Any Novels Set in the 1940s or 1950s? Preferably Realistic, Without a Golden Finger 有没有四五十年代的书，最好不要有金手指，真实
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The 1940s: Conquering the Hard Years 四零：干翻艰苦年代
[1940s + Farming + Pocket Dimension + Artificial Intelligence + Growth] In a time of war, little Jiegeng was abandoned by her own mother. With her baby brother in her arms and the help of an artificial intelligence, she took one step at a time out of a small mountain village and grew into a towering tree.
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Transmigrate to the 1950s: Starting by Leaving a Mountain Village 穿越五十年代：从走出小山村开始
[A delightfully ordinary young man + everyday life + college entrance exams + hard work + one heroine] Just as Zhou Xingran's life was getting back on track, he suddenly transmigrated to a remote mountain village in the 1950s. His father doesn't care for him, his mother doesn't love him, and his family is dirt-poor. No matter. Relying on others is worse than relying on himself. So, first things first: he might as well get into college! P.S. The golden finger is very minor. The protagonist mainly
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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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Crying Through Childbirth, I’m Spoiled by a Powerful Man in the 1990s 生崽痛哭，我在九零被大佬宠上天
[Set in a bygone era + sweet romance + family life + building wealth + devoted one-on-one couple] Everyone at Big Willow Courtyard knew Gu Lin was a reckless hooligan who brought misfortune to his relatives. They warned their children to stay away from him, or they'd end up unlucky too. Mu Ning transmigrated into a period novel as the cannon-fodder ex-wife of a major supporting character. Her original body's fate was to die in childbirth. She touched her four-month baby bump and trembled with fe
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- 5 The Rugged Man Relentlessly Pursues His Lovely Wife, Beating Every Other Suitor Flat 糙汉猛追娇媳妇，捶扁所有野男人 [Period setting + 1980s + rugged man + everyday family life + sweet romance + road to prosperity + no System or pocket dimension] Ever since his wife stopped acting like a fool, every man around wanted to steal her away. Jiang Ye spends every day figuring out new ways to beat up all kinds of would-be rivals. If anyone so much as shows an interest in Lin Wan, Jiang Ye is there to give him a beating. Lin Wan can't believe she has a child with the very man who used to tug her braids, copy her homew 1.1kReads8.3Score103Shelves
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Reborn in 1975: From the Start, I Tore Up the Order to Return to the City 重生1975：开局撕毁回城调令
Zhou Yang, an unrivaled patriot who devoted his whole life to his country, was reborn and returned to the remote mountain village where he had been sent down to work in 1975! Looking at the transfer order in his hand, this time he didn't hesitate. He tore it to shreds! In his previous life, he'd been blinded by greed and abandoned his wife and daughter to return to the city, watching helplessly as Li Youwei and her daughter met tragic deaths. Reborn, all Zhou Yang wanted was a warm home with his
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Transmigrating into Everyday Life in 1940, Starting with the War Against Japan 穿越40日常生活，从抗日开始
From the start, he walks straight into a village massacre?? Wang Changying stares at this disastrous beginning, utterly dumbfounded. Then he turns and sees a little brother by his side. Well, it's not like he can kill him, so he might as well keep going. Huh, why does the Japanese family have so many good things? I'll take those off your hands! Every last good thing is coming home with me!
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- 8 I Transmigrate to the 1940s and Make Waves with My Space 穿越四零，我靠空间兴风作浪 [Alternate-History Power Fantasy] + [Strong Female Lead] + [War of Resistance Against Japan] Zhuang Jingzhu, a PhD who had returned from overseas, died alongside the ringleaders of a criminal gang to avenge her father. She transmigrated to another world much like Earth, where a great famine was raging and the entire nation was fighting back against the Japanese. Using her spatial ability, she cleared out Japanese weapon depots, grain stores, and hospitals, seized supplies to support the resistan 11.2kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
- 9 Transmigrated Into a 1940s Book: From the Start, It's Just Me, My Little Sister, and a Baby Fleeing for Our Lives 穿书四零：开局就剩妹妹带娃逃命 High school student Jiang Jiyun was innocently caught in the crossfire while watching an incident out of curiosity, then transmigrated to an era torn apart by war. It was the setting of a historical novel she had read, where she became a nameless passerby who was killed off without ever appearing in the story. From the start, Japanese soldiers swept through the countryside, massacring the entire village. After burying the original owner’s mother, Jiang Jiyun set out with the child entrusted to h 14.3kReads9.1Score986Shelves
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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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Back to 1985: My Self-Serve Porridge Stall Is a Hit 重回八五，自助粥摊火爆了
(Her Own Woman) To escape her stepfather's clutches, Su Miao falls from the 13th floor and travels back to the day her parents divorced when she was a child. She sees through her mother's cold, indifferent nature and her habit of endlessly spoiling her younger brother. This time, she chooses without hesitation to go with her father. When her uncle tries to secure a permanent job, he blocks the door and raises a huge ruckus. Su Miao leans close to her father's ear and whispers a few words. Her fa
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An Army Wife in the 1980s: Growing Vegetables on the Snowy Plateau 八零军嫂，雪域高原种菜忙
A military-marriage and farming novel. The early chapters feature plenty of conflict and foreshadowing, and the story is set in the early 1980s. If you can’t accept the mainstream attitudes of that era and prefer feel-good wish-fulfillment stories, this may not be for you. Your support keeps me writing. I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Please keep your comments civil. I’m grateful to every reader who takes the time to read. Qian Duoduo, a post-00s college student, goes back in time afte
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I Went to the Countryside as a Sent-Down Youth in 1970 我去1970年当知青
Alternate title: I Went to 1970 to Become an Educated Youth. Real title: After Transmigrating, I Was Driven Crazy. When I transmigrated, I planned to keep my head down and stay timid forever. But before long, I was driven into becoming a brawling mad dog, an insane educated youth who would flip the table and walk away the moment anyone crossed him.
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- 14 Strategic Maps in a World at War: Blades of Chaos 烽烟智图：乱世兵锋 He was the most absurd figure on the Songhu battlefield: With a bowl of toasted wheat bran in his left hand and a 1932 copy of the Shen Bao in his right, he calculated the Japanese landing coordinates with pinpoint accuracy amid the cookhouse smoke. While everyone else fought tanks with broadswords, he turned soy sauce barrels into bombs, used leg wraps to measure mortar trajectories, and even pinpointed the command post from the Japanese army’s menu. From a “madman” with a gun pointed at his he 6Reads—Score—Shelves
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Reborn as a Widow in the 1970s 重生到七零年代当寡妇
In her previous life, Song Xiuxiu was so stupid she got herself killed, and dragged her daughter down with her. Reborn, she no longer fears the judgment of others. She decides to be a happy little widow and raise her daughter like a princess. But why has the husband who was supposed to be dead in her previous life come back? And why is he forcing her to join his army post and have a second child? In his previous life, Lu Aiguo lost the love of his life. Given a second chance, he never expected t
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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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- 17 The Milky Way Fades Beneath the Moonlight 月光下的星河流失 My new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support gives me the motivation to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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A 1970s Military Marriage: That Couple's Both a Little 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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- 19 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 21.7kReads9.2Score3.2kShelves
- 20 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 4.3kReads9.0Score620Shelves
- 21 Reborn in 1980: From the Start, I Married My Sister’s Best Friend 重生1980：开局迎娶姐姐闺蜜 [The new novel Reborn in 1975: I Want It All, From a Loving Wife to a Fortune in Scientific Research is now a hit! Click the author's name to read it!] Li Yi is reborn, back in a small mountain village in 1980! When Tang Xue asks him to marry her once again, he doesn't hesitate. His answer rings out loud and clear: “I do!” In his previous life, he was blinded by his own foolishness and watched helplessly as Tang Xue fell into darkness! With a second chance at life, he swears to make her the happ 11.7kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves
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A Genius Shines Wherever They Go 天才在哪都发光
A strong female lead with a sharp mind and grand ambitions transmigrates bodily from the primordial world to Earth. At first, she absorbs knowledge on Earth; midway through, she transforms the primordial world; and later, she follows the male lead to the Beast World continent, where she makes her mark!
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A Stay-at-Home Dad Takes the Top Scholar Exam 奶爸考状元
During a foot-washing session, a room inspection sent him fleeing. He fell and transmigrated into an alternate era, becoming a farm boy. In his previous life, he was an older unmarried man. After transmigrating, he inherited a family and had a daughter, but his wife ran away. A liberal arts graduate can't compete with engineers, and he's no good at stirring up trouble or inventing groundbreaking technology. Without an overpowered System or a golden finger, all he can do is make a living with his
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- 24 The 1950s: After a Fake Marriage to the Commander, He Takes It Seriously 五零：和首长假结婚后，他当真了 [Alternate History] [Everyday Life] [Face-Slapping] [Raising Children] [Sweet Romance] [Male Lead] Su Jinnian transmigrates to the impoverished, backward 1950s and discovers he is in the world of a period novel. He is a doomed cannon-fodder character whose early death was kept under wraps. Abandoned by a scumbag, he has a baby on the way. His mother dies in childbirth, and he is sent to be raised by his scumbag father. His father’s sweet-talking wife, a two-faced schemer, treats him poorly and a 3.2kReads7.5Score254Shelves
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Reborn in the 1960s: The Poor Orphan Girl Is a Secret Heiress 重生六零年可怜孤女是隐形富豪
Su Tiantian is reborn in the 1960s as an orphaned daughter of a fallen martyr. After her parents sacrifice their lives, her vicious uncle and aunt seize her inheritance and sell her to human traffickers. Fortunately, she has supernatural powers and an unlimited storage space. She sends the whole family to prison, then does the same to her awful aunt when she tries to steal her property. She takes on rotten relatives and human traffickers, uses her space to empty the enemy nation's granaries and
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- 26 The Road to Success 拼搏之路 [No contrived tropes] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural] [Urban] [Military] [Romance] [Traditional] [A little angsty, sweet and tender] [Public security] [Arrests] Centered on the exemplary Li Feng, this story follows his inspiring journey as he strives to develop his talents and achieve success. The protagonist, Li Feng, embodies the earnest and solid nature of working people, the diligence and perseverance of a student, the sound political and military qualities of a People's Liberation Army soldier 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Fleeing for Our Lives 逃难 Synopsis In the late 1970s and early 1980s, as the country was just beginning its reform and opening-up, feudal thinking remained widespread, especially in rural areas. Set in a village on the Henan Plain during the early years of reform, this novel tells the love story of Zhang Chao and Li Na, along with the hardships they endured behind closed doors. Hoping for a son, Zhang Chao traveled far and wide with his wife and children. After weathering countless hardships and finally achieving their g 697Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Lover Who Stole My Heart 心动的恋人 The Lover Who Stole My Heart 8Reads—Score—Shelves
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After I Transmigrated into a Book, My Sons' Golden Fingers Merged with Mine 穿书后我和儿子们的金手指合并了
[Twins + Space + System + Book Pavilion + Military Marriage + Everyday Parenting] The male lead is basically just a background character, though he gets a little more screen time later on. Qiu Yinuo transmigrates into a book, becoming the vicious supporting female character in a period novel, as well as the future commander’s plump wife, who dies young. As the wife of a powerful man, she has everything she could want, yet she makes trouble at every turn and ends up bringing about her own death
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- 30 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 34.6kReads9.5Score4.4kShelves
- 31 1972: The Youthful Years of the Red Flag 1972，红旗招展的青春年代 [Period] [Book Transmigration] [Reborn] [Sent-down youth] [Great Northern Wilderness] [Scheming male lead] [One heroine] [Pure romance] [Smart characters] [Decisive and ruthless] [Black market] [Political career] [Countryside] [Special historical era] In the spring of 1972, as Chu Miaohong rode a train to the Great Northern Wilderness to join a rural work team, she casually tossed an old envelope into the wind. Meanwhile, in 2024, Zhang Hongcheng happened to come into possession of an old, worn- 70.9kReads9.3Score6.9kShelves
- 32 A Woman in a Man's Body: Living Off Women in a Period Novel 女穿男：我在年代文里吃软饭 [A woman transmigrates into a man’s body, with some fantasy elements] When Zhou Shan transmigrates to the 1960s, she opens her eyes to dizziness and weakness in all four limbs, experiencing firsthand what it means to be starving to death. She doesn’t feel the slightest thing about having become a man. Just as she’s so hungry she can barely keep her eyes open, she hears a father and daughter nearby, picking over their choices: “Is there anyone you like?” “Too ugly. Black and skinny, like a charre 6.5kReads9.4Score562Shelves
- 33 I Refuse to Go to the Countryside in the 1960s, and the System Scores Me a Job 六零不下乡，系统暴击出工作 [Period Setting + System + Villain + Shameless + Few Annoying Characters + No Sent-Down Youth Plot + Satisfying Read + Never Overthinks] (How do you keep awful people out of your life? By becoming the worst one yourself, of course.) Transmigrating into a book isn’t scary. What’s scary is ending up as the vicious cannon-fodder character destined for a tragic fate. Look at He Ruixue’s family: her eldest brother is reckless, and her sister-in-law is fierce. Her second sister and brother-in-law are 21.2kReads7.9Score1.8kShelves
- 34 The 1970s: The Villain Turns Out to Be Me 七零：反派竟是我自己 [Madwoman heroine who can snap at any moment, fiercely protective hero who fights dirty; enter at your own risk if you mind, and please don’t complain if it’s not your thing. Thanks for understanding.] [Period setting + pocket dimension + golden finger + doted-on heroine + reborn hero + childhood sweethearts + both leads are ridiculously powerful] After ten grueling years fighting her way through a doomsday game, Jin Liutao was reborn. She found herself in a period novel, becoming the younger si 221Reads8.2Score111Shelves
- 35 I Transmigrate to the 1960s, Where a Woman from the Stars Sells Men to Build Her Fortune 穿越六零，星际女卖男人发家致富 (Transmigration + pocket dimension + no romance + strong heroine) Wei Wei, an interstellar mecha engineer, was testing a new mecha on a desolate planet when she was ambushed. To grasp a chance at survival, she piloted the untested mecha and tried to escape. Little did she know that her leap would take her across not only space, but time as well. When she opened her eyes, she seemed to have arrived in 1963 in China, in the body of a five-year-old girl. She immediately found herself facing a deadl 11.4kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
- 36 Pretty Eighties Stepmom Marries a Factory Director and Raises the Kids 八零漂亮后妈，嫁个厂长养崽崽 [Short drama: I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s] The 1980s, stepmother, raising kids, everyday life, love after marriage The moment she opens her eyes, Si Nian finds herself in a period novel as a fake heiress. She’s sent back to the countryside to marry a twice-married man in place of the real heiress, and has to raise a whole brood of children. To make matters worse, she runs into the real heiress, who has been reborn. In her previous life, Lin Sisi was pressured by her family into marrying a 56kReads9.4Score7.2kShelves
- 37 Four Years of Marriage Without Seeing Her, Then the Soldier King Sees Red When She Asks for a Divorce 结婚四年不见，提离婚兵王急红眼 [1970s + raising kids + period setting + farming + pocket dimension + marriage first, love later + military marriage] Jiang Xinyue transmigrated, but she wasn’t the heroine. She was the fat, ugly, and notorious cannon-fodder ex-wife in a period novel about a stepmother raising children, whose husband was the male lead. What? The heroine was reborn and deliberately stole her man and her kids? Jiang Xinyue rolled up her sleeves and refused to take it lying down. A cannon-fodder who doesn’t want to 4.5kReads8.9Score542Shelves
- 38 After Cutting Ties, the Real Heiress Moves to the Countryside 断绝关系后，真千金下乡了 An Ran was preparing to become a landlady when a bolt of lightning sent her to the 1970s. She became the real heiress in a story about a real and fake heiress, and a stepping stone for the fake heiress heroine. An Ran wasn't having it. After cutting ties with her family, she dusted herself off and moved elsewhere to join the rural youth relocation program. She was going to live a wonderful life of her own. Family? She didn't need them. Whoever wanted them could have them! 5.2kReads9.1Score503Shelves
- 39 The Glamorous Youth Educated Woman of the 1970s Is Spoiled by the Strongest Officer 七零美艳知青，嫁最强军官被娇宠 [System Pocket Dimension, Transmigrating to the 1970s, Beautiful Educated Youth, Handsome Officer, Sweet Military Romance, Mutual Devotion, Adorable Child, Building a Fortune] Song Fuyu inherits the family business and successfully turns the company into a multinational corporation. After defeating the enemy who killed her parents, she gets into a car accident and transmigrates into the 1970s, becoming a pitiful girl with the same name. After the original Song Fuyu’s mother dies of illness, he 12kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves
- 40 Reborn Heiress: Young Master Ye's Beloved 重生大小姐：夜少的心头宠 [Reborn + 1v1 Sweet Romance + Secret Identities + Adorable Baby + Portable Space + ...] In her previous life, her scumbag boyfriend and a malicious woman joined forces to betray her, leaving her to die a tragic death filled with bitterness and regret! Only when she was dying did she realize she'd given her love to the wrong man, while the man who loved her with all his heart had died because of her! At death's door, she finally came to her senses! When she opened her eyes again, she had been r 4.7kReads9.1Score639Shelves
