The Good Life in the 1970s
七十年代好生活
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 599k Words
- Genre
- Modern Romance
- Subgenre
- Period Fiction
- Updated
- 2y ago
- Source
- Fanqie
Synopsis
Other names
- The Everyday Lives of Courtyard No. 16年代之十六号院子的家长里短Former title · until Oct 2026
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The stories I have written so far are really good-looking, the story is very interesting, the story is about group portraits, the characters all have strengths and weaknesses, and it is quite real. The people in the compound worked hard to find ways to improve their lives in the 1970s. Although they all had their own little ideas, they were all managing their own little lives.
It's very good-looking, not so many top-notch products, just a peaceful little life, which makes people feel comfortable watching it.
An inspiring and upright story. After the adoptive parents died, the biological parents came to the door and wanted to marry the girl to a fool and find a wife for her brother. The girl who knew how to fight was forced to leave her hometown and start her new life. In the end, she had a good career and family.
I just like this kind of long flowing water with short household rules, hahaha, it's very interesting, please give it a thumbs up, author.
Nice looking, unpretentious, and neighborly. The best without going too far
This book makes me feel very calm after reading it. It's just a warm little story, telling about the ordinary life in No. 16 Courtyard, without luxury cars or houses, or any exaggerated gestures. After watching a lot of intrigues and the exaggerated life of houses and luxury cars, reading this ordinary and heartwarming story gives me such a different feeling.
I really like this kind of book📚 and I have the desire to read it.
It's a pretty good family short novel. This story started in the 1970s. After the death of the heroine's adoptive parents, the heroine, in order to get rid of the fate of her biological parents selling her for marriage, went to Beicheng alone to join her good sisters without any hesitation, and she married the boy on a blind date. The whole story revolves around the courtyard where the male protagonist lives, telling the stories of the residents living there. Everyone has their own personality, good and bad. There are no bad guys, and the bad guys also have remarkable advantages. The whole story is very warm.
It's very beautiful and life-like. I don't want anything else but gold fingers or something. It's so boring. This one is very beautiful, without gold fingers.
This book is so beautifully written and very good. After the heroine Chen Xiangju's adoptive parents passed away one after another, she learned that her biological mother was going to exchange her marriage with a fool to marry her brother. She chose to run away without hesitation and join her little sister Chen Chunyan in Beicheng, asking her to introduce a partner to her and change her destiny. In this way, she took advantage of the cold weather and no one was paying attention to her, and got on the train to Beicheng with a few belongings. From then on, a different life began. When she found her good sister Chen Chunyan, she also found her blind date, a man from Chen Chunyan's compound named Li Gang. Chen Xiangju met the recently divorced Li Gang under the introduction of Chen Chunyan and her resident Aunt Li. After the contact, they both had a good impression of each other, and they joined hands to grow old together and lived a happy life. Chen Xiangju and her little sister Chen Chunyan also integrated into the family drama in No. 16 Courtyard, writing their different lives together.