Looking for System Novels Set in the 1950s or 1960s 求回到五六十年代的系统小说
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Siheyuan: From Forty-Nine City to Hong Kong Cinema 四合院：从四九城到港综
He transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan and returns to the 1960s. Faced with a courtyard full of people scheming for petty gains, Xia Chen just wants to live a quiet life of his own. There's no hostility here, only warmth. The Siheyuan setting features only briefly at first. Later, he establishes himself in Hong Kong and expands worldwide. He builds the largest family business and becomes the richest hidden boss. Antiques, industry, farms, film and entertainment, technology and the inter
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The Sweet Life of the Sixties' Beloved Darling 六零团宠的蜜糖生活
After an accident, Yang Anyi, a wilderness ranger, transmigrates to the 1960s and becomes a six-year-old girl with the same name, dismissed as a little fool. As the only daughter of the Yang family, she’s cherished by her parents and three uncles and aunts, doted on by her three older brothers and thirteen male cousins, and respected by more than twenty nephews. She gets to experience the warmth and affection of a big family firsthand. But a happy life always has its hardships... Maternal uncle:
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The Sixties: The Capitalist's Daughter Steals Two Boatloads of Treasure from Her Trashy Brother 六零：资本家小姐抢渣哥两船财宝
[Female lead with top-tier combat skills + space + ability to grow crops + spiritual spring water + feel-good story with a strong female lead + rural Northeast setting] The heroine will have a love interest as an adult, and later the story moves to Hong Kong. In 2024, the agent codenamed “Red Snow” dies in New York Harbor. After her death, she transmigrates to 1966 and becomes the eldest daughter of the capitalist Fu family in Shanghai! The vast New York Harbor has become her personal space! 196
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A Military Wife’s Identity Is No Simple Matter: Even the King of Hell Gives Her a Pocket Dimension 军嫂身份不简单，阎王都要送空间
[Complete. Military marriage, devoted couple, past and present lives, sweet romance and satisfying revenge, a pocket dimension, putting scumbags in their place!] Dear Princess, please give this story a try. It’s a complete novella, a thrilling read you can finish in one sitting! In her previous life, Leng Xue was killed by her own family. Her beloved, Gu Beilu, gave his life to save her. After awakening her special powers, Leng Xue avenged him, then took her own life. After dying, she arrived in
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My 1960s Military Wife Is a Little Spicy: The Sharp-Tongued Officer Spoils Her Tyrannically 六零军嫂有点辣：毒舌军官霸道宠
[Transmigration + 1960s Military Marriage + Devoted Couple, Sweet Romance + Revenge on Scumbags + Making Money and Raising Kids + Supermarket in a Pocket Dimension + Superpowers + Never Letting Enemies Get Away + Satisfying Military Story] Yu Wanqing had assets worth billions, but while exploring Mount Kunlun, she encountered Japanese soldiers trying to damage China's dragon veins. She took them out, but was badly wounded. When she woke up, she'd transmigrated into the body of a young woman in t
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Bound to a Reading System, an Eighties Cannon Fodder Gets Rich Overnight 绑定读书系统，八零炮灰一夜暴富
Reborn in the 1980s, Liu Chuncao bound herself to the Knowledge Is Power System. As long as she studied, she would earn money and unlock skills with a boost. Her awful mother sided with outsiders and burned her own daughter’s school acceptance letter, hoping to send her stepdaughter to school instead. Liu Chuncao refused to live a miserable life. She outsmarted the villains, dished out face-slapping justice, and used her system-boosted skills to build a prosperous life. Then came an unexpected t
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Back to the 1980s: Bringing My Family of Six to a Better Life 重回八零：带着全家六口过好日子
The Gu family has no sons, only four daughters. Plenty of people in the village are waiting to laugh at them. But they wait and wait, only to watch the Gu family build a two-story house and buy a car. They hear the family has even bought a grand home in the capital. The Gu sisters are each more successful and more devoted to their parents than the last. The villagers: What are you waiting for? Go home and have daughters! After being reborn, Gu Siqing discovers that her sisters are nothing like t
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Reborn in the 1980s: Building a Fortune and Raising My Children 重生八零：发家致富养崽崽
After being reborn, Jing Yangui decides to torment the worst scumbags, build the biggest fortune, marry the most handsome man, and raise the best children! As for the parents who abandoned her in her previous life... She’s better off not looking for them! Why is Mr. Fang, who insists he’ll marry no one but her, nothing like the man in the rumors? They said he was a poor schoolteacher, yet he owns a multinational corporation! His identity is even more mysterious than hers! And he’s even better at
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The 1960s: My Own Mother Left Me on the Road to Fleeing Famine 六零：我被亲妈扔在了逃荒路上
Qin Qing, a soon-to-be graduate, stays up late working on her thesis. One stumble sends her tumbling into the 1960s, right in the middle of a famine migration. Completely at a loss, she is abandoned by her own mother from the start. She lives on wild vegetable cakes and cold water at every meal. Watching a young master from City B speed off on his 28-inch bicycle, she can only shed envious tears. Fortunes change! Let’s see who has the last laugh! [Down-on-his-luck young master VS. abandoned rich
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Working at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative: My 1960s Buying Spree 就职供销社，我在60年代搞代购
With a loud crash, Xu Jiaojiao, from the twenty-second century, survives an air disaster and transmigrates to the resource-starved 1960s, with three years of famine looming. Luckily, she has the “Buy-It-All Shopping Group” golden finger. She lands a job through a supply-and-marketing cooperative recruitment drive and gets a secure government job for life. Brown sugar, meat buns, milk, chocolate... While everyone else chews grass, I snack on dates. I’ll stockpile the good stuff until the warehous
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Infinite Armament 无尽武装
This is heaven, because it contains everything found on Earth. Everything you long for but cannot have is within reach here. This is hell, because everyone must struggle to survive, then lose themselves in a world where truth and illusion are impossible to distinguish. This is the world of endless slaughter...
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A Knight's Journey 骑士征程
The rise of a low-ranking officer; Radiant battle aura; Dazzling magic; Lovely confidantes; All this and more in Knight's Journey.
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The Real Doomsday Game 真实末日游戏
Lin Mingyuan spent ten years struggling to survive in the apocalypse before being reborn on the day before it began. Celestial bodies converge, monsters invade, order collapses, and the strong rule! Humanity's last hope is the attribute panel that falls from the sky.
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Siheyuan: From the Start, I'm a Police Chief with Reba as My Wife! 四合院：开局警司，老婆热芭！
Zhang Chengfei transmigrated into a courtyard house and became a veteran who had earned a first-class collective merit citation and a third-class individual merit citation. From the start, he joined the police force as a second-level superintendent, earning a monthly salary of 76 yuan. He awakened the Case-Solving System. Every case he cracked earned him generous rewards. He also married the pretty young Reba. Everyone in the courtyard envied them, grew jealous, and was also afraid of him. Grann
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Quick Transmigration: Sowing Chaos in the Villain's Heart 快穿之在反派心里撒个野
[Winning over the villain + System + quick transmigration + one-on-one] Ke Yan transmigrates into various small worlds. To keep them stable, he has to change the original owner's fate and stop the villains from turning evil. Ke Yan diligently carries out his missions in every world. But why are the villains looking at him more and more strangely? Weren't they supposed to be ruthless? Why are they holding him and refusing to let him go! CEO Pei holds him in his arms: "You were the one who flirted
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I Became a Wicked Wife in the Seventies 我在七零当恶媳
She transmigrated into the notorious, chubby, unattractive woman of the 1970s: greedy, lazy, spoiled, ill-mannered, and utterly out of control. Yet somehow she married Gu Hongxiao, the best and most promising man in the whole village. Everyone asked, “Why her? She doesn’t deserve him!” Yang Hongxing: “You’re all just jealous. I don’t care who likes me, just stay away!” She gets fit, makes a fortune, and stages a spectacular comeback with an overpowered cheat! Hey, wait, that’s not right! We agre
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The Orphan Girl Runs Wild in a Period Novel 孤女在年代文中杀疯了
(Transmigration, period setting, storage space, special abilities, one-on-one romance) After struggling to survive for six years in the apocalypse, she returns to two months before it begins. She unlocks her storage space, takes stock of her assets, and starts hoarding supplies. Just as she finishes stocking up, Li Xue prepares to lie flat through the apocalypse, only to be sent back to the 1970s by a meteorite. From the start, her parents have died in the line of duty. No worries: with a storag
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Reborn in the 1980s: The Chubby Girl Turns Her Life Around 重生八零：胖丫要翻身
Lin Ying’s parents died young, and after graduating from college, she struggled to make ends meet in the city on her own. Just as she finally paid off her mortgage, Lin Ying transmigrated into the body of her namesake, an ugly aunt from the 1980s who was lazy and loved to eat. Fortunately, it’s still early, and she’s also gained a precious spirit-spring space. It seems transmigration always comes with a golden finger. Let’s see how she gets rich, puts the worst people in their place, and marries
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Reborn in the 1970s: Grandma, Today It's Your Turn to Get Divorced 重生七零：奶，今天轮到您离婚啦
Also known as: Reborn in the 1970s as a Lucky Little Carp with Space Tens of billions in supplies, serving the country, the family’s darling, adorable child, satisfying story In her previous life, Shen Danluo’s family was harmed by her wicked second uncle, and she avenged them all by herself. Now she has been reborn with a space that can exchange for all kinds of supplies. In this life, she will change everyone’s tragic fate. Take down the worst offenders and punish the scum. Then quietly make a
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I Transmigrated to the 1970s and Became the Villain's Wicked Stepmother 穿越七零：成了反派的恶毒后娘
After transmigrating into the 1970s, she finds herself in hell mode. With no golden finger and a stepmother to boot, she can only rely on her acting skills. First, she wins over her strict mother-in-law, then slowly gets her mischievous stepson in line. But then her husband comes home after leaving the army, so much for having an empty bed! Or maybe not? Then she discovers that she’s transmigrated into a book. All three children are destined to become villains, and she’s the wicked stepmother wh
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An ’80s Love Story: Raising Kids While Taking Down the Scum 八零宠婚：带着孩子虐渣渣
Ji Qing transmigrated to the 1980s and became a pitiful woman who had tried to drown herself after her mother-in-law bullied her. She was left alone to raise four children. And that wasn't all. She was saddled with a reputation as a “loose woman”! Ji Qing rolled up her sleeves and took charge of the family finances, fought her sisters-in-law, drove out her mother-in-law, claimed a house, and cleared her name. She got it all done with flair. The only thing troubling her was the strange man who ha
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My Whole Family Traveled Back to the 1960s 我全家穿到了六零年代
[Historical era + farming + raising children + inspirational + satisfying read] Hold on, hold on... Wow, this car’s going so fast! That’s it, one press of the accelerator and they’ve driven their Mercedes straight into a small village in the 1960s. Luckily, the names of all three family members have stayed the same. But what about their personalities? Changing them takes a good reason. How could such a little thing stump this trio of transmigrators? Dad is in charge of winning people over, Mom h
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Reborn in the 1980s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生八零：媳妇有点辣
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
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Reborn in the 1980s as a Lucky Girl 重生八零小福女
Ning Qi was just taking in the laundry when, in the blink of an eye, she was struck by lightning! By accident, she returned to the 1980s and was reborn as a little simpleton! She refused to bow to fate! (Or to being a freeloader who stirs up trouble!) The young lady rolled up her sleeves. If you want to get rich, plant trees first. Once good fortune comes your way, nothing can stop it! … Come along with her… Remember how we once braved the current, our waves holding back the flying boats?
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Back to the 1960s: Farming, Building a Fortune, and Raising the Kids 重回六零：种田发家养崽崽
Transmigrating into the impoverished 1960s wasn’t scary. Becoming a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a book wasn’t scary either. What was scary was that her three stepsons would grow up to become major villains, and all of them, along with their upright, aloof father, would meet tragic ends. How could she let that happen? Lin Qinghe looked at the three future villains, none of whom was even ten years old, and made up her mind: changing a villain starts when they’re young!
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A Doctoral Big Shot's Beloved Life in the 1970s 博士大佬的七零团宠日常
Beloved by the whole family + striving through the years (kind family, no awful relatives) P.S. The early chapters are warm and slice-of-life; later on, there is a focus on technology. The female lead has a photographic memory and is a super-genius. There is no romance in this novel, so those who enjoy stories without romance can dive right in. In the 23rd century, the genius Dr. Leng Yue is killed by her own mother and reborn as Ling Yue, the only granddaughter of the Ling family in the 1970s.
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Back to the Sixties: I’m Invincible with Taobao 重回六零：我带着淘宝无敌了
Zhao Yusheng wakes up one day to find that she has transmigrated to 1961, luckily bringing along an interstellar space-time Taobao trading System. She had hoped to reach the pinnacle of life, but discovers that the 1960s have already been transmigrated into so many times that they're full of holes. So Zhao Yusheng decides to keep her head down and stay cautious all the way, never expecting that by playing it safe, she would become a winner in life.
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Reborn in the 1970s: The Spicy Wife Strikes Back 重生七零：小辣妻逆袭
Everyone in Jiang'an Production Team knows Liu Xiwu as a fiery, hot-tempered girl who acts on impulse and often storms through the village with a shoulder pole, beating people up. They also know she’s a poor girl abandoned by her biological father, left to rely on her sickly mother. Then, one day, she suddenly becomes sharp and clever. Not only that, she manages to snag a handsome young man who stays by her side to protect her.
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The 1980s: The Darling of the Family, I Wake Up Lucky Every Day Despite Being a Jinx 八零团宠：身为灾星的我每天醒来运气爆棚
Complete [period setting + everyone’s favorite + lucky little darling + everyday life + farming] The poorest family in the village, the Zhou family, adopts four-year-old Doudou, whom everyone calls a jinx, despite the objections. Who would have thought that their difficult, impoverished life would suddenly get better? The wife’s illness is cured without medicine, just from something the child says! The child casually goes up a hill, and a whole school of fish comes swimming over to meet its end.
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After Striking It Rich in the 1970s, My Dead Husband Came Back 在七零暴富后，死去的丈夫又回来了
[Period setting + satisfying revenge + farming + face-slapping + sweet romance] One day, Shen Ning transmigrated back to the 1970s and was completely dumbfounded. To make matters worse, she was a widow whose husband had just died! With a dilapidated home and two children in front of her, Shen Ning rolled up her sleeves and got to work. She caught a wild boar, dug up lingzhi mushrooms, and soon their lives began to improve. Then she took the college entrance exam and went to the city to make mone
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The Bystander's Self-Cultivation in a 1970s Transmigration Novel 穿书七十年代吃瓜群众的自我修养
Have you ever transmigrated to a different scene just by blinking? Lin Yuzhu has. She transmigrated in a daze to the 1970s. No, she transmigrated into a book. She has a System, and the female lead is there too. There are also supporting female characters, but she isn't one of them. She's just an onlooker who wandered into the story by mistake. As an onlooker, she gets to watch the drama unfold every day. She doesn't want other people's dogs, and she doesn't get involved in other people's busines
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The Whole Family Transmigrates: 18 Ways to Survive in Ancient Times 全家穿越：古代生存十八法
The whole family transmigrates to ancient times after an accident. Whether that counts as good luck or bad luck is anyone’s guess. They’ve barely woken up when they find out the family has no money, no land, and a mountain of debt to repay. Not one of them has a golden finger, either. But the dog that came along with them is rather interesting. Could it be some kind of divine hound? This big family has to put food on the table, keep the household harmonious, and make progress in their studies. W
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Reborn in the 1990s: The Drama Queen Mom Is Out Collecting Trash Again 重生九零：戏精妈咪又去捡垃圾了
[❤️ Complete | Rebirth + adorable kids + period setting] In her previous life, Jian Ning listened to her family, abandoned her husband and children, and married a man from the city, only to suffer horrific abuse. As she lay dying, Yu Yuan, the man she had abandoned, came to save her. Jian Ning was overcome with regret. Reborn in 1995, she turns the tables and woos her husband, spoils her five adorable children, and vows to grow the family business of “scavenging trash” and lead the whole village
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The 1980s: The Spicy Little Wife and Her Tycoon Husband 八零小辣媳：我家大佬有金矿
The short drama of the same name, "The Spicy Little Wife of the Eighties: My Man Has a Gold Mine", is now streaming. [Reborn + Sweet Romance + Gold Prospecting] Liu Yueya of Jinnianzi Village is rumored to be a shrew who brings bad luck to her husbands, so no one dares marry her. Wu Guangxu, the village bully, has just gotten out of prison, and no woman in the village dares marry him either. One day, the villagers discover Liu Yueya and Wu Guangxu having an “intimate rendezvous” in the mountains
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Space in the 1970s: The Laid-Back Educated Youth Wins the Ice Queen's Heart 七零空间：咸鱼知青折了高岭之花
[A Lazy Little Fish × A Cool, Refined Researcher] [Mutual devotion + love across time and space + sweet romance + pocket dimension + System] When she first transmigrated into a book: The System administrator knelt down, crying and begging: “Host, please just lift a finger and move the quest progress bar along!” Lazy Jiang Yueyue waved her hand. “I have money and a house. I don’t want to work! I just want to sit in the melon field and enjoy the freshest gossip!!!” The System administrator, forced
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Reborn in the 1970s: The Eldest Sister Takes Charge 重生七零：长姐为大
Chen Baozhu didn’t realize until the moment she died what a monstrous man she had married. He had deliberately killed her for the five million in insurance money. By a stroke of luck, she was reborn in the 1970s. She promptly dumped the scumbag and tore into her awful relatives! Living her life over, she would never again compromise for anyone. She set herself two small goals: make money and get into college. But why had the man who wasn’t part of her plans suddenly come back…
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Abandoned Wife of the 1990s: From the Start, I Divorced and Became the Richest Woman 九零弃妇：开局离婚做首富
What should you do after transmigrating into an ugly, overweight abandoned wife in the 1990s? She didn’t ask for a single cent in bride price and even brought a hefty dowry, yet her sister-in-law took over the marital home, and her husband’s family beat her bloody and called her a shrew who didn’t know her place. What should she do? Ji Xue says: Easy. Since they call her a shrew, she might as well show them what a real shrew can do. She drums up a racket to tell the whole neighborhood about her
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The 1970s Stepmom's Guide to Raising Kids 七零后妈养崽手册
After waking up, Tang Wanyin finds herself in the 1970s, married to a man she had met only once! The scoundrel abandoned his wife and fled overnight by clinging to a moving train, leaving Tang Wanyin to become the stepmother of three children! Meng Yuqi says: I'm always quick about things. I only took one day of leave to visit family. In the morning, I rescued my wife from the reeds; at noon, I dragged her off to register our marriage; and by evening, I left her with three kids before running of
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