Period-Era Story: The Most Unremarkable One in the Family Ends Up the Most Successful 年代文，家里不起眼的，然后混的最好的

1. 551 镇 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 Feiyi匪夷Mystery4.9M WordsOngoing They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 313.2kReads9.4Score28.3kShelves
2. 552 逆 My Ungrateful Son Abandoned Me in a Famine Year, So I Bring Modern Grain to Fill My Barns 逆子荒年抛弃我，我通现代粮满仓 Lu Guizhou鹿归舟Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Pocket dimension + passage to the modern world + farming + selling wild vegetables + family life + no romance] Synopsis: While fleeing famine, Lu Minggui is pushed over by her own son and falls to her death. When she wakes again, she's back before the famine. She discovers that a bloodstained wooden hairpin can take her to a mysterious world! From then on, she digs up wild vegetables, sells them, and earns silver. When famine strikes, she not only survives, but also leads her son and daughter 12.3kReads8.6Score1.7kShelves

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   This is a historical fiction story set in an ordinary family. However, the protagonist possesses extraordinary abilities and achieves remarkable success!

3. 553 我 I Brought My Twins and Divorced My Husband at His Wedding 我带着双胞胎，在丈夫婚礼上离婚 Light Clouds and Gentle Rain云轻雨细Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + historical setting + pocket dimension + love grows over time] Fictional setting! Fictional setting! Fictional setting! Please don’t nitpick the historical details. This isn’t a wish-fulfillment story. It’s about everyday family life, told at a gentle pace. Shen Ruyi wakes from a nap to find herself transmigrated into a period novel, as the former wife in an arranged marriage to the male lead, a character who gets only a few lines before dying young in the countryside. 22.9kReads8.3Score2.8kShelves
4. 554 俺 My Mother, Wang Juzhen 俺娘王菊珍 An Xin Dui Yang安心对阳Modern Romance828k WordsOngoing [Based on real life + hardship + historical era + the struggles and perseverance of ordinary people at the bottom of society] This is not a feel-good power fantasy. The protagonist of this book is my beloved and respected great-grandmother, a poor old woman who struggled through the surging tide of an era. Wang Juzhen never had an easy life. Her parents starved to death while fleeing famine, her own sister sold her for a mouthful of grain, and a landlord lusted after her. Only Wang Long gave her 105Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The eldest is doted on, the youngest is loved, and there's a punching bag in the middle. I really want to recommend this book to everyone; I found it incredibly captivating. The cinematography is exceptionally strong.

5. 555 相 Blind Date System: From Village Girl to Woman of the Era 相亲系统：从村姑到时代女强人 Softly, Gently徐徐絮絮Modern Romance348k WordsOngoing Blind Date System + Period Setting + Comeback + Winner in Life + 1v1 Sweet Romance + Everyday Life + Pure Wish Fulfillment In 1975, Chen Hehua's classmate stole the job she was supposed to get after graduation. When she returned to her village, her family pressured her to marry a crude butcher. Just when she had nowhere else to turn [Ding! Blind Date System successfully bound!] [Get a reward for every blind date! Choose any one requirement your match has to exchange for a reward!] Butcher's 284Reads—Score—Shelves

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   I recommend some period dramas that I've been particularly enjoying lately.

6. 556 大 A Great Nation’s Middleman: I Saved Countless Soviet Girls 大国倒爷，我拯救众多苏联少女 Jungle Mage打野的法师Urban882k WordsCompleted Transmigration + System + running goods in Russia + foreign beauties + womanizer + hugely profitable smuggling Two women stood at the door. Two Soviet women with blonde hair and blue eyes, wrapped in tattered headscarves. Wang Teng's first reaction: Holy shit. His second reaction: Am I fucking seeing this right? A line of text automatically appeared in Wang Teng's mind: [Ding! System notification: Your foreign beauties have arrived. Please sign for them.] Don't get excited, that was just hi 341Reads5.7Score316Shelves

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   To your taste

7. 557 我 I Was Reborn, and This Time I'm Going on a Rampage 我重生了，这一世我嘎嘎乱杀 Cang Yuesheng仓月生Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted In my past life, I was schemed against and killed by Bai Lianhua and Liu Ruyan! This time, I'll send every one of the people who hurt me straight to hell! Seeing them hate me to the bone yet be powerless to do anything about it is so satisfying! This time, let me weave the path that sends you all to hell! I'm the head of the Wen family business. Watch me put men aside and focus on my career. I'm the leading lady of my own story! I just love building my business! When I try to put men aside, they 1.7kReads9.4Score178Shelves

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   The female lead can't walk away when she sees the male lead.

8. 558 五 Five Years of Waiting Came to Nothing: My Husband Brings His New Love to Demand a Divorce 五年痴等成空，夫君带女逼我和离 Cang Yuesheng仓月生Ancient Romance604k WordsCompleted [Both Chaste] [Romance with His Older Brother's Wife] [Male-Male Story] [The Male Lead is repeatedly seen completely naked but stays faithful. Later, what looks like infidelity is actually a guard in disguise; the male lead remains devoted to the female lead throughout.] [Dear readers, we're very sorry! When you reach Chapter 139, please skip straight to Chapter 146. Chapters 140 to 145 are inconsistent and can be ignored.] On their wedding night, unrest broke out at the border, and her husband 5.9kReads9.3Score457Shelves
9. 559 预 Foreknowledge and Transmigration: Hoarding Ten Million Supplies to Steal the Heroine's Fortune 预知穿越，囤千万物资抢女主机缘 Su Ranjiu酥染玖Modern Romance445k WordsCompleted While reading a book, Lu Ruanruan realizes that she shares a name with one of its cannon-fodder supporting characters, and even their appearances and figures are described similarly. After that, she starts dreaming about the book’s plot. She suspects it’s a sign that she’s about to transmigrate into a book, so she stockpiles a huge amount of supplies in advance. Sure enough, she later transmigrates into the book’s world and becomes a pitiful girl her family doesn’t care for. Her older sister has 23.1kReads8.3Score2.5kShelves

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   The female protagonist, knowing she was about to be transported, quickly used her spatial storage to stockpile a large amount of goods and supplies. She then traveled to the 1980s, where she retaliated against the villains and lived a good life.

10. 560 七 Flash Marriage in the 1970s: My Mother-in-Law Taught Me How to Handle My Husband, and I Loved It 七零闪婚：婆婆教我驭夫后爽爆了 Even Snails Are Mighty蜗牛也很牛Modern Romance661k WordsCompleted [Handsome, roguish, cunning househusband + sweet, straightforward good girl + family squabbles + devoted husband + putting jerks in their place + doted on by the whole family] [The male lead is a professional homewrecker and a genuine big shot] [Important note: The female lead’s parents favor boys over girls.] [After leaving her birth family, the female lead is cherished by her husband’s family. Her mother will not be redeemed.] Ruan Tang had a dream that she died after being sent to the country 5.1kReads8.0Score532Shelves

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    🌈A slice-of-life story about everyday life. The female lead's fiancé cheats on her, and to avoid being sent to the countryside, she marries a playboy. Both she and the male lead come from families with a strong preference for sons, and she initially feels unworthy, but is well-healed by the male lead and her mother-in-law. A sweet and heartwarming story! The female lead wins hands down in her choice; she initially thinks the male lead is a playboy, but he turns out to be a considerate, hardworking, and wealthy man!!

11. 561 妹 The Little Darling Comes to Find Her Family and Mistakes Her Brother, Then the Cold-Faced Commander Kisses Her to Tears 妹宝投亲认错哥，被冷面首长亲哭 The Domineering God of Wealth's Darling Wife霸道财神爷的小娇妻Modern Romance1.4M WordsOngoing The animated series My Little Sister Slept in the Wrong Room and Ran into the Demon King from the Start is now available. Search for it on Tomato Redfruit to watch. Qiao Xinxin was the real daughter the Qiao family had only just brought home. To avoid marrying her fiancé, who had been disabled during a mission, the fake heiress Qiao Mingzhu got her drunk at the family reunion banquet and sent her to her own fiancé's bed. But she went to the wrong room and spent a wild night with the outstanding 33.6kReads8.2Score2.8kShelves

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    The female protagonist transmigrates and enters the wrong room. Faced with the scheming of the female supporting character, she exposes her schemes, moves all her belongings, and goes to the army to seek refuge with her brother. However, she mistakenly identifies the male protagonist as her brother and starts acting coquettishly towards him.

12. 562 八 1980s Military Marriage: Your Soldier Boy Just Registered His Marriage with Me 八零军婚：你的兵哥哥跟我领证咯 Red and Green Buds红绿蕊Modern Romance207k WordsCompleted [Career-Focused] [Satisfying Revenge on Trash] [Taking Down the Worst] [Only Ever Been With Each Other] [Sweet Romance, No Angst] In her past life, her adoptive sister tricked her into going abroad, where her organs were harvested and she died a gruesome death in a foreign land. Reborn in the 1980s, she was cruelly abused by her own father and thrown into a pigsty in the freezing cold, left on the brink of death. At death's door, she unexpectedly awakened a dream System. In her dreams, her wi 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This book tells the story of the female protagonist's glorious life after possessing the body of her wicked step-sister. Apart from the villains, everyone else is a good person, making it both exciting and stress-relieving.

13. 563 莲 Lotus Shadows over the Capital 莲影京华 My Left Eyelid Keeps Twitching左眼皮跳啊跳Modern Romance318k WordsOngoing Village beauty Shi Cailian has had a life bitter enough to pickle vegetables, but she's blessed with a face of unparalleled beauty. Educated youth Wan Changce falls for her at first sight and takes the college entrance exam four times. When the results come out, Shi Cailian has just fallen out with her biased family, so she packs her bags and goes with him to make it in the capital. He studies hard and becomes a top student, while she uses her beauty to land a secure job at the Friendship Store. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 564 重 Reborn in the 1970s: The Spoiled, Shameless Darling 重生七零：炮灰作精又欲又宠 Dead Wood Cannot Welcome Spring枯木逢不了春Modern Romance228k WordsOngoing [A dazzling socialite VS a pure-hearted wolf of an army officer] [Age gap + space + reborn + marriage first, love later + both devoted only to each other + no angst + everyday family life] After her soul transmigrates into the 1970s, Su Shiqing meets the military district’s “Demon Gu” in a reed marsh, and they fall for each other at first sight! The emptiness inside Su Shiqing is slowly filled by Gu Zhenbei’s steady, everyday affection. For Su Shiqing, being chosen without hesitation is better t —Reads—Score—Shelves

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15. 565 等 Wait, Can Reincarnation Be Outsourced by the Underworld Too? 等等，投胎也能被地府外包？ Raised Two Cats生了两只猫Modern Romance1.7M WordsCompleted With the job market in terrible shape and layoffs everywhere, Xu Yue landed a great job: a nine-to-five schedule, sixteen months' salary a year, an extremely generous year-end bonus, and the maximum contributions to her social insurance and housing fund. It was technically an outsourced position, but she could eat in the company cafeteria, enjoy afternoon tea and a host of employee benefits, and even qualify for company housing! The work was simple: maintain users of the Reincarnation App and re 166.4kReads9.1Score37.5kShelves

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    Best of three bookshelves

16. 566 七 The Chubby Wife Wants a Divorce, but Her Stone-Faced Officer Won’t Agree 七零肥妻要离婚，冷面军官不干了 Xi Buzhi席不知Modern Romance713k WordsCompleted In her previous life, Jiang Qingci treated countless patients. She never imagined that after dying unexpectedly, she would transmigrate into the body of a 260-pound young woman with half her face disfigured. Her mother was dead, her father was blind to her suffering, her stepmother had fed her hormones, her stepsister had ruined her face with boiling water, and at home she never had enough to eat or warm clothes to wear… When she transmigrated, her stepsister was urging her to bring spiked tea 14.9kReads8.3Score2.1kShelves
17. 567 天 Born Guilty 天生罪过 Tang Li Bai唐李白Two Male Leads1.3M WordsCompleted [Two male leads, 1v1; both are pure in their past and present lives. Originally titled Born in Sin] [Obsessive, devoted younger seme X gentle, devoted CEO uke] [Reborn to win back his lover + mutual pampering + both hearts beating as one + made for each other + redemption] A lover who breaks into your home to rob you: the seme is reborn. Chu Li became Luo Wensheng’s kept lover for three years for money, then suggested they part on good terms just before graduating from college. He was certain he 307kReads9.5Score53.4kShelves
18. 568 穷 A Poor Girl’s Daily Life as a Rogue Cultivator 穷鬼女散修的修仙日常 Dancing Lightly in the Mortal World红尘轻舞Ancient Romance2.4M WordsCompleted Xiao Han never imagined that she, an ordinary working girl who hadn't even finished middle school, would transmigrate one day. Fine, she transmigrated. But she had neither a pocket dimension nor a System, let alone a handy golden finger. She got none of the perks or welcome gifts that usually came with transmigration. That would have been bad enough, but other transmigrators took over someone else's body and fit right into local society. She, however, arrived in her own body, unable to speak the 50.3kReads9.2Score7.1kShelves
19. 569 双 The Twin Lords' Case Files 双君探案记 I Love Moving Bricks我爱搬砖Two Male Leads2.9M WordsOngoing Pei Su transmigrated. The bad news: no golden finger. The good news: he was born into a marquis’s household. The bad news: he was an abandoned son. Even worse, he was exiled for murdering his fiancée. Worst of all, when he opened his eyes, the escorting guards were about to kill him. Luckily, someone showed up. But that person was his enemy. It was over. He was as good as dead... 36.8kReads8.3Score4.1kShelves
20. 570 七 Little One of the Seventies, Hoping to Make Dad a Dragon 七零小崽，望父成龙 Timid Girl懦女Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period] [Rivals] [Ensemble Cast] [Everyday Family Life] [No Golden Finger] [The 1970s] [Book Transmigration] After transmigrating, Zhang Liuliu had been living the good life, convinced she was the chosen one. Here comes this gorgeous woman who’s going to get rich! Then one day, her beautiful mother stroked her head and said, “Liuliu, Mom is going back to the city.” Zhang Liuliu felt like the sky had fallen. It turned out she was living inside a book, and she wasn’t just not the heroine: she was 7.8kReads7.7Score770Shelves

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    You'll know once you see it~

21. 571 七 The Clear-Headed Beauty of the 1970s: The Military Big Shot Spoils His Wife 七零清醒美人，军婚大佬宠妻成瘾 Zhao Ximeng昭溪萌Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Bygone Era + Family Life + Sweet Daily Romance + Following the Troops + Raising Kids + No College Entrance Exams, Black Markets, or Rural Relocation + Starting a Factory Later On + A Touch of an Ensemble Cast] Song Qian’an undergoes a “return to one” and seems to awaken memories of a past life. From the start, a man so handsome he could make the heavens weep proposes to her. He’s good-looking and wealthy, so she puts on a show of wavering before agreeing. Her life after marriage turns out to 32.3kReads8.6Score2.6kShelves
22. 572 知 The Educated Youth Widow Is Cursed to Bring Misfortune to Her Family 知青寡妇克亲命 Grandma Ningning宁宁外婆Modern Romance437k WordsCompleted A powerful lightning-wielder in the apocalypse fights the Zombie King to protect their base, and they both end up gravely injured. But the base’s second-in-command takes advantage of the situation, kidnapping the wounded fighter and planning to cut open their skull and steal their lightning core. After detonating the core, they are reborn in the body of a young educated-woman widow in 1968. She’s said to bring misfortune to everyone around her: her paternal grandparents, parents, siblings, husba 2.2kReads8.5Score179Shelves

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    Her older siblings were too extraordinary; her intelligence was impaired by poison, so she was raised as a pet.

23. 573 七 1970s Pocket Dimension: I Won't Be the Wronged Little Sister-in-Law 七零空间：不做冤种小姑子 Xia Xixi夏西西Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Zhu Yu was reborn in a period novel as the Zhu family's unmarried aunt, who had remained single her entire life. Being unmarried wasn't the problem. The real issue was that Zhu Xiaoqin, the woman she'd become, had worked like a beast of burden for the Zhu family all her life, and in the end, there wasn't even anyone to see her off. The neighborhood committee had to arrange her funeral. How was that not completely ridiculous...? 4.1kReads8.5Score242Shelves

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    Meng Yu had one wish: for her family to live peacefully and to reach a ripe old age. They were the awful relatives of the female protagonist in the story. They were stepping stones used to highlight the female protagonist in the historical fiction. They were the despicable villains in the book. The original ending was that the six members of the despicable villain family would oppose the female protagonist and bring about their own destruction. Until Meng Yu arrived, the predetermined ending changed. She prematurely claimed the jade pendant belonging to the female protagonist in the book and ensured her family had enough to eat during a famine.

24. 574 笑 Smiling as I Ask the Pagoda Tree About the Past 笑向槐花问前事 Waiting for You Here原地等你Modern Romance742k WordsCompleted (Sweet romance in the 1970s, cherished by everyone, educated youth sent to the countryside, traditional family medicine, special missions, upright values, deep love for the country and its people, childhood sweethearts, brothers who watch each other's backs, a golden finger used only for survival and convenience, viewed from the sidelines, not a strong female lead) A pair of watches became her space train car. After waking from a dream with seven days' worth of hazy memory fragments, she headed 821Reads9.1Score104Shelves
25. 575 漂 The Beautiful Girl Next Door Wakes Up and Joins the Army. Officers Fight Over Her 漂亮白月光觉醒随军，首长争又抢 Nan Wanwan南绾绾Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted “Second Chance at Love, Spatial Ability, Everyone’s Favorite, Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium, Adorable Baby, Military Marriage” In the third year of living apart from He Shaoyan and fighting over a divorce, Ye Qingzhi began having prophetic dreams. At first, they were just trivial things, until one day she dreamed that her brother-in-law imprisoned her, while her sister became his accomplice and drove her insane before she died a gruesome death. After she died, the man who had repeatedly cl 28.1kReads7.0Score2.5kShelves

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    😍With precognitive dreams and a spatial ability, she gets revenge on her scumbag boyfriend and then runs to the military base to find her husband, from whom she's been separated for three years. Commander He stubbornly insists, "I won't fall for that." But later, seeing her surrounded by single officers, he explodes, "Get the hell out of here! That's my wife!" Everyone: ??? Didn't you say she was his cousin? A story of reconciliation, adorable baby, adored by the family, and a wife-chasing-after-the-cry drama—you'll cry tears of joy after staying up all night!

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