Looking for Historical-Era Novels 年代文找书

1. 51 穿 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 Luming Zhou鹿鸣洲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 9.1kReads8.9Score815Shelves
2. 52 穿 Reborn as a Little Green-Tea Girl in the 1970s, I Win Over the Stone-Faced Tough Guy 穿成七零小绿茶，冷面糙汉真香了 Chili-Dipped Ice Cream Cone甜筒沾辣椒Modern Romance524k WordsCompleted [Low Rating Because It Just Started, but It’ll Rise] [1970s + Transmigrate Into a Book + Building Wealth + Healing + Everyday Life + Superpowers + Both Leads Are Faithful + Original Female Lead Isn’t Vilified + No Awful Relatives] A gloomy, twisted man who turns into a scheming, lovesick romantic later on x a heroine with a foxlike face and the sunny, spirited heart of a little sun What should you do after ending up in a novel set in a bygone era? Obviously, take the college entrance exams, make 1.6kReads8.5Score221Shelves
3. 53 八 An 1980s Wife Knows How to Handle Her Husband 八零娇妻驭夫有道 Liu Zhiyi柳之易Modern Romance661k WordsCompleted Adapted into a short drama: Trouble! My Fate Is Tied to My Delinquent Husband is now streaming [Soft on the outside, tough on the inside, a seemingly sweet good girl * cold on the outside, warm on the inside, a fierce and ruthless wolf pup] [She pursues him + both are sexually inexperienced + mutual salvation + sweet, slice-of-life romance.] After dying and coming back to life again and again, Shi Xinran finally discovers that her life is bound to that of a delinquent named Tan Yunqian. To sta 6.2kReads9.3Score639Shelves
4. 54 七 The 1970s: Everyone Can Be the Protagonist, Except Me 七零：人人都能当主角偏我不行 Unplucked Flower未折花Modern Romance478k WordsCompleted Everyone Is Evil, But There Are Good People Too [Romance included! If you have conventional values, don't read!!!] To get a chance to perform, Xu Lingwan locks her stepsister He Qingning in the restroom. Just as she's about to leave, something called a System binds itself to her. The System tells her that she's the vicious supporting female character, while He Qingning is the heroine. Since she bullied the heroine, her reputation will be ruined, and she'll eventually disappear without a trace. 22.1kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves

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   These five books are the pinnacle of historical fiction, incredibly good, each one a masterpiece. I usually get bored after a couple of chapters, but these are different; each chapter is more exciting than the last, making you want to keep reading. Highly recommended!!!

5. 55 惊 Astonishing! The Top Scientist Is Being Kept by the Strongest Officer 惊！科研大佬被最强军官吃软饭了 Huang Xiaobai黄小白Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [1970s setting + transmigrate into a book + pocket dimension + making money + apocalypse powerhouse + romance + military marriage + scientific research] [Also known as: Military Marriage: The Fierce Beauty Goes to the Countryside to Crush Her Enemies Without Taking It Easy] [Content warning: The heroine is extremely protective of her food. She spends the early part of the story in the countryside, for about 450 chapters, before turning to research] [Content warning: There is a male lead, but he 17.5kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
6. 56 年 The 1970s: A Country Bride Moves to the City to Become a Factory Worker 年代，乡下小媳妇进城当工人 Yi Jia Er Shi Yi易加二十一Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + married first, love later + family squabbles + portable space + the heroine won't take abuse and fights back] Xia Yang was born under an unlucky star. She merely called someone a jinx, and the petty crow immortal smacked her with a wing, sending her to 1971 and into a novel about a rugged country man doting on his wife. She transmigrated into the gluttonous third sister-in-law of the male lead, who was supposed to die on her wedding day. The moment she opened her eyes 9kReads9.0Score647Shelves
7. 57 东 The Irreverent Old Immortal of the Northeast 东北老仙儿不正经 Liu Jie六玠Mystery411k WordsCompleted The Northeast’s Irreverent Spirit Medium In 1983, a roar rang out across the black soil of Northeast China, loud enough to knock the icicles off the eaves. Li Tiezhu was the famous village idiot of Kaoshan Village: useless at everything, but first at the dinner table. He thought he’d spend his life in a drafty mud hut, eating his fill and waiting to die. But then the ancestral spirit altar his grandmother had left behind suddenly forced him into service. The Weasel Immortal was a blabbermouth 9.5kReads7.9Score577Shelves

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   "If you can take action, don't just talk? No, in this day and age, you have to be strategic. My camera is the best fishing rod." (This seems like a good quote from a historical fiction novel.)

8. 58 四 Siheyuan: I, Liu the Young Master, Joined the Ministry Right After Graduation! 四合院：我刘大少毕业就进部！ Zhaozhao Returns Home召召归途Male-Channel Fanfiction147k WordsOngoing [Siheyuan + No System + Reincarnated Before Birth + Family Life + Farming] I am a 21st-century PhD in mechanical engineering. After falling asleep, I woke up reincarnated before birth as the eldest son of the Liu family in the world of "The Birds Fill the Courtyard". A baby with memories of a past life is invincible even without a System! I started school at five, got into Harbin Institute of Technology at fourteen, and became its youngest outstanding graduate at nineteen! Stay on as a teacher? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 59 我 I Took a Surveillance System Back to the Great Famine 我带着监控回到饥荒年代 Zhu Qiao Lu Jin朱桥路金Male-Channel Fanfiction383k WordsOngoing My name is Chang Wei, the Chang Wei with the surname Zhao. I went from being a retired underground boxer to transmigrating into a man with a camera growing out of his head. It's 1960, in the world of a period drama. (There's almost none of the Love in the Courtyard plot.) Watch me use my cheat to fish, hunt, catch thieves, and fight enemy spies. 11Reads6.4Score—Shelves
10. 60 重 Reborn in 1995: Starting Out as a Small-Town Brahmin 重生95：从小城婆罗门开始 Jing Baiyi镜白衣Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Reborn, 1990s, light System elements, laid-back daily life, family warmth, one heroine. This is a feel-good novel, but I believe every reader will find something familiar in it, whether it’s something they once experienced or witnessed, or even a reflection of their former selves. Chen Xiao was “let go” by his company. After one cigarette, he unexpectedly found himself reborn in 1995, back as a chubby middle schooler. The familiar bamboo chair, the Subor learning computer, the meat Grandma secre 1.3kReads6.6Score101Shelves
11. 61 就 Working at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative: My 1960s Buying Spree 就职供销社，我在60年代搞代购 Sauce-Fried Rice酱汁炒饭Modern Romance3.0M WordsCompleted With a loud crash, Xu Jiaojiao, from the twenty-second century, survives an air disaster and transmigrates to the resource-starved 1960s, with three years of famine looming. Luckily, she has the “Buy-It-All Shopping Group” golden finger. She lands a job through a supply-and-marketing cooperative recruitment drive and gets a secure government job for life. Brown sugar, meat buns, milk, chocolate... While everyone else chews grass, I snack on dates. I’ll stockpile the good stuff until the warehous 6.9kReads8.9Score740Shelves
12. 62 你 You’re Marrying a City Girl? Fine, I’ll Marry the Commander of the Military District 你娶城里姑娘？行，我嫁军区首长 Qiaoqiao Reads Without Her Brain看书不带脑子的乔乔Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Originally titled: “Divorced in the Sixties Without a Worry, My Ex-Husband Plays Matchmaker for Me” Career arc: From child bride to female military doctor [The Sixties + remarriage + joining the army + devoted husband + medical skills + cozy everyday life + no needless angst] Zhu Linlang woke up one day to find she had landed in the 1960s. The good news: the world was at peace, and she still had all her arms and legs. The bad news: her husband, who had just been promoted, wanted a divorce. Her b 16.7kReads8.9Score2.1kShelves
13. 63 穿 Transmigrating to the Seventies: The Young Educated Youth Is Dumbfounded 穿越七零，小知青她懵圈了 Miss Zhou周大小姐Modern Romance1.8M WordsOngoing (Everyday life of sent-down youth, not a strong female lead, a touch of an ensemble cast, unhurried pacing, with a couple) Gu Xiaoman, from the twenty-first century, dies suddenly after getting drunk while celebrating landing a job. She wakes up aboard a green-painted train carrying sent-down youth in the 1970s. No space, no System, no golden finger, and not even the original owner’s memories. She’s definitely the most wretched transmigrant in history, with none of the usual perks. Good heavens! 12.4kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves

    Reader note

    No special space, no system, no cheat codes, the male and female leads are both educated youth sent to the countryside, a small ensemble cast, no awful characters, everyone is intelligent, and the plot is consistent with the realities of the era.

14. 64 年 The Second Sister-in-Law, a Doomed Extra in a Period Novel, Awakens 年代文炮灰二嫂觉醒后 Yue Shang Qingying越上清影Modern Romance838k WordsOngoing Jiang Yue never imagined she was living in a novel! What made her even angrier was that she was nothing but a top-tier cannon fodder character, destined to give the heroine a golden finger and die in her place! We both transmigrated, so why should I, Jiang Yue, accept this? The pocket dimension? Mine! The money? Mine too. A good man? Hey! Mine as well! They call me a top-tier villain? Then I’ll take being top-tier all the way! 106Reads6.6Score108Shelves
15. 65 携 Thriving in the 1970s with a Trillion in Supplies 携千亿物资在七零风生水起 Is Junjun Sweet?君君的甜不甜Modern Romance469k WordsOngoing Mu Yan’er, a rich young heiress in the 21st century, was set to inherit assets worth hundreds of billions as soon as she graduated from college. But in the days leading up to graduation, she started having strange, surreal dreams every night. Suspecting she might transmigrate, she sold off all the inheritance her parents had left her and converted it into supplies, storing everything in the space that had been with her since childhood. When she opened her eyes again, she had transmigrated into t 10Reads6.6Score—Shelves
16. 66 穿 Transmigrated as the Villainous Aunt in a Koi-Themed Period Novel 穿成锦鲤年代文中的极品小姑子 Tao Dayao桃大夭Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Era Novel + Everyone’s Favorite + Madwoman, Career-Driven Heroine + Patriotism + Rags-to-Riches Wish Fulfillment + No Handouts] Su Miaomiao, who has a trading System, transmigrates into an era novel about a lucky heroine. Unfortunately, she isn’t the novel’s lucky heroine, but an obnoxious supporting character who gets deceived by a scumbag from the start and then cruelly abandoned. She’s thrown into a nightmare from the start: the scumbag’s family emotionally manipulates her and leeches off he 4.7kReads9.1Score517Shelves
17. 67 年 The Villainous Foil in This Period Novel Starts Fighting Back 年代文极品对照组卷起来了 Zuo Zuo Cavalry左左骑军Modern Romance207k WordsCompleted The female lead is a genius with unmatched intelligence and emotional intelligence! She never waits a day to get revenge! Yang Yang woke up one day and found she had transmigrated into a period novel, as a doomed, early-death cannon-fodder foil. In the story, her cousin Yang Yanran was blessed with endless good fortune and came up with one scheme after another. Yang Yang's lazy, greedy parents met a terrible end, and her only younger brother starved to death. What's there to be afraid of? Once I 3Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 68 穿 I Transmigrated into the Heroine's Sloppy Little Sister, and Now I'm Just Coasting 穿成女主的邋遢妹妹，她咸鱼了 Mao Mao Is Not Hair毛矛不是毛Modern Romance275k WordsCompleted Li Xiaoqing, a freshman, stays up late reading a novel and accidentally transmigrates into the very story she just finished. She becomes the heroine's younger sister, a lazy glutton who loves causing trouble. Now that modern-day Li Xiaoqing knows the plot, she'll cling to her sister's coattails and coast to victory! Entirely fictional! Entirely fictional! Entirely fictional! 7kReads8.7Score619Shelves
19. 69 三 The Lunchbox Girl on the Thirty-Third Floor 三十三楼的饭盒姑娘 Five Cats at Home家有五猫Modern Romance681k WordsCompleted Xia Chuchu had no idea that simply bringing lunch to work would somehow make her famous. But getting famous wasn't the end of it. It also brought one romantic prospect after another her way. A high-quality IT guy who'd made it as an entrepreneur. A young soldier with a fatherly streak. A handsome chef from a family with a long culinary tradition. While she watched her friends one by one find the people they loved, Xia Mengmeng wasn't in the least bit worried. If all else failed, she could just 140Reads6.6Score—Shelves
20. 70 嫁 Marrying a Disabled Soldier: The Gorgeous Beauty Charms and Coaxes Him 嫁军婚残夫，娇艳美人撩他诱哄他 Clouds Upon Clouds一朵朵云Modern Romance1.6M WordsOngoing [Military marriage + marriage first, love later + doted on by everyone + no golden finger, your mindset determines your fate] [A cast story starring a great beauty who gets a villainess role without realizing it] In 1974, Yu Wan transmigrates into the body of an undocumented drifter, then uses her beauty to become the Qiao family’s stepdaughter. With a new identity, Yu Wan is overjoyed. The Qiao family members each have their own agendas, but they know the truth and keep quiet. Not long after Yu 24.3kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
21. 71 前 My Ex-Husband Always Protects His Childhood Sweetheart. I Remarried After Being Reborn, and Now He's Panicking 前夫处处护青梅，重生改嫁他急了 Shiitake Leaf香菰叶Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [1970s, reborn and getting revenge, educated youth sent to the countryside, pocket dimension with a spirit spring, building wealth] In her previous life, Su Qingran came from an educated family. When faced with being sent away or sent to the countryside, she chose to marry beneath her station. She thought she had found a lifeline, but instead faced endless grievances and had to keep giving in. Her husband outsourced his filial duties to her, her mother-in-law was constantly causing trouble, and 24.7kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves

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