What's the One Masterpiece You Consider the Pinnacle of Historical-Era Fiction? 求，你们心目中代表年代文最高水平巨作一本？
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In the 1970s: Picking Up a Madman as My Husband 七零年代疯批夫妇
Historical era + green tea schemer + obsessive love + unhinged + powerful lead + everyday family life + pocket dimension + food + healing + transmigrate into a book This is the story of two unfortunate souls saving each other. After transmigrating into the countryside as a little orphan, Ming Dai meets Zhou Sinian, a mad powerful man who loves wearing red headscarves. Under the protection of his reputation, she manages to establish herself in the village. Zhou Sinian was a cannon-fodder characte
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My Simpleminded Husband Became an Officer and Keeps Kissing His Pregnant Wife Silly 呆傻老公变军官，追着亲懵小孕妻
[1970s + System + Marriage First, Love Later + Devoted Couple + Running Away While Pregnant] Shen Tang wakes up in the body of a fake heiress who is a doomed side character in a period novel. Her biological parents have abducted her and are forcing her to marry a fool. At this point, Shen Tang has only one thought: she has to escape. But her adoptive parents have found their real daughter, and her biological parents are rotten to the core. Where can she run? In the end, Shen Tang decides to stay
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The Delicate Beauty Was Doted on After She Transmigrated into a Period Novel 娇软美人穿到年代文后被宠上天了
[Soft, Sweet, Airheaded Beauty x Ruthless Villain] Xie Shu is breathtakingly beautiful, delicate and soft, and has been doted on by her family since childhood. Her only misfortune is congenital heart disease. She has been confined to a hospital room since birth and can’t go outside. One day, she wakes up to discover she has transmigrated into a book, becoming the new wife of the vicious villain, a woman who barely met him before he was killed for his many evil deeds. Xie Shu clutches her sleeve.
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I Bound the Favorite Consort System and Accidentally Transmigrated to the 1970s 绑了宠妃系统，我错穿七十年代
[Period setting + military marriage + rugged hero + reborn male lead + marriage before love + System + sweet romance + beauty transformation] Xu Jiaojiao was bound to the Beloved Consort System. Just as she thought she would transmigrate to ancient times and wreak havoc in the imperial harem, the ridiculously incompetent System made a mistake and sent her to the 1970s! What?! A System that makes you more and more beautiful sends her to the 1970s? Does it think she's not conspicuous enough? Not w
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I Traveled to the 1970s With a Dedicated Worker System 带着敬业系统穿七零
Xu Taotao, a descendant of imperial chefs, keeps her culinary skills hidden while living among ordinary people. Then she dies suddenly from overwork and gets bound to a workaholic System, which sends her to the 1970s. She becomes the famously ugly daughter of a butcher at a meat-processing plant. Determined to become beautiful, she has no choice but to keep working hard. With her superb cooking skills, she climbs the career ladder, gets a raise, and marries Professor Gu... No, wait! “Ding-dong!
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Reborn: The Pampered Wife of the 1980s 重生八零娇娇媳
When Zhao Xiangyun wakes up, she has become a pampered young woman in the 1980s. Her mother is a selfish woman who gives her all the best things. Looking at her own dark, overweight appearance, Zhao Xiangyun decides to lose weight, become beautiful, make money, and support her family! A man who has had his eye on her for ages stops her on the way home and hands over everything he owns, declaring domineeringly, “I've given you all my money, so you have to be my wife!”
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Quick Transmigration Through the Eras: The Female Supporting Character Awakens 快穿年代：女配觉醒了
[Quick Transmigration] [fictional setting] [Period] [no fixed CP] [female lead’s perspective] [overpowered golden finger] Ning An, an employee of the Temporal Bureau, transmigrates into small worlds set in different periods. As she eases the supporting female characters’ grievances and makes up for their regrets, she also enjoys a good life of her own. [Content warnings: Please don’t read if these things bother you. Be sure to read this!!!] An extremely overpowered golden finger! The original ma
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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
[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
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I Land a Government Job by Gossiping in a Period Novel 我靠吃瓜在年代文里拿编制
This novel has undergone a major revision [transmigration; gossip; System; getting rich; male lead; transmigrate into a book set in the 1970s] Jiang Panyu's greatest passion in life was gossip. She was like a melon-eating mouse in a field, always showing up wherever there was juicy gossip, right at the heart of the action. One day, she got so caught up in watching two old ladies brawl that she completely lost herself in the excitement. A brick in one of the old ladies' hands sent her straight to
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Marrying into a Crowded Courtyard, Where Gossip Is Everywhere 嫁进大杂院，吃瓜好方便
[Courtyard Compound + Ensemble Cast + Family Life + Loves to Watch the Drama Unfold + Slice of Life + A Heartwarming Take on Love in the Courtyard] In 1975, the courtyard compound in the alleys near the Red Star Steel Mill was as lively as ever. In the east, Yang Shujuan kept fretting: “Our girl is timid, and she doesn't have much luck with her parents. Where's she going to find a husband?” In the west, Diao Yulian was busy feeding her child: “Jiabo, my precious Jiabo, Mommy's darling little swe
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1970s: After Being Kicked Out of the House, I Turned Around and Married a Military Officer 七零：被赶出家门后我转头嫁军官
[Feel-good read + period setting + pocket dimension + devoted couple + golden finger + strong female lead] Song Yun, a modern inheritor of ancient medicine, accidentally travels back to 1973 and becomes an unfortunate girl unloved by both her father and mother. She hasn't enjoyed even one day of life as a capitalist's daughter before suddenly acquiring the identity. Her once-devoted fiancé sends an urgent telegram demanding to break off their engagement. Break it off, break it off, break it off!
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The Empress Refuses Love, While the Tyrant Goes Mad and Turns to the Dark Side 娘娘不入爱河，暴君疯批入魔
[One-on-one romance, devoted couple + palace intrigue + regretful pursuit, clear-headed heroine, everyone's unattainable ideal] Meng Tang is a gracious, gentle empress who never competes for favor. Everyone thinks she is a true white lotus standing tall in the harem, and even the tyrant believes it. He takes a new concubine, and she smiles, congratulates him, and arranges for the newcomer to spend the night with him. He sends her restorative medicine, and she obediently takes it, knowing full we
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After Their Divorce, Her Stand-In Ex-Husband Cried Himself to Death at the Crematorium 和离后，替身前夫哭死在火葬场
[A double-substitute story where “you think I'm your substitute, but you're actually the real substitute.” The ex-husband chases his wife, but this time he truly gets his comeuppance. Both leads are first-timers. An obsessive, possessive heroine x a flirtatious, self-destructive hero. Older woman/younger man romance.] Ye Qingying fell in love with Shen Xu at first sight and did everything for him. She even emptied the Ye family coffers to shower the Shen family with gifts. Everyone in the capita
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Me and the Roses Are Always at Your Princess's Service! 我与玫瑰，随时为公主待命！
[The print edition is now available. Search for Sweet Mist on your favorite platform to buy it.] [One-on-one sweet romance, heart-fluttering and indulgent, with no limits to his devotion.] Zhou Jin, captain of the criminal investigation squad, was unruly, untamed, and hated being pestered. He had no patience for coaxing anyone, either. But after one assignment, he made an exception and took a young woman into his home. The next day, everyone on the team was gossiping: Would the young woman get y
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I Transmigrated into a Book Set in the 1980s and Became the Female Lead Who Sold Her Child for Food 穿书八零：我成了卖儿换粮的女配
[Reading Guide: Period Setting + Transmigrate into a Book + Adorable Kids + System + Business] Jiang Zhi is fabulously wealthy and an excellent cook, the very picture of a winner in life. Jiang Zhizi has fair skin, stunning looks, and long legs, but a terrible reputation and barely a penny to her name. Her one redeeming quality: she can have children. Jiang Zhi transmigrates into a book and becomes Jiang Zhizi. Jiang Zhi: Eyes wide in shock! What? Jiang Zhizi forced herself on a man? What? Jiang
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After I Transmigrated, I Became an Outsider in a Special Affairs Department 穿越后我成了特殊部门的编外人员
Shen Li was struck dead by lightning! She was reborn in the 1970s in the body of a young girl with the same name. Well, all right! With a loving father and mother in this life, she plans to study hard, get into college, then go into business and make a fortune, buy lots of houses, and wait for property prices to soar so she can become a landlady and lie flat by the time she turns thirty. But why did she have to crack her head open twice just to unlock her Heavenly Eye Space? Go fishing, and end
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The 1980s: A Cherished Darling Rushing Toward Wealth 八零捷报团宠娇娇向钱冲
[Period setting + building wealth + doted on by everyone + native-born heroine + social butterfly + powerful figures + one-on-one romance] Before she turned fifteen, Shi Xiangxiang was stolen as a newborn. Her adoptive parents were denounced and sent down to the countryside, leaving her, though still so young, to shoulder the burden of feeding the whole family. After she turned fifteen, her adoptive sister, who had been reborn with a golden finger, returned in defeat after struggling her way t
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A Little Chubby Kid Brings a Shopping Mall into a Period Novel 肉团子带着商场穿进年代文
This is a danmei novel set in a bygone era, so make sure you’re reading the right one, cuties! When he wakes up, Lu Tang has become the adopted son who dies young in a period novel! From beginning to end, he only appears in a few chapters before being written out. But his death causes his adoptive parents’ family to turn evil. All four of his brothers become villains too, just to avenge him. The eldest brother breaks his leg, the second is kicked out of the army, and the third is abducted by hum
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Back to the 1960s to Become an Educated Youth 重回六零年代当知青
[No female lead + not a wish-fulfillment story + plot-focused + 1v1 romance + two male leads][Straight men, stay away] Jiang He is reborn in the 1960s. Because his original body’s parents favor their other son, it was supposed to be his older brother who was sent to the countryside. Instead, his biased parents push Jiang He out as a replacement. Fortunately, his farming space comes with him. Because of the doomsday rumors in his previous life, he spent his entire fortune buying every kind of sup
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Period: I Plucked This Aloof Beauty 年代：这支高岭之花我摘了
[A fierce top with a bad back × a tough, foul-mouthed bottom] [A powerful couple]+ [A roguish village bully bottom + an aloof, elegant educated youth top]+ [Bonus chapters written however the author pleases] Shu Xiu had hardly ever fallen for anyone in his life, but the newly arrived educated youth was the one who tripped him up. It wasn't that he lacked self-control. The truth was, this educated youth was just too handsome. Brother Xiu, ruthless in his ways and hard of heart, had only one weakn
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A Self-Serving Perfectionist in a Period Novel 年代文里的精致利己主义
Yang Yuan never expected that after transmigrating, she would become the female lead's fake best friend in a period novel. Not only did she burn the heroine's love letters, but she was also destined for a miserable end. Well, at least she didn't have many scenes. If she played her cards right and made amends, she could still survive. What? Go to the countryside? Absolutely not. I'm lazy, greedy, and a shameless freeloader who loves the easy life. So what if I take advantage of people or scheme a
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After Becoming the Villainous Male Educated Youth in a Period Novel 穿成年代文里反派男知青后
[ABO + alternate-era setting + pheromones + universally disliked to universally adored + face-slapping] [Steady, reliable Alpha who’s good at everything × Beta who goes from universally disliked to universally adored] Su Jin never expected that staying up late to read a novel would lead to him waking up inside it as the gloomy, unhinged villain, a young educated man sent to the countryside. He was a despised rat in the gutter, a pitiful wretch. The only person who treated him decently was the ma
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Becoming the Poor Little One's Husband in a Period Novel 年代文里去给小可怜儿当老公
[Two male leads + transmigration into a book + pocket dimension + sweet romance + dominant protagonist + period setting] Wei Xiao was born into a period novel and, as a proper background character, decided to stay away from the plot and choose a new life for himself. At eighteen, Wei Xiao decided to go to the countryside as an educated youth. He had a pocket dimension from the moment he arrived in this world, and already had everything he needed, so he wasn’t worried about the future at all. But
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Period: Ding! Congratulations, Host, Your Sign-In Was Successful! 年代：叮！恭喜宿主签到成功！
[Period setting + reborn + on-screen comments + sign-in System + no romance + punishing scumbags] When she died, she was surrounded by children and grandchildren, and she closed her eyes with a smile. But when she opened them again, thinking she’d returned to the days of her youth before marriage, she figured she would walk the same path as in her previous life and love her husband all over again... Unexpectedly, she saw on-screen comments. [What’s the opening plot again?! I think a matchmaker c
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Reborn as a Terrible Old Lady in the ’70s, I Steal the Heroine’s Fortunes 穿成年代极品老太后夺了女主机缘
(Transmigrate into a book + period setting + farming + no male lead + family life + farming) Xue Cuihua is an older web novelist whose stories never take off. After staying up all night to update her latest chapter, She closes her eyes, opens them, and finds herself inside the period rebirth novel she'd read, as the villainous grandmother of the female lead. With the female lead, who hates evil and sees her as an enemy, in front of her, and a lazy, ungrateful adopted son behind her, Xue Cuihua i
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So Satisfying! After Giving Up Her Heiress Status, the Fake Heiress Takes It Easy in the 1980s 爽爆！假千金让位后在八零摆烂
[Period setting + fake and real heiresses + chubby girl slims down + System + powerful figures + golden finger + face-slapping + sweet romance + one-on-one relationship] After completing 99 missions, Lan Feixue finally arrives in the free and easy retirement world she’s been looking forward to. Sure, the heroine has a little extra meat on her bones, but that’s no problem here. She thought she’d be able to let loose and take it easy, but she was still too young. The System had tricked her again.
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The 90s: Ever Since I Stopped Being Filial, I've Had the Sweetest Smile 九零，自从不孝后我笑的可甜嘞
In her previous life, Li Xingjian’s reputation was ruined before she could return home. Her biased mother demanded that she give her childhood sweetheart and fiancé to her younger sister, then forced her to sacrifice herself to secure her sister’s future. “You weren’t pure to begin with. Even if I let you marry, who would want you? Once your sister makes something of herself, she’ll spare you a bite to eat. I’m only doing this for your own good, aren’t I?” Her useless father turned a blind eye t
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In the 1970s, My Female Lead and I Share a Golden Finger, Then I Marry the Villain 七零我和女主共用金手指后嫁反派
[Period drama + transmigration into a book + sweet romance + daily life + devoted one-on-one couple] Yu Liang is a bad lot, but he dotes on his wife like no other. Meimei is hopelessly silly, but only ever plays little tricks in front of Yu Liang. In her previous life, Miao Meimei was unloved by both her father and mother, and abused by her nanny. After barely making it to the end of her life, she somehow transmigrated into a book. The female lead in the book is a fox spirit, and the villain was
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The 1970s: I Transmigrated into a Book, and My Lazy Husband Is No Match for Me 七零穿书：女配嫁懒汉你懒我更懒
Synopsis: (Devoted husband + triplets + seven gourd babies + both leads are a bit of a handful) Xu Ya transmigrates from the apocalypse to the 1970s and, from the start, marries a lazy, difficult husband. He's so handsome? She's keeping him. She's the fake daughter? The real daughter is reborn and back for revenge? So what? She's not scared. There's a baby on the way. She's pregnant? A stunning educated youth has her eye on Xu Ya's husband? She must be blind. He's not available. All kinds o
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Sweet Military Marriage: The Heiress Is the Nation’s Goddess 甜蜜军婚：大小姐她是国民女神
[Military Marriage]+ [Period]+ [Raising Kids]+ [Abstinent Powerhouse X Super-Soft Ballerina]+ [Sweet Romance, No Golden Finger] International ballerina Sheng Shuyan transmigrates into a Period novel about a military big shot, written for a male audience. She becomes the big shot’s first wife, who dies young. The original owner was trapped in the past and died unhappy. In the big shot’s heart, she weighed about as much as a feather. Years later, after returning from Hong Kong, the big shot has be
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Report, Commander: Your Grandson Took His Wife Out to Beat Someone Up Again 报告首长你孙子带媳妇又去打人了
[Complete + male lead takes the domestic role, female lead takes the career role + fussy, love-struck husband + daily face-slapping antics of the compound's little tyrant in the 1970s] Shen Xia transmigrated into an ongoing period novel and became a pitiful girl whose father didn't care for her and whose mother didn't love her. After transmigrating, Shen Xia accidentally discovered that something was wrong with her identity. She reported her adoptive parents, sent her adoptive father to labor ca
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Marrying an Officer Again: The Socially Anxious Beauty Is Doted on by Her Brother-in-Law 二嫁军官，社恐美人被大伯哥娇宠
[Transmigration + Both Pure + Sweet, Sensual, Introverted Beauty vs. Deeply Cunning Officer + Sweet Romance + Period Setting + Eight-Year Age Gap] Tang Huan transmigrated into the body of a young widow whose husband had died just after their wedding. Losing her husband wasn't a problem. Her parents-in-law treated her like their own daughter. Her father-in-law gave her money every few days, and her mother-in-law was an amazing cook. Tang Huan had a wonderful life. The only thing she didn't like w
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After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Took the Heroine Home as My Sister-in-Law 女配穿书后把女主拐来做嫂子
After Tang Tian is hit on the head with a brick, she transmigrates into a period novel, as a nobody not even important enough to be cannon fodder. She's the lovesick girl the male lead meets in the countryside, and a stumbling block on his way back to the city. With a new soul inside her, Tang Tian kicks the male lead to the curb without hesitation. She tells everyone he's hideous, with enormous nostrils that give her nightmares every night. A certain soldier quietly picks up a little mirror. Ye
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The 1980s! A Refined Ancient-Era Lady Is Doted on by an Ascetic Factory Director 八零！古代闺秀被禁欲厂长娇宠了
[The eighties, ancient-to-modern transmigration, feel-good scumbag takedowns, secret identity, a groveling family begging their little sister to come back, a sharp-tongued heroine who sees through manipulation vs. a green-tea hero who can read minds] Chu Ning, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Wu'an, was caught up in a sudden disaster and somehow ended up in the 1980s. She also transmigrated into the body of a woman weighing over two hundred jin. The original owner was the factory direct
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Transmigrated Into a Book in the 1970s: What a Joke! The Sweet Girl Is Hiding in a Rugged Man's Body 穿书七零：笑死！娇娇披着糙汉壳
[Period setting + transmigrate into a book + food + System + educated youth + sweet romance] A pleasure-loving young woman transmigrates into a book set in the 1970s. The poverty and hunger, the backbreaking labor, and the enormous secret her new body is hiding are enough to push An Ran to the brink. She is neither the lucky heroine nor the villainess. Instead, she is a deranged male character so far down the roster that she barely even counts as a number in the leads’ story. To keep anyone from
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The 1970s Cannon-Fodder Girl Raises a Villain with Her Space 七零小炮灰靠空间糙养反派
[Period setting + magical space + farming and cultivation + everyday life + cherished by everyone] Shen Yujiao has a nightmare and discovers she is a minor cannon-fodder character in a period novel. From the start, she is destined to drown and die, paving the way for someone else, while her family members later meet tragic ends one after another. Shen Yujiao refuses to accept that fate. As soon as she wakes, she uses a drop of blood to claim the jade pendant she carries, unlocking a magical spac
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The Reborn, Gorgeous Female Youth Educated in the 1970s Has Unmatched Strength 重生七零漂亮女知青她力大无穷
[With a pocket dimension + not saintly + reborn + sweet romance] In her previous life, the heroine was a complete sucker who was killed by a transmigrated-into-a-book villainess. Reborn, she decides to be selfish for once. When the villainess’s admirers come looking for trouble, the heroine beats them so badly they can barely take care of themselves. The heroine blows on her fists. “Sorry, but when I get angry, even I’m scared of myself.” The local bullies and hooligans are all beaten so ba
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I Offer My Devotion to the Passing Years 以我深情祭岁月
[The physical book with the same title is now available] “I hesitated once. I turned back to face the slightest glimmer of hope, yet no one cared.” “Later, a thick fog rolled in. You said you loved me so much, but why was your love thinner than the fog, so faint I could barely see it?” Shen Nian
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Mr. Huo, You Are the Words I Can't Bring Myself to Say 霍先生，你是我的言不由衷
With a two-year contract, she married a man rumored to be suffering from a serious illness. The world laughed at Shi Hua for being stuck in a sexless marriage, while she glared furiously at the man beside her. “Mr. Huo, didn't we agree...” “You still have the energy to talk?” “No, Mr. Huo, weren't we supposed to get divorced?” “Oh.” “I remember you were in the next room last night.” “I was sleepwalking.” He switches rooms in the middle of the night and calls it sleepwalking; he acts all lovey-do
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Sharing His Bed 与他共枕
(Adapted into the short drama "Miss Xu, Don’t Settle". The Tomato-produced short drama "Sharing His Bed" launched on Tomato on November 26.) Shang Yiran and Xu Mubai have been married for five years, and have spent all five fighting. Three years into their marriage, Xu Mubai became pregnant. She tried to tell Shang Yiran, “Let’s make a real go of this.” He responded with cold indifference. After that, they each went their own way. One is cold, arrogant, and conceited; the other is stubborn and u
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Lost in the Pages, Unaware of the Years 卷中不知年
The pampered eldest daughter of the Bai family, raised in the Bai residence, was first betrayed by the childhood sweetheart of the Lu family’s commander. Then her marshal father died, leaving Bai Qingling with no choice but to turn to the adjutant, Yan Lou, for help. How much did Yan Lou spoil her? Whenever the foreign trading company got something new, he brought it all home. She glanced at a stray cat on the roadside, and the next day, several purebred Persian cats appeared at home. People sai
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My Younger Sister Stole My Match, So I Married into a Big Courtyard, Gossiped, and Took It Easy 被妹妹抢亲，嫁进大杂院吃瓜开摆
Jiang Yu had a dream. In it, she got her wish and married a man from the city. But her husband, Fu Xiangyang, was a coward, while her domineering mother-in-law was intensely controlling. Jiang Yu could barely breathe under the pressure. A year into the marriage, she still hadn't conceived. She had to drink bitter, foul-smelling medicine every day, and her mother-in-law would beat and berate her at the slightest pretext. Jiang Yu woke from the nightmare, only to find the matchmaker at her door. T
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A Great Beauty Raises Kids in a Beijing Courtyard, 1980s Style 八零大美人四合院养娃日常
(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
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[The 1960s] My Backyard Opens Into the Produce Market 【六零】我家后院通菜市场
Also known as: Cabbages Aren’t Allowed to Become Spirits After the Founding of the Nation A cabbage spirit is struck by heavenly lightning and accidentally reincarnates into the Jiang family as their little daughter. Using her special ability to speed up the growth of vegetables, she never expected that her family’s backyard could also lead to a modern vegetable market. A little scene: (The butcher and Dad Jiang) “Sir, give me two jin of pork bones.” “Sure thing!” “Brother, that’s a meat ration
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Sweet Military Marriage: After Meeting the Strongest Officer, She Has Several Babies 甜蜜军婚，遇最强军官后她多胎了
(Complete) (Parallel world + spoiled younger man + military marriage + devoted husband + raising kids) Xu Ning transmigrated into a book, ending up as a minor character in a period novel, a young woman who had gone to the countryside with her younger brother to become an educated youth. Lin Miao, another educated youth, was an internet celebrity from the 21st century, while the male lead was an educated youth from the capital. Their tangled love story made life miserable for everyone in the educ
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After Four Years of Stupidity, I Became the Beloved Wife of a Rough Village Bully 磕傻四年，成了糙汉村霸的娇媳妇
When Hu Yao woke up, she found a mischievous yet well-behaved son and a scoundrel of a man beside her. Shocked and bewildered, she heard from the neighbors she knew that four years earlier, she'd hit her head so hard she was left simple-minded, and her mother had sold her. Over those four years, she had not only gained a husband but also a mischievous child who fiercely protected her. The bastard of a man was always putting his hands on her, and he was exceptionally fierce and unreasonable. Terr
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A Military Marriage in the 1970s: The Army Doctor Falls for a Special Forces Soldier 七零军婚军医爱上特种兵
Military romance + medicine + strengthening the nation + passionate action + flirtation Song Wei, a military doctor who served on peacekeeping missions, has been reborn. Her goal: to find the boy she once passed by. Who would have thought that the prettiest yet most timid girl in the military compound would fall for that arrogant, overbearing demon of a young man? In Lu Jiu’s eyes, Song Wei is like a sand cat: timid, quick, and easily frightened, though she occasionally flashes her claws. Sh
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The 1970s: Two Cannon Fodder Characters Marry and Turn Their Bad Luck Around 七零：两个炮灰结婚后负负得正了
[The animated adaptation is now online] [Full-cast audio drama available] [Period setting + educated youth + transmigrate into a book + pocket dimension + inspirational] Lu Xia transmigrated into the body of an educated youth in the 1970s, a girl whose parents didn’t care for her and who had been sent to the countryside in her elder sister’s place. Remembering how the original owner had always been mistreated, Lu Xia couldn’t stand for it. She sold the job, gave her family a hefty financial hit,
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Reborn in the 1990s: The Handsome Heartthrob Won’t Stop Pursuing Me 重生九十年代：男神追着求交往
Rebirth + school life + academics + career building + two top students Xia Yutong is reborn! She returns to the autumn when she was twelve. She had always thought there were no regrets in the thirty-nine years of her previous life; but only after being reborn does she realize she has carried an unresolved heartache all along. Back in the past, Xia Yutong is determined to leave her old life behind and get justice for her former self. More importantly, she’ll study hard and get into the university
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Island Life with the Army: My Cooking Has the Whole Family Compound Begging for More 随军海岛：美食养崽馋哭全家属院
[Period setting + marriage first, love later + cozy life raising children + entrepreneurship] Lin Xia gets into a car accident on her way to a matchmaking date and unexpectedly transmigrates into a period romance novel full of angst, becoming the foolish cannon-fodder woman who brings about her own doom. The original Lin Xia sabotages the male and female leads at every turn, so the male lead takes revenge by sending her to the countryside, where she eventually meets a tragic end. After reading a
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