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1. 551 七 The 1970s: My Little One Gets Rich With a Shameless System 七零：崽崽靠着缺德系统暴富啦！ May We Last as Long as the Moon随明月而长终Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Completed (Era Setting + No Romance + Truly Little Kid Protagonist + Mischievous Kid + Clueless + No Catfighting) (Daily Life + System + Lucky Charm + Beloved by All + Only Child + Olympic Champion) Original title: The 1970s: The Kid Gets Rich with a System Full of Flaws! P.S. After chapter 42, there are basically no awful people. There aren’t many in the early chapters either, just two, and they won’t keep showing up. Told mainly from the kid’s point of view, full of her daily life, with lots a 18.3kReads9.1Score1.7kShelves
2. 552 穿 Transmigrating to the 1970s: The Legitimate Daughter Is a Super Mom 穿七零，嫡女当妈超会养 Green Fish, Green Fish青鱼青鱼Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Ancient Times to Modern Day + Military Marriage + Period Setting + Island + Grasslands + Mutual Devotion] After taking revenge for her mother, Song Shuqian, the legitimate daughter of a general’s household, arrives in 1968 and becomes the daughter of a capitalist family. She thought she could enjoy life without a care, since her family was wealthy and she was an only child. But in 1968, being a capitalist’s daughter meant danger. To escape her predicament, she impulsively marries Wei Jianguo, a 17kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
3. 553 福 The Lucky One's Foil Won't Take It Anymore 福宝对照组他不干了 Fish in the Clouds云间鱼儿Modern Romance297k WordsCompleted (Transmigrate into a book + Pocket Dimension + Badass Female Lead) In her previous life, the heroine was a corporate drudge who worked late into the night to meet a deadline. One slip was all it took to work herself to death. When she opened her eyes again, she found she'd transmigrated into a feel-good story about a blessed darling adored by everyone in a bygone era. But she wasn't the heroine. She was the heroine's foil. The heroine had everything go smoothly and soared to success, while every 16Reads—Score129Shelves
4. 554 知 The Educated Youth Widow Is Cursed to Bring Misfortune to Her Family 知青寡妇克亲命 Grandma Ningning宁宁外婆Modern Romance437k WordsCompleted A powerful lightning-wielder in the apocalypse fights the Zombie King to protect their base, and they both end up gravely injured. But the base’s second-in-command takes advantage of the situation, kidnapping the wounded fighter and planning to cut open their skull and steal their lightning core. After detonating the core, they are reborn in the body of a young educated-woman widow in 1968. She’s said to bring misfortune to everyone around her: her paternal grandparents, parents, siblings, husba 2.5kReads8.5Score227Shelves
5. 555 霍 Lord Huo's Dearest, Tangtang Is Even More Beautiful Today 霍爷的小心肝，糖糖今天又变美了 The Cultured Little Bear小熊有文化Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (Audiobook now available) [Period drama comeback + everyone loves the heroine + powerful men bow to love + several men first despise her, then fall for her + groveling exes + romantic rivalry + adapting popular works + entertainment world in the early 2000s] “Tang Ying, are you really that desperate for a man? You shameless thing.” “Even if every other woman in the world died, I still wouldn't look at you.” Tang Ying, a superstar of her generation, transmigrates into a tragic female side charact 20.9kReads8.6Score2kShelves

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   Huo Shen sneered at the beginning that "patting cats and dogs has no future", but now her pet videos have healed millions of netizens. He squatted outside her pet hospital and watched her feed the cats. He said hoarsely: "If I had known that she could warm me to death by getting along with small animals, I should have treated her pet food as a delicacy!"

6. 556 精 A Self-Serving Perfectionist’s Journey Through the Eras in Quick Transmigration 精致利己主义的年代快穿之旅 Mu Jiabai, Who Loves Rice Fried with Oyster Sauce爱吃耗油炒饭的沐嘉白Modern Romance267k WordsCompleted The heroine is breathtakingly beautiful, exquisitely self-serving, not kind, and a little darling. The male lead falls in love at first sight in every world. Pure indulgence. First world: Climbing the social ladder in the 1960s (children of high-ranking officials) Second world: The real and fake heiresses in the 1970s Third world: The foil in a lucky-child story Fourth world: Too many suitors at a widow's door Fifth world: A rural old lady wants to run over the whole world 1.7kReads5.5Score—Shelves
7. 557 恶 The Villainess Transmigrates to the 1970s: A Fully Leveled Black Lotus 恶女穿年代，满级黑心莲 Please Let Me Be Brave One More Time请允许我再勇敢一次Modern Romance308k WordsCompleted She wears the purest white-lotus façade while carrying out the vilest criminal deeds. Lin Wanwan, bound to a “Villainess Development System,” transmigrates into the era novel as a doomed cannon-fodder character. A rural girl in the 1970s? She turns around and reports her neighbor for hoarding grain, trampling lives to secure her way into the city. The System’s inventory is packed with stolen goods, and her tear ducts can secrete hallucinogens. When characters from the story call her a snake 24Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 558 女 The Female Lead Is Calculating and Self-Serving in a Period Novel 女主在年代文里精致利己 Ink-Stained Bronze Traces墨染铜迹Modern Romance218k WordsCompleted Golden finger, slow-paced quick transmigration, period stories, awful characters. The heroine isn't a self-sacrificing saint; she's a refined egoist who does whatever she feels like and lives for her own happiness. Whatever she does, it's to make her life better, without working herself too hard. In the first story, she marries off all her older brothers. 35Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 559 末 The Black-Hearted Doomsday Queen Transmigrates to the 1970s and Goes on a Rampage 末世黑心莲穿七零，她杀疯了 Giant Rabbit Loves Cilantro巨兔爱吃香菜Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [1970s + transmigrate into a book + dimensional space + supernatural abilities + feel-good story + sweet military romance + family life] Su Miaomiao: A dual-powered user with water and space abilities in the apocalypse, she struggled for ten years to become one of the strongest fighters alive! Who knew that after sleeping one night in a cemetery, she’d open her eyes as a pitiful young woman about to be sent to the countryside in the 1970s? Her scumbag father and stepmother had taken over her poo 15.8kReads8.4Score1.5kShelves

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   The heroine is very cool and has a very sweet emotional line. Both the heroine and the male protagonist have special powers. The heroine has a low sense of morality and will not be kidnapped by morality.

10. 560 资 The Capitalist's Daughter Goes Viral in the Compound After Taking a Slap in Her Substitute Marriage 资本家小姐替嫁后靠巴掌爆红大院 Runaway Ginseng Sprite落跑人参精Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Feel-good power fantasy + sweet romance + pocket dimension + devoted husband + period setting + alternate history + educated youth sent to the countryside] In a nutshell: Everyone thought she was going to die, but she’s still bouncing around full of energy. The hammiest queen of the apocalypse opens her eyes and finds herself in the body of a frail, beautiful woman destined to die young in a period novel. Her mother killed herself, her father is a scumbag, and her half-siblings are scheming aga 6.1kReads8.4Score846Shelves
11. 561 快 Quick Transmigration: After the Supporting Female Lead Wakes Up 快穿之女配醒悟后 Xuan Yuwa旋雨哇Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted (Not a strong female lead + not a wish-fulfillment story + older-man romance + age gap + no fixed leads + weak, self-interested heroine with a narrow outlook) (Each arc is a standalone story, with different leads each time. The couples aren't always devoted only to each other, and some heroines are much younger than the men. The heroines are all perfectly ordinary people, and being reborn doesn't make them any smarter.) They lost everything in the game of life. In their previous lives, their cho 3.1kReads8.2Score134Shelves

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    The heroine is selfish but does not help the poor

12. 562 渡 I Became a God After Surviving the Trial of Love 渡情劫后成功封神 Ling Ling Qi Xuan泠泠七炫Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Bai Yan, the legitimate daughter of a family of military commanders, came down from the mountains after mastering her art so she could return to her home in the capital and overcome her romantic tribulation. At the city gate, the emperor stopped her and ordered her burned as a sacrifice to Heaven and Earth. She also learned that her birth parents had abandoned her because of rumors calling her an ill-fated poison maiden. To clear her name, Bai Yan took responsibility for treating the plague and 91Reads—Score—Shelves

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    You will be addicted at first sight, a must-read if you stay up late, catch ghosts, fight zombies and exorcise evil spirits

13. 563 七 In the 1970s, I Solved Cases While Gossiping at the Neighborhood Committee 七零年，我在居委会吃瓜破案 Destined to Be in My Eyes目中注定Modern Romance256k WordsCompleted In 1975, Mai Xiaoman became the youngest neighborhood committee mediator on Chunfeng Street. On her first day at work, before she had even stepped through the gate, someone dumped a basin of foot bath water over her. Two middle-aged women were brawling in the street over a chicken, and onlookers had packed the alley shoulder to shoulder. In the chaos, she picked up a household registration booklet lying on the ground, and a mysterious System called the “Neighborhood Archive” suddenly activated. 32Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Travel through the 1970s and solve crimes in the neighborhood committee.

14. 564 穿 I Transmigrated to the 1970s and Won Over the Male Lead's Uncle 穿越七零，我把男主小叔拿下了 Huanglong, Who Loves Goldenrod喜欢木锥花的荒龙Modern Romance499k WordsCompleted Also known as: I Transmigrated to the 1970s and Won Over the Male Lead's Uncle Farming story + slow pace + everyday family life + a touch of ensemble cast + laid-back heroine + pocket dimension + spirit spring Woman transmigrates into another body + man is reborn + devoted couple + age gap + making a fortune The rating will go up later. An alternate-history period story (the author's imagination runs wild). Chu Yue woke up one day to find that she had transmigrated to the 1970s, and into a nove 3.6kReads—Score313Shelves
15. 565 漂 A Beautiful Mom, a Dad Who Takes All the Flak, and Two Little Devils: One Big Happy Family 漂亮妈受气爸两个魔丸儿子凑一家 It's Guo Pangpang是郭胖胖啊Modern Romance1.1M WordsOngoing (The rating just came out, but it’ll go up later!) Xie Wanling, just like the woman whose body she now inhabits, chokes to death on a piece of apple that’s too big. The two of them switch bodies, and from the start, Xie Wanling has a handsome husband, twin sons, and the challenge of choosing her husband’s job. When Xie Wanling hears there are three jobs to choose from, she doesn’t hesitate for a moment and picks a position at the Tobacco Bureau for her man. Ye Changzheng isn’t too keen on it, si 13.4kReads6.2Score1.1kShelves
16. 566 胎 Born in 1970: The Beloved Baby Girl of the Family 胎穿70：家里最受宠爱的老来女 Huanglong, Who Loves Goldenrod喜欢木锥花的荒龙Modern Romance225k WordsCompleted (Pure love, awakening, born into the era, period setting, youngest daughter born late in her parents' lives, two strong leads, everyday family life) The rating will go up later. A novel set in an alternate version of the past. Her father is a factory director, and her mother heads the finance department. Lin Xiaoman is the youngest daughter in the Lin family, with five older brothers. One day, while she is sick, memories of her previous life suddenly awaken. It turns out she was born into the 1 11.9kReads6.0Score1.4kShelves
17. 567 穿 Transmigrate to the 1980s: The Aloof Tycoon Chases His Wife to the Crematorium 穿越八零，高冷大佬追妻火葬场 Huanglong, Who Loves Goldenrod喜欢木锥花的荒龙Modern Romance232k WordsCompleted Both leads are devoted to each other and equally strong, with a top-tier young man and an entrepreneurship arc (Transmigration and rebirth, making a fortune, a family with lots of sisters) The heroine is a polished self-interest-first type. The hero starts out aloof, then later goes through hell trying to win her back An alternate-era story The Su family has six daughters. Each one is prettier than the last, and the sixth daughter is the most beautiful. The heroine is the sixth Su daughter. Th 58Reads—Score—Shelves

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