Novels Set in the 1980s and 1990s 八九十年代的年代文

1. 51 七 A Little Cannon Fodder’s Growth Diary in the 1970s 七零年代，炮灰小豆丁的成长日记 Playing the Passerby扮途人Modern Romance508k WordsCompleted [Period setting + family squabbles + cozy coming-of-age slice of life + family bonds + native-born young heroine + adorable child + no romance... too many elements to list. A chaotic mix of transmigration and rebirth. If you don’t like it, don’t read. Ensemble cast focus.] Four-and-a-half-year-old Chen Manyue is bound to a System, which tells her that her whole family is a bunch of troublemakers. Her father, Chen Zhongyi, may have “loyalty and righteousness” in his name, but he’s actually hot-te 13.3kReads8.6Score3kShelves
2. 52 穿EN The Bystander's Self-Cultivation in a 1970s Transmigration Novel 穿书七十年代吃瓜群众的自我修养 Jiong Jiong You Pi囧囧有皮Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted 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 95.8kReads9.6Score8.7kShelves
3. 53 金 A Golden Marriage 金婚 IMCModern Romance442k WordsCompleted One is a fool in everyone's eyes, the other a young hoodlum in the village's eyes. Yet fate ties them together. Zhou Xing always thought himself above others, but never imagined he'd marry a fool and fill a whole house with children, boys and girls alike. What's more, in this life and the next, and the life after that, he only wants to be with her. At first, Li Zhi'an was terrified of living under the same roof as Zhou Xing, that bad man. Gradually, she came to accept him. In the end, she decide 14.4kReads9.3Score1.4kShelves
4. 54 穿 Transmigrate Into a Book and Become the Beloved Little Villainess of the Seventies by Raising Hell 穿书七零恶毒女配靠作妖成团宠 Watermelon Who Loves Meat爱吃肉肉的西瓜Modern Romance611k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book set in the 1970s + System + love grows over time + military marriage + woman transmigrated into a book vs. reborn woman] (New book, so its rating is low for now. It’ll go up, so don’t worry, darlings, jump right in!) When Shen Nanchu opens her eyes, she has become the male lead’s wicked widowed sister-in-law from a book. In the story, the original owner is greedy for power and status and uses every trick in the book to marry the eldest son of the Pei family, the male le 9.8kReads8.4Score1kShelves

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   I just finished reading this book. Although the rating isn't high, it was hilarious throughout. The only downside is that it's an ongoing series. 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

5. 55 签 Sign-In in the 1970s: The Female Supporting Character and Educated Youth Is Doted on by a Powerful Man 签到七零：女配知青被大佬娇宠了 Watching Fish from the Pavilion亭上观鱼Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (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 55.6kReads9.4Score6kShelves

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   It's great! I love watching it!

6. 56 我 My Years as the Big Brother: I Might as Well Marry into Her Family 我当大哥的那些年干脆去上门算了 Demon Princess魔姬Urban595k WordsCompleted Our Ma family is a great clan. After a fire destroyed our granary, the entire clan was exiled to the southwestern frontier, where we settled in the mountains. Over time, we grew into a large village called Majia Village. The male lead, Ma Yongzhen, is the eldest legitimate grandson of the main branch of the Ma family. The heavy burden on his shoulders nearly breaks him, and after his fiancée betrays him, he simply goes to town to become a live-in son-in-law. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 57 重 Reborn in the 1990s to Welcome Good Fortune 重生九零接好运 A Glutton饭桶一个Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted (Rebirth and comeback, fantasy romance) Cheng Sui is fair-skinned and beautiful, but her life has always been ordinary. Then, out of nowhere, luck comes her way. She is reborn and gains a pocket dimension. Watch her defy fate and change her life. She'll even become a top student and a miracle-working doctor, making a fortune in this lifetime. She'll press on along the road to transforming her life and building her wealth. But who could have guessed that, in this life full of cheat codes, she'd l 3.3kReads9.2Score293Shelves

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   These are four historical fiction novels that I personally like ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)✧ The first one is about a reborn female protagonist who becomes a very powerful person; the character design and plot are both quite good. The second one is one I read a long time ago; I only remember it being very enjoyable 😅 The third and fourth ones are a bit longer historical fiction novels; how should I put it, they're still pretty good.

8. 58 穿 Transmigrating to the 1980s: She Sets the School Bully Straight with Sign-Ins 穿越八零：她靠签到将校霸掰正了 Strolling in the Courtyard闲庭漫步Modern Romance851k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + top student + sign-in + adored by the whole family + both leads devoted to each other] She transmigrates into a book one day, only to find herself a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a home with bare walls. A System appears from nowhere. She plans to sign in, farm, and lead her whole family to prosperity. Who could have guessed that every good thing in the world would come her way: family affection, friendship, and even love? Through her own hard work, she 5.9kReads8.9Score495Shelves
9. 59 七 1970s Military Marriage: After Marrying a Soldier, She Decides to Lie Flat 七零军婚：嫁给兵哥哥后她躺平了 Little Moon Darling小月亮宝Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Main characters: Gu Yuanzhou and Tang Xiaoxiao Parallel world + military marriage + doting husband + no nasty characters + dimensional space P.S. The rating has only just opened, so it’ll rise later! Tang Xiaoxiao, a young heiress from the twenty-first century, inherited her father’s vast fortune and then traveled around the world with her best friend, living the good life. Her friend took her skydiving, but... That jump sent her straight to the 1970s. The moment she opened her eyes, she found h 15kReads8.8Score1.7kShelves
10. 60 八 The 1980s: The Cold-Faced Officer Is Wrapped Around the Sickly Beauty's Finger 八零：冷面军官被病弱美人拿捏了 Little Silly Goose小呆鹅Modern Romance571k WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion] Martial arts prodigy Jiang Nianzhi transmigrates into a book and arrives in an alternate version of the 1980s, where she becomes a delicate, frail beauty. Thinking she would run into one terrible person after another, she rolls up her sleeves, ready to beat them all into submission. But her feisty mother favors girls over boys, her white-lotus sister is a doting sister-con, her grandmother is a beauty enthusiast, and her little brother has 83.3kReads9.4Score13.4kShelves
11. 61 杨 Yang La's Bee Sting 杨辣蜂芒 Lin Meiyang林美羊Modern Romance81k WordsCompleted This is a portrayal of a rural woman who is competitive, capable, and fiery, yet also clever. When it comes to the people and things she cares about, she is thoughtful and unfailingly attentive in showing her concern. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Searching for these three books should basically meet your requirements.

12. 62 呵 Oh, Teacher 呵，老师 Lin Meiyang林美羊Modern Romance112k WordsOngoing This book portrays a group of teachers. Through its pages, the author creates and celebrates the noble image of many educators, expressing a heartfelt love for the teaching profession. It also reflects the author’s varied impressions of and deep affection for the many teachers they have encountered... —Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 63 生 Observations from the Delivery Room 生产见闻 Lin Meiyang林美羊Modern Romance8k WordsCompleted Observations from the Production Line 62Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 64 寂 The Silent Firmament 寂静苍穹 Ren Feiyan of Baocheng宝城的任飞燕Sci-Fi & Apocalypse232k WordsCompleted Only when the sky split open with green light did humanity realize that the apocalypse was merely the beginning of a conspiracy. Meteorologist Yu Chen sensed the stench of destruction in anomalous ionosphere data, but could not stop disaster from striking. A global electromagnetic pulse (EMP) instantly paralyzed civilization, and the "blue light" weapons that followed reaped lives like the scythe of death. Amid the ruins, Yu Chen joins forces with the mysterious nurse Su Qing to survive, only t —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Must-see, highly recommended 🙂

15. 65 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score207.7kShelves
16. 66 她 The Age of Their Happiness 她们的幸福时代 April Taoyao四月桃幺Modern Romance341k WordsCompleted A coming-of-age memory for those born in the 1960s. In 1986, the youngest daughter of the celebrated Guo family graduates from university and returns home in triumph, only to face a string of family upheavals: her eldest sister's divorce, her second sister's pregnancy before marriage and her boyfriend's imprisonment, and the revelation that her own love rival is actually her “missing sister”... Watch as the sisters lean on and comfort one another, wade through life's muddy waters, find happiness 131Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    This is a good book. The story is set in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The female lead is very cute, the story is heartwarming, and I was deeply moved after reading it.

17. 67 穿 Transmigrating to the 1970s: A Theatrical Wife in the Countryside 穿越七十年代：戏精娇妻，有点田 Gu Xiaopang谷小胖Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Mi Duoduo transmigrates as a premature baby and is then schemed against by her scumbag father and stepmother, who want her to go to the countryside in place of her stepbrother. She’ll pay them back tenfold and let them taste the hardships of wind and sand. Her scheming stepsister, the so-called innocent stepmother, and her scumbag father won’t get away either. She also crosses paths with a reborn female supporting character and the male and female leads, even though she’s just a passerby destine 583Reads8.6Score101Shelves
18. 68 回 Back in the 1980s, Starting My Career Anew 回归八零再就业 Lost but Not Lost迷途不迷途Modern Romance2.1M WordsCompleted While everyone else who transmigrates gets to live another life, Qi Xinlan loses twenty years of hers! One moment she's a thriving, ambitious administrative director at a multinational corporation; the next, she's a fifty-two-year-old woman. This is the bittersweet story of how the white-collar elite Cindy Qi became Auntie Qi to her neighbors. Her most promising son is gone, her daughter-in-law has run off, and a whole bunch of little children are left behind! See how a modern HR and administrat 16.3kReads9.5Score1.6kShelves

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    Nice!!!!

19. 69 逃 After Escaping My Arranged Marriage, I Became a Commanding Officer’s Wife 逃离娃娃亲后，我成了首长夫人 The Tiger That Doesn't Show Its Claws不发威的老虎Modern Romance471k WordsCompleted A sweet romance about an 18-year-old beauty and a 25-year-old soldier A gas explosion sends Ji Xu'an hurtling into a novel set in a bygone era. The male lead is the man she was promised to as a child, and the female lead is her stepsister, whom she barely considers family. She can't be bothered to get involved with the original leads, so she packs up and heads to the countryside. Luckily, the explosion brought her modern home along with her. She spends her days slacking off and farming in the co 5.7kReads8.5Score609Shelves

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    These books are all super good, but they're all military romances. I absolutely love this type of story. The third book doesn't have any spatial abilities, and the first book's spatial abilities are barely noticeable—just a tiny bit in the beginning, and almost never used later on. They disappear completely after the second baby is born.

20. 70 7 Seventies Military Marriage: The Sweet, Soft-Spoken Little Chef Is a Bit Too Coy 70军婚，娇软小厨娘有点嗲 Five Little Cats五只小猫Modern Romance414k WordsCompleted [Period setting + transmigration + pocket dimension + military marriage + chef heroine + sweet romance + sizzling chemistry + devoted couple + doting husband] Soft, sweet little enchantress VS aloof soldier king Wen Shiyuan woke up from a night of heavy drinking to discover she had transmigrated. She was now the little granddaughter of Old Master Wen, a retired state banquet chef in the 1970s. She’d also brought along a special pocket dimension! Well, when in Rome. As a head chef at a five-star 7.6kReads8.5Score916Shelves
21. 71 八 The 1980s: The Tsundere Officer Flirts Wildly with His Cannon-Fodder Ex-Wife 八零：闷骚军官狂撩炮灰前妻 Li Yueya of Wuzhuang五庄的李月牙Modern Romance304k WordsCompleted The low rating is only because not many people have read it~ [Transmigrate into a book + 1970s setting + military marriage + devoted to each other + supporting female character + ten-year age gap + marriage before love + mutual flirting] [An outwardly serious, secretly flirtatious daddy-type hero whose old heart finally catches fire & a beautiful, sweet, timid, flirtatious heroine] When Zhu Sui'an wakes up, she discovers she's transmigrated into a period novel as the villainous ex-wife who makes 2.6kReads8.9Score296Shelves
22. 72 穿 Transmigrating to the 1970s: Marrying an Officer and Joining Him on His Island Posting 穿越七零，嫁军官海岛随军 Lemon-Flavored Mengya柠檬味的梦雅Modern Romance303k WordsCompleted [Alternate universe + military marriage in the 1970s + no rural relocation + pocket dimension + devoted to each other + love at first sight] Modern-day Lin Shiyao saved a child from drowning on her way home, then unexpectedly transmigrated to the 1970s. Even more incredible, her parents looked exactly like the parents she had in her previous life. Lin Shiyao burst into tears. When she first met Gu Chenzhou, he seemed aloof and difficult to talk to, but he was so handsome. He was exactly her typ 6.5kReads8.4Score586Shelves
23. 73 滚 Kicked Out of Her Family: The Middle School Dropout Strikes It Rich 滚出家后：初中学历的她，发财了 Huang Duoduo黄多多Modern Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Period setting, farming] + [Family and neighborhood drama] + [The 1990s] + [Everyday modern life, no golden finger] + [Female entrepreneur] She was the second daughter, overlooked by her family, with an ordinary appearance, an ordinary background, and only a junior high school education. He was born into an eminent family and had power and prestige to spare. She was the least promising daughter in the Li family, and her parents were certain she would never amount to anything. With only a junior 55.5kReads9.0Score5.7kShelves
24. 74 重 Reborn in the 1980s: My Daily Life as a Matchmaker in the Countryside 重生八零：我在乡下当媒婆的日常 Gardenias Fragrant for Ten Miles栀子花开十里香Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Matchmaking + System + space + food + family life + building wealth + righting past wrongs] Lin Sue'e had lived an unremarkable life, grown distant from her children, and died full of regret. She never expected to return to a time forty-four years earlier… That year, it had been only two years since her eldest son was robbed of his university placement. He hadn't yet been left permanently disabled by working in a coal mine. Her eldest daughter hadn't been beaten to death by her husband, and the 2.1kReads8.9Score142Shelves
25. 75 和 After Swapping Marriages With My Stepsister, I Became the White Moonlight of a Period Novel 和继妹换亲后，在年代文当白月光 Huo Beishan霍北山Modern Romance499k WordsOngoing Eighties, marriage first and love later, slice of life, period setting, transmigration into a book Lou Xia, a homebody, dies suddenly while reading late at night and transmigrates into a book. She becomes the doomed, beautiful but useless first love of the overpowered male lead. The first love has a tragic background: her father doesn’t care for her, her mother doesn’t love her, and her stepsister forces her to switch betrothed husbands, marrying the male lead’s doomed older brother instead. Not 36.2kReads8.7Score3.3kShelves
26. 76 八 Pretty Eighties Stepmom Marries a Factory Director and Raises the Kids 八零漂亮后妈，嫁个厂长养崽崽 Huo Beishan霍北山Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Short drama: I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s] The 1980s, stepmother, raising kids, everyday life, love after marriage The moment she opens her eyes, Si Nian finds herself in a period novel as a fake heiress. She’s sent back to the countryside to marry a twice-married man in place of the real heiress, and has to raise a whole brood of children. To make matters worse, she runs into the real heiress, who has been reborn. In her previous life, Lin Sisi was pressured by her family into marrying a 56.1kReads9.4Score7.3kShelves

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    Both are good books; I highly recommend the first one.

27. 77 八 The 1980s: The First Wife Sends Her Ungrateful Adopted Son Away 八零：原配把白眼狼养子送走了 Huo Beishan霍北山Modern Romance505k WordsCompleted [Rebirth + transmigration into a book + a wife raising children] By the time Song Yanzhi realizes she is the adoptive mother of the male lead in a period novel, she has already been reborn. According to the plot, she is about to work herself to the bone for the male lead and his sister for the rest of her life. In the end, her husband will abandon her, and she’ll die of sheer rage. The male lead’s birth mother will swoop in and marry her husband. Her own son, meanwhile, will become the villain i 3.1kReads7.9Score212Shelves
28. 78 替 Six Years as a Substitute Was Enough: Reborn, I’d Rather Die Than Marry Him 替身六年当够了：重生死也不嫁了 Huo Beishan霍北山Modern Romance656k WordsCompleted Era, rebirth, raising a child, substitute romance, career, double substitutes In her previous life, her daughter was pushed into the water by the son of her husband's childhood sweetheart and drowned! Her husband ruled it an accidental fall and closed the case. Qiao Nian was so furious she died. Only after her death did she learn that she had spent six years as a substitute for her military officer husband's childhood sweetheart! When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to six years earl 12.8kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves
29. 79 重 Reborn in the 1980s: I Married the Factory Director and He Spoiled Me Rotten 重生八零：和厂长结婚后我被宠坏 Milk Tea Grizzly奶茶灰熊Modern Romance601k WordsCompleted [1980s, Fake Heiress, Everyday Life, Sweet Romance, Transmigrate into a Book, No Golden Finger] One day, Ruan Zheng wakes up to discover she has transmigrated into a book, becoming a cannon-fodder supporting character who is forced into an arranged marriage in a melodramatic period novel. On her wedding night, she eyes the impossibly handsome husband she got as part of the deal and quietly wipes the drool from her mouth. He’s not bad-looking at all. Lu Nanwang owns a livestock farm. He’s rich an 900Reads8.7Score102Shelves
30. 80 穿 Reborn as Cannon Fodder in a Period Novel, I’m Obsessed with Raising My Husband and Baby 穿成年代文炮灰，我沉迷养夫养崽 He Lili贺狸狸Modern Romance592k WordsCompleted [Also known as The Bossy Sweetheart and Her Adoring Husband: a petite, sweet-looking but secretly domineering and rather lazy female powerhouse × a cold and ruthless man to outsiders, but an attentive, devoted husband at home. A sweet story of mutual devotion.] Shen Qianjiao, the youngest Supreme Elder of the Wuhua Sect, suddenly transmigrates into the set of a wildly over-the-top family melodrama. A man holds two little ones in his arms as they cry themselves hoarse: “Mom, stop hitting us! Dad’ 1.2kReads8.7Score103Shelves
31. 81 军 1970s Military Marriage: The Capitalist Heiress Has a Spirit Spring Space 军婚七零，资本大小姐有灵泉空间 Jin Huohuo o金火火oModern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [Period Setting] [Educated Youth] [Stockpiling] [Alternate World] [Stunning Heiress] [Violence] [Pocket Dimension] [Pure Wish Fulfillment] [Everyone’s Darling] [Face-Slapping and Putting Scumbags in Their Place] Jiang Zhitong had been venting online after someone doxxed her, and suddenly she became fabulously rich overnight! Not only did she gain a fortune worth hundreds of millions, she also unexpectedly awakened a Spirit Spring Dimension. With her identity laid bare, she worried her vast wealt 36.5kReads8.0Score5.7kShelves
32. 82 快 Quick Transmigration: In Period Novels, I Pursue Self-Interest with Style 快穿：拜金的我在年代文精致利己 Nannan's Cultivation Dream楠楠的修仙梦Modern Romance5.6M WordsOngoing Follow the happy lives of the gold-digging, shameless woman Li Na across stories set in different eras. (Li Na has a different personality in each era story and no memories of her other lives in other era stories. The protagonist is only named Li Na; they are not the same person. Some have a golden finger and some don't, and when they do, it's very minor. The heroine is just an utterly ordinary woman.) Content warning: The heroine is deeply flawed and extremely selfish. She only ever thinks of h 7.7kReads8.2Score351Shelves
33. 83 军 A Lovely Military Wife and a Rugged Soldier: One Wrong Step on the Army Journey in the Eighties 军嫂俏！军爷糙！八零随军闪了腰 Chestnut V栗子VModern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Sweet, Charming Wife + Abstinent Officer] (Fictional Military Marriage + Married First, Fell in Love Later + Life in the Military Camp + Spatial System + Adorable Baby) Jiang Ning's arrival in the 1980s gets off to a wild start. The moment she opens her eyes, she's face-to-face with a burly soldier sporting an eight-pack, and nearly gets caught in bed with him. She makes a snap decision and binds herself to the man... “Comrade, what's done is done. Why don't we get married?” “Comrade, let's go 15.1kReads9.0Score1.7kShelves
34. 84 惊 Astonishing! The Top Scientist Is Being Kept by the Strongest Officer 惊！科研大佬被最强军官吃软饭了 Huang Xiaobai黄小白Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [1970s setting + transmigrate into a book + pocket dimension + making money + apocalypse powerhouse + romance + military marriage + scientific research] [Also known as: Military Marriage: The Fierce Beauty Goes to the Countryside to Crush Her Enemies Without Taking It Easy] [Content warning: The heroine is extremely protective of her food. She spends the early part of the story in the countryside, for about 450 chapters, before turning to research] [Content warning: There is a male lead, but he 17.5kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
35. 85 书 I Was Reborn as the Heroine’s White Moonlight, So I Tore the Domineering Hero to Shreds 书穿女主白月光，我手撕霸道男主 Girl, Look This Way菇凉看这边Modern Romance315k WordsCompleted [Period setting, female-led romance, strong heroine and weaker male lead, no role reversal, includes a woman disguising herself as a man] A handsome apocalypse survivor versus a delicate young master from a matriarchal world After failing to survive the apocalypse, a powerful beauty enthusiast dies and becomes the female lead's unattainable first love in a period novel. Though she's called the female lead's first love, she's really just a cannon-fodder character, a stepping stone for the main co 2.9kReads9.0Score351Shelves
36. 86 七 The Seventies: The Delicate Beauty Fears Nothing 七零年代，娇花她无所畏惧 Qing Wu卿妩Modern Romance333k WordsCompleted [Military marriage + sweet romance + period setting + delicate beauty + super strength + comedy + transmigrate into a book] The burly Lin Dali transmigrates. She becomes Lin Jiaojiao, a delicate beauty in the 1970s. After just one transmigration, she goes from a tomboy to a frail beauty. Lin Dali... no, Lin Jiaojiao says she's fine with that. Xi Cheng comes from a distinguished military family: his grandfather and father are both soldiers. He's usually aloof and unsociable. Then, by chance, he m 3.4kReads9.1Score400Shelves
37. 87 糙 The Rugged Army Guy Is Irresistible, but His Wife's Family Ends Up in Ruins 糙汉军哥好撩人，娇妻全家火葬场 Crazy Little Wangba疯狂小王叭Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [One-on-one romance + rugged military man + beautiful educated youth + pocket dimension + everyday life] Zhou Tingting was born strong enough to move mountains. When she opened her eyes, she found herself as a disposable background character in a sweet period romance. Her mother, stepfather, and stepsister's family were all up to no good. They tricked her out of her job and took her home. After squeezing every last bit of value out of her, they sent her off to the countryside. The original Zhou 7.6kReads9.0Score722Shelves
38. 88 我 I Land a Government Job by Gossiping in a Period Novel 我靠吃瓜在年代文里拿编制 Chen Xiaofan Who Loves Yellow Heart Greens喜欢黄心菜的陈小凡Modern Romance517k WordsCompleted This novel has undergone a major revision [transmigration; gossip; System; getting rich; male lead; transmigrate into a book set in the 1970s] Jiang Panyu's greatest passion in life was gossip. She was like a melon-eating mouse in a field, always showing up wherever there was juicy gossip, right at the heart of the action. One day, she got so caught up in watching two old ladies brawl that she completely lost herself in the excitement. A brick in one of the old ladies' hands sent her straight to 3.6kReads9.0Score337Shelves
39. 89 重 Back to the 1980s: The Chubby Chef Is Everyone’s Favorite 重回八零：胖妞厨娘是团宠 Ji Azhai纪阿宅Modern Romance999k WordsCompleted The greatest joy in landlady Ruan Mianmian’s life is eating. But when bad luck strikes, even drinking water can make you choke. One glutinous rice ball sends her back to the 1980s. She’s lamenting how scarce everything is in this era and worrying that she’ll have to go without good food, when a piece of wonderful news drops from the sky. What? My dad is the head chef at a state-run restaurant! My uncle works at the supply and marketing cooperative! Another uncle is the director of the meat proce 207Reads7.1Score—Shelves
40. 90 八 After Getting Rich, the 1980s Factory Director's Wife Starts Disciplining Her Husband 八零厂长夫人赚钱后开始训厂长了 BaxyModern Romance437k WordsCompleted Good heavens! When Ye Wen opens her eyes, she’s become a married woman in her thirties with a fourteen-year-old son. Her husband is the thirty-six-year-old head of a clothing factory. Ye Wen wakes up at her aunt’s house. The moment she steps into her own home, she sees her son wearing a pink apron and stir-frying wild greens with a spatula. Sitting at the table, Ye Wen stares blankly at the watery porridge and the painfully green stir-fried vegetables. Didn’t they say her husband was a factory d 2.4kReads8.1Score145Shelves
41. 91 睁 Awakening in the 1980s: I Have a Child with the Infamous Village Tyrant 睁眼八零：和凶名在外村霸有崽了 Sunflower Ah Hua向日葵啊花Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted When Hu Yao woke up, she found a mischievous yet well-behaved son and a scoundrel of a man beside her. Shocked and bewildered, she heard from the neighbors she knew that four years earlier, she'd hit her head so hard she was left simple-minded, and her mother had sold her. Over those four years, she had not only gained a husband but also a mischievous child who fiercely protected her. The bastard of a man was always putting his hands on her, and he was exceptionally fierce and unreasonable. Terr 38.3kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
42. 92 八 An Eighties-Era Little Miss, Doted on Excessively by a Top Scientist 八零娇气包，科研大佬过分宠 Tingting Rain亭亭雨Modern Romance679k WordsCompleted [Pampered, affectionate beauty VS straight-laced research mogul, transmigrated into a book + spoiled girl + sweet romance + love after marriage] Xue Minmin is a fussy beauty, spoiled and willful, who unexpectedly finds herself transported into a book. Force the research mogul to marry her? Frame the camellia-loving heroine? Marry an old man, have three kids, and get beaten? No, no, no! It has to be a dream! When she opens her eyes again, someone is kissing her by force. She curses him as a perve 9.2kReads8.3Score1kShelves

    Reader note

    These are all books I recommended after reading them myself. I highly recommend the third and fourth books.

43. 93 大 The Compound’s Factory Beauty Has Been Snatched Up by the Villainous Capitalist Young Master! 大院厂花被反派资本家少爷拱了！ The Witch's Apple女巫的苹果Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period Setting, Beautiful but Miserable and Powerful Tycoon's Son + The Factory's Most Beautiful Woman, Friends with Benefits to Lovers, Face-Slapping and Striving in the Factory Compound, The Villainous Family's Loving Everyday Life] Bai Xiaotong finally found a chance to sleep with her childhood sweetheart. Only afterward did she realize she'd slept with the wrong man, and that this world wasn't real at all. It was merely a novel set in a bygone era. In this fictional world, her cousin was th 29kReads8.3Score3.5kShelves
44. 94 八 The Eighties Cannon Fodder Charms the Male Lead and Climbs to the Top 八零小炮灰，撩爆男主要上位 Cheng Yiqi橙以七Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Historical setting + devoted couple + sweet romance + marriage first, love later + everyday military life + rugged husband who dotes on his wife + older man + falling in love day after day Xu Zhouzhou transmigrates into the body of a stunningly beautiful minor character in an 1980s novel. The minor character is a background extra who gets killed off from the start. But she happens to have a breathtaking face, and as the village’s last educated youth unable to return to the city, she lives alone 10.3kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
45. 95 穿 Reborn as the Cannon-Fodder Wife, I Stole the Show in the Military Compound 穿成炮灰原配后，我惊艳军区大院 Moon Rising over the Blue Sea苍海升月Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Also known as: Before I Lost My Virtue, I Rewrote the Life of the Cannon-Fodder First Wife [Period setting + military marriage + face-slapping + no golden finger + sweet romance + devoted couple] Xia Qingning unexpectedly transmigrates into a period romance novel written by a classmate who envies her. She becomes the original wife, who shares her name and is framed into losing her virtue, then jumps into a lake and dies tragically. The moment she opens her eyes, she’s at the scene of her violati 52.8kReads9.2Score5.4kShelves
46. 96 资 The Capitalist's Daughter Awakens, Then Chases Her Husband With a Baby Bump! 资本家小姐觉醒后，揣孕肚追夫！ Chopped Chili Radish Head剁椒萝卜头Modern Romance808k WordsOngoing On her way to meet someone for a new relationship after her divorce, Wei Yuxuan suddenly fainted and had a dream. In the dream, she was the original heroine of a novel whose fate had been changed against all odds by a woman who had transmigrated into the book. The hero was her ex-husband, Xie Yanzhi, and the transmigrated woman was her stepsister, Wei Yuan. Three generations of the Xie family had served in the military. They were a prominent family, and Xie Yanzhi himself was a gifted young man 889Reads8.0Score242Shelves
47. 97 我 I Made a Hundred Million from Demolition in the 1990s 我在90年代靠拆迁分到一个亿 Lemon Mint Tea柠檬薄荷茶Modern Romance175k WordsCompleted Shen Baoying wakes up to find she has transmigrated into the body of a 1990s housewife who shares her name. It’s a prosperous era of reform and opening up, and Shen Baoying’s husband has followed the times by going into business. As the saying goes, a man with money turns bad, and Shen Baoying’s husband is no exception. And so a divorce agreement lands on the table in front of Shen Baoying. She looks at the divorce settlement: 5,000 yuan in cash and a street-facing bungalow inside the capital’s 3.4kReads8.1Score238Shelves

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    These books are absolutely amazing!

48. 98 穿 Transmigrated into an 80s Novel as a Rich, Adored Young Lady 穿进八零年代文当富家娇娇女 The Watermelon in Yikun Palace Isn't Sweet翊坤宫西瓜不甜Modern Romance212k WordsCompleted Xiang Qing, who loves reborn web novels, never imagined that one day she would transmigrate to the 1980s and find herself from the start as a little farm girl! In an era when even eating meat was a luxury, she relies on her parents and gradually rises to become a pampered rich girl. As for that golden finger that's somewhat useful but not very useful, she'll just use it to tackle a few side quests for now... 3.7kReads8.2Score207Shelves
49. 99 重 Back to the ’80s to Get Rich with the Whole Family 重回八零带全家一起暴富 Lemon Cashew柠檬腰果Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted In the 1980s, I transmigrated here. My mom transmigrated here. My dad transmigrated here. Dad said, “I have a pocket dimension. Mine is a farm-stay estate.” Mom said, “I have one too. Mine is a building materials and furniture mall.” They asked me, “Sweetie, what do you have?” I said, “I don’t have a pocket dimension?” Mom and Dad: “We both have one. Why don’t you? Are you really our daughter?” Me… I have a shopping System. See how this family from the new century uses their pocket dimensions an 134Reads—Score—Shelves
50. 100 重 Reborn in the Eighties, I Struck It Rich by Fishing the Tides 重生八零，我靠赶海暴富了 Two Taels of Shaodao Liquor二两烧刀子Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted A food blogger transmigrates to a small fishing village in the 1980s and wakes up as a stunning young widow! Then she discovers that her husband faked his death on their wedding day and already had another family. She escapes her in-laws’ home and makes a living gathering seafood along the shore. Spicy whelks, steamed sea urchin egg custard, sea grapes with dressing, salt-and-pepper mantis shrimp, vermicelli casserole with garlic oysters... Business is booming, but then she crosses the local gan 38Reads6.9Score—Shelves

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