Any Period Novels with a Capable Female Lead Who Won't Be Mistreated or Lose Her Head Over Romance? 有没有年代文,女主很厉害,不受委屈,不恋爱脑
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Finicky Rich Girl Brings Her Farm to the 1970s and Takes It Easy 作精白富美携农场在七零摆烂
(Pocket Dimension + Goofy Comedy + Farming + Strong Female Lead + Sweet Romance + Everyday Life + Feel-Good Story + Putting Scumbags in Their Place) The heroine doesn’t dabble in the black market or do farm work, and she has only the tiniest bit of conscience. The hero and heroine both speak their minds. There are no misunderstandings or love rivals. This is a fictional world, so please don’t compare it to real history! Su Qingci, a rich beauty who runs a farm in the modern era, gets sent to the
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In the 1960s, the Young Educated Youth Takes Back Her Body and Goes on a Rampage 六零,小知青夺回身体后缺大德了
[Strong male and female leads + space + scheming + never takes abuse + both leads are wonderfully outrageous] When Jiang Sheng is eighteen, trouble strikes her family and she is forced to move to the countryside. Her family has prepared everything for her, so she isn’t worried. But despite all their precautions, she never expects an accident to rob her of control over her body and send her to a strange place. They call it the twenty-first century? She goes from confusion and panic to adapting, t
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The King of Hell's Heiress Moves Her Family's Fortune and Transmigrates to the 1970s, Where She's Spoiled by Everyone 阎王千金搬空家产穿七零,被团宠
Just started gaining ratings, and the audiobook version is now available! Also known as: The King of Hell’s Daughter Clears Out the Family Estate and Transmigrates to the 1970s, Where She’s Doted On by Everyone Four-year-old Nuannuan tugs on the King of Hell’s beard: “Daddy, are you going to throw me away?” The King of Hell weeps: “My little ancestor, how about going to the human world for a bit? When you come back, I’ll be your big horse!” Nuannuan’s eyes light up: “Okay, but I can’t go empty-h
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The Apocalypse's Wicked Woman Reborn in the 1970s: Army Wife or War Hero? 末世恶女穿七零:当军嫂?当兵王
[Revenge Before the Sun Sets + Spatial Spring + Apocalypse + Female Yama + No Saintly Foolishness, No Taking Losses + Satisfying Read + Crushing Scumbags + Face-Slapping + 1970s + Tearing Apart the Worst by Hand + Special Forces + Enlisting + Serving the Nation + No Romance] Xia Shuning once ruled the apocalypse with her fire-type ability, only to be struck by lightning and reduced to ashes. She transmigrated to the 1970s and became a miserable capitalist heiress. Her adoptive parents sold her
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The Villainess Transmigrates to the 1970s, and Her Rough Military Officer Spoils Her Rotten 恶女穿七零,糙汉军官掐腰宠上瘾
[Period Setting + Military Marriage + Face-Slapping + Portable Space + Sweet Romance + Family Life + Unhinged + Hilarious Antics + Feel-Good Story + Strong Female Lead + Trash-Taking + Electric-Shock System + Black-Hearted Beauty + Taciturn, Rugged Man + Golden Finger] Xia Zhi Ning, who'll eat anything but a loss, actually gets killed by a popcorn machine. When she opens her eyes again, she has become a tragic supporting female character in a period novel, with nothing but a pretty face. Her lif
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Cultivating Immortality with Infinite Space in the 1970s 穿七零无限空间能修仙
New novel, now complete: [The real catch is a beautiful young wife who transmigrates to the 1970s]☜ [Complete, no characters acting stupid, no handouts] [Invincible pocket dimension + cultivation with special abilities and spirit pets + female lead isn’t a saint + male lead is powerful but still no match for her + fighting and killing + building wealth and strengthening the nation] An orphan transmigrates to the 1970s. Luckily, she discovers a top-tier commercial street inside her space pendant.
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The Immortal Cultivation Big Shot Returns to Her Peak in the 1970s 修仙大佬在七零重回巅峰
♦ [This story does not follow the norms of its era: prices are all over the place, there is no historical accuracy, and everything is made up. It’s all for the fun of romance, but this is not a sweet romance. History buffs, please move along.] [My take on cultivation! My take on cultivation! My take on cultivation!] [A very loose setting / leveling and growth / nontraditional farming / nontraditional cultivation / fantasy / mountains of original worldbuilding / loopholes in the Heavenly Dao / mu
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Now That I'm Reborn, Why Get Married? Obviously, I'll Make Money 都重生了谁还嫁人,当然赚钱啊
[Starting a Business and Making Money+Top Student+No Romance+Feel-Good Female Lead+Period Piece] Jiang Yu is reborn in 1994. In this life, she refuses to follow her mother to the city for school. She'll stay in the county, sell porridge, and open a food court. With her foresight and skills as a food blogger, watch her turn 250 yuan into a hundred billion... She'll make money and study hard, both at once!
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Astonishing! The Top Scientist Is Being Kept by the Strongest Officer 惊!科研大佬被最强军官吃软饭了
[1970s setting + transmigrate into a book + pocket dimension + making money + apocalypse powerhouse + romance + military marriage + scientific research] [Also known as: Military Marriage: The Fierce Beauty Goes to the Countryside to Crush Her Enemies Without Taking It Easy] [Content warning: The heroine is extremely protective of her food. She spends the early part of the story in the countryside, for about 450 chapters, before turning to research] [Content warning: There is a male lead, but he
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Reporting, Chief! Your Secret Crush, the Army’s Little Doctor, Has Been Reborn 报告首长!你暗恋的小军医重生了
[Military marriage in a bygone era + alternate setting + both leads have been faithful in both lives + medical skills and a personal space ❤️ The space recognizes only its female owner, who is bound to it and cannot hand it over to anyone + one-on-one romance + an exceptionally doting male lead] “Report! Military doctor Shen Li just arrived at the camp and already bullied the new recruits to tears!” Commander Zhan: “My wife is delicate, shy, and young. Don’t you dare speak so loudly around her.”
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The 1980s: The True Heiress Turns Dark, Tears Down the Green Tea, and Dumps Her Jerk Husband 八零:真千金黑化,撕绿茶踹渣夫
[Period setting + military marriage + face-slapping + sweet romance + love after marriage] The moment Ji Xiaoyue opened her eyes, she became the real daughter: timid and impossibly self-sacrificing. Her life as the real daughter was a miserable one: a biased father, a cheating scumbag, a shameless little green tea, and a lonely death with no one to claim her body. Ji Xiaoyue immediately made sure the scumbag and the little green tea were stuck with each other! Catch them in the act! I’ll get the
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Island Life with the Army: My Cooking Has the Whole Family Compound Begging for More 随军海岛:美食养崽馋哭全家属院
[Period setting + marriage first, love later + cozy life raising children + entrepreneurship] Lin Xia gets into a car accident on her way to a matchmaking date and unexpectedly transmigrates into a period romance novel full of angst, becoming the foolish cannon-fodder woman who brings about her own doom. The original Lin Xia sabotages the male and female leads at every turn, so the male lead takes revenge by sending her to the countryside, where she eventually meets a tragic end. After reading a
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Sweet Beauty Joins the Army, Flirts with Her Husband, and Earns Merit to Stay Alive 娇甜美人随军,撩夫赚功德苟命
I post new chapters all year round, so this is a 🍅 problem! After getting caught up in a decoy operation, she becomes a master of intelligence. [1970s + sweet romance + transmigrate into a book + Merit System + dimensional space + spirit spring + marketplace; sweet, gentle heroine who grows stronger vs. a tough, handsome military officer who guides her; he’s secretly passionate but openly flirty, while she openly flirts but is secretly pure-hearted, timid yet brave, and makes clever use of her g
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The 1980s: A Beauty with Skin Like Jade Marries a Soldier and Raises a Child 八零凝脂美人,嫁个军人带带崽
[Eighties setting + military marriage + seducing the man + sweet romance + marriage first, love later + heroine has experience, hero doesn't] She opens her eyes to find she's become the male lead's wicked aunt in a period novel. She abuses him and his younger sister, cheats on their stern uncle, and ultimately brings about her own death. Lu Manman, a breathtaking beauty with smooth, radiant skin, is determined to take it easy. All she wants is to go back home. Who knew her niece and nephew would
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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
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I Faked My Death for My True Love, Then Reborn and Remarried. What Do You Regret? 为白月光假死,重生改嫁你们悔啥
[Reborn in a bygone era + System + pocket dimension + revenge + face-slapping and punishing scumbags + sent to the countryside + both leads are pure and devoted + mutual devotion] Only as she lay dying did Jiang Linyue learn that her husband, who was supposedly dead, had faked his death and was living it up elsewhere with his old flame. That old flame was also Jiang Linyue’s best friend, and the child she had raised was their illegitimate son. Her whole life had been built on lies. She had worn
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Better to Beat Someone Up Than Make Yourself Miserable 与其委屈自己,不如暴揍别人
The heroine is domineering, with an outrageously high combat ability. Later, she joins the military. The hero is an educated youth who later goes into scientific research. A strong heroine paired with a weaker hero. If that’s not your thing, please move along. [Historical setting + transmigration with body intact + no pocket dimension or System + Strong Female Lead] Mai Sui, a max-level powerhouse, transmigrates to the 1970s. She just wants to lie flat and live a quiet, ordinary l
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Best Friends Transmigrate Together to the 1990s and Become Army Wives 闺蜜齐穿九零,一起当军嫂
(Military romance in the 1990s, marriage before love, a charming and alluring clinic owner with a flirtatious streak VS an officer who looks refined but is a jailbird at heart, two heroines and two heroes, both couples devoted only to each other) Bo Munian and Chen Sibin are two of the finest men in the Marine Corps. Neither expected that their first mediation assignment would end with them getting swept up in the mess themselves: both wound up marrying women they’d just met, and on the very sam
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The ’90s Bride Is Fierce and Wild, and Her Soldier Can’t Handle Her 九零媳妇又辣又野,兵哥H不住
The adapted full-cast audio drama is now available. (1v1 military marriage set in the 1970s) They say the Jiang family's twin sons are both exceptionally handsome and talented. The brothers made a name for themselves when they both achieved the highest scores in their respective arts and sciences exams across the province and got into prestigious universities. Sadly, although they look identical, their personalities couldn't be more different. The elder, Jiang Yize, is aloof and cold, with a na
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In the 1980s, I Became a Military Wife Through My Own Merit 我在八零靠实力成为了军嫂
(Sweet period romance + military marriage + intense romantic tension + pure romance + gourmet cooking + 1v1) People often say, “A stranger is as lovely as jade, a gentleman peerless in the world.” Lu Sinian, a prominent figure in the military compound, has always seemed like an immortal being to the unmarried young women there: lofty and untouchable. Then Zhang Yaoyao moved into the compound. One look at Lu Sinian was enough to leave her awestruck, and she announced in front of everyone that she
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Reborn as a Young Educated Youth in the 1970s, I Make a Fortune with My Farm 重生70小知青带农场吸金
Space + rebirth + one-on-one romance + brainless power fantasy + food + entrepreneurship + foresight + making money. Inspired by real-life circumstances, but set in an alternate era. Xu Kaixin is reborn on the very day her home is confiscated. The resentment and bitterness from her previous life still weigh on her heart. Her anxious parents hurry to pack her things. Xu Kaixin glances at the clock: the authorities will be here to confiscate their home any minute. Her parents are about to be sent
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The 1970s: I Planned to Coast Through Life, but I Was Forced to Make a Comeback! 七零:本想咸鱼趟,却被迫翻身!
(Ahem, some of you lovely readers want more no-romance period stories. I’ll do my best to update! Fist bump!) The moment Su Rong opens her eyes, she has transmigrated into a period novel as a supporting female character who seems to have something wrong with her head. Looking at the one, two, three, four, five male leads before her, Su Rong falls unusually silent. Not out of shyness, but embarrassment. Without exception, no matter how many male leads there are, they’re all fish in the female lea
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The 1960s: I Control the System and Lead My Whole Family to Prosperity! 六零:手掐系统带着全家致富!
Wang Xuan had worked hard for so long in her previous life, only for disaster to strike first. Suddenly arriving in the 1960s, all the money she'd earned before went to waste. In this life, she decides that as long as she's made enough money, that's good enough. If she can lie flat, she will. But when she discovers that the System has accidentally dropped her into the 1960s, with a food crisis on the way, what should she do? No romance.
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The Wildest Officer of the 1970s Is Wrapped Around a Beautiful Madwoman's Finger 七零,最猛军官被疯批美人拿捏了
[Female lead transmigrates into a book + male lead is reborn + military marriage in the 1970s + wild antics + face-slapping + feel-good power fantasy + devoted couple + strong leads] Overworked office drone Su Wantang transmigrates into a book. She lands in the 1970s, in the body of a cannon-fodder character who is about to be arrested for having improper relations with a man, then takes her own life? Fine, fine, fine! She beats her scheming stepmother and stepsister half to death, sends the st
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Transmigrating to the 1980s: Dump the Toxic Man, Then Make Money 穿越八零:先踹毒男再搞钱
Era + Transmigration + Business Battles + A Cast of Geniuses + No Pocket Dimension + No System + Not a Pure Romance (the man is chaste, the woman is not) (Dear readers, due to the story's premise, there will be a child, but this isn't a child-rearing story. It's pure business, pure business, pure business! Nothing will hold her back from making money. If children in a story bother you, please don't open this one, and please don't leave a bad review! I beg you with my hands pressed together!) The
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The 1970s: Everyone in the Family Is a Coward, Except Our Fierce Little Sister 七零:满门怂包,唯小妹刚的发邪
Zhou Lele, a powerhouse from the apocalypse, transmigrates into the body of a pitiful girl who was bullied to death. Her birth mother crouches nearby, doing nothing but crying and crying. When Zhou Lele wakes up, her mother is overjoyed, then tells her to let it go. After Zhou Lele gets beaten, her mother tells her to let it go again! Her fists clench! Why put up with it? She goes straight on the offensive...
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Reborn Tour Guide Strikes It Rich! 重生导游来吸金!
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
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Fiery and Bold, This 1980s Bride Is Too Much for Her Cold-Blooded Officer 八零娇媳野又辣,冷酷军官顶不住
[Transmigrate into a book · Military marriage · Pocket dimension | Wild and sensual | Possessive | Off-the-charts sexual tension] A top modern beauty and executive is reborn as the real daughter who was forced to die over a pound of pork? She doesn’t accept this fate! … She tears up the script. She’s the female lead now Her vicious grandmother tries to sell her off for a bride price? She turns the tables, sending her off with silver bracelets and a village-wide parade! The fake white-lotus daugh
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My Scumbag Husband Tricked Me Into Marriage? I Bring a Century of Research to Marry a Powerful Young Master 渣夫骗婚?我携百年科研转嫁权少
(The rating just opened, so a low score is normal.) [Rebirth · military marriage | wild and sensual / age gap | possessive | explosive sexual tension] “Report! Your ex-wife’s patent has our entire military by the throat!” He scoffed, until fighter jet production halted and missile supplies ran dry. Only then did he realize she could hold the nation’s lifeline in the palm of her hand! … Reborn on her wedding day, she was asked to give up the bridal suite for his first love? Jiang Youli smiled. “S
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Transmigrated to the 1970s, I Refuse to Be a Doormat 穿越七零不当受气包
When she opens her eyes, Lin Wanqiu, who spent ten years fighting for survival in the apocalypse, has become an eight-year-old girl in August 1971. Her father is a soldier stationed at the border who sends home his entire military allowance. Her mother died young, leaving her and her little brother to struggle for survival between a biased grandmother, a parasitic uncle, and a lazy, greedy second uncle. Her cousin is a "lucky star" who gets praised to the skies for picking up a stone. She's a "b
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