Are There Any 1960s or 1980s Period Novels Without a Timid Protagonist? 有没有60，80的年代文，不要畏手畏脚那种。
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Reborn in 1976: The Village Belle Clings to Me from the Start 重生1976，开局村花赖上我
[Educated-youth story + not a wish-fulfillment tale + everyday life + reborn + master of laying low + witty and irreverent] Read with caution. In his previous life, after returning to the city, he went to college, pursued scientific research, and won award after award. But an accident left him reborn as an educated youth in a small village. This time around, he only wants to put down roots in the village and live a quiet life. But you can’t hide a pearl in the mud. He ends up making an even bigg
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Reborn in the 1980s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生八零：媳妇有点辣
Her parents died young, her family was poor, and she was plain-looking. Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a terrible hand, but after nearly twenty years of hard work, she became an executive at a multinational corporation and finally put her life back on track... Then she wakes up to find herself reborn in the 1980s, as another Xia Xiaolan, this time with a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin. The original Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a winning hand, but chose to take her own life under the pressu
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A Mad Couple in the 1970s 七零年代疯批夫妇
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
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- 4 You’re Forcing Me to the Countryside? This Scientist’s Wife Will Empty Your Whole House 逼我下乡？科研军嫂搬空你全家 [Military Marriage + Period Setting + Powerful Lead + Face-Slapping + One-on-One Romance] Xia Li, a powerful wielder of both thunder and space abilities, had just come through the apocalypse. She became the founding general entrusted with the New World's Omniscient Eye System, ready to enjoy a quiet retirement. She only took a short nap, but transmigrated instead. After transmigrating, she faced two choices: Either marry a self-important mama's boy who expected her to put up with his mistress af 125kReads9.4Score10.2k14d adds
- 5 Reborn in 1956: Starting Out as a Factory Doctor 重生1956从厂医开始 Reborn into the world of Love in the Courtyard. The timeline is 1956, and I even get a System? I get to marry my goddess right from the start? I can earn all kinds of supplies just by studying, treating the sick, and taking disciples? I have thirty thousand direct disciples and three hundred thousand grand-disciples. Who calls the shots in China's medical world? You say this isn't scientific? We've already transmigrated and got a System backing us up, and you still want to talk science? 140Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 6 Siheyuan: Fishing for All Things Under Heaven 四合院：垂钓诸天万物 Lin Shaowen got drunk at a class reunion. After sleeping and waking up, he inexplicably arrived in the world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming Lin Shaowen, an outstanding graduate of Beijing College of Chinese Medicine. He had just graduated from university and now faced a choice: should he become a promising full-time doctor at Union Hospital, or an obscure factory doctor at a steel mill? Without a second thought, Lin Shaowen chose to become a factory doctor. There was no helping it. Sending a 78.9kReads8.5Score1.7k14d adds
- 7 Siheyuan: I Just Woke Up, and the Neighborhood Office Found Me a Wife! 四合院：刚醒，街道就送老婆！ If you’re going to write about a Beijing courtyard, you can’t write about the courtyard alone. You have to write about the petty squabbles and schemes within it, but also the great glory of that era. And you have to write about the priceless bonds between people. … 26.2kReads6.8Score1k14d adds
- 8 A Plant-Based Cultivator Returns to Earth in the 1960s 植物系修士重返地球六十年代 A top student at a prestigious university accidentally transmigrated to a cultivation world and spent a century there, eventually becoming a Nascent Soul cultivator. But when he returned to Earth, a temporal displacement sent him to the impoverished 1960s, where people barely had enough clothes or food. He had no System, no golden finger, and not even a trace of spiritual energy. All he had was a portable dimension where time flowed differently, so he set out to farm and make sure he always had 11.7kReads8.6Score1k14d adds
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Reborn in 1980: I Give My Pregnant Wife a Better Life 重生80，给怀孕媳妇过上好日子
Urban rebirth + a scumbag turning over a new leaf + doting on his wife + navigating the business world + ruling it all “Chen Tong, you ruled the business world with an iron fist in this life. Do you have any regrets?” As he lay on his deathbed, a voice as beautiful as music came from somewhere...
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I Transmigrate to the 1970s, Where My Lazy Husband and I Lie Flat and Gossip 穿越七零懒蛋老公带我躺平吃瓜
(Soul transmigration + devoted 1v1 romance + super sweet + ensemble cast + goofy comedy + doting romance + gossip + fraternal twins) The leads and their families won’t suffer, no matter who else does. This is a sweet romance written especially for anyone who can’t handle angsty stories. No catfighting over men! Even if there is any rivalry between women, it won’t be for a man! And there will be a twist later!!! I love all the female characters. I never planned to write any of them as pure villai
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- 11 Wearing a Period Novel: The Cunning, Scheming Man Has Me Wrapped Around His Finger 身穿年代文：被心机腹黑男拿捏了 [The protagonist has no System or golden finger; transmigrates into a book in her own body; a touch of ensemble cast; sweet romance; both are each other’s first and only; love at first sight; imperfect characters, each with their own flaws] [Fair-skinned, beautiful heiress VS deep-thinking, calculating man] Most likely, it’s a story about two people who look like a perfect match but aren’t in sync at heart: he’s after a man with a great body and impressive abilities, while she’s after a man with 15.5kReads8.4Score94114d adds
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Reborn: Back in the 1980s to Make My Fortune 重生：回到八零当富翁
A rebirth story set in a bygone era, with no mindless wish fulfillment, a single heroine, no courtyard-house drama, and a warm, everyday feel. Xu Erlong is reborn, returning to the eve of the day his family forced him to haul bricks at a black kiln to pay for his cousin's university education. Why should his cousin get meat while he has to make do with bran? Why should his cousin go to university while he is forced to haul bricks? Xu Erlong refuses to put up with it any longer and decisively
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A Legendary Life in the Era 年代传奇人生
A ruthless soldier king is reborn in the Greater Khingan Mountains of the 1960s. With the pocket dimension and gear from his previous life, he takes his friends hunting and exploring. The early story centers on hunting, with cross-province searches for family, treasure hunts, and battles against spies woven in. They explore fortresses, raid tombs, and get caught up in other thrilling adventures. Novel pets include a wolverine, a big black horse, a yellow-throated marten, reindeer, and a mantis.
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A Happy Life in the Seventies 七十年代幸福生活
Su Wan was reborn and grew up to eighteen. With her wedding and move to join the army just around the corner, she thought this life would be smooth and peaceful. She was ready to coast through life when she discovered she had transmigrated into a lucky heroine novel! Both she and her fiancé were doomed supporting characters! What could she do but fight to take control of her own destiny? See how Su Wan escapes the lucky heroine’s shadow, marries and follows her husband to the army, starts a busi
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- 15 In the 1970s, Even the Wrong Match Makes a Sweet Marriage 七零年代之相错的亲也很香 Jiang Wan had transmigrated to the 1970s for no apparent reason. She was faced with the prospect of being sent to the countryside if she couldn’t find a suitable match. She took one look at her petite frame and hurriedly got herself ready to go on a blind date. She could still be saved. “Hello, are you Comrade Yan? I’m Jiang Wan.” Yan Beixun had just returned home after finally getting some time off, only for his grandfather to arrange a blind date for him. “Yan Beixun.” An unexpected encounter, 1.6kReads8.7Score15214d adds
- 16 Looking for a Long-Term Meal Ticket in the Sixties 在六零年代寻找长期饭票 A pampered young woman from the 21st century transmigrates into the body of Xu Mengting, an ordinary high school girl in the 1960s. Xu Mengting feels utterly hopeless. But life has to go on, and since laziness has become her life philosophy, she sets out to find a long-term meal ticket so she can live a carefree, comfortable life. Oh? Her aloof deskmate seems to have pretty good prospects. She'd better snatch him up quickly! (The heroine is a typical self-interested person with plenty of flaws. 2.7kReads8.1Score14514d adds
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Transmigrate to the 1960s: A Spatial Realm of Trillions in Supplies to Support Educated Youths 穿越六零：空间千亿物资养知青
[The 1960s + Trillion-Yuan Supplies + Personal Space + Educated Youth + Transmigrate + Both Leads Are Virgins + Sweet Romance + Patriotic] She wakes up one morning and transmigrates to the 1960s~ What? Her whole body has traveled through time! She's an undocumented person with nothing to eat or drink, and not a penny to her name! No! She's ten years younger, a radiant eighteen-year-old beauty. No! She dreamed of the past in advance, so her money, ration coupons, and identity documents were all p
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The Little Boss Is a Menace to Cats and Dogs, and Hides from Mom and Dad That She's a Millionaire 小老板猫嫌狗厌，瞒爸妈当万元户
[1980s setting + lighthearted comedy + everyday life + building wealth] Little Rice Cake is a sieve spirit with off-the-charts brains and emotional intelligence, and she never waits until tomorrow to get revenge. After being forced to split from her family, Little Rice Cake single-handedly lifts her family and friends, infiltrates the enemy's ranks, and takes down every gossiping shrew in the village. The good life begins with living in a pigsty and raising piglets. She starts making money by do
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I Was a Beautiful Empress, but in the 1970s I Cut Pigweed and Cried Myself to Death 我貌美皇后，穿70割猪草哭死了
[Everyone's darling / No pocket dimension or System / 1970s / Bickering couple / Earning money for formula and raising a baby / Face-slapping and tormenting scumbags] A steady, ruthless emperor becomes a rugged country man x a beautiful, charming empress becomes an educated youth Mu Yuelan had been empress for just one day when she transmigrated to the 1970s. To her surprise, the dog emperor who had poisoned her came along too. Now the dog emperor has to cut pigweed and shovel manure every day,
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The 1970s: The Beloved Family Member Who Uses Technology to Strengthen the Nation 七零团宠科技兴国
[Transmigrate into a Book + Bygone Era + System + Adorable Child + Hilarious Comedy + Scientific Research + Child Prodigy] [Original title: The Beloved Darling of the Seventies Brings Prosperity Through Science and Technology] The Interstellar God of War is betrayed. With the last of his strength, he sends away his only daughter, Yuan Yuan, then dies alongside the traitor. Interstellar toddler Yuan Yuan transmigrates into a beloved little cousin in a period novel and gets bound to an Interstella
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Siheyuan: From the Start, I Control the Life and Death System 四合院：开局掌控生死系统
From the start, he gets a Life and Death System and hypnosis abilities, sending him straight to the top. The Life and Death System can extract life force from anything alive, including animals, plants, fish, and humans. It can also pour life force into any living thing, though the effect is halved. Extracting life force from a century-old tree yields fifty years' worth, which can be poured into a sapling to instantly make it grow to the size of a fifty-year-old tree. Animals work the same way: e
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- 22 In 1979, I Helped the Whole Village Become Ten-Thousand-Yuan Households 我在七九帮全村成就万元户 Chen Sheng and seven good friends explore the Nanshan Cave and obtain the innate spiritual treasure, the Boundary-Breaking Pearl, which lets them travel back and forth to an era thirty years in the future. From then on, they begin a career smuggling goods between the two worlds. Back home, they open brickworks, a sand quarry, clothing factories, and furniture factories. They buy up centipedes and leeches, and become the first in the world to cultivate bamboo fungus commercially. Once every house 615Reads8.0Score—14d adds
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Reborn into a Sweet Military Marriage: The Fire Chief Wraps an Arm Around My Waist 重生军婚甜蜜蜜，消防队长揽腰宠
[Period Setting + Military Marriage + Rebirth + Mutual Devotion + Sweet Romance] Entrepreneur Tang Xiaoxiao lived to the age of eighty. After she died, she was told that the firefighter who rescued her during an earthquake had spent the rest of his life disabled by a leg injury he suffered while saving her. Was she going to help her lifesaver heal his leg, or be reincarnated? What a question. Of course she'd help him heal! After being reborn, Tang Xiaoxiao goes to the countryside in her lifesave
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- 24 Before I Left My Husband and Child in the 70s, I Was Spoiled Rotten 回到七零抛夫弃子前，我被宠爆了 [Reborn + pocket dimension + rugged man + raising kids + sweet romance] Shen Yiyi was a professional villainess in the Quick Transmigration Bureau. On her final mission, she transmigrated into a period novel and became a vicious educated youth who was infatuated with the male lead, married the story's great villain, gave birth to three cannon-fodder sons, was lazy and difficult, and then abandoned her husband and children to return to the city. In the end, the male lead “carried out justice on H 29.5kReads9.3Score3.2k14d adds
- 25 Sweet Military Marriage: The Pretty Army Wife Makes a Fortune in the 1980s 军婚甜蜜蜜：俏军嫂在八零赚麻了 The short drama is now available Original title: Sweet Military Marriage: The Pretty Military Wife Makes a Fortune in the 1980s Zuo Jingyan had achieved financial independence and was ready to enjoy life as a wealthy, beautiful woman. Then a car accident sent her back to 1980, and things got off to a rocky start! She became a notorious nuisance, causing so much trouble that everyone in the compound avoided her. Her military husband was determined to d 21kReads9.5Score3.5k14d adds
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Back to the Sixties: I’m Invincible with Taobao 重回六零：我带着淘宝无敌了
Zhao Yusheng wakes up one day to find that she has transmigrated to 1961, luckily bringing along an interstellar space-time Taobao trading System. She had hoped to reach the pinnacle of life, but discovers that the 1960s have already been transmigrated into so many times that they're full of holes. So Zhao Yusheng decides to keep her head down and stay cautious all the way, never expecting that by playing it safe, she would become a winner in life.
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- 27 The Chubby Girl of the Sixties Marries a Cripple and Has Triplets 六零小胖妹，嫁给瘸子后竟三胎了 [Period] [Everyone’s Darling] [System] [Rise to Become a Rich Beauty] An Ning had spent her whole life alone, but at last she had a family! The only catch was that she’d switched to a different time and place, landing in the 1960s. She rolled up her sleeves, ready to settle down and make do with a poor but honest life, only to discover she had an unbelievably powerful exchange system. While everyone else was still scraping by on wild greens and water, An Ning was quietly getting rich. She traded 2.7kReads8.9Score23214d adds
- 28 I'm Going Crazy! The Legitimate Daughter of an Ancient Family Transmigrates to the 1970s 疯了！古代嫡女穿越到了七零年代 Su Jinmi, the legitimate daughter of the prime minister's household, is murdered by her half-sister and accidentally lands in a world of scarcity in the 1970s. She can't cook or farm. What can a frail, pampered young lady do when she can't carry a load on her shoulder or lift a thing with her hands? Don't worry. She has a pocket dimension, medical skills, and a good-for-nothing who knows how to make money. The good-for-nothing, a devoted husband, lives by one motto: His wife is responsible for l 16.4kReads9.1Score2.2k14d adds
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A Fresh Start in the Eighties: No More PUA, Just Making Money 八零重启：拒绝PUA！只想赚钱
Grandma Shen: I worked so hard raising your dad and his siblings all by myself, and now I have to help him look after the kids and cook, too! What did I do to deserve this? Shen Xiaoya: Grandma, really? Then I definitely won't do anything to deserve that kind of fate. I'll try my best to raise my kids together with someone else! Grandma Shen: … Shen's dad and mom: We aren't very capable, so you kids need to study hard! You'll have to rely on yourselves in the future! Shen Xiaoya: Mom, Dad, don't
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- 30 The Female Goddess of Fortune in the Eighties 八零年代女财神 Xu Yang was twenty-one and had just graduated from police academy when she transmigrated into the body of a young wife who had dropped out of school and was raising a child alone. Looking at the country road in an eighties village, with a little dumpling who barely came up to her thigh holding her hand, Xu Yang fell silent. The original host had no education, no skills, and no connections. Her mother was bedridden after suffering a stroke, while her sister-in-law watched her like a hawk and the 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Reborn in 1980: Strike It Rich by Collecting Antiques! 重生80，从收古董开始暴富！ Back in the 1980s, can Lin Ran use his modern expertise in appraising antiques to build a business empire? In this life, he will make up for his regrets and show what it means to be a responsible man. He’ll start by collecting antiques and become the richest man in the world. 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Reborn in 1980: Becoming a Tycoon 重生80当大亨 After unexpectedly being reborn in the 1980s, a top modern-day salesperson finds himself branded a useless coward by everyone around him! A career elite in his future life, yet a good-for-nothing in his previous one? No way. With memories of the twenty-first century, how could he just sit around and wait for death? Armed with knowledge of the future, watch him become a bold and enterprising smuggler and turn his life around! 1.5kReads8.7Score13414d adds
- 33 Flowers, Wine, and Money in the 1950s 50年代有花有酒有钱 Feng Biluo, a top Cambridge graduate, arrives in the early 1950s by a twist of fate, ready to carve out a future with nothing but her bare hands. Unexpectedly, heaven sends her an incredibly powerful backer. It's just like getting a pillow handed to you the moment you feel sleepy. Wonderful, wonderful! She builds her fortune with one hand and advances the women's rights movement with the other, while one villain after another falls to their knees. Life couldn't be happier. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Building Up the Countryside in the 1960s 60年代我在农村搞建设 [Pocket dimension, sign-in, skills, development, 1960s, 1970s] The story mainly follows the path of building up the nation. After his mother died, his scumbag father abandoned the children and became a live-in son-in-law. Yu Mo became the family's breadwinner and took care of his younger sister, but eventually starved to death, leaving everything to the transmigrated Yu Mo, who shared his name. He adored his sweet, obedient little sister from the bottom of his heart. As a lifelong bachelor in hi 524Reads8.6Score10014d adds
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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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- 36 After I Transmigrated into a Book, My Sons' Golden Fingers Merged with Mine 穿书后我和儿子们的金手指合并了 [Twins + Space + System + Book Pavilion + Military Marriage + Everyday Parenting] The male lead is basically just a background character, though he gets a little more screen time later on. Qiu Yinuo transmigrates into a book, becoming the vicious supporting female character in a period novel, as well as the future commander’s plump wife, who dies young. As the wife of a powerful man, she has everything she could want, yet she makes trouble at every turn and ends up bringing about her own death 34.8kReads9.4Score5k14d adds
- 37 I Transmigrate to the 1960s, Where a Woman from the Stars Sells Men to Build Her Fortune 穿越六零，星际女卖男人发家致富 (Transmigration + pocket dimension + no romance + strong heroine) Wei Wei, an interstellar mecha engineer, was testing a new mecha on a desolate planet when she was ambushed. To grasp a chance at survival, she piloted the untested mecha and tried to escape. Little did she know that her leap would take her across not only space, but time as well. When she opened her eyes, she seemed to have arrived in 1963 in China, in the body of a five-year-old girl. She immediately found herself facing a deadl 11.4kReads9.0Score1.3k14d adds
- 38 Taking the Taobao System with Me to the 1970s 带着淘宝系统穿七零 Technically minded military officer VS powerful, down-to-earth woman; the heroine builds her career. The System plays a small role early on, then gets to take it easy. Period setting + comedy + both leads devoted only to each other “When a lie-flat System meets a crazy Host” Other people transmigrate to the 1970s: fight nasty relatives, make money, and marry a soldier. Xiang Nuan transmigrates to the 1970s: ✓ Fails to be reborn six times, then angrily kicks the coffin lid off ✓ Hacks her relativ 23kReads9.4Score2.7k14d adds
- 39 I Transmigrated and Got Arrested? The Scientist's Army Wife Turns the Tables 刚穿越就被抓？科研军嫂逆风翻盘 [Transmigration + 1970s era + period setting + advancing the nation through research + military marriage + alternate history + slow burn (not a power fantasy, includes awful characters)] // Twilight shines over the nine provinces, stars settle in my arms // A genius inventor from the interstellar era unexpectedly reborn in the year 1975 of the Xiazhou calendar. She opens her eyes in an interrogation room, in a dire situation, on the verge of being sentenced to death. Ye Mu is just about to show 31.8kReads8.9Score3.8k14d adds
- 40 Back in the 1980s, Starting My Career Anew 回归八零再就业 While everyone else who transmigrates gets to live another life, Qi Xinlan loses twenty years of hers! One moment she's a thriving, ambitious administrative director at a multinational corporation; the next, she's a fifty-two-year-old woman. This is the bittersweet story of how the white-collar elite Cindy Qi became Auntie Qi to her neighbors. Her most promising son is gone, her daughter-in-law has run off, and a whole bunch of little children are left behind! See how a modern HR and administrat 16.4kReads9.5Score1.6k14d adds
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