Historical-Era Stories with Male Leads. *^_^* Please! 年代文，主角是男生的。*^_^*拜托啦！
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Reborn in 1978: Hunter-Doctor of Changbai Mountain 重生七八，长白山猎医
In his previous life, he weathered storms of bullets and enjoyed the splendor of the city. On his sixtieth birthday, he was reborn in the village where he had once lived. In this life, Liu Hongjun just wants to stay in the mountains, work as the village doctor, and spend his free time gathering herbs and hunting. He wants to enjoy a leisurely life.
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Back to 1985: Tales of the Northeast 重回1985：东北往事
These are fiery years spent feeling one’s way across a river by touching the stones, a time of thriving vitality where the bold could eat their fill, and of wild growth where big shots were everywhere. The rules of this society have never changed: the meek fear the tough, the tough fear the ruthless, the ruthless fear the reckless, and the reckless fear those who don’t care if they live or die. But even those who don’t care if they live or die fear madmen. And so, Zhou Dongbei went mad. (TV adap
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The 1960s Mystery Box System: My Scumbag Dad Spares No Expense Spoiling His Six Kids 六零盲盒系统：渣爹氪金宠飞六崽
[A low-conflict period drama + an outstanding male lead + rebuilding family values + still the one in charge + three ex-wives + six kids] Liu Xueyi married three times and had six children. He trampled on his three ex-wives to live the happy life of a city man, only to pull a classic Nanluoguxiang fool’s move and marry a widow, raising another man’s kids! But Liu Xueyi wasn’t the self-sacrificing type. No matter whose home he was in, he called all the shots. The widow’s family treated him like a
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A Poor Scholar of Noble Character 一品寒士
[Single heroine, semi-fictionalized Tang Dynasty] In an era when the great aristocratic clans looked down on the imperial family, Zhao Quan was born to a farming family and entered school carrying the hopes of his parents and six older brothers. Farming was out of the question: even the village head’s family had no food to spare… So he had no choice but to take the imperial exams and become an official.
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Reborn in 1975: From the Start, I Tore Up the Order to Return to the City 重生1975：开局撕毁回城调令
Zhou Yang, an unrivaled patriot who devoted his whole life to his country, was reborn and returned to the remote mountain village where he had been sent down to work in 1975! Looking at the transfer order in his hand, this time he didn't hesitate. He tore it to shreds! In his previous life, he'd been blinded by greed and abandoned his wife and daughter to return to the city, watching helplessly as Li Youwei and her daughter met tragic deaths. Reborn, all Zhou Yang wanted was a warm home with his
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Max-Level Cultivation: The Demon Descends Upon the Mortal World 满级修为：魔临人间
[Invincible from beginning to end + fast-paced + no female lead + doesn’t hide his strength + decisive and ruthless + the Myriad Worlds + no saintly protagonist + no romantic entanglements] Immortal Emperor reborn? System owner? Top tycoon? Ruler of the Underworld? Powerful alien race? With a single thought, I’ll make your souls scatter into oblivion. The Demon Emperor descends. He slaughters until Heaven and Earth run red, wiping out everything in his path. The Demon Emperor descends, and te
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Reborn: I Doted on My Wife and Kids and Shocked the Whole Village 重生：我宠老婆孩子震惊全村
[Reborn Romance + Regretful Scumbag + 1980s Dad Life + Devoted Husband, One Heroine + Satisfying Read + Cozy Daily Life + Healing] Chen Sanye, the village's notorious hooligan, suddenly changed after a night of heavy drinking! The idle, foul-mouthed delinquent became polite. He was not only hardworking, but even learned how to make money! He stopped barking orders at his pretty, mute wife and began speaking to her softly and treating her with the utmost tenderness. The neighbors were baffled. Ha
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Reborn: The Golden Age 重生之黄金年代
The 1990s were the golden decade that today’s business tycoons look back on with nostalgia. Opportunities were everywhere, and gold was there for the taking. That’s why it was also known as the Great Era! Zhou Liang’an returns to 1993, back to the bottom rung of a company. The old workers take him for a pushover and bully him. The woman he was dating is about to dump him. His friends and relatives all want to take advantage of him, and not one of them means well. But… no one expected Zhou Liang’
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Immortality System: I Outlived Everyone 系统赋我长生，我熬死了所有人
Observing the love and hatred of cultivators across the river of time from a perspective beyond life itself. He left a modest little town and entered the wondrous world of cultivation. His journey sped up and slowed down, moving forward or stopping to rest, but he never stopped walking. The Age of Declining Dharma, the Age of Emperors, the Age of Dark Turmoil… He appeared in every age, and the only thing he could do was watch old friends die with his own eyes, then see them off to their grave
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Protecting the Dao in the Sixties: My Stepbrother Is a Pillar of the Nation 护道六零：我家继兄是国之栋梁
After transmigrating into the 1950s, she became him, Yang Jiansen, returning with the complete script of two lifetimes. In the 1960s, Lin Weiwei, a reborn woman, sabotaged him at every turn. In his previous life, she was the one who destroyed his stepbrother He Linyue’s promising future in service to the country. In this life, he swears to protect his brother at all costs and crush every scheme one by one. Through turbulent times, he plans every step carefully, steadily averts crises, and uses h
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I Make Paper Offerings in a Period Novel 我在年代文里做纸扎
Li Hongwen transmigrates into a book, landing in a period novel about a wicked supporting female character’s rise to power. The heroine has a pocket dimension, and the villainess has a supermarket. All he has is the paper-offering craft he learned in his previous life, but that trade is taboo in this era!!! Luckily, a skill from his previous life that he never got to use works in this world. And so, an unremarkable supporting male character who knows the plot appears, much to the villainess’s su
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- 12 Reborn in the 1960s: Sent to the Countryside from the Start 重生60年代，开局就上山下乡 [Period]+ [Reborn]+ [Pocket Dimension]+ [Single Female Lead] Ye Hao transmigrates to a parallel world in the 1960s. Just as he is about to starve to death, he awakens an ancient treasure passed down from antiquity: the Azure Lotus Mystic Jade! Watch as he lives it up during the famine, improving his own life while also doing his part to help this country rebuild from the ground up! Our goal is the stars and the sea! 1.9kReads8.8Score239Shelves
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The Way of Heaven's Evolution: Bureau 503 天衍圣道之503局
A high-speed express train hurtles along its route. An ordinary train conductor gets drunk in a sleeper compartment, breaking the rules, and becomes embroiled in a bizarre tomb-robbing case. When he sobers up, he unexpectedly joins Huaxia’s most mysterious organization, Bureau 503... By chance, he crosses paths with the mysterious Tongji Alliance, setting him on a completely different path in life.
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1983: A Poor Man Marries a Naive Educated Youth in a Crumbling Kiln 1983：寒门破窑娶懵懂知青
Back in 1983, he finds himself facing a home made up of two shabby cave dwellings and a younger sister who hasn’t yet come of age. He’s the poorest lad in the village. Can he really marry the prettiest educated youth who’s come to the countryside? Did he pay a bride price? Did she bring a dowry? All the crumbling courtyard walls and broken cave dwellings have to show for it is a single red wedding character. Zhou Yuanyuan only got married because she’d given up on everything. The poor lad cheris
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Back to 1988 重返1988
Lu Feng had become a billionaire and achieved great success when he unexpectedly returned to the 1990s. Looking at his adorable daughter, he was completely bewildered. Even more bewildering was the question of who this beautiful wife of his was. With a second chance at life, making money was a piece of cake. He would not only reach the pinnacle of wealth, but also teach business tycoons how to make money, give the future richest man a few pointers on starting a business, and then casually stand
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- 16 Reborn in the 1990s 重生之九零年代 After waking up, Chen Qingyun found himself reborn in the 1990s. It was an age of upheaval, with society swept up in a great tide of change. Standing at the crest of the times, with the wheel of fate in his hands, he would start over from scratch... Chen Qingyun said, “I’ll earn all the money I missed out on before. I’ll make the campus belle I couldn’t win over regret looking down on me. Every regret from my past life, I’ll make up for in this one.” 124Reads8.6Score135Shelves
- 17 Keeping a Low Profile in the 1990s, I Became a Billionaire 苟在90年代，我当首富了 He opens an instant-noodle factory, leaving no room for the foreign-backed Master Kong; develops Chinese-language software, making Microsoft’s Chinese localization struggle to gain a foothold in the country; and invests in Tencent and Alibaba, becoming the biggest power behind them. Wealth floods in like a raging river. Fang Xing, lying low in the 1990s, sets his sights on becoming the richest man in the world. After all, he’s the greatest bug of the 1990s. 52Reads5.2Score—Shelves
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Reborn in 1985: Giving My Wife and Children a Happy Life 重生1985，给妻儿幸福生活
No System + Not Mindless + Lighthearted Comedy + Respectful of the Era + Playboy Seeks Redemption + Devoted Husband + Hard Work Brings Wealth... In his previous life, Qian Yiwen turned what could have been a good life into a laughingstock in everyone else’s eyes. When his son went missing, he took out his anger on his wife. His utterly disillusioned wife took poison and killed herself. Reborn, he finds that his son is still here, and so is his wife. He decides to rebuild his business empire, giv
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Beautiful Wife, Three Good Kids, Back to 1983 for the Best Life Ever 老婆美，三崽乖，重回83爽歪歪
(Reborn in a bygone era + doting on his wife and striking it rich + one heroine + lovesick fool comes to his senses + heartwarming child-rearing) As he lay dying, Lu Zhengyang, the richest man in Nancheng with a fortune rivaling an entire nation, discovered that his wife had been fooling around with another man and that his son wasn't his own. He'd been blind and foolish. He accepted that! But his innocent family had died because of it. He couldn't accept that! When he opened his eyes again, he
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Back to 1983, I Take My Wife to Collect Scrap 重返1983，带着媳妇收破烂
[Urban + Reborn + Period Piece + System + Building Wealth + Slice of Life] [This is a slice-of-life story. No showing off, no overpowered heroics, just an enjoyable read.] “You think you’re so great, so noble, like you’re God. You inexplicably dumped me in 1983, but you won’t even send me back. What kind of godforsaken place is this? This godforsaken place, this godforsaken place! Do you have any idea what I’ve been through here?” Zhou Weiguo, an overworked office drone thrown into 1983, started
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- 21 Reborn in the 1970s: Taking My Younger Sister to Northeast China to Join the Educated Youth 重生七零：带着妹妹下东北当知青 [Period setting] + [Sent-down youth] + [Hunting and farming] + [Growing ginseng] + [Hard work and perseverance] In his previous life, what Tian Xiangnan regretted most was failing to take good care of his younger sister, which led to her dying far too young. Now that he is reborn, Tian Xiangnan immediately takes his sister with him to the Northeast to become sent-down youths. But on the way there, he unexpectedly discovers a shamanic legacy in a cave. Going hunting? I have homemade, magical sham 25.3kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves
- 22 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. 13.4kReads8.8Score863Shelves
- 23 My Rebirth Is So Hard 我的重生太难了 Originally titled My Rebirth Is Too Hard. The current title only reflects the protagonist's ambitions, not what the story is actually about. A slow-burn, everyday-life story. The protagonist isn't a big shot, doesn't take the world by storm, and won't become a billionaire. If you don't like a reborn protagonist without lofty ambitions, don't read it, and please don't leave negative comments! Writing takes effort, so if it's not for you, please leave quietly. Thanks for holding back on the critic 2.2kReads8.8Score143Shelves
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A Little Chubby Kid Brings a Shopping Mall into a Period Novel 肉团子带着商场穿进年代文
This is a danmei novel set in a bygone era, so make sure you’re reading the right one, cuties! When he wakes up, Lu Tang has become the adopted son who dies young in a period novel! From beginning to end, he only appears in a few chapters before being written out. But his death causes his adoptive parents’ family to turn evil. All four of his brothers become villains too, just to avenge him. The eldest brother breaks his leg, the second is kicked out of the army, and the third is abducted by hum
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- 25 Transmigrate to the 1950s: Starting by Leaving a Mountain Village 穿越五十年代：从走出小山村开始 [A delightfully ordinary young man + everyday life + college entrance exams + hard work + one heroine] Just as Zhou Xingran's life was getting back on track, he suddenly transmigrated to a remote mountain village in the 1950s. His father doesn't care for him, his mother doesn't love him, and his family is dirt-poor. No matter. Relying on others is worse than relying on himself. So, first things first: he might as well get into college! P.S. The golden finger is very minor. The protagonist mainly 13.4kReads8.9Score700Shelves
- 26 A Woman in a Man's Body: Living Off Women in a Period Novel 女穿男：我在年代文里吃软饭 [A woman transmigrates into a man’s body, with some fantasy elements] When Zhou Shan transmigrates to the 1960s, she opens her eyes to dizziness and weakness in all four limbs, experiencing firsthand what it means to be starving to death. She doesn’t feel the slightest thing about having become a man. Just as she’s so hungry she can barely keep her eyes open, she hears a father and daughter nearby, picking over their choices: “Is there anyone you like?” “Too ugly. Black and skinny, like a charre 6.7kReads9.4Score565Shelves
- 27 Fighting the Japanese with the Sichuan Army: I Can Hear the Enemy's Strategic Plans 川军抗战，我能听到鬼子战略部署 [Independent development] + [strategy and tactics] + [historical storyline] + [endless feel-good] Brave men march out of Sichuan, the front line is in crisis! From the start, I transmigrate straight to the front lines of the war against Japan! I can hear the Japanese forces’ strategic plans. Other people transmigrate and get powerful equipment. I take on the Japanese with strategy. I draw on the strategic wisdom and tactics passed down by the old veterans, leading the surviving Sichuan soldi 27.2kReads9.1Score2.4kShelves
- 28 Reborn in 1965: I'm the Only Son in the Family 重生六五，我为家中唯一男丁 Alternate history, alternate history, alternate history. Some things are important enough to say three times!!! (A woman transmigrates into a man’s body, and there’s a spatial ability! Completed.) After working hard for ten years, she finally managed to buy a home and a car in a third-tier city. Life was getting better and better... Then one day, she transmigrated into a parallel era where food and clothing were scarce, and she was the only boy in her family. Fortunately, her family didn’t favor 7.5kReads9.0Score427Shelves
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Reborn in 1985: Changing My Fate 重生1985改变命运
At thirty-six, Ye Fan was unexpectedly reborn in 1985, a special era when people needed ration coupons to shop. In his previous life, he had come from a well-off family. His father worked at a machine repair factory, his mother was a schoolteacher, and they lived a happy life. But his father died suddenly in an accident, and his mother soon passed away from grief. Then Ye Fan lost a fortune in the stock market, and his life fell into utter despair. Reborn, handsome and irresistible, Ye Fan was d
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The Blade of the Master 师刀
Eyes like shooting stars, movements like lightning. A blade that kills, a sword that saves. This is a story about a young man and his blade.
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- 31 The Lonely Assassin 杀手很寂寞 On the winter solstice, Dahuang returned to Han Guai Zi’s junkyard with a baby in his mouth. From then on, the boy was called Han Dongzhi. On the Double Ninth Festival, Han Guai Zi named his second son Han Yang. As the great escape drew to a close, Dongzhi entrusted his hopes to Han Yang, then turned and entered the snowy forest. Ten years later, a Ghost Hand emerged on the dark web, and an international mercenary group gained a madman. CS is the world’s most powerful intelligence network and a 128Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 32 I Am the Blood Lord, and All Living Beings Are My Blood Slaves 吾为血主，众生皆为血奴 [Slaughter] [Blood Princess] [Tentacles] [Corpse Refining] [Devouring] [No System] Fang Mo, the eldest young master of the Fang family, was the best cultivator among his peers and a widely acclaimed genius in Luoyun City, the focus of everyone’s attention. Unexpectedly, on the day the Heavenly Sword Sect came to recruit disciples, his family treated him as a pawn and discarded him. He was left gravely wounded and crippled. A few days later, news spread that Fang Mo had been poisoned to death. Th 11kReads8.5Score754Shelves
- 33 The Flames of War in the Wanli Era 万历烽火 A detailed portrayal of the imperial examinations; the brutal Battle of Sarhu! A grand war brought vividly to life; thunderous horns and drums, whistling arrows and keen points; stinging sand in every face, skin torn and bones broken; corpses strewn along the banks of Jugang, blood filling the passes in the Great Wall! A tender, heartrending love, like a song that lingers through the years! Emotions as poetic as a lover’s warm hand, gently stroking eyes clouded by rain; a quiet parting, soft as 103Reads—Score—Shelves
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