Fake and Real Heiresses in a Period Novel, with the Fake Heiress as the Female Lead #真假千金年代文，假千金是女主

1. 1 军 The Sweet, Alluring Military Wife and Her Devoted Rough-Hewn Soldier 军嫂娇，军嫂媚，糙汉军爷宠上天 Sweet Tofu Pudding甜甜豆腐花Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Rugged military officer + sweet, gentle beauty] (Fictional military marriage + marriage before love + daily life with the troops + stepmother and adorable kids + food) When Jiang Rou opens her eyes, she's become the fake heiress in a period novel. Not only is she a pitiful cannon-fodder supporting character, but the real heiress has knocked her unconscious and made her marry an older man in her place. Rumor has it that the man is disfigured and lame, with two burdens to care for, one big and on 16.2kReads9.1Score1.5k14d adds

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   This is a novel I just started reading, and I think it's really good.

2. 2 假 The Fake Heiress Takes It Easy and Plays Sardines in a Period Novel 假千金在年代文里摆烂当咸鱼 Zhou Xiaodie周小蝶Modern Romance240k WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Adorable Kids + Sweet Romance + Married Life + High-Ranking Official's Family] Shen Nanxi had spent eighteen years as a wealthy young lady in the city before learning she was a fake heiress. Then she was sent back to the countryside, where her heartless birth parents sold her for three hundred yuan. She was sold to the Lu family in the neighboring village. The Lu family wasn't poor, and plenty of women wanted to marry into it, but the Lus had their eye on Shen Nanxi. First, 1.7kReads8.7Score12614d adds
3. 3 惹 Mess With Her? The Fake Heiress Is an All-Rounder and Impossible to Kill 惹她？假千金是全能大佬，超难杀 The Evening Breeze Is Like Fire晚风似火Modern Romance2.3M WordsCompleted [Real and fake heiresses + secret identities + adored by a whole family + punishing scum and face-slapping + pure, unconditional doting] Rumor has it that the fake heiress adopted by the Shen family is a good-for-nothing who skips class, gets into fights, and does every kind of wicked thing. When she was kicked back to the slums, everyone applauded. But who could have guessed The aloof movie emperor is her eldest brother, a legend in the medical world is her second brother, and the world-famous 73.8kReads9.3Score7.1k14d adds

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   These two books!!!

4. 4 穿 Transmigrated as the Fake Heiress, I Have the Real Heiress Worried Sick Over Me 穿成假千金，真千金为我操碎了心 Cauchy-Riemann柯西黎曼Modern Romance267k WordsCompleted Ye Zhen transmigrates into a book and becomes the fake heiress who causes trouble, acts out, and brings about her own downfall. In the original story, the fake heiress and the real heiress fight over everything, until the fake heiress dies far from home. Ye Zhen doesn’t want to fight over anything. She just wants to live a peaceful, uneventful life. Jiang Yunwu notices that Ye Zhen has changed. She used to have eight hundred tricks up her sleeve, and now she hasn’t got a single one. When someone 4.6kReads8.0Score47714d adds
5. 5 假 The Fake Heiress Returns to the Village: The Feisty Young Miss Flirts With a Rugged Country Boy 假千金回村，小作精强撩野糙汉 Red Robe赤衣Modern Romance474k WordsCompleted [Spoiled Heroine + 1970s Setting + Sweet Romance + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Building Wealth + Family Life] The fake heiress Song Mianmian was spoiled and difficult. After being sent back to Luhua Village, she fell for a rough country man who always stood up for her and quietly did everything he could for her. At first, she stubbornly insisted, “There's no way I'd like some country bumpkin.” Later, she cornered him in his room. “Are you going to be with me or not?” After waiting two months, 920Reads8.4Score10014d adds

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   The female lead is a spoiled heiress who was mistakenly identified as a child. The male lead is a child his grandparents found on the street and is a few years older than her. When he first picked her up from the train station, he thought she was too pampered.

6. 6 就 Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂 Ji Furan纪扶染Modern Romance659k WordsCompleted [Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and 117kReads9.6Score13.7k14d adds

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   First of all, it's not a mindless novel; it's not just about a real and fake heiress. The plot is truly amazing, at least in parts that left me completely bewildered. It was a challenge for someone like me who doesn't read novels with their brain engaged, but once you finish the whole thing, you'll find that reading with your brain is incredibly satisfying, amen. Some parts are hard to understand initially, but with repeated readings, they become clear, though this book is really excellent. [Thumbs up][Thumbs up][Thumbs up]

7. 7 八 Pretty Eighties Stepmom Marries a Factory Director and Raises the Kids 八零漂亮后妈，嫁个厂长养崽崽 Huo Beishan霍北山Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Short drama: I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s] The 1980s, stepmother, raising kids, everyday life, love after marriage The moment she opens her eyes, Si Nian finds herself in a period novel as a fake heiress. She’s sent back to the countryside to marry a twice-married man in place of the real heiress, and has to raise a whole brood of children. To make matters worse, she runs into the real heiress, who has been reborn. In her previous life, Lin Sisi was pressured by her family into marrying a 56kReads9.4Score7.2k14d adds
8. 8 真 The Drama in This Fake Heiress Novel Is So Much Fun 真假千金文里的乐子真好看 I Think I Can Fly我想我会飞Modern Romance568k WordsCompleted When Zhou Leyao woke up and saw the pitch-black ceiling, her brain froze. Then she discovered she was a minor cannon-fodder character in a period novel, and she was even more stunned. Later, she saw the real and fake heiresses fighting over the same man in their past life and then doing it all over again in this one. It completely shattered her worldview. She couldn’t help sighing: if karma really exists, then may lightning strike me dead! 1.8kReads8.2Score10114d adds

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   Beautiful 🙂🙂🙂

9. 9 六 The Sixties: You Don’t Want the Real Heiress? Then I’ll Cut Ties 六零：真千金不要？我反手断亲 Red Bean Milk Tea Lover爱喝红豆奶茶Modern Romance674k WordsCompleted [Pocket dimension + formidable partners + career-driven heroine] Reborn as the real daughter, she finds that her city-dwelling parents don't welcome her. So she returns to the countryside to live with her widowed mother, determined to change her fate through her own abilities. Become a cadre, earn a recommendation to attend university, rise to leadership, and win everyone's respect! “Did you hear? Widow Zhang's girl was switched at birth with a city girl.” “Yeah, and they still kicked her out an 10.5kReads8.4Score75614d adds
10. 10 喜 A Blissful, Leisurely Life 喜悦的悠闲生活 Orange-Flavored Orange Candy橙子味的橙子糖Modern Romance362k WordsCompleted Su Xiyue had lived with the Su family for twenty years before being told she wasn't their biological daughter! No, she was a Su, just not from the Su family in Xiamen. She belonged to the Su family in the county town. She'd heard her parents were poor schoolteachers. The grandfather who came to pick her up was driving a minivan. Su Xiyue followed him home. For once, she let go of her wealthy young lady airs, and did whatever she wanted in the villa complex~ Free and easy~ Her birth parents' thre 160Reads6.6Score—14d adds
11. 11 穿 I Entered a Period Novel: The Fake Heiress Became a Self-Made Rich Woman 穿进年代文：假千金她成了富一代 Back When We Were Young彼时年幼Modern Romance540k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Transmigrate into a Book + System + No Going to the Countryside] Transmigrating is nothing unusual these days, but encountering a System bug is pretty rare. So while the other Hosts are still struggling through their missions, she’s already busy shopping to her heart’s content. 248Reads7.2Score10214d adds
12. 12 八 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 Charcoal-Grilled Mandarin Duck炭烧鸳鸯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 8.6kReads9.2Score1.1k14d adds

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    She transmigrated into a period novel as a fake heiress, becoming the beloved daughter of her real heiress husband, a military officer from her past life.

13. 13 八 The 1980s: The True Heiress Strikes Back 八零：真千金逆袭记 Birdsong in the Quiet Mountains鸟鸣山幽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 200.8kReads9.2Score14k14d adds
14. 14 假 The Fake Heiress Was Kicked Out, and a Rugged Countryman Took Her Home to Cherish Her 假千金被赶出门，乡野糙汉抱走宠 Lu Cai陆菜Modern Romance401k WordsCompleted Auntie Zhang, from Shanghe Village, had spent twenty years working as a nanny for a wealthy family in the big city. Then, out of the blue, she brought home a fair-skinned, beautiful young woman. Word was, the girl had been switched at birth with the wealthy family’s real daughter. Once their biological child was found, they’d kicked her out. Auntie Zhang felt sorry for her and brought her back to Shanghe Village. But she couldn’t stay there forever; she had to return to the city and keep earning 6.1kReads9.2Score49914d adds

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    🤤①After the real heiress returned to her family, she was kicked out. Then, the nanny she'd worked for for 20 years took her to the village. 🥺🥺 She accidentally fell into the water and married a rough, country bumpkin. The male lead thus gained a spoiled and clumsy wife. [Staring emoji]

15. 15 八 The 1980s: After the Real Heiress Returns, She Reigns Supreme in the Capital! 八零：真千金回归后，宠冠京城！ Yingying Zhao英英昭Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Completed [Era + military marriage + real heiress + adored by everyone + heroine is incredible at putting people in their place and beating them up] After sacrificing her life for her country, modern computer genius Jiang Tiange was reborn into her own past life. But that past life had been a miserable one: she was the real heiress, yet had been maliciously switched at birth, beaten and cursed, and forced to marry an abusive second-time husband. After she died miserably, her body was sold for a 31.5kReads9.1Score4.3k14d adds
16. 16 穿 Transmigrate to the 1970s: The Fake Heiress Gets Divorced from the Start 穿七零，穿成假千金开局就被离婚 Green Willow Tree青青杨柳树Modern Romance332k WordsCompleted [1970s + Talented Woman + Superb Cooking Skills + Face-Slapping + Humiliating the Scumbags] This is a fictional setting, a fictional setting, a fictional setting. It’s important, so I’m saying it three times. A parallel world in the 1970s. On her wedding day, the original owner was so devastated by the revelation that the real and fake daughters had been switched that she died. The moment Su Youran transmigrates into her body, she finds herself in the middle of a divorce showdown. With enemies 6.7kReads9.2Score58614d adds
17. 17 暴 Getting Rich in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei! The Fake Heiress from the Village Is Gorgeous 暴富京津冀！村里来的假千金好美 Looking Up at the Sun仰望阳光Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Everyone’s Favorite + Sweet and Satisfying] When Tang Guanguan woke up, she had become the fake heiress of a period novel, whose true identity had just been exposed. In the book, the original Tang Guanguan discovered her true identity but refused to return to her birth parents. In the end, everyone despised her, and she died alone and miserable. After sorting out the plot, Tang Guanguan decided: Leave me alone. I’m going to lie flat. But somehow, the big vill 3.2kReads8.0Score27214d adds
18. 18 假 The Fake Heiress Transmigrates into a Book as a Supporting Character and Coasts Through an Era Novel 假千金穿书女配在年代文里躺赢 Yinghuo Chongchong颖火虫虫Modern Romance702k WordsCompleted [Reborn + period setting + transmigrated book character + fake and real heiresses] Ye Qian transmigrates into a period novel as the fake heiress and supporting character. Her brothers have protected her since childhood, and for sixteen years she has lived in luxury. When the heroine returns, Ye Qian packs her bags and resolutely goes back to her family in the countryside. Holding a terrible hand, Ye Qian refuses to compromise and is determined to carve out her own path. Her brothers and younger 361Reads8.8Score—14d adds
19. 19 七 The 1970s: After Transmigrating Into a Book, the Fake Heiress Returns to the Village to Grow Sweet Potatoes 七零，穿书后假千金回村种番薯了 Grapefruit Tomato Sauce西柚番茄酱Modern Romance815k WordsCompleted [Period Drama + Transmigrate into a Book + Reborn + Pocket Dimension + Educated Youth + Sweet Romance + Military Marriage] Lin Yu awakened memories of her past life and discovered that she was a cannon-fodder supporting character in a period novel. The heroine was the real heiress, while Lin Yu was the fake heiress who had taken her place. When the real heiress returned, jealousy got the better of Lin Yu and she did a whole string of foolish things. In the end, her adoptive parents kicked her ou 5.4kReads9.0Score52414d adds
20. 20 穿 I Became a Fake Heiress in a Period Novel, and the Whole Country Favors Me 穿成年代文假千金，全国都偏心我 Su Qingluo苏轻罗Modern Romance247k WordsCompleted [Period setting + spatial realm + farming + devoted husband + sweet romance] Interstellar pharmacist Cheng Jiayue is reborn as the fake heiress who was switched at birth in the 1970s. She sends the culprit to prison to avenge herself, then puts her botanical spatial realm and pharmaceutical skills to use, treating patients, saving lives, and developing new medicines. She lives a comfortable life, gets into the best medical school, becomes a master pharmacist, amasses an astonishing fortune, and 190Reads9.0Score10214d adds
21. 21 爽 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 Qing Molian倾末恋Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [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. 287Reads9.2Score11614d adds
22. 22 抱 The Wrongly Swapped Daughter Returns: The Supporting Female’s Family Is Exposed, and the Heroine Breaks Down 抱错换回，女配全家掉马女主哭疯 Scenery Along the Way一路景Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Mind-reading, fortune-telling, secret identities, doted on by the whole family, satisfying power fantasy] The metaphysics expert Jiang Wu was so accurate at fortune-telling that she exposed secrets of heaven. When she woke up, she'd become the villainess in a book. The female lead, the real heiress, stole her fortune. Jiang Wu had brain cancer and only two years to live. A broken engagement, the real heiress setting her up and making her look bad, her whole family abusing her, and a gruesome de 4.2kReads9.2Score57814d adds

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    The fake heiress is the female lead!!!

23. 23 八 The 1980s: A Cherished Darling Rushing Toward Wealth 八零捷报团宠娇娇向钱冲 Si Jiao Jiao肆饺饺Modern Romance2.5M 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 36.1kReads9.4Score2k14d adds

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    Although it's a true story about a real and a fake heiress, both characters are very nice people. The story focuses on the fake heiress's daily life of making money after returning home, which is really satisfying!

24. 24 九 The Fake Heiress and Her Eight Overpowered Brothers 九零：假千金八个哥哥都是龙傲天 Yan Xiao'er颜小洱Modern Romance1.8M WordsCompleted [90s] [Everyone's Favorite] [Face-Slapping] [Feel-Good] [Secret Crush Comes True] [Fake and Real Heiresses] Bai Zhiyu lived for fifteen years before learning she was a fake. The family that raised her was the richest in Haicheng. Her birth parents were dirt poor, and she had eight penniless brothers. The swan had fallen from her pedestal, and everyone was waiting to laugh at her. Who would have guessed that her eight brothers were all destined for greatness? They seized the rapid economic bo 20kReads9.2Score1.7k14d adds
25. 25 重 Reborn in the 1970s: The Fake Heiress Refuses to Be Exploited and Is Both Beautiful and Strong 重生七零：假千金拒被吸血美强飒 Fireflies Drifting Leisurely悠悠落萤Modern Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Period setting + reborn + space stocked with supplies + adorable pets + strong leads + hilarious and ridiculous + live life freely + satisfying read] In her previous life, when she learned that she and Gu Xue had traded lives and that she wasn’t the Gu family’s biological daughter, she refused with all her might to return to the countryside to the Rong family. She couldn’t bear to leave the adoptive parents who had raised her! Desperate to win her “family’s” approval, she worked hard to earn mo 40.6kReads8.9Score7.1k14d adds

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    Highly recommend! Even the real and fake heiresses will love reading these!! These books are all pretty good!! See if any of them appeal to you!

26. 26 真 After the True Heiress’s Thoughts Were Exposed, the Whole Capital Turned into a Bunch of Gossips 真千金心声泄露后，京城处处都是猹 Shang Li商离Ancient Romance3.1M WordsOngoing Metaphysics expert Ning Ruoan defies fate to save the world, only to be blasted to smithereens by heavenly lightning. The Heavenly Dao lets her be reborn into the Ning family of the Kingdom of Zhao Qin from a book, where she can live a life of wealth and idleness. From the start, she’s thrown into a battlefield between the real and fake heiresses, while her useless System 998 plays dead and gives up. She has no choice but to return to her old line of work. “Hey, kidnapper with a head full of gre 356Reads6.5Score—14d adds
27. 27 A I'm Done! I Don't Want to Be a Cannon-Fodder Supporting Character in the 1970s A了，我不想在七零当炮灰女配 South Wind on the Strings南风入弦Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted She'd stayed up too late reading and woke up as the book's worst female supporting character, the fake heiress whose identity had just been exposed. The heroine had already returned and was about to torment her, undermine her, steal her fiancé, and force her to marry an abusive man. With a space at her disposal, she couldn't be bothered getting tangled up with them. She went straight to the supposedly poor, remote place where there wasn't enough food or warm clothes, and became an educated youth 5.6kReads8.8Score43214d adds
28. 28 进 After Entering a Mysterious World, the Real Heiress Became an All-Rounder 进入神秘世界后，真千金全能了 Xi Xun希浔Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Sweet, fiery, and satisfying + a touch of fantasy + powerful leads + face-slapping + devoted one-on-one romance] Just before her background was exposed, Zhu Yang suddenly entered a wondrous world. Its NPCs included peerless masters, miracle-working doctors, and renowned calligraphy and painting experts... It was filled with countless ancient books and classics, and she was utterly absorbed in them. She studied hard and delved deep into her learning. Gradually, she became a max-level powerhouse. 2.9kReads7.3Score31514d adds
29. 29 宠 Spoiled? No Thanks! The Real Heiress Is Obsessed With Immortal Cultivation 宠爱？不稀罕！真千金她沉迷修仙 Entangled in Longing缠娇怨Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Brothers’ redemption arc + romance] [Calculating, sickly-beautiful male lead vs. sweet, bubbly female lead] The sect where Shi Qi had lived for seventeen years was gone, and she was forced to leave the mountain. Leaving was one thing, but why had a wealthy tycoon suddenly appeared, crying and claiming to be her long-lost father? The rich father was one thing, but she also had six handsome older brothers, each with his own style. Was this the start of a everyone-dotes-on-me story? No! Don’t get 16.3kReads8.8Score1.9k14d adds
30. 30 逃 Fleeing for Our Lives 逃难 Green Clover青青三叶草Modern Romance194k WordsCompleted Synopsis In the late 1970s and early 1980s, as the country was just beginning its reform and opening-up, feudal thinking remained widespread, especially in rural areas. Set in a village on the Henan Plain during the early years of reform, this novel tells the love story of Zhang Chao and Li Na, along with the hardships they endured behind closed doors. Hoping for a son, Zhang Chao traveled far and wide with his wife and children. After weathering countless hardships and finally achieving their g 697Reads—Score—14d adds
31. 31 心 The Lover Who Stole My Heart 心动的恋人 Green Clover青青三叶草Modern Romance20k WordsCompleted The Lover Who Stole My Heart 8Reads—Score—14d adds
32. 32 拼 The Road to Success 拼搏之路 Green Clover青青三叶草Modern Romance214k WordsCompleted [No contrived tropes] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural] [Urban] [Military] [Romance] [Traditional] [A little angsty, sweet and tender] [Public security] [Arrests] Centered on the exemplary Li Feng, this story follows his inspiring journey as he strives to develop his talents and achieve success. The protagonist, Li Feng, embodies the earnest and solid nature of working people, the diligence and perseverance of a student, the sound political and military qualities of a People's Liberation Army soldier 3Reads—Score—14d adds

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