A Down-to-Earth Period Novel with Hardworking Characters and No Exaggeration 年代文努力踏实的不夸张

1. 501 七 The 1970s: I'm a Laid-Back Slacker Who Refuses to Compete 七零之我是咸鱼不内卷 Ziqi Youran子棋悠然Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + sweet romance + devoted couple + no personal space] Wen Shu closed her eyes and opened them to find herself the early-death ex-wife of a ruthless villain from the seventies! She'd not only thrown her weight around, taking advantage of her status as the beloved daughter of the team leader, but had also sent him straight to prison with a single accusation... Remembering the gruesome ending in the book, she shuddered. Then she waved her hand and decided to keep her head 9.6kReads8.4Score833Shelves
2. 502 八 The 1980s: Transmigrated as Granny Shen, I Choose to Give Up 八零：穿成沈老太，我选择摆烂 Mo Qing Yan墨卿烟Modern Romance547k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + Pocket Dimension + No Romance] Shen Huihui, an unmarried woman past her prime, had a bright future ahead of her. Then one dream transmigrated her into the body of an old woman. When this old woman was young, she devoted herself entirely to her children and never gave herself a thought. But in her old age, her children kicked her around like a ball. None of them was willing to support her for even one more day. Shen Huihui was furious. Now that she has become Old Madam Shen, she 352Reads8.3Score—Shelves

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   Highly recommended!!!

3. 503 6 The 1960s: I Own a Piece of Land 60年代：我有一块地 The Little Fish Who Eats Big Cats吃大猫的小鱼Urban1.2M WordsCompleted I transmigrated, and there's ten mu of farmland in my space. But it can't sow or harvest with a single click, so I have to plant and reap everything by hand. It's tiring, but fulfilling, and life has started getting better. It wouldn't be bad to marry a beautiful wife with fair skin, either! The country is struggling, and a huge storm is coming, so I'd better keep a low profile for now. When the time is right, I'll make my move. 868Reads8.3Score135Shelves

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   🥰🥰🥰1️⃣Yan Ziqi traveled to the 1960s. 🥰🥰Although he had a golden finger space, 🥰🥰had to cultivate ten acres of land with his own hands. 🥰🥰Although the work is hard,🥰🥰life is gradually improving. 🥰🥰After marrying a fair-skinned and beautiful wife, the two spent difficult times together. When the country faces challenges, they choose to respond cautiously and wait for the time to mature before making grand plans.

4. 504 重 Back to the ’90s: This Good Wife and Loving Mother Quits 重回九零，贤妻良母撂挑子不干了 Swallows Bathed in the West Wind燕子沐西风Modern Romance748k WordsCompleted In 1990, 34-year-old Tian Fengyan witnessed a scene more scandalous than anything on a prime-time soap: her husband cheating with his younger brother's wife! She put up with it! Because she hadn't given her husband a son! Because she was a housewife with no income! Because she had three daughters to raise! Reborn, she thought, damn it! Tian Fengyan decided she was done carrying the load. Whoever wanted to be the virtuous wife and loving mother could take the job! She takes on her in-laws, yells 872Reads8.9Score100Shelves

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   #Hard and simple style without golden fingers, big fish and big meat ♥☞①, the old woman who was pushed downstairs to death by her eldest daughter was reborn when she was 34 years old. Her husband was having an affair with his sister-in-law at this time, and she would never tolerate it again in this life. She must resolutely divorce her and stop being a mother. ♥☞② A fool's wife, a rough man's husband, gossiping about their son's affairs. ♥☞③Those people and things I met during those years of pioneering in Beidahuang, they are all the best. [Super realistic flow, especially in line with the characteristics of the era at that time]

5. 505 六 The 1960s: I Married into a Treasure-Dungeon 六零，嫁进宝藏副本了 Lailai Dada睐睐哒哒Modern Romance700k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Adorable Kids + Slow-Paced, Cozy Daily Life + Working Hard to Build a Fortune + Male Lead] [The rating is low because it was just released and will go up! Sobbing, I never thought I’d be saying this one day~] At first, she thinks, “Guys, you have no idea. Everyone else who transmigrates gets a golden finger, while I can only piggyback on someone else’s.” Later, she thinks, “Guys, you have no idea. The little boss’s golden finger is really, really useful!” In short, the heroine 2.1kReads9.3Score111Shelves

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   The whole family is working hard, united and warm

6. 506 回 Back to the Eighties: Leisurely Sipping Milk Tea in a Siheyuan 回到八零：我在四合院悠闲喝奶茶 Add Some Ice加点冰块Modern Romance342k WordsCompleted [Period setting + making money + striving hard + giving back to the country + no romance + family life + no System + no pocket dimension] Lin Yun had been living a comfortable life, but the moment she opened her eyes, she had become a little girl in a rural village in the 1980s. In an era when people struggled to get enough to eat and stay warm, her family was still the poorest in the village. Going from the convenience of modern life to an era when even getting a meal was a problem, Lin Yun b 412Reads8.2Score—Shelves
7. 507 重 Reborn in the 1970s: An Educated Youth in the Great Northern Wilderness 重生七零：知青在北大荒 Yi Ziyan易子晏Modern Romance4.9M WordsOngoing He Siwei is reborn in the year she went to the countryside. She refuses to go to the farm where her childhood sweetheart works, as she did in her previous life. Instead, she chooses a firewood farm in the mountains. Armed with the traditional Chinese medicine skills she learned by her father’s side and her knack for identifying herbs, she begins her life as an educated youth sent to the countryside in the Great Northern Wilderness. 30.6kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves

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   #Hard and simple style without golden fingers, big fish and big meat ♥☞①, the old woman who was pushed downstairs to death by her eldest daughter was reborn when she was 34 years old. Her husband was having an affair with his sister-in-law at this time, and she would never tolerate it again in this life. She must resolutely divorce her and stop being a mother. ♥☞②The idiot wife, the rough husband, gossiping about the affairs between the sons. ♥☞③Those people and things I met during those years of pioneering in Beidahuang, they were all the best. [Super realistic flow, especially in line with the characteristics of the era at that time]

8. 508 五 The Woman with Five Marriages 五婚女人 Little Pear Blossom O小梨花OModern Romance394k WordsCompleted Among contemporary Chinese literature's portrayals of rural women's lives, Zheng Guozhen's story grips readers with its astonishing realism and tragic depth. Through an ordinary rural woman's five failed marriages, this novel sketches the hardships of rural women's lives and inner worlds during China's social transformation in the 1990s. From an arranged marriage imposed by her parents to a self-serving union built on dependence on power, from an emotional wasteland scarred by violence to a brie 2kReads7.9Score240Shelves

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   Tomato Original's newly completed period novel!

9. 509 带 I Take a Commercial Housing Complex Back to the 1960s 带着商业小区回六零 Tribulation-Scattered Immortal九劫散仙Urban1.6M WordsOngoing When Li Jie wakes up, he finds himself back in 1960, having transmigrated along with the entire residential complex where he lives! The complex is stocked with supplies, and the pocket dimension contains dozens of mu of black soil where time passes ten times faster, along with a pool of miraculous spirit spring water. Ranches, farms, fishponds, orchards: he's got them all! With the pocket dimension at his fingertips, Brother Jie can eat his fill, and his whole family will never go hungry. Li Jie 1.5kReads7.7Score108Shelves
10. 510 重 The Reborn Abandoned Wife Stands on Her Own 重生弃妇当自强 Fang Wai, Who Loves Deep-Fried Prawns爱吃油煎大虾的方外Modern Romance353k WordsCompleted As Xu Xiaoting lay in her hospital bed, she thought about how stifled she'd been her whole life. As a rich man's wife, wasn't having plenty of money wonderful? Why had she put everything she had into a worthless man, putting up with him again and again, until the frustration finally killed her? If she could live her life over, she'd never give up her career to be a housewife. She'd never believe the nonsense that her husband would come back after getting his fill of fun, and she'd never let hers 18.4kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
11. 511 穿 After I Transmigrated Into a Book, I Clung to the Male Supporting Character 穿书后我抱上了男配大腿 Gulu Ni咕噜昵Modern Romance445k WordsCompleted When Song Yingwan wakes up, she finds herself in the 1970s. Looking at a face in the mirror that resembles hers by seventy or eighty percent, it takes her a while to accept the truth. She looks at her loving parents and lively, clever younger brother and thinks life here seems pretty good. But after only a few days of enjoying it, she has no choice but to pack up and head to the countryside. Fine, then. She can go to the countryside! The college entrance exams will be reinstated in a few years a 11.3kReads8.8Score846Shelves

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    It's a period story, no exaggeration, it's an educated youth's story of marrying first and falling in love later. It's a sweet little story!

12. 512 七 The 1970s: A Happy Life of Watching Drama and Eating Snacks 七零之看戏吃瓜的嗨皮日常 The Moon Knows My Heart月月知我心Modern Romance422k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + transmigrate into a book + pocket dimension + everyday family life + gossip and watching the show] Yang Jianguo owned an auto repair shop. One night, on his way home from work, it was so dark that he fell into a storm drain and died. When he opened his eyes, he discovered that he'd transmigrated into a ridiculous novel he'd read out of boredom and become an ordinary passerby. Now, let's see how Yang Jianguo enjoys the gossip and drama of the 1970s. 479Reads5.5Score—Shelves
13. 513 盼 Panpan, I Love You. You Need to Know That 盼盼，我爱你，你要知道 Mai Xiangjun麦香君Modern Romance327k WordsCompleted Chang Panpan was born in 1989 in a village in northern China. She studied hard, but still couldn't escape having to retake the college entrance exam. After a year of preparation, she was admitted to a Project 211 university in Beijing, where she met Wu Xiaoyang and continued to grow... 205Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Don't be misled by the title of the book. This book is very realistic. The heroine is a rural girl who works hard to make progress. There are no cheats. It is suitable for reading slowly.

14. 514 老 My Old Home Connects to the Modern World: A Village Girl's 1970s Office-Worker Life 老宅通现代：七零村花的社畜日常 Wang Buhui王不悔Modern Romance1.9M WordsCompleted [From the 1970s to the modern day] Chen Qiaoyu, born and raised in the 1970s, has been feeling a little panicked lately. She and her younger brother were driven out by their father and stepmother, sent to live in the dilapidated old Chen family home with only two threadbare quilts. Who could have guessed that the crumbling old house hid a passage to another era? [From then on, Chen Qiaoyu begins traveling back and forth between the 1970s and the modern day every day] The villagers of Yaojia Vil 12.2kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves
15. 515 6 Li Dabao in 1960s Beijing 60年代京城李大宝 Mountain Road Monkey山道猴Urban720k WordsCompleted Li Dabao, from 2024, transmigrates to a Beijing courtyard house in 1960 and tells a series of funny stories about ordinary life... (No angst, pure comedy. This is not one of those beastly courtyard-house stories: there are no super heroes, no stealing anyone’s heroines, and no causing any trouble.) 38Reads6.6Score—Shelves
16. 516 重 Reborn in the 1980s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生八零：媳妇有点辣 Dressed in Splendor宝妆成Modern Romance5.0M WordsCompleted 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 53.5kReads9.5Score6.3kShelves

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    I highly recommend these books. The first one is written in rough Chinese from the era. It loves your wife and dares to be adventurous. The (sub-line) heroine is in the book, and there is no golden finger for the male and female protagonists to be together happily. In the second book, people laugh to death without paying for their lives. In the third book, the heroine relies on her past life memories to start her journey to becoming a big boss.

17. 517 九 The 1990s: I Became the Early-Deceased Wife of a Tough Big Shot 九零：穿成糙汉大佬的早死前妻 It's the Old Wang Next Door是隔壁老王呀Modern Romance700k WordsCompleted [Sweet romance + marriage first, love later + tough, powerful male lead + female lead plays dumb to outwit her foes + male lead reborn + female lead transmigrates] Du Ruo was the legitimate daughter of the prime minister’s household and destined to become a favored consort. But on her wedding night, she was killed by an assassin while saving the emperor. After dying, Du Ruo is reborn in the 1990s as another “Du Ruo,” who was forced to drop out of school and switch fiances, then tried to take her 6.1kReads9.2Score448Shelves
18. 518 穿 Transmigrating to Baoding City in the 1960s 穿越60年代的保定城 Spring Breeze Again又予春风Urban726k WordsOngoing My name is Wang Tudi. I transmigrated from 2024 into the 1960 version of Wang Tudi, and here I’ve experienced the simple goodness of the people and the warmth of family. How will he make his way in this era? (I’m not good at writing synopses, so please read the story.) P.S. The author is a newbie, so please go easy on me, you Peng Yuyan and Liu Yifei lookalikes. 153Reads6.5Score—Shelves
19. 519 那 That Red Land 那片红色的土地 Xiong Dayu熊大雨Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [Period setting] [Slice of life] [Entrepreneurship] [Family] [Rural life] [No clichés] [Not a power fantasy] [No transmigration] [Slow-paced] [Realistic] [Urban] [Hardships] Trust me, it gets better and better as the story goes on, and it absolutely won't end badly! Writing an original work is no easy task. Every word comes from the heart. Please don't leave a low rating or bad review. A casual three or four stars from you could deal a fatal blow to this niche novel. This novel is neither a cr 6.3kReads8.8Score736Shelves

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    I was persuaded to quit by the title of the book many times, but after reading it I couldn't get out.

20. 520 穿 After Becoming the Younger Sister of a Cannon-Fodder Villainess in a Period Novel 穿成年代文炮灰女配的妹妹后 Tenant Who Hates Cats讨厌猫的租客Modern Romance200k WordsCompleted After Sui Sui fainted from an excessively rapid heartbeat caused by premature beats, she woke up to find she had become the younger sister of a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a period novel. To keep her older sister, Li Shuang, from meeting the same fate as her counterpart in the book, Sui Sui volunteered to go work in the countryside. Facing the harsh rural conditions, she drew on the perseverance she had built up as a wage earner, studying hard and getting into college on her own 34Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is a period novel that is not exaggerated and has no golden fingers.

21. 521 重 Reborn: Back in the 1980s to Make My Fortune 重生：回到八零当富翁 Frenzied Banana发飙的芭蕉Urban1.8M WordsCompleted A rebirth story set in a bygone era, with no mindless wish fulfillment, a single heroine, no courtyard-house drama, and a warm, everyday feel. Xu Erlong is reborn, returning to the eve of the day his family forced him to haul bricks at a black kiln to pay for his cousin's university education. Why should his cousin get meat while he has to make do with bran? Why should his cousin go to university while he is forced to haul bricks? Xu Erlong refuses to put up with it any longer and decisively 20.5kReads9.1Score1.7kShelves

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    A chronicle of male videos, down-to-earth, no golden fingers, the kind that makes you rich step by step.

22. 522 八 An 1980s Wife Knows How to Handle Her Husband 八零娇妻驭夫有道 Liu Zhiyi柳之易Modern Romance661k WordsCompleted Adapted into a short drama: Trouble! My Fate Is Tied to My Delinquent Husband is now streaming [Soft on the outside, tough on the inside, a seemingly sweet good girl * cold on the outside, warm on the inside, a fierce and ruthless wolf pup] [She pursues him + both are sexually inexperienced + mutual salvation + sweet, slice-of-life romance.] After dying and coming back to life again and again, Shi Xinran finally discovers that her life is bound to that of a delinquent named Tan Yunqian. To sta 7kReads9.3Score792Shelves

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    🌻🌻The male protagonist is dead, and the female protagonist will die within seven days. In order to survive, she earns money while others earn money. She breaks up fights with the male protagonist, and throws herself into his arms. The male protagonist ducks, and she falls to the ground, with red eyes and tears. She raises her head and looks at Tan Yunqian, "Why are you hiding?"

23. 523 穿 I Transmigrate to the 1960s and Raise a Bunch of Toddlers 穿越六零养奶团 How Much Is Shan Nai山奈几何Modern Romance683k WordsCompleted Mu Weizhi had been deeply unhappy in her previous life. After she died, she transmigrated to the 1960s. The original owner had also died in an accident after her grandparents passed away. On her way back to the village, she unexpectedly rescued a lost little one and gained a golden finger. Through the child, she met the male lead's family. In the end, she not only spirited the little one away, but also brought his big brother home with her. 61Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The heroine has space and system, and doesn't worry about money. Due to the special current situation, she likes to stay in the countryside and live in a mess. She doesn't have much ambition, and she is the only one in the family. The male protagonist is a descendant of a devolved landowner, and he has a younger brother. It is because of his younger brother that the two of them got to know each other.

24. 524 年 The Villainous Tycoon's Wife, Who Died Young in a Period Novel, Is Reborn 年代文反派大佬的早逝前妻重生了 Wild Radish狂野萝卜Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted “Sweet-looking black-hearted flower x cold on the outside, warm-hearted, pure-hearted little stray dog” After dying, Zhou Yu unexpectedly learns that she is merely a cannon-fodder side character in a book, while Gu Ye is the story's biggest villain. In the book, she dies in childbirth, and Gu Ye raises their child alone at the bottom of society. Later, Gu Ye makes his fortune and becomes one of the richest men in Shenzhen. Zhou Yu feels reassured when she reads this. Though she and Gu Ye married 7.1kReads8.7Score592Shelves
25. 525 搬 Clearing Out the Cash: The Lovely Educated Youth Goes to the Countryside and Marries a Soldier 搬空钱财：下乡的娇知青她军婚了 Rice-Eating Plate干饭的盘子Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Space + period setting + sent down to the countryside + military wife + joining her husband at his post + raising kids] Jiang Wenwan transmigrated into a book, becoming the disposable capitalist heiress in Seven Zero Darling: Sent to the Countryside and Spoiled Every Day by a Rough-Hewn Educated Youth. Her mother used her biological father’s pension money to start a new family. Her own daughter became the family’s workhorse, going to bed last and getting up first. Her mother was so lovestruck s 7.6kReads8.9Score610Shelves

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    ⚠️⚠️Starting with a super high rating of 9.0! Chronicles! Refuse low scores ❌ ①⛄⛄These are the passionate years of trying to cross the river by feeling for stones. "Either pay back the money or marry me, you have to choose one, right?" ②✨✨ Travel through time and become a Chinese teacher in a technical secondary school, and you will start off as a newlywed! ③🎄Go to the countryside in Northeast China and ride a wild boar to dig ginseng! ④🎉The female supporting character who has been reborn has a sign-in system. She is neither bragging nor slanderous. She looks great! ⑤🎈The little potatoes from the south will really charm the big guys from the north!

26. 526 军 A Sweet Military Marriage and Life on an Island for a Lovely Beauty 军婚甜如蜜，俏美人的海岛生活 Cong Xuan丛萱Modern Romance459k WordsCompleted [1980s setting + no golden finger + transmigrate + island life + military marriage + food + sweet romance] Lu Ting has barely woken up when she realizes she has transmigrated into a book. There’s even a reborn woman in the story who has her in her sights. Determined to turn her fate around, Lu Ting refuses to go to the countryside as an educated youth. Instead, she immediately attends a matchmaking event organized by the authorities. She finds herself a suitable husband and gets married in a fla 10.1kReads8.8Score655Shelves
27. 527 签 Sign-In in the 1970s: The Female Supporting Character and Educated Youth Is Doted on by a Powerful Man 签到七零：女配知青被大佬娇宠了 Watching Fish from the Pavilion亭上观鱼Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Complete) [Sign-in System + Educated Youth Sent to the Countryside + Past and Present Lives + Supporting Female Character Enjoys the Gossip + Highly Educated Couple + Clear-Headed, Independent Heroine + No Character Assassination of the Original Heroine] Yi Qingqing died young. When she arrived in the underworld, she was told she had earned great merit and should have enjoyed a life of wealth and a destined marriage in one of her lifetimes, but illness had robbed her of that. As compensation, s 53.1kReads9.4Score6.1kShelves
28. 528 带 I Brought a Sixteen-Story Mall to the 1970s and Became a Laid-Back Sent-Down Youth 带十六层商场穿七零，当咸鱼知青 Cong Xuan丛萱Modern Romance276k WordsCompleted Li Lin was about to kiss a handsome guy in the car when, before they could, she got so excited that she floored the gas pedal and drove straight into a shopping mall. Whether she lived or died was anyone's guess. When she opened her eyes again, she was in the body of a young woman about to be sent down to the countryside as an Educated Youth. She'd thought she'd have to suffer through life in that era, but somehow she'd brought the entire sixteen-story shopping mall with her. Now she wouldn't ha 6.6kReads8.6Score699Shelves
29. 529 穿 Transmigrating to the Countryside in the 1970s with a Farming Space 穿越七零带着种植空间下乡了 Cong Xuan丛萱Modern Romance627k WordsCompleted [Period setting + strong female lead + planting dimension + transmigration + educated youth + no male lead] Wang Zixuan gets slapped the moment she transmigrates. With a temper like hers, there's no way she'd put up with it. She throws her father over her shoulder, then follows up with a kick, leaving him and her stepmother howling. Her sweet, white-lotus stepsister approaches and says meekly, “Little sister, what you're doing is wrong.” Wang Zixuan clutches her chest and replies weakly, “Sister 4.2kReads7.7Score273Shelves
30. 530 商 A Shopping-Mall Pocket Dimension and a Fiery Wife in the ’70s 商场空间七十年代辣娇妻 Cong Xuan丛萱Modern Romance326k WordsCompleted Liu Xueying transmigrates with the space of a shopping mall, entering the body of a young educated woman on a train bound for the countryside. Since she has a space, she figures she might as well make the best of it. When Li Haoming returns home on leave to visit his family, his uncle sends him to pick up the young educated women being sent to the countryside. Looking at the delicate, frail Liu Xueying, he wonders how someone with such a small frame could possibly handle farm work. It isn't un 231Reads7.4Score—Shelves
31. 531 八 Those of Us Born in the ’80s 八零后的我们 Wang Xiaomiao汪小喵Modern Romance880k WordsCompleted We, the post-80s generation, have weathered life's joys and sorrows and suffered enough from the hardships of life and marriage. Amid the daily grind, our days have been steadily dwindling, and before we knew it, our generation had reached middle age... 3.4kReads8.2Score170Shelves

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    In a period novel, the heroine has three upright views, is sober in the world, and works hard in a down-to-earth manner.

32. 532 带 I Transmigrated as Cannon Fodder with a Supermarket Space! 带着超市空间穿成了炮灰！ Free Spirit自由家Modern Romance645k WordsCompleted Supermarket space + transmigrate into a book + golden finger + no vilifying the original male or female leads Wen Xin was visiting a wholesale supermarket with her best friend when a collapsing ceiling landed right on her. When she woke up, she was in a strange place. After getting revenge on her cheating, scumbag father, she promptly headed to the countryside. On the train, she met someone who seemed more and more familiar the longer she thought about it. That name... Oh my god, weren’t these t 510Reads6.3Score—Shelves

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    The heroine has been transported into the period novel she wrote, and has become a little cannon fodder. She has space and no shortage of supplies. I went to the countryside to become an educated youth, living alone, working hard to make money, and waiting for the resumption of the college entrance examination and the opening up.

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