Famine Stories Set in the 1950s and 1960s 五零，六零年代饥荒文

1. 201 年 1959: Transmigrating Into a Siheyuan With a System 年代1959：穿越四合院带系统 Yi Zhi You Lan一致幽兰Male-Channel Fanfiction1.1M WordsCompleted [Transmigration]+ [Lighthearted Comedy]+ [System]+ [Siheyuan]+ [Vile Neighbors]+ [Period]+ [Farming]+ [No Grimdark Angst]+ [Alternate Universe]+ [Male-Oriented Spin-Off]+ A Siheyuan web novel Transmigrating to the capital, in a courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. After transmigrating, Li Weiguo wakes up to find himself in the parallel world of Love in the Courtyard. What should he do about all the vile neighbors in the courtyard? He can't avoid them forever. He'll just have to deal with whatever 9.5kReads7.6Score492Shelves
2. 202 穿 Transmigrating Through a Parade of Mothers-in-Law 穿越之婆婆大集锦 Golden-Skinned Persimmon金皮柿子Ancient Romance3.1M WordsCompleted Fang Cheng is unwillingly cast as one outrageous mother-in-law after another: the mother-in-law in an imperial-exam novel who sells her grandchildren to fund her younger son’s exams; the mother-in-law in a household-intrigue novel who pressures her son and daughter-in-law into taking her niece as a favored concubine; and the mother-in-law who demands good food and drink while fleeing famine. In short, she’s the worst of the worst. 7.9kReads9.0Score800Shelves

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   This book is absolutely amazing. After reading it, other books just don't seem to compare. Are there any similar books?

3. 203 四 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Control the Life and Death System 四合院：开局掌控生死系统 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban1.8M WordsCompleted From the start, he gets a Life and Death System and hypnosis abilities, sending him straight to the top. The Life and Death System can extract life force from anything alive, including animals, plants, fish, and humans. It can also pour life force into any living thing, though the effect is halved. Extracting life force from a century-old tree yields fifty years' worth, which can be poured into a sapling to instantly make it grow to the size of a fifty-year-old tree. Animals work the same way: e 14.7kReads8.1Score809Shelves

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   Traveling back to the famine years of the 1960s? No problem! I have a spatial ability. I can accelerate the growth of plants and animals, fish, hunt, and lead two villages to adopt a new style of farming, learning agriculture from Shuanghe. I'll trade grain for antiques and artifacts on the black market. Wild boar meat for job quotas. My spatial ability allows me to raise tens of thousands of wild boars, millions of rabbits, tens of thousands of pheasants, tens of thousands of bison, and even sika deer. I'll also cultivate century-old ginseng, thousand-year-old lingzhi mushrooms, and thousand-year-old small-leaf sandalwood trees.

4. 204 六 The 1960s: I Control the System and Lead My Whole Family to Prosperity! 六零：手掐系统带着全家致富！ Zhi Ye o芷烨oModern Romance526k WordsCompleted Wang Xuan had worked hard for so long in her previous life, only for disaster to strike first. Suddenly arriving in the 1960s, all the money she'd earned before went to waste. In this life, she decides that as long as she's made enough money, that's good enough. If she can lie flat, she will. But when she discovers that the System has accidentally dropped her into the 1960s, with a food crisis on the way, what should she do? No romance. 1.8kReads7.1Score103Shelves
5. 205 小 A Young Chinese Doctor Makes His Way in the 1960s 小中医闯荡六零 Young Master Tang堂少Urban711k WordsCompleted Zhang Xudong had been living an easy, comfortable life, with no worries about food or money thanks to the medical clinic his grandfather left him. But after falling asleep, he was struck by lightning and sent to an era where food and supplies were scarce. From the start, his dreadful mother knocked him unconscious. Every day after waking up, he felt that he wasn't living the life he wanted. Even as a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, he was becoming more and more distracted from his pro 9.7kReads8.8Score683Shelves

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   The era of educated youth sent to the countryside in the 1960s and 70s!

6. 206 开 From the Start, My Soul Has Possessed a Tiny Spirit Doppelganger from the 1960s Who Can Carry Loads and Do Sums 开局魂穿60衍魂小人能搬又会算 The Divine One Cuts Off Heaven神明绝天通Urban300k WordsOngoing [Mountain Foraging and Hunting + Creek Valleys and Grasslands + Space-Based Animal Raising + Spirit Spring Well Water + Going to the Countryside + Beidahuang + Changbai Mountain] The male lead’s soul unexpectedly transmigrates to 1960. With the help of a little spirit in his soul, he unlocks a soul-realm space. At his adoptive parents’ home, he does every chore, big and small, while they constantly exploit him. His second brother gets his chance to study, his third brother gets the military enli 10Reads—Score—Shelves

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   I highly recommend it!!!

7. 207 年 1959: Bringing My Whole Family to City Life 年代1959带全家做城里人 The Ox Who Loves Eating Tigers爱吃老虎的牛Urban4.9M WordsOngoing Also known as: A Wonderful Life for Liu Genlai in 1959, A Free and Easy Life for an Orphan in 1959. The story moves at an unhurried pace and isn't full of anger or conflict. It's all about everyday family matters, so if you enjoy a slower pace, feel free to give it a try. Liu Genlai gets knocked into the countryside of 1959 by a dump truck. Is he going to lead the whole village to prosperity? Don't be ridiculous. Liu Genlai's little shoulders can't bear such a heavy burden. All he wants is for h 79.5kReads8.3Score5.6kShelves
8. 208 重 Reborn in 1960 重生1960 Pipi's Little Pig皮皮的小猪Urban575k WordsCompleted Xie Mian got incredibly lucky and acquired a space. As a fan of apocalypse movies, he woke from a long dream in a panic and swiftly sold all his assets, buying enough supplies to stock ten large supermarkets in preparation for the apocalypse. Unexpectedly, the apocalypse never came. Instead, he found himself in the 1960s. As if going hungry and lacking warm clothes weren't bad enough, he had ended up inside a period novel. In the book, he was a doomed cannon-fodder character who went out of his 2.1kReads8.4Score124Shelves
9. 209 最 The Most Miserable Transmigration: Surviving Seven Years of Famine 最惨穿越，度过七年灾荒 cc Not Outstandingcc不优秀Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted No romance, farming story. Farming + space + natural disasters + stockpiling No royal relatives, but there is a pocket dimension. Gu Liang transmigrates into the family of an ordinary peasant in ancient times. Apart from a pocket dimension for storing things, he has no other golden finger. The price is that he must survive seven years of disaster: three years of drought, two years of floods, one year of plague, and one year of war. Follow Gu Liang as the eldest grandson of the Gu family and see 5.2kReads7.8Score358Shelves
10. 210 重 Reborn in 1959: Little Everyday Moments in Nanluoguxiang 重生59南锣鼓巷之小日常 Gluttonous Badger贪吃獾Male-Channel Fanfiction2.9M WordsOngoing He transmigrates to the capital and settles on Nanluoguxiang. He fishes and farms, living a carefree life, learning to cook, appraising antiques, occasionally trading barbs with Zhang Haixing, and picking on the courtyard busybodies now and then. 67.8kReads8.2Score3kShelves
11. 211 狩 Hunting in 1970: Hunting for Wealth, Women, and Life 狩猎70：猎财猎色猎人生 Half White, Half Black半白半黑Urban1.1M WordsOngoing [Period setting + mountain hunting + multiple female leads + feel-good power fantasy] In his previous life, he was slandered and fled deep into the mountains for fifteen years. When he finally returned, his family had been wiped out, and he took up a blade to exact revenge. Reborn, he sets out for revenge once more. Drawing on his past-life hunting experience, he heads into the mountains to make money and build connections, sends every brother in the family into government service, and leads the 118.2kReads8.5Score10.8kShelves

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    This book is good; it's very enjoyable to read.

12. 212 穿 Transmigrating to 1959: A Procurement Officer on Nanluoguxiang 穿越59年，南锣鼓巷采购员 The Chimney Is Silent烟囱不语Urban1.0M WordsCompleted (Daily life + transmigration + pocket dimension + supplies) A modern-day office worker unexpectedly transmigrates to Nanluoguxiang in 1959. How will life in that era turn out with a ring containing a pocket dimension? 299Reads7.8Score182Shelves
13. 213 转 Reborn in the 1980s: Fishing and Hunting in Northeast China 转生八零年代渔猎东北 Chili Pepper Fried Mushrooms辣椒炒蘑菇Urban1.5M WordsOngoing Shen Guoping, a man born in the 1990s, is reborn in the 1980s in a parallel world. With a pocket dimension at his disposal, his first goal is to make a hundred million yuan. Northeast China in the 1980s is rich in produce. That is Shen Guoping’s greatest treasure on the road to wealth. 534Reads7.1Score—Shelves
14. 214 穿 After Transmigrating to a Year of Famine, I Became the Worst Mother-in-Law 穿到荒年后，我成了极品恶婆婆 Morning Clouds Purple朝云紫Ancient Romance1.9M WordsCompleted [Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + adorable kids + no male lead] Cheng Wanqun woke up in the body of a 33-year-old farmer's wife in ancient Dahuang Village. Her four sons were kneeling by the bed, calling her Mother, and her daughter-in-law had another grandchild on the way. After being single her entire life for 33 years, she'd suddenly become a mother-in-law and grandmother. Raising four sons was already hard enough, but then disaster struck: locust plagues, droughts, snowstorms. 68.1kReads9.4Score7.6kShelves
15. 215 重 Reborn in 1981: I Make a Living by Fishing with My Five Sisters-in-Law 重生81：赶海养活五个小姨子 Breaking the Spring Breeze破春风Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Fishing village + beachcombing + reborn in the 1980s + lighthearted + slice of life] Li Zhengyang blinks, and suddenly he's back in 1981. The good news is that he's been reborn. The bad news is that his fiancée has run off with a traveling peddler. On one side are his stepmother and father, who want him to go back to being a workhorse and let them bleed him dry. On the other are five young sisters-in-law, all helplessly watching as they risk being swept away by the tide of the times. Li Zhengya 4.4kReads8.3Score464Shelves
16. 216 金 A Golden Marriage 金婚 IMCModern Romance442k WordsCompleted One is a fool in everyone's eyes, the other a young hoodlum in the village's eyes. Yet fate ties them together. Zhou Xing always thought himself above others, but never imagined he'd marry a fool and fill a whole house with children, boys and girls alike. What's more, in this life and the next, and the life after that, he only wants to be with her. At first, Li Zhi'an was terrified of living under the same roof as Zhou Xing, that bad man. Gradually, she came to accept him. In the end, she decide 14.4kReads9.3Score1.4kShelves

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    One is seen as a fool by everyone, the other as a petty rascal by the villagers. The female lead's mental age is only that of an eight or nine-year-old in the early stages, but she gradually matures. The male lead is initially irresponsible, but after witnessing the female lead's difficult pregnancy, he slowly becomes a responsible person. The setting perfectly fits the historical context of the period novel; the three-year famine is described very realistically, prices are not exaggerated, and the male and female leads do not suffer from severe famine. It's a story of "ordinary people" striving for a better life in a period novel. The relationship between the male and female leads also grows throughout, from mutual dislike to dependence on each other; the ending is somewhat tear-jerking.

17. 217 我 I Transmigrate to the 1960s with My Daughter and Quietly Make a Fortune 我带女儿，穿越60闷声发大财 Hua Sihai花四海Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted After an accidental electric shock, Zhao Wanqiu, who was taking inventory at a supermarket, is transported to the 1960s along with her daughter, who is about to graduate and start her internship. They wake up in the bodies of a mother and daughter named Zhao Xiangqiu, and at first she thinks life will be a struggle. To her surprise, heaven gives her a supermarket of her own, stocked with supplies that never run out. Even the 1960s goods on display in the store can be taken and used at will! Does 4.1kReads9.3Score596Shelves
18. 218 穿 Transmigrating to the 1960s: One Rebirth After Another 穿越六零：一重浪灭一重生 Last Night, Listening to Wind and Rain from the Little Tower小楼昨夜听风雨Urban1.7M WordsCompleted Li Xu transmigrates to the year 1960. In this era he has never seen, and has only heard about in books and from the elderly, the only thing he can do is make sure his family has enough to eat and can live a good life. 6.8kReads8.4Score316Shelves
19. 219 我 I Found a Partner from the Apocalypse in the 1950s! 我在五零找了个末世的对象！ The Chubby Guy Who Loves to Write爱写作的小胖Modern Romance680k WordsCompleted (A girl born into the 1950s + a man whose soul crossed into the post-apocalyptic era. Slice of life. Not intended as a historically rigorous account; everything is fictional. Writing isn't easy, so please be kind.) Qian Xiao is a modern woman who was accidentally killed while saving someone, then born into the 1950s to live through its “arduous struggle.” Sun Kaicheng accidentally hit his head, his soul crossed into the post-apocalyptic era, and then he returned. Two people who have nothing i 8.6kReads9.0Score733Shelves

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    The female protagonist, born in the 1950s, completed her university studies before the turmoil.

20. 220 四 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Take My Little Sister and Flee the Famine in Beijing 四合院：开局带妹妹逃荒四九城 Three Turns and One Ring三转一响Male-Channel Fanfiction1.6M WordsCompleted Su Jianjun transmigrates to the famine-stricken year of 1960 as a teenage refugee, with his younger sister in tow. They are still hundreds of kilometers from the capital, and they have already run out of food. Just as they are about to starve to death on the road, he acquires a pocket world at the critical moment. He can farm, raise livestock, and even strengthen his body. With the pocket world to help him, Su Jianjun leads his sister through the famine and makes it to the capital. He also uses 8.7kReads6.2Score365Shelves
21. 221 随 After Her Mother Remarries, the Little Sweetheart Becomes the Beloved of the Whole Compound 随母改嫁后，小甜宝被家属院团宠 Green Ink Song青墨歌Modern Romance658k WordsCompleted Original title: “After Her Mother Remarried, the Sweetheart Became the Darling of the Family Compound” In her previous life, Huang Tiantian followed her father when he was sent down to the countryside. Using her space, she struggled to survive in the northwest with her father and younger brothers, enduring the hardest years. After returning to the capital, her two younger brothers became successful with her help, and her father followed her advice to become a renowned businessman. She also becam 11.2kReads7.1Score1.1kShelves

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    Completed♥ In my past life, I was sent to the countryside and became a big shot by relying on my space. My sister thought I relied entirely on my family. The two sisters were reborn, and in this life, my sister is fighting to be sent to the countryside?

22. 222 六 The Sixties: There's a Little Shop in My Mind 六零：脑海中有间小卖铺 Ah Hei Isn't White阿黑不白Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Period setting + pocket space + convenience store + family life + leisurely living + hunting + engineer] Li Xuewen transmigrates to the 1960s, where he faces a shortage of clothes, food, and supplies. Luckily, there's a magical little convenience store in his mind, stocked with everything: food, supplies, knowledge... If he can think of it, the store has it. With this magical little store, Li Xuewen's life goes swimmingly... 13.3kReads8.2Score942Shelves

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    🌿Perfectly Matched💥 ① Reborn in the 1950s, with a built-in farming space, the protagonist can not only grow grains but also raise pigs and chickens. From the era of communal dining to the Great Famine, the protagonist has always stockpiled supplies.

23. 223 六 The 1960s Mystery Box System: My Scumbag Dad Spares No Expense Spoiling His Six Kids 六零盲盒系统：渣爹氪金宠飞六崽 Tea Pear Seven茶梨七Urban1.4M WordsOngoing [A low-conflict period drama + an outstanding male lead + rebuilding family values + still the one in charge + three ex-wives + six kids] Liu Xueyi married three times and had six children. He trampled on his three ex-wives to live the happy life of a city man, only to pull a classic Nanluoguxiang fool’s move and marry a widow, raising another man’s kids! But Liu Xueyi wasn’t the self-sacrificing type. No matter whose home he was in, he called all the shots. The widow’s family treated him like a 15.4kReads8.4Score811Shelves

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    🔥🔥Told during the famine of the 1960s, from the male protagonist's perspective, the protagonist is selfish and only loves himself. Even though he's bound to a doting-child system, he still wants to pamper his child only after he's living a good life himself.

24. 224 重 Back to 1958, I Have a Department Store 重回1958，我有一个百货超市 Ku Shrimp Clan喾虾一族Urban2.6M WordsCompleted Li Chenxi unexpectedly transmigrated back to the 1950s. At the time, his father had run off with a widow, leaving the family with nothing. Despite his dire circumstances, Li Chenxi stayed calm because he discovered a golden finger on his wrist: a supermarket. The supermarket sold all kinds of daily necessities and even had a one-yuan bargain section that refreshed every day. He could feast on meat and fish every day and live the good life! 853Reads7.3Score105Shelves
25. 225 胎 Born into the 1960s: Not a Drop of Milk Comes Free 胎穿六零：没有一口奶是免费的 Dragon Fruit Growing Toward the Sun火龙果向阳而生Modern Romance421k WordsCompleted Also known as: Reborn in the Great Famine of the Sixties: Lucky Girl Zhizhi Is Good at Drawing Up Grand Plans [Easygoing Period Piece] [System + Pocket Dimension] [Refined, Self-Serving and Beneficial to Others] [Family Life + Building a Fortune] [Mischievous + Protective + Lighthearted Comedy] [Taking Every Advantage + Lotus Root Traits + Leek Farming + Social Butterfly] [Scheming Little Cotton-Padded Jacket + Parents Who Push Themselves + Self-Reliant Retirement + Pushy Sister, Brother and Who 3.3kReads8.6Score307Shelves

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    The story can be interpreted as a transformation of the whole family; the female protagonist is clear-headed and has her own ideas.

26. 226 重 Reborn in 1976: Starting Over as a Sent-Down Youth 重生1976从知青开始 Sea Soul 0817海魂0817Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [A refreshing, long-running political drama] In a freak car accident, Liu Yan gives his life to protect the woman he loves. When he wakes up, he has transmigrated to the 1970s and been reborn as a young educated urbanite sent to the countryside, who shares his name. To his surprise, his new self’s wife has the same name as the woman he loved in his previous life. From then on, Liu Yan embarks on a successful path to a career in government… 1.6kReads—Score—Shelves

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    Educated Youth in the Countryside

27. 227 重 Reborn in a Northeastern Mountain Village: Fishing and Hunting Across Two Rivers and Two Nations 重生东北小山村渔猎两江两国 Student Tianya小学生天涯Urban4.0M WordsOngoing Please give this five stars. Please give this five stars. I don't have much education or skill, and I can't write fancy prose. I use ordinary people's language to tell an ordinary story. If you like it, I thank you for your support with a clasped-fist salute. If you don't, please be kind and don't flame me. An artist can't make a living without noble-minded patrons. I offer my thanks to all of you, my dear supporters. 42.6kReads8.2Score2.9kShelves

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    Reborn in a small mountain village in Northeast China, he leads his brothers to hunt in the mountains and fish in the rivers, farm the land, and experience various thrilling and life-or-death adventures, leading to many exciting and hilarious stories. The story is lighthearted and humorous.

28. 228 重 Reborn in the 1970s: Starting as an Educated Youth in the Great Northern Wilderness 重生70年代，从北大荒知青开始 Finally Here at Last姗姗来迟啦Urban586k WordsCompleted Xu Jinyan transmigrated to 1977 and became an educated youth sent to the Great Northern Wilderness. He entered a fake marriage with Li Wanyu, who was trying to escape harassment from a powerful second-generation heir. Not long after they got their marriage certificate, the college entrance exams were suddenly reinstated, and Li Wanyu was ready to return to the city and resume her life as a pampered young lady. They agreed to get divorced in six months, but Xu Jinyan ended up getting into Yanda U 2.1kReads7.8Score111Shelves
29. 229 穿 Transmigrating to the 1960s: From the Start, I’m Asked to Take in a Dying Man’s Child 穿越六零：开局遭遇临终托孤 Mr. Wordless无言先生Urban2.5M WordsCompleted [Historical era + Rebirth + System + Pocket Dimension + Light fantasy] After dying, Xu Jianguo was reborn in a parallel world in the 1960s. He happened to save a Taoist master and his apprentice, and as the old Taoist lay dying, he entrusted his three-year-old apprentice to Xu Jianguo's care. With a little sister suddenly in his life, Xu Jianguo began raising a child. Watch as he makes the most of the vibrant 1960s. 13.4kReads8.8Score863Shelves
30. 230 1 1981: A Literary Giant Rises from a Returned Educated Youth 1981，文豪从返城知青开始 Five Meters Underwater水下五米Urban3.0M WordsCompleted A cultured old writer from the post-1950s generation had been happily collecting his pension, dancing in the square, and flirting with the old lady next door. He couldn't have asked for a more enjoyable life. Then he woke up reborn at the age of twenty. He had just returned to the city after being sent down to the countryside, and was working on a factory floor. His family was so poor there wasn't even a mouse to be found. Before long, his second younger sister would also undergo a life-changing 10.6kReads8.2Score793Shelves
31. 231 重 Back to 1985: Tales of the Northeast 重回1985：东北往事 Heading North向北Urban1.9M WordsCompleted These are fiery years spent feeling one’s way across a river by touching the stones, a time of thriving vitality where the bold could eat their fill, and of wild growth where big shots were everywhere. The rules of this society have never changed: the meek fear the tough, the tough fear the ruthless, the ruthless fear the reckless, and the reckless fear those who don’t care if they live or die. But even those who don’t care if they live or die fear madmen. And so, Zhou Dongbei went mad. (TV adap 85.3kReads9.6Score8.8kShelves
32. 232 6 The 1960s: From the Start, I Led the Village Through Famine to Feast on Meat 60年代：开局荒年，我带着全村吃肉 Niuniu Rides a Cow妞妞骑牛Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Transmigration + Hoarding Supplies + Lighthearted + No Harem] Li Youfu transmigrates into the body of a man with the same name in 1960, a year of famine, and sees the man's entire life. In his previous life, he was the apple of his family's eye, but he was blind to the truth and married a woman who drained him to support her younger brother. His entire family was bled dry and met a tragic end. As he lay dying, all he wanted was to make up for his regrets and 1.8kReads8.7Score330Shelves

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    A perfect story! ✨✨ The protagonist transmigrates to the 1960s, a time of famine where food is scarce everywhere. He awakens a spiritual spring space where he can grow crops, and begins exchanging food for valuable items.

33. 233 穿 Transmigrating to 1959: The System Space Has Everything 穿越1959系统空间全都有 Lucky Cat招财猫儿Modern Romance2.2M WordsCompleted [Urban farming] [Period] [Famine] [System] [Farm] [Ranch] [No harem] [Not a saint] This is an alternate history, so don’t try to match it to real people or events! Li Youcai transmigrates to 1959, the era of the Great Famine. He inherits the space left to him by the original owner, along with a System that keeps dangling empty promises and desperately insists on binding itself to him. Well, when in Rome... Whoa! The System has unlimited supplies, all available for purchase with points. Whoa! The 29.6kReads8.3Score1.9kShelves
34. 234 末 Transmigrated to the 1960s During the Apocalypse, the Female Side Character Wants to Run Away After Joining the Army 末世穿六零，随军后女配她想跑路 This and That云云尔尔Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [1960s + Spatial Storage + Superpowers + Military Marriage + Past and Present Lives] Important: The original heroine is not vilified! Lin Xiuxiu transmigrated into a book. The Zombie King slapped her to death, and when she opened her eyes, she discovered she had transmigrated. Unfortunately, she wasn’t the heroine, just a disposable cannon-fodder character! She had to split from the family as soon as she transmigrated? She did it without hesitation! Thinking of the hunger ahead, she decisively t 3.4kReads8.8Score395Shelves
35. 235 年 Period: Riding the Wind to Rise in 1976 年代：1976乘风而起 Below Fangcun Mountain方寸山下Urban6.2M WordsOngoing 1976: The northern Bear is at the height of its power. 1976: The Western beacon struggles in the quagmire of stagflation. 1976: In the glow of the fiery red era, dawn begins to break for us... 23.2kReads8.0Score1.9kShelves
36. 236 年 Period: 1960, Finding Fortune in the Mountains 年代：1960，靠赶山财富自由 Not a Tomato不是西红柿Urban1.2M WordsCompleted Zhang Hanshui transmigrates to the foot of Changbai Mountain in the 1960s. In an era of famine and shortages, food is hard to buy even if you have money, but if you have food, you’re absolutely number one. With food in hand, you can have anything. He has a pocket dimension, and after inheriting the Medical Canon, he also knows medicine. He barters, forages for wild vegetables in the mountains, picks mushrooms, catches fish and shrimp in the river, digs up century-old ginseng, hunts, farms, lives 8.1kReads8.3Score513Shelves
37. 237 我 I Make Paper Offerings in a Period Novel 我在年代文里做纸扎 Buron of the House of Fragrance怡红院的布隆Urban6.7M WordsCompleted Li Hongwen transmigrates into a book, landing in a period novel about a wicked supporting female character’s rise to power. The heroine has a pocket dimension, and the villainess has a supermarket. All he has is the paper-offering craft he learned in his previous life, but that trade is taboo in this era!!! Luckily, a skill from his previous life that he never got to use works in this world. And so, an unremarkable supporting male character who knows the plot appears, much to the villainess’s su 20.7kReads7.6Score1.3kShelves
38. 238 古 A Mom from Ancient Times, a Dad from the Stars, and Her from the Sixties 古代的妈星际的爸，还有六零的她 There Is a Big White Dog有一只大白狗Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted On the day her father married her stepmother, Xu Zhao was unconscious with a high fever that had lasted several days when a novel suddenly appeared in her mind. Her father was about to be reported. Though he avoided arrest and public denunciation, life with her stepmother became a complete mess. Not only was Xu Zhao ignored by her father and abused by her stepmother, she was also dragged down by her despondent father and died at the age of ten! After waking up again, Xu Zhao successfully evolved 3.6kReads8.7Score478Shelves

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    I've been reading this really good book lately. It's set in the 1960s. The biological father is a Space Marine, and the stepmother is a wealthy young lady from ancient times. The child knows the plot! On the day of her biological father and stepmother's wedding, Xu Zhao, who had been running a high fever for several days, fell into a coma and a novel appeared in her mind. She discovered that her biological father and stepmother were unreliable, and that she had died at the age of ten in the book. She was eager to punish her biological father and stepmother, but then she found out that they had swapped souls...

39. 239 官 Officialdom: Rising from the Grassroots 官场：从基层崛起 Chen Zhuo Can't Keep Calm陈拙不冷静Urban494k WordsCompleted Wang Lilun was silenced by a “benefactor.” Now he is reborn on the day before he returns to the city. This time, he makes a decision that goes against everything his family taught him: he will stay in this remote corner of the Northwest and rise from an unknown nobody into a powerful figure capable of standing up to his “benefactor” face-to-face... 1.2kReads7.2Score108Shelves
40. 240 6 The 1960s: A Daily Blind Box and a Carefree Life 60年代：每日盲盒，悠闲生活 Being Backsolved被倒推Urban2.6M WordsCompleted [Period + System + Countryside + Lighthearted + Family Bonds + Hunting + Inventions + Getting Rich] After awakening memories from a parallel timeline, he discovers that it's the 1960s, and there's no food or clothing! He originally plans to use his newly awakened memories to give his family a better life, but who could have guessed that the Daily Mystery Box System would bind itself to him! Day One: “Mystery box opened. Reward: 30 Shaxian-style braised duck legs!” Day Two: “Mystery box opened. R 1.1kReads8.3Score171Shelves
41. 241 回 Back in the 1980s, Starting My Career Anew 回归八零再就业 Lost but Not Lost迷途不迷途Modern Romance2.1M WordsCompleted While everyone else who transmigrates gets to live another life, Qi Xinlan loses twenty years of hers! One moment she's a thriving, ambitious administrative director at a multinational corporation; the next, she's a fifty-two-year-old woman. This is the bittersweet story of how the white-collar elite Cindy Qi became Auntie Qi to her neighbors. Her most promising son is gone, her daughter-in-law has run off, and a whole bunch of little children are left behind! See how a modern HR and administrat 16.4kReads9.5Score1.6kShelves
42. 242 大 A Mogul Reborn: Back to 1977 as an Educated Youth 大佬重生：回到1977当知青 Immortal's Tavern酒仙居Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [Reborn in the 1970s + daily life + no System + building a career] Reborn in the late 1970s, he is immediately framed for hooliganism and thrown in jail. “Officer, I'm innocent!” Watch Fang Xu turn the tables with his knowledge of the future and bring the village's hooligans to justice. He hunts in the mountains and fishes in the river, saving up his first bit of capital. When the college entrance exam is reinstated, he gets into university. He studies abroad and pits his wits against foreign po 203Reads6.6Score—Shelves
43. 243 重 Reborn in the 1960s: I Find Myself a Stepmother 重生60年代：我给自己找后妈 Gu Yue Er Dong古月耳咚Modern Romance695k WordsOngoing When Chen Guoping died of lung cancer, his mother was busy having a grand old time gossiping with the neighborhood women! In his previous life, she had kept him under her thumb since childhood: she wouldn’t let him take the college entrance exam, forced him to hand over his wages, and criticized every woman he wanted to marry. Ignoring the nature of his work, she insisted that he and his wife risk having a third child. In the end, he was fired for exceeding the birth quota, and his family of fiv 21.5kReads8.4Score1.3kShelves

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    I'd call this a nuclear-level "Mom-Slaying Novel"! The male lead has cancer, and his biological mother only cares about his bankbook password, verbally abusing him to death. After being reborn, the male lead gets a new mother; his stepmother is fiercely protective, and his biological mother is so angry she suffers a stroke and becomes partially paralyzed! Already at 100,000 words, a must-read for those looking for something to read!

44. 244 重 Back to 1978 重返1978 Xiao Xiaoyangyang小小扬扬Urban8.7M WordsCompleted Jiang Xiaobai, a university graduate with a degree in economics, was reborn and witnessed the arrival of a new era with his own eyes. It surged forward with unstoppable force, as all things grew unchecked, dust and dawn rose together, rivers converged into mighty streams, and nameless hills rose into towering peaks. For a time, the world stretched boundlessly wide... 2.1kReads8.8Score219Shelves
45. 245 送 They Give Me Money, Connections, and an Inheritance, but This Cannon Fodder Is Done 送钱送人脉送家产，炮灰不干了 November Panic十一月的慌张Modern Romance708k WordsCompleted [Period setting + reborn + mind reading + cannon fodder + lottery pocket dimension + punishing scumbags + comeback] Zhang Lin fainted in front of her father's grave and woke up reborn in 1969. Her father had become her older brother, and her grandfather had become her father. To her delight, her grandfather had not yet been framed and reported, dying a tragic death. He was still happily working as an elementary school principal, and her father had not yet been forced to the countryside as an edu 7.9kReads9.0Score703Shelves
46. 246 玉 A Jade Pendant Connects Her to the Modern World: The Sixties-Era Old Lady Raises Her Whole Family at a Tourist Attraction 玉佩通现代，六零老太景区养全家 Ye Bahua叶八花Modern Romance154k WordsCompleted (The 1960s, connected between the modern world and the 1960s, a pocket space, famine, farming, country life, building wealth, great strength, everyday family life, the whole family working together to get by) During a year of severe drought and famine, Old Madam Zhao takes the grain her husband earned by selling himself and leads the whole family on the run. They reach the village where her grandaunt lives, only to discover that the old woman has died. After burying her grandaunt, Old Madam Zhao 99Reads—Score105Shelves

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    A story about the famine in the 1960s: a family worked hard to fill their stomachs.

47. 247 穿 Transmigrating to the 1960s, Leaving No Regrets 穿越60年代，不留遗憾 Soar Ninety Thousand Miles跃九万里Urban3.3M WordsOngoing [Period setting + transmigration + System + male lead + pocket dimension] No needless hostility, and hardly any awful characters (almost none). Also known as: The 1960s: Is the County Government Procurement Officer Really Number Two? Adapted into a motion comic, with no interruption to updates. Sun Xuan, a young man from the modern era, unexpectedly obtains a golden finger and transmigrates to the 1960s. Bound to a sign-in System, he has a pocket dimension stocked with abundant supplies, includi 32.1kReads8.1Score2.8kShelves

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    A perfect story! 🎊🎊 The protagonist accidentally activates a spiritual spring space containing black soil that accelerates plant growth. He senses he's about to transmigrate and begins stockpiling supplies. When he wakes up again, he's in the 1960s, during a famine.

48. 248 八 The 1980s: Changing Our Fate Starts with Getting My Husband to Take the College Entrance Exam 八零，改变命运从让丈夫高考开始 Still as the Sun静似骄阳Modern Romance686k WordsCompleted [Reborn + family life + inspirational + raising kids + building wealth] Lin Yuzhu had spent her whole life drifting along. Only in middle age did she finally work up the courage to save money with her husband and start a restaurant. But the restaurant never opened. The newly renovated shop was destroyed in a gas explosion caused by a neighbor’s illegal gas hookup, and Lin Yuzhu, who had been cleaning inside, died in the blast too. She thought her life was over, but when she woke after the explos 9.2kReads9.0Score885Shelves
49. 249 重 Reborn in Hong Kong in 1972: I Just Want to Make Quick Money 重生香江1972我只想赚快钱 Feel-Good Fiction Supplier爽文供应商Urban2.8M WordsOngoing Zheng Kun, a shut-in electronics engineer, worked himself to the bone and was reborn in Hong Kong in 1972. A fan of online novels and Hong Kong entertainment, and a master of both the 996 and 007 work schedules, how will he struggle to make his way in an unfamiliar place after transmigrating and become the man behind the major conglomerates? 9.6kReads7.9Score483Shelves
50. 250 七 The Only Daughter of the 1970s 七零年代独生女 Orange Orange Orange Orange橘橘橘橘子Modern Romance685k WordsCompleted [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 17.3kReads9.3Score1.4kShelves

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