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. 251 和 He Shen in the City 和珅在都市 Xu Muyu徐牧渔Urban2.5M WordsCompleted On February 22, 1799, Heshen received a white silk cord from the Jiaqing Emperor and met his end. Somehow, he found himself in the future, in 1983. As an ancient man in a modern city, how will he make his way in the world? 28.8kReads9.3Score4kShelves

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   💥Highly recommended. On February 22, 1799, Heshen was given a white silk noose by Emperor Jiaqing to end his life. He inexplicably arrived in the future world of 1983. As an ancient person, see how he thrives in the modern city.

2. 252 四 Siheyuan: From the Start, 1959, A Gentle World 四合院：开局五九，人间温柔 Dionysus狄俄尼索斯Male-Channel Fanfiction2.0M WordsOngoing [Multiple heroines] [No angst] [Teasing scumbags] In 1959, Gu Qing awakened memories from a past life and arrived at courtyard number 95 on Nanluoguxiang, a sacred site for transmigrators. At the same time, he awakened a cheat that let him fish for treasures from across the heavens. “Fishing reward: [World Tree]” “Fishing reward: [Conch Girl]” “Fishing reward: [Attack Speed Boots]” “Fishing reward: [Owl Sentry]” “Fishing reward: [Overlord’s Armor]” With such a comprehensive cheat, Gu Qing 119.9kReads7.5Score9.6kShelves

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   These three books were alright, but the plot of the third book felt a bit disjointed, especially since the author changed.

3. 253 官 Cultivating Immortality in Officialdom: Being a Good Official Is No Easy Task 官场修仙，好官不好当 June Pomegranate Blaze六月榴火Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [Politics + rebirth + ensemble cast + pseudo-cultivation] A tightly plotted story, so if you only skim, please move along. This novel offers a vivid recreation of the political world of the 1990s. Corruption and integrity, betrayal and loyalty, conservatism and radicalism: all are swept up in the brutal struggle where each side contains traces of the other, then carried by the tide of the times into the river of the new century. Politics is never calm! 3kReads8.4Score352Shelves
4. 254 重 Reborn: Back in 1991 to Become a Tycoon 重生：回到1991当首富 Half Gratitude, Half Grudge恩怨各一半Urban2.2M WordsCompleted Li Minyang, a high-ranking government official, unexpectedly returns to 1991, an era just beginning its transition from a planned economy to a market economy. A wave of entrepreneurship is sweeping the country, and countless future tycoons are just beginning to make their mark. Facing a treacherous wife and family members struggling to make ends meet, watch as he turns the tides, conquers the business world, and reshapes the future! 31.8kReads8.8Score3.2kShelves
5. 255 重 Reborn in 1985: A Forest Ranger's Happy Life 重生1985：护林员的快乐生活 Young Master Shan单公子Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Daily Life] [Multiple Heroines] [Light Humor] Chen Jianmin's married life had been full of hardship in his previous life. After transmigrating into the body of a young forest ranger in the 1980s, his first big decision was whether to become a live-in son-in-law... Chen Jianmin didn't want to struggle and toil all over again in this life. His top priority was to lie flat, so he agreed to go on a blind date as soon as the matchmaker suggested it. And he fell for the woman at first sight. But what 13.8kReads7.7Score1.3kShelves
6. 256 致 The Depressing Literary Master: One Copy of To Live Brought the World to Tears 致郁系文豪，一本活着全球泪崩 A Cat That Can Do Side Flips会侧空翻的猫Urban1.0M WordsCompleted (Parallel World + Rebirth + System + Literary Prodigy + Career + No Over-the-Top Drama + Not a Harem Novel) After leaving the military, Li Liwen, an office worker in a parallel world, had finally gotten his life back on track. But an unexpected industry downturn left him unemployed. The sudden blow triggered a heart attack in a fit of anger. When he woke up, he discovered he had returned to the age of seventeen. That year, he hadn’t even started his second year of high school. Then he stopped ho 26.2kReads9.2Score1.9kShelves
7. 257 重 Reborn in the Famine Years, My Wife Tries to Lose Weight Every Day 重生饥荒年代，媳妇天天闹减肥 A Wolf Travels a Thousand Miles狼行千里Urban2.5M WordsCompleted A new story is out! You can read my work on Fanqie Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 41.3kReads8.4Score4.4kShelves
8. 258 刚 I Earned a First-Class Merit Right After Entering Military Academy, and Now the Whole Army Knows My Name! 刚入军校就立一等功，我火遍全军！ Dreaming Across the Four Seas梦在四海Urban2.1M WordsCompleted Lin Wang, a veteran in his previous life, transmigrates into the body of a defense student on his way to report to military academy. On the way, he happens upon a collision between a school bus and a tanker truck. Without hesitation, Lin Wang rushes over and risks the vehicles exploding at any moment to rescue everyone trapped inside. But after he saves the last person, the car explodes, and Lin Wang is knocked unconscious by the blast. By the time he reaches the military academy, he has missed 12.3kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
9. 259 离 After My Divorce, My Traditional Chinese Medicine Skills Awakened 离婚后我的国医技能觉醒了 A Gentleman Like Jade君子如珩Urban2.8M WordsCompleted [Traditional Chinese medicine, the story of a young doctor working his way up] When Chen Yang was young, he made a foolish mistake. For what he thought was love, he fell out with his family and followed Wang Ya to the countryside, where he took a job at a township clinic. In the end, all he got for it was the words, "Let's get divorced." This time, Chen Yang is going to make a life for himself and his daughter. He'll leave the township hospital behind and carve out a world of his own. 103.2kReads9.3Score12.6kShelves
10. 260 高 A Match Between Equals: My Officer Husband Is a Hopeless Romantic 高门对高门，军官丈夫是个恋爱脑 Lin Miansui林绵穗Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Gentle, Ethereal Su Embroidery Beauty x Handsome, Irreverent Military Heir] [Two Prestigious Families] [Military Marriage] [Lighthearted, Funny Everyday Life] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Adorable Kids] [Family and Country] [Passing on Traditional Culture] [The Pocket Dimension Is Rarely Used] Lin Renzhi stayed up embroidering and worked herself to death. When she opened her eyes again, she had become the only daughter of a senior officer in the 1970s. She had a top-tier family background and loo 160.2kReads9.1Score24.9kShelves

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    This book is super good! The male lead is incredibly love-obsessed, while the female lead is career-driven but culturally confident.

11. 261 我 I Solve Cases to Put Food on the Table 我靠破案养家糊口 Empty Words in a Dream梦中的虚语Male-Channel Fanfiction1.2M WordsCompleted Reborn in 1958, I moved into Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. Did I transmigrate into a TV drama or transmigrate into a book? Good thing I have so many buffs stacked that I don't have to spend all day playing family power games in one little courtyard! 6.6kReads9.3Score635Shelves
12. 262 糟 Oh No, I've Become Someone's Biggest Supporter 糟糕，我成大腿了 My Snoring Is Louder Than My Alarm呼噜声比闹钟响Urban1.8M WordsCompleted After being reborn, this engineering-minded man has no desire to keep doing backbreaking labor, so he dives headfirst into the film and TV industry. He thought he’d get in good with the future stars ahead of time, but unexpectedly, he became the biggest star of them all... 4kReads7.7Score141Shelves
13. 263 重 Reborn in 1993: From the Start, I Break Off the Engagement and Marry a Rich Beauty 重生93：开局退婚迎娶白富美 Fortune Rises Like Water金生水起Urban10.8M WordsOngoing Appraising treasures, not cultivating immortality. Antiques go great with cigarettes! The book includes illustrations of several antiques. Some come from the internet, while others were photographed by the author’s friends. They are all genuine antique images. Gamble on stones, gamble on jade, gamble on your youth; protect your wife, your family, and the nation’s treasures! “Damn it, where are the treasures we stole from China?” “You said this was the China Pavilion. Where’s everything inside?” 23.4kReads8.9Score2.6kShelves
14. 264 娱 Playing Roles for Rewards: Character Skills 娱乐扮演：奖励角色技能 Seventeen Dragon-Subduing Palms降龙十七掌Urban3.2M WordsCompleted Liu Feng was traveling when he landed a bit part in a film. By chance, he triggered the God-Tier Acting System. Whenever he played a role on set, he would gain abilities matching that character in proportion to how closely he fit the part. [Ding! Your compatibility with the role of “Special Forces Soldier” is 30%. You have gained 30% of a special forces soldier’s overall abilities!] [Ding! Your compatibility with the role of “Top Student” is 50%. You have gained 50% of a top student’s learning a 4.3kReads7.9Score372Shelves
15. 265 小 The Little Fox Spirit Reunites With Her Family, and Her Grandfather Turns Out to Be a Big Shot 小狐狸精认亲，首长爷爷竟是大佬 Huai Bei Fifth House淮北五房Modern Romance736k WordsCompleted [The rating has just come in. With the love and care of our dear readers, it will gradually rise. Mwah!] [1960s setting + military marriage and joining the army + self-interest + pocket dimension + family life + granddaughter of a big shot + mother-in-law and daughter-in-law transmigrate together to form a team] In 1965, Lin Zhixia jumped into a river. She didn't die. When she woke, someone else had taken over her body. The newcomer heard her mother crying, “I'm only doing this for your own good 42kReads8.1Score6.4kShelves

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16. 266 港 Hong Kong Crossover: Gangster Boss 港综：古惑仔大佬 Mi Hong迷虹Male-Channel Fanfiction1.8M WordsCompleted Transmigrated into the Hong Kong crime drama universe! He has a System that lets him draw prizes whenever he raises his status! His first mission is to join Hung Hing! He’ll work his way up to becoming the boss. From then on, the Young and Dangerous storyline takes a different path. This book has lots of women! The first world is the Hong Kong crime drama universe, and its story ends after more than a million words. The second world is a martial arts crossover universe. He’ll cause trouble, find 30.1kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves
17. 267 重 Reborn in 1975: The Fool's Unusual Life 重生1975，傻子的别样人生 The Two Fengs of Huayang华阳二冯Urban1.6M WordsCompleted Chen Qingshan was reborn. In his previous life, production team leader Liu Fugui used him as a pawn, and someone pushed him off a cliff, where wolves devoured him. When he opened his eyes again, he was still the same easily bullied “dimwit” from 1975. But now, his eyes held nothing but frozen hatred. If everyone thought he was an idiot, then he'd play the fool to the bitter end! In the cornfield, he stood watch while Liu Fugui had an affair with Widow Chen, earning a stale steamed bun in retur 10kReads7.8Score794Shelves

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    A rural novel set in the 1980s, featuring hunting, mountain life, and multiple female leads. [Laughing][smirking][smirking][laughing and crying][admiring][admiring]

18. 268 八 After Eight Years Apart from Her Soldier Husband, the Fake Heiress Is Found by a Commander 八年不随军，假千金被首长找上门 Huai Bei Fifth House淮北五房Modern Romance568k WordsCompleted [Alternate setting + period setting + fake and real heiresses + transmigrate into a book + super farm + sweet romance + both sexually pure + military marriage + leading the pack] Everyone says that when it comes to fake and real heiresses, one of them has to die. She refuses to believe it. She returns to her rural home, armed with all the verbal tricks of a tea girl. Her family resents her for being a snob and plans to put her in her place. Then... She beats them all into submission first... Aft 5.1kReads8.7Score562Shelves
19. 269 四 Siheyuan: I Arrived, but the System Ran Away 四合院：我来了，系统却跑路了 When Will the Autumn Wind Come何时秋风Male-Channel Fanfiction1.0M WordsOngoing (The Courtyard, Man Is Iron, Rice Is Steel, The Little Woman Below Zhengyang Gate, and more.) The male lead, Huang Jianshe, is a young man who wears a yellow robe. After stepping in to help someone in need, he transmigrates into the courtyard. He becomes an invisible nobody who never appeared in the original story. Though he is the child of a martyr, he gets clubbed over the head from the start. Watch as he joins forces with He Yuzhu and Xu Damao to turn the courtyard's unruly residents upside d 18.2kReads6.5Score618Shelves

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    Highly recommended! This book is really good.

20. 270 四 Siheyuan: A Great Physician in 1950 四合院：大国医者1950 Summer's Big Melon夏天吃大瓜Male-Channel Fanfiction380k WordsOngoing A medical intern from the future transmigrates to the Korean War battlefield and awakens a lottery System, dazzling everyone with his exploits on the front lines. With the smoke of war barely cleared, Lin Lidong returns home early with honors, only to be unexpectedly assigned to Courtyard No. 95 in the capital. He thought he had found a peaceful, stable home in peacetime, but instead he stumbles into a bizarre courtyard full of "monsters and demons." Among them are: The Supreme Sage of Morality, 1.7kReads5.0Score—Shelves

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    New book, a courtyard house setting, a doctor's story, independent cross-department plots, with a system, no cultivation, set in the Korean War. 🔥🔥

21. 271 重 Reborn: The Underdog’s Comeback 重生以后包子的逆袭 Xufeng Niaoniao栩风袅袅Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Reborn + Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Campus Life + Strong Female and Male Leads + Top Student + Character Growth + Patriotism) The female lead, Mu Wan, is kind but not a pushover. She has principles and always gets even with those who wrong her. The male lead, Xiao Jinyu, is the son of a military compound family and a military-affiliated scientific researcher. Before she was reborn, Mu Wan accidentally stayed up too late and died of cardiac arrest. A family heirloom, a Merit Pearl, took 4.8kReads9.1Score589Shelves

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    Not bad, right? A top student in scientific research.

22. 272 六 The 1960s: The Alley Couple's Daily Gossip 六零年代胡同小夫妻吃瓜日常 Qiqi the Cat Who Drinks Coffee喝咖啡的琪琪猫Modern Romance2.0M WordsCompleted A married couple from the 1990s transmigrate to the 1960s. No TV, no internet, no phones. No problem. They don't need any of that. There's so much gossip here they can't keep up with it all. Seriously, there's just too much to gossip about. Their daily life: gossiping, making money, and raising kids. They have to manage all three without dropping the ball. 8.8kReads7.2Score510Shelves

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    Don't let the low rating fool you; the beginning was really well-written. Both the male and female leads are time travelers, and the male lead gradually improves his skills by repairing watches and learning to weave. The low rating is probably because the ending felt too rushed.

23. 273 林 Granny Lin Is Reborn, Takes Control of Her Whole Family, and Goes on a Rampage 林老太重生，拿捏全家杀疯了 Chu Tumil初荼靡Modern Romance899k WordsOngoing [The rating is low because the book just came out, but it’ll rise later. Dear readers, please don’t worry.] [Reborn] [The 1980s] [Ensemble cast] [Feel-good revenge] [Everyday life] [Ordinary people] [Family squabbles] The hardworking Lin Fengying raised seven children and helped bring up her grandchildren. She devoted her whole life to her family, but in her twilight years, she and her elderly husband had no one to look after them. While her husband’s body was barely cold, her cold-hearted ch 4.6kReads8.0Score268Shelves

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    She endured a lifetime of humiliation, always putting her family first, suffering in silence until her death. After her rebirth, the old lady was completely free. She refused to do any housework and ignored everyone else's troubles. When her children threw tantrums demanding subsidies, she stood with her hands on her hips, arguing her point. No matter how much gossip circulated, no one could force her to back down even a little.

24. 274 八 A Great Beauty Raises Kids in a Beijing Courtyard, 1980s Style 八零大美人四合院养娃日常 North to South由北向南Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted (Slice of life + sweet romance + raising children + family life + career) Zhao Jinshu was in her sixties. Her children had grown up and started families of their own, and she had seen her parents-in-law off. She was just about to travel around the country when she was reborn. She returned to the time a few months after she had first moved to the city. Back then, she knew nothing. A young bride from the countryside, she was shy, too embarrassed to speak up, and insecure. Even though her husband 55.7kReads9.3Score4.7kShelves

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    Well, this isn't about going to the countryside; I'm going to the city! [Admiration][Admiration][Admiration] It's not that far-fetched! [Attention][Attention][Attention]

25. 275 重 Reborn to Help China Rise 重生之助力华夏崛起 Wings That Long to Fly想飞翔的翅膀Urban1.2M WordsOngoing When ordinary people are reborn, they can defy fate and change their lives. When top students are reborn, the story is even more exciting! This book has a well-developed overall plot and pays close attention to logic. It starts a little slowly, but the story gets very exciting later on. I hope readers will give it a little time. Thank you. Top student Yang Xiaofan has exceptional intelligence and emotional intelligence, but his career has been full of setbacks. While serving as a deputy director 1.8kReads9.3Score117Shelves
26. 276 八 The 1980s: The Cold-Faced Officer Is Wrapped Around the Sickly Beauty's Finger 八零：冷面军官被病弱美人拿捏了 Little Silly Goose小呆鹅Modern Romance571k WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion] Martial arts prodigy Jiang Nianzhi transmigrates into a book and arrives in an alternate version of the 1980s, where she becomes a delicate, frail beauty. Thinking she would run into one terrible person after another, she rolls up her sleeves, ready to beat them all into submission. But her feisty mother favors girls over boys, her white-lotus sister is a doting sister-con, her grandmother is a beauty enthusiast, and her little brother has 83kReads9.4Score13.3kShelves

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    This is a good read. The parents and families of both the male and female leads are very kind. The female lead develops traditional Chinese medicine, and the male lead is handsome and fair-skinned. He usually has a cold expression, which is intimidating, but he is actually very gentle. (Completed novel)

27. 277 四 Siheyuan: Enjoying Life in the Revolutionary Era 四合院：火红年代享受生活 Wishing You Wealth and Prosperity恭禧發財Male-Channel Fanfiction2.2M WordsOngoing The male lead, Liu Ping'an, somehow finds himself transported to a world full of different realms, back before Liberation. With both parents alive, he works hard at farming, plunders foreign countries, and builds his fortune. The early chapters mainly focus on his comical life teasing the neighborhood busybodies. In the middle, he ventures out to expand his horizons. This book will be at least a million words long. Xu Damao: Women are devils! My greatest joys in life are eating, sleeping, and be 14.8kReads7.8Score471Shelves

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    This is something worth appreciating.

28. 278 糙 The Roughneck Officer Plays Favorites: He Only Loves the Green-Tea Fake Heiress 糙汉军官偏心眼，只爱绿茶真千金 Melon Egg瓜蛋Modern Romance535k WordsCompleted [Period + True Green Tea Female Lead + Pocket Dimension + Military Marriage + Joining the Army + True and Fake Heiresses + Transmigrate into a Book] Green tea Su Xingyue transmigrates into a book and becomes the true heiress in an 1980s story. The fake heiress stole her pocket dimension and drove her to her death. The true heiress is frail, out of breath after a few steps, and coughs up blood at the slightest provocation. It suits her green tea persona perfectly... * The true heiress tries to dr 1.9kReads8.8Score239Shelves

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    🍀①Su Xingyue, a scheming woman, transmigrates into a book and becomes the real heiress who was forced to commit suicide. She is immediately rescued by a handsome and kind soldier. Seeing her pitiful and delicate state, the soldier's long-frozen heart softens, and he wants to marry her! 🍀②The real heiress, who was supposed to suffer in the countryside, is instead left to endure hardship and suffering. However, all of this disappears after the Demon King, Lan Ting, intervenes. The Demon King waves his hand, revealing his pearly white teeth. This time, it's someone else's turn to suffer and endure hardship.

29. 279 重 Back to 1986: A New Dad, Getting Rich in a Frenzy 重回1986：喜当爹，狂暴富 I'm Eleven!我是十一啦Modern Romance125k WordsOngoing [Period Setting] [Second Marriage and Live-In Son-in-Law] [Reborn] [Making Up for Regrets] [Farming] [Past and Present Lives] [Getting Rich] We are all living inside stories of everyday life. Most of the time, we don't want to lay bare our grievances and struggles for others to hear. Yet in other people's stories, we can always recognize and empathize with the parts of ourselves that feel familiar. Those who write stories have always been best at saving themselves. I quietly worked all the r 361Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Redemption, profound emotions, and an interesting ensemble cast!

30. 280 带 I Brought a Fortune to the 1970s and Became the Boss of the Family 带着巨额财产穿七零，成家中一霸 The Sun on the Mountaintop山顶的太阳Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Period drama + military marriage + pocket dimension + family life On the first day after Lin Xiangnan transmigrates, her family gets into a huge argument over sending someone to the countryside. At first: “So what if I have to go to the countryside? I've got hundreds of millions of supplies in my pocket dimension. How could I possibly fail to get by out there?” After helping her second great-uncle weed his fields for two days: “There's no way I'm going to the countryside. I'm lazy, gluttonous, a 103.8kReads9.3Score8.8kShelves

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    A truly technically sophisticated historical fiction! The values ​​aren't entirely righteous, but it's very realistic. There's a story about going to the countryside. 1️⃣ But Lin Xiangnan genuinely wanted to go to the countryside, not for family harmony, but simply for herself. The room in the city was too small, she wasn't used to it, and there were too many people in her family, she had no privacy... Ignoring Hu Meili's cold face, she continued to insist, "Don't bother with this. I'll sign up after I graduate."

31. 281 八 The 1980s: The Demon Queen Turns Out to Be the Real Heiress 八零：魔王她成了真千金 July Rice Wine七月酒酿Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [A slow-burn story. The early chapters focus mainly on the female lead’s growth. Feel free to pass if that’s not for you.] [The male lead got lost in the story again… No romance.] The true heiress who was switched at birth should have suffered through every hardship in the countryside. But after His Highness the Demon King, Lanting, stepped in, all of that disappeared. With a grand sweep of his hand, the Demon King revealed a bright white smile. This time, someone else would have to endure every 30.1kReads8.5Score3.3kShelves
32. 282 重 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 Drunken Big Raccoon酒酿大狸子Modern Romance248k WordsCompleted [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 13.8kReads9.4Score1.6kShelves
33. 283 穿 Reborn as a Tycoon's Wicked Ex-Wife, I Became the Whole Family's Darling 穿成大佬恶毒前妻后，被全家团宠 Braised Beef Brisket Rice牛腩焗饭Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book set in the 1970s + personal space + sweet romance and raising kids + love grows over time + transmigrated heroine vs. reborn heroine] When she opens her eyes, Jiang Yuman finds herself transmigrated into a book as the male lead’s wicked ex-wife, who is six months pregnant. In the book, the original owner dreams of becoming an official’s wife and tries every trick in the book to marry into the Fu family. But when the Fu family is falsely accused, stripped of their positi 149.8kReads9.0Score17.7kShelves
34. 284 9 Diary of Life in Siheyuan No. 95 95号四合院生活日记 Three Mouthfuls and Half a Pig三口半只猪Male-Channel Fanfiction376k WordsOngoing Zhang Lin's soul transmigrated into the body of a rootless village rascal from Zhangjia Village in 1953. No pocket dimension, no System, no special abilities. His only advantage was having read all kinds of stories about life in a Beijing courtyard, so he had a rough idea of China's history after its founding. As for the systematic education he'd received over a decade later, he couldn't see how it would help him just yet. Follow our protagonist as he enjoys an authentic life in the 1950s. 3kReads7.1Score—Shelves

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    This is a historical fiction, without any system or cheat codes. I did a lot of research. It contains many stories and anecdotes from that era.

35. 285 重 Reborn in Tianjin, 1997 重生津门1997 Fighting Maggots斗蛆蛆Urban1.0M WordsOngoing Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! No tired old tropes, no melodrama, and chapters already in the bank. See how Han Chao gets a second chance at life and protects everything around him. You say he has no money? No problem: open a Sony theater, fight crickets, and sell technology. You say that’s not fast enough? Then I’ll just have to unleash a big move! The plot is carefully researched, and many of the events are based on things that really happened to people around the author. Every word is ty 16.6kReads8.4Score1.4kShelves

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    This is a historical novel with technical depth, living up to its title! How technically sophisticated? Reading this book is like a time-travel guide, and it's not boring at all. The protagonist, a Tianjin native, speaks in hilarious ways that will have your family laughing in the middle of the night. You can keep your brain engaged throughout. The protagonist starts by raising his fortune through cricket fighting and later buys a courtyard house, but there aren't any mindless plot points. For example, while many people buy courtyard houses, how many know the policies and conditions in Beijing at that time that allowed it? This book explains it, and it's very factually researched!

36. 286 弃 Leaving Love Behind in the 1970s: The Doctor Goddess Orphan Is Doted on by the God of War 弃爱七零，医神孤女被战神独宠了 Gave It a Shake, and Got Yao摇了个瑶Modern Romance1.4M WordsOngoing Others transmigrated to the 1970s, and Wen Sui'an did too! While others who transmigrated either latched onto powerful patrons or brought along a pocket dimension, Wen Sui'an was lucky enough to get the Qihuang System! She can only earn points by treating and saving people. No patients, no perks. The original owner was a timid pushover, arranged to share a household with Shen Yubai and look after two little ones. Her future stretched out before her, filled with grievances and thankless chores. S 9.6kReads8.1Score1.1kShelves

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    The moment the silver needles are applied, everyone who sees them calls him a miracle doctor.

37. 287 富 The Rich Kid Who Turned His Life Around by Writing Web Novels After Going into Debt 富二代的我负债后竟用写网文翻身 Gu Chen Writes to Support the Family顾晨写文养家Urban422k WordsOngoing An A9-level rich kid and civil servant, buried in debt, somehow turns his life around by writing web novels and rises to the top… Writing and paying off his debts are the main threads of the story, interwoven with family secrets, analysis of current affairs, reflections on life, clever part-time job tips, writing advice, and more... The novel is packed with knowledge from economics, philosophy, history, sociology, management, and other fields. It’s not a power fantasy, but it will absolutely sho 135Reads7.5Score—Shelves

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    Recording the changes of the times

38. 288 梁 Granny Liang Is Reborn in the 1980s and Quits Her Job 梁老太重生八零，她撂挑子不干了 The Coal Ball Is Very Quiet煤球很文静Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (Reborn in the 1980s + silver-haired heroine fiction + satisfying revenge against villains + no golden finger + family and neighborhood life + fighting, scolding, and going wild + rising in status + ensemble cast) (Also known as: Reborn to Become the Most Evil, Wicked, and Notorious Old Lady) The spineless Liang Airong was so timid and useless that her five children all suffered. Her obedient, filial eldest, Ye Huazhen, and her third child, Ye Huashan, both died young. Of her three surviving chi 16.7kReads8.8Score2kShelves

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    Try these books. I don't know why the first one didn't get a high score, but it's actually quite good.

39. 289 出 A Way Forward Through Mountains and Rivers 出路之山重水复 I Am But Floating Dust我本浮尘Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Period setting + Family + Women + Career + Workplace business battles + No romance + Society + An exploration of human nature] No cheat powers, no dramatic comeback. A deep look at the struggles and prospects of 99% of ordinary people! Wish-fulfillment stories are everywhere, but once the excitement fades, only emptiness remains. In the end, we all have to face the grind of daily life and the warmth or coldness of human relationships. This slow-burning work of realism offers no lucky breaks or 2.5kReads9.5Score354Shelves

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    This book depicts the ordinary lives of two generations. The first part tells the story of the father, from the countryside, who strives to enter the city but struggles to truly become a city dweller. He experiences layoffs and re-employment, working as a small vendor, running a small factory, and ultimately ending up as a mushroom grower. Just as his daughter's career begins to improve, he falls ill from overwork and is forced to the hospital, becoming a test subject for doctors. The second part focuses on the daughter, Lin Yueya, who, with the strong support of her father's close friend, becomes the head of a large corporation, only to find herself navigating the complexities of dealing with the company's veterans. Two generations, two paths, neither smooth sailing. The language is accessible and fluent, the writing exquisite, the emotional descriptions delicate, and the character portrayals masterful.

40. 290 六 The 1970s: The True Heiress Is a Culinary Goddess with a Pocket Dimension 六零：厨神真千金有空间 Cream Commune奶油公社Modern Romance415k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + pocket dimension + food + stockpiling + real and fake heiresses] Food blogger Zeng Yanni transmigrates into a period novel after an accident, becoming a fifteen-year-old girl abused by her family in a seaside fishing village. With her true identity shrouded in mystery, Zeng Yanni promptly splits from the family. Along with the livestream she brought with her, she stocks up on seafood: horse dung sea urchins, giant abalone, clams, razor clams, sea snails, sea cucumbers 3.2kReads9.4Score405Shelves

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    [Perfectly On-Topic]🌹①The details of daily life, beachcombing, and food are incredibly realistic, showing the author's dedication. Both the male and female leads, and the antagonists, are intelligent and not just mindless bickering. 🌹②A car accident transports three people—a mother and son—to different eras, where they redeem and heal each other. Their careers aren't built on cheat codes or the black market, but on hard work and dedication. 🌹③One male lead, three women waiting to inherit his estate—haha! The romance develops gradually, and the antagonists engage in a thrilling back-and-forth battle.

41. 291 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 16.9kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves
42. 292 渣 After My Scumbag Dad Married His White Moonlight, He Lost All His Descendants 渣爹娶了白月光后，断子绝孙了 I'm Your Qian Qian我是你的浅浅Modern Romance2.6M WordsOngoing [Period] [The 1960s] [Transmigration] [Ensemble Cast] [Feel-Good Story] [Little One, Big Impact] Original title: After My Scumbag Father Married His One True Love, His Family Line Came to an End Su Moqian, head of a prestigious hidden medical clan, was ambushed by her enemies. She used her last breath to take them down with her, only for her soul to drift into the 1960s of a parallel world. Lack of clothes and food was bad enough, but she had also been reborn as a four-and-a-half-year-old toddle 99kReads9.0Score6kShelves

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    [Era of a bygone era + young child + high intelligence + superb medical skills] 🍄A scumbag dad married his "white moonlight" (ideal love interest), and transmigrated into the body of his pitiful ex-wife's four-and-a-half-year-old daughter! 🍄He withdrew all the money from his biological mother's and scumbag dad's savings account and stored it safely in his virtual space. 🍁The scumbag dad came to ask where the withdrawn money was. 🍁The child: "I burned it all for my mother in heaven!" 🍁Scumbag dad: *vomits blood* 🍁The "white moonlight" stepmother: All that money is gone?! ✨

43. 293 小 With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s, Where I Can Make Trouble and Money with Ease 小手一背穿七零，搞事赚钱样样行 Heavy Clouds云沉沉Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Also known as "Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Seventies: I Collect Eighty-Eight Paychecks Every Month" Su He woke up one day and transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a fake heiress who had been sent back to her village. In the book, the ungrateful real heiress was practically blessed by cheat codes, with schemes and tricks appearing one after another. The Su family ended up destroyed, while the original owner wished she were dead. Looking at her impoverished home and family members 101.2kReads9.6Score10kShelves
44. 294 大 Boss, Your Lucky Sweetheart Is Reborn in the 1970s 大佬，锦鲤甜妻在七十年代重生了 2 Chuan2川Modern Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Period setting + enterprising heroine who only starts buying courtyard homes later on + male lead is a research powerhouse devoted to serving his country] Qin Wanwan was crouching by a grave, watching the commotion, when she accidentally became the center of it. She possessed someone and was reborn. She dealt with the scumbag and the other woman in kind, sending them both to a farm for reform. Then she sold her ancestral home, bought a job, stuffed her pockets with cash, and plunged straight in 1.3kReads9.3Score559Shelves
45. 295 四 Learning Foreign Languages in the Siheyuan 四合院从学外语开始 Fang Qianshan放千山Male-Channel Fanfiction1.5M WordsCompleted Fang Qingyun arrives in a Beijing courtyard in 1953. His enhanced physical strength from transmigrating and his gift for remembering everything he sees give him a head start in this era. Watch as Fang Qingyun improves his family’s living conditions and steadily rises through the ranks... 2.7kReads7.6Score179Shelves
46. 296 和 After Swapping Marriages With My Stepsister, I Became the White Moonlight of a Period Novel 和继妹换亲后，在年代文当白月光 Huo Beishan霍北山Modern Romance493k WordsOngoing Eighties, marriage first and love later, slice of life, period setting, transmigration into a book Lou Xia, a homebody, dies suddenly while reading late at night and transmigrates into a book. She becomes the doomed, beautiful but useless first love of the overpowered male lead. The first love has a tragic background: her father doesn’t care for her, her mother doesn’t love her, and her stepsister forces her to switch betrothed husbands, marrying the male lead’s doomed older brother instead. Not 34.5kReads8.7Score3.1kShelves
47. 297 1 1978: The Female Educated Youth Insists on Dragging Me Back to the City 1978：女知青非要拽我回城 Zhong Can't See, Zhong Can't Use z钟看不钟用zUrban282k WordsOngoing Lin Zhiqiu transmigrates for no apparent reason to the late 1970s and, by a strange twist of fate, becomes a doorman at People's Literature. It's only a temporary job, but he's more than content. He keeps an eye on the gate, takes it easy whenever he can, and writes a few novels when he's short on money. Selling the rights to a few of them brings in a steady stream of cash. When all his pen names are finally exposed, everyone discovers that several of the hottest novelists of the past two years 20Reads7.5Score—Shelves

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    🍅Don't be fooled by the fact that both books are rated in the 7s, they're guaranteed to be great. The first one features a female educated youth who gets into university and returns to her village (everyone thought she ran away [laughing emoji]), bringing her husband back to the city to live. The male lead works as a security guard at a magazine and incidentally becomes a literary giant of the era! [Thumbs up emoji] The second one is similar, with Zhu Lin as the love interest. Both are male-oriented, so you can read them without worry. There are no melodramatic plot twists, just a smooth and sophisticated style!

48. 298 带 Taking the Taobao System with Me to the 1970s 带着淘宝系统穿七零 2 Chuan2川Modern Romance2.1M WordsCompleted 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 23.1kReads9.4Score2.7kShelves
49. 299 学 My Given Name Is Zhang Haogu 学名张好古 Listening to Water at Dongxi at Midnight东溪听水夜半更Historical2.4M WordsOngoing In Jinan Prefecture, Shandong, there lived a wealthy man. The rich man had only one son, named Zhang Haogu. Though he couldn't read, he passed the imperial examinations and entered the Hanlin Academy. Somehow, he even became a princess's husband. He only wanted to survive in a time of chaos, but had no choice except to rack his brains and find a way to end the war quickly. Yet war was everywhere: struggle, life and death, country and family. A man should be full of fiery spirit, riding through b 71Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A high-energy start: an illiterate protagonist achieves second place in the imperial examinations, gaining the emperor's favor and securing a high-ranking official position, fine horses, and beautiful women... A tale of political intrigue and romantic escapades. A highly-rated book of over 1.3 Million words, 9.7 Rating, strongly recommended.

50. 300 四 Siheyuan: Getting Rich Quietly 四合院：闷声发大财 The Silent Falling Leaves落叶无声的Male-Channel Fanfiction628k WordsCompleted Courtyard Life #Period Fiction #Comedy #Feel-Good Fiction #Old Fox #Harem #Farming Fiction He transmigrated to 1952 and became Chen Yuanshan, an apprentice at Fengzeyuan. His father was a martyr and left him 13 million in old currency and two main rooms. He thought he could lie flat, but the courtyard was full of beasts. Jia Zhangshi sat on the ground every day, wailing, “Old Jia! Someone’s bullying me!” Silly Zhu called every woman “Sister Qin” and beat up Xu Damao whenever he saw him. Xu Damao 14.6kReads5.3Score433Shelves

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