Historical-Era Fiction, Preferably with a Native-Born Female Lead 年代文，最好女主是土著的
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After Refusing an Arranged Marriage Swap, I Moved to the City and Became a Worker 拒绝换亲后进城当工人了
[Period setting + native protagonist + daily life + career + no golden finger] [An ordinary story about ordinary people] Her parents wanted Baolan to take her eldest brother's place in an arranged marriage. Baolan refused. Baolan passed the worker recruitment exam. Starting as an apprentice, Baolan attended night school, got promoted, bought a watch, bought a bicycle... Little by little, she built herself a good life.
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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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After the Kids' Father Comes Home, He's Still Just as Bad 孩子他爹回来后，还是一样坏
Everyone says the bad-tempered rascal from the Xie family is a shameless layabout. How on earth did he get so lucky as to marry Jiang He, the woman everyone in the surrounding villages wants for a wife? The young men who have a crush on Jiang He are all so jealous they could grind their teeth over Xie Shenqing. And yet, despite having such a kind and lovely wife, Xie Shenqing is always shouting at and scolding her. Even the neighborhood aunties whisper that it's a shame and that Jiang He has had
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The Woman Who Can't Live Without a Man 离不开男人的女人
[Everyone’s favorite + farming + building wealth + family squabbles + strong heroine] Shen Nianqiu’s husband died. He was stabbed to death by the husband of his lover. Because Shen Nianqiu is beautiful, shapely, intelligent, and capable, she is very popular. A rural doctor whose wife has died gradually falls for her; A butcher from the neighboring village has been secretly in love with her for a long time. A teacher assigned to the countryside admires her beauty and intelligence, and vows to mar
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The Beautiful First Half of Her Life 美艳的前半生
The story takes place in a rural village in Hebei in 1999. Meiyan has been sweet, beautiful, and clever since childhood, and everyone in the village agrees she's the local beauty. After failing her university entrance exams on her second attempt, she has no choice but to face the path fate has laid out for her. Swept up by Li Gangqiang's relentless pursuit, she gives him everything. But on the very day he steps through the gates of college, he gets together with another woman. Betrayed, Meiyan s
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Xia Guangnuan's First Book 霞光暖暖的第1本书
[Period Setting + Realistic Rural Life + Family Matters + Adultery + Beloved by Everyone + A Woman’s Growth] Hong Xing is a village doctor, twenty-three years old, and the mother of two daughters. Only after her husband dies unexpectedly does she discover that the man who always seemed so honest and quiet, a man who could hardly get a word out even if you beat him with three sticks, had betrayed her. Her whole world collapses. She had always followed the rules of a virtuous wife, respected her p
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Tiezhu's Fate 铁柱的命
In the 1990s, the twenty-year-old Tiezhu, whose given name was Gao Fei, was handsome, dashing, and well educated. He studied hard, hoping to change his fate through knowledge and escape the countryside. But fate kept playing tricks on him, making him fail time and again. Disheartened, he found the courage to face life again with encouragement from Yanhua, the village beauty. His excellence always won him admirers. After meeting different women, he gradually realized who loved him most. Sadly, by
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Xia Hua, the Village Girl 村女夏花
[Realistic rural life + slow burn + heroine’s growth + family and everyday life + face-slapping the scoundrels] Lin Xiahua’s husband is dead. With two children and a dimwitted older brother to support, she has become the most tempting target in Hama Gou Village. Burdened with her family, without a single plot of land, and with her mother-in-law threatening to sell her by the pound to an old widower and his son! To survive, Xiahua learns to navigate all kinds of men and women. She smiles and char
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The Charming Village Girl Doesn't Give Her Heart Away 俏村花她不走心
People say that a widow’s doorstep invites trouble, but Chunfang isn’t afraid. She goes out of her way to surround herself with men. After years of struggling in the dirt, she’s seen through it all: you can’t rely on a man’s heart, but you can rely on his money and connections. So she smiles as she plays several men against one another. One helps her come up with the cash, another finds her a market for her goods. The villagers call her shameless. Chunfang sneers. “How much is a reputation worth
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Wild Lilies of Old Well Village 老井村的野百合
The quarry in the hills behind Laojing Village buried the men from half the village. All that remained were a village full of widows and children crying from hunger. Thirty migrant miners moved into the workers' barracks, all strapping bachelors. The widows cursed men to their faces, then dug out their floral jackets at night and deliberately walked past the barracks. Each of the three widows had her own reasons: one wanted a protector to help raise her child, one hoped to get some rice and flou
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The 1970s: Cursed to Bring Bad Luck to My Husband? I Marry Into the City and Eat State-Supplied Grain 七零：克夫女？我嫁进城吃供应粮
(Period setting + military marriage + both pure + family life + superhuman strength + no angst + love at first sight + devoted husband + no pocket dimension or System + no transmigration or rebirth) Shuangshuang is a poor girl. She’s twenty, in the prime of her youth, yet she still can’t find a husband. She’s been engaged seven times, and all seven engagements were called off. Late at night, she hides under the covers, both delighted and exasperated as she counts her savings on her fingers. Seve
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The 1970s Military Marriage: The Charming Army Wife Raises Kids and Wins Her Husband's Heart 七零军婚：俏军嫂养崽撩夫日常
[No golden finger + second male lead takes the lead + fictional period setting] [Short drama now streaming] Xiao Qingru doesn't want to raise someone else's child, so she breaks off her engagement to her childhood sweetheart. Just as she's getting ready to focus on her career, she's targeted by a hothead from the capital. Xu Muzhou is the youngest and most promising pilot. The first time he meets her, he falls in love at first sight with his good friend's younger sister. When he hears she's alre
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The 1970s: After Marrying a Widow, the Professor Became a Dad 七零：娶了寡妇后，教授喜当爹
At twenty-four, Qiao Dani became a widow with two children, known throughout the brigade as one of its poorest households. At thirty, Lin Hengjue fell from the heights overnight. The distinguished Professor Lin, once admired for his elegance and brilliance, became one of the notorious “Black Categories” whom everyone in the cowshed avoided like snakes and scorpions. People kept urging her to remarry. Qiao Dani finally hardened her heart, stamped her foot, and marched into the cowshed to ask Li
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In the Seventies, My Educated Youth Husband Gives Himself to Me 七零年代，知青丈夫以身相许
[Period + educated youth + farming + inspirational] Chen Jiahui thinks she has no particular strengths, except that she’s just a tiny bit stronger than most. Later, she goes up the mountain to chop firewood and casually picks up a husband. Well, she saves a man. Lin Zhinan thinks he has no particular strengths, except that he’s just a tiny bit more handsome than most. Later, he goes up the mountain to gather firewood and ends up giving himself away. Well, he gets rescued. The truth is actually m
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The ’80s Smuggler’s Apple of His Eye 八十年代倒爷的心尖宠
[Period setting]+ [no golden finger]+ [both leads are chaste] This is the story of my parents. These days, it would be called a classic hero-rescues-beauty, straight-out-of-a-romance-drama kind of romance. Back then, it was the kind of pairing that left everyone speechless, and made them sigh that a beautiful flower had been stuck in a pile of cow dung! My mom: beautiful, kindhearted, and long-legged. My dad: tall, and otherwise just fierce. My mom: one of the first college students after the na
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In the 1980s, the Little Wrecker Turns Out to Be a Genius 八零，拆家小能手她竟然是天才
[No Romance + Native-Born + Genius + Research] Wu Fengxian had already given birth to three sons when she became pregnant with her fourth child. She prayed to every god and Buddha, asking only for a little girl. Heaven granted her wish, and she really did have a daughter. The little girl was pretty and had a lovely smile, but by the time she was three or four, she still couldn't speak. The villagers all laughed at Wu Fengxian for having a little idiot, saying the girl would be a burden for the r
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In the Seventies, I Awakened to a Copy Space 七零之觉醒后我有个复制空间
An Ran had a dream: everyone around her was a male or female lead, while she and her child were nothing but stepping stones for them all. But now, what man? What nieces and nephews? They could all get lost. With her Copying Space, she could get whatever she wanted. Even without a man, she could raise her child just fine. Only later did she discover that those three books had been written by an author who must have drunk an unbelievable amount of fake liquor.
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Gossiping in the Compound Is So Much Fun 大院吃瓜真香了
Lin Qing had a terrifying dream. In it, she was a frail young aunt whose niece, born the same year, had stolen her engagement. Afraid Lin Qing would try to reclaim the match, the niece flaunted the man she'd stolen in front of her every day, until Lin Qing was finally angered to death. Lin Qing jolted awake in fright. What kind of vicious dream was that? If the niece wanted the man, she could have him. Why did she have to anger Lin Qing to death, too? Just when Lin Qing thought it had all been a
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The High-Ranking Cadre's Daughter in the 1970s: Help the Poor? Not Even a Dog Would! 七零高干女：扶贫？狗都不扶！
Completed [Strong Female Lead] Original title: [Seventies-Era Cadre’s Daughter: Poverty Relief? Not Even a Dog Would Do It!] When a woman gains the power to speak, she won’t speak only for herself! [Sent to the Countryside in Northern Shaanxi + Local Woman Awakens, Along with the Women Around Her + Pocket Dimension and Spirit Spring + Mind Reading + True Female Protagonist + Romance Later, Male Lead Marries into Her Family] She was a genuine child of a prominent compound, the beloved youngest d
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The 1960s: I Married into a Treasure-Dungeon 六零，嫁进宝藏副本了
[Period Setting + Adorable Kids + Slow-Paced, Cozy Daily Life + Working Hard to Build a Fortune + Male Lead] [The rating is low because it was just released and will go up! Sobbing, I never thought I’d be saying this one day~] At first, she thinks, “Guys, you have no idea. Everyone else who transmigrates gets a golden finger, while I can only piggyback on someone else’s.” Later, she thinks, “Guys, you have no idea. The little boss’s golden finger is really, really useful!” In short, the heroine
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A 1980s Couple Builds a Business, Moves the Whole Family to the City, and Strives for Prosperity 八零夫妻创业忙，拖家回城奔小康
Family squabbles + building wealth + a touch of ensemble cast + the 1980s + a slow pace A story about a woman and her family making their way to prosperity in a changing era, as they find their footing and grow amid the tides of the times. Detailed synopsis: After settling down in a remote village, educated youth Song Wenyu returns to the city, heavily pregnant and accompanied by her country husband, Tang Xing. She expects to live hand to mouth while relying on relatives in the city. Instead, sh
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A Match Between Equals: My Officer Husband Is a Hopeless Romantic 高门对高门，军官丈夫是个恋爱脑
[Gentle, Ethereal Su Embroidery Beauty x Handsome, Irreverent Military Heir] [Two Prestigious Families] [Military Marriage] [Lighthearted, Funny Everyday Life] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Adorable Kids] [Family and Country] [Passing on Traditional Culture] [The Pocket Dimension Is Rarely Used] Lin Renzhi stayed up embroidering and worked herself to death. When she opened her eyes again, she had become the only daughter of a senior officer in the 1970s. She had a top-tier family background and loo
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The Reborn Capitalist Heiress Is Doted on by Her Military Officer Husband 资本家大小姐重生军官老公掌心宠
[Historical Setting + Joining the Army Husband on an Island + Reborn + Young Lady + Sweet Romance + Everyday Life] [Alternate setting, 1960s] [Flirtatious, high-maintenance heroine and rough, arrogant hero] Shen Yitang thought there must be something seriously wrong with her. She had spent five years disliking Gu Huaizheng, but after he died, she spent a full ten years missing him. She missed the strong arms that had protected her in the catastrophic flood, and the safe haven he had built for he
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Three Years After Abandoning Her Husband and Daughter, She Can Finally See Clearly 抛夫弃女的她三年后不眼盲心瞎了
Yu Hua wasn't a good woman. She had “abandoned her husband and daughter,” and spent the hard-earned money her “honest” husband, Chen Jikun, made on a wasteful university life in the city. She also went out of her way to hide the fact that she was married. In an era that prized simplicity and purity, a selfish, vain, spoiled woman like Yu Hua was nothing like the ideal good girl, let alone someone a man would want to marry. Yet Chen Jikun had not only married her, he spent money and effort treati
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After Four Years of Stupidity, I Became the Beloved Wife of a Rough Village Bully 磕傻四年，成了糙汉村霸的娇媳妇
When Hu Yao woke up, she found a mischievous yet well-behaved son and a scoundrel of a man beside her. Shocked and bewildered, she heard from the neighbors she knew that four years earlier, she'd hit her head so hard she was left simple-minded, and her mother had sold her. Over those four years, she had not only gained a husband but also a mischievous child who fiercely protected her. The bastard of a man was always putting his hands on her, and he was exceptionally fierce and unreasonable. Terr
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The Rugged Man’s Overwhelming Love: His Sweet Little Wife Falls for Him 糙汉强势爱，娇软小媳妇沦陷了
Originally titled “A Lonely Bed Is Hard to Bear, While the Rugged Neighbor Scratches at Her Wall Night After Night” [lonely nights / maximum sweetness / period setting / delicate beauty / devoted love / slow-burn romance / building wealth / glimpses of an ensemble cast / love at first sight / close proximity / sisters-in-law as foils] Delicate young wife × iron-willed, rugged man Hua Xiaoyue is left alone in an empty bed, the long nights hard to endure. Her family scolds her, her in-laws berate
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The Villainess Awakens? Wait, I Married the Wrong Man 恶毒女配觉醒？等等，我嫁错人了
Mu Chunfeng, a barefoot doctor pushed off a cliff by her stepsister Mu Baizhi, awakens. It turns out Mu Baizhi is the heroine of a rebirth story, while she is nothing more than a supporting female character, meant to make her stepsister seem kind and help her steal every opportunity! In the book, her stepsister steals her fiancé, Fu Baichuan, and marries her off to a gambler. In the end, she dies a tragic death. “Make me your stepping stone? Not a chance!” Mu Chunfeng’s eyes glint with cold calc
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The Young Military Wife Begged for Mercy, but the War King Told Her to Take It Easy 小军嫂哭着求饶，兵王请节制
Triplets / Love at First Sight / Devoted Love / Adorable Kids / Scheming / Deep Devotion / 1980s / Alternate Setting / For When You’re Out of Books A sweet, soft-spoken little rabbit with steel teeth × a domineering, protective, fierce big wolf with a scheming side Ye Suisui was born in the 1980s. Fair-skinned and frail, with slender arms and legs, she looks like an easy target. Lu Zhengyao is 1.9 meters tall, with a fierce, icy presence. He can kick his cousin’s leg hard enough to break it, and
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A Little Cannon Fodder’s Growth Diary in the 1970s 七零年代，炮灰小豆丁的成长日记
[Period setting + family squabbles + cozy coming-of-age slice of life + family bonds + native-born young heroine + adorable child + no romance... too many elements to list. A chaotic mix of transmigration and rebirth. If you don’t like it, don’t read. Ensemble cast focus.] Four-and-a-half-year-old Chen Manyue is bound to a System, which tells her that her whole family is a bunch of troublemakers. Her father, Chen Zhongyi, may have “loyalty and righteousness” in his name, but he’s actually hot-te
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The 1970s: My Whole Family Is Cannon Fodder, While I’m a Native Trouble-Maker 七零：全家都是炮灰，我土著极品
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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Reborn in the 1960s: This Heroine Is a Little Crafty 重生六零：这个女主有点茶
The person the members of Lengshuigou Production Team hate most is A Cha. She may be young, but she’s ruthless, and she’ll steal chickens or pull any other dirty trick. On top of that, she’s impossibly hard to kill: her father and mother are both dead, and anyone who gets close to her is doomed to bad luck. But Gao Qingyang doesn’t care. He keeps finding ways to get close to her. He knows A Cha isn’t nearly as awful as people say. She’s a good person!
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The 1970s: After My Dad Promised Me to a Powerful Man in the Capital 七零：亲爹把我许给京圈大佬后
(The rating just came out, it'll go up later!) A local woman in her seventies + follows her husband to his post + everyday life + chubby baby Delicate beauty × reserved, roguish charmer In the 1970s, Xu Huaizhen, the owner of a fabric shop in the county town, was reported and sent away for labor reform. Before leaving, he made a wild decision: send his pampered young daughter to the capital in the middle of the night to get married. Xu Yuanrou cried and refused, until she saw the black-and-white
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To Avoid Disaster, the Village Belle Marries the Village Bully and Asks Him for a Baby 八零村花为避祸嫁村霸，邀他生崽
[Delicate village beauty + rugged man + adored by all + cozy romance + having a baby + childhood sweethearts] Su Yunqi was famous throughout the surrounding villages for being a delicate beauty. Unfortunately, the Su family had little power and couldn't protect her. When a rich hooligan took a fancy to her, they had no choice but to hastily marry her off to a rugged man from the neighboring village, an even bigger village bully and hooligan. He was five years older than her, and they'd grown u
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The Gang Boss and His Green Tea Wife 混混头子绿茶妻
Song Jiaojiao is the renowned beauty of all the villages for miles around. She was on the verge of marrying into a wealthy family when a dirt-poor thug violated her. In that feudal, closed-off era, she had no choice but to reluctantly marry the rapist who had violated her, bear his children, and endure a life of poverty and domestic abuse. After being reborn, she confiscates the scumbag's weapon of choice and quickly gets engaged to the man she regretted losing in her previous life. Just when ev
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Reborn in the 1960s: The Old Woman's Rise 重生六零：老太太的崛起
[Reborn in the late 1960s, an imperfect heroine who grows over time, then a fiery old lady; explosive gossip; family squabbles early on, then the heroine builds a career; ensemble cast] In her previous life, Grandma Xia gave everything she had to her family. She raised her three sons to adulthood and helped them start families and careers. She should have been able to enjoy her golden years, but her sons kicked her out, and she died on a rainy winter night. When she opened her eyes, Grandma Xia
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You Flirted with Me, and Now You Say You Mistook Me for Someone Else? 撩都撩了，你说认错人？
(The rating just opened, so it’ll go up later.) (1970s + military marriage + mutual firsts + sweet romance + rugged male lead + natives) (No transmigration or golden finger. Neither lead is perfect. This is not a strong-female-lead, face-slapping wish-fulfillment story. If that bothers you, don’t read.) Du Ruolin had lived with her uncle’s family since she was little, and stole her cousin’s marriage prospect. She’d heard the Cheng family was well-off, all their children were promising, and their
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The Shen Family's Seven Beauties: Laughing Through the 1970s 老沈家七朵金花，七零年代笑哈哈
(Period drama + large ensemble cast + everyday family life + sweet romance + raising children + building wealth + all characters are locals) Her grandmother died, she dropped out of high school, a matchmaker came calling, and her parents looked down on her... A series of upheavals struck without warning. Shen Taohua could only do her best to find herself a good husband. The matchmaker said the young man was hardworking and dependable, handsome, and worked at the county's towel factory! Shen Taoh
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The 1960s: After Getting into Technical College, I Secure a Cadre Position 六零：考上中专后，我稳坐干部岗
[1960s + everyday life + extremely, extremely slow-paced + family squabbles + no rural assignment + vocational school entrance exams + few awful relatives] [This is a female-oriented novel! The heroine is an ordinary person, not a powerhouse heroine. Please don’t read if that bothers you.] Heartbroken and still looking for an internship? To escape reality, senior college student Zhou Yuan casually signed a contract for the full-immersion game Awakening. When she opened her eyes, she had become Z
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The Sixties: My Flash-Marriage Husband Just Wants to Live Off Me 六零：闪婚对象他只想吃软饭
In 1965, only child Xie Qinghe graduates from a teachers’ college. Her father died when she was young, and her mother worked herself sick to put her through school. Then a coworker in her mother’s workshop suddenly died, leaving her deeply worried about her daughter’s future. After much consideration, Xie Qinghe decides to find a live-in son-in-law so her mother can have peace of mind. But every man the matchmaker introduces is after her family’s money. Xie Qinghe grows disheartened and nearly g
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Bullet Comments Fill the Sky in the 1970s, and the Pretty Village Girl Moves to the City 七零弹幕满天飞，漂亮村姑进城啦
[Everyday Family Life + Everyone’s Darling + Devoted Couple + Livestreaming + Ensemble Cast] [Native-Born Heroine + Transmigrated Hero] Jiang Menglian may be a country girl, but she has been cherished and doted on since childhood. When her sister-in-law gets pregnant, her family tricks her into going to look after her during her postpartum confinement. The moment Jiang Menglian steps into the residential compound, the comments flying across the sky make her feel as though she’s stumbled into a l
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What! The Compound's Factory Beauty and the Neighborhood Troublemaker Fell in Love 惊！大院厂花和二混子相亲相爱了
[Period Setting, Beautiful but Miserable and Powerful Tycoon's Son + The Factory's Most Beautiful Woman, Friends with Benefits to Lovers, Face-Slapping and Striving in the Factory Compound, The Villainous Family's Loving Everyday Life] Bai Xiaotong finally found a chance to sleep with her childhood sweetheart. Only afterward did she realize she'd slept with the wrong man, and that this world wasn't real at all. It was merely a novel set in a bygone era. In this fictional world, her cousin was th
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Women on the Wasteland 荒土上的女人
In the winter of 1985, Liu Shuhua married into the Zhao family. On the third day after the wedding, she flipped her father-in-law’s dining table and declared in front of the whole village, “My husband may be slow-witted, but from now on, I’m in charge of this family.” No one dared cross this sturdy, sharp-eyed shrew. But misfortune struck: her husband, Zhao Daqiang, was left paralyzed after a truck accident while hauling goods. Creditors blocked the door, her brother-in-law stole her belongings
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The Long-Suffering Younger Sister 苦妹
This is a bloodcurdling, suffocating epic of female suffering. It tells the tragic story of a woman called Ku Mei, whose life was mercilessly crushed by fate over more than half a century, from the early 1960s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. In 1960, during a famine-stricken winter, she was born the second daughter in her family and named Pan Di, “Hoping for a younger brother.” From then on, her grandmother saw her as a “jinx” and branded her Ku Mei, “Bitter Girl.” In a family that
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Rural Sisters-in-Law 农村妯娌
This is a story of war and peace between two women, and also a miniature epic chronicling the transformation of rural China from collectivization to the modern era. When the well in Liuxi Village was filled in and running water reached every home, the women who had once argued, wept, and whispered secrets beside that well proved through their lives that time can bury old grudges, and that a resilient spirit can blossom in the soil.
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The 1960s: Everyday Life of a Local Heroine 六零：土著女主的日常
The comic adaptation is now live. Please show it lots of support! (1950s local setting + money-loving heroine + growth through education + family and friendship + building a fortune + no romance) P.S. The author is terrible at writing introductions. If you like a slow pace, please head straight to the story. Zhao Dongmai was born in 1957. When she was four, she clutched the 270 yuan her father had earned from selling ginseng and learned for the first time that money could keep people from going
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Period: An Only Child for Five Years, Then Suddenly I Had a Sister 年代：独生五年，忽然多出个姐姐
[The rating just opened, so it’ll go up later.] (Period setting + family life + everyday moments + healing + slow pace + childhood sweethearts) Until Chen Jinyue was five, she had always been the apple of her family’s eye. Then her mother returned from a trip to her hometown with a girl and told her the girl was her aunt’s daughter, who would be staying with them for a while. But before long, Chen Jinyue overheard that the girl wasn’t her cousin at all. She was her older half-sister, sharing the
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The 1980s: A Cherished Darling Rushing Toward Wealth 八零捷报团宠娇娇向钱冲
[Period setting + building wealth + doted on by everyone + native-born heroine + social butterfly + powerful figures + one-on-one romance] Before she turned fifteen, Shi Xiangxiang was stolen as a newborn. Her adoptive parents were denounced and sent down to the countryside, leaving her, though still so young, to shoulder the burden of feeding the whole family. After she turned fifteen, her adoptive sister, who had been reborn with a golden finger, returned in defeat after struggling her way t
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A Golden Marriage 金婚
One is a fool in everyone's eyes, the other a young hoodlum in the village's eyes. Yet fate ties them together. Zhou Xing always thought himself above others, but never imagined he'd marry a fool and fill a whole house with children, boys and girls alike. What's more, in this life and the next, and the life after that, he only wants to be with her. At first, Li Zhi'an was terrified of living under the same roof as Zhou Xing, that bad man. Gradually, she came to accept him. In the end, she decide
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The 1960s: The Whole Family Digs Cellars Until the Granary Can’t Hold Any More 六零：全家挖地窖，粮仓装不下了
[Farming in a bygone era, getting rich, everyday family life, super strength, reading fortunes and earning merit, adorable lucky baby, everyone's favorite, pocket dimension, stockpiling supplies, gossip] After her parents die in service and her grandparents pass away, the four-year-old little dumpling is left an orphan. The good news: everyone in the Lin family wants to adopt her. The bad news: they're all after the money set aside for her care. As the orphaned child of fallen heroes, the lit
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I’m Niu Niu, and I Didn’t Get Beaten Up Today Either 我，牛妞，今天又没挨揍
For questions about the story, see the latest post. Putting missing plot details in the comments is too much trouble, so you can listen to the audiobook for additions. Thank you. [Born in the Era + Growing Through Education + Family Life + Everyday Mischief + A Little Luck] Niu Niu's family was notorious in the brigade for being lazy and greedy. Her father was lazy, her mother was greedy, and she inherited both traits perfectly: if she could lie down, she would never stand up. Her grandparents
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