Good Historical-Era and Farming Novels, Without Any Awful Characters 好看的年代文、种田文，不要极品
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The Humorous Daily Life of a Tian Family Boy in the 1960s! 60年代田家小子的日常逗趣！
(If you're here for scheming and infighting, don't read this) (Pocket dimension, hunting, low on violence) I woke up with a throbbing pain in the back of my head, my body freezing, and my whole being buzzing with excitement. I've transmigrated, and arrived at Courtyard No. 90 on Nanluoguxiang. I'm called Tian Wenjing! What the heck! Am I supposed to go all out right from the start?
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The 1970s Space: An'an Was Born the Apple of Her Family’s Eye 七零空间：安安生来就是全家团宠
The animated series is out! Set in the 1970s; beloved by the whole family; a toddler of two or three; no romance; a personal space; country life; an ensemble cast; gossip and lively goings-on; everyone in the family is a protagonist; adorable pets; blessed with good luck. A few things to know before you read: 1. The story begins when the little one is born. The early chapters focus on the family, since the baby is too young to do much. Gossip and country life are woven in, too. 2. There's a spac
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The Bashful Doctor and the 1980s Butcher Girl Who Won't Stop Spoiling Him 斯文医生脸红红八零杀猪婆追着哄
Short dramas 1–4 and the animated series are releasing simultaneously~ [Period setting + marriage first, love later + fiercely protective + older woman/younger man + no transmigration or rebirth] [Bold, career-minded pig butcher vs. refined, reserved, easily embarrassed doctor] Everyone in Chihe Town knew Yun Tianjiao. When it came to looks and figure, if she came in second, no one would dare claim first place. But when it came to her fiery temper, she was just as unmatched in town. That was exa
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- 4 The Family's Beloved Girl: The Cannon-Fodder Darling of Her Terrible Family 七零团宠：极品家人的炮灰娇娇女 [Brooding, Brawny Man + Sweet Wife + Completed] Lu Jiajia is delicate and soft. Then, in the blink of an eye, she becomes a useless cannon-fodder character in the 1970s, with a whole family of vicious oddballs in tow. Yet in an era that favors men above women, she is the apple of her family’s eye. Her father and mother: “Jiajia is our precious girl. She deserves to be spoiled.” Her brothers: “My sister is frail and sickly. How could she do farm work!” Lu Jiajia: “…I want the ultimate winning han 88.1kReads9.4Score8.4kShelves
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Reborn in the Famine of 1960: I Have a Spirit-Filled Pocket World 重生60灾荒年，我有灵田小世界
[Reborn in the 1960s + pocket dimension] [Farming + hunting + spirit beasts + building wealth + extraordinary longevity] In his previous life, Li Qiu was all alone. Now he was reborn in the years of famine. Li Qiu was only sixteen. When he woke, he faced not the care of his family, but abandonment by his brother and sister-in-law. Hunger, thirst, illness, drought, and cold... came one after another. A frail young man, living alone in a thatched hut by the mountain, isolated and forgotten by the
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Back to 1982: Casting Nets to Save the Village Belle and Make the Whole Village Rich 重回82：撒网救村花带全村致富
Back at the age of twenty, he's known throughout the village as a no-good loafer. But no one knows he's returned carrying the regrets and memories of his previous life. He catches and sells fish, hunts in the mountains, and earns his first fortune through hard work. Before the flood hits, he even issues an early warning and organizes an evacuation, saving countless lives. From the village to the county, from small-time trading to grand strategies... In this life, he won't just clear his name. He
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After I Was Forced to Marry a Sickly Educated Youth, I Got a Cheat 被迫嫁病弱知青后，我开挂了
[Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Devoted Couple + Golden Finger + Strong Female Lead] Jian Huai'an suspects his true form might actually be a mermaid. Seriously, why else would he be in the water after dying, and why would such a beautiful mermaid be swimming toward him? After discovering he'd transmigrated into a book, Jian Huai'an thinks his luck has finally turned. But he soon realizes that his transmigration has amounted to nothing. A golden finger? Yes, but pra
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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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- 9 Reborn in the 1970s: Grandma, Today It's Your Turn to Get Divorced 重生七零：奶，今天轮到您离婚啦 Also known as: Reborn in the 1970s as a Lucky Little Carp with Space Tens of billions in supplies, serving the country, the family’s darling, adorable child, satisfying story In her previous life, Shen Danluo’s family was harmed by her wicked second uncle, and she avenged them all by herself. Now she has been reborn with a space that can exchange for all kinds of supplies. In this life, she will change everyone’s tragic fate. Take down the worst offenders and punish the scum. Then quietly make a 34.5kReads9.5Score4.4kShelves
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I’m Done Hiding: I Married a Tough Guy in the 1970s, and It’s Sweeter Than Ever 不装了，我穿七零嫁糙汉，甜翻
Completed Rugged Hero + Devoted Husband + Raising Kids + Everyday Life Tan Yueyue transmigrates to the 1970s. But why does she have no space, no System, and no golden finger? She’s a woman with none of the usual perks! Well, none of the special ones, anyway. Still, fate has been kind to her. She has loving parents, brothers who dote on her, and a big brother from her village who’s always there to help. Eventually, the big brother from her village helps her right into his own home. The heroine tr
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I Become the Wicked Stepmother of the Future Villains 穿成未来反派们的恶毒后娘
In Her Dreams and in Reality, She Wakes to Find Herself as Their Evil Stepmother Adorable children, sweet romance, cozy farming life, a space full of supplies, ever-improving cooking, a strapping man and a petite woman, one devoted couple Food blogger Su Meiwei transmigrates to ancient times during a famine, becoming the unseen wife of the regent and the evil stepmother of the future villains. Fortunately, she comes with an entire skyscraper, whose first floor is a supermarket stocked with all k
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A Hundred Billion in Supplies: I Take Charge of the Tycoons in a Period Novel 百亿物资：我在年代文里盘大佬
[1970s + sweet romance + System supplies + marriage first, love later + rewrite the plot + raising kids + face-slapping] After transmigrating into a book, Qin Lin discovers she's become the vicious little wife of the story's biggest villain! The story opens with the original owner's attempted elopement, only for the villain to catch her red-handed with her lover! She's doomed! The villain keeps the novel's hero and heroine down so completely they can't fight back. How can she talk her way out of
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Raising Kids in the 1980s: Born Premature, I Awakened to My Past Life 八零养崽：开局早产穿前世
A completed period novel. Original setting and fictional world. Please don't apply the pocket-dimension spring-water conventions from other novels to this book. The female lead is super cool, the kid is super adorable, and the male lead is super swoon-worthy! Jiang Yu transmigrates into the body of another Jiang Yu in the 1980s, and from the start she faces a dangerous premature-birth situation! Surrounded by danger, she's lucky to have a pocket dimension, a spirit spring, and a golden finger! S
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Reborn as a Young Educated Youth in the 1970s, I Make a Fortune with My Farm 重生70小知青带农场吸金
Space + rebirth + one-on-one romance + brainless power fantasy + food + entrepreneurship + foresight + making money. Inspired by real-life circumstances, but set in an alternate era. Xu Kaixin is reborn on the very day her home is confiscated. The resentment and bitterness from her previous life still weigh on her heart. Her anxious parents hurry to pack her things. Xu Kaixin glances at the clock: the authorities will be here to confiscate their home any minute. Her parents are about to be sent
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Reborn in 1958: What Am I Supposed to Do Without a Golden Finger? 重生五八：没有金手指我该怎么办
(The 1950s + Rebirth + Supernatural Ability + Ordinary Protagonist + Making a Fortune) This story is entirely fictional. Don’t compare it to history. If you don’t like it, please don’t read! In this unusual era, it’s truly hard to live well without some kind of supernatural ability, so the heroine of this book has one! Everyday family life, unfolding at a gentle pace. Feng Qingqing is reborn in the body of her young aunt, who died prematurely in her previous life. The story starts in 1958, which
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Thrown Out of the House? She Buys Up an Entire Street Around Her Adoptive Parents' Home 被赶出门？她买下养父母家一条街
[Period setting + System + Fake and real heiresses + Metaphysics] PS: Don’t expect the empress to feel much familial affection as soon as she arrives. She only wants to make money and become a big shot. After her adoptive parents and the real heiress throw her out, Empress Lin Zhi turns around and binds herself to a cultivation System. What a great System! It can do more than teach her cultivation and divination: it can also help her earn money and support her family. The richest man in Jiang Pr
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- 17 The 1970s: After Her Kidney Was Stolen, the Real Heiress Went to the Countryside 七零：被挖肾后，真千金下乡了 [Reborn + Period Setting + Face-Slapping + Crushing Scumbags + Sweet Romance + Stockpiling] In her previous life, Gu Mo was schemed against by the adoptive parents who had raised her. They had taken her in as a child and raised her for over a decade, all so they could give her blood and kidneys to their biological daughter. After losing a kidney, Gu Mo was forced to “give” her job to her younger sister. Her fiancé became her sister's husband, and in the end, she was sent to the countryside, wher 82Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 18 I Just Want to Retire in the Seventies, but the World Is Leveling Up 想在七零养老，世界却要升级了 Lu Miao Miao, a woman from the twenty-first century, woke up one day to find she had transmigrated to a difficult era plagued by shortages. She had become Lu Miao Miao, granddaughter of the Lu family, a family full of awful people in the 1970s, and a pitiful girl betrayed by both her own cousin and her fiancé. Watch as she uses her golden finger System to put the wicked in their place and punish scoundrels, while also helping her whole family mend their ways, build a fortune, and become the mos 695Reads8.6Score100Shelves
- 19 What? The New Educated Youth Is a Martial Arts Expert 惊！新来的知青是武林高手 [Mutual firsts + secret identities + transmigrated from ancient times to the present + powerful heroine + feel-good wish fulfillment + serving the nation + unlimited supplies] Lin Yizhen has just transmigrated when she discovers that her new body's parents are cruel and her siblings don't care for her. They enjoy bullying her every day, and the original owner was a pushover who let anyone walk all over her. Without a word, she teaches her awful family members a lesson. Then she takes the money 2.3kReads8.6Score243Shelves
- 20 After Four Years as a Fool, I Wake to Find My Parents Starving and Skin and Bones 傻了四年，醒来后爹娘饿成皮包骨 [Reborn from the womb] Xia Mo, a woman from the apocalypse, had two special abilities. She only meant to take a little nap, but unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of a newborn in a hard-pressed era. Her parents were true love; she was an accident. Her grandmother favored boys, and an accident left her asleep for four years. Faced with famine, let’s see how she rides the waves in this difficult era. 3.6kReads8.8Score410Shelves
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The Sixties: Traveling the World with My Pocket Dimension 六十年代之带着空间畅游天下
Li Beibei grew up surrounded by stories, then unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of a lucky girl in the 1950s. Touched by her family’s favoritism and kindness, she gladly accepts their love and decides to repay them with her own abilities. As she plans her future, Li Beibei chooses two careers that will let her travel at public expense, hoping to make up for the regrets of her past life: journalist and diplomat! And so begins her extraordinary journey in this world. By the seaside: “Qing f
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Reborn in the ’90s: Sweetheart with a Fiery Temper 重生90：甜妻小辣椒
[Devoted husband + two powerful leads + putting scumbags in their place] After an explosion, Ye Chu opened her eyes to find she had returned to 1990. The first thing she did after waking up was look for her fiancé, Xia Yu, who had been in a vegetative state for two years. Everyone thought she was going to break off their engagement, but instead, she ignored the strange looks and moved straight into the Xia family home… The Xia family was poor, so she helped them get out of poverty. The second so
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It’s Hard Being the Eldest Sister: I Farm the Mountain to Pay Off Our Debts 长姐难为，我靠大山种田还债
[Farming story + no System + no pocket dimension + no awful relatives + building a career + heartwarming] Song Zhi transmigrates into a destitute farming family with bare walls and enormous debts. The moment she opens her eyes, she’s faced with: A father killed in battle, a mother who died in childbirth, a sickly little brother, and a family on the brink of collapse under crushing pressure. With all those hardships piled on, her predecessor had grown sensitive and short-tempered. Misled by other
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Military Marriage in the Eighties: The Spicy Wife Strikes Back 八零军婚：辣妻逆袭
[Period Setting] [Building Wealth] [Portable Storage Space] [Rugged Man] [Sweet Wife] [Sweet Romance] In her previous life, Lin Xi was blind and foolish, and people took advantage of her completely. Fortunately, she came to her senses in time and sent the entire family who had abused her straight to hell. After being reborn, she took on the scumbag and the homewrecker, determined to change her family’s tragic fate from her previous life. She collected junk, resold old clothes, and accidentally u
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- 25 Reborn in the 1970s: The Pure-Hearted Farmer's Little Wife 重生七零：纯情糙汉的小娇妻 [Rugged Hero + Sweet Wife + Traditional Chinese Medicine + System Storage Space + Sweet and Satisfying] She woke up to find herself transmigrated into an era novel about a true and fake heiress, as the ill-fated true heiress. The fake heiress was doted on, while Gu Tangtang was sold by her adoptive parents to a fool and tortured to death. Gu Tangtang wasn't worried at all. She'd activated an ancient medicine sign-in System. From old Shikumen houses and a soup basin once used by an imperial conso 3.4kReads9.1Score463Shelves
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Reborn: Back to 1983 to Become a Tycoon 重生：回到1983当富翁
(The print edition is now available on JD.com! The text has been carefully revised and is even more exciting. There are plenty of discounts right now, so if you're interested, go grab a copy!) Zhou Yufeng, a corporate CEO, unexpectedly returns to 1983, an era of planned economies and feeling one's way across the river by touching the stones. With his lovely wife wanting a divorce and his younger brother and sister struggling to get by, watch as he turns the business world upside down and changes
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- 27 Back to 1978 重返1978 Jiang Xiaobai, a university graduate with a degree in economics, was reborn and witnessed the arrival of a new era with his own eyes. It surged forward with unstoppable force, as all things grew unchecked, dust and dawn rose together, rivers converged into mighty streams, and nameless hills rose into towering peaks. For a time, the world stretched boundlessly wide... 2.1kReads8.8Score219Shelves
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Reborn in 1960: I Have a Divine Cauldron Space 重生60，我有神鼎空间
Zhao Guoqiang died alongside the demolition crew, never imagining that the incense burner in his own main room was a divine artifact. After accidentally becoming the master of the Bronze Divine Cauldron, he was reborn as another man named Zhao Guoqiang. Inside the cauldron's space were towering mountains, lakes, and mighty rivers. What delighted him even more was that the cauldron could condense holy water. Time already flowed ten times faster inside the space than in the outside world. With the
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- 29 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Control the Life and Death System 四合院：开局掌控生死系统 From the start, he gets a Life and Death System and hypnosis abilities, sending him straight to the top. The Life and Death System can extract life force from anything alive, including animals, plants, fish, and humans. It can also pour life force into any living thing, though the effect is halved. Extracting life force from a century-old tree yields fifty years' worth, which can be poured into a sapling to instantly make it grow to the size of a fifty-year-old tree. Animals work the same way: e 15.3kReads8.1Score860Shelves
- 30 In 1979, I Helped the Whole Village Become Ten-Thousand-Yuan Households 我在七九帮全村成就万元户 Chen Sheng and seven good friends explore the Nanshan Cave and obtain the innate spiritual treasure, the Boundary-Breaking Pearl, which lets them travel back and forth to an era thirty years in the future. From then on, they begin a career smuggling goods between the two worlds. Back home, they open brickworks, a sand quarry, clothing factories, and furniture factories. They buy up centipedes and leeches, and become the first in the world to cultivate bamboo fungus commercially. Once every house 617Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 31 I Fish with Dragon Blood, and Every Fish and Shrimp in the Sea Goes Wild 我用龙血钓鱼，海中鱼虾都疯了 Fishing with dragon blood sends every fish and shrimp in the sea into a frenzy. Tempering my body with dragon blood and making a name for myself with dragon fists. I use dragon dung and urine in my space to grow ginseng and tea plants. Every year, I drip another drop of dragon blood beneath the tea plants. Regularly drinking the tea they produce delays aging, strengthens the body, promotes longevity, fortifies the bones and sinews, beautifies the skin, turns white hair black, and even boosts vir 728Reads8.6Score179Shelves
- 32 How to Chase Away Worries? Fish Until Your Cooler Overflows 何以解忧钓鱼爆护 Zhang San used to be a street vendor selling leather shoes. When the city launched a campaign to become civilized, street vending was banned. Just as he found himself out of work, his girlfriend betrayed him and ran off with the savings he had built up over six years of selling at his stall. Drunk, Zhang San went fishing by the river and unexpectedly hooked a Shanhe Ring. The ring had been forged by the Primordial Immortal Venerable from fragments of worlds and various heavenly treasures. It con 1.4kReads8.7Score103Shelves
- 33 I Gain the Water God's Inheritance, and Fishing Is No Longer Hard 莸得水神传承，钓鱼不再难 Nan Canghai had his achievements stolen and was fired from his job, so he went out for a walk to clear his head. Caught in a sudden downpour, he happened upon an old, dilapidated Water God Temple by the river. Curious, Nan Canghai ducked inside to take shelter and look around. By a stroke of fate, he merged with the remnant soul of an ancient Water God. Not only did he inherit the Water God's legacy, he also obtained a treasure that controlled water: the Black Tortoise Banner, one of the Four Di 746Reads8.6Score—Shelves
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Delicious Country Cooking: The Little Chef Is Beautiful and Adorable 农门佳肴：小厨娘她美又娇
[Sweet Romance + Farming + Food + Mutual Devotion] Shen Jiayao, a young chef in her previous life, didn't let her skills go to waste after she transmigrated to a small mountain village. Life in the village was hard, but her father doted on her, her mother loved her, and her older brother protected her. Most importantly, she had a childhood sweetheart who'd grown up alongside her. When he became an official one day and planned to marry a noblewoman, Shen Jiayao wielded her big ladle and knocked h
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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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With the Koi's Blessing, I Strike It Rich by Picking Up Money in an Era Novel 锦鲤附体，我在年代文里靠捡钱暴富
Lin Xiaochun, an experienced traditional Chinese medicine doctor with a lifetime of bad luck, transmigrated into a period novel as a hapless villainess who was always getting herself into trouble. Suddenly, her luck turned around, getting better by the day. She found money from the start. She saved an adorable pair of twins, a boy and a girl, who were destined for a tragic ending. She could have relied on her uncle and five aunts to dote on her, but she chose to make it on her own. Beyond her me
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The 1980s Village Girl Takes Competition to the Extreme, Leaving the Academic Prodigy Questioning His Life 八零村姑内卷，卷到学神怀疑人生
They both transmigrated, but her fate is a little rough. She gets into high school but can't attend, simply because she's a daughter who'll be married off and is nothing but a financial burden. It's hardly a marriage. Her grandmother and parents have joined forces to sell her to a crippled man who's old and ugly. Just as she pretends to be crazy and foolish to escape her family's control, this golden boy has to come along and interfere! He saves her, and she agrees to give herself to him in retu
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A Little Hamster's Everyday Life in the 1970s 小仓鼠的七零日常
Su Tang is a little hamster who loves good food. After accidentally eating a poisonous mushroom, she transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes a girl with the same name. The girl had a miserable past. At sixteen, her own father and stepmother sent her off to the countryside. Facing hard mode, Su Tang declares that she’s a brave little hamster who isn’t afraid of hardship. After meeting a kind and handsome young man, the little hamster decides to cling to him and win him over with delicious food! Ho
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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
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- 40 After Remarrying the Old Wang Next Door, I Had a Whole Bunch of Babies 改嫁给隔壁老王后，我多胎了 Period setting + rugged man versus pampered beauty Jiang Mo dreams several times in a row that she’s dating a scumbag in the 1980s. He abuses her and humiliates her by fooling around with prostitutes. When she finally fights back, she realizes she really is living in the 1980s. She immediately dumps him and marries the Old Wang next door. Her life after marriage takes off like she has a cheat code. She goes from being a despised country woman to a movie star who appears in advertisements, earnin 56Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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After Marrying the Sickly Man Next Door, I, Who Was Infertile, Got Pregnant 嫁给隔壁病秧子后，不孕不育的我怀上了
Zhou Junyi dreams that she's gone back several decades, leaving her adoptive parents to return to her birth parents. Her grandmother torments her, she loses the ability to have children, her fiancé breaks off their engagement, and she dies of exhaustion at a young age. She frantically stocks up on supplies in her pocket dimension. Then she really arrives in the world from her dream, ready to spend her life alone, only for the handsome neighbor who got into university to come next door and propos
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- 42 After I Transmigrated Into a Book, I Spoiled My Puppyish Boyfriend With Billions in Supplies 穿书后，我拿百亿物资娇养小奶狗 Su Xiaonuan, a doctor skilled in both medicine and poison, transmigrates into a book. Right after arriving, she accidentally causes her foolish neighbor-husband's death and becomes a cannon-fodder supporting character, a widow. Everyone in Sishui Village knows the Shen family has a foxlike jinx for a daughter-in-law, and no one dares marry her! Su Xiaonuan says: It doesn't matter if I don't have a man. I'll shine on my own. But the village's little tyrant takes one look at her and sets his sight 154Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 43 Transmigrate into a Book: The 1970s Cannon-Fodder Girl Is Gorgeous and Charming 穿书七零：炮灰女配又美又娇 Nan Mo transmigrates into a novel set in a bygone era, bringing a giant supermarket with her. She becomes a cannon-fodder supporting female character who gets horribly betrayed by her relatives. First, her own grandmother pressures her to marry so she can trade her future for her male cousins' success. Then there's her cousin, who wants to stay in the city and hopes to trade Nan Mo for a job. And to top it all off, a possessive, obsessive suitor is watching her like a hawk. After landing in the 4.5kReads9.0Score540Shelves
- 44 The Regent’s Lucky Little Wife 摄政王的福运小娇妻 Wrongfully accused and tragically killed, Ye Xiaotang was reborn and decisively broke off her engagement to marry the poorest man in the village. From then on, she served up face-slapping, punished scoundrels, and built a fortune, even taking her husband on a tour of the imperial city. She never expected that this man was no ordinary villager. At the cloth shop: “Madam, choose whatever you like. The whole shop is yours.” At the restaurant: “Madam, eat as much as you want. You own the restaurant 148Reads9.1Score—Shelves
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The Blood-Tear Tung Blossoms 泣血油桐花
In the 1970s, Zhao Zhicheng was an older bachelor. Because he had one disabled leg and came from a dirt-poor family, the women from the surrounding villages all refused to marry him. In the end, he married Yan Wenyin, a woman of similar age who also had one disabled leg. From then on, the fates of these two determined people, each with a physical disability, were bound tightly together! That year, he said, “My left leg is lame, and Xiaoyin’s right leg is lame. Put us together, and don’t we make
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- 46 Wild Chrysanthemums, No Tears 野菊花，不流泪 “The eldest gets doted on, the youngest gets spoiled, but the one in the middle suffers most!” In the late 1970s, under the weight of son preference and the pressure of family planning, Xiaojü was born in the middle. Her tragic life began from the moment she was born: an unwanted child, abandoned by both Heaven and Earth! When Xiaojü was four, the grandmother who had raised her passed away. In her final moments, Grandma told her that she had been born in a season when wild chrysanthemums were i 2.3kReads8.4Score157Shelves
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When the Rice Flowers Bloom 稻香花开
The novel follows the hardships endured by farmers in two villages in Xiangnan County, Dongyuantun and Da’ai Village, from the Republican era through the founding of the People’s Republic of China and on through the people’s commune system, the Cultural Revolution, the household responsibility system, and the Reform and Opening-Up period. The villagers endure one hardship after another and witness the changing times. The protagonists, Zhang Yiping and Zhou Xueyun, are forced to leave school beca
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Farming in the Sixties: The Sweet and Lovely Beauty 六零种田：美人娇滴滴
Ruan Xinan opened her eyes and found herself in Ruanlou Village, where people were poor, hungry, and cold. She'd thought life would be so hard that she might as well starve to death and start over. But then she discovered that all the men here were handsome! Especially the poor orphan next door, who had no father or mother. Even in dirty, patched-up clothes, he had striking features, fair skin, and long legs. He was exactly her ideal type. Ruan Xinan wiped her face. Starve to death? No! Living w
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The Apocalypse Big Shot Refuses to Be Cannon Fodder in a 1970s Novel 末世大佬拒绝在七零年代文当炮灰
[Transmigrate into a book + 1970s setting + space + special abilities + educated youth + devoted couple + strong heroine] At death’s door, Yang Zhenzhen dragged the Zombie King down with her. When she regained consciousness, Yang Zhenzhen had transmigrated into a book called Beautiful Educated Youth Becomes a Big Shot in the 1970s, as a cannon-fodder supporting character. Since she was there, she might as well make the best of it. With a wood-based special ability and a space, she planned to kee
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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?
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