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To Read Novels: Poor to Rich, Farming Pt. 2

List of novels in my To Read list for my favourite trope, rags to
riches! To my best guess anyway since I haven't read them XD. Also
usually slice of life.

I'll also put what made me want to pick the story up. Just be warned
that I will delete the story from the list after I've read so the list
will frequently change. I like to view the cover art of the book, and be
able to see a lot of novel details on the list in one place instead of
having to click to the web novel page. I also include any translation
detail like where to find them if they aren't on novelupdates so I can
read the whole story without getting stuck halfway because of no
translations. Not in any particular order but I try to put similar
novels, either in expected tropes or vibes together. And the incompleted
ones at the back. Recommendations are very welcome!

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puregarnet

Created: Apr 27th, 2024, Updated: Mar 15th, 2025

Created Apr 27th, 2024

Updated Mar 15th, 2025

JP (4)

#1The Abandoned Heiress Gets Rich with Alchemy and Buys an Enemy General

48 Chapters Every 27.5 Day(s) 407 Readers 1 Reviews 05-31-2024

Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance

Translated v1c48. Has Business Management.... more>>

CN (4.4)

#2Transmigrating to the Qi Family

117 Chapters Every 3.3 Day(s) 1337 Readers 13 Reviews 06-16-2025

Comedy Fantasy Historical Romance Slice of Life Yaoi

Translated 17/214. Business Management Farming Tags: City life, house fighting, farming, time travel and rebirth... more>>

CN (4.4)

#3The Cubs Picked Up Are All Villains

173 Chapters Every 2.5 Day(s) 2998 Readers 22 Reviews 05-19-2025

Completed Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Mecha Mystery Romance Sci-fi Shounen Ai Slice of Life

Translated 17/154. Poor to rich tag.... more>>

CN (4.4)

#4Time Travel – Literary Master

2 Chapters Every 659.5 Day(s) 395 Readers 2 Reviews 01-16-2024

Historical Romance Yaoi

Translated 2/261. But it stopped in jan 2024 :/ Has poor to rich tag. Update 13/5/24: Author is Jue Jue!! Super good at poor to rich stories!!! Same author as "Stone Age Husband Raising Journal", "The Only Favourite Ugly Husband", "I Want To Be a Good Person in This Life", "Reborn to Strive"!... more>>

"The story is based in the Warlord Era of China and has a seme protagonist. The MC is a writer from modern times who transmigrates into a sickly 16-17 year old boy that now has to support his mother and sister alone due to his s*umbag dad. The novel shows the chaos of the era, but there is not too much heartbreak, but more showing the struggles and conflicts of the times, while showing a brighter future ahead and how they can all go towards it. The MC doesn't immediately change his life around by writing novels, because at the time he had no abilities, no money, and no famous name. But instead he realistically does odd jobs and then becomes a waiter at a western style restaurant. There, he utilizes his future knowledge and speaking skills to draw more customers. He then goes on to improve the life of his sister and mother. After that, he publishes his first work and it's upwards from there as he gains fame and in turn gets more attached to this era and worries about the future and the people. Each novel the MC writes under 3 different aliases is based on ideas and thoughts about the time period or to convey a certain idea of his. These novel by themselves are quite well written, they are both informational and just have interesting plots, and even I would want to read them.

The first novel he writes is about a travel abroad student, during this time when the west was viewed as superior and going abroad was deemed to be very sought after. He wanted to write about the truths of studying abroad (the discrimination, the hardships) and he did this by writing a love story.

To put it simply all his books are meaningful and I likes all of them. The only things he doesn't write about are things that could get him killed lol (like the warlords).

But the MC doesn't just write novels, but he also takes action to influence this era towards a better future. He makes an orphanage for the homeless children, he strives hard to change the perception of women by writing very well written female characters in his books.

His thoughts and ideologies are very upright and you can see he does alot to contribute his abilities to the people around him. Both his mother and sister benefit from his modern thinking and really blossom as independent women. He's just such a great character, with some flaws and weaknesses, besides having a way with words and knowing the future, he has no other abilities. " ~ ApolloAresZues <<less

CN (4.3)

#5Great Tang Idyll

667 Chapters Every 1.5 Day(s) 5476 Readers 33 Reviews 06-15-2025

Adventure Comedy Historical Romance Slice of Life Supernatural

Translated v1c108, v2c131 out of 1270 chapters. Has Business Management, Cooking and Clan Building.... more>>

"This is a real gem. I'll start off by pointing out weaknesses, because it will be a quick and easy list to get through:

Antagonists aren't that threatening. However, this is because people who are clever wouldn't antagonise the MCs, who have a live and let live vibe. After all, people who antagonise people for no reason don't rise high in the real world. When stakes get higher, perhaps antagonists will become more threatening.

'Overpowered' main characters. They are a bit too amazing, and are running the show at <3 years old. However, that is the premise, so I don't really mind it, just wanted my first point to not feel lonely.

Good Points:

Schemes are clever. I was going to say realistic, but that isn't always the case haha, there are some pretty creative ones. I do enjoy them, and they ARE clever in my opinion.

Characters are realistic. Its hard to say how true they are to following life in the Tang dynasty, but the circumstances and the characters are easy to imagine, and people act according to their interests. Some idiots gets jealous, but they aren't clever, and are easy to beat. Some more clever people seek to take advantage, and usually get taken advantage of. The most clever people realise more is to be gained by working with them, rather than against them.

Chemistry between the ML and FL is enjoyable. They are both very clever, but also have distinct personalities. The ML is a criminal mastermind, while the FL is more straightforward but very clever and respectable in her own right. The ML has his own morals, but in his past life was too willing to act as Judge, Jury, and Executioner. The FL compliments him in her own way, seemingly tempering his visicousness, but also ensures there are no escape routes from his schemes using her own experience.

Stakes feel real. Although their life hasn't really been threatened, the possible loss of wealth, reputation, and other benefits is very plausible. When the world is at stake you know the good guys are going to win. When some scheming bastard is trying to smear our protagonists families reputation, or scam them out of money, you wonder how the tables will be turned, as our protagonists are as familiar with schemes as fish are with water." ~ Hawk73 <<less

CN (4.2)

#6Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90]

373 Chapters Every 8.3 Day(s) 567 Readers 6 Reviews 02-12-2025

Drama Fantasy Mature Psychological School Life Slice of Life

Translated 180/295. There is up to 230 chaps but need to pay on WordRain. Poor to rich tag.... more>>

CN (4.3)

#7After Rebirth, The Real Young Master Began to Maintain His Health

109 Chapters Every 5.1 Day(s) 2262 Readers 18 Reviews 04-23-2025

Comedy Drama Mature Romance School Life Shounen Ai Yaoi

Translated 44/97. Poor to rich tag.... more>>

CN (4.2)

#8Farmer’s Blessed Girl

51 Chapters Every 25.2 Day(s) 1130 Readers 9 Reviews 06-05-2024

Adventure Comedy Fantasy Romance Slice of Life

Translated 51/3463. Poor to rich tag.... more>>

CN (4)

#9No Letting My Daughter Sit at the Table? Fine, Then No One Will Eat!

299 Chapters Every 1.4 Day(s) 552 Readers 6 Reviews 06-09-2025

Drama Fantasy

Translated 155/487. Poor to rich tag.... more>>

JP (4.6)

#10Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

59 Chapters Every 1.4 Day(s) 2789 Readers 12 Reviews 06-15-2025

Action Adventure Historical Josei Supernatural

Translated 42/195. Raws ongoing. Clan building, kingdom building."This is missing some elements for the "traditional modern person gets drop back in time in an agrarian... more>>

KR (4.2)

#11I Will Live As An Actor

76 Chapters Every 35.7 Day(s) 1986 Readers 8 Reviews 02-12-2025

Drama Mature Psychological Slice of Life Supernatural

Translated 115/188. Poor to rich tag and second chance.I Will Live as an Actor is a heartwarming story of a young man who grows up... more>>

KR (4.5)

#12Sigrid

199 Chapters Every 2.3 Day(s) 2165 Readers 7 Reviews 06-14-2025

Action Fantasy Josei Romance Slice of Life

Translated 54/163. Has poor to rich tag.Her whole life, Sigrid lived as an imperial knight, a loyal servant, and a faithful subject. However, her loyalty... more>> was rewarded with disgrace, dishonor, false accusation, and a guillotine.“If I came back,” she vowed, “… I’m not going to live a life like that again!”Executed at the guillotine for assassinating the Crown Prince, Sigrid somehow opened her eyes again… and found herself five years before the day of her execution.Once upon a time, Sigrid had lived an immaculate and principled life. However, now that she was given a second chance, she knew better."Slow paced but really good. The MC's personality doesn't just do a 180, you can see her struggling to change and she's still deeply affected by the events of her first life." ~ blahblah123 "I really like it! It's not spectacular or anything like that, but I gave it a 5 star because I can tell that I'm going to like it more the further we get into the story.Sigrid's (MC) rebirth back to 5 years felt really realistic. It's not one of those novels where the MC immediately accepts the time skip/transmigration. She really was bewildered, and I can tell that she will be struggling with her past life beliefs and this current timeline throughout the novel. I usually like the fast paced novels where MC's move onto revenge and accept their situation quickly, but slow burn is nice once in awhile, and this one does a good job at that.So far there is not an ounce of romance, which makes sense because she's still definitely adapting. It looks like it'll be awhile before the ML is introduced, but I saw the second cover and it looks like he has black hair with one blue eye and one red eye. He's pretty hot hahaI also really love how real the characters feel. Sigrid in her past life was a very uptight knight, but her change in this timeline actually makes sense because she didn't become a whole new person immediately. Like I said, she struggles to accept her situation, and she struggles with her past beliefs, knowing that they are probably not right. She'll have great character development, and I'm pretty excited for that. The other characters are pretty good too." ~ jsplat <<less

CN (3.4)

#1380s Wife Is Sweet and Sassy

452 Chapters Every 2.7 Day(s) 1935 Readers 17 Reviews 06-15-2025

Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance Slice of Life

Translated 282(split TL, not sure actual chapters)/949. Has poor to rich tag.Back at the age of 21, she had not married the selfish and vicious... more>>

CN (4)

#14Plane Supermarket

132 Chapters Every 3.5 Day(s) 1725 Readers 8 Reviews 06-13-2025

Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Shounen Ai

Translated 54/221. Does not have poor to rich tag but seems focus on running a supermarket."This novel is surprisingly... deep? If you've read the author's... more>> other works, you'll know what I mean. It's oddly purposeful. The author packs a lot of content in a bite-size novel (in my eyes, at least). Most of it is in explaining the world and the people living in said world. For a world-building addict like myself, this was just perfect XD! In terms of plot and conflicts, this novel can't be said to be very good. At least, it's not very exciting. There isn't much tension either. But the author has a way with their words, making you sink deeper and deeper into their world. Here, there are multiple worlds explored, which makes it even better. Each instance is very unique. The MC doesn't really have a purpose or BIG goal anywhere. It's more about experiencing the different planes that he travels and growing up as a supermarket boss lolol.SUMMARY: The MC has been obsessed with running his own supermarket for years. When it finally happens, he's thrown off by a sudden plane jump that brings him to a world where people are fleeing from famine. He doesn't really realize this at first. He traveled with his supermarket building and there's a newly installed system in it, but it doesn't tell him what he should do next. It's just there. Anyway, he doesn't know what to expect from this strange situation, and he's not willing to risk his life for the sake of his curiosity.Fortunately, he's pretty lucky. A mother and daughter pair came knocking on his door, and through them, he was able to find out more about the world. It's also due to them that he figured out what role to play! That is, the BIG BOSS. In a world of chaos, he can only pretend to be a master immortal in order to survive with his weak body and wealth (i.e., the stock in the supermarket). Eventually, he unlocks some new features in the system that tells him what to do next. It's all about figuring things out bit by bit, gathering new people around him, and slowly building up momentum until he finishes what the system wants him to do and is able to travel to the next world.(As for the ML, his name is Zou Ming, he was hired by the FL from the system database and he helps the MC a lot in the early stage. There's a big mystery around this quiet and loyal ML, but I won't say it because it's more fun to figure it out yourself.) " ~ tr*shgeneralist"MC is a likeable nobody, he starts from nothing and slowly becomes stronger with every new plane, he works hard and has no protagonist halo.ML isn't the stereotypical cold CEO kind of character, he's somewhat expressionless but emotional in his own way, his personality fits his background perfectly.There are many great side characters, even better, many great female side characters, all with their own story and fully flashed out personality.The different planes are interesting and have solid worldbuilding, you can see that the writer put a lot of care and thoughts into each of them.So far all of them are very serious, no matter how light-hearted the description sounds, this novel deals with heavy topics, like famine, death and suffering, mu*der, trafficking, etc., and some of the violence is graphic – but never tasteless or used as a shocker.A few chapters are full of social commentary, negative and positive, all of it carefully thought out and presented in an organic way.There's no nationalism or patriotism at all, the writer is very clear about downsides and advantages, right and wrong.Of course, there's a mystery around MC and ML, so I won't go over the romantic aspects.You have to find out by yourself.I highly recommend it to everyone who likes concepts like Doctor Who, but more mature, sometimes genuinely tragic stories, and gay romance." ~ wintercreeper <<less

CN (4.4)

#15This Game Is Too Realistic

73 Chapters Every 18 Day(s) 2873 Readers 29 Reviews 09-20-2024

Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Sci-fi Slice of Life

Translated 13/931. Still ongoing. Previous TL took down their translation of 126 chapters. A new one started again. Kingdom Building. Seems to be more of... more>>

CN (4.4)

#16The Little King Next Door

0 Chapters Every 346 Day(s) 616 Readers 5 Reviews N/A

Action Adventure Fantasy Shounen Ai Tragedy

Translated 1/414. Apparently, it is easy to MTL. Has an open ending. But is continued in another novel, The King Next Door. Same author as... more>>

CN (4)

#17Era: Starting from Mountain Farming and Hunting

118 Chapters Every 3 Day(s) 235 Readers 1 Reviews 06-13-2025

Mature Romance Slice of Life

poor to rich tag. But the raws is still ongoing.

CN (4)

#18Transmigrating into the Villain’s Sickly Childhood Friend

103 Chapters Every 28.7 Day(s) 3848 Readers 14 Reviews 11-29-2024

Action Martial Arts Mystery Romance Yaoi

Translated 51/143. Broke into parts. Have poor to rich tag. But is apparently more political...While trying to make a fortune and get out of the... more>>

CN (4.3)

#19Transmigration of the Famous Cyber Star

347 Chapters Every 18.3 Day(s) 3722 Readers 52 Reviews 01-01-2025

Comedy Drama Josei Romance School Life Slice of Life

Translated 321/1250. Has poor to rich tag.Liu Man transmigrated from thousands of years ago to the modern world. Before she transmigrated, she was completely broke.... more>>

CN (4.1)

#20The Beautiful Brother of the Orion’s Family

352 Chapters Every 8.5 Day(s) 2789 Readers 19 Reviews 06-03-2025

Historical Romance Slice of Life Yaoi

Translated 257/340. Raws ongoing. Poor to rich tag.Until a torrential rainstorm and flood struck, he was swept away by the flood while trying to rescue... more>>