#A Mischievous Village Tyrant Who Can Make Money, A Period Story (◔‿◔) #村霸痞痞的，能挣钱，年代文，(◔‿◔)

1. 1 七 The 1970s: After Coming to My Senses, I Discover a Baby on the Way 七零：清醒后，发现肚里有了娃 Lin Qiye林其野Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Period setting + Raising kids + Building wealth + Ensemble cast Lin Tang was once the apple of her parents' eyes. Then one day, she fell and became an idiot. When she woke up, she discovered that not only had she lost her status as a wealthy young lady from Shanghai, she was also pregnant with a country bumpkin's child! Looking at the rough cotton jacket she was wearing and the meager meal on the table, Lin Tang broke down. My Bragi dress, my watch, my little leather shoes, they're all gone! I w 8.3kReads8.3Score832Shelves

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   It's so beautiful! It's so beautiful!

2. 2 供 I Put My Childhood Bride Through College, and Now She Wants to Dump Me 供童养媳上大学，毕业就想甩夫君 Yuan Kai Yuan Xin元凯元心Modern Romance2.1M WordsOngoing [Completed] [Family-Loving, Patriotic Chaoshan, 1988] "I want to call off the engagement!" he said. "All right, then let's consummate the marriage." A rough-hewn country man from Chaozhou got himself a beautiful bride in one night, only for her to run away the next day! He chased her to a newspaper office in Guangzhou, the University of Munich in Germany, the Xi'an Mecha Research Institute, the Jiangmen Mecha Experimental Base, and the Dahao Subsea Tunnel Mecha Experimental Base! Human-machine n 2.1kReads8.1Score103Shelves
3. 3 糙 The Rugged Man’s Overwhelming Love: His Sweet Little Wife Falls for Him 糙汉强势爱，娇软小媳妇沦陷了 Su Jiabai苏加白Modern Romance1.4M WordsOngoing Originally titled “A Lonely Bed Is Hard to Bear, While the Rugged Neighbor Scratches at Her Wall Night After Night” [lonely nights / maximum sweetness / period setting / delicate beauty / devoted love / slow-burn romance / building wealth / glimpses of an ensemble cast / love at first sight / close proximity / sisters-in-law as foils] Delicate young wife × iron-willed, rugged man Hua Xiaoyue is left alone in an empty bed, the long nights hard to endure. Her family scolds her, her in-laws berate 9.3kReads8.5Score565Shelves

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   He loves his wife, can earn money, and is strategic.

4. 4 七 The 1970s: I Faked a Pregnancy to Trap a Husband, but Snared a Hidden Big Shot 七零：假孕骗婚，骗到隐形大佬 A Smiling View笑着的风景Modern Romance766k WordsOngoing 10Reads6.3Score—Shelves

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   A good historical fiction novel; the completed one has a great premise. You might want to check it out if you're looking for something to read.

5. 5 七 The 1970s: My Little Psycho of a Military Officer Husband Is Wrapped Around My Finger 七零：小小疯批军官老公，拿捏 A Smiling View笑着的风景Modern Romance255k WordsCompleted Military marriage + space + 1v1 + aloof military officer versus a free-spirited research genius [Although a few characters in this book have transmigrated, it’s necessary for the plot. They only show up and make a little trouble now and then.] Su Xiangnuan woke up one morning and found she had transmigrated. She had just slept with the husband she hadn’t seen in two years. Word was, he was ruthless, calculating, and completely unhinged. So what? A little crazy military officer husband? She could 111Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 6 媳 His Wife Takes the Kids to Join the Army, and the Commander Washes Diapers Every Day 媳妇带娃去随军，首长天天洗尿布 Late-Night Pastry晚酥酥Modern Romance537k WordsCompleted [Period setting + military marriage and joining her husband at his post + golden finger + raising kids + sweet romance] Shen Jingyue opens her eyes and realizes she’s transmigrated into the body of a meek little wife who’s pregnant. She refuses to be pushed around, so she decisively separates from the family and takes the baby in her belly to the military base to find her husband. But after several days on the train to the capital, she discovers he isn’t even there... When Qin Xiang’an returns f 12.7kReads8.0Score1.3kShelves
7. 7 糯 Nuomi Yun's 38th Book 糯米云第38本书 Glutinous Rice Cloud糯米云Modern Romance650k WordsCompleted [Extreme height difference + gruff hero's devoted love] A 192-centimeter, testosterone-fueled veteran versus a delicate, 160-centimeter Jiangnan embroidery beauty. In her darkest hour, Ruan Nuo met a man radiating a murderous aura. His name was Jiang Ye, a live-action King of Hell who would rather throw a punch than argue. The whole village was afraid of him, but he sheathed every claw for Ruan Nuo alone. When she was bullied by those shameless people, he brought men and weapons to smash up thei 16Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Rough-man novels are super good!

8. 8 爱 Fish-Fin Lover’s Fifteenth Book 爱吃鱼翅灌第15本书 Night Charm Who Loves Shark-Fin Soup Dumplings爱吃鱼翅灌汤饺的夜魅Modern Romance338k WordsCompleted On the day Li Xiumei turned twenty, she was forced to marry into the Zhou family, a mountain away. But just one month after she married, her husband died. The villagers said she was cursed, a bringer of misfortune who had killed her husband as soon as she arrived. Her mother-in-law also tormented her in every way imaginable. Li Xiumei spent her days in tears, swallowing her grievances, until the appearance of a rough-hewn man from the mountains finally gave her hope of living on, just when she w 82Reads6.7Score—Shelves
9. 9 糙 The Roughneck's Tender Devotion 糙汉的掌心宠爱 Lin Qingyang林轻漾Modern Romance301k WordsCompleted Her husband went away to work years ago and disappeared. The whole village said he’d been swept away in a flash flood and was long dead. Su Ruan spent three lonely years alone, tending her meager fields. Jiang Lin, the first love she’d lost in her youth, had become a weather-beaten, rugged man in the village. He quietly protected and cherished her, and his ardent, blunt affection shattered the softness frozen deep in her heart for years. The two overcame the gossip and got together. Just when th 2.4kReads—Score102Shelves
10. 10 空 The Lonely Newlywed and the Rough Older Man Who Won't Leave Her Alone 空房小媳妇，年上糙汉缠上她 Qin Cangyun秦苍云Modern Romance235k WordsOngoing Era setting / countryside / realism. A rugged older man and a sweet, gentle young wife. Possessiveness and intense romantic tension. In the northern countryside of the 1980s, Li Xiaohe becomes a wife in name only on her wedding night: her husband runs off with a young educated woman. Her in-laws say she is useless and couldn’t keep her man, and that’s why their son left home. She works harder than an ox or a horse. Then Chen Jianjun, the younger brother her mother-in-law’s family took in, return 55Reads7.0Score—Shelves
11. 11 小 My Sweet, Soft Bride: The Rough, Dominant Man Can Never Spoil Her Enough 小媳妇软又娇，霸道糙汉宠不够 Flowers Bloom in the Wutong Tree梧生花Modern Romance2.5M WordsCompleted Original title: The Empty Bedroom Next Door: The Rough Truck Driver Coaxes Her to Have His Baby Every Night [Period setting + rough, rugged man + both leads’ first time + sweet romance + no rebirth, no transmigration] [Sweet, traditional beauty vs. untamed truck driver, with a striking difference in build and complexion that turns the tension up to the max] Li Weiying works at the Hongxing Cotton Mill. Lu Dingzhou, the “Living King of Hell” from the transport team, barged into her life. He was t 18.5kReads8.6Score1.7kShelves
12. 12 拒 Refusing to Marry an Old Bachelor, She Sobs as the Rugged Man Dotes on Her 拒嫁老光棍，被糙汉宠哭了 Wangzai Rice Wine旺仔酒酿Modern Romance413k WordsCompleted [Period setting + rugged hero + sweet romance + nurturing + Beauty and the Beast] "I’d rather be eaten by a bear than marry that old pervert!" On her wedding night, Jiang Tiantian fled into the mountains in the middle of the night to escape being sold off by her stepfather. She didn’t run into any wild animals, but a rugged man with a face full of stubble pinned her firmly to the kang! The man stood six foot three, all bulging muscles, his eyes fiercer than a wolf’s. "Once you’re on my bed, you’ 36.7kReads8.4Score2.5kShelves
13. 13 铁 A Tough Soldier Falls Into the Tender Embrace of a Pretty Wife 铁血汉子陷进了俏媳妇的温柔乡 Summer Hail夏冰雹Modern Romance500k WordsCompleted [Rugged hero + military marriage + 1970s + no System or pocket dimension + family life + building wealth + sweet romance] Shen Chao was reborn on her wedding night. In this life, all she wanted was to live happily with her husband. But he was always teasing her until her face flushed and her heart raced. “If you don’t want me touching you, which other man are you saving yourself for?” “You’re my wife. What’s wrong with me hugging you? Can’t I even hold you under the covers?” “Blushing again? Get 8.2kReads8.2Score400Shelves
14. 14 漂 The Beautiful Girl Next Door Wakes Up and Joins the Army. Officers Fight Over Her 漂亮白月光觉醒随军，首长争又抢 Nan Wanwan南绾绾Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted “Second Chance at Love, Spatial Ability, Everyone’s Favorite, Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium, Adorable Baby, Military Marriage” In the third year of living apart from He Shaoyan and fighting over a divorce, Ye Qingzhi began having prophetic dreams. At first, they were just trivial things, until one day she dreamed that her brother-in-law imprisoned her, while her sister became his accomplice and drove her insane before she died a gruesome death. After she died, the man who had repeatedly cl 27.9kReads7.0Score2.5kShelves

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    😏 "Ye Qingzhi, you're just trying to mess with me again!" Three years after their separation, she came to him with precognitive dreams and a spatial ability, and He Shaoyan was wary. Turns out, she was mingling with the military wives in the compound and was even being eyed covetously by single officers. He exploded: "Get the hell out of here, that's my wife!" Later, she dreamt of more truths about her past life and cried as she tried to leave. He, with red eyes, hugged her tightly: "This time, I'll never let go, even if it kills me." The crematorium scene was really exciting!

15. 15 漂 The Beauty Crooked a Finger, and the Mechanic Flexed His Muscles 漂亮美人勾勾手，修车工鼓起一身腱子肉 Lin Xiaowu林小雾Modern Romance364k WordsCompleted [Fake and Real Young Masters | Clear-Eyed, Sly Enchantress vs. Real Young Master, a Rough-And-Ready Mechanic] With her wedding just around the corner, her fiancé is set on trading her in for another bride, and Jiang Xu is cast aside like a worn-out shoe. “Look at your hands. You can’t even wear a wedding ring. Mrs. Xie? You think you deserve that?” Jiang Xu clutches his compensation check and turns away with effortless grace. The fake young master is ungrateful. Fine, she’ll find herself a real 6.4kReads8.4Score1.4kShelves

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    They're all so beautiful, I hope you all like them! 😍😍😍😍😍😍

16. 16 同 After We Ended Up in the Wrong Room, the Chaste Officer Held Me by the Waist and Made Me Cry 同错房后，被禁欲军官掐腰宠哭了 A Golden Pen Blossoms金笔生花Modern Romance2.1M WordsOngoing (The short drama "A Happy Fortune in the Eighties: The Stern Soldier Spoils Me Rotten" is now streaming) [Period setting + sweet, beautiful medical student vs. stern, supposedly infertile military officer] Wen Wenning was transmigrated into her mother’s womb. After graduating from college, she attends her cousin’s wedding, only to be set up by her and forced to marry into the Gu family in her place, as the wife of an officer who supposedly cannot have children. Her cousin even deceives Wen We 35.3kReads8.3Score2.3kShelves
17. 17 假 The Fake Heiress Awakens and Cuts Ties, and the City's Big Shots Call Her Ancestress 假千金觉醒断亲，满城大佬叫祖宗 Roast Chicken烧鸡Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Reborn + secret identities + doted on by everyone + two strong leads] Gu Mang had been the Gu family’s adopted daughter for over twenty years. Grateful for the family’s kindness in raising her, she did everything they told her and used her power to help them break into Beijing’s high society. She even caused her own husband’s death. Only when she was dying did she learn that the Gu family was behind her separation from her loved ones. She opened her eyes and was reborn on the day she married in 81.1kReads8.2Score11.3kShelves
18. 18 闪 I Got a Flash Marriage and Became My Own Son's Stepmother 闪婚，我竟成了亲生儿子的后妈 Su Ming粟鸣Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Xia Yanxi was pressured into a blind date and a quick marriage. Her match was a perverted forty-year-old man who had abused two wives to death. When she saw Bo Chenyi’s peerless face on TV, she froze. The creepy older man had turned out to be a handsome young man, and the heir to a powerful family in the capital, no less. Xia Yanxi held up their marriage certificate. “I got pregnant before we married. The child is five.” If he couldn’t accept that, they could get a divorce. “I have a five-year-o 30kReads8.6Score3.2kShelves
19. 19 假 A Fake Prince and a Real Princess: The Court Reads Her Mind and Loses Its Cool 假皇子真公主满朝文武读心全红温 Light and Fleeting Bubbles泡沫轻浅Ancient Romance854k WordsOngoing [Mind Reading] [Over-the-Top Comedy] [Female Disguised as Male] [Gossip System] [Everyone's Favorite] [No Romance] On her way home from work, Lin Xu Qiu saw a couple arguing. Her Chinese-born instinct to stop and watch the drama made her pause. She never expected the man to suddenly go berserk and pull out a knife, stabbing his girlfriend. Lin Xu Qiu, right at the front of the crowd watching, got stabbed instead. When she opened her eyes again, she had transmigrated into a book as the "Ninth Pri 35.3kReads8.1Score4.2kShelves
20. 20 重 Reborn and Awakened: This Time, I Won’t Be a Love-Struck Fool 重生觉醒，这次我不做恋爱脑 Xing Ci杏词Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Both leads reborn + school life + gloomy, manipulative green-tea male lead + healing] Only after Lin Wu died did she learn that she was the villainess in a campus romance novel. Born into a wealthy family and blessed with a pretty face, she was still nothing more than a stepping stone in the sweet love story of the hero and heroine. Even though she and Xie Yanhui had grown up together and were engaged. Xie Yanhui only ever had eyes for the pure, poor Xia Ruoruo. Sadly, she was too obsessed to l 115.2kReads9.1Score22.9kShelves
21. 21 通 I Crossed Between Past and Present and Raised the Future Grand Secretary 通古今，我娇养了未来首辅 Kittens Sitting in a Row小猫排排坐Modern Romance171k WordsCompleted [Has a pocket dimension + heroine cultivates immortality + romance] Her parents died, leaving her more than a hundred million yuan in debt. Overnight, Jiang Wanqing went from being a little princess to a homeless orphan! By chance, she discovered that half of an old painting hanging on her wall could connect to the ancient past. On the other side of the painting was a young man named Meng Fei. The young man had consumption and was not long for this world... Overcome with compassion, Jiang Wanqin 1kReads8.2Score152Shelves
22. 22 抓 I Slept Through My First-Birthday Grab, and the Prince Crawled Onto My Belly, Leaving Everyone Stunned 抓周我呼呼大睡，皇子趴肚子上，全场傻眼 Old General Guo of Tumu Fortress土木堡的郭老将军Ancient Romance8k WordsCompleted At the baby’s first-birthday grab, I slept soundly while a prince crawled onto my belly, leaving everyone dumbfounded. 3.5kReads—Score127Shelves
23. 23 和 My Biological Son with My Archnemesis Traveled Back in Time 和死对头生的亲儿子穿回来了 Fallen Reeds落蒹Modern Romance255k WordsCompleted #Good news: A future son has dropped from the sky. Bad news: He's the son she had with her sworn enemy# On her way home, Li Qing encounters a handsome guy who suddenly rushes over with tears in his eyes and cries, “Mom!” Li Qing gets it. This is a honey trap set up just for her. The handsome guy dotes on her and won't leave her alone. Li Qing assumes he just has a weird thing for calling people “Mom.” Once they're close, she teasingly asks him, “If I'm your mom, who's your dad?” Her darling son 3.4kReads8.8Score333Shelves
24. 24 重 After Their Reunion, the Abstinent Boss Loses Control and Seduces Her into Kissing Him 重逢后，禁欲老板失控诱她缠吻 Song Baibai宋白白Modern Romance635k WordsCompleted Overwhelming possessiveness + a groveling ex who chases his wife + humbly begging for a proper relationship + devoted to each other / soft, resilient beauty × aloof, abstinent power player from Beijing’s elite circles (both fighting to claim the other) On the day they reunited, Wen Yao mistook her ex-boyfriend for her blind date. They had been apart for five years, and she was sitting right in front of him, yet he didn’t recognize her, much less know that she had secretly given birth to his dau 10.4kReads7.4Score799Shelves
25. 25 丰 When the Voluptuous Beauty Pouts, the Stern Officer Blushes 丰腴美人一撒娇，冷面军官脸红了 Luan Jing峦镜Modern Romance685k WordsOngoing [Period setting, marriage first and love later, following the army, adorable kids, husband’s road to winning his wife back] The day after Shen Qingshu mailed a divorce agreement to Rong Jingshi, she began having one prophetic dream after another. She dreamed that her hypocritical, ungrateful stepsister stole the family heirloom from her, schemed to have her sent to the countryside, and tortured her to death in Heilongjiang, leaving her family ruined and slaughtered. When she woke, she heard her 15.4kReads6.0Score974Shelves

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    [Help Needed] I'm being forced to marry a scheming, manipulative girl and even have to be sent to a rural area in Heilongjiang Province to work in the countryside. What should I do? I thought the school beauty still had feelings for me, so I sneaked into a private room in the dark and took off my clothes. But when the lights came on, I found myself in the arms of a dried-up scheming girl! The school beauty was even shouting "Catch the pervert!" At the door. I don't want to get shot!

26. 26 去 I Went Looking for My Family and Mistook the Wrong Guy for My Brother, While My Amnesiac Ex Loses His Cool Every Night 去寻亲认错哥，失忆前任夜夜红温 Luan Jing峦镜Modern Romance537k WordsCompleted [Beloved by everyone + spatial powers + adorable baby + military marriage + rekindled love + reunion after years apart + supernatural abilities] In the third year after Jiang Xuxue retired from the Supernatural Abilities Bureau and returned to the village to farm, her biological parents came looking for her. “Darling, someone deliberately switched you back then. We never abandoned you!” Unfortunately, just after finding her, her biological parents were sent to the far northwest. Her mother press 11.9kReads6.8Score1.3kShelves

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    Jiang Xuxue's biological parents were planting trees in Northwest China. When they heard that their daughter was going to marry a leader of the Production and Construction Corps, they wrote a letter, their words filled with caution: "Daughter, our family's class background is not good. Will it implicate you?" Jiang Xuxue replied: "No, he doesn't care." Shen Tingyuan glanced at the letter and said, "Add another sentence: 'Whoever dares to implicate her, I'll shoot them with a gun.'" Jiang Xuxue didn't add it, but she remembered it.

27. 27 穿 I Went Back to 1976 as a System, and My Parents Got All Lovey-Dovey 穿回1976当系统，爸妈羞羞羞 Panpan Loves Milk Tea盼盼爱奶茶Modern Romance148k WordsCompleted [Period drama + sweet romance + System + rugged man × educated youth, rewriting fate] Reborn as a System in 1976, I watched my rugged dad carry off my educated-youth mom! I’m so obsessed with my parents’ romance, I can’t get enough! 51Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Sweet and heartwarming period novels

28. 28 重 Reborn in 1990: The System Forces Me to Become the Village Tyrant 重生90：系统逼我当村霸 Ni Linsheng逆鳞生Rural Life544k WordsOngoing [Period setting + System + village bully + reborn + farming and business + face-slapping wish fulfillment] In 2026, overworked office drone Zhou Ye dies suddenly after staying up all night. When he opens his eyes, he's back in 1990. He's become the bully whom all 3,000 villagers are chasing around to curse. His family is so poor they're starving. His older sister has to drop out of school, a supposedly good man in the village is running a scam, and an orphan girl is about to be sold. System: [St 110Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A satisfying read throughout, set in the 1990s with a system-based rebirth story. The arrogant village bully protagonist steadily grows stronger, making it increasingly addictive.

29. 29 穿 Transmigrate to the 1970s: The Charming Military Wife Is Doted on by an Officer 穿越七零：俏媳妇被军官宠上天 Drizzle Nourishes the River丝雨润川Modern Romance1.9M WordsOngoing [Transmigrate + Tough Military Officer + Top Doctor + Strong Leads and Sweet Romance + Turning the Tide in a Bygone Era] Friendly reminder: This book has a new title. Its former title was "The Pretty Little Widow of the Seventies, Making the Abstinent Tough Guy See Red", and its current title is "Transmigrating to the Seventies: The Pretty Bride Is Doted on by Her Military Officer". The story is unchanged, so feel free to keep reading! After transmigrating, she becomes a stunning young widow in 6.7kReads8.6Score366Shelves

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    A period drama, featuring a rough-around-the-edges man who can earn money, cook, fight, and even build furniture—basically, he can do everything! [Laughs] He's a doting husband, and the plot is very engaging. [Laughs]

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