Being Myself in a Novel Set in the Past

A Background Character Who Doesn't Derail the Plot, Mostly Watches from the Sidelines, and Isn't Romance-Obsessed

A minor character who doesn't disrupt the plot, only gets involved now and then and mostly watches from the sidelines. No lovesick idiots!!! (Lovesick characters make my head pound.)

Any Understated, Sensible Period Novels? Not the Kind Where They Eat Lavish Meals Every Day

Looking for books like Making Others Happy? I'd Rather Make Myself Happy. Historical-era story with a female lead. It doesn't matter whether she transmigrates or has a golden finger, but it shouldn't be brainless or too showy. I hate those stories where she has a pocket dimension people can enter but insists on cooking outside, and is always...

Historical-Era Stories With Stable Factory Jobs: Parents Who Work at a Steel Mill and Life in a Factory Compound

Nothing about going to the countryside as an educated youth, please.

Gentle Heroines Playing the Everywoman, but No Airheads! No Airheads

Looking for Period Novels With a Gentle, Refined Male Lead, Not a Rugged Type or a Soldier

Are There No Female-Led Stories About Diplomats Anymore?! Diplomats!!

Are there really no novels left with a female protagonist who is a diplomat? Are they all translated works? I want the kind where the diplomat completely tears foreign countries apart!!!!! Please share every diplomat novel you've read.

Looking for Old Beijing Period Novels About Living a Quiet, Ordinary Life

Nothing overpowered, and no changing the world. Just like a lazy fish, preferably fanfiction.

Period-Era Novels With Sane, Sensible Female Leads

I mostly like period novels. I’m looking for completed stories that are absolutely worth reading.

A Down-to-Earth Period Novel with Hardworking Characters and No Exaggeration

🌴 The Protagonist Is a Diplomat and Archaeology Expert Who Speaks Eight Languages

Looking for books similar to "The Translator of the Eighties." Other professions are fine, as long as the protagonist is exceptionally capable.

Stories About Transmigrating to the 1960S and Using Technology to Strengthen the Nation

A story about returning to the founding era and contributing to the country's scientific and technological development, with a System.

Become a Nobody and Stay Away from the Main Couple

Looking for a Period-Era Military Wife Story! She Joins Her Husband’s Unit Right from the Start!

Please don't recommend stories that drag on and spend half the book on military life before the couple joins the army! No stories where the female lead is reborn, missed out on the male lead in her previous life, and comes back to supposedly make it up to him! The male lead has the worst luck in the world to end up with a woman like that! And no clingy, helpless women who lose their minds whenever they see a man!

Can't Period Dramas Have Refined Male Leads? I'm Tired of Rugged Men

Looking for books similar to *Reborn in 1970: Grandma, It’s Your Turn to Get Divorced Today*. Are there any male leads like Xu Xing in stories set in that era? Handsome, capable, and refined. Oh my gosh, I love him so much! Too bad he’s a side character. Please recommend stories set in that era where the male lead isn’t a rough, macho type.

Period Stories with a Gentle, Proper Hero and a Warm, Loving Family with No Terrible Relatives

I've searched everywhere but can't find the kind of hero I keep yearning for: gentle, refined, or suave and scholarly. They're almost always the second male lead. Why can't this type be the main hero? Please recommend some. Modern settings are fine too.

Looking for Urban Period Pieces with a Job and No Rural Relocation, Featuring a Female Lead Who Isn’t a Doctor

Looking for books similar to The 1970s: The Gorgeous, Spoiled Heiress Brings Assets Worth Billions After Transmigrating into a Book. No rural assignments, just a period novel where the female lead has a job. She must not be a doctor, must not be a doctor, must not be a doctor. Important things need saying three times. Nowadays, so many period novels have female leads who are doctors. It seems like none don't.

Please Recommend Great Novels: Transmigration Farming Stories and Period Pieces

Looking for stories like Pregnant with His Heir, I Married the Prince of War, Emptied the Capital, and Went into Exile.

Any Quick Transmigration Stories Where the Protagonist Doesn't Take Over Someone Else's Body?

Transmigrate into someone else’s world to make up for their regrets, but do it as an outsider, not by taking over their original identity. I don’t want stories where someone goes into the original heroine’s world and occupies her body.