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. 351 东 The Northeast Era Drama's All-Time Great King of the Waistline 东北年代剧天花板金牌腰王 Saint Seiya Star Bliss圣斗士星爽Urban2.7M WordsOngoing [Period] [Jiahao in 1980] [No System, Just Unbelievably Tough Luck] [The 1980s] [Reborn] [Satisfying Read] [The Strongest Second Sister-in-Law in History] [The Most Unhinged Novel in Northeastern Dialect] Li Qi is reborn, returning to the day before his kidney was cut out. In his previous life, his father put family ties first, his brother and sister-in-law asked him to sacrifice himself for everyone, and his younger brother cried that he wanted meat. So he steeled himself and donated his kidney 94.7kReads8.4Score6.5kShelves

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   Hilarious and funny stories about pounding the bed in Northeast China

2. 352 六 The Sixties: The Supporting Actress Works Herself to the Bone and Outshines the Lucky Female Lead 六零，对照组女配卷死锦鲤女主 Moonless Young Master无月公子Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + comedy + pocket dimension + punishing scumbags + troublemaker heroine + face-slapping + satisfying read + goofy humor + romance] A chaotic, hilarious career story, not a formulaic one. The heroine is cunning, scheming, unhinged, and becomes an official. It’s hell mode from the start: the original host was beaten to death by her awful grandmother, and less than two minutes after transmigrating, she was kicked into the hospital by her awful father. Cheng Miaomiao opens and close 63.2kReads9.1Score7.5kShelves

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   This is a time-travel novel. The protagonist is hospitalized immediately after transmigrating, into an insignificant family considered unlucky. She relentlessly punishes and tormentes, ultimately driving them to ruin and even sending their entire family to the stables. Upon discovering she's the real heiress who was switched at birth, she moves to the city and starts dealing with her difficult grandmother, aunt, and sister-in-law. The fake heiress is sent to the countryside, but chooses not to, instead pursuing a career and becoming an official. The male lead appears late in the story and is essentially a minor character.

3. 353 穿 Transmigrating to the 1950s: The Allure of the Family Tree 穿越五零：族谱的诱惑 Poor Sanqi!贫穷的三七呀！Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Military marriage + sweet romance + academic ace + building the nation + past and present lives + everyday rural life + raising children + transmigrate into a book + cannon fodder + pocket dimension + joining the family register This story is an extremely slow burn, with a leisurely, sweet romance at its heart. A few things to know: 1. The heroine is a food-loving star traveler from three thousand years in the future. When she first arrives on Earth, she may be a little clueless. 2. The System i 2.3kReads8.9Score171Shelves
4. 354 穿 Transmigrated to the Military Compound in 1985: Flirting with the Soldier King and Having His Adorable Baby 穿到八五家属院：撩兵王！生乖崽 Pockets Full of Money兜兜全是钱Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Fictional setting + sweet romance + military marriage + building wealth + triplets + marriage before love + military compound] [Heroine: Ji Xiangsi; hero: Lu Chen] The talented heiress Ji Xiangsi transmigrated. One moment she was fleeing her wedding in front of a crowd; the next, she had become a 1985 version of herself, a lazy glutton who loved causing trouble and abusing her husband. From the start, her husband asked for a divorce because she had bullied his former sweetheart. She was also br 3.6kReads8.9Score494Shelves
5. 355 七 The 1970s: I Transmigrated into a Book, and My Lazy Husband Is No Match for Me 七零穿书：女配嫁懒汉你懒我更懒 Ming Baby明宝宝Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Synopsis: (Devoted husband + triplets + seven gourd babies + both leads are a bit of a handful) Xu Ya transmigrates from the apocalypse to the 1970s and, from the start, marries a lazy, difficult husband. He's so handsome? She's keeping him. She's the fake daughter? The real daughter is reborn and back for revenge? So what? She's not scared. There's a baby on the way. She's pregnant? A stunning educated youth has her eye on Xu Ya's husband? She must be blind. He's not available. All kinds o 6.2kReads8.3Score492Shelves
6. 356 替 Take My Cousin's Place in the Countryside? I'll Empty the Whole Family's Ancestral Tombs and Dance 替堂妹下乡？搬空全家祖坟蹦迪 God of Wealth's Dark Moonlight财神黑月光Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period setting + reborn revenge + making money and causing trouble + born to stir up chaos] In her previous life, Ruan Xianxian took her cousin's place in the countryside, then returned to the city and married the fiancé her cousin no longer wanted. She thought she'd found salvation, but what awaited her was endless patience and scheming. A heartless grandfather, a cousin who stole her golden finger, and a husband who outsourced his affection made for one bizarre family. Only when a speeding tr 44.3kReads9.0Score3.7kShelves

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   ①The most inconspicuous female lead in the family, 💢not only had to take her cousin's place in the countryside, but also had to take over the man her cousin didn't want, marry a husband who gave both love and money to an outsider, and finally be sent away by Ka Che... [Angry] Ruan Xianxian, who was reborn, couldn't bear it anymore, so she emptied the property hidden in her grandfather's ancestral grave, went to the countryside to earn foreign exchange, and incidentally led the villagers to get rich!

7. 357 大 The Compound’s Darling Bride Is Expecting Triplets, Breaking the Big Shot’s Nine-Generation Run as an Only Son 大院娇媳怀三胎，破大佬九代单传 Clouds Flowing over Green Mountains青山流云Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Wild, rugged man VS lively, resilient ray of sunshine. Set in the 1980s + sweet romance + both virgins + ensemble cast + family life + military marriage + joining the army + military housing compound + building a fortune] The moment she opened her eyes, Qiu Xiuying, who had drowned, found herself in the 1980s. Desperate to raise the enormous sum needed for her gravely ill mother’s surgery, she accidentally got tangled up with a wild, rugged man she couldn’t shake off! He had always been indiffe 4.1kReads9.1Score505Shelves
8. 358 胎 Born into the 1960s: Not a Drop of Milk Comes Free 胎穿六零：没有一口奶是免费的 Dragon Fruit Growing Toward the Sun火龙果向阳而生Modern Romance421k WordsCompleted Also known as: Reborn in the Great Famine of the Sixties: Lucky Girl Zhizhi Is Good at Drawing Up Grand Plans [Easygoing Period Piece] [System + Pocket Dimension] [Refined, Self-Serving and Beneficial to Others] [Family Life + Building a Fortune] [Mischievous + Protective + Lighthearted Comedy] [Taking Every Advantage + Lotus Root Traits + Leek Farming + Social Butterfly] [Scheming Little Cotton-Padded Jacket + Parents Who Push Themselves + Self-Reliant Retirement + Pushy Sister, Brother and Who 3.2kReads8.6Score308Shelves

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   The female protagonist's parents had five daughters in a row, making them the poorest family. After she was reborn as a sixth daughter, her parents first ensured her new mother had a good life with plenty of food, and then they helped the whole family prosper.

9. 359 你 You Want to Marry the Only Daughter of a Cadre? Fine! I’ll Marry a Young Officer Instead 你要娶干部独女？行！我改嫁军少 Runaway Ginseng Sprite落跑人参精Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Space + scum-bashing + feel-good story + military marriage + joining the army spouse + raising kids Reading guide: Marriage first, love later. Romance takes center stage early on, then the focus shifts to building a career. Xiang Sinong has fists of iron and a dangerously short temper. She brings a supermarket space with her when she is reborn as the only girl in eight generations of the Xiang family in the 1970s. What’s it like to have four older brothers? Someone always has your back in a figh 1.6kReads8.4Score202Shelves

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   Romance of the Ages

10. 360 穿 Transmigrate into a Book in the 1970s and Marry a Handsome Educated Youth 穿书七零嫁帅气知青 Seven-Branch Archer七枝射手Modern Romance394k WordsCompleted [The 1970s, transmigrate into a book, marry an educated youth, everyday family life, no space or golden finger, devoted couple] After somehow finding herself in a rural village in the 1970s, Yang Tao realized she had transmigrated into a book. She had become a cannon-fodder character in a period novel she had just read. From the start, her family was helping pressure a male educated youth into marrying her. As a fine young woman of the twenty-first century, Yang Tao thought forcing someone into 897Reads7.3Score100Shelves

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    The female lead was the most inconspicuous among her many siblings. She unexpectedly saved the male lead, married him, and became the happiest person in the family.

11. 361 下 Drugged and Forced to Sell Myself? I Turn Around and Throw Myself at a Tough Army Officer 下药强卖？我转身扑倒硬汉军官 Ice Soul Divine Needle冰魄神针Modern Romance286k WordsCompleted The rating just came out, so it’ll go up. [Military marriage | wild imagination | badass woman transmigrates | everyone’s favorite | takes down the rotten lot] Lin Jingwan, a woman from the apocalypse, has transmigrated! Her father just died, her mother is a murderer, and this timid, lonely, miserable woman is being bullied by a bald thug! She kicks her “newlywed husband” unconscious, escapes, then accidentally barges into someone else’s bridal chamber? Should she take her place? Would that work 12.8kReads8.4Score2.2kShelves

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    The female lead comes from an unremarkable family, but she is very capable, and her husband has a powerful background.

12. 362 天 Cursed with a Lonely Fate, the Hard-Headed Officer Insists on Marrying Me 天命孤煞，命硬军官非要娶我 Ice Soul Divine Needle冰魄神针Modern Romance365k WordsCompleted [Military Marriage in the 1970s + Cathartic Revenge + Everyone's Favorite + Pocket Dimension + Adorable Multiple Children] When Lin Yinyin opens her eyes, she finds herself in the body of a pitiful girl whose entire family is dead. Her father died young, her mother passed away from illness, and her stepfather and stepmother are still abusing her! Put up with it? Not a chance! She makes her stepmother take her place in a marriage to fill a vacancy, and sends her stepbrother to keep a widow warm i 12.6kReads8.8Score1.6kShelves
13. 363 炮 Cannon Fodder? In the Apocalypse, I Take the Family Fortune and Seduce the Male Lead 炮灰？末世菟丝花卷家产，勾男主 Crumb-Free Cookie曲奇不掉渣Modern Romance468k WordsCompleted [The Sixties] [Pocket Dimension] [Super Sweet] [Love at First Sight] [Irresistible Heroine] [Proud, Stubborn Hero] [Satisfying Revenge] Ruan Sumu used her beauty to run wild in the apocalypse. But one day, she closed her eyes and opened them to find herself inside a period novel, as a heart-sick, utterly wicked cannon-fodder villainess. In the original story, she was selfish, spoiled, shallow, and deceitful, bullying the heroine at every turn. The heroine eventually schemed to have her sent to t 152Reads7.0Score107Shelves

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    In this historical romance novel, the female lead is beautiful, rich, and has a special ability. Why should she be a supporting character to the original female lead? She becomes the female lead herself, and men come to her—it's incredibly satisfying!

14. 364 穿 Broke in the 1950s? I’ll Empty My Enemies’ Fortunes 穿五零穷叮当？我搬空仇人家产 Ben Biao123犇驫123Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted An alternate-era setting, transmigration into a book, a spatial realm, supernatural powers, famine, and a powerful protagonist. Xia Yurou, a powerful psychic from the post-apocalyptic world, transmigrates into the youngest daughter of a military commander in an era novel. Her father died young. For the jade pendant her own daughter has been longing for, the female protagonist's mother locks her best friend's daughter in a supply crate bound for overseas, where the girl suffocates to death. Late 18.8kReads8.6Score1.8kShelves
15. 365 我 I'm Really Not Here to Join This Family! 我真的不是来加入这个家的！ Ice Cream Youyou冰淇淋又又Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [1970s + Space + Metaphysics + Face-Slapping + Revenge] Also known as “I Really Didn't Come Here to Join This Family” Zhou Chonghua, the eighteenth-generation leader of the Maoshan Sect, died and found herself in the body of a young girl with the same name in the 1970s. The girl had had a miserable life. Born into a remarried family, she was unloved by her father and mother and schemed against by her sister. At a tender age, she was sent to the countryside, where she suffered terribly. At last, 10.7kReads8.0Score1.1kShelves

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    The metaphysical master becomes the workhorse in the blended family, the one who can sacrifice himself at any moment. 🔥The female lead witnessed the tragic end of the original owner of the body in her past life, caused by her family.🔥She simply avoided those arrangements, and so far, her two older sisters have one dead and one injured, her biological mother is in life imprisonment, and her fourth brother is detained.🌿🌿

16. 366 重 Reborn in the 1980s: Life Is Sweet 重生八零：生活就是甜甜的 Warm Spring Sunrise暖阳春晓Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Ding Nian returns to the eve of the day she was tricked into marriage. Taking her parents and younger siblings with her, she heads to the city to build a better life. Who would have thought she’d meet the legendary big shot from her previous life, except that right now, he’s just a boy as green as a cabbage. The boy’s mother says, “My son is honest and well-behaved.” Ding Nian thinks of how the boy’s previous life ended, and realizes it had nothing to do with these people. Should she get on good 822Reads6.8Score104Shelves

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    ① The female protagonist is reborn and helps her parents separate from the family, starting her business by opening a shop. She and the male protagonist are neighbors, and they have a childhood sweetheart relationship. ② A satisfying story where the female protagonist is reborn on the eve of her divorce from her ex-husband. She uses her connections to blackmail him and gets her first sum of money, then buys a house, opens a shop, and starts a business. The male protagonist is a retired soldier. ③ A heartwarming, everyday story where the female protagonist stays home writing and doesn't suffer from bullying, while the male protagonist is a researcher.

17. 367 快 Quick Transmigration: I’m Clinging to a Big Shot in Period Novels 快穿之我在年代文里抱大腿 Rouge-Smiling Bookworm胭脂笑忘书生666k WordsCompleted Her lifestyle was far too extravagant. If she could sit, she never stood; if she could lie down, she never sat. She avoided hardship and enjoyed every comfort. Because Yu Niaoniao loved the good life too much, the Main God, who couldn’t stand the sight of her, banished her to a department that sent people into period novels to complete missions. She was sent to an era where everything was scarce, expected to suffer and toil to her heart’s content. But! If they wanted her to suffer, she would do 396Reads8.5Score103Shelves

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    🌈Dimension Five, the contrast between the lucky koi of the historical fiction and the unloved daughter of a typical family. The protagonist, neglected by her parents and the most insignificant member of her household, never had enough to eat by the age of ten. She left home alone to live with her uncle, severing ties with the Yu family. Not only did she work hard to get into university, but she also found a handsome and talented husband. Meanwhile, her parents' family was a complete mess.

18. 368 重 Reborn in 1990, I Traded My Ex-Husband for Eight Houses 重生九零，我用前夫换了八套房 Autumn Colors Crimson秋色绯绯Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Strong leads x no pocket dimension x no System x loving family x building wealth x career first, romance later] Bai Zhenzhu is reborn on the very day she divorces her scumbag husband. The mistress pulls out a stack of cash and asks her: “How much do you want to agree to the divorce?” Bai Zhenzhu replies, “One hundred thousand. Not a cent less.” One hundred thousand to get rid of the scumbag, twenty thousand in divorce compensation, and twenty-four thousand in child support. Bai Zhenzhu takes t 20.4kReads9.3Score2.8kShelves
19. 369 七 Miracle Doctor of the Seventies: After Turning Dark, I Lived Like an Immortal 七零神医：黑化后过上了神仙日子 Top-Tier Medium一等神婆Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Spatial Powers + Feel-Good Fiction + Putting Scumbags in Their Place + A Family Full of Terrible People + Miracle Doctor] After being reborn, I trounced my entire awful family. My poisonous mother and ruthless father, my scheming younger sister, my heartless sister-in-law, my tyrannical eldest sister, my sinister second brother, and my crafty third brother: I turned every last one of them into trash. My fourth and fifth brothers died tragically saving me. This time, I'll protect you all! 3.8kReads8.7Score608Shelves

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    Rebirth, space, fighting against the best, protecting family, taking advantage of the era, reaching the pinnacle of life.

20. 370 谢 Boss Xie, Your Little Nanny Is Acting Up Again 谢老板，你家小保姆又不安分了 Yan Xingyan言星妍Modern Romance505k WordsCompleted [1990s + reborn + raising a child + everyday life] Shen Aiqiu is reborn in 1991. In her previous life, keeping her head down and tolerating everything brought her neither a happy family nor a healthy, thriving son. Instead, she was displaced from her own home and became a haggard, middle-aged woman cast out onto the street. In the end, she and her son both died miserably in the streets. Reborn, she refuses to endure it all over again. This time, she won't depend on anyone else. No matter how dif 20kReads8.9Score1.1kShelves

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    She was an uneducated woman from a bygone era. Her husband was having an affair, and her mother-in-law looked down on her. She divorced and took her child to work as a nanny. An ordinary, unremarkable woman, she raised her child very well, attended night school, found true love, and eventually opened a housekeeping company.

21. 371 分 After the Family Split, the Little Widow’s Husband Returned from the Capital 分家后，小寡妇男人从京城回来了 Jin Yu锦喻Modern Romance988k WordsCompleted [Space + Sweet Romance] Lin Yu wakes up in the 1970s, an era of scarce supplies when you need ration coupons for everything. She’s a young widow with a child, her husband supposedly dead! First, she takes on her awful mother-in-law and splits up the family. Then she raises her three little ones and makes a fortune. But one day, her husband comes back! Xiao Jing is strong and sturdy, and a key member of the state. Seeing his delicate little wife, who can barely lift a finger, he can’t help fee 2.9kReads9.1Score327Shelves

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    ✨✨The female protagonist's soul transmigrates to the 1970s, and she's a widow with three children after her husband's death [smirk]. What to do? First, separate from her awful mother-in-law, then lead her three children to wealth and a comfortable life [admiration]. But then her dead husband returns, and he's a key government official! [Admiration][admiration][admiration] Well, let's live a good life together then! [Admiration][admiration][admiration]

22. 372 掏 The Capitalist's Daughter Liquidated Her Family Fortune and Joined the Army to Find Her Husband 掏空家产，资本家小姐去部队寻夫 Splendid Money Orange锦绣钱橙Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Original title: “Emptying the Family Fortune: The Capitalist's Daughter Goes to the Army to Find Her Husband” [Military marriage + Transmigrate into a Book + Pocket dimension + Putting scumbags in their place + Love grows over time + Exceptionally fit military officer, her childhood betrothed VS dazzling capitalist's daughter] Jiang Si was fair-skinned, beautiful, and radiant. Who would have thought that after waking up, she would find herself in a period novel, as a well-known capitalist's daug 46.1kReads9.2Score5.6kShelves

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    [A physically gifted military officer who was raised as a child prince VS a stunningly beautiful capitalist's daughter] Jiang Sisheng was fair-skinned and beautiful, with a captivating charm. She woke up to find herself transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a famous capitalist's daughter in Shanghai. Her scumbag father and stepmother had tricked her into going to the countryside, then absconded with the Jiang family's century-old fortune to Hong Kong. Poor Jiang Si was left alone in the countryside, suffering hardship and exhaustion, her health collapsing in less than two years. Knowing the plot well, Jiang Si declared, "Suffering? No way!" She turned the tables, packing up all the ungrateful family members and sending them to the southwest. Nowhere to put their vast fortune? No problem! Jiang Si performed a blood test to confirm kinship, activating her ancestral space and collecting all the gold, silver, property deeds, antiques, and paintings—leaving them with nothing! Nowhere for the capitalist's daughter? Not a chance! Jiang Si sent a telegram to the island, but having prepared herself for a hard and simple life, she discovered that life on the island wasn't as tough as she had imagined. Her officer husband was not only a capable gentleman and a skilled cook, but her in-laws also doted on her. Life was sweeter than honey!

23. 373 末 The Apocalypse Queen in the 1970s! 末世女王在七零！ Laughing Every Day天天嘻嘻哈哈哈Modern Romance804k WordsCompleted [Alternate-History Era + Special Abilities + No Handouts, No Saintly Heroics, No Self-Destructive Angst + Cross Me and I’ll Kill You + Military Life + Raising Kids + Small-Town Gossip = A Happy Ending] Su Wanwan, the queen of three types of special abilities in the apocalypse, has just blown the base leader’s head off, avenging her mother’s murder. Before she can celebrate her victory, the Zombie King, who has been secretly watching her from the shadows for a long time, swallows her whole. After 8.1kReads8.0Score906Shelves

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    A clear-headed female protagonist who neither helps the poor nor acts like a saint.

24. 374 王 Granny Wang Reborn and Remarried, Leaving Her Unfilial Son Heartbroken 王老太重生改嫁后，不孝子悔断肠 Chubby Girl肥妞妞Modern Romance127k WordsOngoing Content warning: The heroine is reborn in 1965 and lives in a feudal village with strong clan traditions. It's the kind of village that isn't afraid even when the Red Guards show up. The village won't let divorced women stay, and women don't have their own household registration. Their registration belongs to their husband or their birth family. The heroine will marry a second time, even a third, and escape the village and its terrible conditions one step at a time. The heroine's outlook changes —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    These books are good. The first one is about an old woman who is reborn, and her unfilial son wants to be reincarnated, but the female lead remarries.

25. 375 重 Reborn in the 1970s: The Village Girl Bride Has a Bit of Sass 重生七零：村姑媳妇有点茶！ Gu Jinmo古堇末Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period setting + military marriage + twins + devoted couple + no golden finger] Su Dongnuan wakes up in a dilapidated cave dwelling on the Loess Plateau, lying beside a handsome, cold intellectual sent down to the countryside, who is now her husband. She looks at the pitch-black cave, the earthen kang bed, and the clay stove, and her vision goes black. What should she do? Since she's here, she might as well make the best of it. But she has no golden finger, no pocket dimension, and her husband 20.7kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves
26. 376 穿 Transmigrate to the Famine Years: The Everyday Life of a Background Character 穿越饥荒之路人甲的生活日常 One Million on a Scratch Card刮刮乐一百万Modern Romance545k WordsCompleted [Caution: This is not wish-fulfillment. The characters are all flawed. The tone is dark and realistic, and the setting is an alternate fictional world. Much of the content is invented, so read with care if that bothers you.] [Historical era + Transmigrating into a book + Politics] She transmigrates into a scrawny child during a famine. By the time Xu Lele struggles through childhood and her life starts getting better, you tell her this is a sweet romance about a transmigrator sent to the country 6.9kReads7.4Score273Shelves

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    It's quite good. I like the female lead's low-key and cautious personality; she doesn't look down on anyone and always sticks to being herself. I wish there were some side stories for the male and female leads; I feel a little unsatisfied.

27. 377 重 Reborn at Fifty-Five: The Returnee Goes on a Rampage 重生55，留子回国杀疯了 Chubby Girl肥妞妞Modern Romance225k WordsOngoing After poisoning her entire family to death, Ruan Ruan was caught and executed by firing squad. She was reborn on the day she had just returned to the country. A father who is kind on the surface but wicked at heart. A young and beautiful stepmother. An older brother with an intellectual disability. Sisters who are bent on marrying into wealth. On their wedding night, Ji Zhenghua gazed at the red marks around Ruan Ruan's waist, his heart aching. “How did you pinch yourself this badly?” Ruan R 3Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 378 下 Only After Moving to the Countryside Did I Learn My Family Are All Military Bigwigs 下乡后，才知家人们都是军区大佬 Moonlight in the Nine Netherworlds九幽月光Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Period setting + sent down to the countryside + face-slapping and punishing scumbags + spatial storage + military marriage + true daughter + female-led wish fulfillment] Su Nuohan was an elite mercenary in the twenty-first century. She died tragically during a mission to rescue hostages. When she opened her eyes again, she had become the Su family’s biological daughter in Haicheng in the 1970s, and had been set up to go to the countryside in place of the family’s fake heiress. After absorbing t 48.8kReads8.3Score5.9kShelves

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    This book is really good, everyone should read it.

29. 379 穿 Transmigrated to the 1980s: The Military Bigwig Spoils Me and My Quadruplets 穿越八零，一胎四宝被军区大佬娇宠 Su Muhe苏沐禾Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Transmigrate into a book + period setting + military marriage + love after marriage + devoted couple + adorable babies) Ye Shuang, a preschool teacher, was hit by a car and killed while saving a student. When she opened her eyes, she had become the male lead’s ill-fated former wife in a stepmother-era novel, a cannon-fodder character who died in childbirth. Her surname was Ye, and her fate was to die giving birth to quadruplets. Just as she was about to give up and accept her circumstances, a c 27.7kReads8.4Score3.1kShelves

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    🍄🍄Ye Shuang, a kindergarten teacher, was hit by a car and died while saving her students. When she opened her eyes, she found herself in a period drama about a stepmother, the ex-wife of the male lead who died in childbirth. Ye was her surname, and dying in childbirth while pregnant with quadruplets was her fate. Just as she was resigned to accepting reality, a turning point arrived. Breaking free from the plot's control, she resolutely joined the army while heavily pregnant. Unexpectedly, because of her large belly, she was suspected of being involved and cheated on with the male lead, Fu Cheng. When the quadruplets were born, the entire military dependents' compound was in an uproar…

30. 380 六 The Fierce and Charming Female Soldier of the 1960s: Winning the Cold Commander's Heart 六零娇辣小女兵：狠撩高冷首长心 Fish in the Woods00林中鱼00Modern Romance367k WordsCompleted [A High-Ranking Cadre Romance Set in the 1960s] [You Sit Upon the High Terrace, I Stay by Your Side] A bewitching, flirtatious heroine and a powerful, high-ranking cadre hero I grew up beside the water city I sit in your arms I hold a beautiful dream close to my heart And stumble into your peaceful world [Deliberate Seduction + A Powerful Man Bows to Love] When Lin Yiqiao first arrives in the capital, she seems sweet, naive, and gentle, but she has no shortage of schemes and tricks. All she wa 42.9kReads9.1Score3.9kShelves

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    🍅The first book: After the female lead's mother remarried, she became a stepmother. The female lead was disliked and bullied at home from a young age. When she grew up, she escaped her family and went to live with her aunt. Then she met the male lead and took the initiative to become the wife of a high-ranking official. Her stepfather used the title of "high-ranking official's father-in-law" to curry favor with a factory director. Her stepsister then got close to the factory director's son. The whole family wanted to take advantage of her, but the female lead was very unwilling. Later, the male lead dealt with her directly. It was so satisfying! 🍅The second book: The female lead's father, as the unfavored member of the family, was schemed to go to the countryside and became estranged from his family. In the countryside, he got together with the female lead's mother. The female lead's mother was a capitalist's daughter. Later, after the female lead fell ill and returned to the city for medical treatment, he tried to stay. He broke ties with his older brother and sister-in-law and parents, and took back the female lead's mother's house. He lived in a big villa, opened a shop, and collected rent. The older brother and sister-in-law were envious, jealous, and furious. 🍅The third book: The female lead's parents were not favored by their family. After the family separated, they saved someone and got two jobs in the city. They moved directly to the city.

31. 381 穿 Transmigrated as the Cannon Fodder True Heiress, I Go Crazy at the Drop of a Hat 穿成炮灰真千金，一言不合就发疯 Chubby Girl肥妞妞Modern Romance472k WordsCompleted The rating has just come in, but it’ll rise later. "The Real and Fake Heiress Switched in a Pig-Butchering Scam, Making a Fortune in 1960s Hong Kong", also known as "Transmigrated as the Doomed Real Heiress, She Goes Wild at the Drop of a Hat" Yang Heqing transmigrates into a book. She doesn’t know what happens next and doesn’t want to go home and farm. A handsome military officer, Wen Zeyang, suddenly proposes to her. She can follow the army, so she agrees without a second thought. But the long 718Reads8.4Score—Shelves
32. 382 开 From the Start, I Reported My Stepfather, Then the Frail Villainess Was Doted on in the Countryside 开局举报继父，病弱女配下乡被宠 Feng Ling lI风灵lIModern Romance759k WordsCompleted [Space + System + Sweet Romance + Frail Heroine + Rugged Hero] Qiao Qingdai was an utterly ordinary office worker. She was 25 and had been single for years. One day, after work, she decided to treat herself. Instead, a woman fell from the sky and crushed her to death. She drifted around with a soul-reaper from the underworld for a while before realizing that they had taken the wrong soul... After a furious argument, Qiao Qingdai happily took the loot she’d scored: a treasure chest System and a p 18.9kReads9.0Score2.2kShelves

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    ☘️The female lead is the most inconspicuous person in her family. Her biological mother doesn't love her, and her stepfather doesn't care for her either. She drags her frail body to study medicine, is tricked into going to the countryside, and ends up sending her stepfather to be reformed. She dreams of becoming the beloved little darling of the family.

33. 383 八 1980s: The Foxiest Femme Fatale and the Wildest Officer 八零，做最美狐狸精戏最野军官 Shameless Young Master公子无耻Modern Romance537k WordsCompleted A flirtatious movie queen VS a stoic, passionate, impossibly manly military officer. International movie queen Jiang Mengning transmigrates into a book and becomes the despised, wicked stepmother in a military compound. The original owner was unfaithful and arrogant, and ended up being cruelly abandoned after repeatedly bringing disaster upon herself. A stepmother? Jiang Mengning has only one thought after transmigrating: this is a role she should never take. But when the man in uniform appe 3kReads8.9Score338Shelves

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    She was abandoned in the freezing cold by her scumbag father at birth, a typical cannon fodder heiress in a book. When she turned eighteen, someone from Beijing came to the village where her adoptive grandmother lived, recognized her, and took her back to the Qiao family. She lived with the Qiao family for less than two months before being sent to the Northwest for rural work, never to return. Seeing Jiang Yang remain silent, Qiao Yu Kui glanced at her impatiently: "Jiang Yang, Qing Qing has been so filial to you for so many years, it's time for you to repay her. Even if your mother were here, she would definitely think the same way." Jiang Yang slowly raised her eyes, cursing inwardly, but a bitter smile appeared on her small face.

34. 384 瞎 Blind Corn! Rotten Potatoes! Worthless Children, Get on Your Knees! 瞎苞米！烂土豆！极品儿女靠边跪 Lucky Cat招财猫儿Modern Romance3.6M WordsOngoing [Period] [The 1980s] [Light Ensemble Cast] [Reborn] [Feel-Good] [No Golden Finger] [Family Life] (Also known as: Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Leaves Her Children Behind) Seventy-year-old Wu Zhiqiu is Reborn in the era when her children still depend on her hard work and sacrifice! In her previous life, she played favorites and ended up alone and miserable in her old age. This time, she refuses to repeat the past. The old lady decides to leave her children behind and enjoy the rest of her lif 194.4kReads9.3Score8.3kShelves
35. 385 渣 Her Scumbag Dad Always Favors His Childhood Sweetheart, but Her Mother Is Reborn and Won't Put Up with It 渣爹处处偏青梅，亲妈重生不干了 SixSix Cutie六六小可爱Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [A meek-looking mother who's secretly a lunatic x A heartless, scheming daughter x A scumbag father gets his comeuppance, burned to ashes] Jiang Zhi, a wage slave who died from overwork under the 996 schedule, was reborn as an only child in the 1980s. In this life, she decided to lie flat and be a couch potato. Who would have thought her mother was spineless and her father blindly devoted to his parents? Her grandfather favored her uncle and kept taking from her father to support the uncle's fam 4.4kReads8.3Score512Shelves

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    My mom, reborn, dumped my scumbag dad who always protected my childhood sweetheart [kissing emoji]. In an era when divorce was rare, my mom led me to the pinnacle of life.

36. 386 恶 Evil Ex-Wife? No, She's a Green-Tea White Lotus 恶毒前妻？不，她是绿茶白莲 Chubby Girl肥妞妞Modern Romance243k WordsCompleted Yun Shaojia was an unlucky, wicked ex-wife. Having spent two lifetimes as a ghost, she knew she was the cannon-fodder ex-wife of Wen Zhihuan, the male lead in two novels: The Powerful Boss’s Reborn Darling Wife and The Powerful Man Sent Down and His Beloved Wife. Both authors had given her the same nasty cannon-fodder characterization: lazy, greedy, wicked, and a foil for their kindhearted heroines. One heroine was reborn, and the other had transmigrated. They kept dragging Yun Shaojia out as a 70Reads5.9Score—Shelves
37. 387 穿 Transmigrated into a Period Novel, Lying Flat and Enjoying the Gossip Is Perfectly Reasonable! 穿进年代文，躺平吃瓜很合理吧！ Yuanyuanzi Loves to Be Lazy圆圆子爱偷懒Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The System was supposed to bind itself to the villainess, but through a twist of fate, it bound itself to her instead. She already has plenty of golden fingers. Could it please leave her alone? Going to the countryside for sent-down youth service can be a lot of fun. Who says you have to suffer? She knows full well that she's just a minor bystander who likes to watch the drama. She'll watch the heroine and villainess stir up trouble, but only from a safe distance. Here's to everyone living happi 12.9kReads8.1Score1.3kShelves
38. 388 穿 I Transmigrate into a Book as a Middle-Aged Woman, Just as the Heroine Tries to Steal My Golden Finger 穿书成大妈，女主正想抢夺金手指 Nian Lianqiu念莲秋Modern Romance581k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate Into a Book, Period Setting, Pocket Dimension, Punish the Scum, No Whitewashing, No Forgiveness! A Touch of Ensemble Cast, Domestic Life, Building a Career] [No CP: No divorce, only widowhood! Sisters, let's not give her another man later, okay? Men are poison, and old men are even less worth bothering with. Let's not let them mess with our Hua!] Liu Xiaohua, a woman past the usual age for marriage, was forcibly sent by the System into a period novel. In an instant, she became the 16kReads8.2Score1.8kShelves
39. 389 恶 My Wicked Mother-in-Law Went on a Rampage After Being Reborn, So I Took Her Place and Won by Doing Nothing 恶婆婆重生后杀疯了，我替嫁躺赢 The Sun on the Mountaintop山顶的太阳Modern Romance683k WordsCompleted [70s setting + military marriage + period drama + substitute marriage + family life + face-slapping + transmigration and rebirth] Su Qing was dazzlingly beautiful. Her friends jokingly called her a “strong, whiny monster.” She had countless admirers, and had beaten up countless scumbags. She never imagined she’d transmigrate into the body of a pushover. The pushover had been worked like a beast at her parents’ home, and even her marriage had been used as a pawn. Since her family refused to retur 18kReads9.2Score2.6kShelves

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    The female protagonist transmigrates into a book, and her mother-in-law is also a reincarnated person. The two get along like a biological mother and daughter, and the mother-in-law simply abandons her ungrateful children. [Thinking]

40. 390 穿 Transmigrating into a Book in the 1980s: The Good-for-Nothing Big Brother’s Comeback 穿书八零：对照组废柴大哥的逆袭 Shi Yuexi石月晞Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted One punch landed, and Shi Huajun, a young man from the modern world, transmigrated into a book. He became the most pathetic side character in a period novel: an unemployed, good-for-nothing older brother who had returned to the city in the 1980s, a laughingstock whom everyone in the crowded courtyard looked down on. In the original story, he was beyond help, slumped in a tiny ten-square-meter room and doing nothing for more than a decade. His wife was used as someone else’s pawn, forced to tak 635Reads8.3Score103Shelves

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    From the male protagonist's perspective, the eldest brother in the control group rises up.

41. 391 一 A Pair of Delicate Red Hands 一双红酥手 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Urban2.1M WordsCompleted Reborn in 1996, I planned to strike it rich with the lottery numbers from the one thing I remembered about my past life. Who knew it would still turn out to be just a dream!!! There are only 98 days left until the college entrance exam, and I’ve forgotten every bit of what I learned in my previous life. What do I do... Fine, I’ll come clean. I just want to be a couch potato, enjoy life with a beautiful wife, and live a quiet little life... This story is entirely fictional. Any similarities are p 11kReads9.0Score621Shelves

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    Here are some recommendations for multi-female protagonist period novels that are close to real life.

42. 392 快 Quick Transmigration: Starting by Staying Away from the Plot 快穿：从远离剧情开始 Moonflower No. 1月见一号Modern Romance1.9M WordsCompleted Original title: The Quick-Transmigration Cannon-Fodder Female Lead Doesn’t Follow the Plot [Quick transmigration + fictional worlds + some stories conclude in one chapter + varied lengths + doesn’t follow the original plot + absolutely no helping the poor + all male leads are virgins + personal space] [No fixed couple, but the male leads must be pure] The cannon-fodder female characters in the plot suddenly awaken. After growing a brain, Luo Yang refuses to follow the sucker’s script anymore. Sh 19.1kReads8.4Score1.1kShelves

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    Unfavored but self-reliant

43. 393 重 Back to the 1990s: I Don't Want to Get Married and Have Kids 重回九零：结婚生娃的日子我不要 Plum Blossoms Never Meet Their Bamboo Horse青梅遇不上竹马Modern Romance592k WordsCompleted Not a wish-fulfillment story. No male lead. An everyday story set in a bygone era. In her previous life, Li Xiaoke was rejected and despised by her own mother from the moment she was born, simply because she was a girl. Her mother already had a son and a daughter, but wanted another boy. Li Xiaoke's birth dashed that hope. Her mother then tried for two more children, but both were stillborn. She came to hate Li Xiaoke for it. Her father was busy with work all day and paid little attention to any 378Reads7.5Score101Shelves

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    These three books fit the description; they are all period dramas featuring female protagonists who are the least favored at home but end up being the most successful. The female protagonists are clear-headed and self-interested.

44. 394 女 The Female Lead Not Only Speaks Her Mind, She Also Spreads Rumors 女主不光长了嘴，她还会造谣 Keeping to the Dark, Knowing the White守黑知白Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Xie Longxi grew up in the countryside. At sixteen, her biological parents claimed her, and she successfully made the transition from the countryside to the city, then back to the countryside. Her birth parents had claimed her so she could take her two-years-younger full sister, Xie Weihong's, place when she was sent down to the countryside. Forced to go down to the countryside, she finally endured countless hardships to return to the city. First, she broke up with her boyfriend, then her ex-boyf 5.5kReads8.4Score616Shelves
45. 395 七 A Pocket Space in the 1970s: Stocking Up, Snacking, and Watching the Show 七零有空间，囤货吃瓜看热闹 Gu Hongying Is Super Cute孤鸿影超可爱Modern Romance979k WordsOngoing [Period drama + the 1970s + educated youth sent to the countryside + everyday family life + space + reborn + feel-good revenge + a self-serving pragmatist] Chen Songyi had terrible luck. After staying up all night reading a novel, she dropped dead and was suddenly reborn in the 1970s. In an era when everything was rationed, what could she do, alone and with no one to rely on? Her parents were useless and called her an ungrateful, two-faced daughter. Her siblings stood by and did nothing; not one 3.4kReads6.4Score274Shelves

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    She's unloved by her father and mother, the poor little thing in the family, but it doesn't matter, she'll fight for it and snatch what she wants.

46. 396 女 Wang, the Northeastern Guy in the Women's Dorm, Don't Panic 女工宿舍楼里东北汉子老王你别慌 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Urban668k WordsCompleted Wang Xinyan is a strapping Northeastern man, tall and broad-shouldered. But because his mother loved watching romance dramas, she gave him a feminine name. After graduating from college, that name got him assigned not only to a female factory-worker position, but also to a dorm room on the women's floor… 1.3kReads8.5Score—Shelves
47. 397 婆 When the Mother-in-Law Takes Charge, Her Son Returns to a Shocking Sight 婆婆当家，儿子归来傻眼了 A Mushroom一枝蘑菇Modern Romance571k WordsCompleted For the two years since her son got married, Yang Yufen never showed up. Everyone said she was a mean mother-in-law who looked down on her daughter-in-law, Qin Nian: she didn’t help when Qin Nian was pregnant, and she was nowhere to be seen when her grandson became seriously ill. It wasn’t until Qin Nian had an accident and the child died that Yang Yufen finally came to her senses. At the hospital, she saw her missing son with a homewrecker. She slapped him, only for the woman to shove her down 15.6kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves

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    A historical romance novel where the mother-in-law is reborn and treats her daughter-in-law even better than her son. Very good read.

48. 398 七 Warm Days in the 1970s: The Unwanted Daughter's Daily Life of Giving Everything Away 七零暖时光，赔钱货的倒贴日常 Golden Scales, How Could They Be金鳞岂是Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Transmigration to a period novel + System + pocket dimension + everyday life + lots of romance and love interests + standing up for herself + feel-good power fantasy + female-lead loyal + no putting up with mistreatment] Family squabbles and dealing with awful relatives + building a career and rising all the way to the top + encounters with all kinds of handsome men This book puts the heroine first. She only loves herself and refuses to marry into a family as a live-in bride. Hua Er transmigrat 11.4kReads8.8Score1.9kShelves

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    Hua'er transmigrated to the 1970s and became a free nanny at her aunt's house. She immediately quit, proving herself to be a truly ruthless person.

49. 399 重 Restarting My Life and Winning Over Several One True Loves 重启人生拐几个白月光 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Urban282k WordsCompleted So what if he was rich in his previous life? He couldn't even find his wife and daughter! In this reborn life, he'll protect his family first... A life of wealth and luxury? He wouldn't mind! But the simple pleasures of everyday life are what feel most real! 454Reads—Score—Shelves
50. 400 九 The 1990s: They Look Down on Me? I’m a Reborn Workaholic 九零：被瞧不起？呵呵我卷王重生 You Were Born Nameless卿本无名Modern Romance1.7M WordsCompleted Tags: Clear-headed, independent heroine! After a difficult life, Li Xiaonan got to wipe the slate clean and start over. Back on the day she was tricked into buying a job, Li Xiaonan firmly said no! She resolutely decided to return to school and take the exams, and unexpectedly crossed paths with the big shot Zhou Qingbai from her previous life. Li Xiaonan: Big brother, how about being a useful connection for me? 45.6kReads9.1Score5.6kShelves

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    The first book features a female protagonist who takes the selection exam for civil servants right after graduation, starting her career at the provincial party committee's organization department.

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