Good Period Novels with No Transmigration, No Transmigration into a Book, and No Soul Transmigration 好看的年代文，不穿越不穿书不魂穿
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The Fussy Wife Joins the Army and Whips Her Husband Into Shape 作精媳妇随军训夫，巴掌扇爽了！
[Period piece + Marriage Before Love + size difference + age difference + both leads’ first love + beloved by the whole family + everyday family life] Clear-headed, lazy, greedy, and lovely beauty vs. stern, rugged military officer who dotes on his wife * Tong Yao was lazy and greedy, and she was also a delicate beauty. After finally marrying an army officer, she had landed herself a steady, long-term allowance of a hundred yuan a month. Her husband might be away, but the money arrived on time
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The Pride of the Family: The Oddballs on the Margins of 1960s Society 六零社会边角料极品爸妈的小骄傲
Theme: Knowledge changes your fate! Everyone’s got eight hundred tricks up their sleeve + courtyard-house drama + calculated self-interest + family squabbles + stockpiling + outrageous characters + a jinx’s tongue + playing dumb to catch the tiger. One day, Lin Xixi transmigrates and becomes the biological daughter of an outrageous couple in a period novel. Outrageous characters are sly, lazy, greedy, and slippery: they can’t get enough of eating, but they’re no good at anything else. Luckily, h
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After Awakening Her Memories, the Little Cannon Fodder Gossips, Gets Rich, and Takes Down Scumbags 觉醒记忆后，小炮灰吃瓜发财虐渣
[System space + born into another body + memories awakened + transmigrate into a book + taking on the stepmother and stepsister + the heroine will never be abused] Chen Qingyi had spent more than a decade living with the Dazhulong Brigade. One day, she fell into the water and awakened memories of her past life, only to learn that she was a minor cannon-fodder character in a book. Her biological father was a heartless cad. In two months, he would divorce her mother by letter and marry his one tru
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Reborn at the Turn of the Millennium: The Beloved Prodigy's Mentor System 重生千禧，团宠小学霸的名师系统
“No male lead! A male supporting character appears later, and there are side couples to root for too.” Qin Zhaozhao, a doctoral student struggling with her studies and taking extra time to graduate, wakes up one day to find she’s traveled back from 2022 to the year 2000. For some inexplicable reason, she’s also acquired a System. In this life, she not only has a golden finger that gives her one-on-one lessons from renowned teachers, but also the ability to help the people around her choose bette
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The Sweet Young Lady of the 1970s 七十年代小娇娇
The moment the young educated youth Wen Wan arrives in Lu Jiazui, she becomes famous: famous for her beauty, famous for taking her time, and famous for her sharp tongue and soft, sweet manner. When the educated youths first arrive, Lu Dongping sees Wen Wan and thinks, How is this little thing supposed to work in the fields and earn work points? Whichever team gets her will be unlucky. Take her home and she'll be treated like an ancestor. Later, Wen Wan becomes his very own little ancestor.
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Reborn, Who'd Still Be the Female Side Character? 都重生了，谁还当女配啊
[Sweet romance + rebirth + period setting + heartwarming + healing + power couple] “Do you have any regrets?” In 2023, sixty-three-year-old Su Wan is a successful businesswoman and a renowned philanthropist known far and wide as Ms. Su. In 1981, twenty-one-year-old Su Wan is abandoned by everyone she loves, and her husband and child die in a fire. Alone, she leaves home and endures every hardship life has to offer. At a press conference, sixty-three-year-old Su Wan suffers a heart
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The 1970s: My Sweet Bride Is Blessed with Easy Pregnancies, and Her Rough-Hewn Husband Cherishes Her with His Life 七零：娇媳妇易好孕，糙汉拿命宠
Su Mianmian was a delicate beauty from the city, with fair skin and a slender waist, and a sweet, naive disposition. After being sent to the countryside one day, she somehow ended up married to Huo Zheng, the toughest and most intimidating man for miles around. The villagers all waited to see them make fools of themselves. “Huo Zheng is as hard as iron, while Su Mianmian is so delicate she could bruise at a touch. Their marriage won't last!” But married life turned everything the village believe
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The Wife Who Dies Young in a Period Novel? The Ascetic Professor Falls in Love 年代文早死妻？禁欲教授沦陷求爱
[An alternate 1980s setting, awakening as the foil to the heroine; slow-paced, everyday traditional story; marriage first, love later, and family life; raising kids with sweet affection; no golden finger; local-born characters who aren’t perfect] After Song Zhiyao impulsively picks a fight over divorce, she takes her child to her parents’ home and has a dream that makes her awaken to the truth. Well, would you look at that: she’s living inside a period novel! And she’s not even the main heroine,
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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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Banished to the Countryside! The Village Girl Drags the Professor Back to Her Nest 惨遭下放！小村姑把大教授叼回窝
[Older man] [Fatherly] [11-year age gap] [Doting husband] [Both inexperienced in love] Su Gengnian takes a liking to the new man who has been sent down to her village. Once she realizes he likes her too, she proposes to him again and again, only to be rejected every time. Angry, Su Gengnian decides to keep her distance, but then the man suddenly proposes to her. And so Su Gengnian gets her wish and marries him. Later, after his name is cleared, the man decides he doesn’t want to return to the ci
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The Stunning White Moonlight Joins the Army with Her Child? The Commander Is Shocked and Delighted 绝美白月光带娃随军？首长惊又喜
[Reserved, rugged man + Sweet, delicate beauty + Sweet romance + Mutual teasing + Pocket dimension + Cozy daily life] In her previous life, Lin Wanshu was the wife of a man everyone envied: a wealthy tycoon. She was beautiful and rich, and her husband never kept a mistress. But no one knew that behind the glamorous life, she spent every day alone in an empty room, never had a child, and eventually died after being hit by a car. When she opens her eyes again, Lin Wanshu has returned to the 1970s.
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The 1970s: Back to the Day Before She Married Her Abusive Scumbag 七零：重回和家暴渣男领证前一天
[1970s] [Farm space] [Past and present lives] [Raising children] [Sharp-tongued heroine and taciturn hero] Gu Yuehuai is reborn on the day before she and her scumbag ex-husband register their marriage! In her previous life, her father wanted her to have finer food, so he went to the black market to make money through small-time trading. Someone reported him, branding him a profiteer. After being paraded through the streets, he was sent to prison. In her previous life, her eldest brother killed t
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The 1960s' Beloved Group's Pocket Dimension: The Capitalist Heiress Goes to the Countryside 六零团宠空间：资本家小姐下乡啦
[Beloved by the Whole Family + Adorable Baby + Pocket Dimension + Farming + Sweet Romance + Lucky Charm + Happy Ending + Reborn + Dotting Father + Devoted Husband + Military Marriage + Capitalist Heiress] Lin Nanfeng returns to the early spring of 1967. As a blizzard approaches, the whole family tacitly agrees to leave the country. Except for her and her mother. In her previous life, after deceiving her mother, her father turned around and took his first wife, their son, and several daughters
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Back at Thirteen, My Scumbag Dad and Godmother, Tremble! 重返13岁，渣爹干妈颤抖吧
Ling Jiujiu had a miserable life in her previous one, thanks to her scumbag father and stepmother. After returning to the day she caught her father cheating with her godmother, she decided to keep her cool this time and let the two adulterers off for now, plotting her revenge at her own pace... In this life, she followed her father’s example and shifted the family assets, saddled her mother with shared household debts, and forced her father to leave with nothing. Then, armed with explosive evide
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He Ruined My Future in My Past Life, So I Got My Revenge That Very Night in This One 前世毁我前程今生当晚就把仇报了
[Rebirth + Pocket Dimension + Feel-Good Wish Fulfillment + Sweet Romance + Perfect Ending] Shen Yimo always felt that her family's deaths and poverty in their previous life were connected. So this time around, she's going to embrace the smell of money. Her goal is to work hard and make money, and not just a little money, either. But now that this man has entered her life, has she suddenly become rich overnight? Does that mean she has no choice but to lie flat? She doesn't even have to earn her o
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Period Quick Transmigration: The Art of Taking It Easy 年代快穿：悠闲人生
A period-piece quick transmigration story. The female lead has a personal space and memories, but no System, missions, or set plot. She may have memories of the original host's future, such as the original host having been reborn. Some worlds have a CP, and some don't. The male leads are all just tools.
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She Lived Life to the Fullest in Every Era 她在每个年代都活得潇洒
Gu Nuanyi keeps dreaming about the same scene. Since she already possesses a space of her own, she senses something fishy is going on. She quickly gathers supplies, and after she transmigrates to the 1970s, her ancestor visits her in a dream and reveals that none of this is a coincidence… What she never expected was that transmigrating wouldn’t happen just once. There would be a second time, a third time…
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Quick Transmigration Through the Eras: Enjoying Life 快穿年代：享受生活
(Quick transmigration + era settings + no missions + no fixed romantic pairing + each story can be read on its own. Prices and wages are generally based on comparisons made multiple times, but may vary by region; there's no way to guarantee complete accuracy. The 1950s used the old currency, with amounts counted in units of ten thousand. For ease of reading, yuan and kuai are used throughout.) (I'm no good at writing blurbs, so feel free to skip this.) Live as you please. Don't make yourself suf
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Quick Transmigration Through the Eras: The Cannon Fodder’s Road to Reversal 年代快穿，炮灰的逆袭之路
[Period Drama]+ [Taking Down Scumbags]+ [Quick Transmigration]+ [Fragmented Male Lead]+ [Female Lead Has a Pocket Dimension] After binding with a System, Zhu Ziqi transmigrates to different eras to fulfill the original owners' wishes, change their tragic lives, and ruthlessly punish all kinds of scumbags. After Zhu Ziqi arrives, many things may turn out completely differently from the previous life, but the scumbags who hurt the original owners will never get off easy. Stories: 1. The Educated Y
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Quick Transmigration: The Powerful Men of Period Novels Cry as They Kiss Me 快穿：在年代文里被大佬们亲哭
Women's fiction: Period, Quick Transmigration, putting scumbags in their place, powerful leads, devoted husbands, happy ending, rugged men, educated youths By a twist of fate, actress Song Lili arrives in three thousand worlds to take on various Period Quick Transmigration missions, helping the miserable, wronged original owners fulfill their wishes. Along the way, she meets all kinds of men in these Period worlds: the mightiest military officer, a rugged veteran, the village chief's son, a cold
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In This Period Novel, the Rich Young Lady Refuses to Help the Poor 年代文，大小姐不扶贫
[Quick transmigration through period dramas + self-interest + sweet romance + golden finger + no rescuing the poor + no saintly heroine + no becoming a stepmother + no adopting children + no fixed love interest] Some worlds may have no romantic pairing. The heroine retains no memories of her quick-transmigration worlds, but she does remember her first life as a wealthy heiress. Her golden finger is assigned at random. 1. The little childhood sweetheart manipulated in the 1960s 2. The village gir
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Quick Transmigration: A Life Through the Eras 快穿年代生活录
(This is not a wish-fulfillment story, and there are no missions.) An unknown young woman’s life in a story set in a bygone era. If you want to read about family squabbles, juicy gossip, outrageous melodrama, tender romances, quiet warmth, and love of country... (The plot is fictional!) The First Wife in the 1950s (Complete). Not feel-good, read with caution. The Farmwoman in the 1980s (Complete). About raising children, read with caution. The Real Heiress in the 1960s (Complete) A Different Lif
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Quick Transmigration: Living for Myself in a Period Novel 快穿之在年代文里做自己
(A few things to know: 1. Some stories have romance, and some don’t. 2. In some worlds, she visits the black market, and her golden finger keeps getting more powerful. 3. In some worlds, she serves her country and turns herself in. 4. The heroine is an ordinary person who grows over time and has principles. This isn’t a power fantasy about an unstoppable female lead mowing everyone down.) Synopsis: Ye Xiaoxiao is a struggling web-novel author. She’s either reading novels or on her way to writin
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The Cannon Fodder Awakens: Thriving in a Period Novel 炮灰觉醒，我在年代文里如鱼得水
[Period drama + quick transmigration + space (only in the second world) + no memories in the second world + golden finger + no fixed couple + a touch of ensemble cast + realistic] World One: My Cousin Is the Lucky Female Lead (ensemble cast + low-key) ✓ Feel free to skip World Two: Transmigrated as a Selfless Workhorse (1968) ✓ World Three: The Cannon-Fodder Best Friend Returns to the City ✓ World Four: A 1990s Migrant Worker’s Reversal ✓ World Five: One Adult and Three Kids in the 1970s ✓ World
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Quick Transmigration: A Journey Through the Ning'an Era 快穿：宁安年代之旅
[Quick Transmigration] [fictional setting] [Period] [no fixed CP] [female lead’s perspective] [overpowered golden finger] Ning An, an employee of the Temporal Bureau, transmigrates into small worlds set in different periods. As she eases the supporting female characters’ grievances and makes up for their regrets, she also enjoys a good life of her own. [Content warnings: Please don’t read if these things bother you. Be sure to read this!!!] An extremely overpowered golden finger! The original ma
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Quick Transmigration: I’m Clinging to a Big Shot in Period Novels 快穿之我在年代文里抱大腿
Her lifestyle was far too extravagant. If she could sit, she never stood; if she could lie down, she never sat. She avoided hardship and enjoyed every comfort. Because Yu Niaoniao loved the good life too much, the Main God, who couldn’t stand the sight of her, banished her to a department that sent people into period novels to complete missions. She was sent to an era where everything was scarce, expected to suffer and toil to her heart’s content. But! If they wanted her to suffer, she would do
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Those Years I Was Cannon Fodder in Period Novels [Quick Transmigration] 在年代文里当炮灰那些年【快穿】
Long Ruyue is a star employee at the Transmigration Bureau. She loves Buddha and has a wide range of interests. If a problem can be solved with force, why waste brainpower? Her laid-back attitude finally got on the boss’s nerves, and he kicked her over to the Grievance Resolution Bureau. Long Ruyue: “Boss, you have no heart. But…” A life that’s been switched with someone else’s? Hah… So what if you took someone else’s life? I’ll still make you question your own. The female supporting character e
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The System’s Quick Transmigration Guide to the Decades 快穿系统之年代攻略
(Alternate-history period setting! Readers who care about historical accuracy, stay away!!! Quick transmigration + System + wish fulfillment + sweet romance, one-on-one + no fixed CP) Come see all the different sides of life ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄*₎◞ ̑̑ After losing her job during the pandemic, Chengcheng spent her days sprawled at home like a couch potato. Then she was recruited and bound to a newly created quick transmigration System from the Space-Time Administration, and sent into one period setting after
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Joining the Army in the 1960s: Fleeing Famine and Marrying a Cavalryman in a Flash 六零随军：逃荒，闪婚骑兵哥哥
[Military Romance + Cavalry Commander + Tianshan Grasslands + Farming and Hunting + Sweet Everyday Life] My grasslands, my horse. I do whatever I want out here. A spirited military wife transmigrates to the 1960s, flees famine across five provinces, and finally reaches a cavalry regiment in the far northwest, where she begins life with the troops. She clears land, digs for caterpillar fungus, and hunts wild beasts. With fields to farm and meat to eat, life is good. Riding a Tibetan wild ass, lea
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Reborn in the 1970s: Grandma, Today It's Your Turn to Get Divorced 重生七零：奶，今天轮到您离婚啦
Also known as: Reborn in the 1970s as a Lucky Little Carp with Space Tens of billions in supplies, serving the country, the family’s darling, adorable child, satisfying story In her previous life, Shen Danluo’s family was harmed by her wicked second uncle, and she avenged them all by herself. Now she has been reborn with a space that can exchange for all kinds of supplies. In this life, she will change everyone’s tragic fate. Take down the worst offenders and punish the scum. Then quietly make a
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I’m at My Wits’ End! Four Sons and a Daughter Send Me to College in the 1970s 麻了！四儿一女供我在七零读大学
[Grandma with incredible fighting power, five adorable kids, mostly everyday life, some awful people, but the protagonist is utterly invincible, satisfying revenge] An Xiaoyun unexpectedly awakens and learns that she is a doomed side character in a lucky heroine story. She is about to die in childbirth, taking her baby with her. Her husband will die after falling into a river from grief, and their four sons will burn themselves out for the lucky heroine, meeting horrible ends. An Xiaoyun is furi
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The Sweet Young Educated Youth Married a Rugged Man Who Returned From Cultivation, and He Spoils Her Rotten 娇知青嫁给修仙回来的糙汉被宠爆
[Veteran Soldier from the Seventies x Gentle Educated Youth Wife + Both Reborn + Pocket Dimension + Cultivation + Sweet Romance + Raising Kids] Fang Qiao dies saving someone. When she opens her eyes again, she discovers she has been reborn in the resource-strapped 1970s, when you need ration coupons for everything. Food and clothing are scarce, but her daughter is still in her womb. Even more surprising, her dead husband has returned from another world, having cultivated immortality! He has also
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A Woman Joins the Mess Hall 炊事班来了个女同志
Meng Jinzhang never imagined that a moment of kindness spent saving someone would leave him with a wife. Changpu never imagined that one day she would leave her village in such an unbelievable way, then travel farther and farther and climb higher and higher.
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A Shanghai Girl Raised on Rice Soup 上海吃泡饭长大的小囡
After Shanghai Porridge, the author, who writes in the Shanghai dialect, has written another full-length novel in Shanghai dialect about life in Shanghai’s alleyways. It tells of the discovery and destruction of the Li family’s “heirloom treasure.” As people vie for the “rare treasure,” the novel reveals the many faces of life: some seize what they want by cunning and force; some are consumed by jealousy and covetousness; some are calculating, while others are calm as still water; some even sink
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Shanghai People Eat Rice Porridge 上海人吃泡饭
In the middle of the night, Wang’s Granny was being beaten so badly she could barely move, and could only call for help. Uncle Huang was still fuming over how she had humiliated him during the day, so angry he couldn’t sleep. He heard what sounded faintly like a cat meowing, but when he listened more closely, he realized it was a cry for help coming from Wang’s Granny’s house. He was about to go save her when his wife grabbed hold of him...
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Back to 1985: My Self-Serve Porridge Stall Is a Hit 重回八五，自助粥摊火爆了
(Her Own Woman) To escape her stepfather's clutches, Su Miao falls from the 13th floor and travels back to the day her parents divorced when she was a child. She sees through her mother's cold, indifferent nature and her habit of endlessly spoiling her younger brother. This time, she chooses without hesitation to go with her father. When her uncle tries to secure a permanent job, he blocks the door and raises a huge ruckus. Su Miao leans close to her father's ear and whispers a few words. Her fa
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Double Alpha: After My Younger Brother Ran from His Wedding, His Groom Fell for Me 双A：弟弟逃婚后，弟夫恋上我
[ABO + double Alpha + powerful leads + wealthy families] At his father’s behest, Yin Muqing befriended the eldest grandson of the Gu family. He took him to an entertainment club to find an Omega, but the guy turned out to be as innocent as a high schooler. Not only did he keep himself pure, he even asked Yin Muqing to help buy an Omega’s freedom. Before long, Yin Muqing and Gu Xinshu became friends. Who could have guessed they became friends because Gu Xinshu was going to be his future brother-i
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What, You Have a Problem with My Pheromones Smelling Like Poisonous Mushrooms? 怎么，我信息素毒蘑菇你有意见？
[Main story complete] [Two male leads + ABO beast transformation + devoted to each other + raising a child + sweet romance, happy ending + size difference] Gentle, powerful dragon seme vs. cool, breathtakingly beautiful poisonous-mushroom uke Only when he was dying did Ye Nanxun learn that he was merely a disposable NPC in a doting-on-the-protagonist novel, mentioned in a few brief strokes to highlight the protagonists' romance. Reborn at nineteen, Ye Nanxun wants not only to do his best to surv
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This Beta Doesn't Want to Pretend Anymore Beta不想伪装了
[AB romance, interstellar, military academy, slow burn] Content warnings: 1. Qi is the top, and at first he approaches the bottom with strong ulterior motives. He also has relatively little page time before Chapter 50, while the character who gets blamed has a much bigger role and presence. 2. This is a new writer's first book, so writing errors are to be expected. The author will come back and edit from time to time. 3. If you can't stand the top, don't worry too much. The bottom won't let hims
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The Marriage We Missed 错过的婚姻
The wave of educated youths returning to the cities tore two people in love apart. Liu Yumei, a country girl, became pregnant before marriage and tried to hang herself, but survived. Her sister-in-law then sold her to human traffickers, who married her off to a man in the mountains. The educated youth Fang Shengqiang lost his memory in a car accident and missed his chance to be with Yumei. He married a rich woman and, with his wife’s support, became a corporate highflier. Liu Yumei became the w
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That Village, Those People, That Fool 那村那人那傻瓜
One field, one home, and two people: a simple life shared for a long time is what really matters! A hardworking, kindhearted country girl vs. a devoted, doting husband who treats her like a loyal puppy. A warm and simple story of everyday family life! This story takes place in a small village. Hehua, the eldest daughter of the Li family in the west of the village, married Changsheng, who lived in the east... Changsheng never spoke to anyone and couldn't recognize his neighbors. He didn't even kn
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With the Script in Hand, I Strike It Rich in a Period Novel 极品手握剧本后，在年代文里捡漏
Shen Zhixia finds a script inexplicably appearing in her mind as soon as she is born. In the script, she is the foil to the heroine of a period novel. The heroine Li Zhidong’s parents are hardworking, kind, honest, and down-to-earth. Everyone for miles around knows them as good, honest people. Shen Zhixia’s parents are mean, lazy, greedy, and shameless. Everyone for miles around knows them as the worst kind of people. Li Zhidong will make many influential connections and have countless admirers.
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