Historical-Era Novel, No Romance, Told from the Male Lead’s Perspective 年代文，无感情戏，男主视角
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You’ve Earned First-Class Merit in Every Category, and You’re Telling Me You’re an Ordinary Soldier? 全身一等功，你说你是普通士兵？
[A super contrarian + master trap-setter + comedy + old fox + invincible] Transmigrating into 1979, Ye An unexpectedly finds himself on a battlefield engulfed in the flames of war. He hopes to distinguish himself and make a name for himself, but his unit is ambushed and suffers heavy casualties. In a crisis, Ye An is ordered to rebuild the unit. The new recruits sent to him are all exceptional, but they're also notorious troublemakers and rebels from their respective units. His superiors promise
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The Delicate Beauty Is Spoiled Rotten by a Powerful Man in the 1970s 凝脂美人在七零年代被大佬宠疯啦
Lin Ranqiu transmigrates to the 1960s and becomes a nine-year-old little girl. There are four children in the family: her ten-year-old elder sister and brother, twins, and eight-year-old Yaozong, who cries and throws tantrums. The original owner is stuck awkwardly in the middle, unloved and ignored. Fortunately, the transmigration deity from Tomato gives her a golden finger: dew gathers at her fingertips, restoring her beauty. And with her arsenal of green-tea lines, she shines just as brightly
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The Apocalypse Big Shot in the 1970s, with a Devoted Male Lead at Her Door 末世大佬在七零，贤夫男主送上门
[1v1 + period setting + sweet romance + 1970s + hero with a leg condition + System] Su Jiujiu was a powerhouse in the apocalypse, where all she knew was killing zombies. She transmigrated into a 1970s romance novel, and the original Su Jiujiu's lovesick nature activated a Lovesick System! She was good at beating people up and killing them. But being lovesick? Her? As if! Let somebody else fall in love instead! “520, you think you can make me lovesick? In your dreams! Either you die, or you make
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A Male Green Tea in the 1970s Wants to Lie Flat but Becomes the Family's Pillar 男绿茶穿七零想躺平却成了金大腿
No female lead, no romance, period piece. Wang Tianlai was a household name among the rich second-generation crowd. Not because he was a freeloader living off his parents. After all, they all were! No, it was because of his unforgettable nickname: The ultimate green-tea guy! Who says only women can be called green tea? When a man gets that way, women can't compete! Top-tier green-tea looks: tall, handsome, and graceful. Advanced green-tea skills: master of sweet-talking and playing innocent. His
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Taking Her Sister’s Place in the Great Northern Wilderness: A Scheming Man’s Rise 替妹插队北大荒，腹黑男的进步史
[Period] [Book Transmigration] [Reborn] [Sent-down youth] [Great Northern Wilderness] [Scheming male lead] [One heroine] [Pure romance] [Smart characters] [Decisive and ruthless] [Black market] [Political career] [Countryside] [Special historical era] In the spring of 1972, as Chu Miaohong rode a train to the Great Northern Wilderness to join a rural work team, she casually tossed an old envelope into the wind. Meanwhile, in 2024, Zhang Hongcheng happened to come into possession of an old, worn-
80.8kReads9.3Score7.7kShelves
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A Woman in a Man's Body: Living Off Women in a Period Novel 女穿男：我在年代文里吃软饭
[A woman transmigrates into a man’s body, with some fantasy elements] When Zhou Shan transmigrates to the 1960s, she opens her eyes to dizziness and weakness in all four limbs, experiencing firsthand what it means to be starving to death. She doesn’t feel the slightest thing about having become a man. Just as she’s so hungry she can barely keep her eyes open, she hears a father and daughter nearby, picking over their choices: “Is there anyone you like?” “Too ugly. Black and skinny, like a charre
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Reborn in 1970 as My Doomed Uncle 重生七零，穿成我那早夭的大舅
[Historical era + woman transmigrates into a man's body + farming + 1970s + strong female lead + no romance] Modern designer Zhao Ru hated the old-fashioned belief that boys were precious while girls were worthless. After more than twenty years of studying as hard as she could, she finally escaped her family. But on the very night she won the design award she had always dreamed of, an accident struck... When she woke, she was back in the hometown that haunted her nightmares, transformed into her
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The 1960s: One Yuan for a Thousandfold Return on Supplies 六零年代：一元秒杀万倍物资
[This novel has been adapted into the short drama Brave Adventures in the 1960s] Li Changge transmigrates to the 1960s and gets a One-Yuan Instant Purchase System. Ten thousand jin of pork belly for one yuan? Bought! A hundred jin of duck down for one yuan? Bought! Ten thousand briquettes for one yuan? Bought! Ten thousand barrels of Yibao mineral water for one yuan? Bought! While everyone else struggles to get by, Li Changge lives the good life, and young women and married ladies keep showi
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Transmigrating to the 1980s with the Female Lead: The Cannon-Fodder Bride Marries an Officer and Coasts to Victory 和女主齐穿八零，炮灰嫁军官躺赢
Military marriage in the 1970s + sweet romance + devoted couple + face-slapping satisfaction The moment Ning Ying opened her eyes, she had returned to the miserable past life in which she worked like a beast of burden for the Zhou family and was forced into a ghost marriage after her death. A tall, handsome man was lying beside her. Ning Ying: I never got a good look at the man I supposedly cheated with before people smeared me and branded me a hooligan. What a loss. It wouldn’t hurt to warm my
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Reborn in 1965: I'm the Only Son in the Family 重生六五，我为家中唯一男丁
Alternate history, alternate history, alternate history. Some things are important enough to say three times!!! (A woman transmigrates into a man’s body, and there’s a spatial ability! Completed.) After working hard for ten years, she finally managed to buy a home and a car in a third-tier city. Life was getting better and better... Then one day, she transmigrated into a parallel era where food and clothing were scarce, and she was the only boy in her family. Fortunately, her family didn’t favor
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1960: Transmigrating to Nanluoguxiang 年代1960：穿越南锣鼓巷，
New novel: Reborn in 1980: The Life I’ve Always Dreamed Of Also known as Li Laifu’s Happy Life in 1960s China. (No angst, comedy, farming, and everyday family life.) A short drama, comedy animations, and AI short dramas are now available.
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In 1979, I Helped the Whole Village Become Ten-Thousand-Yuan Households 我在七九帮全村成就万元户
Chen Sheng and seven good friends explore the Nanshan Cave and obtain the innate spiritual treasure, the Boundary-Breaking Pearl, which lets them travel back and forth to an era thirty years in the future. From then on, they begin a career smuggling goods between the two worlds. Back home, they open brickworks, a sand quarry, clothing factories, and furniture factories. They buy up centipedes and leeches, and become the first in the world to cultivate bamboo fungus commercially. Once every house
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The Deer-Hunting Chronicles: The Art of Qimen Dunjia 逐鹿记之奇门遁甲
The story centers on the Nine Palaces and Qimen Dunjia, drawing on the Book of Changes, the Six Ren and Taiyi methods of divination, and the customs and landscapes of the Qin and Han dynasties. It rationally depicts the fates of the characters associated with the nine palaces: Kan, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Zhong, Qian, Dui, Gen, and Li. It also weaves together the Nine Heavens, the Nine Earths, the Nine Kingdoms of the Northern Wilderness, the Nine Demons of the West, the Nine Tribes of the South, and th
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