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  1. 1 The Reborn Capitalist Heiress Is Doted on by Her Military Officer Husband 资本家大小姐重生军官老公掌心宠 Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Historical Setting + Joining the Army Husband on an Island + Reborn + Young Lady + Sweet Romance + Everyday Life] [Alternate setting, 1960s] [Flirtatious, high-maintenance heroine and rough, arrogant hero] Shen Yitang thought there must be something seriously wrong with her. She had spent five years disliking Gu Huaizheng, but after he died, she spent a full ten years missing him. She missed the strong arms that had protected her in the catastrophic flood, and the safe haven he had built for he 22.8kReads7.9Score1.9kShelves
  2. 2 Born Fertile! The Celibate Tycoon’s Wife Is Pregnant Again 易孕体质!禁欲大佬你媳妇又怀了 Modern Romance525k WordsCompleted [Devoted to each other + family squabbles + sweet romance + raising a child + military life on a seaside island + troublemakers + good-pregnancy System + stunning, delicate beauty vs. abstinent pilot] Only after Ji Yanshu dies does she learn that she had been living in a novel set in a bygone era. She was the male lead’s first wife, who died young. The heroine is a capitalist’s daughter sent down to the countryside. Not wanting to suffer, she chooses to become someone’s stepmother. The capitalis 32.1kReads8.4Score3.6kShelves
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  3. 3 Reborn Before the Abortion: The Awakening Supporting Actress Becomes Everyone’s Darling 重生打胎前,女配觉醒后被团宠了 Modern Romance408k WordsCompleted [Reborn in the 1970s + sweet romance + slow-paced devotion as she raises her husband and children + face-slapping the scumbag and his mistress + blackening the original heroine + pure satisfaction!] (The rating has only just come in, so it may be a little low at first. It’ll rise later. Updates are steady, so feel free to dive in.) [Top graduate and class monitor of the Men’s Virtue Program vs. a bright, bold little firecracker who’s spoiled rotten and proud of it] Only after Zhu Mingyue died di 13.3kReads8.0Score1kShelves
  4. 4 After They Read My Mind, the Beloved Heiress’ Image Crumbles Again 被读心后,团宠大小姐人设又崩了 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Mind-reading and gossip + goofy plot + devoted couples Originally titled The Capitalist Heiress’s Persona Falls Apart Again After Her Thoughts Are Read Shi Yuanyuan transmigrates into a period novel about a woman adored by everyone, becoming the crazy, vicious ex-wife who is destined to die young at the hands of the powerful male lead. System: “Host, you know what a villain is, right?” A villain? I wouldn’t even Shi Yuanyuan declares: No one understands villains better than I do! What does a vil 8.3kReads7.5Score828Shelves
  5. 5 You Forced Me to Live as a Widow? The General Came Back Alive, and Now You’re Stunned 逼我守寡?首长活着回来傻眼了吧 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Military marriage + remarriage + punishing scumbags and face-slapping + making a fortune + 1980s + space] (A radiant beauty who makes a fortune VS a taciturn, protective tough guy) Tang Qiu opened her eyes on her wedding night and found herself married in a bride swap to an officer's wife who was about to become a widow. No need to panic. First, she’d settle the score with the stepsister who’d schemed against her, then reclaim her dowry. She even unexpectedly got a golden finger space. Her scum 9.3kReads8.5Score1.2kShelves
  6. 6 I’m the Wicked Villainess, but My Officer Husband Spoils Me Rotten 我是恶毒女配,可军官老公超宠我 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Military Marriage + System Space + Sweet Daily Life + Plot Awakening + Completing Tasks and Stockpiling Supplies] After having nightmares for three nights straight, Lei Jiaojiao discovers that she's the vicious supporting character in a period novel. In the story, she torments her twin sister, does countless wicked things, and dies a miserable death. Worse still, she's bound to a Vicious Supporting Character Reform System, which orders her to be kind and work hard to change her 40.4kReads8.6Score5.5kShelves
  7. 7 A Beauty Marries Down: Her Second-Husband, an Older Man, Demands Her Love Every Day 美人下嫁:二婚老男人日日索爱 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 81.9kReads9.4Score10.4kShelves
  8. 8 Military Marriage: The Stern-Faced Officer Is Won Over by a Stunning Painter 军婚:面凶军官被绝美画家拿捏了 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Stunning artist x tough, prison-style military officer] [Pocket dimension, limited appearances + sweet romance + satisfying wish fulfillment + no awful characters] Shi Tingyu is a young painter with a modest reputation. One day, she transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes the daughter of a weapons researcher. Before she can enjoy her new life, her parents face the prospect of being reported and sent down to the countryside. Unwilling to let her suffer, her parents quickly arrange a blind date fo 77.3kReads9.5Score8.3kShelves
  9. 9 Gossiping in the Compound Is So Much Fun 大院吃瓜真香了 Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Lin Qing had a terrifying dream. In it, she was a frail young aunt whose niece, born the same year, had stolen her engagement. Afraid Lin Qing would try to reclaim the match, the niece flaunted the man she'd stolen in front of her every day, until Lin Qing was finally angered to death. Lin Qing jolted awake in fright. What kind of vicious dream was that? If the niece wanted the man, she could have him. Why did she have to anger Lin Qing to death, too? Just when Lin Qing thought it had all been a 17.8kReads8.1Score1.3kShelves
  10. 10 My Cousin Chose a Life of Hardship, So I Swapped Marriages and Enjoyed the Good Life 堂姐非选苦日子,换亲后由我享福 Modern Romance356k WordsCompleted Jiang Li, a little rich girl who collects rent in Yue City, opens her eyes and finds herself back in the 1970s, as a pitiful girl in a period novel who goes hungry every day. The good news: she’s become the female lead, and the man she’s supposed to marry will become the richest man in the country. The bad news: before he becomes rich, she’ll have to struggle alongside him for twenty years. No way! She can’t take that kind of hardship! As it happens, her cousin wakes up one morning and insists o 2.4kReads8.7Score151Shelves
  11. 11 Transmigrated to the 1970s, I Really Don’t Want to Fight and Kill 穿到七零,我是真不想打打杀杀 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Historical Era · Strong Female Lead · System · Spatial Dimension · Romance Near the End] [PS: The early part is a fairly traditional period drama. Later on, there are storylines abroad and in Hong Kong. The female lead really does kill people!] Host: Today, we’re honored to interview Ms. Shi Qiyu, who was an orphan in her previous life and is unloved by both parents in this one! Let’s give her a round of applause! Shi Qiyu (calm and elegant): Hello, dear readers. I’m Shi Qiyu, the female lead o 12.2kReads8.6Score1.2kShelves
  12. 12 With My Tycoon System, I Become a Rich Woman in a Period Novel 靠着神豪系统我在年代文里当富婆 Modern Romance420k WordsCompleted By a twist of fate, Cheng Yi binds herself to a Tycoon System just as her soul transmigrates into the 1970s. The more hatred she earns, the more money and ration coupons she can exchange for, and the System will make everything seem perfectly legitimate. She thinks that with the System on her side, she can sit back and relax. Only later does she realize she has transmigrated into a period novel she read in high school. The original owner was a spoiled, arrogant villainess who met a miserable end 6.1kReads8.5Score451Shelves
  13. 13 Transmigrated to the 1960s: What's Wrong with the Foil Female Lead Being Arrogant? 穿六零:对照组女配嚣张点怎么了 Modern Romance2.8M WordsOngoing [Transmigrate + transmigrate into a book + space + System + supporting female character + feel-good] Yun Susu transmigrated into a book and became the heroine’s foil, a doomed supporting female character. The heroine, Wang Ning, had a pitiful background: her father didn’t care for her, and her mother didn’t love her. She was a poor little cabbage. Yun Susu, by contrast, was the pampered darling of her family, spoiled and domineering, with relatives who indulged her without question. To change th 14.4kReads7.3Score1kShelves
  14. 14 Finding Hidden Gems in a Historical Romance 在年代拼好文里捡大漏 Modern Romance1.2M WordsOngoing [Era Fiction + Transmigrate into a Book + Alternate History + Ensemble Cast + Slice of Life + A Little Spoiling + Mostly Feel-Good + Romance + Everyone Gets Rich] Also known as: Finding Bliss in a Patchwork Era Novel The Background Character's Comeback in an Era Novel The Seventies: She Became the Heart of the Protagonist Group A Blended Era, Su Qingqing's Happy Life In the Era, She Had a Blast Thanks to the Protagonist Group! - Su Qingqing has transmigrated into an era novel! She suddenly disco 4.2kReads7.6Score336Shelves
  15. 15 A Secret Marriage? Goodbye! Take Your Divorce Papers 明招暗娶?再见吧!离婚本请拿好 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted The female lead pursues a career in government, and the two leads each have their own stories. Don’t worry about their romance! Blurb: Everyone says Ning Qing was born lucky. She was an unwanted child with no one to care for, yet someone adopted her. It’s just that her marriage prospects aren’t great. Her adoptive mother tries every trick in the book to match Ning Qing with her second son! Too bad the two of them can’t stand each other! The brave get to enjoy life first. She secretly sets he 4.1kReads8.2Score342Shelves
  16. 16 He Asked for a Divorce on His First Night Home, Then Kissed Her Until She Cried 首长回家第一晚提离婚,被亲哭了 Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [Reborn military marriage + winning back his wife + antique bargains + dazzling beauty vs. aloof heartthrob] In her previous life, Zhu Suisui fell for Lu Lanxu at first sight. Of all the Lu family members, she chose the most outstanding heir to be her husband. She thought that if she worked hard to be a good Mrs. Lu, one day Lu Lanxu would love her. But she had overestimated herself. She simply couldn’t warm his heart. For twenty years, they treated each other with respect, but he felt only a se 40.4kReads9.1Score4kShelves
  17. 17 In the Seventies, She Marries a Rugged Man Who Can’t Have Children, but the Spoiled Female Lead Sleeps In Again 七零嫁绝嗣糙汉,娇纵女配又起晚 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Completed + unhinged plot + 1970s + everyone's darling + marriage first, love later + healing] Jiang Nanxi had been spoiled since childhood and couldn't endure hardship. Who knew that when she opened her eyes, she'd transmigrate into a novel set in a poor era, becoming a vain supporting character with no brains and nothing going for her but her beauty? In the original story, a forty-two-year-old woman stole her twenty-year-old fiance, the male lead. Enraged, Jiang Nanxi married the male lead's 4.3kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
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  18. 18 The Unhinged Girl Is Reborn and Marries a Powerful Military Commander 癫癫女重生,嫁军区大佬飒爽 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Short Drama Now Streaming] [Period Setting + Youngest Daughter] [Reborn + Combat Prowess] Jiang Shiyue, the youngest daughter of a hunter’s family, was reborn at the moment a scummy educated youth tried to cheat her out of her recommendation for a workers’, peasants’, and soldiers’ university. She had a bow and a dagger. Tender and easygoing? Not her style. But when it came to fighting, she was the real deal. After exposing the scumbag, Jiang Shiyue turned around and accepted the marriage propo 5.7kReads8.4Score715Shelves
  19. 19 A 1970s Military Marriage: That Couple's Both a Little Crazy 七零军婚:那两口子都有点癫 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Inventory Space + Comedy + Wish Fulfillment + Two Golden Fingers] Ruan Qiqi spent ten years being treated for an illness, and her condition was perfectly stable. After leaving the hospital, she unexpectedly transmigrates to the 1970s, into the body of a country girl who has just been dumped by her scumbag fiancé. Nearly everyone around her is awful. But she isn't afraid. She has a space packed with supplies, a golden finger, and nine lives, so she can do whatever she wants with 60.1kReads9.2Score6.7kShelves
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  20. 20 The Little One Pouts, and Her Officer Dad and Scientist Mom Show Up 小宝嘴一瘪,军官爹科研妈都来了 Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted (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 19.2kReads8.0Score2.2kShelves
  21. 21 The Pregnant Wife of an 80s Male Supporting Character 穿成八零年代男配的怀孕妻 Modern Romance500k WordsCompleted Xu Mo was an overworked office drone from the twenty-first century, and she happened to get swept up in the transmigration wave. She transmigrated into the body of the villainess in an eighties novel. Not only is she the heroine's younger sister, she's also the tragic male lead's ex-wife. She stole the heroine's first love, the male lead, and even took the heroine's child. In the end, she even tried to steal the male lead. She's truly a shameless villainess! Xu Mo throws down the book!!! And she 5.2kReads8.0Score282Shelves
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  22. 22 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 Modern Romance950k WordsOngoing [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 86.5kReads8.1Score2.1kShelves
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  23. 23 The Troops Come to Claim Their Child: My Cold-Faced Husband Is Wrapped Around My Finger 带娃部队认亲:面冷丈夫被拿捏 Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Only after being reborn did Su Li learn that her twin sons were not her husband's at all. The Jiang family had deliberately staged the whole thing to get close to her father, a factory director. No wonder the Jiang family had never liked her children from the moment they were born. After her father was dismissed from his post, they brazenly pressured her to divorce and threw the children out of the house. Su Li could only watch as her eldest son drowned and her younger son died of a fever. She 14.2kReads7.8Score1.9kShelves
  24. 24 Reborn to Be a Military Wife? No! I'll Be His Instructor Instead 重生当军嫂?不!我直接做他教官 Modern Romance403k WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Rebirth + Subverting Expectations + Two Strong Leads + Sweet Romance + One-on-One, Both Untainted] In her previous life, Tang Ning was a highly decorated special forces instructor who sacrificed herself on a mission, leaving the entire military in mourning. When she opened her eyes, she had been reborn in the 1980s as a frail, pitiful young woman whose engagement had been broken off. Her blind date was Lu Cheng, the future soldier king who would become famous throughout the 258Reads7.4Score—Shelves
  25. 25 The Seventies: Reunited with My Ex Four Years Later, I Become Everyone's Darling 七零,四年后巧遇前任被团宠 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period setting + reunited after a breakup + transmigrate into a book + pocket dimension + devoted couple + groveling pursuit + sweet romance + the male lead will later transmigrate to the modern era to win her back] Su Wanwan transmigrates into a book as a cannon-fodder female character. The moment she opens her eyes, the male lead is sweet-talking her in a cornfield. According to the plot, he is only using her as a stepping-stone. Su Wanwan refuses to follow the plot. That very night, she meet 82kReads8.4Score9.6kShelves
  26. 26 So Passionate! After Remarrying, She Was Kissed to Tears by a Chaste Old Widower 重欲!改嫁后,被寡旱老男人亲哭 Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Military marriage in the 1980s + old flame rekindled + age gap + face-slapping + both are each other's first and only + love grows with time] In her previous life, she took the childhood betrothal papers that had been arranged for her and went to the city to seek out her fiancé's family. Her fiancé had climbed the social ladder after moving to the city, and looked down on her as a country girl. To marry a rich, beautiful city girl, he even framed her as having been unchaste before marriage. Hum 10.7kReads8.2Score1.1kShelves
  27. 27 I’m an Old Lady! Reborn, I Cut Ties with My Family and Got Rich! 我!老太太!重生断亲暴富! Modern Romance3.2M WordsOngoing Old Madam Zhou spent her whole life worrying herself sick over her four sons. She even divided the property and cash she received from the demolition compensation among them. She thought she had treated them all equally and taken each son into consideration. But in each son’s eyes, she was biased, and they all resented her and refused to support her. Old Madam Zhou should have been enjoying her retirement, but instead, at her advanced age, she survived by collecting trash and eventually died of 52.4kReads8.6Score3kShelves
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  28. 28 On My Wedding Night, I Became a Rugged Man’s Doomed First Wife 新婚夜,我穿成了糙汉的早死原配 Modern Romance503k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a Book + Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Real and Fake Heiresses + Rough-and-Ready Husband Dotes on His Wife] One day, Gu Ning transmigrates into the villainous original wife in a novel where the male lead is reborn. In her previous life, she married the male lead, Zhou Sheng, to get revenge on her boyfriend. But after the wedding, she wouldn’t let Zhou Sheng touch her. While he was away from home, she cheated on him after half a month, married off his younger sister for m 1.6kReads9.1Score162Shelves
  29. 29 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 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [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 55.7kReads9.2Score6.4kShelves
  30. 30 I Transmigrated into a Book Set in the 1970s, Married the Wildest Tough Guy, and Came Out on Top 穿书七零闪婚最野糙汉后我赢麻了 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [One-on-One Romance + Period Setting + Rugged Hero + Sweet Romance + Transmigrate into a Book + 1970s + Male Lead Is Love-Struck + Raising Kids] When she opened her eyes, a man who seemed made for her was right in front of her. Ruan Niannian thought her mother had arranged everything, and hurriedly promised she would take responsibility... Once she came to her senses, she realized she had transmigrated into a novel set in the 1970s that she had read. She had become the love-struck supporting fem 58.3kReads9.4Score6.3kShelves
  31. 31 Pampered by Her Man, Adored by Her Kids: The 1970s Supporting Character Becomes Everyone's Favorite 男人宠,崽子乖,七零女配成团宠 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Reborn + pocket dimension + rugged man + raising kids + sweet romance] Shen Yiyi was a professional villainess in the Quick Transmigration Bureau. On her final mission, she transmigrated into a period novel and became a vicious educated youth who was infatuated with the male lead, married the story's great villain, gave birth to three cannon-fodder sons, was lazy and difficult, and then abandoned her husband and children to return to the city. In the end, the male lead “carried out justice on H 28.2kReads9.3Score3kShelves
  32. 32 She Takes Life by Storm 风风火火的她 Modern Romance3.3M WordsCompleted [The 1990s + lighthearted comedy + starting a factory + getting revenge on scumbags + everyday life] After three years of engagement, Jiang Tang had taken care of Gu Zhun's parents and younger siblings, honoring his parents and working herself to the bone for him. In return, he came home after completing his studies and acted as if he didn't know her. Jiang Tang turned around and impulsively married a nouveau riche. Overnight, she became a mother of three. First she landed big orders, then built 87.8kReads9.3Score13.3kShelves
  33. 33 Transmigrating into a Book Set in the 1970s: On My Wedding Night, I'm Sent Next Door to Stay 穿书七零:新婚夜被送到隔壁借宿 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period setting + transmigrate into a book + face-slapping + beloved by all + devoted couple + no golden finger] On the day of her wedding, Lin Jianchun is suspected of bringing bad luck to her mother-in-law, so her new husband sends her to spend the night at the Lu family’s house next door. Unexpectedly, the owner of the bed comes home in the middle of the night… That’s when she transmigrates into the story. Remembering that she was punished with transmigration just for cursing out the author, 10.1kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves
  34. 34 Reborn: The Darling Clings to the Best Police Officer of the 1980s and Coaxes Him 重生娇娇,抱紧八零最强警官撒娇 Modern Romance518k WordsCompleted [Period setting + reborn + healing + building a fortune + everyday doting on his wife] Also known as “Dealing with the Villains, Spoiling My Soldier, an Eighties Beauty Sweet as Honey” and “Back to the Eighties: Crushing Scumbags, Making Money, and Winning Over a Rugged Man” In her previous life, Cheng Lu only learned after she died that the world she lived in was actually a book. The male lead was her taciturn husband, Gu Qingshan, while she was merely his promiscuous, short-lived first wife in 343Reads7.0Score—Shelves
  35. 35 The Family's Beloved Girl: The Cannon-Fodder Darling of Her Terrible Family 七零团宠:极品家人的炮灰娇娇女 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Brooding, Brawny Man + Sweet Wife + Completed] Lu Jiajia is delicate and soft. Then, in the blink of an eye, she becomes a useless cannon-fodder character in the 1970s, with a whole family of vicious oddballs in tow. Yet in an era that favors men above women, she is the apple of her family’s eye. Her father and mother: “Jiajia is our precious girl. She deserves to be spoiled.” Her brothers: “My sister is frail and sickly. How could she do farm work!” Lu Jiajia: “…I want the ultimate winning han 63.9kReads9.4Score6.5kShelves
  36. 36 The Seventies' Sweetheart: The Brooding, Rugged Man Has His Eye on Me 七零娇娇,我被阴郁糙汉惦记了 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Completed + black-lotus sickly beauty + professor + perfect nemesis + healing] Xiao Niannian is frail and delicate, with skin as fair and smooth as jade. She looks easy to bully, but never lets an insult go unanswered. One day, she transmigrates into a rebirth novel set in the 1970s, becoming the male lead’s fiancée. In the book, not only will she die young, but the male lead will use her connections to rise to success. The heroine is reborn. After seeing the male lead prosper in her previous l 23.4kReads9.3Score2.4kShelves

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