Looking for Good Siheyuan and Sent-Down Youth Stories Set in the Right Era, No Brain-Dead Plots 求四合院文，下乡文符合年代的好文，非无脑文
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Siheyuan: Wang Dapeng the Jester's Happy Life 四合院，乐子人王大鹏的快乐人生
A hilarious, low-conflict period piece set in a Beijing courtyard, with a scheming protagonist, a professional troublemaker, and a real scoundrel's way of doing things. Wang Dapeng transmigrates into a courtyard full of villains, where he goes head-to-head with the residents and discovers that his reputation is taking a hit. His motto is: if you can't adapt to your surroundings, make them adapt to you. If you get soaked, don't let your opponents have umbrellas. So Wang Dapeng decides to make sur
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The Roaring Red Era: Starting as a Technical Section Chief 火红年代从技术科长开始
After an unexpected car accident, Chen Xuan’s soul transmigrates to a parallel world and inhabits the body of a badly wounded soldier who shares his name. Can Chen Xuan build a new life in this unfamiliar world and carve out a new legend? Let’s wait and see.
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Siheyuan: I Marry Yu Li, and Yan Jiecheng Shows Up with a Grand Gift 四合院：我娶于莉闫解成来送大礼
I married Yu Li, and Yan Jiecheng even gave me a wedding gift. I built a military factory from the ground up to serve the country. General Xu drank the wine I gave him, and I was delighted. Liu Guangtian didn’t want to get beaten, so he became a public security officer. Now Second Uncle won’t be able to beat him anymore, right? Third Uncle actually tried appealing to Yan Jiecheng’s feelings, and his tears brought Yan Jiecheng to his side. Silly Zhu is still young, so I just need to arrange a wif
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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
[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
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A Beautiful Young Mother Searches for Her Husband at the Military Base, Shocking the Entire Garrison 娇美人带娃部队寻夫，震惊全军区
[Radiant, Beautiful Capitalist Heiress x Tough Military Officer with Incredible Stamina] (Military Marriage + Sweet and Satisfying Romance + Twins, a Boy and a Girl + Mutual Flirting + Cozy Everyday Life) Jiang Tang transmigrates into the daughter of a capitalist family sent down to the countryside in a period novel. She's fair-skinned, beautiful, and dazzling, but supposedly pretty and stupid. She looks down on her rough, taciturn military officer husband, abandons the twins at home, and elopes
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The Capitalist's Daughter Clears Out Her Family Fortune and Becomes the Beloved Darling of Her Military Unit 资本家小姐搬空家产，随军成团宠
[Transmigrate into a Book + Period Setting + Military Marriage + Capitalist Heiress + Everyone’s Darling] Fu Yunsheng transmigrated into a book and became a capitalist heiress, the Fu family’s sole heir! In the original story, her scumbag father seemed to dote on her, but the family’s servant was actually his lover. The two servants’ children, who had grown up alongside her, were his illegitimate son and daughter. Her scumbag father even threatened her, saying the Fu family would certainly be ta
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She Joined the Army with a Big Baby Bump and Dazzled the Entire Family Compound 挺孕肚去随军，她惊艳整个家属院
(She joins her husband’s army while heavily pregnant and amazes the entire military compound) Song Jinyue, a brilliant scientific researcher, transmigrates to the 1970s after a car accident. When she opens her eyes, she’s suddenly married after a whirlwind wedding, with a baby on the way. Outside, her older brother and sister-in-law are fighting over the letter that just arrived, ordering her to join her husband at his army post. To avoid getting her brother into trouble, Song Jinyue decides
16.9kReads8.0Score1.9kShelves
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The Tycoon’s Daughter Remarries with Her Mother, and Her Stepbrother Spoils Her Senseless 资本家小姐随母改嫁，被继兄宠疯
[Both reborn + 1970s + pocket dimension + pampered by the whole family + everyday life] The Shen family was reported for having overseas connections and faced imprisonment. Shen Siyue and her biological older sister, Shen Siyin, were both reborn on that very day. In their previous lives, she was sent to the countryside with her father and brothers, while her sister followed their mother into a new marriage with a military officer. Everyone said that a frail, sickly capitalist's daughter like her
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The Way Home 归途
[Tao Dongling vs. Chen Zhaolai] [Top-Tier Novel + Two Male Leads + Urban Life + Everyday People + Hard Work + Happy Ending + Sweet Romance + Realistic] There’s a little shop along the route Tao Dongling has been driving lately, where you can park, eat, and stay the night. It’s pretty cheap and clean, and the owner is quiet, handling all the work inside and out by himself. Then one day, Tao Dongling said to the owner, “Brother Lai, every time I come here, I don’t want to leave.” Chen Zhaolai took
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Transmigrated into a Book: In the 1980s, I Forced the Male Lead to Marry Me, and the Heroine Was Dumbfounded 穿书八零，强嫁男主后，女主懵了
Su Meng opened her eyes and found herself a minor character in a rebirth novel set in the 1980s. In her previous life, the heroine used her looks to flirt around, keeping three backup suitors on the hook at once. When everything came to light and she was disgraced, she hurriedly found the male lead to take the fall for her. The male lead was her devoted simp. Even after her reputation was ruined, he still loved her as much as ever and gave her all the money he earned. Even after he became a busi
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Commander! Your Little Wife Is a Human Weapon 首长！你家的小娇妻是人形武器
[Military marriage + Both leads are each other’s first and only + Upgradable pocket dimension + Arsenal + Face-slapping + Beloved by everyone] While stocking up on supplies, Jiang Yunxi, a little zombie from the apocalypse, suddenly finds herself in a strange era. From the start, two human traffickers throw her into a river. A soldier rescues her and gives her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Hungry, Jiang Yunxi bites down on his lips before she even opens her eyes... Zhou Heng: That was close. I a
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Crushing Scumbags and Claiming the Family Fortune: The Transmigrated Female Side Character Stuns the Military Compound 虐渣搬家产，穿书女配惊艳家属院
[Military marriage after transmigrating into a book + satisfying revenge + spatial spring + love that grows over time + family life] The rating just came in, and it will rise! This story is set in a fictional world! Jiang Yu, a naturally strong young lady, transmigrates into a male-oriented novel as the eldest daughter of the Jiang family. She's meant to be a stepping stone in the life of the male lead, Yang Zhong. In the original story, her parents die young, and her grandfather passes away soo
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Emptying the Ancestral Home: The Capitalist Heiress Joins the Army with Her Husband 搬空祖宅，资本家大小姐部队随军
[Military Marriage + Capitalist Heiress + Spatial Farm + Daily Life with the Army] Ren Jingmo, a top-tier rich heiress, is transported into a novel written by her father’s illegitimate daughter after a car accident. The heroine is based on the illegitimate daughter! The cannon-fodder character is based on Ren Jingmo, the legitimate daughter! Her maternal family’s assets are schemed away by her scumbag father and stepmother. She’s made to marry her stepmother’s nephew, then beaten so badly by
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Sent Down to the Countryside as an Educated Youth in the 1970s: The Rugged Man Is Wild and Flirtatious 七零知青下乡：糙汉野又撩
[Revenge after being reborn + sent to the countryside + pocket dimension + making a fortune + raising kids + the leads have razor-sharp tongues and put every defiant person in their place + the two join forces] In her previous life, Li Shuhe was deceived by her cousin Li Yan and Zhang Jianjun. Ignoring the pleas of the family members who truly cared about her, she resolutely signed up to go to the countryside. The two clung to Li Shuhe like leeches, living off her. Not only were they ungrateful,
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Dump the Scumbag and Join the Army: She Becomes the Commander's Wife 踹渣男去随军，摇身一变首长夫人
[Sweet military romance set in the 1960s] [1960s setting + mind-reading + medical skills + high-ranking military officer + heroine who grows over time + warm everyday family life] A nightmare gives Zhang Baozhu a glimpse of her family's tragic fate. After awakening her ability to read minds, she discovers that her fiancé's family are actually the ones behind it all. With help from a benefactor, she decisively breaks off the engagement and enters the military compound to treat the cold-faced com
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Reborn into Another Body: My Family and Me 重生魂穿之我和我的家人
After her parents died, she inherited a fortune worth tens of billions. Then she discovered that the pendant she'd worn since childhood was a space that could be used for farming. She kept having dreams of her family living happily in the 1970s. But then someone reported her father for having foreign connections, and the whole family was sent to a farm. Everyone except her eldest brother, who was serving in the army, died horribly. Was she about to transmigrate into the 1970s? She immediately so
13.1kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
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After the Heiress Returned, the Whole City Doted on Her 千金归来后被全城团宠
[Retired soldier and heiress of a gambling king’s family × refined young master of a scholarly family] [Long-planned scheme × marriage first, love later × both are devious] Sheng Lanyin, the gambling king’s heiress from the Sheng family of Aocheng, was a vain, beautiful, willful young lady. She was also a retired soldier, bold and commanding. Her reason for retiring was: [Go home, deal with my scumbag father and his string of mistresses, and inherit the family fortune on the way.] Xie Yanci, the
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With a Pocket Dimension for Stockpiling Supplies, I Live It Up in the 1970s 得空间囤物资，穿七零潇洒度日
[Period setting + Educated Youth + Stockpiling + Pocket Dimension + Feel-Good Story] [One-on-one romance, devoted couple, sweet love] This is a parallel world, with a few creative liberties that won’t be too far-fetched. Thanks for understanding. Ning Yu Xi has never bought a scratch-off lottery ticket in her life because she doesn’t think she has any luck winning. One day, she happens to take shelter from the rain in a lottery shop, when an inexplicably strong impulse tells her she absolutely
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Thriving in the 1970s with Billions in Supplies 带百亿物资，在70年代风生水起
(Space + System + Hoarding Supplies + Transmigration) Jun Qingqing is an orphan with assets worth tens of billions in the modern world, but she has had a pocket dimension since childhood. When she learned she was about to transmigrate, she felt neither nervous nor panicked. Her first thought was how to gather supplies as quickly as possible. When she opened her eyes again, she had arrived in the 1970s. Here, she found love, family, and friendship. She worked tirelessly to make money. When she ra
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The 1970s: The Hated Couple Goes Wild in the Compound 七零：万人嫌夫妇，大院发癫
[1970s setting + delightfully unhinged and a little funny + violent, crazy heroine + spoiled, two-faced, scheming young husband + both leads join the army later] Ye Sanqiu is notorious as the most hated person in Trumpet Flower Brigade. The villagers and her own family have suffered endlessly at her hands... Granny Ye and the brigade leader are going gray from worry. Left with no choice, Granny Ye hands her a letter of introduction and a marriage certificate. “Sanqiu, you've wreaked havoc all ov
69.9kReads9.0Score7.7kShelves
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The Seventh-Decade Darling of the Family Is a Feisty Madwoman Who Boldly Pursues the Powerful Dark Moonlight 七零团宠俏癫婆，硬撩大佬黑月光
[Period Setting] [Military Marriage] [Funny Everyday Life] [Devoted Couple] [Face-Slapping and Punishing Scumbags] Having had enough of life, Lin Xia is struck by lightning and transmigrates into a parallel world based on a novel set in the 1970s. The moment she opens her eyes, she's wrestling with a lean, handsome man over a pair of oversized underpants. Wait, let her get this straight. In this period novel, she's a biological daughter who was switched at birth, a cannon-fodder character draine
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While Others Eat Grass, I Eat Meat; While Others Dig, I Lie Flat 别人吃草我吃肉别人挖地我躺平
[Transmigrate into a book set in a bygone era + restoration ability + super-strong adorable child + beating up the Russians + return to the apocalypse + pocket dimension + handing everything over to the state] Tong Xiaoxiao, a restoration ability user from the apocalypse, and her younger brother transmigrate into a period novel they once read. The moment she opens her eyes, she's being forced to go to the countryside. Tong Xiaoxiao promptly takes the whole house apart and leaves without hesitati
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Go to College, Build the Power Grid! She Conquers the ’70s 考大学，搞电力！穿七零她赢麻了
~A short drama is in production. Stay tuned!~ Gu Yaotang’s life dream is to be a happy, irresponsible gambling addict. Just as he runs farther and farther down the road to becoming a scumbag, his usually obedient daughter suddenly starts acting like she’s been struck by lightning. Every day, she rebels and finds new ways to torment him. Whenever this little devil of a daughter catches him gambling, she beats him up, then makes him work! Enough! Why should I put up with this? Gu Yaotang’s coun
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Military Marriage in the 1970s: Showering Him with Sweetness, Driving Him Crazy, and Winning His Devotion 七零军婚：撒糖发癫，糙汉宠上天
1970s + military marriage + supernatural abilities + spatial cultivation + special forces + adorable mouse + lighthearted comedy Xie Wan has barely arrived in this world when she’s caught having an illicit affair. Her reputation is ruined, and everyone turns against her. Then she kisses the soldier who gave her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and gets branded a shameless harlot, suffering the ultimate public humiliation. She struggles to save herself, clings to the male lead and follows him into
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The Jin Yuanbao Family’s Sudden Fortune from Demolition Compensation 金元宝一家的拆迁暴富日常
Old Madam Jin dreamed of a golden ingot while pregnant. She asked each of her four favorite daughters-in-law, but none of them admitted it! Could it really have been Ying Canru, who could never get enough to eat and always burned the bottom of the pot when she cooked? ~~ In the delivery room, Ying Canru screamed as she gave birth. Outside, Jin Laifu paced back and forth, glancing at his watch from time to time as he muttered, “Please let the baby be born on the eighth day of the eighth month. Ot
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I Found a Partner from the Apocalypse in the 1950s! 我在五零找了个末世的对象！
(A girl born into the 1950s + a man whose soul crossed into the post-apocalyptic era. Slice of life. Not intended as a historically rigorous account; everything is fictional. Writing isn't easy, so please be kind.) Qian Xiao is a modern woman who was accidentally killed while saving someone, then born into the 1950s to live through its “arduous struggle.” Sun Kaicheng accidentally hit his head, his soul crossed into the post-apocalyptic era, and then he returned. Two people who have nothing i
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The Real Heiress Settles on an Island and Opens Up the Land, Then Marries an Abstinent Officer and Wins Big 真千金驻岛开荒，嫁禁欲军官赢麻
Good news: I transmigrated into the body of a rich, beautiful heiress! My father is an army officer, my mother is a singer, my eldest brother is a teacher, my second brother is a doctor, my third brother is a researcher, and my fourth brother is set to take over the family business. Bad news: I'm the real daughter who was switched at birth and spent over a decade stranded in the countryside. The family already has a fake heiress, cherished and doted on by everyone. I'm crude, ignorant, greedy, a
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So Satisfying! After Giving Up Her Heiress Status, the Fake Heiress Takes It Easy in the 1980s 爽爆！假千金让位后在八零摆烂
[Period setting + fake and real heiresses + chubby girl slims down + System + powerful figures + golden finger + face-slapping + sweet romance + one-on-one relationship] After completing 99 missions, Lan Feixue finally arrives in the free and easy retirement world she’s been looking forward to. Sure, the heroine has a little extra meat on her bones, but that’s no problem here. She thought she’d be able to let loose and take it easy, but she was still too young. The System had tricked her again.
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The 1970s: The Domineering Village Belle Takes Down Every Mary Sue! 七零：霸道村花干翻所有玛丽苏！
A village beauty and village tyrant who can plow three mu a day, paired with a sickly, shameless male God of Wealth. The whole point of this story is to have a great time. [Mutually devoted couple + strong heroine + unhinged humor + satisfying romance] Jiang Zao was the last dragon in the cultivation world. As she ascended and underwent her tribulation, a bolt of lightning struck her into one of countless little worlds. A grandmother and grandfather who favor boys over girls, an uncle's family
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The Sixties: From Total Wimp to Neighborhood Watch Hero 六零：小趴菜秒变朝阳群众
(This story is entirely fictional and focuses on everyday life. The heroine is the type who fights back when challenged, while the hero is the fussy, meddling type. Writing isn’t easy, so please be kind. If you don’t like it, please don’t leave a bad review.) Shi Xi agreed to trade a year of her life with someone on a moment’s impulse of compassion, and nearly regretted it until she was sick. After finally making it back, her one wish was to avoid being sent to the countryside. To achieve that,
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She Clears Out Her Entire Family’s Home, and the True Heiress Finds Her Powerful Birth Parents 搬空全家，真千金找到大佬亲爹妈
The moment Qu Qingyao opens her eyes, she finds herself in the 1970s. Not only is she a fake heiress who stole someone else's place, she's also about to become the mother of eighteen children. Qu Qingyao is completely stunned. What kind of nightmare start is this? Her parents are desperate for a son, but in this life they're fated to have none? Easy. Qu Qingyao turns around and reports them, sending them straight into their next life. A connected insider at a job interview can't keep his eyes to
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Transmigrate Into a Book Set in the 1970s: The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead Gives Up and Takes It Easy 穿书七零：炮灰女配咸鱼了
[Period setting + Transmigrate into a book + Spatial powers + Married] She wakes up as the central figure at a funeral, having transmigrated into a period novel as a spiteful, selfish woman. Well, in that case, she might as well let loose. Her persona is already established, and she has a golden finger. Why work hard when she could have a wonderful life without lifting a finger? Liu Qingqing declares, “I’m going to be a couch potato.”
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I Transmigrated into a Book Set in the Seventies with a System, Only to Find Out I'm the Beloved One 穿书七零有了系统团宠竟是我自己
[Historical Setting + System + Transmigrate Into a Book + Educated Youth + Daily Gossip + Little Southern Potato + Northeast China + Beloved by All + Overachiever + Beautiful Female Friendship] Everything seemed to change after that “possessed” house appeared. Lu Xi woke up one day as the only girl in several generations of the Lu family in Qingshan Village in the 1970s. On the train taking her to the countryside, she discovered that she was the victim in a novel, destined to be bullied to dea
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From Ancient Times to the Present: A Noblewoman Transmigrates into a Period Novel 古穿今，古代千金穿进年代文
When her country fell and her family was destroyed, Su Yucheng chose to fight to the death. When she woke again, she discovered that she had come back to life in someone else’s body. From the original owner’s memories, she learned that the girl had been reborn, and that she herself had transmigrated into a book. What’s more, the original owner was just an insignificant cannon-fodder character.
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Sweet Military Marriage: The Female General Gets Courted in the 1970s 甜蜜军婚女将军在七零被撩了
[Ancient-to-modern time travel, military marriage, medical skills from the era, martial arts, twins and triplets, unexpected triplets and quintuplets, one-on-one romance, female general and eldest daughter of a duke’s household] The heroine unexpectedly becomes pregnant when her eldest son is old enough for college. She runs away from home without telling her military-officer husband and secretly gives birth to quintuplets. Gu Qingcheng was the mascot of the Gu family army. After ten years of wa
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Transmigrate to the 1960s and Keep Busy Growing Vegetables on the Island 穿越六零，海岛种菜忙
[Period]+ [military marriage]+ [Transmigration]+ [no storage space]+ [superhuman strength]+ [building a career] In 2023, swimmer Jiang Jiaojiao and her teammates are on a team-building trip at the seaside. While trying to save a child who has fallen into the water, she is swept away by a huge wave. In 1964, Lin Baoni jumps into the sea to save a People’s Liberation Army soldier in distress. A huge wave carries her away, and she eventually dies of exhaustion. Reborn in Lin Baoni’s body, Jiang Jia
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The Sweet Military Wife Is on Top, and Her Officer Husband Can't Take It 娇娇军嫂在上，军官老公顶不住
The short drama adaptation, Sweet Years, is now streaming~ The second short drama adaptation, Let Me Dwell in Your Heart, is now streaming~ [Military marriage + food + supermarket space + devoted couple + everyday life + love after marriage] Ye Muqi had just become a seven-star chef when a car accident transported her to the 1980s. From the start, she was married, and her husband was a soldier with a slim waist and long legs. For Ye Muqi, who had been single for 29 years, that was a huge plus! T
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