel for scales, flames for bones. The bloodlines of a red dragon and an iron dragon intertwine and merge within me, forging a radiant new life. Flame and steel are my inborn talents, while adaptation and evolution are the powers through which I attain eternity. The weak are full of misgivings. Kings have no taboos. Whatever doesn't kill me will only make me stronger. Before me, those who kneel live, and those who stand die. All 3.7kVotes457.3kRecs1.6MFans
- 28 The Whole Mountain Is My Hunting Ground 整座大山都是我的猎场 Reborn in 1986, an era when guns and hunting weren’t banned, wildlife wasn’t protected, and bears and wild boars were even wrecking the fruits of the people’s hard work. The higher-ups encouraged and urged every village to actively hunt. Zhao Jun, a low-ranking soldier in the Yong’antun militia platoon and a member of the local hunters’ squad, slings his rifle over his shoulder and heads into the mountains, where he takes up a life of hunting with dogs. This story is based entirely on true event 2.3kVotes1.3MRecs990kFans
- 29 EN 1979: The Golden Age 1979黄金时代 This is still a somewhat nostalgic story, hmm… 8.7kVotes3.7MRecs2.5MFans
- 30 EN Back to 1982: A Second Chance in a Fishing Village 重回1982小渔村 A fishing-and-seaside-life story set in the 1980s, with an average of 35,000 paid subscribers. The animated series of the same name, Back to 1982: A Small Fishing Village, launched on Hongguo on August 7! [Everyday life in the 1980s: fishing, farming, raising kids, and family squabbles. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read or leave hate!] It’s the same familiar little fishing village, but Ye Yaodong is no longer the young man he used to be. Reborn into the pas 221Votes2.1MRecs2MFans
- 31 Firepower Is King 火力为王 In most lines of work, some people don’t get a meal from Heaven, some are blessed with a meal, and some have Heaven chasing after them to feed them. In the field of private military contracting, Heaven is shoving food down Gao Guang’s throat. Kidnapped from the start, Gao Guang is forced to become a member of a private military contractor just to stay alive. Until one day, in the world of private military contracting, he turns “Gao Guang moment” into a professional term. He specializes in war-re 23Votes1.2MRecs2.1MFans
- 32 Playing Cards in Duel City 我在决斗都市玩卡牌 Su Yu creates an alternate account in the fully immersive trading card game Yu-Gi-Oh!: Link World, then inexplicably transmigrates into the game world, complete with an NPC template. Time rewinds to before the game’s launch. The players won’t arrive for another month. The nameless Pharaoh still sleeps within high school student Yugi Muto, and the era-defining tournament, Battle City, has yet to begin. When the game officially launches 27Votes569.2kRecs620.3kFans
- 33 Reshaping the Millennium Era 重塑千禧年代 At the turn of the millennium, officials were chanting slogans about GDP, bosses took pride in bringing their secretaries along, and rough-and-ready entrepreneurs fought with blades flashing amid the waves of the times. Fang Zhuo returns to the year 2000. Ten years later, a group of venture capitalists and private equity firms storm the company headquarters, demanding an answer from a stunned Fang Zhuo: “Mr. Fang, all your other projects have gone public. When on earth will this first one li 47Votes867.3kRecs825.4kFans
- 34 A Guide to Time-Traveling in the Northern Song 北宋穿越指南 If you transmigrate back to the Song Dynasty, should you compose poetry and enjoy romance? Or raise an army and vie for supremacy? Either way, first things first: fill your stomach. 55Votes1.4MRecs2.6MFans
- 35 My Simulated Path to Immortality 我的模拟长生路 How difficult is the path to immortality! And all the more so in this cultivation world, utterly transformed by a plague! Mortals carry disease. If immortals come into contact with them, their cultivation may decline in mild cases, or they may return to the heavens in severe ones. Thus mortals and immortals are forever divided. Immortals cannot cultivate together, and the entire cultivation world has become one vast dark forest. Li Fan transmigrated into this world with soaring ambitions, ye 508Votes975.7kRecs2.9MFans
- 36 I, the Emperor 朕 Back in the late Ming, reduced to slavery. If an emperor can be a beggar, a Manchu invader, a rebel, or a household slave, why can’t a household slave become emperor? 30Votes1.5MRecs3MFans
- 37 EN Who Let Him Cultivate Immortality! 谁让他修仙的！ (The new book, Please Don’t Transcend Tribulation During the College Entrance Exam, is now out.) “I’ve said it again and again: the cultivation world was crooked to begin with. I didn’t corrupt it. They say history is written by the victors, so why are people still framing me when I won?” Sword Immortal Lu Yang said during an interview with reporters, clearly furious. The next day. “I’ve said it again and again: I’m the one who corrupted the cultivation world. History is written by the victors, 359Votes2.3MRecs7.4MFans
- 38 The National Forensic Doctor 国民法医 Corpse: Have you no manners? 110Votes4.1MRecs2.4MFans
- 39 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
- 40 EN The Sage Who Transcended Samsara 一世之尊 In this life, I ask nothing of the past and seek nothing in the next. I’ll live boldly, settle every score, defeat the greatest heroes of every race, and laugh proudly at the gods and demons of the Six Paths! Ten thousand years later, a great calamity begins anew. The Tathagata’s Golden Body or the Primordial Dao Body: which is stronger? The Tathagata Divine Palm or the Seven Forms of Severing Heaven: which will reign supreme? Amid the cycle of reincarnation, Meng Qi begins his journey at Shaoli 432Votes3.3MRecs3.4MFans
- 41 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality 凡人修仙传 An ordinary country boy accidentally joins a small local martial sect and becomes a nominal disciple. With that status, how can he establish himself in the sect? How can he, despite his mediocre talent, enter the ranks of the cultivators and make a name for himself across the Three Realms? Fellow cultivators, the new edition of the print book is now available. Feel free to purchase a copy if you’re interested. Thank you for your support! 979Votes16.2MRecs8.5MFans
