Looking for Good Stories Set in a Specific Historical Era, with Excellent Writing 求好看的年代文，文笔要好
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Reborn in the ’80s: In My Next Life, I Won’t Be Born a Woman 重生八零之来世不为女儿身
When she was young, Hua Yueyin defied her parents and resolutely married an only son who was tall and handsome. She never imagined that he was a beast in human skin, or that in her old age, she would be killed by her own three sons and her husband! As Old Madam Hua lay dying, she remembered the earnest advice her parents had given her, and was filled with regret. “If I could live my life over, I would absolutely listen to my parents. I’d marry a beggar or a cripple if I had to, but I’d never mar
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I’m an Accountant in the 1970s 我在七零做会计
[Period Setting + Building a Career + Rugged Hero + Sweet Romance + Transmigrate into a Book + System] Zhang Nianchu was a modern-day office drone doomed to a life of overtime. After dozing off at work, she opened her eyes and found herself in a period novel, in the body of someone with the same name and job as her. Even worse, the original owner's fate was tragic… Determined to change her destiny, Zhang Nianchu pulled out all the stops. She not only rose to the top of her career, but also
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The Ugly Daughter-in-Law Takes on Her Cruel Mother-in-Law 丑媳妇大战恶婆婆
The print edition is titled The Fading Embers of Mortal Life and is available on Taobao. [Satisfying highs and heartbreaking lows] [Traditional period setting] [Family drama] [The hardships of real life] This is the story of the joys and sorrows of three generations of women in a dysfunctional family, and how they grow amid the chaos of family life. Fu Ying is born into desperation. Her mother is a gambler, and her father is violent. When she reaches marrying age, no one dares take her as a wife
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Dongguan: Those Older Sisters 东莞：那些姐姐们
Sister Mei's advice to me: The women at entertainment venues are just for looking. Don't get serious with them. Sister Mei also said: Don't get any ideas about me, either. [A story about working for a living, perhaps with a little of me, you, and him in it.]
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Reborn Tour Guide Strikes It Rich! 重生导游来吸金！
Tour guide Ji Luoyi’s tour bus plunges into a reservoir on the way back from dropping off her group. When she opens her eyes, she has been reborn as Luo Yi, a high school student in 2002. The thought of going through high school all over again gives her a headache. Her parents were tricked into going abroad for work and haven’t been heard from in years, while her relatives are constantly picking on her, unable to stand seeing her do well. Ji Luoyi thinks, “I had a house, a car, and a cat-son, an
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The Pretty Little Bride of the 1970s: The Village Tough Guy Is a Force to Be Reckoned With 七零小俏媳：我家村霸超凶的
[Period setting + reborn + sweet young woman and rugged man + doting romance + business and farming] Bai Jiaojiao, the fake heiress who had been sent to the countryside, was reborn. When she saw Shen Heng again, she boldly threw her arms around him, determined not to repeat the tragedy of loving him without ever winning his heart. Shen Heng, the local bully of Shili Village, was the very picture of a menacing brute. On their first day of marriage: “I’m the head of this household. My wife has to
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Reborn: A Blessed Beauty in the 1980s 重生八零福运娇妻
Her fiancé is stolen, her future snatched away, and as a relentless scheme closes in, Qiao Yuxi is framed until not even her bones remain. Reborn, she finds her father has a new love, her mother has a beloved of her own, and the whole family dotes on everyone else's precious little darlings. Qiao Yuxi spreads her hands. Love whoever you want. I'm done with this family! She gives the villains a cold tongue-lashing and rolls up her sleeves to smack the troublesome kids. She doesn't even want her p
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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
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
22.3kReads9.4Score2.4kShelves
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The 1970s: The Difficult Top-Tier Star Is the Cold-Faced Officer’s Allergy Cure 七零作精顶流是冷面军官的抗敏药
[Period setting + transmigrate into a book + devoted couple + personal space + raising children + sweet romance + military marriage + winning his heart] [Fussy top-tier star heroine VS outwardly cold, inwardly warm officer] Few truly awful characters, with a fairly cozy feel. When she opened her eyes, Su Chinuan, a top-tier star of the twenty-first century, had transmigrated into a period novel as a thankless, ungrateful cannon-fodder character. Her parents had been sent to a farm for hard labor
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Transmigrated into an 80s Novel's Foil, I Win by Rewriting the Plot 穿书八零对照组，我靠改剧情躺赢
[Historical Era + Transmigration Into a Book + Beloved by Everyone + Paranoid Villain + System + Siscon] Jin Beibei only learned after she died that she was the universally doted-on cannon-fodder girl, a foil to the lucky heroine in a historical-era novel. The Jin family had four grandsons, yet they still doted on their little girl. With loving parents, a caring grandmother, and brothers who spoiled her, Jin Beibei should have had a wonderful life. But she happened to belong to the awful family
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The Reborn Tycoon's Rise 重生之首富行
Back to the turbulent 1980s! Opportunities abound, and so do wolves. In his previous life, he was honest and diligent, crushed by big business and cheated by unscrupulous merchants. He spent his life struggling to get by, only to end up with nothing and meet a miserable end. Now reborn, he brings forty years of business foresight and knows every trend before it takes off. He tears up his mediocre old life and starts over! He starts out selling goods at a vegetable market, taking advantage of his
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