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Please Recommend Famine Novels Set in the 1950s and 1960s, Especially Highly Rated Gems 求推荐59_60年代饥荒文,求高分佳作

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  1. 51 Broke in the 1950s? I’ll Empty My Enemies’ Fortunes 穿五零穷叮当?我搬空仇人家产 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted An alternate-era setting, transmigration into a book, a spatial realm, supernatural powers, famine, and a powerful protagonist. Xia Yurou, a powerful psychic from the post-apocalyptic world, transmigrates into the youngest daughter of a military commander in an era novel. Her father died young. For the jade pendant her own daughter has been longing for, the female protagonist's mother locks her best friend's daughter in a supply crate bound for overseas, where the girl suffocates to death. Late 16.7kReads8.6Score1.3kShelves
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  2. 52 The Transmigrated Cannon Fodder's Life as an Educated Youth 穿书炮灰的知青日常 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + no black-market trips + devoted couple + pocket dimension + special abilities] Ling Yunyue wakes up as a minor character, a young educated youth about to be sent to the countryside. She snaps to her senses and quickly starts stockpiling supplies, determined to keep her distance from the male and female leads. But she accidentally runs into another minor character. Huh? Why is this one so different from the book's description? Zou Sikang never imagined that after blowi 12.7kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
  3. 53 Reborn in the 1990s: Kicking My Scumbag Ex to the Curb and Becoming a Mogul's Darling 重生九零脚踹渣男做大佬心尖宝 Modern Romance492k WordsCompleted [Rebirth + sweet romance + love after marriage + warm and healing + everyday child-rearing + everyday wealth-building] Only after Juzi died did she learn that she was a character in a tragic romance. In the story, she gave birth to a daughter, only to be looked down on by her mother-in-law and resented by her good-for-nothing husband for not bearing a son. He was even secretly seeing the factory director’s daughter. Unable to take it any longer, Juzi divorced him and took her daughter with her. 3.2kReads9.2Score396Shelves
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  4. 54 Transmigrated Straight into the Army: I Married a War Hero and Found My Happy Ending 穿越即随军,嫁给兵王我圆满了 Modern Romance278k WordsCompleted [1970s, Military Marriage, Pocket Dimension, System, Double Happy Ending, Sweet Romance] Mu Youyou, a graduate student in the twenty-first century, is transported to the 1970s by a rookie System on its first mission. It has found the wrong Host and forgotten the mission, too. Since she is already here, Mu Youyou decides to make the best of it. With a pocket dimension and a System at her back, she has nothing to fear. But what is going on with this decorated soldier she is contractually married t 31.4kReads9.4Score3.5kShelves
  5. 55 The 1970s: Gorgeous! I Marry the Rough Man from My Dreams on My Wedding Night 七零:漂亮!新婚夜改嫁梦中糙汉 Modern Romance277k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + 1970s + System Shop] After transmigrating into a book set in the 1970s, the female supporting character, Jiang Ning, found that her fiancé, the male lead, had run off. Without hesitation, she married the country bumpkin no one in the village wanted to go near. The man was all muscle and incredibly handsome. Most importantly, he knew how to treat her right. On their wedding night, Jiang Ning gave him her heart and soul. Even when all they had to eat was coarse grain an 9.3kReads9.0Score932Shelves
  6. 56 Transmigrating to the 1970s, the Young Lady Makes a Fortune and Raises Her Kids 穿越七零大小姐发家致富养崽崽 Modern Romance264k WordsCompleted [Complete] [Marrying a rugged man + pocket dimension + raising kids + building a career] Yu Wen arrived in the 1970s with a pocket dimension and was about to become a mother. With her pocket dimension at her fingertips and her wits to guide her, she raised her child and built a career at the same time. In the 1970s, she found love and achieved success in her work. Yang Hao: My wife makes so much money. What do I do if I feel like a kept man? Asking for a friend... (This is a fictional setting. I 3kReads7.5Score133Shelves
  7. 57 I Transmigrated to the 1970s and Learned to Take Life Easy with My Pocket Dimension 穿越七零我靠空间咸鱼了 Modern Romance290k WordsCompleted Gu Xi, who never had the love of her parents in the twenty-first century, transmigrates to the 1970s with billions' worth of supplies. Her original body's owner was the pampered darling of the family. To avoid being found out, Gu Xi chooses to go to the countryside. Gu Xi decides to keep her head down until the policies change, make a little money, and buy a few courtyard houses so she can keep living quietly. College is out of the question for someone as bad at studying as her. But why are you 7kReads9.2Score784Shelves
  8. 58 After I Was Forced to Marry a Sickly Educated Youth, I Got a Cheat 被迫嫁病弱知青后,我开挂了 Modern Romance514k WordsCompleted [Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Devoted Couple + Golden Finger + Strong Female Lead] Jian Huai'an suspects his true form might actually be a mermaid. Seriously, why else would he be in the water after dying, and why would such a beautiful mermaid be swimming toward him? After discovering he'd transmigrated into a book, Jian Huai'an thinks his luck has finally turned. But he soon realizes that his transmigration has amounted to nothing. A golden finger? Yes, but pra 1.6kReads8.9Score170Shelves
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  9. 59 After Going to the Countryside, the Female Educated Youth Is Doted on by a Future Senior Officer 下乡后女知青被未来首长娇养了 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Period Setting + Transmigration + Swapped Marriage + Devoted Couple + Marriage First, Love Later + Beloved by the Whole Family] Lin Xia never imagined that all she had to do was take a vacation, only to find herself dropped into a whole new world. There, she meets a group of people. When someone spreads rumors about her, Lin Xia has just started rolling up her sleeves when her future mother-in-law pulls her behind her and swings a huge broom. “You dare bully my Xiaxia? Try d 2.9kReads8.5Score236Shelves
  10. 60 Back to the 1970s: Bringing Hundreds of Billions of Supplies to the Army 重回七零,带上千亿物资去随军 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [1970s setting + reborn + one-on-one sweet romance + taciturn, rough-edged man + delicate beauty + pocket dimension + mutual flirting] In her previous life, the man Su Ranyan went out of her way to avoid was swept away by a flood while saving her. That heroic scene came back to haunt her in her dreams, again and again, reminding her of the depth of the love she had missed. Fortunately, Heaven took pity on her and sent her back to the day the man asked her for a divorce. This time, she won’t let 17.2kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
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  11. 61 Bandit Village in the Republic of China 民国土匪村 Urban2.1M WordsCompleted Period-drama fans, come take a look! (Not a wish-fulfillment story, no ghosts or gods, no System.) It covers romance, household intrigue, bandits, fierce resistance against the Japanese, fleeing famine, and the lives of educated youths. Everyone who’s read it says it’s great! Hei Niu and Xiu Zhen could have lived happily together, but because Xiu Zhen was so beautiful, bandits set their sights on her. By then, Hei Niu had become the chief steward of the Huang family estate. He learned that ban 3.8kReads8.1Score401Shelves
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  12. 62 Reborn in the 1990s, I Strike It Rich with the System 重生九零,拥有系统的我暴富了 Modern Romance470k WordsCompleted Shen Anning was over thirty, unmarried, and had no children. She had spent her life searching for her younger brother, who had been kidnapped. At long last, she found him, but an accident sent her back to her childhood. Her brother had yet to be born, her parents were still young, and none of the tragedies had happened. She swore that in this life, she would protect the people she wanted to keep safe. 1.1kReads7.4Score101Shelves
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  13. 63 Reborn in the 1970s: Enlisting with a Spirit Spring 重生七零:带着灵泉去当兵 Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Reborn in a single moment, Su Yao returns to 1976 with a Spirit Spring space. She enlists in the army and sets out on the path to turn her life around! In the military, she uses her skills to put fake sweethearts in their place, crushes every scumbag, and rises through the ranks until she becomes a legendary female soldier admired by all! He is the military’s cold and proud prodigy, the Gu family’s heir. Unstoppable on the battlefield and a detached observer of political schemes, he has eyes onl 1.8kReads7.9Score197Shelves
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  14. 64 Back to the 1970s: I Won't Be a Castoff 重回七零,不做弃妇 Modern Romance3.2M WordsOngoing [A chronicle of an ordinary village woman's life in the 1970s.] [A slice-of-life ensemble story focused on family matters and everyday life.] [No pocket dimension, supernatural abilities, or golden finger. The romance is limited, and the heroine has no love interest and won't support anyone financially.] [No black market or college entrance exam.] At sixty, Qin Xiaomei is abandoned by her own son. She suffers a sudden stroke, falls on a strange city's street in twenty-below-zero weather, and fre 431Reads8.6Score—Shelves
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  15. 65 Transmigrate to the 1960s and Become a Pretty Widow 穿越六零成为俏寡妇 Modern Romance350k WordsCompleted (Content warning: The heroine is ten years older than the hero. She’s a player and isn’t sexually inexperienced, so proceed with caution!!!) Shi Lan, a carefree, troublesome party girl who loves the high life, transmigrates to the hardship of the 1960s and gets three new labels: married, mother, and widow. From the start, she’s being introduced to a prospective match. As if! She thinks her new identity is pretty great: she has money and status, and gets to be a mother without the pain of childbi 7kReads9.2Score555Shelves
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  16. 66 The Comfortable Life of a 1950s Orphan with a Pocket Dimension 五零空间孤女的小资生活 Modern Romance644k WordsOngoing The heroine, Wang Yaxin, transmigrates to the 1950s as an orphan whose parents have both died. In this era of scarcity, with disaster looming, Wang Yaxin has a supermarket space at her disposal. She never has to worry about food or drink, works hard to get ahead, and earns a place at university. But that soldier... I just want to live my own life. Could you stop trying to be my stepping stone? “Tao Zhen, stop following me.” “I have to. I need to protect you.” “I don’t need your protection.” “I’m 2.1kReads6.4Score—Shelves
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  17. 67 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世,我用道术搬空仇人仓库 Modern Romance913k WordsCompleted An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan 795Reads—Score—Shelves
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  18. 68 Turning the Tables in the Civil Service Exam: Climbing the Ladder from the Interview Onward 公考逆袭:从面试开始一路攀登 Urban3.3M WordsOngoing People's affections are as thin as paper, and the world changes like a new chess game with every turn. Li Xiuyuan starts at the grassroots level, driven by a desire to get ahead. He takes one steady step after another, climbing higher with every move! 696.6kReads9.2Score51.8kShelves
  19. 69 My Ungrateful Son Abandoned Me in a Famine Year, So I Bring Modern Grain to Fill My Barns 逆子荒年抛弃我,我通现代粮满仓 Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Pocket dimension + passage to the modern world + farming + selling wild vegetables + family life + no romance] Synopsis: While fleeing famine, Lu Minggui is pushed over by her own son and falls to her death. When she wakes again, she's back before the famine. She discovers that a bloodstained wooden hairpin can take her to a mysterious world! From then on, she digs up wild vegetables, sells them, and earns silver. When famine strikes, she not only survives, but also leads her son and daughter 13.4kReads8.6Score1.8kShelves
  20. 70 I Brought My Twins and Divorced My Husband at His Wedding 我带着双胞胎,在丈夫婚礼上离婚 Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + historical setting + pocket dimension + love grows over time] Fictional setting! Fictional setting! Fictional setting! Please don’t nitpick the historical details. This isn’t a wish-fulfillment story. It’s about everyday family life, told at a gentle pace. Shen Ruyi wakes from a nap to find herself transmigrated into a period novel, as the former wife in an arranged marriage to the male lead, a character who gets only a few lines before dying young in the countryside. 55.2kReads8.3Score8.3kShelves
  21. 71 The Poorest County Magistrate's Wife in History Leads the Whole County to Prosperity 史上最穷县令夫人带全县百姓赚钱 Ancient Romance993k WordsCompleted Hang Ying, head of a reclusive modern-day clan, dies during an expedition and transmigrates into Yingzi, the wife of Xu Mengran, a penniless county magistrate in the Great Chu Empire. Who ever heard of a county magistrate being poor? Well, this one wears a patched robe, and his wife earns money washing and mending clothes to help him pursue a career in the imperial examinations. They have no maids or guards, the yamen runners look down on them, and a rich young lady even comes to their door to b 517Reads7.0Score—Shelves
  22. 72 Reborn in 1958: Grandpa and Grandson Stockpile for the Famine Together 重生58爷孙空间联动囤爆灾荒年 Urban666k WordsOngoing Peng Yi built his fortune from nothing, amassing billions, only to have his own children pull the plug and abandon him in his final years. He died full of hatred. Kneeling before the grave of his beloved Su Wanqing as he drew his last breath, he learned that she had once carried his child. At just twenty-three, she had died in a famine, and mother and child had suffered every hardship life could bring! Heaven had shown mercy: Peng Yi was reborn in 1958, on the eve of their flight from famine! A 3.4kReads—Score291Shelves
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  23. 73 Transmigrated to 1970, Suddenly a Mom of Nine 穿越1970,喜当9个孩子的妈 Modern Romance1.3M WordsOngoing Main characters: Zhao Wenting and Li Sixi [Period Setting + Information System + Transmigrate + Everyday Family Life] Zhao Wenting has transmigrated. There’s one piece of good news and one piece of bad news. The good news: she has a golden finger, an Information System. The bad news: she has nine kids from the start, more than the Calabash Brothers. Looking at the three children who are about to be sent to the countryside, Zhao Wenting rolls up her sleeves and starts toughening them up. As a res 22.3kReads8.3Score1.7kShelves
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  24. 74 The 1970s: I'm Done Being Cannon Fodder 七零之炮灰不干了 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Lu Xining woke up one day to find that she had become a cannon-fodder supporting female character with the same name in a novel set in a bygone era. The story was about Zhao Zhizhi, the village brigade leader's daughter. In her previous life, Zhao married a commune official, had three children with him, and was then abandoned. Reborn, she took revenge on the scumbag and married the male lead, a young intellectual, and they lived happily ever after. As for Lu Xining, she was the cannon fodder who 216Reads7.6Score—Shelves
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  25. 75 The 1970s: Kicked Out of the Family, I Was Taken Home by a Cold-Faced Military Officer 七零:被赶出家门冷面军官抱回家 Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Sweet and delicate heroine + rugged military officer] (fictional military marriage + moving to the army base with a child + stand-in bride + stepmother + devoted couple) Chu Yue, a genius medical student, works herself to death during an overnight shift in the emergency department. When she opens her eyes, she has transmigrated to the 1970s and into a blended family. Her birth father is a spineless coward, her stepmother is shrewd, her stepsister stole her university admission, and even her you 15.9kReads8.7Score1.8kShelves
  26. 76 Forced Into Marriage as a Stepmom! After Joining the Army, the Abstinent Big Shot Gets Addicted 逼婚当后妈!随军后禁欲大佬上瘾 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period setting + military marriage + stepmother + raising kids + sweet romance] After Su Manli dies from heart palpitations caused by working late, she discovers she has transmigrated into the body of a beautiful but brainless villainess in a sweet military romance novel. The bold villainess got a big shot from the military district drunk and dragged him into bed on their very first meeting, all to force him into marrying her and secure her position. As Su Manli watches the man beside her slowl 7.7kReads8.8Score675Shelves
  27. 77 Transmigrate into a Book Set in the 1970s and Take the Mall with Me to Join the Army 穿书七零带上商城去随军 Modern Romance2.2M WordsCompleted You can transmigrate just by stepping into thin air? That's something else! An Su Su opened her eyes and discovered that she had transmigrated into the body of a supporting female character with the same name in the very book she'd been reading. Just yesterday, she'd been complaining to her roommate about what a piece of work this character was, saying she must have rocks in her head and that she'd never live like her, constantly getting criticized behind her back. How could anyone be happy that 3.7kReads8.2Score555Shelves
  28. 78 Third Uncle's Niece 三大爷的外甥女 Female-Channel Fanfiction803k WordsCompleted She transmigrates into a courtyard house in the 1950s and becomes the Third Master's niece. She changes the lives of the Third Master and his family, ensuring that he and his wife are cared for in their old age and no longer so miserly. They live happily ever after. 653Reads6.4Score115Shelves
  29. 79 A 1970s Army Officer Is Forced to Marry, but His Whole Family Spoils Her 七零军官被迫娶妻,奈何全家宠爆 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Alternate world + transmigration + pocket dimension + military marriage + cozy daily life + sweet romance + devoted couple] A family of three sets out on a road trip, but how did she end up alone in the barren countryside of the 1970s? Where are her parents? Spoiled since childhood, Qiao Anxi is completely at a loss. Her original body's so frail that she clearly can't carry heavy loads or do hard labor. What is she supposed to do? Oh, it looks like she got a handsome soldier fiancé thrown in, t 5kReads8.7Score561Shelves
  30. 80 Awakened in the 1970s: With My Own Space, What Have I to Fear? 年代土著觉醒,我有空间我怕啥 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [1960s + Native Awakening + Upgradeable Space + Sweet Romance] Xu Suian grew up safe and sound until she was sixteen. One day, her cousin pushed her over, and she hit her head. A heavenly book appeared in her mind, and she learned that she was merely her cousin's cannon-fodder foil. Her cousin, the heroine, is kind and resilient. She reforms her parents, who favor sons over daughters, escapes her awful grandmother and other parasitic relatives, marries a government official, and has adorable chi 4.5kReads6.9Score266Shelves
  31. 81 Transmigrating to the Eighties: My Husband and Kid Are Both Jealous Types 穿越八零老公和崽崽都是醋精 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Kids + Gourmet + Farming + Building Wealth] Mu Xixi, a young woman of the new era, has just graduated and is about to return to her hometown to help revitalize the countryside. On the way home, one misstep leads to a lifetime of regret: she tumbles down a mountain and somehow winds up in the 1980s. She transmigrates into the body of a lazy, greedy, foolish, wicked woman, and there’s a poor little one to care for, too. Luckily, she has the golden finger every transmigrator needs 247Reads8.0Score—Shelves
  32. 82 Reborn in the 1960s: I Strike It Rich with My Farm 重生六零,我靠农场钱多多 Modern Romance1.6M WordsCompleted Qian Duoduo was completely confused. What was going on? How had she ended up here overnight? It was freezing cold, cold enough to kill! She looked down at her red quilted jacket with tiny flowers and her miniature hands. Could she have become one of the transmigration brigade? If she had to transmigrate, couldn’t she have landed somewhere nicer? Winters in the Northeast could freeze you to death. But why did that older boy from the east end of the village keep hanging around her? Did he know she 688Reads8.0Score104Shelves
  33. 83 The 1970s: After the Breakup, I Marry My Ex's Uncle 七零:分手后,我改嫁前对象小叔 Modern Romance585k WordsCompleted (Period setting + pocket dimension + marriage first, love later + face-slapping scum + sweet romance + family life) Heroine: Speaks her mind, fierce and sharp-tongued, and never afraid to speak up or throw a punch. Hero: Speaks, but says little. Dotes on his wife, does whatever she says, and is cold on the outside but warm-hearted underneath. (Romance takes a back seat, but when it’s there, he dotes on her nonstop.) Su Manman, a space-wielding esper from the apocalypse, died in a battle against 7kReads8.5Score634Shelves
  34. 84 A Military Marriage in the 1960s: Farming and Raising Kids 六零军婚:种田养崽日常 Modern Romance503k WordsCompleted [Military romance in the 1960s] [Takes down the original novel's leads] [Family and village life] [Beloved by all] [Leads the villagers to prosperity] [Self-interest comes first] Jiang Muyao transmigrates into a book. Her character is a disposable villainess in the 1960s, just after years of famine. She's used until every bit of value has been wrung from her, then abandoned. Right from the start, she sends the original male lead to haul manure, steals the original female lead's spotlight, and ev 5.2kReads8.8Score309Shelves
  35. 85 The Eighties: After Refusing to Get a Zero, I Made It into College 八零,拒考零分后,高考上岸 Modern Romance3.8M WordsCompleted 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 7.6kReads8.9Score393Shelves
  36. 86 Period: The Strongwoman and Her Virtuous Husband 年代:大力女和她的贤良夫 Modern Romance538k WordsCompleted [Super strength + marriage first, love later + no relocation to the countryside + a good job + siheyuan] Good news: Lu Zhenzhen, who was killed by one swipe of a mutated tiger in the apocalypse, wasn't quite dead. She was reborn in another world. Bad news: She was reborn in the world of a novel, and didn't even qualify as the second female lead. The author had deliberately made her a hapless punching bag to make the protagonists shine! Knowing full well she was the hapless one, Lu Zhenzhen immed 1.9kReads7.4Score150Shelves
  37. 87 Reborn in the 1980s: The Lovely Beauty Becomes the Commander's Wife 重生八零:娇美人成首长太太 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Cozy Everyday Life] In her previous life, Xu Weilan was framed by her stepsister and married off to a rough country boy, while her stepsister took her place and married into a military family in the compound. After they married, the country boy went into business and became a famous tycoon. Xu Weilan became a wealthy wife, riding around in a car and living in a Western-style mansion. Women all over the city envied her. But her stepsister was left alone in an empty house. Q 1.5kReads8.9Score197Shelves
  38. 88 The 1970s: Smooth Sailing and Happy Days 七零年代:顺风顺水好日子 Modern Romance627k WordsCompleted One day, Zhao Manyi suddenly realizes she was born into a different era. Wait, isn’t that woman across the way the heroine from the TV drama The Virtuous Daughter-in-Law that I watched with the old folks in my family as a kid? And that lovely young neighbor, praised by all the aunties as capable and virtuous, able to handle everything inside and out, turns out to be the exact opposite of me, the hapless foil who can’t lift a finger or shoulder a load!!! The reborn army-wife heroine, the hardw 15.5kReads8.6Score1.3kShelves
  39. 89 With a Pocket Dimension, the Young Couple Bravely Takes on the 1960s 手握空间,小夫妻勇闯六零 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Transmigration / 1960s / Personal space / Married couple / Raising kids Zhang Tingting and her husband, Guo Jun, join forces and bring their personal space with them as they brave the 1960s. They fulfill their dream of having and raising a big family, use the supplies in their space to get through the famine years, and build a happy life together. 2.2kReads8.2Score156Shelves
  40. 90 The 1970s: Reborn for Another Chance 70年代,重生再来一次 Modern Romance735k WordsCompleted Synopsis: Reborn in the 1970s + everyday life raising children + joining the army family + cozy daily life + college entrance exams + starting a business Lin Xin arrives in the 1970s with a portable space. She goes to the Gu family and takes the place of the original owner, caring for three children. Life in Dahe Village mainly revolves around the Gu family's everyday affairs. A series of events unfold as she joins the army family and raises children. The college entrance exams resume in 1977. I 311Reads—Score—Shelves
  41. 91 Period: A Sweet Kid-Raising Diary 年代:养甜崽记事本 Modern Romance3.0M WordsOngoing [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: “ 1.2kReads8.6Score108Shelves
  42. 92 Reborn in 1960: I Have a Divine Cauldron Space 重生60,我有神鼎空间 Urban2.8M WordsCompleted Zhao Guoqiang died alongside the demolition crew, never imagining that the incense burner in his own main room was a divine artifact. After accidentally becoming the master of the Bronze Divine Cauldron, he was reborn as another man named Zhao Guoqiang. Inside the cauldron's space were towering mountains, lakes, and mighty rivers. What delighted him even more was that the cauldron could condense holy water. Time already flowed ten times faster inside the space than in the outside world. With the 547Reads7.4Score102Shelves
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  43. 93 Paying One Billion in Taxes a Day, and You Call This a Village Collective Enterprise? 日交税十亿,你说这是村集体企业 Urban523k WordsCompleted Zeng Fanchao, the richest man in Beihu Province, catches the eye of people who want to seize his family fortune for free. When he refuses, Liu Batian, a prison warden who holds the low ninth rank, sends men to sever his tendons, force-feed him a drug that robs him of his voice, and throw him from a cliff over a hundred meters high. He crashes down onto the land temple beneath the cliff, smashing it to pieces. His own body is shattered, too, but the blood flowing from him is mysteriously absorbed 587Reads6.4Score—Shelves
  44. 94 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Control the Life and Death System 四合院:开局掌控生死系统 Urban1.8M WordsCompleted From the start, he gets a Life and Death System and hypnosis abilities, sending him straight to the top. The Life and Death System can extract life force from anything alive, including animals, plants, fish, and humans. It can also pour life force into any living thing, though the effect is halved. Extracting life force from a century-old tree yields fifty years' worth, which can be poured into a sapling to instantly make it grow to the size of a fifty-year-old tree. Animals work the same way: e 14.4kReads8.1Score813Shelves
  45. 95 Reborn in 1960: The System Helps Me Rule the Hunting Grounds 重生60:系统助我猎界称雄 Urban345k WordsCompleted Li Changsheng became a thirty-year mortgage slave after buying a home with no down payment. With housing prices falling and his job gone, he was on his way home when he kindly helped an elderly person who had fallen, only to be extorted by them. So he simply dragged them along to die with him, ridding the world of two bad people. Unexpectedly, he then received a Cloning System and transmigrated, reborn into the body of another Li Changsheng in 1960. See how Li Changsheng uses the Cloning System 839Reads6.1Score—Shelves
  46. 96 In 1979, I Helped the Whole Village Become Ten-Thousand-Yuan Households 我在七九帮全村成就万元户 Urban267k WordsCompleted Chen Sheng and seven good friends explore the Nanshan Cave and obtain the innate spiritual treasure, the Boundary-Breaking Pearl, which lets them travel back and forth to an era thirty years in the future. From then on, they begin a career smuggling goods between the two worlds. Back home, they open brickworks, a sand quarry, clothing factories, and furniture factories. They buy up centipedes and leeches, and become the first in the world to cultivate bamboo fungus commercially. Once every house 584Reads8.0Score—Shelves
  47. 97 I Fish with Dragon Blood, and Every Fish and Shrimp in the Sea Goes Wild 我用龙血钓鱼,海中鱼虾都疯了 Urban1.3M WordsCompleted Fishing with dragon blood sends every fish and shrimp in the sea into a frenzy. Tempering my body with dragon blood and making a name for myself with dragon fists. I use dragon dung and urine in my space to grow ginseng and tea plants. Every year, I drip another drop of dragon blood beneath the tea plants. Regularly drinking the tea they produce delays aging, strengthens the body, promotes longevity, fortifies the bones and sinews, beautifies the skin, turns white hair black, and even boosts vir 733Reads8.6Score150Shelves
  48. 98 How to Chase Away Worries? Fish Until Your Cooler Overflows 何以解忧钓鱼爆护 Urban744k WordsCompleted Zhang San used to be a street vendor selling leather shoes. When the city launched a campaign to become civilized, street vending was banned. Just as he found himself out of work, his girlfriend betrayed him and ran off with the savings he had built up over six years of selling at his stall. Drunk, Zhang San went fishing by the river and unexpectedly hooked a Shanhe Ring. The ring had been forged by the Primordial Immortal Venerable from fragments of worlds and various heavenly treasures. It con 1.2kReads8.7Score103Shelves
  49. 99 A Fisherman Across Time and Space: A Blood-Soaked Fight Against Japan 钓者跨时空:浴血抗日行 Urban130k WordsCompleted In a parallel world, in Heishui Town, Hanjing City, a false nation on the Dark Star, Zhou Jianhua accidentally discovers a time machine created by the previous civilization in its final days in an attempt to save the world. The time machine can take him to worlds from the past, but it cannot reach the future. Inside the machine, Zhou Jianhua obtains the Repentance Fishing Boat, which can be upgraded. The Confession Time Machine itself can also be upgraded, and he can travel through time three ti 36Reads—Score—Shelves
  50. 100 I Gain the Water God's Inheritance, and Fishing Is No Longer Hard 莸得水神传承,钓鱼不再难 Urban300k WordsCompleted Nan Canghai had his achievements stolen and was fired from his job, so he went out for a walk to clear his head. Caught in a sudden downpour, he happened upon an old, dilapidated Water God Temple by the river. Curious, Nan Canghai ducked inside to take shelter and look around. By a stroke of fate, he merged with the remnant soul of an ancient Water God. Not only did he inherit the Water God's legacy, he also obtained a treasure that controlled water: the Black Tortoise Banner, one of the Four Di 648Reads8.6Score—Shelves

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