Bring on the Best Period Novels From Every Direction 优质年代文请四面八方铺天盖地的来

1. 351 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 18.9kReads9.4Score1.8kShelves
2. 352 老 After My Wife and Daughter Died, I Was Reborn in the 1980s 老婆女儿去世后，我重生八零 Meng Jiang Herself孟姜本尊Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Urban life in a bygone era + one heroine + teacher]“In our next life, let’s not be husband and wife again!” His wife called him, her voice hollow and lifeless, utterly devoid of emotion. It felt as if his soul were being torn apart. He shouted into the phone, “Don’t do anything foolish! I’m on my way to the hospital!” The next moment! His daughter lay in a hospital bed, a white sheet covering her face. His wife sat beside her, calm and despairing. “We did everything we could. Your daughter pass 19kReads9.5Score2.1kShelves
3. 353 炊 A Woman Joins the Mess Hall 炊事班来了个女同志 I'm Sang Sang我系桑桑呀Modern Romance979k WordsCompleted Meng Jinzhang never imagined that a moment of kindness spent saving someone would leave him with a wife. Changpu never imagined that one day she would leave her village in such an unbelievable way, then travel farther and farther and climb higher and higher. 11.1kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
4. 354 穿 Transmigrate to the 1960s and Keep Busy Growing Vegetables on the Island 穿越六零，海岛种菜忙 Shui Bo1984水波1984Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Period]+ [military marriage]+ [Transmigration]+ [no storage space]+ [superhuman strength]+ [building a career] In 2023, swimmer Jiang Jiaojiao and her teammates are on a team-building trip at the seaside. While trying to save a child who has fallen into the water, she is swept away by a huge wave. In 1964, Lin Baoni jumps into the sea to save a People’s Liberation Army soldier in distress. A huge wave carries her away, and she eventually dies of exhaustion. Reborn in Lin Baoni’s body, Jiang Jia 21.7kReads9.3Score2.1kShelves
5. 355 穿 Transmigrating to the 1970s: An Orphan Girl’s Reversal 穿越七零之孤女的逆袭 The Village's Little Tsundere村里的小傲娇Modern Romance362k WordsCompleted Chen Xiaolin accidentally got blood on the bracelet her grandmother had left her and discovered a space inside it. She stocked the space full of supplies, then transmigrated into the body of an orphan with the same name in a parallel world in the 1970s. In this era of scarce food and clothing, Chen Xiaolin meets the one destined for her. See how she uses the supplies in her space to build a wonderful life everyone envies. This story is set in a fictional world, so please don't nitpick the histo 17.5kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves
6. 356 我 I Became the Wicked Stepmother Who Was Cannon Fodder in a Period Novel 我穿成了年代文女主的炮灰恶婆婆 More Green Light青光更多Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted After dying of a serious illness, Yang Mei transmigrates into the body of a village woman in the 1970s and becomes the hateful mother-in-law everyone despises. After inheriting the original owner's memories of her past life, Yang Mei sets some goals for the future: First, make the most of this healthy body. Sleep until she wakes, eat meat until she's full, and enjoy life to the fullest! The only problem is, right now every household eats coarse-flour flatbreads, so that's going to be tough. Seco 568Reads9.0Score101Shelves
7. 357 军 The Officer Is Handsome! The Military Wife Is Sweet! An Eighties Military Wife Loves to Act Cute 军爷帅！军嫂娇！八零军嫂爱撒娇 Mo Mo墨墨Modern Romance483k WordsCompleted Qian Duoduo, a modern woman, transmigrates without warning into the body of someone destined to die young. She’s still wondering how to change her doomed fate when a very considerate System drops into her lap. No money or ration coupons? The System provides them! Can’t find good fabric? The System sends it! Can’t get any meat? The System sends that, too! On top of showering her with gifts, the adorable System transforms her from head to toe: her voice turns sweet and alluring, her body becomes s 18.1kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
8. 358 囤 Stockpiling for the 1970s: My Super Space Levels Up Again 囤货七零：最强空间又升级了 The Original Heart最初的心Modern Romance344k WordsCompleted [Period setting + sweet romance + supplies + raising children + feel-good power fantasy] Gu Qianqian transmigrates into the body of a sent-down youth in the 1970s. She gets married and has children, but their father died serving his country two years ago, leaving her alone with their three children. Luckily, her space is packed with billions of supplies, so feeding the three children is no problem. With the strongest space in history, Gu Qianqian raises the three children until they’re plump and 3.5kReads9.0Score311Shelves
9. 359 残 The Disabled Soldier King Is Potent, and She’s Expecting Twins Right After Joining His Unit 残疾兵王生育强，刚随军就多胎 Yun Qiu妘秋Modern Romance342k WordsCompleted [Military marriage + married first, fall in love later + devoted couple + taking down scumbags + pampered by everyone] Wen Qiao, heir to a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, is transported into a clichéd novel about true and fake heiresses after a plane crash. Unfortunately, she’s the true heiress, unlucky and unloved. Her parents dote on the fake heiress, a scheming green tea, and want to marry Wen Qiao off to an abusive old man? She empties the entire Wen family home and fin 2kReads9.0Score225Shelves
10. 360 带 After Transmigrating to a Bygone Era with a Pocket Dimension, I Just Want to Take It Easy 带着空间穿年代后只想摆烂 Yi Yezhou艺叶舟Modern Romance311k WordsCompleted Zhu Yiyao is a rich third-generation slacker who wants nothing more than to lie flat and do as little as possible. One day, she accidentally unlocks a space. Is it a pleasant surprise or a shock? That doesn’t matter. What matters is that she needs to stockpile supplies right away. She’s just finished stocking up and thinks she can relax and spend time with her family, when she accidentally transmigrates to the 1970s. Her mother is dead and her father is a scumbag, but it’s no big deal. She has a 1.3kReads8.8Score112Shelves
11. 361 结 Four Years of Marriage Without Seeing Her, Then the Soldier King Sees Red When She Asks for a Divorce 结婚四年不见，提离婚兵王急红眼 Li Susu黎苏苏Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [1970s + raising kids + period setting + farming + pocket dimension + marriage first, love later + military marriage] Jiang Xinyue transmigrated, but she wasn’t the heroine. She was the fat, ugly, and notorious cannon-fodder ex-wife in a period novel about a stepmother raising children, whose husband was the male lead. What? The heroine was reborn and deliberately stole her man and her kids? Jiang Xinyue rolled up her sleeves and refused to take it lying down. A cannon-fodder who doesn’t want to 7.2kReads8.9Score937Shelves
12. 362 重 Reborn in the 1970s: The Lucky Girl Uses Her Spirit Spring Space to Raise Her Kids 重生七零锦鲤带灵泉空间物资养崽 MipTourModern Romance597k WordsCompleted With a fresh start on life, Gu Zhenqi returned with a space filled with billions' worth of supplies. She devoted herself to raising her kids, casually turning them into super-rich second-generation heirs, and even flirted with their father. Along the way, she made up for the regrets of her past life and led the family she had let down, both on her side and her husband's, to make a fortune and reach the peak of success. But she'd raised her kids to adulthood and made half a fortune, and still, af 471Reads9.3Score101Shelves
13. 363 秋 Three Generations of the Qiu Family 秋家三代人 Chengdu Girl山城细妹Modern Romance430k WordsCompleted A page in a book, countless autumns in the human world. Everyone's actions, thoughts, and experiences bear the imprint of their times. Every seemingly insignificant individual makes up an era, while the era carries each person forward in its relentless current. Through the events surrounding three generations of the Qiu family and the relationships between people, this book reflects the joys and sorrows, warmth and coldness of human nature across different eras. It focuses on the third generatio 24Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A good book of realistic group portraits of the era◇The book uses plain and straightforward words to describe the most simple and sincere family, friendship, love, and neighborliness without any exaggeration. The characters in the book are carried forward by the torrent of the times, enduring hardships for life, and working hard for their goals with perseverance. People of different ages will see more or less similar experiences in this book. Feeling the inner activities of the characters in the book seems to be understanding themselves or someone around them. The whole book is full of positive energy and gives readers a warm experience.

14. 364 八 The 1980s: The True Heiress Strikes Back 八零：真千金逆袭记 Birdsong in the Quiet Mountains鸟鸣山幽Modern Romance527k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Military Marriage + Fake and Real Heiresses + Self-Improvement + Everyday Life + Striving] [The heroine grows quietly, then amazes everyone; she won’t take abuse and always talks back] Xia Xiaoxi lost both her parents at a young age. Her uncle’s family moved into her home under the pretense of raising her, took all the family’s money, worked her and her brother to the bone, and eventually tried to make her take her cousin’s place in an arranged marriage. Furious, Xia Xiaoxi fou 54.3kReads9.2Score5.3kShelves

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    Very very beautiful

15. 365 穿 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 Pan-Fried Bun生煎包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, 9.7kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves
16. 366 天 The Genius Girl with Depression Becomes the Real Darling of a Wealthy Family 天才抑郁症少女成了豪门真团宠 Seasoned Young Lady Qichi资深少女栖迟Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Reborn / sound values / patriotic / genius academic Growing heroine / face-slapping / secret identities / one-on-one romance * In her previous life, she was a genius girl with depression who never got the chance to fulfill her ambitions. In this life, she becomes the only daughter of the top-tier Su family, a wealthy elite. Facing a fake heiress with a comeback System, brothers who dote on her to no end, and a mysterious, powerful, scheming big shot… Su Jinyi declares: It seems my depression has 5.2kReads8.9Score702Shelves

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    A chronicle without grievance

17. 367 抢 Stealing Her Fiancé? She Marries an Officer and Becomes the Most Beautiful Military Wife 抢她未婚夫？她嫁军官当最美军嫂 Nan Xingzhi南星枳Modern Romance404k WordsCompleted In her previous life, her cousin Fang Yan took her college acceptance letter and went to university in her place. She also stole Sheng Yao's childhood betrothal and married the military officer who was meant for her. Meanwhile, Sheng Yao was married off by her biased mother to a pig farmer in the neighboring village, becoming a stepmother to a three-year-old. With a mean, picky mother-in-law, an autistic son, a difficult sister-in-law, and a husband who always listened to his mother, things only 2.4kReads8.3Score302Shelves
18. 368 重 Reborn in the Nineties: Racing Toward Life as a Landlady 重生九零之向着包租婆的人生狂奔 Yan Sanyue燕三月Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Also known as: Reborn in the 1990s: Racing Toward Life as a Landlady) (Also known as: Reborn Housewife: Mom, Dad's Acting Up Again) After Shen Xiaojun divorced, she had a dream and found herself back twenty years in the past. Back then, she was only twenty-five, yet already the mother of three children. Her eldest daughter was six, her younger daughter four, and her little boy had just turned one month old. Xiaojun's head spun. Did she really have to live through all of this again? For her chil 27.6kReads9.4Score2.8kShelves

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    A great piece of period writing, highly recommended

19. 369 随 After Joining the Army, the Pretty Military Wife's Deed Collection Fills the Courtyard 随军后，俏军嫂的房本堆满四合院 Gu Xi v古西vModern Romance736k WordsCompleted (Fictional period setting) [Military marriage and devoted husband + both leads are faithful + married first, love later + making money and taking down scumbags] When medical professor Su Ying woke up, she had transmigrated to the 1980s. Someone had stolen her place at university, and when she demanded an explanation, she was beaten and injured. Then, after going to the city for treatment, she learned that her father had abandoned her and her mother long ago and had even schemed to marry her off 19.2kReads9.1Score2.3kShelves
20. 370 二 Marrying an Officer Again: The Socially Anxious Beauty Is Doted on by Her Brother-in-Law 二嫁军官，社恐美人被大伯哥娇宠 One More Spoonful再吃一勺儿Modern Romance362k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + Both Pure + Sweet, Sensual, Introverted Beauty vs. Deeply Cunning Officer + Sweet Romance + Period Setting + Eight-Year Age Gap] Tang Huan transmigrated into the body of a young widow whose husband had died just after their wedding. Losing her husband wasn't a problem. Her parents-in-law treated her like their own daughter. Her father-in-law gave her money every few days, and her mother-in-law was an amazing cook. Tang Huan had a wonderful life. The only thing she didn't like w 18kReads9.3Score2.2kShelves
21. 371 重 Reborn in the Eighties: First, I'll Buy a Courtyard House in Kyoto! 重生八零，先在京都买套四合院！ Yu Fu余弗Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The Gu family has no sons, only four daughters. Plenty of people in the village are waiting to laugh at them. But they wait and wait, only to watch the Gu family build a two-story house and buy a car. They hear the family has even bought a grand home in the capital. The Gu sisters are each more successful and more devoted to their parents than the last. The villagers: What are you waiting for? Go home and have daughters! After being reborn, Gu Siqing discovers that her sisters are nothing like t 131.6kReads9.4Score9.6kShelves
22. 372 赌 I Married My Crush's Cousin Out of Spite, and Had Triplets 赌气嫁给心上人的堂哥，我一胎生三宝 Thirty Moons叁拾月Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted After the man she loved got married, Lin Nuo married his cousin in a fit of anger. She obsessively monitored the couple's life until his wife became pregnant. Then Lin Nuo shoved her over, nearly causing a terrible accident. Reborn in the 1990s and faced with the same script, Lin Nuo only wants to gouge her eyes out. Her parents dote on her, her in-laws indulge her, and her older brother, a folksy tycoon, treats her like a princess. Even her college-student husband, who seemed to fade into the b 12.3kReads9.3Score1.4kShelves
23. 373 带 With Space in Tow, My Whole Family Goes to the 1970s to Earn Work Points 带空间，和爸妈全家穿七零挣工分 Meeting in Humble Beginnings相识于微末Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Space + Transmigration + Rural Development + Farming + Adorable Kids + Serving the Motherland] The day Yu You and her parents went on a trip to sea, the whole family transmigrated to an alternate version of the 1970s. And they were all doomed cannon fodder! In her previous life, Yu You had been set up by her cousin and married off to a man sent down to the countryside, with two pitiful little kids thrown in as part of the deal! After marriage, her former self had caused trouble at every turn, m 3.8kReads9.1Score616Shelves
24. 374 八 The Eighties' Foxy Beauty Is Doted on by a Cold, Rugged Man 八零极品狐狸精被冷冰糙汉娇养了 March Peach Blossoms a三月桃花aModern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted New novel: Mad Female Immortal: All of You, Step Into My Trap is now available~~ Song Yao transmigrates, and she's exceptional in every way, from her stunning looks to her personality. Everyone knows the eldest daughter of Old Song's family in the west of the village is a fox spirit. She's gorgeous and loves seducing men, infamous across the surrounding villages as a homewrecker and a loose woman. The moment Song Yao transmigrates, she's caught in bed with a man. Her new mother is greedy and alw 7.7kReads8.0Score701Shelves
25. 375 东 Northeastern Tales: The Marriage Swap 东北往事之转亲 Author Jiang Bula作者姜不辣Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Period setting + rural life + everyday family matters + farming + building a fortune + a touch of ensemble cast Three women make quite a show. The madman Guo Lixin mistakes Ding Xiang for his deceased girlfriend and follows her around every day, calling her his wife. But Ding Xiang’s father only wants to trade his daughter for a marriage connection for his good-for-nothing son. Guo Limei grits her teeth. Fine, let him trade her. She’s getting married for the second time anyway, and already has a 14.6kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves

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    Watch it as much as you want, I like them all anyway

26. 376 神 Divine Oil 神油 Lying-Down Dog躺狗Urban5.5M WordsOngoing The waters of the Gui River cannot wash away old blood debts. A jar of miraculous oil can keep the secrets of a powerful family locked away. The Republic of China is in chaos, the country teetering on the brink of collapse. At the command of his ancestors, the sole surviving heir of the Shi family enters the fray, disguising himself as an anonymous laborer at the Wen family’s oil mill. He appears plain and timid, but in his heart he is plotting a sweeping revenge. The miraculous oil the Wen fami 77.8kReads9.2Score4.6kShelves
27. 377 刘 Liu Cheapskate’s Daily Life 刘抠门的日常生活 Alice from Jiangyang County江阳县的艾丽丝Modern Romance222k WordsCompleted [Period drama, not reborn, no transmigration, no golden finger] Liu Xiaoyun has been stingy since she was little. Her family is poor, but not so poor that they can't afford food. She's the stingiest one in the family, and her mother dreams of marrying her off. Better to have her make life difficult for someone else's family than their own. Read on to see how Liu Xiaoyun makes married life a roaring success. 22.9kReads8.6Score2.2kShelves
28. 378 近 Homesick and Hesitant [II] 近乡彷徨【二】 Snake Eats People蛇吃人Modern Romance304k WordsCompleted On a bitterly cold winter morning, the north wind howled. Zhang Jie lay wide awake in the dilapidated north room of her old house. After being away from home for so long, her thoughts drifted back to 2005, when she was in her first year of junior high at Huangtan Town Middle School. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 379 倒 The Live-In Son-in-Law 倒插门 Rotten Watermelon烂西瓜Urban2.1M WordsCompleted Yang Family Village has come alive because of a live-in son-in-law. Provoked by his father-in-law, the young man can no longer take it. He brings his paralyzed wife along as they build a house, grow crops, fish when they have nothing else to do, plant a few fruit trees, and raise some chickens. Life is easy and carefree. Now in his thirties, he looks back on the past and realizes it was part of a grand, sweeping picture of struggle made up of countless rural lives. 8.1kReads9.0Score817Shelves
30. 380 东 Tales of the Northeast: The Child Bride 东北往事之童养媳 Author Jiang Bula作者姜不辣Modern Romance918k WordsCompleted At ten years old, Chun Ni was forced to become a child bride at the Jing family compound. There, she witnessed the tragic lives of the Jing family’s women with her own eyes... During a crisis in the Jing household, bandits captured her. The Long family’s fifth young master rescued her from the mountains, and from then on, she and Long Wu joined the fight against the Japanese... The two of them would be bound together for the rest of their lives. 11.7kReads9.3Score1.5kShelves
31. 381 东 Northeast Tales: A Love That Never Wavers 东北往事之情深不悔 Author Jiang Bula作者姜不辣Ancient Romance618k WordsCompleted No transmigration, no System. A realistic romance set in the countryside of Northeast China. If you cry easily, don’t read this. I’m afraid you won’t be able to stop! Zheng Sichun had a life full of hardship. When she was born, her own grandmother had her thrown into Wolf Ravine, where she was rescued by the drunkard Zheng Bao. At a young age, she narrowly escaped a villain’s clutches. After her brother accidentally killed someone, the siblings fled the home they’d lived in for eight years! At t 12kReads9.5Score1.6kShelves
32. 382 8 Me, in 1982 82年的我 Golden Pixiuoo金貔貅ooMystery4.3M WordsOngoing Could you see ghosts when you were little? I could! In the early 1980s, a country girl born in rural Beijing encounters all kinds of strange and wondrous things. There are everyday family squabbles, romance, absurd and eerie happenings, and an imaginative coming-of-age story. ❤️ A good book is like tea: it should be savored slowly. The title went awry and can't be changed, so it is what it is. The good thing is, readers finish this book at a remarkably high rate. It's one of those books you won' 17kReads9.3Score1kShelves
33. 383 二 The First Half of Er Feng's Life 二凤的前半生 Xiang Xiaoningyuan香晓宁源Modern Romance297k WordsCompleted The story begins in 1973 and follows an ordinary young woman from an ordinary family. There are no pocket dimensions or golden fingers, just a positive attitude toward life and all its many facets. 301Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 384 勇 Be Brave and Pursue Love: Falling for a Police Officer 勇敢去追爱，追着警察叔叔谈恋爱 Golden Pixiuoo金貔貅ooModern Romance414k WordsCompleted This book is all about romance. It is not a story about a strong female lead! It is not a story about a strong female lead! When Chen Youyou was eight, she was in danger and was rescued by a young police officer. He became the man of her dreams, but by a twist of fate, that young officer later became her father’s sworn brother. More than ten years later, Chen Youyou is finally all grown up. Watch her overcome every obstacle on the road to love without fear! She bravely pursues romance, falling i 9.7kReads8.8Score706Shelves
35. 385 崛 The Rise of a Clan 崛起的家族 Years and Days on Paper纸上的岁月年华Historical1.3M WordsCompleted This isn't a wish-fulfillment novel. There's no transmigration, and no golden finger. It's a story about a family, or rather, about our ancestors. I wanted to write down what they went through. The stories in this book are all things I heard my elders talk about in casual conversation, so there may inevitably be omissions. The family records have also been lost, and some things can't be verified. I want to portray the stories as truthfully and objectively as possible, but my abilities are limite 8.2kReads9.3Score938Shelves
36. 386 作 Author Jiang Bula's Tenth Book 作者姜不辣第10本书 Author Jiang Bula作者姜不辣Modern Romance178k WordsCompleted She never dreamed that in just one morning, she and her husband would be parted forever by death! At thirty-two, Yu Changping became a widow. Being a widow is hard! Being a young widow is even harder! Being a young, beautiful widow is harder still! Being a young, beautiful widow with four children is practically eighty-one levels of hardship! Life is a journey, from beginning to end. Going around in circles, stumbling over hills and hollows. 899Reads9.1Score100Shelves

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