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1. 101 六 The Pride of the Family: The Oddballs on the Margins of 1960s Society 六零社会边角料极品爸妈的小骄傲 Mi Caidou米彩豆Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Theme: Knowledge changes your fate! Everyone’s got eight hundred tricks up their sleeve + courtyard-house drama + calculated self-interest + family squabbles + stockpiling + outrageous characters + a jinx’s tongue + playing dumb to catch the tiger. One day, Lin Xixi transmigrates and becomes the biological daughter of an outrageous couple in a period novel. Outrageous characters are sly, lazy, greedy, and slippery: they can’t get enough of eating, but they’re no good at anything else. Luckily, h 35kReads9.1Score4kShelves
2. 102 豪 My Wealthy Sister Says Quietly That Having More Male Companions Is Something to Be Proud Of 豪门姐姐低声说多几个男伴很光彩 2 Chuan2川Modern Romance1.8M 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 27.2kReads9.1Score2.2kShelves
3. 103 八 The 1980s: After the Loving Mother Turns Dark, the Whole Family Panics 八零：慈母黑化后，全家都慌了 Rice Bowl 114饭碗114Modern Romance1.7M WordsCompleted (Feel-good story + no golden finger + slice of life + family drama + ensemble cast of ordinary people + reborn in a bygone era) Short dramas: The New Life of Rong Ying, the Woman Everyone Looked Down On; Reborn Mom Is Here to Collect You Old Mrs. Zhang spent her whole life raising three sons and three daughters. She paid for her children’s weddings and homes, raised her grandchildren, and emptied the family savings to buy a home in Shanghai for her eldest son. She helped her second son marry thr 64.7kReads9.1Score7.1kShelves
4. 104 坐 The Lu Family’s Eldest Daughter Is Back After Ten Years in Prison 坐了10年牢的陆家大姑娘回来了 Heartfelt at Midnight深夜走心Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Lu Xiaoxia, who is serving a prison sentence, is reborn at the age of 19, on the very day her stepmother gives her to a scumbag as a present. Having killed, done time, and fought for her life against prison bullies, Lu Xiaoxia starts dishing out payback from the start. The scumbag is right outside the door? She cripples him right from the start. Her stepmother schemes to squeeze every last bit of value out of her? She makes her pay back every cent, with interest. The house is crawling with monst 41.4kReads9.1Score6.1kShelves
5. 105 资 A Capitalist Heiress Becomes an Old Woman, Only to Wake Up Divorced? 资本小姐成老太，睁眼就被离婚？ A Wisteria Vine一支藤萝Modern Romance238k WordsCompleted Jiang Yunxiu, a well-to-do young woman from the Republic era who has returned from studying abroad, keeps a Cambridge diploma tucked beneath the qipaos in her trunk. Yet her fiancé calls her “too modern.” She laughs coldly, tosses down her cup, and turns around to take in two husbands: one a fellow academic, the other a famous opera performer. But before the wedding candles have burned out, she wakes up twenty years later: • Her ancestral home has become a commune cattle shed. Half the carved la 537Reads8.0Score101Shelves
6. 106 科 The Brilliant Scientist Who Ran Away from Both Her Wedding and Her Marriage 科研一枝花逃婚又逃嫁 Qing E Xi青莪兮Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (A period novel with no golden finger for scientific research, a top-tier intellect and a clear, rational mind; strengthening the nation and its military through mathematics, founding a research institute; the heroine is a soldier's wife, beloved for her own achievements, with a happy, harmonious relationship) Period setting + humorous everyday life + academic star + strengthening the nation through mathematical research + counterespionage + no space, no System, no golden finger + highly intelli 5.8kReads9.2Score654Shelves
7. 107 9 The 1990s: Why Date When I've Transmigrated into a Book? 90年代：穿书了谁还谈恋爱啊 Xi He琋和Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Lin Ting had just secured funding when she transmigrated into a romance novel where everyone was eight hundred percent love-brained. From the start, she was stuck in an icy wasteland with a talkative male lead threatening to kill her. Lin Ting: “Date you? I'd rather get a dog.” The original male lead: “...?” No space, no System, no mind-reading ability... Luckily, she still had a business brain running at full speed. “I'm never dating anyone. Not in this life.” “If I run out of money, I can earn 65kReads9.3Score7.1kShelves
8. 108 先 First Dig Up a Grave, Then Deliver a Coffin. Why Are You Celebrating My Going to the Countryside? 先挖坟再送钟，我下乡你庆祝什么 God of Wealth's Dark Moonlight财神黑月光Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period setting + reborn revenge + making money and causing trouble + born to stir up chaos] In her previous life, Ruan Xianxian took her cousin's place in the countryside, then returned to the city and married the fiancé her cousin no longer wanted. She thought she'd found salvation, but what awaited her was endless patience and scheming. A heartless grandfather, a cousin who stole her golden finger, and a husband who outsourced his affection made for one bizarre family. Only when a speeding tr 60.4kReads9.0Score5.2kShelves
9. 109 七 The 1970s: A Sent-Down Youth Marries a Soldier and Builds a Fortune as a Middleman 七零嫁军汉，知青女配当倒爷起家 Jing Mo京墨Modern Romance2.4M WordsCompleted [A promise kept for a lifetime, giving her life to her country] Fraile from birth, Song Youxiang was abandoned by her family as a child and forced to go to the countryside. Even so, she never received a shred of kindness. Her parents despised her, her older sister resented her for life, and the second sister who had been given away as a child concealed her identity to get close to her. One false accusation after another followed, and they even stole her fiancé… In the end, Song Youxiang died al 11.6kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
10. 110 考 Go to College, Build the Power Grid! She Conquers the ’70s 考大学，搞电力！穿七零她赢麻了 The Dream Wanderer回梦人Modern Romance2.4M WordsCompleted ~A short drama is in production. Stay tuned!~ Gu Yaotang’s life dream is to be a happy, irresponsible gambling addict. Just as he runs farther and farther down the road to becoming a scumbag, his usually obedient daughter suddenly starts acting like she’s been struck by lightning. Every day, she rebels and finds new ways to torment him. Whenever this little devil of a daughter catches him gambling, she beats him up, then makes him work! Enough! Why should I put up with this? Gu Yaotang’s coun 18.6kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves
11. 111 穿 Transmigrating to Republican-Era China: From the Start, All I Had Was a Pancake 穿越民国：开局一张饼 One Little Orange一只橙橙橙子Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Transmigration to the Republic of China era + resistance-war espionage + multiple identities + spies within spies + mutual devotion (Main story complete, bonus chapters in progress) One day, Lin Ruotang suddenly transmigrated to the Republic of China era. She wasn’t a young lady from a wealthy family, a concubine, or a schoolgirl. She was a refugee who had nearly starved to death. She had barely transmigrated before she was on the brink of starvation. Luckily, a kind stranger gave her a sesame f 27.1kReads9.2Score3kShelves
12. 112 九 The 1990s Baby-Booming Brigade: My Dad Becomes the Nation's Father-in-Law 九零超生游击队，我爸成国民岳父 Lin Junjun林君君Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Han Sixi was beaten to death by her grandparents, who favored boys over girls. She transmigrated to the spirit realm, but just as she was about to ascend, her lingering obsession drew the final heavenly tribulation lightning bolt, sending her back. It’s 1990. There are seven sisters, their family is evading the birth-control authorities, and their parents are still trying for an eighth child. Just as Han Sixi is sharpening her forty-meter broadsword, ready to deal with her awful relatives, her f 4.6kReads9.3Score678Shelves
13. 113 和 After Swapping Marriages with My Sister, the Kham Man Won Me Over 和妹妹换亲后，康巴汉子真香了 Flowers Are Ablaze花花火啦Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Reborn + pocket dimension + sweet romance + contrasting lives In her previous life, Su Tang followed her father when he remarried. Her stepmother cherished her, her two younger stepbrothers respected her, and she eventually built a fortune through business. Her stepbrothers became officers, and she married the richest man in the area. Her younger sister, Su Su, went with their mother back to Kangba. Her stepfather came from the poorest family in the area. Life was hard, and her family despised h 10.4kReads8.2Score1.1kShelves
14. 114 带 Taking the Taobao System with Me to the 1970s 带着淘宝系统穿七零 2 Chuan2川Modern Romance2.1M WordsCompleted Technically minded military officer VS powerful, down-to-earth woman; the heroine builds her career. The System plays a small role early on, then gets to take it easy. Period setting + comedy + both leads devoted only to each other “When a lie-flat System meets a crazy Host” Other people transmigrate to the 1970s: fight nasty relatives, make money, and marry a soldier. Xiang Nuan transmigrates to the 1970s: ✓ Fails to be reborn six times, then angrily kicks the coffin lid off ✓ Hacks her relativ 28.6kReads9.4Score3.3kShelves
15. 115 什 What? My Boyfriend’s Whole Family Can Communicate With Me Telepathically? 什么？男友全家能与我心灵沟通？ Smoke and Clouds Drift Away烟云飘散Modern Romance84k WordsOngoing [A lovestruck military officer from the 1980s × a soft, sweet country girl who works hard to improve herself and only wants to be the male lead’s number-one girl] [Both leads are each other’s first and only love] [A gentle, slow-burn romance] “Can you really hear people’s thoughts?” That question shattered the peaceful life of Qian Fan, a country girl in the 1980s. She was half a Jingdu native: her parents had been sent to the countryside, where she was born, and after they left, the Wang famil —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The writing of the times has a sweet and long-flowing style, and communicates from the heart.

16. 116 重 Reborn in the 1980s: From Street Stall Beauty to Business Queen 重生八零：从地摊西施到商业女王 White Frost at Dusk by the Waterside汀晚霜白Modern Romance1.4M WordsOngoing Lin Wanqiu died at a bankruptcy liquidation meeting in 2023. When she opened her eyes, she was back in the freezing night of 1983. Her stepmother was framing her for stealing money, her stepsister was chewing through the food that kept her alive, and the scumbag who had broken off their engagement was spreading rumors about her. In her previous life, she had put up with this mess for a lifetime, only to have her worth squeezed dry before she was discarded like trash. Reborn, she carried four dec 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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