Looking for Good Stories Set in the 1970s and 1980s 求推荐好看的年代文
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My Elders 我的长辈
In the 1980s, as people flock to the cities, all kinds of stories unfold! Mu Fang suffers from asthma, so many people keep their distance. After several unsuccessful matchmaking attempts, she meets someone on a day when sleet begins to fall. It feels like fate has brought them together, and they fall in love at first sight. Defying her family’s objections, Mu Fang marries her second uncle, who is more than ten years her senior. She never looks down on him for being poor and from the countryside,
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Chronicles of Mountains and Rivers 山河志
His beautiful mother was nearly assaulted by a village lout, but she tearfully begged the man who rescued her not to call the police. Young Gao Yuan couldn’t understand why at the time. Only when he reached his thirties and looked back on the past, with those scenes flashing through his mind, did he realize that the lives of countless rural people together form a chronicle of the mountains and rivers of China!
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A Pair of Delicate Red Hands 一双红酥手
Reborn in 1996, I planned to strike it rich with the lottery numbers from the one thing I remembered about my past life. Who knew it would still turn out to be just a dream!!! There are only 98 days left until the college entrance exam, and I’ve forgotten every bit of what I learned in my previous life. What do I do... Fine, I’ll come clean. I just want to be a couch potato, enjoy life with a beautiful wife, and live a quiet little life... This story is entirely fictional. Any similarities are p
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Wang, the Northeastern Guy in the Women's Dorm, Don't Panic 女工宿舍楼里东北汉子老王你别慌
Wang Xinyan is a strapping Northeastern man, tall and broad-shouldered. But because his mother loved watching romance dramas, she gave him a feminine name. After graduating from college, that name got him assigned not only to a female factory-worker position, but also to a dorm room on the women's floor…
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You’ve Got to Be Kidding: A Tang Dynasty Assassin Taking the College Entrance Exam 没搞错吧我一个大唐刺客参加高考
A Tang Dynasty assassin has just beheaded a military governor, only to open his eyes as a hopeless high school senior! He spent the first half of his life relying on a swift blade. Now he has to battle trigonometry? With just 100 days left until the college entrance exam, what’s an assassin like me supposed to do? And just as the turmoil is still unfolding, he learns that his beautiful master has transmigrated from the Tang Dynasty too…
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One Sword to Slay the Fairer Sex 一剑斩红粉
[Urban Martial Arts]+ [Traditional Cultivation]+ [Multiple Heroines] Lin Che, young master of an ancient martial arts family in the city, was framed and killed in his previous life while enjoying himself beneath the peonies. His lover, a minor internet celebrity close to him, had joined forces with his family's sworn enemy to set him up. His path to being reborn is also a path to rising to power…
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I Don’t Want This Kind of Rebirth 这样的重生我不想要啊
Being reborn isn't about having an easy, satisfying life. It's about walking the human road again through blood and tears! The hardships I've endured and the burdens I've borne aren't anything to be proud of. I'll just leave them in my memories. A simple, honest life, surrounded by a beloved wife and beautiful companions, is what truly matters...
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The Merchant’s Road to the West 西部商途
[No System] [No golden finger] [School belle] [Multiple heroines] [The struggle of an ordinary guy] Zhang Bo is a poor kid from the countryside. He doesn’t have much going for him, except that he’s pretty lucky with girls...
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Restarting My Life and Winning Over Several One True Loves 重启人生拐几个白月光
So what if he was rich in his previous life? He couldn't even find his wife and daughter! In this reborn life, he'll protect his family first... A life of wealth and luxury? He wouldn't mind! But the simple pleasures of everyday life are what feel most real!
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After Succeeding in Cultivation, I Transmigrated to Earth to Farm 修仙有成却穿越到地球种田
[Cultivation]+ [Farming]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Transmigration]+ [Golden Finger]+ [Alternate Fantasy World]+ [If It's Not Your Thing, Please Don't Complain] Chen Xing, an immortal with a spirit body from the Ziling Sect, had cultivated to the peak of the continent. Just as he was reveling in a life of pleasure with six beautiful concubines, the Trial of Worldly Desires struck. His soul transmigrated into the body of a young man with the same name on Earth, who had died after slipping and falling
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Cultivating the Great Dao in a Human Classroom 我在人间课堂修大道
Cultivation? Pah! I just want to spend my days with the campus beauty, enjoying the simple pleasures of life and living it to the fullest. Is that too much to ask? And of course, I wouldn't mind having a few more beauties around either…
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A Spring Dream Takes Me to Ancient Times: I Become a Workaholic in Dayin 春梦穿古我在大胤当卷王
[Mystery]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Transmigration]+ [Golden Finger]+ [Alternate Fantasy World]+ [If It's Not Your Thing, Please Don't Complain] Just because he begged his goddess for a hug in a romantic dream, Lu Xiaochuan was kicked straight into a river in the Great Yin dynasty, launching his mortifying Transmigration adventure! The moment he climbs ashore, he's branded a suspect in the Witchcraft Cult case. He lets slip what he said in his sleep, then reveals the secret that he once saw a celes
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A Beauty’s Scheme for the Realm 红颜谋天下
[Mystery]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [No Transmigration]+ [No Golden Finger]+ [Alternate Fantasy World]+ [If It's Not Your Thing, Please Don't Complain] An imperial edict of marriage sends the icy, beautiful female general Murong Xue storming into the residence with a sword. Turmoil erupts in the Song household's rear court, while strange butterfly shadows from the Xuanming Cult appear, concealing a shocking conspiracy that could overturn the world. As one beauty after another gets drawn into the gam
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A Story About a Beautiful CEO Beneath a Ginkgo Tree 银杏树下的一个美女总裁的故事
The story of a beautiful CEO beneath a ginkgo tree
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The Original Sin of Kindness 善良的原罪
The Original Sin of Kindness
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How a Village Girl Became a Bad Woman 一个山村女孩如何成坏女人的
How a Village Girl Became a Bad Woman
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I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德
I’m a Scout: Zhan De
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A Disastrous Start: I Became the Female Lead’s Terrible Third Brother-in-Law 天崩开局,我成了女主的极品三嫂
[Period Setting, Transmigration, Space, Sweet Romance, Military Marriage] When Jiang Yuzhu woke up, she had somehow become the heroine’s awful third sister-in-law, a lazy, vain, shrewish, shameless woman. Ever since she married into the Xu family, there hadn’t been a single peaceful day. The household was in constant chaos, and she was a universally disliked supporting character. She must have woken up wrong. Back to sleep! She was a food-streaming influencer with a million followers, yet she ha
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After Swapping Marriages with My Stepsister, I Married into a Wealthy Family in the Nineties 跟继姐换亲后,我在九零嫁豪门
Su Yun was born into the 1970s and spent eighteen years there before finding out that her biological father was a low-level manager at a factory in S City. As soon as she arrives in S City, Su Yun hears that her half-sister is demanding to break off her engagement to the He family. The young master of the He family may be picky, obsessed with being top dog, a neat freak, and sharp-tongued, but he's rich. Very rich. For instance, with a marriage of convenience, Su Yun won't have to fulfill any wi
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Transmigrated into the Wicked Biological Mother in a Historical Stepmother Novel 穿成年代后妈文里的恶毒亲妈
[1970s + space + military marriage + rugged man + adorable kids] Lin Zhi stayed up late one night, and when she woke up, she found herself transmigrated into the role of a wicked mother in a novel set in a bygone era. The heroine shines in the spring breeze of reform and opening up, while Lin Zhi rots away on the road of life. Forced to take over this mess, Lin Zhi grits her teeth. She can't stand another day of this awful life. But when she looks at the two children, all skin and bones, their e
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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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I Married My Crush's Cousin Out of Spite, and Had Triplets 赌气嫁给心上人的堂哥,我一胎生三宝
After the man she loved got married, Lin Nuo married his cousin in a fit of anger. She obsessively monitored the couple's life until his wife became pregnant. Then Lin Nuo shoved her over, nearly causing a terrible accident. Reborn in the 1990s and faced with the same script, Lin Nuo only wants to gouge her eyes out. Her parents dote on her, her in-laws indulge her, and her older brother, a folksy tycoon, treats her like a princess. Even her college-student husband, who seemed to fade into the b
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Go to College, Build the Power Grid! She Conquers the ’70s 考大学,搞电力!穿七零她赢麻了
~A short drama is in production. Stay tuned!~ Gu Yaotang’s life dream is to be a happy, irresponsible gambling addict. Just as he runs farther and farther down the road to becoming a scumbag, his usually obedient daughter suddenly starts acting like she’s been struck by lightning. Every day, she rebels and finds new ways to torment him. Whenever this little devil of a daughter catches him gambling, she beats him up, then makes him work! Enough! Why should I put up with this? Gu Yaotang’s coun
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Military Marriage in the Seventies: The Cannon Fodder Dodges the Plot with Bullet Comments 七零军婚:炮灰靠弹幕躲剧情
Lin Shuyin transmigrated into the 1970s and became an eighteen-year-old high school senior, about to graduate. She was worried about finding a job. In those days, without a job, you had to go to the countryside, and she didn’t want to! Suddenly, comments appeared before her eyes: [Seriously, Lin Shuyin, you’d be better off going to the countryside. Then you wouldn’t meet your scumbag husband, Zhou Jianguo, and all that stuff that happened later would never happen.] [Sigh! Second Sister Lin had s
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The 1970s: The Hated Couple Goes Wild in the Compound 七零:万人嫌夫妇,大院发癫
[1970s setting + delightfully unhinged and a little funny + violent, crazy heroine + spoiled, two-faced, scheming young husband + both leads join the army later] Ye Sanqiu is notorious as the most hated person in Trumpet Flower Brigade. The villagers and her own family have suffered endlessly at her hands... Granny Ye and the brigade leader are going gray from worry. Left with no choice, Granny Ye hands her a letter of introduction and a marriage certificate. “Sanqiu, you've wreaked havoc all ov
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A Secret Marriage? Goodbye! Take Your Divorce Papers 明招暗娶?再见吧!离婚本请拿好
The female lead pursues a career in government, and the two leads each have their own stories. Don’t worry about their romance! Blurb: Everyone says Ning Qing was born lucky. She was an unwanted child with no one to care for, yet someone adopted her. It’s just that her marriage prospects aren’t great. Her adoptive mother tries every trick in the book to match Ning Qing with her second son! Too bad the two of them can’t stand each other! The brave get to enjoy life first. She secretly sets he
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I Found a Child and Got a Handsome Officer as a Bonus: Married Life Is a Blast 捡娃赠帅军官,婚后生活乐哈哈
[Transmigrate into a book: period novel + golden finger + cozy everyday life raising children] [Not a strong female lead] Overnight, Tang Yuanyuan goes from being a bright-eyed university graduate in the modern era who can’t find a job to an orphan in the 1970s, whose father has died and whose mother has remarried. Her arrival looks like the scene of a crime. On the first day after recovering from her injuries, Tang Yuanyuan goes up the mountain to gather wild vegetables for the first time in he
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The Nation’s Heiress Transmigrates into a Book and Takes Down Every Protagonist 穿书归国大小姐降为打击所有主角
Meng Huaijun transmigrated, and got all the standard transmigration tropes: a System, transmigration into a book, a female lead, true and fake heiresses, and substitute romance. It's just that these labels aren't quite what she expected. Her System isn't a conquest System or a redemption System, and it has no humanlike thought process. It's a cold, impersonal Prosperity System, whose ultimate mission is to enrich the people and strengthen the nation. And in the book, her identity is never even m
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The Sixties: Newlywed from the Start 六十年代:开局就是新婚
[Period novel + everyday family life + devoted hero and heroine enjoying a peaceful life together + low-conflict + daily spectatorship + no saintly heroine] As a Chinese teacher at a technical secondary school, Wen Nuan enjoyed a happy routine, working from eight in the morning to five in the evening, with the occasional evening class. She didn’t have to worry about grades or deal with any teaching pressure. Sure, the students were a little unruly and getting all their homework collected was a b
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The Heiress Has a Wish-Granting App 大小姐她有成真APP
[1960s Hong Kong setting + heiress + powerful father + wealthy heiress's daily life + coming of age + a seriously powerful golden finger + heartwarming father-daughter bond + lots of romances] Ordinary, clear-eyed but clueless college student Wei Ying wakes up to find herself back in a baby's body. Abandoned by parents who favor sons? No problem. She has a golden finger and can personally choose her adoptive parents. Her adoptive parents die in an accident when she's eight, leaving her surrounde
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After Transmigrating as the Doomed Third Sister-in-Law, I Just Enjoy the Gossip and Watch the Show 穿成炮灰三嫂后,我只管吃瓜看戏
1950s setting, slice of life, marriage first and love later, watching the drama unfold The heroine transmigrates into a book, and the hero is reborn. Both are self-interested pragmatists who don't interfere with the original plot. After living another life, everything else seems empty. The most important thing is to live freely and happily. After 1957, Song Jinhé had no lofty ambitions. She just wanted to eat well, have fun, sleep well, and enjoy a quiet, ordinary life of her own. She never
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Gu Qingyu's Cheat-Filled Life in a Period Novel 顾青玉在年代文里开挂的一生
[Period setting + strong female lead + career-focused plot + one-on-one romance + both leads devoted to each other + male lead appears late and doesn't get much page time] Gu Qingyu transmigrates into a period novel as an insignificant passerby. Sent back to her family's village as soon as she's born, she becomes a pitiful child no one wants after her parents divorce when she's three. But Gu Qingyu doesn't think she's pitiful at all. At three, she leads the village children in making money. At f
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Transmigrated as the Eldest Brother’s Wife: Taming a Wealthy Family in 1990s Hong Kong 穿成大嫂,调教豪门【九零香江】
Chen Rou first met Nie Zhao during a counterterrorism case involving a wealthy Hong Kong family. He had been Hong Kong’s undisputed richest man for years and was a powerful figure renowned across the region. Even with both legs crippled and confined to a wheelchair, even in his fifties with deep wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, he still radiated sharpness and intelligence. Three generations of Chen Rou’s family had served in the police. Her father died in the war on drugs, and she had once b
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Reborn in the 1980s: Back Before My Scumbag Husband Faked His Death 重生八零,回到渣夫假死前
Period setting + reborn + sweet romance + raising a child After thirty-one years as a widow, Lu Yuwei learns while scrolling through short videos before surgery that her husband, who died young, became a tycoon in Hong Kong. As she closes her eyes, she thinks of how he has children and grandchildren all around him while she lies alone on the operating table, her heart full of conflicting emotions. Who would have thought that when Lu Yuwei opens her eyes again, she’ll be back at the age of twenty
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The Matchmaker’s Comic and Tragic Fate 红娘啼笑因缘
A matchmaker who transmigrated, still so young and already arranging marriages. What a farcical situation! The matchmaker Hongniang in the Peking opera The Story of the Western Wing is famous for helping lovers find happiness. Could a real-life matchmaker actually be the reincarnation of the Hongniang from The Story of the Western Wing? Can the Book of Changes really predict love and marriage?
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Ten Thousand Thoughts in a Single Moment 一念千千万
After her childhood friend and playmate mysteriously disappeared, he reemerged as a powerful, enigmatic figure. Whenever disaster strikes, he steps forward to save the day, yet he refuses to admit who he really is. Until the heroine uncovers his secret…
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Snowflake Town 雪粒镇
[Ji Handeng, a fragile, sickly, dark-minded younger brother x Xu Qiongqiong, a kind, resilient older sister who loves money] [Modern romance + mutual salvation + healing + older woman/younger man romance + revenge + cover-up + high-stakes twists] Xu Qiongqiong and Ji Handeng are siblings with no blood ties. In a small, poor town full of secrets, they rely on each other and keep one another warm. Their days hold happiness and pain, darkness and budding affection. Their shared goal is to leave Xue
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Wang Mingzhen Reborn in 1997 王明贞重生一九九七
(The rating has only just come out and will rise, so please ignore it.) The heroine is reborn and resolves to become the person she wants to be. Who knew an unexpected turn would bring her face-to-face with the big shot from her previous life? He’s volatile, clingy, and always on the verge of tears. She has no choice but to take him along as she rises to the top. When Wang Mingzhen learns she can’t have children, she wants to break up. She tells Gu Xizhou, “Gu Xizhou, I want you to be happy. Do
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Lu Xueqi, Vocational School Student 中专生陆雪琪
Lu Xueqi, the Vocational School Student
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Wild Pansy 山堇花
Lin Meng escaped the great bombing of Wuhan, only to be kidnapped and sold to a wealthy household in the countryside as the bride of an idiot. Her life was full of misfortune, yet she found a different kind of happiness...
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The Yama Mountains 雅玛山脉
The Yama Mountains lie on the plateau, far from the bustle of the cities, amid cold and desolate surroundings. Herdsmen have lived here for generations, and their peaceful, quiet lives are suddenly shattered one day when a group of strangers enters the area…
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Sunset on the Yellow River 黄河落日
Sunset over the Yellow River is a work set against the 1938 Huayuankou Incident. The story unfolds against a backdrop of warfare and follows two love stories experienced by a woman who cannot speak...
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An Old Stock Trader's Careless Purchases 老股民胡乱买同志
I first encountered stocks in 1993. Thirty-two years have passed since then, yet I still strive and fight on in the stock market, a “battlefield” full of opportunity and challenge. In this book, I'll look back on my long journey of stock trading from 1993 to 2025, recounting the moments of suspense and excitement, as well as those of reflection and sudden insight. I'll lay out the judgments and decisions made amid the market's ups and downs, along with the lessons learned and growth gained throu
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Her in 2005 2005年的她
Life is a train journey. Some people get off at one stop, while others board at a new platform. Those who couldn't stay with us until the end aren't regrets, but gifts time has given us. They let us carry those warm fragments onward. Knowing that we were once illuminated so sincerely is enough. To keep the good memories in their own little corner of the past, without disturbing, questioning, or forcing a reunion, is the gentlest tribute to what has passed and the clearest way to cherish the pres
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My Online Romance 我的网络情缘
I know that one day, old age will blur my memories. The smiling faces that once made my heart race, the warm embraces in the dead of night, will all fade with the years. I will forget the passion of my youth, forget the people who stood by me through storms, and in the end leave this world as silently as a mote of dust. I'm afraid of being forgotten, and even more afraid of forgetting. So I write these words to prove that I lived wholeheartedly, and to thank all the women who came into my life.
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Those Red Boots at Eighteen 18岁的那双红靴子
A middle-aged man always keeps a few amber pieces of time tucked away in his heart. In the autumn when he was eighteen, he met a girl wearing red ankle boots. Their crisp taps sounded like a heartbeat echoing through time. They once walked side by side through the streets and shared their youthful secrets, until their story came to an end. The years blurred many details, but they could never dim the bright red of those boots. They became the most vivid footnote of his youth, holding a tenderness
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Three Years of Dating, and We Haven't Even Held Hands 恋爱三年没拉手
In old movies, the wooden-headed male lead always wins the girl’s heart by being “honest.” Our generation believed it. We mistook silence for deep affection, backing off for respect, and treated “knowing our place” like holy writ. Only after the person we liked had gone did we understand: awkwardness is romantic in movies, but in real life it means missing your chance, and all you’re left with is regret. An old friend passed through my heart, and when I looked back, autumn had already fallen acr
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Those Days on the Production Team 年代,生产队里那些事
Set in the 1970s, this book tells the story of the family life of Wu Changgui and Jiang Xueqin, an ordinary couple from a small village, and their children. In an era of material scarcity, life was simple and unpretentious, yet full of complicated love, hatred, and heartbreak...
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The Purest Love 最纯洁的爱
Qin Feng returns to China after completing his studies in Russia, just as the country reforms its education system and universities abolish guaranteed job assignments for graduates. He then moves with his family to a coastal city, where he meets Xie Lan, a local girl from the countryside. Xie Lan is six years younger than Qin Feng and left school after junior high. They come from vastly different backgrounds in age, education, and family circumstances. Both sets of parents oppose their relations
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Moonlight Fort 明月堡
Set after the Central Plains War, this work follows the rise and fall of the Hu family, a prominent business clan in Mianshang County in central Shanxi, and the joys and sorrows shared by two generations. It portrays the region’s distinctive local customs and bears the clear imprint of its era.
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