Any Good Period Novels Without a System, Apocalypse, or Interstellar Setting? 有没有好看的年代文，没有系统，末世，星际的文
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A Master of Medicine and Beast Speech, I Won’t Stay in This Loveless Marriage in the 1980s 精医术，通兽语，八零这活寡我不守了
[Transmigration + rebirth + pocket dimension + spiritual energy + medicine + military marriage + adorable baby + marriage first, love later + revenge] Xin Yuanyuan, a military doctor in the special forces, accidentally transmigrates to 1980 and becomes a woman unloved by her parents, rejected by both her former and current in-laws, and branded an immoral tramp by the villagers. Her in-laws threw her out three years ago. She's frail, penniless, and has nowhere to turn, with a sickly daughter to c
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Back to the 1970s: The Little Zombie Mom Takes Her Child to Find His Dad in the Army 穿七零，小丧尸带崽找爹随军了
[Military marriage + special abilities + pocket dimension + adorable child + advancing the nation through science] After a dual wood- and space-element zombie with special abilities dies alongside her scumbag boyfriend, she wakes up in the body of a dimwitted girl in the 1970s. A fool is loved, and her tough grandmother calls the shots. When someone picks on the fool, Grandma opens her eyes and gets to work. The little zombie hands her a stick for a sneak attack, then claps in delight. Before sh
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I Traveled a Thousand Miles to Join My Husband, Only to Be Rejected? The Military Wife Is So Capable, the Nation Has Its Eye on Her 千里奔夫被嫌？军嫂太强国家盯上
[Romance] [Military Marriage] [Agricultural Research] [Pride and Prejudice] Renowned agricultural scientist Lin Hongying has become a country girl who traveled a thousand miles to join the army and seek refuge with her fiancé. She is dressed in rags, gaunt and sallow, and seems both unsophisticated and uneducated. Everyone tells her arranged marriages never bring happiness. Everyone looks down on her and despises her. Look down on her? Despise her? So what? She has a heart full of ambition to
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When the Mother-in-Law Takes Charge, Her Son Returns to a Shocking Sight 婆婆当家，儿子归来傻眼了
For the two years since her son got married, Yang Yufen never showed up. Everyone said she was a mean mother-in-law who looked down on her daughter-in-law, Qin Nian: she didn’t help when Qin Nian was pregnant, and she was nowhere to be seen when her grandson became seriously ill. It wasn’t until Qin Nian had an accident and the child died that Yang Yufen finally came to her senses. At the hospital, she saw her missing son with a homewrecker. She slapped him, only for the woman to shove her down
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The 1970s: The Beloved Lucky Charm of the Family 七零：团宠锦鲤小福包
[Pocket Dimension + Wood Ability + Cute Pets + Heaven’s Favored Daughter] Old Mrs. Lin had the same dream for several nights in a row. In it, her old man grinned from ear to ear and held out a chubby baby to her. “Old woman, hurry and take our little lucky charm!” The dream felt so real that she could clearly remember the crescent-shaped birthmark on the baby. Old Mrs. Lin was still wondering what it meant when, the very next day, her third son’s wife gave birth to a chubby little girl. She look
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Period: A Sweet Kid-Raising Diary 年代：养甜崽记事本
[Period setting + alternate history + farming + raising kids + devoted husband + cozy daily life + making a fortune] Shen Anning raises children, geese, and fish. She wears so many hats she never gets a moment's rest, and sometimes she goes around the village with a bamboo switch, “chasing” people. Chasing what? The kids! The geese! Daily life: Shen Anning, holding a bamboo switch: “I heard someone was causing trouble.” Hao: “We didn't do anything!” Yao: “It definitely wasn't me!” Zhou Mingze: “
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The 1970s: My Son and His Dad Both Have Off-the-Charts IQs 七零：崽和崽他爹智商双爆表
{The short drama is now streaming ♥ Title: The Best Mom in a Period Novel} [Alternate-history period setting + transmigrating into a book + adorable child + cozy everyday life] After transmigrating into a book set in the 1970s, Su Taotao faced two choices: 1. Follow the original plot, abandon her husband and child, return to the city, and rekindle her romance with her childhood sweetheart; 2. Do nothing and wait for her husband of convenience to show up six months later and take her back to the
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My Wicked Mother-in-Law Went on a Rampage After Being Reborn, So I Took Her Place and Won by Doing Nothing 恶婆婆重生后杀疯了，我替嫁躺赢
[70s setting + military marriage + period drama + substitute marriage + family life + face-slapping + transmigration and rebirth] Su Qing was dazzlingly beautiful. Her friends jokingly called her a “strong, whiny monster.” She had countless admirers, and had beaten up countless scumbags. She never imagined she’d transmigrate into the body of a pushover. The pushover had been worked like a beast at her parents’ home, and even her marriage had been used as a pawn. Since her family refused to retur
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Transmigrate to the Middle Ages: Become a Manor Lord and Make a Fortune 穿越中世纪：成为庄园主发家致富
A medieval fantasy farming story. Mu Qiao is a spirit born from a roadside weed. When he first took human form, an elderly couple found him and raised him as their child. He grew up in the countryside. He doesn’t have any special abilities. At most, he can make nearby plants grow a little faster and become a little more lush. One day, he wakes up and somehow finds himself transmigrated to another world inhabited by humans and beastfolk. And he’s a manor lord, too! He thought a medieval noble man
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Period: I Plucked This Aloof Beauty 年代：这支高岭之花我摘了
[A fierce top with a bad back × a tough, foul-mouthed bottom] [A powerful couple]+ [A roguish village bully bottom + an aloof, elegant educated youth top]+ [Bonus chapters written however the author pleases] Shu Xiu had hardly ever fallen for anyone in his life, but the newly arrived educated youth was the one who tripped him up. It wasn't that he lacked self-control. The truth was, this educated youth was just too handsome. Brother Xiu, ruthless in his ways and hard of heart, had only one weakn
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Apocalypse: The Little Enchantress Is Spoiled by a Cold, Proud Big Shot! 末世，小妖精被冷傲大佬甜宠了！
[Apocalypse + Transmigration + Sweet Romance + Fierce Protectiveness + Zombies (Evolving Plants and Animals) + Superpowers] [Flower-Blooming Little Sprite & Cold, Arrogant Superpowered Big Shot] [In truth: An innocent little sprite who’s lived for three thousand years, loves a fight, and can crack a skull with one swing & A doting, overprotective parent who keeps psyching himself up] A little sprite transmigrates by sheer bad luck after powerful beings from another world start fighting. She’s ba
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The Wicked Supporting Character in an Apocalypse Novel? I’ll Be Arrogant While I Can 末世文恶毒女配？嚣张一日是一日
(Published) [Heroine’s return + space + interplanar trade + zombie crystals + mutated plants and animals] After Jiang Yuntan died suddenly from working through the night, she transmigrated into an apocalypse novel. The good news: She became a wealthy young lady with a handsome, rich fiancé. The bad news: She was the vicious female supporting character, her fiancé was the male lead, and she arrived just after pushing the heroine into a horde of zombies. The family heirloom jade bangle her fiancé
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70s Military Marriage: The Couple’s a Bit Crazy 七零军婚：那两口子都有点癫
[Period Setting + Inventory Space + Comedy + Wish Fulfillment + Two Golden Fingers] Ruan Qiqi spent ten years being treated for an illness, and her condition was perfectly stable. After leaving the hospital, she unexpectedly transmigrates to the 1970s, into the body of a country girl who has just been dumped by her scumbag fiancé. Nearly everyone around her is awful. But she isn't afraid. She has a space packed with supplies, a golden finger, and nine lives, so she can do whatever she wants with
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Machinist in the Red-Hot Era: Helping the Pioneers Forge Great Weapons 火红年代机械师：我助先辈铸重器
It was a fiery, passionate age, but also one of scarcity and backward technology. Jiang Xia transmigrates into this era. He sees the giant bending machine in the workshop break down and grind to a halt. He sees the older generation laboring for the nation’s industry and defense, eating rough cornbread and working late by lamplight as they chart a path to national strength on sheet after sheet of paper. He can’t bear it, and he can’t accept it. The System he has is barely useful; only the fault a
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Back to the 1960s: My Parents Chose Their Adopted Daughter Over Me 重回六零，爹妈为了养女不要我了
Period setting + strong female lead + pocket dimension + revenge against everyone who wrongs her + taking on nasty relatives + family life + building wealth Her biological parents take in children who already have two living parents in the name of doing good deeds, then abandon their own children in the countryside to fend for themselves. They even try to make their biological daughter take the blame to protect their adopted daughter. And she is brutally avenged upon, beaten and gang-raped... He
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Working at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative: My 1960s Buying Spree 就职供销社，我在60年代搞代购
With a loud crash, Xu Jiaojiao, from the twenty-second century, survives an air disaster and transmigrates to the resource-starved 1960s, with three years of famine looming. Luckily, she has the “Buy-It-All Shopping Group” golden finger. She lands a job through a supply-and-marketing cooperative recruitment drive and gets a secure government job for life. Brown sugar, meat buns, milk, chocolate... While everyone else chews grass, I snack on dates. I’ll stockpile the good stuff until the warehous
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Transmigrate to the 1970s: The Fragrance of Fine Wine 穿越70之美酒飘香
Wen Qing, a former border defense soldier from 2019, transmigrates to a parallel world's 1970s. Given another chance at life, he cherishes it all the more. Becoming an educated youth is no problem: he earns his place at university through his own efforts. In his farming pocket dimension, he grows sorghum, corn, rice, and more, then brews fine liquor and savors life.
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After Dying, I Return to the 1970s to Keep Myself Alive! 嘎了后！回到70年代续命！
Transmigration, both leads are faithful to each other, a military marriage, the heroine has a personal supermarket, grow a little ginseng and raise a cute pet One moment, she was being groped by a handsome 180-centimeter-tall guy in a mask. As he groped her, he confessed his love with deep feeling. “Get the defibrillator!” The next moment, she’d been handed a whole new life, waking up shivering on a heated kang bed in Northeast China. From then on, her merit points were maxed out and she shone
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Transmigrated as a Cannon-Fodder Female Educated Youth in the 1970s, I Give Up 穿成70炮灰女知青，我摆烂了
Liang Yuying is an ordinary office worker from the twenty-first century. She never expected to wake up and somehow find herself in the 1970s. “Oh, heavens! I’ve never done anything truly wicked, so how did I end up transmigrating...” Luckily, she’s bound to a trade System that claims to come from the Luoyun Star System, so at least she has a golden finger. See how Liang Yuying escapes the miserable fate of a cannon-fodder supporting female character and thrives in the 1970s.
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Living in the Siheyuan 混在四合院
This is a story about a courtyard compound, though you could also see it as a prequel to the TV series. See how they got through the three hard years, and how their personalities changed. No angst, no liking to fight, and no sexual content. I started writing this after reading too many courtyard-compound novels, but I didn't really like any of them. I understand that tastes differ, so I made up a story of my own. I hope you like it, and I hope to eventually write it through to the Reform and Ope
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Siheyuan: The Good Life 四合院之美好人生
After transmigrating to the 1960s, Zhang Zhifei becomes an ordinary resident of a Beijing courtyard compound. At first, all he wants is to shut the door, live a quiet life with his younger siblings, and leave his mark on the era. Unfortunately, a small temple attracts big demons, and a shallow pond is full of turtles! In this little three-courtyard compound, there’s Yi Zhonghai, the “Virtue Venerable” known as the “perfect man”; Liu Haizhong, a power-hungry “official wannabe” and domestic abuser
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The Fishing Enthusiast of the Siheyuan 四合院的钓鱼佬
After transmigrating to a courtyard home in the 1950s, she has both her parents and activates a Fishing System, letting her happily go fishing! The story is cheerful and heartwarming, with a relatively peaceful tone. She lives a comfortable little life in a courtyard full of troublemakers.
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Siheyuan: Fishing for All Things Under Heaven 四合院：垂钓诸天万物
Lin Shaowen got drunk at a class reunion. After sleeping and waking up, he inexplicably arrived in the world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming Lin Shaowen, an outstanding graduate of Beijing College of Chinese Medicine. He had just graduated from university and now faced a choice: should he become a promising full-time doctor at Union Hospital, or an obscure factory doctor at a steel mill? Without a second thought, Lin Shaowen chose to become a factory doctor. There was no helping it. Sending a
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1960: Transmigrating to Nanluoguxiang 年代1960：穿越南锣鼓巷，
New novel: Reborn in 1980: The Life I’ve Always Dreamed Of Also known as Li Laifu’s Happy Life in 1960s China. (No angst, comedy, farming, and everyday family life.) A short drama, comedy animations, and AI short dramas are now available.
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Transmigrating to 1970: The Fish in the Pond Finds Love 穿越70之池鱼有喜
This story is set in a fictional world. Please don’t take it too seriously. [Ensemble cast in small doses / combat powerhouse / storage space / crafting expert / gossip and farming / taking down scumbags and getting rich] Jiang Yu has been struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world plagued by natural disasters since she was eight, and along the way she was forced to master the craft of fixing broken things. After an accident, she transmigrates to the 1970s. Reborn as a pitiful girl abused
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The Sixties: I’m Just a Bystander in a Military Wife Comparison Novel 六零：我在随军对照文里当路人甲
[Alternate-history period setting + transmigration into a book + military marriage + everyday life + raising kids] Xu Cuhe originally thought she had transmigrated into this world halfway through her life, without receiving any memories. She was completely at sea in the resource-scarce 1960s. Her aloof military-officer husband, a love letter from her first love... Problems kept coming one after another, and she scrambled to adapt. It wasn’t until she met the heroine of the book and triggered a d
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Transmigrating to the 1970s: The Legitimate Daughter Is a Super Mom 穿七零，嫡女当妈超会养
[Ancient Times to Modern Day + Military Marriage + Period Setting + Island + Grasslands + Mutual Devotion] After taking revenge for her mother, Song Shuqian, the legitimate daughter of a general’s household, arrives in 1968 and becomes the daughter of a capitalist family. She thought she could enjoy life without a care, since her family was wealthy and she was an only child. But in 1968, being a capitalist’s daughter meant danger. To escape her predicament, she impulsively marries Wei Jianguo, a
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A Fearless Heroine Brings a Port-Sized Storage Space to the 1960s 飒爽女侠带港口空间穿六零
[Overpowered space + transmigration to a bygone era + formidable heroine + a huge golden finger] The early story takes place in the countryside of Northeast China, and the later story in Hong Kong. A coming-of-age tale with no scummy characters and no angst, warm, bold, and fierce in tone. Set in a fictional world, so don’t scrutinize the prices too closely. As the story progresses, the heroine’s chivalrous heart and brazen tactics come further to the fore. ♥ In 2023, security-industry ace Lian
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After Transmigrating into a Book, I Take the Children to Find Their Long-Dead Father 穿书后我带孩子找到他们早死的爹
[Transmigrate into a book + 1950s + daily life + raising children] Su Zhaozhao stayed up all night finishing a period novel. When she woke up, she’d been tossed into the book’s world as the male lead’s early-deceased ex-wife, a character who wasn’t even given a name and was barely mentioned. He thought she was gone, and she thought he was dead. The ex-wife struggled to survive with her two children until exhaustion took her life. Then Su Zhaozhao landed in her place… In this era of shortages, Su
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Kicked Out of Her Family: The Middle School Dropout Strikes It Rich 滚出家后：初中学历的她，发财了
[Period setting, farming] + [Family and neighborhood drama] + [The 1990s] + [Everyday modern life, no golden finger] + [Female entrepreneur] She was the second daughter, overlooked by her family, with an ordinary appearance, an ordinary background, and only a junior high school education. He was born into an eminent family and had power and prestige to spare. She was the least promising daughter in the Li family, and her parents were certain she would never amount to anything. With only a junior
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The 90s: Ever Since I Stopped Being Filial, I've Had the Sweetest Smile 九零，自从不孝后我笑的可甜嘞
In her previous life, Li Xingjian’s reputation was ruined before she could return home. Her biased mother demanded that she give her childhood sweetheart and fiancé to her younger sister, then forced her to sacrifice herself to secure her sister’s future. “You weren’t pure to begin with. Even if I let you marry, who would want you? Once your sister makes something of herself, she’ll spare you a bite to eat. I’m only doing this for your own good, aren’t I?” Her useless father turned a blind eye t
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Who Starts Farming by Sending Three Piglets as a Gift? 种田谁家男主开局送礼送三只猪崽
Completed. Dive in without worry! (Farming + No golden finger + Family life + Romance + Building a fortune + Cozy + No awful characters) No System! No pocket dimension!! No golden finger!!! No awful characters!!!! (We’ve said it three times because it’s important. The male lead appears late. The story focuses on building a career, with romance as a side plot x3.) Baihua Cave is a village deep in the mountains, home to nearly a hundred households. Everyone says it’s a poor and remote backwater. S
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I Became an Army Wife in the 1970s 穿到七零年代当军嫂
[Period]+ [Space]+ [Family Life]+ [No Going to the Countryside] Xu Di was born in the 1980s. After graduating from high school and failing to get into college, she spent two years working a sewing machine in a clothing factory. At twenty, she found a match through a blind date, got married, and had a child. In 2020, Xu Di, who was always bottling up her anger, was diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer. She underwent surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy, and her short life came to an en
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Building a Fortune, Starting with Sharing a Cowshed with My Veteran Husband 发家，从和退伍老公睡牛栏开始
(Period setting + self-reliance + raising children + daily life + countryside) Chen Yu was jolted awake by a bucket of cold water. When she opened her eyes, she saw a coffin hanging from the rafters. It turned out she'd been sleeping in a cowshed. She had just transmigrated to the late 1970s when her stepmother and her three children schemed to sell her. Luckily, she'd learned self-defense in modern times. She beat up the two traffickers along the way and stripped them of their clothes. With now
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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.
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A CP Falls from the Sky: The Actress Is Forced to Work 天降CP：影后她被迫营业
[Story complete] A female war goddess from the apocalypse transmigrates and is reborn as a scandal-plagued star. From then on, Jiang Jiu’s haters become the most miserable people on the internet, and nine out of ten directors she works with go bald. There’s no variety show Jiang Jiu can’t wreck. If there is one, it must be sponsored by her own company! The world’s richest man, a genius director, and a chart-topping singer all marvel: “How can our little sister be so beautiful?” One day, film emp
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The Nation’s Movie Emperor Has a Secret Crush on Me 国民影帝暗恋我
Word is that national heartthrob Yu Qianfan has someone he secretly loves? Fans: “No, I don’t believe it! He loves us!” Word is that the person Yu Qianfan secretly loves is Queen Li? Fans: “Li Jin? No way! Those two don’t get along. This rumor is definitely false!” During a variety show game, Yu Qianfan put his hand on a lie detector. Host: “I heard you have a secret crush. Is it Li Jin?” Li Jin shot him a cold look. Yu Qianfan answered, “No.” Zap! The red lights flashed, and the alarm blared. L
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The Heiress Returns: My Vision Is as Grand as My Motherland 千金归来：我的格局是祖国
[Completed, Cool-Tempered Heroine + True Heiress of a Wealthy Family (The Family’s Real Darling) + The Main Story Is About Soldiers and Family Bonds + No Male Lead] Liao Xu, the long-lost heiress of the Su Group, one of the capital’s top wealthy families, returns after fourteen years. The upper crust is thrown into an uproar. Everyone assumes a prestigious family must care about appearances. This true heiress, they think, has nothing going for her but her stunning looks. How could she compare to
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The Whole Family Are Good-for-Nothings, Beaten into the Textbooks by a Centenarian Granny 全家废物，被百岁老太揍上教科书
Fu Ying devoted her life to her country, earning countless honors and leaving behind legends in every field, along with more big-shot disciples than anyone could count. At a hundred years old, she was forced into retirement. She asked someone to help her find her long-lost blood relatives, hoping to spend her remaining years surrounded by family. But when she returned to a remote mountain village, she discovered things weren't as wonderful as she'd imagined. Her nephew had died, and his dreadful
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I’m a Max-Level Ancestor. What’s Wrong with Raising a Few Hundred Million Kids? 我满级老祖，养亿点崽子怎么了
The short drama adaptation, My Xuanmen Ancestor, Why Do My Kids Spoil Me So Much?, is now streaming. [Spirit monsters + wish fulfillment + wacky comedy + supernatural + absurd humor + a mash-up of everything + no male lead (the heroine shines on her own)] (All the spirit beasts in the main cast have pictures. The full collection is in the book’s featured posts, so feel free to check them out!) After Shi Ruyi, the last heir of the Xuanmen, restores her body and descends the mountain, she discover
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Getting Paid to Slack Off in the 1960s 在六十年代里带薪摸鱼啦
Yun Li had just graduated from graduate school when she woke from a nap, only to find herself in a 1960s alleyway. Luckily, there was the pocket dimension she’d accidentally activated, with a house and car stocked full of supplies... Huh, there was a sign-in System in the pocket dimension now, too. So it was the one that had brought her to this era. Ah, why did this little System love gossip as much as she did? These leading men and women had way too much melodrama in their lives. Still, getting
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