Looking for Slice-of-Life Stories Set in a Bygone Era 求平淡年代文
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The Only Daughter of the 1970s 七零年代独生女
[No transmigration into a book, no System, no pocket dimension.] [Period setting + farming + serving the motherland + technical expertise] A researcher who loves and hates fiercely versus a reborn diplomat Yu Yue fell asleep in the bath and woke up in the 1970s, as the only child in her family. First, there was her timid mother, who was willing to work herself to the bone for her family. Then there was her father, spoiled by his family and utterly self-centered. Timid Mom: “Let’s see anyone try
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Military Marriage: I Married an Officer With a Billion in Supplies and Had Triplets 军婚,十亿物资嫁军官一胎三宝
[Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Supplies + Adorable Kids + Rugged Hero + Sweet Romance + Multiple Births + Devoted Husband] What if you dreamed of transmigrating into the food- and clothing-scarce 1970s? With a pocket dimension containing a magical spring and supplies worth ten billion in hand, what was there to fear? Right after transmigrating, a scumbag ruined her reputation, and her awful family married her off to a rugged soldier who had been injured and supposedly couldn’t father child
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So Satisfying! I Stole the Luck of the Perfect Female Lead 爆爽!我夺走了极品女主的气运
Lu Xiang became the doomed female supporting character in an 1980s novel. In the story, her greedy grandmother tried to make her marry in the heroine’s place to claim the bride price. When the truth came out, the grandmother slandered her as a loose woman, and the supporting character died heartbroken amid the whole village’s jeers. This time, Lu Xiang fought back against her rotten grandmother and awful relatives, crushing everyone who crossed her. With her skills in farming, cooking, and more,
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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 Pair of Delicate Red Hands 一双红酥手
Reborn in 1996, I planned to strike it rich with the lottery numbers from the one thing I remembered about my past life. Who knew it would still turn out to be just a dream!!! There are only 98 days left until the college entrance exam, and I’ve forgotten every bit of what I learned in my previous life. What do I do... Fine, I’ll come clean. I just want to be a couch potato, enjoy life with a beautiful wife, and live a quiet little life... This story is entirely fictional. Any similarities are p
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Wang, the Northeastern Guy in the Women's Dorm, Don't Panic 女工宿舍楼里东北汉子老王你别慌
Wang Xinyan is a strapping Northeastern man, tall and broad-shouldered. But because his mother loved watching romance dramas, she gave him a feminine name. After graduating from college, that name got him assigned not only to a female factory-worker position, but also to a dorm room on the women's floor…
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Reborn in 1998: The Hundred-Day Countdown to Life System Activates 重生98百日生命倒计时系统启动
At forty-five, Lu Bufan lay in his rented room, dying of end-stage stomach cancer and waiting for death in despair: His first love had died in a car accident, his virtuous wife had left because of his debts, and his son had cut ties with him. His whole life had been a joke! As death drew near, the Life’s Regrets Correction System bound itself to him. [100 days of life remaining. Correct your regrets after being reborn to extend your life. Fail, and you will die permanently.] He gritted his teeth
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You’ve Got to Be Kidding: A Tang Dynasty Assassin Taking the College Entrance Exam 没搞错吧我一个大唐刺客参加高考
A Tang Dynasty assassin has just beheaded a military governor, only to open his eyes as a hopeless high school senior! He spent the first half of his life relying on a swift blade. Now he has to battle trigonometry? With just 100 days left until the college entrance exam, what’s an assassin like me supposed to do? And just as the turmoil is still unfolding, he learns that his beautiful master has transmigrated from the Tang Dynasty too…
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The Merchant’s Road to the West 西部商途
[No System] [No golden finger] [School belle] [Multiple heroines] [The struggle of an ordinary guy] Zhang Bo is a poor kid from the countryside. He doesn’t have much going for him, except that he’s pretty lucky with girls...
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One Sword to Slay the Fairer Sex 一剑斩红粉
[Urban Martial Arts]+ [Traditional Cultivation]+ [Multiple Heroines] Lin Che, young master of an ancient martial arts family in the city, was framed and killed in his previous life while enjoying himself beneath the peonies. His lover, a minor internet celebrity close to him, had joined forces with his family's sworn enemy to set him up. His path to being reborn is also a path to rising to power…
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Restarting My Life and Winning Over Several One True Loves 重启人生拐几个白月光
So what if he was rich in his previous life? He couldn't even find his wife and daughter! In this reborn life, he'll protect his family first... A life of wealth and luxury? He wouldn't mind! But the simple pleasures of everyday life are what feel most real!
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I Don’t Want This Kind of Rebirth 这样的重生我不想要啊
Being reborn isn't about having an easy, satisfying life. It's about walking the human road again through blood and tears! The hardships I've endured and the burdens I've borne aren't anything to be proud of. I'll just leave them in my memories. A simple, honest life, surrounded by a beloved wife and beautiful companions, is what truly matters...
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Cultivating the Great Dao in a Human Classroom 我在人间课堂修大道
Cultivation? Pah! I just want to spend my days with the campus beauty, enjoying the simple pleasures of life and living it to the fullest. Is that too much to ask? And of course, I wouldn't mind having a few more beauties around either…
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After Succeeding in Cultivation, I Transmigrated to Earth to Farm 修仙有成却穿越到地球种田
[Cultivation]+ [Farming]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Transmigration]+ [Golden Finger]+ [Alternate Fantasy World]+ [If It's Not Your Thing, Please Don't Complain] Chen Xing, an immortal with a spirit body from the Ziling Sect, had cultivated to the peak of the continent. Just as he was reveling in a life of pleasure with six beautiful concubines, the Trial of Worldly Desires struck. His soul transmigrated into the body of a young man with the same name on Earth, who had died after slipping and falling
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A Spring Dream Takes Me to Ancient Times: I Become a Workaholic in Dayin 春梦穿古我在大胤当卷王
[Mystery]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Transmigration]+ [Golden Finger]+ [Alternate Fantasy World]+ [If It's Not Your Thing, Please Don't Complain] Just because he begged his goddess for a hug in a romantic dream, Lu Xiaochuan was kicked straight into a river in the Great Yin dynasty, launching his mortifying Transmigration adventure! The moment he climbs ashore, he's branded a suspect in the Witchcraft Cult case. He lets slip what he said in his sleep, then reveals the secret that he once saw a celes
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When the Rice Flowers Bloom 稻香花开
The novel follows the hardships endured by farmers in two villages in Xiangnan County, Dongyuantun and Da’ai Village, from the Republican era through the founding of the People’s Republic of China and on through the people’s commune system, the Cultural Revolution, the household responsibility system, and the Reform and Opening-Up period. The villagers endure one hardship after another and witness the changing times. The protagonists, Zhang Yiping and Zhou Xueyun, are forced to leave school beca
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The Road Through Life’s Storms 西北人的新书风雨人生路
Welcome, everyone, to my story. It tells the separate stories of a family living in the countryside. The mother and older brother, in particular, have suffered many hardships, and their long illnesses have had a profound impact on the younger generation's physical and mental well-being. The story examines the kind, selfish, and ugly sides of human nature.
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Traces of Life from Those Years 那些年的生活痕迹
A Slice-of-Life Story Set in the Past + Food + Farming + Mini-Games + No Romance + No Golden Finger People drift apart as they go through life, and there's no going back to the way things were. Su Piaopiao's journey from having a whole group of friends to being on her own is full of both joy and sorrow. She caught snails and fished in the stream, and tended the fire and cooked in the kitchen. Marbles, dodgeball, and skipping stones? She can play them all. Clay-pot chicken, lettuce wraps, taro ri
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Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌
Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to
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I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德
I’m a Scout: Zhan De
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Strange Tales from the Min Tiao Bureau: Mian Zhuan 民调局异闻录之勉传
This is the story of an immortal man spanning two thousand years. In every corner of history, he left his name behind. To some, he was a nightmare. To others, he awakened them from the nightmares that haunted them. At the beginning of the story, his name was Wu Mian. By the end, his name was Invincible.
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Strange Tales from the Civil Affairs Bureau (Complete in 8 Volumes) 民调局异闻录(全8册)
The Strange Tales of the Bureau of Investigation series creates an entirely new world of suspense: a mysterious organization dedicated to uncovering the truth behind bizarre, uncanny, and supernatural events, and the world it faces. The stories are wildly strange and utterly captivating, with a witty, playful style and one suspenseful twist after another. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put them down. Throughout history, strange cases and evil monsters have always been dealt with by
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The Matchmaker’s Comic and Tragic Fate 红娘啼笑因缘
A matchmaker who transmigrated, still so young and already arranging marriages. What a farcical situation! The matchmaker Hongniang in the Peking opera The Story of the Western Wing is famous for helping lovers find happiness. Could a real-life matchmaker actually be the reincarnation of the Hongniang from The Story of the Western Wing? Can the Book of Changes really predict love and marriage?
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A Life in Politics 仕途人生
After graduating from university, Chen Minghao gave up the chance to stay in the provincial capital and returned with his girlfriend to her hometown, a remote county. To his dismay, his influential parents assigned him to work in a far-flung village. They eventually broke the couple apart by every means at their disposal. Little did they know that Chen Minghao came from a powerful family. With his family's support and his own hard work, he overcame every obstacle and rose swiftly through the ran
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My Father's Era of the Fortress Villages 父亲的崮时代
Yimeng Mountain is a work of documentary fiction about the second generation of military-industry workers, telling the true story of the mysterious “Third Front” military factories. It retraces how the children of Third Front workers and their parents pressed on through successive waves of change. “Good people and good horses head to the Third Front.” The companies were reorganized and moved out of the mountains... They rose from the ashes as a red-culture base, as the home of China’s peaches, a
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Uncovering the Past of the ‘Third-Line’ Defense Industry Workers 揭秘:“小三线”军工人的往事
A Look Back at the Past of the “Third-Line” Defense Industry Workers
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The Girl Abandoned at the Bus Stop 公交站遗弃的女孩
(A story about people native to the period, with no golden finger, no transmigration, and no rebirth) This is a story adapted from real events. The story takes place in the mid-1970s, in Xiangyang Village, a poor, remote mountain village in the northwest. A girl is abandoned beside the bus stop on the road to the county seat. Guo Laoda, an honest, simple man from an extremely poor, childless family, takes her home and raises her. A fortune-teller says the girl's birth chart clashes with that of
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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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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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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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An Old Stock Trader's Careless Purchases 老股民胡乱买同志
I first encountered stocks in 1993. Thirty-two years have passed since then, yet I still strive and fight on in the stock market, a “battlefield” full of opportunity and challenge. In this book, I'll look back on my long journey of stock trading from 1993 to 2025, recounting the moments of suspense and excitement, as well as those of reflection and sudden insight. I'll lay out the judgments and decisions made amid the market's ups and downs, along with the lessons learned and growth gained throu
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Her in 2005 2005年的她
Life is a train journey. Some people get off at one stop, while others board at a new platform. Those who couldn't stay with us until the end aren't regrets, but gifts time has given us. They let us carry those warm fragments onward. Knowing that we were once illuminated so sincerely is enough. To keep the good memories in their own little corner of the past, without disturbing, questioning, or forcing a reunion, is the gentlest tribute to what has passed and the clearest way to cherish the pres
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My Online Romance 我的网络情缘
I know that one day, old age will blur my memories. The smiling faces that once made my heart race, the warm embraces in the dead of night, will all fade with the years. I will forget the passion of my youth, forget the people who stood by me through storms, and in the end leave this world as silently as a mote of dust. I'm afraid of being forgotten, and even more afraid of forgetting. So I write these words to prove that I lived wholeheartedly, and to thank all the women who came into my life.
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Those Red Boots at Eighteen 18岁的那双红靴子
A middle-aged man always keeps a few amber pieces of time tucked away in his heart. In the autumn when he was eighteen, he met a girl wearing red ankle boots. Their crisp taps sounded like a heartbeat echoing through time. They once walked side by side through the streets and shared their youthful secrets, until their story came to an end. The years blurred many details, but they could never dim the bright red of those boots. They became the most vivid footnote of his youth, holding a tenderness
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Three Years of Dating, and We Haven't Even Held Hands 恋爱三年没拉手
In old movies, the wooden-headed male lead always wins the girl’s heart by being “honest.” Our generation believed it. We mistook silence for deep affection, backing off for respect, and treated “knowing our place” like holy writ. Only after the person we liked had gone did we understand: awkwardness is romantic in movies, but in real life it means missing your chance, and all you’re left with is regret. An old friend passed through my heart, and when I looked back, autumn had already fallen acr
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Little Stepmom Lihua: Defy Me and Fight 小妈黎花,不服就战
[Traditional period setting + remarriage + marriage first, love later] [Older male lead] [Ensemble cast] [No System] [No pocket dimension] [No golden finger] [Realistic life] Real life doesn’t follow the fast-paced rhythm of a wish-fulfillment novel. Every ordinary woman has a unique, fully realized personality of her own. At eighteen, Li Hua unexpectedly became a “temporary mother” to two children. Through the hardest years, she upheld her promise and raised Chen Wenbo’s two children on her own
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