Looking for Great Historical-Era Novels With Strong Female Leads Who Aren't Doormats 想看好看的年代文，大女主且不圣母的？
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This Is Crazy! The Little Chef of the 1970s Eats Well, Lives in Luxury, and Comes Out on Top 疯了！七零小厨娘吃香喝辣躺赢了
(Strong leads on both sides, one-on-one romance, no love-brained characters, career comes first in the early chapters) Shen Xiaotang, a celebrity chef worth tens of millions, transmigrates to the resource-scarce 1970s. No tradeable pocket dimension, no miracle pills or medicines, and no lucky star fate. Other heroines are the darlings of their families. Her? Sorry, she’s an orphan with no one to rely on. To make matters worse, her wicked aunt is forcing her to marry. Shen Xiaotang never accepts
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- 2 The Educated Youth Years: Starting with an Escape from the Village 知青年代，从村子里逃亡开始 1976. Liu Haibo, a sent-down youth, falls in love with Yang Xiuqing, a village girl. Her family vehemently opposes his proposal, forcing him to flee Shibantian Village and return to Haicheng, a thousand miles away. Just as he is preparing to start a new life with Wu Jie in Haicheng, Yang Xiuqing suddenly shows up at his door, stirring up an emotional entanglement that spans the years. 2023. Seventy-year-old Liu Haibo is driving an Audi with Yang Xiuqing to Shibantian Village when they are involv 32.5kReads8.4Score2kShelves
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A Fresh Start in the Eighties: No More PUA, Just Making Money 八零重启：拒绝PUA！只想赚钱
Grandma Shen: I worked so hard raising your dad and his siblings all by myself, and now I have to help him look after the kids and cook, too! What did I do to deserve this? Shen Xiaoya: Grandma, really? Then I definitely won't do anything to deserve that kind of fate. I'll try my best to raise my kids together with someone else! Grandma Shen: … Shen's dad and mom: We aren't very capable, so you kids need to study hard! You'll have to rely on yourselves in the future! Shen Xiaoya: Mom, Dad, don't
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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
[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!
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I Took a Supermarket to the Seventies and Won as a Laid-Back Educated Youth 带着超市去七零，咸鱼知青躺赢了
Li Ziqing was knocked unconscious at the supermarket by a brat. When she woke up, she found herself on a train, having become one of a group of educated youth sent to the countryside. Li Ziqing’s brain froze for a moment... Luckily, the supermarket had come with her. Otherwise, she’d probably have starved to death! So she’d just take it easy, do her assigned work, visit her “relatives,” earn some money, and quietly get rich... Hey, you, the handsome, stern man with the muscular build. Why do you
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- 6 I Traveled to the 1970s With a Dedicated Worker System 带着敬业系统穿七零 Xu Taotao, a descendant of imperial chefs, keeps her culinary skills hidden while living among ordinary people. Then she dies suddenly from overwork and gets bound to a workaholic System, which sends her to the 1970s. She becomes the famously ugly daughter of a butcher at a meat-processing plant. Determined to become beautiful, she has no choice but to keep working hard. With her superb cooking skills, she climbs the career ladder, gets a raise, and marries Professor Gu... No, wait! “Ding-dong! 17kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
- 7 EN 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 95.8kReads9.6Score8.7kShelves
- 8 After Being Reborn in the 1970s, I Was Carried Off by the Village Bully 重生七零年代后，我被村霸叼走了 Su Qinran opened her eyes again and found herself back on the train bound for Daqing Mountain. Lin Yaotang had never seen such a beautiful woman. At first glance, she seemed like a celestial maiden, while he was nothing but mud at the bottom of a pond. Su Qinran glanced at Lin Yaotang. In her previous life, he had pursued her relentlessly, only to die saving her in the end. She owed him her life. Lin Yaotang: “Aah!!! The goddess looked at me! I’m going to adult education classes! I’m going to le 8.9kReads9.3Score950Shelves
- 9 Transmigrate into a Book: The 1970s Cannon-Fodder Girl Is Gorgeous and Charming 穿书七零：炮灰女配又美又娇 Nan Mo transmigrates into a novel set in a bygone era, bringing a giant supermarket with her. She becomes a cannon-fodder supporting female character who gets horribly betrayed by her relatives. First, her own grandmother pressures her to marry so she can trade her future for her male cousins' success. Then there's her cousin, who wants to stay in the city and hopes to trade Nan Mo for a job. And to top it all off, a possessive, obsessive suitor is watching her like a hawk. After landing in the 4.5kReads9.0Score540Shelves
- 10 Seventies Supplies: The Delicate Educated Youth Is Spoiled by a Rugged Man 七零物资：娇气包知青被糙汉宠爆 In her previous life, Ye Xi was a pampered young lady, the kind of spoiled city girl she herself found most irritating when she went to the countryside as an educated youth. Her stepmother made her suffer terribly, and only as she lay dying did Ye Xi discover that a rugged man had loved her all his life. After being reborn, Ye Xi swore to change her spoiled ways, treat the rugged man well, and use her supply-filled space to build a good life with him. She’d even give him a chubby baby! But then… 130Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 11 The Sweet and Gentle Young Educated Youth of the 1970s 七零娇软小知青 When Lin Si, a hibiscus flower spirit, woke up, she realized she had accidentally slept with someone who was destined to be another person’s soulmate. On her first trip into the human world, Lin Si had caused a huge mess. Her head was aching. But a sage had once said, “There’s nothing better than correcting your mistakes.” If the red thread of fate had gotten tangled, she would straighten it out for him! Lin Si was huffing and puffing as she tried to restore the thread of fate, only to fi 836Reads8.7Score104Shelves
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Reborn in the 1980s: A Rich Woman's Road to Success 重生八零：富婆奋斗笔记
An 1980s-era story about an independent, powerful woman making her fortune. An independent heroine with no golden finger, no supernatural powers, and no pocket dimension. The heroine is clear-eyed and never a pushover! The focus is on making a fortune. The male lead is a college-educated sent-down youth returning to the city and an aircraft design engineer, helping advance the motherland’s aviation industry! A young actress dies of illness and transmigrates into 1980. From the start, she has the
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He Was Reborn, I Transmigrated into a Book, and Together We Make Money and Raise a Child with a Mute Husband 他重生我穿书，联手哑夫搞钱养崽
(Completed) [Transmigrate into a Book in the 1970s + From the Start, She's in a Trap + Upgradable Pocket Space + Her “Mute” Husband Spoils Her + A Little Scheming and Farming + Marriage First, Love Later, Then Kids + Devoted to Each Other + Happy Ending] Li Putao transmigrates into a book! She's the cannon-fodder wife of the “mute” male lead! She's in a trap from the start! If she wants to survive, she'd better have some brains! She comes with a copy-and-paste pocket dimension. Put in some hard
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A Sweet Wedding Night in the 1970s: Even an Arranged Marriage Can Be Wonderful! 七零新婚夜，包办婚姻也很甜！
[Completed Military Marriage Romance] [Beautiful, Sweet-Talking Wife + Gentle, Healing, Rugged Husband] She wakes up on the night of her arranged wedding in the 1970s. Her husband is a handsome, idealistic man with impeccable credentials. Should she marry him or not? Lin Qingya soon decides she’s glad she did. Her rugged husband is surprisingly sweet! The heroine is career-focused, clear-headed, and sensible. The hero dotes on his wife and is gentle and reassuring. Sweet romance throughout, no
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- 15 Married to a Rough-Hewn Man in the 1970s, the Sweet Wife Has a Pocket Dimension 七零嫁糙汉，娇娇媳妇有空间 [Reborn + pocket dimension + sweet romance] Qin Yi married a young woman from the city, and the moment she crossed the threshold, she put her wicked mother-in-law in her place. When the family split up, the whole village waited for her to make a fool of herself. But Ruan Ge, reborn with a pocket dimension at her disposal, never had to worry about food or drink. She lived a thriving life and was loved sweetly by her husband. The awful people who had once harmed her? She kicked them far away. Th 1.2kReads9.2Score137Shelves
- 16 In the Seventies, the Roughneck Was Swept Off His Feet by His Sweet Young Educated Wife 七零糙汉被知青娇妻撩得心花怒放 [Rebirth, sweet romance, adorable baby, pocket dimension] In her previous life, she was misled by a scumbag man and a vicious woman. She turned her back on her upright, handsome, and capable husband, and ended up abandoned by everyone. Reborn on her wedding night, Xia Siyue uses every trick she knows to set the rugged man’s heart ablaze. Xia Siyue grabs the front of his shirt and boldly provokes him: “You’re taking forever just to climb into bed. Are you even a man?” The once-obsessive man’s eye 6.6kReads9.2Score688Shelves
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Transmigrate into a Book: The Tenderhearted, Rugged Husband and His Adorable Wife in the 1970s 穿书七零：柔情糙汉娇娇妻
[Period setting + portable space + sweet romance + devoted husband + lighthearted] Jiang Niannian transmigrates into a book, only to be framed by a scumbag and a scheming woman and lose her virtue to the tyrant Yu Yanshan. She thought the tyrant would just be a plot device, but to her surprise, he rises from the bottom and becomes the male lead, then starts doting on his wife... With her family by her side, her man in tow, and a portable space at her disposal, Jiang Niannian sets out to build we
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- 18 When the Transmigrated Villainess Gets the Heroine's Luck 当穿书女配有了女主气运 Zhang Xuanya, a web novelist in the twenty-first century, went to sleep and inexplicably woke up transmigrated to a little village in the north in the 1970s. Later, she discovered that she had landed in the pages of the period novel she had just finished, as an insignificant side character. What could she do? Since she couldn't go back, she might as well work hard to get rich and give her family a better life. At least her family members weren't a bunch of horrid people. But, dear heroine, why d 300Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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A Little Hamster's Everyday Life in the 1970s 小仓鼠的七零日常
Su Tang is a little hamster who loves good food. After accidentally eating a poisonous mushroom, she transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes a girl with the same name. The girl had a miserable past. At sixteen, her own father and stepmother sent her off to the countryside. Facing hard mode, Su Tang declares that she’s a brave little hamster who isn’t afraid of hardship. After meeting a kind and handsome young man, the little hamster decides to cling to him and win him over with delicious food! Ho
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The Heiress Has a Wish-Granting App 大小姐她有成真APP
[1960s Hong Kong setting + heiress + powerful father + wealthy heiress's daily life + coming of age + a seriously powerful golden finger + heartwarming father-daughter bond + lots of romances] Ordinary, clear-eyed but clueless college student Wei Ying wakes up to find herself back in a baby's body. Abandoned by parents who favor sons? No problem. She has a golden finger and can personally choose her adoptive parents. Her adoptive parents die in an accident when she's eight, leaving her surrounde
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Reborn Tour Guide Strikes It Rich! 重生导游来吸金！
Tour guide Ji Luoyi’s tour bus plunges into a reservoir on the way back from dropping off her group. When she opens her eyes, she has been reborn as Luo Yi, a high school student in 2002. The thought of going through high school all over again gives her a headache. Her parents were tricked into going abroad for work and haven’t been heard from in years, while her relatives are constantly picking on her, unable to stand seeing her do well. Ji Luoyi thinks, “I had a house, a car, and a cat-son, an
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Reborn in the 1970s: Back to the Day My Boyfriend Sold Me 重生七零：回到被男友拐卖当天
[Reborn, no System, not brainless, not a wish-fulfillment story, laying low for the long game and surviving to turn the tables] (Not for readers who enjoy fast-paced wish-fulfillment stories. Read with caution.) [Strong female lead + escape + revenge] Liu Qing was a college student in the 1970s. She started dating a man whose family lived deep in the mountains, only to be abducted and sold there under the pretext of going home to meet his parents. After years of inhuman torment, Liu Qing died w
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I Have a Space Left Behind by an Immortal Family 我有一个仙家留下来的空间
She had been a medical school graduate student in the twenty-first century, with no family but herself. When she woke up, the world had suddenly changed: drab gray walls and earthen houses. Somehow, she'd ended up in the 1970s, so she could only make the best of it. “Hey, big shot, stop following me around.” “Hey, big shot, why are you always popping up in front of me?” “Hey, big shot, quit flaunting those abs to tempt me.” “Hey, big shot, I'm looking for one partner for life.” Xia Jingchuan: “W
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The Family's Beloved Girl: The Cannon-Fodder Darling of Her Terrible Family 七零团宠：极品家人的炮灰娇娇女
[Brooding, Brawny Man + Sweet Wife + Completed] Lu Jiajia is delicate and soft. Then, in the blink of an eye, she becomes a useless cannon-fodder character in the 1970s, with a whole family of vicious oddballs in tow. Yet in an era that favors men above women, she is the apple of her family’s eye. Her father and mother: “Jiajia is our precious girl. She deserves to be spoiled.” Her brothers: “My sister is frail and sickly. How could she do farm work!” Lu Jiajia: “…I want the ultimate winning han
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- 25 The Educated Youth Widow Is Cursed to Bring Misfortune to Her Family 知青寡妇克亲命 A powerful lightning-wielder in the apocalypse fights the Zombie King to protect their base, and they both end up gravely injured. But the base’s second-in-command takes advantage of the situation, kidnapping the wounded fighter and planning to cut open their skull and steal their lightning core. After detonating the core, they are reborn in the body of a young educated-woman widow in 1968. She’s said to bring misfortune to everyone around her: her paternal grandparents, parents, siblings, husba 2.2kReads8.5Score173Shelves
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The Sixties: Traveling the World with My Pocket Dimension 六十年代之带着空间畅游天下
Li Beibei grew up surrounded by stories, then unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of a lucky girl in the 1950s. Touched by her family’s favoritism and kindness, she gladly accepts their love and decides to repay them with her own abilities. As she plans her future, Li Beibei chooses two careers that will let her travel at public expense, hoping to make up for the regrets of her past life: journalist and diplomat! And so begins her extraordinary journey in this world. By the seaside: “Qing f
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Reborn Before the Apocalypse, I Flee with a Billion in Supplies 重生末世前，携10亿物资落跑
Apocalypse + rebirth + Spatial Storage + Strong Female Lead + Devoted Couple After ten years of fighting to survive in the apocalypse, Li Qi had finally made something of herself. But her arrogance and conceit led her into her rival's trap, costing her own life and dragging her companions down with her. When she awoke again, she had been reborn before the apocalypse began. In this life, she swore to protect with her life those who treated her well. Those who framed her would wish they were dead.
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- 28 The 1970s: She’s Daring Enough to Tease the Toughest Hunk 七零：她胆大包天，撩惹最猛糙汉 [Period Setting + Beloved by All + Both Leads Are Chaste + Sweet Romance + Pocket Dimension + Rugged Man] Shen Qingqing transmigrates into a book. With the script in hand and trillions' worth of supplies at her disposal, she rolls up her sleeves and gets to work, determined to change her family's fate of being wiped out! She punishes the wicked, puts scumbags in their place, and makes everyone return everything they owe her! Unexpectedly, the village's notorious bully, a fearsome brute, keeps st 7.1kReads9.0Score845Shelves
- 29 On My Wedding Night, I Took Trillions in Supplies Back to the 1970s to Snatch a Rugged Man 新婚夜，带千亿物资回七零抢糙汉 In her previous life, Ye Song liked refined, scholarly educated youths, but by a twist of fate, she married the rough-and-ready Huo Jingchuan. On their wedding night, Ye Song clutched her aching waist and pointed at Huo Jingchuan, cursing him out: “Huo Jingchuan, you climbed into my bed, but you’re no man!” Reborn, Ye Song finally sees the rough man’s true feelings and realizes how good he is to her. On their wedding night, Ye Song watches the man secretly bedding down on the floor beside the ka 3.9kReads9.3Score495Shelves
- 30 1970s Storage Space: The Sweet Young Intellectual Makes the Rugged Man’s Heart Race 七零空间：娇娇知青撩得糙汉心颤 [Reborn + magic space + sweet romance + beautiful, wealthy young intellectual sent to the countryside + rugged country man + she pursues him] In her previous life, Song Ziyao was blind to the truth and foolishly trusted the wrong people, letting herself be used completely. It wasn't until she married Tan Jinhe at forty that her life finally became vivid and bright. Reborn, she skips straight past all the wrong turns and heads to the countryside to find Tan Jinhe. Who would have guessed that Tan 16.8kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
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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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Transmigrating to the Seventies as the Eldest Sister: With My Pocket Dimension, I Take Down the Scumbag 穿七零做长姐：带着空间手撕渣男
[Period novel + protective family + sweet romance + pocket dimension + inspirational + understated male lead] Yao Qianmeng transmigrates to the 1970s. A young lady in her previous life, she finds herself in the body of a poor rural girl. She discovers that she has brought back a jade bangle with a pocket dimension that can identify medicinal herbs. To avoid starving, she has no choice but to get stronger and crush the scumbags! As she grows stronger, she meets several second-generation cousins a
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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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- 34 Transmigrate to the 1960s: A Spatial Realm of Trillions in Supplies to Support Educated Youths 穿越六零：空间千亿物资养知青 [The 1960s + Trillion-Yuan Supplies + Personal Space + Educated Youth + Transmigrate + Both Leads Are Virgins + Sweet Romance + Patriotic] She wakes up one morning and transmigrates to the 1960s~ What? Her whole body has traveled through time! She's an undocumented person with nothing to eat or drink, and not a penny to her name! No! She's ten years younger, a radiant eighteen-year-old beauty. No! She dreamed of the past in advance, so her money, ration coupons, and identity documents were all p 3.3kReads9.0Score352Shelves
- 35 Lucky Wife Gets Rich in the 1980s with the Help of Her Space 福运娇妻靠空间在八零年代暴富了 [Period setting, feel-good, strong female lead, taking down the scum!] Chu Qingci was a top-tier alchemist, so obsessed with refining medicine and making money that she couldn't stop herself. At last, her furnace buckled under the strain and exploded, blasting her straight into the 1980s. Her home was bare, there was never enough to eat, her parents were timid, and every last one of her grandmother, uncles, and aunts bullied her! Furious, Chu Qingci immediately split from the family and took cha 4.1kReads9.1Score609Shelves
- 36 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 45kReads9.5Score5kShelves
- 37 The Three-and-a-Half-Year-Old Empress: She Brings Billions of Merit into the 1960s 女帝三岁半：她带亿万功德穿六零 (Adorable, everyone’s-favorite story with a touch of fantasy.) After saving three thousand worlds, the empress thought her life was over. But, to her surprise, a fragment of her soul was reincarnated into a little fool in the late 1960s. The girl’s family was dirt poor, and life was painfully hard. Her father was lame, her mother half-blind, and she had two older brothers, grandparents, an eldest uncle, a second uncle, and a younger uncle: a huge family with a poverty rating of minus 100. But th 9.4kReads9.2Score1kShelves
- 38 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 4.8kReads9.4Score607Shelves
- 39 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! 3.8kReads9.0Score504Shelves
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The Sixties: A Top Student Woos a Man and Raises Her Kids 六零：学霸撩汉养崽崽
[Period novel] + [sweet romance] + [a realistic portrayal of everyday life] + [based on the author’s personal experience] She was only six and a half. She’d merely turned around and happened to see his… well, she’d seen it, so what? But then its little owner started hounding her! From then on, he intercepted her on the way to school, protected her on the way home, and lectured her whenever she so much as resisted. Even more surprising, the little owner turned out to be the son of a famous profes
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The 1980s: My Virtuous Wife, Get Lost 八零年代：贤妻滚远了
Xu Mo opened her eyes and found herself back in the year she gave birth to her eldest child. She was only twenty years old, and already a mother. Looking at the hungry baby in her arms, she wondered: Did she really need to keep living this miserable life? For her child’s sake, she decided to start over. Her only creed in this life was to climb the ladder, get rich, and outlive her husband. She never expected happiness to arrive so soon!
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