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1. 951 重 Reborn in the 1960s: I Became Grandma’s Little Sister 重生六零：我成了外婆的妹妹 Jing Jiuzhe荆九折Modern Romance73k WordsOngoing [When an ordinary person is reborn in a rural village in the 1960s, forget about getting ahead or making grand plans. First, stay alive.] [1960s rural life + family and neighborhood affairs + education and growth + ensemble cast] [Not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story. Please don't read if that's not your thing. Thank you.] When Zhu Yan wakes up in the body of her grandmother's second-youngest sister, who died young, she vows to change her grand —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   A very nice alternative period novel, the more you read it, the more you become addicted to it

2. 952 字 The Seventh Book by Ziai Xiangyan 字爱香烟的第7本书 Words Love Cigarettes字爱香烟Urban142k WordsOngoing Reborn into a Shattered Family, I Killed My Way Through Widow Village [Period Setting] [No Dragging Things Out] [Brutal and Violent] [Killing Spree] [Farming] No compromise. If they won’t submit, kill them. This is all about the satisfaction, with absolutely no holding back. After spending eighteen years in prison, Zhang Feng died at the hands of a killer bribed by his enemy. As he closed his eyes, he saw his parents bullied to death, felt the fury of his family’s orchard being seized, and hear 35Reads6.3Score—Shelves

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   A very nice book!

3. 953 重 Back to the 1970s: A Village Girl's Path Beyond the World 重回七零年代，村女的破界之路 Green Grain Shining on the Fields青禾照野Modern Romance270k WordsOngoing [Elderly woman + reborn + 1970s + dumping a scumbag + no romance + family life + spatial storage] After being angered to death at the age of seventy, Zhou Qiuying is reborn in 1975. In 1975 in her previous life, Zhou Qiuying was an eighteen-year-old country girl. She gave up her secure job as an elementary school teacher to marry an educated youth sent down to the countryside. In return, her husband cruelly abandoned her after passing the college entrance exam, and her loved ones died tragical 131Reads—Score—Shelves

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   An article about the age of rebirth, highly recommended!

4. 954 年 Period: An Only Child for Five Years, Then Suddenly I Had a Sister 年代：独生五年，忽然多出个姐姐 Ou Koi欧锦鲤Modern Romance315k WordsCompleted (Period setting + family life + everyday life + healing + slow-paced + childhood sweethearts) Until Chen Jinyue turned five, she had always been the apple of her family’s eye. But after her mother returned from her hometown one day, she brought back a girl and told Jinyue that she was her aunt’s daughter, and would be staying with them for a while. Before long, though, Chen Jinyue overheard that the girl wasn’t her cousin at all, but her biological older sister, sharing the same mother but a dif 15.6kReads8.2Score1.6kShelves

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   These books are all good-looking

5. 955 六 The 1960s: I Follow the Army with My Child and Make the Whole Camp Drool 六零年，带娃随军我馋哭全军营 Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Ning猫猫猫猫猫宁Modern Romance436k WordsCompleted [Food + military life + adorable kids + Culinary God System + everyday child-rearing] Only after awakening does Song Qinghuan realize that the world she lives in grew out of a wicked stepmother novel, and that she is the original wife, a cannon-fodder character destined to die young. When she falls into a river, her children are abducted by human traffickers. Her children become villains who stand in the way of the heroine's children! In the end, some die and others are left crippled! All becaus 11.3kReads8.6Score1.2kShelves
6. 956 六 A Scheming Couple's Daily Bickering in the Sixties 六零腹黑夫妻互怼日常 Xuanhan Bao'er萱涵宝儿Modern Romance502k WordsCompleted [1960s Era + Light Ensemble Cast + Crime Solving + Whirlwind Marriage + Guiding Romance] In the 1960s, unsolved cases shrouded the land in mystery. He Xinghua, a policewoman from the countryside, and Lu Yanping, a criminal investigation chief, were not only husband and wife, but also partners in the line of duty. From a rural courtyard to city housing for government cadres, and from sorting through case files to confronting the most baffling criminal minds, they embarked together on a new caree 1.3kReads8.0Score136Shelves
7. 957 重 Reborn in the 1980s: Growing Vegetables and Raising Fish with a Spirit Spring Made Our Whole Village Rich 重生八零靠灵泉种菜养鱼暴富全村 Ling Dian凌巅Modern Romance206k WordsOngoing Modern romance | reborn | pocket dimension | farming | period setting | countryside | sweet romance | feel-good power fantasy | building wealth | face-slapping | taking down scumbags | devoted husband | strong female lead | doted on by everyone | spirit spring | happy ending | mutual devotion | rugged man Shen He died once. In her previous life, her in-laws kept her trapped at home, making her wash clothes and cook. They took the vegetables she grew, and dumped the rice seeds she developed int 11Reads—Score—Shelves

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   It's good to read. The chronology is really well written. I come here every day to catch up on updates. I recommend everyone to check it out.

8. 958 守 The Night Watcher's Seventh Night 守夜人头七夜 Milk Candy Fan奶糖梵Mystery163k WordsOngoing Chinese-Style Horror | Folk Mystery | Rules-Based Horror | The Seventh-Night Return of the Dead | Night Watcher | Funeral Home Makeup Artist | Three Major Twists | Chilling on Reflection | Inheritance Dispute | Funeral Customs | Dreaming of a Son | Female-Led Mystery | Family Fate | A Battle of Human Nature | Tearjerker | Folk Taboos | Family Ethics | Adapted as a Short-Form Drama Zhou Du is a night-shift makeup artist for the dead at a funeral home. On her first day on the job, someone warned h 5Reads—Score105Shelves
9. 959 重 Reborn: The Crown Prince’s Wicked Girlfriend Won’t Redeem Herself 重生后，太子爷的恶毒女友她不洗白了 Milk Candy Fan奶糖梵36k WordsCompleted Reborn, the Crown Prince’s Wicked Girlfriend Refuses to Redeem Herself —Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 960 殓 The Bizarre Case of the Funeral Makeup Artist 殓妆诡案 Milk Candy Fan奶糖梵41k WordsCompleted The Mysterious Case of the Burial Makeup —Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 961 穿 I Went Back to the 1970s to Teach, and Became Famous Through Comics 穿回七零教书，我靠漫画爆红 Zheng Weichi筝未迟Modern Romance1.0M WordsOngoing The rating is low because very few people have read it, so it’s rising slowly. [Transmigration + Period Setting + Homeroom Teacher + Light Ensemble Cast + Romance + Anime + Entrepreneur] After transmigrating back to the 1970s, Chen Yixiao finds herself a newly graduated temporary worker at a garment factory, rubbing clothes until the skin peels off her hands. No matter. She can draw. She turns her grandmother’s stories into comic strips and submits them to a newspaper, making her grandma famous 382Reads8.1Score112Shelves

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    A very novel theme, a southern story set in Guangdong Province. The interaction between teachers and students, the growth of many women, and the comic stories in it are also very childlike. For example, "Shit Eating Conference", "Suffering from the Four Seas", "The Angler and the Fish", etc.

12. 962 八 The 1980s: My Sister Is a Policewoman Who Puts Every Troublemaker in Their Place 八零之我姐是警花，专治各种不服 Hakka from Yunya云崖客家人Modern Romance623k WordsCompleted [Period crime investigation + family and neighborhood life + a spirited heroine + Beijing hutongs and courtyard homes + a slight golden finger] Lin Tiantian was a gymnast in her previous life. Reborn into the Lin family, she had extraordinary strength. To keep her from causing damage with it, her father taught her the family's martial arts from childhood. Though she was beautiful in this life, she chose to make policing her lifelong career. Everyone in the neighborhood knew that a female officer 1.1kReads6.8Score177Shelves

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13. 963 七 A Beautiful Woman’s Fight to Change Her Life in the 1970s 七零之娇媚美人靠内卷改变人生 Hakka from Yunya云崖客家人Modern Romance378k WordsCompleted Also known as Reborn: The Charming Beauty Catches the Eye of a Discharged Officer After dying a miserable death in the wilderness in her previous life, Shen Wanqing opens her eyes again and wants only to escape her fate as a doomed supporting character. She uses her spiritual spring space to heal old injuries, puts arrogant bullies in their place with her martial arts skills, and masters five foreign languages and all kinds of skills through fierce competition. Her life soon flourishes. Only Wei 339Reads6.4Score—Shelves
14. 964 七 A 1970s-Era Link to the Modern World: I Cut Ties, Change My Surname, and Get Rich 七零通现代：断亲改姓发家致富 Feng Jiaojiao Is Not Delicate冯娇娇不娇Modern Romance268k WordsCompleted [Period drama + no romance + connected to the modern era + building wealth] The rating has just been posted, and it will rise later. In the winter of 1976, Yu Xiaoran loses her father, her mother lies gravely ill, and her awful grandmother lays claim to the compensation money. Her aunt plans to give her away in exchange for connections. Right there and then, she severs ties with her family and changes her surname, cutting herself off from her parasitic relatives once and for all. At the end of h 1.6kReads8.2Score193Shelves

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    This is a cool novel without CP, it's not brainless, the hostess is sober.

15. 965 五 The 1950s Village Girl Is a Little Crazy: From the Start, She Smashes Her Scumbag Father's Wedding 五零村姑有点疯，开局砸渣爹婚礼 Cherry Tiny Rice Ball樱桃小小小圆子Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Ni Chuichui had just gotten out of a mental hospital when she had the misfortune to transmigrate into the body of a girl with the same name in the 1950s. Her mother was dead, and her father didn’t care about her. Wearing the standard smile of a villain, Ni Chuichui waved her hand and said, “You think you can just decide you don’t want me? That’s not how it works.” She took her younger brother to the military district, crashed a wedding, drove her stepmother into a faint, and extorted a huge sum 48.1kReads8.6Score5.6kShelves
16. 966 莲 Lotus Shadows over the Capital 莲影京华 My Left Eyelid Keeps Twitching左眼皮跳啊跳Modern Romance318k WordsOngoing Village beauty Shi Cailian has had a life bitter enough to pickle vegetables, but she's blessed with a face of unparalleled beauty. Educated youth Wan Changce falls for her at first sight and takes the college entrance exam four times. When the results come out, Shi Cailian has just fallen out with her biased family, so she packs her bags and goes with him to make it in the capital. He studies hard and becomes a top student, while she uses her beauty to land a secure job at the Friendship Store. 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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    What was she, Shi Cailian, afraid of?

17. 967 重 Reborn in 1990: The System Forces Me to Become the Village Tyrant 重生90：系统逼我当村霸 Ni Linsheng逆鳞生Rural Life544k WordsOngoing [Period setting + System + village bully + reborn + farming and business + face-slapping wish fulfillment] In 2026, overworked office drone Zhou Ye dies suddenly after staying up all night. When he opens his eyes, he's back in 1990. He's become the bully whom all 3,000 villagers are chasing around to curse. His family is so poor they're starving. His older sister has to drop out of school, a supposedly good man in the village is running a scam, and an orphan girl is about to be sold. System: [St 86Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 968 魂 My Soul Reborn in the 1970s: The Night Queen Puts Everyone in Their Place 魂穿七零，暗夜女王专治各种不服 Silence8沉默8Modern Romance1.3M WordsOngoing (Period drama / Military marriage / Mutual devotion / Everyone’s favorite) After the dark-night queen of Bandit City died, her soul transmigrated to the 1970s and into the body of an overlooked, pitiful girl. An essential System for transmigrators: Brother Pony! Every time she beat someone up, the System gave her a reward: money, coupons, food, fabric… you name it! In her previous life, she’d fed an entire orphanage with her fists. Surely she could provide for a family of three? A foolishly duti 94.9kReads9.0Score1.4kShelves
19. 969 穿 Transmigrated to the 1970s, My Foolish Mother Fiercely Protects Her Kids 穿越七零，傻娘护崽超凶哒 Silence8沉默8Modern Romance339k WordsCompleted (Alternate-history period setting, military marriage, love that grows over time) Name: Tian Chunya Special skill: She's amazing at picking up kids. Her grandmother was the sole heir to a reclusive family, a master of ancient martial arts whose identity was shrouded in mystery. She was murdered. Tian Chunya had planned to take the four little ones with her and lie flat in the army, but in the capital she ran into the person who had killed her grandmother. As it turned out, she held the reclusive 4.4kReads8.7Score345Shelves
20. 970 穿 I Transmigrate to a Parallel World and Become Everyone’s Darling! 穿越平行世界，我被团宠了！ Silence8沉默8Modern Romance300k WordsCompleted Xie Shiya was a hardworking office worker in the modern world. She went to sleep and transmigrated, only to die less than a month later. Had she transmigrated the wrong way? Furious, Xie Shiya raised her middle finger at the heavens. After dying, she bound herself to a System. If she completed enough missions, she could return to the moment she first transmigrated. After going through ten small worlds, Xie Shiya declared, “You scumbags, are you ready? I, Xie Shiya, am back!” And so she protected 721Reads8.8Score—Shelves
21. 971 七 The Seventies: My Vegetative Husband Can Read Minds 七零，植物人老公会读心 A Blade of Grass 8寸草心8Modern Romance1.5M WordsOngoing [Period drama / military marriage / love grows over time / both leads are chaste / doted on by everyone / adorable kids] Su Miaomiao, the demon woman who beat the Zombie King until he begged for mercy in the apocalypse, opens her eyes again to find herself hanging from the rafters in the 1970s, swaying in the breeze like seaweed! After receiving the original owner's memories, Su Miaomiao smiles. A husband whose salary comes in while he lies around, parents who dote on her, and the joy of becomin 164.1kReads8.9Score8.1kShelves
22. 972 七 The 1970s: Mu Tian's Love Across Two Lifetimes 七零，沐天两世情缘 A Blade of Grass 8寸草心8Ancient Romance355k WordsCompleted (Tomato Original, alternate-era setting, a ghost who loves eavesdropping, a powerful black-market boss with a tragic past, and a gossip-loving System) Breaking news: The story may not have hit its stride at first, but it gets better and better. Don't give up, keep reading! Jin Mumu learned the hard way that online fiction has two cardinal rules: First, before you are reborn, you must say, "If I get another life, I will..." Second, never complain about the author while reading a novel. Complainin 343Reads9.2Score—Shelves
23. 973 将 The General Becomes a Regiment Commander's Wife in the 1980s 将军她在八零当团长媳妇 Nope非也吖Modern Romance337k WordsOngoing She was once a fearsome female general of the northern garrison, commanding a hundred thousand troops. Steely, cold-hearted, loyal, and righteous. Killed in battle, she transmigrates to 1983, into the body of a country girl forced into marriage, a military wife The original owner had only just married into the military compound when her mother-in-law began looking down on her, her husband grew cold, and her relatives bullied her. The moment she opened her eyes, no one could have imagined That th 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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