Stories Set in the 1980s: Realistic, Not Over-the-Top 八零年代文，现实点的，不要浮夸
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A Grandmother and Grandchild Build a Better Life in the 1980s 八零年代祖孙携手奔小康
[No romance + everyday family life + ensemble cast of ordinary people + 1980s setting + terrible relatives] With a grandma whose fighting skills are off the charts and a grandpa who turns into Liu Bei whenever he gets drunk, Chen Danier thinks life is just about as fun as it gets~
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- 102 A Family by the Yishui River 沂水河畔一家人 This book tells the story of a large family over nearly a century, from the late Qing dynasty to the end of the twentieth century, through turbulent changes, banditry and warfare, twists and turns, and eventual reversals of fortune. Led and subtly influenced by the protagonist, several generations endure decades of hardship yet remain upright, united, and determined to improve. In different eras and historical circumstances, they do everything they can, persevering in their efforts to contribute 6.1kReads8.8Score56414d adds
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The Rise and Fall of Boss Fan 范老板的沉浮人生
This story follows 1980s entrepreneur Fan Chenhui through the ups and downs of the business world in Shenzhen. It explores real-world issues including financial crises, family conflicts, workplace rivalries, and tangled relationships, portraying human nature and the changes of the times in vivid detail.
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Green Vine 绿萝
This book is for everyone who has ever waited. This is a novel about all the things left unsaid: not saying you like someone, not saying you are waiting, not saying whether it was worth it. But all those unspoken words are tucked inside candy wrappers, hidden in a tin box, and buried in the beeping sounds of a phone booth. The bravest thing Lin Dong ever did was not repairing that imported machine or saving enough for a down payment on a house with a courtyard. It was telling Su Xiyue, “It's t
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Wildflowers and Lilies 野花百合
In the 1980s, a female university student was kidnapped and sold. In a backward mountain village, she gave birth to a daughter for a bachelor, then spent years locked in a cave. The motherless girl was often called a feral child. After learning what had happened to her mother, she went alone to the back mountain to find her, only to run into another bachelor from her own village inside the cave... Her father desperately wanted a son and tormented her mother relentlessly. Eventually, he got his w
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The Mortician Married an Officer, and I Became the Scumbag’s Aunt by Marriage 入殓师嫁军官，我成了渣男的小婶
Just before the end of her shift, Su Nianchu received the last corpse scheduled for cremation. To her surprise, the deceased had the same name as her. Su Nianchu's heart skipped a beat. She had a bad feeling! Sure enough, an accident happened during the cremation. When she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated into the body of a village girl in the 1980s. She was lying on a kang, giving birth! Nearby, her malicious husband watched her, planning to trick her into taking sleeping pills so he and
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- 107 Outliving My Wicked Mother-in-Law and Stepmother, I Survive a Century of Chaos 熬死恶婆后娘，乱世活百年 [No contrived plot] [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] [No cheat abilities] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural life] [Hardship] Thank you all so much for your support and comments. Mom, my story finally got a rating! Though it only just came out!! Chen Xiulan was my maternal grandmother. She passed away at the age of 103. Only now does that promise I’d let lie for so many years pierce my heart: I once promised to write her a thick memoir. As a child, I was always clinging to her, listening t 796Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 108 A Painkiller for Time and Space 时空止疼片 [Realistic] [You Were Once Here] [Beautiful] At 37, he should have been at the height of his fame, with a bright future ahead. But an unexpected fall from a building brought his life to a permanent stop at its most dazzling moment. I was just an ordinary fan who quietly admired him. One day, I happened to come across news about him, and an immense grief hit me so hard I could barely breathe. In my memory, he was always so radiant: earnest and focused at work, gentle and bright in life, with a s 5Reads—Score—14d adds
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Reborn in the 1980s: Building a Career with My Pocket Dimension 重生八零：带着空间搞事业
Lin Xiulan is reborn, back in 1985. In her past life, she married into the Zhao family and worked herself to the bone. Her mother-in-law drained her savings, her stepsister stole her factory job, and she eventually died of illness in the old house. This time, she throws off the covers and flips over the dinner table where the Zhao family is pressuring her to "give up the job and hand over her passbook." With her own space, she plans to get her hands on everything: grain coupons, fabric coupons,
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The Swapped Brides: Whose Fault Is It? 替嫁姐妹，谁的错！
This book has been adapted into two comic dramas: "The Swapped Brides, Whose Fault Is It?!" and the brand-new version, "Sisters Breaking Free." In a poor, remote village in the 1980s, the Tang family favors sons over daughters. Their three girls are nothing but bargaining chips for bride prices. One absurd bride swap and three exorbitant bride prices send the sisters into three difficult marriages. Struggling through the mud, bound by entanglements for half a lifetime. The long-suffering Tang s
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Transmigrated to the 1980s and Dumped? I'll Make Money First; Men Can Wait 穿越八零被退婚？我先搞钱，男人靠边
Transmigrated to the 1980s and Dumped? I'll Make Money First; Men Can Wait
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A Shanghai Girl Raised on Rice Soup 上海吃泡饭长大的小囡
After Shanghai Porridge, the author, who writes in the Shanghai dialect, has written another full-length novel in Shanghai dialect about life in Shanghai’s alleyways. It tells of the discovery and destruction of the Li family’s “heirloom treasure.” As people vie for the “rare treasure,” the novel reveals the many faces of life: some seize what they want by cunning and force; some are consumed by jealousy and covetousness; some are calculating, while others are calm as still water; some even sink
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My Elders 我的长辈
In the 1980s, as people flock to the cities, all kinds of stories unfold! Mu Fang suffers from asthma, so many people keep their distance. After several unsuccessful matchmaking attempts, she meets someone on a day when sleet begins to fall. It feels like fate has brought them together, and they fall in love at first sight. Defying her family’s objections, Mu Fang marries her second uncle, who is more than ten years her senior. She never looks down on him for being poor and from the countryside,
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- 114 I Wish Us Joy Forever 我愿常欢喜 [Women’s Growth + Romance and Marriage + Workplace + Relationships] Girls from different family backgrounds will all find their own happiness! A rose raised in a greenhouse will weather life’s storms, while a girl who grows like a weed will find her own spring. She is a rich girl from a big city, yet she falls prey to a gold-digging boyfriend, sexual harassment at work, and exclusion by her colleagues... She is a small-town academic who gets extorted by a fellow villager and drained by parents w 46.7kReads9.7Score5.9k14d adds
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The Plains' True Colors 平原底色
Beginning in the twenty-first century, this novel follows Fang Lizhu, a child of the post-80s generation growing up in the rural Jianghan Plain of central China. Through Fang Lizhu's education, work, and the many people he meets and events he experiences, the novel portrays how life has changed for people across the plains since the start of the new century. It also depicts the many ways ordinary people respond to sweeping changes in a new era and a shifting social landscape: the choices they ma
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- 116 The 1980s: The Street Kid I Took In Was Actually the Prince of Hong Kong 八零：捡回来的烂仔，竟是港城太 Lin Zhixia was the leading fashion designer of the twenty-first century, working diligently and staying up late to sketch designs. She never imagined her life would end so miserably, dying suddenly at her computer. When she wakes up, she has transmigrated to Shencheng in the 1980s, becoming a factory girl who is pregnant out of wedlock, abandoned by her scumbag boyfriend, and despised by everyone as a "slut." It's a hellish start, with everyone ready to drown her in scorn. This time, Lin Zhixia 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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Reborn in 1980: I Have a Hundred Academicians at My Command 重生1980：我手下有百位院士
1980, deep in the Qinling Mountains. Lu Yuan tore up his transfer order to return to the city, then walked into a cowshed reeking of sour rot. “This time around, I won't become an academician. I'll become the founding master of academicians.” In everyone's eyes, Lu Yuan had gone mad. He took a mute lunatic, a blacksmith's son, and a little shepherd girl and drew circles in the mud that no one could make sense of. But when the first batch of high-purity industrial alkali was produced, when a hand
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The Guanshan Saber 关山刀
On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God ascended to Heaven. Yan Feilong's father did not come home. Three days later, his mother was found dead in the village temple, a wound in her stomach. The twelve-year-old boy slipped a chipped knife into his clothes and walked into the salt flats, looking for a man: tall and thin, with a mole on his chin. He found him. Three strikes. One for his father, one for his mother, and the last so he could go on living. His revenge was d
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- 119 The Sister Buried Beneath My Feet 埋在我脚下的姐姐 The Sister Buried Beneath My Feet 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 A Traveler in Years of Famine 荒年客 A survival epic about ordinary Chinese people. From rural China to the torrents of modern life, three generations of the Hou family are swept along by the tide of history. The grandparents put down roots in the land. Their values, admonitions, and “family scandals” form the family's original identity and its shackles. The parents struggle through a time of transition, inheriting heavy burdens while kindling a desire to change their fate. As someone born in the 1980s, I linger at the divide betwe 133Reads6.6Score10514d adds
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The 1980s: The Delicate Stepmom and Her Rough-and-Ready Man 八零：娇气后妈，糙汉宠疯了
Su Ruan was reborn, back in the impoverished 1980s. She went from being a food blogger worth tens of millions to a notorious “evil stepmother” who was about to run off with the family’s money. Her life started on hard mode: a bare-bones home, a husband who was a cold-faced factory director nicknamed the “Living King of Hell,” Lu Feng, and three troublesome kids destined to become major villains. Everyone in the compound was waiting to laugh at her. “A pampered girl like Su Ruan, who can’t lift a
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Reborn in the 1980s: From Hawthorn Preserves to Fortune 重生八零：从山楂罐头开始致富
Reborn in the autumn harvest of 1982, Zhao Sui Sui opens her eyes to find her cousin making trouble! Armed with an agricultural and sideline-products processing System, she decisively splits from the family. The barren sandy fields everyone disdains become a source of endless business opportunities in her hands. Hawthorn preserves, locust blossom honey, and nourishing tea paste take the whole city by storm. Her little workshop rises to become Sui Ji, a brand renowned across the country. Wu Yue,
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- 123 The Long-Suffering Younger Sister 苦妹 This is a bloodcurdling, suffocating epic of female suffering. It tells the tragic story of a woman called Ku Mei, whose life was mercilessly crushed by fate over more than half a century, from the early 1960s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. In 1960, during a famine-stricken winter, she was born the second daughter in her family and named Pan Di, “Hoping for a younger brother.” From then on, her grandmother saw her as a “jinx” and branded her Ku Mei, “Bitter Girl.” In a family that 3.5kReads8.8Score41414d adds
- 124 Rural Sisters-in-Law 农村妯娌 This is a story of war and peace between two women, and also a miniature epic chronicling the transformation of rural China from collectivization to the modern era. When the well in Liuxi Village was filled in and running water reached every home, the women who had once argued, wept, and whispered secrets beside that well proved through their lives that time can bury old grudges, and that a resilient spirit can blossom in the soil. 2.3kReads7.1Score26214d adds
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San Biaozi 三彪子
In 1980, in Kaoshan Village on the banks of the Songhua River, the Gao family’s fifth child is born. Dubbed “San Biaozi” because he is a bit dim, he grows up amid poverty and gossip. His mother bears the painful memory of having been assaulted, while his father quietly shoulders the burden of their broken family. San Biaozi drifts through life in a daze, but after a string of fires, people begin to suspect him of arson. While working the night shift guarding the grain depot, he learns to smoke.
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- 126 The Newlywed Young Widow 新婚小寡妇 In the winter of 1976, Li Yanmei was newly married when her husband died. Branded a “husband-killing” jinx, she was pregnant when her cruel in-laws threw her out with nothing. On a stormy night, she gave birth in a melon shed. Starving and freezing, she swallowed the slur “loose woman” along with her tears. For the little one in her arms, she wiped away her tears and turned humiliation into a stepping stone. She went from selling goods at a black-market stall to reclaiming land for farming, from 1.6kReads6.5Score11014d adds
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The Thorny Rose Blooms in Silence 带刺的玫瑰静悄悄地开
A beautiful young woman from a remote mountain village goes through several relationships and gradually grows stronger and braver, becoming a rose with thorns. Determined to seize control of her fate, she works tirelessly and perseveres until she finally puts down roots in the city, where she also meets the love of her life. The successive deaths of loved ones and the hardships of life help her mature, and by middle age, she has finally built a remarkable life.
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The Tofu Seller of Tao Village 陶庄豆腐郎
In 1980s Taozhuang, tofu maker Duan Jinliang prospers thanks to his strange balance scale, enjoying a life of wealth and fame. But two twin brothers at the village entrance set up a wager and snap the scale’s beam in front of everyone, revealing the mercury inside and shocking the whole village. With his reputation in tatters, how can he repay his debts and redeem himself? Hidden in a little tofu shop are turbulent events that test the conscience.
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Daring to Act 大胆作为
She was as beautiful as a celestial maiden. Raised in a remote mountain village, she became famous far and wide for her beauty, but she was neither delicate nor dependent on men. With an excellent memory, high emotional and intellectual intelligence, and a stubborn refusal to give up, she carved out a place for herself in the world. She studied opera, ran a stall, worked odd jobs, and did business, eventually making her mark in the commercial world. Because of her unusual birth, her life was far
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- 130 A-Dou’s Comeback 阿豆的逆袭 He was born with a disability: no neck, his head almost resting on his shoulders... On top of that, he lost both his parents as a child. Yet this very man eventually made a comeback like Forrest Gump. He not only married the village beauty, but also found success in his career. How did he turn his life around and rise to the light? Was it luck? Character? Talent? Maybe it was a bit of everything. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 The Village Guardian Ghost 护村鬼 Ghosts often haunt Ronggu Village, but the villagers themselves are not afraid. They say the ghosts are protectors of the village and would never harm its people. In fact, they protect them. Outsiders, however, are afraid, especially those who know they have a guilty conscience. That is why outsiders rarely dare to spend the night in Ronggu Village. So what exactly are these guardian ghosts like? Why are they called the village’s protectors? Let me tell you the story. 36Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 132 From Village to City: Their Lives Swept Along by the Tide of the Times 从村到城，她们在时代洪流里沉浮 Their fates seem to repeat across generations. Three generations of women all grew up under the shadow of fathers who left or divorced their mothers. Raised in households with only their mothers, the women share similar traits: resilient and adaptable, dignified and self-assured, hardworking, and devoted to living life well. From the countryside to the city, women of the new era have finally welcomed a spring of their own. Their lives have become richer and more colorful, full of endless possibi 12Reads—Score114d adds
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Back to Day One of 1980: I Split My Uncle's Head Open 重回八零第一天，我把大伯开瓢了
(Feel-good story, everyone’s favorite, building wealth, military marriage, love that grows over time, college entrance exams, everyday family life) After an accident, Yun Qiao returns to the 1980s. In her previous life, she was a pushover: her relatives sold her off, bullies took advantage of her, and in the end she even dragged down the Zhou siblings who had protected her. Given a second chance, Yun Qiao understands one thing: you can’t be a doormat. When her awful relatives stir up trouble, sh
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Childhood in the Old Days 旧时光里的童年
The author recalls a rural childhood in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province, during the 1970s and 1980s. The book describes rural life and the changes brought about by the household responsibility system in the early days of reform and opening up, along with the joys and hardships of the author’s childhood before the age of ten, major family upheavals, and the warmth and coldness of human nature.
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A Life Full of Vigor 昂扬的生命
I dedicate this book to the first generation of only children, and to the teachers’ college graduates who devoted themselves to education in this land. Each person has only one life. How should we live this one and only life? Looking across history and around the world, many inspiring books have explored this theme. I, an unknown nobody, hope to join their ranks and have chosen the same theme. I hope my work won’t be lost among the masterpieces of celebrated writers. This work will focus on Ji
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Reborn in the 1980s: The Marketing Queen Takes the Business World by Storm 重生八零：营销女王横扫商界
Reborn in the 1980s: The Marketing Queen Conquers the Business World
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Warm Blossoms of the Eighties 八十年代的暖花
Lin Wanxing was known throughout the surrounding villages as a delicate young woman, too frail to carry or lift anything. After she married, she wouldn't so much as touch a farm chore. But no one knew she'd transmigrated into an 1980s military-wife novel, becoming a supporting character with the same name who had jumped into a river to win the male lead's heart. The man who rescued her was Shen Yandong, the toughest man in the neighboring village, and the future golden finger of the book's heroi
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Making the Most of a Life Full of Ups and Downs 玩转跌宕起伏的人生
[Traditional] [Period] [Romance] [Countryside] [Ensemble Cast] [Revenge] [The 1980s] [Strong Female Lead] [Comeback] [Inspirational]… Li Huiping was bright and talented, but while preparing for the high school entrance exam, she spent time tutoring Qiao Shan, the classmate she had a crush on, and lost the chance to prepare for the exam herself. As a result, she missed out on getting into a key high school. After the exams, Qiao Shan ignored her. Heartbroken, Huiping saw through men’s fickleness
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- 139 Heading to the Northeast: Lin Erni's Bumpy Road to Happiness 闯关东：林二妮的颠簸幸福路 [No contrived twists] [No cheat powers] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural] [Hardship] [Inspirational] Lin Erni was born in Heze, Shandong, and married into Harbin in the Northeast. She struggled to get by amid the freezing snow in the mountains, then later had no one to rely on and went alone beyond the mountains to make a living. The first time, she was tossed from one place to another like a bag of steamed buns, made a child bride, and beaten and cursed. The second time, her father sol 21.8kReads9.4Score2.1k14d adds
- 140 1970s Space: A Transmigrated Daughter and Her Reborn Mother 七零空间：穿越闺女重生妈 [Period] [The 1970s] [Transmigration] [Space] [Reborn] [Mutual devotion] [A touch of ensemble cast] [Educated youth] [Two worlds connected] She opens her eyes and has transmigrated into a book set in the 1970s. Even the paper character's slap across her face hurts like hell. She has become a short-lived cannon-fodder character. Damn it! This woman is going to defy fate and change her destiny! 48.5kReads8.9Score3.5k14d adds
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Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌
Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to
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- 142 I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德 I’m a Scout: Zhan De —Reads—Score—14d adds
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In the 1980s, I Mistook the Wrong Man for My Husband and Married Him in a Flash 八零娇软老实人，错认老公闪婚后
[Alternate 1980s setting + sweet romance + pregnancy] Lazy and adorably scatterbrained beauty Jiang Zao had already been sent back to the countryside and reduced to eating corn buns when she became the fake heiress in a period novel. Luckily, she happened to come across a handsome, 188-centimeter-tall man with chiseled abs who had lost his memory. She successfully seduced the handsome man and ended up pregnant. Later, the man regained his memories and took her back to the military compound in th
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I Transmigrated to the 1980s and Opened a Supermarket on the Jing-Hang Canal 穿越八零，我在京杭运河开超市
[Shipping on the Jiangnan Canal] [Families aboard] [School for the children of boat-dwelling families] [There is a cheat, but upgrading it requires spending money. Progress isn’t instant, so this may not be for you if you want a cheat that can reshape the world overnight] [Slow-paced, with careful research and a nostalgic focus on people and culture] [Ensemble cast and everyday life in a bygone era] This book is also titled Ordinary Memories. Written entirely by hand, so please show your support
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Reborn: Li Li Keeps Moving Up 重生之黎黎向上
Lili longed for love and recognition from childhood, but her biased family left her utterly broken. One promise, “I’ll treat you well from now on,” tricked her into giving away her whole life. A marriage in which she was practically widowed, parenting in which she was practically a single mother: by her thirties, she had become a worn-out woman. Then she was reborn, back at eighteen. This time, she no longer expects anyone to love her. She’ll work, study, turn her life around, and make money! In
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My 1989 我的1989
Twenty years ago, a homewrecker tore my family apart and took my father away; Twenty years later, her greed returned, and now she wants to take the only home left to my mother and me. My father was cold and heartless, abandoning his family. With a powerful enemy at the door, every move was a calculated trap. I stopped holding back and bet everything I had on fighting back head-on. From a helpless daughter trapped by the wounds of her upbringing to someone who turns the tide and claims her own ha
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