Any Period Novels Set in Northeast China? Written Entirely in the Northeastern Dialect 有没有东北那旮瘩的年代文？全文东北话的

1. 1 重 Back to 1985: Tales of the Northeast 重回1985：东北往事 Heading North向北Urban1.9M WordsCompleted These are fiery years spent feeling one’s way across a river by touching the stones, a time of thriving vitality where the bold could eat their fill, and of wild growth where big shots were everywhere. The rules of this society have never changed: the meek fear the tough, the tough fear the ruthless, the ruthless fear the reckless, and the reckless fear those who don’t care if they live or die. But even those who don’t care if they live or die fear madmen. And so, Zhou Dongbei went mad. (TV adap 85.3kReads9.6Score8.8k14d adds

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   The audiobook is fluent in Northeastern dialect and written in great detail; I've already read it twice.

2. 2 瞎 Blind Corn! Rotten Potatoes! Worthless Children, Get on Your Knees! 瞎苞米！烂土豆！极品儿女靠边跪 Lucky Cat招财猫儿Modern Romance3.6M WordsOngoing [Period] [The 1980s] [Light Ensemble Cast] [Reborn] [Feel-Good] [No Golden Finger] [Family Life] (Also known as: Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Leaves Her Children Behind) Seventy-year-old Wu Zhiqiu is Reborn in the era when her children still depend on her hard work and sacrifice! In her previous life, she played favorites and ended up alone and miserable in her old age. This time, she refuses to repeat the past. The old lady decides to leave her children behind and enjoy the rest of her lif 191.8kReads9.3Score7.9k14d adds

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   Both of these books are in Northeastern dialect, very funny, and very enjoyable.

3. 3 认 After Reuniting with Our Families, Everyone’s Plans Go Haywire 认亲后，大家的画风一起跑偏了 Midnight Murder Ball午夜凶球Modern Romance386k WordsCompleted Whenever the young Li Guanlan saw all the family scandals and chaos in the news online, she would thank Heaven that she was born into a loving, well-off family with parents who adored her. Then one day, a bolt from the blue struck: she had been switched at birth seventeen years ago! You’ve got to be kidding! What kind of family was she being sent to? Wealthy! Complicated! Emotionally distant! Her biological mother was as indifferent as a chrysanthemum and bad at expressing herself. Time to start 47.6kReads9.5Score5.4k14d adds
4. 4 我 My Name Is Zhang Dagun. I Was Reborn and Have Three Ex-Wives 我叫张大棍，重生了，有三个前妻 Three-Nine Melody三九旋律Urban1.3M WordsOngoing [Also known as: My Name Is Zhang Dagan. I’ve Been Reborn, and I Have Three Ex-Wives! Reborn in the 1980s + Hunting + Devoted Husband + Period Drama + Northeast China + Everyday Family Life] My name is Zhang Dagan. I open my eyes and find myself back twenty years in the past, facing three women I once hurt! Zhang Dagan comes to his senses. All three of his ex-wives stood by him and raised their children, never abandoning him. He can’t keep fooling around with his third uncle anymore. He has to sh 18.6kReads7.6Score1.4k14d adds

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   Go check it out, especially the first one, it'll make you laugh until you cry.

5. 5 重 Reborn in 1980: Starting Out Hunting in the Forests and Snowfields! 重生80，从狩猎林海雪原开始！ Yang Sanjin杨三斤啊Urban3.1M WordsOngoing [(Add to your library and get rich) Devoted husband + Rebirth in the 1980s + Frequent updates + Hunting in Northeast China + One heroine + Pets] Haunted by guilt and regret, Chen Le is reborn in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s! In an age when guns and hunting are legal, women left behind at home can get a taste of good food by cozying up to men outside their marriages! Supplies are scarce, but natural resources are plentiful. The saying “club a roe deer, scoop up fish with a gour 86.3kReads8.2Score5.7k14d adds
6. 6 东 A Northeastern Son-in-Law's Rise to Fortune, Starting with Hunting 东北姑爷子，从打猎开始逆袭致富 Shrimp虾米Urban2.6M WordsOngoing [A tribute to the 80s and 90s + reborn + Northeast China in the old days + hunting in the mountains + country cooking + doting on his wife + everyday family life + one heroine + childhood classics to savor again] Chen Ming is reborn in the 1980s, carrying the regrets of his past life. He discovers that his leg, which had left him crippled for life, can still be healed. He has another chance to make things right with the loved ones he failed: his wife and family! In the past, he was timid, lazy, 74.3kReads7.8Score2.2k14d adds
7. 7 重 Reborn in the ’80s: Hunting, Living Large, and Loving It 重生80打猎，嘎嘎带派嘎嘎爽 Three-Nine Melody三九旋律Urban225k WordsCompleted [Northeastern China in the 1980s + historical-era devotee + pork kidneys + rebirth + hunting + border trade + family life + doting on his wife + local arms development] When Liu Xueying, the woman who had used and deceived him, and Qin Meiyun, the woman who had loved him deeply, both appeared before Zhang Liang again, he chose to repay grudges with vengeance and kindness with gratitude! When Zhang Liang opened his eyes, he was back in 1983. In his previous life, he had groveled for that woma 67Reads—Score414d adds
8. 8 我 I'm Just Collecting Scrap, So Why Are You Selling Antiques by the Pound? 我就收个废品，你拿古董按斤卖？ Shrimp虾米Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Reborn in the 1980s]+ [System]+ [Devoted Husband]+ [Making Money]+ [Old Northeast China]+ [Ten-Thousand-Yuan Household]+ [Antique Appraisal]+ [Hunting] He opens his eyes and finds himself reborn in 1980, on the very day he and his wife were about to get divorced! Even more astonishing, an “Antique Restoration System” has appeared in his mind! In this life, he takes charge of the System and opens a scrap collection station! By day, he buys old items on the cheap, restores them into treasures, an 966Reads7.0Score11614d adds
9. 9 乱 Hunting Beauties, Beasts, Kingdoms, and the Wilds in a Chaotic Famine 乱世荒年，我猎艳猎兽猎国猎山海 Yang Sanjin杨三斤啊Historical1.7M WordsOngoing [Meat at every meal during famine + hunting + ancient setting + elite soldier + devoted husband + Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms + farming + multiple heroines] Imagine you’re an invincible elite soldier who transmigrates to ancient times. You open your eyes to discover you’re a rich young master, but your father has kicked you into a desolate mountain wilderness because of your gambling addiction! Your wife remains by your side, and your daughter is sweet and well-behaved... You come to your se 4kReads7.7Score33414d adds
10. 10 1 1953: The Brigade Commander Lured Me into Harbin Institute of Technology 1953，旅长把我拐进哈工大 I Don’t Want to Update, Quack不想更新鸭呀Urban781k WordsOngoing Also known as From Top Student to Defense Industry Tycoon. After transmigrating to Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, in 1953, Lin Yan binds to the Great Power Top Student System. As long as he studies, he can earn System points and purchase all kinds of technological achievements and even items from the System shop. As it happens, that same year, the brigade commander is ordered to bring a group of Soviet advisers and experts to build a military engineering academy. The students studying Soviet 238.7kReads8.8Score27k14d adds
11. 11 重 Reborn in 1985: Starting by Taking Down the State-Owned Restaurant 重生85，从干翻国营饭店开始 The More I Write, the Richer I Get越写越有财Rural Life276k WordsOngoing [Period Setting + Reborn + Food + Everyday Life] This is an everyday-life story that I hope will bring everyone some happiness. A few things to know in advance: the pace is slow, the villains are dumb, the food is irresistible, and the protagonist isn't all-powerful... [Here's a painfully weak introduction. Seriously, it's awful. I spent three nights trying to write it. Maybe just skip straight to the story...] One-line summary: He returns to age eighteen and opens a little Northeastern Chinese 3.9kReads—Score37014d adds
12. 12 重 Reborn in the Late 1970s: I Herd Beasts in the Mountains 重生七八年：我靠驭兽赶山 Brother Jing井哥Urban1.9M WordsCompleted Chen Dong was reborn at a time when his wife, daughter, and parents were all still alive. In this life, he would no longer be lazy. Using the Beast Taming Sect's final legacy, he would form contracts with spirit beasts, take up his father's gunnery skills, and hunt in the mountains, ensuring his wife and daughter had enough to eat and warm clothes to wear, and that his parents could enjoy their old age. He would also make certain enemies regret their actions for the rest of their lives! This sto 37.3kReads7.9Score3.3k14d adds
13. 13 重 Reborn in 1983: I Tame Beasts, Hunt, Forage in the Mountains, and Stock Up 重生83，我驭兽打猎赶山进货 I'm Here to Break Up the Fight我是来劝架的Urban2.0M WordsOngoing [Period Setting + Reborn + From the Start + Hunting + System + Beast Taming + Pets] Xu You'an died with regrets and remorse. When he opened his eyes, he had been reborn in 1983. Faced with a family on the verge of collapse, he resolutely ventured into the deep mountains and forests... But the forests were dangerous, with all kinds of extreme conditions, snakes, insects, rats, and ants. They had swallowed up wave after wave of mountain hunters. Facing the Siberian tiger that ruled the mountains, 55.1kReads7.5Score5.1k14d adds
14. 14 狩 Hunting in '86: My Family Feasts on Meat and Wine 狩猎86：我带全家喝酒吃肉 My Pen's Out of Ink笔没墨水Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Short drama with the same title. Search for the protagonist Ma Hu on Tomato or Red Fruit to watch] [Everyday life in the 1980s]+ [Hunting in the mountains]+ [Support System]+ [One heroine]+ [Lighthearted comedy] My name is Ma Hu. Hu as in “careless.” In my previous life, raising dogs left me destitute, and I eventually died at the hands of a wild boar. Reborn in 1986, I face a limping father, a hardworking mother, a dilapidated old house, and my third older sister in her worn cotton jacket. I'v 94.4kReads8.7Score9.4k14d adds
15. 15 年 1979: Meat for My Wife and Kids 年代1979：带着老婆孩子吃肉 Village Demon Fire乡妖火Urban4.7M WordsOngoing [Rural life in the late 1970s] [One female lead] [Comedy] [Slow-paced] [Raising children] Reborn in 1979, Li Xiangdong becomes a train water-supply worker. While others are still fretting over how to make ends meet, he's already enjoying a comfortable life with his wife and children at home. (A realistic slice of life. Each character has both strengths and flaws, and not everyone is meant to be likable. If that's not what you're looking for, please move along.) 180.5kReads9.3Score10.8k14d adds
16. 16 年 The Wife Who Dies Young in a Period Novel? The Ascetic Professor Falls in Love 年代文早死妻？禁欲教授沦陷求爱 Zhouzhou Eats Steamed Buns粥粥吃馒头Modern Romance977k WordsCompleted [An alternate 1980s setting, awakening as the foil to the heroine; slow-paced, everyday traditional story; marriage first, love later, and family life; raising kids with sweet affection; no golden finger; local-born characters who aren’t perfect] After Song Zhiyao impulsively picks a fight over divorce, she takes her child to her parents’ home and has a dream that makes her awaken to the truth. Well, would you look at that: she’s living inside a period novel! And she’s not even the main heroine, 36.1kReads8.9Score3.8k14d adds

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    I really like it; it's very relatable. I especially love the female lead's personality—she's so generous and outgoing.

17. 17 张 Zhang Sangou’s Get-Rich Journal 张三狗发财笔记 Wandering Immortal of the Northern Mountain北山浪荡仙Urban2.7M WordsCompleted A comedy novel with absolutely no pretensions. A poor boy from the mountains refuses to settle for an ordinary life and ventures out into the world, carving out a place for himself through his own efforts. The cast of bizarre characters will have you laughing out loud. It gets more and more exciting as it goes. San Gou grows more mature and more cunning, with more and more schemes brewing in his head. In the end, he makes it! He becomes a billionaire. His journey is a whirlwind of chaos and laug 63.4kReads8.7Score6.6k14d adds

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    Don't watch this at night, you'll laugh your head off. Be careful, your neighbors might yell at you for disturbing the peace.

18. 18 资 The Capitalist's Daughter Takes Her Vast Fortune to the Countryside to Join the Army 资本家小姐携巨额家产下乡随军 Zero Point Two Seven零点二七Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [A stone-faced military officer with bulging muscles and a complicated mind VS a delicate, radiant heiress from a wealthy family] [Military Marriage] [Light Sci-Fi] [Sweet Romance] [Easy, Satisfying Read] [Light Fantasy] [Goofy Robot] [Combat Pet] [Cards] [Lightning Powers] A word of warning: The heroine talks about keeping a low profile, but doesn’t act like it. If she has a golden finger, she’ll use it. Leng Yunhuan had just won the Grand Slam for Best Actress when she stayed up late playing a 10.1kReads8.5Score1.7k14d adds

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    Read this book (loudly) entirely in Northeastern dialect, including but not limited to: (bōléng gài), (tǔlóu kǎ), (làngdàng gè dàliǎn), (máomáolèng dì), (wàiwū dì), (máilǎ bā tài dì)... Just read it

19. 19 幺 The Youngest Branch’s Elder, the Sixty-Year-Old Junior Ancestor 幺房长辈，60小太爷 Bai Mu Sishui白木泗水Urban2.7M WordsOngoing Chen Yu woke up in a hospital bed and found that everything had changed. He had returned to his youth, to an era of scarce supplies when the people in the village would rather go hungry themselves than forget to support him. After all, he was the village's young granduncle. Given another chance, he couldn't let his younger relatives suffer the hardships of his previous life. After all, he was the most senior member of the village by generation. Chen Family Village was an ordinary little mountain 27kReads7.3Score2.2k14d adds

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    In the 1970s, while others in the village went hungry nine times a day, the village elder led the entire village to eat meat.

20. 20 这 This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！ Wu the Half-Immortal吴半仙Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa 150.8kReads9.7Score13.6k14d adds

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    The vast land of Northeast China, rich in literature from that era, could not breed narrow-minded love. Those heart-wrenching stories, unfolding like a gentle scroll of kinship, friendship, and love, are like wisps of smoke rising in winter, slowly spreading warmth amidst the snow and ice.

21. 21 百 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 w Nankew南柯Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted 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 14.5kReads9.2Score1.5k14d adds
22. 22 东 Northeast Tales: A Love That Never Wavers 东北往事之情深不悔 Author Jiang Bula作者姜不辣Ancient Romance618k WordsCompleted No transmigration, no System. A realistic romance set in the countryside of Northeast China. If you cry easily, don’t read this. I’m afraid you won’t be able to stop! Zheng Sichun had a life full of hardship. When she was born, her own grandmother had her thrown into Wolf Ravine, where she was rescued by the drunkard Zheng Bao. At a young age, she narrowly escaped a villain’s clutches. After her brother accidentally killed someone, the siblings fled the home they’d lived in for eight years! At t 11.7kReads9.5Score1.5k14d adds
23. 23 东 Tales of the Northeast: The Child Bride 东北往事之童养媳 Author Jiang Bula作者姜不辣Modern Romance918k WordsCompleted At ten years old, Chun Ni was forced to become a child bride at the Jing family compound. There, she witnessed the tragic lives of the Jing family’s women with her own eyes... During a crisis in the Jing household, bandits captured her. The Long family’s fifth young master rescued her from the mountains, and from then on, she and Long Wu joined the fight against the Japanese... The two of them would be bound together for the rest of their lives. 13.4kReads9.3Score1.7k14d adds
24. 24 六 The Little Crybaby of the 1960s Is Always Hung from the Demonically Handsome Commander's Waist 六零小丧包天天被妖孽首长挂腰上 Zhang Mocha from the Northeast张摩卡来自东北Modern Romance1.0M WordsOngoing [Military marriage in the 1960s · quietly unhinged · decisive and ruthless · golden finger with a hint of mystery · off-the-charts sweetness] Don’t mess with Lu Jiu. She’s fierce, bold, and rebellious. In her previous life, she spent thirteen years undercover, going from a drug lord’s fake heiress to the drug lord herself. The day the operation closed in, she blew everyone sky-high, herself included. When she opened her eyes again, she was Lu Jiu, an academic ace in the 1960s. She came with a me 92.6kReads9.2Score15.3k14d adds

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    Want to take a look at this book? Although I'm not from Northeast China, there are Northeasterners in Beijing, and they all speak Northeastern dialect.

25. 25 岳 The Old Grandmother of Yue Family Village 岳家庄的老祖母 Mountainside Man in the Rain雨落山人Historical107k WordsCompleted [A grandmother builds a business + Yue Fei's family teachings + brotherhood] A mother's love makes her strong, and she becomes the soul of her clan. One mother's thirty-year flight lays the foundation for her family's six-hundred-year legacy. During the Hongwu reign of the Ming dynasty, Yue Guangyong, the thirteenth-generation descendant of Yue Fei, dies young in Tangyin County, Henan Province, where his family has lived for generations. He leaves behind his widowed wife, Yue Yushi, and their tw 610Reads9.3Score10414d adds

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    Local novels set in Northeast, North, and Southwest China!

26. 26 丧 Zombies Forced to the Countryside? From Picking Corn to Full Mechanization 丧尸被迫下乡？扒苞米爆改机械化 The Clivia Isn't Blue君子兰不蓝Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Alternate-history era setting + zombie transmigrates to Northeast China + educated youth sent to the countryside + pocket-space sprite + family’s darling + triplets + follows the army to an island] Jiang Shiqi was a brainless little zombie. She transmigrated into the 1970s as a pitiful, withdrawn girl. The good news was that she had a brain now. The bad news was that her uncle’s family was exploiting her and sending her to the countryside in Heilongjiang Province! Dad said girls should dress 31.3kReads7.8Score6.2k14d adds

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    First, the little zombie goes to the countryside in Northeast China and is pampered by her mother-in-law's family. Second, she moves all her family's possessions to the countryside in Northeast China, where she learns to hold funerals, make banquets, fire bricks, and dig wells.

27. 27 搬 She Clears Out Her Family's Fortune, Then Takes Her Darling Beauty and the Weasel Immortal to the Countryside for Some Gossip 搬空家产，娇美人带黄仙下乡吃瓜 Sweet Rice Wine Dumplings酒酿甜心圆子Modern Romance105k WordsOngoing [Fictional period setting + pet weasel spirit + curvy capitalist heiress + clearing out the family fortune + sent to the countryside in Northeast China + everyday family life] A curvy, seemingly delicate, yet all-capable drought demoness × a scheming, merit-rich, love-struck, rugged country man Not much feng shui, mostly everyday family life. When Jiang Yutang woke up, her whole world had collapsed. She had gone from a feared drought demoness to a capitalist heiress in a vegetative state, and 4Reads—Score—14d adds
28. 28 糙 The Rugged Man’s Overwhelming Love: His Sweet Little Wife Falls for Him 糙汉强势爱，娇软小媳妇沦陷了 Su Jiabai苏加白Modern Romance1.4M WordsOngoing Originally titled “A Lonely Bed Is Hard to Bear, While the Rugged Neighbor Scratches at Her Wall Night After Night” [lonely nights / maximum sweetness / period setting / delicate beauty / devoted love / slow-burn romance / building wealth / glimpses of an ensemble cast / love at first sight / close proximity / sisters-in-law as foils] Delicate young wife × iron-willed, rugged man Hua Xiaoyue is left alone in an empty bed, the long nights hard to endure. Her family scolds her, her in-laws berate 9.3kReads8.5Score56314d adds

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    Authentic Northeastern flavor: Good love is like corn porridge with added beans—the more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes.

29. 29 军 A Powerful Military Marriage: I Married the Strongest Soldier and Had Triplets 军婚霸宠：嫁最强兵王生了三胞胎 Su Jiabai苏加白Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Triplets / Love at First Sight / Devoted Love / Adorable Kids / Scheming / Deep Devotion / 1980s / Alternate Setting / For When You’re Out of Books A sweet, soft-spoken little rabbit with steel teeth × a domineering, protective, fierce big wolf with a scheming side Ye Suisui was born in the 1980s. Fair-skinned and frail, with slender arms and legs, she looks like an easy target. Lu Zhengyao is 1.9 meters tall, with a fierce, icy presence. He can kick his cousin’s leg hard enough to break it, and 2.2kReads7.7Score24514d adds

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    Highly recommended! [Angry][Angry][Angry][Angry]

30. 30 赶 Hunting in the Mountains to Protect My Family 赶山打猎守护一家 Three-Minute Passionlove三分热度loveUrban2.0M WordsCompleted Reborn, she heads into the mountains to hunt and protect her family. That winter, her family was torn apart, and the little shadow who used to follow her everywhere was gone forever. Now she's back, and she won't let this life be filled with regrets... 43.7kReads8.4Score2.9k14d adds

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    #Northeast #MountainClimbing #Hunting #CuteKids #SeafoodCatching #MillionWords #SliceOfLifeNovel #Leisure #GoodReading

31. 31 不 I'm Done Competing. I'm Going Home to Explore the Mountains and Seas 不卷了，回去看山海 Kai Wuwu开呜呜Urban1.7M WordsCompleted All that hard work gets you nowhere, and then you get laid off? By the time you regret it, I’ll be lying flat by the sea, feeling the breeze, watching the sunset, and feasting on seafood. I’ll watch the wind brush my face and the willows droop along the riverbank, and listen to raindrops patter from the eaves. 10.3kReads8.4Score56314d adds
32. 32 1 Northeastern China in 1979 1979年东北往事 Hero with the Great Banner大旗英雄Modern Romance315k WordsCompleted In the late autumn of 1979, twenty-year-old Liu Xiaocui was sexually assaulted one night. The news spread through every village for miles. Her husband’s family called off the engagement, rumors ran wild, and everyone said she was “immoral,” “ruined by a man,” and “no longer pure.” In an era when a woman’s reputation was worth more than her life, something like this could make it seem as if her whole life was over. 5.8kReads6.9Score33614d adds

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    Book recommendation 👍

33. 33 1 Northeast China: Tales from 1975 1975年的东北往事 Hero with the Great Banner大旗英雄Modern Romance277k WordsCompleted Adapted from a true story set in Northeast China, with a touch of romanticism. The characters are mostly drawn from real life, yet rise above it. They are ordinary people who work hard. In them, we see reflections of our grandparents, our parents, and even ourselves. 10.4kReads7.6Score71014d adds
34. 34 粮 Grain Coupons 粮票 Big Sister Takes Charge二姐当家Urban170k WordsCompleted Following the lives of ordinary people such as Li Guilan and Zhao Dehou, this novel uses ration coupons as a symbol of the era to trace the 38-year transition from a planned economy to a market economy, from 1955 to 1993. Through the protagonists’ struggles to survive, emotional entanglements, and fluctuating fortunes as they contend with food shortages and ration coupons, it vividly recreates the hardships of a turbulent era and portrays the resilience and kindness of ordinary people in difficu 1.1kReads6.4Score—14d adds
35. 35 东 Seventy Years in a Northeastern Family 东北人家的七十年 Yu Yi俞壹Modern Romance275k WordsCompleted Based on real events, with artistic embellishments. In these people, we see our grandparents’ generation, our parents’ generation, and ourselves. This story of striving on the black soil is filled with the resilience and wisdom of ordinary people in a momentous era. 1.7kReads8.2Score12514d adds
36. 36 东 Tales from the Northeast: Outwitting My Wicked Mother-in-Law 东北往事：和恶婆婆斗智斗勇 Yu Yi俞壹Modern Romance211k WordsCompleted This is a true story. In it are the faces of our parents' generation, our childhood, our friends, our youth, and all the years we've lived through. 701Reads—Score10114d adds
37. 37 念 Missing Qiao 念乔 Yu Yi俞壹Modern Romance181k WordsCompleted The 1990s were a vibrant era of growth, but also an era of survival of the fittest. Some people stood out and rose beyond their social class. Others lost their way and could no longer find themselves. But those who carry a light in their hearts will always be remembered. This story is dedicated to all those who dared to face the tides of their time without forgetting their original aspirations. 50Reads—Score—14d adds
38. 38 七 A Mad Couple in the 1970s 七零年代疯批夫妇 The Colorful Xue Jingfei色彩缤纷的薛静妃Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Historical era + green tea schemer + obsessive love + unhinged + powerful lead + everyday family life + pocket dimension + food + healing + transmigrate into a book This is the story of two unfortunate souls saving each other. After transmigrating into the countryside as a little orphan, Ming Dai meets Zhou Sinian, a mad powerful man who loves wearing red headscarves. Under the protection of his reputation, she manages to establish herself in the village. Zhou Sinian was a cannon-fodder characte 106.5kReads9.3Score10.8k14d adds

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    The story features a female protagonist who transmigrates into a book, has a spatial ability, goes to the countryside, and is set in a historical period. The plot is humorous with no truly awful characters; it focuses on the heartwarming everyday life of the village.

39. 39 四 Siheyuan: A Couple Transmigrate to a Wonderful New Life 四合院：夫妻穿越开启美好新生活 Dawn Peak, New Moon晓峰新月Female-Channel Fanfiction223k WordsCompleted I’m a new writer, so please don’t be harsh if you don’t like it. Just move along! After an accidental car crash, husband and wife Yang Yang and Xia Yu transmigrated into a courtyard house and gained a System space. Armed with their golden fingers, they raised the orphans of fallen heroes, made a fortune, and changed other people’s destinies. They turned the courtyard into a loving home and built a happy life for themselves, too. My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I ho 962Reads6.4Score—14d adds

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    This is a book full of Northeastern dialect, written in the Northeastern dialect about Beijing courtyard houses. Hehehe, it's quite interesting.

40. 40 两 Love Between Two Generations: An Inescapable Bond 两代情之逃不出的羁绊 Midnight Woodpecker午夜啄木鸟Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted A bloody maelstrom was set in motion by a marriage swap in the late 1980s. One bride died, and the other fled. The humiliation Hua'er endured on her wedding night is enough to make anyone blush with shame, while the hardships Zijun faced as she fled her marriage are deeply moving. Though the story is named for two generations, it is really about three generations and the sweeping changes in their views on love, marriage, and life. It also shows China's tremendous economic boom and the profound s 5.4kReads9.0Score74114d adds

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    The fights and insults in this book, set in rural northern China, are also quite amusing.

41. 41 黑 Bloodshed in the Black Abyss 黑渊血戮 Winter Warmth冬煦Urban285k WordsOngoing (Realistic + Period Setting + Underworld + Political Battles) What is the underworld? It is an endless abyss. Once you take a single step into it, you’ll be trapped forever, with no way out. To make a name for yourself in the underworld, you have to be ready to end up dead in the street or locked away for life at any moment. Now, let me take you back to the late 1980s and show you how the son of a worker gets dragged into this dark abyss and rises step by step to become a crime boss of his era. 898Reads—Score—14d adds

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    It features a lot of Northeastern dialect and underworld slang, the content is very realistic, it's high-energy and entertaining from start to finish, and it's very immersive, reflecting the real situation in the 80s and 90s!

42. 42 靠 Live Off the Mountains: Reborn in the 80s, I Keep a Low Profile in the Mountain Village 靠山吃山，重生80后我苟在山村 Wind Blows on the Iron Tree风吹铁树Urban3.1M WordsCompleted In his previous life, Li Qingyun's grandmother drugged him and stuffed him into a haystack, all to ruin his reputation so his cousin could take his place in the army. The result was his utter disgrace, the destruction of his family, and the loss of everything! This time, he is reborn in the haystack. He knows what is about to happen there. His eyes turn red… 13.2kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
43. 43 重 Back to 1982: My Nine Daughters Are Stunning 重回82：我九个女儿美炸了 The Cat Watches the Flowers花猫子看花Urban1.5M WordsCompleted People say that reaching seventy is a rare feat. But at Tang Jiancheng’s seventieth birthday banquet, the guests were truly rare! Apart from the yellow dog at his feet, not a single person showed up! And yet, he had once been the father of nine daughters! Lost in painful memories, Tang Jiancheng drank himself unconscious. When he woke again, he had somehow returned to 1982, ten days after the birth of his ninth daughter... This time, he swore to protect his daughters and make sure not one of the 10.3kReads9.2Score1.1k14d adds
44. 44 重 Reborn in 1978: Hunter-Doctor of Changbai Mountain 重生七八，长白山猎医 Engineering Dog工程狗Urban2.1M WordsCompleted In his previous life, he weathered storms of bullets and enjoyed the splendor of the city. On his sixtieth birthday, he was reborn in the village where he had once lived. In this life, Liu Hongjun just wants to stay in the mountains, work as the village doctor, and spend his free time gathering herbs and hunting. He wants to enjoy a leisurely life. 45.3kReads9.3Score4k14d adds
45. 45 重 Reborn in 1980: From the Start, I Married My Sister’s Best Friend 重生1980：开局迎娶姐姐闺蜜 Cang Yue Aotian沧月傲天Urban4.0M WordsCompleted [The new novel Reborn in 1975: I Want It All, From a Loving Wife to a Fortune in Scientific Research is now a hit! Click the author's name to read it!] Li Yi is reborn, back in a small mountain village in 1980! When Tang Xue asks him to marry her once again, he doesn't hesitate. His answer rings out loud and clear: “I do!” In his previous life, he was blinded by his own foolishness and watched helplessly as Tang Xue fell into darkness! With a second chance at life, he swears to make her the happ 11.2kReads9.3Score1.6k14d adds
46. 46 江 Jianghu Dragon: Underworld Storm in the Northeast 江湖枭龙：东北黑道风云 Colorful Victory彩胜Urban4.3M WordsOngoing Three years in prison, and everything had changed. After his release, Lu Tao found himself at a crossroads in life. The snowstorm that year was so fierce it bent Lu Tao’s back. The friendship that year was so warm it helped him emerge reborn and fight his way upstream. Watch as a close-knit group of friends stand shoulder to shoulder, stride through a turbulent era, and build something magnificent! 19.1kReads9.1Score1.1k14d adds
47. 47 假 The Fake Young Master Was Sent Back to the Countryside, Where He Turned His Life Around with His Wife and Children 假少爷被赶回农村带妻儿逆袭人生 Beautiful Spring Day春光明媚Urban1.8M WordsCompleted When Xie Zhao opened his eyes, he was back in 1983. That year, the richest family in Huxian County, the Chen family, found their real son and sent the impostor, Xie Zhao, back to Shishui Village. He couldn’t believe that the parents who had once treasured him like their own flesh and blood no longer wanted him. Had all the love they’d shown him over eighteen years been a lie? He went to ask them, but they wept and cursed him as a curse upon the family. They said he had made their biological son 19.9kReads9.0Score1.9k14d adds
48. 48 重 Reborn in 1980: Hunting and Building a Life in the Changbai Mountains 重生1980我在长白山狩猎兴家 Lord Jie of Wangxiang Pavilion望乡阁的界王大人Urban1.2M WordsCompleted In his previous life, Qin Feng was a celebrated special-forces king and corporate chairman, yet he was lonely inside and carried deep regrets. After an accident, he is reborn in the winter of 1980, in a poor mountain village called Kaoshan Tun on the banks of the Tumen River, deep in the Changbai Mountains of Northeast China. He has become an eighteen-year-old youth. Drawing on his former combat skills, management acumen, and the steely resolve born of his desire to make amends for past regrets, 678Reads6.0Score—14d adds
49. 49 重 Reborn as a Snowfield Hunter 重生之雪原猎人 Lord Jie of Wangxiang Pavilion望乡阁的界王大人Urban1.4M WordsCompleted On the border, Zhao Tiejun, the “Snow Wolf,” took several bullets while covering his comrades’ retreat. As his consciousness faded, he heard explosions roaring and his comrades shouting. When he opened his eyes again, he saw a dim kerosene lamp, an earthen roof, and his mother’s tear-swollen face. 6.1kReads6.2Score44014d adds
50. 50 旧 Childhood in the Old Days 旧时光里的童年 The Second Kid in the Old Days旧时光里的小二Urban134k WordsCompleted 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. 39Reads—Score314d adds

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    This is a period novel that depicts life in rural Northeast China. It tells the story of the author's turbulent experiences, filled with sadness and nostalgia, making it both tear-jerking and inspiring. The more you read, the more interesting it becomes.

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