Period Novels All Feel the Same. Can We Get Something More Original? 年代文千篇一律，要创新是不是？

1. 301 八 Building a Little House in the 1980s 八十年代盖小楼 The Heavenly Spirits Who Love Meat爱吃肉的天灵灵地灵灵Modern Romance224k WordsCompleted After transmigrating into a big family in the 1980s, she gets a taste of what it’s like to be crammed into a tiny home! Luckily, her family comes through, and they soon build a little house of their own. As she grows up, she dreams of financial freedom, living not to please others but to please herself. She finds a quiet place of her own and makes her life romantic and fun~ 2.5kReads8.3Score172Shelves

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   ①🥝 Traveling through the 1980s, there are plain to rich stories, without the best, golden fingers. ②🍐Leopard Spirit travels through the 1970s. ③🍈Prenatal wear + book wear + space + sign-in system ✨④🥗 Travel through the 1970s, have space, and go to the countryside.

2. 302 七 The 1970s: The Hated Couple Goes Wild in the Compound 七零：万人嫌夫妇，大院发癫 Bobo Bedhead啵啵呆毛Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [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 69.9kReads9.0Score7.7kShelves

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   In the first book, the male and female protagonists are both crazy. In the second book, the female protagonist is Green Tea Cuscuta, and the male protagonist is a rough guy who has a real and fake young master complex. The third book is unfolded from the perspective of the male protagonist. At the beginning, the male and female protagonists already have a child of several years old.

3. 303 豹 A Leopard Spirit in the 1970s 豹子精在七零年代 Banana Peelna香蕉皮naModern Romance244k WordsCompleted Qi Ji was a leopard spirit. After years of diligent cultivation, she was just one tribulation away from ascending to immortality. She survived the thunder tribulation, but before she could celebrate, an extra bolt struck and killed her. Only after reaching the underworld did she learn that a grim reaper had made a mistake and struck the wrong person… With the space and supplies given to her as compensation, Qi Ji arrived in the ordinary human world of the 1970s. Before she knew it, she'd c 59Reads6.2Score—Shelves
4. 304 年 1979: Meat for My Wife and Kids 年代1979：带着老婆孩子吃肉 Village Demon Fire乡妖火Urban4.6M WordsOngoing [Rural life in the late 1970s] [One female lead] [Comedy] [Slow-paced] [Raising children] Reborn in 1979, Li Xiangdong becomes a train water-supply worker. While others are still fretting over how to make ends meet, he's already enjoying a comfortable life with his wife and children at home. (A realistic slice of life. Each character has both strengths and flaws, and not everyone is meant to be likable. If that's not what you're looking for, please move along.) 160.3kReads9.2Score8.8kShelves
5. 305 我 My Backyard Leads to the Modern World 我家的后院通现代 Chong Jiu重玖Modern Romance536k WordsCompleted By a twist of fate, Wang Xiaomei can travel freely between 1976 and 2021. There’s so much stuff in 2021. Xiaomei shops to her heart’s content, then transports it home bit by bit so her family can eat and drink well. Wondering where the money comes from? There’s plenty of vintage liquor, stamps, carved nutshells, and jade in 1976, and nobody thinks much of them. They’re a bargain for Xiaomei. But Xiaomei doesn’t just travel back and forth for her own family. After Reform and Opening Up, she grows 203Reads8.9Score—Shelves

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   A nine-year-old girl wears modern clothes and 1976

6. 306 谁 Who Would've Thought? I'm Always Traveling for Work in Period Novels 谁懂啊，我在年代文里到处出差 Blessed Little Sheep佑羊羊Modern Romance622k WordsCompleted Born into a book, transmigration into a book, devoted to each other, a space + sign-in System, with the original story serving as background Special note: This is a fictional alternate-era story with many invented details. Content warnings: Lots of stockpiling at the beginning, and an overpowered golden finger. After stocking up on supplies, Zhao Qiqi transmigrates. She becomes the unlucky tool character in The Darling of the Seventies: A Beautiful Stepmother Raises the Children, the one who han 2.5kReads8.5Score264Shelves
7. 307 在 In a Period Novel, I Go Beachcombing and Share What I Know 在年代文里，赶海搞科普 Sleeping in a Coconut Shell椰壳里睡觉Modern Romance545k WordsOngoing [Period setting + mountain and sea foraging + treasure hunting + food + background character + pocket dimension] The novel's a mess, and the author keeps patching it up. There's family affection and friendship, but no romance! They forage in the mountains and at the seaside, but don't chase people away! Just give it a read! 279Reads8.3Score—Shelves

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   Innovation? Well, this is not a big deal, the plot is not the same, and it is very real to earn work points by traveling to sea.

8. 308 穿 Reborn as a Short-Lived Supporting Character, the Laid-Back Beauty Just Wants to Lie Flat 穿成短命女配，娇懒美人想躺平 Congee, Congee, Oh Congee粥粥呀粥粥Modern Romance585k WordsCompleted Love-Struck Soldier vs. the Adorable Girl Who Just Wants to Lie Flat 1️⃣ Military romance in a bygone era, sweet and healing, with a lighthearted pace and an overload of sweetness 2️⃣ The heroine seems like a pampered, lazy slacker, but she is secretly a formidable powerhouse, with one secret identity after another revealed 3️⃣ The cold-faced hero awakens to his love-struck side, spoils his wife without limit, is fiercely protective and shamelessly biased toward her, and gets jealous at the drop 918Reads6.3Score102Shelves

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   Baozi, who likes military wedding articles of the era + secretly poking at his two favorites, closes his eyes and rushes [admiration]! The lazy military doctor Wen Jiaojiao + the scheming Battalion Commander Zhou, have a good time [shy], Comrade King of Soldiers, can your love brain be more focused!!

9. 309 带 Transmigrated to the 1970s with a Farm Game 带着农场游戏穿七零 If Summer Were to Pass若是夏天过去Modern Romance357k WordsCompleted [Farm space + Period setting + Family and everyday life + Not a strong female lead] Su Qingmeng is fast asleep at home when she falls into a time-space vortex and transmigrates to the 1970s. Luckily, she has a farm space, so she never has to worry about food or clothes. She plans to wait for the college entrance exams to resume and then return to the city, but the handsome village record keeper takes an interest in her. “Comrade, don’t come any closer! I just want to keep my head down in peace.” 1.7kReads8.7Score195Shelves
10. 310 重 Reborn in the 1980s: My Fussy Wife Is Kind of Sweet 重生八零：作精媳妇有点甜 Admiring Flying Fish from the Abyss临渊羡飛鱼Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Both leads are reborn + beautiful, sweet wife + cunning, rugged man] After being reborn, Su Tiantian sheds the affected mannerisms of her previous life and marries the retired soldier she was betrothed to as a child. After the wedding, she transforms into a sweet, sensible little wife, and her heart races and cheeks flush whenever she looks at her tall, powerful husband. Her upright, honorable husband leaves the army and takes on the responsibility of supporting the family. From then on, she ge 703Reads9.1Score101Shelves

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    [Laughs] [Laughs] Recommend these books that I just started to follow, especially the first one, The Dual Rebirth of a Boy and a Girl. [Awkward laugh] In the previous life, the heroine ran away from home because she didn't want her baby to be married. She was harassed by a village scoundrel and a long-tongued woman jumped into the river after seeing her nonsense. She died as a ghost after her death.

11. 311 足 Football: I Lifted the World Cup in 1982 足球：1982年我举起了世界杯 Ji Yuning季宇宁Sports1.0M WordsCompleted You Xi transmigrated from 2025 back to 1981. His transmigration was caused by encountering “that ball,” which was really a fixation on Chinese football. Thanks to it, he got a cheat and won the 1982 and 1986 World Cups, becoming a legendary king of football. That ball also turned out to be a weapon for killing, looting, and laying waste to cities and nations. With it, he could take revenge to his heart’s content and vent all his pent-up frustration. And, of course, there were plenty of gorgeous 57Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 312 麻 I’m at My Wits’ End! Four Sons and a Daughter Send Me to College in the 1970s 麻了！四儿一女供我在七零读大学 Liu Liu Will Surely Get Rich六六一定发财Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Grandma with incredible fighting power, five adorable kids, mostly everyday life, some awful people, but the protagonist is utterly invincible, satisfying revenge] An Xiaoyun unexpectedly awakens and learns that she is a doomed side character in a lucky heroine story. She is about to die in childbirth, taking her baby with her. Her husband will die after falling into a river from grief, and their four sons will burn themselves out for the lucky heroine, meeting horrible ends. An Xiaoyun is furi 13.8kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves

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13. 313 七 The 1970s: The Village Bully’s Sheltered Doll Is Blessed with Good Fortune 七零：村霸圈养的洋娃娃福气满满 Dog Paw Banxia狗爪半夏Modern Romance200k WordsCompleted {Blessed, adorable sweetheart + strong, sturdy, secretly passionate country man + Space} Yang Wawa transmigrates into a female-dominant, male-submissive world, as an ugly, chubby, dark-skinned little fool. She assumes she’s merely a passerby mentioned in a few lines of an autobiographical story, with a whole family of awful, doomed supporting characters destined for a tragic ending. Wait, this body was mine all along? Memories of her past life return. This time, she’s been reborn, and she vows t 388Reads8.9Score101Shelves
14. 314 重 Reborn in the 1980s: My Scumbag Ex-Boyfriend Begs Me to Stay and Have His Baby 重生八零：渣男前夫求我留下生仔 Ashura Jing阿修罗静Modern Romance223k WordsCompleted Chasing his wife to the crematorium + double rebirth + 1980s setting + punishing the mistress, wicked in-laws, and outrageous sisters-in-law With a farm space, no System In her previous life, Lu Qingqing was a foolish woman; she married a man who married into her family for her wealth, believing that true love would be returned in kind. Her wicked in-laws, outrageous sisters-in-law, and scumbag ex-husband made her kindness and tolerance worth less than a penny! In the end, her daughter was kille 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I am innovative, but alas, not many people see it. Readers try their best to support me [face covering]

15. 315 七 The Wolf Cub at the Village Entrance Wags His Tail at Me Every Day 七零村口狼崽子他每天对我摇尾巴 Adorable Little Rice Ball呆萌的丸子Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Complete) (Handsome, cold-blooded, reborn male lead, obsessive to the point of madness x soft and adorable-looking female lead who ruthlessly crushes scum, fiercely settles scores, and never puts revenge off) [Sweet Romance + Space + Transmigrate Into a Book + Reborn] When she woke up, Ye Qingyan, a wealthy heiress from the twenty-third century, found herself inside a popular period novel. Unfortunately, she had transmigrated into the unlucky female antagonist. The heroine was the stepmother’s 4.2kReads9.3Score471Shelves
16. 316 厉 Impressive! I Brought an Entire Hospital to the 1970s 厉害了，带上整栋医院穿七零年代 Ashura Jing阿修罗静Modern Romance421k WordsCompleted Xu Bingyu transmigrated! She went from the year 3022 to 1970, reborn in the body of a dreadful village girl with no friends, no parents, a lazy appetite, no education, and a head full of nonsense! Never mind all that. She needed to bring an entire hospital with her and become a miracle-working doctor. Once she’d earned enough merit, she could get out of there! “How awful! Daqiang was hit by a car and thrown so far. He’s barely breathing!” A brain hemorrhage? Easy. I’ll perform an emergency crani 38Reads6.0Score—Shelves
17. 317 重 Reborn in the 1990s: I Accidentally Became a Beloved Rich Beauty 重生九零：不小心混成团宠白富美 Ceremonial Halberds Arrive from Afar棨戟遥临Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted He Xie, a single woman past her prime, wakes from a midnight dream to find she's been reborn as a swaddled infant! Given the chance to start over, how could little He Xie let it slip by? With the experience of her past life and help from the System, she'll turn her charlatan father into a university professor and train her embittered mother to become a business tycoon! Starting a company, attending a prestigious school, becoming a literary giant: this genius girl is utterly unstoppable! When m 333Reads8.9Score—Shelves

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    How can it be the same? That's because you don't see anything different. The language of this book is humorous and rich in knowledge. It is a breath of fresh air in period literature.

18. 318 重 Reborn in 1976, My Father-in-Law Hopes I Die Every Day 重生1976，岳父天天盼我死 Weird-Tasting Bullfrog怪味牛蛙Urban1.9M WordsOngoing [Rebirth + period setting + logging + no System] In his previous life, Chen Beishan was the chairman of a timber conglomerate worth tens of billions. As he died at his rosewood desk, the last document he received wasn’t an obituary. It was a lawyer’s letter from his son, contesting the inheritance. He opens his eyes in 1976, in the Greater Khingan Range, at minus forty-two degrees. He’s now the “softie Beishan” everyone at the logging camp calls a coward: a good-for-nothing who abandoned his p 1.1kReads6.5Score108Shelves

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    A very high-quality book about the rebirth of the times. The plot is compact, the setting is novel, unsystematic, and the writing is rich and delicate. It has the sense of déjà vu in a period drama. The rise from the lumberjacks in the Northeast forest farm has a strong sense of immersion [Like] [Like]

19. 319 恶 The Villainess Transmigrates to the Seventies, Beats the Scum, Makes Money, and Marries a Soldier 恶女穿七零，虐渣搞钱嫁兵哥哥 Wealthy Heiress财神千金Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + 1970s military marriage + revenge and face-slapping + making money + sweet romance + pocket dimension + adorable pets] The heroine is petty, vindictive, cold-hearted, and has only the tiniest bit of conscience. She never waits until tomorrow to get revenge! Tang Niannian struggles to survive for three years in the apocalypse, then transmigrates into a tragic cannon-fodder character in a period novel. The book’s heroine steals the original owner’s spiritual spring pock 78.4kReads9.3Score9.2kShelves

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    The revenge of one or two does not last overnight, the heroine of the third scientific research! All good looking

20. 320 下 Sent to the Countryside on a Sea Island, Raising Little Ones with My Frog 下乡到海岛，带着蛙崽养团子 Sweet Rice Wine Dumplings酒酿甜心圆子Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Alternate-History Period Setting + Joining Her Husband on an Island Posting + Frog Companion's Pocket Dimension + Family's Cherished Darling + Raising Kids + Food + Foraging by the Sea] When Qi Mengyu woke up, she was blowing bubbles in the sea when Yan Qing, a cool, long-legged man, hauled her out. She discovered that she'd transmigrated into the role of a cannon-fodder supporting character in a period novel. To cherish life, stay away from the male and female leads. Marry a thoughtful, go 3.2kReads8.9Score268Shelves

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    [Fantasy Era + Island Troops + Frog Cub Space + Group Pets + Raising Cubs + Food + Going to the Sea] When she woke up, Qimengyu was spitting bubbles in the sea and was dragged up by the cold and long-legged Yan Qing. She found that she had traveled to the cannon fodder female partner in a period novel. Cherish life, stay away from male and female protagonists... Marry a caring and good man. Um? There are three more dumplings in my stomach! Catch seafood, go fishing, hunt in the mountains... Scallops bigger than your fist, arm-sized shrimps, all kinds of precious fish, all natural and pollution-free, you can't finish them all! Others raise chickens, ducks, and geese. Qimengyu raises tigers, wolves, and foxes! Eating delicacies from various places brought back by the frog cubs, drinking monkey wine brewed by the monkeys, and trading various supplies with people from other worlds. The days are getting better and better!

21. 321 千 I Traveled a Thousand Miles to Join My Husband, Only to Be Rejected? The Military Wife Is So Capable, the Nation Has Its Eye on Her 千里奔夫被嫌？军嫂太强国家盯上 Sweet Blossoms on Brocade锦上甜花Modern Romance800k WordsOngoing [Romance] [Military Marriage] [Agricultural Research] [Pride and Prejudice] Renowned agricultural scientist Lin Hongying has become a country girl who traveled a thousand miles to join the army and seek refuge with her fiancé. She is dressed in rags, gaunt and sallow, and seems both unsophisticated and uneducated. Everyone tells her arranged marriages never bring happiness. Everyone looks down on her and despises her. Look down on her? Despise her? So what? She has a heart full of ambition to 9.3kReads9.3Score779Shelves
22. 322 穿 After Reincarnating as a Wretched Old Woman, I Just Want to Live a Laid-Back Life 穿成极品老妇之后只想当咸鱼 Every Inch Is Gold寸寸金Ancient Romance1.6M WordsCompleted The old woman was a real piece of work. She drove her eldest daughter-in-law to her death, then doted on her second son, who passed the highest imperial exam and married the daughter of the prime minister. She even encouraged him to favor his concubine and neglect his wife. In the end, the prime minister had the whole family killed. The old woman suddenly came back reborn, only to be scared to death by what she had experienced in her previous life. Manxing, a promising 25-year-old woman, transmi 38.5kReads9.4Score5kShelves

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    This, this, someone recommended it to me a few days ago. I'm watching it these days. It's very funny. A modern older woman traveled to ancient times and became a grandmother directly. Then she educated her son every day and doted on her granddaughter and daughter-in-law [laughing]

23. 323 软 A Soft, Sweet Little Dumpling Farms with Her Space and Turns the Whole Apocalypse Upside Down 软糯团子带空间种田炸翻了全末世 Give Your Lord a Meow给爷喵一个Sci-Fi & Apocalypse595k WordsCompleted [Apocalypse]+ [Interstellar]+ [Adventure]+ [Sweet romance]+ [Not a strong female lead] Yuan Yuan, who had been imprisoned for a long time, is reborn after an explosion in the underground world. After escaping, she thinks she'll have to spend the rest of her life on the run, but then she meets Fu Chen, the great hero she saw on TV in her previous life. Overjoyed, she joins him, only to discover that he isn't a hero at all. He's a short-tempered, irritable demon! Fu Chen curls his lips into a fain 6kReads9.3Score625Shelves

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    Non-traditional apocalyptic literature

24. 324 就 Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂 Ji Furan纪扶染Modern Romance659k WordsCompleted [Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and 130.1kReads9.6Score15.4kShelves

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    This one is really beautiful and interesting. I clicked on it by accident, thinking it was an ordinary True and False Thousand Gold Essay. But as soon as I read it, I couldn't stop. Don't be fooled by the introduction and title. The author's writing style is very good, and his weird brain circuits make me want to grow a brain after reading it. Hahaha, it's so good-looking👀🌳

25. 325 小 The Little Boss Is a Menace to Cats and Dogs, and Hides from Mom and Dad That She's a Millionaire 小老板猫嫌狗厌，瞒爸妈当万元户 Jin Manman金满满Modern Romance4.3M WordsOngoing [1980s setting + lighthearted comedy + everyday life + building wealth] Little Rice Cake is a sieve spirit with off-the-charts brains and emotional intelligence, and she never waits until tomorrow to get revenge. After being forced to split from her family, Little Rice Cake single-handedly lifts her family and friends, infiltrates the enemy's ranks, and takes down every gossiping shrew in the village. The good life begins with living in a pigsty and raising piglets. She starts making money by do 27.5kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves

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    If you want to read a different kind of chronicle, you must not miss this one. No cheats, no superpowers, pure chronology

26. 326 明 A Secret Marriage? Goodbye! Take Your Divorce Papers 明招暗娶？再见吧！离婚本请拿好 Listening to the Wind in Chang'an长安听风Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted 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 4.4kReads8.2Score307Shelves

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    The heroine of the time-traveling novel without rebirth recruits a wife

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