Good Books Set During the Reform and Opening-Up Era 有改革开放年代的好书

1. 1 游 Swimming Across Hong Kong to Find My Fortune 游水香江去找钱 Toxic Thoughts思想有毒Urban1.1M WordsCompleted In the late 1970s, in a small village north of Yuecheng, Wang Ziqian was forced to join two friends in fleeing to Hong Kong as they pursued their fortune. He struggled to survive amid the turbulent tides of Hong Kong, moving from one industry to another, and ultimately became a business magnate. 7.6kReads7.6Score369Shelves

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   These are novels from the 1980s and 1990s.

2. 2 重 Reborn in 1985 重生在一九八五 Northern Geese in Flight北雁飞舞Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Wu Tianyu never imagined that he could be reborn too. He had read countless rebirth novels and dreamed of getting a second life himself. Now it had really happened, and he was back in the 1980s, in the early days of China's reform and opening up. 23.7kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves
3. 3 幕 Laying Plans Behind the Scenes: My Subordinates Take Turns Being Billionaires 幕后布局，我的手下轮流当首富 I Will Never Coexist with Gambling or Drugs我和赌毒不共戴天Urban2.0M WordsCompleted [Reborn + Period Drama + Family Life + Conquering Global Markets + Hidden Tycoon + Multiple Heroines] Also known as Reborn in the Early Eighties: Building a Fortune and Living a Colorful Life In plain terms: Some call him Big Brother, some call him an academician, and some call him a university trustee. Others hail him as a business leader, while some believe he’s the most powerful person in the world. None of these labels is quite accurate, because each is only one of his many identities. Rebor 5.4kReads8.6Score339Shelves
4. 4 逆 Against the Current in 2006: The Rise of a Billionaire and His One True Love 逆流2006：首富的崛起与独宠 Fish Hiding from the Rain躲雨的鱼儿Urban1.0M WordsCompleted The comic adaptation of this novel is now available on Hongguo. Give it a look if you’re interested. A life of hardship + rising through adversity + building a business empire + one heroine + sweet romance + cozy everyday life + reborn They say happy lives are all alike, while every unhappy life has its own sorrows. In his previous life, Qin Yu endured every kind of hardship in the first half of his life. Just as things finally began to improve, he inexplicably returned to the day he finished th 3.7kReads8.4Score234Shelves
5. 5 1 1968: From the Start, My Stunning Sister-in-Law Comes to Borrow Grain! 1968：开局绝美大姨子上门借粮！ Get Rich暴富Urban2.1M WordsCompleted In 1968, a stunning older sister-in-law came by to borrow grain. To his surprise, after lending her the grain, he received a gift from Mother Earth: a hunting pocket dimension! Each level of the hunting pocket dimension was home to all kinds of poultry, livestock, and ferocious beasts. Killing them also earned him exclusive gear from the pocket dimension, attribute points, and all kinds of household goods. From then on, Li Yunfeng used the hunting pocket dimension to enjoy a happy life in the 19 1.6kReads8.0Score188Shelves
6. 6 金 Financial Kingpin: In Russia, I Plot to Conquer the World! 金融悍匪，人在毛熊，布局全球！ No Meat Tomorrow明天不吃肉了Urban1.2M WordsCompleted Reborn in the 1980s, Lin Yaodong sold his property immediately and headed to the Bear country to trade bread, making a staggering 31 times his investment. In three years, he amassed ten billion rubles. In December 1989, Lin Yaodong brought five billion rubles to the Island country. He struck while they were down, sweeping up its light industries and reselling them to the Bear country for profits dozens of times over. Wall Street’s plan to prevent its assets from going bankrupt? Lin Yaodong would 8.9kReads8.7Score627Shelves
7. 7 重 Back to 1981: The Little Fishing Village 重回那年，1981小渔村 Poor Ghost Having Fun Alone穷鬼自嗨Urban3.4M WordsOngoing A laid-back slice-of-life story about earning a living and supporting the family, nestled against the mountains and facing the sea. Climb the mountains, explore the sea, and enjoy a relaxed life, with no overpowered showboating or face-slapping. A period story about everyday life: gathering seafood, raising children, farming, and all the little things that happen in a family and village. 31kReads8.5Score1.9kShelves
8. 8 重 Reborn in 1979: My Wife Tells Me to Take Over Her Family’s Debts 重生1979，老婆让我接盘 Pray for Rain During Military Training军训求雨Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Period] [Hunting] [Reborn] [Mountain Foraging] Xu Ye woke up to find himself back in 1979. Though supplies were scarce and life was desperately poor, he was home, the place he’d yearned for with all his heart... Right from the start, his wife asked him to help her older sister... In his previous life, Xu Ye refused. As a result, his sister-in-law died of illness on a snowy night... His wife resented him for the rest of her life... and he blamed himself until the end of his days. Now, faced with 12.8kReads8.1Score912Shelves
9. 9 重 Reborn: I Set Traps for the Capitalists at Every Turn 重生：我一路给资本做局 Love Little Watermelons喜欢小西瓜Urban3.9M WordsOngoing A private equity fund manager was lured into a trap and murdered, only to be reborn as a college student in 1995. Taking advantage of a brief stock market boom, he quickly got his start and changed his family's fortunes. His path to revenge began. His enemies had been billionaires in his previous life, with astonishing connections. He could only plan every move carefully and build up his strength. Gradually, he became known in investment circles as a genius. Years later, he was a top investor an 10.6kReads8.4Score763Shelves
10. 10 穿 Transmigrating to a Bygone Era, I Live Off My Parents and Lie Flat Like a Carefree Fish 穿越年代，我靠啃老躺平当咸鱼 Wangzai Little Head旺仔小头头Modern Romance815k WordsCompleted Song Yuan transmigrated. In her previous life, she was a landlady who coasted through life, collecting rent on schedule and taking it easy. She never expected to open her eyes and find herself reborn as a little girl. Her father was a lazy, shameless rascal who mooched off his parents every day, but in truth, he doted on his wife and daughter. Her mother seemed too frail to take care of herself, unable to carry heavy loads or lift a finger, but was actually as strong as an ox. Song Yuan thought 6.8kReads8.4Score460Shelves

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    🌟The heroine was born in the womb, loved and cared for by her parents, had clothes to wear, delicious food to eat, and went to school. After experiencing the reform and opening up, her father had a business mind and opened a grocery store first, and then a snack bar. Slowly expanding her business to the provincial capital, she became richer and richer, and the heroine became the second generation of rich people.

11. 11 为 A Career in Public Service 为民官路 At Ease and Unrestrained安心无忌Urban1.8M WordsOngoing [A gritty, realistic tale of ambition and struggle in the government ranks] In 1990, top student Zhen Weimin offends the wrong people and gets kicked down to a poor rural township. Everyone thinks his life is over. But he is determined to make flowers bloom among the thorns. He breaks through obstacles with his knowledge and grounds himself in his conscience, with every step in sync with the pulse of the times. Starting in the township, he moves forward one step at a time. This is a true chronic 12.4kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves

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    A novel about the officialdom of the times that started in villages and towns in 1990

12. 12 穿 Transmigrate to the 1980s, Make Money, Win His Heart, and Raise the Kids 穿越八零年代，挣钱撩汉养崽崽 Slightly Tipsy with Orange Flavor橘子味微醺Modern Romance521k WordsCompleted [No golden finger in this book. Readers who prefer pocket-dimension or System stories should steer clear. The heroine isn’t a self-sacrificing saint, the hero is warm and devoted, there are adorable kids, and few awful characters.] After a nap, Qin Man woke up to find she had transmigrated to the 1980s and become a woman whose identity was unknown. Apparently, the woman she had become was a simpleton, married to the village heartthrob, who was attending university, and had a lovely pair of twins 30.8kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves

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    🌟The heroine traveled to the 1980s and became a married woman with two children. The male protagonist reports to school, and the female protagonist goes with him. First he earns money by doing odd jobs, then he finds a job selling electrical appliances and does very well. Then he opens a spicy hotpot shop and establishes a clothing brand. If you dare to think, dare to do it!

13. 13 二 After Two Spoiled Brats Become Sent-Down Youths Returning to the City 二世祖夫妻穿成回城知青后 Shen Yizui沈一醉Modern Romance537k WordsOngoing When a young couple of layabout second-generation rich kids who only know how to eat, drink, and have fun transmigrate from 2025 to the 1970s or 1980s, they become a married couple of educated youths returning to the city. They have no System, no pocket dimension, no wise old master by their side... no golden finger at all. And neither of them is a once-in-a-generation genius. This hard-up but cheerful young couple can only roll up their sleeves and give it everything they've got if they want to 1.1kReads6.4Score106Shelves

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    1️⃣The second generation of Guangzhou Demolition travels through Foshan to the educated youth who returned to the city in the 1980s. The male protagonist is engaged in fan manufacturing and will be an export enterprise in the future. The female protagonist is writing martial arts novels and doing other things. Very pretty. 2️⃣A 30-year-old female elite executive director of a multinational company travels back to the 1980s as an old lady. At the beginning of reform and opening up, she uses the wisdom of later generations to cooperate with the direction of the government's leadership, and the cooperation of her entire village, a vegetable basket, and a free market. These are not problems.

14. 14 回 Back in the 1980s, Starting My Career Anew 回归八零再就业 Lost but Not Lost迷途不迷途Modern Romance2.1M WordsCompleted While everyone else who transmigrates gets to live another life, Qi Xinlan loses twenty years of hers! One moment she's a thriving, ambitious administrative director at a multinational corporation; the next, she's a fifty-two-year-old woman. This is the bittersweet story of how the white-collar elite Cindy Qi became Auntie Qi to her neighbors. Her most promising son is gone, her daughter-in-law has run off, and a whole bunch of little children are left behind! See how a modern HR and administrat 19kReads9.4Score1.8kShelves
15. 15 重 Reborn in a Northeastern Mountain Village: Fishing and Hunting Across Two Rivers and Two Nations 重生东北小山村渔猎两江两国 Student Tianya小学生天涯Urban3.9M WordsOngoing Please give this five stars. Please give this five stars. I don't have much education or skill, and I can't write fancy prose. I use ordinary people's language to tell an ordinary story. If you like it, I thank you for your support with a clasped-fist salute. If you don't, please be kind and don't flame me. An artist can't make a living without noble-minded patrons. I offer my thanks to all of you, my dear supporters. 37.8kReads8.2Score2.6kShelves

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    Era, rebirth, hunting and fishing in the Northeast, adventurous stories of mountaineering and farming, short stories about parents, mountains, water, and woods, stories and life, light-hearted, humorous, and no ink stains

16. 16 重 Reborn in 1986: I Open a Supermarket in the City 重生1986我在城里开超市 Lonely Dog Listening to the Rain孤单听雨的狗Urban1.1M WordsOngoing The ratings have only just come in, so they’re bound to rise!! Everything is handmade from scratch~ [Period setting + reborn + feel-good story + building wealth + opening a supermarket + devoted husband and father] [Buy one, get one free] [Trade in your old goods] [The Vegetable Basket Project] … Reborn in 1986, with no awful relatives to deal with, he sells wild greens, opens a supermarket, and starts a franchise... Free eggs with every in-store purchase! Spend 10 yuan, get 1 yuan off; sp 21kReads8.3Score1.4kShelves

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    Reborn in the 1980s, selling vegetables, opening a supermarket, and getting rich step by step. The data is rigorous, not exaggerated, and has a strong sense of substitution.

17. 17 六 The 1960s: A Three-Year-Old’s Slip of the Hand Sends China Soaring 六零：三岁奶包手一抖，华国起飞 Tao Dayao桃大夭Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period setting, patriotism, positive energy, adorable baby adored by everyone, space, building wealth, interplane trading mall, romance, sweet pampering.] She was a famously lazy old ancestor in the Tribulation stage of the cultivation world. Her greatest dream was to pass her tribulation and go right back to lazing around. She never expected to get unlucky and die from the final bolt of heavenly lightning. When she opened her eyes again, she had left the cultivation world, rich in spiritual en 4.8kReads9.3Score477Shelves

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    Two good books on reform and opening up. The first one is about technology and the second one is about money💵

18. 18 七 The 1970s: The Glamorous Heiress Transmigrates into a Book with a Trillion-Dollar Fortune 七零：美艳娇气包带千亿资产穿书 A Duo u阿哆uModern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The young lady never lived through that era, so you can't expect her to have the same spending habits as ordinary people. [Not a poverty-relief story] [Sweet romance + period setting + transmigrate into a book + golden finger + feel-good power fantasy] [Both are virgins, one-on-one romance] Shanghai–Beijing–Hong Kong [Warning: The heroine is spoiled and not truly kind or beautiful inside! The hero is a lovesick fool! Don't get hung up on prices! If there are any plot holes, just treat them as au 30.2kReads9.2Score3.2kShelves
19. 19 八 Pampered Marriage of the ’80s: The Young General Abducts His Childhood Sweetheart 八零宠婚：军少诱拐小青梅 In the Third Month余三月里Modern Romance547k WordsCompleted [Military marriage + one-on-one romance + building an island + childhood sweethearts + making a fortune + raising cats and kids + local-born leads] (Wolfish young officer childhood friend x lively beauty childhood sweetheart) Fang Yingyue is the lively little beauty everyone knows from the military compound. Everyone knows she has a childhood friend who has protected her since they were little, and no one dares bully her. After they marry, she doesn't join him at his post. Then one day, she has 5.6kReads8.4Score383Shelves

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    In the 1980s, after the reform and opening up, the heroine and her best friend were doing business, and they had many ideas, but they were not the kind to achieve success in one step.

20. 20 改 Reforming My Good-for-Nothing Husband, Starting at Age 20 改造废物老公，从20岁开始养老 Teletubby Without an Antenna没有天线的天线宝宝Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period story x making money x family and village life x a touch of ensemble cast x raising kids] Lin Hui has a dream. In it, she turns fifty after spending twenty-seven years as a widow, struggling to raise her children, only to develop cancer and die before she can enjoy life. When she wakes, she finds herself back in 1980, the year she just married Xu Dongsheng, the “lazy bum” of the surrounding villages. She grits her teeth. She absolutely cannot let her life follow the path in her dream. Fr 49.8kReads9.1Score6.3kShelves

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    The first one is very good, the second half of the second one is good, the third one is a bit exaggerated, okay

21. 21 重 Reborn in the 1980s: Ditching My Scumbag Husband to Farm My Way to Riches 重生八零：甩掉渣夫种田当首富 Good Harvest丰年Modern Romance513k WordsCompleted (Completed) In her previous life, her scumbag husband drank the wedding cup with another female educated youth at their wedding. When Qiao Zhixia objected, the woman jumped into a river and died. Only then did Qiao Zhixia learn that the woman was her husband’s beloved first love. After subjecting Qiao Zhixia to a year of cold violence, her scumbag husband chose to die for his beloved. Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law schemed together, driving Qiao Zhixia to a horrific death. Only then did she 3.5kReads9.1Score358Shelves
22. 22 张 The Little Girl from Secretary Zhang's Family 张书记家的小姑娘 Warm Tangerine橘暖暖Modern Romance337k WordsCompleted After graduating from college at 24, Sang Ning chose to return to her hometown and take a job in the public sector. A year later, her employer sent her to a township government office for two years of support work. She became Secretary Zhang’s subordinate, and eventually, Secretary Zhang became part of her family. At 32, Zhang Yizheng was a veteran and the head of the township government. One day, a young woman joined the office. She was young, capable, and full of personality. For the first ti 18kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
23. 23 穿 After Becoming a Vicious, Fat Wife, I Help the Whole Family Thrive 穿成恶毒肥妻后，我带飞全家 Miss Fan范氏女子Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book set in a past era + pocket dimension + sweet romance and raising kids + love grows over time + cozy daily life] Su He wakes up one morning to find that she has transmigrated into a book as the villain's wicked mother. In the story, her villainous son eventually dies in a fire, while her villainous daughter is sold overseas. Both children meet tragic ends. Their mother, meanwhile, is a wicked woman whose name never even appears in the book. Looking at her current obese b 6.9kReads9.0Score606Shelves
24. 24 一 Gu Jiu Si's First Book 一顾九思的第1本书 At First Glance, Nine Thoughts一顾九思Modern Romance386k WordsCompleted [Dual Civil-Service Careers + Both Leads Are Each Other’s First Love + Secretly in Love with Each Other + Sweet Romance] The male and female leads are each other’s first love. Five years ago, a misunderstanding kept them apart. Five years later, he has become a district Party committee secretary, while she is an ordinary civil servant in a township under his jurisdiction. She had planned to live out a quiet, ordinary life, but he is determined to take her into his arms, no matter what. You don’t 10.6kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves
25. 25 被 Forced into an Alliance Marriage? Mr. Xie Can't Stop Grinning! 被迫联姻？谢总他都笑成翘嘴了！ Jiang Wenyu江问鱼Modern Romance280k WordsCompleted [Marriage Before Love + The Second Male Lead Takes the Lead + Mutual Firsts + Secret Love Turns to Love + Redemption] [The Whole Family Gets Their Comeuppance, and She Won't Forgive Them] In the third week after agreeing to date Gu Chengfeng, Yu Zhiwan heard him say: “The Yu family’s real daughter they found isn’t even loved by them. I’m just playing around with her.” “Remember the first day Yu Zhiwan came back to the Yu family? She’s allergic to pineapple, and her two biological brothers delibe 24.1kReads9.3Score2.9kShelves
26. 26 我 My Years as a Migrant Worker in Shenzhen 我在深圳打工那些年 Azure Clouds, Everlasting Red青云长红Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Two AI comic adaptations of this book are already online, and a third is in production. In 1997, I was 17, carrying 300 yuan as I left my hometown in Hunan and headed south to Shenzhen alone. With no skills and no temporary residence permit, I was chased by security patrols, turned away by factories, left hungry, and forced to spend nights hiding in a cemetery. I went from a penniless kid to a sewing-machine operator at a handbag factory, then seized the opportunities of the times, opened a shop 23kReads8.8Score2.1kShelves

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    Shenzhen work documents. People of that era should be able to relate to it.

27. 27 我 My Years Working at a Securities Firm 我在证券打工那些年 Azure Clouds, Everlasting Red青云长红Urban120k WordsOngoing 2004. Shenzhen. Securities account manager. Only later did Li Xingyun realize that the so-called A-share floor price was a lie told to rookies. Below the floor was hell, and below hell were eighteen more levels. He had seen every one of them. No connections, no influential friends, and no Cantonese. Find clients. Fail, and you're out. A veteran told him: In this line of work, no results means no respect. An account of a fresh graduate working in Shenzhen. No inspirational triumphs, no melodrama, 6.2kReads—Score804Shelves
28. 28 简 I Set Up a Simple Stall and Made 300,000 [The 1990s] 简单摆个摊，挣了三十万【九零】 Love Daydreaming~爱做白日梦～Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Back in 1992, Chen Baiyun resolutely quits her job. She'll make her fortune by quitting and setting up a street stall! She only meant to save up some start-up money, but somehow she ends up making 300,000 yuan. Chen Baiyun: “Well, we should hurry up and buy it!” Cars, houses, gold, shops: she wants them all. As for that awful swindler who married her for money and his family, they can get lost. No one is going to disturb the hard-won happiness she's found. [Little everyday spending sprees] Chen 11.1kReads8.5Score1.1kShelves

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    🌾🌾They are all entrepreneurship stories after the reform and opening up, but the second one starts from the heroine's days as an educated youth, and soon the reform and opening up. The heroine and her husband are very funny. At the beginning, it looks like a top-notch otaku novel, but as you go to the end, the characters become more distinct! The story takes place in Shenzhen, so there are many plots about demolition and house purchase!

29. 29 穿 Transmigrate to the Seventies: My Handsome, Sweet Husband Begs Me to Spoil Him 穿越七零：老公又帅又甜，求我宠 Si Bu Xiang司不像Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Strong Female Lead, Weaker Male Lead + Female Lead Transmigrates + Male Lead Is Reborn + Contract Marriage + Sweet Romance + Realistic Feel-Good Story + Cozy Daily Life + Selfish Female Lead + Devoted Husband] At a young age, Deng Siyao saved up five million, but before she could register for a residence permit and buy a house, she died from overwork and transmigrated into the body of a sent-down youth. She has her heart set on finding a handsome, agreeable husband, hoping to 29.7kReads8.9Score2.1kShelves
30. 30 深 A Romance at a Shenzhen Factory 深圳工厂情缘 Jiangnan Yixiao江南一肖Modern Romance1.7M WordsCompleted My new story is here! You’re welcome to read it 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! 2.5kReads8.9Score199Shelves

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    In the late 1990s, the protagonist worked in Guangdong.

31. 31 都 Now That I'm Reborn, Why Get Married? Obviously, I'll Make Money 都重生了谁还嫁人，当然赚钱啊 Chi Yu Ru Hai池渔洳海Modern Romance510k WordsCompleted [Starting a Business and Making Money+Top Student+No Romance+Feel-Good Female Lead+Period Piece] Jiang Yu is reborn in 1994. In this life, she refuses to follow her mother to the city for school. She'll stay in the county, sell porridge, and open a food court. With her foresight and skills as a food blogger, watch her turn 250 yuan into a hundred billion... She'll make money and study hard, both at once! 1.7kReads8.9Score128Shelves

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    Reborn in 1994, he started a business and became rich by selling porridge and milk tea. This is a story about a heroine without CP.

32. 32 我 I Save My Family with My Jinxed Tongue 我靠乌鸦嘴拯救全家 Mi Caidou米彩豆Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Theme: Knowledge changes your fate! Everyone’s got eight hundred tricks up their sleeve + courtyard-house drama + calculated self-interest + family squabbles + stockpiling + outrageous characters + a jinx’s tongue + playing dumb to catch the tiger. One day, Lin Xixi transmigrates and becomes the biological daughter of an outrageous couple in a period novel. Outrageous characters are sly, lazy, greedy, and slippery: they can’t get enough of eating, but they’re no good at anything else. Luckily, h 93.2kReads9.1Score15.2kShelves

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    A period story. The heroine with a crow's mouth and her parents and brothers struggle together. The content is exciting and heartwarming.

33. 33 七 Military Marriage in the 1970s: After Joining the Army, She Became the Talk of the Family Compound 七零军婚：随军后她风靡家属院 Yan Hui胭回Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Stunning artist x tough, prison-style military officer] [Pocket dimension, limited appearances + sweet romance + satisfying wish fulfillment + no awful characters] Shi Tingyu is a young painter with a modest reputation. One day, she transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes the daughter of a weapons researcher. Before she can enjoy her new life, her parents face the prospect of being reported and sent down to the countryside. Unwilling to let her suffer, her parents quickly arrange a blind date fo 69.8kReads9.5Score7.7kShelves

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    The heroine travels back in time to the 1970s. Her parents are scientific researchers who were brought back by the country. Due to the special circumstances of the times, they are about to be deported.

34. 34 过 With a Photographic Memory, I Become a Tycoon in the Special Economic Zone! 过目不忘，我在特区当财阀！ Clearly Not Making Money明明不赚钱Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [All the Problematic Parts Have Been Fixed] [No System] [Real Estate Mogul] [Enjoy with Confidence] My name is Chen Ci. I transmigrated from Blue Star to Pengcheng in a parallel world in 1985! I arrived during the golden age of reform and opening up, and I also have a photographic memory. Land in Huaqiangbei costs 19,000 yuan per mu? What are we waiting for? Buy it before it's too late. You say the Shanghai stock market is booming? I've got some spare cash. Might as well give it a try. Real esta 3.5kReads6.4Score189Shelves

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    This is nice, but updates are too slow.

35. 35 重 Reborn in 1990: Unleashing My Full Firepower 重生九零之火力全开 Warm Spring Sunrise暖阳春晓Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted In her previous life, Xia Qingfang was timid and afraid of trouble. She spent her whole life working odd jobs and ended it in poverty. Fortunately, fate gave her a chance to live again. She returned to the 1990s, when she had just left home to work. This time, she boldly urged her strong young husband to start a business, give up his steady factory job, and bring their child to live with them and attend school, so the child would no longer be bullied. In this new life, Xia Qingfang is determined 4.1kReads7.7Score218Shelves

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    The last one is really good.

36. 36 八 The 1980s: My Daughter Was Switched at Birth, Yet I Just Smiled 八零：女儿被调包后，我却笑了 Snow Between the Brows眉间雪Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted In her previous life, Wen Ning’s entire family died. Only then did she learn that the daughter she had painstakingly raised was a fake heiress, and that her sister-in-law had switched her real daughter while Wen Ning was weak after giving birth! The fake heiress went to university, became a pianist who traveled the world, and married into a wealthy family. The real daughter was abused, married off to an old man, sent to prison, and died in a fire. Consumed by hatred, Wen Ning dragged the fake he 12.4kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves
37. 37 全 My Family Was Slaughtered! Back to the 1990s to Crush My Enemies and Change My Fate 全家惨死！重回九零虐渣改命 Simplify the Complex化繁为简Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted When Xia Yun opens her eyes, she discovers that she has been reborn in the 1990s. She is already married and has a child. In her previous life, she was fiercely competitive, but lost everything. Only as she lay dying did she begin to regret it. She had been dealt a winning hand, but her competitiveness and blind trust in others had ruined it. Her son, her husband, and her whole family were dragged down with her, and none of them had a happy ending. Reborn with a cold-storage golden finger, she s 788Reads6.4Score113Shelves
38. 38 八 An Ordinary Life for a Girl Born in the Eighties 八零后女孩的平凡人生 Little Orange Who Loves Strawberries爱吃草莓的小橙子Modern Romance490k WordsCompleted [No transmigration] [No rebirth] [No golden finger] [Rural life in the 1980s] [A small ensemble cast] [Family squabbles] [Gentle and heartwarming] Xu Congcong and Xu Mingming are sisters born in the 1980s. They are lucky to have a grandma and father who love them unconditionally, as well as a mother whose personality is a little complicated but who loves them just as much. Sheltered by their whole family, the sisters grow up carefree. Through the sisters’ coming-of-age story, this novel traces t 3.5kReads9.2Score300Shelves
39. 39 我 I Became a Working Girl in the 1990s 我在九零当打工妹 I Want to Win the Lottery Every Day每天都想中大奖Modern Romance677k WordsCompleted Liu Tang is a recent college graduate, and every day she's so busy trying to find a job that she's completely frazzled. Then one night, she has a strange dream. To her surprise, the dream takes her to a rural village in the 1990s, where she's a high school student who failed the college entrance exam. What? There was more to her exam failure than meets the eye? Help! Finding a job is hard, but she doesn't want to take the college entrance exam again. It seems she can't go back, so she has no cho 11.7kReads8.4Score346Shelves

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    The heroine travels back in time to the days when a high school student who failed the college entrance examination in the 1990s went south to work with the villagers.

40. 40 书 The Younger Uncle Who Went to the Countryside in the 1980s Is Back 书穿八零之下乡的小叔回来了 Yan Sanyue燕三月Modern Romance780k WordsCompleted The 1980s: family squabbles and everyday life. Young intellectual Lu Guoan had gone to the countryside. To treat his daughter, who was trapped in a strange, unending sleep, he had no choice but to return to the city with his wife and child. The Lu family was crowded into a small home, and the family's sudden return sparked some unavoidable domestic conflicts. Yet Lu Qiaoqiao, the patient, recovered the moment she stepped through the Lu family door, without needing any treatment at all. She al 26.5kReads8.4Score2.7kShelves

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    They're all pretty good-looking, and I can't stop following the series.

41. 41 八 A Family with a Scholastically Challenged Kid in the 1980s 八十年代家有学渣 Wen Wen Wen玟纹文Modern Romance611k WordsCompleted [Family life and relationships + ensemble cast] Her great-grandfather is a university professor, and every member of her family graduated from university. Lu Xijia is very proud of that, if only she weren’t a terrible student who can barely score sixty when her primary-school Chinese and math grades are added together... Still, she believes she must be good at something. Everyone says, “Every person is born with a purpose,” after all~ But as she gazes at the exam papers on her desk, covered in s 5.5kReads8.9Score621Shelves
42. 42 金 The Jin Yuanbao Family’s Sudden Fortune from Demolition Compensation 金元宝一家的拆迁暴富日常 A Wondrous Pen Like a Lotus妙笔如莲Modern Romance1.4M WordsOngoing Old Madam Jin dreamed of a golden ingot while pregnant. She asked each of her four favorite daughters-in-law, but none of them admitted it! Could it really have been Ying Canru, who could never get enough to eat and always burned the bottom of the pot when she cooked? ~~ In the delivery room, Ying Canru screamed as she gave birth. Outside, Jin Laifu paced back and forth, glancing at his watch from time to time as he muttered, “Please let the baby be born on the eighth day of the eighth month. Ot 2.1kReads8.8Score163Shelves
43. 43 重 Back to 1982: Casting Nets to Save the Village Belle and Make the Whole Village Rich 重回82：撒网救村花带全村致富 Seeing a Dragon on Mount Nan南山见龙Urban1.5M WordsCompleted Back at the age of twenty, he's known throughout the village as a no-good loafer. But no one knows he's returned carrying the regrets and memories of his previous life. He catches and sells fish, hunts in the mountains, and earns his first fortune through hard work. Before the flood hits, he even issues an early warning and organizes an evacuation, saving countless lives. From the village to the county, from small-time trading to grand strategies... In this life, he won't just clear his name. He 22.6kReads8.3Score2.3kShelves

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    I feel that this word is very good, especially suitable for listening to while lying in bed

44. 44 重 Reborn in 1980: I Dumped the Scumbag and Married a Butcher 重生八零甩掉渣男嫁屠户 Lots of Durian Daifuku榴莲大福多多Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Period] + [Reborn] + [Pocket Space] + [Farming] + [Family Life] + [Entrepreneurship] Li Wenhui is reborn before her blind date with a scumbag, and this time she exposes the affair between him and her best friend with her own hands. Thinking of the butcher who supplied her restaurant throughout her previous life and even came to her aid at a crucial moment, Li Wenhui decides they can team up and start a business this time around. But how does it end up with the two of them getting married and bu 3.7kReads8.1Score415Shelves

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    Reborn in the 1980s, reform and opening up, has a plot, and is good to watch.

45. 45 东 The Dongguan Years 东莞岁月 Diligent Happy Sheep勤奋的喜羊羊Modern Romance2.7M WordsCompleted Set in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this novel tells the story of migrant workers represented by a group of young men and women from the countryside in southwestern Henan. It paints a sweeping picture of their arduous struggle to make a living in the unfamiliar city of Dongguan, vividly recreating the bitterness and sweetness, hardships and joys, love and heartbreak experienced by young factory workers during that fiery era. 2.3kReads7.7Score180Shelves

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    Very suitable! Just right

46. 46 抛 After Dumping the Boyfriend Who Put Her Through Four Years of College 抛弃供她上四年大学的男朋友之后 Diligent Happy Sheep勤奋的喜羊羊30k WordsCompleted After She Dumped the Boyfriend Who Put Her Through Four Years of College 430Reads—Score—Shelves
47. 47 七 The Seventies' Sweetheart: The Brooding, Rugged Man Has His Eye on Me 七零娇娇，我被阴郁糙汉惦记了 Following Thoughts随念Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Completed + black-lotus sickly beauty + professor + perfect nemesis + healing] Xiao Niannian is frail and delicate, with skin as fair and smooth as jade. She looks easy to bully, but never lets an insult go unanswered. One day, she transmigrates into a rebirth novel set in the 1970s, becoming the male lead’s fiancée. In the book, not only will she die young, but the male lead will use her connections to rise to success. The heroine is reborn. After seeing the male lead prosper in her previous l 30.3kReads9.3Score3.9kShelves

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    ✨🎈These books were written from before the reform to after the reform and opening up. You can see the changes in this process. 🎈① A female educated youth who went to the countryside recruited a wife and settled in Shenzhen. Facing the spring breeze of reform, she opened a factory and became bigger and stronger step by step... 🎈② She became the youngest daughter of a cannon fodder family through a book. The family worked together to become rich together. From a small mountain village to the capital, this article is quite heartwarming, and the love between family members is touching.

48. 48 重 Reborn: I Became an Export Tycoon 重生后：我成了出口大亨 Horse Who Loves Meat爱吃肉的马Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Have you ever read a novel about rare earths? Well, this is one. Rebirth, System, technology, science, industry, the internet, rare earths, strengthening the nation, richest man, the 1980s, national destiny, manufacturing, agriculture, deserts, the Yellow River, the Yarlung Tsangpo River This book is complete. The author's new book, Four-House Courtyard, is premiering on Fanqie. It has the same satisfying pace as ever, so come read and follow along! 4.9kReads8.5Score328Shelves

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    Have you read novels related to rare earths? Have you ever read a book on top-level design? This is it. The writing is average at the beginning, but very exciting at the end. Rebirth, system, technology, science and technology, industry, network, rare earth, powerful country, richest man, era, national destiny, industry, agriculture, desert

49. 49 年 Period: I’m Zhuang Tunan, and I Can Make a Killing from Anything 年代：我是庄图南，万物皆可盘 Yi Ran Zou Chen Shuang弈然走沉霜Male-Channel Fanfiction673k WordsCompleted Zhuang Bifan becomes Zhuang Tunan from A Courtyard of Neighbors. With a strange golden finger, he experiences the warmth and coldness of human nature, love and hatred in this era. He thrives amid the fiercest storms and, amid the petty troubles of family life, trounces the spineless, overtakes the British, and surpasses the Americans across two generations. 5.3kReads8.2Score237Shelves

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    I think the fanfic is pretty good. Watching the drama is frustrating, but reading the book is refreshing.

50. 50 1 Another Spring of the 1977 College Entrance Exam 1977年高考又一春 Young Master Xiaoxiao孝孝公子Modern Romance3.5M 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 5.2kReads8.0Score349Shelves

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    [Top post][Top post][Love] The ceiling of era literature! [Original Party] Travel through time and win the first prize in the college entrance examination, seize the opportunity to make a fortune! Gorgeous wife, hot child! The story is short, the plot is compact, and the text is warm and heartwarming! I strongly recommend this book👍You think it is a novel, but it is actually a very interesting historical record. It focuses on small characters. Hundreds of typical characters are based on real people and real stories. Those born in the 50s, 60s, and 70s should read it. You may be able to find stories that mark yourself or that era. The story is touching and the plot is well arranged. It should be said that it is a good novel in historical records and a good historical story in novels.

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