Storing Food - A Refuge from Book Shortages
Finding a novel that truly satisfies my changing tastes has become a challenge. I long for the days of binge-reading through the night, but I've already tried the recommendations on my reading list.
Novels on this list
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- A man with an incurable fatal illness spends his final days in a hospital room, watching a pale purple plant he found in the garden grow rapidly. When it blooms, a Grim Reaper appears to guide his soul to another world. The plant, called Otherworld Grass, connects worlds with its roots. The man’s soul is pulled across realms, and he reincarnates into a new body—a four‑ or five‑year‑old...
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- Chen Yu was reborn from a previous life as a game industry worker into a modern cultivation world with immortals, sects, and cultivators. He awakened his spiritual root at seventeen, ten years later than most, receiving a high spiritual root rating of ninety-one but unable to close the foundation gap. His comprehensive scores across the five subjects of morality, intelligence, physique...
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- Liz Bertrand, the fifteen-year-old sole daughter of the prestigious Bertrand Duke Family in the Kingdom of Roseblade, arrives at the royal castle for a meeting with Prince Alan Roseblade, the first prince, for a potential engagement. She is confident in her beauty, status, and perfect noble education, believing she is an impeccable match for the handsome and accomplished prince. She we...
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- The story follows a woman who reincarnates as Emeria, the Empress of Emperor Guilford, aware of the original novel's tragic plot. In the original tale, Emeria is a neglected wife whom Guilford only consummates with on the wedding night, leaving her alone afterward. She becomes pregnant, but Guilford cruelly questions the child's paternity, saying, "Is it my child?" Emeria gives birth t...
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- Ling Yu transmigrates into a Xuanhuan world and is reborn as the son of Ling Xiaofeng, the village chief of Clear Wind Village, and Su Wanqing. After fourteen and a half years including two and a half years in the womb, during which he endured prenatal treatments to improve his physique, he is now a refined twelve-year-old boy carrying the mature consciousness of his past life. He adap...
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- Ralph Dawson, the twenty-two-year-old Duke of the Rothstein territory, is a reincarnator from Earth. His exceptional administrative abilities allow him to finish his lordly duties in mere hours, leaving him profoundly bored. The entertainments of this medieval-level different world consist of bards' songs and hunting, which are nothing compared to the social drinking culture he misses....
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- Lin Tian transmigrated to the Great Liang dynasty’s Yu Village three years ago, only to find himself in a world ravaged by drought and banditry. He adopted a mute girl named Nannan, and they lived in abject poverty, scraping by on stolen food and odd jobs. Life became even more unbearable when the bandits from Qingfeng Stronghold repeatedly plundered the village, devouring his last dog...
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- Wen Hao, the mute second miss of Wen Manor, is stabbed to death on a snowy street after seeking the truth about her elder sister's suicide from a former maid. A masked man dies with her, leaving her with only a glimpse of his eyes. She wakes from the darkness to find herself three years in the past, falling from a wall and landing in the arms of Prince Jing's son, Qi Shuo. The shock of...
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- The story opens in a famine-stricken village during a fierce windstorm. Granny Wei, wife of Old Man Yu, finds a three-year-old girl lying dazed on a dry rocky beach at the foot of the mountain. The child, who has floated down from the upper reaches of the nearby river and suffered scrapes from the rocks and damage to her memory, can recall only her name, Xing Xing, and a vague sense th...
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- Jiang Nan, a graduate of a prestigious university, finds herself unemployed and forced to return to her rural hometown after resigning from her job in Shangjing. Her parents are farmers, her two elder sisters work exhausting shifts in a factory, and the family lives in poverty. Once the pride of the Jiang family, Jiang Nan struggles with the reality of her situation.She accidentally bi...
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- Gu Jia Ning is reborn after a devastating past life, her soul bound to the Childbirth System that returned her to the moment she jumps into an icy river in 1973 to force her older brother to give his job to Wen Zhuqing, the intellectual youth she loved. In her previous existence, she married Wen Zhuqing, became infertile from the cold water, and was used by him for gain, leading to her...
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- Luo Yingxue returns to her villa to find four thugs captured by her subordinates. The balding fat man informs her they had extorted her son Yu Kai. Luo Yingxue interrogates them, learning they framed him for unjust enrichment and she had paid compensation without question. She spares their lives on condition they go to the school and apologize to her son. The thugs, terrified after lea...
