Genuinely Skillful Historical-Era Novels, No Villains or Black Markets 真正有技术含量的年代文，不要极品和黑市

1. 901 红 The Matchmaker’s Comic and Tragic Fate 红娘啼笑因缘 Swallowtail Butterfly闪蝶Urban1.7M WordsCompleted A matchmaker who transmigrated, still so young and already arranging marriages. What a farcical situation! The matchmaker Hongniang in the Peking opera The Story of the Western Wing is famous for helping lovers find happiness. Could a real-life matchmaker actually be the reincarnation of the Hongniang from The Story of the Western Wing? Can the Book of Changes really predict love and marriage? 8Reads7.0Score—Shelves
2. 902 搬 She Cleared Out the Family Fortune, Married an Officer, and Won Without Lifting a Finger 搬空家产，资本家小姐嫁军官躺赢 Daji Loves Watermelon大吉爱吃瓜Modern Romance560k WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Period Setting + Strong Female Lead + Awakening + Dual Transmigration into a Book + Stockpiling Supplies + Capitalist Heiress + Space] Ruan Yunxi awakens just as someone tries to trick her out of her space full of supplies. She sees through the calculations of the dual transmigrators, the male and female leads who want to leave her with nothing, and activates her space ahead of time. She stockpiles supplies, gold and silver jewelry, antiques, and calligraphy and paintings, l 7kReads7.9Score593Shelves

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   Xie Beishen could hardly believe it. A storm raged within him as a series of events flashed through his mind. So the triplets Yan Yaozu mentioned were Wanwan. His…his daughter? His eyes widened, staring at Wanwan in disbelief, his heart pounding. He stammered, "My…my?" Su Wanwan, seeing his dazed expression, smiled and said, "What else?" Xie Beishen's mind exploded, an overwhelming surge of joy welling up inside him. He looked again at the little girl in the back seat. He recognized her instantly; the last time he saw her, she had two little pigtails with white flowers on her hair and was holding a small wooden plaque that read 'The Memorial Tablet of Su Baby's Daddy.' Xie Beishen: "!!!"

3. 903 四 I Blew Up the Toilet in the Courtyard, Then Rose Straight to the Top 四合院炸厕所，我青云直上 Dancing Snail飞舞的蜗牛Urban1.4M WordsCompleted Chen Pingbo starts out at the city-level Administration for Industry and Commerce, then is promoted in title but demoted in practice, sent down to an electronics factory. His outstanding achievements earn him a promotion and transfer to the Commission for Economic Restructuring, the predecessor to the National Development and Reform Commission and an even more powerful agency. His ambitions extend across the land. In this life, Chen Pingbo wants to live differently. He intends to pursue a career 5.4kReads8.4Score331Shelves
4. 904 上 Middle-Aged in Shanghai: I’ve Hidden My Medicinal Wine Ability for 20 Years 上海中年：我藏药酒异能苟20年 Tan Chulin檀楚林Urban162k WordsCompleted In 2006, Shanghai was swept up in a wave of reform. Large numbers of veteran workers at state-owned enterprises were laid off, and a lifetime of stability vanished overnight. At forty, Zhang Jianguo saw his eighteen years of service wiped out. His buyout compensation was slashed, and in middle age he had no one to rely on while raising a young daughter. To feed his family, he took grueling construction jobs, did backbreaking labor, suffered wage deductions, and endured bullying, struggling eve 90Reads—Score—Shelves

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   [A satisfying read about a middle-aged man with hidden strength and superpowers! The more you read, the more addictive it becomes!] A forty-year-old construction worker possesses the superpower of medicinal wine. He has quietly lived for twenty years, able to diagnose illnesses by smelling their aroma and identify counterfeit medicines. These extraordinary abilities are sacrificed to ensure his daughter's middle school entrance exams are supported, even though he doesn't fight or compete for anything. However, unscrupulous merchants and shady dealers relentlessly pressure him, exploiting his only weakness and forcing him to compromise. This powerless, middle-aged man, who has endured twenty years of hidden strength, is pushed to the brink. Once he explodes, the entire story is thrilling and cathartic!

5. 905 七 The Seventies: A Gold-Digging Green Tea Girl and a Deadbeat Man 七零，绿茶软饭女和极品软饭男 Sweetie Xi小甜甜喜Modern Romance100k WordsCompleted Hedlan, Soft-Rice Husband No. 1, and Shen Yanqing, Soft-Rice Husband No. 2, are married, and she begins her lie-flat life. Who would have thought she really could be pampered for her whole life? The 1960s, a couple who live off their wives, both leads inexperienced 751Reads6.1Score—Shelves

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   "Delan, get up quickly, Mom made you a bowl of noodles, get up and eat it while it's hot." Outside the door, Lin Qing knocked and gently called to her daughter. Inside, Hedlan was still fast asleep, the blanket pulled over her head. After waiting for a while without hearing a response from her daughter, Lin Qing shook her head indulgently and didn't disturb her any longer. In the kitchen, Old Mrs. Li was drinking a bowl of porridge. Seeing her daughter-in-law return alone, without her beloved granddaughter, she couldn't help but ask, "Where's Delan? Why did you come alone?"

6. 906 父 My Father's Era of the Fortress Villages 父亲的崮时代 Swallowtail Butterfly闪蝶Urban299k WordsCompleted Yimeng Mountain is a work of documentary fiction about the second generation of military-industry workers, telling the true story of the mysterious “Third Front” military factories. It retraces how the children of Third Front workers and their parents pressed on through successive waves of change. “Good people and good horses head to the Third Front.” The companies were reorganized and moved out of the mountains... They rose from the ashes as a red-culture base, as the home of China’s peaches, a 10Reads6.9Score—Shelves
7. 907 揭 Uncovering the Past of the ‘Third-Line’ Defense Industry Workers 揭秘:“小三线”军工人的往事 Swallowtail Butterfly闪蝶20k WordsCompleted A Look Back at the Past of the “Third-Line” Defense Industry Workers 11Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 908 又 Pregnant Again, I'm the Apple of Commander Zhou's Eye 又怀上了，成为周大首长的心尖宠 Qiu Mei秋妹Modern Romance1.8M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + arranged marriage to love + pocket dimension + sweet romance + lots of children + effortless success] Lin Ke, a modern woman past the usual marrying age, transmigrated into a book. The original heroine and a reborn supporting character were fighting to the death over a young educated youth sent to the countryside. One was stunningly beautiful, the other irresistibly charming. Lin Ke was just an extra in the story, barely worth mentioning. She was only there to watch t 24.3kReads8.5Score2.3kShelves

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   In a simple wooden cabin on Wangfu Mountain in Dawang Village, a man and a woman embraced. Outside, wind and rain raged, lightning flashed and thunder roared; inside... After a long while, everything returned to calm, except for the patter of raindrops on the cabin. At dawn, the first rays of sunlight pierced through the clouds, illuminating the lush green forest. Small animals began to stir, birds chirped, and a new day began. The man slowly awoke, rubbing his heavy head, his eyes glazed. "What was I doing last night? On a mission... I accidentally ate some unknown wild fruit... I felt hot all over... I got lost... In the cabin... A woman!" "A woman!" The man instantly snapped awake. He turned sharply to look at the woman sleeping beside him. She had delicate features and was fast asleep. Her figure... Well, it was quite to his liking. The man was filled with mixed emotions. Had he lost his thirty years of chastity so inexplicably? But what was done was done. As a responsible man...

9. 909 穿 Transmigrating to the 1960s: Su Xia's Life Raising Kids 穿越六零，苏夏的养崽生活 Half Past Noon半午Modern Romance1.9M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + Pocket Dimension + Having Children + Stockpiling Supplies + Raising Kids + Everyday Life + Retirement] Su Xia, a modern office worker, has the same dream several nights in a row. A few days later, she gains a pocket dimension and senses that she is about to transmigrate. She starts stockpiling all kinds of supplies, then takes her pocket dimension with her as she transmigrates to the famine-stricken 1960s. An older unmarried woman becomes a young married “mother who starved to 12.3kReads8.0Score1kShelves
10. 910 团 The Beloved Little One Takes Her Capitalist Mother Along to Join the Army 团宠崽崽带资本家小姐亲妈去随军 Magpie Branch鹊枝Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The moment the genius girl Panpan opened her eyes, she realized she had transmigrated into a novel set in a bygone era, becoming the doomed baby daughter of a doomed capitalist heiress. In the original story, her mother, Zhu Yunshu, would soon be framed, divorce her father, and then be manipulated by her step-grandfather into going to the countryside, after he took off with the family's vast fortune. Panpan herself would also be slandered as a bastard and die a miserable death. What a catastroph 8.4kReads8.4Score1.2kShelves
11. 911 重 Reborn Tour Guide Strikes It Rich! 重生导游来吸金！ Le Muxi乐沐昔Modern Romance459k WordsCompleted Tour guide Ji Luoyi’s tour bus plunges into a reservoir on the way back from dropping off her group. When she opens her eyes, she has been reborn as Luo Yi, a high school student in 2002. The thought of going through high school all over again gives her a headache. Her parents were tricked into going abroad for work and haven’t been heard from in years, while her relatives are constantly picking on her, unable to stand seeing her do well. Ji Luoyi thinks, “I had a house, a car, and a cat-son, an 76Reads—Score—Shelves

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    After reading this, you can take the tour guide exam and lead tours.

12. 912 隐 Stealth Aircraft, Military Aid, and Industry: I’m Doted on by Powerful Figures in the ’70s 隐身机援军工我在七零被大佬团宠 Writing to Support My Family 1413码字养家1413Modern Romance561k WordsCompleted Transmigration + Period Setting + Military Industry + Tech Focus + Industry + Urban Fantasy + Patriotism + Strong Female Lead + Beijing Socialite + Revenge + System A military-industry scientist transmigrates into the 1970s, awakening in the body of a wealthy young woman from Beijing’s elite circles. Because of her overseas connections, she’s sent down to the countryside and becomes a downtrodden young educated woman. Armed with scientific knowledge far ahead of its time and a portable laborator 103Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A very good historical novel set in the 1970s.

13. 913 风 The Wind and the Dandelion 风与蒲公英 Mi Mo弥默45k WordsCompleted The Wind and the Dandelion 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A concise and powerful nostalgic reminder of the era

14. 914 人 Life Restart: Back to the End of Middle School 人生重启：回到中考结束后 Handsome Green Mountain俊秀青山Urban3.1M WordsOngoing Science has proven that the human body can be cloned, but can the soul be cloned too? Perhaps everyone simply keeps reincarnating in the long river of life, with all their memories disappearing at the moment of death. In 2039, Xu Ming, who had spent his whole life as a corporate drone, finally died of illness one year after retiring. When he opened his eyes, he hadn’t become a newborn baby. Instead, carrying all his memories, he had returned to the day he finished his high school entrance exams 3.7kReads5.7Score186Shelves

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    As long as you and I can share a knowing smile, that's enough.

15. 915 穿 After Transmigration, Her Whole Family Are Villains 穿越之我全家都是反派 Song Xiangbai宋象白Ancient Romance832k WordsCompleted Content warning: Lots of crude bathroom humor. Don't read while eating. Version One: Jiang Mianmian transmigrates. Her father is a scheming scholar with the face of a kindly man. Her mother has the face of a bodhisattva and the heart of a ruthless killer. Her eldest brother looks simple-minded but is cunning at heart. Her second sister is selfish and sharp-tongued. They were born destined to be villains. To highlight the protagonist's justice, kindness, and greatness, they work hard to do all so 137.2kReads9.6Score16.5kShelves

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    These three books are ones I haven't read yet, but I'm currently following their updates.

16. 916 重 Reborn: A Ruthless Rise from Poverty 重生寒门逆袭全靠狠 May for the Rest of My Life余生五月Male-Channel Fanfiction2.9M WordsCompleted Xu Dazhi was a humble man from a poor family, and he spent most of his life getting nowhere. He never expected to be reborn by chance. With a new life ahead of him, shouldn’t he make the most of it? Making money and turning his life around should be a piece of cake! He never wants to go back to the cowardly life he led before. In this world, starting with nothing and trying to make a good life for yourself means you have to be ruthless! 214Reads6.6Score—Shelves
17. 917 官 Officialdom Is Like a Chess Game 官场如棋 Bao Erri鲍尔日Urban2.5M WordsCompleted There is no straight road through life, especially when it comes to being an official. Hao Xiaodong spent many years navigating the political arena before gradually understanding its many hidden rules. Now, following his novel The Way to Promotion, a new story is here for readers. Join us as we witness another kind of life in the world of officialdom. 34kReads9.2Score4.4kShelves
18. 918 我 Getting By in a Period-Era Novel 我在年代文里混日子 Shi Nian柿唸Modern Romance613k WordsCompleted Transmigrate into a book + period setting + everyday family life + a touch of fantasy Hu Yan realized she seemed to have been reborn and transmigrated. She’d become a character in an old period novel she had read long ago. Oh, the story had already ended. She was a peripheral character, even less important than a walk-on. Her family’s four lovely daughters were living miserable lives. She didn’t have the heroine’s portable dimension or special aura. But she did have her own little stroke of luck 192Reads6.3Score—Shelves
19. 919 重 Reborn in the 1970s: Coins Rain Down Wherever I Go 重生七零之到处爆金币 Shi Nian柿唸Modern Romance341k WordsCompleted Golden finger + period setting + transmigrate into a book + fictional world + cozy everyday life Shan Yi always thought his luck was perfectly ordinary: Not too good, not too bad, just middling. Who knew he'd wake up one day to find he'd transmigrated, becoming the child of a superhero mom from a period novel? He has eight siblings, more than the Calabash Brothers. Even stranger, anything can drop gold coins. If he hadn't gotten hurt and bled, he really would have thought he was playing a game. 458Reads6.6Score—Shelves

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