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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Reborn in the Passionate Years 重生激情岁月
[Reborn, one female lead, not fanfiction, Four-Nine City, with a pocket dimension, no angst, everyday hard work, happy to take it easy after waking up, don't read if you want mindless wish fulfillment] I return to Four-Nine City in 1958 and start working toward my goals by figuring out how to get an urban household registration. My dream is to wake up whenever I want and count money until my fingers cramp, stockpile gold, collect paintings and calligraphy, grow medicinal herbs, and buy a courtya
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Two-Toned Jasmine on the Rock 岩石上的双色茉莉
Every flower and tree, every joy and sorrow, every beginning and end. Full blooms and bright moons, flowers blooming and falling, all are written in fate. The bicolor jasmine growing on the rocks sways in wind and rain, passing through spring, summer, autumn, and winter, and blooming amid the tides of the times. Born beautiful, she cannot hide her radiance. One purple, one white; one gentle, one bold. She is bewitchingly beautiful, peerless in her grace.
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I Forgot to Look Back and See If She Was Crying 忘了回头看，她有没有哭
She forgot to look back and see if she had cried.
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In the Little Alley, I Have a Slacking-Off System 小巷人家我有一个摸鱼系统
[Single heroine + mild aggression + light System + slice of life + nostalgia + not a power fantasy...] The early chapters are a little rough, but it gets better later. The protagonist's main goal is to lie flat. No harem, no one dies, and no couples are broken up. The protagonist's attitude toward life in this book is the author's dream. Real life is exhausting enough, so let me take it easy and be a lazy fish in this book. All I want is to marry a good wife and raise two children by my side. Th
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The Rise of a Northeastern Man Transmigrated into Zhuang Chaoying 东北爷们穿越成庄超英的崛起之路
After Wang Dong woke up from a car accident, he discovered that he had become Zhuang Chaoying. Recalling all the little moments from watching A Lifelong Journey in a Small Alley in his previous life, his protective instincts as a Northeastern man immediately flared up! In this life, he'll protect his wife and children, and lead the whole family down the road to prosperity!
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Transmigrated to the 1970s: The Soldier’s Family Dotes on Me 穿越七零：我被兵哥哥一家娇宠
(Alternate history + period setting + military marriage + spoiled young woman + pocket dimension + devoted couple, one-on-one) After spending 28 years single, Gu Zimo goes to the park to clear her head because her parents keep urging her to get married. She overhears some aunties saying that the Matchmaker Temple on the mountain is very effective, so she heads there alone to ask the Matchmaker for a husband. A few days later, she never expects the Matchmaker to “send” her to a parallel world in
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Reborn in the 1960s, Granny Beats Her Unfilial Son 重生六零，气得老太太拳打不孝子
Zhang Lan was reborn after her own son and his new wife sent her back to the countryside to fend for herself. In her final days, only her former daughter-in-law stayed by her side, caring for her with the help of her grandchildren. Zhang Lan asked herself: she might not have been the best mother to her son, but she had given him nearly everything she could. When he wanted a divorce, claiming their arranged marriage was a feudal relic, she played the villain and helped them split up. As a result,
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I Found a Top Student to Marry, and Now I Kind of Regret It 找学霸当老公，我有点后悔了
I found a top student to marry, and now I kind of regret it.
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After Eloping with Her Childhood Friend, Her Rugged Commander Husband Went Crazy 和竹马私奔后，糙汉首长急疯了
[Short drama adaptation now streaming] [Period setting + military marriage + sweet, satisfying romance + married first, love later + winning back his wife!] Song Shengsheng had a nightmare and discovered that she was the cannon-fodder villainess in a period novel: the male lead’s first wife, who died young. In the book, beauty was her only asset. To escape her husband, she wrote a letter reporting that her military officer husband came from a politically suspect background. That wasn’t all. When
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After a Whirlwind Wedding to the Strongest Officer, My Infertility Vanished and I Got Morning Sickness 闪婚最强军官后，不孕的我孕吐了
Yu Qing'er transmigrates into an eighties novel and becomes a cannon-fodder supporting female character. Disfigured and unable to have children, she’s dumped by the original male lead. Her family is eager to set her up on a blind date, and that’s how she meets a ridiculously handsome soldier! He can’t have children either, so neither of them minds. They get married in a whirlwind, but then she starts to notice something strange. Why hasn’t her period come? Why does she keep throwing up? Wait, th
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What a Shock! I Landed a Secure Government Job in the 1960s 惊！我竟在六零端上了铁饭碗
[Set in a bygone era + Transmigration + Inspirational + Heartwarming + Everyday family life + City job] After saving a cat just after finishing the college entrance exams, Su Yuhe became a vegetable. A year later, she transmigrated into the body of Su He, a girl from Nanshan Village in the 1960s who had heard that the college entrance exams had been suspended, missed a step, and drowned. Suddenly transported to the countryside of the 1960s, Su He had no phone, no electricity, no internet, and n
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In the 1980s, the Commander Stopped Pursuing Me, and I Found Happiness Divorcing with My Child 八零，首长不追了，带崽离婚真香
Completed, with bonus chapters. A short drama adaptation is now online. (Rebirth, comeback, ex-husband begs for her back, second male lead wins) In her previous life, her son and the son of her husband's fallen comrade's widow fell into the water at the same time. Her husband saved the widow's son. After suffering the loss of her child, Jiang Yi spent thirty years in a miserable marriage, then died of grief. Reborn in a single moment, she returns to the time before her son falls into the water.
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In the Famine, the Whole Village Chews Tree Bark, but My System Fills My Storeroom with Meat 荒年全村啃树皮，我有系统满仓肉
[Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + adorable kids + no male lead] Cheng Wanqun woke up in the body of a 33-year-old farmer's wife in ancient Dahuang Village. Her four sons were kneeling by the bed, calling her Mother, and her daughter-in-law had another grandchild on the way. After being single her entire life for 33 years, she'd suddenly become a mother-in-law and grandmother. Raising four sons was already hard enough, but then disaster struck: locust plagues, droughts, snowstorms.
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A Beauty Marries Down: Her Second-Husband, an Older Man, Demands Her Love Every Day 美人下嫁：二婚老男人日日索爱
[Short drama: I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s] The 1980s, stepmother, raising kids, everyday life, love after marriage The moment she opens her eyes, Si Nian finds herself in a period novel as a fake heiress. She’s sent back to the countryside to marry a twice-married man in place of the real heiress, and has to raise a whole brood of children. To make matters worse, she runs into the real heiress, who has been reborn. In her previous life, Lin Sisi was pressured by her family into marrying a
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Back to 1985: My Self-Serve Porridge Stall Is a Hit 重回八五，自助粥摊火爆了
(Her Own Woman) To escape her stepfather's clutches, Su Miao falls from the 13th floor and travels back to the day her parents divorced when she was a child. She sees through her mother's cold, indifferent nature and her habit of endlessly spoiling her younger brother. This time, she chooses without hesitation to go with her father. When her uncle tries to secure a permanent job, he blocks the door and raises a huge ruckus. Su Miao leans close to her father's ear and whispers a few words. Her fa
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Reborn in 1990, I Traded My Ex-Husband for Eight Houses 重生九零，我用前夫换了八套房
[Strong leads x no pocket dimension x no System x loving family x building wealth x career first, romance later] Bai Zhenzhu is reborn on the very day she divorces her scumbag husband. The mistress pulls out a stack of cash and asks her: “How much do you want to agree to the divorce?” Bai Zhenzhu replies, “One hundred thousand. Not a cent less.” One hundred thousand to get rid of the scumbag, twenty thousand in divorce compensation, and twenty-four thousand in child support. Bai Zhenzhu takes t
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Reborn, I’m Taking Shortcuts to Help the Nation Get Ahead 都重生了，让国家走点捷径怎么了
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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From the Start, I Changed My Fate by Selling Braised Meat 开局分家，我靠卖卤肉改命
[Farming + Widow's sister-in-law + Feel-good story + Strong heroine + Building wealth + Putting scumbags in their place, no romance. The male lead is her brother-in-law, but their relationship is familial. The male characters have very little page time, and the heroine's story takes center stage.] Li Yu transmigrated from being a modern handicrafts and food blogger into the life of a poor woman in ancient times whose husband died on their very first day of marriage. To survive, Li Yu split the f
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Better to Beat Someone Up Than Make Yourself Miserable 与其委屈自己，不如暴揍别人
The heroine is domineering, with an outrageously high combat ability. Later, she joins the military. The hero is an educated youth who later goes into scientific research. A strong heroine paired with a weaker hero. If that’s not your thing, please move along. [Historical setting + transmigration with body intact + no pocket dimension or System + Strong Female Lead] Mai Sui, a max-level powerhouse, transmigrates to the 1970s. She just wants to lie flat and live a quiet, ordinary l
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Military Marriage, Sugary Sweetness: The White Lotus Green Tea Girl Is Everyone's Darling in the 1970s 军婚爆糖：白莲绿茶在七零做团宠
“Fair-skinned beauty with a sweet, tea-like charm x outwardly cold, inwardly warm doting husband” After a plane crash, international superstar Jiang Qingrou transmigrated. An orphan in her previous life, she had somehow ended up in a big family in the 1970s. Her two older brothers spoiled her, and her parents treated her like a treasure. What’s more, in an era when people struggled to get enough to eat or stay warm, everyone in her family had a steady job, and she herself was the star of the dan
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I Broke Off My Engagement with the Army in the Morning, Then Was Matched with a Commander by Afternoon 上午随军退婚，下午指婚嫁首长
1970s + period setting + substitute marriage + military marriage + devoted couple Qin Shu opened her eyes to find herself on a train, held hostage by a criminal with a gun pressed to her forehead. Her life was hanging by a thread. From the memories she inherited, she learned that the original owner had been sent to marry a soldier in someone else’s place. First, she beat the criminal senseless and secured herself a job at the Public Security Bureau. Then she went to the military base to find th
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My Chubby Wife Is Sweet and Soft, and the 1970s Officer Spoils Her With His Life 胖媳妇又娇又软，七零军官拿命宠
[Seeking adaptation for a short drama] [Period setting + military marriage + face-slapping + sweet romance + marriage first, love later + the husband’s long road to winning his wife back] After transmigrating, Su Mei goes from a senior doctor to a lazy, nasty military wife in a 1970s military compound. In her previous life, she had worked hard her whole life, only to die suddenly. Su Mei is determined to lie flat and be lazy this time around. But when she sees the original owner’s situation, she
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The Sweet Young Lady of the 1970s 七十年代小娇娇
The moment the young educated youth Wen Wan arrives in Lu Jiazui, she becomes famous: famous for her beauty, famous for taking her time, and famous for her sharp tongue and soft, sweet manner. When the educated youths first arrive, Lu Dongping sees Wen Wan and thinks, How is this little thing supposed to work in the fields and earn work points? Whichever team gets her will be unlucky. Take her home and she'll be treated like an ancestor. Later, Wen Wan becomes his very own little ancestor.
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The Stunning Translator from the Eighties Is the Army Officer's White Moonlight 八零美貌翻译官，竟是军官白月光
[Complete] [Period setting, 1980s, family love, military marriage, age gap, doting father type, gentle slow-burn, unconventional period novel, awful characters get taken down quickly, no frustrating setbacks, making a fortune, high-ranking families, no pocket dimension, no golden finger] The moment Wen Zhile opened her eyes, she realized she had been reborn. She had gone from being a professor’s daughter to the second daughter of the Dai family, villagers in Jianghe Village. They treated her lik
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The Dragon and Phoenix Heroes 龙凤双侠
A classic work by Zheng Zhengyin, a master of Republican-era wuxia. The novel tells the story of Shi Jinlong, whose life is marked by hardship as he grows up by the Qiantang River. Seeking revenge for his parents, he studies martial arts under the monk Jingxu, the Xiangxiang swordsman Gongsun Yi, and others, then ventures across Zhejiang and Anhui to hone his skills. In the latter half of the novel, an understated romance unfolds between Shi Jinlong and Qin Meizhen, the daughter of his enemy. Th
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Beware the Mediocre 庸人小心
Realistic fiction · Unrequited love with a bad ending · Small-town life · Ordinary people · Coming-of-age · No golden finger Based on the true experiences of friends, this story is told from a male first-person perspective and follows Jiang Xin through the ups and downs of his youth in a small southern county town from 2005 to 2014. He was once an elementary-school prodigy admired by everyone. But from the moment he started middle school, his life quietly began to veer off course. As a boy, he
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Xu Guinian and Lin Xiaomai in 1982 1982年的许归年和林小麦
Xu Guinian and Lin Xiaomai in 1982
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Tales from the Alley: From Childhood Sweethearts to Forever 小巷故事：从青梅竹马到白首之约
Stories from a little alley: From childhood sweethearts to a lifelong promise
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Childhood in the Old Days 旧时光里的童年
The author recalls a rural childhood in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province, during the 1970s and 1980s. The book describes rural life and the changes brought about by the household responsibility system in the early days of reform and opening up, along with the joys and hardships of the author’s childhood before the age of ten, major family upheavals, and the warmth and coldness of human nature.
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The 1970s: I Married the Man Who Prayed to the Gods 七零：我嫁给了求神拜佛的那个他
[Transmigration + Period Setting + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance + Past and Present Lives + Rebirth + Romance + No Saintly Protagonist + Golden Finger + Pocket Dimension] Blurb: Bai Xiaxia transmigrates to the 1970s, only to have her engagement broken off. The neighbors are all waiting to see her make a fool of herself. To their surprise, before long she's married to someone with even more power and status! She thinks going north to study is a reluctant choice, made after weighing her options
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A Shanghai Girl Raised on Rice Soup 上海吃泡饭长大的小囡
After Shanghai Porridge, the author, who writes in the Shanghai dialect, has written another full-length novel in Shanghai dialect about life in Shanghai’s alleyways. It tells of the discovery and destruction of the Li family’s “heirloom treasure.” As people vie for the “rare treasure,” the novel reveals the many faces of life: some seize what they want by cunning and force; some are consumed by jealousy and covetousness; some are calculating, while others are calm as still water; some even sink
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Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌
Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to
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I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德
I’m a Scout: Zhan De
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Spring Stirs in the Countryside 农村的春潮涌动
Since the reform and opening-up began, the Zhao family in Ganquan Village has undergone tremendous changes. Jianping and Jian'an started a brick factory and a home-renovation company. What stories will they encounter, and what of their love lives? Which of them will strike it lucky in the business world?
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A DINK Couple Born in the ’70s 70后的丁克
This is the story of Xie Wang Feilong and Yuan Jing, whose marriage is put to the test by the reality that Yuan Jing cannot have children. It explores their inner thoughts, the cold stares of those around them, and their families' lack of understanding. Where will life take them?
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The Story of Two Lonely Singles 男女光棍的故事
Su Yao, Zhao Lei, and others are looking for partners. Because of their jobs, they meet all kinds of people, leading to a series of amusing and awkward little incidents. Society pays attention to their love lives, while their many aunts and uncles grow even more anxious on their behalf. Will they eventually find the right person?
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The Road Through Life’s Storms 西北人的新书风雨人生路
Welcome, everyone, to my story. It tells the separate stories of a family living in the countryside. The mother and older brother, in particular, have suffered many hardships, and their long illnesses have had a profound impact on the younger generation's physical and mental well-being. The story examines the kind, selfish, and ugly sides of human nature.
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The Rise and Fall of a Landlord in Republican China 民国地主沉浮
In the turbulent year 1941, war and chaos reign, and the people live in misery. Against the backdrop of the times, the Qi family landlord’s household experiences both joy and sorrow, as each member faces their own fate. This is the story of what the Qi siblings witnessed and experienced from the Republic of China era through the founding of New China.
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Upholding Justice 公义立身
Xu Zhiqiang was born into a poor rural family in the 1960s. Through sheer hard work, he got into university. After graduating, he was assigned to work at a steel mill, where he brought a near-bankrupt factory back from the brink. Later, an anonymous letter changed the course of his life once again. After enduring setbacks in life as well as pressure and blows at work, Xu Zhiqiang entered the real estate business and rose to the pinnacle of success.
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After Swapping Bodies With the Male Lead’s Frail Uncle 跟男主的病弱小叔互换身体后
Ruan Jinhuan, a master of metaphysics, transmigrates into a book and becomes the country girl brought back to the family as a young miss. She’s the female lead’s foil: vulgar, rude, uneducated, and malicious, even plotting to steal the female lead’s fiancé. She thought her story would simply be about changing the fate of a cannon-fodder villainess and making her own way in life. Never in her wildest dreams did she expect to wake up one morning having switched bodies with the male lead’s sickly y
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Yixiu's Quick Transmigration Journey 宜修的快穿之旅
[Reborn + Quick Transmigration + Devoted Love + TV Dramas + Overpowered Golden Finger + The Couple Transmigrates Together Later] A cup of poisoned wine ended Ulanara Yixiu's life. “May we never meet again in life or death” kept echoing through her mind. She thought she would have to atone in hell after death, but instead she found herself in an unfamiliar world. Because of the sins she committed in her first life, she didn't receive a golden finger in her second. However, she retained all the or
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