Male-Oriented Period Pieces: Are Courtyard Houses and Educated Youth Really the Only Options? 年代文，男频，除了四合院和知青就没有别的了吗

1. 1 穿 Transmigrate to the 1950s: Starting by Leaving a Mountain Village 穿越五十年代：从走出小山村开始 Salty Fish Liver咸鱼肝Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [A delightfully ordinary young man + everyday life + college entrance exams + hard work + one heroine] Just as Zhou Xingran's life was getting back on track, he suddenly transmigrated to a remote mountain village in the 1950s. His father doesn't care for him, his mother doesn't love him, and his family is dirt-poor. No matter. Relying on others is worse than relying on himself. So, first things first: he might as well get into college! P.S. The golden finger is very minor. The protagonist mainly 13.4kReads8.9Score700Shelves

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   Back then, people worked hard to earn money, studied, and then worked; they weren't living in courtyard houses or being sent-down youth.

2. 2 年 1979: Meat for My Wife and Kids 年代1979：带着老婆孩子吃肉 Village Demon Fire乡妖火Urban4.7M WordsOngoing [Rural life in the late 1970s] [One female lead] [Comedy] [Slow-paced] [Raising children] Reborn in 1979, Li Xiangdong becomes a train water-supply worker. While others are still fretting over how to make ends meet, he's already enjoying a comfortable life with his wife and children at home. (A realistic slice of life. Each character has both strengths and flaws, and not everyone is meant to be likable. If that's not what you're looking for, please move along.) 181.8kReads9.3Score11kShelves

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   Li Dabenshi is so adorable!

3. 3 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 27.2kReads8.3Score2kShelves

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   Hunting, fishing, and mushroom farming—no system, no spatial limitations, logically sound, and well-written.

4. 4 重 Reborn in the 1960s: Sent to the Countryside from the Start 重生60年代，开局就上山下乡 A Solitary Stone孑然的石头Urban3.8M WordsOngoing [Period]+ [Reborn]+ [Pocket Dimension]+ [Single Female Lead] Ye Hao transmigrates to a parallel world in the 1960s. Just as he is about to starve to death, he awakens an ancient treasure passed down from antiquity: the Azure Lotus Mystic Jade! Watch as he lives it up during the famine, improving his own life while also doing his part to help this country rebuild from the ground up! Our goal is the stars and the sea! 1.9kReads8.8Score239Shelves

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   On his 28th birthday, he happily bought his first car, only to be caught in a car pileup shortly after driving it out... He became Tang Ziyi in the 1960s, just turned 12, nicknamed Erwa, the second grandson. Presumably, he drank diluted Meng Po soup, retaining memories of his past life but losing the emotions...

5. 5 六 The Sixties: Newlywed from the Start 六十年代：开局就是新婚 Zhi Yu 1014栀虞1014Modern Romance610k WordsCompleted [Period novel + everyday family life + devoted hero and heroine enjoying a peaceful life together + low-conflict + daily spectatorship + no saintly heroine] As a Chinese teacher at a technical secondary school, Wen Nuan enjoyed a happy routine, working from eight in the morning to five in the evening, with the occasional evening class. She didn’t have to worry about grades or deal with any teaching pressure. Sure, the students were a little unruly and getting all their homework collected was a b 18.6kReads8.8Score958Shelves

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   The characters are exceptionally well-developed, the plot is excellent without being melodramatic or clichéd, and there are no cheat codes or systems. It feels very realistic for the era, making it a truly great book among period novels.

6. 6 穿 I Transmigrated into a Period Novel and Refused to Be a Tool from the Start 穿越年代文，开局拒绝当工具人 A Clear Breeze in Troubled Times乱世清风Urban665k WordsCompleted An accident brought Li Dongyang inexplicably to an unfamiliar place. At first, he thought he had landed in the hard-laboring 1970s, but then he realized he was inside a period novel he had read in his previous life. Knowing how the story would unfold, Li Dongyang refused to be anyone’s pawn. 7kReads8.7Score251Shelves

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   ❤️[Learned it] This is a period drama, not set in a courtyard house, nor is it about educated youth sent to the countryside. Welcome to read! 😳💕

7. 7 和 After Eloping with Her Childhood Friend, Her Rugged Commander Husband Went Crazy 和竹马私奔后，糙汉首长急疯了 Cen Shinian岑十年Modern Romance864k WordsCompleted [Short drama adaptation now streaming] [Period setting + military marriage + sweet, satisfying romance + married first, love later + winning back his wife!] Song Shengsheng had a nightmare and discovered that she was the cannon-fodder villainess in a period novel: the male lead’s first wife, who died young. In the book, beauty was her only asset. To escape her husband, she wrote a letter reporting that her military officer husband came from a politically suspect background. That wasn’t all. When 33kReads8.8Score2.9kShelves
8. 8 重 Back to the 1960s, Without a Single Regret 重回60年代不遗憾 Three-Earth Sword三土剑Urban3.4M WordsOngoing [Period setting] + [pocket dimension] + [Transmigration] + [farming] + [genius] Li Jianyao is struck by lightning and sent back to the 1960s. The only relative he doesn't see is his great-grandmother; he reunites with everyone else. The meteoric iron he found as a child turns out to contain a pocket dimension. He can grow crops and raise animals inside it, and it even contains an entire sea. Using the pocket dimension, Li Jianyao helps his family and village survive years of famine. With his ext 5.3kReads8.4Score373Shelves
9. 9 穿 The Cannon-Fodder’s Cousin Strives in the ’70s 穿成炮灰的堂弟，奋斗在七十年代 A Fish with More Than Seven Seconds of Memory大于七秒记忆的鱼Two Male Leads200k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Mystery-Solving + Growth-Oriented Protagonist] No romance in the main story; the romance (with a male lead) is in the extras! Tang Ziyi unexpectedly awakens memories of his past life and discovers he has transmigrated into the cousin of a cannon-fodder character in a period novel... “Ding! Detective System has arrived. Detective Bookshop activating!” “Detective Bookshop activated. Detective System departing.” Tang Ziyi: ? “10, 9, 8, 2, 1” Tang Ziyi: ... All Tang Ziyi wants is t 1.7kReads8.6Score105Shelves
10. 10 灾 In a Year of Famine, What’s Wrong with Having a Few Extra Skills? 灾荒年，技能多点怎么了 Easygoing Pig随缘的猪Urban3.1M WordsCompleted Chen Xiaojun is a good-for-nothing thug from the 21st century. He gets by with a storefront his parents left him, spending his days either teasing cats or playing with dogs, and flirting with young women out shopping. One day, for some inexplicable reason, he saves a little child playing by the road, only to be hit by a car and sent back to 1959. It’s an absurd and tumultuous era, but fortunately, Heaven grants him a golden finger that lets him run unlimited simulations. Thanks to it, he makes i 15.8kReads7.8Score1.1kShelves
11. 11 致 Deadly Heartbeat! 致命心动！ A Gentle Breeze Arrives风轻来Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Reborn + Beloved by Everyone Under Her Secret Identities + Both Leads Are Virgins, Devoted Romance + A Super-Flirtatious Secret Crush] In her previous life, Yu Sangwan trusted the wrong man, and her family was destroyed. At the very end of her life, her personal bodyguard, Jiang Yubai, protected her and died a tragic death for her sake. Reborn, she vowed to make everyone who had wronged her pay! Everyone in Nancheng mocked Yu Sangwan as a useless pretty face who did nothing but keep Jiang Yubai 985Reads8.6Score158Shelves
12. 12 林 Lin Fusheng: A Student’s Everyday Life in the ’70s 林福生，70年代读书日常 Corn Breakdance玉米扒舞Urban525k WordsCompleted A period novel about building wealth and strengthening the nation. In his previous life, the male lead was a master surgeon who also knew a thing or two about traditional Chinese medicine. He worked himself to death, and when he opened his eyes again, he was in the middle of a mud fight. Getting pelted with mud brought back the memories of his past life. 811Reads7.3Score101Shelves

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    The plot seems alright, I'll slowly read the book 😂

13. 13 重 Reborn Through Adoption 重生从过继开始 Ning Tai宁泰Urban618k WordsOngoing A reborn story set in a bygone era: a relaxing, stress-free read. Starting in 1979, a young boy sets out to be an idealistic slacker! He enjoys life and savors its beauty, while navigating the tangled bonds of family, friendship, and love in a bustling world, never forgetting his devotion to his country. Writing is hard. You don’t have to love it, but please don’t hurt me... —Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 14 重 Reborn: From the Start, I Can Hear the Young Intellectual’s Inner Thoughts 重生，开局就偷听女知青心声 Chief Steward of the Yang Household杨府大管家Urban388k WordsOngoing [The rating just came out and will keep rising!] [Period rebirth, farming, pure romance, slow-paced and not violent] If you like this kind of story, come take a look! If you don't, head on over to Tomato Book City, where plenty of great books are waiting for you! Su Yun is reborn in 1974 as an educated youth sent to the countryside. From the start, the educated youths' dormitory collapses, so he has no choice but to board with a local family. By chance, he ends up under the same roof as Lin Qing 1.6kReads6.2Score—Shelves

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    Book Recommendations: Male-oriented novels featuring educated youth going to the countryside to farm and hunt

15. 15 重 Back to the 1980s: Bringing My Family of Six to a Better Life 重回八零：带着全家六口过好日子 Yu Fu余弗Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The Gu family has no sons, only four daughters. Plenty of people in the village are waiting to laugh at them. But they wait and wait, only to watch the Gu family build a two-story house and buy a car. They hear the family has even bought a grand home in the capital. The Gu sisters are each more successful and more devoted to their parents than the last. The villagers: What are you waiting for? Go home and have daughters! After being reborn, Gu Siqing discovers that her sisters are nothing like t 86.6kReads9.4Score5.2kShelves

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    👋🏻👋🏻The villagers said: What are you waiting for? Go home and have daughters! Why? Because the Gu family has no sons, only four daughters. Many villagers were waiting to see the Gu family fail. But as they waited, they watched as the Gu family built a small villa, bought a car, and their four daughters became increasingly successful and filial.

16. 16 傅 Mr. Fu, Your Wife Has Gone Fortune-Telling on the Street Again and Again 傅总，您夫人又又又去摆摊算命了 Mu Fufeng木抚风Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Mysticism + ghost hunting + fortune-telling + comedy + wish fulfillment] After her master passes away, mystic prodigy Lin Xi comes down from the mountains to set up a fortune-telling stall, earning money while searching for her fiancé. “Master, when will my son meet his destined woman?” Lin Xi: “There’s no destined woman, but there is a destined man.” “Master, I keep dreaming about a ghost. Please get rid of it for me.” Lin Xi: “The ghost is your father. You’ve been visiting the wrong grave. He 63.7kReads9.3Score7.7kShelves
17. 17 四 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Control the Life and Death System 四合院：开局掌控生死系统 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban1.8M WordsCompleted From the start, he gets a Life and Death System and hypnosis abilities, sending him straight to the top. The Life and Death System can extract life force from anything alive, including animals, plants, fish, and humans. It can also pour life force into any living thing, though the effect is halved. Extracting life force from a century-old tree yields fifty years' worth, which can be poured into a sapling to instantly make it grow to the size of a fifty-year-old tree. Animals work the same way: e 15.3kReads8.1Score860Shelves

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    I've been transported to the famine years of the 1960s. No worries! I have a spatial ability; I can accelerate the growth of plants and animals, fish, hunt, and lead two villages to adopt new farming methods. From then on, agriculture will follow the example of Shuanghe. I'll trade black market grain for antiques and artifacts. I'll exchange wild boar meat for job opportunities.

18. 18 我 In 1979, I Helped the Whole Village Become Ten-Thousand-Yuan Households 我在七九帮全村成就万元户 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban267k WordsCompleted Chen Sheng and seven good friends explore the Nanshan Cave and obtain the innate spiritual treasure, the Boundary-Breaking Pearl, which lets them travel back and forth to an era thirty years in the future. From then on, they begin a career smuggling goods between the two worlds. Back home, they open brickworks, a sand quarry, clothing factories, and furniture factories. They buy up centipedes and leeches, and become the first in the world to cultivate bamboo fungus commercially. Once every house 615Reads8.0Score—Shelves
19. 19 5 An Eighth-Grade Electrician in the 1950s 50年代之八级电工 North of the Mountain, South of the River山之北水之南Urban104k WordsOngoing Zhang Hao transmigrates to the 1950s and, from the start, finds himself a cripple. He can’t make it through school, fails to join the army, and leaves his parents sighing while his girlfriend dumps him. Luckily, he awakens a System that gives him a little more every day. He goes on to qualify as an electrician, get married, and lead his whole family to prosperity, eventually reaching the top of the world. A slow burn, with the electrician storyline starting after 100,000 words. Rich in period at 79Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This book is good.

20. 20 穿 I Transmigrated to 1976 and Became a Rogue Scholar 穿越到1976年成痞儒 Yin Dang Chui Jun饮荡吹君Urban2.1M WordsCompleted My new work is out! Welcome to Tomato Literature. I am a storyteller and inheritor of Guangdong's Cantonese and Guangfu culture. I have worked in cultural media for many years and am especially interested in the Guangfu culture of the Pearl River Delta. I hope to tell the story of a red artist who is reborn in 1976 as a seven-year-old boy in a waterside town in Guangdong Province, a child who is neither wholly good nor wholly bad, and who sets out on a new path to becoming a roguishly charming C 169Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Novels about time travel to Guangdong Province are worth reading.

21. 21 假 The Fake Young Master Was Sent Back to the Countryside, Where He Turned His Life Around with His Wife and Children 假少爷被赶回农村带妻儿逆袭人生 Beautiful Spring Day春光明媚Urban1.8M WordsCompleted When Xie Zhao opened his eyes, he was back in 1983. That year, the richest family in Huxian County, the Chen family, found their real son and sent the impostor, Xie Zhao, back to Shishui Village. He couldn’t believe that the parents who had once treasured him like their own flesh and blood no longer wanted him. Had all the love they’d shown him over eighteen years been a lie? He went to ask them, but they wept and cursed him as a curse upon the family. They said he had made their biological son 20.4kReads9.0Score2kShelves

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    These period dramas, mostly male-oriented, are full of historical atmosphere. The plots are well-paced and enjoyable. ① The male protagonist is a fake young master. After the real young master is found, he is sent back to the countryside. He can't accept it, hurts his biological parents, and causes the death of his wife who is pregnant with twins. In the end, he regrets his life and goes back to 1983 to make up for everything, realizes what is precious, and his life takes off. ② The male protagonist, an academician who dedicated his life to the country, is reborn and returns to the remote mountain village where he was sent to work in 1975. He receives a transfer order to return to the city, but this time he doesn't hesitate and tears the order to shreds! He is going to live a different life this time. ③ Reborn in 1979, the male protagonist was a failure in his previous life, relying on his parents and children and his wife. In this life, he becomes a train water supplier, traveling all over the country and making money while transporting goods. While others are still worrying about life, he is already living a good life with his wife, children, and a warm bed. It's a heartwarming and realistic story.

22. 22 重 Reborn in 1975: From the Start, I Tore Up the Order to Return to the City 重生1975：开局撕毁回城调令 Great Cangyue大沧月Urban4.0M WordsCompleted Zhou Yang, an unrivaled patriot who devoted his whole life to his country, was reborn and returned to the remote mountain village where he had been sent down to work in 1975! Looking at the transfer order in his hand, this time he didn't hesitate. He tore it to shreds! In his previous life, he'd been blinded by greed and abandoned his wife and daughter to return to the city, watching helplessly as Li Youwei and her daughter met tragic deaths. Reborn, all Zhou Yang wanted was a warm home with his 163.2kReads9.5Score18.2kShelves
23. 23 不 Oh No, Granduncle-Master Has Run Down the Mountain Again! 不好，太师叔又逃下山了！ Homebody Little Book宅小书Eastern Fantasy361k WordsCompleted [No System] + [No blood feud] + [Doesn’t abstain from meat] At the Shangqing Sect’s once-in-a-decade recruitment ceremony, a coffin-carrying boy appeared. How could a fifteen-year-old boy hold the rank of the sect’s Grand Martial Uncle? The matter shocked the entire cultivation world. Just as the whole sect was in an uproar over it, the boy suddenly handed in his seal of office and left, returning once more to the mortal world! He paid no heed to heavenly grottoes or blessed lands, and regarded 1.1kReads6.7Score104Shelves

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    These novels are a wondrous journey that will keep you reading in one sitting! They are a fantastical adventure that takes you into a breathtaking world. In this world, the protagonists grow and explore themselves through a series of fantastical adventures and challenges.

24. 24 快 Quick Transmigration: The Obsession Purifier 快穿之执念净化师 Golden Thread Jujube金丝小枣Modern Romance1.7M WordsCompleted (Quick transmigration + no romance pairing + traveling to different worlds to dispel lingering obsessions) Naihe has no idea who she is or where she came from. When Meng Po No. 3 pulled her out of the River of Forgetfulness, the judge's office searched through the Book of Life and Death from cover to cover, but couldn't find a single record of her. Her favorite thing to do is listen to ghosts teach and tell stories. From emperors of bygone eras to peddlers and laborers, she takes in all kinds of 12.1kReads9.2Score1.9kShelves
25. 25 放 He Gave Up a Trillion-Dollar Fortune to Enlist, and Now the Goddess Is in Tears 放弃万亿家产，入伍后女神急哭了 Climb a Tree to Catch a Cat上树逮猫Urban2.2M WordsCompleted [Explosive, Satisfying Read + The Army's Ultimate Trickster + Passionate Military Life + Lighthearted Comedy + High-Energy Twists] Qin Luo transmigrated into the body of a super-rich heir who rinsed his mouth with bird's nest every day and ate lobster as an appetizer. His billionaire father had only one requirement of him: spend a hundred million every month. But the life of throwing money around every day had gradually grown boring. By chance, Qin Luo ran into the woman of his dreams. He decide 19.3kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
26. 26 我 My Son Was Clearly a Playboy, So How Did He Become the Tiger of the Empire? 我儿明明是纨绔，咋成帝国之虎了 Beating Up Cats Under the Tree树下揍猫Urban7.6M WordsCompleted [Military life + special forces + lighthearted + passionate + hilarious] Lin Hui was unexpectedly reborn as a spoiled playboy. His father and older brother were big shots in the military, and his mother was the chairwoman of a corporate group. With such a wealthy family, surely Lin Hui could just slack off and live like a lazy fish, right? Just as he looked forward to a life of doing nothing, his father sent him into the army, where he had to serve for at least two years. After that, he could do 61.5kReads9.2Score6.5kShelves
27. 27 一 One Man and One Dog: Conquering the Seventies and Becoming an Army Wife! 一人一狗，闯七零！当军嫂！ Wasabi Lemon芥末柠檬Modern Romance414k WordsCompleted Also known as: One Person and One Dog Take on the Seventies! Becoming a Military Wife! [Female forensic pathologist × male officer] A slice-of-life story about following the troops, with a parallel career storyline! [Alternate universe + 1970s + comedy + family life + dog with special abilities + raising children later on] Qiao Hua, a forensic pathologist from the apocalypse, accidentally transmigrates to the 1970s with her dog. She falls for an officer who escorts them back to their country. Bu 1.4kReads9.1Score132Shelves
28. 28 我 I Became an Immortal in Empresses in the Palace 我在甄嬛传里成仙 Chief Meow Meow警长咪咪Female-Channel Fanfiction192k WordsOngoing Mainly Empresses in the Palace and Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace The story follows the timeline. Many original plot details. If you don’t like that, don’t read. A peerless cultivator from a world of immortal cultivation is ambushed by a transmigrator. At death’s door, she unexpectedly binds herself to a mysterious System and is reborn in the world of Empresses in the Palace. She becomes Yixiu’s daughter, and a heavenly miracle appears at her birth. She is hailed as an immortal maiden reborn. W 108Reads5.0Score—Shelves
29. 29 非 The Abnormal Female Celestial Master 非正常女天师 The Girl Who Swallows Ghosts吞鬼的女孩Mystery5.8M WordsCompleted Everyone says foreigners are superstitious. If they bully you, all you have to do is mutter strange things and wave your hands at them, and you can scare them off. After Wan Sui was set up by her own family and stranded abroad, she faced a gang of thugs. She copied Uncle Jiu from the movies and made a few hand seals. To her surprise, they really did run away in terror. Someone looking for a bit of excitement recorded the scene and posted it back home. Wan Sui became an overnight sensation online 9.7kReads8.9Score886Shelves
30. 30 地 The Underworld’s Heiress Enters the Mortal World, Welcomed by Legions of Ghosts 地府千金入世万鬼夹道相迎 E Yue莪龠Modern Romance1.1M WordsOngoing [No romance + livestreaming + comedy + occult arts + fortune-telling + ghost-catching + wish-fulfillment] The world laughs at her as a fraud, never knowing she's a little ghost deity. Ten thousand ghosts bow their heads to welcome her. The little princess of the underworld strayed into the cycle of reincarnation, underwent three lifetimes of tribulations, and returned to find all three realms doting on her. An unlucky little ghost with no parents, left broken and alone! Li Yu spent thirteen year 4.2kReads8.8Score546Shelves
31. 31 被 After Being Exiled, My Five Brothers Dote on Me to No End! 被流放后，五个哥哥宠我入骨！ Kiss My Eyes吻我之眸Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsCompleted [Lost Cultural Heritage + Reviving Chinese Mythology + Supernatural + Silly Comedy + Playing It Safe + Modern Setting + No Romance!] Yan Hange transmigrates into an era when supernatural horrors have become part of everyday life. She even arrives while the Yan family is exiling her, and the five brothers in her memories are as biased as ever. The myths of this world have been l 1.6kReads7.7Score168Shelves
32. 32 快 Quick Transmigration: The Loving Mother’s Wish-Fulfillment System 快穿之亲娘还愿系统 Home in a Dream梦里家园Ancient Romance536k WordsCompleted Transmigration, scavenging corpses, System, pocket dimensions, no romance. The heroine isn’t a pushover or a doormat, and she doesn’t kill people on a whim. Lin Miao is on the verge of death after a car accident. To stay alive, she transmigrates through various worlds. With each transmigration, she transforms from an ordinary person into a powerhouse. First world: An ordinary setting, where she has tremendous strength and moves like the wind. She puts her rebellious children in their place, robs 849Reads9.1Score131Shelves
33. 33 穿 I Transmigrate to the 1940s and Make Waves with My Space 穿越四零，我靠空间兴风作浪 Yellow Sand, Heart in Sorrow黄沙心悲凉Modern Romance832k WordsCompleted [Alternate-History Power Fantasy] + [Strong Female Lead] + [War of Resistance Against Japan] Zhuang Jingzhu, a PhD who had returned from overseas, died alongside the ringleaders of a criminal gang to avenge her father. She transmigrated to another world much like Earth, where a great famine was raging and the entire nation was fighting back against the Japanese. Using her spatial ability, she cleared out Japanese weapon depots, grain stores, and hospitals, seized supplies to support the resistan 11kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
34. 34 算 Fortune-Telling, Healing, and Solving Cases: You Call Them Side Jobs 算命，看病，破案，你说都是兼职 Ying Youxian楹有闲Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [All-powerful heroine + reborn + revenge on scumbags + feel-good fiction + entertainment industry + national-treasure-level darling] In her previous life, Shen Sang was tricked by her stepmother and younger sister into giving up her ancestral treasure, then met a tragic death. After experiencing 49 different worlds, she is reborn at the very scene where they tried to deceive her. Although she managed to keep the family heirloom, she has just been disfigured and vilified across the internet, and 35.3kReads9.2Score5.3kShelves
35. 35 玄 Mysticism: A Female Cultivator Reborn as a Wicked Old Lady, Living Life on Her Own Terms 玄学：女修穿成极品老太独自美丽 Get Rich Quick Pear暴富梨Mystery1.8M WordsCompleted [Mystical arts, satisfying read, no romance] Su Ran fails to advance and transmigrates into the body of a shrewish old woman in another world. The original owner is a notorious local spirit medium who makes a living by swindling people. She's a selfish, lazy old woman. As soon as Su Ran arrives, she's nearly thrown in jail, and only escapes thanks to her ghost-catching skills. The family she rescues escorts her home with drums and gongs, only to find her five children setting up a memorial shrin 3.9kReads8.8Score423Shelves
36. 36 国 The National Team's Top Mystic Master, Commanding a Hundred Thousand Yin Soldiers 国家队顶级玄师，手握十万阴兵 Little Wildcaty小野猫yModern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Completed]+ [Livestream]+ [Metaphysics]+ [Crime Solving]+ [National Team]+ [Reforming the Entertainment Industry] Shen Sangning has a rare Daoist constitution. Just as she is about to ascend, she transmigrates back to when she was eighteen. A murderer lives downstairs and keeps cornering her on the stairs to grope her? Shen Sangning greets him politely: “Back from your walk, old geezer? Off to prison with you!” A female ghost is haunting the PE teacher, but Professor Wang says it’s a surgical c 9kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
37. 37 九 Uncle Jiu's World: My Closet Leads to Uncle Jiu's Funeral Home! 九叔世界：我家衣柜通九叔义庄！ Liu Tan柳檀Mystery403k WordsCompleted When a Daoist in coarse hemp robes, with thick eyebrows and large eyes, walked out of Yun Zheng's bedroom, she froze. Because it was none other than the famous zombie-hunting Daoist, Uncle Jiu, Lin Fengjiao! [Sweet romance + wish fulfillment + no angst.] Yun Zheng thought she had transmigrated to the Republican era, but then she discovered that her wardrobe connected to Uncle Jiu's charity cemetery, and she was stunned! She showed Uncle Jiu spoilers for Mr. Vampire and the other films in the ser 519Reads8.8Score101Shelves
38. 38 我EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
39. 39 我EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.3M WordsCompleted A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
40. 40 落 The Falling Leaves Have Their Own Intentions 落苏有意 Lu Xiaosheng鹿小笙Mystery440k WordsCompleted My background is a mystery, and I was born with Yin-Yang Eyes. After coming of age, I was chosen to enter the underworld and became a low-ranking official. All around me, a multitude of baffling, mysterious cases unfold... 7.5kReads9.1Score781Shelves
41. 41 震 The World Is Stunned: My Haunted House Connects to the Underworld 震撼全球，我的鬼屋通地府 Yellow Kitty黄色的猫咪Modern Romance731k WordsCompleted Complete [cathartic power fantasy + play the pig to eat the tiger + powerful protagonist + punishing scum + ghosts and monsters + business management] Terminally ill with cancer, Li Miao meets a Taoist priest who tells her that she’s been plagued by bad luck and is near death because someone stole her fate. The only way to survive and reclaim her fate is to return to her hometown and inherit a haunted house. She assumes it’s just an ordinary haunted house, but when she arrives, she discovers 27.9kReads9.2Score4.3kShelves
42. 42 听 Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌 Splashing Water from the Far Bank隔岸拍水Urban186k WordsOngoing Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to 790Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    A heartfelt account of a bygone era, a song of hardship sung in the Wind-Listening Pavilion. The most ordinary of scenes are those of everyday life, yet who can soothe the extraordinary heart of a man?

43. 43 我 I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德 Splashing Water from the Far Bank隔岸拍水10k WordsCompleted I’m a Scout: Zhan De —Reads—Score—Shelves

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