Looking for Stories Set in a Past Era Where the Original Character Doesn’t Transmigrate 求年代文，就是原身，不搞穿越
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Armed with the Villainess's Script, I Only Want to Go to College 手拿女配剧本，我却只想考大学
(Period setting + ensemble cast + colorful characters + daily life + family squabbles) Lin Ermai transmigrated into a book, armed with the most popular script for a vicious supporting female character. At best, she could change her fate and trounce the original heroine; at worst, she would be trounced by the heroine, just as the script dictated. The heroine is sweet and gentle. As a child, she was the prettiest flower in Lotus Village; as an adult, she became the dream girl of every eligible you
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Down-and-Out Heiress in the 1990s Marries a Rugged Man and Has His Baby! 九零落魄千金，嫁个糙汉生崽崽！
A devoted couple + period setting + forced marriage + loyal puppy-like male lead + farming + not a sweet romance + not a wish-fulfillment story! When Wen Jing was eighteen, she discovered that she wasn't the Wen family's daughter and returned to her biological parents. The village's resident troublemaker, Lu Yanshen, took one look at her and set his sights on her. He forced her to marry him, and they had a son. “You're my mother, and you and my dad are truly in love.” “No, no, no. It wasn't forc
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He Married the Chubby Daughter of the Brigade Chief Just to Get a Meal 为了吃口饭他娶了大队长家胖闺女
[Seventies Era + Woman Transmigrates into a Man + Devoted to Each Other + Living Off His Wife + Daily Life + Marriage Before Love + Raising Kids] Xie Yan, a fine young woman of the modern era, died in the prime of her life and was reborn with her memories in the harsh 1950s. The good news was that she had a golden finger, the very space she'd long dreamed of in her previous life. The bad news was that it was just a space. In an era of scarce supplies, was a space what she needed? No, she needed
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- 4 My Wife Came Back Reborn to Help Her Military Officer Husband Make a Comeback 亲媳妇重生回来带军官老公逆袭 Reborn + military marriage + snowy plateau + pocket dimension + face-slapping + taking down scumbags Su Haiyan took a detour through another world before being reborn in the era that had always left her with regrets. When she saw the man alive and standing before her, the man who had never died, Su Haiyan swore that no matter how hard life became, she would walk through it with him this time. From guarding the frontier and reclaiming wasteland on the snowy plateau, to rescuing people from a w 14.7kReads9.1Score2k14d adds
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The 1980s: The True Heiress Strikes Back 八零：真千金逆袭记
[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
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- 6 The 1970s: My Blind Date Is a Little Fierce 七零之相亲对象有点凶 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 17.3kReads8.8Score1.6k14d adds
- 7 The Pampered Wife Awakens and Goes Berserk in a Period Novel 年代文包子原配觉醒后发疯了 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 2.1kReads8.4Score16914d adds
- 8 Reborn in the 1970s: The Little Cannon Fodder Rises With Her Space 重生七零：小炮灰带着空间雄起 [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 37kReads9.4Score3.9k14d adds
- 9 After Turning In the Script, the Useless 1980s Female Supporting Character Wins by Doing Nothing 上交剧本后，八零废物女配躺赢了 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. 12.1kReads8.3Score94614d adds
- 10 Everyone Else Transmigrates or Is Reborn, but I'm Just a Native Cannon-Fodder 别人都是穿越重生，就我土著炮灰 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 6.7kReads9.0Score57514d adds
- 11 The Sweet Young Lady of the 1970s 七十年代小娇娇 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. 1.2kReads8.9Score23614d adds
- 12 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 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... 12.1kReads9.0Score85514d adds
- 13 What's So Bad About a Quiet Life in the 1960s? 六零之平淡点有什么不好？ [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... 1.1kReads6.7Score10514d adds
- 14 A 1970s Local Girl's Daily Battles with Every Kind of Heroine 七零土著智斗各类女主日常 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 66Reads5.2Score—14d adds
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The 1980s: The Cold-Faced Officer Is Wrapped Around the Sickly Beauty's Finger 八零：冷面军官被病弱美人拿捏了
[Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion] Martial arts prodigy Jiang Nianzhi transmigrates into a book and arrives in an alternate version of the 1980s, where she becomes a delicate, frail beauty. Thinking she would run into one terrible person after another, she rolls up her sleeves, ready to beat them all into submission. But her feisty mother favors girls over boys, her white-lotus sister is a doting sister-con, her grandmother is a beauty enthusiast, and her little brother has
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The 1970s: The Lucky Fake Heiress and Her Hopelessly Romantic Husband 七零：好命假千金和恋爱脑丈夫
[Period Setting + Real and Fake Heiresses + Sweet Romance + Self-Interested Ensemble Cast + Family Life] Gu Shuyao is an oblivious little schemer who has known how to charm people since childhood, winning the affection of her biased parents. A fortune-teller once said she was destined for a good life, and sure enough, she grew up pampered and privileged. Then she suddenly learns she isn’t the family’s biological daughter. When the real heiress returns, she resents how much their parents dote on
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The 1970s: The Village Bully Brought the City-Educated Beauty Home in His Arms 七零：下乡知青被村霸糙汉抱回家
[Devoted Husband + Guaranteed Sweetness + Everyday Life + Both Leads Have No Previous Partners + Pocket Space + Everyone's Favorite] Couple: feisty, beautiful, rich young educated woman × cultured, burly village ruffian In 1973, a pretty young educated woman arrived at the Jinyang Production Brigade. She was fair and soft, delicate and gentle, and so petite she looked easy to bully. But the moment she entered the village, the tall, broad-shouldered village ruffian, who looked especially fierce,
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- 18 The Bashful Doctor and the 1980s Butcher Girl Who Won't Stop Spoiling Him 斯文医生脸红红八零杀猪婆追着哄 Short dramas 1–4 and the animated series are releasing simultaneously~ [Period setting + marriage first, love later + fiercely protective + older woman/younger man + no transmigration or rebirth] [Bold, career-minded pig butcher vs. refined, reserved, easily embarrassed doctor] Everyone in Chihe Town knew Yun Tianjiao. When it came to looks and figure, if she came in second, no one would dare claim first place. But when it came to her fiery temper, she was just as unmatched in town. That was exa 15.5kReads9.0Score82114d adds
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The 1990s: Back to One Month Before My Husband's Tragic Death 九零：回到丈夫惨死前一月
[Female-led period business drama + raising a child + unruly heroine + gentle, devoted husband + mutual healing] [Short drama now streaming] In her previous life, Su Ai was a gangster. She smoked, played cards, drank, and got into fights, and she didn't give a damn about anything. She even stole a handsome village doctor away to be her husband and had a well-behaved child with him. Her biggest regret was causing trouble and getting her husband killed at home. Even after she later built a busine
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- 20 Awakening in the 1980s: I Have a Child with the Infamous Village Tyrant 睁眼八零：和凶名在外村霸有崽了 When Hu Yao woke up, she found a mischievous yet well-behaved son and a scoundrel of a man beside her. Shocked and bewildered, she heard from the neighbors she knew that four years earlier, she'd hit her head so hard she was left simple-minded, and her mother had sold her. Over those four years, she had not only gained a husband but also a mischievous child who fiercely protected her. The bastard of a man was always putting his hands on her, and he was exceptionally fierce and unreasonable. Terr 38kReads9.2Score3.2k14d adds
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An 80s Military Marriage! So Sweet, the Officer Husband and His Baby 八零军婚！甜翻军官老公生崽崽
[Complete] [Period setting, 1980s, family love, military marriage, age gap, doting father type, gentle slow-burn, unconventional period novel, awful characters get taken down quickly, no frustrating setbacks, making a fortune, high-ranking families, no pocket dimension, no golden finger] The moment Wen Zhile opened her eyes, she realized she had been reborn. She had gone from being a professor’s daughter to the second daughter of the Dai family, villagers in Jianghe Village. They treated her lik
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- 22 The Educated Youth Years: Starting with an Escape from the Village 知青年代，从村子里逃亡开始 1976. Liu Haibo, a sent-down youth, falls in love with Yang Xiuqing, a village girl. Her family vehemently opposes his proposal, forcing him to flee Shibantian Village and return to Haicheng, a thousand miles away. Just as he is preparing to start a new life with Wu Jie in Haicheng, Yang Xiuqing suddenly shows up at his door, stirring up an emotional entanglement that spans the years. 2023. Seventy-year-old Liu Haibo is driving an Audi with Yang Xiuqing to Shibantian Village when they are involv 33.8kReads8.4Score2.1k14d adds
- 23 The Fake Young Master Was Sent Back to the Countryside, Where He Turned His Life Around with His Wife and Children 假少爷被赶回农村带妻儿逆袭人生 When Xie Zhao opened his eyes, he was back in 1983. That year, the richest family in Huxian County, the Chen family, found their real son and sent the impostor, Xie Zhao, back to Shishui Village. He couldn’t believe that the parents who had once treasured him like their own flesh and blood no longer wanted him. Had all the love they’d shown him over eighteen years been a lie? He went to ask them, but they wept and cursed him as a curse upon the family. They said he had made their biological son 19.9kReads9.0Score1.9k14d adds
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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
[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
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- 25 Reforming My Good-for-Nothing Husband, Starting at Age 20 改造废物老公，从20岁开始养老 [Period story x making money x family and village life x a touch of ensemble cast x raising kids] Lin Hui has a dream. In it, she turns fifty after spending twenty-seven years as a widow, struggling to raise her children, only to develop cancer and die before she can enjoy life. When she wakes, she finds herself back in 1980, the year she just married Xu Dongsheng, the “lazy bum” of the surrounding villages. She grits her teeth. She absolutely cannot let her life follow the path in her dream. Fr 34.1kReads9.1Score4.1k14d adds
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The Family's Beloved Girl: The Cannon-Fodder Darling of Her Terrible Family 七零团宠：极品家人的炮灰娇娇女
[Brooding, Brawny Man + Sweet Wife + Completed] Lu Jiajia is delicate and soft. Then, in the blink of an eye, she becomes a useless cannon-fodder character in the 1970s, with a whole family of vicious oddballs in tow. Yet in an era that favors men above women, she is the apple of her family’s eye. Her father and mother: “Jiajia is our precious girl. She deserves to be spoiled.” Her brothers: “My sister is frail and sickly. How could she do farm work!” Lu Jiajia: “…I want the ultimate winning han
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- 27 An Autistic Blind Date? The Research Scientist's Army Wife Is Everyone's Darling 自闭症相亲？科研军嫂是团宠 [Military marriage + 1980s + beloved by everyone + pocket dimension + special abilities + obsessive love + dangerously unhinged + family life + redemption + world unification + nation-building] A little note: You can add the book to your shelf first! I’ll write some extra chapters later to fill in what’s missing earlier. An autistic heroine transformed into a dangerously unhinged woman, and a hero with an intensely possessive streak. Yun Jianyu, from the apocalypse, died in a zombie’s jaws after 750Reads6.5Score12914d adds
- 28 The Little One I Took In Is the Young Master of a Powerful Family 捡回来的幼崽是豪门小少爷 [Two Male Leads + Adorable Kid Doted on by Everyone + Parenting Variety Show + Wealthy Family + Lighthearted and Healing] Three-year-old Su Youli is about to face the first major event of his life: His dad is going to find his biological father and send him away!!! How could a little toddler bear such an injustice? He copies the neighborhood kids and goes on a hunger strike, trying every trick in the book, from acting cute to playing up his suffering. But his dad is so heartless that he simply 9.1kReads9.4Score83314d adds
- 29 Undercover Soldier King Steals the Prettiest Educated Youth Away as His Army Wife 兵王卧底，拐走了最美知青做军嫂 [Period Setting + Pocket Space + Military Marriage + Gossip + Raising Kids] In her previous life, Xu Nuannuan trusted her maternal aunt's family while trying to save her parents, and became the plaything of a powerful man. She not only failed to rescue her parents, but was ultimately executed by firing squad. Her parents also died unexpectedly in the countryside. After completing ninety-nine missions as a vicious supporting woman for the System, she finally earned the chance to be reborn. In her 9.8kReads8.8Score1.5k14d adds
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In the 1970s, I Was Reborn and Became My Enemy’s Most Cherished One 七零之重生后我成了仇人的心头肉
(One-on-One Romance + Period Setting + Sweet Romance + Reborn + Family Life + Building Wealth + Both Leads Are Each Other's Only Partner) Ni Xiaoxiao never dreamed she'd get another chance at life. Xu Lian was her family's enemy in her previous life, and his position remains firmly established in this one. He's still an immovable force. But since she's already here, and she can't fight someone stronger than her, Ni Xiaoxiao has no choice but to use her charms. She's determined to make that jerk
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- 31 Transmigrated into a Book: The Drama Queen Ex-Wife of a 1990s Street Tough 穿书九零，街溜子的戏精前妻 A not-so-kind, melodramatic heroine × a not-so-gentle street punk hero The sky falls: Chi Li transmigrates into a script, and not as the heroine, but as the male lead’s insignificant ex-wife. Wait, is this punk-haired guy really the decisive yet refined and easygoing big shot Li Shu will become? Chi Li suspects she got the wrong story. The two reach an agreement early on: one wants a child, the other a place to stay, and once the time is right, they’ll go their separate ways. But why is he look 1kReads9.0Score10214d adds
- 32 I Went to Teach in the Countryside, but the Rugged Farmer Took Me Home and Spoiled Me 下乡支教，却被糙汉娶回家宠 [23 cm Height Difference + Size Difference + Intense Romantic Tension + Sweet Romance + Healing] (The male lead is utterly devoted to his wife) Ji Tao was born into poverty and hardship. She worked hard to get into college because she never wanted to live that kind of life again. At first glance, Zhou Lu seemed poor and nasty. He was absolutely not her type. But the man clung to her like a vine in the mud, wrapping himself around her so tightly that she couldn't escape or fight him off. All she 14.6kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
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Transmigrated Into a Book in the 1970s: What a Joke! The Sweet Girl Is Hiding in a Rugged Man's Body 穿书七零：笑死！娇娇披着糙汉壳
[Period setting + transmigrate into a book + food + System + educated youth + sweet romance] A pleasure-loving young woman transmigrates into a book set in the 1970s. The poverty and hunger, the backbreaking labor, and the enormous secret her new body is hiding are enough to push An Ran to the brink. She is neither the lucky heroine nor the villainess. Instead, she is a deranged male character so far down the roster that she barely even counts as a number in the leads’ story. To keep anyone from
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Day After Day 日子一天又一天
In the 1980s, two families lived across the street from each other: the Sun family, led by Sun Lanying, and the Chen family, led by Chen Guangtian. On a snowy morning, a teacher from Zicheng No. 1 High School arrived at the Sun family’s home, disturbing their usual peace. The eldest daughter, Ding Hong, ran away with Gao Yong, a married man, and her younger sisters were drawn into the fallout… Across the street, Chen Guangtian suddenly died of a heart attack. His wife, Liu Jinfeng, clashed with
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Reborn in the 1970s: Grandma, Today It's Your Turn to Get Divorced 重生七零：奶，今天轮到您离婚啦
Also known as: Reborn in the 1970s as a Lucky Little Carp with Space Tens of billions in supplies, serving the country, the family’s darling, adorable child, satisfying story In her previous life, Shen Danluo’s family was harmed by her wicked second uncle, and she avenged them all by herself. Now she has been reborn with a space that can exchange for all kinds of supplies. In this life, she will change everyone’s tragic fate. Take down the worst offenders and punish the scum. Then quietly make a
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The 1980s: A Cherished Darling Rushing Toward Wealth 八零捷报团宠娇娇向钱冲
[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
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- 37 The Sixties: Herding Sheep, Studying, and Getting Into College 六十年代：放羊读书考大学 (Native orphan girl + nanny System + later a landlady + scientific research) Song Jiu became an orphan at six and thought she was going to starve to death. Then a System suddenly appeared and told her that if she worked hard at one thing, it would reward her with delicious food. Why bother dying, then? Time to work hard! Eating every delicacy under the sun was no longer just a dream! Dating? No, no, no! Men would slow down how fast I get my homework done! With no man on my mind, my pen naturally 1.6kReads9.3Score14614d adds
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Reborn in 1970: Selling Gourmet Dishes, I’m Destined to Win at Life 重生七零卖大菜，人生赢家定是我
(No golden finger, no pocket dimension, no overpowered exploits. It’s not exactly a story about a strong female lead, either. Just the ordinary life of a family, where everyone gets to be the protagonist.) [Rebirth + Period Setting + Family Life + Making Money + Cute Kids + Cozy Vibes] In her twilight years, Shen Chunhua is reborn and returns to the time before all the regrets of her life came to pass. Life was so hard last time. This time, she has to make the most of it. After all, every extra
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- 39 Reborn in the 1960s: The Old Woman's Rise 重生六零：老太太的崛起 [Reborn in the late 1960s, an imperfect heroine who grows over time, then a fiery old lady; explosive gossip; family squabbles early on, then the heroine builds a career; ensemble cast] In her previous life, Grandma Xia gave everything she had to her family. She raised her three sons to adulthood and helped them start families and careers. She should have been able to enjoy her golden years, but her sons kicked her out, and she died on a rainy winter night. When she opened her eyes, Grandma Xia 7.4kReads9.0Score73814d adds
- 40 A Great Beauty Raises Kids in a Beijing Courtyard, 1980s Style 八零大美人四合院养娃日常 (Slice of life + sweet romance + raising children + family life + career) Zhao Jinshu was in her sixties. Her children had grown up and started families of their own, and she had seen her parents-in-law off. She was just about to travel around the country when she was reborn. She returned to the time a few months after she had first moved to the city. Back then, she knew nothing. A young bride from the countryside, she was shy, too embarrassed to speak up, and insecure. Even though her husband 53.1kReads9.3Score4.5k14d adds
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