Well-Written Stories Set in a Past Era. I'm Looking for New Ones; I've Read All the Earlier Recommendations 文笔好的年代，需要新的，之前的都看过，
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Sorry, My Talent Won't Let Me Keep a Low Profile 对不起，我的天赋不允许我低调
(I only wanted to slack off, but they called me a genius) (Period novel + genius top student + System + no romance + cozy everyday life + lighthearted comedy + pure power fantasy) After Chen Wang died, he was reborn as the only grandson of the Chen family, a supposedly dim-witted boy. With four older girl cousins and two doting grandparents, Chen Wang was treasured above all else and given the best of everything. Chen Wang thought he could spend this life slacking off. Who could have known he’d
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Siheyuan: I Transmigrated as Silly Zhu's Uncle 四合院：穿越成傻柱舅舅
In 1958, Li Jianjun transmigrated into the body of a demobilized soldier. This man turned out to be He Yuzhu's uncle, who was also named Li Jianjun. After leaving the military, he took a job as the chief of security at the Steel Mill and officially moved into the courtyard. Silly Zhu and He Yushui finally experienced the care of an elder. With no way out, Yi Zhonghai was left dumbfounded.
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The 1970s: The Village Bully Brought the City-Educated Beauty Home in His Arms 七零：下乡知青被村霸糙汉抱回家
[Devoted Husband + Guaranteed Sweetness + Everyday Life + Both Leads Have No Previous Partners + Pocket Space + Everyone's Favorite] Couple: feisty, beautiful, rich young educated woman × cultured, burly village ruffian In 1973, a pretty young educated woman arrived at the Jinyang Production Brigade. She was fair and soft, delicate and gentle, and so petite she looked easy to bully. But the moment she entered the village, the tall, broad-shouldered village ruffian, who looked especially fierce,
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The Female Side Character Signs In as a Youth Sent Down to the Countryside and Coasts to Victory? I'll Work Myself to the Bone 女配知青签到躺赢？我非要内卷
(Complete) [Sign-in System + Educated Youth Sent to the Countryside + Past and Present Lives + Supporting Female Character Enjoys the Gossip + Highly Educated Couple + Clear-Headed, Independent Heroine + No Character Assassination of the Original Heroine] Yi Qingqing died young. When she arrived in the underworld, she was told she had earned great merit and should have enjoyed a life of wealth and a destined marriage in one of her lifetimes, but illness had robbed her of that. As compensation, s
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After Rejecting the Match in the 1980s, I Opened a Canteen at a State-Owned Factory 八零拒婚后，我在国营厂开饭馆
[Reborn] + [The 1980s] + [Gourmet] + [Building a business] Shen Qingyue returned to the 1980s. In her previous life, her family drained her dry, and all three sisters were cheated by their grandparents. Reborn, she refuses to be a sucker again. She takes on the unreasonable troublemakers, and whoever picks a fight with her gets crushed underfoot. After splitting from the family, she starts a business with her sisters, opening a restaurant at a state-owned factory. The troublemakers fail to get t
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The Capitalist's Daughter Liquidated Her Family Fortune and Joined the Army to Find Her Husband 掏空家产，资本家小姐去部队寻夫
Original title: “Emptying the Family Fortune: The Capitalist's Daughter Goes to the Army to Find Her Husband” [Military marriage + Transmigrate into a Book + Pocket dimension + Putting scumbags in their place + Love grows over time + Exceptionally fit military officer, her childhood betrothed VS dazzling capitalist's daughter] Jiang Si was fair-skinned, beautiful, and radiant. Who would have thought that after waking up, she would find herself in a period novel, as a well-known capitalist's daug
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Seventies Island Military Marriage: A Stepmom's Daily Life Raising Kids After Remarrying 七零海岛军婚：二婚后妈养娃日常
Military Marriage + Stepmother + Second Marriage + Raising Kids + Sweet Romance + Food + Everyday Life + Love After Marriage When she opens her eyes, Song Shiwei discovers she has transmigrated into a book! Worse, she’s become the female cannon fodder with a tragic ending! To save her life and escape the plot’s control, she impulsively marries Zhou Tingyue, a cadre ten years her senior! She thinks she can now enjoy a carefree little life of her own! But when she arrives, she discovers that the f
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Huh? Those Wretched Brats! This Time, I’m Done Putting Up with Them 蛤？渣儿孽孙，重生老娘不伺候了
[Period] [Reborn] [Feel-Good Fiction] [Family Life] [Career Advancement] Divorce! Divorce! Divorce! I will never forgive them! In her previous life, Grandma Luo was famous for being virtuous. She managed both work and home life, and even after being widowed, she held the family together. She broke herself to provide for her sons. But as soon as her grandsons started school, they threw her out. Rather than support her in her old age, they forced her to take the blame for her eldest daughter-in-la
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With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s, Where I Can Make Trouble and Money with Ease 小手一背穿七零，搞事赚钱样样行
Also known as "Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Seventies: I Collect Eighty-Eight Paychecks Every Month" Su He woke up one day and transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a fake heiress who had been sent back to her village. In the book, the ungrateful real heiress was practically blessed by cheat codes, with schemes and tricks appearing one after another. The Su family ended up destroyed, while the original owner wished she were dead. Looking at her impoverished home and family members
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Reborn: Back to 1983 to Become a Tycoon 重生：回到1983当富翁
(The print edition is now available on JD.com! The text has been carefully revised and is even more exciting. There are plenty of discounts right now, so if you're interested, go grab a copy!) Zhou Yufeng, a corporate CEO, unexpectedly returns to 1983, an era of planned economies and feeling one's way across the river by touching the stones. With his lovely wife wanting a divorce and his younger brother and sister struggling to get by, watch as he turns the business world upside down and changes
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Reborn in the 1980s: A Spicy Old Lady's Everyday Life 重生八零麻辣老太烟火人生
(Period drama + reborn comeback + feel-good power fantasy + strong heroine + farming and business + punishing villains and putting them in their place + heartwarming healing) [A miserable death in her past life, a glorious new life this time!] The moment Zhou Guifang opened her eyes, she was back in 1985. In her past life, she had lived a miserable, powerless existence until old age. Her husband lost his job and became lame, and each of her three sons had it worse than the last: the eldest got m
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Reborn in the 1980s, the Old Lady Leaves Her Husband and Children to Live for Herself 重生八零老太太抛夫弃子独自美丽
[Reborn in 1985, Tang Guifang opened her eyes and did one thing first: she settled the accounts.] In her previous life, she spent everything on her family, only to be repaid with her husband’s infidelity, estranged children, and a lonely death in a nursing home. Reborn, she calmly signed the divorce papers, took her 1,200 yuan settlement, and turned around to lease the village’s bamboo workshop. [In this life, she wants no badge of honor as a perfect wife and mother. She wants absolute control o
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Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Got Rich and Became Her Family's Lucky Charm 重生八零：老太太暴富成全家锦鲤
In her previous life, Zhou Guifen closed her eyes in a nursing home with a life full of misery behind her: her husband had died young of liver cancer, and her son had been killed in a car accident. When she opened her eyes again, she was back at thirty-seven years old. Her husband, Ma Jianguo, was still a violent drunk at Hongxing Steelworks. Her son, Ma Xiaojun, was sneaking around changing the answers on his electronic watch to cheat, and even buying food in their apartment block meant scrimpi
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One Night in the 1980s: The Toughest Roughneck Blushes as He Gently Coaxes Her 八零夜，最猛糙汉红着眼低声哄
[Period + rugged man + cherished wife + storage space + System] Qiao Wan woke up one day to find herself inside a period novel, being doted on to no end by her strong, burly husband. Having gotten a taste of the good life, Qiao Wan hoped it could go on forever. After being handed the role of a spoiled, troublesome female supporting character, she wasn’t intimidated. She stopped acting like the original owner, who had made trouble at every turn, and tried being gentle instead. “Gu Cheng, stop sle
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I Go Wild, You Make Offerings: Fighting Anti-Involution in the Cultivation World 我发癫，你祭天，修真界里反内卷
[Can't get ahead by lying flat + can't win by working myself to the bone + devoted couple + absurd comedy + everyone gets corrupted + ensemble cast] [Money-obsessed heroine VS refined, sickly-sweet male lead] After transmigrating to the cultivation world, Nie Baili was reborn all over again! Before transmigrating, she worked herself to the bone, pulling all-nighters every day for a heartless boss. After transmigrating, she pushed the entire cultivation world into a vicious cycle of competition t
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Transmigrated Into a 1970s Novel: A Bystander's Guide to Staying Out of Trouble 穿书七十年代吃瓜群众的自我修养
Have you ever transmigrated to a different scene just by blinking? Lin Yuzhu has. She transmigrated in a daze to the 1970s. No, she transmigrated into a book. She has a System, and the female lead is there too. There are also supporting female characters, but she isn't one of them. She's just an onlooker who wandered into the story by mistake. As an onlooker, she gets to watch the drama unfold every day. She doesn't want other people's dogs, and she doesn't get involved in other people's busines
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I Transmigrate Into a Period Novel and Live a Life of Comfort and Plenty 穿越到年代文里过完富足的一生
By chance, Wan Ding is reborn in a parallel world. He has with him a small pocket paradise gifted by the will of his home planet, as well as a sphere of will captured during the magnetic-field quantum entanglement caused by his transmigration and rebirth. He grows up in this era and embarks on the path of martial arts, spending a perfect life driving out Japanese pirates in the east, resisting the Western missionaries of the Cross in the west, then conquering the Three Mountains and Five Peaks,
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Transmigrate into a Book Set in the Seventies: The Cannon-Fodder Wife Takes Her Child to Join the Army 穿书年代，炮灰原配携崽随军去啦
An Hua transmigrated to the 1960s and became the cannon-fodder ex-wife of a male lead from a novel set in that era. The original wife was a rich, beautiful heiress who looked down on her illiterate, working-class husband. She caused one scene after another, determined to divorce him and run into the arms of her first love. An Hua, who had transmigrated into her role, thought: Illiterate? That's a man with the right roots and a good background! Working-class? He's a golden ticket! She promptly to
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Pregnant with Twins Blessed by a Spirit Spring! The Cold-Faced Officer Spoils Her to No End! 怀灵泉双胎！冷面军官宠她入骨！
[Cool military officer + alluring beauty] (Multiple transmigrators + daily life with the army + married first, love later + raising kids and pregnancy + devoted to each other) [She opens her eyes to a whirlwind marriage and a child.] When Jiang Nian opens her eyes, she finds herself in the 1970s story her roommate wrote, as a busty, airheaded supporting character with a tragic fate, and a cute little daughter to boot. After she runs away and gets caught again, she finds herself standing beside h
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What Big Shot? 哪有什么大佬
Note: “The beginning is always calm, and what follows soon builds upon it.” The boys I once sheltered and taught have long since grown into giants, while I lost my memory overnight and became a blank slate. When I return to their side, they don’t recognize me. But with their acceptance, I slowly make my way back to the top.
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A Delicate Beauty Reborn as a Cannon-Fodder Villainess in the Seventies 娇气美人穿成七零年代炮灰女配
Xu Wanning transmigrated into a book and became the villainess in the novel The Sweet Wife of the Seventies. In the end, she was destined to die a miserable death in prison... Miss Xu Wanning: “Waaah, I want to go home...” The great villain Han Jinghuai: “Be good, Ningning. Don't be afraid. Your husband will stand up for you.”
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The Darling of the 1980s 八十年代掌中娇
In her previous life, she owned five apartments in the capital and drove a big G whenever she went out. But after opening her eyes, she found herself a country girl in the 1980s. Her father, seeking to get ahead, latched onto a “rich heiress” and wanted to divorce her mother. Fine, let them get divorced! Her younger brother, who worshipped the rich and looked down on the poor, could go live with the mistress. She would start over with her two younger sisters! They collected bat guano, sold quail
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Transmigrated to the 1970s: The Handsome Rich Young Master Wins Himself a Husband 穿越七零，富少爷靠美貌钓老公
[Period drama + golden finger + transmigration + height difference] Zhou Anjing, a rich young master who had never lifted a finger around the house, woke up to find himself transmigrated into the body of the village chief’s foolish son. Luckily, the fool’s father was the village chief, so no one expected him to toil in the fields under the blazing sun. The day Shen Zhan met Zhou Anjing, he was instantly captivated by the beautiful young man sitting on an ox cart, so out of place in this soci
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After Moving to the Countryside, I Ran Off with the Village Chief's Handsome Nephew 下乡后，我拐跑了村长的美人侄子
[Period setting, strong female lead, no role reversal] Ye Shan was an elite assassin. After her mission failed, her master slit her throat, and she became a little girl in 1966. The little girl really was in a bad way. She’d been bullied terribly, but fortunately, Ye Shan arrived... It was fine that she’d been sent to the countryside. Somehow, the delicate and frail Si Yu from the village took a liking to her. That new young educated youth was so handsome, and so capable, too. Most importantly,
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Lord Huo, Stop Torturing Me! Your Wife Has Married Someone Else! 霍爷别虐了，夫人已嫁他人了！
“I will never love you in this lifetime. You’re destined to grow old alone.” That was what Huo Xiao told her when she married him. In three years of marriage, Huo Xiao had never once touched her. To the outside world, she was Miss Su, the little deaf girl, but never Mrs. Huo. Her birth family used her to climb the social ladder, her in-laws looked down on her, and Huo Xiao’s friends bullied her without the slightest restraint. At last, on a sunny, peaceful day, she came to terms with everything
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A Whirlwind Marriage to a Tycoon: The Abstinent Tycoon Pins Me Against the Wall and Kisses Me 闪婚财阀：禁欲大叔把我摁墙上亲
Gu Sheng’s wedding, but she isn’t the bride. In a fit of anger, she turns around and marries a strange older man. She thought he’d be an old fossil, impossible to handle. Who knew that he’d be a powerful figure, as well as soft, sweet, and easy to push around? Just as Gu Sheng is ready to settle down and live a happy life, his first love returns. She thought she’d have to compete with his first love, but instead, Gu Sheng returns everything to him and leaves with her head held high. They mee
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Yandere Romance: My Gangster Girlfriend Has Me Imprisoned! 病娇：我被黑道女友囚禁！
Yu Mo was a moderately well-known writer, living with his girlfriend Feng Wanlin. Then, after an accident, Yu Mo discovered that his once sweet and lively girlfriend was actually a powerful underworld boss who controlled everything! Feng Wanlin: “Heh... Darling! You’ll never escape my grasp!”
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Reborn Tour Guide Strikes It Rich! 重生导游来吸金！
Tour guide Ji Luoyi’s tour bus plunges into a reservoir on the way back from dropping off her group. When she opens her eyes, she has been reborn as Luo Yi, a high school student in 2002. The thought of going through high school all over again gives her a headache. Her parents were tricked into going abroad for work and haven’t been heard from in years, while her relatives are constantly picking on her, unable to stand seeing her do well. Ji Luoyi thinks, “I had a house, a car, and a cat-son, an
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Rejected for Being a Substitute Bride? My Mother-in-Law Pays to Get Me into Tsinghua and Peking University 替嫁被嫌？婆婆砸钱哄我上清北
[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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Dongheng: The Road to Power 东恒青云
A meteoric rise to the top! Chu Dongheng, a master's graduate who knows nothing about his birth family and jokes that “my mom and I are our own family,” is the abandoned grandson of a military family. After passing the civil service exam in Jiangdong, he finds that someone else has taken the position he applied for. By chance, he becomes a leader's secretary, beginning his career in politics. With the people's interests as his mission, he advances one steady step at a time toward the pinnacle of
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The 1977 College Entrance Exam: A Brilliant Life for a Physics-Studying Educated Youth 高考1977：物理女知青的璀璨人生
The 1977 College Entrance Exam: A Female Educated Youth’s Brilliant Life in Physics
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Reborn in the 1980s: The Hot-Tempered Old Lady Becomes a Tender, Fiery Mom 重生八零：暴躁老太太成柔情辣妈
Reborn in the 1980s: The Short-Tempered Old Lady Becomes a Tender, Feisty Mom
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Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Predicts the Future and Makes a Fortune 重生八零：老太太会预言发家致富
Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Can Predict the Future and Build a Fortune
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Reborn in the 1980s: An Old Retiree's Hilarious Daily Life 重生八零：退休老太太的爆笑日常
Reborn in the 1980s: The Retired Old Lady's Hilarious Daily Life
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Reborn in the 1980s: The Spicy Old Lady's Comeback 重生八零：麻辣老太太咸鱼翻身记
Reborn in the 1980s: The Spicy Old Lady's Laid-Back Comeback
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Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Leads Her Whole Family to Prosperity 重生八零：老太太带全家奔小康
Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Leads Her Whole Family to Prosperity
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Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Opens a Hotel in the Courtyard 重生八零：老太太在四合院开酒店
Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Opens a Hotel in the Siheyuan
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Reborn in the 1970s: A One-Yuan Bride Price and a Whirlwind Military Wedding 重生七零被嫁人，一元彩礼闪军婚
[Military marriage in a bygone era, both leads are chaste, devoted husband, mutual healing, choosing each other, a touch of fantasy and a space, not saintly, building wealth, uplifting and positive] Qiao Yunque is a frail invalid, barely clinging to life. She was switched at birth and abandoned, a poor little thing from the start. After barely making it to adulthood, she was sold to Zhou Sinian as his wife for the cheapest bride price in history: one yuan. As if her life weren't miserable enough
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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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The Husband Bundled with a Baby in the 1970s 七零年代随崽崽附赠的老公
(1970s + cozy + raising kids + everyday life + no toxic family members) The story of Yan Wenwen, a modern chief physician of traditional Chinese medicine, who transmigrates to the 1970s with a pocket dimension, raises two skinny, dark-complexioned twin children into chubby, rosy-cheeked kids, and builds a prosperous life. Along the way, she also falls into a sweet romance with a rugged soldier.
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Reborn in the 1990s: Ninth Master Is Kneeling on the Washboard Again 重生九零：九爷又在跪搓衣板了
Cheng Yao woke up to find herself back in 1998. In her previous life, her parents were murdered. Her uncle and aunt sold her to Myanmar, where she lost her left kidney and a finger, and eventually became a farm owner’s slave. Until the day she died, Cheng Yao never knew she was the real daughter of a prominent family, switched at birth. Her uncle and aunt sold her off just to eliminate a threat to their biological daughter. Reborn, Cheng Yao would be timid no longer. She rolled up her sleeves an
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The Sweet, Gentle Army Wife Is Pregnant Again, and Her Fierce Officer Husband Coaxes Her Every Night 娇软军嫂又怀了，凶戾军官夜夜哄
[Fierce military man x sweet, delicate heiress to a capitalist family] [Devoted couple, one-on-one romance + military marriage and family doting + showering each other with affection + everyday family life] The night Shen Chuning found Chen Ziyun, a sent-down youth, planning to make sure they got married by sleeping with him first, she had a dream. In the dream, Chen Ziyun married her only to get his hands on her family’s ancestral koi jade pendant. Not only did she hand the heirloom over to Che
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Best Friends Transmigrate Into a Book Together! Marry a Rough-and-Ready Man! If You Leave, I’m Leaving Too 闺蜜齐穿书！嫁糙汉！你离我也离
[Transmigrate into a book + rough-and-tough hero + sweet romance + face-slapping + daily life + building a fortune + raising kids] The moment Shen Wu opened her eyes, she saw a man who was exactly her type. Realizing she had transmigrated into a book, she then heard a familiar voice and understood that she wasn't the only one who had transmigrated: her best friend had come along too, and now they were sisters-in-law... The two of them had entered a novel written by someone who envied them. In
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A Mad Couple in the 1970s 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
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