Looking for Period Novels You Can Read with Your Brain On, Nothing Too Exaggerated or Over-the-Top 想要可以带脑子看的年代文，不要太夸张太浮夸的

1. 251 老 An Old Woman Flips the Table in Fury So Her Foolish Son Can Eat With Everyone 老太为傻儿子能上桌吃饭怒掀饭桌 I'm Bound to Be Famous我必火Modern Romance762k WordsCompleted [Period setting] [Comeback] [Protecting her child] [Healing] [Growing up] In her previous life, she was timid, endured domestic abuse, and had ungrateful children. Reborn in the 1980s, Mrs. Li refuses to put up with it anymore! When her husband comes at her with fists and kicks, she throws manure, boiling water, and hot oil. She flips the dining table and knocks over the ancestral tablets, all to protect her intellectually disabled son! When the whole village bullies and mocks her “Little Fool,” 140Reads6.8Score106Shelves

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   The old lady was reborn, abandoned her son and daughter, and only doted on her mentally retarded son. No system

2. 252 抢 Grab It! If You Don’t Snatch the Golden Finger, Who Will? 抢啊！金手指都不抢，要留给谁？ Le Xinle乐心乐Modern Romance321k WordsCompleted She is Daipa, the strongest shaman of the Black Miao tribe. She can divine the future and is skilled in poisons and gu magic. Her moods are unpredictable, and a pure black kitten is always at her side. She is Gu Qingcheng, a timid educated youth sent to the countryside after being set up. Someone schemed to make her take another woman’s place as a bride, and she lost her life as a result. She is Ma Xiaotiao, an older single woman whom her relatives think will never get married. She has been stuc 242Reads—Score—Shelves

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   [Blow a kiss][Blow a kiss][Blow a kiss][Blow a kiss][Blow a kiss][Blow a kiss]

3. 253 异 A Beauty from Another World Lands in the 1970s and Catches the Eye of a Brooding, Rugged Man 异世美妞穿七零，被阴郁糙汉盯上 Le Xinle乐心乐Modern Romance309k WordsCompleted (One-on-one romance + both leads untouched + pocket dimension + 1970s setting + apocalypse + slightly unhinged heroine + sweet romance) (Cold and aloof, rugged man, heir to the Yinshan Sect vs. real heiress, fake madwoman, beauty) Everyone else transmigrated, so she did too. She thought she’d gotten a young, pretty body for free, but it turned out to be one nobody else wanted and had been willing to hand over. The 1970s were short on supplies and life was hard, but at least she got a pocket dime 110Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 254 流 A Shooting Star Streaks By, Leaving Traces on the Years 流星划过，岁月有痕 Amber Aurora琥珀色北极光Modern Romance168k WordsCompleted This is a powerful work that deeply portrays the intertwined paths of growth for the post-80s generation and the changes of the times. The story follows its protagonist, Zhao Fei, from his green and innocent days in middle school, through the passionate years of university, and into the struggles and discoveries of life after graduation. It delicately depicts how Zhao Fei and his generation search for themselves and realize their worth amid the currents of the times, while also reflecting the sw 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Starting in 1998!! This is a work that profoundly depicts the growth trajectory of the post-80s generation intertwined with the changes of the times. The protagonist of the story, Zhao Fei, goes from being ignorant in middle school to his passionate college years, until he enters the society and struggles and explores. It depicts how Zhao Fei's generation finds himself and realizes value in the tide of the times. It also reflects the tremendous changes in all aspects of China's society in the past thirty years. This is a story about dreams, struggle, love and sacrifice. It is an affectionate look back at the past years and a firm look forward to the hope for the future. In the stories of Zhao Fei and others who laugh and cry, everyone can find their own shadow and feel the era that the post-80s generation experienced.

5. 255 搬 I Cleared Out the Family Assets Before Divorcing, and the Cold-Faced Officer Lost His Cool 搬空家产去离婚，冷面军少红了眼 Luo Yin in Blue Robes青衫洛隐Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period Setting] [Rebirth] [Military Marriage] [Mystic Spring Space] [Marriage Before Love] [Revenge on Scum] [Mutual Firsts] [Face-Slapping] Xie Chaoyun had a miserable life in her previous life. After her foster parents went to the countryside, her so-called biological parents took her in. Not only did they seize all her property, they also sold her to human traffickers. In the end, she died a horrible death in Little Black Mountain Village. Consumed by boundless hatred, she was reborn. This 38.2kReads8.2Score5.4kShelves

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   You can take a look, it's very good

6. 256 开 The Open Era 开放时代 Old General of Guanzhong关西老将Urban1.2M WordsCompleted Li Yuanfang was reborn in 1990. Riding the tide of the reform era, he started out as a township civil servant, used his knowledge of the future to develop an export-oriented economy, and built a business empire. With his ingenuity and iron will, he rose from adversity, took charge of a region, and battled all kinds of powerful forces. He built water conservancy projects, roads, and schools, bringing benefits to the people and helping ordinary families achieve their dream of a stable, comfortable 746Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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   This is a very special period novel. In the name of an official novel, it teaches you how to get rich, learn how to be worldly, reach the peak of wealth, and achieve career success! Especially suitable for college students who have just started working, it can be called a workplace textbook!

7. 257 重 Reborn in the 1990s: From Laid-Off Worker to Tycoon 重生九零：从下岗到首富 A Maybach as Smooth as Water, Leaving No Trace似水无痕迈巴赫Modern Romance683k WordsCompleted [Period business rivalry + reborn heroine + hard-hitting wish fulfillment + ensemble of women] Shen Zhixia was reborn in 1998, right as the Hongxing Textile Mill's layoff list was being announced. In her previous life, her gambling-addict ex-husband had drained her dry, her in-laws had exploited her for a lifetime, and poverty and misery had ruined her daughter's life. As she lay dying, she clutched her layoff notice, her hands slick with sweat. In this life, factory director Liang Guodong humil 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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   This is not a story about a Mary Sue who relies on men to turn herself around. This is the story of Shen Zhixia leading 5,000 laid-off female workers to get back on their feet. She has set three iron rules: wages cannot be delayed, quality cannot be fooled, and a woman's money must be in her own hands. She recruited female workers from bankrupt state-owned enterprises back one by one, converted old warehouses into workshops, and turned the laid-off list into a recruitment list. "You are not incompetent, someone has stolen your job." When the paper airplane series appeared on the international show, the women who had been left behind by the times were finally seen by the world.

8. 258 七 The 1970s: A Chef Stepmom Raises Kids to Become Rich 七零：主厨后妈养崽成首富 Moon Bright, Stars Resign月明星辞Modern Romance412k WordsCompleted The rating just came out today, so it’ll go up later. [Stunning young stepmom X dependable, fatherly cop] [Transmigration + time travel + sweet romance + raising a child + wish fulfillment + fight back against anyone who crosses you + storage space] Both leads are each other’s one and only! The child is the adopted son of her husband’s fallen comrade! The heroine is rich and bold both before and after she transmigrates! Qiao Yan, executive chef at a five-star hotel restaurant, opens her eyes and 6.2kReads8.2Score1.1kShelves

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   A modern star chef traveled through the 1970s and became a second-married daughter-in-law with a child. The heroine has the convenience of space and modern travel, improves the life of her family with her excellent cooking skills, warms the poor baby with her heart, builds her career step by step, and slowly gets along with the calm military hero, living a stable and happy life.

9. 259 重 Reborn in the 1960s, Granny Beats Her Unfilial Son 重生六零，气得老太太拳打不孝子 A Cha in the Misty Rain阿茶烟雨Modern Romance153k WordsCompleted Zhang Lan was reborn after her own son and his new wife sent her back to the countryside to fend for herself. In her final days, only her former daughter-in-law stayed by her side, caring for her with the help of her grandchildren. Zhang Lan asked herself: she might not have been the best mother to her son, but she had given him nearly everything she could. When he wanted a divorce, claiming their arranged marriage was a feudal relic, she played the villain and helped them split up. As a result, 130Reads—Score—Shelves

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   🍌🍌🍌In the first life, Zhang Lan was wronged by a vixen. The point is that her son didn't believe in her either, so she was thrown to the train station by her own son and left. In her new life, she wanted to change her destiny, be her own master, and beat her son until he doubted his life.

10. 260 七 The Seventies Compound: A Family with Children 七零大院，家有儿女 Cheng An'an, Don't Get a Tattoo程安安不要纹身啊Modern Romance782k WordsOngoing [No rebirth or transmigration, off-the-charts chemistry | Talented daughter of a condemned family × Upright, loyal military officer | Marriage Before Love + sweet romance + healing in a bygone era] 💥 A ruthless devil by day, a starving wolf by night! Yang Yi, the army's top combat champion, makes even the new recruits' legs shake at the sound of his footsteps. But when he gets home, “I haven't seen you in half a month. I've missed you like crazy.” He pins her against the door, his rough fingerti 1.1kReads—Score103Shelves

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    All the characters are natives. The heroine Wen Zhiyun is an intellectual who married Yang Yi, a military ruffian. She is soft and strong, and the male is the outsider and the girl is the inside. In that special era, she managed her own ordinary and warm family with great composure and cooked delicious food. The two of them gave birth to a pair of twins.

11. 261 八 The 1980s: A Young Widow's Matchmaking Days in the Compound 八零：大院儿小寡妇相亲记 Xi Yang Picks the Moon熙阳拾月Modern Romance247k WordsCompleted [Charming Widow × Gentle Widower] [Everyday Family Life + Lighthearted Comedy + Not a Power Fantasy + Slow-Burning Romance + No Golden Finger] Pretty widow Ye Xiaowan thinks, so what if I’m a widow? Does being a widow mean I have to spend every day looking unkempt and crying my eyes out? No way! She’s going to dress beautifully and live with her head held high. But to keep her daughter from being called a “fatherless little brat,” she sets off on a series of ridiculous blind dates. Later, she no 108Reads6.0Score—Shelves

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    True Widow, a non-refreshing period novel, very down-to-earth

12. 262 七 The Leading Lady of a 1970s Military Marriage: I Seize the Moment and Make a Fortune 七零军婚大女主，手握风口暴富 Camellia Oil007山茶油007Modern Romance158k WordsOngoing [1970s + transmigration + orphaned heroine with no awful relatives + ordinary-born male lead who makes his own way + no pocket dimension or golden finger + military marriage + strong female lead] Synopsis: Overnight, she transmigrates into the body of an orphaned girl in the 1970s, with no father or mother. A perfect hand from the start. Ning Qingshang has no System or pocket dimension, but her mind is filled with decades of future trends. She knows every policy opportunity and every chance to 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This one is definitely not exaggerated. The heroine has no system, no space, and she is not traveling through the book, she is just traveling through time and knowing the outlet in advance.

13. 263 重 Reborn Tour Guide Strikes It Rich! 重生导游来吸金！ Le Muxi乐沐昔Modern Romance459k WordsCompleted 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 63Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Rebirth depends on hard work, a smart and capable little tour guide like Xia Xiaolan

14. 264 中 Starting Out as a Vocational School Student, I Worked My Factory to the Bone 中专生开局，我把工厂卷疯了 Peach Heart Rainbow桃心彩虹Modern Romance542k WordsOngoing A modern quality-control worker transmigrates to the famine years of the 1960s. The moment she opens her eyes, she faces a desperate situation: the high school entrance exam has been suspended, and she's being forced to go to the countryside. To avoid being sent down, she promptly skips grades, studies hard, gets into a technical secondary school, and secures a stable job at a state-owned enterprise, successfully escaping that fate. She doesn't have any miraculous talent that will make her famou 31.5kReads8.2Score3.2kShelves

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    Be smart! The heroine was admitted to a technical secondary school and assigned to a state-owned factory. Warm daily life + master modern mechanical knowledge and work hard to build a career.

15. 265 重 Reborn in the 1970s: Enlisting with a Spirit Spring 重生七零：带着灵泉去当兵 Nope非也吖Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Reborn in a single moment, Su Yao returns to 1976 with a Spirit Spring space. She enlists in the army and sets out on the path to turn her life around! In the military, she uses her skills to put fake sweethearts in their place, crushes every scumbag, and rises through the ranks until she becomes a legendary female soldier admired by all! He is the military’s cold and proud prodigy, the Gu family’s heir. Unstoppable on the battlefield and a detached observer of political schemes, he has eyes onl 1.8kReads7.9Score183Shelves

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    [Make faces]

16. 266 重 Reborn as a Top-Tier Star Heiress: The Rich Fight Over Me 重生商界顶流千金：豪门疯抢 Light-Sugar Jinjin微糖金金Modern Romance581k WordsCompleted [Revenge against scumbags + forced possession + reborn heroine + romantic rivals competing] [Sweet-faced, scheming seductress × unhinged heir / abstinent CEO / rugged military king / refined but depraved bureau chief / financial predator] [In her past life, she was abandoned by her own family, betrayed by the one she loved, and bullied and framed, until she lost her reputation and died with bitterness in her heart!] [Reborn in the year 2000, Li Muan returns from the ashes with memories steeped i 359Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It combines business, family, emotion and other elements, and the plot is full of tension.

17. 267 六 A Beauty from the Sixties Marries into a Powerful Family: The Chaste Commander Is So Dashing 六零美人嫁高门，禁欲首长太威猛 Dewdrop White露水白Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [1970s military marriage + a powerful military family’s long-laid plans + a radiant, alluring actress who falls for his looks + sweet everyday life + no pocket dimension] Jiang Suisui transmigrated into a book as a cannon-fodder character and became engaged to a third-generation military family heir. Her adoptive father used her to get promoted, and after her death, her younger sister took her place as the bride. Half a year into the marriage, her husband died, and she married her brother-in-law 17.8kReads8.8Score2kShelves
18. 268 开 Sixty Years of Famine: From the Start, the Lottery System Takes Me to the Top 开局60灾荒年：抽奖系统带我飞 Auntie Li李姨姨Modern Romance632k WordsOngoing (The rating just opened and will rise as more people read) [Period setting + System + devoted couple + transmigration + university + self-interest + becoming beautiful] Transmigrating into the child bride of 1960, Li Handi starves to death on her way to work in the fields. Bought for ten jin of coarse grain, she is the Qi family's quietest laborer, a country girl her college-student fiancé is ashamed to mention. When she opens her eyes again, a lottery System has appeared in her mind. Lottery Sy 257Reads8.2Score114Shelves

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    This. . .

19. 269 对 The Foil Says Nothing, Just Keeps Snatching the Lucky One’s Fortunes 对照组不语，只一味抢夺福宝机缘 Ci Shen辞燊Modern Romance502k WordsCompleted [Period setting + Pocket dimension + Strong female lead + Everyday family life + Cannon-fodder comeback + Self-interest] Cheng Wangshu had lived in poverty for most of her life. She had just received news that her family home was slated for demolition when she got so excited that she laughed herself to death without catching her breath. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself inside a period novel about a darling blessed by fortune and adored by everyone. But she wasn't the heroine. Sh 9.3kReads7.8Score664Shelves

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    The heroine passes through the book, cannon fodder counterattacks, steals the opportunity of the brainless heroine in the book, becomes the heroine, and changes the tragic fate of the family

20. 270 重 Back to the 1970s: A Village Girl's Path Beyond the World 重回七零年代，村女的破界之路 Green Grain Shining on the Fields青禾照野Modern Romance270k WordsOngoing [Elderly woman + reborn + 1970s + dumping a scumbag + no romance + family life + spatial storage] After being angered to death at the age of seventy, Zhou Qiuying is reborn in 1975. In 1975 in her previous life, Zhou Qiuying was an eighteen-year-old country girl. She gave up her secure job as an elementary school teacher to marry an educated youth sent down to the countryside. In return, her husband cruelly abandoned her after passing the college entrance exam, and her loved ones died tragical 115Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Excellent chronicle, highly recommended!

21. 271 糙 The Rugged Man’s Overwhelming Love: His Sweet Little Wife Falls for Him 糙汉强势爱，娇软小媳妇沦陷了 Su Jiabai苏加白Modern Romance1.3M WordsOngoing Originally titled “A Lonely Bed Is Hard to Bear, While the Rugged Neighbor Scratches at Her Wall Night After Night” [lonely nights / maximum sweetness / period setting / delicate beauty / devoted love / slow-burn romance / building wealth / glimpses of an ensemble cast / love at first sight / close proximity / sisters-in-law as foils] Delicate young wife × iron-willed, rugged man Hua Xiaoyue is left alone in an empty bed, the long nights hard to endure. Her family scolds her, her in-laws berate 7.3kReads8.5Score461Shelves

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    Three meals a day, four seasons, fireworks and flowing water in the farmhouse

22. 272 七 Wang Family Village in the Famine Years of the Seventies 七零荒年王家村 Lone Shepherd独牧人Urban203k WordsCompleted [Period Fiction + Rural Life + No System or Pocket Dimension] This book tells the story of Wang Fugui and his family, villagers in Wangjia Village in the 1970s. Wang Fugui is timid by nature. When the family runs out of food, he forces his wife, Jiang Xiurong, to ask the production team captain, Wang Xiaoyang, for grain. Wang Xiaoyang has been lusting after her for ages. When Wang Xiaoyang tries to assault her, their eldest son, Wang Peng, steps in. Again and again, he exposes Wang Xiaoyang's sc 5.9kReads6.9Score285Shelves
23. 273 重 Reborn in 1985: I'm Focused on Making Money, but Young Master Lu Is Chasing Me 重生八五：一心搞钱，陆少追疯了 Easygoing Fish悠忧鱼Modern Romance414k WordsOngoing [Rebirth + Period Setting + No Golden Finger + Comeback + Business Battles + Mystery of Her Origins + Power Couple] In her previous life, Su Hanxue gave everything for her family, only to be forced into a marriage that served their interests. She suffered abuse after the wedding, until her husband pushed her into the freezing river and drowned her. He then used the payout from her accident insurance to live it up with his mistress. In this life, she fights with all her strength to refuse the mar 33Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The heroine is focused on making money, not love-minded, and not mentally retarded.

24. 274 死 Death Penalty Rose 死刑玫瑰 Sword Mountain剑山Modern Romance345k WordsCompleted A revenge story, rural romance, life as a migrant worker, the tricks of the city, and the good and evil in human nature. Rose was a country girl. At eighteen, she went away with a relative to find work, only to be sold. From then on, her life was full of twists and turns. She missed out on true love, fell into a den of wolves, and wished she were dead. When Rose disappeared, Chen Shuang searched frantically for her, but never found the woman he loved. Following one small lead nearly got him beat 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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    After saving for many days, I can spend a few days of free time.

25. 275 六 The Sixties Compound: I Have a Bad Temper, So I Beat People Up from the Start 六零大院：暴脾气不装开局就揍人 My Name Is Alu我叫阿绿Modern Romance509k WordsCompleted [Era × Rebirth × Military Industrial Compound × Everyday Family Life × Idiot System × Ensemble Cast × Romance × No Self-Torment] While other reborn people pretend to be sweet and obedient, Wen Shuqin has no intention of living a stifled life. Back at age ten, she's the real deal. There's no need to hide who she is. If anyone dares to mess with her, she won't let them get away with it. If they want a fight, they'll get one. Because of this, one member after another of the Wen family suspects she' 548Reads—Score105Shelves

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    After the heroine was reborn, she returned to the pre-liberation period one night. She felt very unhappy. She dealt with her unreliable biological father and cousin, and then the two of them were reborn. The three of them didn't act. Everyone thought they were possessed by ghosts, and the family started to do all kinds of crazy things.

26. 276 重 Reborn in 1976, My Father-in-Law Hopes I Die Every Day 重生1976，岳父天天盼我死 Weird-Tasting Bullfrog怪味牛蛙Urban1.9M WordsOngoing [Rebirth + period setting + logging + no System] In his previous life, Chen Beishan was the chairman of a timber conglomerate worth tens of billions. As he died at his rosewood desk, the last document he received wasn’t an obituary. It was a lawyer’s letter from his son, contesting the inheritance. He opens his eyes in 1976, in the Greater Khingan Range, at minus forty-two degrees. He’s now the “softie Beishan” everyone at the logging camp calls a coward: a good-for-nothing who abandoned his p 1.3kReads6.6Score108Shelves

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    A very high-quality book about the rebirth of the times. The plot is compact, the setting is novel, unsystematic, and the writing is rich and delicate. It has the familiarity of a period drama. The story of rising from a lumberjack in a forest farm in the Northeast gives a strong sense of immersion.

27. 277 熬 She Outlived the Other Woman, Then Was Reborn 熬死小三，她又重生啦 Meow, Meow猫啊咪啊Modern Romance545k WordsOngoing [Not a palace-intrigue novel, not a farming novel: the heroine's growth and the redemption of a life.] Bai Chunyu had a miserable life in her previous life. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the 1970s, before any of those tragedies had happened! She decisively cut ties with her family, severing them once and for all. She would protect her genius little daughter with her life. Her family's ancestral silver bangle concealed a pocket dimension, stocked to the brim with supplies. S 128Reads7.5Score—Shelves

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    You can take a look.

28. 278 重 Back to the 1990s: I'm Done Being a Good Girl 重回九零，不做乖乖女 Meow, Meow猫啊咪啊Modern Romance583k WordsCompleted [Lighthearted Comedy + Inspirational Youth + Reborn and Doted on by Everyone + Healing] Completed. He Laifa still hasn’t woken up. No one knows if she ever will, but her passion, her hard work, her determination, and her kindness and intelligence have all affected the people around her. The people of Yangjiatun will never forget her. The people of Hejiabao will never forget her. He, and all the others, keep striving in their own posts, shining brightly. She is strength. She is hope. She is their 147Reads8.9Score—Shelves
29. 279 金 The Award-Winning Nanny Reborn with a Professor's Book Collection! 金牌保姆带教授藏书重生啦！ Meow, Meow猫啊咪啊Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [Reborn + family bonds + everyone’s favorite + healing + mystery] The main story is complete, with some bonus chapters in the works. Feel free to dive in. Lin Chuyi was a top-tier caregiver who spent more than a decade looking after an elderly professor and his wife. They treated her like their own daughter. Before they died, they left her an inheritance and a jade pendant, which sent her back to the age of eighteen. The pendant is a key, and the library is a space connecting her past and future 485Reads9.2Score100Shelves
30. 280 七 Laid-Back Days in the Seventies: My Best Friend Builds a Fortune While I Squander One 七零摆烂日常：闺蜜兴家我败家 Hua Youzi花幽子Modern Romance277k WordsOngoing [Dual transmigration + System + satisfying period story + best friends pampering each other + everyday riches] The two women transmigrate to the 1970s with a System. In these hard times, when everyone is tightening their belts just to get by, they live like a blissfully happy couple. Yun Qian throws herself into her career and boldly declares, “I love the thrill of making money and competing for success! I want my best friend and family, Tangtang, to be able to spend money without a care in the 24Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Look at these two people traveling through the 1970s with the system. In this difficult time when everyone was tightening their belts for food and clothing, the two lived their lives like a couple of gods. Yun Qian is crazy about his career and says domineeringly: "I just like the thrill of fighting for money! I want my best friend Tangtang to spend money fearlessly." Tangtang Mi Chong: "I want to eat the best and use the best! Qianqian is responsible for making money, and I want to be Qianqian's biggest loser on the way to making money!" One is working hard to make money, the other is working hard to spend money. These two best friends survived the hard times and became the most envied existences in the country!

31. 281 1 Another Spring of the 1977 College Entrance Exam 1977年高考又一春 Young Master Xiaoxiao孝孝公子Modern Romance3.4M WordsOngoing [A story-driven take on history. Note: There is no single fixed protagonist. Multiple leads reflect the changes of the era and offer a full picture of the 1977 restoration of the college entrance exam.] [The story focuses on several main characters: Hu Wei and Wang Ting, Pan Xia, and Lu Xiaoyun. Their stories weave in and out according to the timeline. If you prefer to follow one character at a time, you can read their chapters in sequence for a complete biography. The other characters may only 5kReads8.0Score337Shelves

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    Achieve the top spot in the college entrance examination and seize the opportunity to make a fortune! Gorgeous wife, hot child! The story is short, the plot is compact, and the text is warm and heartwarming! I strongly recommend this book👍[Thinking] You think it is a novel, but it is actually a very interesting historical record. It focuses on small characters. Hundreds of typical characters are based on real people and real stories. Those born in the 50s, 60s, and 70s should read it. Maybe they can find stories that mark themselves or that era. The story is touching and the plot is well arranged. It should be said that it is a good novel in historical records and a good historical story in a novel.

32. 282 咱 Our Family 咱们家 E Fo Ge鄂佛歌Urban1.4M WordsCompleted [No formulaic plot][Not a wish-fulfillment story][No cheat abilities][Traditional][Realistic][Period][Countryside][Hardship] A boy who is both bad and good, a family made up of people with no blood ties, a difficult yet sweet golden age, and a story full of humor and warmth... Beginning in the 1980s, this novel spans forty years and strives to recreate the changes of the times, telling the story of one person's growth. Above all, this is a realistic story, with both sweetness and heartbreak. Rea 63.6kReads9.3Score5.9kShelves

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    Nice chronology

33. 283 我 My Elders 我的长辈 Lion Mound狮子墩Modern Romance335k WordsCompleted In the 1980s, as people flock to the cities, all kinds of stories unfold! Mu Fang suffers from asthma, so many people keep their distance. After several unsuccessful matchmaking attempts, she meets someone on a day when sleet begins to fall. It feels like fate has brought them together, and they fall in love at first sight. Defying her family’s objections, Mu Fang marries her second uncle, who is more than ten years her senior. She never looks down on him for being poor and from the countryside, 233Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 284 雪 Snowflake Town 雪粒镇 Sister Corpse尸姐Modern Romance130k WordsCompleted [Ji Handeng, a fragile, sickly, dark-minded younger brother x Xu Qiongqiong, a kind, resilient older sister who loves money] [Modern romance + mutual salvation + healing + older woman/younger man romance + revenge + cover-up + high-stakes twists] Xu Qiongqiong and Ji Handeng are siblings with no blood ties. In a small, poor town full of secrets, they rely on each other and keep one another warm. Their days hold happiness and pain, darkness and budding affection. Their shared goal is to leave Xue 102.5kReads9.7Score13.6kShelves
35. 285 潇 The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain 潇潇雨声迟 Meng Zhiwan孟栀晚Modern Romance120k WordsCompleted Years after graduation, a gossip post begins circulating on the message board for City Experimental School. The school's 2011 beauty, Ye Xiao, and its most handsome boy from the same year, Ruan Yusheng, are a couple. Their classmates, who know them well, rush over to set the record straight: it's pure rumor. There was never any spark between the two of them. Ye Xiao's profile even says, “Person I hate most: Ruan Yusheng.” People in the know go so far as to say, “Ye Xiao feels nothing but hatred 104.6kReads9.7Score16.7kShelves
36. 286 回 Memories of 1931: Hunting, Fighting the Japanese, and Raising a Family 回忆一九三一养家打猎打鬼子日子 Broken Little Toe骨折得小脚趾Urban2.8M WordsOngoing In 1931, the Japanese invaded China. Ling Feng hunted to feed his family and fought the Japanese to capture supplies. He and his good brothers enjoyed the good life, built houses, and got married. 14.7kReads8.5Score944Shelves

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    [Smile][smile]

37. 287 秦 Qin's Replacement 秦替 Heaven's Way Is Strong6729天行健6729Historical1.4M WordsOngoing Qin's Substitute In 1991, Zhang Daode, a boy from a small town in southwestern Hunan, studied hard and earned excellent results on his high school entrance exam. But someone with power took his place, crushing his hopes of continuing his education and forcing him into a life at the bottom of society as a bricklayer who knew nothing but hardship. Then a sudden fall at a construction site turned his life upside down. When he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated to the end of the Warring States p 1.8kReads9.2Score204Shelves

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    A story to read with your mind

38. 288 四 Siheyuan: Starting at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, I Crush the Courtyard’s Troublemakers 四合院：从供销社开始，横推众禽 Heaven's Way Is Strong6729天行健6729Male-Channel Fanfiction290k WordsOngoing Synopsis of "Siheyuan: Starting at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, I Crush the Whole Courtyard" Business whiz Lin Xiangyang transmigrates to 1962 by chance, taking over his father’s job as a procurement officer at the Red Star Supply and Marketing Cooperative. He also activates the Super Supply and Marketing Cooperative System, gaining abilities such as spatial storage, accelerated production, and trade with the future. These powers help him carefully navigate an era of scarcity. As soon a 1Reads8.4Score—Shelves
39. 289 游 After Games Invade, I Settle the Score with Campus Loan Sharks 游戏入侵后，我清算了校园贷 Heaven's Way Is Strong6729天行健6729Urban240k WordsOngoing Set in a modern city, with Sun Yat-sen University’s three campuses and five schools as its central setting, an immersive game called "Era Invasion" suddenly overlays reality without distinction. Its rules become deeply entwined with the real world: completing missions can awaken supernatural abilities and grant supplies, while failure triggers real-world penalties such as ruined credit, physical injuries, or doubled debts. The campus loan platforms that once operated as usual mutate into the rea —Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 290 我 In the Seventies, I Was Stealing Trash... Wasn't I? 我在七零年代偷，垃圾？ Xi Xiaoai喜小爱Modern Romance277k WordsCompleted [1970s + useless golden finger + career-focused heroine + Zhongguancun startup + uplifting + romance pairing + few awful characters] Lin Zhiliang transmigrated into the body of a pitiful girl in 1976. She thought she could use the golden finger from her past life to change her fate, but who knew her “trash-picking System” and the original host’s “thieving System” would start fighting on the spot? The two golden fingers destroyed each other, and together they gave birth to a “freak”: the Trash- 209Reads—Score—Shelves

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    As soon as the heroine traveled through time, the built-in trash-picking system fought with the original owner's thief system, and they both died, and then a trash-stealing system was born. All kinds of stealing other people's junk [laughing and crying] is a novel about entrepreneurship in the era. In the later period, she started a successful career in Zhongguancun. Hahahaha, my favorite career-minded heroine.

41. 291 为 A Career in Public Service 为民官路 At Ease and Unrestrained安心无忌Urban1.8M WordsOngoing [A gritty, realistic tale of ambition and struggle in the government ranks] In 1990, top student Zhen Weimin offends the wrong people and gets kicked down to a poor rural township. Everyone thinks his life is over. But he is determined to make flowers bloom among the thorns. He breaks through obstacles with his knowledge and grounds himself in his conscience, with every step in sync with the pulse of the times. Starting in the township, he moves forward one step at a time. This is a true chronic 9.6kReads9.2Score925Shelves

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    It has a strong sense of the times and is a hard-core counterattack on Zhi Shuang's officialdom novel. It is well worth reading.

42. 292 七 Bullet Comments Fill the Sky in the 1970s, and the Pretty Village Girl Moves to the City 七零弹幕满天飞，漂亮村姑进城啦 My Name Is Alu我叫阿绿Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Everyday Family Life + Everyone’s Darling + Devoted Couple + Livestreaming + Ensemble Cast] [Native-Born Heroine + Transmigrated Hero] Jiang Menglian may be a country girl, but she has been cherished and doted on since childhood. When her sister-in-law gets pregnant, her family tricks her into going to look after her during her postpartum confinement. The moment Jiang Menglian steps into the residential compound, the comments flying across the sky make her feel as though she’s stumbled into a l 153Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The heroine is an indigenous woman. The virtue of hard work in the period novels is that the former is not hardworking. When she has to work, she often exchanges things with people. As for virtue, beauty is extremely beautiful, and virtue still exists. The male protagonist is a time traveler, and there is also a reborn girl with a live broadcast system. In order to eat melons, the reborn girl chases the heroine's butt every day, just to show the audience something different, a daily melon-eating story about short-sighted parents.

43. 293 扮 Putting on a Tough Act in a Siheyuan: A Baby Turns the Tables on the Beasts 扮吒我穿四合院，婴儿逆袭众禽血 Wilted Greens and Bean Sprouts青菜烂豆芽Male-Channel Fanfiction142k WordsOngoing Siheyuan + multiple heroines + tormenting the birds + national destiny + System + only I wield magic Warning: This book is suited for reading, not listening. If you embarrass yourself, don't blame me. Wait! I was just dressing up as Nezha and selling knockoff Nezha dolls. How did I transmigrate again? Besides, I'm already middle-aged. Why am I pulling off a baby's comeback? What the hell kind of comeback is that? How can a baby stage a comeback? Aren't all babies equal? It's not like a comeback 189Reads6.3Score—Shelves

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    It's a period piece that you can read with your mind. It's not outrageous or exaggerated. It's like traveling back to the courtyard houses of the 1950s.

44. 294 首 Commander, Someone Swapped Your Wife! 首长，你媳妇被人掉包了 Over Ten Thousand a Day日收过万Modern Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + Substitute Marriage + Military Marriage + Stepmom + Mutual First Love] (Fictional Military Marriage + Everyday Life as a Military Wife) Yang Niannian, a college student, was so furious after losing ten ranked matches in a row in Honor of Kings that she blacked out and transmigrated to the 1980s. The moment she opened her eyes, her mother was pressuring her to marry, sobbing and sniffling all over her. “Lu Shishen is a soldier with a secure government job. If you marry him, you’ 86.4kReads9.2Score11.1kShelves

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    🍎I have really read these books over and over again, especially the first one, which I have finished three times and am about to read four. It is really beautiful. I highly recommend this book to bookworms with more than ten years of experience. The story is compact and not draggy. The heroine's character is rare, she can't stand it and she can't get used to it, she will take revenge on the spot if she has any grudges.

45. 295 带 Taking the Taobao System with Me to the 1970s 带着淘宝系统穿七零 2 Chuan2川Modern Romance2.1M WordsCompleted Technically minded military officer VS powerful, down-to-earth woman; the heroine builds her career. The System plays a small role early on, then gets to take it easy. Period setting + comedy + both leads devoted only to each other “When a lie-flat System meets a crazy Host” Other people transmigrate to the 1970s: fight nasty relatives, make money, and marry a soldier. Xiang Nuan transmigrates to the 1970s: ✓ Fails to be reborn six times, then angrily kicks the coffin lid off ✓ Hacks her relativ 29.1kReads9.4Score3.5kShelves
46. 296 媳 After His Wife Joins the National Service, Her Man and Child Miss Her Like Crazy 媳妇上交国家后，男人和娃想疯了 One Smile Captivates the Orange一笑倾橙Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [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 33.8kReads9.5Score5kShelves
47. 297 女 After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Took the Heroine Home as My Sister-in-Law 女配穿书后把女主拐来做嫂子 Iron Empress Dowager铁太后Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted After Tang Tian is hit on the head with a brick, she transmigrates into a period novel, as a nobody not even important enough to be cannon fodder. She's the lovesick girl the male lead meets in the countryside, and a stumbling block on his way back to the city. With a new soul inside her, Tang Tian kicks the male lead to the curb without hesitation. She tells everyone he's hideous, with enormous nostrils that give her nightmares every night. A certain soldier quietly picks up a little mirror. Ye 23.1kReads9.4Score2.7kShelves
48. 298 闺 Best Friends Transmigrate Into a Book Together! Marry a Rough-and-Ready Man! If You Leave, I’m Leaving Too 闺蜜齐穿书！嫁糙汉！你离我也离 Salt and Pepper Chicken Wings椒盐鸡翅块Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + rough-and-tough hero + sweet romance + face-slapping + daily life + building a fortune + raising kids] The moment Shen Wu opened her eyes, she saw a man who was exactly her type. Realizing she had transmigrated into a book, she then heard a familiar voice and understood that she wasn't the only one who had transmigrated: her best friend had come along too, and now they were sisters-in-law... The two of them had entered a novel written by someone who envied them. In 147.6kReads9.4Score22.3kShelves
49. 299 重 Reborn in the 1960s: The Sweetheart of the Three-Unit Courtyard Makes Money to Support Her Family 重生六零，三合院小娇娇赚钱养家 The Wind Moves, the Heart Stirs风动心动Modern Romance523k WordsCompleted [Period setting + System + space + devoted couple + heroine pursues hero + educated youth + workers + science and technology professionals] This story is a cozy twenty-six degrees, with a touch of sweetness. The heroine reaches the peak of life through her own hard work! Poor student Dan Qingmo transmigrates! Not only does she experience the movement to the countryside and the Third Front campaign, she also catches the wave of reform and opening up! Take a gamble, and turn a bicycle into a motor 3.4kReads9.3Score411Shelves
50. 300 老 My Old Home Connects to the Modern World: A Village Girl's 1970s Office-Worker Life 老宅通现代：七零村花的社畜日常 Wang Buhui王不悔Modern Romance1.9M WordsCompleted [From the 1970s to the modern day] Chen Qiaoyu, born and raised in the 1970s, has been feeling a little panicked lately. She and her younger brother were driven out by their father and stepmother, sent to live in the dilapidated old Chen family home with only two threadbare quilts. Who could have guessed that the crumbling old house hid a passage to another era? [From then on, Chen Qiaoyu begins traveling back and forth between the 1970s and the modern day every day] The villagers of Yaojia Vil 12.8kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves

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