Looking for Period Novels About Couples Going to Shenzhen or Guangdong to Work in the 1980s or 1990s 求年代文八九十年代夫妻一起去深圳广东打工的文
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My Thirty-Year-Old Teacher 我的三十岁女老师
[Period setting, romance, personal growth, entrepreneurship, daily life, realism] That year, I broke the village chief’s leg and had to flee. I never expected it to bring me a run of romantic luck. The first person I ran into was none other than my former middle-school teacher. And my life changed dramatically because of it…
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Shenzhen, 1996: The Glamorous Life of a Migrant Worker 96深圳：风流打工人生
[1990s urban life + rags-to-riches rise + entrepreneurial business wars + highly intelligent heroines + beautiful women by his side + airtight logic] In 1996, Qin Lang, a retired special forces king, heads south to Shenzhen and seeks out his childhood sweetheart, Lin Wanqing. He starts out as a security guard at an electronics factory. From the factory gate and rework materials to Huaqiangbei, Hong Kong businessmen, foreign trade, startups, and going public, every step is full of opportunity. Al
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- 53 Quick Transmigration: Making Money and Wooing Hunks in Period Novels 快穿：在年代文里搞钱撩大佬 [Quick Transmigration + Period Settings + Supporting Female Character's Rise + Career-Focused + Feel-Good + Sweet Romance + Secret Identities + Pocket Dimension] Quick transmigration to the 1970s: her comeback as an educated youth is complete! Now quick-transmigrating to the 1980s. Bound to the “Supporting Female Character's Winner in Life” System Make a comeback as an educated youth in the 1970s Become a fashion-industry mogul in the 1980s Master the stock market and become a financial mogul i 32Reads—Score114d adds
- 54 Huh? The Five-Year-Old Cutie Is a Secret Little Millionaire 哈？五岁萌宝竟是隐藏小富豪 1990s setting + a five-year-old young master from a wealthy family + helping the countryside prosper + business wars + heartwarming everyday life Serious about business, serious about cooking, and super serious about studying, with plenty of rural life and family squabbles, too. Grandpa and Grandma argue every three days and have a huge row every five, but never raise a hand when words will do. Auntie got pregnant before marriage and, every few days, carries her baby home to her parents in tears 213Reads—Score10514d adds
- 55 Transmigrating to the Seventies: This Laid-Back Fish Turns Things Around and Goes Back to Lounging 穿越七零，咸鱼翻身继续躺 Before transmigrating, Qiao Niannian was a couch potato who never got anywhere. Then fate dumped her into the grueling 1970s. Since she’d transmigrated, she might as well keep working toward a lazy, comfortable life. Things got off to a rough start, but she grew more determined with every setback. She braved the black market to make ends meet and went to college to keep up with the times. She started a business, made a little money, and soon life was looking lovely. Then she landed a gorgeous hu 112Reads5.8Score—14d adds
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The Rise and Fall of Boss Fan 范老板的沉浮人生
This story follows 1980s entrepreneur Fan Chenhui through the ups and downs of the business world in Shenzhen. It explores real-world issues including financial crises, family conflicts, workplace rivalries, and tangled relationships, portraying human nature and the changes of the times in vivid detail.
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After They Stole My Family Fortune, I Woke Up in the Bracelet Space Before It Happened 抢我家财？睁眼回手镯空间被抢前
[Period + Rebirth + Pocket Dimension + Sweet Romance + Revenge + Face-Slapping + Educated Youth] In her previous life, Lin Wanxing spent more than forty years repaying a debt of gratitude, serving as a blood bank and workhorse for her frail husband. Her whole life was one long struggle. Just before she died, she learned that her cousin and former boyfriend had plotted everything to get her blood for free and upgrade the pocket dimension in her spirit-spring space. The jade bangle that held the p
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- 58 The War King Can Read Minds, and His Beautiful Stepmom Wife Gets Pampered Despite Doing Nothing 兵王会读心，漂亮后妈摆烂被宠哭 [Military marriage + historical era + widowed sister-in-law + raising a child + bickering couple + space + everyday life as a military wife] In her past life, her husband Yang Shengjun defended his comrade's widow and accused Xu Zijin of being petty, unreasonable, and unkind. Xu Zijin spent her whole life blaming herself and had a head full of white hair before she turned fifty. Her son said she wasn't generous enough, and that she got jealous even though she knew his father had a responsibility 26.1kReads9.1Score4.5k14d adds
- 59 Reborn: The Underdog’s Comeback 重生以后包子的逆袭 (Reborn + Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Campus Life + Strong Female and Male Leads + Top Student + Character Growth + Patriotism) The female lead, Mu Wan, is kind but not a pushover. She has principles and always gets even with those who wrong her. The male lead, Xiao Jinyu, is the son of a military compound family and a military-affiliated scientific researcher. Before she was reborn, Mu Wan accidentally stayed up too late and died of cardiac arrest. A family heirloom, a Merit Pearl, took 5.1kReads9.1Score64814d adds
- 60 I'm Done Being a Doormat: Reborn, I Marry a Rough-Hewn Military Officer 不做冤种了，重生后转嫁糙汉军官 [Reborn face-slapping + military marriage + no golden finger + ensemble cast + sweet romance] [Delicate yet resilient sweetheart vs. devoted, lovesick warrior] After being reborn, the first thing she did was retrieve her marriage application, get the IOU from “Third Sister,” then go to the Lu family to break off her engagement with the scumbag. In her previous life, she married a scumbag and lived as if she were a servant in his family. She bore the entire burden of caring for her sickly fath 10.7kReads8.1Score1.2k14d adds
- 61 Back to the 1970s with Trillions in Supplies to Join the Army 重回七零，带上千亿物资去随军 [1970s setting + reborn + one-on-one sweet romance + taciturn, rough-edged man + delicate beauty + pocket dimension + mutual flirting] In her previous life, the man Su Ranyan went out of her way to avoid was swept away by a flood while saving her. That heroic scene came back to haunt her in her dreams, again and again, reminding her of the depth of the love she had missed. Fortunately, Heaven took pity on her and sent her back to the day the man asked her for a divorce. This time, she won’t let 20kReads9.3Score2.3k14d adds
- 62 Get Rich Overnight! My Factory Connects the Past and Present 一夜暴富！我的工厂通古今 Other people graduate straight into unemployment. Chen Jinyue graduates straight into bankruptcy. She wakes up one morning to inherit tens of millions in debt. Her younger brother takes all the cash and flees abroad. To escape loan sharks, her grandfather gives her a batch of fake antiques and spreads the word about them everywhere… But not all the antiques are fake. By accident, she opens the door to a Time-Space Trading Post. A down-and-out prince, freezing and starving at the frontier, walks 1.7kReads9.0Score45614d adds
- 63 I'm Almost Through My Tribulation, and the Fake Heiress Is Still Fighting for Favor 我都快渡劫期了，假千金还在争宠呢 [Metaphysics + Real and Fake Heiresses + Strong Female Lead + Face-Slapping + Taking Down Scumbags + Feel-Good Story + Everyone’s Favorite] The real heiress the Lin family lost is a fortune-telling scammer who sets up a street stall. Her whole family thinks she’s an embarrassment and tells her to stop dreaming about taking the fake heiress’s place. Lin Mo: “Easy. Pay me to sever our family ties, and I’ll leave.” After they cut ties, the Lin family sees her livestreaming fortune-telling. Every on 8.2kReads8.6Score1k14d adds
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In My Heart, the Road Stretches On 在心间，路漫漫
Beginning with the 1983 marriage of Chen Shouren (the father, born in 1963) and Li Xiulan (the mother, born in 1963), this story follows how they struggle to survive on the yellow earth and raise four children to adulthood: Chen Zhaodi (born in 1987), Chen Pandi (the narrator, born in 1988), Chen Laidi (born in 1990), and Chen Dongliang (born in 1995). Against a backdrop of changing times, it portrays the ups and downs of individual lives and the resilience of a family. After enduring hardship,
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The Happy Years I Spent in Dongguan 那些年我在东莞的幸福往事
[Urban everyday life] + [multiple heroines] + [first person] My name is Hao Jian. I'm a college graduate who left a small inland county to make a living in Dongguan. A female classmate who'd been quite a flirt back in school introduced me to the city. I thought I'd find a factory job and earn some money, but things didn't go as planned. I ended up in a bar, and that's where my life took an unexpected turn.
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- 66 Marry into the City and Get Rationed Grain 嫁到城里，吃上供应粮 (The heroine does not transmigrate, though she has some memories from a previous life. There are no truly awful characters in this story; everyone has their own strengths and flaws. The focus is on an unhurried life.) Jiang Xinbai was born in the countryside and dreamed of marrying into the city one day so she could have access to rationed food. So when she first met Yang Jinsheng, she knew her chance had come. She made her move without hesitation, flirted with him, and married him. At first sig 10.2kReads7.9Score61414d adds
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The Beloved Wife of the 1970s Gets Teased! The Black-Bellied Officer Sees Red and Loses Control 七零小妻被撩！腹黑军官红眼失控
The short drama is now streaming: [The Dashing Courtyard Beauty and Her Aloof Husband Who Holds Her Close and Coaxes Her] After transmigrating, Yu Xiangnian becomes the shrew of a military compound in the 1970s. Her husband doesn’t love her, the children don’t care for her, and the neighbors can’t stand her... So what? She doesn’t care what any of them think! She’s educated, cultured, well-connected, and beautiful. Building a fortune and pursuing her career are what matter! But... Why is this ma
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- 68 Did I Accidentally Become a Tomato Novel Author? 我不小心成了番茄小说的作家？ While scrolling through Red Fruit short dramas, a comment from an author caught my eye: “My story got adapted into a short drama before I’d even finished writing it!” I’d never written a novel before, but decided to give Tomato a try. Then the requirement to write 4,000 characters a day and the performance reviews scared me half to death. I got stuck so badly I ran out of words, and even AI couldn’t help. Then I took someone’s advice and started writing about my own experiences: from zero to 1.5 455Reads—Score10614d adds
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The Only Daughter of the 1980s 八十年代独生女
Lin Zhizhi was born in 1980. The good news was that both her parents worked at state-owned factories. The bad news was that they gave up their secure jobs and headed south to find work. Her mother got a factory job, and her father started working on construction sites. Later, they started a small business and brought Lin Zhizhi to live with them. Little by little, she realized she’d become a rich kid. Told from the heroine’s perspective, this is the story of her parents starting a business in th
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- 70 1026: A Wanderer's Tale 1026流浪记 [Slow Transmigration] System 1026 was born with a disability due to an accident. Its greatest wish is to gather enough energy to upgrade itself, bind to a steady, easygoing Host, and transmigrate together to earn energy points. Binding a Host is no easy task. Hosts have their own temperaments, the worlds are colorful, and the Hosts are all kinds of strange. System 1026’s arduous search for a Host is about to begin. The protagonist is the System. In each world, the human protagonist could be anyo 4.9kReads9.2Score68614d adds
- 71 After Becoming the Old Scoundrel in a Famine-Escape Novel, I Give Up 穿成逃荒文极品老头后，我摆烂了 (The rating just came in, so it's a little low. Please don't let it put you off, dear readers.) [Transmigration + the protagonist is a real piece of work + flight from famine + System + reforming the worst of the bunch + ensemble cast + feel-good power fantasy + family squabbles] Xu Mu was sent flying by a check from the domineering CEO's mother. When she opens her eyes again, she's transmigrated into the body of a thoroughly awful old man in an old-fashioned farming-and-famine novel. Not only h 6.6kReads8.0Score44414d adds
- 72 EN Transmigrated as an Old Grandfather, I Begin a Life of Taking It Easy 穿越成老爷爷，开启躺平人生 [Everyday life + lighthearted and witty + no female lead + no angst + king of playing it safe + no System + farming] My name is Lin Yu. I transmigrated as a remnant soul inside a ring. A System? A quest? A workaholic? Not a chance. I live by one rule: keep a low profile and sleep. Until the ring bonded with an innocent young man. When he was about to venture into a secret realm, I said, “Disciple, this place reeks of danger. Go home and sleep.” When he wanted to compete for a magical treasure, 13.8kReads8.5Score1.3k14d adds
- 73 Experiencing a Different System Every Day in a Superpower World 在异能世界每日体验不同系统 Qiao Yi died, then came back to life, reborn in a world where plants and animals had mutated, humanity was divided into strict social classes, and people could awaken supernatural abilities. From the start, she was eight years old, with no parents, no family to rely on, and living in a shelter. After ten miserable years, she finally reached the age of eighteen, when she could awaken her supernatural ability. But the transmigration gods had not favored her: she was an ordinary person with no mone 125Reads7.7Score—14d adds
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Reborn in the 1980s: The Marketing Queen Takes the Business World by Storm 重生八零：营销女王横扫商界
Reborn in the 1980s: The Marketing Queen Conquers the Business World
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A Love That Sets Hearts Ablaze: In the 1970s, I Became Everyone's Darling by Taking It Easy 军婚撩人，我在七零靠摆烂成团宠
[Sweet Romance, Devoted Couple, Spatial Realm, Adorable Baby] Song Luoying unexpectedly transmigrates into a period novel and becomes a cannon-fodder supporting character with the same name as her own. The original Song Luoying’s blind date falls for the female lead, Liu Meijiao, instead. She can’t swallow her pride and is determined to find herself a factory worker husband, just to one-up the female lead. In the end, she marries a mama’s boy, has three daughters, gets looked down on by her moth
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- 76 Military Marriage in the 1970s: After Joining the Army, She Became the Talk of the Family Compound 七零军婚：随军后她风靡家属院 [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 86.1kReads9.5Score9.8k14d adds
- 77 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 [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 78.6kReads9.4Score12.1k14d adds
- 78 Reborn into a Sweet Military Marriage: The Fire Chief Wraps an Arm Around My Waist 重生军婚甜蜜蜜，消防队长揽腰宠 [Period Setting + Military Marriage + Rebirth + Mutual Devotion + Sweet Romance] Entrepreneur Tang Xiaoxiao lived to the age of eighty. After she died, she was told that the firefighter who rescued her during an earthquake had spent the rest of his life disabled by a leg injury he suffered while saving her. Was she going to help her lifesaver heal his leg, or be reincarnated? What a question. Of course she'd help him heal! After being reborn, Tang Xiaoxiao goes to the countryside in her lifesave 13.6kReads9.4Score1.6k14d adds
- 79 Godslayer Gene: The Tyrant Awakens 弑神基因：暴君觉醒 Lin Zhuo, once the pride of the heavens, is reduced to a cripple overnight and abandoned by his kin in the wasteland. On the brink of despair and death, he accidentally awakens the “First-Generation Godslayer Gene” hidden deep within his bloodline. Starting with devouring his first mutated beast, he embarks on an evolutionary path that feeds on all things. In the wasteland, he kindles the flames of revenge, and a future “tyrant” is born. —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Sailing Together 共舟行
[Small-Town Fiction | Slow Burn | 1v1, Both Leads Chaste | Ensemble Growth | Working-Class Struggles | Realistic | Period Setting] “Across a thousand miles, the boat speeds on; a letter of love rides home on the wind.” A small town in southern China in the 1990s A young man holds an unremarkable bouquet of roses And lays his feelings bare beneath the night sky From scraping by with a street stall to finding a way forward together Through wind and rain, they share life's many ups and downs This i
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- 81 The Embroideress of the Eighties 八零绣娘 Lin Xiao, once a palace embroiderer in her previous life, is reborn in the 1970s as the wife of a sent-down youth who was forced to marry a village girl. With her extraordinary needlework skills, she earns a place at a garment factory and makes a sewing machine dance with her golden needle and deft hands! Watch her rise from a young wife in a cramped apartment block to a technical specialist, stitching out a dazzling life of her own amid the roar of machinery. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
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In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库
An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan
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- 83 The Poorest County Magistrate's Wife in History Leads the Whole County to Prosperity 史上最穷县令夫人带全县百姓赚钱 Hang Ying, head of a reclusive modern-day clan, dies during an expedition and transmigrates into Yingzi, the wife of Xu Mengran, a penniless county magistrate in the Great Chu Empire. Who ever heard of a county magistrate being poor? Well, this one wears a patched robe, and his wife earns money washing and mending clothes to help him pursue a career in the imperial examinations. They have no maids or guards, the yamen runners look down on them, and a rich young lady even comes to their door to b 611Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 84 I Became a God After Surviving the Trial of Love 渡情劫后成功封神 Bai Yan, the legitimate daughter of a family of military commanders, came down from the mountains after mastering her art so she could return to her home in the capital and overcome her romantic tribulation. At the city gate, the emperor stopped her and ordered her burned as a sacrifice to Heaven and Earth. She also learned that her birth parents had abandoned her because of rumors calling her an ill-fated poison maiden. To clear her name, Bai Yan took responsibility for treating the plague and 155Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 The Days I Went to the Countryside to Catch Ghosts 下乡抓鬼的日子 Reborn in the 1970s? No problem! She’s the eighteenth-generation heir to a Taoist lineage, skilled in all five arts of metaphysics! She just didn’t expect to get hit and killed after helping a rich man find the perfect burial site, all because she hadn’t checked the almanac. When she opened her eyes again, she was a high school girl, and her family was arguing over who would be sent to the countryside. The System bound itself to her and demanded that she spread Taoist teachings in an era opposed 15.4kReads8.3Score2.3k14d adds
- 86 The Third Letter I Wrote You Was a Farewell 给你的第三封信是遗言 Gu Wenyan and Shen Jiarui had never gotten along. But that year, they were the only suitable marriage candidates left in their circle. Gu Wenyan declared that he would never marry Shen Jiarui, not even if he died. She suddenly became interested. “Then I’m definitely marrying you. Hurry up and die.” On their wedding day, Gu Wenyan let loose dozens of chickens to humiliate Shen Jiarui. Without a change in expression, she grabbed one and called it her husband. Gu Wenyan immediately lost the urge to 17Reads—Score—14d adds
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Reborn in the 1980s: From the Start, I Took a Factory Job 重生八零，开局进厂打工
Ji Yunxi transmigrates into the role of a universally loathed supporting character, the female foil to the heroine. The heroine endures endless hardships without giving in, while Ji Yunxi lives in comfort, spoiled and cruel. During the 1987 wave of migrant labor, the heroine gets into college and finally holds her head high, while Ji Yunxi uses connections to land a job on an assembly line. The heroine lives out a romantic drama straight from real life every day, while Ji Yunxi seethes with jeal
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