Period-Era Stories with a Strong Female Lead and a Career-Driven Plot 年代文，爽文，大女主，事业批
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- 51 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 34.6kReads9.5Score4.4k14d adds
- 52 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 102.5kReads9.6Score10.2k14d adds
- 53 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 11.4kReads9.0Score1.3k14d adds
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The 1980s: A Cherished Darling Rushing Toward Wealth 八零捷报团宠娇娇向钱冲
[Period setting + building wealth + doted on by everyone + native-born heroine + social butterfly + powerful figures + one-on-one romance] Before she turned fifteen, Shi Xiangxiang was stolen as a newborn. Her adoptive parents were denounced and sent down to the countryside, leaving her, though still so young, to shoulder the burden of feeding the whole family. After she turned fifteen, her adoptive sister, who had been reborn with a golden finger, returned in defeat after struggling her way t
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- 55 A 1980s Military Marriage: After I Transmigrate into a Book, I Become the Courtyard’s Dream Girl 八零军婚，穿书后成了大院白月光 A genius girl from a family of doctors transmigrates into a period novel by accident, becoming the vicious female supporting character. Ye Xiaoxiao is the Hao family's fake heiress. Raised in a military compound in the capital, she is the apple of every young man's eye. But when she turns seventeen, the real heiress returns, and the wheels of fate begin to turn. The apple of everyone's eye becomes yesterday's leftovers. Her admirers switch their allegiance, and compared with the inspiring heroin 15.6kReads9.1Score2k14d adds
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Back to the 1960s: My Parents Chose Their Adopted Daughter Over Me 重回六零，爹妈为了养女不要我了
年代 + Strong Female Lead + Pocket Dimension + Vengeance for Every Grudge + Fighting the Awful Ones + Family Life + Making a Fortune For the sake of so-called good deeds, her biological parents adopted children who already had both parents, then abandoned their own children in the countryside to fend for themselves. They even made their own daughter take the fall for their adopted daughter. And she was brutally beaten in revenge... Her younger brother was beaten to death with clubs for trying to g
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Now That I'm Reborn, Why Get Married? Obviously, I'll Make Money 都重生了谁还嫁人，当然赚钱啊
[Starting a Business and Making Money+Top Student+No Romance+Feel-Good Female Lead+Period Piece] Jiang Yu is reborn in 1994. In this life, she refuses to follow her mother to the city for school. She'll stay in the county, sell porridge, and open a food court. With her foresight and skills as a food blogger, watch her turn 250 yuan into a hundred billion... She'll make money and study hard, both at once!
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- 58 The 1970s: The Real Heiress Marries an Officer with a Hundred-Billion Space 七零：真千金携百亿空间嫁军官 Lin Wansu, an intern doctor from the 21st century, transmigrated into the body of a farm girl who was neglected by her parents! Four years later, the fake heiress Hu Jiaoli suddenly returned to claim her birth family, shamelessly taking over all of the Lin family’s property. Only then did Lin Wansu learn that she had been switched at birth! The original Lin Wansu was the real heiress. Her biological parents were both doctors at a military hospital, but they had been reported and sent to a farm f 11.5kReads8.6Score1.5k14d adds
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The Army Wife and Her Child Join the Troops: Her Cooking Takes the Compound by Storm 白月光带娃随军：靠美食风靡大院
[Delicate Beauty + Tough Military Officer] (Alternate History + Food + Military Wife + Raising Kids + Reborn + First Love + Family Life) When Cheng Yuewan opened her eyes, she had returned to the day in her previous life when she abandoned her children and ran away. In her previous life, she resented Song Huaisheng for ruining her life, and disliked their two children because of him. Only at the end of her life did she realize she had blamed the wrong person. Given another chance at life, all sh
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Love Among the Machine Factory’s Children 机器厂子弟的爱情
In the 1990s, several children of workers at a machinery factory, each with a very different personality, experienced love in their own ways. Zhu Yan and Yi Ran were two girls with contrasting personalities. Believing in the sweetness of love, they each tasted the bitterness of life. The courageous Zhu Yan chose a new path for herself, but after decades of married and family life, what choice should Yi Ran make?
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- 61 Reborn in the 1970s: The Educated Youth Wants to Let Go 重生七零：知青想放手 [Ensemble Cast, No Space, No System, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] One scheme tied two people’s lives together. Reborn in the 1970s, Zhu Xiaomin is determined to scheme her way back. First, she’ll set free the other unlucky soul who’s just like her. Second, she’ll tear that scumbag apart. But things seem to be slipping out of her control. The unlucky one came rolling back on his own and won’t leave, no matter how much she tries to drive him away. Well then… she’ll keep him. “I’ll protect you thi 10.8kReads9.1Score1.2k14d adds
- 62 The 1970s: A Sent-Down Youth Marries a Soldier and Builds a Fortune as a Middleman 七零嫁军汉，知青女配当倒爷起家 [A promise kept for a lifetime, giving her life to her country] Fraile from birth, Song Youxiang was abandoned by her family as a child and forced to go to the countryside. Even so, she never received a shred of kindness. Her parents despised her, her older sister resented her for life, and the second sister who had been given away as a child concealed her identity to get close to her. One false accusation after another followed, and they even stole her fiancé… In the end, Song Youxiang died al 7.2kReads9.2Score85314d adds
- 63 Reborn in the 1980s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生八零：媳妇有点辣 Her parents died young, her family was poor, and she was plain-looking. Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a terrible hand, but after nearly twenty years of hard work, she became an executive at a multinational corporation and finally put her life back on track... Then she wakes up to find herself reborn in the 1980s, as another Xia Xiaolan, this time with a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin. The original Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a winning hand, but chose to take her own life under the pressu 44.4kReads9.5Score5k14d adds
- 64 Joining the Army in the 1960s: Fleeing Famine and Marrying a Cavalryman in a Flash 六零随军：逃荒，闪婚骑兵哥哥 [Military Romance + Cavalry Commander + Tianshan Grasslands + Farming and Hunting + Sweet Everyday Life] My grasslands, my horse. I do whatever I want out here. A spirited military wife transmigrates to the 1960s, flees famine across five provinces, and finally reaches a cavalry regiment in the far northwest, where she begins life with the troops. She clears land, digs for caterpillar fungus, and hunts wild beasts. With fields to farm and meat to eat, life is good. Riding a Tibetan wild ass, lea 18.4kReads9.3Score2.3k14d adds
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The System Sends Me Back to Sixteen 系统让我重返十六岁
A rebirth story, a System story, a patriotic story, and a tale of striving for success. Top scorer in the national college entrance exam, Olympic champion, special forces soldier, diplomat. This isn't a romance. It's a female-led story, and the male lead barely appears until the final chapter. The moment Lu Xiaoxing opens her eyes, she's back at sixteen, in her senior year of high school. She's also bound to a Progress System. Walking or running each day is enough to complete her check-in tasks
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- 66 You’re Forcing Me to the Countryside? This Scientist’s Wife Will Empty Your Whole House 逼我下乡？科研军嫂搬空你全家 [Military Marriage + Period Setting + Powerful Lead + Face-Slapping + One-on-One Romance] Xia Li, a powerful wielder of both thunder and space abilities, had just come through the apocalypse. She became the founding general entrusted with the New World's Omniscient Eye System, ready to enjoy a quiet retirement. She only took a short nap, but transmigrated instead. After transmigrating, she faced two choices: Either marry a self-important mama's boy who expected her to put up with his mistress af 125kReads9.4Score10.2k14d adds
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Reborn, I Outwit a Scumbag and Find Love 重生后，智斗渣男遇到爱
Classic historical romance + reborn, revenge, and face-slapping + toxic scumbags stuck together + woman disguised as a man + a prince pursues his wife Li Qingyue is the only daughter of the wealthiest family in Xuanzhou Prefecture. Before her parents died in an accident, they arranged for her to marry Lin Mengzhou, a poor scholar. In her previous life, she spared no effort or expense to help her fiancé rise to the top and become the third-place scholar. She thought her patience had finally pai
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- 68 Keep It Up and This Lady Quits! 再吵本姑娘不干了！ [A Touch of a Golden Finger, Historical Romance, A Journey of Growth, An Inescapable Sense of Fate, Dreams Finally Come True] Liu Meixiang, the only grand princess of the Haoyue Dynasty, was exiled to a remote mountain village for ten years because of a prophecy. Bullied from childhood, she was later injured and her soul left her body. When she awoke, she had been reborn. Her only dream in this life is to travel the world, but the wheels of fate refuse to leave her alone. One thing after anothe 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Sweet Military Marriage in the 1980s: My Ex Regrets It Too Late 八零军婚甜蜜蜜，前夫后悔火葬场
[Military marriage + satisfying revenge, no putting up with mistreatment + male lead appears late + everyday life + farming + no golden finger + taking down scoundrels + sweet romance + ensemble cast + family matters + military officers + commanding officer] In her previous life, Qiao Jiangxin married into the Chen family. She shouldered every burden to give them a peaceful life, working like an ox and a horse to support her husband's literary ambitions, care for her ailing in-laws, and look aft
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- 70 The 1970s: Kicked Out by My Family, I Turned Around and Married an Officer 七零：被赶出家门后我转头嫁军官 [Feel-good read + period setting + pocket dimension + devoted couple + golden finger + strong female lead] Song Yun, a modern inheritor of ancient medicine, accidentally travels back to 1973 and becomes an unfortunate girl unloved by both her father and mother. She hasn't enjoyed even one day of life as a capitalist's daughter before suddenly acquiring the identity. Her once-devoted fiancé sends an urgent telegram demanding to break off their engagement. Break it off, break it off, break it off! 36.2kReads9.1Score5k14d adds
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Defying Heaven's Cute Beast: The Peerless Demoness Rules the World 逆天萌兽：绝世妖女倾天下
[Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her
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- 72 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 106.5kReads9.3Score10.8k14d adds
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The Capital's Most Notorious Beauty 京城第一祸水
Currently being published [rival suitors in a dramatic love triangle + top-tier schemer + supporting villainess fights back + everyone comes around] [Historical romance + told entirely from the wicked supporting female character’s perspective] ❣️Blurb One Qiao Wanyan learned from a storybook that she was nothing but a wicked supporting character who abandoned her childhood sweetheart and chased after wealth and status. She sowed discord, poisoned her elder sister, and committed every imaginable
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Yixiu: Ditch the Love-Brain, I Am Destined to Be Empress Dowager 宜修：扔掉恋爱脑，本宫就是太后
Yixiu died of a sudden heart attack. When she opened her eyes again and saw Yinzhen, she thought they had reunited in the underworld. But at the sight of his faintly displeased expression, she came to her senses. She recalled that Yinzhen had just said he liked Zhen's graceful smile. With a dignified smile, she said, "I was out of line, Your Majesty. It's just that my elder sister's childhood name is Wanwan..." Yinzhen frowned. "It's all right. They're not the same character." "Yes." Yixiu lower
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- 75 Zhu Yixiu Is Reborn in Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace and Slaughters Her Way Through the Harem 朱宜修重生如懿传，一手杀穿后宫 Zhu Yixiu is reborn into Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace. She abandons her slender brows, cares for her jade-like fingers, and transforms her appearance. She gains the eldest son as well as the legitimate son, and takes complete control of the harem, without a rival in sight. (1. My longtime readers know I like the character Yixiu, and that most of my spin-off stories feature original plots instead of following the source material. 2. I only watched the original Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace o 1.1kReads8.6Score12514d adds
- 76 An Lingrong Reborn: Redemption for Two Poor Souls 安陵容重生之两个可怜蛋儿的救赎 No one is born wicked. Given a second chance at life, she can stand proudly between heaven and earth, pure and free of the slightest blemish. There are no schemes in this story, only open strategies. Greed, anger, and delusion are the greatest traps. Every rival is treated with respect, and no one is made foolish for the sake of the plot. Everyone knowingly sinks into their own desires. The highest art of romance is making the other person unable to live without you. This is a mutual pursuit tha 1.3kReads8.4Score10114d adds
- 77 Dressed in Red: The Maid's Rise to Power 照红妆：通房丫鬟上位记 (New book updating) Haitang's rules for fighting in the inner household as a maidservant: First, be flexible. Second, don't let love cloud your judgment. Third, if a woman isn't ruthless, her position won't be secure. Haitang was breathtakingly beautiful but born into a lowly family. In her previous life, proud and unwilling to become a bedchamber maid, she was tortured to death by the principal wife. Reborn, she decided to live differently. Everyone thought she was reaching above her station ju 13.8kReads9.3Score1.9k14d adds
- 78 Reborn in the Nineties: Racing Toward Life as a Landlady 重生九零之向着包租婆的人生狂奔 (Also known as: Reborn in the 1990s: Racing Toward Life as a Landlady) (Also known as: Reborn Housewife: Mom, Dad's Acting Up Again) After Shen Xiaojun divorced, she had a dream and found herself back twenty years in the past. Back then, she was only twenty-five, yet already the mother of three children. Her eldest daughter was six, her younger daughter four, and her little boy had just turned one month old. Xiaojun's head spun. Did she really have to live through all of this again? For her chil 28.5kReads9.4Score3k14d adds
- 79 You Dumped Me After I Passed the Scholar Exam, So Why Are You Crying Now That I’m Rich? 中秀才就休妻，我暴富你又哭什么 The moment Ye Caiping opened her eyes, she found herself a divorced woman, with her sister-in-law back home sharpening a knife against her. It wasn't that her sister-in-law was unreasonable. The original owner of this body was simply too awful! How awful? Here, take a look: Whenever her husband's family needed to build a house, if there was even a single grain of surplus food at her parents' home, she'd come sniffing around like a mad dog and take it all. So her mother-in-law could eat meat ever 33kReads9.3Score4.9k14d adds
- 80 A Disastrous Start: I Became the Female Lead’s Terrible Third Brother-in-Law 天崩开局，我成了女主的极品三嫂 [Period Setting, Transmigration, Space, Sweet Romance, Military Marriage] When Jiang Yuzhu woke up, she had somehow become the heroine’s awful third sister-in-law, a lazy, vain, shrewish, shameless woman. Ever since she married into the Xu family, there hadn’t been a single peaceful day. The household was in constant chaos, and she was a universally disliked supporting character. She must have woken up wrong. Back to sleep! She was a food-streaming influencer with a million followers, yet she ha 23.3kReads8.3Score1.6k14d adds
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Reborn During the Opium Destruction at Humen: I Rewrite a Century of National Fortune 重生虎门销烟，本宫改写百年国运
[Female-Oriented Historical Fiction] [Reborn in the Late Qing] [No System] [Power Fantasy About Strengthening the Nation] [Court Intrigue] In 1839, on the eve of the destruction of the opium at Humen, Zhaohua, a researcher of modern history, is reborn as a daughter of the Daoguang Emperor. She knows that once the opium in the pools is destroyed, British merchants will turn their losses into gunboats. After that will come cessions of territory and indemnities, the burning of the Old Summer Palace
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- 82 Transmigrate Into a Book and Become a Drama Queen and Man-Eater in the Seventies 穿书七零成了作精女海王 [Educated youth + sent to the countryside + period setting + System + pocket dimension + spoiled troublemaker + self-interest] It's the 1970s, and from the start, her whole family is forcing her to go to the countryside? Why should she be the one to lose out? She put her older sister's, younger brother's, and younger sister's names on the list, too. A family should all stick together. Her rich, handsome almost-boyfriend goes to the countryside with her to take care of her, but on the train, he 8kReads7.9Score67714d adds
- 83 A Tycoon’s Heir? Perfect, I’ll Take Him Home as My Husband 资本家大少爷？正好扛回家做老公 [Period setting + fishing village + marriage first, love later + devoted husband + building a fortune] “Chu, do you want a man or not?” One moment, Song Nianchu is celebrating her company going public. The next, she has transmigrated into an orphan girl in a fishing village in the 1970s. The girl is young and beautiful, but born with superhuman strength. She can kill a mad bull with one punch, and now that she is nearly twenty, no one dares marry her. Her late father is so furious that he appear 21.3kReads8.1Score83214d adds
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Back in the Eighties: My Family's Demolition Compensation Bought Half a Street 重回八零：我家拆迁分了半条街
[Rebirth + Period Setting + Farming + Strong Male and Female Leads + A Feel-Good Rags-to-Riches Story] After spending ten years selling boxed lunches at construction sites, Jiang Tian was reborn in the year she dropped out of school. That year, her younger brother hadn't yet been tricked into a backstreet brick kiln and worked to death, and her mother hadn't yet fallen gravely ill. Picking up the boxed-lunch skills she'd honed over the years, the first thing the “Lunchbox Queen” did after being
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- 85 The 90s: Ever Since I Stopped Being Filial, I've Had the Sweetest Smile 九零，自从不孝后我笑的可甜嘞 In her previous life, Li Xingjian’s reputation was ruined before she could return home. Her biased mother demanded that she give her childhood sweetheart and fiancé to her younger sister, then forced her to sacrifice herself to secure her sister’s future. “You weren’t pure to begin with. Even if I let you marry, who would want you? Once your sister makes something of herself, she’ll spare you a bite to eat. I’m only doing this for your own good, aren’t I?” Her useless father turned a blind eye t 44.7kReads9.3Score4.9k14d adds
- 86 The Black Lotus Returns Reborn, and Her In-Laws Tremble in Fear 黑莲花重生归来，婆家瑟瑟发抖 Original title: The Black Lotus Is Reborn, and Her In-Laws Tremble in Fear Short dramas: The Crazy Stepmother and New Life from Old Snow In her past life, Su An was abused by her husband. After she called the police, the officer told her it was a family matter and not their concern. She fled to her parents' home for help, but her grandmother said, “Take care of the kids, cook the meals, look after the elders, and hand over your wages every month. Then he won't hit you, will he? That's how it is 57kReads9.5Score6.7k14d adds
- 87 Go Ahead and Be Crazy, but Leave the Kids in the Compound Alone 你疯就算了，大院的崽你也不放过 [Military marriage + born into the past + parallel 1970s + doted on by the whole family + spatial dimension + strong male and female leads] Lin Sa was born into the 1970s and became the eldest daughter of the Lin family. Most families favor boys over girls, but the Lin family favors girls over boys. Out of four children, the Lin family had only one daughter, and the whole family cherished her with their lives. Other people’s daughters are little cotton jackets, but theirs is a drafty leather jac 76.9kReads8.5Score8.1k14d adds
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