Looking for Stories Set in the 1980s or 1990s, with No Rebirth or Transmigration into a Book 求八九十年代文，不重生，不穿书
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After Transmigrating to the 1980s and Becoming a Substitute Bride, I Became the Army Officer's Most Beloved 穿越八零替嫁后我成了军官心尖宠
[Transmigration + Substitute Marriage + Military Marriage + Stepmom + Mutual First Love] (Fictional Military Marriage + Everyday Life as a Military Wife) Yang Niannian, a college student, was so furious after losing ten ranked matches in a row in Honor of Kings that she blacked out and transmigrated to the 1980s. The moment she opened her eyes, her mother was pressuring her to marry, sobbing and sniffling all over her. “Lu Shishen is a soldier with a secure government job. If you marry him, you’
100.7kReads9.2Score12.7kShelves
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The Three Pure Ones Overheard My Thoughts, and the Primordial World's Plot Collapsed 三清偷听我心声，洪荒剧情崩完了
Zhou Qingqing transmigrates. She becomes a flower capable of absorbing spiritual energy and cultivating. Before she has time to celebrate, three Daoist masters descend from the clouds, saying they will split her into three to make a treasure for proving the Dao. [What the heck! They have a perfectly good innate supreme treasure, but they want to split it into three top-grade spiritual treasures. Are they stupid...?] Knowing that the Primordial World is a dangerous place and the Heavenly Dao cann
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A Golden Marriage 金婚
One is a fool in everyone's eyes, the other a young hoodlum in the village's eyes. Yet fate ties them together. Zhou Xing always thought himself above others, but never imagined he'd marry a fool and fill a whole house with children, boys and girls alike. What's more, in this life and the next, and the life after that, he only wants to be with her. At first, Li Zhi'an was terrified of living under the same roof as Zhou Xing, that bad man. Gradually, she came to accept him. In the end, she decide
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The 1970s: The Little Fool Only Clings to the Strongest Man 七零：小傻子只抱最粗的大腿
[Period setting + doting romance + genuinely silly heroine + devoted to each other] A lot of this is made up by the author, so don’t overthink it!!! The characters’ values do not represent the author’s. Song Jinxi’s family home was too small, so they kicked her out and sent her to live with her older sister, who was stationed with the army, to make room for her brother. She couldn’t do the chores properly, never got enough to eat, and had to put up with her sister’s scorn. The little fool manage
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I Married the Richest Man, Had a Beloved Baby, and Now All My Stepkids Are Overprotective Brothers 嫁首富，生团宠，继子全员护妹狂
The short drama adaptation, Shock! The Rugged Factory Director Is a Wife-Doting Maniac, is now available. (1980s + Married First, Love Later + Everyday Life Raising Kids + Family Matters + Rugged Husband Dotes on His Wife + Mutual Devotion + Beloved by the Whole Family) A beauty blogger travels back to the 1980s and becomes a woman four months pregnant. But she was supposed to marry a wild, rugged man with washboard abs and overflowing masculinity, so how did he turn into an old, ugly eunuch? An
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The Supporting Character Cultivates: I Have a Nitpicker System 女配修仙：我有杠精系统
The comic adaptation, Bickering My Way to Immortality, Driving the Cultivation World Mad, launches on August 23. Wen Yin transmigrated into a book. She became the stepping-stone female character in a male-oriented novel, the one who breaks off her engagement with and humiliates the Dragon Proud Heaven. “I told you back then: in thirty years, the east bank will be the west bank, and the west bank will be the east bank. Never look down on a poor young man! Wen Yin, here’s the divorce letter I pro
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The Only Daughter of the 1980s 八十年代独生女
Lin Zhizhi was born in 1980. The good news was that both her parents worked at state-owned factories. The bad news was that they gave up their secure jobs and headed south to find work. Her mother got a factory job, and her father started working on construction sites. Later, they started a small business and brought Lin Zhizhi to live with them. Little by little, she realized she’d become a rich kid. Told from the heroine’s perspective, this is the story of her parents starting a business in th
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In the 1970s: Picking Up a Madman as My Husband 七零年代疯批夫妇
Historical era + green tea schemer + obsessive love + unhinged + powerful lead + everyday family life + pocket dimension + food + healing + transmigrate into a book This is the story of two unfortunate souls saving each other. After transmigrating into the countryside as a little orphan, Ming Dai meets Zhou Sinian, a mad powerful man who loves wearing red headscarves. Under the protection of his reputation, she manages to establish herself in the village. Zhou Sinian was a cannon-fodder characte
157.7kReads9.3Score20.5kShelves
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Reborn in the 1980s, My Wife Was Assigned to Me by the Village 八零重生，媳妇儿是村里分配的
My new book, “Help! Everyone in the Sect Wants Me to Have Their Little Bunnies,” is out now. Feel free to check it out if you’re interested! [Cherished by everyone, adorable baby, doting husband, food] A sweet and silly lucky carp heroine + a burly, rugged husband who dotes on his wife Luo Jinxi had just come down from the mountain when she married the rugged Tang Qingping to repay a debt of gratitude. People from outside the village all laughed at them, certain she’d be bullied until she cried.
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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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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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The Only Daughter of the 1970s 七零年代独生女
[No transmigration into a book, no System, no pocket dimension.] [Period setting + farming + serving the motherland + technical expertise] A researcher who loves and hates fiercely versus a reborn diplomat Yu Yue fell asleep in the bath and woke up in the 1970s, as the only child in her family. First, there was her timid mother, who was willing to work herself to the bone for her family. Then there was her father, spoiled by his family and utterly self-centered. Timid Mom: “Let’s see anyone try
26.9kReads9.3Score2.4kShelves
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Reborn in 1980: The Professor's Fiery Wife 重生80，教授的泼辣小妻子
A modern food blogger transmigrates into the 1980s as the young wife left behind by a researcher. Thanks to her golden finger, money soon pours in. As they spend more and more time together, she falls in love with her responsible husband. Together, they witness all kinds of strange characters and support each other through thick and thin, eventually finding happiness and fulfillment.
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Back to Thirty Years Ago 重回三十年前
A magical watch lets her transmigrate back and forth between the present and thirty years ago. Thank goodness! This time, she has to seize the opportunity and save herself from her tragic fate.
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In Siheyuan, I Become Huaihua, the Poor Little One 四合院我成了槐花小可怜
The moment I opened my eyes, I had become Little Huaihua from the courtyard. The protagonist was absolutely terrified! Born into a family like this, the protagonist decided to cozy up to Lou Xiao'e to make sure she could grow up healthy. Auntie Lou was not only the only good person in the whole courtyard, but someone who might even sneak her off to Hong Kong one day.
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The Eighties: After Refusing to Get a Zero, I Made It into College 八零，拒考零分后，高考上岸
Yu Xiaoxiao was a poor student. She wasn't much good at studying, and her job was only so-so. She had no great ambitions in life. All she wanted was a job where she could slack off and live like a couch potato until retirement. Then, without warning, she found herself in the 1980s. With no particular talents to speak of, Yu Xiaoxiao was at a loss. She had no idea how to survive in such a harsh and unforgiving era. In the end, she chose the hardest path of all. A poor student to begin with, she s
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The 1970s: After Remarrying, the Lazy Mom Raises Six Kids! 七零：改嫁后，懒妈养了六个娃！
[Blended family + heartwarming child-rearing + parenting guide + no toxic relatives + well-behaved kids] Zhang Xiuhua was reborn in 1975, just after her educated youth husband abandoned her. Now she had to raise two children alone. In her previous life, after Zhang Xiuhua remarried, her second husband was full of schemes and her in-laws were unkind. To support the family, she had no choice but to work in a big city. Her children were left behind and grew up badly, and she regretted it deeply!
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A Tough Mystic in the 1980s, With a Handsome Husband Waiting at Home 八零玄学悍妻，家有娇夫待签收
A story set in a bygone era + Chinese metaphysics + mild supernatural elements + ghost-hunting + romance + strong heroine. No transmigration or rebirth; both leads are natives of the setting. [Brilliant, aloof genius with a goofy side, and no interest in men VS. A sharp-tongued, scheming, tsundere man with a poisonous-sweet manner] Tian Shiling, nicknamed Tianbao, is known in Qiantang Village as the coffin girl. Her mother died in childbirth, her father is unknown, and she was raised by the vill
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Back in the 1980s, Starting My Career Anew 回归八零再就业
While everyone else who transmigrates gets to live another life, Qi Xinlan loses twenty years of hers! One moment she's a thriving, ambitious administrative director at a multinational corporation; the next, she's a fifty-two-year-old woman. This is the bittersweet story of how the white-collar elite Cindy Qi became Auntie Qi to her neighbors. Her most promising son is gone, her daughter-in-law has run off, and a whole bunch of little children are left behind! See how a modern HR and administrat
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A Warm Autumn Breeze Blows Through the Lin Family’s Lane 小巷人家之秋风送暖入林家
A Little Alleyway + New Member of the Main Cast: Song Nuannuan Song Nuan, a worker born in the 2000s, transmigrates into A Little Alleyway and becomes Song Ying’s daughter. Having never watched the show, what fun new events will she bring to the original story? ⚠️⚠️⚠️Note⚠️⚠️⚠️ The Wolong-Fengchu couple is split up, and Huang Ling and Zhuang Chaoying get divorced. Don’t read if you don’t like that! Reader advisory: The heroine has no golden finger, and she hasn’t watched the show or read the no
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The Sequel to A Lane-Side Family 小巷人家之后续
The story of the people in the little alley continues. The odd couple are getting married, Zhuang Chaoying stops being blindly obedient to his parents, Huang Ling finally sees the clouds part and the moon shine, Song Ying and Lin Wufeng remain a match made in heaven, How will Zhuang Tunan and Li Jia carry on their love story? Who will Peng Fei's girlfriend be, and how will their relationship develop? Everyone's story continues, and a brighter future awaits the courtyard. (This is my own continua
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The Alley: The Married Life of Two Geniuses 小巷人家：卧龙凤雏的婚后生活
After the big family reunion dinner in A Lane for Families, the Hidden Dragon and Young Phoenix hold their wedding and begin their shamelessly sweet married life. What sparks will fly between them as they navigate marriage? And what kind of chaos will ensue once they have children?
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Life in a Small Lane: Engineer Lin and Song Ying 小巷人家之林工宋莹
At the National Day factory social, Lin Wufeng, a 25-year-old university-educated engineer from the Internal Combustion Engine Factory, falls in love at first sight with Song Ying, the Cotton Mill’s 20-year-old beauty, who has only a junior high school education and is performing onstage with an accordion. Thus begins his long journey to win her heart… One has a fiery temper and explodes at the slightest provocation, while the other is mild-mannered and remarkably even-tempered. To outsiders, th
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