Period Fiction: The Male Lead Has a Questionable Background and Secretly Loves the Female Lead at First 年代文，男主成分不好，刚开始男主暗恋女主

1. 51 七 A 1970s Military Marriage: That Couple's Both a Little Crazy 七零军婚：那两口子都有点癫 Wealthy Heiress财神千金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 46.8kReads9.2Score5.8k14d adds

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   These two are pretty good.

2. 52 七 The 1970s: The Wild Officer Is Wrapped Around the Finger of a Stunning Powerhouse 七零：狂野军官被绝美大佬拿捏了 Pear Star Bunny梨星兔纸Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Completed [Period setting + military marriage + space + sweet romance + doting husband + feel-good story + both leads are cherished by everyone + everyday life in the army] Jiang Zhizhi, a special forces soldier hailed as a peerless beauty and all-around genius, transmigrated into a book and became the beloved youngest daughter of a family of scientists. From the start, her parents were sent away for labor reform. Her choices were to go on a blind date with a six-foot military officer or pack he 30.5kReads9.0Score3.6k14d adds
3. 53 年 The Male Lead of a Period Novel? Marrying an Abstinent Military Officer Is Much Better 年代文男主？哪有嫁给禁欲军官香 Xia Shang下伤Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (1960s, military marriage, devoted couple, female lead is a worker-peasant-soldier university student x the young heir to a powerful family in Guangdong) After her parents divorced and remarried, Liu Yao became a poor little thing loved by neither of them. After graduating from a prestigious university with a master's degree, Liu Yao thought she could change her fate against all odds. But once she arrived in the big city, she was nothing more than an insignificant nobody, one of those small-to 929Reads7.9Score11014d adds

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   These are all must-sees, my darlings! [Already added to my wishlist][Already added to my wishlist]

4. 54 娇 The Darling Girl Transmigrates into a Period Novel and Marries a Rough Disabled Man 娇娇女穿年代文后，嫁给残疾糙汉 Qian Yu黔渔Modern Romance441k WordsCompleted [System + transmigrate into a book + farming + period setting] Because she never finished the last bite of rice in her bowl, Lu Xingyue was taken into a period novel by the “Every Grain Is Hard-Won” atonement System. To atone, she had to work every day and accumulate a certain number of labor points. If she fell short, even by a single point, the System would strike her with lightning. Lu Xingyue silently raised her middle finger behind her back... “Damn it...” As if being dragged into an atonem 455Reads9.2Score—14d adds
5. 55 拽 The Bossy Queen Rules the Roost in a Period Novel 拽姐在年代文里横行霸道 Ning Yi甯意Modern Romance388k WordsCompleted [A Chaebol Heiress with Off-the-Charts Beauty Enjoys the Gossip in a Period Novel] [Warnings: 1. The female lead is arrogant and domineering. 2. The female lead saves people.] From the moment she was born, Zhou Xini was destined to be a winner in life. She had been high-handed and insolent for eighteen years, and everyone who saw her gave her a wide berth. Even if all her assets were confiscated, she never would have imagined that something so melodramatic and absurd could happen to her! The bla 2.8kReads7.8Score20414d adds
6. 56 年 The Heirless Male Lead in a Period Novel, and the Scheming True Heiress Who Won Him Over 年代文绝嗣男主，戏精真千金要了 Jun Mumu Jun君木木君Modern Romance268k WordsCompleted [1970s + Pocket Space + Family Life + Marriage Before Love] After Jiang Mengnuan died, she learned that she was the ill-fated real daughter in a novel. When she opened her eyes again, the reborn capitalist heiress wanted nothing to do with her fiancé. She cried and pressured Jiang Mengnuan to marry someone else, and even wanted to steal the scumbag husband, Xu Guishan, who had joined forces with his childhood sweetheart, Jiang Donglian, to kill her in her previous life? Jiang Mengnuan: “What kin 591Reads8.4Score—14d adds
7. 57 穿 I Transmigrated into a Period Novel, and I'm Not Following the Plot 穿进年代文我不走剧情 Mango Jam Jam芒果酱酱Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Shen Shuyu may be the most unfortunate transmigrator ever. She’d just won the lottery and hadn’t even had a chance to collect her winnings when she kicked the bucket from excitement. When she opened her eyes, she discovered she’d transmigrated into a book. There was no suspense: the body she’d transmigrated into was, of course, that of the vicious female antagonist. The heroine, Shen Xue, was her cousin. Beautiful and kindhearted, hardworking and capable, she was the village’s most admired young 124.2kReads8.4Score12.8k14d adds
8. 58 穿 Transmigrate into a Book Set in the 1970s: I’m Here for the Drama and the Snacks 穿书七零，吃瓜看戏嘎嘎乐 Could You Let Me Be Young Again 123可否许我再少年123Modern Romance471k WordsCompleted Yun Ting was fighting the zombie king alongside her companions in the apocalypse when an explosion sent her flying. The moment she opens her eyes, she finds she’s joined the mass transmigration to the 1970s. Later, she discovers she’s transmigrated into a book, too. An orphan from the apocalypse, she now has a big family of relatives who seem to treat her quite well, giving her her first taste of family affection. Her family follows the policies of the times: one child has to go to the countrysi 8.3kReads8.4Score68214d adds

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   They're all pretty good, chapters 1, 3, and 4. The series isn't finished yet, so I'll have to keep up with the updates.

9. 59 穿 After I Transmigrated into a Book, My Sons' Golden Fingers Merged with Mine 穿书后我和儿子们的金手指合并了 Iron Empress Dowager铁太后Modern Romance1.7M WordsCompleted [Twins + Space + System + Book Pavilion + Military Marriage + Everyday Parenting] The male lead is basically just a background character, though he gets a little more screen time later on. Qiu Yinuo transmigrates into a book, becoming the vicious supporting female character in a period novel, as well as the future commander’s plump wife, who dies young. As the wife of a powerful man, she has everything she could want, yet she makes trouble at every turn and ends up bringing about her own death 34.8kReads9.4Score5k14d adds
10. 60 穿 Transmigrated to the 1970s, the Capitalist Heiress Can't Take the Slightest Hardship 穿越七零资本家小姐吃不了一点苦 Raised A Cat养了只猫Modern Romance3.0M WordsOngoing [Military marriage + Period + space + revenge on scum + fictional setting + stern, devoted soldier king × all-around heiress who refuses to suffer] Wen Zhixia transmigrates from the apocalypse into the body of a capitalist heiress in another time and place, someone who shares her name. The pampered heiress doesn’t know how to fight back and is cruelly killed by her own family! Now that Wen Zhixia has taken over her body, she won’t put up with any of it. Compared with the kind and timid heiress, 15.5kReads8.5Score1.3k14d adds
11. 61 为 Keeping Yourself Pure for Your White Moonlight? After I Was Reborn, I Cleaned Out Your Whole Family 为白月光守身？重生后搬空你全家 Charcoal-Grilled Mandarin Duck炭烧鸳鸯Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [1970s + reborn + military marriage + clearing everything out + fake and real heiresses + scumbag regrets it + face-slapping the scumbags + pocket dimension + devoted couple + making a fortune + raising children] In her previous life, Shen Jinhe knew she was the Xie family's fake heiress. Believing she'd taken nineteen years of a good life from the real heiress, Xie Rou, she kept giving in. She was married to Lin Yao for twenty-seven years without ever consummating the marriage, and the two chil 13.8kReads8.7Score1.5k14d adds
12. 62 深 The Hottest Youth of Shenzhen, 1998 深圳往事最燃青春1998 Clear and Serene空净澄明Modern Romance596k WordsCompleted Whose youth isn’t full of passion? Whose youth isn’t filled with uncertainty? Everyone carries a story from their youth, a memory of growing up and becoming someone new. In the late 1990s, Shenzhen was a stage where dreams and reality collided fiercely. Could love at first sight, a feeling that lasts a lifetime, withstand the tide of the times? In 1998, Xu Fenfen, a young woman from a mountain village, heads south to Shenzhen to work and pursue her dreams. There, she and her supervisor, Liu Renq 1Reads—Score—14d adds

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    The beginning is a sweet, heart-wrenching, and realistic period drama. The later part delves into the painful entanglement of reality and ethical dilemmas, making it worth reading.

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