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Any Historical Era Novels Without a Female Lead Transmigrating Into a Book or Being Reborn? I'd Like a More Selfish Heroine 年代文有没有不穿书的和不重生的 女主自私一点的

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  1. 1 After Three Years Apart, She Asks for a Divorce, and the Chaste Commander Loses His Cool 分居三年提离婚,禁欲首长红了眼 Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Period setting + military marriage + sweet romance + raising children + no golden finger + native-born characters + life in a military compound + everyday family drama] This is not an effortless wish-fulfillment story. It’s a warm tale of personal growth, so read with care if that’s not your thing. Cen Jing Yi gives birth to her daughter prematurely and is thrown out by her in-laws. She struggles alone to raise her daughter until she’s two. Then her husband, who returned to his unit the day aft 14.6kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves
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  2. 2 The Era's Big Shot Swept Me Away, and Now I Lie Flat 被年代大佬叼走的我躺平啦 Modern Romance341k WordsCompleted Li Na, a housewife worn out from taking care of everyone, worked herself to death. She thought she could finally sleep forever. But when she closed her eyes and opened them again, she had arrived in 1966, reborn as a pitiful girl who had been drugged and killed by her widowed older sister. Li Na had once sworn never to marry again. But after learning about the unusual circumstances of the era, she understood what awaited a woman who had been violated and lost her chastity. So she decisively agre 690Reads6.8Score—Shelves
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  3. 3 Quick Transmigration: The Gold Digger Is Spoiled by a Powerful Man from the Era 快穿:拜金女被年代大佬宠上天 Modern Romance5.6M WordsOngoing Follow the happy lives of the gold-digging, shameless woman Li Na across stories set in different eras. (Li Na has a different personality in each era story and no memories of her other lives in other era stories. The protagonist is only named Li Na; they are not the same person. Some have a golden finger and some don't, and when they do, it's very minor. The heroine is just an utterly ordinary woman.) Content warning: The heroine is deeply flawed and extremely selfish. She only ever thinks of h 9kReads8.2Score389Shelves
  4. 4 Everyday Life on the Margins of a 1970s Novel 七零小说边缘人的日常生活 Modern Romance502k WordsCompleted [Fictional period setting + transmigrate into a book + no golden finger + works in the city, doesn’t go to the countryside] Though Lin Yingxian works hard to get by, she knows how to be content. After learning that she’s become a minor character in a novel, she continues to live her life in this 1970s setting as usual, barely fazed. But when news comes that housing is being allocated, her life begins to change… Reader’s guide: The story focuses mostly on everyday family life. Neither the male no 33.2kReads9.0Score2.5kShelves
  5. 5 Marrying Into the Military Compound: Each Marriage Better Than the Last 嫁大院子弟:一婚更比一婚高 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period setting] [Family life] [Second marriage] In 1990, Jin Lihong was twenty-five. Her parents were rural residents without jobs. She had married quietly a year earlier, but divorced a year later, stirring up all kinds of gossip. Her ex-husband said, “She’s just a half-trained quack who graduated from a medical school for nurses. Do you really think she can treat patients and save lives? Apart from being pretty, she’s useless.” Her colleagues said, “She wanted to keep her pride, so she went 12.8kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
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  6. 6 With the Script in Hand, I Strike It Rich in a Period Novel 极品手握剧本后,在年代文里捡漏 Modern Romance626k WordsCompleted Shen Zhixia finds a script inexplicably appearing in her mind as soon as she is born. In the script, she is the foil to the heroine of a period novel. The heroine Li Zhidong’s parents are hardworking, kind, honest, and down-to-earth. Everyone for miles around knows them as good, honest people. Shen Zhixia’s parents are mean, lazy, greedy, and shameless. Everyone for miles around knows them as the worst kind of people. Li Zhidong will make many influential connections and have countless admirers. 19.3kReads8.3Score1.5kShelves
  7. 7 I Refuse to Go to the Countryside in the 1960s, and the System Scores Me a Job 六零不下乡,系统暴击出工作 Modern Romance814k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + System + Villain + Shameless + Few Annoying Characters + No Sent-Down Youth Plot + Satisfying Read + Never Overthinks] (How do you keep awful people out of your life? By becoming the worst one yourself, of course.) Transmigrating into a book isn’t scary. What’s scary is ending up as the vicious cannon-fodder character destined for a tragic fate. Look at He Ruixue’s family: her eldest brother is reckless, and her sister-in-law is fierce. Her second sister and brother-in-law are 24.2kReads7.9Score1.9kShelves
  8. 8 The Villainous Beauty of the 1960s Was Stolen Away 六零恶毒美媚娇被强取豪夺了 Modern Romance360k WordsCompleted (A gorgeous, self-centered female lead + a male lead who’s clever as can be but hopelessly lovesick) Qin Sang has an unbelievably beautiful face, but she’s selfish to the core. She’s had an easy ride since birth. Once she grew up, her looks brought her even more perks, and even Factory Director Pei, who’d just transferred from the capital, fell at her feet. Then one day, Sang Sang saw a line of text above Bai Tingting, the Bai family’s “fake heiress.” It said something about transmigrating in 8.2kReads8.1Score499Shelves
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  9. 9 My Polite, Disabled Husband Is Actually a Sick, Obsessive Tyrant 斯文残夫其实是个病娇偏执狂 Modern Romance311k WordsCompleted An eye for an eye. The wicked always meet their match. If only I'd known he was this kind of psycho, I never would have provoked him in the first place. -- A scheming woman who loves the easy life, and a refined yet depraved disabled man The 1970s, possessive love, and a devoted romance with both leads' hearts set on each other 15.6kReads7.2Score545Shelves
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  10. 10 The 1980s: The True Heiress Strikes Back 八零:真千金逆袭记 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 46.9kReads9.2Score3.9kShelves
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  11. 11 The 1970s: My Blind Date Is a Little Fierce 七零之相亲对象有点凶 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Xu Jiao had been pretty since she was little. She was renowned as the beauty of Qingshan Village and the surrounding countryside, and everyone was eager to play matchmaker for her. But Xu Jiao rejected every suitor, finding one ugly and another pathetic. Her mother was at her wits’ end. On the third day of her visit to her older sister, someone introduced her to a potential match. He was handsome, capable, and from a good family. She had seen his photo, and he looked pretty good. He was so perfe 20.4kReads8.8Score2kShelves
  12. 12 The Pampered Wife Awakens and Goes Berserk in a Period Novel 年代文包子原配觉醒后发疯了 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Reborn + face-slapping + going berserk + getting rich Only after Meng Jiao awakened did she realize she was the meek, ill-fated first wife in a period novel. In the book, her mother-in-law abused her, her sister-in-law bullied her, and her brother-in-law slandered her. Yet she kept working without complaint, giving everything to the family. She exhausted herself holding up the Song family, but never earned their respect. In the end, after her brother-in-law accused her of having an affair with a 3.2kReads8.4Score202Shelves
  13. 13 After Awakening Her Memories, the Little Cannon Fodder Gossips, Gets Rich, and Takes Down Scumbags 觉醒记忆后,小炮灰吃瓜发财虐渣 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [System space + born into another body + memories awakened + transmigrate into a book + taking on the stepmother and stepsister + the heroine will never be abused] Chen Qingyi had spent more than a decade living with the Dazhulong Brigade. One day, she fell into the water and awakened memories of her past life, only to learn that she was a minor cannon-fodder character in a book. Her biological father was a heartless cad. In two months, he would divorce her mother by letter and marry his one tru 44.7kReads9.4Score4.3kShelves
  14. 14 The 1970s: My Whole Family Is Cannon Fodder, While I’m a Native Trouble-Maker 七零:全家都是炮灰,我土著极品 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Also known as: I'm a Cannon Fodder in the Seventies (No romance!) When eight-year-old Mo Erya was playing with mud marbles, her five-year-old brother Mo Wuwa, nicknamed Shitou, by her side, both of them covered in dust, Qiao Qiao next door transmigrated after falling into the water. So eight-year-old Mo Erya learned that she would grow up to be cannon fodder in a lucky heroine story, fighting the female lead over a man, making trouble at every turn, and meeting a tragic end! Mo Erya boldly wiped 7.3kReads9.0Score604Shelves
  15. 15 The Sweet Young Lady of the 1970s 七十年代小娇娇 Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The moment the young educated youth Wen Wan arrives in Lu Jiazui, she becomes famous: famous for her beauty, famous for taking her time, and famous for her sharp tongue and soft, sweet manner. When the educated youths first arrive, Lu Dongping sees Wen Wan and thinks, How is this little thing supposed to work in the fields and earn work points? Whichever team gets her will be unlucky. Take her home and she'll be treated like an ancestor. Later, Wen Wan becomes his very own little ancestor. 1.6kReads8.9Score231Shelves
  16. 16 The 1970s: I Became the Female Supporting Character's Foil in a Period Novel 七零:穿成年代文女配对照组 Modern Romance601k WordsCompleted A period drama about an independent female lead, with no golden finger! She passed the high school entrance exams, but her family wouldn’t let her attend. Instead, they sent her uncle’s daughter, who had never gotten along with her, to school. Short-tempered Lin Erxia erupted into a fight. After a furious scuffle, she passed out from anger. When she woke up, she realized she seemed to have transmigrated into a book... 16.7kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
  17. 17 What's So Bad About a Quiet Life in the 1960s? 六零之平淡点有什么不好? Modern Romance464k WordsCompleted [Everyday life + period setting + System + no rivalry between women + no sent-down youth] The Shen family is one of the few households in the steel mill’s residential compound with no sent-down youths. The family gets along harmoniously, but in this extraordinary era, they face one upheaval after another. Let’s see what choices they make... 2.2kReads6.7Score105Shelves
  18. 18 A 1970s Local Girl's Daily Battles with Every Kind of Heroine 七零土著智斗各类女主日常 Modern Romance252k WordsCompleted Xie Baoyi, nicknamed Baoya, was the most unruly girl in the village. From the age of five, she was always climbing and jumping around, as wild as a boy. The Xie family couldn't do a thing with her. Her mother often chased her from one end of the village to the other with a broom, never realizing she was bringing out Baoya's athletic talent. Whenever her mother came after her, all she could see were blurred footsteps and clouds of dust. With no other choice, the Xie family found the quietest chil 117Reads5.2Score—Shelves
  19. 19 I Love You, and I Do It Willingly 爱你,我是自愿的 Modern Romance9k WordsCompleted Loving You Was My Choice —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  20. 20 Your Cheating Has Nothing to Do with Me 你的出轨和我无关 6k WordsCompleted Your cheating has nothing to do with me —Reads—Score—Shelves
  21. 21 A Zombie Transmigrates and Gets Tricked by a Villain into Becoming a Stepmother 丧尸穿越后,被反派诓去当后娘 Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted What should I do after transmigrating? Chu Chi held her head in her hands and thought for ages. A zombie's brain has only just grown in, so she has to make good use of it. When in doubt, sleep on it first. After Lin You'an woke up, the first thing she did was grab her little sister and escape the wolf's den. Along the way, she also found herself a stepmother. “So, you’re saying you’re my son?” “Mm-hmm.” “How old am I?” “Eighteen?” “How old are you?” “Eight.” “I’ve read plenty of books, so don’t 27.5kReads9.4Score3.1kShelves
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  22. 22 She Takes Life by Storm 风风火火的她 Modern Romance3.3M WordsCompleted [The 1990s + lighthearted comedy + starting a factory + getting revenge on scumbags + everyday life] After three years of engagement, Jiang Tang had taken care of Gu Zhun's parents and younger siblings, honoring his parents and working herself to the bone for him. In return, he came home after completing his studies and acted as if he didn't know her. Jiang Tang turned around and impulsively married a nouveau riche. Overnight, she became a mother of three. First she landed big orders, then built 87.8kReads9.3Score13.3kShelves
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  23. 23 The 1980s: A Cherished Darling Rushing Toward Wealth 八零捷报团宠娇娇向钱冲 Modern Romance2.4M WordsOngoing [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 38.2kReads9.4Score2.3kShelves
  24. 24 Kicked Out of Her Family: The Middle School Dropout Strikes It Rich 滚出家后:初中学历的她,发财了 Modern Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Period setting, farming] + [Family and neighborhood drama] + [The 1990s] + [Everyday modern life, no golden finger] + [Female entrepreneur] She was the second daughter, overlooked by her family, with an ordinary appearance, an ordinary background, and only a junior high school education. He was born into an eminent family and had power and prestige to spare. She was the least promising daughter in the Li family, and her parents were certain she would never amount to anything. With only a junior 84.5kReads9.0Score8.6kShelves
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  25. 25 A Country Girl Marries a City Man Just to Get Ration Coupons 农村女嫁城里人,只为吃商品粮 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (The heroine does not transmigrate, though she has some memories from a previous life. There are no truly awful characters in this story; everyone has their own strengths and flaws. The focus is on an unhurried life.) Jiang Xinbai was born in the countryside and dreamed of marrying into the city one day so she could have access to rationed food. So when she first met Yang Jinsheng, she knew her chance had come. She made her move without hesitation, flirted with him, and married him. At first sig 38.6kReads7.9Score3.2kShelves
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  26. 26 The Poisonous Beauty Hides Her Secret Identity in the Seventies 毒女娇娇在七零捂马甲 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + 1970s + powerful leads + mastery of medicine and poison + sweet military romance + food + feel-good cultivation fantasy + playing dumb while hiding her strength] She is Dr. Chen, known throughout the county as the “Needle Saint.” She grows spiritual vegetables, brews jade liquor, and has such miraculous acupuncture skills that she can communicate with ghosts and reverse death! Once a heaven-blessed beauty with unmatched medical and poison skills, she transmigrates into Chen Q 724Reads7.4Score106Shelves
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  27. 27 Over-the-Top Sweet Romance: The Ice-Cold CEO Becomes a Devoted Wife-Doting Husband 顶级甜溺,冰山总裁化身宠妻狂魔 Modern Romance332k WordsCompleted "Marriage first, love later + love at first sight + devoted couple and sweet romance + revenge + putting scumbags in their place + satisfying read" Ou Yinmo is the heiress of the Ou family. After her parents die suddenly, her aunt seizes the family fortune and drops her formerly gentle facade. For the sake of a business deal, she drugs Ou Yinmo and plans to hand her over to a decrepit old man! Ou Yinmo refuses to submit, escaping from the Ou family. She goes to the cemetery to visit her parents, 3kReads9.0Score282Shelves
  28. 28 She Mistook Her Blind Date for Someone Else, and the Su Family’s Chubby Heiress Is Spoiled Rotten 相亲认错人,苏家胖千金被宠上天 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Short drama now available] [Love after marriage + mutual devotion + sweet everyday romance + both leads are devoted to each other] Su Yueli was born with a fortune worth tens of billions. She’d never known a day of worry and lived a carefree life, never even holding a man’s hand by the age of twenty-five. Pei Si was worth more than anyone could estimate. A dream bachelor in the eyes of women, he’d spent his twenty-eight years focused on nothing but studying and work. On the day of her blind dat 7.9kReads8.5Score602Shelves
  29. 29 They're in Love, and Everyone's Playing Matchmaker 两人恋爱,全员助攻 Modern Romance200k WordsCompleted [Both leads are devoted only to each other + sweet romance + strong male and female leads + happy ending] A short, fluffy romance with no angst. Dive in without worry. After returning from studying abroad, Wen Jiu moved into her new apartment. On her first day there, she met a little boy of about four or five at the door. His cheeks were rosy as he looked at her with big, blinking eyes and asked, “Hi, big sis! You're so pretty. I like you so much! Would you be my aunt? My uncle is really handso 874Reads8.8Score109Shelves
  30. 30 The Little Boss Is a Menace to Cats and Dogs, and Hides from Mom and Dad That She's a Millionaire 小老板猫嫌狗厌,瞒爸妈当万元户 Modern Romance4.3M WordsOngoing [1980s setting + lighthearted comedy + everyday life + building wealth] Little Rice Cake is a sieve spirit with off-the-charts brains and emotional intelligence, and she never waits until tomorrow to get revenge. After being forced to split from her family, Little Rice Cake single-handedly lifts her family and friends, infiltrates the enemy's ranks, and takes down every gossiping shrew in the village. The good life begins with living in a pigsty and raising piglets. She starts making money by do 27.4kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
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  31. 31 The 1970s: The Commander’s Daughter Is Betrothed to Me 七零:首长家千金跟我是娃娃亲 Modern Romance309k WordsCompleted Period setting + transmigration + grounded, everyday life Shi Yue never imagined that she would find love and family in another timeline, and enjoy a happy, fulfilling life. After testing positive for COVID, Shi Yue transmigrates to the parallel timeline of the 1970s, bringing along a hereditary pocket dimension. She plans to make a little money by taking advantage of the college entrance exams and the wave of reform, then settle down to a peaceful life. But it turns out she is the long-lost dau 590Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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  32. 32 A 1970s Wedding, Then Love 穿到七零,先婚后爱真香了 Modern Romance630k WordsCompleted A period-life experience package somehow sent An Hao to the legendary 1970s, where she became a pitiful girl relying on a favor to seek shelter with her future in-laws. To save herself, An Hao signed an agreement with a man: they would divorce in two years, and then she could spread her wings and fly. Lin Feng was the military district’s most popular young officer. After one trip home, he became a married man. Supposedly, it was an arranged childhood betrothal. But was the little potato in front 44Reads—Score—Shelves
  33. 33 Transmigrated to the 1970s as the Female Supporting Character 穿到七零当女配 Modern Romance549k WordsCompleted [Alternate-history period setting + no golden finger + family and neighborhood life + stays in the city to work instead of going to the countryside] After a bout of high fever, Jiang Ning awakened memories of her previous life. She thought she had simply been reborn in this world, but it turned out she had also transmigrated into a book. She wasn’t even the heroine, just the foil to the heroine in the story. She never got a moment in the spotlight and was constantly dragged out to be compared un 5.8kReads6.7Score331Shelves
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  34. 34 Reborn in the 1990s: I Accidentally Became a Beloved Rich Beauty 重生九零:不小心混成团宠白富美 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted He Xie, a single woman past her prime, wakes from a midnight dream to find she's been reborn as a swaddled infant! Given the chance to start over, how could little He Xie let it slip by? With the experience of her past life and help from the System, she'll turn her charlatan father into a university professor and train her embittered mother to become a business tycoon! Starting a company, attending a prestigious school, becoming a literary giant: this genius girl is utterly unstoppable! When m 372Reads8.9Score—Shelves
  35. 35 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 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [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 111.2kReads9.4Score18.4kShelves
  36. 36 The 1970s: This Book Is a Little Improper 年代,这本书有点不正经 Modern Romance701k WordsOngoing [Alternate-history fantasy era + transmigrate into a book + going crazy + hilarious + space + System + stockpiling goods + face-slapping + multiple male leads] Content warning: This is an alternate-history fantasy setting. Prices are high. The story is mainly lighthearted, humorous, and full of memes. Everyone in it is mentally unwell. It doesn’t follow normal logic and isn’t a traditional period novel. If that’s not your thing, please move along. How can you transmigrate into a period novel and 728Reads8.6Score—Shelves
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  37. 37 The Gossip in the Educated Youth Compound Never Ends 知青院里的瓜,吃不完根本吃不完 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The System was supposed to bind itself to the villainess, but through a twist of fate, it bound itself to her instead. She already has plenty of golden fingers. Could it please leave her alone? Going to the countryside for sent-down youth service can be a lot of fun. Who says you have to suffer? She knows full well that she's just a minor bystander who likes to watch the drama. She'll watch the heroine and villainess stir up trouble, but only from a safe distance. Here's to everyone living happi 10.8kReads8.1Score957Shelves
  38. 38 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 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (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 48.4kReads9.4Score4.8kShelves
  39. 39 Keeping My Head Down in a Period Novel 苟在年代文 Modern Romance211k WordsCompleted Sent Down to the Countryside, Space, Supplies, Laid-Back Living When the future richest woman, Xu Nian'an, was eighteen, she acquired a space. Who could have guessed that her own mother would stab her to death while she was gnawing on a pig's trotter? In one moment, she transmigrated into her stepsister, who had been sent to the countryside as an educated youth by that very same mother. 21Reads—Score—Shelves
  40. 40 In the 1960s, the Young Educated Youth Takes Back Her Body and Goes on a Rampage 六零,小知青夺回身体后缺大德了 Modern Romance809k WordsCompleted [Strong male and female leads + space + scheming + never takes abuse + both leads are wonderfully outrageous] When Jiang Sheng is eighteen, trouble strikes her family and she is forced to move to the countryside. Her family has prepared everything for her, so she isn’t worried. But despite all their precautions, she never expects an accident to rob her of control over her body and send her to a strange place. They call it the twenty-first century? She goes from confusion and panic to adapting, t 25.8kReads8.9Score2.4kShelves
  41. 41 Being a Female Side Character in the 1970s Is No Picnic: I Talk Back, Argue, and Get Street-Smart 年代女配不好作,怼人扯皮长心眼 Modern Romance503k WordsCompleted [Military marriage + 1970s and 1980s + Marriage before love + Unhinged comebacks] Li Muyun was born with an inability to feel, which left her slow to react and clumsy with her limbs. Her birth mother died in childbirth, and the very next day her father gave her away like an unwanted burden. After her adoptive parents disappeared, she went to her birth father’s home to “collect her debt.” On the first day, she offered to wash the dishes, then broke every plate and bowl in the house. On the second 198Reads6.6Score—Shelves
  42. 42 Back to the 1980s: The Villainess Just Wants to Be a Good Person 重回八零:反派她只想做个好人 Modern Romance528k WordsCompleted In 1989, just after taking the college entrance exam, Jiang Dai is told she was switched at birth and is forced to return to her biological family. After years of abuse at the hands of her fake mother, she discovers that the mix-up was nothing but a lie concocted by her biological father and stepmother to give their illegitimate daughter a respectable identity. The illegitimate daughter reluctantly takes Jiang Dai’s place, goes to college, and secures a bright future. Jiang Dai, meanwhile, goes 1.4kReads8.7Score166Shelves
  43. 43 To Avoid Disaster, the Village Belle Marries the Village Bully and Asks Him for a Baby 八零村花为避祸嫁村霸,邀他生崽 Modern Romance252k WordsCompleted [Delicate village beauty + rugged man + adored by all + cozy romance + having a baby + childhood sweethearts] Su Yunqi was famous throughout the surrounding villages for being a delicate beauty. Unfortunately, the Su family had little power and couldn't protect her. When a rich hooligan took a fancy to her, they had no choice but to hastily marry her off to a rugged man from the neighboring village, an even bigger village bully and hooligan. He was five years older than her, and they'd grown u 17.2kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
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  44. 44 The Day I Was Sent to a Farm: I Went to the Countryside as an Educated Youth 下放农场当天:我下乡当知青去了 Modern Romance481k WordsCompleted Ming Yueshu has only been in the city for a few days, enjoying the good life after her father brings her there, when her younger half-brother pushes her down the stairs and she hits her head. While she's unconscious, a so-called transmigrated woman arrives to fight her for control of her body. After a struggle, Ming Yueshu destroys her. As a result, she gains the woman's memories and a thirty-square-meter pocket space. She learns that her world is a book, and that her scumbag father brought her 3.3kReads8.1Score237Shelves
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  45. 45 The 90s: What Do I Do? I Reincarnated as the Brother of a Sister-Basher 九零,怎么办,穿成扶弟魔的弟弟 Modern Romance608k WordsCompleted Ji Li, a woman with modern-day values, transmigrated into the body of a bizarre, mother’s-boy son in 1999. Not only was he a mama’s boy, he was a scumbag, and he had two older sisters who were still unmarried. At twenty-four, he was lazy and gluttonous, still living off his parents. And even after draining them, he had his sisters to leech off. From the start, his parents were deeply biased in favor of sons. To scrape together 180,000 yuan for the only boy in the family’s bride price, they plann 6.2kReads8.7Score521Shelves
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  46. 46 Fiery Military Romance in the 1980s: The Fake Heiress Becomes a Stepmom and Raises the Kids 八零热辣军婚,假千金当后妈养崽 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period setting + stepmother + raising children + adorable kids + everyday family life + fake and real heiresses + spatial powers + contrasting characters] Fang Xiaoluo transmigrates into the 1980s as a fake heiress and becomes the apple of her military officer husband's eye. With a space containing a spiritual spring, Fang Xiaoluo can raise children, make money, and farm with ease. Her life is so happy it feels like she has a cheat code. Xu Yaqiu is reborn. In her previous life, she married a m 7.7kReads9.2Score871Shelves
  47. 47 Marrying into a Crowded Courtyard, Where Gossip Is Everywhere 嫁进大杂院,吃瓜好方便 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [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 7.4kReads8.8Score503Shelves
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  48. 48 Pigeon Alley 鹁鸽胡同 Modern Romance560k WordsCompleted ☆ [Main story complete] ☆ [No transmigration, no rebirth, not a feel-good power fantasy, no golden finger] ☆ [An ordinary person's ordinary story, with a focus on everyday life] In 1972, seventeen-year-old Zhong Wenshu took over her mother's job at the state-run supply and marketing cooperative, avoiding the mass campaign to send young people to the countryside. In 1973, eighteen-year-old Zhong Wenshu married a young police officer from the neighboring courtyard and started a home with just th 17.1kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
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  49. 49 Reborn, I Snapped My Love-Brained Sister Out of It, and Now She's Becoming a Queen 重生后,掐掉恋爱脑姐要当女王 Modern Romance810k WordsCompleted I was married off far from home, cheated on, and abused. Did I cry? No. I was reborn. I kicked my scumbag ex to the curb, rediscovered my ambition, and made myself shine with unapologetic brilliance. The domineering, unhinged young master said to me, “It's just for fun. Don't get attached.” I smiled. “No problem. You're just a tool for making money. Who gets attached to a tool?” The devoted Young Master Zhou said goodbye with regret: “I'm sorry. I had no choice. If fate brings us together in the 12.6kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
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  50. 50 Something’s Off About My Wife 我家妻子,不对劲 Urban500k WordsCompleted [Urban Life + Romance + Campus Belle + Raising Kids + System + Rise of an Ordinary Man + One Heroine] Han Yu was penniless, but he married the campus belle he’d had a crush on throughout his youth. Ten years into their marriage, past the age of thirty, he had spent six years as a stay-at-home husband. Then he suddenly awakened a gossip System and discovered that his best friend of thirty years had been coveting his wife all along. He had even confessed to her: “If you divorce him, I’ll give you 701Reads5.6Score106Shelves
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