Female-Led Rebirth Novels Set in a Bygone Era 女主重生年代文
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八零娇妻驭夫有道
Adapted into a short drama: Trouble! My Fate Is Tied to My Delinquent Husband is now streaming [Soft on the outside, tough on the inside, a seemingly sweet good girl * cold on the outside, warm on the inside, a fierce and ruthless wolf pup] [She pursues him + both are sexually inexperienced + mutual salvation + sweet, slice-of-life romance.] After dying and coming back to life again and again, Shi Xinran finally discovers that her life is bound to that of a delinquent named Tan Yunqian. To sta
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In the 1970s, the Sweet Little Darling Was Spoiled by a Fierce, Wild Man 七零,小娇娇被疯批糙汉宠翻天了
(Complete) [Transmigrates into a book + period setting + sweet romance + heroine pursues hero + beautiful, fair-skinned, timid drama queen x villainous, short-tempered country boy] When Shen Yingying wakes up, she has become the villain's wicked little wife in a period novel. She wakes to find herself caught in the act of running away with another man by her villainous husband. She is so terrified she nearly dies on the spot. After all, the villain in the original novel is a violent, rough-he
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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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After Being Reborn, I Won Back My Beloved 重生之后,追回我的朱砂痣
In her previous life, she was pushed into a river and forced to marry that beast in human form. After the wedding, the scumbag used her father’s influence to return to the city. They spent twenty years in a sexless marriage. She refused to let her husband touch her because she had always carried an unspoken love in her heart. Later, her father died of illness, and her mother passed away soon after. The scumbag ground her down until she was barely recognizable. She also learned that her father ha
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My Wife Came to the Base to Divorce Me, and Now the Chaste Commander Is Panicking 媳妇来部队离婚,禁欲首长他急了
[The short drama Ask Your Heart How Much has launched] [Military marriage + period setting + sweet romance + devoted couple + family life + raising kids + face-slapping] The moment Jiang Ning opened her eyes, she realized she had become the cannon-fodder female character in a period novel. She'd been married for three years without ever seeing her husband, and was destined to spend the rest of her life alone. Jiang Ning thought, Spend the rest of my life alone? No way! She decisively left behind
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When the Sweet Young Educated Youth’s Eyes Turn Red, the Military Researcher Spoils Her Day and Night 娇娇知青一红眼,科研军爷日夜宠
[Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Food + Both Chaste + Joining Her Husband in the Military + Rugged Hero] Lin Mianmian transmigrates into the role of the cannon-fodder wife in a 1970s novel, and the first thing she sees when she opens her eyes is a handsome man. The original owner was timid and weak, and let people bully her. But Lin Mianmian is different: whoever bullies her gets a little slap. When she hits someone, her man hands her a knife from behind. He does the work, steps up whenever
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Married with a Baby in the ’80s: My Mortal Enemy Becomes a Henpecked Husband 八零奉子成婚,死对头成了妻管严
When Lin Xiangyi woke up, she learned that she had transmigrated into a book, a period novel written by her stepsister. Her stepsister was the heroine, and she was the vicious supporting character. Her father didn’t love her and her mother was gone. As if having to survive under the thumb of her wicked stepmother since childhood wasn’t enough, her scheming stepsister stole her fiancé and set up her nemesis, the street thug Xie Qingxiao, to ruin her virtue. She became pregnant by accident, and af
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Best Friends Transmigrate Into a Book Together! Marry a Rough-and-Ready Man! If You Leave, I’m Leaving Too 闺蜜齐穿书!嫁糙汉!你离我也离
[Transmigrate into a book + rough-and-tough hero + sweet romance + face-slapping + daily life + building a fortune + raising kids] The moment Shen Wu opened her eyes, she saw a man who was exactly her type. Realizing she had transmigrated into a book, she then heard a familiar voice and understood that she wasn't the only one who had transmigrated: her best friend had come along too, and now they were sisters-in-law... The two of them had entered a novel written by someone who envied them. In
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After Rejecting the Match in the 1980s, I Opened a Canteen at a State-Owned Factory 八零拒婚后,我在国营厂开饭馆
[Reborn] + [The 1980s] + [Gourmet] + [Building a business] Shen Qingyue returned to the 1980s. In her previous life, her family drained her dry, and all three sisters were cheated by their grandparents. Reborn, she refuses to be a sucker again. She takes on the unreasonable troublemakers, and whoever picks a fight with her gets crushed underfoot. After splitting from the family, she starts a business with her sisters, opening a restaurant at a state-owned factory. The troublemakers fail to get t
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You’re Forcing Me to the Countryside? This Scientist’s Wife Will Empty Your Whole House 逼我下乡?科研军嫂搬空你全家
[Military Marriage + Period Setting + Powerful Lead + Face-Slapping + One-on-One Romance] Xia Li, a powerful wielder of both thunder and space abilities, had just come through the apocalypse. She became the founding general entrusted with the New World's Omniscient Eye System, ready to enjoy a quiet retirement. She only took a short nap, but transmigrated instead. After transmigrating, she faced two choices: Either marry a self-important mama's boy who expected her to put up with his mistress af
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The 1970s: Grab Some Popcorn! The White Lotus Heroine Is Fuming Again 七零:吃瓜!白莲女主又被气哭了
[Completed] + [Book Transmigration] + [Period] + [Face-slapping] + [Putting Scumbags in Their Place] + [Storage Space] + [Selfish] + [Vengeful] This is the story of Zhao Xinyi, a weakling from the apocalypse who transmigrates into a Period novel and runs rampant. In an apocalypse littered with corpses, Zhao Xinyi survived for five years by relying on the supplies she had stockpiled before it began and the eight hundred tricks she had up her sleeve. In the end, she dies at the hands of a high-lev
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The Bystander's Self-Cultivation in a 1970s Transmigration Novel 穿书七十年代吃瓜群众的自我修养
Have you ever transmigrated to a different scene just by blinking? Lin Yuzhu has. She transmigrated in a daze to the 1970s. No, she transmigrated into a book. She has a System, and the female lead is there too. There are also supporting female characters, but she isn't one of them. She's just an onlooker who wandered into the story by mistake. As an onlooker, she gets to watch the drama unfold every day. She doesn't want other people's dogs, and she doesn't get involved in other people's busines
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Spoiled by My Rugged Husband on Our Wedding Night in the Seventies 七零新婚夜,被糙汉老公宠到腿软
In her previous life, Su Jiaojiao divorced her husband for a deceitful scumbag and returned to the provincial capital. Little did she know, she had ruined her own life. When she finally came to her senses and wanted to live properly, she was hit by a car and killed. When she opened her eyes again, she was back on her wedding night in 1975. Fortunately, the misunderstanding between her and her husband hadn't grown too serious. Fortunately, everything was only just beginning. She swore that this t
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A Sweet Romance in the Eighties: The Wife Is a Lucky Charm 八零宠婚:甜妻太旺夫
Reborn on the day she called off her engagement, Xiao Ying turned and ran straight back. The rakish man behind her stopped her and sneered, “Why aren’t you breaking it off now?” Xiao Ying called out boldly, “Because I like you!” Yuan Bo, whose skin was usually thicker than a city wall, blushed for the first time in his life. In her previous life, Xiao Ying trusted a bunch of snobs who fawned on the powerful and trampled the weak. After being reborn, she face-slapped them one by one. “Honey, ther
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Reborn in 1990, I Traded My Ex-Husband for Eight Houses 重生九零,我用前夫换了八套房
[Strong leads x no pocket dimension x no System x loving family x building wealth x career first, romance later] Bai Zhenzhu is reborn on the very day she divorces her scumbag husband. The mistress pulls out a stack of cash and asks her: “How much do you want to agree to the divorce?” Bai Zhenzhu replies, “One hundred thousand. Not a cent less.” One hundred thousand to get rid of the scumbag, twenty thousand in divorce compensation, and twenty-four thousand in child support. Bai Zhenzhu takes t
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Military Marriage: The Stern-Faced Officer Is Won Over by a Stunning Painter 军婚:面凶军官被绝美画家拿捏了
[Stunning artist x tough, prison-style military officer] [Pocket dimension, limited appearances + sweet romance + satisfying wish fulfillment + no awful characters] Shi Tingyu is a young painter with a modest reputation. One day, she transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes the daughter of a weapons researcher. Before she can enjoy her new life, her parents face the prospect of being reported and sent down to the countryside. Unwilling to let her suffer, her parents quickly arrange a blind date fo
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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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Transmigrating to the 1980s, Becoming a Stepmother, and Getting Rich While Joining the Army: The Vile Ones, Get Lost 穿八零,当后妈,致富随军极品滚
[Super-sweet romance + military marriage + having and raising children + getting rich + spirit spring space + everyday life] Lin Shuyan transmigrates into a book, becoming the cannon-fodder supporting female character in a period novel! Her military officer husband is the heroine's biggest golden finger: Rich and powerful, handsome and wealthy. Too bad she's not the heroine. * When he hears that Lin Shuyan is beating the children, her military officer husband comes home with divorce papers. Befo
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穿进年代文全家下乡躺平嫁糙汉
Xu Duoduo, who lived through the apocalypse, gets a second chance at life and finds herself in a novel set in a bygone era, as Xu Duoduo, a girl doted on by both her father and mother. Since she’s here, she might as well help her whole family live well. First, she’ll figure out how to get them all sent to the countryside, away from her awful grandparents and their exploitation. Once this difficult period, recorded in the history books, is over, she’ll take the college entrance exams, lead her fa
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After Being Abandoned and Brought Back to the Capital, She Freezes to Death 遗弃接回京城后,她却被活活冻死
Originally titled: Reborn in the Cultivation World and Back in the 1970s: Kicking My Scumbag Father to the Countryside and Becoming the Family Darling [Beloved by all + military marriage + sweet romance + pocket dimension + alternate-era setting + a touch of fantasy] In her previous life, Jiang Yang was forced to take the place of a fake heiress and go to the countryside as an educated youth. After freezing to death, she transmigrated to the cultivation world. Who would have thought that flipp
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Four Years of Marriage Without Seeing Her, Then the Soldier King Sees Red When She Asks for a Divorce 结婚四年不见,提离婚兵王急红眼
[1970s + raising kids + period setting + farming + pocket dimension + marriage first, love later + military marriage] Jiang Xinyue transmigrated, but she wasn’t the heroine. She was the fat, ugly, and notorious cannon-fodder ex-wife in a period novel about a stepmother raising children, whose husband was the male lead. What? The heroine was reborn and deliberately stole her man and her kids? Jiang Xinyue rolled up her sleeves and refused to take it lying down. A cannon-fodder who doesn’t want to
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A 1980s Military Marriage: After I Transmigrate into a Book, I Become the Courtyard’s Dream Girl 八零军婚,穿书后成了大院白月光
A genius girl from a family of doctors transmigrates into a period novel by accident, becoming the vicious female supporting character. Ye Xiaoxiao is the Hao family's fake heiress. Raised in a military compound in the capital, she is the apple of every young man's eye. But when she turns seventeen, the real heiress returns, and the wheels of fate begin to turn. The apple of everyone's eye becomes yesterday's leftovers. Her admirers switch their allegiance, and compared with the inspiring heroin
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Transmigrate to the 1960s and Lie Flat 穿越六零之躺平吧
[Transmigration + Golden Finger (with a hidden Golden Finger) + Villain = Cozy Vibes] While Qin Qin is asleep, she’s abducted by an “interdimensional trafficker” and taken to another world to stand in for a young girl named Qin Xinrui. The girl is beautiful but unlucky. She has been reborn three times, and every life ends in tragedy. When the world resets again, Qin Qin sees the girl’s pitiful tears and takes pity on her, agreeing to assume her identity. She thinks all she has to do to break the
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A 1970s Military Marriage: My Sons and I All Transmigrated into a Book 七零军婚,我和儿子们都是穿书的
[Twins + Space + System + Book Pavilion + Military Marriage + Everyday Parenting] The male lead is basically just a background character, though he gets a little more screen time later on. Qiu Yinuo transmigrates into a book, becoming the vicious supporting female character in a period novel, as well as the future commander’s plump wife, who dies young. As the wife of a powerful man, she has everything she could want, yet she makes trouble at every turn and ends up bringing about her own death
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In the 1970s, She Had Fortune on Her Side, So Why Be a Cannon-Fodder Villainess? 七零,她自带福运还当什么女炮灰
[Transmigrate into a Book + No System + No Pocket Dimension + No Golden Finger + Female Lead Is Naturally Blessed With Good Fortune] Xu Youyou transmigrated into a book as a cannon-fodder supporting female character with the same name. In the book, the original Xu Youyou paved the way for a scumbag, helping him rise from a farmer scraping by in the fields to the director of a steel mill. Just as he was about to reap the rewards, the scheming female lead appeared, snatched them away, and framed t
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Reborn in the 1980s: A Wife’s Path to Prosperity 重生八零:佳妻致富忙
In her previous life, she fled the Cheng family not long after their wedding, only to meet a tragic and miserable end. Blessed by heaven, she is reborn on her wedding night. The stern, handsome man sitting at her bedside is still the same. From then on, Xue Ling's biggest goal is to win over her husband, who is cold on the outside but warmhearted within, build a good life with him, and have him father a whole troop of little monkeys with her!!
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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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Reborn in the 1980s, I Became the Roughneck's Darling Wife 重生八零,赖上糙汉的小娇妻
1. Reborn in the X era x rugged man x sweet romance x one-on-one, both virgins Wen Li is reborn. Looking at the rugged man before her, his face twisted with anger, she suddenly throws her arms around him and sobs. “Shu Huai, you’re still alive! Thank goodness you’re still alive!” Wen Li’s tears seem to leave the rugged Shu Huai completely baffled. “What are you trying to do now? Just say it! This time, do you want the money from the tiger pelt I sold, or the thousand-year-old ginseng I dug up to
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Reborn into a Sweet Military Marriage: The Fire Chief Wraps an Arm Around My Waist 重生军婚甜蜜蜜,消防队长揽腰宠
[Period Setting + Military Marriage + Rebirth + Mutual Devotion + Sweet Romance] Entrepreneur Tang Xiaoxiao lived to the age of eighty. After she died, she was told that the firefighter who rescued her during an earthquake had spent the rest of his life disabled by a leg injury he suffered while saving her. Was she going to help her lifesaver heal his leg, or be reincarnated? What a question. Of course she'd help him heal! After being reborn, Tang Xiaoxiao goes to the countryside in her lifesave
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Reborn in the 1980s: The Beloved Supporting Actress’s Everyday Life 年代重生:女配娇宠日常
Rong Wan was reborn, returning to 1976. Back then, she hadn’t divorced Qin Xiangdong or made the decision she would regret for the rest of her life. This domineering, forceful man was the one who truly loved and cared for her. More importantly, he would become a big shot in the future, so she had better hold on tight to his coattails.
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Reborn in the 1970s: I Won’t Let Go of My Rough-Hewn Man 重生七零:抱着糙汉不放手
[Period setting + reborn + pocket dimension + adorable pets + sweet romance] In her previous life, she was blind to the truth and foolishly turned away the man who cherished her. In the end, her family was destroyed, and someone pushed her off a cliff. Reborn as Jiang Jinxiu before her divorce, she was determined never to let go this time. She'd been foolish to leave a man who loved her so much. In this life, she would keep her distance from the scumbag and his mistress and get her revenge. She
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Reborn in a Bygone Era: My Story with My Ex-Husband 重生年代,我与前夫的那些事
[Period setting + face-slapping + golden finger + devoted couple + ex-husband regrets losing her] [Rugged military officer vs. delicate, gentle ex-wife] Su Xinmi was reborn, returning to the time when the Su family fell into crisis. In her previous life, when Su Xinmi married Jiang Qiandu, he was the most promising young man in the residential compound. But they hadn't even spent a single day as husband and wife when, on their wedding night, he received a message and apologized, leaving her to w
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Reborn on the Day I Eloped: My Officer Husband Caught Me Red-Handed 重生私奔那天:被军官老公逮正着
[1980s + Reborn Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Spoiling + Putting Jerks in Their Place and Building a Fortune] Lin Xiaoxue is reborn. In her previous life, her disastrous family made her starved for love, and a man easily tricked her into eloping with a few small favors. Given a second chance, she swiftly dumps the jerk, takes on her awful relatives, and uses what she learned in her previous life to build a fortune. She grows her business step by step, from a street stall to a small worksho
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A Rich Beauty Goes to the Countryside and Uses Pork Belly to Woo a Poor Village Boy 白富美下乡用五花肉撩村里穷小子
A father who is a murderer, a mother who abandoned her husband and child, a younger sister still in school, and a broken young man. The village's most despised troublemaker, a young hoodlum with a terrible reputation, suddenly has a delicate, soft-spoken young educated woman living under his roof. The girl is petite, fair-skinned, and beautiful. The villagers can't help worrying and gossiping: “Look, that's Lu Tingchuan's home. His father is a murderer, and he's a vile hooligan himself. That poo
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I Transmigrated into a Book Set in the 1970s and Became a Cannon Fodder Side Character from the Start 穿书七零,开局成了炮灰女配
[Storage space, mind reading, military marriage, sweet romance, transmigrate into a book, delicate beauty, mischievous little troublemaker] Feng Jiaojiao dies suddenly after working overtime all night, only to transmigrate into a book and become a supporting character who shares her name in a novel she once read. She remembers that the male lead is An Jianjun and the female lead is Qin Siyu. Feng Jiaojiao, the supporting character, is merely a stepping stone in the heroine’s love life, the male
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Transmigrated into a Book Set in the 1970s: The Alluring Young Intellectual Is Pursued by a Roughneck 穿书七零:尤物知青被糙汉缠上了
[One-on-one romance + period setting + rugged man + sweet romance + transmigrate into a book + 1970s + pocket dimension + love at first sight + raising kids] After transmigrating into the body of a cannon-fodder female character in a period novel with the same name, Tang Wan only wanted to live her own life and, while she was at it, befriend the hidden big shot from the original story. But she never expected this hidden big shot to be the village tyrant. Can someone tell her what to do when the
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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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I Transmigrated into a Book Set in the 1970s, Married the Wildest Tough Guy, and Came Out on Top 穿书七零闪婚最野糙汉后我赢麻了
[One-on-One Romance + Period Setting + Rugged Hero + Sweet Romance + Transmigrate into a Book + 1970s + Male Lead Is Love-Struck + Raising Kids] When she opened her eyes, a man who seemed made for her was right in front of her. Ruan Niannian thought her mother had arranged everything, and hurriedly promised she would take responsibility... Once she came to her senses, she realized she had transmigrated into a novel set in the 1970s that she had read. She had become the love-struck supporting fem
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