Any Historical-Era Stories with Career-Driven Female Leads Who Want to Help Develop the Country? 有没有年代文事业心很重的女主？要推动国家发展的
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Gentleness in This World: A Pure Heart Honors the Moon Above the Mountains and Rivers 人间温婉：素心已敬山河月
Workplace romance in government circles + powerful officials + a senior leader and his sweet young wife + two equally strong leads + both romantically inexperienced + devoted love + rebirth Heroine: She is warmhearted and compassionate, neither meek nor domineering. She has ideals and convictions, but she isn't all-powerful. She and the hero are evenly matched, sharing the sweetness of romance as well as supporting each other as they work side by side to realize their ideals. They respect and lo
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I Only Wanted to Sell a House and Make a Quick Buck, Not Steal the General Manager Away 只想卖房捞一笔，没想拐走总经理
I’m reborn!!!? And I still don’t have a golden finger~~ At first, Yin Yi only wanted to change her miserable fate as a mortgage slave in her previous life. By chance, a bubbly saleswoman from a real estate office dragged her along to collect a bag of rice. And so began her journey to becoming a sales champion. She might not have a golden finger, but she had good luck and kept unexpectedly finding customers. She raked in the cash, determined that there was no way she’d be a mortgage slave in this
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The 1980s: A Hasty Marriage to a Tough Soldier, and a Baby on the Way 八零：闪嫁硬汉生崽崽
1980s setting, marriage before love, sweet romance, everyday life, taking down scumbags Emergency room doctor Su Man suddenly dies and wakes up as a young bride in the 1980s, having been switched into someone else's arranged marriage. Her cousin wanted the marriage her father had arranged for her before he died, so she switched places with Su Man on the wedding day. “You'll marry that tough street punk. He'll make you work yourself to the bone, and you'll be a young widow.” “I'll marry the ma
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1959: With an Achievement System, She Throws Herself into the Grind 1959：携带成就系统，她卷了
This novel has been adapted into the short drama Sixies Technology's Glory. A stirring, inspirational, patriotic story, featuring a heroine who grows over time, strong values, smart characters all around, a one-on-one romance, love that develops over time, and plenty of humor. Du Yimeng only wants enough to eat and warm clothes in an era of scarcity. But after seeing the deep love others have for their country, she is gradually moved by their example and joins the fight for her nation. She wield
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You Dumped Me After I Passed the Scholar Exam, So Why Are You Crying Now That I’m Rich? 中秀才就休妻，我暴富你又哭什么
The moment Ye Caiping opened her eyes, she found herself a divorced woman, with her sister-in-law back home sharpening a knife against her. It wasn't that her sister-in-law was unreasonable. The original owner of this body was simply too awful! How awful? Here, take a look: Whenever her husband's family needed to build a house, if there was even a single grain of surplus food at her parents' home, she'd come sniffing around like a mad dog and take it all. So her mother-in-law could eat meat ever
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The 1960s: Our Sweet Little Lucky Star Is the Real Big Shot 六零：软软福宝是真大佬
Fushan Shan, a psychic, died during the apocalypse while protecting the base. She and the zombie king who had invaded it took each other down. Fushan Shan was reborn. When she regained consciousness, she found herself somehow turned into a little girl who hadn’t been born yet. Huh? This place doesn’t look right. And this time period seems wrong too! But it doesn’t matter! This world is safe, she has loving parents, and there are lots and lots of people who adore her. This world is wonderful! As
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A Couple of Fake Partners' Everyday Gossip After They Transmigrate into a Book Set in the Seventies 穿书七零塑料夫妻的吃瓜日常
(A sharp-tongued heroine with eight hundred schemes, queen of the courtyard and village, who loves watching the drama unfold × a male lead who seems aloof and untouchable but is really a childish boy who gets bullied by her and tries to fight back) Jiang Nuan transmigrates into a book. In this 1970s romance, she, Jiang Nuan, is a hopelessly lovesick fool who pines for the male lead, gets face-slapped again and again, and still keeps throwing herself at him. She’s nothing but a disposable side ch
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Working at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative: My 1960s Buying Spree 就职供销社，我在60年代搞代购
With a loud crash, Xu Jiaojiao, from the twenty-second century, survives an air disaster and transmigrates to the resource-starved 1960s, with three years of famine looming. Luckily, she has the “Buy-It-All Shopping Group” golden finger. She lands a job through a supply-and-marketing cooperative recruitment drive and gets a secure government job for life. Brown sugar, meat buns, milk, chocolate... While everyone else chews grass, I snack on dates. I’ll stockpile the good stuff until the warehous
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Transmigrated into a Period Novel: My Parents Divorced from the Start 穿越年代文：开局爹妈就离婚
[Period setting + strong female lead + career-focused plot + one-on-one romance + both leads devoted to each other + male lead appears late and doesn't get much page time] Gu Qingyu transmigrates into a period novel as an insignificant passerby. Sent back to her family's village as soon as she's born, she becomes a pitiful child no one wants after her parents divorce when she's three. But Gu Qingyu doesn't think she's pitiful at all. At three, she leads the village children in making money. At f
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The Capitalist-Era Educated Youth Is Highly Enlightened, Winning Big by Serving the Nation 资本知青觉悟高，为国效力赢麻了
[1970s + transmigrate into a book + military marriage + special abilities + love after marriage + devoted husband + family life + joining the army + building wealth] Su Mo, a dual-ability user, discovered that she had transmigrated into a book. She'd become the cannon-fodder character who gave the heroine her start-up funds, and she was supposed to die right from the start. Even after dying, she'd be dragged out of the heroine's memories again and again to serve as a foil, with the destruction o
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The Three-and-a-Half-Year-Old Empress: She Brings Billions of Merit into the 1960s 女帝三岁半：她带亿万功德穿六零
(Adorable, everyone’s-favorite story with a touch of fantasy.) After saving three thousand worlds, the empress thought her life was over. But, to her surprise, a fragment of her soul was reincarnated into a little fool in the late 1960s. The girl’s family was dirt poor, and life was painfully hard. Her father was lame, her mother half-blind, and she had two older brothers, grandparents, an eldest uncle, a second uncle, and a younger uncle: a huge family with a poverty rating of minus 100. But th
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Supermarket Across the Myriad Worlds: I Trade Buns for Technology for My Country 万界超市：我用包子给国家换科技
[No romance + supermarkets across different planes + running a business + seeking the motherland’s protection] When intern Jiang Wanwan refused to go bungee jumping at a company team-building event, her boss gave her a hard time. In a fit of anger, she fired him. While unemployed at home, she unexpectedly got a Myriad Worlds Supermarket System. Open supermarkets in other planes? No way. What if she ran into danger? The System was desperate for her to earn money and level up, so it had no choice
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Three Babies on the Way in the Military Compound: The Commander Has to Soothe Them Every Night 随军大院孕三宝：首长夜夜要哄娃
[Military marriage + sweet romance + adorable baby + island storage space + domestic life] Qi Baicha, a wealthy heiress from the capital with a fortune worth billions, slipped aboard a luxury cruise ship and transmigrated into a hit novel set in a bygone era. In the book, he chased her, she fled, and she had nowhere to run. Qi Baicha was still determined to play the cannon fodder, and ended up meeting a tragic fate. Staring at the plot she’d been handed, Qi Baicha was dumbfounded. But with an is
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The Little Nobody Who Followed Her Mother to a New Marriage in the Fifties 五零年代随娘改嫁的小炮灰
Qu Weiwei woke up one day as a five-year-old girl instead of the 23-year-old woman she had been. The girl’s father was the richest man in Pingcheng, with five concubines and more than a dozen children born to them. Qu Weiwei was one of those children. On the eve of Liberation, her father planned to pack up and flee overseas. Unfortunately, his legal wife only wanted to take the money and her own children with her. She had no intention of bringing along any of the concubines or their children, so
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The Only Daughter of the 1970s 七零年代独生女
[No transmigration into a book, no System, no pocket dimension.] [Period setting + farming + serving the motherland + technical expertise] A researcher who loves and hates fiercely versus a reborn diplomat Yu Yue fell asleep in the bath and woke up in the 1970s, as the only child in her family. First, there was her timid mother, who was willing to work herself to the bone for her family. Then there was her father, spoiled by his family and utterly self-centered. Timid Mom: “Let’s see anyone try
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Taking the Taobao System with Me to the 1970s 带着淘宝系统穿七零
Technically minded military officer VS powerful, down-to-earth woman; the heroine builds her career. The System plays a small role early on, then gets to take it easy. Period setting + comedy + both leads devoted only to each other “When a lie-flat System meets a crazy Host” Other people transmigrate to the 1970s: fight nasty relatives, make money, and marry a soldier. Xiang Nuan transmigrates to the 1970s: ✓ Fails to be reborn six times, then angrily kicks the coffin lid off ✓ Hacks her relativ
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Making My Fortune in the 1960s 六十年代之我发家致富了
Transmigrated to the 1960s, when even food and clothing are hard to come by? Su He says, “I'm not worried. I've been prepared for this.” What? She's transmigrated into a book set in the 1960s? Su He, a minor character, says, “No problem. I'll just stay on the sidelines and quietly make a fortune.” What? The original heroine wants to fleece her? Su He clutches her secret identity close and says, “I really only have this little bit. No one can find out my big secret.” (Author's disclaimer: This no
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The Female General Who Became Cannon Fodder in a Period Novel 穿成年代文炮灰的女将军
Shaomin, whose martial prowess was unmatched, never imagined that after spending half her life on the battlefield, her entire family would be executed for a trumped-up charge. Her furious soul refused to enter the cycle of reincarnation. On a night of lightning and thunder, she watched in spirit as the enemy army cut down the heads of the corrupt emperor and his treacherous ministers. With her great vengeance fulfilled, she was finally able to let go. But then lightning struck her soul and sent
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Transmigrated to a State-Owned Factory in the 1970s: From the Start, I Land a Cushy Job 穿到七零国营厂，开局考上萝卜岗
1970s + no rural assignment + multiple Systems + career building + strengthening the nation through research Overnight, Shi Xia becomes a minor supporting character in a period novel, an unemployed youth at a state-owned factory. Her mind is in turmoil. The good news: she has a bunch of Systems. The bad news: every one of them is still in beta. No matter. She'll handle it. The male lead who failed his blind date? No need to waste him: let him go to the countryside and suffer. The womanizer who c
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The 1970s: The Favorite Granddaughter of a Biased Grandma 七零：穿成偏心眼奶奶的乖孙女
[Book transmigration + space + farming + satisfying wish fulfillment + sweet romance] The young leader of a mystic sect from the twenty-first century accidentally transmigrates into a period novel, becoming a minor character who gets bitten to death by a wild boar right from the start. As for the heroine, whose white-lotus act practically radiates from her, Hua Jiaojiao refuses to accept it. Since she has to live through this era anyway, why not put her little hands, skilled at drawing talismans
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The 1970s: I Just Want to Slack Off, Not Study 七零：我只想摆烂不想学习
[No CP + Academic Prodigy + Growth-Oriented Heroine (Imperfect Character) + Science for the Nation] In her previous life, Xu Zhen worked herself to death with endless overtime. After transmigrating to the 1970s, all she wanted was to split off from the family as soon as possible and happily coast through life like a salted fish. She never expected a study System to come knocking. Eight hours of studying a day was the minimum, and now she had to work overtime too? Xu Zhen: I refuse! But refusing
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Lounging Around in a Period Novel With a Fortune in Supplies 带着百亿物资在年代文里摆烂
Zhou Yan worked tirelessly on missions across different planes, and finally saved enough points to apply for a peaceful retirement. She had planned to enjoy her retirement as a happy slacker, armed with a hundred billion worth of supplies. But who could have guessed the System would malfunction, and she would be reborn in the 1970s, an era of severely underdeveloped productivity? Here, there was always some troublemaker trying to harm her. Her retirement was ruined. Not only did she have to toil
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Quick Transmigration: The Female Side Character Only Wants to Serve Her Country 快穿之女配只想报效国家
When Zhang Xu died in battle, she was a little delighted. At last, she could retire! Her happiness lasted less than three seconds before an intelligent entity bound itself to her, forcing her to wander through one small world after another! In these small worlds, she was always the cannon-fodder supporting heroine in some melodramatic plot, there to give the male and female leads experience, equipment, and even a free kill. World Spirit: Our mission is to face-slap villains and help the supporti
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I Die If I Don’t Spend Money? Then I’ll Hand It Over to the State 不花钱就死？那我上交国家
{Dear passenger, this is the female-oriented novel train. Please check your ticket before boarding. We wish you a pleasant journey~!} [Fake System + Passionate + Face-Slapping + No Romance + The Growth of an Imperfect Heroine] “What’s so hard about spending money?” “Making money is hard. Spending it is easy, right?” “If you gave me that money, I could blow through it all in no time!” Su Su was lying in bed, complaining about Wang Duoyu from a movie, who had money but couldn’t spend it. Then, out
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I Strive for My Country’s Prosperity! [System] 我，为祖国富强而奋斗！【系统】
[Reborn + System + top student + patriotism + positive energy + feel-good story + no awful relatives] Su Xing was always on her own, the aloof goddess in everyone else's eyes. It seemed everyone took it for granted that beautiful women should keep their distance and remain unapproachable. Only Su Xing knew she was pretending to be aloof. In truth, she had severe social anxiety! She hated dealing with people and being noticed. All she wanted was to hide in the shell she thought was safe and coast
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The Heiress Returns: My Vision Is as Grand as My Motherland 千金归来：我的格局是祖国
[Completed, Cool-Tempered Heroine + True Heiress of a Wealthy Family (The Family’s Real Darling) + The Main Story Is About Soldiers and Family Bonds + No Male Lead] Liao Xu, the long-lost heiress of the Su Group, one of the capital’s top wealthy families, returns after fourteen years. The upper crust is thrown into an uproar. Everyone assumes a prestigious family must care about appearances. This true heiress, they think, has nothing going for her but her stunning looks. How could she compare to
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Transmigrated to the 1970s: Giving My Life for My Country 穿越七零之以身报国
Hu Hongxiang closes her eyes and opens them again. After a good night's sleep, she finds herself back in the 1970s, in the body of a shy little girl. Unable to find a job, she has no choice but to go to the countryside. At first, all she wants is to make it through that special period, then go to college, buy a house and stocks, and spend the rest of her life with plenty of money and free time. She never expected transmigration to come with an essential golden finger: a System. But this System i
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After I Transmigrated Back, I Bewitched the Whole World 穿越回来后我苏遍整个世界
After Lin Xiyue opened her eyes again, she realized this was not any of the worlds she had transmigrated to before. It was the original world she had lived in before she ever started transmigrating: unlike the cultivation, martial arts, apocalypse, and future alliance worlds she had visited, this was the world where the real Lin Xiyue had grown up. Luckily, her portable cave abode was still with her. Since that was the case, she might as well bring over everything she had learned in all those wo
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After I Transmigrated into a Book, the Vicious Villainess Devoted Herself to Serving Her Country 穿书后，恶毒女配一心报效国家
[System, strengthening the nation, transmigrate into a book, wicked supporting female character, career-focused, strong female lead, no romance] Liang Miaoshu, a modern military researcher, never expected to transmigrate into a book in defiance of science! The wicked supporting character causes trouble? Building the nation is better than being cannon fodder! The brainless male lead keeps closing in? Building the nation is better than falling in love! The green-tea female lead keeps framing her?
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Belated Love Is Worthless, So I Chose to Serve My Country 迟来深情比草贱，我选择报效祖国
[Quick transmigration + patriotism + positive energy + underdog comeback + face-slapping scumbags + everyone gets their comeuppance] Li Wanqing is bound to the Strong Nation System and helps countless tragically deceased supporting heroines fulfill their wishes. The wronged wife of the 1970s, cast aside because she can’t bear a son? The biological daughter hated by everyone? The Republican-era young woman with bound feet? Sorry. Given a second life, I pledge my devotion to my country and will st
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Shocking! An International Actress Queen Is Picking Up Trash to Serve Her Country 震惊！国际影后竟捡垃圾报效祖国
[Power fantasy + technology + entertainment industry + patriotism + golden finger handed over to the country] Li En is an internationally renowned Best Actress, with more trophies than she can count. Just when she thought her life had reached its peak, she discovered that whenever she fell asleep, she would inexplicably transmigrate to the garbage dumps of other worlds! Other people transmigrate to places full of fame and fortune. She ends up in garbage dumps... Some dumps belong to interstellar
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With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s, Where I Can Make Trouble and Money with Ease 小手一背穿七零，搞事赚钱样样行
Also known as "Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Seventies: I Collect Eighty-Eight Paychecks Every Month" Su He woke up one day and transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a fake heiress who had been sent back to her village. In the book, the ungrateful real heiress was practically blessed by cheat codes, with schemes and tricks appearing one after another. The Su family ended up destroyed, while the original owner wished she were dead. Looking at her impoverished home and family members
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A Doctoral Big Shot's Beloved Life in the 1970s 博士大佬的七零团宠日常
Beloved by the whole family + striving through the years (kind family, no awful relatives) P.S. The early chapters are warm and slice-of-life; later on, there is a focus on technology. The female lead has a photographic memory and is a super-genius. There is no romance in this novel, so those who enjoy stories without romance can dive right in. In the 23rd century, the genius Dr. Leng Yue is killed by her own mother and reborn as Ling Yue, the only granddaughter of the Ling family in the 1970s.
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Don’t Run, Enemy! We Both Win: You Go to Prison, I Get the Money 七零敌特别跑！坐牢得钱咱们双赢
[Strong female lead + satisfying wish fulfillment + no romance + child protagonist] Li Jinjin, an interstellar tyrant, transmigrates to the 1960s for some unknown reason. Just as she’s about to make a name for herself, she loses her memory. By the time her memories awaken, she’s seven years old. She beats up the traffickers who abducted her little brother and kicks the pervert hiding deep in the mountains. She even gets herself some handy little gadgets: a fan, a car... She catches enemy spies a
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I Came from the Stars to Witness the Age of Soaring Technology 我从星际而来，看科技腾飞时代
[Technology to strengthen the nation + alternate setting + interstellar transmigration + no romance, focused on getting things done + not a power fantasy + period piece] Ling Yue is transported from the interstellar age to Blue Star in the 1960s when an explosion caused by the mad scientist next door sends her through time. The land lies in ruins, beset by troubles at home and abroad. Watch as Ling Yue helps her country achieve a technological leap forward. A foreign country threatens us with at
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