Looking for Stories About Striving Through the Years, Preferably with a Warm, Close-Knit Family 跪求年代奋斗文，最好有温馨的一家子
Translated by GPT-6 Luna
In this list
Reader notes translated by Google Translate
36
-
1
Transmigrate Into a Book Set in the 1970s: The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead Gives Up and Takes It Easy 穿书七零：炮灰女配咸鱼了
[Period setting + Transmigrate into a book + Spatial powers + Married] She wakes up as the central figure at a funeral, having transmigrated into a period novel as a spiteful, selfish woman. Well, in that case, she might as well let loose. Her persona is already established, and she has a golden finger. Why work hard when she could have a wonderful life without lifting a finger? Liu Qingqing declares, “I’m going to be a couch potato.”
22.5kReads9.3Score2kShelves
Reader note
-
2
Siheyuan: I'm Liu Guangqi 四合院：我是刘光奇
A Love in the Courtyard fanfic. I transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard and became Liu Guangqi. Emmmm, not a bad identity. Unlike other transmigrators who start out as orphans, at least the courtyard's scoundrels can't bully me. As for everything else, I'll just sit back and watch!
16.3kReads9.1Score657Shelves
-
3
Reborn in 1975: From the Start, I Tore Up the Order to Return to the City 重生1975：开局撕毁回城调令
Zhou Yang, an unrivaled patriot who devoted his whole life to his country, was reborn and returned to the remote mountain village where he had been sent down to work in 1975! Looking at the transfer order in his hand, this time he didn't hesitate. He tore it to shreds! In his previous life, he'd been blinded by greed and abandoned his wife and daughter to return to the city, watching helplessly as Li Youwei and her daughter met tragic deaths. Reborn, all Zhou Yang wanted was a warm home with his
191.1kReads9.5Score22.8kShelves
Reader note
-
4
I Woke with a Start and Returned to the Moment My Wife and Daughter Had Their Accident 猛惊醒，重回老婆女儿意外时
[Reborn in the 1980s + no System + a scumbag husband turns over a new leaf + devoted husband + doting dad + farming + one heroine + building a fortune + the capital’s elite circle + a little officialdom] Back on the day his wife and daughter had their accident, Meng Haisheng fights desperately to save them both. One mystery after another from his previous life begins to come to light. It turns out someone deliberately lured him into gambling. It turns out he was actually a young master from the
17.7kReads9.0Score1.5kShelves
-
5
I Ditch My Scumbag Dad to Marry a Commander, and the Pretty Army Wife Is Treasured 踹渣爹嫁首长，俏军嫂被捧在心尖
[All-around rich beauty + no supporting deadbeats + no black-market dealings + no relocation to the countryside + spatial System with multiverse trading] Lin Siqiao transmigrated from a fabulously wealthy Shanghai socialite into a pitiful young woman in the 1970s, disliked by her own family. Less than a year after her birth mother died, her scumbag father brought home a stepmother. They say that once you have a stepmother, you get a stepfather too. But Lin Siqiao never imagined that, just to sei
32.8kReads9.5Score4.9kShelves
Reader note
-
6
Southbound, Northbound: A 1970s Supporting Actress Who Transmigrated Into a Drama Has a System 南来北往：穿剧七零女配有系统
[The 1970s + transmigrating into the drama South and North + food delivery System + eccentric side characters + cozy everyday life + no demonizing the original leads + no need to have watched the show to enjoy the story + the golden finger plays a small role] Shu Ning never imagined that after staying up late to binge-watch a drama, she'd wake up inside the hit period drama everyone was talking about, as Yao Yuling, a train announcer. She was faced with both good news and bad news. The bad news
1.4kReads8.7Score117Shelves
-
7
As a Widow, I Struggled to Make It in the 1980s 穿成寡妇的我在八零奋斗
Li Miaomiao was a hard-working corporate drone, on the verge of a long-awaited promotion. But after falling asleep, she woke up back in the struggling 1980s, widowed and saddled with two children! Staring at the old woman weeping nonstop before her, the scrawny girl standing by her bed, and the baby still in swaddling clothes, Li Miaomiao felt that something was terribly wrong. What on earth had she done to deserve this? A major incident had recently shaken Xie Family Village: Wang, the old wom
78Reads9.1Score103Shelves
-
8
The Commander's Sweet Second Wife 首长的二婚甜妻
[Reborn Heroine + Second Marriage with a Child + Twins + Stunning Beauty + Adorable Kids + Feel-Good Story + Heroine Pursues Her Career After Giving Birth; Military Officer Hero + First Marriage + Dotes on His Wife + No Angst] In the 1970s, Xia Tian was once a dazzling beauty who drew everyone’s attention, but fate played a cruel joke on her. Still young, she became a widow, caring for a baby who needed constant feeding, with hardship dogging her every step. After Xia Tian accidentally fell into
73Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
9
With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s, Where I Can Make Trouble and Money with Ease 小手一背穿七零，搞事赚钱样样行
Also known as "Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Seventies: I Collect Eighty-Eight Paychecks Every Month" Su He woke up one day and transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a fake heiress who had been sent back to her village. In the book, the ungrateful real heiress was practically blessed by cheat codes, with schemes and tricks appearing one after another. The Su family ended up destroyed, while the original owner wished she were dead. Looking at her impoverished home and family members
88.4kReads9.6Score9.4kShelves
Reader note
-
10
Reborn in the 1980s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生八零：媳妇有点辣
Her parents died young, her family was poor, and she was plain-looking. Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a terrible hand, but after nearly twenty years of hard work, she became an executive at a multinational corporation and finally put her life back on track... Then she wakes up to find herself reborn in the 1980s, as another Xia Xiaolan, this time with a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin. The original Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a winning hand, but chose to take her own life under the pressu
53.7kReads9.5Score6.4kShelves
-
11
Pretty Eighties Stepmom Marries a Factory Director and Raises the Kids 八零漂亮后妈，嫁个厂长养崽崽
[Short drama: I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s] The 1980s, stepmother, raising kids, everyday life, love after marriage The moment she opens her eyes, Si Nian finds herself in a period novel as a fake heiress. She’s sent back to the countryside to marry a twice-married man in place of the real heiress, and has to raise a whole brood of children. To make matters worse, she runs into the real heiress, who has been reborn. In her previous life, Lin Sisi was pressured by her family into marrying a
72.1kReads9.4Score9.1kShelves
-
12
A Lovely Military Wife and a Rugged Soldier: One Wrong Step on the Army Journey in the Eighties 军嫂俏！军爷糙！八零随军闪了腰
[Sweet, Charming Wife + Abstinent Officer] (Fictional Military Marriage + Married First, Fell in Love Later + Life in the Military Camp + Spatial System + Adorable Baby) Jiang Ning's arrival in the 1980s gets off to a wild start. The moment she opens her eyes, she's face-to-face with a burly soldier sporting an eight-pack, and nearly gets caught in bed with him. She makes a snap decision and binds herself to the man... “Comrade, what's done is done. Why don't we get married?” “Comrade, let's go
13.6kReads9.0Score1.6kShelves
-
13
A 1980s Military Marriage with Twins: The Scorned Ex-Wife Turns Her Life Around 八零军婚有双宝：炮灰前妻洗白了
Transmigrate into a book + period setting + military marriage + adorable kids + everyday family life Qin Xiaoqiao's husband is the male lead in a period novel. He's from a wealthy family and is an army officer, destined to rise to great heights and make a name for himself. Unfortunately, she's not the heroine. She's merely the male lead's doomed ex-wife, a fat, lazy glutton who, in the author's version, wreaks havoc and gets her family and children killed. In the end, she dies miserably with not
11.1kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
-
14
A Scheming Couple's Daily Bickering in the Sixties 六零腹黑夫妻互怼日常
[1960s Era + Light Ensemble Cast + Crime Solving + Whirlwind Marriage + Guiding Romance] In the 1960s, unsolved cases shrouded the land in mystery. He Xinghua, a policewoman from the countryside, and Lu Yanping, a criminal investigation chief, were not only husband and wife, but also partners in the line of duty. From a rural courtyard to city housing for government cadres, and from sorting through case files to confronting the most baffling criminal minds, they embarked together on a new caree
1.2kReads8.0Score137Shelves
Reader note
-
15
I Remarried with Mom and Went from Tough Girl to Cutie 跟着娘亲改嫁，我从猛女变萌女
[Transmigration + blended family + everyday family life + growth + cherished heroine + heartwarming + historical romance] No golden finger! This isn’t a power fantasy, just the growing-up story of a clever young girl who transmigrates and follows her mother into a new marriage, learning to build a peaceful life in a blended family in ancient times. In her previous life, Song Lingjun grew up in a modern border-town orphanage, where she was a bit of a handful. Every day, she focused on keeping her
24.9kReads9.4Score3.3kShelves
Reader note
-
16
Reborn as a Lazy Little Villain in the 1970s 穿成年代反派小咸鱼
[Cute baby, adored by everyone, feel-good wish fulfillment] Xia Yu is a thousand-year-old sloth who transmigrates and becomes the young daughter of a villainous family, destined to die young. Other people’s kids cry, throw tantrums, and roll around on the floor. The only thing their girl does is lie around like a lazy fish. The villainous family is beside itself with worry, racking its brains to get their little lazy fish moving. Second Brother, the villain: “Little sis, you can’t keep lying aro
3.2kReads8.8Score172Shelves
Reader note
-
17
Transmigrate into a Book: A Useless Woman’s Lie-Flat Life in the 1970s 穿书七零：小废物的躺平人生
[Laid-Back Little Cannon Fodder X Delinquent Second Male Lead] A prediction came true: after graduating from college and returning home to lie flat, Wen Suili got into a car accident and transmigrated into a period novel she’d been following. But she hadn’t become the heroine. She was a minor cannon-fodder supporting character named Wen Sui-sui. Wen Suili: How is a useless good-for-nothing supposed to survive in such a hard era? In the villagers’ eyes, Wen Sui-sui and Lu Mingcheng were tied
6.2kReads9.1Score520Shelves
-
18
I Transmigrated into the Heroine's Sloppy Little Sister, and Now I'm Just Coasting 穿成女主的邋遢妹妹，她咸鱼了
Li Xiaoqing, a freshman, stays up late reading a novel and accidentally transmigrates into the very story she just finished. She becomes the heroine's younger sister, a lazy glutton who loves causing trouble. Now that modern-day Li Xiaoqing knows the plot, she'll cling to her sister's coattails and coast to victory! Entirely fictional! Entirely fictional! Entirely fictional!
22kReads8.7Score1.8kShelves
-
19
The 1980s: The Cold-Faced Officer Is Wrapped Around the Sickly Beauty's Finger 八零：冷面军官被病弱美人拿捏了
[Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion] Martial arts prodigy Jiang Nianzhi transmigrates into a book and arrives in an alternate version of the 1980s, where she becomes a delicate, frail beauty. Thinking she would run into one terrible person after another, she rolls up her sleeves, ready to beat them all into submission. But her feisty mother favors girls over boys, her white-lotus sister is a doting sister-con, her grandmother is a beauty enthusiast, and her little brother has
55.4kReads9.4Score6.8kShelves
-
20
I Strive for My Country’s Prosperity! [System] 我，为祖国富强而奋斗！【系统】
[Reborn + System + top student + patriotism + positive energy + feel-good story + no awful relatives] Su Xing was always on her own, the aloof goddess in everyone else's eyes. It seemed everyone took it for granted that beautiful women should keep their distance and remain unapproachable. Only Su Xing knew she was pretending to be aloof. In truth, she had severe social anxiety! She hated dealing with people and being noticed. All she wanted was to hide in the shell she thought was safe and coast
36kReads9.6Score2.9kShelves
Reader note
-
21
Transmigrated into a Period Novel, I Refuse to Move to the Countryside 穿到年代文抵死不下乡
More than ten years after Xiangqiao was born into her new family, memories suddenly awaken within her. Her older female cousin is the heroine of a rebirth novel… All kinds of plotlines also pop into her head at random. No matter where they are, her family is always a cannon-fodder stepping stone. Why does everyone want me to go to the countryside? Xiangqiao clenches her little fists. “Want me to go rural? No way!” It’s much better to work in the city and slack off now and then. She can also catc
11.9kReads8.3Score504Shelves
-
22
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
66Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
23
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
6.7kReads8.9Score754Shelves
Reader note
-
24
So Sweet! I Transmigrated Into an 1980s Novel and Married the Army’s Toughest Soldier 苏爆了！穿书八零嫁全军第一硬汉
[Transmigrate into a book + military marriage + adored by everyone + ten-year age gap + sweet everyday romance; the heroine has natural good fortune, bringing luck to her husband and prosperity to her family] Su Luo transmigrated into an 1980s military romance novel. She shed the original owner's timid, easily bullied nature and immediately gave her scumbag father and stepmother a three-pronged beatdown, mercilessly putting them in their place. Then she headed straight for the countryside to enj
3kReads9.1Score423Shelves
-
25
Mother's Getting Married, and Sister-in-Law Wei Is on the Rise 娘要嫁人嫂子小魏崛起
A fanfiction of the TV drama My Mother Wants to Marry. No transmigration, no rebirth, and no golden finger. Everything happens because sister-in-law Wei Shuqing has an absurd dream. As events unfold, she chooses to leave the Qi family early and pursue her own happiness…
7.5kReads9.1Score465Shelves
-
26
Military Marriage: The Feisty Army Wife Refuses to Be a Foil in the 1970s 军婚：俏军嫂在七零拒当对照组
[Entirely fictional] [Military marriage + transmigration into a book + female supporting character + contrast characters + devoted husband] Chen Baozhu’s own mother mocks her for sleeping through the day and staying up all night. On her way to the market, she transmigrates into the minor cannon-fodder character in a period novel she had just stayed up all night reading, a character meant to serve as a contrast to the heroine. She arrives just as her stepmother’s daughter, her stepsister, is pres
145Reads6.1Score—Shelves
-
27
Taking a Little House Back to the Seventies 带着小屋穿七零
After graduating, Jiang Yan joined the army of people preparing for the civil service exams. She stayed up late doing practice questions to secure a government job, but suddenly died from overwork and was reborn in the 1970s. To her surprise, what seemed like a disaster turned out to be a blessing: she landed a secure job.
7.3kReads7.3Score362Shelves
-
28
Leaving the Plot Behind, I Climb the Career Ladder in the 1970s 抛开剧情我在七零升职加薪
[Period drama + transmigration into a drama + adored by everyone + changing the plot + career advancement and a pay raise + devoted to one another] Yun Xi had only just become a college student when she stayed up all night watching a period drama recommended by a friend. She woke up to discover she was the female lead, who had the most screen time and shared her name! The heroine had suffered her whole life, only to forgive this person and that person in the end, radiating saintly kindness from
11.1kReads7.9Score695Shelves
-
29
The 1970s: The Original Heroine Starts Trouble, So I Steal Her System 七零：原女主搞事我反手夺她系统
Wang Yuanyuan transmigrates into a book as a cannon-fodder character who dies in the very first chapter. The heroine is a reborn woman with a brilliant mind and a powerful System. But Wang Yuanyuan isn't afraid, because she has an adorable little chubby bird System of her own. As the fair-skinned, beautiful, levelheaded little princess of the Wang family, all Wang Yuanyuan wants is a peaceful life: raise her bird, snack on gossip, and watch the drama unfold. Unfortunately, her little bird is a h
609Reads6.9Score101Shelves
-
30
Staying in the City in the 1960s: Everyday Family Life 六零不下乡，家长里短
[Period setting + patriotism + no romance + System + ensemble cast + family life + everyday living + rumors and gossip] In a nutshell: After transmigrating to the 1960s, Xiang Mianmian uses the System to find jobs for her family and friends, and the Xiang family grows rich. Full synopsis: A parallel world where the nation is developing steadily! An ensemble story with no fixed protagonist!!! All the gossip in the county is at her fingertips. In the 1960s, Xiang Mianmian, the sixth child in her f
1.3kReads8.0Score294Shelves
Reader note
-
31
Getting By in a Period-Era Novel 我在年代文里混日子
Transmigrate into a book + period setting + everyday family life + a touch of fantasy Hu Yan realized she seemed to have been reborn and transmigrated. She’d become a character in an old period novel she had read long ago. Oh, the story had already ended. She was a peripheral character, even less important than a walk-on. Her family’s four lovely daughters were living miserable lives. She didn’t have the heroine’s portable dimension or special aura. But she did have her own little stroke of luck
254Reads6.3Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
32
Back to the ’90s: A Mother’s Strength 重回九零之为母当自强
A flowerpot falling from upstairs sent Lin Qiu back thirty-two years. Her worldview changed, her appearance changed, and her attitude changed. When life gives you a chance to start over, can a life in shambles finally soar?
—Reads—Score—Shelves
-
33
Reborn in the 1980s: Bringing My Kids to Fish the Sea! 重生八零：带着崽崽赶海！
[Raising a child, heartwarming and healing, farming story.] [This novel is currently unavailable. The main text has been extensively revised and no longer matches the live-action audiobook adaptation, but the overall story remains unchanged. Please understand.] In her previous life, the food-loving Tong Yao married a fisherman and gave birth to a son with an intellectual disability. The couple devoted their whole lives to raising him, working hard without ever getting ahead. Then, in their old a
327Reads9.5Score—Shelves
-
34
Reforming My Good-for-Nothing Husband, Starting at Age 20 改造废物老公，从20岁开始养老
[Period story x making money x family and village life x a touch of ensemble cast x raising kids] Lin Hui has a dream. In it, she turns fifty after spending twenty-seven years as a widow, struggling to raise her children, only to develop cancer and die before she can enjoy life. When she wakes, she finds herself back in 1980, the year she just married Xu Dongsheng, the “lazy bum” of the surrounding villages. She grits her teeth. She absolutely cannot let her life follow the path in her dream. Fr
49kReads9.1Score6.3kShelves
Reader note
-
35
Lost in the Mist, the Fallen Princess Can't Escape 迷雾中，亡国公主逃不掉
Jiang Nuanyue: “Why does everything I want have to leave me?” Yun Yuan: “Your name is Nuanyue, Warm Moon. Why won't you let your warm moonlight shine on me?” Jiang Yan (Yue Yi): “Don't worry, my princess. Wherever you are, I'll be by your side.” Qing Luo: “Little Nuanyue, I'm so cold. Just like that frozen lake in winter all those years ago. Will you hold me?” Why is everything I reach for like grains of sand slipping through my fingers, impossible to hold on to?
5Reads8.3Score—Shelves
-
36
Reborn in 1990: Life With a Game-Breaking Bug 重生1990之卡BUG人生
Thirty-year-old programmer Chen Xu dies suddenly after working 996 hours. When he wakes up, he’s back in a small county town in 1990. He knows his father will be laid off in three months, and he knows every wave of opportunity about to sweep through the era. In this life, the former code-writing wage slave plans to use bugs to hack his way into a new life. He starts by helping his father secure a job, then moves on to trading secondhand computers, assembling compatible PCs, and building systems
—Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note