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  1. 1 Sent to the Countryside: I Bring My Sister to Save the Five Tibetan Beauties 下乡知青,带妹救赎藏族五朵金花 Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Two comic adaptations are in production] [Ensemble cast + multiple heroines + treasure hunting and inheritance + instant revenge + rural comeback + fiercely protective and scheming + everyday family life] Lu Chuan is reborn in the capital in the 1960s as a capitalist's son, despised by everyone. With his family in shambles, he quickly takes his younger sister to the grasslands to join the rural resettlement program and start his life over. He only meant to get by and look for the treasure his a 17.3kReads7.3Score1.7kShelves
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  2. 2 After Moving to the Countryside, the Capitalist Young Master Becomes the Village Favorite 下乡后,资本少爷成村里的香饽饽 Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [No AI, Entirely Handwritten] Don't pay attention to the newly posted rating (period setting + educated youth + hunting + sent down to the countryside + treasure hunting + space + multiple female leads) Li Wu's soul travels to the 1960s, where he arrives in the capital. Because his grandfather was a capitalist, his uncle and cousin reported him and had him denounced, leaving Li Wu no choice but to go to the countryside. Before leaving, he strips the treasures his grandfather left him bare, and t 18.4kReads7.6Score1.7kShelves
  3. 3 Moving to the Great Grasslands: From the Start, I Keep the Mongolian Sisters Fed 下乡大草原,开局养活蒙族姐妹花 Urban2.2M WordsCompleted [Moving to Inner Mongolia] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Educated Youth] [Cultivation] Wang Tiejun transmigrates to the capital in 1968, only to discover from the start that he has become the biggest sucker in a dysfunctional family. He dated his ex-girlfriend for three years without even holding her hand. He cuts ties with his family and heads to the countryside with his friends, leaving the courtyard house behind. He takes on spoiled villains, battles bandits, and meets a pair of Mongolian sister 14.9kReads7.6Score1.9kShelves
  4. 4 A Capitalist Scion Lands in the 1960s: Taking His Pocket Dimension to the Countryside in Search of Treasures 资本少爷穿六零,带空间下乡寻宝 Urban1.4M WordsCompleted [No AI, entirely handmade] Just got a rating, don't pay attention to it (period setting + educated youth + hunting + sent down to the countryside + pocket dimension + treasure appraisal) Wei Wu transmigrates to the capital in 1968 with a pocket dimension. When he learns that his older brother reported their father, leading to his tragic death in a labor camp, he retaliates by exposing his brother's embezzlement at the machinery factory and gets him locked up for good. Then he clears out the fami 24.7kReads7.6Score1.7kShelves
  5. 5 Sent to the Northwest Countryside, I Hunt to Feed Uyghur Triplets 下乡大西北,狩猎养活维族三胞胎 Urban331k WordsCompleted [No AI, entirely handwritten] (period setting + educated youth + hunting + sent down to the countryside + pocket dimension + antique appraisal) Modern office worker Yi Xin is furious when a friend borrows money and refuses to pay it back, so he decides they should die together. Unexpectedly, he is reborn in 1968 in the body of a man in the capital with the same name. From the start, he is reported for associating with an old Taoist and is thrown into a cowshed. At his lowest point, he awakens a 6.4kReads7.3Score399Shelves
  6. 6 The Educated Youth Trilogy: A Tribute of Tears 知青三部曲.泪祭 Urban307k WordsCompleted It was snowing. Snowflakes swirled down in a soft flurry, filling the sky. Everything was white, the sky merging with the earth, the earth with the sky. The Great Northern Wilderness had become a vast stretch of snowy white, like goose down. 29Reads9.2Score—Shelves
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  7. 7 The Educated Youth Years: Starting with an Escape from the Village 知青年代,从村子里逃亡开始 Urban3.3M WordsOngoing 1976. Liu Haibo, a sent-down youth, falls in love with Yang Xiuqing, a village girl. Her family vehemently opposes his proposal, forcing him to flee Shibantian Village and return to Haicheng, a thousand miles away. Just as he is preparing to start a new life with Wu Jie in Haicheng, Yang Xiuqing suddenly shows up at his door, stirring up an emotional entanglement that spans the years. 2023. Seventy-year-old Liu Haibo is driving an Audi with Yang Xiuqing to Shibantian Village when they are involv 32.5kReads8.4Score2kShelves
  8. 8 A Legendary Life in the Era 年代传奇人生 Urban1.1M WordsCompleted A ruthless soldier king is reborn in the Greater Khingan Mountains of the 1960s. With the pocket dimension and gear from his previous life, he takes his friends hunting and exploring. The early story centers on hunting, with cross-province searches for family, treasure hunts, and battles against spies woven in. They explore fortresses, raid tombs, and get caught up in other thrilling adventures. Novel pets include a wolverine, a big black horse, a yellow-throated marten, reindeer, and a mantis. 61.4kReads7.7Score8.8kShelves
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  9. 9 Transmigrating to 1975 with a Pocket Dimension 带着空间穿越1975 Urban1.7M WordsCompleted A new story is out! You can read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 5.3kReads7.2Score350Shelves
  10. 10 Reborn in the Famine Years, My Wife Tries to Lose Weight Every Day 重生饥荒年代,媳妇天天闹减肥 Urban2.5M WordsCompleted A new story is out! You can read my work on Fanqie Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 40.8kReads8.4Score4.3kShelves
  11. 11 Reborn in 1975: From the Start, I Tore Up the Order to Return to the City 重生1975:开局撕毁回城调令 Urban4.0M WordsCompleted Zhou Yang, an unrivaled patriot who devoted his whole life to his country, was reborn and returned to the remote mountain village where he had been sent down to work in 1975! Looking at the transfer order in his hand, this time he didn't hesitate. He tore it to shreds! In his previous life, he'd been blinded by greed and abandoned his wife and daughter to return to the city, watching helplessly as Li Youwei and her daughter met tragic deaths. Reborn, all Zhou Yang wanted was a warm home with his 162.1kReads9.5Score18.1kShelves
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  12. 12 Report, Commander: Your Grandson Took His Wife Out to Beat Someone Up Again 报告首长你孙子带媳妇又去打人了 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Complete + male lead takes the domestic role, female lead takes the career role + fussy, love-struck husband + daily face-slapping antics of the compound's little tyrant in the 1970s] Shen Xia transmigrated into an ongoing period novel and became a pitiful girl whose father didn't care for her and whose mother didn't love her. After transmigrating, Shen Xia accidentally discovered that something was wrong with her identity. She reported her adoptive parents, sent her adoptive father to labor ca 17.3kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
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  13. 13 Reborn in 1975: The Fool's Unusual Life 重生1975,傻子的别样人生 Urban1.6M WordsCompleted Chen Qingshan was reborn. In his previous life, production team leader Liu Fugui used him as a pawn, and someone pushed him off a cliff, where wolves devoured him. When he opened his eyes again, he was still the same easily bullied “dimwit” from 1975. But now, his eyes held nothing but frozen hatred. If everyone thought he was an idiot, then he'd play the fool to the bitter end! In the cornfield, he stood watch while Liu Fugui had an affair with Widow Chen, earning a stale steamed bun in retur 10.1kReads7.8Score824Shelves
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  14. 14 Wu Xiuli, the Village Girl 村女吴秀丽 Modern Romance1.1M WordsOngoing Twenty-year-old village girl Xiuli lost her virginity to her boyfriend Gangzi the day before he entered university. She followed him to the city to work, but one thing after another happened after she arrived, leaving her utterly disillusioned. Xiuli decided to reassess her relationship with Gangzi. As her love life went awry, Xiuli's own life also fell into difficulty. Then university teacher Xu Yunfeng entered her life, and the two gradually fell in love. 70.4kReads8.2Score3kShelves
  15. 15 Hello, 1976! 你好,1976! Urban1.5M WordsCompleted The orphan Zheng Weimin transmigrates to 1976. He thinks he’ll finally experience the warmth of a family, but instead he’s abandoned once again. Luckily, he has the memories and knowledge of his previous life. Without them, he really wouldn’t have been able to turn things around. As the saying goes, nobody visits the poor in the busy city, while distant relatives come flocking to the rich in the mountains. It’s true. Zheng Weimin experiences life in all its harshness and, after being reborn, fin 37.3kReads8.9Score2.7kShelves
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  16. 16 Ten Years of Vicissitudes 沧桑十年 Historical278k WordsCompleted This book is a memoir of the author’s experiences and observations during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution. From the start of the Cultural Revolution, the author was inexplicably branded a “counterrevolutionary” and a “capitalist roader,” then denounced and imprisoned, plunging into the misery of a shattered family and ruined life. As rebel factions rose across the country, the author even fell into the hands of a faction of Red Guards in Chengdu. Fortunately, drawing on experience worki 8.8kReads9.5Score1.3kShelves
  17. 17 Transmigrating to a Bygone Era: Nine Stunning Educated Youths Pursue Me 穿越年代:九个绝色女知青倒追我 Urban497k WordsOngoing (Also known as: My Physical Body Transmigrated to the Era, So Why Are All These Stunning Female Educated Youths Asking Me to Share Their Bed?) (The Year 1974: A Capitalist Heads to the Northeast Countryside, Makes a Fortune in Style, and Kills Every Villain) [Entirely handmade, no AI + urban farming + stunning female educated youths + twins + female ghost and physical body] [Has a pocket dimension + has a shop + has a System + decisive and ruthless + capitalist + bold and assertive] [Not afr 232Reads7.0Score—Shelves
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  18. 18 1978: From the Start, I'm Making the Educated Youth School Beauty a Mom? 1978:开局让知青校花当妈? Urban374k WordsOngoing (Already adapted into a motion comic, so enjoy without worry!) [One female lead] [Hunting] [Mountain foraging] [Gathering herbs] [Devoted husband] [No System] [No storage space] [Everyday life] Oh no! Lin Mo wakes up, and his world has fallen apart! A post-2000s young man, he dies and transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing nobody from 1978. From the start, he's got two big disadvantages: no father and no mother. And that's not even the worst part! Being an orphan is bad enough, bu 31.7kReads8.7Score1.8kShelves
  19. 19 Seventies Hunter: After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Dote on a Charming Sichuan-Chongqing Educated Youth 七五猎户:退婚后娇养川渝女知青 Urban1.1M WordsOngoing (This novel has been adapted into the animated series "Reborn in Jiangbei in 1970") [No System + Hunting in the Early Stages + Building Wealth + One Heroine + Family Life + Reborn in the 1970s] Jiang Bei had spent his whole life being worked like a pack animal. As he lay dying, his wife, who always put her younger brother first, pulled out his oxygen tube! He opened his eyes again and found himself back at his 1975 engagement banquet. His awful fiancée was pointing at his nose, demanding that he 386Reads6.2Score100Shelves
  20. 20 The Famine of the 1960s and a Local Rogue: Country Life Is the Best! 六零饥荒二溜子:乡村就是得劲! Urban848k WordsCompleted [1960s + no System or spatial dimension + hunting in the mountains + genuine famine + rough-around-the-edges protagonist + coercion] “Chen Yang, I hope you… keep your promise.” The educated youth from the city is trying to save her little sister… and has to trade herself for half a jin of cornmeal. Having just transmigrated into the famine of 1960, Chen Yang sees what’s happening and hesitates for half a second before deciding to help. … “Chen Yang, you bastard! You liar! What happened to the 11.3kReads7.1Score979Shelves
  21. 21 Period: Taking In Twin Sisters from a Capitalist Family 年代:收留资本家双胞胎姐妹 Urban714k WordsCompleted [Period + System + multiple women + decisive and ruthless + lighthearted] A soul from the future enters the body of a country boy. [Ding! Soul return detected. System activating...] "What's going on?" "Did I inherit a transmigrator's System?" The pretty older girl next door The three golden flowers at the educated youth station This book is mainly lighthearted, with no grim or violent atmosphere. 37.5kReads8.5Score3.9kShelves
  22. 22 Cutting Ties from the Start: I Marry an Educated Youth with Billions in Supplies 开局断亲,带百亿物资娶知青 Urban816k WordsCompleted In his previous life, Lu Changfeng was a “walking blood bank” through and through. His biased parents took every penny he earned to support his younger brother, while the fiancée he had paid a sky-high bride price to marry used his money to keep another man. He worked himself to death, and even then, his awful family refused to claim his body. When he opens his eyes again, he is back at his 1976 engagement banquet, which is also the day the family is splitting up! His gold-digging fiancée demand 496Reads6.0Score100Shelves
  23. 23 The Red-Hot Years: Qin Guangming’s Life as an Educated Youth 火红年代秦光明的知青生活 Urban319k WordsOngoing A doctor from a top-tier hospital is unexpectedly reborn on a train in early summer of 1972, heading to Heilongjiang Province to join the educated youth sent down to the countryside. Follow Qin Guangming as he turns his life around: working as a barefoot doctor in the village, hunting, practicing martial arts, standing up to local bullies, and treasure hunting. He also works with the educated youth office to develop greenhouse vegetables and cultivate wood ear mushrooms and other fungi... The ch 3.4kReads—Score229Shelves
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  24. 24 Zhang Shan's Journey to Immortality 张山的修仙之旅 Urban1.1M WordsCompleted The physician Zhang Shan is reborn in a farmhouse in the spring of 1962. He hunts, supports his family, practices medicine, and goes into business. By chance, he enters a lost prehistoric world and encounters the mysterious Smurfs, sea demons, dragons, elf folk, high-level cultivators, and more. I already have over 300 chapters written ahead. It's a long, heartwarming, and wonderful story. What could be better than sitting down with a cup of tea and taking your time to enjoy a good book? My new 342Reads6.0Score100Shelves
  25. 25 In 1975, I Went to the Countryside to Escape Disaster 1975年我下乡避祸 Urban1.5M WordsCompleted This is not a feel-good power fantasy. There is no pocket dimension, no System, no rebirth, and no transmigration. The times are turbulent, and the road ahead is uncertain. To protect Li Chengxiao, his family bears the pain of sending him to the countryside for an assigned rural posting, away from danger. Alone, he puts down roots in the village, enduring hardship and lying low with quiet resolve. With his unique insight and steady temperament, he establishes himself amid adversity, discreetly b 91.3kReads8.5Score11.1kShelves
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  26. 26 Another Spring of the 1977 College Entrance Exam 1977年高考又一春 Modern Romance3.6M WordsOngoing [A story-driven take on history. Note: There is no single fixed protagonist. Multiple leads reflect the changes of the era and offer a full picture of the 1977 restoration of the college entrance exam.] [The story focuses on several main characters: Hu Wei and Wang Ting, Pan Xia, and Lu Xiaoyun. Their stories weave in and out according to the timeline. If you prefer to follow one character at a time, you can read their chapters in sequence for a complete biography. The other characters may only 5.6kReads8.0Score409Shelves
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  27. 27 The Village Beauty Is Incredibly Strong, and the Educated Youth Is as Pretty as a Flower 村花她力大无穷,知青他貌美如花 Modern Romance410k WordsCompleted The short drama is now streaming! [1970s] [Love After Marriage] [Native Male and Female Leads] [Transmigrated and Reborn Supporting Characters] [Northeastern Family Life] [Sweet Romance Comedy] [Adorable Kids] Xu Yibai only went to the countryside, and the very next day he was labeled "obsessed with the village beauty"! "The new educated youth, Xu, fell in love with Lin Duojiao at first sight!" Xu Yibai: ? Lin Duojiao: "I hear you really like me? Well, you do have good taste!" Xu Yibai: ?? Faced 6.5kReads8.8Score587Shelves
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  28. 28 Back to 1970: From the Start, My Family Wants to Split Up 回到1970开局要分家 Urban749k WordsCompleted One day, Zhao Yi woke up and discovered he had returned to thirty years earlier. Everything that had happened seemed almost too real to be a dream. Remembering all he had done for his family, only to be met with disdain, Zhao Yi decisively proposed splitting up the household and getting away from those shameless leeches. My new work is here! Please enjoy reading it. I hope you like it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 12.1kReads8.8Score587Shelves
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  29. 29 1972: The Youthful Years of the Red Flag 1972,红旗招展的青春年代 Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Period] [Book Transmigration] [Reborn] [Sent-down youth] [Great Northern Wilderness] [Scheming male lead] [One heroine] [Pure romance] [Smart characters] [Decisive and ruthless] [Black market] [Political career] [Countryside] [Special historical era] In the spring of 1972, as Chu Miaohong rode a train to the Great Northern Wilderness to join a rural work team, she casually tossed an old envelope into the wind. Meanwhile, in 2024, Zhang Hongcheng happened to come into possession of an old, worn- 74.5kReads9.3Score7.3kShelves
  30. 30 The Fake Young Master Was Sent Back to the Countryside, Where He Turned His Life Around with His Wife and Children 假少爷被赶回农村带妻儿逆袭人生 Urban1.8M WordsCompleted When Xie Zhao opened his eyes, he was back in 1983. That year, the richest family in Huxian County, the Chen family, found their real son and sent the impostor, Xie Zhao, back to Shishui Village. He couldn’t believe that the parents who had once treasured him like their own flesh and blood no longer wanted him. Had all the love they’d shown him over eighteen years been a lie? He went to ask them, but they wept and cursed him as a curse upon the family. They said he had made their biological son 20.4kReads9.0Score2kShelves
  31. 31 Reborn in the 1960s: Sent to the Countryside from the Start 重生60年代,开局就上山下乡 Urban3.8M WordsOngoing [Period]+ [Reborn]+ [Pocket Dimension]+ [Single Female Lead] Ye Hao transmigrates to a parallel world in the 1960s. Just as he is about to starve to death, he awakens an ancient treasure passed down from antiquity: the Azure Lotus Mystic Jade! Watch as he lives it up during the famine, improving his own life while also doing his part to help this country rebuild from the ground up! Our goal is the stars and the sea! 1.9kReads8.8Score239Shelves
  32. 32 Transmigrating to 1959: The System Space Has Everything 穿越1959系统空间全都有 Modern Romance2.2M WordsCompleted [Urban farming] [Period] [Famine] [System] [Farm] [Ranch] [No harem] [Not a saint] This is an alternate history, so don’t try to match it to real people or events! Li Youcai transmigrates to 1959, the era of the Great Famine. He inherits the space left to him by the original owner, along with a System that keeps dangling empty promises and desperately insists on binding itself to him. Well, when in Rome... Whoa! The System has unlimited supplies, all available for purchase with points. Whoa! The 29.7kReads8.3Score1.9kShelves
  33. 33 Those Days on the Production Team 年代,生产队里那些事 Urban201k WordsCompleted 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... 41Reads6.3Score—Shelves
  34. 34 A Humble Family’s Path to Officialdom, Part One 寒门仕途【一】 Urban1.4M WordsCompleted New Book: The Humble Official’s Path [Realistic Period Drama] [Rise from Poverty] [Political Intrigue] [Ambitious Struggle] [Rural Cadres] [Urban Life] In the 1970s, in Xiaochenzhuang, southern Henan, a family of three siblings lives in poverty. They are supported by the state, their father died young, and their mute mother is forced to remarry, leaving them to fend for themselves. The sisters choose Chen Shouzheng to continue his studies, and he devotes himself to his books, eventually becoming 6.7kReads8.8Score670Shelves
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  35. 35 The Second Secretary 二号秘书 Urban214k WordsCompleted Chen Mo is an ordinary man who studies hard and earns a civil-service post. Starting with routine work at the municipal government, he stands out thanks to his excellent writing skills and tact, eventually becoming the mayor’s secretary. The book is practically a survival manual for government secretaries, offering a detailed look at everything from drafting documents and coordinating meetings to managing relationships with superiors and subordinates and liaising on projects. As the protagonist 7.3kReads7.6Score459Shelves
  36. 36 In the Siheyuan, Silly Zhu Stops Being a Doormat 四合院傻柱不在做冤大头 Male-Channel Fanfiction1.4M WordsCompleted Snow blanketed the world. As he lay dying beneath a bridge, He Yuzhu watched his archrival, Xu Damao, summon the last of his strength to carry him back to the courtyard, and regret tore at his heart. Reborn as a young man, he awakens a mysterious pocket dimension and gains the skills of a culinary god. He immediately cuts ties with the Jia family. He will repay the deaf old lady's kindness, ease his younger sister's suffering, and rekindle his bond with Lou Xiao'e. As for those bloodsucking para 918Reads8.6Score101Shelves
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  37. 37 Siheyuan: My Revenge Begins at the Mass Grave 四合院:从乱葬岗开始复仇 Male-Channel Fanfiction1.2M WordsCompleted Reborn on a mass grave, Zhang Aiguo returns with a System. The scoundrels stole my family’s property, sold my younger sister, and left me for dead. This time, they’ll pay for every drop of blood! The hypocritical patriarch, the venomous old woman, every last one of them: none will get away! Watch as this young man delivers the ultimate judgment and gets his revenge in this man-eating courtyard! 373Reads8.8Score145Shelves
  38. 38 Siheyuan: Becoming a Rogue Everyone Loves 四合院:做一个人见人爱的流氓 Male-Channel Fanfiction1.6M WordsOngoing [System] [Multiple Heroines] [Low on Grimness] [Historical Fantasy] Lin Muzhi, a down-and-out writer from the 21st century, wakes up as Lin Weidong, a backward young man in a 1965 courtyard. His neighbors are rubbing their hands together, ready to crush this “troublemaker” and take everything from him. But... The whole courtyard soon realizes that this time, the newcomer isn't prey. Armed with the perspective of a modern civilization, he's come to rule this world of tangled relationships like it 38.5kReads8.7Score1.8kShelves
  39. 39 Lord of Reincarnation in the Nine Domains 九域轮回之主 Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted Synopsis Good-for-nothing Lin Feng is betrayed by his beloved and his clan brother, stripped of all his cultivation, and thrown into the Blood Prison of the Nine Netherworlds. In his despair, he awakens the Nine Hells Reincarnation Seal, which can devour baleful energy, souls, and even the myriad laws of the heavens! From then on, the Blood Prison becomes his hunting ground, baleful energy his nourishment, and ferocious beasts his watchdogs. When he shatters the Nine Hells and returns to the Ni 570Reads8.8Score—Shelves
  40. 40 Legend of Mir: The Dragon Era 热血传奇:天龙纪元 Sports2.0M WordsCompleted Lin Xiao was an ordinary person from an ordinary world. After an accident, he transmigrated into a thrilling, legendary world full of danger. Unknown threats and challenges lurked everywhere. New to this strange world, Lin Xiao struggled to find his footing. But fate can turn in an instant. He met like-minded companions, including Su Li and Nuoxue. Fighting side by side and growing stronger together, they gradually conceived a bold idea: to establish the Longyuan Star Alliance. Through everyon 236Reads9.5Score—Shelves
  41. 41 The Path to Taming Demons in the Zuma Continent 热血传奇:祖玛大陆的训魔之路 Sports1.5M WordsCompleted Lin Xiao is the quintessential rich second-generation heir, usually idle and carefree, with a passion for immersing himself in Legend of Mir. His father chairs a publicly listed conglomerate, and his mother is also a successful businesswoman. But the powerful Wang family of the capital sets its sights on the Lin family's business. Old Master Wang holds a high-ranking national post, and the family's heir apparent, Wang Jingyu, colludes with local officials to maliciously undermine the Lins so he 14Reads7.6Score—Shelves
  42. 42 A Long Song of Jin 晋地长歌 Urban847k WordsCompleted #Rural Shanxi #Period drama and human warmth #War and flames #Ordinary love #Completed The loess of Shanxi holds the years; a long song tells the story of a life. Shanxi’s Long Song is far more than a rural novel. It is a people’s epic, a saga of family and country, engraved upon the land of Shanxi. Following the protagonist’s turbulent and extraordinary life, it weaves together a century of upheaval in Shanxi: the bloody struggle of resistance and espionage, the steadfast defense during the lib 802Reads8.4Score103Shelves
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  43. 43 Rural Chronicle 乡村纪实 Urban260k WordsCompleted The little details of life, all those everyday moments, come together to paint a picture of a changing countryside. Generation after generation pursues its dreams, working hard in the mountain valleys. They make it through the winter, then the hills turn green in spring. Summer crops blanket the mountains, and autumn is always a season of joy. 212Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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  44. 44 Xue Mei's Story 雪梅的故事 Modern Romance176k WordsCompleted Bare, barren loess hills. Ravines and ridges wind their way into the distance. This is where the story’s heroine, Xuemei, spent her childhood, grew into a shy young woman, and endured until she became a mature wife. She works hard, cultivating this poor yellow earth, and sings the praises of the diligence and simplicity of rural women in the new era. 127Reads—Score—Shelves
  45. 45 Reborn in 1976: The Village Belle Clings to Me from the Start 重生1976,开局村花赖上我 Urban2.4M WordsCompleted [Educated-youth story + not a wish-fulfillment tale + everyday life + reborn + master of laying low + witty and irreverent] Read with caution. In his previous life, after returning to the city, he went to college, pursued scientific research, and won award after award. But an accident left him reborn as an educated youth in a small village. This time around, he only wants to put down roots in the village and live a quiet life. But you can’t hide a pearl in the mud. He ends up making an even bigg 3.5kReads8.7Score177Shelves
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  46. 46 Reborn as a Forestry Farm Educated Youth: Treasure Hunting in Changbai Mountain 重生林场知青,我在长白山寻宝 Urban285k WordsCompleted In the winter of 1973, in response to the country's call to send educated youths to the countryside, every family had to send one child to join a rural production team. In this turbulent era, Qi Jinghao was reborn as the fifth son of the Qi family, in the dormitory building where the workers' families lived. The Qi family had three sons and two daughters, and he was the least favored. His family “shipped him off” to join a rural production team. Qi Jinghao packed his bags and boarded a train 218Reads5.4Score—Shelves
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  47. 47 Back to the 1960s: I Can’t Keep My Superpower a Secret 重回60年代:我的异能藏不住了 Urban2.7M WordsCompleted Era setting + reborn + pocket dimension + transmigration + stockpiling supplies + lighthearted + no harem Gu Yunyang transmigrated from the apocalypse back to 1960, into the body of a man who shared his name and had been switched at birth. He also saw the man's entire life. In his previous life, the child who had been switched at birth discovered the truth. With famine raging, he couldn't bear the hunger and came back to claim his place, leaving Gu Yunyang as the awkward impostor son. To avoid b 18.3kReads8.0Score1.6kShelves
  48. 48 Reborn in 1978: My Scumbag Dad Finds His Conscience 重生1978:渣爹良心发现了 Urban2.2M WordsCompleted The deadbeat Chen Sanliang is reborn in 1978, on the day he divorces his wife. But the members of the production team at Heixialing are astonished to discover that the bastard team leader has changed. Once a male chauvinist who hated work, he now dotes on his wife and daughter and works hard. He even dares to slam his fist on the table with the commune leaders to defend the team members’ interests. Has this guy finally found his conscience? 266Reads7.2Score105Shelves
  49. 49 1979: Meat for My Wife and Kids 年代1979:带着老婆孩子吃肉 Urban4.7M 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.) 181.8kReads9.3Score11kShelves
  50. 50 I Transmigrated into a Funeral Hall from the Start, Then Took Down the Vile Ones Sent to the Countryside 开局穿越灵堂,手撕极品下乡 Urban1.2M WordsCompleted Yang Baiyi, a powerful survivor of the Apocalypse, dies alongside the Zombie King while leading his team on a mission to clear out zombies. When he wakes up again, he finds himself at a funeral hall, surrounded by relatives clamoring to divide up the estate his parents left behind. So you're trying to take everything from an orphan? I am the ruler of the Apocalypse, and I have always been ruthless. Why would I let you get away with this? He takes on his awful relatives, leaving them penniless, t 13kReads8.8Score950Shelves

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