Looking for Good Period-Era Novels 😭 (Something Close to Real Life) 求好看的年代文😭（想要接近现实的）
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The Apocalypse Bandit Queen Goes on a Rampage in the 1970s 末世女土匪在七零一言不合就开干
[Dual spaces + sweet romance + comedy + adorable pets + equally powerful leads] Ye Wuyou woke up one day in the body of a pitiful farm girl. One year, a great flood struck. Her parents drowned while rescuing the beloved son of her awful paternal grandmother. To avoid gossip, her grandparents had no choice but to take her in. From then on, Ye Wuyou became the pitiful farm girl. She was often hungry and cold, and got beaten from time to time... Hah! I, the mighty bandit chief of the apocalypse, ha
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Matched with My Match 婚逢敌手
Sheng Yao marries Liang Jinghao just to have a child. Once the baby is born, they’ll go their separate ways, owing each other nothing. Sheng Yao’s mother has cancer and only a year to live. Mrs. Sheng has been widowed for half her life and lived in luxury all the while, enjoying a good life with money but no man. Her one regret is that her son Sheng Yao is still unmarried and has no heir. Sheng Yao comforts her: “There are plenty of women willing to have my child. Just tell me, would you prefer
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I Was Reborn as the Most Hated Girl in the 1970s, So I Married an Officer with My Pocket Dimension 穿成七零万人嫌，带着空间嫁军官
[Period setting + transmigration + military marriage + pocket dimension + putting scumbags in their place + bratty beauty + marriage first, love later] Chu Yueyue from the 21st century transmigrates into the body of a lazy glutton from the 1970s who even schemed to seduce a man into her bed. The moment she opens her eyes, she can tell everyone here wishes she were dead. But she’s already died once because of her unscrupulous boss, and she absolutely cannot die this time! Everyone in the village
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The Century-Old House 百年老宅
An old family home, four generations, a century of upheaval, and an extraordinary love affair. How did a penniless tenant farmer win the hearts of two beautiful daughters of an enlightened landlord? How did an honest, simple peasant seize control of the village Party secretary's post as if it were a throne, then cling to it? How did a devoted lover go from kind and innocent to cynical and world-weary? Read on to discover his tangled, unbreakable ties with four women. Through the nearly century-l
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A Sweeter-Than-Ever Military Marriage: The Cold, Tough Soldier Is Teased to Tears Again 军婚超甜：高冷糙汉又被撩哭了
[Dotingly devoted husband, marriage first and love later, triplets. The male lead looks like a rough, domineering, cold and abstinent man, but he’s actually softhearted, sensitive, and easily hurt.] “What solid abs!” “What a gorgeous V-line!” “Those long legs… and that face that’s stolen my heart…” “Is this what rich people get to enjoy?” After years as a corporate drone, getting up earlier than a chicken and going to bed later than a dog, Jiang Yue finally won the lottery and was about to reach
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I'm a Bachelor, Not a Fool 我是光棍汉，不是傻瓜蛋
Told in the words of a lifelong bachelor, this novel depicts a century in the history of an ordinary family from a unique perspective. It reveals the tragic lives of ordinary people at the bottom of society, especially older bachelors who have never married; condemns the selfish and despicable side of human nature; and celebrates sincerity, kindness, and moral character. One of the few literary works in China to focus early on the tens of millions of lifelong bachelors, it hopes to inspire peopl
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The Gruff Officer Pretends to Be Proper, While the Fake Heiress Has Triplets 糙汉军官假正经，假千金一胎三宝
Original title: The Rough-Hewn Officer Pretends to Be Proper, While the Fake Heiress Has Triplets [No Villainizing the Original Heroine + 1970s + Real and Fake Heiresses + Sweet Romance + Supermarket Pocket Dimension + Military Marriage + Transmigrate into a book + Grudge-Holding + Multiple Births] A wealthy, beautiful heroine who knows how to charm her way out of trouble VS a rough, brooding military officer who keeps his feelings hidden Shen Zhiyu transmigrates into a book and becomes the wick
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What's Got You So Proud? 你牛什么牛
Also known as The Yueyue’s Terrible Mother-in-Law. Through the story of an unusually strong-willed woman’s life, this novel offers a profound look at the dialectical relationship between personality and fate. From many angles, it examines the rise of extreme feminism in contemporary society. It also gives serious thought to marriage and romance, raising children, and human relationships in the modern world. It offers important guidance for a new generation in the twenty-first century on developi
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Reborn in the 1980s: Dumping My Deadbeat Ex to Marry a Senior Officer 重生八零：甩了极品前夫嫁首长
[Reborn] [Period Setting] [Coastal Business] [Devoted Husband] [Military Marriage] Su Yue was one of the first entrepreneurs to go into business in the coastal regions. As a young woman, she was sent to the countryside and married Gao Jun, who was also an educated youth. Just before she died, Gao Jun's lover said outside her hospital room, "Sis, you can go in peace! Once you're dead, I'll be Mrs. Gao. Oh, I forgot to tell you: we've been together for ages, and we even have a child. He's already
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Reborn in 1959: Startling by Each Step 魂穿59，步步惊心
The novel is being revised... (One heroine, spatial abilities, mild violence, family life, a gradual build, steady growth.) The story mainly has three stages. In the early part, he helps his family escape poverty. In the middle, he gets a job at a steel mill, working on equipment and supplies, with some familiar courtyard-life elements mixed in, though they are not the main focus. In the later part, he helps the country develop its national defense. His spatial abilities are controllable, and he
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When the Rice Flowers Bloom 稻香花开
The novel follows the hardships endured by farmers in two villages in Xiangnan County, Dongyuantun and Da’ai Village, from the Republican era through the founding of the People’s Republic of China and on through the people’s commune system, the Cultural Revolution, the household responsibility system, and the Reform and Opening-Up period. The villagers endure one hardship after another and witness the changing times. The protagonists, Zhang Yiping and Zhou Xueyun, are forced to leave school beca
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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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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
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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
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I Transmigrate to Join the Army, and My Officer Husband Is Overjoyed 穿越去随军，军官丈夫乐开了花
A devoted couple, one-on-one romance, sweet and affectionate, no pocket dimension, a slow and steady pace, and a warm, cozy story! Ji Mingzhu transmigrated from a prosperous golden age to the poor and backward 1960s. The gulf between the two eras was so great that she could barely accept it. She pinched herself. It didn’t hurt at all, so this had to be a dream. Her father, Ji, who got pinched, said, “...!” A layabout father, a frail mother, and a broken family. Ji Mingzhu was at a loss and wante
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After Dying, I Return to the 1970s to Keep Myself Alive! 嘎了后！回到70年代续命！
Transmigration, both leads are faithful to each other, a military marriage, the heroine has a personal supermarket, grow a little ginseng and raise a cute pet One moment, she was being groped by a handsome 180-centimeter-tall guy in a mask. As he groped her, he confessed his love with deep feeling. “Get the defibrillator!” The next moment, she’d been handed a whole new life, waking up shivering on a heated kang bed in Northeast China. From then on, her merit points were maxed out and she shone
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A Childhood Betrothal Over a Bowl of Rice Soup 一碗米汤的娃娃亲
A Childhood Betrothal Sealed Over a Bowl of Rice Soup
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The Wounded War King: You Want to Inherit Her Wealth? I'll Give You Twins and Humiliate You 兵王残！吃绝户？多胎打脸两不误
(Complete) (Period Setting + Superpowers + Inventory Space + Rugged Hero + Devoted Husband + Multiple Children + Family Life + Both Leads Are Faithful) Qiao Nianyao was a powerful superhuman in the post-apocalyptic world. When an energy explosion erupted as she fought a powerful enemy, she unexpectedly transmigrated five hundred years into the past, bringing her powers and the storage space her opponent had dropped with her. She landed in the 1970s, the very era recorded in history! She also bec
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Reborn in 1993: Helping My Family Grow Rich 重生93：我助家人发家致富
Alternate title: My Whole Family Supported My Engagement After I Was Reborn in the 1990s Ye Lan, suspected of having caught the flu, suddenly dies at work and is reborn in her middle school days. She reunites with the man who was her husband in her previous life, and they fall in love, get engaged, and marry. But using her knowledge of the future, she chooses a different path in life. She helps her family grow fruit and agarwood, making them rich. She skips grades to attend university, then buys
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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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After the Seventies-Era Officer Returned, He Had a Son and a Daughter 七零军官回来后，儿女双全了
[1970s + military marriage + space] Hua Jiuling transmigrated to the 1970s overnight. Her husband, Gu Beiming, was called away on an urgent mission right after their wedding. Months passed with no word from him. Her parents-in-law gave her a hard time, her sister-in-law cursed her, and her sisters-in-law schemed against her. With her pregnant belly, Hua Jiuling picked up a kitchen knife, fought back, split the family, and moved into the hunter’s little house by the village committee. Fortunately
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Military Marriage, Sugary Sweetness: The White Lotus Green Tea Girl Is Everyone's Darling in the 1970s 军婚爆糖：白莲绿茶在七零做团宠
“Fair-skinned beauty with a sweet, tea-like charm x outwardly cold, inwardly warm doting husband” After a plane crash, international superstar Jiang Qingrou transmigrated. An orphan in her previous life, she had somehow ended up in a big family in the 1970s. Her two older brothers spoiled her, and her parents treated her like a treasure. What’s more, in an era when people struggled to get enough to eat or stay warm, everyone in her family had a steady job, and she herself was the star of the dan
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Fireflies in Daylight 荧火虫的白昼
A great period drama. Ignore the awful title: this realistic work comes from a seasoned writer, about a woman from out of town living in Shanghai, in the vein of Blossoms Shanghai. Neighborhood gossip and jokes that hit you right in the heart. No mystery, no wish-fulfillment, no fantasy, nothing added. Just the daily grind: food, rent, petty squabbles, and family affairs.
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A Sweet Military Marriage: The True Heiress Is Spoiled by the Coldhearted Soldier King 军婚超甜：真千金被高冷兵王宠哭
[Historical Era + Military Marriage + Fake and Real Heiresses + Pocket-Space Farm + Marriage Before Love + Wife-Chasing Funeral + Triplets + Transmigrate Into a Book] [The leads divorce and then remarry. They really do get divorced.] Yu Beibei transmigrated into the real heiress and troublesome supporting female character in a period novel about a real and fake heiress. Yu Beibei existed solely to make the “heroine,” the fake heiress, look kind and virtuous. Yu Beibei: “...” Whoever wants this j
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Life Is Like a Dream: I Take the Blame and Transmigrate to the 1950s 浮生若梦，我顶缸穿五零
(Fictional setting! Fictional setting! Please don't compare this to reality!) History's number one scapegoat, Xu Duoduo, has grievances she can't voice. When disaster comes from heaven, it can still be avoided. When you bring disaster upon yourself, there's no escaping it. So what if life is hard? If you can stomach eating bitter greens, you can do anything. I'll give it my all! Come watch a post-2000s girl living the '50s version of a wild-vegetable-foraging life. Let's go!
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I, Lin Daiyu, Have Transmigrated to the 1990s 林黛玉本玉穿到九十年代了
[Little cutie + adorable child + everyone’s favorite + top student + ancient-to-modern transmigration + school life + Northeast China + raising a child] Lin Daiyu, who died after crying herself dry, transmigrates into a five-year-old girl in rural Northeast China. She lives in a brick house, eats coarse grains, and has to herd geese, dig for wild vegetables, and help with chores. But she even has to wear a sleeveless undershirt and shorts? Waaah, no, no, no… “What are you bawling about? Want noo
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A Shooting Star Streaks By, Leaving Traces on the Years 流星划过，岁月有痕
This is a powerful work that deeply portrays the intertwined paths of growth for the post-80s generation and the changes of the times. The story follows its protagonist, Zhao Fei, from his green and innocent days in middle school, through the passionate years of university, and into the struggles and discoveries of life after graduation. It delicately depicts how Zhao Fei and his generation search for themselves and realize their worth amid the currents of the times, while also reflecting the sw
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The Three Treasures Pagoda and Purple Gold Mountain 三宝塔与紫金山
The story unfolds slowly between Sanbao Town in southeastern Yunnan and Nanjing, the ancient capital of six dynasties. Yun Kun, a young man from southern Yunnan, dreams of escaping the mountains. Through sheer perseverance, he rises from a poor boy to a faculty researcher at a military academy. Ning Xiang, who lives east of Nanjing, once enjoyed a peaceful, ordinary life, but the tides of the times bring a drastic turn: her household registration is falsified, and she is forced to move to the co
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Transmigrating to the 1970s: Marrying an Officer 穿越七零：嫁军官
Pocket dimension, sweet romance, supernatural powers, military marriage, beloved by all, adorable baby, raising kids, top-tier scoundrels Ye Wanyi transmigrates from the apocalypse, possessing wood and space abilities. Chu Yuechen is an officer in the 1970s, and she's the only one who ever captures his heart. Ye Wanyi: How lucky I am to have met you. From now on, we'll share every joy in life. Chu Yuechen: How lucky I am to have met you. It was love at first sight, and from now on, all I see is
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Everyone Else Transmigrates or Is Reborn, but I'm Just a Native Cannon-Fodder 别人都是穿越重生，就我土著炮灰
Also known as: I'm a Cannon Fodder in the Seventies (No romance!) When eight-year-old Mo Erya was playing with mud marbles, her five-year-old brother Mo Wuwa, nicknamed Shitou, by her side, both of them covered in dust, Qiao Qiao next door transmigrated after falling into the water. So eight-year-old Mo Erya learned that she would grow up to be cannon fodder in a lucky heroine story, fighting the female lead over a man, making trouble at every turn, and meeting a tragic end! Mo Erya boldly wiped
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The Sun and Moon in the Steamer 蒸屉里的日月
Set against the changes sweeping the northern countryside in the 1990s, this story follows an ordinary rural woman as she spends half her life juggling household chores, conflicts with her sisters-in-law, small business ventures, and her children’s education. With only an elementary-school education, she supports her family with her skill at making steamed buns, putting her son through college and helping him build a life of his own. She lives through the transition from earthen houses to brick
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Reborn as the Wicked Heiress's Cannon Fodder Lackey 穿成恶毒千金的炮灰狗腿子
[Sunny, cheerful, money-loving cannon fodder girl × cold System at first, warm and doting villain later] [An optimistic ray of sunshine saves characters from old-school tragic romances, changes everyone’s bad endings, and turns cannon fodder into the apple of everyone’s eye] (Everyday-life pacing + main plot. Not a power fantasy with a strong female lead. Characters controlled by the plot will awaken. If you think this is a redemption story, please take note!) Su Xingyu transmigrates into an old
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The Neon Lights of the 1980s 80年代的烟火
The Firelight of the 1980s On summer nights in the 1980s, fireflies swarmed through the grass in the factory workers’ housing compound. Children chased crickets with glass jars, loaches caught in the ditch thrashed in enamel basins, and wind-up tin frogs went clack-clack in circles. These rustic pleasures were so vivid that children of later generations could never quite grasp them, even when they heard the stories. Deep in Qiuju’s drawer lay the silver tweezers he had sent her through someone
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I Transmigrated into a Book Set in the 1970s and Made a Fortune Supplying the Female Lead 穿书七零，我靠给女主供货发大财
Jian Yan transmigrates into the resource-poor 1970s. After being sent to the countryside, Jian Yan discovers that she hasn’t just transmigrated, she’s also transmigrated into a book. To make matters worse, she’s become a nameless passerby in the story. Fortunately, she’s bound to a farm that can grow crops as well as produce and sell processed goods. Just as she’s happily gossiping away in the countryside, she suddenly realizes that the female lead’s golden finger seems to be connected to her fa
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Transmigrating into a Book: The Stepfather in a Period Novel 穿书之年代文里的继父
(The new book’s rating just opened, everyone. It’ll go up!) 1970s setting + sign-in System + raising kids + mutual devotion. The moment I open my eyes, I’ve transmigrated into a period novel and become the cannon-fodder stepfather who abused his stepchildren and eventually died miserably in a cowshed. I look at the three thin, malnourished children staring at me in fear, and their gentle, resilient but distant teacher wife. I silently activate the Daily Sign-In System. Today, a pound of meat.
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The South Wind Knows My Heart, and I’ll Never Walk Alone Again 南风知我意，从此不孤行
Some people say dandelion seeds look like pretty little parachutes, drifting lightly in the breeze, utterly romantic. But Xu Nanfeng thinks they look more like homeless children, wandering everywhere with nowhere to settle. Just like her: no real kin, no true friends, arriving without a ripple and leaving without a sound. There's an old saying: you reap what you sow. But I, Xu Nanfeng, refuse to believe it. I'll grow into the very person you all thought I could never become! Nanfeng knows my hea
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Period: My Military Marriage Life After I Transmigrate into a Book and Become Everyone's Darling 年代：我的军婚生活，穿书成团宠
[Military marriage + transmigration + adored by the whole family + everyday family life + building a fortune] Lin Wuyue, a graduate student in Beihang’s Sixth Department, transmigrates into a book and finds herself in the 1950s. In her previous life, her grandmother was her only family. After transmigrating, she receives the love of her new grandmother, Lin Wangshi, as well. Lin Wangshi has an eye condition, so Lin Wuyue takes her to seek treatment. The girl is so wonderful that the commanding o
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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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Somebody Somewhere in the Crowd 行走在人海中的某某某
There is only one true heroism in the world: to see life as it is and still love it. Whether it’s the wind blowing through a valley, clouds drifting over the sea, poplar trees by the roadside, foxtail grass on a hillside, or people, Zhao Xiaoqiu thinks they’re all much the same, aren’t they?
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Transmigrated as a Little Lucky Charm, the Best Brother-Trapper Around 穿成小福宝，人称坑哥小能手
I’m a legendary film queen, and I’ve actually jumped on the transmigration trend! My billion-yuan villa! Damn it, Heaven, could you make my life any more miserable? At least I have a dimensional space! With the space in hand, the world is mine! Trying to rip me off? No way! The heroine, Ye Ying, thinks that with the supplies in her space, she can lie flat, live leisurely, and be a lazy fish, doing nothing at all. But it turns out she’s been dreaming! Ye Ying opens her eyes, sees a shabby mud-bri
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Sign-In in 1976: A Beautiful Wife and a Spirit Spring Space 我在76年签到：灵泉空间美娇娘
[1970s + Female Educated Youth + Love Story + Mutual Devotion and Flirting + Resumption of the College Entrance Exams + Sign-In Space + Everyday Story] “Lu Huaishan, if you can't earn five work points a day, how are you going to marry me?” Reborn in the 1970s, Lu Huaishan looks at his childhood sweetheart Zhou Xiaomei, standing there with her nose in the air, and the pretty-boy educated youth behind her pushing a Phoenix-brand bicycle. He suddenly laughs. In his past life, he graduated from a to
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Transmigrating to the 1950s: I’m a Military Wife Who Goes Sea Foraging and Marries a Soldier 穿越五零年代：赶海军婚我是军嫂
[Period] + [military marriage] + [making a fortune] + [everyone’s darling] + [sweet romance] + [Transmigration] + [countryside] + [fishing] + [beachcombing] Chen Qingqing has transmigrated. Oh! To be precise, she has transmigrated into a book. From the start, she is rescued by Zheng Dongfeng, a soldier in the People’s Liberation Army, and gets dumped by a mama’s boy. Her parents are both dead, and at home she has a headache-inducing stepmother and a younger sister who shares neither parent with
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Transmigrating to the ’90s, I Tear Up My Mom’s Tragic Life Script 穿越九零手撕我妈不幸的人生剧本
[Period Setting + Changing Fate + Building Wealth + Switched at Birth + Changing Destiny + Never Forgive] If you could go back to when your mother was young, what would you say to her? What would you do for her? Yang Tiantian woke up to find she had transmigrated to the 1990s and become classmates with her mother as a young woman. By then, her mother’s good fortune had already been sold, but she had yet to be schemed against by her sexist parents and a scumbag. She hadn’t yet been robbed of her
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The 1980s: The True Heiress Strikes Back 八零：真千金逆袭记
[Period Setting + Military Marriage + Fake and Real Heiresses + Self-Improvement + Everyday Life + Striving] [The heroine grows quietly, then amazes everyone; she won’t take abuse and always talks back] Xia Xiaoxi lost both her parents at a young age. Her uncle’s family moved into her home under the pretense of raising her, took all the family’s money, worked her and her brother to the bone, and eventually tried to make her take her cousin’s place in an arranged marriage. Furious, Xia Xiaoxi fou
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Siheyuan: Transmigrating to the 1950s and Enlisting to Fight the Americans 四合院：穿越五零年代参军打鹰酱
[Espionage + period setting + courtyard house + from the start + special forces + pocket dimension + transmigration] Modern special forces soldier Yi Xiaotian transmigrates to the 1950s and becomes Yi Xiaotian, the son of Yi Zhonghai. He leads his childhood friends from Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluogu Lane, He Yuzhu, Xu Damao, Jia Dongxu, Xue Jie, and Li Mingfei, onto the battlefield. These passionate young men join the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, fighting the Yankees and defending
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Those Destined to Meet Will Meet Again 若有缘终会相逢
The 1990s: youth, growing up, love, and parting in an age of innocence. Read closely, and it becomes a journey of spiritual redemption... I hope someone destined to find it will read this book!
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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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I'm Good! Please Don't Hurt Me! 我很乖！请你不要来伤害！
[Contemporary fiction] [Ensemble of women] [Scheming] [Red and Black] [Playing dumb while taking down enemies] [Clear-eyed heroine] A must-read for anyone born in the seventies, eighties, or nineties! This is a northern take on The Red and the Black, set in a glittering world of fame and fortune where everyone wears a false mask. The heroine seems sweet and obedient on the surface, but she sees things more clearly than anyone! She can live without love, but not without money! She can put up with
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Reborn in the 1980s: Making a Fortune at the Port 重生八零，我在港口赚爆了
[Period setting + reborn + satisfying read] [Devoted couple, 1v1] [Heroine: Lin Ziyan; hero: Lu Yunshen!] [Strong heroine + strong hero!] The heroine, Lin Ziyan, was a PhD in aquaculture and held a second degree in ship design in her previous life. She is reborn in the body of the original owner, a girl from a small fishing village in Fushi. Soon after she is reborn, both her parents die, leaving her with two younger sisters and a great-grandmother who is nearly ninety. Her father had borrowed h
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The Umbrella and the Killer 寻伞追凶
This is a tragic story set in the late 1970s. In a courtyard compound that seems peaceful and quiet, countless secrets and old grudges lie hidden beneath the surface. It is a world of conspiracy and revenge. Chen Yimei’s grandmother is poisoned to death in her own home. A mysterious umbrella draws Lin Ping into a thorny search for the killer. Who owns the umbrella? Could its owner be the murderer? As Lin Ping doggedly pursues the case, a shocking truth gradually comes to light...
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