Looking for Smart 1970s-Era Stories, No Brain-Dead Characters or Comebacks 带智商七零年代文,不要无脑和逆袭,
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The 1970s: Reclaiming My Luck, the Tycoon's Darling Wife Wins Without Lifting a Finger 七零:夺回气运,首富娇妻躺赢了
[Satisfying, sweet, and feel-good + spatial powers] In her previous life, Lin Qianxue had her fortune stolen, and after her soul transmigrated, her family was destroyed within three years. When she opened her eyes again, she was back before everything had been taken from her. Refusing to be a sacrificial pawn, Lin Qianxue struck back and reclaimed it all. The rough-and-tough veteran Liu Zongzhen had a heavy fate, a fiery temper, and abundant vitality. He swiftly carried his petite wife home. Whe
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Get Back on Your Feet! I Bring Supplies and Refuse to Be a Doormat in the Seventies 支棱起来!带物资不做七零受气包
[1970s, a pocket dimension, feel-good revenge, and an unapologetically ruthless heroine.] Nan Qiushi is in the middle of a heated online argument when an earthquake strikes. Her soul travels back in time and takes over the body of an unpopular young girl in the 1970s. Her father is having an affair, her mother remarries, and she is left to live under someone else's roof. The fiery young woman from the modern era takes on her scumbag father and wicked stepmother, and deals with anyone who treats
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After Becoming a Background Character, I Got Together with the Protagonist's Love Interest 穿成路人后和主角受在一起了
[Two male leads + period setting + pursuing the love interest + System + slow burn + food + sweet romance] [Content warning: This isn’t a wish-fulfillment story. The plot is low-key, and the golden finger isn’t very powerful. The protagonist relies on himself, so the hard times last a long while.] After Yang Yuheng died, the System captured his soul and randomly sent him into the world of a period novel. He became Zhang Cheng, a background character. This background character was as ordinary a
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I Took My Space to the 1970s, and the Chaste, Rugged Man Spoiled Me Rotten 手握空间穿七零,禁欲糙汉把我宠
[Sweet-talking but ruthless young educated woman & abstinent, taciturn, rugged man] She is a demon. After making a deal in a dream with a girl whose life is full of misery, she arrives in the 1970s. Her awful relatives have taken over the house her late father left behind, so Lu Jiaojiao sells it outright and sends them back to the countryside in disgrace. Her transmigrated cousin stole her place at a university for workers, peasants, and soldiers, then encouraged her to go to the countryside
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Transmigrating into a Book Set in the 1970s, I Became the Cannon Fodder of a Crowded Courtyard 穿书七零,我成了大杂院的炮灰
[Female-oriented novel, male protagonist’s perspective + transmigrate into a book + 1970s + no rural relocation + food delivery System + farm space + everyday courtyard life + neither overly saintly nor self-sacrificing + lighthearted] Content warnings: 1. The male lead is stingy and protective of his money when it comes to outsiders, and a bit lazy, but he believes in equality. The female lead is self-serving and doesn’t honor her parents. They both also share a little of the other’s personalit
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In the Seventies, She Marries a Rugged Man Who Can’t Have Children, but the Spoiled Female Lead Sleeps In Again 七零嫁绝嗣糙汉,娇纵女配又起晚
[Completed + unhinged plot + 1970s + everyone's darling + marriage first, love later + healing] Jiang Nanxi had been spoiled since childhood and couldn't endure hardship. Who knew that when she opened her eyes, she'd transmigrate into a novel set in a poor era, becoming a vain supporting character with no brains and nothing going for her but her beauty? In the original story, a forty-two-year-old woman stole her twenty-year-old fiance, the male lead. Enraged, Jiang Nanxi married the male lead's
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The 1970s Military Marriage: The Charming Army Wife Raises Kids and Wins Her Husband's Heart 七零军婚:俏军嫂养崽撩夫日常
[No golden finger + second male lead takes the lead + fictional period setting] [Short drama now streaming] Xiao Qingru doesn't want to raise someone else's child, so she breaks off her engagement to her childhood sweetheart. Just as she's getting ready to focus on her career, she's targeted by a hothead from the capital. Xu Muzhou is the youngest and most promising pilot. The first time he meets her, he falls in love at first sight with his good friend's younger sister. When he hears she's alre
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You’re Forcing Me to the Countryside? This Scientist’s Wife Will Empty Your Whole House 逼我下乡?科研军嫂搬空你全家
[Military Marriage + Period Setting + Powerful Lead + Face-Slapping + One-on-One Romance] Xia Li, a powerful wielder of both thunder and space abilities, had just come through the apocalypse. She became the founding general entrusted with the New World's Omniscient Eye System, ready to enjoy a quiet retirement. She only took a short nap, but transmigrated instead. After transmigrating, she faced two choices: Either marry a self-important mama's boy who expected her to put up with his mistress af
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The Seventies Compound: A Family with Children 七零大院,家有儿女
[No rebirth or transmigration, off-the-charts chemistry | Talented daughter of a condemned family × Upright, loyal military officer | Marriage Before Love + sweet romance + healing in a bygone era] 💥 A ruthless devil by day, a starving wolf by night! Yang Yi, the army's top combat champion, makes even the new recruits' legs shake at the sound of his footsteps. But when he gets home, “I haven't seen you in half a month. I've missed you like crazy.” He pins her against the door, his rough fingerti
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The Delicate Bride Is Spoiled by the Toughest, Roughest Man 娇软小媳妇被最猛糙汉掐腰宠
Transmigration + taciturn, rugged man + devoted husband + raising kids + pocket dimension At her grandmother’s funeral, Lin Su cries so hard she faints. When she wakes up, she has transmigrated into an awful family in the 1970s. Her father is blindly obedient to his mother and follows her every wicked command. Her mother is timid and can’t protect herself. Her family shows their true, vicious colors, wanting to marry her off to a fool for their own gain. Lin Su gives a cold laugh. As if! She’s g
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The 1970s: I Married the Man Who Prayed to the Gods 七零:我嫁给了求神拜佛的那个他
[Transmigration + Period Setting + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance + Past and Present Lives + Rebirth + Romance + No Saintly Protagonist + Golden Finger + Pocket Dimension] Blurb: Bai Xiaxia transmigrates to the 1970s, only to have her engagement broken off. The neighbors are all waiting to see her make a fool of herself. To their surprise, before long she's married to someone with even more power and status! She thinks going north to study is a reluctant choice, made after weighing her options
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System: The Apocalypse Big Shot Goes on a Shopping Spree in 1970 系统之末世大佬在70买买买
[Period Setting + System + Spatial Dimension + Transmigration to Another World + Superpowers + Military Marriage (Female Lead Enlists) + Strong Female Lead + Patriotism] She: Deputy captain of the Fifth Squad in the apocalypse’s supplies division, president of the Looks Appreciation Club, with overwhelming combat prowess. She judges people by their looks and is as unpredictable as the weather, swinging between moods and emotions. While away on a mission, she transmigrates into the body of a nob
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The Young General’s Sassy Instructor Teases the Enemy Agents Until They’re in Tears 军少娇痞教官戏耍敌特颤泪三行啊
[Alternate-history 1960s + strong leads facing off + hilarious face-slapping wish fulfillment + bickering couple + farming during famine + getting rich through research] Rebellious, cocky, and charming instructor VS calm, cool, and calculating young master from the capital In her previous life, Nan Fengyun was known as Phantom, the world's strongest international assassin. But her arrogance got the better of her, and she was killed when her target ambushed her during a mission. Then she was rebo
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Jilted by a Cold, Stern Officer, the Sweet Young Wife Heads for the Battlefield 被冷阎军官退亲后软娇转投战场
[Period Setting + Ensemble Cast + Studying Abroad and Medicine + Sweet, Delicate Heroine Enlists + Storage Space + Two Strong Leads + Sweet Romance] She kills herself over unrequited love right from the start!!! Shen Xin had been fighting on an interstellar battlefield when her subordinate betrayed her and attacked her from behind, using an ice-cold bullet she had developed herself. The moment it pierced her heart, she knew she was dead. But what was going on now? Without a doubt, the next secon
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The 1970s: I Became the Female Supporting Character's Foil in a Period Novel 七零:穿成年代文女配对照组
A period drama about an independent female lead, with no golden finger! She passed the high school entrance exams, but her family wouldn’t let her attend. Instead, they sent her uncle’s daughter, who had never gotten along with her, to school. Short-tempered Lin Erxia erupted into a fight. After a furious scuffle, she passed out from anger. When she woke up, she realized she seemed to have transmigrated into a book...
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Reborn in the 1970s: The Scorned Educated Youth Just Wants to Take It Easy 重生七零:炮灰知青只想当咸鱼
After Gu Maiya was killed by her own family, she was reborn in the 1970s as a pitiful girl whose parents barely cared about her, and sent to the countryside as an educated youth. Only later did she discover that she had transmigrated into a book, becoming the awful sister-in-law and foil to the heroine of a rebirth story about a military wife! Gu Maiya was furious. They wanted her to be a foil and a stepping-stone to the heroine’s success? Then she’d break up the heroine’s destined match first a
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Back to the 1960s: Build a Fortune, Win a Husband, and Raise the Kids 重回六零:发家撩夫养崽崽
Dropped into the impoverished 1960s, with no familiarity with the place and no idea where to turn, Tang Weiwei had no choice but to cling to a powerful ally and wait for the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the Heavenly Gate would open and send her back to the modern era. One full-moon night, two adorable children, sickly and feverish, called her “Mom.” She held their burning little bodies and couldn't bear to let go...
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A Military Marriage in the 1970s: The Army Doctor Falls for a Special Forces Soldier 七零军婚军医爱上特种兵
Military romance + medicine + strengthening the nation + passionate action + flirtation Song Wei, a military doctor who served on peacekeeping missions, has been reborn. Her goal: to find the boy she once passed by. Who would have thought that the prettiest yet most timid girl in the military compound would fall for that arrogant, overbearing demon of a young man? In Lu Jiu’s eyes, Song Wei is like a sand cat: timid, quick, and easily frightened, though she occasionally flashes her claws. Sh
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The 1970s: The Culinary Goddess 七零厨神美人
[A cooking god, military-industrial research, patriotism, delicious food, positive energy, and an exhilarating era: don’t miss this period novel!] Cooking god Zhao Wan Feng transmigrates. She lands in a third-line military factory and even scores a perfect scientist husband. In that case, she’ll work hard and aim to become the cafeteria’s head cook, then settle down and enjoy life… No, she’ll become the cafeteria’s star, put down roots at the military factory, have children with her husband, and
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Heading to the Northeast: Lin Erni's Bumpy Road to Happiness 闯关东:林二妮的颠簸幸福路
[No contrived twists] [No cheat powers] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural] [Hardship] [Inspirational] Lin Erni was born in Heze, Shandong, and married into Harbin in the Northeast. She struggled to get by amid the freezing snow in the mountains, then later had no one to rely on and went alone beyond the mountains to make a living. The first time, she was tossed from one place to another like a bag of steamed buns, made a child bride, and beaten and cursed. The second time, her father sol
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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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The 1960s: I Transmigrate into a Book as an Army Wife, and My Family Owns a Mine 六零:穿书军嫂家有矿
[Completed] [Transmigrate into a book + fictional era setting + golden finger + everyday family life] Gu Lanzhi wakes up one day to find that she has transmigrated. After listening to her mother-in-law, who has been helping her through her postpartum recovery, she realizes that she hasn't just transmigrated: she's landed inside an era novel. She's become the male lead's wealthy but wicked little aunt by marriage. What the heck? Wealthy and wicked? His little aunt? But it's still early, and the s
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What! The Orphan Girl Everyone in the Village Despises Has a Hundred Billion in Her Space 惊!全村嫌弃的小孤女有百亿空间
Synopsis: Complete The completed story of the youngest daughter of the Mo and Yao couple: Transmigrating to Another World: The Beloved Family’s Lucky Carp Divine Doctor. The completed story of the Mo and Yao couple’s youngest son: The Men in the Unit Spoil Her Rotten, and the Adorable Wife Has Triplets. The author’s new book: The Military Wife’s Five Lucky Babies, Breaking the Commander’s Family’s Ten-Generation Streak of Sons. Shen Yao has nightmares for several days. In them, supplies are desp
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A Happy Life in the Seventies 七十年代幸福生活
Su Wan was reborn and grew up to eighteen. With her wedding and move to join the army just around the corner, she thought this life would be smooth and peaceful. She was ready to coast through life when she discovered she had transmigrated into a lucky heroine novel! Both she and her fiancé were doomed supporting characters! What could she do but fight to take control of her own destiny? See how Su Wan escapes the lucky heroine’s shadow, marries and follows her husband to the army, starts a busi
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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 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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I Am a Lady Tutor 我是女先生
I'm hard to kill. These were the words I heard from the moment I was born. A blind fortune-teller said I was a White Tiger Sha, a girl born with a boy's fate, innately tough and destined to bring misfortune to my husband, my children, and myself. Everyone in the village said I wouldn't survive. My yang energy was too strong. Even if they managed to keep me alive, I'd grow up to be an idiot. But my grandma, a spirit medium who presided over the altar, refused to give up. Every year, she burned a
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Vivid as Life 栩栩若生
A fortune-teller said I was born destined for greatness, the reincarnation of the Flower Goddess, with the power to turn stones into gold and command flower spirits and tree sprites. Once I came of age, my family was sure to prosper. But when I was twelve, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, and I kept seeing terrifying visions... In a dream, I met an old woman who told me to find an expert with supernatural powers to save my life. Millet to summon souls, altars and form
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Leading the Whole Family to Wealth in the 1970s 七零年代带领全家发家致富
[Period Setting + Childhood Sweethearts + Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Business Rivalry] You can’t get away from me, Jiang-ge, my childhood sweetheart! Lin Ziqing carefully leads her whole family to prosperity, taking the Lin family to new heights. There’s a sly old fox of a grandfather, a grandmother shrouded in mystery, and a shocking secret hidden at her maternal grandparents’ home. One careless move could cost her her life.
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Transmigrated to the 1980s: Of Course I'm Making Money to Buy a House 穿越八零,当然要赚钱买房了
For no apparent reason, Shen Yaoyao transmigrated to 1983. At twenty, she married an officer. Right after they got their marriage certificate, her husband returned to his unit for a mission, leaving behind a nephew and a niece. The familiar plot, the familiar tropes, but something unfamiliar: "it." Who is "it," you ask? Obviously, her golden finger. Wait, the System can't talk? It just comes with a space and a shop. And the shop only lets her exchange for daily necessities. What counts as daily
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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 Palace Maid’s Daily Struggles 宫女奋斗日常
Ling Huan has skin as smooth as ice and looks like a goddess, yet she has no interest in power and thinks only of leaving the palace. In the end, neither she nor her child meets a good end. Given another chance, her goal is to raise her child well and become Empress Dowager herself. A palace-intrigue story with a strong female lead. The heroine is ruthless and clever. A thoroughly satisfying read.
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