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Looking for Period Novels Like A Lifelong Journey, Without a Golden Finger 类似《小巷人家》的年代文,没有金手指的,求推荐

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  1. 151 Bound to a Reading System, an Eighties Cannon Fodder Gets Rich Overnight 绑定读书系统,八零炮灰一夜暴富 Modern Romance1.7M WordsCompleted Reborn in the 1980s, Liu Chuncao bound herself to the Knowledge Is Power System. As long as she studied, she would earn money and unlock skills with a boost. Her awful mother sided with outsiders and burned her own daughter’s school acceptance letter, hoping to send her stepdaughter to school instead. Liu Chuncao refused to live a miserable life. She outsmarted the villains, dished out face-slapping justice, and used her system-boosted skills to build a prosperous life. Then came an unexpected t 2.2kReads9.0Score219Shelves
  2. 152 Reborn as a Lovesick Villainess, I Set My Sights on the Village Chief's Youngest Son 穿成痴汉女配,我看上村长小儿子 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted When Murong Xi transmigrates into a tearjerker period novel as the saintly, beloved white moonlight, what does it feel like? Thanks for asking. I’m currently researching seventy-six different ways to live or die~ According to the plot, she’s supposed to toil selflessly like a saint, giving everything she has. She’ll endure misunderstanding and torment, then burn through the last of her light and warmth. In the end, she’ll become the white moonlight propping up the male lead’s table, and the mosq 10.8kReads9.2Score820Shelves
  3. 153 Thirty and Radiant 三十而骊 Modern Romance311k WordsCompleted [Women’s Fiction + Personal Growth + Comeback + Healing + Inspirational + Strong Female Lead + Married Life] At thirty, she’s done with her sham marriage. Time to become a bold, dazzling queen of the single life! When a freak accident tore the wrapping off her seemingly perfect marriage overnight, Mi Xiaobai, who had always seemed blessed by fortune, hit the first major setback of her life behind the walls of marriage: A mother-in-law with a knife behind her smile, a two-faced husband, a critica 19.8kReads9.6Score2.8kShelves
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  4. 154 The Folks of the Alley: A Carefree Life with Pinduoduo in Hand 小巷人家:手握拼夕夕的潇洒人生 Male-Channel Fanfiction1.5M WordsCompleted A little rough around the edges, but with some brains and plenty of heartwarming moments Wang Qiang wakes up one day to find himself an orphan at a textile factory in Suzhou. Surrounded by people waiting to take advantage of him, he’s lucky to have the Pinduoduo System, which gives him the means to survive in an era when food and clothing are scarce. He’s wondering whether to become a business tycoon or buy hundreds of apartment buildings and retire early as a landlord, when he suddenly realizes 126Reads8.0Score—Shelves
  5. 155 The Alley: Wu Jianguo's Extraordinary Life 小巷人家:吴建国的妖孽人生 Male-Channel Fanfiction110k WordsCompleted No System + a strong nation through science and technology + helping a daughter succeed + courtyard life. He transmigrates into Wu Jianguo from A Lane in the Alley. When he wakes up, his daughter Wu Shanshan is about to take the high school entrance exam. Wu Jianguo firmly supports her going to high school and then college. Zhang Amei disagrees, so they might as well get divorced. After the divorce, Zhang Amei watches Wu Jianguo’s life flourish. First, he becomes a self-employed business owner, 107Reads—Score—Shelves
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  6. 156 Across Film and TV: Handsome Men Have Been Plotting for Love for Ages 综影视美男蓄谋已久情之所钟 Female-Channel Fanfiction275k WordsOngoing She was like a one-of-a-kind Morley Moonlight Blue rose. Though beautiful on the outside, she possessed a mysterious charm within that defied description. Her arrival captivated one lovestruck man after another. In her presence, they seemed willing to give up everything just to spend the rest of their lives with her. 195Reads—Score—Shelves
  7. 157 Film and TV Crossover: The Drama Queen Is Ruining the Plot 综影视之作精在线崩剧情 Female-Channel Fanfiction3.0M WordsOngoing The favored can always get away with anything. As clever as Xiyuan is, of course she wants to be the one who is favored, not some fool who favors others and gives her life, her everything, and a lifetime of devotion to them. If anyone insists on making her play the fool, then she can only make sure they die first! (Some stories have couples, some don't. Romance between men and women isn't really the focus!) 13.6kReads7.6Score240Shelves
  8. 158 Why Help Others Get What They Want? I’ll Choose Myself 成全别人?不如成全自己 Modern Romance235k WordsCompleted In the book, Xu Jing'an spent her whole life helping others and putting them first, yet in the end, no one even said a kind word about her. This time, she's going to look after herself first and do what's best for her. 124.3kReads9.5Score10.1kShelves
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  9. 159 Reborn: The Millennium Pen Pal of a Movie Emperor 重生之成为影帝的千禧笔友 Modern Romance565k WordsCompleted If you could have five million yuan or return to the moment in your life you regretted most, which would you choose? Ji Xia returned to the summer after her high school entrance exams. She thought the reason she had been reborn was to make her parents divorce for good and save her mother from the source of her troubles. Only after everything had settled and she was sitting in class, faced with high school exam papers that looked like a foreign language, did she belatedly realize that being rebor 2.1kReads8.7Score283Shelves
  10. 160 The 1980s: The Mute Bride Runs Away and Hides in a Veteran's Home 八零:小哑巴逃婚躲进退伍糙汉家 Modern Romance566k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + spoiled heroine + rugged veteran + sweet romance + everyday life + raising kids + building wealth] Babies, this is the love story of a spoiled little sweetheart and a rugged veteran. He dotes on her, dotes on her, dotes on her!!! It’s so unbelievably sweet! After Shu Mo suddenly died, she transmigrated into the body of another Shu Mo, a mute with the same name, in 1988. She’d only just come to when she heard someone say they planned to sell her to an old bachelor from the villa 131Reads7.1Score—Shelves
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  11. 161 The Seasons of a Small Courtyard 小院春秋 Modern Romance431k WordsCompleted A family from the bottom of society faces hardship after hardship, while four siblings struggle along a bumpy road through life. The tide of the times sweeps ordinary people forward, carrying their fates with it. Through joy and sorrow, laughter and tears, love and loss, how should people like you and me choose, and where should we go? 11.5kReads8.8Score1kShelves
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  12. 162 The Strongest Educated Youth in the 1970s 七零大力女知青 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Su Zhu is the family member best suited to go to the countryside, so she volunteers. Keeping her family's advice in mind, she gets along famously in the village with her passionate enthusiasm and natural strength. It's just that one male educated youth looks at her in a very strange way... 7.7kReads7.7Score574Shelves
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  13. 163 After Turning In the Script, the Useless 1980s Female Supporting Character Wins by Doing Nothing 上交剧本后,八零废物女配躺赢了 Modern Romance626k WordsCompleted Shen Zhixia finds a script inexplicably appearing in her mind as soon as she is born. In the script, she is the foil to the heroine of a period novel. The heroine Li Zhidong’s parents are hardworking, kind, honest, and down-to-earth. Everyone for miles around knows them as good, honest people. Shen Zhixia’s parents are mean, lazy, greedy, and shameless. Everyone for miles around knows them as the worst kind of people. Li Zhidong will make many influential connections and have countless admirers. 20.4kReads8.3Score1.5kShelves
  14. 164 Reforming My Good-for-Nothing Husband, Starting at Age 20 改造废物老公,从20岁开始养老 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period story x making money x family and village life x a touch of ensemble cast x raising kids] Lin Hui has a dream. In it, she turns fifty after spending twenty-seven years as a widow, struggling to raise her children, only to develop cancer and die before she can enjoy life. When she wakes, she finds herself back in 1980, the year she just married Xu Dongsheng, the “lazy bum” of the surrounding villages. She grits her teeth. She absolutely cannot let her life follow the path in her dream. Fr 47.7kReads9.1Score6kShelves
  15. 165 My Dad Is a Deadbeat 我爹是二赖子 Modern Romance228k WordsCompleted Ji Qiuqiu transmigrated into a book. Her father is the village’s notorious layabout, her mother ran off with another man, and she herself is a wicked relative who latches onto the heroine to bleed her dry. Qiuqiu thinks this little villainess has a pretty good lot in life, so she decides to recreate her life and cling to the heroine to get rich. Then one day, she discovers that the heroine’s cousin is a fellow transmigrator. But this hometown girl heroine has given up and no longer wants to be t 6kReads9.1Score423Shelves
  16. 166 I Dug a Fishing Pond, and Anglers Across the Country Hailed It as a Sacred Site 挖了个鱼塘,全国钓鱼佬奉为圣地 Urban2.5M WordsCompleted Farming + everyday life + family and village affairs + comedy + development + fishing + no female lead (focused on work). A leisurely pace, starts slow and builds momentum, so dive in without worry. After three years drifting in Beijing, Li Fan unexpectedly obtained a fishing-ground System after a night of drinking at a club. He returned to his hometown, Ligang Village, dug fish ponds, and opened a fishing park. Starting with one small fish pond, Li Fan gradually built his business up step by st 37.9kReads9.2Score3.6kShelves
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  17. 167 90: Reborn, I Let My Husband Go and Pursued My Career, Then Married an Army Doctor 90:重生让出老公搞事业嫁军医 Modern Romance496k WordsCompleted [Rebirth] [Period Setting] [Child of a High-Ranking Official] [Both Leads Have No Past Relationships] [Military Marriage] [Domestic Life] [No Pocket Dimension or Golden Finger] After ten years of a long-distance marriage, Bai Yulan was still divorced. Her ex-husband, who had gone into business down south and made a fortune, took their child away, too. At last, she lived to see her son earn his doctorate and land a good job. But then he asked her to help care for his child, and she worked herself 888Reads6.5Score104Shelves
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  18. 168 Childhood Symphony 童年交响曲 Modern Romance199k WordsCompleted Five-year-old Wang Xiaozhu’s happy life in the countryside! She helps her mother wash clothes by the river and finds a duck egg in the water. She helps her mother sew a quilt on the rooftop, only to be pranked by the girl next door. Her grandmother raises a flock of chickens, but no one knows where they’re laying their eggs... 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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  19. 169 Shanghai People Eat Rice Porridge 上海人吃泡饭 Modern Romance623k WordsCompleted In the middle of the night, Wang’s Granny was being beaten so badly she could barely move, and could only call for help. Uncle Huang was still fuming over how she had humiliated him during the day, so angry he couldn’t sleep. He heard what sounded faintly like a cat meowing, but when he listened more closely, he realized it was a cry for help coming from Wang’s Granny’s house. He was about to go save her when his wife grabbed hold of him... 434Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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  20. 170 Born in Dust, Heart Set on the Stars 生于尘埃,心向星辰 Urban189k WordsOngoing On the eastern Henan plain, in the poor and backward village of Linjia, there lived a family like this. The protagonist endured one misfortune after another from childhood. His grandfather was a heavy drinker and gambler, with a violent temper. His grandmother suffered abuse while she was alive, then fell ill and died. His father was idle and also took up gambling. He abused the protagonist's mother, the protagonist, and his younger sister, and eventually landed in prison for a crime he committe 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  21. 171 Film and TV Crossover: The Best Route for a Nobody 综影视:路人甲的最优路线 Female-Channel Fanfiction218k WordsCompleted I just want to live an ordinary life. Why is that so hard! A female supporting character isn't appealing enough? After giving it a try, the male lead is so sweet, and quite a treat. Not bad, not bad. I can keep trying this. I'll just while away the days. Can't wait! 3.6kReads5.3Score119Shelves
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  22. 172 Turn Left at the Alley 左转小巷 Modern Romance118k WordsCompleted After knowing each other for eight years, they finally met again and became lovers. Their mutual affection carried them all the way to marriage. But compared with the sweetness of dating, married life brought more everyday troubles. What kind of ending will they have...? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  23. 173 My Mother, Wang Juzhen 俺娘王菊珍 Modern Romance785k WordsOngoing [Based on real life + hardship + historical era + the struggles and perseverance of ordinary people at the bottom of society] This is not a feel-good power fantasy. The protagonist of this book is my beloved and respected great-grandmother, a poor old woman who struggled through the surging tide of an era. Wang Juzhen never had an easy life. Her parents starved to death while fleeing famine, her own sister sold her for a mouthful of grain, and a landlord lusted after her. Only Wang Long gave her 91Reads—Score—Shelves
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  24. 174 You Broke Your Promise 你失信了 Modern Romance138k WordsCompleted The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily 69kReads9.5Score13kShelves
  25. 175 My Mom Starts a Business While I Lie Flat, Aiming to Be the Ultimate Slacker 我妈创业我躺平,争做咸鱼第一名 Modern Romance304k WordsCompleted [The 1990s + making a fortune + family life + steady, gradual progress] Reborn in 1992, the villainess has a System that grants her control over her luck. Faced with a father who's the male lead and darling of destiny, and a mother who's being exploited by the villainess's family, Meng Shengsheng decides to tear up the script and save herself and her mother from their tragic lives! First, she gets her mother to start a breakfast shop. Then she helps her see her father's selfish, calculating, and 61Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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  26. 176 The Absolute Man 绝对男人 Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Traditional] [Realistic + hardship + inspirational] [Some angst] His mother died, his father was paralyzed, his stepmother suffered a mental breakdown, his older siblings kept running into trouble, and his younger siblings were still minors. At just sixteen, this outstanding student had no choice but to become the family’s sole support, shoulder his father’s enormous debts, and endure all kinds of unfairness and setbacks. Still, he refused to give up... This isn’t a wish-fulfillment story. Ther 20.5kReads9.3Score2.2kShelves
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  27. 177 Our Family 咱们家 Urban1.4M WordsCompleted [No formulaic plot][Not a wish-fulfillment story][No cheat abilities][Traditional][Realistic][Period][Countryside][Hardship] A boy who is both bad and good, a family made up of people with no blood ties, a difficult yet sweet golden age, and a story full of humor and warmth... Beginning in the 1980s, this novel spans forty years and strives to recreate the changes of the times, telling the story of one person's growth. Above all, this is a realistic story, with both sweetness and heartbreak. Rea 63.8kReads9.3Score6kShelves
  28. 178 The Nth Beautiful Encounter 第N次美丽邂逅 Modern Romance214k WordsCompleted [True-to-life period setting + school romance + angsty love + reunion after a long separation] Lin Yuqing once thought Zhou Yan was the purest ray of moonlight in her youth. Until a child wrapped both arms around his leg and called out sweetly, “Daddy.” Her world collapsed in an instant. First love? Nothing but a carefully disguised lie! Hatred was the only armor she could wear. Two years later, she had become a key teacher at a prestigious school. And he was transferred to her teaching group in 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  29. 179 Transmigrating into Northbound from Southbound: Starting by Stopping Uncle Ma from Going to Prison 魂穿南来北往从阻止马叔坐牢开始 Male-Channel Fanfiction825k WordsCompleted I'll give this book a proper title once it starts getting more readers... Cui Ning is a worn-out office worker who graduated and started working a year ago. After watching North and South, he curses the screenwriter for treating Ma Kui unfairly, then falls asleep consumed by envy and resentment. He never expects a bolt of lightning to strike him right on target... Anyway, he transmigrates into the era of North and South... "Uncle Ma, I'll protect everything you have!" Uncle Ma says, "I treat you 830Reads6.2Score—Shelves
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  30. 180 Quick Transmigration: A Film and TV Journey Starting with Northbound to Southbound 快穿之影视游从南来北往开始 Female-Channel Fanfiction2.1M WordsOngoing Yao Yuying transmigrates with her little supermarket! She lands in the wildly popular period drama Southbound, Northbound, becoming the supporting character Yao Yuling. She thinks her life in this world is over, only to return to the modern era. Even more unexpectedly, a few days later she transmigrates again! So it turns out she's on the quick-transmigration path! She lives carefree lives in different worlds and even enjoys a little romance along the way... 4.5kReads8.4Score168Shelves
  31. 181 Journeying North and South: I Am Cai Xiaonian 南来北往我是蔡小年 Urban636k WordsOngoing The show Going South and North has been pretty popular lately, and I enjoy watching it too. Since I can let my imagination run wild, I’m going to rewrite it all and create a different story. “Cai Xiaonian, what do you think?” “I love watching it.” I’m Cai Xiaonian. Thank you. 8Reads6.5Score—Shelves
  32. 182 South and North: Making Yao Yuling Kneel and Sing 'Conquer' from the Start 南来北往:开局让姚玉玲跪唱征服 Male-Channel Fanfiction221k WordsOngoing [Period setting + no angst + multiple heroines + sweet romance + System + plot-driven + not brainless] Liu Huaqiang transmigrates into the world of the TV series South and North, teaching Yao Yuling to sing, bringing warmth to Doctor Shen, tutoring Ma Yan for her university entrance exams, and helping Yanhong deal with Palace Master Yaoyue... King Jiji, Ma Kui, Wang Xin, Cai Xiaonian... Go ask around and find out what kind of man I, Liu Huaqiang, am. All I want to know is, are your watermelons r 192Reads6.3Score—Shelves
  33. 183 Back to 1961 as a Public Security Officer 回到1961当公安 Male-Channel Fanfiction1.3M WordsCompleted [Both parents alive] [Has a System] [One female lead] I woke up to find myself in Courtyard 93 on Nanluoguxiang in 1961. What? Wasn’t it supposed to be Courtyard 95? And seriously, what is this? I’m just a lowly security guard! How did I become a police officer? And why am I supposed to protect the peace for everyone? 53.4kReads8.0Score3.2kShelves
  34. 184 The Urban All-Purpose Lottery System 都市全能抽奖系统 Male-Channel Fanfiction443k WordsCompleted By a twist of fate, Chen Feng, a young man from the city, obtained a sign-in lottery System. He discovered that he could win all kinds of skills, cultivation techniques, and items through the System's sign-in lottery... He could even use the System's power to transmigrate at any time into different film, TV, and novel worlds. Love in the Courtyard, Ode to Joy, Love Apartment, Drawing Sword, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Uncle Nine, Journey to the West, the Primordia 2.7kReads6.8Score102Shelves
  35. 185 Siheyuan: Starting in 1980, Bang Geng Is My Brother-in-Law 四合院:80开局,棒梗是我舅哥 Male-Channel Fanfiction789k WordsCompleted Chen Ze transmigrates into the world of a courtyard drama, only to be despised by Jia Xiaodang from the start and forced into a divorce. He wins custody of his daughter. Back home, he successfully activates the Entrepreneurship System and receives a mysterious gift pack! [The Host is awarded a storefront at No. 98 Gulou Street.] [The Host is awarded a farm space.] [The Host earns points by making money, which can be exchanged for skill gift packs.] It’s the 1980s, and it’s Chen Ze’s time to shin 2.8kReads7.6Score145Shelves
  36. 186 Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Leisurely Life 四合院:许大茂的悠闲人生 Male-Channel Fanfiction511k WordsCompleted He transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard in 1960 and becomes the rotten Xu Damao. He has a medicinal herb garden pocket dimension as his golden finger. In this life, Xu Damao gives up being a projectionist and becomes a doctor. He plans to cure his “infertility” and, more than anything, live a leisurely life. “If no one crosses me, I won't cross them” is his creed in this life. 1.6kReads7.1Score106Shelves
  37. 187 Reborn in 1977: With a Chance to Go into Business, Who Would Still Grow Snake Gourds? 重生77,有机会下海谁还种蛇瓜 Male-Channel Fanfiction441k WordsCompleted [A Little Lane] [Siheyuan] (Chapter 122) [Bright Sword] (Chapter 4) [Blood Romance] (Chapter 9) [Glorious Times] [The Little Woman at Zhengyang Gate] (Chapter 86) [A Wenzhou Family] (Chapter 57) [The Galloping Years] (Chapter 107) [Man Is Iron, Rice Is Steel] Lin Wufeng is reborn, returning to 1977, just before the college entrance exams are reinstated. He has returned burdened by guilt and remorse over what he owes his wife and children. In this life, he will stop at nothing to shield them from 106Reads7.7Score—Shelves
  38. 188 Back to the 1960s: I Can’t Keep My Superpower a Secret 重回60年代:我的异能藏不住了 Urban2.7M WordsCompleted Era setting + reborn + pocket dimension + transmigration + stockpiling supplies + lighthearted + no harem Gu Yunyang transmigrated from the apocalypse back to 1960, into the body of a man who shared his name and had been switched at birth. He also saw the man's entire life. In his previous life, the child who had been switched at birth discovered the truth. With famine raging, he couldn't bear the hunger and came back to claim his place, leaving Gu Yunyang as the awkward impostor son. To avoid b 14.1kReads8.0Score1.3kShelves
  39. 189 The 1970s: In Debt by Morning, Winning Big with the System by Night 七零:上午欠债,晚上绑系统躺赢 Modern Romance2.0M WordsOngoing [Alternate History Setting, Daily Life, Slow Burn, Ordinary Male Lead, Poor Health, Has a Golden Finger but Won’t Become Invincible] With a bang, Wang Siming transmigrated! He opened his eyes in the 1970s, having become Wang Siming, who’d been swindled while looking for a job and lost the family’s entire savings of 300 yuan! His whole family had been eagerly counting on him to become a worker so they could enjoy the good life with him, and now he was saddled with a sudden debt of 300 yuan. He wa 11.2kReads8.3Score913Shelves
  40. 190 Siheyuan: From Street Punk to Pioneer in the Fight Against Spies 四合院之从街溜子到反特先锋 Male-Channel Fanfiction3.2M WordsOngoing System: Zhang Someone is a member of the Japanese intelligence service. He'll deliver a piece of intelligence tonight beside the small bridge pier on the north bank of the Tonghui River. Yan Jiefang rushes to the Public Security Bureau that very night to report him. … Jia Zheng receives a new mission. Instructions: In seven days, meet secretly with He Jiahao of the Shanghai Black Dragon Society at the third pillar from the east end of the West Railway Station. Discuss the mission details in per 11.8kReads7.2Score732Shelves
  41. 191 Siheyuan: The Easygoing Life of a Level Three Cook 四合院:三级炊事员的潇洒生活 Male-Channel Fanfiction3.3M WordsOngoing Chen Jun dies suddenly from working overtime and wakes up in Nanluoguxiang in 1954. His father died young, his mother is sick, his little sister is helpless, and he is unemployed. What a disastrous start! Luckily, with the System’s help, Chen Jun gains the means to establish himself. Faced with all the troublemakers in the courtyard, Chen Jun lives by the principle that he ignores minor losses, but anyone who causes him major losses goes straight to prison. From the start, he gets Jia Zhangshi s 65.7kReads7.6Score3.8kShelves
  42. 192 Oh No, I've Become Someone's Biggest Supporter 糟糕,我成大腿了 Urban1.8M WordsCompleted After being reborn, this engineering-minded man has no desire to keep doing backbreaking labor, so he dives headfirst into the film and TV industry. He thought he’d get in good with the future stars ahead of time, but unexpectedly, he became the biggest star of them all... 5.2kReads7.8Score193Shelves
  43. 193 Back to 1960: I Actually Became a Farm Owner! 回到1960:我竟成了农场主! Urban2.0M WordsCompleted [Period setting, daily life, farming, a pocket dimension, stockpiling supplies, family and neighborhood life] Li Zhiyuan, a young man from modern times, transmigrates back to the 1960s, when people don't have enough to eat or wear. Luckily, the farm he manages comes along with him, and even undergoes all kinds of miraculous changes. Life slows down. His extended family gets along, and there is none of that exhausting scheming and infighting. More and more, he feels that this era... might actuall 19.8kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
  44. 194 Aspirations in the Political Arena 官场之青云志 Urban3.7M WordsCompleted Reborn in 2002, he was hit by a car while saving a little girl and regrettably missed his civil service interview. His materialistic girlfriend wanted to break up with him, but Liang Jiangtao unexpectedly discovered that the girl’s grandfather seemed to be no ordinary man... Watch how he uses a perspective and experience twenty years ahead of his time, along with a heart devoted to serving the people, to build a remarkable career! Look forward to more in Officialdom: Ambition for the Clouds. 67.9kReads9.2Score7.2kShelves
  45. 195 Reborn in 1977: A Hunter's Leisurely Life 重生77,猎人悠闲生活 Urban1.7M WordsCompleted Reborn in 1977, back in an era of scarce supplies. Zhang Yun gets a second chance at life and is determined to marry the woman he let down, the one he regretted losing for the rest of his life. With a spiritual spring space of his own, Zhang Yun catches frogs in the fields, hunts beasts in the mountains, and fishes in the rivers. From then on, he never has to worry about food or clothing, and leads his family into a carefree, comfortable life. 5.3kReads7.9Score378Shelves
  46. 196 Heaven-Spanning Mercenaries, Starting with Siheyuan 诸天雇佣兵,从四合院开始 Male-Channel Fanfiction1.0M WordsCompleted A struggling tomato-site writer unexpectedly obtains a System invented by higher-dimensional beings. With a composite world of courtyard houses as his main world, he becomes a mercenary traveling through the heavens. He’ll stop at nothing to achieve his goals, adopting all kinds of secret identities and leaving behind his own legends throughout the heavens! 8.9kReads8.1Score330Shelves
  47. 197 The Umbrella and the Killer 寻伞追凶 Modern Romance225k WordsOngoing This is a tragic story set in the late 1970s. In a courtyard compound that seems peaceful and quiet, countless secrets and old grudges lie hidden beneath the surface. It is a world of conspiracy and revenge. Chen Yimei’s grandmother is poisoned to death in her own home. A mysterious umbrella draws Lin Ping into a thorny search for the killer. Who owns the umbrella? Could its owner be the murderer? As Lin Ping doggedly pursues the case, a shocking truth gradually comes to light... 24Reads8.3Score—Shelves
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  48. 198 Years of Quiet Reflection 沉淀的岁月 Modern Romance560k WordsCompleted The story follows the lives of three high school girls from rural backgrounds. In the fall of 1964, the confident, ambitious “top student” Yu Hongying, the warmhearted and forthright “knight-errant” Li Chunfen, and the reserved, introspective lady Yue Shuqian unexpectedly meet in their first-year dormitory, along with the “campus belle” Yang Yuhuan and the “fake Marxist-Leninist” Wu Lihong. This sets off a series of stories, some serious, some amusing, some bizarre, and some full of joy and sorr 382Reads—Score—Shelves
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  49. 199 The 1980s: The True Heiress Strikes Back 八零:真千金逆袭记 Modern Romance527k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Military Marriage + Fake and Real Heiresses + Self-Improvement + Everyday Life + Striving] [The heroine grows quietly, then amazes everyone; she won’t take abuse and always talks back] Xia Xiaoxi lost both her parents at a young age. Her uncle’s family moved into her home under the pretense of raising her, took all the family’s money, worked her and her brother to the bone, and eventually tried to make her take her cousin’s place in an arranged marriage. Furious, Xia Xiaoxi fou 43.8kReads9.2Score3.8kShelves
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  50. 200 Everyday Life on the Margins of a 1970s Novel 七零小说边缘人的日常生活 Modern Romance502k WordsCompleted [Fictional period setting + transmigrate into a book + no golden finger + works in the city, doesn’t go to the countryside] Though Lin Yingxian works hard to get by, she knows how to be content. After learning that she’s become a minor character in a novel, she continues to live her life in this 1970s setting as usual, barely fazed. But when news comes that housing is being allocated, her life begins to change… Reader’s guide: The story focuses mostly on everyday family life. Neither the male no 33.9kReads9.0Score2.6kShelves

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