Looking for Period Novels with a Beautiful, Refined Female Lead and a Capable, Intelligent Male Lead 求：年代文+女主貌美精致+男主有手段、有头脑
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- 51 The 1970s: I'm a Laid-Back Slacker Who Refuses to Compete 七零之我是咸鱼不内卷 [Transmigrate into a book + sweet romance + devoted couple + no personal space] Wen Shu closed her eyes and opened them to find herself the early-death ex-wife of a ruthless villain from the seventies! She'd not only thrown her weight around, taking advantage of her status as the beloved daughter of the team leader, but had also sent him straight to prison with a single accusation... Remembering the gruesome ending in the book, she shuddered. Then she waved her hand and decided to keep her head 8.8kReads8.4Score76114d adds
- 52 Book Transmigration: The Beloved Little Nobody of the 1980s 穿书：八零团宠小废物 Qi Yunyi opens her eyes and discovers that she has transmigrated into a book as the vicious female supporting character. In the early part of the story, she relentlessly bullies the male supporting character; in the middle, she relentlessly emotionally manipulates him; and later, she relentlessly curses his entire family. The male supporting character she bullies has the male lead for an older brother and the female lead for a sister-in-law. He’ll grow up to be a heartthrob himself, and most imp 2.8kReads8.5Score24214d adds
- 53 Indigenous Sisters with Sharp Wits in the 1970s 七零年代土著姐妹智商在线 (Period setting, traditional Chinese medicine, a female lead's everyday growth story) Yu Honglan, a traditional Chinese medicine student who was struck by a car, dreams her way back to the 1970s. As the youngest child, Yu Honglan thinks transmigrating will give her a chance to show off her skills, but her body is too small. Who could have guessed that her eldest sister is brave and resourceful, her second and third sisters are clever and patient, her eldest and second brothers are sharp and capa 1.2kReads8.1Score10414d adds
- 54 Reborn: My Stepsister Chooses a Scumbag, While I Marry an Officer 重生：继姐选渣男，而我转嫁军官 [Period setting + adorable kids + reborn + marriage before love + doted on by everyone] Hua Xi was reborn! She returned to the moment her parents called the two sisters over and asked whether they would choose the factory director’s younger son or the officer in the military. Her stepsister, who was doted on by their mother, had suffered a miserable life in her previous one after being sent to prison by a jinx. In her old age, she had ended up alone and wretched. Now she rushed to choose the fac 63Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 55 The Military Wife Is Both Sweet and Brave, and Her Officer Husband Risks His Life to Spoil Her 军嫂又娇又勇，军官老公用命宠 Pocket dimension + punishing scum + satisfying read + educated youth + military marriage Jiang Ling, a woman with special abilities, transmigrates into a frail supporting female character in a novel set in a bygone era. Her stepmother wants to marry her off to an old man in exchange for a bride price? Her biological father wants her to take the fall for someone else and go to the countryside so he can secure a brighter future? Jiang Ling clutches her chest and falls to the ground, then turns aro 25.9kReads9.0Score3.6k14d adds
- 56 The Soft and Adorable Young Educated Youth's Daily Gossip 软萌小知青的吃瓜日常 Chen Shuning didn’t know whether to call herself lucky or unlucky. The unlucky part was that she had a stable job and a comfortable life, but simply went shopping with her best friend and wound up caught in a fire at a huge shopping mall that had opened that very day. Just like that, she lost her life in the blaze. The lucky part was that when she opened her eyes again, she had not only come back to life, but had also seen her mother, who had been dead for many years. Though she had to go to the 3.1kReads8.1Score21514d adds
- 57 Help! The Big Shot Is Being Harassed by a Spoiled Brat 救命！大佬被作精女碰瓷了 Period setting + transmigrate into a book + self-interest above all + ordinary timespace + no going to the countryside Respect hardship, understand hardship, but don't suffer through it! Lin Ran transmigrated into a period novel as the vicious younger sister of the reborn heroine. Faced with the heroine's overwhelming plot armor, she chose to cling to a powerful patron rather than keep her head down or go completely off the rails. (And this patron wasn't the original heroine.) Oh! A car is comin 9.3kReads8.4Score70414d adds
- 58 Report, Commander: Your Grandson Took His Wife Out to Beat Someone Up Again 报告首长你孙子带媳妇又去打人了 [Complete + male lead takes the domestic role, female lead takes the career role + fussy, love-struck husband + daily face-slapping antics of the compound's little tyrant in the 1970s] Shen Xia transmigrated into an ongoing period novel and became a pitiful girl whose father didn't care for her and whose mother didn't love her. After transmigrating, Shen Xia accidentally discovered that something was wrong with her identity. She reported her adoptive parents, sent her adoptive father to labor ca 17.2kReads9.0Score2.3k14d adds
- 59 Military Marriage, Sugary Sweetness: The White Lotus Green Tea Girl Is Everyone's Darling in the 1970s 军婚爆糖：白莲绿茶在七零做团宠 “Fair-skinned beauty with a sweet, tea-like charm x outwardly cold, inwardly warm doting husband” After a plane crash, international superstar Jiang Qingrou transmigrated. An orphan in her previous life, she had somehow ended up in a big family in the 1970s. Her two older brothers spoiled her, and her parents treated her like a treasure. What’s more, in an era when people struggled to get enough to eat or stay warm, everyone in her family had a steady job, and she herself was the star of the dan 6.6kReads8.9Score78314d adds
- 60 The Soldier Devotes His Life to His Country, and His Wife Devotes Hers to Him and Their Home 军爷以身许国，军嫂许他也许家 [One-on-one, both leads are each other's first and only] [Stepmother + raising kids + doted on by the whole family + marriage first, love later] Lin Xi unexpectedly transmigrates to the 1970s. She becomes the real daughter who is disliked by her biological parents, forced to take the place of a fake heiress and marry her military officer fiancé, a man with three children from a previous marriage, and eventually dies of sorrow. In the book, her military husband dies not long after the original he 2.1kReads9.1Score22614d adds
- 61 Be Good! We Can Date, but Don't Tell Anyone 乖！处对象可以，别往外说 [Transmigrate into a book, historical era, feel-good story, getting rich, sweet romance] The moment she opened her eyes, modern office worker Jiang Xiaosui had become a notorious woman expelled from a workers’, peasants’ and soldiers’ college in the 1970s. To make matters worse, she realized she had transmigrated into a rebirth novel, becoming the miserable contrast character whose suffering highlighted the heroine’s happy life. According to the plot, her grandfather would lose his position as t 25.3kReads8.6Score3.3k14d adds
- 62 After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Took the Heroine Home as My Sister-in-Law 女配穿书后把女主拐来做嫂子 After Tang Tian is hit on the head with a brick, she transmigrates into a period novel, as a nobody not even important enough to be cannon fodder. She's the lovesick girl the male lead meets in the countryside, and a stumbling block on his way back to the city. With a new soul inside her, Tang Tian kicks the male lead to the curb without hesitation. She tells everyone he's hideous, with enormous nostrils that give her nightmares every night. A certain soldier quietly picks up a little mirror. Ye 15.2kReads9.4Score1.7k14d adds
- 63 My Nemesis and I Were Reborn as the Male Lead's Twin Older Sisters 跟死对头重生成男主的双胞胎姐姐 [Period Setting + Building a Career + Growing Together + Not a GL Romance + Almost No Romance] Who understands what it's like to transmigrate into a book at the same time as your archenemy, only to become twin sisters? Even crazier, their little brother is a future domineering CEO, but his family raises pigs? That's just hilarious! And even crazier, the two sisters are stepping stones for his rise and obstacles to the romance between the male and female leads. Hmph, being an obstacle is fine, bu 4.3kReads9.0Score62014d adds
- 64 In the 1970s, the Sweet Little Darling Was Spoiled by a Fierce, Wild Man 七零，小娇娇被疯批糙汉宠翻天了 (Complete) [Transmigrates into a book + period setting + sweet romance + heroine pursues hero + beautiful, fair-skinned, timid drama queen x villainous, short-tempered country boy] When Shen Yingying wakes up, she has become the villain's wicked little wife in a period novel. She wakes to find herself caught in the act of running away with another man by her villainous husband. She is so terrified she nearly dies on the spot. After all, the villain in the original novel is a violent, rough-he 59kReads9.3Score8.8k14d adds
- 65 From the Start, I Reported My Stepfather, Then the Frail Villainess Was Doted on in the Countryside 开局举报继父，病弱女配下乡被宠 [Space + System + Sweet Romance + Frail Heroine + Rugged Hero] Qiao Qingdai was an utterly ordinary office worker. She was 25 and had been single for years. One day, after work, she decided to treat herself. Instead, a woman fell from the sky and crushed her to death. She drifted around with a soul-reaper from the underworld for a while before realizing that they had taken the wrong soul... After a furious argument, Qiao Qingdai happily took the loot she’d scored: a treasure chest System and a p 18.8kReads9.0Score2.1k14d adds
- 66 Transmigrating to the 1970s: An Ancient Martial Arts Healer Marries the Commander 穿越七零：古武中医嫁首长 The eldest daughter of a family of traditional martial arts practitioners and Chinese medicine doctors transmigrates into the body of a pitiful girl with the same name in the 1970s. The original girl was the orphaned daughter of a martyr. She followed her mother into a second marriage, only to find that her stepfather was a wolf in sheep’s clothing, her stepbrother coveted her beauty, her stepsister stole her job and bullied her, and even her half-brother looked down on her. Gu Xitong, who has t 4.6kReads8.7Score52514d adds
- 67 The ’90s Bride Is Fierce and Wild, and Her Soldier Can’t Handle Her 九零媳妇又辣又野，兵哥H不住 (1v1 military marriage set in the 1970s) They say the Jiang family's twin sons are both exceptionally handsome and talented. The brothers made a name for themselves when they both achieved the highest scores in their respective arts and sciences exams across the province and got into prestigious universities. Sadly, although they look identical, their personalities couldn't be more different. The elder, Jiang Yize, is aloof and cold, with a na 4kReads8.8Score45014d adds
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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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- 69 EN 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 94.5kReads9.6Score8.6k14d adds
- 70 Go to College, Build the Power Grid! She Conquers the ’70s 考大学，搞电力！穿七零她赢麻了 ~A short drama is in production. Stay tuned!~ Gu Yaotang’s life dream is to be a happy, irresponsible gambling addict. Just as he runs farther and farther down the road to becoming a scumbag, his usually obedient daughter suddenly starts acting like she’s been struck by lightning. Every day, she rebels and finds new ways to torment him. Whenever this little devil of a daughter catches him gambling, she beats him up, then makes him work! Enough! Why should I put up with this? Gu Yaotang’s coun 20.6kReads9.0Score2.3k14d adds
- 71 The 90s: What Do I Do? I Reincarnated as the Brother of a Sister-Basher 九零，怎么办，穿成扶弟魔的弟弟 Ji Li, a woman with modern-day values, transmigrated into the body of a bizarre, mother’s-boy son in 1999. Not only was he a mama’s boy, he was a scumbag, and he had two older sisters who were still unmarried. At twenty-four, he was lazy and gluttonous, still living off his parents. And even after draining them, he had his sisters to leech off. From the start, his parents were deeply biased in favor of sons. To scrape together 180,000 yuan for the only boy in the family’s bride price, they plann 4.6kReads8.7Score46914d adds
- 72 Reborn in the 1980s: From the Start, I Took a Factory Job 重生八零，开局进厂打工 Ji Yunxi transmigrates into the role of a universally loathed supporting character, the female foil to the heroine. The heroine endures endless hardships without giving in, while Ji Yunxi lives in comfort, spoiled and cruel. During the 1987 wave of migrant labor, the heroine gets into college and finally holds her head high, while Ji Yunxi uses connections to land a job on an assembly line. The heroine lives out a romantic drama straight from real life every day, while Ji Yunxi seethes with jeal 47.5kReads8.4Score4.9k14d adds
- 73 Young Marshal, Your Wife Has Run Away Again 少帅你老婆又跑了 “My wife is a country girl. She doesn’t know anything about fashion, so don’t bully her!” the Young Marshal declared. The socialites and noble ladies whom the Young Marshal’s wife had completely overshadowed wanted to cry: Who was bullying whom, exactly? The Young Marshal added, “My wife is gentle and quiet. She doesn’t know anything about Chinese medicine or marksmanship!” The patients cured by his wife and the enemies she’d shot dead wondered: Young Marshal, are you blind? “My wife is tend 16.7kReads9.3Score2.3k14d adds
- 74 The 1970s: The Glamorous Heiress Transmigrates into a Book with a Trillion-Dollar Fortune 七零：美艳娇气包带千亿资产穿书 The young lady never lived through that era, so you can't expect her to have the same spending habits as ordinary people. [Not a poverty-relief story] [Sweet romance + period setting + transmigrate into a book + golden finger + feel-good power fantasy] [Both are virgins, one-on-one romance] Shanghai–Beijing–Hong Kong [Warning: The heroine is spoiled and not truly kind or beautiful inside! The hero is a lovesick fool! Don't get hung up on prices! If there are any plot holes, just treat them as au 24.9kReads9.2Score2.5k14d adds
- 75 I Woke Up! An Orphaness Strikes It Rich with Billions in Supplies 一睁眼！孤女携亿万物资暴富了 [Completed + period setting + educated youth sent to the countryside + stockpiling + clear-eyed heroine who firmly rejects emotional manipulation and is allergic to romance VS a dark, devoted male lead who plays the pig to eat the tiger and is every bit as calculating as she is] Pei Wanning had the same dream for a whole month. In it, she was an unwanted punching bag, abused by her parents with insults at best and beatings at worst. Fortunately, her aunt and uncle couldn't stand to watch, and to 12.2kReads9.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 76 Transmigrated to the 1970s: My Young Thug of a Husband Is Surprisingly More Than Meets the Eye 穿越七零，小混混老公竟深藏不露 (Transmigration + Spatial Dimension + Sweet Romance + Marriage First, Love Later + Raising Kids + Everyday Family Life) Su Xieqiu grew up with a father who didn't care for her and a mother who didn't love her. Her grandparents, who raised her, passed away early, too. After working hard to buy a home in a big city, she wakes up one day to find herself transmigrated to the planned-economy era of the 1970s. The original owner was an educated youth sent to the countryside. She was timid and a little 82.8kReads9.2Score7.6k14d adds
- 77 A Warm Marriage in the 1960s: She Sells Her Job and Moves to the Countryside to Marry a Veteran 六零暖婚：卖工作下乡嫁退伍军哥 [One-on-One Romance + Veteran Soldier + Rugged Hero + Beautiful Educated Youth + Pocket Dimension] Yun Yaotiao had a precognitive dream. In it, she relived her short, hardship-filled life over and over again. She lost the job her mother had left her. Her biological father sold it to support her stepsister, whom she'd never even met, then had the gall to say, “If you weren't so stingy about holding on to that job, Caicai wouldn't have had to go to the countryside. You owe her this.” Her stepmothe 2.4kReads8.9Score21014d adds
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So Alluring! One Tease from Her, and the War God Blocks the Door to Demand Marriage 娇引！她一撩，兵王堵门要结婚
[Audiobook now available] A cool-faced but warm-hearted martyr's orphan becomes a young educated woman sent to the countryside, and falls in love at first sight with an abstinent special forces soldier Pocket dimension + striking back against enemy spies + patriotism + two powerful, devoted leads + no self-sacrificing heroine + helping farmers prosper + one-on-one romance + devoted love In the 23rd century, Feng Moyan was an all-purpose killer developed by researchers and made to serve the organ
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- 79 The Officer's Seduction: I Get by in the Eighties by Acting Crazy 军官撩人：我靠发癫在八零吃肉 [Military marriage + period setting + System + face-slapping + sweet romance] In her previous life, Lu Yunxiang was taken advantage of from beginning to end by her cousin, a woman who seemed as pure and mild as a chrysanthemum, and who presented herself as kind and self-sacrificing. The job Lu Yunxiang had worked so hard to earn through exams was given away by her cousin to someone else. Her cousin signed her up to go down to the countryside, leaving her to endure endless hardships in the rural 11.8kReads9.0Score1.3k14d adds
- 80 Transmigrating to the 1970s: A Beautiful Miracle Doctor Marries an Officer with Her Supplies 穿七零：神医美女携物资嫁军官 [Period]+ [Military Marriage]+ [Divine Healer]+ [Supply Space]+ [Feel-Good Story]+ [Taking Down Villains] This story is entirely fictional. Please forgive any inaccuracies! Lin Yuexi is a legendary figure from the 22nd century. Her glamorous heiress persona is just a disguise. In reality, she has a host of mysterious identities: divine healer, assassin, and secret agent. Lately, she's been dreaming again and again that she transmigrates to a parallel world in the 1970s. In that world, the origi 1kReads8.5Score13914d adds
- 81 The Army Wife Has Triplets and Wins Over the Soldiers with Her Cooking 军嫂一胎三宝，美食征服兵哥哥 After Meng Qinghuan was caught in an explosion, her soul transmigrated into a novel set in the 1980s and 1990s. Not only had she become a pitiable cannon-fodder girl whose father had died, whose mother didn’t love her, and who was sold to an old man as his wife, she had also unexpectedly bound herself to a God of Cooking System and gained a top-tier kitchen with unlimited supplies! Meng Qinghuan promptly came up with a plan to escape her wretched family and make her mark on the food scene of the 700Reads7.6Score10514d adds
- 82 Reborn in the 1970s, I Marry a Rough-Hewn Man: The Miracle Doctor's Wife Has a Pocket Dimension 重生七零嫁糙汉：神医媳妇有空间 [Reborn + Metaphysics + Divine Healer + Rugged Man + Rich Beauty] Only after being beaten to death by her abusive husband does Tan Jingshu learn that she’s a disposable supporting character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. And the person who gives her a proper burial is none other than Qin Hanyang, the country bumpkin she looked down on most in her previous life. To repay him, after being reborn, Tan Jingshu marches straight to his door and demands marriage, becoming the quiet, unwant 175Reads9.0Score—14d adds
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