My Adoptive Sister Moves In with a Baby, So After Being Reborn, I Break My Ex-Husband's Legs

Your Number-One Era Novel

Newly Completed in 2025: A Satisfying Period Novel With No Frustrating Angst, Just Fight Back!

Rated 9.9: A Period Novel I've Read Five Times, and It Feels Different Every Time

Looking for stories like Back to 1968: A Ten-Year-Old Child Protects the Whole Family. It's incredibly good and so, so different from anything else.

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...

Highly Rated Feel-Good Period Novels, 9.5 and Up. I Like Smart Heroines, No Helpless Damsels

Looking for feel-good period novels rated 9.5 or above. I like smart characters. No helpless little wives, please. Funny, goofy stories are fine too.

Looking for Historical-Era Novels Worth Rereading

Set in the 1960s or 1970s. No pocket dimension, no golden finger, and the female lead didn't go to university.

Classic Historical-Era Fiction

Looking for books with good writing and sound values!

I've Been on a Historical-Era Fiction Kick Lately. Please Recommend the Best of the Best

Looking for books similar to *With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s: I'm Good at Stirring Up Trouble and Making Money (Feng Qi Ye He)*.

These Are the Only Two Eras Novels Worth Reading. Disagree? Bring It On

Looking for Down-to-Earth Stories Set in a Past Era, Nothing Too Over-the-Top

I'm in a reading slump.

The Best of the Best in Historical-Era Fiction: You’ll Regret Missing These!!!

Something like Xia Xiaolan's story. I couldn't stop thinking about it long after I finished.

The All-Time Best in the Era Fiction Genre! The GOAT

Republic-Era Novels

I never recommend books I haven't read. These are my favorite period novels, and I'm sharing them with everyone. There are also a few quick transmigration stories, so check them out if you're interested.

A Die-Hard Fan of Period Dramas, Begging for Your Hidden Gems

Period Pieces! What's Your Number One Pick?

I want to read something like "The Day I Died, My Rough-and-Ready Husband Held Me and Cried All Night".

The Gold Standard of Historical-Era Novels, with Incredible Vividness

Looking for content like 1979: The Leisurely Life of a Train Water Supplier.

Period Setting + Storage Space + Supplies + No Goody-Two-Shoes

😭 I'm out of books to read and desperately need something to keep me going. Waiting here, and I'm in a real hurry.

Only These Three Period Dramas Deserve God-Tier Status. Disagree? Bring It On!

Historical-Era Fiction

Any good completed novels set in a particular historical era? Completed, please.

Period-Era Fiction! Great Period-Era Fiction

Looking for good novels set in a particular historical era. The plot shouldn't drag. I've read several of the currently popular ones, and so many of them really drag on and on and on.

Looking for Normal Period Pieces!

Looking for realistic stories set in a particular era! No contrived drama, no exaggeration, no love-brained characters, and no naive, sugary-sweet heroines!

Looking for Period Dramas Like Xia Xiaolan's. Similar Is Fine, but Not Too Different 🙏

The Best of the Best in Historical Era Novels, Worth Rereading Again and Again

Period Novels Where the Female Lead Doesn’t Bail Out Her Family, Have Lots of Children, Go to the Black Market, or Take Over Someone Else’s Mess

The male and female leads should come from well-matched families. The heroine shouldn't get married as soon as she transmigrates. She should have a harmonious family, but not be the family's darling. Her grandparents, uncles, and aunts shouldn't be awful people. The heroine can go to the countryside, but don't force her to. Some stories make the heroine go to the countryside even when there's no need for her to.