The Male Lead Returns to the 1950s or ’60s With a Pocket Dimension 男主回50 60年代有空间
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Deputy Police Chief from the Start 开局派出所副所长
Period setting + criminal investigation + suspense + one heroine + weak golden finger + deduction 1958, the capital. Yue Pengju, transferred from the Public Security Army, is appointed deputy director of the Taotiao Hutong Police Station. A body dumped in the hutong tears open the calm facade, revealing hidden undercurrents. Following the clues deeper, they uncover the enemy agents' presence. The seemingly peaceful capital has long been hiding deadly dangers. Enemy agents are hunting those invol
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- 2 Period: Taking Off After Awakening in the Loess Lands 年代：从魂穿黄土地起飞 Period setting + soul transmigration + countryside + city life + underdog comeback + industrial development + System + feel-good power fantasy + career in government A post-90s wage slave who works himself to the bone wakes up after another bout of overtime to find he has transmigrated into the body of a seventeen-year-old boy in the far northwest, arriving in the region in the 1960s. In the spring of 1961, in the mountainous area of Gongchang County, central Long Province in China's far northwe 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Period: Transmigrating to 1957 as a Gossip-Hungry Young Police Officer 年代：穿越57吃瓜小警察 Transmigration + System + Period Setting + Siheyuan + Detective Story + Everyday Comedy + Not A Love-Filled Courtyard Not a love-filled courtyard!!! Zhang Dafei transmigrates into the body of another Zhang Dafei, a patrol officer with the subdistrict office in Yuer Hutong, Nanluoguxiang, in 1957. The original Zhang was gravely injured while saving a comrade. As soon as he regains consciousness, the System binds to him and demands a startup password. Startled, he trembles, pain surging through hi 12.1kReads8.0Score697Shelves
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In This Life, I Only Want to Live for Myself 这一世，我只想为自己而活
Zhang Jun was an old man who had served in the military, fought in wars, worked as a police officer, and arrested hooligans. Over the course of his life, he lost the love of his life and his family, and failed to fulfill his fallen comrades' last wishes. He spent his life alone. After an accident, he was reborn in the year his life began. He had no golden finger, no superpowers, no portable space, and no powerful connections. All he had were the memories of his previous life. Cautiously feeling
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- 5 1959: Bringing My Whole Family to City Life 年代1959带全家做城里人 Also known as: A Wonderful Life for Liu Genlai in 1959, A Free and Easy Life for an Orphan in 1959. The story moves at an unhurried pace and isn't full of anger or conflict. It's all about everyday family matters, so if you enjoy a slower pace, feel free to give it a try. Liu Genlai gets knocked into the countryside of 1959 by a dump truck. Is he going to lead the whole village to prosperity? Don't be ridiculous. Liu Genlai's little shoulders can't bear such a heavy burden. All he wants is for h 80.5kReads8.3Score5.7kShelves
- 6 Period: The Easygoing Days 年代：悠闲的日子 (Not brainless, not overpowered, no System, has a pocket dimension, one female lead, gentler in tone. Read with caution if that isn't your thing.) Due to a laboratory accident in the future, Liu Youqing unexpectedly arrives in 1959. The bad news: he has just one bowl from the start, and his circumstances rival those of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty. The good news: he has more than one bowl! 45.9kReads7.2Score3.9kShelves
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Starting as a Deputy Section Chief in Siheyuan 四合院从副科长开始
[Security Department Deputy Chief from the Start] [Sign-In Rewards] [Well-Connected] [All I Want Is to Be a Lazy Fish] After transmigrating into the chaotic world of the Four-Nine City courtyard compound, he starts out as the deputy chief of the steel mill's security department! Zhang Jianjun arrives in the central courtyard with his own pocket space, where he witnesses Jia Zhangshi whining about being poor and leeching off others, Silly Zhu using moral blackmail, and Yi Zhonghai plotting behi
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Crossing Between Two Worlds: From the Start in 1952, I Was Already a County-Level Cadre 双穿一九五二开局就是正科级
In 2026, Su Tianci accidentally transmigrated to the war-torn Korean battlefield. Fortunately, he had brought along a pocket dimension. The System grabbed a bucket and ran. To return to 2026, he had to reach the siheyuan. Two vast eras lay before him.
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- 9 Traveling Between Two Worlds to Fight in Korea, I Beat Up the Americans 双穿抗美援朝，我暴打美国佬 In 2026, overworked wage slave Su Tianci gets his writing royalties. He plans to go out for a foot massage with the full-service treatment, as a reward for himself. But he never expects to open his eyes and transmigrate to a battlefield engulfed in war. There’s no water, medicine, or food. Fortunately, he can return to 2026. Two vastly different eras now lie before him. 24.7kReads7.2Score1.7kShelves
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Between Two Worlds: 1949 两界穿梭之一九四九年
No morals + a little cruelty to beasts + everyday life at the heart of it Su Tianci transmigrates to Beiping in 1948, where his daily life revolves around tormenting beasts. Our protagonist has no manners and often does things without playing fair. The main idea is simple: if I have no morals, you can't morally blackmail me... [Putting the facts aside, is the author wrong to want to earn a little more tuition money? We shouldn't think only of ourselves; we need to consider the author too. I've m
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Transmigrating to the 1970s, I Lie Flat! 穿越七零我躺平了！
A 48-year-old man who’d chosen to lie flat transmigrates into the body of 18-year-old Li Changshun! He becomes one of the sent-down youths heading to the countryside in 1973. In Kaoshan Tun Brigade, Dongfang Commune, Dong’an County, Danjiang City, he lies in bed, keeping a low profile as he waits for the new era to arrive. (This is simply a story about the ordinary life of a sent-down youth. The writing is unassuming, and the plot moves at a fairly slow pace. It’s steeped in everyday life, not a
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A Legendary Life in the Era 年代传奇人生
A ruthless soldier king is reborn in the Greater Khingan Mountains of the 1960s. With the pocket dimension and gear from his previous life, he takes his friends hunting and exploring. The early story centers on hunting, with cross-province searches for family, treasure hunts, and battles against spies woven in. They explore fortresses, raid tombs, and get caught up in other thrilling adventures. Novel pets include a wolverine, a big black horse, a yellow-throated marten, reindeer, and a mantis.
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Reborn in a Northeastern Mountain Village: Fishing and Hunting Across Two Rivers and Two Nations 重生东北小山村渔猎两江两国
Please give this five stars. Please give this five stars. I don't have much education or skill, and I can't write fancy prose. I use ordinary people's language to tell an ordinary story. If you like it, I thank you for your support with a clasped-fist salute. If you don't, please be kind and don't flame me. An artist can't make a living without noble-minded patrons. I offer my thanks to all of you, my dear supporters.
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Transmigrated to a Bygone Era, My Beast Companion Is a Vampire 穿越年代，我的御兽是吸血鬼
A grounded tale of rural life and farming, adventure in another world, beast taming, and immortality. After transmigrating to an impoverished village in 1955, Zhou Jiasheng becomes the family outcast, the eldest child no one wants! His parents take his siblings to the city to get a job with a state-owned enterprise, leaving him behind in the countryside with food but no money, to fend for himself. Just when he is at his wits' end, the troublemaking System that caused him to transmigrate is alrea
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Reborn in the Famine of 1960: I Have a Spirit-Filled Pocket World 重生60灾荒年，我有灵田小世界
[Reborn in the 1960s + pocket dimension] [Farming + hunting + spirit beasts + building wealth + extraordinary longevity] In his previous life, Li Qiu was all alone. Now he was reborn in the years of famine. Li Qiu was only sixteen. When he woke, he faced not the care of his family, but abandonment by his brother and sister-in-law. Hunger, thirst, illness, drought, and cold... came one after another. A frail young man, living alone in a thatched hut by the mountain, isolated and forgotten by the
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Reborn in 1992: Rising to the Top Starting in Middle School 重生1992，从中学开始逆袭
In his previous life, Lin Wenjie was made a fool of. His father was framed, and his family was destroyed. Reborn in his high school days, he planned to use his memories of the future to earn his first fortune, save his family, and crush his enemies. Then he would live a happy, peaceful life. But by chance, he bought a damaged little tower from an antiques dealer, and it set him on the path to immortal cultivation. From then on, he kept finding priceless treasures and made a fortune in the stock
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- 17 I Transmigrated to the 1960s and Activated a Storage Ring 穿越60年代，我激活了储物戒指 Zhu Chengcai is an ordinary wage slave who dreams of getting rich overnight and living a blissful life: waking up naturally after a good night's sleep and counting so much money his fingers cramp. Instead, he has ended up as a wage slave with not a moment to spare. Just as he's preparing to return to his hometown, lie flat, and wait to die, he saves a little girl on the road and unexpectedly transmigrates to the 1960s, where he accidentally activates a storage ring he'd obtained by chance. So Zh 45.4kReads7.9Score4.9kShelves
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Transmigrating to the 1960s: From the Start, I’m Asked to Take in a Dying Man’s Child 穿越六零：开局遭遇临终托孤
[Historical era + Rebirth + System + Pocket Dimension + Light fantasy] After dying, Xu Jianguo was reborn in a parallel world in the 1960s. He happened to save a Taoist master and his apprentice, and as the old Taoist lay dying, he entrusted his three-year-old apprentice to Xu Jianguo's care. With a little sister suddenly in his life, Xu Jianguo began raising a child. Watch as he makes the most of the vibrant 1960s.
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- 19 Reborn in 1958: From Fool to Mountain Hunter 重生1958：从傻子到山林猎人 A King of Soldiers is reborn in 1958 as a village fool who was nearly beaten to death. One blow from a club jolts him awake. His blood feud remains unsettled, and now another attempt on his life is underway. He flees into the mountains and takes over a place said to be cursed. An educated youth reports him? His enemies try to kill him? He sneers. In these lawless mountains, he makes the rules. 11.3kReads7.2Score861Shelves
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Hunting in the Mountains: Building a Happy Life with My Lame Wife 赶山：带跛脚媳妇过上幸福生活
[A Grounded Period Novel + No Pocket Dimension, No System + Wife and Sister-in-Law + Animal Companions + Hunting + Food + Business + Farming + Gathering Herbs] Xu Yi, a modern-day wage slave, accidentally takes the wrong medication while being treated for depression and dies. He transmigrates into the body of Xu Yi, a man with a severe intellectual disability in a mountain village in the early 1980s. To his surprise, he has a beautiful, fair-skinned wife who limps, as well as an adorable six-yea
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Bandit Village in the Republic of China 民国土匪村
Period-drama fans, come take a look! (Not a wish-fulfillment story, no ghosts or gods, no System.) It covers romance, household intrigue, bandits, fierce resistance against the Japanese, fleeing famine, and the lives of educated youths. Everyone who’s read it says it’s great! Hei Niu and Xiu Zhen could have lived happily together, but because Xiu Zhen was so beautiful, bandits set their sights on her. By then, Hei Niu had become the chief steward of the Huang family estate. He learned that ban
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Li Chengdao 李承道
Special forces soldier Li Chengdao unexpectedly transmigrates to a strange valley. He transforms the valley and makes his way out of the mountains. Using the valley as his base, he builds his own Heavenly Dao Group in the world of immortal cultivation. He establishes the Li Family Medical Hall and heals the sick. He makes his fortune with spiritual-root wine, branches into every industry, and becomes the richest man under heaven. He establishes a free Heavenly Dao Academy and cultivates a great
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- 23 My Soul Returns to the Jiajing Era, My Brush Stains the Azure Clouds 魂归嘉靖，砚染青云 Soul Returned to the Jiajing Era, Ink Staining the Path to Success 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 There Are No What-Ifs in Life: What's Missed Is Gone 人生没有如果，错过就是错过 There are no what-ifs in life. Once you miss your chance, it’s gone. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 After a Car Accident, I Became My Crush's Pet Cat 车祸后，我变成了白月光的宠物猫 After a Car Accident, I Became My Crush’s Pet Cat 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Mind Reading: How He Won His Beautiful Boss's Heart 读心术，让他俘获了美女上司的心 Mind reading helps him win the heart of his beautiful boss. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 I Transmigrated as a Beggar and Got the Dog-Beating Staff Technique 穿越成乞丐，获得打狗棒法 He transmigrates into the body of a beggar and obtains the Dog-Beating Staff Technique. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Transmigrating as a County Magistrate, I Activate the Heaven-Blessed Worthy Official System 穿越成县令，激活天授贤臣系统 Transmigrated as a County Magistrate, I Activate the Heaven-Gifted Worthy Minister System —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Transmigrating as an Emperor, I Fill the Treasury by Confiscating Corrupt Officials' Fortunes 穿越成皇帝，靠抄家贪官充盈国库 He transmigrates into the body of an emperor and fills the treasury by confiscating corrupt officials' fortunes. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 He Can Hear the Thoughts of the Beautiful Interviewer 他能听到美女面试官的心声 He can hear what beautiful interviewers are thinking. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Transmigrating as a Ninety-Year-Old, I Turn Out to Have a Pure Yang Body 穿越成为九旬老者，竟是纯阳之体 He transmigrates into the body of a ninety-year-old man, only to discover that he has a pure Yang constitution. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Spirit Root Shines Alone: Immortal Realm Arc 灵根独耀·仙界篇 The Spirit Root Shines Alone: Immortal Realm Arc —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 An Office Drone Transmigrates to Ancient Times and Activates the Concubine System 社畜穿越古代，激活了纳妾系统 A Burned-Out Office Worker Transmigrates to Ancient Times and Activates the Concubine-Taking System 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Master of Medicine and Poison, Savior of the People 医毒双绝，济世安民 Master of Medicine and Poison, Healing the World and Bringing Peace to the People 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Spirit Root Shines Alone 灵根独耀 The Spirit Root Shines Alone —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Reborn, I Cast My Defiant Disciple Out of the Sect 重生后，将逆徒逐出师门 Reborn, I Cast My Defiant Disciple Out of the Sect —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Spirit Root Shines Alone: Ascension Arc 灵根独耀·飞升篇 The Spirit Root Shines Alone: Ascension Arc —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Qingyan Locked Away in the Deep Red-Walled Mansion 朱墙深宅锁清晏 A Deep Mansion Behind Vermilion Walls, Locking Away Qingyan —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Soul Transmigrated into a Puppet, I Activate the Imperial Authority Awakening System 魂穿傀儡，激活了皇权觉醒系统 Transmigrated into a puppet, I activated the Imperial Authority Awakening System —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Alchemy God’s Soul Transmigrates to the Modern World, Where He Livestreams His Craft 丹神魂穿现世，直播炼丹 The Pill God Reincarnates in the Modern World and Livestreams His Alchemy 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Another Spring of the 1977 College Entrance Exam 1977年高考又一春
[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
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- 42 Back to 1973: I Have a Sign-In System 重回1973，我有签到系统 A wage slave among wage slaves was summoned to work overtime in the middle of the night. On his way home at dawn, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse sent him back to the fervent era. Armed with an incomplete cultivation sign-in System, let's see how he makes his mark in those turbulent times. 16.5kReads6.8Score1.2kShelves
- 43 Reborn in 1974: I Take My Space with Me to the Countryside 重生1974年，我带空间去下乡 Li Feng, a wage slave working a 996 schedule, accidentally activated the pocket dimension in the jade pendant his grandfather left him before he died. As a devoted fan of web novels on Tomato, how could he not know what opportunity was coming his way? “Grandpa! Bless your grandson with a chance to transmigrate to an awesome world. I’ll make sure our Li family has plenty of descendants.” The newly unemployed wage slave gathered what little money he had and stockpiled some supplies. Now he waits f 16.9kReads7.8Score704Shelves
- 44 Back to the Late 1970s, I Have a Choice System 重回70年代末，我有选择系统 A modern food-delivery rider was hit by a heavy truck while saving someone and sent back to the 1970s, reborn as an educated youth about to take the college entrance exam. Ding! The choice System has been activated. A choice has been triggered. Choice One: Take the college entrance exam? No way. You can return to the city freely in a year, so stay in the village for another year. Reward: Become the village secretary's live-in son-in-law. Choice Two: The college entrance exam is the only way to c 17.9kReads7.0Score1.1kShelves
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Traveling Between Two Worlds: The 1970s 两界穿梭之七零年代
Wu Xiaoyao is a working-class nobody, a corporate drudge who likes to unwind by grilling skewers and letting loose whenever he has a bit of free time. But an out-of-control dump truck sends him hurtling back to the fiery age of the 1970s. What surprises him is that he can travel back and forth between the seventies and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before him.
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- 46 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Red-Hot Years 两界穿梭之火红年代 Li Xiaren is an ordinary office worker, trudging through grueling days that start at eight in the morning and end at midnight. One day, after finally getting several months of back pay, he plans to give himself a well-deserved break. Who could have guessed that eating a grilled kidney for no apparent reason would send him back to the 1970s when he woke up? Luckily, he discovers he can return to 2025, and so two completely different eras open up before him!!! 254Reads7.6Score101Shelves
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Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪
Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity…
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- 48 A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金 Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More 532Reads7.7Score135Shelves
- 49 Twin Rivers: Bloodbath in Republican-Era Shanghai 双川民国之沪上血战 Su Tianci has spent 25 years as a working stiff. After leaving the military, he has the job he earned stolen by someone with power and influence. His attempts to seek justice come to nothing, and with the other side's overwhelming influence, he has no choice but to become a delivery driver. Who could have guessed that while performing a good deed, he'd be struck by a heavy truck and sent straight to the Republican era? Then his transmigration golden finger turns out to let him travel between the 172Reads7.2Score149Shelves
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Period: Scraping By in 1958 年代：我在1958苟活
This book is also known as “To Eat Meat Without Shame, I Had to Make the Whole Village Rich” I woke up one day and somehow transmigrated to 1958, an era when food and clothing were scarce. My parents had died of illness, leaving behind three young children. We had nothing, and our uncle was eyeing us, hoping to take one of us in. The good news was that I had a sign-in System. The bad news was that the sign-in rewards were few and pretty lousy. There was nothing for it. I could only rely on the b
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