Please Recommend Highly Rated Period Pieces. No Dumbed-Down Plots or Cringey Scenes 求啊高分年代文 别降智整尬

1. 1151 六 The Sixties: A Righteous Heroine? She Wins at Life Through Schemes and Strategy 六零：正派？她靠权谋卷赢人生 Dream of a Winter Night冬夜之梦Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Period drama + career-driven heroine + System + ensemble cast + intelligent characters + witty and humorous + the heroine has eight hundred tricks up her sleeve In her previous life, Song Yanqing had just reached the pinnacle of success when she somehow ended up back in the amniotic fluid. Lying flat and waiting to die wasn’t her style. She wiped away her tears and got right back to work. A village girl from a poor mountain hamlet steadily made her way out into the world. People called Song Yanq 17.1kReads8.8Score2.1kShelves
2. 1152 七 The Army Wife's Little Sister in the 1970s: Bound to a Lazybones System 七零随军小姑：绑定好吃懒做系统 Chrysanthemum Fish菊花鱼Modern Romance615k WordsOngoing [Reborn in the Womb + System + Beloved by All + Gossip + Period + Military Wife + Family Life + Transmigrate into a Book + Gourmet + Military Life + Daily Life] In her previous life, Su Xing worked herself to death from overwork in 2026. Her greatest dream in this life was to lie flat. Born in 1952, she became the village's notorious lazy glutton. She had gone to school, but couldn't earn work points or cook. She even got her eldest and second sister-in-law and her mother to slack off with her, 1.6kReads6.7Score143Shelves
3. 1153 纭 Yunyun Was Born in the 1950s 纭纭出生在五十年代 Falcon Huo Lotus鹰隼huo莲Modern Romance1.6M WordsOngoing My new work is out! Please head over to Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 4.6kReads7.1Score273Shelves
4. 1154 大 The Heiress Has a Wish-Granting App 大小姐她有成真APP Royal Little Fruit皇家小果果Modern Romance1.4M WordsOngoing [1960s Hong Kong setting + heiress + powerful father + wealthy heiress's daily life + coming of age + a seriously powerful golden finger + heartwarming father-daughter bond + lots of romances] Ordinary, clear-eyed but clueless college student Wei Ying wakes up to find herself back in a baby's body. Abandoned by parents who favor sons? No problem. She has a golden finger and can personally choose her adoptive parents. Her adoptive parents die in an accident when she's eight, leaving her surrounde 13.4kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
5. 1155 九 Working in 1990s Guangzhou, Amei's Little Restaurant Opens 九零羊城打工，阿美小饭馆开业了 Grapefruit Tomato Sauce西柚番茄酱Modern Romance366k WordsCompleted [The 1990s + old Guangzhou + family life + a slow and steady pace + raising kids + marriage first, love later + no golden finger] Tired of military romance novels? Here’s a simple, homey alternative. It’s something like a period version of My Family, but very slice-of-life, not fast-paced. A country girl moves to the city. The story is set in old Guangzhou, so it includes some well-known local dialect expressions. Synopsis: Main characters: Chen Shumei × Zhong Jiajun Amei comes to the city looki 12.2kReads8.2Score1.7kShelves

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   The first book is an aborigine. The female protagonist is down-to-earth and hard-working. It is positive and positive in life. It is an overall warm and life-like good book, but it is not finished. The second book has a really silly male protagonist. The early stage is warm and lively. It can tell the local beauty and human beauty of the village. I really like the scene in the village created by the author. In the later period, it became more out of touch with the rural era. Personally, it felt a bit split. The male protagonist was very cute and interesting when he was silly.

6. 1156 小 Tales of the Lesser Khingan Mountains: The Fearless Wife of the Sixties 小兴安岭往事：六零悍妻 The Gear-Linked Bird牵机鸟Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period] [Family Life] [Growing Up] [An Extraordinary Ordinary Life] In the winter of 1959, a tough woman from the apocalypse barged into the Lesser Khingan Mountains. With her brute strength, Mi Duo slaughtered pigs and wolves, and even teased black bears. Mi Duo’s wish: get married, have children, live an uneventful life, and die of old age. Mi Duo’s daily life: hunt bears, fight wolves, tear into scumbags, and pull an extra night shift whenever someone rubs her the wrong way. Mi Duo’s fut 19.2kReads8.9Score2.6kShelves

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   A strong woman, both in terms of strength and brainpower. The heroine of this book has a clear mind and leadership skills. She is not stuck in trivial matters and does not find fault with trivial matters at home. She is very capable. From the perspective of the heroine, the breasts are very unobstructed. The male protagonist is upright and has a little more housework. I really like Sister Mi's free and easy spirit.

7. 1157 重 Back to the Great Northern Wilderness: I Tear Apart My Scumbag Mother and Wicked Sister and Take the World by Storm 重回北大荒：手撕渣妈恶妹飒翻天 Ye Shanyu也山芋Modern Romance310k WordsCompleted [Beidahuang wilderness, 1960s, revenge and putting scumbags in their place, space for hoarding supplies, getting rich, emptying the whole family's home, healing through food, a slow and steady romance] In her previous life, Song Liyu was drugged by her adoptive parents and bundled off to the lecher next door, forced to entertain his clients. She would rather die than submit, and was left disabled. The jade pendant she carried to prove her birthright was stolen. The family's vicious daughter tra 10Reads—Score—Shelves

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   A chronicle of the era when the whole family is empty at the beginning, worth reading

8. 1158 七 The Good Life in the 1970s 七十年代好生活 Sweet Apricot甜杏子Modern Romance599k WordsCompleted Chen Xiangju left her hometown in the countryside and came to the city to stay with her good friend Chen Chunyan. She hoped to find a partner in the city, since she had no intention of returning to the village. Li Gang happened to be looking for a wife. They were introduced and hit it off at once, and Chen Xiangju began her life in the family compound. 14.1kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
9. 1159 捐 I Donated Billions in Assets, Then Transmigrated to the Famine Era! 捐了亿万资产后，穿饥荒年代！ Smiling Beauty笑美人Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [The 1960s + blended family + both leads’ first relationship + raising kids + copy space + outspoken heroine + everyday life] [The short drama is now streaming. Search for “A Heart Like Fine Brocade.”] In her previous life, Qiao Yu had cancer and never married. She made a fortune using her special space to buy cosmetics overseas for clients. After dying young, she finds herself in the difficult 1960s. The bad news: her late husband left behind two children, and her current husband has adopted th 9.3kReads9.0Score774Shelves
10. 1160 惊 What a Surprise! The Officer Mistook Her for His Blind Date and Spoiled Her Relentlessly 惊！军官相亲认错人，她被强宠了 Adorable Little Mu木木小可爱Modern Romance547k WordsCompleted [Period setting] [Space stocked with supplies] [Everyday life as a military spouse] [The leads both speak their minds] Can you believe that you can sleep so hard you transmigrate? Well, Qi Tang can. She slept until the end of her life, and when she opened her eyes again, she had become Qi Hongtang, the third child in an ordinary working-class family in a county town in China in 1970. Her older siblings got their share of the family’s resources, while her younger siblings enjoyed their parents’ a 11kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
11. 1161 穿 I Transmigrated to the 1970s and Took the System to the Countryside 穿越七零，带着系统去下乡 I'm a Little Lamb是一只小羊儿Modern Romance228k WordsOngoing Jiang Yuan thought she was terribly unlucky. Just after her job paying over ten thousand yuan a month became permanent, she was hit by a car and died. Then she thought she was incredibly lucky. After her death, she was bound to a System that treated her wonderfully. It took her to the 1970s and gave her a pocket dimension. On top of that, as long as she worked, it paid her an annual salary of over 200,000 yuan. The job was her dream: great pay, little work. An annual salary of over 200,000 yuan 37Reads—Score148Shelves

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    These are not bad

12. 1162 8 The Fragrant Late Osmanthus of the 1980s 80年代香喷喷的迟桂花 Meng Ri Wan梦日万Modern Romance742k WordsCompleted Osmanthus usually blooms between September and October. The second son of the Chi family’s wife was due in September, but the baby showed no signs of coming. Half a month past her due date, she finally gave birth to a girl at the hospital. When Old Master Chi heard it was a girl, he said nothing. His wife chattered on over the phone, telling their son how to look after his wife and child. Over the call, Chi Jianguo asked his father what to name the baby. Old Master Chi tapped his pipe. “Call her 47kReads8.8Score6.7kShelves
13. 1163 重 Reborn in the New Millennium: How Do I Return to the Mountains from the Start? 重生千禧年，开局重返大山怎么破 Xu Xu Shi Ye徐徐是也Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Before she was reborn, Shen Xuewei was over thirty. She had been estranged from her family for seven years, and after years of hard work, she had finally built a little home of her own. After being reborn, Shen Xuewei was only six years old, with tiny arms and legs. Her father was taking her to her maternal grandparents’ home in the mountains. Her childhood memories were already hazy, and she had never imagined she would be reborn. Standing outside her grandparents’ home, she watched her father 16.9kReads9.1Score2.2kShelves

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    I think these two novels are both very well written. As for the first book, the writing is average, but the plot is quite good. I like the second book very much, it is my favorite, and his first story is a chronicle.

14. 1164 他 They Want Me to Be a Saint, but I Choose to Become the King of Hell 他们要我当圣母，我偏成阎罗 Orange Pancake橙子煎饼Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + wish fulfillment + face-slapping] [Arc 1: Transmigrating into a 1990s brother-enabler, I’m done being his meal ticket] ✔ [Arc 2: The Ninth Year of My Secret Crush] ✔ [Arc 3: The First Lady] ✔ [Arc 4: Transmigrating into the female harem character of a power-fantasy hero] ✔ [Arc 5: Survival in the Wasteland] ✔ … After transmigrating into a novel set in a bygone era, E6 becomes a human blood bank for the “chosen little brother.” From the start, she’s sent to live with 65.7kReads9.4Score9.2kShelves

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