Are There Really No Period Novels Where They Don’t Go to the Countryside or Hong Kong? 年代文就没有不下乡去港城的吗
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From the Start as a Sent-Down Youth, I Choose to Flee to Hong Kong 开局知青下乡，我选择偷渡香港
[Educated Youth] [Period Piece] [Hong Kong Entrepreneurship] [No System] In 1969, the movement to send educated youth to the countryside swept across the country. Zhou Bingwen, from the twenty-first century, transmigrates into the body of a young man from Chaozhou who is waiting to be assigned to the countryside. If he goes, he'll likely lose eight years of his life, with the college entrance exams nowhere in sight. If he stays, he won't get into university or find a job. At seventeen, he has re
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Sailing Together 共舟行
[Small-Town Fiction | Slow Burn | 1v1, Both Leads Chaste | Ensemble Growth | Working-Class Struggles | Realistic | Period Setting] “Across a thousand miles, the boat speeds on; a letter of love rides home on the wind.” A small town in southern China in the 1990s A young man holds an unremarkable bouquet of roses And lays his feelings bare beneath the night sky From scraping by with a street stall to finding a way forward together Through wind and rain, they share life's many ups and downs This i
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Soul Returns to Hong Kong: From Tailor Shop to Richest Woman 魂归香江：从裁缝铺到女首富
[1980s + strong heroine + academic ace + business warfare + Hong Kong] In her previous life, she had a photographic memory, but her heart could stop at any moment. As her heart stopped beating, she thought, “Next life, I don’t want to be human.” When she opened her eyes again, she was Lin Ying, nine years old, having spent nine years in a daze. Today, her soul had finally returned. The spirit medium had divined it three times: “She won’t leave again. You were always yourself. You were just put i
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Quick Transmigration: The Max-Level Expert Slaughters Her Way Through the World by Accumulating Merit 快穿：满级大佬靠攒功德杀疯了
[Strong female lead, power fantasy, formidable heroine, top student] The moment Yu stepped onto the Immortal-Welcoming Terrace, the shockwave from two powerful figures fighting shattered her immortal body with a single sword strike. The Ancestor stuffed her into a rift in time and space: travel to different worlds, do good deeds, accumulate merit, and become a saint through merit. [First Life: Scientist] In 1973, a village girl in the mountains grows up to become a scientist. She keeps her ident
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The Fake Socialite Aunt Who Eloped to Hong Kong in 1980 Is Back 80私奔逃港的假名媛小姑回来了
[80+ Feel-Good Story + No Golden Finger + Career-Focused + Building Wealth + A Real Socialite Pretending to Be a Fake One] Lin Yuesheng transmigrates into a novel about a pampered heroine and becomes the heroine's aunt, a major villain who eloped with a man to Hong Kong, got into loan-shark debt and was hunted by gangsters, then returned home posing as a socialite to swindle her family out of their demolition compensation! Others transmigrate into books and get a golden finger. She gets chased b
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- 6 Pearl of Hong Kong: The Fu Family's Cousin Is a Money-Making Machine 香江明珠：傅家的表小姐太能赚了 [Alternate-History Rebirth | Ambitious Heroine x Territorial-Minded Hero | Plot-Driven | No Saintly Characters | Flexible Morals | Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment | Realistic Leaning | Slow Burn] Synopsis: After waking up, Lin Jiao found herself holding the script of a disposable supporting character. From the start, she swiped a million in cash from her scumbag father and headed for Hong Kong. Hong Kong in 1960 was just lighting up with neon. Gold lay everywhere, but so did traps. Luckily, she r 61.3kReads8.9Score7.6k14d adds
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Damn It, Why Did She Get Sent to the Seventies Again? 天杀的，怎么又让她穿七零了
[Reborn + period setting + System + farming + pocket dimension + Hong Kong City + no saintly heroine] Xu Ying, an office drone at a major company in the 21st century, somehow finds herself reborn in the 1970s. As expected, she gets a golden finger: a sign-in System. With its help, she makes it through several years of life as an educated youth more or less unscathed. Then, like most heroines in period novels, she returns to the city after passing the college entrance exam, hoards courtyard house
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- 8 The 1970s: The Glamorous Heiress Transmigrates into a Book with a Trillion-Dollar Fortune 七零：美艳娇气包带千亿资产穿书 The young lady never lived through that era, so you can't expect her to have the same spending habits as ordinary people. [Not a poverty-relief story] [Sweet romance + period setting + transmigrate into a book + golden finger + feel-good power fantasy] [Both are virgins, one-on-one romance] Shanghai–Beijing–Hong Kong [Warning: The heroine is spoiled and not truly kind or beautiful inside! The hero is a lovesick fool! Don't get hung up on prices! If there are any plot holes, just treat them as au 24.9kReads9.2Score2.5k14d adds
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Transmigrate into a Book Set in Hong Kong: I Make My Fortune Writing Novels 穿书香江，我靠写小说发家致富
[Transmigration + No Romance + Period Setting + Parallel Worlds + Career-Focused] Jiang Ling opened her eyes and found herself transmigrated into a period novel, as a disposable side character who wouldn't survive more than a few chapters. It was hell from the start: her family of four had just smuggled themselves into Hong Kong. They had no money and no papers. In the original story, she fell ill and died, her mother worked herself to death, and her younger siblings ended up on the streets. In
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- 10 An Apocalypse Shut-In Survives in Hong Kong 末世宅女苟在香江 [Romance + personal space + Hong Kong + ordinary female lead] Wu Qiaoli spent two years holed up in the apocalypse, relying on her spatial ability. In the end, Heaven finally got fed up with watching her and took her away. She thought her life was over, but when she opened her eyes, she had somehow transmigrated into a book. 2.2kReads6.4Score15214d adds
- 11 Young and Dangerous: Falling in Love with Brother Crow 古惑仔：和乌鸦哥谈恋爱 [1990s + Hong Kong + Hong Kong Entertainment Industry + Triads] (The rating has only just opened, so it’s a little low.) Happy ending, one-on-one, male lead is the triad member Crow Set in a parallel universe combining elements from comics, films, and more Back to 1990s Hong Kong Everything is so vibrant and full of life. Whether writing screenplays or novels, this is the perfect time to make a name for yourself! With knowledge of the trends that will dominate the next thirty years, she’s a gold 17.8kReads9.1Score2k14d adds
- 12 You Can Raid My Home, but Let Me Go Make a Fortune in Hong Kong 你们抄我家，我去香江捡钱可以吧 [Transmigration, historical era, sweet romance, one-on-one, devoted couple, pocket dimension, entrepreneurship and wealth] Su Manman transmigrated into the body of a pampered young lady from the Su family, someone with the same name but a very different fate. From the start, she was told that someone had reported her family for hiding gold and silver treasures. Looking at the boxes upon boxes of antique paintings and calligraphy, antique ornaments, antique jewelry, and more, Su Manman thought… 29.5kReads8.9Score2.6k14d adds
- 13 Making My Fortune in Hong Kong with My Boyfriend 我在香江靠男朋友发家致富 [Dual male leads + size difference + historical era] [Cantonese dialogue included, skip if that bothers you] [Entirely fictional setting!] [Good people are rewarded, and bad people are brought to justice!] [See the author’s note in Chapter One for the original blurb] [Please give it a chance and read the first ten chapters. If it’s not for you, then feel free to leave.] Three years after transmigrating, Lin Jinyan had ended up with a 5.2kReads9.3Score62314d adds
- 14 Escaping to Hong Kong in the 1970s: Taking Down Gangsters to Become the Top Female Boss 七零逃港，杀古惑仔做第一女大佬 [Transmigrate into a book + 1970s setting + comedic ensemble cast + face-slapping and putting villains in their place + running with the gangs in Hong Kong + no romance] “Dalang, time for your medicine.” Ji Shulang wakes up to find that her birth mother is treating her like Wu Dalang! Only later does she learn that she has transmigrated into the crazy daughter of a wealthy family's true-born son in the 1970s. When she wakes, her whole family has taken their fake son and their fortune to Hong Kon 2.3kReads7.5Score23114d adds
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Transmigrating to 1990s Hong Kong: The Underworld Heiress Clears Her Name Through Food 穿九零港城：黑道千金靠美食洗白
[Transmigrate to 1990s Hong Kong] [Daughter of a crime boss] [Food and business] [Turning gangsters into honest workers] Transmigrated as the daughter of a Hong Kong crime boss in the 1990s, she's got a gang of underlings who know nothing but fighting. While everyone else is fighting over territory, she picks up a spatula and gets into the food business! She trains street thugs to become food delivery riders and errand couriers. With the help of her cha chaan teng's delicious food, she gradually
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- 16 Reborn in the Nineties: The Alluring Beauty Snares the Cold, Abstinent Tycoon 重生九零，钓系美人拿捏禁欲大佬 [Two powerful leads, an intense game of push and pull, building a strong technological nation, business warfare in a bygone era, alternate setting] The untouchable beauty VS the fully leveled black lotus This is a battle between equals, as well as the legend of a great power's rise in industrial technology. In 1992, Jiang Wan was reborn into a desperate situation. At first, she set her sights on Shen Yichuan, a tech expert with vast capital at his disposal, in order to take revenge. What began a 43Reads—Score—14d adds
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Reborn in 1987: From the Start, I Stole Hong Kong’s Goddess 重生87：开局截胡港岛女神
[Urban farming + reborn + historical era + entrepreneurship] Chen Hao wakes up to find that the woman beside him is none other than Li Zhi, Miss Asia and the dream girl of countless men! Chen Hao also discovers that he has been reborn on Hong Kong Island in 1987. That year, a global stock market crash hits, costing stock-market legend Warren Buffett billions of dollars and becoming his lifelong nightmare! Chen Hao seizes this golden opportunity to buy the dip in stock markets around the world, m
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In 1960, I Stole Away to Hong Kong and Rose to the Top by Selling Fish 1960偷渡香江从卖鱼开始逆袭
[Fishing for seafood + underworld intrigue + business battles + feuds among the wealthy + a rise from the bottom + an ensemble period drama + the heroine can hold her breath underwater for 12 minutes + a powerful heroine + the hero has a smaller role later on] Reborn on the very day her family planned to trade her in marriage to a fool. In her previous life, he had risked his life to protect her. In this life, she would take him with her as they defied fate and rose to the top. Starting out on t
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1950s Military Marriage: I Kick My Scumbag Father to the Curb and Head to the City for a Secure Job 五零军婚，脚踹渣爹进城端铁饭碗
[Period setting + both leads’ first relationship + heroine builds a career + everyday life + pocket dimension full of supplies + no saintly behavior or handouts + realistic heroine] I’m no good at writing blurbs, so please read the story. The career plot begins in Chapter 53. Romance in the early chapters; from the middle onward, the heroine focuses entirely on her career. This is a story about a powerful woman entering politics, with two strong leads and an even stronger heroine. An Ran was a r
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- 20 In the Sixties, I Moved to Hong Kong and Made a Fortune 六零，迁居港城赚翻了 An unexpected phone call changed the Tang family's destination. Homesickness drew them back, yet they settled in Harbor City. With dividend accounts and inherited land as their foundation, they shifted from dealing antiques to real estate. Their hearts were split in two: half belonged to their country and its people, the other half to their nature as businesspeople. The four members of the Tang family traveled from Harbor City to the mainland, weathering decades of ups and downs. They left home 5kReads—Score52514d adds
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Transmigrate into a Book Set in the 1970s: The Cannon Fodder Awakens and Steals the Protagonist's Golden Finger 穿书七零炮灰觉醒抢走主角金手指
(Period setting + transmigrate into a book + pocket dimension) Tags: Clear-headed female lead, focused entirely on her career Yang Lihua had been born into this era for over a decade when, on the day her older brother Yang Lixin went on a blind date, she suddenly awakened to the truth: her future sister-in-law was the ill-fated heroine of a period novel, constantly tormented by her sister-in-law, and Yang Lihua herself was the awful sister-in-law readers hated with a burning passion. All sorts o
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Building Dreams in Hong Kong 香江筑梦
The novel has been partially adapted into a comic drama titled "Harbor City Comeback: From a Down-and-Out Youth to the King of Watches." Give it a watch, and thank you for your support! [From Rags to Riches + Industrial Empire + Feuds Between the Elite + Brotherhood in the Underworld + Beauty Pageants and Film + Based on Real Events] In 1978, a young man from Chaodong crawled ashore in Hong Kong from the jaws of a shark. Later, one of the brothers climbed into a wealthy family, while the other c
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Fragrant Island in the Fifties: The Cannon-Fodder Heiress Is the Real Powerhouse 五零香岛，炮灰大小姐才是真大佬
[Transmigration + alternate setting + 1950s + master of traditional Chinese medicine + spirited heroine and roguishly handsome hero + patriotism + decisive action] Fu Yao, an employee of the transmigration bureau, awakens in the body of a cannon-fodder heiress in 1950s Hong Kong. From the start, she’s kidnapped and set adrift at sea, with the sharks about to get her... Fu Yao flashes a wicked smile. “We’ll see who turns out to be cannon fodder!” She makes short work of the kidnappers, returns
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Little Sis and Big Bro Take Hong Kong by Storm, Spoiled by Eight Uncles 妹宝带哥闯香江，被八个舅舅团宠
[The Nineties + Metaphysics + Five-Year-Old Little Money Lover + Fortune-Telling and Ghost-Busting + Search for Family in Hong Kong + Everyone's Favorite + Playing the Fool While Holding All the Cards + Scheming + Everyday Life + Highly Satisfying] Mu Junyao, the founder of the metaphysical world who was trapped in a desolate wasteland for over five hundred years, has finally returned to life in someone else's body! She's been reborn in the body of a five-year-old girl! Her original body's fooli
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- 25 Restarting My Life: Breaking Every Rule of the Era 重启人生，我在年代打破所有规则 [Transmigrate into a book, period setting, System, male lead is a bit of a jerk, lots of women, pure-love fans should read with caution. He has no morals and is selfish, so don’t read if you’re the self-sacrificing type.] He wakes from a night of modern bar-hopping and finds himself in the 1970s. Chen Zui is dazed for a few seconds, then accepts reality. Once the memories in his mind finish merging, he casually exhales a puff of smoke. “I really ought to kneel down and thank you…” Looking at thi 9.3kReads7.4Score59314d adds
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Tenants in Old Hong Kong in the 20th Century 20世纪香港旧城市租客
Through the lives of the tenants in an old building, this story paints a picture of Hong Kong society in the 1980s as it transitioned from an industrial to a financial era. It portrays ordinary people striving, supporting one another, and finding warmth in a time of sweeping change, celebrating the positive, resilient spirit of Hong Kong.
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Starting Out as a Vocational School Student, I Worked My Factory to the Bone 中专生开局，我把工厂卷疯了
A modern quality-control worker transmigrates to the famine years of the 1960s. The moment she opens her eyes, she faces a desperate situation: the high school entrance exam has been suspended, and she's being forced to go to the countryside. To avoid being sent down, she promptly skips grades, studies hard, gets into a technical secondary school, and secures a stable job at a state-owned enterprise, successfully escaping that fate. She doesn't have any miraculous talent that will make her famou
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- 28 Reborn in Hong Kong: The Sister-in-Law Joins the Game and Becomes a Caged Canary Again 重生香江：大嫂入局，再做金丝雀 Tag overload: reborn in Hong Kong, powerful Hong Kong tycoon, canary rises to power, woman pursues man, intense push and pull, both leads are romantically and physically devoted only to each other, sweet romance and healing Shen Huaiqing is reborn in 1990. The moment she opens her eyes, she’s being treated like a piece of merchandise and sent to an underground auction in Hong Kong, where she waits to be bought. On the auction stage, she recognizes the cold, distinguished man at a glance: Nie Shi 314Reads6.4Score10914d adds
- 29 Hot News in Harbor City: Wasn't She Supposed to Be a Caged Canary? 港城热闻：不是金丝雀吗？ “Have you heard? Chu Wenyan, the heir of Hong Kong City who never gets involved with women, has brought a canary back from Shanghai.” As the rumors spread, no one knew that the “canary” everyone speculated about and looked down on was actually his quietly registered, legally wedded wife, the woman he kept hidden in his heart: Shen Tangwan. Reborn, she uncovers the truth behind her family's ruin in her previous life. This time, she takes the initiative to get close to her silent, stern husband, t 535Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 After Being Abandoned by a Man, I Took My Daughter to Hong Kong Island 被男人抛下后，带着女儿闯香江 (Alternate History + Period Setting + Pocket Space + Stockpiling) Wu Xiangyun transmigrated into a book, becoming a concubine abandoned by a gang boss. In the novel, the heroine, An Qingzhu, was the eldest wife's daughter and the family's lucky star. She fled with her parents to Hong Kong to escape disaster, and because her family brought along gold, silver, and jewels, they went on to live in great wealth. After Wu Xiangyun, from the twenty-first century, transmigrated, the original owner was r 1.8kReads5.8Score10214d adds
- 31 A Golden Finger from the Start: Ms. Ming Heads to Hong Kong with Her Suitcase 开局金手指，明女士提包去港城 (Alternate setting + fiction + pocket dimension + System + ensemble cast) In the bitter winter of 2036, twenty-six-year-old Ming Lan stood outside her empty home, clutching her torn marriage certificate. The husband who had once sworn eternal devotion and the best friend she had trusted with her heart had taken all her savings. They had even put the marital home her parents left her up for sale. “We’re in love. Please let us be together,” her friend’s coquettish voice still rang in her ears. Her 148Reads—Score—14d adds
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The 1980s: My Dad Lives Off His Wife, and I Return Home as a Tycoon 八零：我爸靠吃软饭我回国成神豪
Tang Zhixia transmigrates to 1983, where she's just about to be fed to the fish. [Aww~ Bind yourself to me and I'll save you, but you have to take me home!] A Chinese dragon egg crashes into the space between her brows. Only after escaping certain death does Tang Zhixia discover that her “golden finger,” which saved her, can only hatch with the help of China's national fortune! And her legendary father, who made his fortune after four wealthy wives died, has just left her billions in assets and
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Transmigrating to the 1970s: The One-Shot System Takes Me to New Heights 穿越七零：秒杀系统带我飞
The rating just came out, so it’ll go up later! 1970: I Have a Golden Finger and a Maxed-Out Family Ding! Your limited-time flash-sale System has been bound! Wen Jingshu, an English major in graduate school in 2024, was halfway through studying for the civil service exam when she transmigrated. When she woke up, she’d become a graduate student in trade and economics in 1970. Her father was a police bureau chief, her mother a section chief at the agricultural bureau, her eldest brother a battalio
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Marching Out of the Ten Thousand Mountains to Reclaim Our Homeland and Expand Our Borders 兵出十万大山，复故土拓新疆
Liu Yongfu went up the mountain to gather firewood. In a dream, an old man told him that he was a mighty general who should defend his home and protect his people. When he woke, he also had a new set of memories from the future. Liu Yongfu decided that, besides defending his homeland, he should find the Han people a place to settle, help them survive more than a decade of war and natural disasters, and fight against imperialism... [Some parts of this story take liberties with history, or happen
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- 35 After the College Entrance Exam, I Used My Foresight to Become a Tycoon 回到高考后，利用先知成富豪 By a twist of fate, Chen Feiyu returns to the day after his class reunion, held after the college entrance exam. Using his information advantage, he makes up for past regrets. From the start, he sets his sights on the Brazil World Cup to earn his first fortune, then uses his expertise and memories to grow his money in the stock market. He also keeps in touch with his high school crush and his senior from university, wins the hearts of both beauties, and becomes a winner in life! 2.8kReads—Score11014d adds
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Traveling Between Two Worlds to Fight in Korea, I Beat Up the Americans 双穿抗美援朝，我暴打美国佬
In 2026, overworked wage slave Su Tianci gets his writing royalties. He plans to go out for a foot massage with the full-service treatment, as a reward for himself. But he never expects to open his eyes and transmigrate to a battlefield engulfed in war. There’s no water, medicine, or food. Fortunately, he can return to 2026. Two vastly different eras now lie before him.
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- 37 Crossing Between Two Worlds: From the Start in 1952, I Was Already a County-Level Cadre 双穿一九五二开局就是正科级 In 2026, Su Tianci accidentally transmigrated to the war-torn Korean battlefield. Fortunately, he had brought along a pocket dimension. The System grabbed a bucket and ran. To return to 2026, he had to reach the siheyuan. Two vast eras lay before him. 28.5kReads5.5Score1.6k14d adds
- 38 Between Two Worlds: 1949 两界穿梭之一九四九年 No morals + a little cruelty to beasts + everyday life at the heart of it Su Tianci transmigrates to Beiping in 1948, where his daily life revolves around tormenting beasts. Our protagonist has no manners and often does things without playing fair. The main idea is simple: if I have no morals, you can't morally blackmail me... [Putting the facts aside, is the author wrong to want to earn a little more tuition money? We shouldn't think only of ourselves; we need to consider the author too. I've m 3.4kReads—Score21114d adds
- 39 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 7.9kReads5.8Score33814d adds
- 40 Double Crossing to the Sixties, Hauling in 2026 双穿六零，搬运2026 Set aside your personal standards and enjoy a life without scruples. Refuse to wear yourself down with overthinking; when something happens, just lose it. Better to inconvenience others than make yourself miserable. Su Tianci from 2026 unexpectedly transmigrates to the materially deprived 1960s. Two vast eras now lie before him. 591Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 I Transmigrated to the 1960s, and Now I'm a Refugee? 穿越六零，我成难民了？ Drop your personal standards and enjoy a shameless life. Reject pointless self-torment and go completely off the rails when something happens. Better to make trouble for others than suffer in silence. That was Su Tianci in 2026. He’d only joined a cycling club and wanted to talk about cycling technique. Who could have guessed he’d somehow fall off a cliff? When he opened his eyes, he found himself in the materially deprived 1960s. 1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Crossing Between Two Worlds: 1949 两界穿梭之一九四九 Drop the pretense of being a decent person and enjoy a shameless life. Refuse to waste your energy on inner turmoil; if something’s wrong, just lose it. Rather than make yourself suffer, make life difficult for someone else. That’s Su Tianci in 2026. By chance, he transmigrates to Beiping on the eve of liberation. The booming economy of 2026 and the war-torn year of 1949: two vastly different eras lie before him. 5kReads5.8Score21614d adds
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