Period Novel with a Male Lead, Cozy Vibes, No Awful Characters or Catty Rivalry Between Women 年代文，有男主，温馨向，拒绝极品，拒绝雌竞

1. 1 四 Siheyuan: I’m the Party Secretary at an Agricultural Machinery Factory 四合院，我在农机厂当书记 Barbecue Sauce烧烤酱Male-Channel Fanfiction1.1M WordsCompleted A slow-paced story set in a bygone era! Multiple love interests, a crafty protagonist, no suffering in silence, and only a little edge. No mass-killing rampages. If that's not your thing, please move along! Zhang Xingguo's soul transmigrates into an alternate world, where he discovers that it's actually the famous Four-Sided Courtyard world. Since he's here, he might as well have some fun! He can't have come all this way for nothing. One little tip a day, and he'll rule the Four-Sided Courtyard 22.7kReads6.2Score86414d adds
2. 2 四 Siheyuan: My Fishing System Is Anything but Proper 四合院，我的钓鱼系统不正经 Zhang Youfu张攸伏Male-Channel Fanfiction1.3M WordsCompleted I wake up to find I've arrived in the 1950s, in Love in the Courtyard. As a man with a golden finger, is it too much to expect to be good at everything? Copying machine tools and building tanks are child's play. More importantly, under my leadership, the Dragon Kingdom will enter the age of standardized industrialization thirty years early and achieve its great goal of becoming the world's factory fifty years ahead of schedule. When the Indians cross the border, they won't be greeted by a three- 15.6kReads7.3Score49314d adds
3. 3 穿 Transmigrate into a Book in the 1970s, and Discover My Mom Is a Total Green Tea 穿书七零，发现我妈是大绿茶 Encounter遇见Modern Romance505k WordsCompleted [Period Drama + Self-Serving Female Lead + Terrible Family + Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger + Everyone’s a Master Schemer + Devoted Couple + Joins the Military Later] Just after transmigrating, Zhao Qianqian manages to offend her stepsister and steal her fiancé! And this is all happening inside a book. The man she stole is the female lead’s cash cow, a third male lead, and he’s about to be targeted and framed by the reborn female lead. Then she discovers that her mother has it even worse. Just to 7.1kReads7.3Score48914d adds
4. 4 八 The Eighties: After Refusing to Get a Zero, I Made It into College 八零，拒考零分后，高考上岸 A Little Lemon Sauce一只柠檬酱Modern Romance3.8M WordsCompleted Yu Xiaoxiao was a poor student. She wasn't much good at studying, and her job was only so-so. She had no great ambitions in life. All she wanted was a job where she could slack off and live like a couch potato until retirement. Then, without warning, she found herself in the 1980s. With no particular talents to speak of, Yu Xiaoxiao was at a loss. She had no idea how to survive in such a harsh and unforgiving era. In the end, she chose the hardest path of all. A poor student to begin with, she s 10.1kReads8.9Score1.1k14d adds

   Reader note

   Tired of the same old inspirational protagonists without any cheat codes? This novel takes a different approach, depicting the mediocre life of an underachiever in the 1980s. With its novel setting and unique story, it will take you on a journey through the ordinary life of ordinary people.

5. 5 中 Starting Out as a Vocational School Student, I Worked My Factory to the Bone 中专生开局，我把工厂卷疯了 Peach Heart Rainbow桃心彩虹Modern Romance635k WordsOngoing A modern quality-control worker transmigrates to the famine years of the 1960s. The moment she opens her eyes, she faces a desperate situation: the high school entrance exam has been suspended, and she's being forced to go to the countryside. To avoid being sent down, she promptly skips grades, studies hard, gets into a technical secondary school, and secures a stable job at a state-owned enterprise, successfully escaping that fate. She doesn't have any miraculous talent that will make her famou 34.2kReads8.2Score3.4k14d adds

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   Nothing particularly outstanding, but the "golden finger" (advantages/advantages) aren't exaggerated either. It's a heartwarming slice-of-life story with the female lead focusing on her career! She gets into a vocational school and is assigned to a state-owned factory.

6. 6 嫁 The First Day of My Marriage to a Rugged Man, My Sweet Young Educated Wife Can't Stop Crying 嫁给糙汉第一天，娇媚知青哭唧唧 Wen Xiaoqi温小柒Modern Romance563k WordsCompleted Jiang Ran is a proper rich heiress, but in the blink of an eye, she transmigrates into a period novel as the villainous supporting character, and even gets herself a rugged husband for free. In the original story, she makes Song Qinian’s life miserable at every turn, eventually divorces him, and dies of depression. Jiang Ran swears she’ll rewrite that tragic ending and treat Song Qinian as well as she possibly can. After gaining a pocket dimension as her golden finger, she sets out to make a for 58Reads6.7Score—14d adds

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   This is good.

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