A Fresh Take on the Era Genre 另辟蹊径的年代文。

1. 101 糙 The Rugged Man’s Overwhelming Love: His Sweet Little Wife Falls for Him 糙汉强势爱，娇软小媳妇沦陷了 Su Jiabai苏加白Modern Romance1.4M WordsOngoing Originally titled “A Lonely Bed Is Hard to Bear, While the Rugged Neighbor Scratches at Her Wall Night After Night” [lonely nights / maximum sweetness / period setting / delicate beauty / devoted love / slow-burn romance / building wealth / glimpses of an ensemble cast / love at first sight / close proximity / sisters-in-law as foils] Delicate young wife × iron-willed, rugged man Hua Xiaoyue is left alone in an empty bed, the long nights hard to endure. Her family scolds her, her in-laws berate 9.2kReads8.5Score581Shelves
2. 102 重 A Reborn Young Master of the Capital's Journey as a Fortune-Teller 重生京城大少的神棍之旅 Prince Dongming东明王爷Urban1.3M WordsCompleted Period setting + rebirth + free shopping + fortune-telling + personal space + identity swap + one female lead Wang Kai was reborn! The bad news: he had taken over the body of someone else who had also been reborn, and become a son nobody loved. The good news: he wasn’t their biological son. The bad news: an enemy agent had stolen his original identity. The good news: he had originally been a young master from the capital. Pan Mingzhi: Comrade Wang, are my wife and child still alive? Wang Kai: A 22.4kReads7.9Score1.6kShelves

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3. 103 穿 Transmigrating to 1940: Titled the Ghost King 穿越40，称号鬼王 Prince Dongming东明王爷Urban595k WordsCompleted Wang Dong’s soul transmigrates, bringing him to 1940, where he becomes a four- or five-year-old boy in Wangjia Village. But due to the System, his body develops some problems, so he’ll kill Japanese soldiers while recuperating. He is the Ghost King in his enemies’ hearts, and he is the real Ghost King. The protagonist is a lone wolf who belongs to no organization, and is overwhelmingly powerful. 2.3kReads6.9Score100Shelves
4. 104 四 The Land God of the Siheyuan 四合院的土地爷 Prince Dongming东明王爷Male-Channel Fanfiction1.0M WordsCompleted In the late autumn of 1953, Wang Tudi, a modern-day drudge, transmigrates to Beijing and becomes a resident of Courtyard No. 95. He inherits the position of the Earth God and protects the peace of the local community. He Yuzhu, Jia Dongxu, Liu Guangqi, Xu Damao, and Yan Jiecheng are all childhood friends of Wang Tudi. They fought together and went hungry together. In the original owner's memories, none of the courtyard's ridiculous dramas ever happened. Everyone stuck together and worked hard ju 6.7kReads8.4Score333Shelves
5. 105 重 Reborn in 1978, I Take the College Entrance Exam with My Father 重生1978，我与父亲一起高考 The Great River Flows to the Sea大江入海流Urban1.8M WordsOngoing [Period Setting, Entertainment, Rebirth, Martial Arts, Literary Great] This book, Reigniting 1978, is also known as Reborn: A Rainbow Road and Reborn in 1978: Literary and Martial Success! What makes someone a literary great? Do you think writing a few books and gaining a little fame makes you one? At most, that makes you a well-known author! Within the establishment, who would give you the time of day? A true literary great needs works that influence the entire world, but also the backing of mo 43.3kReads8.3Score3.9kShelves
6. 106 年 More Children, More Blessings in Period Dramas 年代剧里多子多福 Someone's Home有个人在家Male-Channel Fanfiction1.1M WordsOngoing Li Jianshe transmigrates to Beiping before Liberation. As soon as he arrives, he meets He Yuzhu, who is selling steamed buns, and by a stroke of luck, moves into Siheyuan No. 95. But this place is more than just an ordinary courtyard: it also has the famously swaggering guy from his previous life, a neighborhood committee director from a family of three generations, the Flower of Zhengyang Gate, and many other mysteries waiting to be uncovered. What kind of ripples will Li Jianshe make in this v 29.3kReads6.8Score2.8kShelves
7. 107 东 The Northeast Era Drama's All-Time Great King of the Waistline 东北年代剧天花板金牌腰王 Saint Seiya Star Bliss圣斗士星爽Urban2.6M WordsOngoing [Period] [Jiahao in 1980] [No System, Just Unbelievably Tough Luck] [The 1980s] [Reborn] [Satisfying Read] [The Strongest Second Sister-in-Law in History] [The Most Unhinged Novel in Northeastern Dialect] Li Qi is reborn, returning to the day before his kidney was cut out. In his previous life, his father put family ties first, his brother and sister-in-law asked him to sacrifice himself for everyone, and his younger brother cried that he wanted meat. So he steeled himself and donated his kidney 94.7kReads8.4Score6.5kShelves

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   A hilarious and refreshing story set in the old-fashioned rural Northeast China, perfect for those who laugh until they wet the bed.

8. 108 穿 I Transmigrated to the 1960s and Activated a Storage Ring 穿越60年代，我激活了储物戒指 Black Yunnan Maple黑云南枫Urban2.1M WordsOngoing Zhu Chengcai is an ordinary wage slave who dreams of getting rich overnight and living a blissful life: waking up naturally after a good night's sleep and counting so much money his fingers cramp. Instead, he has ended up as a wage slave with not a moment to spare. Just as he's preparing to return to his hometown, lie flat, and wait to die, he saves a little girl on the road and unexpectedly transmigrates to the 1960s, where he accidentally activates a storage ring he'd obtained by chance. So Zh 45.7kReads7.9Score5kShelves

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   These two books are pretty good and worth reading! 😄

9. 109 重 Reborn in 1992: Rising to the Top Starting in Middle School 重生1992，从中学开始逆袭 Black Yunnan Maple黑云南枫Urban1.3M WordsOngoing In his previous life, Lin Wenjie was made a fool of. His father was framed, and his family was destroyed. Reborn in his high school days, he planned to use his memories of the future to earn his first fortune, save his family, and crush his enemies. Then he would live a happy, peaceful life. But by chance, he bought a damaged little tower from an antiques dealer, and it set him on the path to immortal cultivation. From then on, he kept finding priceless treasures and made a fortune in the stock 14.9kReads8.4Score2kShelves
10. 110 六 The Sixties: Traveling the World with My Pocket Dimension 六十年代之带着空间畅游天下 Happy Salted Fish开心的咸鱼Modern Romance1.8M WordsCompleted Li Beibei grew up surrounded by stories, then unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of a lucky girl in the 1950s. Touched by her family’s favoritism and kindness, she gladly accepts their love and decides to repay them with her own abilities. As she plans her future, Li Beibei chooses two careers that will let her travel at public expense, hoping to make up for the regrets of her past life: journalist and diplomat! And so begins her extraordinary journey in this world. By the seaside: “Qing f 9.3kReads9.3Score749Shelves

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    Find a different path.

11. 111 六 The 1960s: I Went from One Job to Another 六零：我工作换了一个又一个 Cherry Tiny Rice Ball樱桃小小小圆子Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period setting + temporary-worker System + everyday life + building a career] Qin Manxue transmigrates. She looks at the neighborhood office right in front of her, then at the poisonous best friend who’s talking her into going to the countryside. Qin Manxue kicks her flying, then dusts off her hands. “Hmph! She and her Beijing household registration are staying together for good. No one’s splitting us up. There’s no way I’m going to the countryside.” A job? No need to look for one. The temporar 31.5kReads8.6Score3.2kShelves
12. 112 九 The 1990s: My Parents, Uncle, and Grandma Are in Their Prime, So It’s Time to Marry 九零：我家爹娘叔奶正当年，宜嫁 Wealthy Heiress财神千金Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Wild Imagination + System + No Romance + Scumbag Face-Slapping + Chaotic Antics + Getting Rich] When Xia Qingyu is pressured to go on a blind date, she speaks her mind and gets a cup thrown at her by the man. She then transmigrates into a pitiable cannon-fodder character with the same name in a period novel. Her entire family is a bunch of spineless, selfish, and toxic people who treat her like a blood bank, leaving her to die a miserable death. A Matchmaker System comes along 22.1kReads9.0Score3.1kShelves
13. 113 穿 I Transmigrated as a Brash Villainess and Tricked an Amnesiac Big Shot into Becoming My Live-In Son-in-Law 穿成泼作女配，骗失忆大佬当赘婿 Sugar Tangerine沙糖橘子Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Period drama + everyday warmth + daily life + emotional tension + building wealth + happy ending] This is not an angst-filled story. Su Man transmigrates into a book, finding herself in an unfinished, melodramatic rebirth novel... as a lazy, greedy, foul-tempered villainess in the late 1970s. The original owner gets into danger in the wild and is saved by a powerful man with amnesia. In a series of foolish acts, she tricks him into thinking he's a fugitive, hides his military ID, and forces him 21.4kReads9.0Score2.7kShelves
14. 114 我 My Husband Is the Heroine’s White Moonlight in a Period Novel 我老公是年代文里女主的白月光 That Damn Cat她喵的Modern Romance694k WordsOngoing [Period Setting + Transmigrate into a Book + No Rural Relocation + Spatial Dimension + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance + Raising Kids + Building a Career] After being born into this world and growing up for eighteen years, Su Tian didn’t realize she had transmigrated into a book until the day after her wedding. Not only that, she had stolen the female lead’s true love and gone from a bit-part character whose name had never even appeared to the number-one female antagonist. The female lead wants to 31.2kReads6.7Score11.2kShelves
15. 115 七 Military Marriage in the Seventies: The Cannon Fodder Dodges the Plot with Bullet Comments 七零军婚：炮灰靠弹幕躲剧情 Dive into the Five Oceans to Catch Turtles下五洋捉鳖Modern Romance512k WordsCompleted Lin Shuyin transmigrated into the 1970s and became an eighteen-year-old high school senior, about to graduate. She was worried about finding a job. In those days, without a job, you had to go to the countryside, and she didn’t want to! Suddenly, comments appeared before her eyes: [Seriously, Lin Shuyin, you’d be better off going to the countryside. Then you wouldn’t meet your scumbag husband, Zhou Jianguo, and all that stuff that happened later would never happen.] [Sigh! Second Sister Lin had s 20.6kReads8.8Score1.7kShelves
16. 116 四 A Four-Year-Old Genius Can Heal and Fight, and Commanders Vie to Be Her Dad 四岁萌宝能医会武，司令们抢当爹 Le Shen乐燊Modern Romance574k WordsCompleted Just started gaining ratings, and the audiobook version is now available! Also known as: The King of Hell’s Daughter Clears Out the Family Estate and Transmigrates to the 1970s, Where She’s Doted On by Everyone Four-year-old Nuannuan tugs on the King of Hell’s beard: “Daddy, are you going to throw me away?” The King of Hell weeps: “My little ancestor, how about going to the human world for a bit? When you come back, I’ll be your big horse!” Nuannuan’s eyes light up: “Okay, but I can’t go empty-h 6.8kReads8.3Score852Shelves

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    1. With the cutest face, she fights the fiercest battles. She starts by chopping her unscrupulous uncle's family into dumpling filling. Her father is the most handsome in the family; they fight the first time they meet. Her daughter, a little rascal, is a daily troublemaker! She takes her mother out for a life of luxury! She's dressed in the 1970s! She fights enemy spies! She conducts scientific research! She earns military merit! Her spatial ability was created by the King of Hell using his magic, and the spiritual spring was given to her by the judge. Before being reincarnated into the 1970s, she empties the underworld. She's always thinking about blowing up her life and growing to 1.8 Meters tall. Wearing a tiger-head hat, she doesn't care about anyone! 2. It's exhilarating, hilarious, and thrilling. The female lead is incredibly powerful. She tears apart villains in the early stages and later joins the army to serve her country. After enlisting, she becomes incredibly attractive, exhilarating, and thrilling. The female lead is terrifyingly strong, incredibly skilled in combat, and takes revenge immediately. Her spatial ability was created through her fists. A military doctor was specially recruited to join the army, and he was full of martial virtue... Chapter 1: Three whips whipped the wretched man to death, and the top female supporting cast and her family were first thrown into a cesspit, and then sent to the desert to plant trees, kill enemy agents, and use the space to empty out the treasury in their childhood. It was a wonderful story. After beating up the best, he also robbed the property and gained merit points that could be exchanged for magic weapons. I particularly like the heroine beating up Xiaozhi and kicking Nanhou. The only regret is that Chu Zhimo did not take the top position. [Grass has been planted][what]

17. 117 末 From the Apocalypse to the 1970s: I Tear Into the Worst of the Worst and Marry a Soldier 末世穿七零：手撕极品转嫁兵王 Le Shen乐燊Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Revenge Before the Sun Sets + Spatial Spring + Apocalypse + Female Yama + No Saintly Foolishness, No Taking Losses + Satisfying Read + Crushing Scumbags + Face-Slapping + 1970s + Tearing Apart the Worst by Hand + Special Forces + Enlisting + Serving the Nation + No Romance] Xia Shuning once ruled the apocalypse with her fire-type ability, only to be struck by lightning and reduced to ashes. She transmigrated to the 1970s and became a miserable capitalist heiress. Her adoptive parents sold her 14.7kReads8.5Score1.9kShelves
18. 118 小 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 Heavy Clouds云沉沉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 101.2kReads9.6Score10kShelves

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    Su He is the epitome of a cunning schemer! He's a master of getting something for nothing, and without going to the countryside or the black market, even an octopus can't do what he's so capable of! [Thumbs up]

19. 119 开 From the Start in the Famine Year of 1960: Buy Anything for One Cent 开局1960灾荒年，每天一分钱秒杀 The Grapes Are Ripe葡萄熟了Urban2.0M WordsCompleted While helping his cousin get a discount by chopping the price on Pinduoduo, Li Fuxing clicked the sharing link she sent him and transmigrated to the 1960s. He also found a Pinduoduo flash-sale mall in his mind. In 1960, everything was rationed and required coupons. People had barely enough to eat or wear, and two jin of millet could buy you a wife. The Pinduoduo mall had everything: Northeast rice, selenium-rich eggs, Longkou vermicelli, White Rabbit milk candy, Erguotou, Wuliangye… And everythi 2.2kReads8.0Score253Shelves

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    Those ten books are all quite interesting, I recommend them!

20. 120 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
21. 121 重 Reborn: Back to 1983 to Become a Tycoon 重生：回到1983当富翁 Half Gratitude, Half Grudge恩怨各一半Urban3.4M WordsCompleted (The print edition is now available on JD.com! The text has been carefully revised and is even more exciting. There are plenty of discounts right now, so if you're interested, go grab a copy!) Zhou Yufeng, a corporate CEO, unexpectedly returns to 1983, an era of planned economies and feeling one's way across the river by touching the stones. With his lovely wife wanting a divorce and his younger brother and sister struggling to get by, watch as he turns the business world upside down and changes 130.9kReads9.3Score16.1kShelves
22. 122 七 In the 1970s: Picking Up a Madman as My Husband 七零年代疯批夫妇 The Colorful Xue Jingfei色彩缤纷的薛静妃Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Historical era + green tea schemer + obsessive love + unhinged + powerful lead + everyday family life + pocket dimension + food + healing + transmigrate into a book This is the story of two unfortunate souls saving each other. After transmigrating into the countryside as a little orphan, Ming Dai meets Zhou Sinian, a mad powerful man who loves wearing red headscarves. Under the protection of his reputation, she manages to establish herself in the village. Zhou Sinian was a cannon-fodder characte 109.5kReads9.3Score11.4kShelves
23. 123 穿 Transmigrated to a State-Owned Factory in the 1970s: From the Start, I Land a Cushy Job 穿到七零国营厂，开局考上萝卜岗 Have a Cookie吃一块曲奇Modern Romance358k WordsCompleted 1970s + no rural assignment + multiple Systems + career building + strengthening the nation through research Overnight, Shi Xia becomes a minor supporting character in a period novel, an unemployed youth at a state-owned factory. Her mind is in turmoil. The good news: she has a bunch of Systems. The bad news: every one of them is still in beta. No matter. She'll handle it. The male lead who failed his blind date? No need to waste him: let him go to the countryside and suffer. The womanizer who c 18kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves
24. 124 八 The 1980s: A Cherished Darling Rushing Toward Wealth 八零捷报团宠娇娇向钱冲 Si Jiao Jiao肆饺饺Modern Romance2.5M WordsOngoing [Period setting + building wealth + doted on by everyone + native-born heroine + social butterfly + powerful figures + one-on-one romance] Before she turned fifteen, Shi Xiangxiang was stolen as a newborn. Her adoptive parents were denounced and sent down to the countryside, leaving her, though still so young, to shoulder the burden of feeding the whole family. After she turned fifteen, her adoptive sister, who had been reborn with a golden finger, returned in defeat after struggling her way t 38.3kReads9.4Score2.3kShelves
25. 125 胎 Born into the 1970s: I Make My Whole Family Rich Through Studying 胎穿七零：我靠读书带全家致富 Mao Mao猫芼Modern Romance2.6M WordsOngoing (I Just Want to Slack Off, but They Call Me a Genius) (Period Piece + Academic Prodigy + Strengthening the Nation + System + No Romance + Cozy Daily Life + Lighthearted Comedy + Pure Wish Fulfillment) After Chen Wang died, he was reborn as the Chen family's only dim-witted grandson. With four older female cousins, the two elders of the Chen family doted on him like a precious treasure, giving him the best of everything. Chen Wang thought he could spend this life slacking off. Who could have gues 154.5kReads9.0Score14.2kShelves
26. 126 七 The 1970s: Transmigrated as a Cannon Fodder Female Lead in a Lucky Carp Novel! 七零：穿成锦鲤文里的炮灰女配！ Who Remembers the One Upstairs in the North Tower谁念北楼上Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Spiritual Spring Space + Going to the Countryside + Building Wealth + Plot-Driven] Wen Li had just graduated from university and was successfully hired by a major corporation thanks to her excellent grades. She was rubbing her fists, ready to work hard and vowing to shine at the company, but on her way to work on her very first day, she died in a car accident. When she woke again, she had become a doomed female supporting character. Thinking about the original host's tragic fate in the book, 113.4kReads7.6Score10.7kShelves

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    I'm really curious now if Wen Zhiqing has any hidden gems that he's snatched from the female lead.

27. 127 重 Back to Thirty Years Ago 重回三十年前 lie flat Is a Blessing躺平是福Modern Romance441k WordsCompleted A magical watch lets her transmigrate back and forth between the present and thirty years ago. Thank goodness! This time, she has to seize the opportunity and save herself from her tragic fate. 904Reads7.7Score106Shelves

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    A very good historical fiction.

28. 128 民 Republican Era: I'm the Bandit Mountain Rose 民国：我是土匪山里红 lie flat Is a Blessing躺平是福Urban824k WordsCompleted (Transmigration + Republic of China era + War of Resistance + Online Game + Female Protagonist + No Romance) A member of the Republic’s Fire Phoenix Special Forces, with a game in tow, transmigrates to the Republic of China in 1924. She becomes the top boss of the Heavenly King Stronghold in the Taihang Mountains, and the granddaughter of the leader of the bandits across the seven northern provinces. Not bad! There’s still time. With the items in her game inventory, she can put together a well-e 793Reads6.8Score107Shelves
29. 129 四 In Siheyuan, I Become Huaihua, the Poor Little One 四合院我成了槐花小可怜 lie flat Is a Blessing躺平是福Male-Channel Fanfiction771k WordsCompleted The moment I opened my eyes, I had become Little Huaihua from the courtyard. The protagonist was absolutely terrified! Born into a family like this, the protagonist decided to cozy up to Lou Xiao'e to make sure she could grow up healthy. Auntie Lou was not only the only good person in the whole courtyard, but someone who might even sneak her off to Hong Kong one day. 5.2kReads8.5Score236Shelves
30. 130 四 Siheyuan: The Joy of Lying Flat 四合院：躺平是福 lie flat Is a Blessing躺平是福Male-Channel Fanfiction863k WordsCompleted In his previous life, he was filmed on a phone and brought into the world of a 1950s Siheyuan. Though Lu Yuan was born in the 1960s, he takes it all in stride. He worked hard all his previous life; this time, he’ll live for himself. As for the Siheyuan residents’ schemes and machinations, they have nothing to do with him. As long as they don’t threaten his interests, Lu Yuan can’t be bothered to get involved. This time around, he’s going to lie flat and live in comfort. 12kReads5.8Score547Shelves
31. 131 赶 Hunting in the Mountains to Protect My Family 赶山打猎守护一家 Three-Minute Passionlove三分热度loveUrban2.0M WordsCompleted Reborn, she heads into the mountains to hunt and protect her family. That winter, her family was torn apart, and the little shadow who used to follow her everywhere was gone forever. Now she's back, and she won't let this life be filled with regrets... 47.8kReads8.4Score3.1kShelves

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    Historical fiction: Rebirth to save his sister, hunting in the mountains, farming by the sea, adorable kids, and an adapted comic series.

32. 132 不 I'm Done Competing. I'm Going Home to Explore the Mountains and Seas 不卷了，回去看山海 Kai Wuwu开呜呜Urban1.7M WordsCompleted All that hard work gets you nowhere, and then you get laid off? By the time you regret it, I’ll be lying flat by the sea, feeling the breeze, watching the sunset, and feasting on seafood. I’ll watch the wind brush my face and the willows droop along the riverbank, and listen to raindrops patter from the eaves. 10.3kReads8.4Score572Shelves
33. 133 带 Taking a World-Famous Members-Only Supermarket Back to the 1970s 带着全球知名会员制超市穿七零 Lots of Durian Daifuku榴莲大福多多Modern Romance339k WordsCompleted [Period setting + soul transmigration + golden finger + modern romance + strong leads] A slow-burn story set in a bygone era. The author doesn't write saintly heroines. If the satisfying payback you're expecting hasn't happened yet, the author may have placed it at the point that best fits the story. Han Xiaolin, from the 21st century, transmigrates while shopping at a famous members-only supermarket. She finds herself in the 1970s, an era of scarce food and clothing. With a virtual supermarket 318Reads6.2Score110Shelves

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    A historical novel from a different perspective; worth reading.

34. 134 重 Reborn in 1980: I Dumped the Scumbag and Married a Butcher 重生八零甩掉渣男嫁屠户 Lots of Durian Daifuku榴莲大福多多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 3.7kReads8.2Score384Shelves
35. 135 一 All I Want in Life Is Half a Heart’s Contentment 一生只求半称心 Hedge Shadow篱影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 9.6kReads8.9Score815Shelves

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    It's so realistic; many people who read it said that the village in the book actually exists.

36. 136 四 Siheyuan: After Being Reborn, I Can Open a Blind Box Every Day 四合院：重生后我能天天开盲盒 Shang Luoshan尚洛杉Male-Channel Fanfiction603k WordsCompleted Protagonist: Zhao Lei; Role: An unemployed street loafer, a marginal member of the Zhao family, unloved by both parents Golden finger: Blind Box System Goal: Lie flat every day, with food and drink aplenty and no need to work Synopsis: Zhao Lei grew up as a left-behind child in his previous life. By an unexpected twist of fate, he is reborn in 1959 while staying at a hotel. It is the first year of the natural disasters, and as a modern young man used to having plenty to eat and drink, he absolut 39.1kReads6.4Score1.9kShelves

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    Historical fiction

37. 137 我 My Years as a Migrant Worker in Shenzhen 我在深圳打工那些年 Azure Clouds, Everlasting Red青云长红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 18.7kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves

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    Novels with a high degree of realism

38. 138 我 My Years Working at a Securities Firm 我在证券打工那些年 Azure Clouds, Everlasting Red青云长红Urban226k WordsOngoing 2004. Shenzhen. Securities account manager. Only later did Li Xingyun realize that the so-called A-share floor price was a lie told to rookies. Below the floor was hell, and below hell were eighteen more levels. He had seen every one of them. No connections, no influential friends, and no Cantonese. Find clients. Fail, and you're out. A veteran told him: In this line of work, no results means no respect. An account of a fresh graduate working in Shenzhen. No inspirational triumphs, no melodrama, 5kReads—Score430Shelves
39. 139 年 A Legendary Life in the Era 年代传奇人生 Wen Youcai文有财Urban1.1M WordsCompleted A ruthless soldier king is reborn in the Greater Khingan Mountains of the 1960s. With the pocket dimension and gear from his previous life, he takes his friends hunting and exploring. The early story centers on hunting, with cross-province searches for family, treasure hunts, and battles against spies woven in. They explore fortresses, raid tombs, and get caught up in other thrilling adventures. Novel pets include a wolverine, a big black horse, a yellow-throated marten, reindeer, and a mantis. 59.4kReads7.7Score8.6kShelves

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    A ruthless soldier king is reborn in the depths of the Greater Khingan Mountains in the 1960s, carrying his previous life's spatial abilities and equipment. He and his companions explore, hunt, and earn money. The story is exciting and fast-paced, with hunting as the main focus in the early stages, interspersed with cross-province searches for relatives, treasure hunts, fighting spies, exploring fortresses, tomb raiding, and adventure. The pets are novel: wolverines, red dogs, black horses, yellow-throated martens, reindeer, and mantises. Later chapters incorporate folk customs and cultivation. Updates are stable, and the game is entirely hand-written. Welcome to the story!

40. 140 八 The Brash Stepmother from the Eighties Becomes a Nobody 八零泼妇养母成了路人甲 Contrarian with a Bone to Pick杠精加牛角尖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 975Reads5.9Score116Shelves
41. 141 七 A Supporting Actress’s Gossip-Filled Life in the 1970s 七十年代女配的吃瓜日常 Contrarian with a Bone to Pick杠精加牛角尖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
42. 142 穿 Transmigrated as the Original Heroine of a 1970s Novel, I Run Away With the Cannon Fodder 穿成七零原女主，带着炮灰跑路 Contrarian with a Bone to Pick杠精加牛角尖Modern Romance180k WordsOngoing This isn't a face-slapping story. It's more of an ensemble tale. Aside from the two women who transmigrated, everyone else is trying to change their own circumstances. Some are striving to improve themselves, while others are hoping to help someone else rise to the top. If you like it, please leave a good review. If you don't, just move on instead of leaving a bad one. It's not easy to hide away and write four thousand words every day. Lu Yunwan transmigrates into the original heroine, who was l 107Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 143 八 An Eighties Gofer Marries into a Family of Lovers 八零工具人嫁入恋爱之家 Contrarian with a Bone to Pick杠精加牛角尖Modern Romance899k 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 6.1kReads8.0Score386Shelves
44. 144 我 My Life in 1975 我在1975年的那些事 Your Bro Yang Next Door隔壁你阳哥Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Two worlds connected + transmigration + period setting + everyday life + pocket dimension + special abilities + decisive violence + multiple female leads + no simping + business. A story spanning two worlds, from 1975 to 2025. It all begins with catching someone in the act. After an accident, Chen Chang'an discovers something strange about his wife. It leaves him disoriented and even frantic, and he dies in a car crash. By a stroke of luck, he arrives in a parallel world in 1975 and gains the ab 4.5kReads8.6Score327Shelves

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    I recommend it too.

45. 145 九 The Nineties: Returning from the Cultivation World with My Husband 九零：带着夫君从修仙界回来 A Novel Fan Writing Novels小说迷写小说Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted In 1996, Lu Wanyou took a fall and transmigrated to the cultivation world, becoming the good-for-nothing little daughter of a peak master, born with all five spiritual roots. Her parents and siblings all thought she was an embarrassment. The strong never complain. During her 25 years in the cultivation world, Lu Wanyou used every trick in the book to amass a fortune and plenty of treasures. Along the way, she also won over the sect’s most handsome man, another good-for-nothing with all five spir 7.2kReads8.7Score773Shelves
46. 146 重 Reborn in the 1960s: I Find Myself a Stepmother 重生60年代：我给自己找后妈 Gu Yue Er Dong古月耳咚Modern Romance681k WordsOngoing When Chen Guoping died of lung cancer, his mother was busy having a grand old time gossiping with the neighborhood women! In his previous life, she had kept him under her thumb since childhood: she wouldn’t let him take the college entrance exam, forced him to hand over his wages, and criticized every woman he wanted to marry. Ignoring the nature of his work, she insisted that he and his wife risk having a third child. In the end, he was fired for exceeding the birth quota, and his family of fiv 22.2kReads8.4Score1.4kShelves

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    Those who stumble upon this are in luck! I'm recommending a gem of a period reincarnation novel! The male lead never enjoyed a single day of happiness in his previous life, tormented to death by his own mother. Reborn in the 1960s, he immediately finds himself a stepmother, and from then on, he's waited on hand and foot, while his biological mother watches with envy. At 100,000 words, you can confidently jump in!

47. 147 四 Siheyuan: Transmigrating Across the Heavens 四合院之穿越诸天位面 Poverty Is an Illness to Cure穷是病得治Male-Channel Fanfiction1.5M WordsCompleted (This is a completely fictional world. Please do not associate it with reality. It is not real, it is not real, it is not real. Important things are said three times! The first volume is a million words long! I feel for you!) I was born into the courtyard as a nobody. Do whatever you like to me, as long as you don’t scheme against my family. But if you bully my family, I’ll break every last one of your legs. I’ll serve in the army and fight in Vietnam, then get mixed up in Hong Kong’s chaotic un 218Reads6.8Score187Shelves
48. 148 重 Reborn with a Trillion in Crypto, Raising Black Bears in North America 重生屯币千亿，北美养熊瞎子 4258368973Eastern Fantasy215k WordsCompleted [Retire in Seclusion and Get Rich + Easygoing Daily Life + Invincible Beasts + Overwhelming Dimensional Advantage] Back in 2010, Lu Yuan has no interest in cutthroat business warfare. Instead, he buys up a million bitcoins, then cashes out with perfect timing at the peak, making a trillion! Now financially free, he heads to the North American Rocky Mountains and buys a hundred thousand acres of abandoned timberland, planning to enjoy a retirement filled with fishing and walking dogs sixty years 138Reads—Score—Shelves
49. 149 四 Siheyuan: I Start by Helping Old Li Rescue Xiuqin in Bright Sword 四合院：从亮剑帮老李救秀芹开始 Burning Heaven Banner Loves Little Seafood爱吃小海鲜的焚天幡Urban540k WordsCompleted [Republican-era dramas, including The Story of a Noble Family, Glory Days, New World, Hutong, A Little Woman Under Zhengyang Gate, and more] Zheng Chao'an gets incredibly lucky and suddenly finds himself back before Liberation. It is 1942, and when he opens his eyes, he is in the middle of a desolate wilderness. Fortunately, his System activates, helping him realize that he has landed in a world where Republican-era dramas have merged together. Here, he has an elder brother, Zheng Chaoshan, and 2.3kReads6.3Score104Shelves
50. 150 四 Siheyuan: The Whole Courtyard Is Asking for Trouble, So I Wipe Them All Out 四合院：全院作死，我直接杀光 Eggplant Casserole风味茄子煲Male-Channel Fanfiction1.2M WordsCompleted After his Nascent Soul perishes, he returns to the courtyard in 1953 as a security chief, carrying on the legacy of a Celestial Master. But he discovers that his elder sister is dead and his nephew is on the brink of death. Those who seized the He family home and bullied the orphan will face karmic justice through a series of “accidents.” 594Reads8.6Score100Shelves

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    A novel about courtyard houses worth reading

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