Looking for Period-piece Novels with No Romance. No Dumb, Brainless Stories. 想看年代 无cp的文 不要低智无脑文

1. 1 回 Back to 1968: I Won't Be a Baby-Making Tool 回到1968：我不当送子工具人 Little Orange Who Loves Strawberries爱吃草莓的小橙子Modern Romance643k WordsCompleted [No CP] [Period] [Book Transmigration] [Women's awakening] [Political career] [Scientific research] [Pocket dimension] [No child-rearing] [Ensemble cast] [Reborn] Xie Yun, a modern orphan, returns to 1968 and becomes Xie Yun, a country girl raised by a widowed mother, with an exceptionally capable younger brother named Xie Shen. She discovers that she hasn't just transmigrated through time, she's also transmigrated into a book: a story about a stepmother raising children, where she is the first 9.8kReads9.3Score805Shelves

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   This is a truly wonderful book. I've read many historical fiction novels before, mostly featuring the "pampered wife, rough husband" type. While they claim to depict female empowerment, the protagonists often rely on powerful men to subtly and overtly help women. I've also read many wealth-building historical novels, portraying the era as a land of plenty, which I, in my youthful ignorance, believed. It wasn't until I read more meticulously researched and professional historical fiction that I realized how difficult things were back then. Compared to the typical stories where supporting characters mindlessly frame the female lead, or where both the male and female leads have multiple admirers, I find I much prefer this kind of ensemble piece. As the author says, if someone could truly travel back to that time, how could any Chinese person, born under the red flag and raised in the spring breeze, not want to do what they can for those scientists and for the country at that time? ❤️❤️❤️ Many authors who write about time travel or reincarnation create parallel universes where they can save lives from earthquakes and mitigate the damage of two pandemics. I've been moved to tears countless times by these female protagonists, and even more so by the authors who created these works! 💕💕💕The dry historical materials were really hard to digest, but after reading your articles, I learned more about the real situation back then! I love Yunyun, Qingli, Gaoyun, Zhengzheng, Director Guixiang, Xiuzhen, Siqi, Wumei, Qinghong… I love every woman who lives earnestly and strives hard! I hope that society can truly achieve gender equality more and more often. 💕💕💕

2. 2 中 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 Peach Heart Rainbow桃心彩虹Modern Romance631k WordsOngoing 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 34.4kReads8.2Score3.5kShelves

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   No romantic pairing! The female lead gets into a vocational school and is assigned to a state-owned factory. It's a heartwarming slice-of-life story filled with modern mechanical knowledge as she works hard to build her career. 😳

3. 3 重 Back to the Eighties: Defending My Daughter from a Lecher 重回八零之捍女战流氓 Mo Yujin莫瑜瑾Modern Romance228k WordsCompleted She thought the enemies from her previous life were to blame. Only after waking up did she realize that some things you believe are true are just assumptions, not the truth! How often have people said, “If only I could do it all over again”? Now that Mo Ziyan has been reborn, how will she face reality and respond? She gives the scumbag a crushing defeat and finds true love, only to fall into a new predicament. Growing against the odds, she relies on the System to carve a path through every obsta 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Please give me a push and follow me.

4. 4 都 Now That I'm Reborn, Why Get Married? Obviously, I'll Make Money 都重生了谁还嫁人，当然赚钱啊 Chi Yu Ru Hai池渔洳海Modern Romance510k WordsCompleted [Starting a Business and Making Money+Top Student+No Romance+Feel-Good Female Lead+Period Piece] Jiang Yu is reborn in 1994. In this life, she refuses to follow her mother to the city for school. She'll stay in the county, sell porridge, and open a food court. With her foresight and skills as a food blogger, watch her turn 250 yuan into a hundred billion... She'll make money and study hard, both at once! 1.5kReads8.9Score109Shelves

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   Reborn in 1994, she starts her business and gets rich by selling porridge and milk tea. It's a period novel with a strong female lead and no romantic pairing.👍 The rating is a bit low right now, but it's good!

5. 5 大 The Courtyard's Rebellious Son 大院逆子 The Too-Late Jinx为时已晚的克夫Urban203k WordsOngoing This is not a hero's story. It's the story of someone who is alive, living on behalf of those who died. Military life, the Sino-Vietnamese War of Self-Defense and Counterattack, reconnaissance soldiers, brotherhood, father-son bonds, a bygone era, growing up, passion, heartbreak, and tears. 94.3kReads7.6Score6.5kShelves

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   👍👍👍👍👍👍

6. 6 知 The Educated Youth Widow Is Cursed to Bring Misfortune to Her Family 知青寡妇克亲命 Grandma Ningning宁宁外婆Modern Romance437k WordsCompleted A powerful lightning-wielder in the apocalypse fights the Zombie King to protect their base, and they both end up gravely injured. But the base’s second-in-command takes advantage of the situation, kidnapping the wounded fighter and planning to cut open their skull and steal their lightning core. After detonating the core, they are reborn in the body of a young educated-woman widow in 1968. She’s said to bring misfortune to everyone around her: her paternal grandparents, parents, siblings, husba 2.2kReads8.5Score173Shelves

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   No romantic pairing, very exciting.

7. 7 穿 Transmigrated to the 1970s, This Cannon Fodder Won't Accept Her Fate 穿越到七零后炮灰绝不认命 Li Doesn't Quite Understand李不太懂Modern Romance304k WordsOngoing [Period setting + transmigrate into a book + System + ensemble cast + no romance + no going to the countryside] Modern rich beauty Li Zhaodi transmigrates into a book after a plane crash, landing in a period novel as a minor cannon-fodder character! Her whole family are bit-part cannon fodder in someone else's story. Her mother is pressured into remarrying, so she makes the real culprit marry instead. Her sister is tricked into marriage and wants to die. This time, it’s her brother-in-law who wa 1.8kReads—Score229Shelves

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   The logic is sound; the female protagonist starts her own business and runs a factory.

8. 8 穿 Transmigrate to the 1970s: I Get Married in a Flash from the Start 穿越七零，开局闪婚了 Lazy Fat Snail胖蜗牛很懒Modern Romance374k WordsCompleted [Military Marriage · Period Setting · Transmigration · Sweet Romance · Family and Neighborhood Life · Countryside · Face-Slapping · Pocket Dimension] Original title: Transmigrated to the 1970s, Married at First Sight from the Start “Since it’s already happened, I’ll take responsibility for you.” The cold voice passed through the covers and reached Su Wanwan’s ears. “W-Who said I wanted you to take responsibility?” “How did I get here?” Su Wanwan was just as confused. Where was this? She’d only g 40.2kReads8.3Score4.5kShelves
9. 9 八 The 1980s: The True Heiress Turns Dark, Tears Down the Green Tea, and Dumps Her Jerk Husband 八零：真千金黑化，撕绿茶踹渣夫 Tang Dachui汤大锤Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period setting + military marriage + face-slapping + sweet romance + love after marriage] The moment Ji Xiaoyue opened her eyes, she became the real daughter: timid and impossibly self-sacrificing. Her life as the real daughter was a miserable one: a biased father, a cheating scumbag, a shameless little green tea, and a lonely death with no one to claim her body. Ji Xiaoyue immediately made sure the scumbag and the little green tea were stuck with each other! Catch them in the act! I’ll get the 11.2kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves

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   It's great... The first book is finished, the second one is about rebirth, the male lead dotes on his wife, the female lead is smart and clear-headed, the plot is crazy, there are many awful characters, it's insane.

10. 10 照 Taking Care of My Widowed Sister-in-Law While Staying Chaste? I Was Reborn and Married a Commander Instead 照顾寡嫂还守身？我重生改嫁首长 A Little Lucky Carp一只小锦鲤Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Original novel of the short drama Reborn in 1980: My New Bride Wants a Divorce In her previous life, Han Xinrui failed her college entrance exams, lost her job to someone else, and was separated from her parents. She even married a man who only knew how to raise his sister-in-law’s children! After fifty years of marriage, the stress and resentment gave her breast cancer. As she lay dying, her husband proudly showed off his sister-in-law, his arm around her. “I gave Qingqing your university admis 7.8kReads7.9Score852Shelves
11. 11 他 He Has Amnesia? She Tricks Him into Marriage! The Easygoing Beauty Gets Pregnant and Wins in 1980 他失忆？她骗婚！八零娇懒美人怀崽躺赢 Little Lingyu小令羽Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Military Marriage in the 1980s + Sweet Romance + Easy Conception + Marriage First, Love Later + Satisfying Read] Her military officer husband comes home from a mission, bringing a beautiful woman with him? Isn't this the classic love-rival trope? How did it happen to her? Wen Ying was dumbfounded. Three years ago, she had transmigrated into an 1980s novel and become a poor, lazy village girl. Luckily, she had spent one wild night with the novel's male lead, a military officer and pilot. When sh 2.5kReads6.9Score224Shelves
12. 12 穿 I Transmigrate into a Book as a Middle-Aged Woman, Just as the Heroine Tries to Steal My Golden Finger 穿书成大妈，女主正想抢夺金手指 Nian Lianqiu念莲秋Modern Romance581k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate Into a Book, Period Setting, Pocket Dimension, Punish the Scum, No Whitewashing, No Forgiveness! A Touch of Ensemble Cast, Domestic Life, Building a Career] [No CP: No divorce, only widowhood! Sisters, let's not give her another man later, okay? Men are poison, and old men are even less worth bothering with. Let's not let them mess with our Hua!] Liu Xiaohua, a woman past the usual age for marriage, was forcibly sent by the System into a period novel. In an instant, she became the 15.3kReads8.2Score1.7kShelves
13. 13 重 Back to 1982: Casting Nets to Save the Village Belle and Make the Whole Village Rich 重回82：撒网救村花带全村致富 Seeing a Dragon on Mount Nan南山见龙Urban1.5M WordsCompleted Back at the age of twenty, he's known throughout the village as a no-good loafer. But no one knows he's returned carrying the regrets and memories of his previous life. He catches and sells fish, hunts in the mountains, and earns his first fortune through hard work. Before the flood hits, he even issues an early warning and organizes an evacuation, saving countless lives. From the village to the county, from small-time trading to grand strategies... In this life, he won't just clear his name. He 26.6kReads8.3Score2kShelves

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    This has to be it. I've read it three times already. No flaws. The writing is really good.

14. 14 重 Reborn in the 1960s, Granny Beats Her Unfilial Son 重生六零，气得老太太拳打不孝子 A Cha in the Misty Rain阿茶烟雨Modern Romance153k WordsCompleted Zhang Lan was reborn after her own son and his new wife sent her back to the countryside to fend for herself. In her final days, only her former daughter-in-law stayed by her side, caring for her with the help of her grandchildren. Zhang Lan asked herself: she might not have been the best mother to her son, but she had given him nearly everything she could. When he wanted a divorce, claiming their arranged marriage was a feudal relic, she played the villain and helped them split up. As a result, 121Reads—Score—Shelves

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    In her first life, Zhang Lan was framed by a fox spirit, and more importantly, her son didn't believe her. As a result, her own son abandoned her at the train station. Now, given a second chance, she wants to change her destiny, become her own master, and beat her son until he doubts the meaning of life.

15. 15 资 The Capitalist Heiress Goes to the Countryside and Wins the Heart of an Amnesiac Officer 资本小姐下乡，撩爆失忆军官 With You, Binbin彬彬有你Modern Romance374k WordsOngoing Jiang Zhi was a rich young lady in the modern world. After falling asleep, she transmigrated into a book, and not just any character, but a vicious supporting female character. The original owner was the daughter of a wealthy capitalist family. When political upheaval forced her family to move to Hong Kong, she couldn't bear to leave the man she loved, so she stayed behind alone. She thought she and the man she loved would eventually end up together, but it turned out he loved someone else. To w 1Reads6.2Score—Shelves

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    Bookworms, let's exchange book lists! 👇 These are all good novels I've read, period dramas, 70s/80s military fiction, transmigration novels, and time-travel stories. Want to check them out?

16. 16 八 The 1980s: Oh No! The Hong Kong City Big Shot Is Actually Me 八零：坏了！港城大佬竟是我自己 Thirteen Provinces of Starlight星火十三洲Modern Romance301k WordsCompleted (Harbor City; historical era; sweet romance; a powerful man humbles himself for love) Clear-headed and rational × love at first sight When Wen Miao opened her eyes, she discovered she'd transmigrated! From the start, she was in hell mode: a mother who died young, a deadbeat gambling father, a little sister, and a broken self! Wen Miao: “I'm done for!” Faced with a scumbag father who wanted to sell his daughter and thugs showing up to collect debts, she turned the tables and sent them off to dig 1.3kReads8.2Score165Shelves
17. 17 年 A Cherished Beauty in 1970s Hong Kong: Mrs. Xie in Her Prime 年代港岛有娇宠：谢太她风华绝代 Drowned in Words溺字Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Lin Xi worked her way from a small-town exam grinder to a powerhouse in the workplace, only to die suddenly and be born into 1948 Shanghai as Wen Jianning, the daughter of Wen Hongyuan, a textile tycoon, and his fifth concubine. The emotional coldness of her previous family taught her early to read people and keep a low profile to protect herself. The mysterious space on her wrist is her greatest secret. Nurtured by its spirit spring, she becomes breathtakingly beautiful and quietly amasses weal 7.2kReads6.6Score692Shelves
18. 18 霍 Lord Huo's Dearest, Tangtang Is Even More Beautiful Today 霍爷的小心肝，糖糖今天又变美了 The Cultured Little Bear小熊有文化Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (Audiobook now available) [Period drama comeback + everyone loves the heroine + powerful men bow to love + several men first despise her, then fall for her + groveling exes + romantic rivalry + adapting popular works + entertainment world in the early 2000s] “Tang Ying, are you really that desperate for a man? You shameless thing.” “Even if every other woman in the world died, I still wouldn't look at you.” Tang Ying, a superstar of her generation, transmigrates into a tragic female side charact 13.3kReads8.6Score1.4kShelves
19. 19 穿 I Became a Charming Supporting Actress, and I’m Fierce and Unstoppable! 穿成娇俏女配，又狠又拽！ Dong Junru董峻汝Ancient Romance626k WordsCompleted FULL-CAST AUDIOBOOK!!!! A beautiful young widow & a top scholar in the civil examinations & a top military exam graduate & a fearsome prince & a young emperor Her stepmother wants to use the concubine-born Shen Wanwan to pave the way for her son: make her a merchant's concubine, even though he's old enough to be her grandfather, or send her to be the lover of an old duke who has slaughtered countless people... To stay alive, Shen Wanwan pulls out all the stops: flaunting her chest, swaying her h 4.2kReads8.1Score498Shelves
20. 20 明 A Radiant Educated Youth Meets a Brooding Tough Guy 明艳知青遇上偏执痞汉 Green Maple Lychee青枫荔枝Modern Romance896k WordsCompleted Period drama, mutual flirting, sweet romance, pocket dimension, everyday life, adorable kids [Stunning, charming transmigrated beauty blogger meets a roguish, handsome, possessive country lad] She was a dazzling beauty blogger in front of the camera, but one day she wakes up in the 1970s. Ordinary clothes can't hide her natural radiance. Being bold is simply in her nature. Sent to the countryside, she meets a rough, roguish man who's just her type. She only meant to flirt with him to get back at 9.9kReads8.1Score1.1kShelves
21. 21 女 A World Ruled by Women: Please Be Gentle with Me 女尊，请多指教 Female Lead, Go!女主冲啊Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Female-dominated world transmigration + one to many + pocket dimension + special abilities + everyday life + fictional setting + no saintly heroine] Before the apocalypse, I followed others’ example and picked up a Pixiu figurine for a bargain. By chance, I discovered it was actually a pocket dimension that could store anything. After the Pixiu warned me in a dream that the apocalypse was coming, Qin Zhi frantically stockpiled supplies and spent five years fearfully surviving the end times. I 4.1kReads7.7Score386Shelves
22. 22 物 With My Space Full of Supplies, I Join the Army and Lie Flat in the Compound 物资囤满空间，随军躺平大院 Xing Chenzi星尘子Modern Romance550k WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Period Setting + Sweet Romance + Devoted Couple + Everyday Family Life + Raising Kids + The Rise of a Great Nation] [The protagonist does not go to the countryside, visit the black market, take the college entrance exam, go into business, or buy a courtyard house.] On her first day after transmigrating, Jiang Mian's parents urge her to get married, because otherwise she'll have no choice but to go to the countryside. Going to the countryside? She wouldn't mind. With her o 494Reads7.1Score—Shelves
23. 23 重 Back to the 1970s, Spoiling Grandma and Taking Down Scumbags 重回七零，傍着奶奶肆意虐渣吃瓜 Jin Yuan Manying槿园满盈Modern Romance159k WordsOngoing (1970s setting + space ability + superpowers + food + reborn + transmigrate into a book + face-slapping + broken engagement + true and fake heiresses + everyday family life + stockpiling + building wealth + punishing scumbags + gossip-watching + strong female lead + feel-good + old lady + comedy) Timid and spineless Lin Xiaoxi spent two whole lives meekly struggling to survive. After blowing herself up at the end of the world, she thought she was done for good. Instead, she was reborn in the sum 56Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Super good, no romance, period drama, strong female lead.

24. 24 带 I Returned to the '90s with a Tycoon System to Spoil Myself 带着神豪系统回到90养自己 Mo Duo moreduo莫多moreduoModern Romance38k WordsCompleted I Returned to the '90s with a Tycoon System to Take Care of Myself 681Reads—Score—Shelves

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