Slice-of-Life Stories Set in the Era of the Great Famine, with Lots of Gossip! 吃瓜年代文!
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I Transmigrated to the 1960s and Became the Village Barefoot Doctor 穿越六零,我成了村里的赤脚医生
[Period setting + farming + military doctor + golden finger + everyday family life + building a career + no romance + adorable pets] Tian Cai has transmigrated. It started when she rescued a girl injured in a chain-reaction car accident. The fuel tank exploded soon after, and she lost consciousness. When she came to, she found herself in the 1960s. Forced by poverty, Tian Cai put her limited medical skills to use as a barefoot doctor. To avoid getting caught up in a medical malpractice case, she
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Military Marriage in the 1970s: After Joining the Army, She Became the Talk of the Family Compound 七零军婚:随军后她风靡家属院
[Stunning artist x tough, prison-style military officer] [Pocket dimension, limited appearances + sweet romance + satisfying wish fulfillment + no awful characters] Shi Tingyu is a young painter with a modest reputation. One day, she transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes the daughter of a weapons researcher. Before she can enjoy her new life, her parents face the prospect of being reported and sent down to the countryside. Unwilling to let her suffer, her parents quickly arrange a blind date fo
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I Transmigrate to the 1970s, Where My Lazy Husband and I Lie Flat and Gossip 穿越七零懒蛋老公带我躺平吃瓜
(Soul transmigration + devoted 1v1 romance + super sweet + ensemble cast + goofy comedy + doting romance + gossip + fraternal twins) The leads and their families won’t suffer, no matter who else does. This is a sweet romance written especially for anyone who can’t handle angsty stories. No catfighting over men! Even if there is any rivalry between women, it won’t be for a man! And there will be a twist later!!! I love all the female characters. I never planned to write any of them as pure villai
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Blind Corn! Rotten Potatoes! Worthless Children, Get on Your Knees! 瞎苞米!烂土豆!极品儿女靠边跪
[Period] [The 1980s] [Light Ensemble Cast] [Reborn] [Feel-Good] [No Golden Finger] [Family Life] (Also known as: Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Leaves Her Children Behind) Seventy-year-old Wu Zhiqiu is Reborn in the era when her children still depend on her hard work and sacrifice! In her previous life, she played favorites and ended up alone and miserable in her old age. This time, she refuses to repeat the past. The old lady decides to leave her children behind and enjoy the rest of her lif
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I Was Just Eating Some Gossip, So Why Is Everyone in This Compound a Heroine? 吃个瓜,怎么家属院里全是女主?
[Military Marriage + Joining Her Husband at His Posting + System + Transmigrate into a Book + Gossip + Rebirth] Lan Huaying has transmigrated to 1960 and become a young military wife making the long journey to her husband's base... As soon as she moves into the residential compound, she realizes something is off about this world. Why does the young wife next door have the exact same name as the heroine of that regret-and-redemption novel she read in her previous life? Why does the kind sister-in
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With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s, Where I Can Make Trouble and Money with Ease 小手一背穿七零,搞事赚钱样样行
Also known as "Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Seventies: I Collect Eighty-Eight Paychecks Every Month" Su He woke up one day and transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a fake heiress who had been sent back to her village. In the book, the ungrateful real heiress was practically blessed by cheat codes, with schemes and tricks appearing one after another. The Su family ended up destroyed, while the original owner wished she were dead. Looking at her impoverished home and family members
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Why Help Others Get What They Want? I’ll Choose Myself 成全别人?不如成全自己
In the book, Xu Jing'an spent her whole life helping others and putting them first, yet in the end, no one even said a kind word about her. This time, she's going to look after herself first and do what's best for her.
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Snatch, Snatch, Snatch! This Cannon Fodder Is Here to Steal All the Fortuitous Encounters 抢抢抢抢抢,炮灰专门来抢机缘的
[Period Setting + Transmigrate into a Book + Snatch Opportunities + System + Pocket Dimension + Devoted Couple, 1v1] Originally titled The Book I Transmigrated Into Had Layers of Transmigration! Su Ning transmigrated into a book as a cannon-fodder character, the kind whose entire family gets wiped out! The original owner was deceived in love and in bed, and was nearly tricked out of even her coffin money. Why keep a man like that around? For the holidays? So what if she's cannon fodder? Doesn't
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The Bystander's Self-Cultivation in a 1970s Transmigration Novel 穿书七十年代吃瓜群众的自我修养
Have you ever transmigrated to a different scene just by blinking? Lin Yuzhu has. She transmigrated in a daze to the 1970s. No, she transmigrated into a book. She has a System, and the female lead is there too. There are also supporting female characters, but she isn't one of them. She's just an onlooker who wandered into the story by mistake. As an onlooker, she gets to watch the drama unfold every day. She doesn't want other people's dogs, and she doesn't get involved in other people's busines
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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
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Gossiping in the Compound Is So Much Fun 大院吃瓜真香了
Lin Qing had a terrifying dream. In it, she was a frail young aunt whose niece, born the same year, had stolen her engagement. Afraid Lin Qing would try to reclaim the match, the niece flaunted the man she'd stolen in front of her every day, until Lin Qing was finally angered to death. Lin Qing jolted awake in fright. What kind of vicious dream was that? If the niece wanted the man, she could have him. Why did she have to anger Lin Qing to death, too? Just when Lin Qing thought it had all been a
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The 1980s Foil: The Fertile Beauty Is Sweet and Charming 八零对照组:好孕美人她又甜又娇
[Slice-of-life family drama in a period setting + A charming green tea beauty + Childbearing System + Contrast character gets face-slapped + Sweet, pampering wish fulfillment] What should you do after transmigrating into a melodramatic period novel as the villainous stepmother and foil, who nearly has her marriage stolen by the heroine? Su Sui says, “Relax. Isn't it great that someone else is eager to be a stepmother?” And so... While the original heroine works herself to the bone for her husban
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Marrying into a Crowded Courtyard, Where Gossip Is Everywhere 嫁进大杂院,吃瓜好方便
[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
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The 1960s: The Alley Couple's Daily Gossip 六零年代胡同小夫妻吃瓜日常
A married couple from the 1990s transmigrate to the 1960s. No TV, no internet, no phones. No problem. They don't need any of that. There's so much gossip here they can't keep up with it all. Seriously, there's just too much to gossip about. Their daily life: gossiping, making money, and raising kids. They have to manage all three without dropping the ball.
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I Land a Government Job by Gossiping in a Period Novel 我靠吃瓜在年代文里拿编制
This novel has undergone a major revision [transmigration; gossip; System; getting rich; male lead; transmigrate into a book set in the 1970s] Jiang Panyu's greatest passion in life was gossip. She was like a melon-eating mouse in a field, always showing up wherever there was juicy gossip, right at the heart of the action. One day, she got so caught up in watching two old ladies brawl that she completely lost herself in the excitement. A brick in one of the old ladies' hands sent her straight to
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The Gossip-Loving Young Educated Woman 吃瓜小知青
Wei Wei was speechless. She’d only gone back to her hometown, and ended up caught in a rainstorm and a mudslide, then transmigrated. Not only had she landed in the 1970s, she’d become a pushover everyone could trample on. Her younger sister stole her job, and her mother signed her up to go to the countryside. When had Wei Wei ever put up with such humiliation? Fine, you want the job? If I can’t keep what’s mine, why should I hand it over to you? I’ll wreck the whole thing. You signed up to go to
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My Daily Gossip in a Siheyuan [The 1970s] 我在四合院的吃瓜日常【七零】
[Period setting + courtyard compound + gossip-watching + light ensemble cast] When Shen Miaomiao wakes up, she finds herself as a cannon-fodder character in a period novel. According to the plot, she will be forced to go to the countryside, where the village chief's son sets his sights on her and forcibly marries her, eventually beating her to death. Knowing the plot, Shen Miaomiao is determined: “I’m not going to the countryside. Absolutely not. No matter what, I’m not going!” Then she starts l
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The Sixties: An Ordinary Educated Youth's Farming and Gossiping Days 六零,路人甲知青种田吃瓜日常
[Gossip-Watching + Farming + Beloved by Everyone + Metaphysics + Pocket Dimension] Song Beibei was reborn in 1966 and sent to the countryside as an educated youth. The good news: she had a golden finger. The bad news: her golden finger made her farm. And it only gave out rewards after the harvest, so she was forced to farm every day, working even harder than the locals and turning into a regular workhorse. Song Beibei: I’m going to lose it!!! (furious) That would have been bad enough. But why di
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I Bound Myself to a Gossip System in the 1970s 我在年代绑定了吃瓜系统
[Period Setting + Gossip System + Ensemble Cast + Everyday Life + Not a Strong Female Lead + Romance] On her way home from school, Song Hongjin comes across a house being ransacked and squeezes her way in to watch the spectacle. Suddenly, a gold melon seed the size of her palm comes flying toward her... At the last possible moment, her fake best friend Shen Danru rushes out to “save” her, knocking Song Hongjin to the ground. The gold seed first cracks Shen Danru's head, then bounces into Song Ho
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Transmigrated into a Period Novel, Lying Flat and Enjoying the Gossip Is Perfectly Reasonable! 穿进年代文,躺平吃瓜很合理吧!
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
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A Couple of Fake Partners' Everyday Gossip After They Transmigrate into a Book Set in the Seventies 穿书七零塑料夫妻的吃瓜日常
(A sharp-tongued heroine with eight hundred schemes, queen of the courtyard and village, who loves watching the drama unfold × a male lead who seems aloof and untouchable but is really a childish boy who gets bullied by her and tries to fight back) Jiang Nuan transmigrates into a book. In this 1970s romance, she, Jiang Nuan, is a hopelessly lovesick fool who pines for the male lead, gets face-slapped again and again, and still keeps throwing herself at him. She’s nothing but a disposable side ch
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Transmigrate into a Book: The 1970s’ Gossip-Loving Cannon Fodder 穿书七零吃瓜小炮灰
[New book recommendation: Reborn in the 1970s, the Sweet and Sassy Military Wife. Hope you all enjoy it!!!] Have you ever woken up and found yourself transmigrated? Have you ever been cannon fodder in two books at once? Lucky girl Lan Jiajia has experienced both. To avoid getting written out, she spends every day being a proper spectator, watching the male and female leads fall in love and munching on melon seeds. Then she takes the college entrance exam, buys a few houses, and ends up a happy s
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The 1970s: This Background Character Young Intellectual Just Wants to Watch the Drama 七零:炮灰知青只想吃瓜看戏
Synopsis: [Pocket dimension shopping mall + transmigrate into a book as a doomed side character + alternate setting + gossip-watching + building a career + military marriage + slice of life] Yang Tao transmigrates into the 1970s as a pitiful girl from an ordinary working-class family. No problem. The huge shopping mall she just inherited has come along with her. Her younger sister schemes to send her to the countryside? No worries. Yang Tao promptly sends her off to the far northwest instead. Fa
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Gossip! Gossip! More Gossip! 吃瓜!吃瓜!吃瓜啦!
Synopsis: (Period setting + transmigrate into a book + whirlwind marriage + gossip) Lin Hua, a laid-back woman who loves gossip, transmigrates from the future to a parallel world in the 1970s. She accidentally discovers that she has transmigrated into a book, and that she has become a cannon-fodder character. All she wants is to change her fate. She marries a minor character from the story, stays away from the male and female leads, and lives a quiet, comfortable life, enjoying the gossip from u
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The Tyrant Villain's Own Daughter in a Period Novel 年代文里灭霸反派的亲闺女
Xia Yutang takes an accidental tumble. She closes her eyes, opens them again, and finds herself as the biological daughter of the great villain in a period novel, a man as terrifying as Thanos. After his biological daughter dies young, his wife becomes mentally unstable, and Tang's father turns evil over what happened to his wife and daughter. When he investigates his daughter's case, he becomes an existence as terrifying as Thanos. If not for the protagonists' plot armor protecting his enemies,
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After Becoming the Original Wife in a Period Novel, I Divorced Him at Once 穿成年代文原配后,我火速离婚
[This story is anything but normal. Not a single character is normal, so don't read if that bothers you!] Jiang Banyue is a twenty-second-century pastry chef who accidentally transmigrates into a military romance set in the past. The hero, Shen Yunhe, is her husband, while she is his first wife, destined to die young. As soon as Jiang Banyue opens her eyes, she feels her barely showing belly. There are three babies inside. Great, she gets the babies without having to deal with the man. Jiang Ba
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A Little Chubby Kid Brings a Shopping Mall into a Period Novel 肉团子带着商场穿进年代文
This is a danmei novel set in a bygone era, so make sure you’re reading the right one, cuties! When he wakes up, Lu Tang has become the adopted son who dies young in a period novel! From beginning to end, he only appears in a few chapters before being written out. But his death causes his adoptive parents’ family to turn evil. All four of his brothers become villains too, just to avenge him. The eldest brother breaks his leg, the second is kicked out of the army, and the third is abducted by hum
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Gossiping My Way Through Stories Set in Different Eras 在不同类型的年代文中,疯狂吃瓜
Xia Zigui was chosen by a System and brought from the 21st century to the 1980s. Not only did the System assign her two tasks, she also discovered to her surprise that the world she lived in was made up of different novels. With every step she took, the System might chime in to announce that a major character from some novel had appeared, and a random side quest had begun. Xia Zigui: If I weren't going to make money by completing these tasks, who'd bother with tasks that don't even have clear ob
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My Best Friend and I Transmigrated Together, and I Feast on Gossip in the Seventies 闺蜜双穿,我在七零年代吃大瓜
Please support my new book on my homepage~ [Transmigrate Into a Book + Couple Transmigration + System + Pocket Dimension + Family Life + Romance] There are countless transmigration stories, but car accidents account for half of them. She’s in an accident right after getting a new car, and she and her best friend transmigrate into a book. Her best friend is beautiful, fair-skinned, and long-legged, with handsome men always around her. She’s dark, skinny, and short-legged, running all over the pla
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The Gossip-Lover Wants to Stay Anonymous 吃瓜群众不想拥有姓名
Transmigrating into books is all the rage these days, and Zhu Yaya decided to get in on the trend. She transmigrated into the recent hit masterpiece, The Overbearing Him, Pure Love, along with a freshly launched, third-rate System. Transmigrating into a book was one thing, but she became a nobody with no screen time, just there to watch the drama unfold!! System: Your next task is to watch the drama. Zhu Yaya was secretly delighted. How hard could that be? So she started tailing the male and fem
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Digging for Gossip in the Seventies: The Educated Youth Earn Full Work Points Every Day 七零吃瓜,知青每天都是满工分
[Whole-village mind reading + gossip-watching + comedy + wild plot twists + everyone's darling] Xi Xixi died after slipping on a banana peel on her way to catch some juicy gossip. She was sent straight back to the 1970s. Patting her chest, she was relieved: at least she had a compensation gossip-watching System. Xi Xixi: As long as there's gossip to be had, I'll go anywhere! Her refined, dignified biological father, always wearing an angry expression, turned out to be a complete sucker: he suppo
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Everyday Life on the Margins of a 1970s Novel 七零小说边缘人的日常生活
[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
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Reborn in 1980, I Married a Lovely Wife with Heterochromia 重生80,娶了异瞳小娇妻
[Sweet romance] + [No System in this era] + [Everyday coastal foraging] + [Three chapters daily] Also known as: Coastal Foraging, Fish Filling the Hold, and My Lovely Wife with Different-Colored Eyes, Don't Worship Me! Zhou Chen is unexpectedly reborn on an island in the 1980s. Looking at his once-infamous self, he has barely begun to process things when the village chief shouts, “Zhou Chen, your bride is here! Hurry up and come get her!” Dazed, Zhou Chen steps outside and sees a girl following
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Transmigration: Bringing My Old House to Enjoy the Gossip in the 1970s 穿越:带着老宅在七零年代吃瓜
A lighthearted, hilarious novel with a strong female lead! Sent-down youth + transmigration + a pocket dimension She transmigrates as a sent-down youth, only to discover that her old family home from her previous life has come along with her. Watch her enjoy life on the quiet while gossiping her way through the 1970s! She starts out as a sent-down youth, then later returns to the city! A slice-of-life story! The heroine just wants to make the most of her everyday life, without much drama or gran
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The Great Gossip King of the 1970s: I Top the Village's Trending Charts 七零吃瓜大王,全村热搜我扛榜
[System + Watching the Drama Unfold + Period Setting + Sweet and Satisfying, Goofy Heroine x Scheming Big Shot, Immerse Yourself in the Glamorous World of 1970s Gossip!] I woke up to find I'd become a village girl in the 1970s, about to be sold off in a marriage swap. Faced with awful relatives and a limping old bachelor, I immediately bound myself to the [Gossip-Watching System]. Today, I crouch by the wall to listen to the accountant and the women's director split their ill-gotten gains. Tomor
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