Famine Stories Set in the 1950s and 1960s 五零，六零年代饥荒文
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1955: From the Start, I Was Sent to Bring Warmth 1955开局送温暖
A new story is here. No System, but there is a pocket dimension, and the protagonist isn't a bleeding heart. No powerful connections to lean on. From the start, he's just a young hunter with martial arts training, hoping to keep his head down and live quietly in the village. But life is unpredictable, and...!
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Women Are a Burden on the Road to Escape Famine? They're All Mine 逃荒路上女人是累赘？都给我
Lu Wei transmigrates to a fantasy world crawling with demons and monsters, and unexpectedly activates a return System. Whenever he gives an item to a woman, he gets an unlimited return. “Ding! Host gave away one low-grade pill and received one year’s worth of cultivation in return.” “Ding! Host gave away the Basic Body Tempering Manual and received the Dragon Elephant Prison-Suppressing Art in return.” “Ding! Host gave away a holy maiden and received…” From then on, the world gained a great ben
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Drought in Ancient Times: Leading My Family South to Escape Famine 古代旱灾：带领家人南下逃荒
(Adapted into a comic drama) [Drought and Flight from Famine + Turbulent Times + Sign-In + Alternate History] The final years of the Great Ji dynasty were marked by upheaval. Drought, famine, banditry, plague, and war: one disaster after another struck the land. Xia Ren, once an elite mercenary on Blue Star, died and arrived in this chaotic age, his soul transmigrating into the body of a man with the same name. A drought and famine were underway. To survive, he led his family south to flee the f
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Transmigrating to the 1950s: I’m a Military Wife Who Goes Sea Foraging and Marries a Soldier 穿越五零年代：赶海军婚我是军嫂
[Period] + [military marriage] + [making a fortune] + [everyone’s darling] + [sweet romance] + [Transmigration] + [countryside] + [fishing] + [beachcombing] Chen Qingqing has transmigrated. Oh! To be precise, she has transmigrated into a book. From the start, she is rescued by Zheng Dongfeng, a soldier in the People’s Liberation Army, and gets dumped by a mama’s boy. Her parents are both dead, and at home she has a headache-inducing stepmother and a younger sister who shares neither parent with
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Siheyuan: Transmigrating to the 1950s and Enlisting to Fight the Americans 四合院：穿越五零年代参军打鹰酱
[Espionage + period setting + courtyard house + from the start + special forces + pocket dimension + transmigration] Modern special forces soldier Yi Xiaotian transmigrates to the 1950s and becomes Yi Xiaotian, the son of Yi Zhonghai. He leads his childhood friends from Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluogu Lane, He Yuzhu, Xu Damao, Jia Dongxu, Xue Jie, and Li Mingfei, onto the battlefield. These passionate young men join the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, fighting the Yankees and defending
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From the Start, I Go Hungry for Three Days Straight, Then Make a Fortune Everyone Envies 开局三天饿九顿，发家致富招人馋
Liu Siyu wakes up to discover that she has transmigrated. Above her is a sharp-tongued stepmother, below her a brother as thin as a skeleton, and around them are three shabby thatched huts. With barely enough food to last from one meal to the next, she raises an eyebrow, rolls up her sleeves, and gets to work. What? That wicked old wolf of a step-grandmother wants to sell her to an old man as a good-luck bride? How can she put up with that? She grabs a kitchen knife and starts swinging... The vi
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The Super God System Helps Me Become a God 超神系统伴我成神
A car accident unexpectedly takes Wang Luo back to 1997, where he awakens a Supergod System. Was this a stroke of luck, or is there more to it? So many secrets are hidden in the world, secrets some people never learn in their entire lives. Yet as Wang Luo grows stronger, he uncovers more and more of them. This story won’t stick to just one genre. It blends a variety of elements, including farming and livestock, technological development, celebrities, urban life, business empires, cultivation, an
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The Bank President’s Daughter-in-Law from the Countryside 银行行长家的农村儿媳妇
Brother-and-sister dynamic + Urban romance + Marriage first, love later + Childhood sweethearts + Female growth The wealthy male lead and the rural female lead were born in neighboring hospital beds, just one day apart. The female lead is stunning and attracts admirers wherever she goes, yet she’s gentle and well-behaved. The male lead is a roguishly handsome man of the world, considerate and capable, a born CEO and the king of jealousy. Though their values and upbringings are worlds apart, fate
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Spending Money, Eating Gossip, and Raising Kids in the 1970s 我在七零氪金吃瓜养崽崽
[No romance, just watching the drama] + [The middle volume moves to the cultivation world] + [Multiple worlds later on] What! She's about to transmigrate? Mei Xinxin feels a little nervous, but also a little excited! She's a pampered rich girl, a fourth-generation heir who can live off the wealth of a family-owned planet without lifting a finger. With nothing to do, she's become a little couch potato. Aside from studying things she'll never use, she spends her time watching online gossip, readin
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Transmigrated to the ’70s: With a Space in Hand, the Eldest Sister Supports Her Family 穿越七零：身揣空间长姐养家日常
Also known as: I Won't Go to the Countryside in the Seventies: I Have an All-Purpose Space, and Transmigrating to the Seventies: I Raise My Family as the Eldest Sister with a Space [Transmigration + Space] Zheng Yuru unexpectedly obtained a space. She thought the legendary apocalypse was coming, but after falling asleep, she woke up in the seventies! As soon as she opened her eyes, she found that both her parents were dead, her older brother had gone to the countryside, and she had younger sibli
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Everyone Loves Her: The 1970s' Beloved Little Lucky Charm 人见人爱，七零团宠小福宝甜炸了
[Everyone's Darling + Period Setting + Extra Sweet] Fu Bao, the most cherished little lucky koi fairy in the heavens, is born into the poor rural Ye family during a time of hardship, bringing her pocket dimension with her. She is the daughter the Ye family has spent more than a decade hoping for, and from then on, the once dirt-poor family begins to prosper. Fu Bao can dig around at random on the mountain and find ginseng and reishi mushrooms everywhere, while animals jostle to gather around her
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I Landed in the 1960s! I Win Big with My Pocket Dimension and Department Store 穿到六零！带着空间和商场躺赢了
In her previous life, she was a pampered young lady. After doing one good deed and saving a child, she transmigrated to the 1960s. Luckily, she had a pocket dimension, and the department store where she’d been when she rescued the child had become her golden finger. So she decided to take it easy and be a happy slacker.
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We Both Transmigrated into a Book and Returned to 1958 双双穿书回到1958年
In their previous lives, Li Jianshe and Li Yuhua loved each other but were kept apart by a cruel twist of fate. Heaven took pity on the lovers, and both transmigrated into a book, returning to 1958. Around 1959, food prices soared: a load of radishes cost 60 yuan, and a load of sweet potatoes cost 100 yuan. The two seized the opportunity and became secret millionaires of their era...
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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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I’m Stirring Up the Cultivation World with Grind Culture 我在修仙界搞内卷
[Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn
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A Way Forward Through Mountains and Rivers 出路之山重水复
[Period setting + Family + Women + Career + Workplace business battles + No romance + Society + An exploration of human nature] No cheat powers, no dramatic comeback. A deep look at the struggles and prospects of 99% of ordinary people! Wish-fulfillment stories are everywhere, but once the excitement fades, only emptiness remains. In the end, we all have to face the grind of daily life and the warmth or coldness of human relationships. This slow-burning work of realism offers no lucky breaks or
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I Refuse to Marry a Widower: After Joining the Army, I Can't Stop Giving Birth to Babies 拒嫁鳏夫，随军后我疯狂送崽
[Period Setting] [Military Marriage] [System] [Transmigrate Into a Book] [Foil] [Bringing Good Fortune to Others by Having Their Babies] The moment Qiao Manman opens her eyes, she finds herself in the icy waters of a lake. Before her is an old widower baring his big yellow teeth. Behind her is a cannon-fodder female supporting character watching her like a tiger eyeing its prey. Qiao Manman hardens her heart and decides to root them out completely. “Ding! Plane Sign-In System successfully bound.
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Sign-In in the 1970s: The Female Supporting Character and Educated Youth Is Doted on by a Powerful Man 签到七零：女配知青被大佬娇宠了
(Complete) [Sign-in System + Educated Youth Sent to the Countryside + Past and Present Lives + Supporting Female Character Enjoys the Gossip + Highly Educated Couple + Clear-Headed, Independent Heroine + No Character Assassination of the Original Heroine] Yi Qingqing died young. When she arrived in the underworld, she was told she had earned great merit and should have enjoyed a life of wealth and a destined marriage in one of her lifetimes, but illness had robbed her of that. As compensation, s
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Transmigrated Into the Nineties: The Villainous Big Shots Are All My Kids 穿书九零：反派大佬们都是我的崽
After Wang Qi died in a car accident, she transmigrated into a romance novel called The Overbearing CEO Falls for Me. By an unfortunate twist of fate, she became the male lead’s stepmother and the mother of three future villainous powerhouses. But Wang Qi transmigrated to the 1990s, five years before the novel’s story began. The original heroine had yet to be reborn, and the plot had not started. The eldest son, one of the future villains, was only fourteen, while the other two hadn’t even been
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I Ditch My Scumbag Dad to Marry a Commander, and the Pretty Army Wife Is Treasured 踹渣爹嫁首长，俏军嫂被捧在心尖
[All-around rich beauty + no supporting deadbeats + no black-market dealings + no relocation to the countryside + spatial System with multiverse trading] Lin Siqiao transmigrated from a fabulously wealthy Shanghai socialite into a pitiful young woman in the 1970s, disliked by her own family. Less than a year after her birth mother died, her scumbag father brought home a stepmother. They say that once you have a stepmother, you get a stepfather too. But Lin Siqiao never imagined that, just to sei
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The Wounded War King: You Want to Inherit Her Wealth? I'll Give You Twins and Humiliate You 兵王残！吃绝户？多胎打脸两不误
(Complete) (Period Setting + Superpowers + Inventory Space + Rugged Hero + Devoted Husband + Multiple Children + Family Life + Both Leads Are Faithful) Qiao Nianyao was a powerful superhuman in the post-apocalyptic world. When an energy explosion erupted as she fought a powerful enemy, she unexpectedly transmigrated five hundred years into the past, bringing her powers and the storage space her opponent had dropped with her. She landed in the 1970s, the very era recorded in history! She also bec
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Aw, Fudge! Transmigrated into a Kitten, I Get Spoiled by a Rugged Man 玩球！穿成猫崽被糙汉宠坏了
[Era + Jiang Yuan, a short-legged, folded-ear kitten + System + planting space + foraging for food + being fed…] After giving his lecherous scumbag of a father a hard slap, Jiang Yuan transmigrated one day into a kitten sent to the countryside in the 1960s. After being bound to the System, Jiang Yuan resolved to be a kitten who would lie flat. He just never expected that, after arriving in the countryside, he would run into his young grandfather from his previous life. He also met a tough, d
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The Twins' Kitchen Connects to the Modern World 龙凤胎之我家厨房通现代
The protagonists are six-year-old twins, a boy and a girl. Brother: Cen Wu Sister: Cen Wen At such a young age, the siblings suddenly lost their parents and became orphans. By chance, they unlocked a time-space gate that led to the modern world. They were amazed by the towering buildings and brightly lit homes all around them. Watch as the clever older brother and his strong little sister hone their money-making skills in both the modern world and the 1960s.
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The Whole Family Flees the Famine, and I Have a System That Gives Us Meat Every Meal 荒年全家去逃荒，我有系统顿顿肉
[Famine migration + farming + System + no romantic pairing + feel-good wish fulfillment] The moment she opened her eyes, Jing Yin transmigrated from a post-apocalyptic world of mountains of corpses and seas of blood to a famine migration route littered with starving corpses. Not only did she receive a sign-in System, she also got an entire family of lovable fools. System: Ding! Sign in to receive spatial storage, sign in to receive supplies~ Jing Yin produced rice and meat. Granny Jing: My
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You Hoard Grain While They Starve, and My System Is Awesome 你们闹荒我囤粮，我的系统就是牛
[Secret Identities] [Low Aggression] [Comedy] [Period Setting] [System] [Male Lead] [Transmigration] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Easygoing] [Black Technology] [Stirring Up Trouble] I was reborn in the 1960s or 70s, with no food and no clothes. Luckily, I have a critical-hit System. Congratulations, Host, you've drawn a chicken drumstick. Critical hit: 100 times. Reward: 100 chicken drumsticks. Oh, finally, I've got something to eat... After eating my fill, I even have to help the country rise to
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Kidnapped from the Start: My Daily Sign-In in the 1960s 开局被绑我在六零年代的签到日常
[Sign-In System + Pocket Dimension + Educated Youth + Ancient Martial Arts] Gu Zuozuo, heir to an ancient martial arts family, is dragged into transmigrating to the era from history books when people barely had enough to eat or wear, all because of some damn man. She becomes a pitiful beauty from a wealthy family, targeted for her inheritance. After transmigrating, Gu Zuozuo takes her System and turns her enemies' hideout upside down, then dusts herself off and answers the nation's call to go to
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Transmigrated to 1958 to Raise the Kids 穿到五八养崽崽
(Period setting, no romance, raising kids, supermarket, striving, helping the whole village prosper) After twenty-seven years of being single, Xiaoqi got launched into the air by a car in the middle of the night and won a one-way ticket to the afterlife! She crossed parallel worlds with her little supermarket and arrived in Huaxia, where she became a widowed military wife with two kids! With a devastating disaster only months away, she got over her shock and reluctantly took up the mantle. She r
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With Ten Billion in Supplies: A Big Shot Lands in the 1960s 带着百亿物资：大佬穿到六十年代
[Strong heroine + spatial powers + satisfying read + serving the nation] Xia Fan, a powerful figure from the apocalypse with spatial and healing abilities, transmigrated into a period novel. In the book, the female supporting character relied on having been reborn to trample the original heroine and take her place. She not only ruined the happy life that should have belonged to the heroine, but also got her killed. Xia Fan was reborn in the original heroine's body. First, she was forced to drop
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Back to 1958 with a Pocket Dimension, Turning Every Villain into a Little Turtle 我带空间回五八，反派全变小王八
[Period setting + pocket dimension + pampered by everyone + face-slapping feel-good story + raising children + multiple births + rugged man dotes on his wife] He Zhiyi, a modern female doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, transmigrated into a book set in 1958, a time of severe shortages, bringing along the pocket dimension in her jade pendant. When she opened her eyes, she discovered that the wild son of some bandit's family had already had his way with her! He Zhiyi was close to tears, but l
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Transmigrating to the 1960s: I Bring Trillions in Supplies and Become a Young Educated Youth 穿越六零：带着千亿物资当小知青
A sudden downpour, an unremarkable piece of ancient jade, an ordinary traffic accident, a blinding bolt of lightning, a journey through time, and a single woman, aged thirty-five. Carrying billions’ worth of supplies in her pocket dimension, she arrives in the 1960s and becomes an educated youth about to be sent to the countryside. She makes beautiful memories in those difficult years. The campaign sending educated youths from the cities to work in the countryside led countless passionate young
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Transmigrate into a Book Set in the 1960s: The Pretty Educated Youth Gets Rich with Her Space 穿书六零，俏知青携带空间去暴富
I’ve been reborn for sixteen years. I thought I had the protagonist’s script, since Jiang Nian even had a golden finger. Who knew that only after going to the countryside would I suddenly remember I was just an extra?!
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Back to the 1960s with a Pocket Dimension: The Sweet Little Wife Becomes a Millionaire 带空间回六零：小娇娇成了大富婆
Zhou Tongyue never imagined that one misstep would turn her into Zhou Tongyue from the 1950s or ’60s. They have the same name, but completely different lives. In an instant, she goes from being a pitiful girl whose parents don’t love her to a pampered little princess. At first, she feels guilty about taking over someone else’s body… But after looking into things more closely, she realizes that her whole family’s professions are extremely dangerous in this era! There are highly educated intellect
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Transmigrating to the 1970s to Support My Family 穿越七十年代养家糊口
(Complete) When she woke up back in the days before the apocalypse, Chu Tian spent all her savings gathering supplies, stocking her pocket dimension with everything she could need to eat, wear, and use. But instead of the apocalypse she’d expected, she fell asleep and woke up in another world. That’s right, she had transmigrated to the early 1970s in China’s northwestern frontier. Chu Tian looked at the peeling walls and nearly cried. But when she saw the frail little girl beside her and her pre
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Working in the 1960s to Earn Money and Support My Green Tea Girlfriend 我在六十年代工作赚钱养绿茶
Lin Qingyue transmigrated to the 1960s, only to find herself facing a marriage and a move back to the countryside from the start. Was that really going to happen? Before she could do anything, she found out her fiancé wanted to break off the engagement. Lin Qingyue: What a lucky break! She quickly called off the engagement, then studied hard and earned a place at the lumber mill, becoming a proud worker! After starting at the factory, she discovered that her position had been reserved for h
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The Brilliant Young Scholar Transmigrates to the 1970s with a Pocket Space 学霸小才女带着空间穿越七零年代
Synopsis: [Historical era + transmigration + farming + adorable child + getting rich] Mi Xia has the same dream for three nights in a row. In it, the world is harsh, and everyone she sees is gaunt. Many people in that era are starving and eating tree bark. Mi Xia panics and frantically stockpiles supplies, then transmigrates to a parallel world and even gets a child thrown in. After transmigrating, I thought my husband was just an ordinary regiment commander. Why has he turned out to be a young
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I Transmigrated to the Famine Years with a Three-Bedroom Apartment 带着三室一厅穿越到饥荒年代
When Xie Miaomiao woke up, she discovered that she and her younger brother had transmigrated to a time of famine. To make matters worse, they had been thrown out of their home... Luckily, Heaven hadn’t treated the siblings too badly. The three-bedroom apartment they had lived in for more than twenty years had come along with them!
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Everyday Life for a Young Couple in the Fifties 五零年代小夫妻日常
[Theme] Only sincerity can nurture the flowers of love. Even in an era of arranged marriages, true love can still bloom. [Blurb] Before the wedding, Zheng Liyuan heard that Li Qingmiao was petite and sweet, dutiful and unpretentious, a wonderful cook, and the perfect homemaker. After they married, he realized he’d been “deceived.” The matchmaker hadn’t lied, exactly, but she’d left out a few details! This girl was incredibly strong, and she wielded a giant ladle with ferocious skill. Because she
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After Traveling to the 1960s, I Fled the Famine with My Child and Billions in Supplies 穿六零后，带着亿万物资携崽逃荒
[Historical Era + Pocket Dimension + Fleeing Famine + Farming + Adorable Kids] Jiang Xia is carrying billions’ worth of supplies in her vast pocket dimension, along with ancient martial arts and earth-based construction abilities. After finishing her preparations, she is about to return to a secure base when an early zombie outbreak sends her back to the legendary 1960s. In the blink of an eye, she’s become a scrawny woman whose father has just died, saddled with three young dependents, while he
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