Looking for High-Quality Period Novels Where the Characters Stay True to Themselves 想要优质的年代文小说,不要看到一半就崩人设的
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The Female CEO Transmigrates to the 1970s to Live the Easy Life 女霸总穿越七零做咸鱼
[A sweet, vintage-era romance like an idol drama!!! Not a farming story! Not a tragic romance! Not a countryside tale!! Read with caution if that’s not your thing!!] [Set in the 1970s, with an idol drama in the making! Friendship in the early days, a journey through the business world later on!!!] Lu Jingxing: “I see it clearly now. You’re no little fairy. You’re a temptress, a temptress who lures people in!” Gu Nanmo: “Hahaha, that’s right, that’s right! I’m a little demon, free and carefree. I
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Mocked for Staying Single and Childless, I Give Birth to Triplets in the 1970s 被嘲不婚不育,我在七零怒生三胎
[Trillion-Unit Pocket Dimension + Sweet and Satisfying + Beloved by All + Multiple Babies in One Pregnancy] Wen Nuan, a food streamer with tens of millions of followers, was an unmarried woman past the usual marrying age. Her parents nagged her to get married, while her relatives mocked her for choosing not to marry or have children. Then she unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of a married young woman in the 1970s. Her birth family was dirt poor, and her in-laws wanted to break off the eng
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The Little Darling of the Seventies: Brothers, Don’t Fight! Get in Line 七零小奶团:哥哥们别抢!排好队
[Beloved by all + period setting + three and a half years old + little lucky star bringing endless good fortune] Little Lizi, the daughter who had been missing from the Ruan family for three and a half years, came home. The whole Ruan family was overjoyed, but rumors began swirling through Shanghe Brigade. Everyone in Shanghe Brigade said the Ruan family's little girl was a jinx reincarnated. Ever since she was born, Mrs. Ruan had fallen ill, the eldest uncle had gone lame, they had been caught
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Space: The Delicate Wife of a Rough Man in the ’70s 空间:七零糙汉的娇软妻
[Sweet romance + pocket dimension + rugged hero + period story + 1970s + gentle heroine + reborn] [Delicate, soft-hearted heroine × loyal, rugged hero] Song Ruan grew up cherished and spoiled by her family. Yet in the scorching summer heat, she was hoeing the fields for her educated-youth boyfriend. Then, in a moment of carelessness, a snake bit her. While unconscious, she had a long dream filled with scenes from the future. When she woke, she kicked that hypocritical educated-youth boyfriend to
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Reborn in the 1970s: The Spitfire Has Supplies Worth Tens of Millions 重生七零,小辣椒有千万物资
Ye Linnan lost her job and planned to take a trip to clear her head. To her surprise, she ran into a strange fortune-teller who claimed she would leave this world within a few days. Ye Linnan was furious, but a few days later, she unexpectedly acquired a pocket dimension and started having all sorts of strange dreams... When she woke up, she had become the cherished daughter of the Ye family in the 1970s. A top scientist also kept showing up in front of her... (The romance is simple, with no gra
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Reborn: The Everyday Life of a Writer 重生写文日常
[Slice of Life / Slow Burn / Ensemble Growth]+ [Clear-Eyed Heroine, a Top-Tier IP-Making Machine × Goofy, Homebody CEO Hero *Hero Appears Later]+ [Completed] Reborn in one instant, with excellent college entrance exam results and her university application still unchanged, Zhu He had a top university waiting for her! Writing stories to earn her living, she tackled transmigration and rebirth, infinite-loop fiction, sweet romances, tragic romances, and male-oriented fiction. With her work publishe
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Son, Show Your Dad the Way Forward 儿子,请给爸爸指条明路
In 2001, laid-off worker Chen Weiguo loses his wife, who leaves him with a newborn son. The boy is clever from an early age, and always has... well, a remarkably long-term perspective. Whenever Chen Weiguo is on the verge of running out of options, his son always manages to pull him through at a crucial moment and point him toward a way forward. Then Chen Weiguo finds himself back at square one all over again. They say sons bring trouble to their fathers, but Chen Weiguo, as a father, is always
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After Becoming the Male Lead's Stepmother, I Flee With the Villain's Little One 穿成男主小妈后,带反派幼崽跑路
After Wang Qi died in a car accident, she transmigrated into a romance novel called The Overbearing CEO Falls for Me. By an unfortunate twist of fate, she became the male lead’s stepmother and the mother of three future villainous powerhouses. But Wang Qi transmigrated to the 1990s, five years before the novel’s story began. The original heroine had yet to be reborn, and the plot had not started. The eldest son, one of the future villains, was only fourteen, while the other two hadn’t even been
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Reborn at the Turn of the Millennium: The Beloved Prodigy's Mentor System 重生千禧,团宠小学霸的名师系统
“No male lead! A male supporting character appears later, and there are side couples to root for too.” Qin Zhaozhao, a doctoral student struggling with her studies and taking extra time to graduate, wakes up one day to find she’s traveled back from 2022 to the year 2000. For some inexplicable reason, she’s also acquired a System. In this life, she not only has a golden finger that gives her one-on-one lessons from renowned teachers, but also the ability to help the people around her choose bette
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The 1970s: I Just Want to Slack Off, Not Study 七零:我只想摆烂不想学习
[No CP + Academic Prodigy + Growth-Oriented Heroine (Imperfect Character) + Science for the Nation] In her previous life, Xu Zhen worked herself to death with endless overtime. After transmigrating to the 1970s, all she wanted was to split off from the family as soon as possible and happily coast through life like a salted fish. She never expected a study System to come knocking. Eight hours of studying a day was the minimum, and now she had to work overtime too? Xu Zhen: I refuse! But refusing
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The Delicate Beauty Is Spoiled Rotten by a Rugged, Fierce Man 娇滴滴小美人被凶猛糙汉宠野了
[Complete❗] Xie Hezhang, a local troublemaker from Helian Village with a bad class background, found himself pursued by a city girl sent to the countryside. The young woman couldn't carry a shoulder pole or lift a hand, and complained that her hands hurt whenever she did farm work. Her only hobby was trailing after him wherever he went. One afternoon, fed up with her, Xie Hezhang cornered her in the cotton field and threatened, “Keep following me and I'll beat you up.” The sweet little Shu Qingy
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The 1970s: Reclaiming My Luck, the Tycoon's Darling Wife Wins Without Lifting a Finger 七零:夺回气运,首富娇妻躺赢了
[Satisfying, sweet, and feel-good + spatial powers] In her previous life, Lin Qianxue had her fortune stolen, and after her soul transmigrated, her family was destroyed within three years. When she opened her eyes again, she was back before everything had been taken from her. Refusing to be a sacrificial pawn, Lin Qianxue struck back and reclaimed it all. The rough-and-tough veteran Liu Zongzhen had a heavy fate, a fiery temper, and abundant vitality. He swiftly carried his petite wife home. Whe
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Reborn in the 1970s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生七零:媳妇有点辣
In her past life, Jiang Xiaonuan earned a place at university, only for her own sister to steal it. Then her sister and her scumbag boyfriend teamed up to frame her. Her sister went on to become the elegant, respectable wife of a high-ranking official, while Jiang Xiaonuan spent her life in poverty and misery. Reborn at the end of the 1970s, Jiang Xiaonuan punches her scumbag ex, kicks her heartless sister to the curb, and gets thrown out by her cruel mother. She takes down every rotten jerk who
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Reborn as a Spicy Little Pepper in the Nineties 重生九零小辣椒
In her past life, Lin Min was forced by her adoptive parents to marry in her younger sister's place. Unwilling to marry a disabled man, she asked her childhood sweetheart to help her elope, only to be betrayed and plunged into an even greater crisis! When she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn on the second day of her wedding. This time, she didn't run away. With her peerless medical skills, she cured the leg condition of the man who, in her previous life, never blamed her for abandoning
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Reborn as a Beautiful Wife in the 1980s 重生八零俏佳妻
In her previous life, Gu Man was the very picture of misery. Her childhood sweetheart and fiancé was stolen from her, her husband was a thug who beat her every day, and she gave birth to a son with an intellectual disability. Only as she lay dying did she learn the source of it all: her own biological older sister. Now she has another chance at life, back at the place where her fate began, facing that venomous sister. Gu Man wonders: should she give her everything back exactly as she received it
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Reborn: Making the Most of My Youth 重生之不负韶华
In 2019, 31-year-old Wen Ying had found some success in her career and was happily in love, making others envious. In 2004, 16-year-old Wen Ying was struggling at school, secretly in love with her dream guy, and having a miserable time. One day in 2019, Wen Ying woke up back in 2004. She was 16 again, writing furiously in the exam hall during her high school entrance exams... Given the chance to restart her life, Wen Ying refused to waste her youth or leave any regrets behind this time!
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The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区
After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey...
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Vivid as Life 栩栩若生
A fortune-teller said I was born destined for greatness, the reincarnation of the Flower Goddess, with the power to turn stones into gold and command flower spirits and tree sprites. Once I came of age, my family was sure to prosper. But when I was twelve, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, and I kept seeing terrifying visions... In a dream, I met an old woman who told me to find an expert with supernatural powers to save my life. Millet to summon souls, altars and form
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The Black Heiress 黑千金
Zhou Zhizhi was born a wealthy heiress, but she was abandoned in a remote county and taken in by a man who had just been released from prison after serving time for a serious crime. At just five years old, she was already able to save her father. Later, she also brought home an old scholar and former examination candidate, and the three of them began building a life together. The hardened criminal turned into a coal magnate, while the abandoned girl became a true heiress of the underworld. How w
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I’m at My Wits’ End! Four Sons and a Daughter Send Me to College in the 1970s 麻了!四儿一女供我在七零读大学
[Grandma with incredible fighting power, five adorable kids, mostly everyday life, some awful people, but the protagonist is utterly invincible, satisfying revenge] An Xiaoyun unexpectedly awakens and learns that she is a doomed side character in a lucky heroine story. She is about to die in childbirth, taking her baby with her. Her husband will die after falling into a river from grief, and their four sons will burn themselves out for the lucky heroine, meeting horrible ends. An Xiaoyun is furi
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Reborn in the 1980s, My Wife Was Assigned to Me by the Village 八零重生,媳妇儿是村里分配的
My new book, “Help! Everyone in the Sect Wants Me to Have Their Little Bunnies,” is out now. Feel free to check it out if you’re interested! [Cherished by everyone, adorable baby, doting husband, food] A sweet and silly lucky carp heroine + a burly, rugged husband who dotes on his wife Luo Jinxi had just come down from the mountain when she married the rugged Tang Qingping to repay a debt of gratitude. People from outside the village all laughed at them, certain she’d be bullied until she cried.
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Transported to the 1970s: The Rough-Hewn Man Spoils Me With Billions in Supplies 身穿七零:携百亿物资被糙汉宠哭
(The new period novel, “Sixties Spatial Power: Ancestor, the Whole Village Is Waiting for You to Feed Them,” is out. Give it a try if you like. It’s guaranteed to be exciting.) Lu Qingyan dreamed of the same man three times. A strong premonition warned her that she would transmigrate to a difficult era. So Lu Qingyan began selling off her properties and shares, converting everything into supplies to store in her space. Perhaps Heaven really did have it in for her: she transmigrated in her sleep
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A Happy Life in the Seventies 七十年代幸福生活
Su Wan was reborn and grew up to eighteen. With her wedding and move to join the army just around the corner, she thought this life would be smooth and peaceful. She was ready to coast through life when she discovered she had transmigrated into a lucky heroine novel! Both she and her fiancé were doomed supporting characters! What could she do but fight to take control of her own destiny? See how Su Wan escapes the lucky heroine’s shadow, marries and follows her husband to the army, starts a busi
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Transmigrate Into a Book Set in the 1970s: Marry a Rough-Hewn Man with My Pocket Dimension 穿书七零:带着空间嫁糙汉
After transmigrating into a book set in the 1970s, she discovers that while other people are the real heiresses from the city who were mistakenly switched at birth, she is a country girl who was raised in the city for eighteen years before anyone realized the mix-up. Now back in the countryside, she pulls her weight at every job, and everything from food to clothes requires ration coupons. Luckily, she has a magical space. Being penniless is no problem: whatever others have, she can copy, and he
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Everyday Life Raising Kids After I Transmigrate Into a Book Set in the 1960s 穿书六零养娃日常
[Transmigrate into a book + farming in a bygone era + child-rearing System + adorable kids + devoted husband] Cheng Ruolan had merely gone to sleep, only to transmigrate into a period novel she had read before. Even worse, she had become a cannon-fodder character who abused her own children and eventually abandoned her husband and kids. No problem! She had a child-rearing System and countless supplies. She’d take her three adorable kids and live the good life! But then the heroine tried to make
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The Richest Family's Little Darling Is So Cute She Spits Up Milk 首富家的小奶包萌到吐奶
[Completed] Yun Tao is reborn as an adorable, chubby-cheeked five-year-old girl. This time, she doesn’t want to be a big shot. She just wants to keep a low profile, protect her mother, and act cute now and then. Ever since Grandma took a liking to her, countless big shots have come flocking: her grandpa, master, maternal grandparents, and aunts all compete to spoil her. Her rivals: “What can you do besides act cute?” Piano, painting, calligraphy, Go, medicine, top grades, hacking, stock trading.
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Beloved by the Whole Village: The All-Rounder Is Bullying Villains Again 农门团宠:全能大佬又在虐渣
Ruan Ning was born with a simple mind, but possessed incredible strength. She was unbeatable for miles around and notorious in the village for being a strange one. Everyone said she’d grow old alone, since no one dared marry her, and that she brought misfortune to her family. But one day, Ruan Ning suddenly regained her wits. She beat up bullies with a stick, kicked a scheming white lotus, and slapped a notorious lecher. Not only did she find her biological father, she also tracked down the fami
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Transmigrated as the Wicked Stepmother of the Villainous Cubs 穿成反派崽崽们的恶毒后娘
[Farming + adorable kids + sweet romance + putting scoundrels in their place] Qin Jiuyue, the top assassin of the twenty-fifth century, transmigrates into a despised, wicked young farm girl, along with a husband who seems as good as dead and four children with very different personalities! Roll up your sleeves and get to work! First, I'll help you make a cool million. She can find rabbits in the mountains, catch valuable fish in the river, and is a dab hand at both farming and business! She rais
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The 1970s: After Selling My Iron Rice Bowl, I Became a Landlady 七零:卖铁饭碗后,我成了包租婆
[Military Marriage + No Toxic Relatives + Period Drama + Life with the Troops + Slow-Burn Romance + Everyday Family Life] A young woman with the soul of a middle-aged lady secretly drools over her older brother's fellow soldier: the handsome young man is tall, long-legged, and slender-waisted. She's too shy to pounce on him, so she can only spend her days longing for him and bouncing with excitement. What she doesn't know is that he's a big bad wolf who's long wanted to carry her back to his de
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The Sixties: Traveling the World with My Pocket Dimension 六十年代之带着空间畅游天下
Li Beibei grew up surrounded by stories, then unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of a lucky girl in the 1950s. Touched by her family’s favoritism and kindness, she gladly accepts their love and decides to repay them with her own abilities. As she plans her future, Li Beibei chooses two careers that will let her travel at public expense, hoping to make up for the regrets of her past life: journalist and diplomat! And so begins her extraordinary journey in this world. By the seaside: “Qing f
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Back to the 1960s: Farming, Building a Fortune, and Raising the Kids 重回六零:种田发家养崽崽
Transmigrating into the impoverished 1960s wasn’t scary. Becoming a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a book wasn’t scary either. What was scary was that her three stepsons would grow up to become major villains, and all of them, along with their upright, aloof father, would meet tragic ends. How could she let that happen? Lin Qinghe looked at the three future villains, none of whom was even ten years old, and made up her mind: changing a villain starts when they’re young!
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I Traveled to the 1970s With a Dedicated Worker System 带着敬业系统穿七零
Xu Taotao, a descendant of imperial chefs, keeps her culinary skills hidden while living among ordinary people. Then she dies suddenly from overwork and gets bound to a workaholic System, which sends her to the 1970s. She becomes the famously ugly daughter of a butcher at a meat-processing plant. Determined to become beautiful, she has no choice but to keep working hard. With her superb cooking skills, she climbs the career ladder, gets a raise, and marries Professor Gu... No, wait! “Ding-dong!
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I Have a Space Left Behind by an Immortal Family 我有一个仙家留下来的空间
She had been a medical school graduate student in the twenty-first century, with no family but herself. When she woke up, the world had suddenly changed: drab gray walls and earthen houses. Somehow, she'd ended up in the 1970s, so she could only make the best of it. “Hey, big shot, stop following me around.” “Hey, big shot, why are you always popping up in front of me?” “Hey, big shot, quit flaunting those abs to tempt me.” “Hey, big shot, I'm looking for one partner for life.” Xia Jingchuan: “W
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The Family's Beloved Girl: The Cannon-Fodder Darling of Her Terrible Family 七零团宠:极品家人的炮灰娇娇女
[Brooding, Brawny Man + Sweet Wife + Completed] Lu Jiajia is delicate and soft. Then, in the blink of an eye, she becomes a useless cannon-fodder character in the 1970s, with a whole family of vicious oddballs in tow. Yet in an era that favors men above women, she is the apple of her family’s eye. Her father and mother: “Jiajia is our precious girl. She deserves to be spoiled.” Her brothers: “My sister is frail and sickly. How could she do farm work!” Lu Jiajia: “…I want the ultimate winning han
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Transmigrate into a Book: The 1970s Cannon-Fodder Girl Is Gorgeous and Charming 穿书七零:炮灰女配又美又娇
Nan Mo transmigrates into a novel set in a bygone era, bringing a giant supermarket with her. She becomes a cannon-fodder supporting female character who gets horribly betrayed by her relatives. First, her own grandmother pressures her to marry so she can trade her future for her male cousins' success. Then there's her cousin, who wants to stay in the city and hopes to trade Nan Mo for a job. And to top it all off, a possessive, obsessive suitor is watching her like a hawk. After landing in the
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Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂
Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the
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Apocalypse: The Whole Company Denies the Existence of the 18th Floor 末世:全公司否认18楼存在
[Apocalypse + No System + Reborn + Mystery + One Female Lead + Zombies + Hard Sci-Fi + No Mindless Decisions + Revenge] Reborn six hours before the apocalypse, Chu Yan has not only retained his memories of the future, but also mastered the ultimate secret of genetic evolution! He can become the most powerful god in the apocalypse! He frantically stockpiles supplies, builds weapons, modifies vehicles, and saves his parents, racing against time! He will kill his enemies with his own hands and turn
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Transmigrate into a Book Set in the 1970s: Fall in Love, Make Money, Serve the Motherland 穿书七零:恋爱赚钱报效祖国
Lin Suyue was a food blogger with millions of followers. She didn’t just know how to eat, she knew how to cook, too. She traveled all over the country, and her followers loved the restaurants and dishes she recommended. She even did her best to recreate every delicious dish she had ever tried. Unfortunately, after her residential compound was locked down for three months, she eventually ran out of food. Then, just as she was hit by a cold snap, the System painlessly whisked her away to a 1970s s
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The 1980s’ Delicate Beauty: Married to a Villain, Spoiled Like a Princess 八零凝脂美人:嫁给反派被娇宠
[⚠️The writing fell apart, and the ending is terrible. Don’t read.] She woke up one morning to discover she had transmigrated into a book and become a stupid, malicious cannon-fodder villainess in a period novel. What was she supposed to do? There was no way out except to accept her fate, tear apart the green-tea heroine, outsmart scheming women, work hard to build her wealth, and find a handsome husband so she could reach the pinnacle of life as a little troublemaker! But why did the only villa
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