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- 1 The Sweet Young Lady of the 1970s 七十年代小娇娇 The moment the young educated youth Wen Wan arrives in Lu Jiazui, she becomes famous: famous for her beauty, famous for taking her time, and famous for her sharp tongue and soft, sweet manner. When the educated youths first arrive, Lu Dongping sees Wen Wan and thinks, How is this little thing supposed to work in the fields and earn work points? Whichever team gets her will be unlucky. Take her home and she'll be treated like an ancestor. Later, Wen Wan becomes his very own little ancestor. 1.3kReads8.9Score250Shelves
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Spring in Beiping 北平春
She is a poor young woman with her heart set on someone else, while he is high above everyone and has never been moved by love. A chance encounter, and her smile steals his heart. She is both his blessing and his undoing.
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My Wife's World 我妻世界
When worlds descend and the world itself is threatened, no one can stay out of it! Biological anomalies! Climate anomalies! Geological anomalies! Anomalies in the laws of nature! All anomalies must be eliminated! Become the world’s [white blood cells] and devour them! The West: “I will protect our world!” The East: “We will protect our shared home!” Zhang: “I will protect my wife!” Everyone: “???” [Comedic and lighthearted] [Includes hand-drawn monster illustrations]
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The Bystander's Self-Cultivation in a 1970s Transmigration Novel 穿书七十年代吃瓜群众的自我修养
Have you ever transmigrated to a different scene just by blinking? Lin Yuzhu has. She transmigrated in a daze to the 1970s. No, she transmigrated into a book. She has a System, and the female lead is there too. There are also supporting female characters, but she isn't one of them. She's just an onlooker who wandered into the story by mistake. As an onlooker, she gets to watch the drama unfold every day. She doesn't want other people's dogs, and she doesn't get involved in other people's busines
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- 5 Reborn as a Lovesick Villainess, I Set My Sights on the Village Chief's Youngest Son 穿成痴汉女配，我看上村长小儿子 When Murong Xi transmigrates into a tearjerker period novel as the saintly, beloved white moonlight, what does it feel like? Thanks for asking. I’m currently researching seventy-six different ways to live or die~ According to the plot, she’s supposed to toil selflessly like a saint, giving everything she has. She’ll endure misunderstanding and torment, then burn through the last of her light and warmth. In the end, she’ll become the white moonlight propping up the male lead’s table, and the mosq 8.8kReads9.2Score721Shelves
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Transformation of the Demonic Heart 魔心变
Dreams Among the Flowers: The Wandering Cloud Swordsman is the second installment. Compared with the others, it is more serious and traditional, with a very official feel. The third installment, The Demonic Heart’s Transformation, also known as The Exquisite Heart of the Pagoda and The Seven-Lifetime Exquisite Tribulation, is a fantasy drama. Its male lead is the carefree, irreverent sort, laid-back and funny. Hua Yingyue, the Flower God’s shadow, has no emotions because she was born without a h
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- 7 The Wandering Cloud Swordsman 飘云侠客录 Disclaimer: This novel is entirely fictional. Synopsis: The villainous Hanlu Sect… The loyal and courageous Piaoyun Army… The righteous Jing'e Hall, dedicated to punishing the wicked… An evil force with power to blot out the sky… The past fades like smoke. In a new world where memories have vanished, old friends meet again, face to face, yet fail to recognize each other. 55Reads—Score—Shelves
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He Works in Finance in the Underworld 他在地府当财务
{One-on-one romance, two male leads. Whoever you are, you’re the only one I’ll ever love.} In the autumn of 1937, the Great Emperor Tianqi Rensheng descended to the mortal realm against the objections of the Three Pure Ones, especially the Heavenly Worthy of Primordial Beginning. The following spring, the Great Emperor Tianqi Rensheng suffered a cultivation deviation, fell into the demonic path, and was struck down by heavenly retribution. Heavenly Worthy of Primordial
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- 9 A Breeze Through Falling Pear Blossoms 梨花纷纷一两风 Hua Xu Yin: Song Ning Fan Fiction This was the first novel I ever wrote. I once thought that loving something was enough to do it well, but eventually I realized that passion alone wasn’t enough. At first, I only wanted to give Song Ning a perfect ending. I may not like Shen An, but if Song Ning likes him, that’s what matters. In the end, more and more characters joined the story. In my heart, they are not just characters on a page. Each one of them is living a happy life in another world. The w 6Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Age of Rusted Hearts 锈心时代
Synopsis In a future where capitalism has dissected human emotions, Jiang Rou sells off pieces of her husband Lu Chen's "love soul" to gain entry to high society. When Lu Chen sees his own heart being auctioned at a "human flesh wedding expo," the dormant "Love Slave bloodline" within him suddenly awakens. Fitted with a penance collar forged by his romantic rival, he descends into the seven levels of the Hell of Devouring Love, swearing to tear apart his wife's betrayal. The trials of hell revea
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Vivid as Life 栩栩若生
A fortune-teller said I was born destined for greatness, the reincarnation of the Flower Goddess, with the power to turn stones into gold and command flower spirits and tree sprites. Once I came of age, my family was sure to prosper. But when I was twelve, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, and I kept seeing terrifying visions... In a dream, I met an old woman who told me to find an expert with supernatural powers to save my life. Millet to summon souls, altars and form
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I Find the Top Scholar So Charming 我见探花多娇媚
Jing Bao has three wishes: First, protect the family estate of the main branch; second, enter the Imperial College, place third in the palace examinations, and bring honor to the family; third, keep living as a man in disguise until the end. Lord Gu has three wishes too: First, help someone protect their family estate; second, help that someone place third in the palace examinations; third, bring the disguised top scorer home and make her the mistress of the household.
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- 13 The Female Imperial Physician for Men’s Health 男科女太医 They say the emperor isn't quite up to the task. The best doctor for men's health is needed: Ji Rong. The problem is, Ji Rong is a woman. With no other choice, she disguises herself as a dashing man and risks her life to join the Imperial Medical Bureau. But the arrogant emperor refuses to cooperate with his treatment! Ji Rong battles wits with the haughty emperor every step of the way. 211Reads8.8Score—Shelves
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Born with a Bewitching Charm 媚骨生香
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- 15 A Carefree Fish Demon in the Mortal World 快活鱼妖在人间 [Corruption Arc + Dark Fairy-Tale Retelling + Chinese and Western Fantasy + First-Person POV] The mermaid didn't win the prince's love, but she didn't turn into sea foam either. Instead, she fell to darkness that very night, killed someone, and fled under a curse. The mermaid became a demon, cut off from the world. Hundreds of years later, the wheels of fate began turning once more. The fish demon returned to the human world, free to live as she pleased. She kicked bandits and punched mean girls 152Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 16 Riches and Splendor 富贵芳华 When it came to Ning Fang’s idol, there was only one: Xia Zhenzhen, the Xia family’s legendary great-aunt, whose glory peaked more than a century ago! Renowned for her “exceptional intelligence,” she was chosen at just fifteen by a family of scholars and married into a prestigious household as the legitimate wife, despite being a merchant’s daughter. After the wedding, she and her husband were “deeply devoted to each other,” and even her mother-in-law praised her: “She is as good as my own daugh 4.8kReads9.3Score545Shelves
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I Wore Myself Out for a Treacherous Minister 我为佞臣操碎了心
Mu Yao: “Listen, seriously, trust me. You can’t be this reckless. Later on, you’ll go through...” (She rambles on earnestly.) Xie Chongning: (pulls her into his arms) “I only wish to spend my life by my wife’s side.” Simply put, it’s the story of a no-nonsense woman who only wants to stay alive, but gets doted on until a big shot turns her into a little princess~
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- 18 Beauty’s Bones 美人骨 A hero's tender embrace, a beauty's burial place. Even if she has to crawl, she'll survive in this merciless place and make him her devoted admirer! 263Reads8.0Score100Shelves
- 19 Heaven Above 上邪 Fu Jiuqing is hiding a huge secret: he secretly picked up his own wife... Everyone knows that the Fu family of Hengzhou is richer than the emperor, yet its heirs are a sorry lot. The eldest legitimate son died young, the second is a wastrel, the third is obsessed with food and women, and the fourth is an idiot. The youngest, Fu Jiuqing, is a concubine's son and a sickly child by nature. Everyone says the Fu family must have done something wicked in a past life to deserve this. Jin Yue didn't wan 3.1kReads9.0Score397Shelves
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A Dream Across Ten Thousand Years 一梦越万年
Primitive Era: He woke up to find himself lying in a muddy pond, surrounded by naked savages sprawled every which way... His soul transmigrates into the primitive society of the Yan and Huang emperors. With no System and no golden finger, he leads a small tribe of just over a dozen people, gradually developing it and uniting the tribes of Chiyou, the Yellow Emperor, and the Yan Emperor. He founds a nation, advances agriculture and technology, makes sure everyone has enough to eat, and vows to bu
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The Galactic Chronicles 银河战记
Vital energy surges back into the world, humanity awakens, and everyone begins cultivating. Together, they fight the beast hordes, with Huaxia at the helm as Earth unites under one banner. “Report, Commander. Our calculations show the Andromeda Galaxy is speeding toward the Milky Way. The collision is less than eighty million years away!” “Keep observing!” “Report! Andromeda will collide with our Milky Way in less than 300 years!” “For Earth, for the Milky Way, we fight!” Billions of warriors wa
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He Quit Being a Boss, and Mu Sheng Made Beitang Rich and Beautiful 老板不当，木生把北塘变富美
[Literary fiction + realistic themes + suitable for middle-aged and older readers] From humble beginnings as a carpenter, Zhao Musheng worked his way up to construction worker, business owner, village director, and then a town official, turning his life around. Thanks to him, backward Beitang Village was transformed into a prosperous new village with thriving industries. Our fate is in our own hands, not Heaven's. The fortunes of the Zhao family and Beitang Village are closely intertwined. These
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The Healing Scent of Herbs 药香怡人
With a letter of divorce in hand, she knocks her awful ex-husband flat. Just as she sets off, full of determination, toward a bright future, a sudden upheaval throws all her plans into disarray. It was only a rumor, so how did it come true? And how did things get so far that the emperor issued an order for their marriage, leaving her no way to escape? Gu Qingchi, you scoundrel, did you really not do this on purpose? Shen Mingzhu feels like she’s about to lose her mind.
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- 24 A Taste of Life 有味 Ye Zhiqing came to her senses just before she was to be drowned in a pond. By a twist of fate, someone gave her to Zhou Qianke as a gift. Zhou Qianke: “Since when do gifts know about healthy living? Do you really have to be this dedicated?” Nutritionist Ye Zhiqing: “…I told you I’m a respectable woman! A respectable woman!!!” 1kReads8.7Score118Shelves
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Middle Age 人到中年
(This book once topped the charts with 2.2 million readers. Recommended for adults aged 25 and over.) Middle age, an unfaithful wife, a career in the doldrums... How can he rise again and escape life's predicament?
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- 26 Midlife Crisis: A Man’s Rise 中年危情：男人崛起 Past thirty, Xiao Zhan, an administrator of distressed assets, faces the greatest crisis of his life: his wife is constantly seen with a strange man, and keeps getting promoted. Meanwhile, he is caught in a web of intrigue, becoming the pitiful sacrificial lamb of the company’s restructuring… 1Reads6.0Score—Shelves
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The Three Brothers Who Started a Business 创业三兄弟
Urban life + period setting + business rivalry + realistic fiction + academic prodigy + farming In the early 1990s, college students Jin Zifei, Zhao Mingtang, and Sun Hengling shared a dorm room. Ten years later, the three reunited and started a business together, gradually building it into a major enterprise. Guided by the strategy of strengthening the nation through innovation, they focused on integrating industry, academia, and research, and partnered with Beiguan University. After returning
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The Three-and-a-Half-Year-Old Empress: She Brings Billions of Merit into the 1960s 女帝三岁半：她带亿万功德穿六零
(Adorable, everyone’s-favorite story with a touch of fantasy.) After saving three thousand worlds, the empress thought her life was over. But, to her surprise, a fragment of her soul was reincarnated into a little fool in the late 1960s. The girl’s family was dirt poor, and life was painfully hard. Her father was lame, her mother half-blind, and she had two older brothers, grandparents, an eldest uncle, a second uncle, and a younger uncle: a huge family with a poverty rating of minus 100. But th
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- 29 I Brought a Supermarket Stocked with Supplies to the 1960s 我带着满装物资的超市穿到六零 Farming, a heroine who shines on her own and builds a career, no romance for the male lead, serving the country In this impoverished 1960s, her husband dies in service, leaving behind a son who has just turned one month old. Her mother-in-law is a fool who only wants to drain the family’s resources to support her own nephew. Her bullying brother-in-law only wants her compensation and her job. Luo Luo transmigrates with a supermarket full of supplies that can be copied without limit. Did she real 2.8kReads9.0Score298Shelves
- 30 Back to the 1960s: Farming, Building a Fortune, and Raising the Kids 重回六零：种田发家养崽崽 Transmigrating into the impoverished 1960s wasn’t scary. Becoming a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a book wasn’t scary either. What was scary was that her three stepsons would grow up to become major villains, and all of them, along with their upright, aloof father, would meet tragic ends. How could she let that happen? Lin Qinghe looked at the three future villains, none of whom was even ten years old, and made up her mind: changing a villain starts when they’re young! 3.8kReads9.0Score504Shelves
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Reborn in the 1980s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生八零：媳妇有点辣
Her parents died young, her family was poor, and she was plain-looking. Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a terrible hand, but after nearly twenty years of hard work, she became an executive at a multinational corporation and finally put her life back on track... Then she wakes up to find herself reborn in the 1980s, as another Xia Xiaolan, this time with a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin. The original Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a winning hand, but chose to take her own life under the pressu
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- 32 Reborn in the 1980s as a Lucky Girl 重生八零小福女 Ning Qi was just taking in the laundry when, in the blink of an eye, she was struck by lightning! By accident, she returned to the 1980s and was reborn as a little simpleton! She refused to bow to fate! (Or to being a freeloader who stirs up trouble!) The young lady rolled up her sleeves. If you want to get rich, plant trees first. Once good fortune comes your way, nothing can stop it! … Come along with her… Remember how we once braved the current, our waves holding back the flying boats? 1.5kReads9.2Score192Shelves
- 33 Pampered Beauty of the 1980s: The Big Shot's Flirty Darling Has Both Beauty and Brains 八零娇宠：大佬的小撩精财貌双全 The poorest family in Heba Village, the Lao Si family, has an uneducated local thug. Coldhearted and ruthless, he's so notorious that the neighbors steer clear of him. Ji Nianwei accidentally transmigrates to the 1980s and is looking for a business partner. She stops the tall, long-legged man. “Hey, you want to make money? Want to reach the peak of your life and marry a rich, beautiful woman?” Si Yu studies the lovely young woman with her picture-perfect features, rolls the phrase “rich, beautif 936Reads9.0Score101Shelves
- 34 Reborn in the 1980s: The Road to Prosperity 重生八零致富记 Su Susu, a refined young lady from a prominent family, dies after catching a bad cold and is reborn as a rural girl in the 1980s. She has only just become a bride and hasn't even had time to feel shy when a spiritual spring suddenly appears out of nowhere! This is looking good! She gives up her former self's bad habits, works hard to manage the household, and makes a little money on the side. Little does she know that the embroidery skills she honed in her past life are now at a master level. Th 4kReads9.1Score220Shelves
- 35 Transmigrated Into an 1980s Book: The Female Side Character Is the Sweet, Silly One 穿书八零：女配才是傻白甜 As a die-hard fan of the heroine, Lu Miaomiao was so enraged by the novel's vicious villainess that she wanted to mail the author a knife. The author snapped, “If the villainess isn't over-the-top, how am I supposed to write her? If you think you can do better, you try!” Lu Miaomiao replied, “Fine, I will!” But after transmigrating into the book as the villainess, she nearly spat up blood: The sweet, innocent white lotus is actually a rotten-hearted ingrate? And the villainess is the kind, naive 564Reads8.3Score101Shelves
- 36 Reborn in 1979: Wealthy and Beautiful 重生七九之财貌双全 In the 1970s, Su He worked hard and constantly strove to improve herself, but before she could make something of herself, she was framed. She spent her life nursing her grievances until she was fortunate enough to obtain a key that could send her soul through time and space. She became a chief scientist in a high-tech civilization and a legendary Medicine Emperor in a cultivation world... No matter where she ended up, she could rise from humble beginnings and leave behind countless legends. In l 242Reads8.2Score—Shelves
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The Fox Immortal of the Jianghu Charlatan 神棍江湖天狐
The shaman who roams between heaven and earth is a medium with access to realms full of unknowns. In her world of mysticism, she single-handedly stirs up trouble among the many races and realms, disrupting their rulers as they descend into the mortal world to undergo trials and tribulations. Along the way, a series of strange events and shocking legends unfold. This restless shaman gets along with both black and white forces across heaven and earth, never playing by the rules. She makes trouble
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Family Matters 家事
A distant relative can't compare to a close neighbor, and a close neighbor can't compare to the family across the street. It's common sense, but by no means a universal rule. When you end up with a “very unusual neighbor,” everything becomes a baffling mystery.
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Forging a Great Physician: My Nine Sisters Each Have a Killer Trick! 大国医炼成：九个姐姐各有鲜招！
When Jiang Feng, a medical university graduate, found himself in dire straits, he received an ancient revelation. From then on, he met his nine older sisters one after another. One gave him a golden fingernail, another fell for him and became his wife, another gifted him a family medical text, and another helped him make trillions through business... With his sisters' expert help and clever plans, he defied fate and enjoyed one stroke of luck after another, creating a textbook example of a life
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Thriller: I Become Dong Zhuo in the Three Kingdoms 惊悚：我在三国当董卓
[Three Kingdoms + no System + political intrigue + warlords vying for supremacy The people are my pieces, the world my board, and I stake my life as the player. Lose, and I’ll be dragged out and burned alive as a human torch! Win, and I’ll still be spending the night in the emperor’s bed!] Hey, folks, I’m Dong Zhuo. Right now, the eighteen warlord coalitions are sharpening their blades and surrounding my gates. At my side, I’ve got my adopted son Lu Bu, the expert at stabbing his own father; my
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