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  1. 651 She Spent the Family Fortune: The Capitalist Heiress Married a Young Officer 掏空家底,资本家大小姐嫁军少 Modern Romance3.4M WordsOngoing [Rebirth + military marriage + pocket dimension + a capitalist heiress who looks bright and lovely but is proud at heart, paired with a disciplined officer with incredible stamina and an eight-pack] In her previous life, Shen Zhitang was set up by her scumbag father and stepmother, who tricked her into marrying the powerful and influential Gao Jianren. When disaster struck, her father’s family used the Gao family’s connections to sneak off to Hong Kong, enjoying a life of luxury with the Shen fa 32.6kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
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  2. 652 Fireworks on the Islet, Where People Make Their Homes, Starting in the 1970s 洲上烟火有人家,从七十年代开始 Modern Romance593k WordsCompleted [Rural Romance] [Family Life] [Educated Youth Teacher] [Neighborly Disputes] [Eerie Shadows in the Village] [Country Living and Laughs] This book has no pocket dimension, no System, and no transmigration or rebirth. It tells only of ordinary people’s rural lives and the hard-won warmth and bustle of everyday life through years of hardship. The story begins in the 1970s and follows several families living in the countryside. Among them are educated youths sent to work in the villages, militia mem 96Reads8.3Score—Shelves
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  3. 653 After Going to the Countryside, the Female Educated Youth Is Doted on by a Future Senior Officer 下乡后女知青被未来首长娇养了 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Period Setting + Transmigration + Swapped Marriage + Devoted Couple + Marriage First, Love Later + Beloved by the Whole Family] Lin Xia never imagined that all she had to do was take a vacation, only to find herself dropped into a whole new world. There, she meets a group of people. When someone spreads rumors about her, Lin Xia has just started rolling up her sleeves when her future mother-in-law pulls her behind her and swings a huge broom. “You dare bully my Xiaxia? Try d 2.9kReads8.5Score250Shelves
  4. 654 The Newlywed Young Widow 新婚小寡妇 Modern Romance636k WordsCompleted In the winter of 1976, Li Yanmei was newly married when her husband died. Branded a “husband-killing” jinx, she was pregnant when her cruel in-laws threw her out with nothing. On a stormy night, she gave birth in a melon shed. Starving and freezing, she swallowed the slur “loose woman” along with her tears. For the little one in her arms, she wiped away her tears and turned humiliation into a stepping stone. She went from selling goods at a black-market stall to reclaiming land for farming, from 1.4kReads6.5Score—Shelves
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  5. 655 My Years as a Migrant Worker in Shenzhen 我在深圳打工那些年 Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Two AI comic adaptations of this book are already online, and a third is in production. In 1997, I was 17, carrying 300 yuan as I left my hometown in Hunan and headed south to Shenzhen alone. With no skills and no temporary residence permit, I was chased by security patrols, turned away by factories, left hungry, and forced to spend nights hiding in a cemetery. I went from a penniless kid to a sewing-machine operator at a handbag factory, then seized the opportunities of the times, opened a shop 23.3kReads8.8Score2.1kShelves
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  6. 656 Reborn in the 1980s: I Won't Raise Ungrateful Wolves 重生八零:不养白眼狼 Urban222k WordsCompleted Lin Chen, a modern-day urban entrepreneur specializing in agricultural supply chains and rural revitalization projects, is no mere office worker. He knows the basics of farming and animal husbandry, but excels at business operations and integrating resources. After accidentally dying from an electric shock, he transmigrates back to 1982 and becomes another Lin Chen, a poor, looked-down-upon young man from the countryside. His family has nothing, his parents are frail, and he has a little sister. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  7. 657 The 1970s: The Gu Family’s Illegitimate Daughter Marries Up 七零:老顾家的私生女攀上高枝了 Modern Romance221k WordsOngoing In her previous life, Gu Xu was nothing but a dog to the Gu family. They kicked her around, and when the end came, they even planned to eat her to nourish themselves. The Gu family drained Gu Xu of her blood, and drained her biological father's blood, too. Then they claimed they had shown great kindness, making Gu Xu kneel and thank them with tears of gratitude. Finally, they tricked Gu Xu onto the operating table for an organ transplant and stripped her of every last bit of use. When she woke a 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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  8. 658 Green Vine 绿萝 Modern Romance201k WordsCompleted This book is for everyone who has ever waited. This is a novel about all the things left unsaid: not saying you like someone, not saying you are waiting, not saying whether it was worth it. But all those unspoken words are tucked inside candy wrappers, hidden in a tin box, and buried in the beeping sounds of a phone booth. The bravest thing Lin Dong ever did was not repairing that imported machine or saving enough for a down payment on a house with a courtyard. It was telling Su Xiyue, “It's t 6Reads—Score—Shelves
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  9. 659 1987, Before Spring Arrives 一九八七,春未至 Modern Romance827k WordsCompleted This is a novel you won’t forget, especially its heroine, Li Shan! [No System, no pocket space, no transmigration, no rebirth] Period-setting comeback story + single mother builds a career Li Shan joyfully brings her college acceptance letter home, only for her parents to tell her the family has no money and she can’t go. Through her brother-in-law’s connections, she gets a job as a textile factory worker and works her way into the office as a translator. Then the factory goes bankrupt. Her pare 103Reads—Score—Shelves
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  10. 660 In This World of Everyday Wonders, I'm Glad I Have You 这人间烟火,幸好有你 Modern Romance203k WordsCompleted [Workplace + Pure Romance + Healing] The world measures people by their peak achievements. Some chase glory, while others simply seek a steady life. Xiao Man and Lan Yue are no elite geniuses. They left their impoverished mountain village for the city, making an honest living far from home. The way they struggle to make a life for themselves is a portrait of countless families. After a lifetime of moving from place to place, the long-buried past has already planted its seeds deep in the years be 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  11. 661 Reborn in 1959: Startling by Each Step 魂穿59,步步惊心 Urban1.2M WordsCompleted The novel is being revised... (One heroine, spatial abilities, mild violence, family life, a gradual build, steady growth.) The story mainly has three stages. In the early part, he helps his family escape poverty. In the middle, he gets a job at a steel mill, working on equipment and supplies, with some familiar courtyard-life elements mixed in, though they are not the main focus. In the later part, he helps the country develop its national defense. His spatial abilities are controllable, and he 109Reads—Score—Shelves
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  12. 662 The Capitalist Heiress Is Reborn, Takes Down Villains, and Charms the Village Tyrant 资本家千金重生,虐渣下乡撩村霸 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [1970s, Sent to the Countryside, Rebirth, Revenge Against Scum] Qin Shuiyan had been beautiful since childhood, with a delicate, soft figure. She had a pretty face but no way to protect herself. After her family fell into ruin, her stepmother sold her to an old man to keep as a canary. Just as she could no longer endure the humiliation, Xu Mo, the man she had always looked down on, burst in with a hunting rifle, fighting his way through a hail of bullets to save her. “Xu Mo, I’m sorry. If there’ 9.1kReads8.1Score923Shelves
  13. 663 I Went Looking for My Family and Mistook the Wrong Guy for My Brother, While My Amnesiac Ex Loses His Cool Every Night 去寻亲认错哥,失忆前任夜夜红温 Modern Romance537k WordsCompleted [Beloved by everyone + spatial powers + adorable baby + military marriage + rekindled love + reunion after years apart + supernatural abilities] In the third year after Jiang Xuxue retired from the Supernatural Abilities Bureau and returned to the village to farm, her biological parents came looking for her. “Darling, someone deliberately switched you back then. We never abandoned you!” Unfortunately, just after finding her, her biological parents were sent to the far northwest. Her mother press 11.9kReads6.7Score1.3kShelves
  14. 664 Reborn with the Thirty-Six Stratagems, I Won’t Abort This Baby 重生玩转三十六计,这胎老娘不堕 Modern Romance217k WordsCompleted On the cold operating table, Su Yanqiu suddenly opened her eyes. She was back on the day her two-faced best friend and the scumbag she loved had tricked her into an abortion! In her previous life, she thought her rough-and-tumble husband, Zhao Mo, was crude and trusted the wrong people. She lost her family fortune and died alongside her unborn child! Only when she was dying did she learn that the taciturn man had searched every ravine for her and killed her enemies with his own hands. In the end 69Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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  15. 665 Keeping Zhixia Safe 护知夏安 Modern Romance347k WordsCompleted [Tags in a nutshell: Transmigration to an earlier era + salvation of an educated youth + heartwarming family life | She gave me half a lifetime of peace, so I will protect her and give her a life of fulfillment] Elderly Lin Xiulian leaned against her rocking chair as the housekeeper pulled an old photo album from a dusty gap. In its yellowed photographs, she saw herself laboring through hunger and hardship in the countryside during the collective era, alongside the bright face of Shen Zhixia, a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  16. 666 The Riverside Years of Three Generations 三代人的临江岁月 Modern Romance511k WordsCompleted [Period drama, realistic fiction, nuanced style, no System, no golden finger, not a feel-good power fantasy] In the 1970s and 1980s, in Linjiang Town, Zhang Jiuyuan was an unwanted orphan. When he returned to his hometown, his elder brother and sister-in-law had taken over the family home and fields. Penniless, he had no choice but to build a thatched hut nearby. The villagers mocked him for having no sons and being doomed to a life of poverty. That was until he found a baby girl on the road 1.8kReads8.1Score160Shelves
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  17. 667 An Elder Sister Is Both a Mother and a Father! 长姐如母,亦如父! Modern Romance1.4M WordsOngoing [A story set in a bygone era, with no transmigration, rebirth, or golden finger. Family life, rural romance, and a hard road to growing up.] Zhou Zimei thought she would soon marry her childhood sweetheart and fiancé. Then an accident happened, and she became what people called an old maid. Her younger siblings' tuition taught her everything she hadn't known how to do. The hardships of rural life, the warmth and coldness of human nature, and the struggle to keep growing... 34.7kReads8.1Score2.1kShelves
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  18. 668 The Blood-Tear Tung Blossoms 泣血油桐花 Modern Romance1.0M WordsOngoing In the 1970s, Zhao Zhicheng was an older bachelor. Because he had one disabled leg and came from a dirt-poor family, the women from the surrounding villages all refused to marry him. In the end, he married Yan Wenyin, a woman of similar age who also had one disabled leg. From then on, the fates of these two determined people, each with a physical disability, were bound tightly together! That year, he said, “My left leg is lame, and Xiaoyin’s right leg is lame. Put us together, and don’t we make 2.5kReads—Score202Shelves
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  19. 669 Reborn in 1978: The Medical God and His Ex-Wife's Regrets Before the College Entrance Exam 重生1978医神高考前妻悔断肠 Historical237k WordsOngoing Jiang Weidong, an internationally renowned medical authority, suddenly falls gravely ill and dies during an interview with the BMJ. When he opens his eyes, he has transmigrated to Jiangzhuang in Huaxia in 1978, becoming the son of a country doctor who shares his name. Bringing with him a lifetime of medical expertise from his previous life, he picks up his pen and conquers the college entrance exams, earning top honors. With his superb medical skills, he overcomes every obstacle and heads to the 18.9kReads6.8Score2.4kShelves
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  20. 670 Reborn in the 1980s: Growing Vegetables and Raising Fish with a Spirit Spring Made Our Whole Village Rich 重生八零靠灵泉种菜养鱼暴富全村 Modern Romance206k WordsOngoing Modern romance | reborn | pocket dimension | farming | period setting | countryside | sweet romance | feel-good power fantasy | building wealth | face-slapping | taking down scumbags | devoted husband | strong female lead | doted on by everyone | spirit spring | happy ending | mutual devotion | rugged man Shen He died once. In her previous life, her in-laws kept her trapped at home, making her wash clothes and cook. They took the vegetables she grew, and dumped the rice seeds she developed int 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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  21. 671 The Night Watcher's Seventh Night 守夜人头七夜 Mystery163k WordsOngoing Chinese-Style Horror | Folk Mystery | Rules-Based Horror | The Seventh-Night Return of the Dead | Night Watcher | Funeral Home Makeup Artist | Three Major Twists | Chilling on Reflection | Inheritance Dispute | Funeral Customs | Dreaming of a Son | Female-Led Mystery | Family Fate | A Battle of Human Nature | Tearjerker | Folk Taboos | Family Ethics | Adapted as a Short-Form Drama Zhou Du is a night-shift makeup artist for the dead at a funeral home. On her first day on the job, someone warned h 5Reads—Score105Shelves
  22. 672 Reborn: The Crown Prince’s Wicked Girlfriend Won’t Redeem Herself 重生后,太子爷的恶毒女友她不洗白了 36k WordsCompleted Reborn, the Crown Prince’s Wicked Girlfriend Refuses to Redeem Herself —Reads—Score—Shelves
  23. 673 The Bizarre Case of the Funeral Makeup Artist 殓妆诡案 41k WordsCompleted The Mysterious Case of the Burial Makeup —Reads—Score—Shelves
  24. 674 Stop Kneeling, Mr. Huo 别跪了,霍总 Modern Romance147k WordsCompleted Transmigration and rebirth | Transmigrate into a book and fight back | Satisfying wealthy-family drama | Modern palace intrigue | Strong heroine seeking revenge | A cast of villains | Face-slapping and putting scumbags in their place | Obsessive CEO | Tormented romance | The ultimate groveling chase | No getting back together after a breakup | Career-minded heroine | Mutual salvation | Fated salvation | High-octane, no angst | Turn the tables The glittering world of the ultra-wealthy looks glamo —Reads—Score—Shelves
  25. 675 The Three Treasures Pagoda and Purple Gold Mountain 三宝塔与紫金山 Modern Romance114k WordsCompleted The story unfolds slowly between Sanbao Town in southeastern Yunnan and Nanjing, the ancient capital of six dynasties. Yun Kun, a young man from southern Yunnan, dreams of escaping the mountains. Through sheer perseverance, he rises from a poor boy to a faculty researcher at a military academy. Ning Xiang, who lives east of Nanjing, once enjoyed a peaceful, ordinary life, but the tides of the times bring a drastic turn: her household registration is falsified, and she is forced to move to the co 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  26. 676 Shufen, You Four-Times-Married Woman 淑芬,你这个四嫁女人 Modern Romance854k WordsOngoing [Based on real events + Rural revitalization + Hardship + Countryside + The struggle and perseverance of ordinary people at the bottom of society] This isn’t a feel-good story. It’s a true story. Shufen’s surname was Zhao. Zhao Shufen. She was my great-great-grandmother. My great-grandmother lived boldly and did as she pleased, sometimes even making a real mess of things. She married four times and traveled far and wide. She ran a business, fled famine, ate Guanyin clay, and took up arms! Life k 1kReads—Score104Shelves
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  27. 677 Liu Zhihao's Years of Youth 刘志豪的芳华岁月 Urban223k WordsOngoing [Period novel + workplace + family + society] The story takes its time to unfold, growing richer the further you read. It is grounded in reality, depicting social life, education, love, careers, officialdom, and rural life in the 1990s, offering a sweeping portrait of everyday life in that era. After graduating from university, the protagonist, Liu Zhihao, is assigned to teach at a middle school in his hometown. From then on, his life enters a new phase as he witnesses the development of educati 86Reads—Score—Shelves
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  28. 678 Splendid Farmstead: The Lucky Girl of the ’70s 锦绣田庄:七零小福妻 Modern Romance244k WordsOngoing The moment graduate student Lin Wanqiu from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences opens her eyes, she finds herself in the 1970s, with neither father nor mother. Her grandmother is already scheming to sell her to an old bachelor in exchange for a bride price. Want to sell her? That depends on whether she agrees. With a miraculous spring in her space and agricultural expertise in her head, she puts the worst troublemakers in their place, cures her younger uncle, clears land, grows vegetables, an —Reads—Score—Shelves
  29. 679 The Secret of Huaxi, Part Two 花溪的秘密【二】 Modern Romance1.1M WordsOngoing [1970s] [No golden finger] [Everyday life] [Sweet romance] [Nurturing] In his previous life, the ascetic Gao Minghai broke his vows at the age of 38 and fell in love with someone he should not and could not love. He became hopelessly devoted, obsessive and wild, doing everything he could to win her, then doing everything he could to keep her. Reborn, he goes searching for her across mountains and rivers when he is just twenty, gently coaxing her to his side. Only when he hears her sweetly call h 9.3kReads8.8Score600Shelves
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  30. 680 After I Divorced Her, My Ex-Wife Went Crazy with Regret 跟我离婚后,前妻后悔疯了 10k WordsCompleted After Divorcing Me, My Ex-Wife Went Crazy with Regret 729Reads—Score—Shelves
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  31. 681 Yesterday, Again 昨日再来 Modern Romance241k WordsCompleted [Female-oriented + personal growth + friendship + romance] The story follows three college women born on the same day of the same month. Beneath a camphor tree, they make a wish for their friendship to stay as fresh as the tree itself. They promise to meet beneath that tree again ten years later. Beneath the camphor trees on campus, three classmates and close friends, Lin Su'an, Gu Qingyan, and Shen Qiutang, once naively vowed to put their friendship first for the rest of their lives. But just b 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  32. 682 Undercurrent: Special Task Group Five 暗潮:五号特工组 Urban589k WordsCompleted Starring Liu Lin, Wang Likun, Gao Lu, and others. A fan novel based on the TV series Five-Man Secret Service, written to give Li and Ouyang's romance a proper ending. A struggle against spy organizations, Ouyang Jianping and Li Zhibo, Ma and Gao's romance, and everyday life. The main story takes place in Shanghai and the surrounding occupied areas, from the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 to the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Ouyang Jianping, a lieutenant colonel in the Na 98Reads6.9Score—Shelves
  33. 683 Perilla in 1988 一九八八年的紫苏 Modern Romance256k WordsCompleted Five-year-old Zisu is beaten unconscious by her mother. While unconscious, she discovers that she isn’t the child of the people raising her: she was deliberately switched at birth in the delivery room, and she is actually Dr. Fang’s biological daughter. She also discovers that not only does she have an exceptionally capable father and a mother with outstanding medical skills, but she also has four older brothers who will go on to achieve great success in literature, computer science, and the mil 2Reads—Score—Shelves
  34. 684 Reborn in 1946: A Century of Waiting, All for Nothing 重生一九四六:世纪等待终成空 Modern Romance421k WordsCompleted Liu Yingxue waited alone for 54 years, only to find that her husband had a large family of children and grandchildren. After dying of rage, she was reborn on the morning after her wedding in 1946, at the critical moment just before her husband was about to leave. 419Reads6.4Score125Shelves
  35. 685 Alley Fan Fiction: Zhuang Chaoying Walks Against the Light 小巷同人,庄超英逆光而行 Male-Channel Fanfiction479k WordsCompleted Zhuang Chaoying grew up in a small town as a dedicated exam-taker. A Tsinghua mathematics graduate with exceptional practical skills and fluency in English, French, and Russian, he spent twenty years making his way in the big city before returning to his hometown. After renovating his old house, he settled into a leisurely life. One day, while watching the TV drama A Lifelong Journey, he saw how foolishly filial Zhuang Chaoying was and mercilessly criticized him in the comments. Little did he kn 9Reads—Score—Shelves
  36. 686 She Climbed the Career Ladder by Writing in the 1970s 她在年代靠写文升职 Modern Romance225k WordsOngoing At fifty-three, Xu Yunfang died suddenly after staying up all night reading novels. When she opened her eyes again, she heard someone calling “Mom, Mom” beside her. She had become a twenty-three-year-old widow in a mining district in Northwest China in the early 1960s. Her husband had just died, leaving her with twin daughters. She was still named Xu Yunfang. Drawing on the wisdom and literary talent of her former life, along with a mysterious golden finger, she began as a temporary canteen work 10Reads—Score—Shelves
  37. 687 Smoke and Fire in the Northern Lands 北国烟火事 Urban124k WordsCompleted The winter of 2000 in Northeast China. He was Wang Jianjun, a laborer at the bottom of society, covered in dust but full of sincerity. She was Liu Jiajia, radiant and determined, from a well-off family. One chance meeting, and a love neither dared to hope for. Their families were worlds apart. Their relatives pressured them to marry, and reality weighed heavily on them. Forced apart, they loved each other with all their hearts but could only let go in pain. He swallowed his grievances and fought —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  38. 688 Sweet Little Wife of the 1960s: The Educated Youth Dotes on Me Without Hesitation 六零小甜妻:知青宠我没商量 Modern Romance586k WordsCompleted [Steady Educated Youth vs. Beautiful Village Girl / Entire Cast Are Locals, No Golden Fingers or Black Markets / Everyday Life / Marriage First, Love Later / Flawed Characters / Leads Grow Together / Sweet Romance] Lin Yuan goes to the countryside at eighteen. As the youngest child in his family, he gets first pick of all the food and drink, giving him a broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted, long-legged frame that stands six feet tall. It doesn’t take long for someone to set their sights on him as s 113.3kReads8.9Score19.1kShelves
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