Give Me Some Normal Stories Set in a Past Era, No Feel-Good Power Trips, Please 🍅来点正常的年代文，爽文免打扰🍄‍🟫🍄

1. 1 肥 My Plump Wife Is Soft and Fragrant, and Her Tough Husband Loves and Spoils Her Day and Night 肥妻软又香，悍夫日撩夜哄宠成宝 Zhouzhou Eats Steamed Buns粥粥吃馒头Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted A fictional era, so don't nitpick the details. Pure romance, devoted couple, rebirth, everyday life, marriage before love. The male lead is genuinely crude and swears like a sailor. The female lead isn't a strong, independent heroine, but a hardworking, clumsy, chubby country girl. (If that's not your thing, don't read.) Ji Chunhua was reborn. At this point, she hadn't yet gone with her stepsister Ji Qin to the matchmaking fair, nor had Ji Qin humiliated and framed her, eventually shoving her in 8.7kReads9.0Score739Shelves

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   This book is really great!!! [Laughing][Love] It is an imaginary rebirth period novel. The male and female protagonists get married first and then fall in love. [Laughs][Love] The male protagonist (Duan Hu) is rude and fierce, and swears a lot (identified by his mother, and the introduction has been written) [Thinking] The heroine (Ji Chunhua) is reborn as a gentle, cute, hard-working and capable fat girl (very cute!!! The introduction of the book has also been written). The non-big heroine [laughs] relies on herself. He has embarked on his own path of happiness through his own efforts and his own abilities and talents. He is not like a certain person (Ji Qin) who is too scheming. He is reborn just for glory and wealth. He wants to join the Duan family just to be a grandma. He is very vicious, duplicitous and annoying [laughing]. He only wants to take shortcuts and thinks he is great~ In fact, in Duan Hu's eyes, he is nothing but a self-centered person. Chunhua, Huzi and Duan's mother (Sun Qiaoyun) and Duan's father's family are happy. [Love] Summary: This book is really good!!! The heroine is not so awesome right from the beginning, but that is just cheating (I didn't say everything) [Adoration] This is a very novel novel about the rebirth of the era! It is very worthy of everyone (respected readers) to taste it~!!! [Blowing kiss]

2. 2 重 Back to 1975, and Everything Is Just Right 重回1975，一切刚刚好 Young Master Xiaoxiao孝孝公子Urban113k WordsOngoing "I transmigrated!" The good news: I got a second chance and returned to the day I would regret for the rest of my life. The bad news: I came back to avoid misfortune and lie flat for the rest of my life. You only get one life, and a beautiful life is hard-won. The only way to do myself justice is to enjoy it. But with all those money-making ideas in my head, I just can't sit still. My poor wallet, I've won the people's hearts, so I have to do right by them and help them all get rich and prosper. 91Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Oh my God! Was she bullied? We can't sit still and wait for death! It's refreshing, whatever makes you feel refreshed! He has a lot of clever ideas, but he will never suffer any loss. On the road to wealth in the countryside, let's see how this poor boy climbs up the rich list step by step! [Laughing evilly][laughing][grass has been planted][sending heart]

3. 3 1 Another Spring of the 1977 College Entrance Exam 1977年高考又一春 Young Master Xiaoxiao孝孝公子Modern Romance3.4M WordsOngoing [A story-driven take on history. Note: There is no single fixed protagonist. Multiple leads reflect the changes of the era and offer a full picture of the 1977 restoration of the college entrance exam.] [The story focuses on several main characters: Hu Wei and Wang Ting, Pan Xia, and Lu Xiaoyun. Their stories weave in and out according to the timeline. If you prefer to follow one character at a time, you can read their chapters in sequence for a complete biography. The other characters may only 4.9kReads8.0Score330Shelves
4. 4 恶 My Arrogant Neighbor Bullies Me? One Phone Call Has Them All Panicking. I’m Kind, but I Have an Edge 恶邻嚣张欺我？我一通电话全慌了，我善良但自带锋芒 Young Master Xiaoxiao孝孝公子13k WordsCompleted My arrogant neighbor bullied me? One phone call and they all panicked. I'm kind, but I have a sharp edge. 73Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 5 六 The 1960s: After Getting into Technical College, I Secure a Cadre Position 六零：考上中专后，我稳坐干部岗 Don't Know Any Better孬不道Modern Romance995k WordsCompleted [1960s + everyday life + extremely, extremely slow-paced + family squabbles + no rural assignment + vocational school entrance exams + few awful relatives] [This is a female-oriented novel! The heroine is an ordinary person, not a powerhouse heroine. Please don’t read if that bothers you.] Heartbroken and still looking for an internship? To escape reality, senior college student Zhou Yuan casually signed a contract for the full-immersion game Awakening. When she opened her eyes, she had become Z 14.4kReads8.5Score1.2kShelves

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   This book is a kind of urban novel in the 1960s, and the description of the heroine's family is very warm. It's a very short book, with no military marriage, no rough guy, no scumbag father, and no stepmother. It's a short story about a warm family, full of fireworks, and plain and simple, giving people a feeling that they want to keep reading. 🍋

6. 6 离 The Woman Who Can't Live Without a Man 离不开男人的女人 Ink-Wash Creek水墨小溪Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Everyone’s favorite + farming + building wealth + family squabbles + strong heroine] Shen Nianqiu’s husband died. He was stabbed to death by the husband of his lover. Because Shen Nianqiu is beautiful, shapely, intelligent, and capable, she is very popular. A rural doctor whose wife has died gradually falls for her; A butcher from the neighboring village has been secretly in love with her for a long time. A teacher assigned to the countryside admires her beauty and intelligence, and vows to mar 42.8kReads7.9Score2.8kShelves
7. 7 霞 Xia Guangnuan's First Book 霞光暖暖的第1本书 Warm Glowing Clouds霞光暖暖Modern Romance568k WordsOngoing [Period Setting + Realistic Rural Life + Family Matters + Adultery + Beloved by Everyone + A Woman’s Growth] Hong Xing is a village doctor, twenty-three years old, and the mother of two daughters. Only after her husband dies unexpectedly does she discover that the man who always seemed so honest and quiet, a man who could hardly get a word out even if you beat him with three sticks, had betrayed her. Her whole world collapses. She had always followed the rules of a virtuous wife, respected her p 16.9kReads7.9Score932Shelves
8. 8 美 The Beautiful First Half of Her Life 美艳的前半生 Ink-Wash Creek水墨小溪Modern Romance398k WordsOngoing The story takes place in a rural village in Hebei in 1999. Meiyan has been sweet, beautiful, and clever since childhood, and everyone in the village agrees she's the local beauty. After failing her university entrance exams on her second attempt, she has no choice but to face the path fate has laid out for her. Swept up by Li Gangqiang's relentless pursuit, she gives him everything. But on the very day he steps through the gates of college, he gets together with another woman. Betrayed, Meiyan s 36.9kReads7.0Score1.1kShelves
9. 9 俏 The Charming Village Girl Doesn't Give Her Heart Away 俏村花她不走心 Nine-Nine Cat九玖猫Modern Romance915k WordsOngoing People say that a widow’s doorstep invites trouble, but Chunfang isn’t afraid. She goes out of her way to surround herself with men. After years of struggling in the dirt, she’s seen through it all: you can’t rely on a man’s heart, but you can rely on his money and connections. So she smiles as she plays several men against one another. One helps her come up with the cash, another finds her a market for her goods. The villagers call her shameless. Chunfang sneers. “How much is a reputation worth 20.4kReads7.7Score1.1kShelves
10. 10 老 Wild Lilies of Old Well Village 老井村的野百合 Nine-Nine Cat九玖猫Modern Romance858k WordsOngoing The quarry in the hills behind Laojing Village buried the men from half the village. All that remained were a village full of widows and children crying from hunger. Thirty migrant miners moved into the workers' barracks, all strapping bachelors. The widows cursed men to their faces, then dug out their floral jackets at night and deliberately walked past the barracks. Each of the three widows had her own reasons: one wanted a protector to help raise her child, one hoped to get some rice and flou 15.3kReads8.7Score1.2kShelves
11. 11 铁 Tiezhu's Fate 铁柱的命 Ink-Wash Creek水墨小溪Urban291k WordsCompleted In the 1990s, the twenty-year-old Tiezhu, whose given name was Gao Fei, was handsome, dashing, and well educated. He studied hard, hoping to change his fate through knowledge and escape the countryside. But fate kept playing tricks on him, making him fail time and again. Disheartened, he found the courage to face life again with encouragement from Yanhua, the village beauty. His excellence always won him admirers. After meeting different women, he gradually realized who loved him most. Sadly, by 4.9kReads6.8Score249Shelves
12. 12 我 I Went to the Countryside as a Sent-Down Youth in 1970 我去1970年当知青 Yang Xi羊喜Modern Romance502k WordsCompleted Alternate title: I Went to 1970 to Become an Educated Youth. Real title: After Transmigrating, I Was Driven Crazy. When I transmigrated, I planned to keep my head down and stay timid forever. But before long, I was driven into becoming a brawling mad dog, an insane educated youth who would flip the table and walk away the moment anyone crossed him. 5.3kReads9.3Score414Shelves

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    If you really want it, then I will really give it to you, realism

13. 13 老 My Husband Cheated, So I Swapped Husbands with His Mistress to Change Our Fates 老公出轨，我和小三换夫改命 Du Wanxing杜菀星Modern Romance553k WordsCompleted A new novel currently being serialized, with its rating just posted! [Not a wish-fulfillment story] [Period setting + remarriage + devoted husband + marriage first, love later] [Some ensemble cast elements] [No System] [No pocket dimension] [Realistic everyday life] In the height of summer in 1977, Xu Nan, a temporary worker at a machinery factory, caught her husband, Cheng Peng, having an affair with Liang Yan Min, an employee at the same factory. To protect his reputation and prospects, Cheng 24.4kReads8.4Score1.3kShelves

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    Traditional chronicle

14. 14 大 The Courtyard Compound: The Warmth of Everyday Life 大杂院：人间烟火气 Du Xiaore杜小惹Modern Romance546k WordsCompleted [Period setting + family drama + everyday life] If you're young and inexperienced, take this as a warning and steer clear. This book probably isn't for you. It has none of the usual wish-fulfillment tropes and no imaginary cheat powers. It's simply an ordinary story about people in northern China. [No transmigration, no System, no pocket dimension, no being reborn, and none of the modern-novel elements you know.] It records the ordinary life of a northern town in the 1980s, capturing the memorie 8.7kReads9.1Score800Shelves
15. 15 撩 You Flirted with Me, and Now You Say You Mistook Me for Someone Else? 撩都撩了，你说认错人？ Good Thing Meow好柿喵Modern Romance499k WordsCompleted (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 8.8kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves

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    Aboriginal writing, the male and female protagonists both have mouths, the writing is smooth and flowing, not suffocating, and beautiful.

16. 16 怕 Help! Pregnant with Twins, and This Rugged Man Won't Stop Spoiling Me! 怕！双胎体质，被糙汉掐腰猛宠！ Cute Little Mango可爱小芒果Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Complete) (Period setting + rugged man + devoted husband + everyday life + devoted couple, one-on-one romance) As a minor cannon-fodder shrew of a supporting female character in a period novel, she was destined for a miserable ending that would leave everyone sighing with pity. But sorry, I'm here now. Looking at the man before her, with his straight, sturdy posture, phoenix eyes, and high nose, both his face and physique seemed made to match her tastes perfectly. Bai Yueji: How thoroughly brai 158.7kReads9.4Score12kShelves

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    The female protagonist travels back in time to a novel written by her cousin. There is no golden finger, no space, and no provocation to the original male and female protagonists. She relies on her own wisdom to live a better and better life. The male protagonist also has a good personality, is super chatty and smart, and the two of them rely on their own abilities to get better and better!

17. 17 重 Reborn in the 1960s: I Find Myself a Stepmother 重生60年代：我给自己找后妈 Gu Yue Er Dong古月耳咚Modern Romance519k WordsOngoing When Chen Guoping died of lung cancer, his mother was busy having a grand old time gossiping with the neighborhood women! In his previous life, she had kept him under her thumb since childhood: she wouldn’t let him take the college entrance exam, forced him to hand over his wages, and criticized every woman he wanted to marry. Ignoring the nature of his work, she insisted that he and his wife risk having a third child. In the end, he was fired for exceeding the birth quota, and his family of fiv 26.4kReads8.2Score1.6kShelves

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    The title of this book caught my eye - "Rebirth in the 1960s: I Find Myself a Stepmother". Click on it and see that your biological mother is 10,000 times more poisonous than your stepmother. The male protagonist is reborn and changes his mother directly. 100,000 Words, rush!

18. 18 女 The Female Side Character Signs In as a Youth Sent Down to the Countryside and Coasts to Victory? I'll Work Myself to the Bone 女配知青签到躺赢？我非要内卷 Watching Fish from the Pavilion亭上观鱼Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Complete) [Sign-in System + Educated Youth Sent to the Countryside + Past and Present Lives + Supporting Female Character Enjoys the Gossip + Highly Educated Couple + Clear-Headed, Independent Heroine + No Character Assassination of the Original Heroine] Yi Qingqing died young. When she arrived in the underworld, she was told she had earned great merit and should have enjoyed a life of wealth and a destined marriage in one of her lifetimes, but illness had robbed her of that. As compensation, s 55.8kReads9.4Score6.8kShelves
19. 19 开 From the Start, I Reported My Stepfather, Then the Frail Villainess Was Doted on in the Countryside 开局举报继父，病弱女配下乡被宠 Feng Ling lI风灵lIModern Romance759k WordsCompleted [Space + System + Sweet Romance + Frail Heroine + Rugged Hero] Qiao Qingdai was an utterly ordinary office worker. She was 25 and had been single for years. One day, after work, she decided to treat herself. Instead, a woman fell from the sky and crushed her to death. She drifted around with a soul-reaper from the underworld for a while before realizing that they had taken the wrong soul... After a furious argument, Qiao Qingdai happily took the loot she’d scored: a treasure chest System and a p 22.4kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
20. 20 七 A Happy Life in the Seventies 七十年代幸福生活 A Late Orange一只晚橙Modern Romance264k WordsCompleted Su Wan was reborn and grew up to eighteen. With her wedding and move to join the army just around the corner, she thought this life would be smooth and peaceful. She was ready to coast through life when she discovered she had transmigrated into a lucky heroine novel! Both she and her fiancé were doomed supporting characters! What could she do but fight to take control of her own destiny? See how Su Wan escapes the lucky heroine’s shadow, marries and follows her husband to the army, starts a busi 1.9kReads9.0Score130Shelves
21. 21 兵 The Wounded War King: You Want to Inherit Her Wealth? I'll Give You Twins and Humiliate You 兵王残！吃绝户？多胎打脸两不误 Happy Lemon幸福柠檬Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Complete) (Period Setting + Superpowers + Inventory Space + Rugged Hero + Devoted Husband + Multiple Children + Family Life + Both Leads Are Faithful) Qiao Nianyao was a powerful superhuman in the post-apocalyptic world. When an energy explosion erupted as she fought a powerful enemy, she unexpectedly transmigrated five hundred years into the past, bringing her powers and the storage space her opponent had dropped with her. She landed in the 1970s, the very era recorded in history! She also bec 24.6kReads9.2Score2.9kShelves
22. 22 带 I Brought a Fortune to the 1970s and Became the Boss of the Family 带着巨额财产穿七零，成家中一霸 The Sun on the Mountaintop山顶的太阳Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Period drama + military marriage + pocket dimension + family life On the first day after Lin Xiangnan transmigrates, her family gets into a huge argument over sending someone to the countryside. At first: “So what if I have to go to the countryside? I've got hundreds of millions of supplies in my pocket dimension. How could I possibly fail to get by out there?” After helping her second great-uncle weed his fields for two days: “There's no way I'm going to the countryside. I'm lazy, gluttonous, a 150.5kReads9.3Score12.1kShelves
23. 23 睁 I Opened My Eyes in 1970 and Refused to Let Postpartum Depression Win 睁眼70，我拒绝产后抑郁 Big Black Melon大黑瓜瓜Modern Romance806k WordsCompleted (Not a power fantasy) + (Devoted to each other) + (Doting husband) + (Everyday life) + (No golden finger) + (Complete) Thirty years ago, Liu Yue lost a daughter. After spending most of her life searching, she finally found her daughter just before she died! Seeing her daughter, now in her early forties, still having one baby after another, Liu Yue couldn’t have regretted it more! In a moment of desperation, she returned to the time when her daughter was just a month old! Looking at the man besid 3.7kReads8.6Score272Shelves
24. 24 村 Xia Hua, the Village Girl 村女夏花 The Cat Who Loves Gold爱黄金的猫Modern Romance268k WordsOngoing [Realistic rural life + slow burn + heroine’s growth + family and everyday life + face-slapping the scoundrels] Lin Xiahua’s husband is dead. With two children and a dimwitted older brother to support, she has become the most tempting target in Hama Gou Village. Burdened with her family, without a single plot of land, and with her mother-in-law threatening to sell her by the pound to an old widower and his son! To survive, Xiahua learns to navigate all kinds of men and women. She smiles and char 345Reads7.0Score105Shelves

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    Compared with these period country novels, [like] they are very down-to-earth.

25. 25 六 The 1960s: I Married into a Treasure-Dungeon 六零，嫁进宝藏副本了 Lailai Dada睐睐哒哒Modern Romance700k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Adorable Kids + Slow-Paced, Cozy Daily Life + Working Hard to Build a Fortune + Male Lead] [The rating is low because it was just released and will go up! Sobbing, I never thought I’d be saying this one day~] At first, she thinks, “Guys, you have no idea. Everyone else who transmigrates gets a golden finger, while I can only piggyback on someone else’s.” Later, she thinks, “Guys, you have no idea. The little boss’s golden finger is really, really useful!” In short, the heroine 2kReads9.3Score100Shelves

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    Daily life, cute baby, the heroine is funny, she works hard to help others make progress every day, and she lies down by herself (◍•ᴗ•◍)

26. 26 七 The Seventies Compound: A Family with Children 七零大院，家有儿女 Cheng An'an, Don't Get a Tattoo程安安不要纹身啊Modern Romance782k WordsOngoing [No rebirth or transmigration, off-the-charts chemistry | Talented daughter of a condemned family × Upright, loyal military officer | Marriage Before Love + sweet romance + healing in a bygone era] 💥 A ruthless devil by day, a starving wolf by night! Yang Yi, the army's top combat champion, makes even the new recruits' legs shake at the sound of his footsteps. But when he gets home, “I haven't seen you in half a month. I've missed you like crazy.” He pins her against the door, his rough fingerti 1.1kReads—Score103Shelves

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    All Aboriginal members truly restore the social atmosphere around 1977. There are the chaos in the family compound, and the impact of the turbulence of the times on every household. However, no matter how the changes occur, the childhood of the children in the compound is well protected by their parents~

27. 27 年 Period: A Battle for Husbands Among the Children of High-Ranking Officials 年代：高干子弟夺夫大战 Huang Duoduo黄多多Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Period novel + 1990s]+ [Family life]+ [No golden finger + native-born protagonist] Lin Daoxi was deliberately abandoned at birth, and her cousin Gao Qing took her place as the biological daughter of the family. With everything going wrong from the start, Lin Daoxi was penniless, plain-looking, and dealt a terrible hand. Her father was a gambling addict, her mother had broken the law, her younger brother was timid, and she had dropped out of school. When Lin Daoxi announced she was going to R 13kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves

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    It's pretty good-looking, and the heroine is smart and humane. Recommend

28. 28 奋 Striving in the 1980s! I’ll Make My Virtuous Wife Worth Ten Thousand Gold 奋斗80！我还贤妻万两金 Clear-Braised Zhe'ergen清炖折耳根Modern Romance508k WordsCompleted (1980s setting + going into business + no golden finger + a hard-fought journey) Xu Man waited for Zhou Chengxiao to return home after earning military honors and marry her. She waited five years, only to hear that he had been honored for his service and discharged due to injury. Everyone in the village said Xu Man was a fool. A beautiful young woman marrying a cripple was a terrible bargain, no matter how you looked at it. But to their surprise, the cripple eventually got back on his feet and t 724Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    These are all pretty good-looking.

29. 29 七 The Real Heiress of the 1970s Sends Her Family to the Crematorium 七零真千金：送家人火葬场啦 Clear-Braised Zhe'ergen清炖折耳根Modern Romance402k WordsCompleted [The 1970s + real and fake heiresses + military marriage + math genius + devoted couple] [Content warning: The male lead is divorced. If you’re looking for mindless wish fulfillment, proceed with caution!] [This story is set in a fictional world. Please don’t read it as a reflection of real life!] Qiao Yuning was “exiled” to the remote, frozen north for forced labor and reform. While she was there, she never learned to accept her fate. Instead, she became an outcast, a thorn in the workers’ side 1.2kReads8.5Score111Shelves
30. 30 军 A Sixties Military Marriage: Transmigrated as the Male Lead's Cannon-Fodder Ex-Wife 军婚六零，穿成男主炮灰前妻 Clear-Braised Zhe'ergen清炖折耳根Modern Romance344k WordsCompleted (1960s setting + military marriage + no pocket dimension + sweet romance + rugged male lead + both leads inexperienced + romance) (If you're looking for mindless wish fulfillment, this isn't for you.) Su Zhengyan, a doctor with Doctors Without Borders, transmigrates into a military-marriage novel set in the 1960s, becoming Yan Shao's ill-fated ex-wife from the original story. Their marriage was arranged, and Yan Shao resented and loathed her. On their wedding day, he returned to his unit and was 925Reads8.0Score—Shelves
31. 31 八 The 1980s: The True Heiress Strikes Back 八零：真千金逆袭记 Birdsong in the Quiet Mountains鸟鸣山幽Modern Romance527k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Military Marriage + Fake and Real Heiresses + Self-Improvement + Everyday Life + Striving] [The heroine grows quietly, then amazes everyone; she won’t take abuse and always talks back] Xia Xiaoxi lost both her parents at a young age. Her uncle’s family moved into her home under the pretense of raising her, took all the family’s money, worked her and her brother to the bone, and eventually tried to make her take her cousin’s place in an arranged marriage. Furious, Xia Xiaoxi fou 46.6kReads9.2Score3.9kShelves

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    The first book: Educated youths go to the countryside..., The protagonist persists in struggle, sticks to the justice in his heart, and finally welcomes the dawn. The second book is set in the family area of the Suzhou cotton spinning factory in the late 1970s. The details are real and the characters are full of characters. The older generation and the new generation show optimism. The third book: You need to be strong to make iron. If you pretend to be rich and have a good start, but you are content with enjoying yourself and do not cherish resources, it is better to have nothing. The fourth book In contrast to the fake daughter in the third book, who lacks resources, he escapes the predicament and lives a serious life with his own courage and courage. In the fifth book, the mutual help of the family has cultivated the character of the male protagonist who is brave and responsible. God will reward everyone who is responsible, capable and willing to work hard.

32. 32 成 Why Help Others Get What They Want? I’ll Choose Myself 成全别人？不如成全自己 Yue Cangyun Nali月藏云那里Modern Romance235k WordsCompleted In the book, Xu Jing'an spent her whole life helping others and putting them first, yet in the end, no one even said a kind word about her. This time, she's going to look after herself first and do what's best for her. 126.7kReads9.5Score10kShelves
33. 33 咱 Our Family 咱们家 E Fo Ge鄂佛歌Urban1.4M WordsCompleted [No formulaic plot][Not a wish-fulfillment story][No cheat abilities][Traditional][Realistic][Period][Countryside][Hardship] A boy who is both bad and good, a family made up of people with no blood ties, a difficult yet sweet golden age, and a story full of humor and warmth... Beginning in the 1980s, this novel spans forty years and strives to recreate the changes of the times, telling the story of one person's growth. Above all, this is a realistic story, with both sweetness and heartbreak. Rea 64.3kReads9.3Score6kShelves
34. 34 一 1987, Before Spring Arrives 一九八七，春未至 Meatball with a Fried Egg煎蛋的肉肉Modern Romance827k WordsCompleted This is a novel you won’t forget, especially its heroine, Li Shan! [No System, no pocket space, no transmigration, no rebirth] Period-setting comeback story + single mother builds a career Li Shan joyfully brings her college acceptance letter home, only for her parents to tell her the family has no money and she can’t go. Through her brother-in-law’s connections, she gets a job as a textile factory worker and works her way into the office as a translator. Then the factory goes bankrupt. Her pare 115Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This one! Super pretty! The pace of the early stage is a bit slow, but it will become more and more exciting later on!

35. 35 七 The 1970s: The Culinary Goddess 七零厨神美人 Meow-Meow Claws阿喵亮爪爪Modern Romance583k WordsCompleted [A cooking god, military-industrial research, patriotism, delicious food, positive energy, and an exhilarating era: don’t miss this period novel!] Cooking god Zhao Wan Feng transmigrates. She lands in a third-line military factory and even scores a perfect scientist husband. In that case, she’ll work hard and aim to become the cafeteria’s head cook, then settle down and enjoy life… No, she’ll become the cafeteria’s star, put down roots at the military factory, have children with her husband, and 3.4kReads9.2Score344Shelves
36. 36 军 The Soldier's Wife Is Both Cunning and Bold, and Her 1970s Officer Husband Is at His Wits' End 军嫂又茶又勇，七零军官哄得头痛 Lost and Found失而Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted The short drama is now streaming: [The Dashing Courtyard Beauty and Her Aloof Husband Who Holds Her Close and Coaxes Her] After transmigrating, Yu Xiangnian becomes the shrew of a military compound in the 1970s. Her husband doesn’t love her, the children don’t care for her, and the neighbors can’t stand her... So what? She doesn’t care what any of them think! She’s educated, cultured, well-connected, and beautiful. Building a fortune and pursuing her career are what matter! But... Why is this ma 24.6kReads9.1Score3kShelves
37. 37 带 Taking a World-Famous Members-Only Supermarket Back to the 1970s 带着全球知名会员制超市穿七零 Lots of Durian Daifuku榴莲大福多多Modern Romance339k WordsCompleted [Period setting + soul transmigration + golden finger + modern romance + strong leads] A slow-burn story set in a bygone era. The author doesn't write saintly heroines. If the satisfying payback you're expecting hasn't happened yet, the author may have placed it at the point that best fits the story. Han Xiaolin, from the 21st century, transmigrates while shopping at a famous members-only supermarket. She finds herself in the 1970s, an era of scarce food and clothing. With a virtual supermarket 305Reads6.2Score110Shelves

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    Normal chronology can be read.

38. 38 重 Reborn in 1980: I Dumped the Scumbag and Married a Butcher 重生八零甩掉渣男嫁屠户 Lots of Durian Daifuku榴莲大福多多Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Period] + [Reborn] + [Pocket Space] + [Farming] + [Family Life] + [Entrepreneurship] Li Wenhui is reborn before her blind date with a scumbag, and this time she exposes the affair between him and her best friend with her own hands. Thinking of the butcher who supplied her restaurant throughout her previous life and even came to her aid at a crucial moment, Li Wenhui decides they can team up and start a business this time around. But how does it end up with the two of them getting married and bu 4.1kReads8.1Score433Shelves
39. 39 八 A Great Beauty Raises Kids in a Beijing Courtyard, 1980s Style 八零大美人四合院养娃日常 North to South由北向南Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted (Slice of life + sweet romance + raising children + family life + career) Zhao Jinshu was in her sixties. Her children had grown up and started families of their own, and she had seen her parents-in-law off. She was just about to travel around the country when she was reborn. She returned to the time a few months after she had first moved to the city. Back then, she knew nothing. A young bride from the countryside, she was shy, too embarrassed to speak up, and insecure. Even though her husband 81.4kReads9.3Score6.9kShelves

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    This can be done! The parents are short-sighted, nothing top-notch! [Thinking][thinking]

40. 40 重 Reborn as a Little Blade of Grass 重生之俺是一颗小小草 The Junior Sister Who Doesn't Like Clay Pot Porridge不爱吃砂锅粥的师妹Modern Romance255k WordsCompleted Reborn, Tian Jincao refuses to be a dependent vine in the big city ever again. She kicks her trash ex to the curb and resolutely returns to the mountains, determined to help the girls there soar, leave the mountains behind, and see a wider world. To her surprise, the man she had loved in her past life has also been reborn. When they meet again years later, the first thing he asks is, “Will you marry me?” Tian Jincao answers, “Yes. I absolutely will!” In their previous life, the leads missed thei 7Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Go watch it👀, it's really good-looking, a normal period piece, not ridiculous, not brainless, inspirational

41. 41 一 All I Want in Life Is Half a Heart’s Contentment 一生只求半称心 Hedge Shadow篱影Modern Romance582k WordsCompleted The comic adaptation is coming soon! [Traditional] [No gimmicks] [Not a power fantasy] [No cheat abilities] In the 1970s, Li Laoman had no sons, so he wanted to find a live-in son-in-law for his third daughter, Li Fan. Li Fan refused and stole her second sister Li Ting's fiance instead! Now Li Ting had not only lost her man, but also had to take on the responsibility of finding a live-in son-in-law for her younger sister. With Li Laoman pressuring her, she had no choice but to take Zhong Wensong 10.9kReads8.9Score957Shelves

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    Normal, realistic, and traditional period writing.

42. 42 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 Romance531k 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 35.1kReads8.1Score3.6kShelves

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    It's relatively normal. The heroine was admitted to a technical secondary school and assigned to a state-owned factory. Hold the knowledge of modern machinery and work hard to build a career.

43. 43 8 The Neon Lights of the 1980s 80年代的烟火 Someone Who Dreams with Their Heart走心入梦的人Modern Romance269k WordsOngoing The Firelight of the 1980s On summer nights in the 1980s, fireflies swarmed through the grass in the factory workers’ housing compound. Children chased crickets with glass jars, loaches caught in the ditch thrashed in enamel basins, and wind-up tin frogs went clack-clack in circles. These rustic pleasures were so vivid that children of later generations could never quite grasp them, even when they heard the stories. Deep in Qiuju’s drawer lay the silver tweezers he had sent her through someone —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A very nice piece of period writing that takes you into the childhood of that era, takes you into the ups and downs of military factories under the transition from planned economy to market economy, and takes you into the love of that era. In love, what we want is not the lofty Prince Charming, but the knight with a spear who saves you from fire and water.

44. 44 东 A Northeastern Auntie Finds Herself a Zombie Daughter 东北大姨捡到个丧尸闺女 Inkstone Autumn Jade砚秋墨玉Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted Transmigration, zombies, comedy, ensemble cast, period setting, mystery, no CP: a purely Northeastern period novel. “How does a vegetarian zombie girl who moves slowly manage to become everyone's darling in a 1970s Northeastern village? By being cute and sincere, not by biting people.” A female zombie is caught in a time-space vortex during a battle between the Zombie King and superpowered beings, and transmigrates to a Northeastern village in the 1970s. The warmhearted Auntie Cheng Qiuxia take 692Reads8.9Score100Shelves

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    Don't be fooled by the name, it's a very heartwarming period piece

45. 45 荒 A Traveler in Years of Famine 荒年客 Yearning for Yaoshan尧山眷恋Urban338k WordsCompleted A survival epic about ordinary Chinese people. From rural China to the torrents of modern life, three generations of the Hou family are swept along by the tide of history. The grandparents put down roots in the land. Their values, admonitions, and “family scandals” form the family's original identity and its shackles. The parents struggle through a time of transition, inheriting heavy burdens while kindling a desire to change their fate. As someone born in the 1980s, I linger at the divide betwe 167Reads6.6Score105Shelves

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    Normal period literature, local works!

46. 46 埋 The Sister Buried Beneath My Feet 埋在我脚下的姐姐 Yearning for Yaoshan尧山眷恋17k WordsCompleted The Sister Buried Beneath My Feet 4Reads—Score—Shelves
47. 47 巴 The Hunting King of Bashan 巴山猎王 The Straw-Cloaked Traveler of Bashan巴山蓑衣客Urban1.5M WordsOngoing A transmigration tale set in a bygone era, brimming with rugged mountain spirit and the warmth of everyday life. Armed with memories from his past life and everything taught by his master, the King of Hunters, he wields a hunting rifle, trains mastiffs, and fights wolves. In the 1980s, he sets up a cooperative, builds roads, and buys vehicles, determined to find a way forward for a poor village deep in the mountains. From venturing alone into deadly wilderness to find a life-saving old ginseng r 140Reads7.2Score—Shelves

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    The first chronicle of unsystematic hunting! The second book is about the hunting era with a bit of cheating and no exaggeration! …[Laugh]

48. 48 下 After Going to the Countryside, the Female Educated Youth Is Doted on by a Future Senior Officer 下乡后女知青被未来首长娇养了 Dyeing the Years染流年Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Period Setting + Transmigration + Swapped Marriage + Devoted Couple + Marriage First, Love Later + Beloved by the Whole Family] Lin Xia never imagined that all she had to do was take a vacation, only to find herself dropped into a whole new world. There, she meets a group of people. When someone spreads rumors about her, Lin Xia has just started rolling up her sleeves when her future mother-in-law pulls her behind her and swings a huge broom. “You dare bully my Xiaxia? Try d 3.1kReads8.5Score241Shelves

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    These two books are pretty good!

49. 49 被 After I Was Forced to Marry a Sickly Educated Youth, I Got a Cheat 被迫嫁病弱知青后，我开挂了 Dyeing the Years染流年Modern Romance514k WordsCompleted [Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Devoted Couple + Golden Finger + Strong Female Lead] Jian Huai'an suspects his true form might actually be a mermaid. Seriously, why else would he be in the water after dying, and why would such a beautiful mermaid be swimming toward him? After discovering he'd transmigrated into a book, Jian Huai'an thinks his luck has finally turned. But he soon realizes that his transmigration has amounted to nothing. A golden finger? Yes, but pra 1.7kReads8.9Score154Shelves
50. 50 七 The 1970s: I Heard the Villain's Thoughts and Gave Up Trying 七零：听见反派心声后，我摆烂了 Ju Jiuhua居九华Modern Romance274k WordsCompleted [Proud young lady ✖️ aloof heartthrob] The vicious supporting villainess, Song Xuezhen, has awakened! After seeing her fate of “four children in five years, then dying in childbirth,” she quickly packed her bags and volunteered to move to the countryside. With a spirit spring and a pocket dimension, she had no worries about money or ration coupons. She just wanted to laze around and wait for the college entrance exams. But the plot went completely off the rails! The female educated youth who ea 423Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    It's no exaggeration to say that there is a golden finger. The heroine relies on food stamps sent from home. There is a strong man in Lingquan who gets the full centimeter by himself. He has no problem eating space. He occasionally goes up the mountain to find food and cook delicious food.

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