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Any More Good Historical Fiction Set in a Bygone Era? 年代文!还有好看的吗?

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  1. 1 You Hid My Pregnancy News? I'll Bring the Commander's Baby to Blow Up the Military Base 藏我怀孕信?我带首长崽炸翻军区 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [1970s Military Marriage + Adorable Kids + Cozy Daily Life + Fast Face-Slapping + Both Leads Pure + Limited Use of Space] Shen Yunzhi woke up to discover that her son was already five years old! Six years ago, someone drugged her as part of a setup, and she spent one reckless night with Gu Chengyan, a stern-faced army officer. He promised on the spot to take responsibility, but when she woke the next morning, he was gone. After discovering she was pregnant, she mustered the courage to send a let 16.5kReads8.3Score2kShelves
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  2. 2 Shocking! After Transmigrating into a Book, I Became the Child's Mother 惊爆!穿书后我成了孩子他妈 Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Original title: The 1980s: Commander, Your Baby Is from Ten Years in the Future [Period drama transmigration + marriage first, love later + family life + adorable baby + marriage to bring good fortune] The instant she receives her college admission letter, Qi Shiyu finds herself standing at the gates of a school in 1985. She's become a high school senior, with only three months left before the college entrance exams. She's transmigrated into a book. She thought she'd been cast as an insignifican 26.2kReads7.9Score1.9kShelves
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  3. 3 Escape the Mountains, Win Over a Pretty Stutterer, and Have Twins 逃出大山,拐个俏结巴一胎双宝 Modern Romance365k WordsOngoing [The 1980s + from rural village to city + both leads are each other’s first and only + clear-headed heroine vs. stuttering hero] She was born in a brothel. A few months before the college entrance exam, her jealous mother sold her to a village hidden in the mountains. The village is a hub for human traffickers and a living hell. Its inhabitants include numb, ignorant youths, alluring, flirtatious widows, cruel women forced to bear children, and ambitious young men determined to escape. She does 39Reads8.2Score—Shelves
  4. 4 Young Master, I Want to Date You 少爷,俺想跟你搞对象 Two Male Leads352k WordsCompleted A dim-witted, wronged, rugged country hunk tops × a refined, pampered, sharp-tongued young master bottoms [1990s + love grows over time + devoted to each other + mutual pampering] Young Master Zhong Man is blinded in a scheme by his stepmother and dumped in the Henan countryside, where he runs into Tang Kaiqi, the boy he was promised to as a child. In his memories, Tang Kaiqi is still that dirty little brat who wore split-crotch pants and always had snot running from his nose. Only after regaini 2.7kReads9.0Score449Shelves
  5. 5 In the 1970s, My Female Lead and I Share a Golden Finger, Then I Marry the Villain 七零我和女主共用金手指后嫁反派 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period drama + transmigration into a book + sweet romance + daily life + devoted one-on-one couple] Yu Liang is a bad lot, but he dotes on his wife like no other. Meimei is hopelessly silly, but only ever plays little tricks in front of Yu Liang. In her previous life, Miao Meimei was unloved by both her father and mother, and abused by her nanny. After barely making it to the end of her life, she somehow transmigrated into a book. The female lead in the book is a fox spirit, and the villain was 2.8kReads8.7Score141Shelves
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  6. 6 Fertile by Nature, She Has the Factory Boss's Only Heir After Losing Her Memory 易孕体质,失忆后破厂长三代单传 Modern Romance314k WordsCompleted [Nineties setting, both leads are virgins, sweet romance, doting love, marriage first, love later, secret crush, slice of life] Qin Baozhu has been spoiled rotten since childhood, indulged and allowed to do whatever she wants. One day, an accident sends her tumbling off a train. The pampered heiress becomes an illiterate simpleton, and someone picks her up from the train station. When she wakes up, she's been married for six years, and there's a little one crying beside her. “Mommy, I promise I 11.1kReads8.5Score583Shelves
  7. 7 I Became a Chubby Girl in the 1970s and Married the Heroine's Dream Man 穿成七零肥妞,嫁给女主的白月光 Modern Romance534k WordsCompleted [A heroine devoted to lying flat vs. a hero who's cold to everyone else but clingy with her] Tang Tang died in the apocalypse, only to come back to life in the body of an extremely chubby young woman in the 1970s, so fat that even the flesh on her jiggled when she walked. The first thing she heard after waking up was that she was getting married to a soldier. The wedding was set for the very next day. Everyone assumed she'd refuse the match and was waiting to laugh at her. The original owner had 1.1kReads8.1Score101Shelves
  8. 8 The 1970s: I Kissed the Craziest Villain to Save My Life 七零:为活命我强吻了最疯反派 Modern Romance550k WordsCompleted (Complete) [Transmigrates into a book + period setting + sweet romance + heroine pursues hero + beautiful, fair-skinned, timid drama queen x villainous, short-tempered country boy] When Shen Yingying wakes up, she has become the villain's wicked little wife in a period novel. She wakes to find herself caught in the act of running away with another man by her villainous husband. She is so terrified she nearly dies on the spot. After all, the villain in the original novel is a violent, rough-he 28.3kReads9.3Score3.3kShelves
  9. 9 A Young Couple’s Struggle in the 1970s 小夫妻奋斗在七零 Modern Romance380k WordsCompleted [Proud man in government service x Clear-eyed, calculating woman] The transmigrated female leads of the 1970s shine brightly, and the reborn female supporting characters thrive, but none of that has anything to do with them. Li Wenzheng is the only unmarried man for miles around. He's picky and obsessively neat, and on top of that, he's sharp-tongued. Every time he opens his mouth, he wastes a face that handsome. Lin Jing can't find a good match, but isn't willing to settle for a bad one. Her fa 2kReads7.0Score178Shelves
  10. 10 My Scumbag Ex Became a Copycat Husband: Back to Before My Wife's Difficult Labor 渣男变模仿丈夫:重回媳妇难产前 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Female-focused + period setting + small family + child-rearing + everyday life) Zheng Wendong, filled with regret over how he had treated his wife, was reborn in 1999, back when he and his wife had just gotten married. In his previous life, he had failed to see people for who they were, abandoned his pregnant wife, and gone to stand up for the woman he had always loved. As a result, he suffered a grievous injury that left him impotent. His wife worked herself to the bone for him, but he still l 7.5kReads8.9Score522Shelves
  11. 11 Reborn as a Cannon Fodder, I Rely on a Top-Tier Star to Survive 穿成炮灰我和顶流相依为命 Modern Romance411k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + handsome men and beautiful women + born with a male lead + building a career + wealthy families] Their eyes met. They couldn’t believe it. “Xiao Jingyan, top-tier star!” “Song Jiaoyang, washed-up celebrity!” They woke up to a bare house, with no idea where their next meal would come from! After a while, Xiao Jingyan and Song Jiaoyang finally realized they had both transmigrated into a period novel. What’s more, they had become minor characters who barely appeared in t 2.5kReads8.6Score205Shelves
  12. 12 The Soft and Sweet Little Wife of the 1970s Sure Knows How to Push Your Buttons 七零娇娇软软小媳妇可会气人 Modern Romance201k WordsCompleted (One-on-one romance + period setting + heroine pursues hero + devoted love + money-minded + a wife who's impossible to manage + completely tamed) In the original owner's eyes, Qi Lin was a brawler with a vicious streak who never held down an honest job. She would rather die than marry him. In the Ninth Princess's eyes, Qi Lin is handsome and dashing, and he shares her hobbies of teasing cats and dogs. He's simply perfect for her. Before marrying, Qi Lin drank whenever he wanted and gambled whene 442Reads7.2Score—Shelves
  13. 13 The Stunning Eighties Cannon Fodder Wins the Military Big Shot's Heart 八零女配绝美,成军官大佬心尖宠 Modern Romance424k WordsCompleted (The rating is low because it was just posted, everyone!) (1980s, period setting, military marriage, sweet romance, groveling to win her back, both leads are inexperienced) After transmigrating into a book, Qiao Man became the foil-villainess in a period novel: a busty, dim-witted beauty with a terrible reputation, destined to be cannon fodder. She and the heroine, her half-sister, were staying with the Fu family in the military compound. The heroine was sweet and sensible, beloved by the Fus, a 18.8kReads8.2Score1.6kShelves
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  14. 14 I Became the Wife of a Commander Who Died Young! Now His Whole Family Dotes on Me 穿成早死首长的妻子!被全家团宠 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (A Novel Set in the 1980s) (Military Marriage + Marriage First, Love Later + Transmigrating into a Book vs. Transmigrating) A car accident sent Ye Fangfei into a novel. Its world was a parallel timeline in the early 1980s. The novel’s protagonists were the younger brother of her husband, Shen Zhanxun, and his wife. Shen Zhanxun was nothing but a stepping-stone they used to build their wealth. In the novel, Shen Zhanxun left the military to join the municipal public security bureau. He died while 186.1kReads9.0Score20.7kShelves
  15. 15 Two Babies Won't Stop Crying? Join the Army and Take Them to Their Commander Dad 两娃嗷嗷哭?随军!抱去找首长爸 Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Space + Stripping the Family of Its Wealth + Punishing Scum + Love After Marriage] [Clear-Headed, Radiant Beauty vs. Rugged Army Officer with Incredible Stamina] Jiang Yumian was framed and sent down to the countryside. After losing two children one after the other, she went mad and died taking her enemies with her, only to be reborn. The moment she opened her eyes, her children were still alive. Her family was secretly plotting to flee, leave her behind to be sent down to t 13.9kReads8.2Score2kShelves
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  16. 16 Military Marriage, Cherished by the Hawk: The Eighties Wife Is Too Alluring 军婚枭宠:八零娇妻太撩人 Modern Romance517k WordsCompleted [Military marriage + devoted to each other + no pocket space or System + cozy, sweet everyday life] On the first night after being reborn, Su Yunzhou knocks out the little villain, then packs her bags and prepares to run away. Her soldier husband panics! To fulfill his great dream of keeping the whole family together, Shen Zhanye worries himself sick. Before marriage, Shen Zhanye says, “Ha! My knees are harder than my skull. Begging on my knees? Not a chance!” After marriage, Su Yunzhou tosses 2kReads8.9Score126Shelves
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  17. 17 I Transmigrated to the 1960s as an Unregistered Nobody, and a Powerful Man Offered to Back Me 穿六零成黑户大佬主动给我抱大腿 Modern Romance695k WordsCompleted [Period Novel + Transmigration + No Going to the Countryside + Love at First Sight + Marriage Before Love] (No surrendering treasures to the authorities, slice of life, skip if that's not your thing) After somehow transmigrating to the 1960s, Lin Yubei sees everyone else with a golden finger or a pocket dimension, while she can only clutch the ID card in her bag, afraid to take it out. To avoid being branded a vagrant and sent off to work in the mines, Lin Yubei gets a marriage certificate with 12.3kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
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  18. 18 The 1980s: The Crazy Villain Is Always Plotting Against Me 八零:疯批反派他总对我图谋不轨 Modern Romance318k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Military Marriage + Skin-to-Skin Contact to Stay Alive + Both Leads Have No Other Partners + Sweet Romance] Jiang Yumian transmigrated into a book and became a vicious supporting character who had nothing going for her but her beauty. Want to stay alive? Then she had to find the male lead and touch him to replenish her life force! One day, the System pointed at a man with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, his expression cool and detached, and cried out in delight, “No doubt a 1.4kReads8.4Score127Shelves
  19. 19 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 46.2kReads9.1Score4.6kShelves
  20. 20 I Transmigrated and Got Arrested? The Scientist's Army Wife Turns the Tables 刚穿越就被抓?科研军嫂逆风翻盘 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + 1970s era + period setting + advancing the nation through research + military marriage + alternate history + slow burn (not a power fantasy, includes awful characters)] // Twilight shines over the nine provinces, stars settle in my arms // A genius inventor from the interstellar era unexpectedly reborn in the year 1975 of the Xiazhou calendar. She opens her eyes in an interrogation room, in a dire situation, on the verge of being sentenced to death. Ye Mu is just about to show 37.4kReads8.9Score3.9kShelves
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  21. 21 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 Modern Romance7.4M WordsOngoing [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 122.8kReads9.4Score8.7kShelves
  22. 22 My Wife Came to the Base to Divorce Me, and Now the Chaste Commander Is Panicking 媳妇来部队离婚,禁欲首长他急了 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [The short drama Ask Your Heart How Much has launched] [Military marriage + period setting + sweet romance + devoted couple + family life + raising kids + face-slapping] The moment Jiang Ning opened her eyes, she realized she had become the cannon-fodder female character in a period novel. She'd been married for three years without ever seeing her husband, and was destined to spend the rest of her life alone. Jiang Ning thought, Spend the rest of my life alone? No way! She decisively left behind 73.4kReads8.9Score5.7kShelves
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  23. 23 Everyday Cooking and Child-Rearing in the Compound 在大院养娃的美食日常 Modern Romance436k WordsCompleted [Food + military life + adorable kids + Culinary God System + everyday child-rearing] Only after awakening does Song Qinghuan realize that the world she lives in grew out of a wicked stepmother novel, and that she is the original wife, a cannon-fodder character destined to die young. When she falls into a river, her children are abducted by human traffickers. Her children become villains who stand in the way of the heroine's children! In the end, some die and others are left crippled! All becaus 10.5kReads8.6Score1.1kShelves
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  24. 24 The 1970s: The Beloved Lucky Charm of the Family 七零:团宠锦鲤小福包 Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [Pocket Dimension + Wood Ability + Cute Pets + Heaven’s Favored Daughter] Old Mrs. Lin had the same dream for several nights in a row. In it, her old man grinned from ear to ear and held out a chubby baby to her. “Old woman, hurry and take our little lucky charm!” The dream felt so real that she could clearly remember the crescent-shaped birthmark on the baby. Old Mrs. Lin was still wondering what it meant when, the very next day, her third son’s wife gave birth to a chubby little girl. She look 12.2kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves
  25. 25 Pregnant with Twins Blessed by a Spirit Spring! The Cold-Faced Officer Spoils Her to No End! 怀灵泉双胎!冷面军官宠她入骨! Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Cool military officer + alluring beauty] (Multiple transmigrators + daily life with the army + married first, love later + raising kids and pregnancy + devoted to each other) [She opens her eyes to a whirlwind marriage and a child.] When Jiang Nian opens her eyes, she finds herself in the 1970s story her roommate wrote, as a busty, airheaded supporting character with a tragic fate, and a cute little daughter to boot. After she runs away and gets caught again, she finds herself standing beside h 15.8kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves
  26. 26 The Delicate Beauty of the 1970s Was Love at First Sight for a Hopeless Romantic 七零娇气美人被恋爱脑一见钟情了 Modern Romance623k WordsCompleted An alternate-history story about being born into a new life, with a personal space, few terrible relatives, no black-market trips, and a powerful golden finger. One devoted couple, both with no romantic history, raising a child in everyday life. The heroine is a top-tier rich beauty, a pampered little princess with a fussy streak. 1972. Eighteen-year-old Ruan Yunqiao faces a choice between being sent to the countryside and getting married. Her family can’t bear to send their precious girl away, 11kReads8.8Score1.1kShelves
  27. 27 Help! The Gentle Military Doctor Cried, and the Whole Unit Panicked 救命!娇柔军医一哭,全部队慌了 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 60.8kReads9.4Score7.2kShelves
  28. 28 The Villainous Male Supporting Character in a Period Novel Uses Food Coupons to Win His Wife 年代文里的恶毒男配用饭票钓媳妇 Modern Romance678k WordsCompleted A beautiful cannon-fodder heroine was planning to use and abandon the sucker who had secretly supported her for two years after the famine. Then she awakened and saw the comments. Afraid for her life, she tried to buy time, but she was no good at it and instead found herself pushed step by step into meeting his family, getting engaged, and getting married. “Idiot, go suck up to the big shot and cling to him!” “If you just give in, he'd give you his life.” Zhu Qing'an flew into a rage. “You creep 7.5kReads6.6Score749Shelves
  29. 29 Why Help Others Get What They Want? I’ll Choose Myself 成全别人?不如成全自己 Modern Romance235k WordsCompleted In the book, Xu Jing'an spent her whole life helping others and putting them first, yet in the end, no one even said a kind word about her. This time, she's going to look after herself first and do what's best for her. 125.3kReads9.5Score9.6kShelves
  30. 30 I Refuse to Go to the Countryside in the 1960s, and the System Scores Me a Job 六零不下乡,系统暴击出工作 Modern Romance814k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + System + Villain + Shameless + Few Annoying Characters + No Sent-Down Youth Plot + Satisfying Read + Never Overthinks] (How do you keep awful people out of your life? By becoming the worst one yourself, of course.) Transmigrating into a book isn’t scary. What’s scary is ending up as the vicious cannon-fodder character destined for a tragic fate. Look at He Ruixue’s family: her eldest brother is reckless, and her sister-in-law is fierce. Her second sister and brother-in-law are 24.3kReads7.9Score1.8kShelves
  31. 31 A Stunning Beauty Hounded by an Obsessive Mad Dog in a Period Novel 漂亮美人在年代文被偏执疯狗缠上 Modern Romance323k WordsCompleted [A calculating, self-serving heroine + an obsessive, possessive hero] Selfish, vain, materialistic, and always looking out for herself. And yet, countless people love her. In the original novel, Lin Luoxue is the heroine's sister, a cannon-fodder character who despises the poor and loves the rich, and juggles three men at once. Even after getting married, she's still unfaithful, and in the end, she dies while eloping with her lover. She's nasty, selfish, and plays with people's feelings while mo 49.8kReads8.8Score3kShelves
  32. 32 A Self-Serving Perfectionist in a Period Novel 年代文里的精致利己主义 Modern Romance432k WordsCompleted Yang Yuan never expected that after transmigrating, she would become the female lead's fake best friend in a period novel. Not only did she burn the heroine's love letters, but she was also destined for a miserable end. Well, at least she didn't have many scenes. If she played her cards right and made amends, she could still survive. What? Go to the countryside? Absolutely not. I'm lazy, greedy, and a shameless freeloader who loves the easy life. So what if I take advantage of people or scheme a 17.2kReads8.1Score1kShelves
  33. 33 Transmigrated Into a 1970s Novel: A Bystander's Guide to Staying Out of Trouble 穿书七十年代吃瓜群众的自我修养 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 141.5kReads9.5Score14.4kShelves
  34. 34 The Sweet Young Lady of the 1970s 七十年代小娇娇 Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The moment the young educated youth Wen Wan arrives in Lu Jiazui, she becomes famous: famous for her beauty, famous for taking her time, and famous for her sharp tongue and soft, sweet manner. When the educated youths first arrive, Lu Dongping sees Wen Wan and thinks, How is this little thing supposed to work in the fields and earn work points? Whichever team gets her will be unlucky. Take her home and she'll be treated like an ancestor. Later, Wen Wan becomes his very own little ancestor. 1.8kReads8.9Score225Shelves
  35. 35 The Villainous Ex-Wife in a Period Novel, But She Found Happiness 年代文的恶毒前妻,但幸福起来了 Modern Romance126k WordsOngoing Feng Xia transmigrated into a period novel she had read before. She was the powerful male lead's ill-fated, cannon-fodder ex-wife. The reborn heroine, meanwhile, naturally latched onto the male lead and his entire family, setting off toward a happy life. In the book, Feng Xia was a malicious supporting character whose intelligence had been written away: busty but brainless, and wicked to the core. After her husband died in the line of duty, she used her status as his comrade's widow to pressure 110Reads5.8Score—Shelves
  36. 36 Reborn in the 1980s: Protecting My Baby Bump, My Rugged Husband Whispers Sweet Nothings 重生八零护孕肚,糙汉老公低声哄 Modern Romance465k WordsCompleted [Reborn + making a fortune + punishing scumbags + marriage first, love later + adorable children] Jiang Qingshu is reborn on the very day her wicked best friend takes her to have an abortion! In her previous life, her evil best friend and parents-in-law plotted against her, leaving her unable to hold her head up in the village. She resented her husband, blaming him for not being there for her. In the end, she died with regrets… Reborn, Jiang Qingshu immediately protects her pregnancy, writes to 241Reads6.4Score—Shelves
  37. 37 Transmigrated into the Down-and-Out Tycoon's Wicked Ex-Wife 穿成落魄大佬的恶毒前妻 Modern Romance378k WordsCompleted Xia Yutong transmigrates into the male lead’s villainous ex-wife, and three men pursue her... In the original story, Xia Yutong cares about nothing but money. She abandons her country fiancé, Su Yuanzheng, but on the day they break off their engagement, someone schemes to get her pregnant by him. After she becomes pregnant, her health prevents her from getting an abortion. Xia Yutong gives birth and immediately runs away, getting involved with two sugar daddies so she can live a life of luxury. 2.1kReads8.1Score159Shelves
  38. 38 Quick Transmigration: I’m the Tragic Cannon Fodder of a Period Novel 快穿,我是年代文的悲惨炮灰 Modern Romance4.5M WordsOngoing After dying in the apocalypse, Cheng Chunya is bound to the System and sent into one small world after another. She is also forbidden from casually changing her character’s established personality. For example, she can’t suddenly go from illiterate to highly learned. Or from weak and useless to fiercely domineering. Cheng Chunya: This is really going to cramp my style. After all, every character she transmigrates into has a pretty miserable life. There are scumbag men, awful family members, and 11.4kReads8.8Score597Shelves
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  39. 39 The Heroine Keeps Trying to Get Herself Killed, So I Lie Flat and Watch the Show 女主不断作死,我躺平看热闹 Modern Romance349k WordsCompleted When her widowed mother remarried, Wu Bingchan finally realized she had transmigrated into a book as the heroine’s utterly awful stepsister. As the heroine’s awful stepsister, she pretended to be weak and pitiful every day, making the heroine do all the work while secretly stealing her things. After her mother died, she was kicked out of the Lin family and starved to death! Her mother acted like a good stepmother in public, but abused the heroine behind closed doors. She did everything she could 9.7kReads8.2Score752Shelves
  40. 40 The Pride of the Family: The Oddballs on the Margins of 1960s Society 六零社会边角料极品爸妈的小骄傲 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Theme: Knowledge changes your fate! Everyone’s got eight hundred tricks up their sleeve + courtyard-house drama + calculated self-interest + family squabbles + stockpiling + outrageous characters + a jinx’s tongue + playing dumb to catch the tiger. One day, Lin Xixi transmigrates and becomes the biological daughter of an outrageous couple in a period novel. Outrageous characters are sly, lazy, greedy, and slippery: they can’t get enough of eating, but they’re no good at anything else. Luckily, h 39.8kReads9.1Score4.5kShelves
  41. 41 I Revealed My Wife Would Divorce Me, and the Veteran Educated Youth Panicked 剧透娇妻要离婚,知青大佬急疯了 Modern Romance858k WordsCompleted [Alternate-history era + spoiler-filled comments + stealing someone’s sweetheart + pure indulgence + building wealth + everyday family life. A possessive, doting, aristocratic young man sent down to the countryside × a spoiled, coquettish beauty transformed by the comments] As the only daughter of the village chief of Songjia Village, Song Jiaojiao is every bit as sweet as her name. Her whole family has spoiled her since childhood. Shen Yanli, the educated youth she met through matchmaking, fell 17.6kReads8.5Score1.8kShelves
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  42. 42 The Little Psycho Has a Death Countdown Over His Head and Goes on a Rampage 小疯子头顶死亡倒计时,发疯发癫 Modern Romance647k WordsCompleted [Period setting + devoted military marriage + healing] Shu Tang had just received her university acceptance letter when a countdown suddenly appeared above her head. She had a mental illness and thought she was having another episode. But when the countdown reached zero, she died suddenly... When she opened her eyes again, Shu Tang had become a little fool in the 1970s. But why was the countdown to her death still there? Wait! After she ran into that unlucky man, the countdown went up! So Shu T 17.6kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
  43. 43 Dressed as a Vicious Stepmother? Pampered by Her Husband and Son 穿成恶毒后妈?被老公和儿子娇宠 Modern Romance518k WordsCompleted [Period setting + transmigrate into a book + System + character growth] [Voluptuous, fiery heroine vs. abstinent, obsessive, love-starved elite male lead] [The heroine isn’t a saint: she’s a self-serving pragmatist] Su Qinghe transmigrated, and the moment she opened her eyes, her own mother was pressuring her to become someone’s stepmother. If she refused to marry, she would be sent to the countryside. Her prospective husband was a thirty-year-old man with an eight-year-old adopted son. They sai 2.5kReads7.3Score230Shelves
  44. 44 After I Was Forced to Marry a Sickly Educated Youth, I Got a Cheat 被迫嫁病弱知青后,我开挂了 Modern Romance514k WordsCompleted [Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Devoted Couple + Golden Finger + Strong Female Lead] Jian Huai'an suspects his true form might actually be a mermaid. Seriously, why else would he be in the water after dying, and why would such a beautiful mermaid be swimming toward him? After discovering he'd transmigrated into a book, Jian Huai'an thinks his luck has finally turned. But he soon realizes that his transmigration has amounted to nothing. A golden finger? Yes, but pra 2.1kReads8.9Score230Shelves
  45. 45 The 1970s: My Blind Date Is a Little Fierce 七零之相亲对象有点凶 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Xu Jiao had been pretty since she was little. She was renowned as the beauty of Qingshan Village and the surrounding countryside, and everyone was eager to play matchmaker for her. But Xu Jiao rejected every suitor, finding one ugly and another pathetic. Her mother was at her wits’ end. On the third day of her visit to her older sister, someone introduced her to a potential match. He was handsome, capable, and from a good family. She had seen his photo, and he looked pretty good. He was so perfe 20.1kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
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  46. 46 You Won't Let the Little One Eat Her Fill? Flip the Table! Then Nobody Eats! 不让奶团吃饱饭?掀桌!都饿着! Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Adorable Child + Everyone's Darling + Mostly Locals, Light Ensemble Cast + Lighthearted + Funny + Not a Single Member of the Family Is a Soft Touch + Get Even on the Spot] Luo Panpan had never known hardship from the day she was born. Then, at five and a half, her father died. From then on, she never had enough to eat, and they even planned to send her away to be adopted? Not a chance! Her mother was a famous tigress for miles around: bold, resourceful, and good at making money 23kReads8.8Score2.2kShelves
  47. 47 After Three Years Apart, She Asks for a Divorce, and the Chaste Commander Loses His Cool 分居三年提离婚,禁欲首长红了眼 Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Period setting + military marriage + sweet romance + raising children + no golden finger + native-born characters + life in a military compound + everyday family drama] This is not an effortless wish-fulfillment story. It’s a warm tale of personal growth, so read with care if that’s not your thing. Cen Jing Yi gives birth to her daughter prematurely and is thrown out by her in-laws. She struggles alone to raise her daughter until she’s two. Then her husband, who returned to his unit the day aft 15kReads8.7Score1.2kShelves
  48. 48 Reborn as a Tycoon's Wicked Ex-Wife, I Became the Whole Family's Darling 穿成大佬恶毒前妻后,被全家团宠 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book set in the 1970s + personal space + sweet romance and raising kids + love grows over time + transmigrated heroine vs. reborn heroine] When she opens her eyes, Jiang Yuman finds herself transmigrated into a book as the male lead’s wicked ex-wife, who is six months pregnant. In the book, the original owner dreams of becoming an official’s wife and tries every trick in the book to marry into the Fu family. But when the Fu family is falsely accused, stripped of their positi 108.5kReads9.1Score13.1kShelves
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  49. 49 Help! What Should I Do About the Baby I Conceived with a Returned Educated Youth? 救命!怀了回城知青的崽怎么办? Modern Romance1.0M WordsOngoing [1970s + transmigrate into a book + face-slapping + no golden finger] Xia Meng transmigrated. She landed in the poverty-stricken 1970s, in the body of a village girl who was pregnant out of wedlock and desperate enough to want to die. In the original novel, an educated youth abandoned her. She raised their child alone, playing both father and mother, and wore herself out by the age of forty. When the child grew up, his biological father appeared to claim him. By then, he had become a leading sci 5.4kReads8.9Score331Shelves
  50. 50 The 1980s: Did the Little Nanny Pick the Wrong Husband Again Today? 八零:今天小保姆又找错老公了吗 Modern Romance400k WordsCompleted Chen Baozhen is a very unusual kind of green tea gold-digger. She leaves the countryside for the capital to work as a nanny, hoping to land a rich husband and rise to the top overnight. But time and again, Lu Yanzhou, the son of the family she works for, ruins her plans. Everyone sees right through her and knows she’s an idiot, a gold-digger with despicable motives. Chen Baozhen cries in frustration. Then one day, she transmigrates five years into the future. The man draped over her, kissing and 5.6kReads7.9Score534Shelves
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