Looking for Good Stories Set in a Specific Historical Era, with Excellent Writing 求好看的年代文，文笔要好

1. 151 穿 After Transmigrating into a Widow, the Village Heartthrob Sets His Sights on Me 穿成寡妇后我被村草盯上了 Firecracker Zhao Liu火火地赵六Modern Romance505k WordsCompleted [Period setting + transmigration + devoted husband + sweet and satisfying + putting scumbags in their place + food + farming] Ye Xiaoduo opened her eyes in a daze. Not only had life been turned back forty years, she had also become a young widow. Her mother-in-law was full of schemes, and her sister-in-law stirred up trouble every day. No matter. You’re crazy, and so am I. I’ve got itchy hands and love beating people. You’ll get your fill. Her mother-in-law refused to accept defeat and carried o —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Man: I care about you. I have always cared about you. Do you care about me? Whether you care or not, you are my partner. Female: You can still play like this.

2. 152 重 Reborn in the Nineties: A Golden Canary in Love 重生九零，情场金丝雀 Zhen Huan from Jade Island玉岛的甄嬛Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted A strong female lead. The romance was added later. Though it starts from a dance hall and includes things like keeping a canary, the story is quite serious, so please don't read too much into that. The plot comes first. It mainly follows the rough-and-tumble rise of a first-generation entrepreneur thirty years ago. All the characters are adults with brains, and they know and obey the law. If you're looking for an intense love story where the characters disregard the law and basic decency just to 2.5kReads9.1Score202Shelves

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   I really have no control over writing.

3. 153 行 Somebody Somewhere in the Crowd 行走在人海中的某某某 I Promise You the Best Years我许年华Modern Romance309k WordsCompleted There is only one true heroism in the world: to see life as it is and still love it. Whether it’s the wind blowing through a valley, clouds drifting over the sea, poplar trees by the roadside, foxtail grass on a hillside, or people, Zhao Xiaoqiu thinks they’re all much the same, aren’t they? 1.4kReads9.2Score114Shelves

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   [Almost crying][Send heart][What][Thinking]

4. 154 重 Reborn 20 Years Ago: From Street Tough to Upstanding Young Man 重生20年从顽主到四有青年 Mr. Red Flag红旗先生Urban1.7M WordsCompleted [Reborn] [No System] [Ensemble cast] [Everyday life] [Business rivalry] [Romance] [Martial world] Does being reborn count as rebirth if you have no memories of your past life? In 2024, business tycoon Chen Yuanping is framed and sent back to the autumn of his nineteenth year. A completely different life begins... At the foot of the imperial city, in Liulichang. A group of young people born in the sixties and seventies leave the crowded courtyard houses in the hutongs, carrying their dreams 3.8kReads7.5Score219Shelves

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   At least works with a score of nine or above are probably unconventional and unsatisfactory and no one will read them. Beijing flavor novels. If you have experience, you can click to read it.

5. 155 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 13.5kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves

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   This is one of the most well-written articles I've seen on this app, and the heroine doesn't have any major criticisms. It's nice.

6. 156 七 The ’70s: The Chaste War God She Teased Makes Her Heart Tremble 七零，她撩的禁欲战爷心尖颤 Sanli Chun三里纯Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Devoted couple + face-slapping + historical era + educated youth + space + inspiring] After years of hard work, Huo Xibao finally owned a house, a car, and savings by the time she turned thirty. Then, when she opened her eyes again, she had become a pitiful girl in the 1970s. This was a disaster! She hadn’t even had the chance to enjoy all the wealth she’d worked so hard to earn! Huo Xibao was consumed with regret. But even in this desperately poor life, someone still wanted to squeeze every la 357Reads8.8Score—Shelves

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   A must-recommend book

7. 157 被 The Time Left Behind 被遗拾的时光 Radiant Elegance逸品芳华Modern Romance466k WordsCompleted My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support gives me the motivation to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! This is a period novel set close to real life, following three generations through different eras, from the War of Resistance Against Japan and the turmoil of the Chinese Civil War to the educated youth years and modern city life. It tells how they struggled against the tide of social change and forged different paths 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   If you watch it, you will enter that crazy era

8. 158 七 The 1970s: Two Cannon Fodder Characters Marry and Turn Their Bad Luck Around 七零：两个炮灰结婚后负负得正了 Still as the Sun静似骄阳Modern Romance749k WordsCompleted [The animated adaptation is now online] [Full-cast audio drama available] [Period setting + educated youth + transmigrate into a book + pocket dimension + inspirational] Lu Xia transmigrated into the body of an educated youth in the 1970s, a girl whose parents didn’t care for her and who had been sent to the countryside in her elder sister’s place. Remembering how the original owner had always been mistreated, Lu Xia couldn’t stand for it. She sold the job, gave her family a hefty financial hit, 50.4kReads9.0Score5kShelves

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   Ordinary life, I like it

9. 159 穿 After I Transmigrated into a Book, My Space Helped Me Build a Better Life 穿书后空间带我过上好日子 Free Spirit自由家Modern Romance702k WordsCompleted The Xu family's daughter had been in poor health since childhood, but her family cherished her like a precious jewel. Outsiders waited for the Xu family to become a laughingstock. But once she recovered, the Xu family's fortunes took off overnight. Xu Qingya, who had transmigrated into a book, now had a loving family and friends. To protect this happiness, she used her intelligence and knowledge to help her family grow rich, and along the way, she found a wonderful love. 1.3kReads6.9Score101Shelves

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   The heroine wears a book, has space for golden fingers, has supplies, and can plant. The male protagonist is an educated youth who went to the countryside. The emotional line is clear, the protagonist's IQ is online, the outlook on life is normal, and the whole text is free of abuse.

10. 160 重 Back to the 1970s: Becoming the Woman Behind the Commander 重回七零：做首长背后的女人 Short on Paper, Long on Love by纸短情长byModern Romance383k WordsCompleted [Period piece + reborn + family life + military marriage + childhood sweethearts] Xia Qian wakes up to find herself reborn in the 1970s. Heaven has given her a chance to live her life over. This time, she opens a shop and goes into business, builds a national enterprise, takes the college entrance exam, and studies law, working to advance the rule of law while relentlessly pursuing Han Mo, her childhood sweetheart from her previous life. Han Mo is an island-based military officer who retired fro 193Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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    This article is really well written. The female protagonist starts her own business by opening a cheongsam shop. The cheongsams described in it are really beautiful.

11. 161 八 The 1980s: The True Heiress Turns Dark, Tears Down the Green Tea, and Dumps Her Jerk Husband 八零：真千金黑化，撕绿茶踹渣夫 Tang Dachui汤大锤Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period setting + military marriage + face-slapping + sweet romance + love after marriage] The moment Ji Xiaoyue opened her eyes, she became the real daughter: timid and impossibly self-sacrificing. Her life as the real daughter was a miserable one: a biased father, a cheating scumbag, a shameless little green tea, and a lonely death with no one to claim her body. Ji Xiaoyue immediately made sure the scumbag and the little green tea were stuck with each other! Catch them in the act! I’ll get the 9.6kReads8.9Score1kShelves

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    Nice! There is no golden finger in the book, the male protagonist dotes on his wife, the female protagonist is smart and sober, the plot is crazy, there are so many top-notch things, it's crazy to kill!

12. 162 穿 Transmigrated to the Seventies on My Wedding Night! 穿到七零洞房当晚！ To Whom Can I Whisper My Feelings?脉脉同谁语Modern Romance613k WordsCompleted [Period setting · Sweet romance, feel-good story · Married first, fall in love later · No golden finger · No pocket dimension · Transmigration · Educated youth · Delicate beauty × rugged country man] Lan Qing transmigrates into another world and gets a new name: Lan Pingwu. From the start, she's thrown into her wedding night. Thinking it's a dream, she figures that if there's such a handsome man in it, with such a great body, she might as well go along with it... When she wakes up again, she r 4.5kReads8.4Score284Shelves

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    🌟3️⃣Wan is reading [Adoration] A super invincible and good-looking novel about the times [Adoration] Lan Qing became Lan Pingwu after traveling through time. At the beginning, he thought the wedding night was a dream and just followed the flow. After waking up, I found that the handsome man I picked up for free was in trouble both at home and outside. The man Lu Zhaoshen rescued the woman who jumped into the river and married her out of good intentions. He thought that life was about marrying a wife and having children, and it would be the same for anyone he married. However, after marriage, he felt uncomfortable when he saw his beautiful educated youth wife chatting and laughing with other men. He wanted to keep her to himself.

13. 163 回 Back in 1977, I Married the Queen of the Daughters' Kingdom 回到1977年，娶了女儿国国王 Ji Yuning季宇宁Urban2.2M WordsCompleted Ji Yuning transmigrated back to 1977. He went from being a 21-year-old educated youth returning to the city to a literary young man, a great poet, and a famous novelist. It was all thanks to his memories of his previous life and the books he copied. But his greatest reward was marrying a wife as beautiful as a fairy. 11.8kReads8.1Score789Shelves
14. 164 美 The Beauty Transmigrates to the Seventies: She Won’t Stay Back Home, She’s Going with the Army 美人穿七零，不留在老家，要随军 Songzi Mo松子茉Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Based on the original novel of the Red Fruit short drama “Transmigrated Into the 1970s: On Our Wedding Night, My Mother-in-Law Told Me to Live as a Widow.” [Period setting + military marriage + space + raising children] In a single moment, Zhou Zhitong transmigrates into a book and becomes a cannon-fodder military wife left behind in the countryside. She is destined to work herself to death before she turns thirty. Worst of all, her two children will be sold to traffickers by their wicked grandm 1.4kReads8.5Score240Shelves

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    Military Wedding Chronicles

15. 165 全 The Whole Family Transmigrates: 18 Ways to Survive in Ancient Times 全家穿越：古代生存十八法 The Butterfly Doesn't Want To蝴蝶不愿意Ancient Romance3.1M WordsCompleted The whole family transmigrates to ancient times after an accident. Whether that counts as good luck or bad luck is anyone’s guess. They’ve barely woken up when they find out the family has no money, no land, and a mountain of debt to repay. Not one of them has a golden finger, either. But the dog that came along with them is rather interesting. Could it be some kind of divine hound? This big family has to put food on the table, keep the household harmonious, and make progress in their studies. W 64.1kReads9.5Score7.2kShelves

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    Highly recommended, these two books are so good-looking and full of laughter that you can't stop laughing [laughing][laughing][laughing]

16. 166 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 4.2kReads9.3Score524Shelves

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    It's a period novel with a humorous heroine. The storyline is unconventional and there aren't so many top-notch characters. It makes the viewer feel good.

17. 167 疏 Sparse Ink Shines Through the Winter Chill 疏墨照岁寒 Meimei and Hehe美美与和和Urban189k WordsCompleted In an era of taboos, he boarded a train with no way back. Winter, 1973. Sui Muhan, a young intellectual sent to the Great Northern Wilderness, finally got leave to visit home and boarded the train back. He was the child of a “Black Category” family: his father was a professor locked away in a cowshed, and his mother, once a pianist, could only make pasteboard boxes. He silently endured the blizzards and denunciations of the Great Northern Wilderness, believing he had long ago lost the ability to 328Reads6.5Score100Shelves

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    The secrets of historical culture and cultural relics, unconventional, double nan, double strength, double purity

18. 168 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Urban2.7M 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. 14.5kReads8.4Score958Shelves

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    [Original Party][Original Party]

19. 169 七 The 1970s: My Son and His Dad Both Have Off-the-Charts IQs 七零：崽和崽他爹智商双爆表 Li Jia Qiqi黎家七七Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted {The short drama is now streaming ♥ Title: The Best Mom in a Period Novel} [Alternate-history period setting + transmigrating into a book + adorable child + cozy everyday life] After transmigrating into a book set in the 1970s, Su Taotao faced two choices: 1. Follow the original plot, abandon her husband and child, return to the city, and rekindle her romance with her childhood sweetheart; 2. Do nothing and wait for her husband of convenience to show up six months later and take her back to the 23.6kReads9.3Score2kShelves

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    It's good to watch, but it's a pity that it's not finished.

20. 170 重 Reborn: From the Start, I Save My Mute, Delicate Wife 重生回来：开局拯救哑巴小娇妻 Green Crispy Skin青色脆皮Urban232k WordsCompleted [Rebirth + Repentant Scumbag + Doting Dad + Devoted Husband with One Female Lead + Funny Everyday Life + Family Life + Revenge + Sweet Romance] In his previous life, the pretty widow in his village drugged him and set him up. He had no choice but to marry her, then leave his hometown with her and her adopted son. In the end, when he was old, his adopted son pulled the plug on him. He was reborn and woke up in the middle of the night in 1983. The widow came to his door, just like she had in his p 38Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The relationship between the couple is very delicately written in this book.

21. 171 独 Home on a Unicycle 独轮车上的家 Crimson Snow's Song绛雪吟Modern Romance116k WordsCompleted The novel follows Liu Shouren and his family from the late 1970s to the present day. As society changes and the countryside is transformed, they weather a tumultuous journey. Through stories from in and around the village, it portrays the lives, resilience, struggles, and growth of countless ordinary rural families across China... 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Both of these books are very good and worth reading carefully.

22. 172 青 Tales of Qingshiyu 青石峪往事 Crimson Snow's Song绛雪吟Urban204k WordsCompleted The story follows nearly half a century of change in Qingshiyu, a village in the Yimeng Mountains. As the mountain countryside is transformed, it portrays the full journey of rural China from the final years of collectivization to the new era of rural revitalization. It tells the stories of life in and beyond the village, exploring tradition and modernity, staying and leaving, survival and growth, and the profound tension between individual destinies and the tides of the times... 5Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 173 八 The 1980s: The Reborn Wife of the Future Richest Man 八零年代，首富早死的妻子重生了 The Cat on the Eaves房檐上的猫Modern Romance371k WordsCompleted In her previous life, Shen Nanqiao was a gold digger who clung to the son of a textile mill director, thinking she could live a carefree life as a rich man's wife from then on. After the wedding, she discovered that Fu Yuanzhou's title as the textile mill director's son was nothing but an empty title. Their marriage brought her not the slightest advantage. Instead, she was stuck with the petty grind of daily life, and her husband was a taciturn man who barely said a few words to her each day. Th 3.1kReads7.3Score233Shelves

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    Both of these books are about getting rich, basically starting a business and having children.

24. 174 无 Homeless, I Marry an Army Officer with a Hundred-Billion-Space 无家可归，我带百亿空间嫁军官 Third Tang Sister唐家三姐Modern Romance835k WordsOngoing [1980s military marriage + raising children + pocket dimension + everyday family life + building wealth + devoted husband] Jiang Ling, a billionaire CEO, dies tragically and transmigrates into a book. She should have become the happy heroine, but the villainess is reborn, turning Jiang Ling into a cannon-fodder side character. Forced to marry a short-lived military officer, she unexpectedly gains a super-powered pocket dimension. One of its missions is to make her marry that doomed officer. For 5.9kReads8.5Score549Shelves

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    Military marriage in the era, there is space, and the writing is okay

25. 175 我 I Land a Government Job by Gossiping in a Period Novel 我靠吃瓜在年代文里拿编制 Chen Xiaofan Who Loves Yellow Heart Greens喜欢黄心菜的陈小凡Modern Romance517k WordsCompleted This novel has undergone a major revision [transmigration; gossip; System; getting rich; male lead; transmigrate into a book set in the 1970s] Jiang Panyu's greatest passion in life was gossip. She was like a melon-eating mouse in a field, always showing up wherever there was juicy gossip, right at the heart of the action. One day, she got so caught up in watching two old ladies brawl that she completely lost herself in the excitement. A brick in one of the old ladies' hands sent her straight to 2.8kReads9.0Score235Shelves

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    I push myself

26. 176 重 Reborn: Fragrance Falls on Splendid Brocade 重生之香落锦绣 Chen Xiaofan Who Loves Yellow Heart Greens喜欢黄心菜的陈小凡Ancient Romance452k WordsCompleted Yang Lishu had plenty of regrets in her previous life. Reborn, her first order of business was to delay her mother’s trip back to her hometown for her great-uncle’s wife’s birthday celebration, avoiding a deadly trap. Yang Lishu’s life changed along with it, but after all the twists and turns, it was still that same person who took her hand and led her toward a life of splendor. 7.7kReads9.2Score760Shelves
27. 177 明 Mingzhu Plays the Villain in Quick Transmigration Worlds 明珠在快穿世界做恶人 Chen Xiaofan Who Loves Yellow Heart Greens喜欢黄心菜的陈小凡Ancient Romance206k WordsCompleted Zhou Mingzhu was no good person. Before she bound herself to the System, she had done every kind of evil and piled up a mountain of sins. By rights, someone like her should have been sent to the eighteenth level of hell. Yet, to her surprise, a System came looking for her and tasked her with earning merit to offset her past sins. Better to live badly than not at all, so Zhou Mingzhu readily bound herself to the System. In a nutshell: The growth story of a villainess Theme: Whether good or bad 29Reads5.9Score—Shelves
28. 178 小 The Alleyway: From Little Rascal to Science Top Scorer 小巷人家：从皮猴子到理科状元的逆袭之路！ Heartless Wordsmith Kun无情码字坤Urban1.1M WordsCompleted By chance, I ended up in the world of A Love for Dilemma and became the son of the feisty Song Ying. They say a feisty woman is brave, her feisty husband is cunning, and their son knows how to work with them. Under those circumstances, our family finally got a two-bedroom staff apartment at Suzhou No. 2 Cotton Mill. Next door lived the family of Zhuang Xiaoting, the person I would love most in my life. Huang Ling and Zhuang Chaoying’s tangled joys and sorrows were set to get back on track throug 914Reads7.0Score—Shelves

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    Go through the books and alleys, change Zhuang Chaoying and Wu Shanshan, and lead their friends to get rich as soon as possible.

29. 179 军 A Lavish Military Marriage! The Young Officer Keeps Plotting Against Me 军婚盛宠！军少总想对我图谋不轨 Red Winter红色冬天Modern Romance252k WordsCompleted Period Setting + Rebirth + Love Grows Over Time + Military Marriage Lin Wenyue dies of terminal lung cancer. Only at the end does she learn that the cold-faced officer she had met just three times loved her with all his heart. At her funeral the next day, the officer takes her body away by force, then sets off a timed bomb in his villa and dies with her. Reborn, Lin Wenyue fights back against her wicked stepmother, takes back the money she earned, blows up her father and stepmother's house, then 729Reads9.1Score105Shelves

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    Romance of the times, love grows over time, sweet love

30. 180 村 The Great Pagoda Tree at the Village Entrance 村口那棵大槐树 Runxin 666润鑫666Modern Romance374k WordsOngoing The 1960s: too few clothes and too little food! In remote Tianshui Village, everyone was struggling to stay alive! Every character is a vivid reflection of that era. They have no golden fingers and they don't transmigrate... so they can only fight tooth and nail against life and fate just to survive! Girls especially had a harder time of it in those days. Listen to the names: Dai Xiao, Huan Xiao, Zhaodi... You can tell at a glance they were named by parents hoping for a son. Back then, many girl 45Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The water flows slowly, the more you look at it, the higher you go... No golden finger, no time to travel... Lack of food and clothing! Everyone is working hard to live...

31. 181 七 Military Marriage in the 1970s: The Sickly Beauty Goes on a Rampage! 七零军婚：病娇美人杀疯了！ Wanyan Xing完颜星Modern Romance413k WordsOngoing [Seventies setting + 1v1 sweet romance + spatial powers + obsessive love + military marriage + feel-good power fantasy] A research prodigy with a possessive streak, created by humans and codenamed Seventeen, is the most gifted young woman at the Blue Star Research Institute. One explosion, one transmigration, and when she opens her eyes again, she has become Song Xingmiao, a foolish country girl. Seventeen: ...Then what was the point of the suicide bombing I made myself?! And who is the man besi 884Reads—Score130Shelves

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    Really good! Trust me!

32. 182 重 Reborn in the ’90s: Sweetheart with a Fiery Temper 重生90：甜妻小辣椒 A Leaf Flying Through Snow一叶飞雪Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Devoted husband + two powerful leads + putting scumbags in their place] After an explosion, Ye Chu opened her eyes to find she had returned to 1990. The first thing she did after waking up was look for her fiancé, Xia Yu, who had been in a vegetative state for two years. Everyone thought she was going to break off their engagement, but instead, she ignored the strange looks and moved straight into the Xia family home… The Xia family was poor, so she helped them get out of poverty. The second so 85Reads8.5Score—Shelves

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    No space, no golden fingers, all rely on strength to make a fortune and pamper your husband

33. 183 七 The Seventies' Sweetheart: The Brooding, Rugged Man Has His Eye on Me 七零娇娇，我被阴郁糙汉惦记了 Following Thoughts随念Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Completed + black-lotus sickly beauty + professor + perfect nemesis + healing] Xiao Niannian is frail and delicate, with skin as fair and smooth as jade. She looks easy to bully, but never lets an insult go unanswered. One day, she transmigrates into a rebirth novel set in the 1970s, becoming the male lead’s fiancée. In the book, not only will she die young, but the male lead will use her connections to rise to success. The heroine is reborn. After seeing the male lead prosper in her previous l 24.4kReads9.3Score2.5kShelves

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    The content is very exciting

34. 184 媳 A Wife Fell from the Sky 媳妇从天降 Young Master Lang Yue朗月公子Modern Romance366k WordsCompleted Gu Zhanfeng was born into a military family, where generations of military discipline had been ingrained in his bones. The stern, resolute young master Gu seemed to carry a gust of wind wherever he went. Fu Ruanruan was born into a family of police officers, but she inherited none of her father's fearlessness. When the soft, cheerful Fu girl smiles, she's sweeter than sugar and honey. Gu Zhanfeng is decisive and formidable both on and off duty. When he meets Fu Ruanruan, the ultimate background 49Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I beg you all to try it.

35. 185 重 Reborn in the 1970s: The Pure-Hearted Farmer's Little Wife 重生七零：纯情糙汉的小娇妻 Verdant Willow Hues青青柳色Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Rugged Hero + Sweet Wife + Traditional Chinese Medicine + System Storage Space + Sweet and Satisfying] She woke up to find herself transmigrated into an era novel about a true and fake heiress, as the ill-fated true heiress. The fake heiress was doted on, while Gu Tangtang was sold by her adoptive parents to a fool and tortured to death. Gu Tangtang wasn't worried at all. She'd activated an ancient medicine sign-in System. From old Shikumen houses and a soup basin once used by an imperial conso 3.5kReads9.1Score386Shelves

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    This this this

36. 186 小 The Little Bridge Cave Family Compound 小桥洞家属院 Miss Lego乐高小姐Modern Romance500k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Ensemble Cast + Everyday Life] Zhang Yan and Deng Yang were born in the Xiaoqiaodong Factory Compound and grew up beneath the smokestacks of Zhouhua Factory. There was no glamour here, only the bustle of daily life, sweat, arguments, and warmth. In 1997, as firecrackers erupted to celebrate Hong Kong’s return, they still thought their parents would wear their work uniforms for the rest of their lives and life in the compound would always be peaceful. But no one could escape the 712Reads—Score102Shelves

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    A true era group portrait article! Very nice!

37. 187 星 A Reborn Interstellar Powerhouse in the 1960s: Making a Fortune 星际大佬重生六零：发家致富忙 Sassy Bao飒宝Modern Romance830k WordsCompleted "The melancholy evening breeze plucks at my heartstrings, the holy moonlight seduces my intelligence, and your dear mother has stolen my heart! Son, make sure you stay far away from your mom from now on, okay? Oh, that stinks! Ahh, Xu Xiaobao, did you just throw your diaper at me?" "Li Yunxiu, you have five seconds to get out of the room." "Yes, dear! I'm going to slaughter a pig." "Slaughter a pig? What are you up to now?" "My brother said we've been living off our wives every day. I'll slaught 290Reads8.9Score—Shelves

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    "I'm Not a Coward" is a novel about the border era, slow and warm, with three correct views and logical and reasonable characters.

38. 188 穿 Transmigrating to the 1980s: How Did I Become a Mom Without Any Pain? 穿越八零：竟然无痛当妈了？ It's Qiqi是柒柒啊Modern Romance204k WordsCompleted [1980s + Married First, Love Later + Sweet Romance + Farming] Overnight, Shen Jiahe transmigrates into the body of a vicious woman in the 1980s who shares her name. Unfaithful, wanton, and every other disgraceful thing imaginable: the descriptions make the newly transmigrated Shen Jiahe grit her teeth. She had planned to focus on finding a way back, but after seeing the soft and adorable little girl before her and her sturdy, rough-hewn husband, she changes her mind. You think my family is poor? 8Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This one, it gets better and better the more you read it

39. 189 我 My Sister-in-Law Is as Beautiful as a Fairy 我的大嫂美如妖 Ai Shihua爱施华Urban320k WordsCompleted [Period drama + No System or storage space] After my adoptive parents died in a car accident, my older brother Zhang Dakui and I depended on each other. Ever since Dakui brought my sister-in-law Liu Chunmei home, our lives changed. And so did my life... 2.3kReads6.2Score164Shelves
40. 190 尾 The Tail Fire Tiger and Kui Wood Wolf 尾火虎奎木狼 Rein in My Horse, Brandish My Blade勒马横刀Urban491k WordsCompleted As the old saying goes: Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles; traveling ten thousand miles is not as good as meeting countless people; meeting countless people is not as good as spending every day with masters; and having an expert show you the way is not as good as reaching enlightenment on your own. Over the years, I’ve read plenty of books, traveled many roads, met many people, and experienced many things. I’ve also spent time with masters, and gained a fe 8Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is beautiful, the writing is good, and each chapter ends with a poem.

41. 191 军 A Military Marriage: Clingy Husband, Teary-Eyed 1980s Firecracker 军婚老公贴贴，八零辣媳哭哭 Sweet Bunny Milk Candy甜兔奶糖Modern Romance440k WordsCompleted [Period setting, military marriage, marriage before love, adorable kids, entrepreneurship and wealth, flirty couple] Si Qingqing, an internet-addicted single woman hopelessly hooked on Douyin, gets kicked flying while trying to trim a donkey's hooves herself. When she wakes up, she's become an overweight military wife everyone dislikes in a military compound in the 1980s. Her last life ended in such a pathetic way! This time, she swears she'll live life to the fullest and make her mark in this e 38Reads8.4Score—Shelves

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    The writing is good, the story is great, and the male and female protagonists flirt with each other!!!!

42. 192 穿 The Little Cannon Fodder Transmigrates into a Book Set in the Past and Turns Her Fate Around 穿书年代小炮灰，她逆风翻盘了 It’s a Carrot是胡萝卜呀Modern Romance307k WordsOngoing [Period Setting + Transmigrate Into a Book + System + Devoted Husband + Both Leads Are Each Other’s First + Farming + Everyday Life] [The female lead grows over time. This is not a wish-fulfillment story, so please move along if that bothers you.] The heroine is an ordinary college student, not especially capable at all. One day, she dies unexpectedly and gets swept up in a wave of transmigration. Shi Xue had only just regained consciousness and hadn’t figured out what was going on when she was 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I read the author's first book and am following the second one, it's pretty good😄…

43. 193 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 13.4kReads8.1Score799Shelves

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    These two chronicles are worth reading.

44. 194 我 In 1979, I Helped the Whole Village Become Ten-Thousand-Yuan Households 我在七九帮全村成就万元户 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban267k WordsCompleted Chen Sheng and seven good friends explore the Nanshan Cave and obtain the innate spiritual treasure, the Boundary-Breaking Pearl, which lets them travel back and forth to an era thirty years in the future. From then on, they begin a career smuggling goods between the two worlds. Back home, they open brickworks, a sand quarry, clothing factories, and furniture factories. They buy up centipedes and leeches, and become the first in the world to cultivate bamboo fungus commercially. Once every house 508Reads8.0Score—Shelves
45. 195 七 The Rugged 1970s Husband and His Sweet Wife 七零糙汉娇妻甜蜜蜜 Bells Ring Across the Nine Provinces铃动九洲Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Military marriage + sweet romance + devoted couple + fraternal twins Lin Xiaoran transmigrates to the 1970s by accident. From the start, her family wants to sell her to an illiterate hooligan from the neighboring village in exchange for a bride price. To escape her predicament, Lin Xiaoran immediately heads into the city to find a match for herself, where she unexpectedly meets Shen Li, a gruff man who appears to have left the military. Everyone in the residential compound knows Shen Li is im 8.8kReads9.0Score832Shelves

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    There is no space, no golden fingers, everything depends on your own efforts to make a fortune! Nice writing! Shuhuang is worth reading!

46. 196 日 Day After Day 日子一天又一天 Mu Yushu木雨书Modern Romance451k WordsCompleted In the 1980s, two families lived across the street from each other: the Sun family, led by Sun Lanying, and the Chen family, led by Chen Guangtian. On a snowy morning, a teacher from Zicheng No. 1 High School arrived at the Sun family’s home, disturbing their usual peace. The eldest daughter, Ding Hong, ran away with Gao Yong, a married man, and her younger sisters were drawn into the fallout… Across the street, Chen Guangtian suddenly died of a heart attack. His wife, Liu Jinfeng, clashed with 10.8kReads9.3Score1kShelves

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    Take a look at this chronicle. The writing is pretty good.

47. 197 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 5.8kReads9.2Score478Shelves

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    Recommend a normal and realistic novel about the officialdom of the era!

48. 198 春 Where the Spring Tide Rises, Falling Blossoms Fly 春潮起处落花飞 I Am a Spark我是星火Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Urban Life + Countryside + Campus + Period Setting + Modern Romance + Childhood Sweethearts + Family + Marriage and Romance + Youthful Inspiration + Strong Female Lead + Building Wealth] Love and hate flow east with the river; partings and reunions scatter like falling flowers. Ice and fire, blood and tears, humiliation and glory, failure and success: every flavor of life can be found in "Where the Spring Tide Rises, Falling Flowers Fly"... Set from the 1970s through the turn of the century, ag 21Reads8.9Score—Shelves

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    This is an excellent work of period literature that is close to reality and life, covering many elements such as countryside, city, campus, love, marriage, and family. The writing is excellent, the story is strong, ice and fire interact, love and hate are entangled, love and hatred are intertwined. Brilliant, engaging and worth reading.

49. 199 重 Reborn in the ’70s: The Little Sweetheart Is Caught in the Rough Man’s Sights Again 重生七零，小娇娇又被糙汉盯上啦 Murong Fu慕容富Modern Romance500k WordsCompleted [Everyone's darling + educated youth + rugged man + raising children + pocket dimension] In her previous life, she was deceived by a villain, abandoned her husband and daughter, and ultimately died a lonely, tragic death. Reborn in the 1970s, she clung tight to her rugged husband's strong arm and treasured her adopted daughter as if she were priceless. With a pocket dimension at her disposal, she led the whole family to prosperity. In an era when people survived on bran and wild greens, she made 397Reads8.9Score110Shelves

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    This book is very nice

50. 200 甜 Sweet Military Marriage: Starting Over in the Seventies 甜蜜军婚，我在七零年代重开啦 Nuo Yan糯颜Modern Romance826k WordsCompleted Jiang Zitong, a highly accomplished young woman who has just graduated in the modern era, unexpectedly finds herself reborn in the body of Lin Fang in the 1970s. In an age built on stacks of ration coupons, her parents force her to marry a soldier to pay off their debt. Faced with a reality where she needs a permit just to go out and coupons just to eat, she has no power to resist. She thinks she is in for a miserable life, but instead she unexpectedly finds a treasure of a family and husband, a 775Reads8.9Score103Shelves

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    This book has nothing to say about the writing. The characterization is very good and the character setting is also very lovable. I really can't stop reading it.

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