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- 101 Back in 1977, I Married the Queen of the Daughters' Kingdom 回到1977年，娶了女儿国国王 Ji Yuning transmigrated back to 1977. He went from being a 21-year-old educated youth returning to the city to a literary young man, a great poet, and a famous novelist. It was all thanks to his memories of his previous life and the books he copied. But his greatest reward was marrying a wife as beautiful as a fairy. 11.7kReads8.0Score759Shelves
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Tales of the Compound (Two-Book Set) 大院往事（共二册）
The Past of the Compound tells the love story of two childhood sweethearts who grew up together in a residential compound. The heroine, Yu Cheng, and the hero, Gu Fangjue, were childhood friends who grew up side by side there. After Gu Fangjue played a prank on her and she fell into the water, Yu Cheng stuck close to him, and the two formed a special bond. As they grew older, their feelings for each other gradually became clear. Just as they were on the verge of confessing, Yu Cheng’s father die
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- 103 The Everyday Lives of Ordinary Folk 市井小民的烟火 Lin Dazhuang and Li Xiaoxiao married through a family-arranged spouse swap. Lin Dazhuang’s younger sister, Lin Jiaojiao, has her eye on Li Zhiming, who works at a general store. And so the story begins... 552Reads7.3Score102Shelves
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Reborn in the Nineties: The Alluring Beauty Snares the Cold, Abstinent Tycoon 重生九零，钓系美人拿捏禁欲大佬
[Power Couple Showdown] [Extreme Push and Pull] [科技 Strong Nation] [Business Warfare in a Bygone Era] [Alternate Universe] The Untouchable Ice Queen VS the Master Manipulator This is an evenly matched battle of wits, and a legend about the rise of a great power's industrial technology. In 1992, with nowhere left to turn, Jiang Wan set her sights on Shen Yichuan, a technical expert with formidable financial backing. What began as mutual exploitation and wariness evolved amid the surging tides of
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- 105 Transmigrating to 1990s Hong Kong: The Underworld Heiress Clears Her Name Through Food 穿九零港城：黑道千金靠美食洗白 [Transmigrate to 1990s Hong Kong] [Daughter of a crime boss] [Food and business] [Turning gangsters into honest workers] Transmigrated as the daughter of a Hong Kong crime boss in the 1990s, she's got a gang of underlings who know nothing but fighting. While everyone else is fighting over territory, she picks up a spatula and gets into the food business! She trains street thugs to become food delivery riders and errand couriers. With the help of her cha chaan teng's delicious food, she gradually 1.9kReads—Score217Shelves
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Espionage: I Can Earn Rewards by Playing the Villain! 谍战：我当恶霸能爆奖励！
After transmigrating into a minor secret agent at Beiping Station, he unexpectedly awakened the Tyrant System!! As long as the System judges something to be bad behavior, he gets a reward! Kidnap a dog traitor and torture him for information. Ding! For using serious violence against another person, reward: the Japanese devils’ top-secret military intelligence! Lin Ze: ??? Beating up traitors counts too? “Mrs. Miyamoto, I have a new assignment for you!” Ding! For coercing an innocent young woman,
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The Long-Suffering Younger Sister 苦妹
This is a bloodcurdling, suffocating epic of female suffering. It tells the tragic story of a woman called Ku Mei, whose life was mercilessly crushed by fate over more than half a century, from the early 1960s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. In 1960, during a famine-stricken winter, she was born the second daughter in her family and named Pan Di, “Hoping for a younger brother.” From then on, her grandmother saw her as a “jinx” and branded her Ku Mei, “Bitter Girl.” In a family that
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- 108 The Woman with Five Marriages 五婚女人 Among contemporary Chinese literature's portrayals of rural women's lives, Zheng Guozhen's story grips readers with its astonishing realism and tragic depth. Through an ordinary rural woman's five failed marriages, this novel sketches the hardships of rural women's lives and inner worlds during China's social transformation in the 1990s. From an arranged marriage imposed by her parents to a self-serving union built on dependence on power, from an emotional wasteland scarred by violence to a brie 1.8kReads7.9Score238Shelves
- 109 Transmigrating to 1930: I Work for a Landlord 穿越1930：我给地主扛活 One-sentence summary: A modern office worker dies suddenly and transmigrates into the body of a simple-minded farmhand in 1930. Forced to endure the landlord's so-called “blessings,” he uses his modern mindset to turn his life around, eventually joining the revolutionary tide with the landlord's daughter. My name is Zhang Wei. I was a modern programmer who died suddenly after working 996 hours at a major internet company. I closed my eyes and opened them again to find myself in a village in Nort 144Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 The Club 棍儿 In the chaos of the Republican era, Gun'er, a poor young man with thick brows and bright eyes, was the secret longing of every woman in the little village beneath the Taihang Mountains. The landlord's daughter, the glamorous concubine, the fiery and devoted village beauty... Their gazes wove a gentle net, but it could not hold back the sudden arrival of national enmity and personal hatred. The Japanese invaders' iron hooves crushed the mountain village. Amid blood and fire, almost all the men we 165Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Pure Heart: A Life-or-Death Game 纯净的心：生死牌局
A Pure Heart: The Life-and-Death Card Game
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- 112 Night Shanghai: Making My Name on the Bund 夜上海之扬威上海滩 Lin Ge and Bai Wei transmigrate into the TV series Shanghai Bund, arriving in 1930s Shanghai. They clash fiercely with the Japanese and throw themselves into the nationwide resistance, helping launch the 1932 Battle of Shanghai. 116Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Heroes Without Regrets in Shanghai by Night 夜上海之英雄无悔 Lin Ge is a pilot. While flying along the Hump Route, he unexpectedly transmigrates to Shanghai in 1936. He fights against Japan’s ambitions of aggression, reunites with the woman he loves, Bai Wei, and becomes entangled in complicated romantic relationships with the wealthy daughters of Shanghai’s elite. Lin Ge comes from 2036, but after transmigrating to the Shanghai of 1936, he encounters a host of time travelers lying low. The currents are rising, and the fate of the nation is shifting. 207Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Drug Enforcement Elite 禁毒精英 Two major drug cartels operate in Mexico: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel. This is the story of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, together with the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, and US Northern Command, assisting Mexican police in the fight against drug crime. 83Reads—Score—Shelves
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Help! Pregnant with Twins, and This Rugged Man Won't Stop Spoiling Me! 怕！双胎体质，被糙汉掐腰猛宠！
(Complete) (Period setting + rugged man + devoted husband + everyday life + devoted couple, one-on-one romance) As a minor cannon-fodder shrew of a supporting female character in a period novel, she was destined for a miserable ending that would leave everyone sighing with pity. But sorry, I'm here now. Looking at the man before her, with his straight, sturdy posture, phoenix eyes, and high nose, both his face and physique seemed made to match her tastes perfectly. Bai Yueji: How thoroughly brai
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- 116 In Those Days, This Job Was Different 年代，这个编制不一样 Ye Qiu nearly worked himself to death before finally landing a secure government job in 2025. The celebratory drinks hadn't even worn off when he opened his eyes again... Winter, 1949. The north wind whipped through his threadbare padded jacket. He had a new body and a new name: Feng Shijie. An illiterate man from the outskirts, with no food in his pockets. Luckily, fate had not abandoned him. His third uncle returned covered in blood and kicked him straight into the Subdistrict Office: “ 59.3kReads8.5Score5.2kShelves
- 117 The Mars Era: Road to Venus 火星纪元：金星之路 An ancient alien spacecraft is discovered in a crater on Venus. The mysterious X Organization plots to seize the planet, while Factory 18 wants to use Venus as a dumping ground for waste. Yet atop the clouds of Venus stands an airship academy called Cloudtop Academy, a hallowed school dreamed of by students across the solar system. At last, traveling from Mars to Venus, they witness the planet's land and oceans. 58Reads—Score—Shelves
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Heading to the Northeast: Lin Erni's Bumpy Road to Happiness 闯关东：林二妮的颠簸幸福路
[No contrived twists] [No cheat powers] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural] [Hardship] [Inspirational] Lin Erni was born in Heze, Shandong, and married into Harbin in the Northeast. She struggled to get by amid the freezing snow in the mountains, then later had no one to rely on and went alone beyond the mountains to make a living. The first time, she was tossed from one place to another like a bag of steamed buns, made a child bride, and beaten and cursed. The second time, her father sol
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- 119 Greetings from Planet E 来自e星的问候 Whenever I look up at the sky, the dark insectoid mothership looms across the horizon. Greetings from Planet E is a grand extraterrestrial adventure starring Yang Mo. As he builds a business and uncovers a rebellion plot among Planet E's factions, Yang Mo uses his wits to foil the conspirators and the insectoid race, winning the love of the Swan Princess and the Dragonfish Princess. The Solar Chariot tells the story of Yang Mo, the son of Yang Ruo, who arrives on Planet E a thousand years later 22Reads—Score—Shelves
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Late Qing: Rebuilding China 晚清之再造华夏
The modern history of China since the late Qing Dynasty is a history of blood and tears for the Chinese people. The protagonist, Wang Dingbian, transmigrates to a time before the First Sino-Japanese War. Watch him make his way forward step by step: joining the bandits, accepting an offer of amnesty, and fighting the Japanese...
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- 121 The Titan Chronicles: The Stardust War 泰坦战记：星尘之战 Reni, a Martian, meets Amanda, the queen of motorbikes, at the French military academy of Saint-Cyr. Together, they take part in the colonization of the stars and a mission to combat space pirates. But then mysterious time hunters launch a killing spree. 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 Remembering the Years as the Seas Changed 沧海桑田忆年年 My father and Uncle Wang Si, whom he had begged for help from among the neighbors, rode along an unknown little road dusted with snow, just as dawn began to break. Their whips cracked through the silent morning with a crisp, swirling sound. One cart carried the last of our corn kernels in burlap sacks, a few battered water jars, and four large geese. The other held pots and pans, the furniture that was still usable, and some clothes that had been worn by who knew how many children. All the quilt 1.8kReads8.9Score154Shelves
- 123 The Chariot of the Sun 太阳战车 Everyone has someone they can't forget, or something they can't let go of, whether it's love or a career. When faced with a life-or-death choice, how should you decide? This is the story of Yang Ruofeng, who sets off for Titan aboard a solar sail ship on a mission from the Dragon Kingdom. There, he discovers alien ruins and pits his wits against the lurking space pirates. The story follows two main threads: the protagonist's romance and his scientific expedition. Across the vast reaches of inter 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 The Flying Swallow: Me 262 飞行的雨燕——Me262 The Flying Swallow: Me 262 149Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 The Rhine Operation 莱茵行动 Operation Rhine 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Moonsea Flower Pavilion: Cloudtop City 月海花亭：云顶城市 Moonsea Flower Pavilion: Cities Above the Clouds 60Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 You Are a Different Kind of Scenery 你是别样的风景 You Are a Different Kind of Scenery 91Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 A Kiss from the Clouds 白云之吻 A Kiss from the White Clouds 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Iron-Blooded Late Ming I: The Decisive Battle of Ruzhou 铁血晚明（一）汝州决战 Iron-Blooded Late Ming (Part One): The Decisive Battle at Ruzhou 81Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Across the Ocean 大洋彼岸 Across the Ocean 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 Dreams of Tokyo: Love Through the Four Seasons 东京梦华：爱有四季 Tokyo Dreams: Love Through the Seasons 80Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Young Detective of Republican-Era China 民国小侦探
(No romance) Fu Ning is a small-time nobody trying to scrape by in a chaotic age. He takes whatever work can put food on the table for his family, but ever since he encountered a black cat, his fate seems to have taken a turn, and all kinds of strange, baffling cases have begun to haunt him. In these troubled times, knowing too much is no good. But charging ahead is the only path he has left. Then charge ahead he will. The heavens are watchful, and good and evil will be repaid in kind! (This sto
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Divorced from the Start! She Remarries the Young Marshal and Lives in Glory 开局离婚！再嫁少帅她风光无限
Her husband went abroad to study. Xie Fuguang paid for his education, cared for his parents, and helped him restore the Shen family's standing. Three years later, Shen Zhizhang returned after completing his studies, holding the hand of a fashionable woman. He told her, "Yunzhi is a remarkable woman, a female officer personally recruited by the Marshal. We love each other, and I want to marry her." Xie Fuguang replied, "I saved your Shen family from ruin. Doesn't that make me a remarkable woman?"
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The Many Flavors of Life, Part One: A Snowy Night of Lost Souls 百味人生第一部：失魂风雪夜
Family, love, and adultery. This small mountain village seems peaceful, but undercurrents run deep, and human dramas of sorrow and joy unfold every day. On a bitterly cold, snowy night, a young and beautiful mother is assaulted and becomes pregnant. Afterward, she lives every day in fear and pain, desperately trying to keep the secret. When the truth comes to light, the demon who has appeared in her dreams countless times has never really gone away. What will the mother do? This book offers a
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A Family of Liars 骗子世家
The imperial examinations were abolished, no imperial edicts arrived, and the family fortunes declined. Zhen Yongxin, a young man from a prestigious family, fell into the world of the jianghu. After receiving guidance from a master, he took to it like a fish to water, prospered, and amassed a vast fortune...
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The Republic Endures 共和未央
He is history's most "unsuccessful" transmigrator: he planned for a lifetime and left nothing to chance, yet in the end he was betrayed and purged by those closest to him. He is also history's most "successful" seed-sower: the people he cultivated profoundly changed China, and the sparks he kindled lit up the pitch-black night. He is a different kind of transmigrator, misunderstood, betrayed, and shunned. But in the end, everyone gradually comes to understand him, follow him, and become him.
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Memories of 1931: Hunting, Fighting the Japanese, and Raising a Family 回忆一九三一养家打猎打鬼子日子
In 1931, the Japanese invaded China. Ling Feng hunted to feed his family and fought the Japanese to capture supplies. He and his good brothers enjoyed the good life, built houses, and got married.
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The Only Daughter of the 1970s 七零年代独生女
[No transmigration into a book, no System, no pocket dimension.] [Period setting + farming + serving the motherland + technical expertise] A researcher who loves and hates fiercely versus a reborn diplomat Yu Yue fell asleep in the bath and woke up in the 1970s, as the only child in her family. First, there was her timid mother, who was willing to work herself to the bone for her family. Then there was her father, spoiled by his family and utterly self-centered. Timid Mom: “Let’s see anyone try
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I Refuse to Go to the Countryside in the 1960s, and the System Scores Me a Job 六零不下乡，系统暴击出工作
[Period Setting + System + Villain + Shameless + Few Annoying Characters + No Sent-Down Youth Plot + Satisfying Read + Never Overthinks] (How do you keep awful people out of your life? By becoming the worst one yourself, of course.) Transmigrating into a book isn’t scary. What’s scary is ending up as the vicious cannon-fodder character destined for a tragic fate. Look at He Ruixue’s family: her eldest brother is reckless, and her sister-in-law is fierce. Her second sister and brother-in-law are
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- 140 I Come to My Senses and Return to the Day Before My Pregnant Wife Dies 猛清醒，回到怀孕老婆亡故前一天 Modern rebirth + devoted dad + a scumbag man turning over a new leaf + doting on his wife and children + building a fortune He Ning carries a deep regret. His outward success cannot conceal the pain in his heart, and he lives a miserable life until he dies with his eyes open. He is reborn thirty years in the past. The moment he opens his eyes, his son is still tiny, his wife is pregnant, and his daughter has yet to be born. The end of the year is approaching in the twelfth lunar month. For his w 3.4kReads9.1Score403Shelves
- 141 Espionage: Reborn as a Noble, I Help My Brother Go Undercover 谍战：穿成贵族，我帮弟弟当卧底 (The main story is nearing its end, and it's ready to read!) [No CP. The protagonists are Zhou Jiyan/Fujiwara Jiyan and Fujiwara Che.] [A minor golden finger and System space, neither of which plays a major role.] After a book hit Zhou Jiyan on the back of the head, he transmigrated to Shanghai in 1940 with his modern history notebook. His new identity was Fujiwara Jiyan, a member of the Japanese nobility and an employee of the Plum Agency. With Shanghai occupied, Zhou Jiyan couldn't just sit by 30.7kReads9.3Score3.8kShelves
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The Wrong Baby Swap of 1980: Two Lives Under One Roof for Eighteen Years 八零抱错：屋檐下的两份十八年
[Switched at Birth + Period Setting + College Entrance Exam] Eighteen years ago, a mix-up at birth meant she raised pigs and sheep in the countryside in the other girl’s place, while the other girl lived as a pampered young lady in the city. Eighteen years later, the real heiress returned to the city, and overnight, the impostor became the talk of the whole residential compound. Her biological mother cried for three days, and her biological father smoked until the ground was littered with cigare
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Reborn in the Early Years of the Republic 重生于民国初年
Xu Yong, a business executive from the 21st century, was in a car accident after drinking with a client on the night of his fortieth birthday. When he woke up, he found himself lying on a hard bed at the Baoding Military Academy in 1905, now an ordinary officer in the Beiyang New Army. With knowledge and foresight beyond his time, he made a name for himself in campaigns against bandits and crossed paths with Wu Peifu, who had just graduated from the Beiyang Rapid Military Preparatory School. Be
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The Young Marshal Gets Jealous Every Day 2: The Madam Is Back at a Crime Scene 少帅每天都在吃醋2：夫人又去命案现场了
[Exclusive premiere, 24 hours ahead of other platforms] [Non-members can claim two chapters daily; members can read ahead up to the latest update] A female forensic doctor who transmigrates to the Republican era after dying unjustly, an ambitious and dashing director in the military police, and a shocking massacre that rocks Shuncheng all become entangled in an extraordinary case spanning twenty years. See how the forensic doctor navigates the power struggles of the wealthy elite and joins force
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Shadow of the North African Tiger 北非虎影
Shadows of the North African Tiger
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Wei Xiaobao Conquers the World 韦小宝争霸天下
Funny, lighthearted, a little System, transmigration, souls returning... Nong di ge dong, xian ren ban ban, Xiao Xuanzi, I didn't rebel, but somehow I became a wanted criminal! What a load of nonsense! For the sake of a thousand generations, Xiao Xuanzi, I'll take your throne, and you can have Tongchi Island back!
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- 147 Warlord of the Republic: I Turned Shanghai’s Nightlife Upside Down 民国枭雄：我掀了夜上海的天 When Chen Mo wakes up, he has returned to the age of fifteen, facing the hellish slums of Shanghai. In his previous life, he lived an unremarkable life and died in humiliation. This time, he’ll overturn this world that devours people! Armed with the [Warlord System], his fists draw blood and his blade takes lives. Starting in Fangualong, he recruits followers, seizes territory, and gathers wealth... He swears to become the greatest warlord in all of Shanghai’s pleasure quarters! The underworld i 10.5kReads7.0Score579Shelves
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A Literary Giant of Republican-Era China 民国之一代文豪
Years later, in a Republic-era literature class at Tsinghua University, Qian Zhongshu still used lamps as metaphors for people. He lit a colored-glass lamp and said with a smile, “This is Hu Shi, the guide who led the way for the New Literature movement.” He lit a brass desk lamp, his voice solemn. “This is Lu Xun, the dagger that pierced the darkness.” He lit a horn-shaped lamp and sighed softly. “This is Shen Congwen, the moonlight of western Hunan.” He pushed open the wooden window and let t
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- 149 Years Without Regrets 无悔岁月 In 1936, dusk settled over Xiangcheng, steeping it in the smell of rust and blood. The late-autumn wind cut like a knife, piercing to the bone. Xu Chengyang tugged down the brim of his police cap. The collar of his coarse wool uniform chafed his neck raw. This black uniform was both his prison and his armor… 469Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Daily Gossip From 1960 Onward 从1960年开始的吃瓜日常
[Easygoing, clever heroine + refined, gentle, scheming hero; the golden finger is tiny, practically nonexistent] A modern couple has just paid off their mortgage when, after what feels like a long dream, they find themselves back in the 1960s. They have become a young couple in rural Northeast China. With no financial pressures and no lofty ambition to work hard and change the world, they stand by each other and live an ordinary life. Life's surprises arrive without warning: they learn that they
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