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Working and Making It Big in the 1980s and 1990s 八、九十年代打工、打拼

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  1. 1 A Romance at a Shenzhen Factory 深圳工厂情缘 Modern Romance1.7M WordsCompleted My new story is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 3kReads8.9Score217Shelves
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  2. 2 Dumping My Scumbag Ex, I Snatched the 1980s' Most Promising Stock 摆脱渣男,我叼走八零最强潜力股 Modern Romance555k WordsCompleted Xia Meng: Founder of the country’s largest food service company and a formidable businesswoman renowned throughout the business world. Her journey has been nothing short of legendary. No one knows what she went through or how she rose from the ashes and weathered the tides of the times. People love to talk about her career, and her love life draws even more attention. Everyone knows that Zhao Ling and President Xia supported each other throughout their careers. Years later, one became the founde 2kReads9.0Score187Shelves
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  3. 3 The Only Daughter of the 1980s 八十年代独生女 Modern Romance363k WordsCompleted 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 12.5kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
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  4. 4 The Little One’s Happy Life 小不点的幸福生活 Modern Romance1.0M WordsOngoing [1970s setting + transmigration into a book + the whole family dotes on her + everyday family life + building wealth + a touch of ensemble cast] Lin Xiaoman was born into the world of the lucky heroine novel, A Happy Life in the 1970s with Yi Ke. Unfortunately, she wasn't Yi Ke. She was just the contrast character in Yi Ke's happy life. The dutiful daughter who hoped her father would make something of himself looked at him, lazing about and wasting his time on cockfighting and dog-walking. His t 55.1kReads8.9Score3.7kShelves
  5. 5 Back to the 1980s, I Lead My Whole Family to Wake Up and Strike It Rich 重回八零,带着全家一起觉醒暴富 Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted In 1989, Shuangxi's uncle, younger uncle, and aunt all headed south for work with their spouses, leaving behind nine children without anyone to look after them, as well as their elderly grandparents. It was Shuangxi's parents who stayed home to care for the children and look after the two old folks. Like oxen, they worked themselves to the bone farming the land, sending one nephew or niece after another to university and out into the world. When her father was injured in an accident and lost the 42.7kReads8.1Score4.4kShelves
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  6. 6 I'm Done Being a Doormat: Reborn, I Marry a Rough-He​​wn Military Officer 不做冤种了,重生后转嫁糙汉军官 Modern Romance1.9M WordsCompleted [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 11kReads8.1Score1.2kShelves
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  7. 7 On the Self-Cultivation of a Black Lotus 论一朵黑莲花的自我修养 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Completed. No transmigration, no rebirth, no System, no golden finger. A touch of the times, a touch of romance, and a realistic bent. No formulaic plot, no satisfying face-slapping, just steady progress through real life. Liu Xia is a talented country girl who makes a family with her unrelated grandmother, her mother, and her younger sister. There is family affection, first love, and clashes of interest, but above all, this is a story about how women break through the chains that bind them. A 14.9kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves
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  8. 8 The 1960s: After Getting into Technical College, I Secure a Cadre Position 六零:考上中专后,我稳坐干部岗 Modern Romance999k WordsCompleted [1960s + everyday life + extremely, extremely slow-paced + family squabbles + no rural assignment + vocational school entrance exams + few awful relatives] [This is a female-oriented novel! The heroine is an ordinary person, not a powerhouse heroine. Please don’t read if that bothers you.] Heartbroken and still looking for an internship? To escape reality, senior college student Zhou Yuan casually signed a contract for the full-immersion game Awakening. When she opened her eyes, she had become Z 17.2kReads8.5Score1.3kShelves
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  9. 9 The Unhinged Woman of the 90s: I Started Getting Rich Working in Dongguan 九零女疯批:致富从东莞打工开始 Modern Romance959k WordsCompleted A realistic story set in the 1990s, with no rebirth, transmigration, or golden finger. Everyone in Anziping knows An Xiaowu is a total psycho. She's not only crazy but vicious, picking fights that turn into life-or-death struggles at the drop of a hat. But no one expected her to be so ruthless that she wouldn't spare even her own family. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, she fights her father for her life. "What's so special about New Year? If you mess with me, I'll dig you out of your cof 11.4kReads8.6Score1kShelves
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  10. 10 The 1980s: The Richest Woman on the Forbes List Is My Mom 八零:福布斯女首富是我妈 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Original title: The Forbes-Ranked Richest Woman in the 1980s Is My Mom Su Niannian, an overworked modern office worker, wakes up one day and somehow transmigrates to the 1980s. She has become the daughter who will die young of Su Minzhi, the future richest woman in the country. Su Minzhi is facing a marital crisis. Her husband’s ex shows up at the door with a child, and a storm is brewing. As expected of a future mogul, Su Minzhi acts decisively, dumps the scumbag, and gets a divorce in style! “ 14.4kReads8.5Score1.7kShelves
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  11. 11 Transmigrating to the 1980s: After My Divorce, I Make My Family Rich 穿越八零:离婚后,我带娘家暴富 Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Period novel + reborn + family life + adorable child + male lead in the background Xiao Jin, a college graduate born in the 2000s, had barely graduated when she somehow transmigrated to the resource-scarce 1980s, where there were no cell phones, telephones and computers weren’t yet widespread, and even eating a piece of meat was a luxury. The body she transmigrated into was also called Xiao Jin. They were both 22, but one had just graduated from college in 2023, while the other had just given bi 2.6kReads8.9Score203Shelves
  12. 12 The 1990s Highway Queen: All My Exes Are Big Shots 九零公路女王我的前任们都是大佬 Modern Romance1.9M WordsOngoing [Female-Centric, One Woman and Multiple Men! A sultry widow in the 1990s becomes a business tycoon behind the wheel, but can't shake off her clingy, powerful ex-boyfriends!] (1990s setting + romance on the road + no fixed pairing early on, later she picks whoever she likes + the heroine doesn't follow so-called wifely virtue.) After waking up, Fan Meili finds herself a notorious female truck driver in the 1990s. Her predecessor was highly capable, but her romantic history was even more “impressi 20.4kReads9.1Score1.6kShelves
  13. 13 I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s 我在八零当后妈 Modern Romance2.5M WordsOngoing Rich heiress Xu Yang spent years offering a fortune to have a child, but to no avail. Then, after transmigrating, she found herself in a steamy, adults-only scene and got caught in bed! Even more ridiculously, she got pregnant after just that one time! Only after she was forced into marriage did Xu Yang learn that Zhou Shao had five difficult children, and every single one was a “problem child”! Xu Yang: “…” There was no need to hand her this hell-difficulty child-rearing script! P.S. This is a 12kReads8.2Score544Shelves
  14. 14 A Sixty-Year-Old Woman Dies of Overwork, Then Is Reborn in the 1980s to Raise Kids in Style 六旬老太过劳死,重生八零养崽香 Modern Romance566k WordsCompleted [Period setting + 1980s + reborn + ensemble cast + family drama + no golden finger + feel-good growth story] After raising four children through self-sacrifice, Su Fengxia, now in her sixties, has a pension that should let her live comfortably. Instead, her children sponge off her, and she is forced to take hourly jobs to help support her son’s family. In the end, she works herself to death. Reborn in the 1980s, she decides to rewrite her fate. With her husband backing her up, she launches a cam 116Reads—Score—Shelves
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  15. 15 Back in 1995, Building a Business While My Little One Strikes It Rich Treasure Hunting 重回九五搞事业,崽崽靠寻宝致富 Modern Romance507k WordsCompleted Just got its rating... Cozy everyday life + period setting + reborn + building wealth + raising kids + no romance + a touch of ensemble cast Chen Jiayan woke up one day to find herself back in 1995, when she was five years old, just before a high fever nearly left her stupid. Looking back, her life hadn’t been all that terrible, and there was no one she’d loved but couldn’t have. Looking at her family, decades younger, and their many hardships, she clenched her little fists and gazed out at the 639Reads8.0Score—Shelves
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  16. 16 Kidnapped at an Old Age, Reborn in 1999: The Whole Family Is Together Again 被拐老太重回99,一家整整齐齐 Modern Romance340k WordsCompleted Alternate History + Everyday Life + Family Matters + Reborn + No Golden Finger + Adorable Kids As the saying goes, rich old ladies dance in the plaza, while poor old ladies can only sell vegetables and scavenge for trash beside them. In 2029, Yuan Laotai was hit and injured while collecting empty bottles, and ended up in the hospital. Lying in her hospital bed, she looked at the few dutiful children she had left, her heart full of resentment toward heaven, the world, and herself. She thought abo 717Reads8.2Score—Shelves
  17. 17 Dongguan Memories: The Girls Who Loved Me Back Then 东莞往事:那些年爱过我的女孩 Urban703k WordsOngoing [Urban Slice of Life + Multiple Heroines + Underdog’s Rise + Workplace] In 2006, Lin Yu arrives in Dongguan just after graduating from college. The city is said to be full of opportunities and romantic adventures. There, he meets the women who warm and support him as he grows, while he slowly rises from a rookie who can’t even tighten a screw to a workplace elite. He struggles and fights for his dreams in the face of reality, but growth always comes at a price. No System giving him cheat powers, 988Reads—Score—Shelves
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  18. 18 Transmigrating to the 1980s, Starting with a Tea Egg 穿越到八零,从一颗茶叶蛋开始 Modern Romance158k WordsOngoing A seventy-year-old woman suffering from a terminal illness spends her final days accompanied by her children, bringing an end to a hard but happy life. She never imagined she would be reborn in an instant and return to the 1980s as an educated youth sent to the countryside and then back to the city. Faced with a background remarkably similar to her own, Dai Mengxiao makes a completely different choice from the one she made in her previous life. She no longer hopes for familial affection; she onl 49Reads—Score—Shelves
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  19. 19 Reborn in the 1990s, I Strike It Rich with the System 重生九零,拥有系统的我暴富了 Modern Romance470k WordsCompleted Shen Anning was over thirty, unmarried, and had no children. She had spent her life searching for her younger brother, who had been kidnapped. At long last, she found him, but an accident sent her back to her childhood. Her brother had yet to be born, her parents were still young, and none of the tragedies had happened. She swore that in this life, she would protect the people she wanted to keep safe. 1kReads7.4Score101Shelves
  20. 20 Reborn in the 1990s: I Dump the Jerk and Focus on Making Money 重生九零,甩掉渣男只想赚钱 Modern Romance208k WordsCompleted [Period] [Building wealth] [Family drama] [A touch of ensemble cast] A career-driven heroine who is reborn VS a hero who seems aloof but is secretly passionate. In her previous life, Gu Xiaoxi gave up her career and devoted herself to supporting her husband, only to witness him cheating with her own eyes. Furious, she grabbed a brick and hurled it straight at the scumbag's head. Divorce. They had to get divorced! She would make him leave with nothing. She resolved to cut ties with the scumbag, b 429Reads—Score—Shelves
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  21. 21 Reborn Before My Mother Takes Her Own Life, the Heroine Goes on a Rampage 重生在母亲自杀前,女主她杀疯了 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Wan Anning has two great regrets: first, her mother died an unjust death; second, she never had a child. When she opens her eyes again, it’s the day before her mother’s suicide. The two people who drove her mother to kill herself in her previous life show up to torment them once more. Without a word, Wan Anning grabs a club and goes berserk… She thinks she’s finally changed her mother’s fate, but once her mother is saved, the truth that was kept from her in her previous life also comes to ligh 13.3kReads9.1Score1.7kShelves
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  22. 22 The Whole Village Mocked Me for Raising Fish, Then I Became a Tycoon 养鱼被全村嘲笑我反手成了大享 Urban128k WordsCompleted Reborn in the 1990s, I had a home with nothing in it and endured everyone's contempt. Everyone called me a dreamer and said fish farming would leave me dead broke. My family played favorites, my neighbors were mean, and everyone made things difficult for me. But I was determined to defy fate. With one fishpond, I could turn the tide! I proved the whole village wrong, made a fortune, and became the person they admired most! 27Reads—Score—Shelves
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  23. 23 My Life: Saving Myself 我的人生,渡己 Urban241k WordsCompleted I moved from the countryside to the big city when I was twenty. On my first day at the factory, I was five minutes late. Those five minutes felt like a slap in the face, waking me up and changing my life. More than ten people crammed into one dorm room. For breakfast, I could only bring myself to buy a tea egg and soy milk. Watching others eat fried rice noodles, I secretly vowed to work hard and make a solid place for myself in the city. There was no sudden wealth and no romance, just a country 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  24. 24 A Lifetime for Her and Me 我和她的这一生 Urban245k WordsOngoing In 1992, at the age of twenty, I left my hometown. My family was crippled by illness and poverty. We were on the verge of starving to death. If I stayed, we would all be trapped on that patch of barren soil. If I left, there might be a way for them to survive. The southern wind, laden with cement dust, swept into that big city filled with construction sites. This place had no name, only countless steel bars, scaffolding, and faces waiting to sell their labor. We came here to fight for our lives. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
  25. 25 My Years as a Migrant Worker in Shenzhen 我在深圳打工那些年 Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Two AI comic adaptations of this book are already online, and a third is in production. In 1997, I was 17, carrying 300 yuan as I left my hometown in Hunan and headed south to Shenzhen alone. With no skills and no temporary residence permit, I was chased by security patrols, turned away by factories, left hungry, and forced to spend nights hiding in a cemetery. I went from a penniless kid to a sewing-machine operator at a handbag factory, then seized the opportunities of the times, opened a shop 18.6kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
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  26. 26 Another Spring of the 1977 College Entrance Exam 1977年高考又一春 Modern Romance3.6M WordsOngoing [A story-driven take on history. Note: There is no single fixed protagonist. Multiple leads reflect the changes of the era and offer a full picture of the 1977 restoration of the college entrance exam.] [The story focuses on several main characters: Hu Wei and Wang Ting, Pan Xia, and Lu Xiaoyun. Their stories weave in and out according to the timeline. If you prefer to follow one character at a time, you can read their chapters in sequence for a complete biography. The other characters may only 5.6kReads8.0Score409Shelves
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  27. 27 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 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 28.5kReads9.4Score3kShelves
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  28. 28 An Eighties Gofer Marries into a Family of Lovers 八零工具人嫁入恋爱之家 Modern Romance904k WordsOngoing I was one of the heroine’s many useful sidekicks, the one who walked three thousand kilometers to bring back a stone for her. If the heroine thinks it looks nice and wants it, she can have it. If that’s not enough, I’ll go pick up more. The heroine wants to use me as a foil, claiming city folk can’t compare to country folk, and educated people can’t compare to illiterates? Fine, you win! When my mother tried to brainwash me into being a sucker, I put a stop to it with one clean strike. My abusiv 6kReads8.0Score366Shelves
  29. 29 At Dusk 人到黄昏 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Family love, romance, friendship, and neighborly affection. The ordinary, uneventful lives of everyday people; the changing times reflected in rural life; the differences between two generations in their views on elder care; and how the elderly and children of the new era should face the twilight years of life. 46.4kReads9.1Score4.3kShelves
  30. 30 All I Want in Life Is Half a Heart’s Contentment 一生只求半称心 Modern Romance582k WordsCompleted The comic adaptation is coming soon! [Traditional] [No gimmicks] [Not a power fantasy] [No cheat abilities] In the 1970s, Li Laoman had no sons, so he wanted to find a live-in son-in-law for his third daughter, Li Fan. Li Fan refused and stole her second sister Li Ting's fiance instead! Now Li Ting had not only lost her man, but also had to take on the responsibility of finding a live-in son-in-law for her younger sister. With Li Laoman pressuring her, she had no choice but to take Zhong Wensong 9.6kReads8.9Score810Shelves
  31. 31 The Brash Stepmother from the Eighties Becomes a Nobody 八零泼妇养母成了路人甲 Modern Romance459k WordsCompleted Liu Peiyun was ready to enjoy a quiet retirement, but instead transmigrated into a book as Lu Xuebi, a village girl whose engagement had been broken off in the 1980s. Since she was already here, Lu Xuebi decided to make the best of it. She studied for college entrance exams while leading her whole family to seize the opportunities of the times. Only later did she learn she had transmigrated into a book: she was the heroine’s shrewish adoptive mother, an obstacle on the heroine’s road to wealth a 646Reads5.8Score116Shelves
  32. 32 A Supporting Actress’s Gossip-Filled Life in the 1970s 七十年代女配的吃瓜日常 Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted After learning she has transmigrated into a historical-era novel as a pawn meant to whitewash the protagonist's group, Jiang Yanqiu first steals half of the original heroine's golden finger, then gives away half of the transmigrated heroine's golden finger. Then she keeps her head down, stays away from the protagonist's group, and enjoys the show. With nobody at the educated youth station willing to talk to her, bored Jiang Yanqiu has nothing to do but gossip to pass the time. She has to admit, 1.9kReads6.2Score102Shelves
  33. 33 Period: A Young Couple’s Journey to the City for Work 【年代】小夫妻进城打工记 Modern Romance182k WordsOngoing After dying in a car accident, Li Ping transmigrates into the body of an underage country bride who has only recently married in the 1990s. That's right, she's only seventeen. She cries out, “Heavens, can I return this one and get a different body?” He Jianhua has a good-for-nothing father, so he and his mother work day and night to support the family. He's almost twenty by the time they finally save enough for a bride price. His wife doesn't bring much back with her, but He Jianhua still thinks 264Reads6.6Score—Shelves
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  34. 34 Reborn in the 1980s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生八零:媳妇有点辣 Modern Romance5.0M WordsCompleted Her parents died young, her family was poor, and she was plain-looking. Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a terrible hand, but after nearly twenty years of hard work, she became an executive at a multinational corporation and finally put her life back on track... Then she wakes up to find herself reborn in the 1980s, as another Xia Xiaolan, this time with a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin. The original Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a winning hand, but chose to take her own life under the pressu 45kReads9.5Score5kShelves
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  35. 35 I’m the Boss in Italy 我在意大利当老板 Urban1.4M WordsOngoing In late-1990s Italy, Hu Liu’an, a stranger in a strange land, takes you on a journey through an overseas world unlike any other, filled with its own bittersweet experiences and tangled loves and hatreds... 4.6kReads8.2Score255Shelves
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  36. 36 With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s, Where I Can Make Trouble and Money with Ease 小手一背穿七零,搞事赚钱样样行 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Also known as "Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Seventies: I Collect Eighty-Eight Paychecks Every Month" Su He woke up one day and transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a fake heiress who had been sent back to her village. In the book, the ungrateful real heiress was practically blessed by cheat codes, with schemes and tricks appearing one after another. The Su family ended up destroyed, while the original owner wished she were dead. Looking at her impoverished home and family members 101.8kReads9.6Score10.1kShelves
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  37. 37 Back in 2000: Everyday Life as a Farm Girl 回到2000年,农家女日常 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Turn of the millennium + satisfying story + no golden finger + building a prosperous family through hard work] Yu Congxin falls off a cliff and opens her eyes in the year 2000. After working hard to amass a fortune worth tens of millions, she wakes up back at thirteen, with nothing to her name and a bare, empty home. Her grandmother is still throwing a fit at home, demanding her older sister quit school and go to work, and cursing her mother as a barren hen. Her father is so furious he feels di 1.4kReads8.9Score120Shelves
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  38. 38 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 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, 15.4kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
  39. 39 Reborn After Divorce, I Raise My Child and Quietly Get Rich 重生离婚后我带娃芶着致富了 Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Chen Hong opened her eyes and found herself reborn. She was back in the days before she was about to take her child to her parents' home. Unwilling to spend another life constantly walking on eggshells around others, Chen Hong decided to take a difficult but independent path this time. She headed up the mountains to farm and out to sea to fish, but unexpectedly ended up with a whole harem of men. 6.5kReads9.3Score754Shelves
  40. 40 A Temporary Romance at the Factory 工厂的临时爱情 Urban5.7M WordsOngoing Work + Romance + Plot + A Large Supporting Cast Xu Yanhui, a young man from a rural village who has just left the army, comes to the city alone to find work. By chance, he meets his fellow villager Duan Li, who introduces him to a job at a textile factory. There, he witnesses and experiences the joys and sorrows, warmth and cruelty of the lives of working women. Set in the 1990s, this story uses simple prose to tell the stories of ordinary migrant workers. I hope you enjoy it. 12.9kReads8.6Score971Shelves
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  41. 41 Reborn in 1980: I Dumped the Scumbag and Married a Butcher 重生八零甩掉渣男嫁屠户 Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Period] + [Reborn] + [Pocket Space] + [Farming] + [Family Life] + [Entrepreneurship] Li Wenhui is reborn before her blind date with a scumbag, and this time she exposes the affair between him and her best friend with her own hands. Thinking of the butcher who supplied her restaurant throughout her previous life and even came to her aid at a crucial moment, Li Wenhui decides they can team up and start a business this time around. But how does it end up with the two of them getting married and bu 3.8kReads8.2Score382Shelves
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  42. 42 Reborn in the Nineties: A Country Girl's Rise to Riches 重生九零,农女逆袭当富婆 Modern Romance741k WordsCompleted Reborn + a rural woman's rise + making a fortune + taking down scumbags At the entrance to a garment factory, reborn Wu Xiaolan's grape juice stand becomes a hit. Her rivals cut prices? She launches a new product: cold skin noodles. Management makes things difficult? She leads the way in securing the first license for a mobile food stall. Short on workers? She brings together a feisty girl who sells eggs on the black market, a quick-witted young woman who works at a snack shop, and the village c 105Reads—Score—Shelves
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  43. 43 Reforming My Good-for-Nothing Husband, Starting at Age 20 改造废物老公,从20岁开始养老 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period story x making money x family and village life x a touch of ensemble cast x raising kids] Lin Hui has a dream. In it, she turns fifty after spending twenty-seven years as a widow, struggling to raise her children, only to develop cancer and die before she can enjoy life. When she wakes, she finds herself back in 1980, the year she just married Xu Dongsheng, the “lazy bum” of the surrounding villages. She grits her teeth. She absolutely cannot let her life follow the path in her dream. Fr 34.3kReads9.1Score4.2kShelves
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  44. 44 I Set Up a Simple Stall and Made 300,000 [The 1990s] 简单摆个摊,挣了三十万【九零】 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Back in 1992, Chen Baiyun resolutely quits her job. She'll make her fortune by quitting and setting up a street stall! She only meant to save up some start-up money, but somehow she ends up making 300,000 yuan. Chen Baiyun: “Well, we should hurry up and buy it!” Cars, houses, gold, shops: she wants them all. As for that awful swindler who married her for money and his family, they can get lost. No one is going to disturb the hard-won happiness she's found. [Little everyday spending sprees] Chen 15.5kReads8.5Score1.5kShelves
  45. 45 Reborn in the 1980s: From the Start, I Took a Factory Job 重生八零,开局进厂打工 Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted 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 47kReads8.4Score5.2kShelves
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  46. 46 Back to the Layoff Wave of the 1990s: I Lead the Whole Factory to Prosperity 重回九零下岗潮,我带着全厂发家致富 Urban2.1M WordsCompleted When he was young, Cheng Shi, a factory worker, was forced out of his job after someone else took credit for his work. He headed south to find work and, through his own hard work and talent, became a top entrepreneur and electromechanical expert. Because machine-tool technology, hailed as the “mother of industry,” lagged behind, he and his fellow Chinese spent their whole lives being crushed by the West, swallowing their indignation year after year. And because he missed his chance to be there f 320Reads7.7Score149Shelves
  47. 47 Reborn in 1990: Starting with Collecting Scrap 重生1990:从收废品开始 Urban2.3M WordsCompleted [Rebirth + Period Piece + Urban Life] Ye Zhiming racked up enormous gambling debts and sold his wife to a nightclub to pay them off. That night, she jumped off a cliff, and his daughter cut ties with him. He turned over a new leaf and made his way in the business world, eventually becoming a top tycoon. But he knew he was nothing but a scumbag, and guilt haunted him for the rest of his life… Fortunately, in this life, he has a chance to start over… Reborn in 1990, with enormous gambling debts an 4.1kReads8.2Score309Shelves
  48. 48 Reborn in 1988: Build a Fortune Investing in Treasury Bonds 重生1988:靠投资国库券发家致富 Urban3.7M WordsCompleted Reborn in 1988, with the factory beauty making all the moves, Lin Zhiyuan is getting a little worn out... 2kReads8.9Score328Shelves
  49. 49 Back to 1990: Starting with Treasury Bond Speculation 重返1990,从倒卖国库券开始 Urban1.5M WordsCompleted Ye Feng lives an unremarkable life. His wife dies, his child is lost, and he reaches the end of his life alone. When he opens his eyes again, he’s reborn in 1990. Now his beautiful wife hasn’t drowned herself, and his four-year-old daughter is still as innocent as ever. They may have nothing, but he can start over. Heaven has given Ye Feng another chance. He’ll make the most of his years and never let his beloved down. He’ll make up for the regrets of his past life and give his wife and daughter 1.6kReads7.0Score101Shelves
  50. 50 Reborn in 1985: Starting with Appliance Repairs 重生1985:从修家电开始 Urban1.6M WordsCompleted Reborn in 1985, everyone thinks I’m nothing but a good-for-nothing who eats, drinks, and has fun. I’ll show you how I use these two hands to give a mother and daughter the good life everyone envies! 616Reads—Score—Shelves

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