High-Quality Period Pieces: No Siheyuan Stories or Female-Oriented Novels, Please 高质量年代文，不要四合院 不要女频 求求了

1. 1 1 1972: The Youthful Years of the Red Flag 1972，红旗招展的青春年代 Little Goblin of the Lanruo Temple兰若寺小妖Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Period] [Book Transmigration] [Reborn] [Sent-down youth] [Great Northern Wilderness] [Scheming male lead] [One heroine] [Pure romance] [Smart characters] [Decisive and ruthless] [Black market] [Political career] [Countryside] [Special historical era] In the spring of 1972, as Chu Miaohong rode a train to the Great Northern Wilderness to join a rural work team, she casually tossed an old envelope into the wind. Meanwhile, in 2024, Zhang Hongcheng happened to come into possession of an old, worn- 70.9kReads9.3Score6.9k14d adds

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   The female lead is reborn, the male lead transmigrates into a book, and there's even interaction with the modern world—it's surprisingly a smooth and worthwhile read.

2. 2 锦 The Lucky Little Girl Follows Her Mom to the Military Compound and Becomes Everyone's Favorite 锦鲤幼崽随妈上军区：成大院团宠 Koi Pear锦鲤梨Modern Romance2.8M WordsCompleted [Adorable Kids + Military Marriage + Period Setting + Putting Scumbags in Their Place + Animal Speech + Pocket Dimension + Light Mysticism + Everyone’s Favorite] In her past life, Tangtang lived a miserable life. Her mother was deceived, and her cousin stole her lucky koi fate, leaving her a poor little thing. Before she died, she dragged her scummy uncle and his whole family down with her. When she opened her eyes again, Tangtang had returned to the year she was six. Her mother was about to agr 63kReads8.5Score11.1k14d adds

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   I think these books are great, especially the first five, particularly the first three.

3. 3 七 The 1970s: I Became the Military Romance Heroine's Biological Younger Sister 七零：我成了军婚女主的亲妹妹 Jiaqi佳奇Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Jiang Caixuan transmigrated into a military-marriage novel set in the Seventies. After being reborn, the heroine vowed never to repeat the mistakes of her past. So she acted first and arranged with her gentle mother to take over the family job. She also became involved with a military officer who had lost his wife and was raising a child. After weathering a series of trials and tribulations, the two lived happily together. But Jiang Caixuan looked at her original self, whose health had been poor 9kReads7.2Score68214d adds

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   The book quotes, "I think it's very worthwhile to spend a little more time waiting and to gain a clearer understanding of one's own feelings and thoughts." This is thought-provoking, worth reading, and quite practical.

4. 4 首 Commander, Your Kid’s Charged to the Front Lines Again! 首长，你家崽崽又冲上前线了！ Yuanzi Cat媛子猫Modern Romance1.9M WordsOngoing After blowing herself up, 5188 landed in the 1970s. She carefully hid the System still running in her mind and pretended to be a human toddler. To get Grandma to take her home, 5188 volunteered that her parents were dead. Once she learned that changing the fate of a member of the old Jiang family would let her retrieve things from her apocalyptic storage space, 5188 became all the more eager to help. Big Brother wants to improve his physical fitness? Easy! “Granny Jiang, something terrible has h 9.3kReads9.3Score62114d adds
5. 5 被 After Her Thoughts Are Read, the Capitalist Heiress's Persona Crumbles Again 被读心后资本家大小姐人设又崩啦 Sanqi Siyan三七四叶Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Mind-reading and gossip + goofy plot + devoted couples Originally titled The Capitalist Heiress’s Persona Falls Apart Again After Her Thoughts Are Read Shi Yuanyuan transmigrates into a period novel about a woman adored by everyone, becoming the crazy, vicious ex-wife who is destined to die young at the hands of the powerful male lead. System: “Host, you know what a villain is, right?” A villain? I wouldn’t even Shi Yuanyuan declares: No one understands villains better than I do! What does a vil 5.3kReads7.5Score54114d adds
6. 6 六 Military Marriage in the Sixties: From Orphan Girl to Queen of Chemicals 六零军婚，从孤女到化工女王 Nan Beiyu南北羽Modern Romance1.6M WordsCompleted Chemical engineering expert Lin Ya transmigrates to 1962. On the surface, she comes from a respectable working-class family. In reality, she is the daughter of a capitalist who was left behind on the mainland. It’s hell mode from the start, and her identity could be exposed at any moment. Lin Ya doesn’t panic. She starts building up her safeguards. Make high-efficiency fertilizer from discarded pesticide waste: safeguard +1 Extract glycerin from soap waste and produce coagulants: safeguard +2 Ma 12.7kReads8.7Score1.3k14d adds
7. 7 缺 The Shameless System, the Nosy Little Cub, and Their Amazing Mind-Reading 缺德统，吃瓜崽，偷听心声顶呱呱 Wan Xi.晚兮。Modern Romance922k WordsCompleted [Gossip, mind-reading, adored by everyone, strengthening the nation, period setting] Lin Xihe died after being struck by falling debris while gossiping and watching the commotion. When she woke up, she had become an adorable four-year-old in the 1970s. The only thing she had to be happy about was that she’d been bound to the System, Gossip and Mischief 888. It could give her all kinds of rewards, helping her survive in this er 5.6kReads8.4Score56214d adds
8. 8 七 My Seven-Year-Old Is Sweet but Sly, and Dad Chases Money Instead of His Wife 七零崽崽坏得甜，爹不追妻只追钱 Call Me a Beauty叫我美少女Modern Romance920k WordsCompleted (The rating just came out and will go up! Read the story!) [Period drama family darling + mischievous little zombie + love-struck dad + everyone adores her] The little zombie Shi Yuanyuan never ate or hurt anyone. She’d read novels for twenty years, only to be killed. When she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated into a book set in the 1970s, as a poor little girl whose mother was dead and whose father was a deadbeat. But the little zombie wasn’t afraid. She had plenty of knowledge to draw on, 3.3kReads8.8Score46814d adds
9. 9 什 What! The System Has Given Up? Then I'll Team Up with One 什么！系统摆烂了？那我跟一个 Fried-Hair Candy炸毛糖Modern Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Adorable child + System + Ensemble cast + Comedy + Lighthearted + No romance] The 2222 Intelligent System suffered a disastrous failure on its very first mission. Somehow, it ended up bound to a newborn baby girl. It waited until she was three before daring to reveal who it was. But after binding with Ruan Xiuxiu, not only did it get a name, it also had to answer her questions all day long. Otherwise, she would tell someone it existed the very next second. So it gave up and stopped trying. Miss 4.5kReads6.8Score69714d adds
10. 10 萌 The Little Genius Builds Aircraft Carriers After Making Nukes, Leaving the Commander Dancing for Joy 萌娃搓完核弹造航母，首长直跳舞 Sauce-Flavored Wahaha酱香哇哈哈Modern Romance213k WordsCompleted [Adorable kid] + [military industry] + [miracle doctor] + [everyone's darling] An accident gave the adorable An'an the ability to communicate with all things. “Daddy, the gun says its barrel is too short. It's uncomfortable, and it can't aim straight. Fix it.” After her dad, the chief engineer of the military industry, made the changes, the soldiers begged and pleaded for the new guns. “Daddy, the grenade says it's too fat, its belly is too big, and the clothes it's wearing are too thick...” Her 85Reads6.6Score—14d adds
11. 11 西 Northwest Cutie: Dad, Where Are My Bullet-Casing Toys? 西北萌娃：老爸，我的弹壳玩具呢 A Happy Little Kitty一只快乐小小喵Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Lin Wanxing, a genius from the Ministry of State Security, transmigrates into the 1980s and becomes the cutest kid in the Northwest Military District compound: an adorable four-and-a-half-year-old. Her ace-soldier dad is a rough-and-ready parent, so she uses her space to grow vegetables and raise chickens, making their life thrive. When her dad is given a hard time during a military exercise, she “accidentally” points out a fatal flaw in the other side’s tactics. Her mom is a missing national tr 136Reads—Score—14d adds
12. 12 博 A Doctoral Big Shot's Beloved Life in the 1970s 博士大佬的七零团宠日常 Summer Breeze夏日良风Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Beloved by the whole family + striving through the years (kind family, no awful relatives) P.S. The early chapters are warm and slice-of-life; later on, there is a focus on technology. The female lead has a photographic memory and is a super-genius. There is no romance in this novel, so those who enjoy stories without romance can dive right in. In the 23rd century, the genius Dr. Leng Yue is killed by her own mother and reborn as Ling Yue, the only granddaughter of the Ling family in the 1970s. 8.9kReads9.1Score71314d adds
13. 13 玄 The Mystic Arts Big Shot Raises a Cute Little Darling in the 1970s 玄门大佬在七零做团宠小萌宝 Know Li知李Modern Romance392k WordsCompleted Qin Xianxian had lived for three thousand years and had finally reached the day she could ascend. But the heavenly tribulation simply refused to let her go. With one last devastating strike, Qin Xianxian died on the spot. When she opened her eyes again, she was a three-year-old baby in China in 1970. Luckily, her father doted on her, her mother loved her, and her grandparents spoiled her. It wasn't so bad. While being pampered by her family, Ancestress Xianxian spoiled them in return, helping th 1.3kReads9.3Score14114d adds
14. 14 国 The Nation's Dad and a Cutie Help You Win Without Lifting a Finger 国家爸爸萌娃带你躺赢 Playful Demon妖逗Modern Romance266k WordsCompleted Yanyan... does anything still hurt? You gave Mom such a fright this time. Lin Muyan looked at the mother holding her. Her face, not yet weathered by the years, made the tears pour down her cheeks. Mom? “Hey, Yanyan, what's wrong? Does something hurt?” Lin Muyan shook her head and looked around. This was their old home. A man looked at the little girl in front of the house. “Yanyan, what are you doing?” Yanyan looked at the man and tilted her head. “Dad, I'm making fat pee.” “Fertilizer?” The lit 277Reads8.9Score—14d adds
15. 15 重 Reborn in the 1970s: Grandma, Today It's Your Turn to Get Divorced 重生七零：奶，今天轮到您离婚啦 Great Golden Immortal大罗金仙Modern Romance1.8M WordsCompleted Also known as: Reborn in the 1970s as a Lucky Little Carp with Space Tens of billions in supplies, serving the country, the family’s darling, adorable child, satisfying story In her previous life, Shen Danluo’s family was harmed by her wicked second uncle, and she avenged them all by herself. Now she has been reborn with a space that can exchange for all kinds of supplies. In this life, she will change everyone’s tragic fate. Take down the worst offenders and punish the scum. Then quietly make a 34.6kReads9.5Score4.4k14d adds
16. 16 七 The 1970s: My Little One Gets Rich With a Shameless System 七零：崽崽靠着缺德系统暴富啦！ May We Last as Long as the Moon随明月而长终Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Completed (Era Setting + No Romance + Truly Little Kid Protagonist + Mischievous Kid + Clueless + No Catfighting) (Daily Life + System + Lucky Charm + Beloved by All + Only Child + Olympic Champion) Original title: The 1970s: The Kid Gets Rich with a System Full of Flaws! P.S. After chapter 42, there are basically no awful people. There aren’t many in the early chapters either, just two, and they won’t keep showing up. Told mainly from the kid’s point of view, full of her daily life, with lots a 16.7kReads9.1Score1.4k14d adds
17. 17 同 My Coworker Betrayed Me. What's Wrong with Wanting a Little Compensation? 同事背刺，她要一点点补偿怎么了 Xi Mu Yue西沐月Modern Romance743k WordsCompleted Alternate parallel world + historical era + golden finger The author is terrible at naming things and even worse at writing blurbs, so please bear with me. No black-market shopping, no stockpiling household supplies. Jiang Xingyue worked dutifully for the Underworld for three hundred years and was about to get promoted when she was sabotaged and sent straight into reincarnation. She was reborn in 1959. Life was tough, but fortunately, her family in this life was wonderful. With her cheat abiliti 2.6kReads7.4Score17714d adds
18. 18 年 The Violent Little Rascal Picks Up a Disabled Dad in the 1970s from the Start 年代，暴力幼崽开局捡了个残疾爹 Big Zhao大老赵Modern Romance564k WordsCompleted [Period Drama + Gap Moe + Violent Little Girl + Handsome, Tragic Dad + Healing and Redemption + Food and Fortune] Lin Tang was born with extraordinary strength, had a huge appetite, and was a stubborn little contrarian who wouldn’t let anything go. From the start, her awful grandmother was planning to sell her to human traffickers for a few measures of rice. Lin Tang turned the tables, hoisted the traffickers up into a tree, then dug out all of Grandma’s hidden savings and spent them on meat! Lo 32Reads—Score—14d adds
19. 19 资 The Capitalist's Little Rascal Joins the Army with His Grandmother, and the Whole Courtyard Spoils Them 资本家崽崽带祖母随军，全院宠翻 Qing Shu Yu清述与Modern Romance200k WordsCompleted Period novel + pocket dimension + supernatural golden finger + farming + gourmet food + beloved by all Xu Miaomiao transmigrated from the apocalypse to Huaguo in the 1960s, becoming an adorable six-year-old girl. The good news: her supernatural abilities came with her. Even better news: she also got a spatial ring. There are no zombies in this world, and she has a loving grandmother, Xu Yueying. Miaomiao learns what happens in the original story: she and her grandmother are both doomed cannon fo 128Reads6.7Score—14d adds
20. 20 五 The Little Treasure Hunter of the Fifties 五零捡漏小当家 Scroll Ah卷轴啊Modern Romance428k WordsCompleted A kindergarten teacher in her thirties wakes up to find herself in 1952, inhabiting the body of Qian Laixi, a five-year-old playmate kept by a capitalist family. The household is about to flee, the country is in turmoil, and her own family is still stuck in poverty as servants. No problem! She has a stingy “Junk System” that recycles just about anything. The He family is clearing out? Fine, she’ll scan every last inch of their property! Unclaimed treasure? She’ll gladly take it all, from silver 19.7kReads8.3Score1.5k14d adds
21. 21 全 The Whole Village Laughed at My Foolishness, but I Became a Vegetable-Growing Tycoon! 全村笑我瞎胡闹，我种菜成首富！ July Rain, August Summer七月的雨八月夏Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Period Rebirth] [Farming and Adorable Kids] [Get Rich Through Science] [Beloved Lucky Girl] When she woke up, Lin Maoyan, an agricultural master's graduate from the 21st century, had somehow become a six-year-old unwanted burden in the 1990s, unloved by her father and grandmother! From the start, her family had nothing, her blended family was full of conflict, and the whole village laughed at them for being dirt poor. Lin Maoyan waved her little hand. What was there to fear? The agricultural kn 27Reads6.9Score—14d adds
22. 22 团 The Beloved Little One Takes Her Capitalist Mother Along to Join the Army 团宠崽崽带资本家小姐亲妈去随军 Magpie Branch鹊枝Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The moment the genius girl Panpan opened her eyes, she realized she had transmigrated into a novel set in a bygone era, becoming the doomed baby daughter of a doomed capitalist heiress. In the original story, her mother, Zhu Yunshu, would soon be framed, divorce her father, and then be manipulated by her step-grandfather into going to the countryside, after he took off with the family's vast fortune. Panpan herself would also be slandered as a bastard and die a miserable death. What a catastroph 7.9kReads8.4Score1.1k14d adds
23. 23 随 After My Stepmother Remarried, I Became the Darling of the Military Compound 随后妈改嫁后，我成军属院香饽饽 Xia Wangzhu夏望逐Modern Romance576k WordsCompleted [Just released, so the rating is still low. It’ll rise later! 1970s + remarriage + family favorite + lucky little girl] [Long-legged, fiery stepmom x doting, devoted-to-his-wife-and-kids commander] Her scumbag dad divorces her stepmom. Her stepmom agrees to leave with nothing, on one condition: she gets to take her stepdaughter, Sang Zhizhi. Zhizhi: You’re escaping a living hell and taking me with you? Mom’s great! Dad’s awful! On the day of the divorce, an officer falls for her stepmom at first 3.6kReads8.7Score61914d adds
24. 24 随 After Mom Remarries: The Lucky Little One Becomes the Beloved of the Entire Family Compound 随妈改嫁：锦鲤幼崽成家属院团宠 Nannan Loves Steamed Buns楠楠爱吃包子Modern Romance807k WordsOngoing [Transmigrate into a book + space + island life + leaked inner thoughts + lucky koi fortune + no romance (extras may include some)] The youngest academician of the 25th century woke up as Bai An'an, a three-year-old toddler in the 1970s. She opened her eyes right in the middle of her mother catching her father cheating. From the start, she was thrown into hell mode: a frail mother, a cheating scumbag father, a terrible grandmother, a pack of heartless siblings, and an arrogant mistress. After fi 230Reads8.5Score11614d adds
25. 25 重 Reborn in 1960: I Have a Divine Cauldron Space 重生60，我有神鼎空间 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban2.8M WordsCompleted Zhao Guoqiang died alongside the demolition crew, never imagining that the incense burner in his own main room was a divine artifact. After accidentally becoming the master of the Bronze Divine Cauldron, he was reborn as another man named Zhao Guoqiang. Inside the cauldron's space were towering mountains, lakes, and mighty rivers. What delighted him even more was that the cauldron could condense holy water. Time already flowed ten times faster inside the space than in the outside world. With the 394Reads7.4Score9114d adds

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    I'd also like to recommend a few period novels to everyone.

26. 26 日 Paying One Billion in Taxes a Day, and You Call This a Village Collective Enterprise? 日交税十亿，你说这是村集体企业 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban523k WordsCompleted Zeng Fanchao, the richest man in Beihu Province, catches the eye of people who want to seize his family fortune for free. When he refuses, Liu Batian, a prison warden who holds the low ninth rank, sends men to sever his tendons, force-feed him a drug that robs him of his voice, and throw him from a cliff over a hundred meters high. He crashes down onto the land temple beneath the cliff, smashing it to pieces. His own body is shattered, too, but the blood flowing from him is mysteriously absorbed 659Reads6.4Score—14d adds
27. 27 四 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Control the Life and Death System 四合院：开局掌控生死系统 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban1.8M WordsCompleted From the start, he gets a Life and Death System and hypnosis abilities, sending him straight to the top. The Life and Death System can extract life force from anything alive, including animals, plants, fish, and humans. It can also pour life force into any living thing, though the effect is halved. Extracting life force from a century-old tree yields fifty years' worth, which can be poured into a sapling to instantly make it grow to the size of a fifty-year-old tree. Animals work the same way: e 14.7kReads8.1Score80914d adds
28. 28 重 Reborn in 1960: The System Helps Me Rule the Hunting Grounds 重生60：系统助我猎界称雄 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban345k WordsCompleted Li Changsheng became a thirty-year mortgage slave after buying a home with no down payment. With housing prices falling and his job gone, he was on his way home when he kindly helped an elderly person who had fallen, only to be extorted by them. So he simply dragged them along to die with him, ridding the world of two bad people. Unexpectedly, he then received a Cloning System and transmigrated, reborn into the body of another Li Changsheng in 1960. See how Li Changsheng uses the Cloning System 990Reads6.1Score—14d adds
29. 29 我 In 1979, I Helped the Whole Village Become Ten-Thousand-Yuan Households 我在七九帮全村成就万元户 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban267k WordsCompleted Chen Sheng and seven good friends explore the Nanshan Cave and obtain the innate spiritual treasure, the Boundary-Breaking Pearl, which lets them travel back and forth to an era thirty years in the future. From then on, they begin a career smuggling goods between the two worlds. Back home, they open brickworks, a sand quarry, clothing factories, and furniture factories. They buy up centipedes and leeches, and become the first in the world to cultivate bamboo fungus commercially. Once every house 615Reads8.0Score—14d adds
30. 30 我 I Fish with Dragon Blood, and Every Fish and Shrimp in the Sea Goes Wild 我用龙血钓鱼，海中鱼虾都疯了 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban1.3M WordsCompleted Fishing with dragon blood sends every fish and shrimp in the sea into a frenzy. Tempering my body with dragon blood and making a name for myself with dragon fists. I use dragon dung and urine in my space to grow ginseng and tea plants. Every year, I drip another drop of dragon blood beneath the tea plants. Regularly drinking the tea they produce delays aging, strengthens the body, promotes longevity, fortifies the bones and sinews, beautifies the skin, turns white hair black, and even boosts vir 711Reads8.6Score17114d adds
31. 31 何 How to Chase Away Worries? Fish Until Your Cooler Overflows 何以解忧钓鱼爆护 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban744k WordsCompleted Zhang San used to be a street vendor selling leather shoes. When the city launched a campaign to become civilized, street vending was banned. Just as he found himself out of work, his girlfriend betrayed him and ran off with the savings he had built up over six years of selling at his stall. Drunk, Zhang San went fishing by the river and unexpectedly hooked a Shanhe Ring. The ring had been forged by the Primordial Immortal Venerable from fragments of worlds and various heavenly treasures. It con 1.4kReads8.7Score10314d adds
32. 32 钓 A Fisherman Across Time and Space: A Blood-Soaked Fight Against Japan 钓者跨时空：浴血抗日行 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban130k WordsCompleted In a parallel world, in Heishui Town, Hanjing City, a false nation on the Dark Star, Zhou Jianhua accidentally discovers a time machine created by the previous civilization in its final days in an attempt to save the world. The time machine can take him to worlds from the past, but it cannot reach the future. Inside the machine, Zhou Jianhua obtains the Repentance Fishing Boat, which can be upgraded. The Confession Time Machine itself can also be upgraded, and he can travel through time three ti 55Reads—Score—14d adds
33. 33 莸 I Gain the Water God's Inheritance, and Fishing Is No Longer Hard 莸得水神传承，钓鱼不再难 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban300k WordsCompleted Nan Canghai had his achievements stolen and was fired from his job, so he went out for a walk to clear his head. Caught in a sudden downpour, he happened upon an old, dilapidated Water God Temple by the river. Curious, Nan Canghai ducked inside to take shelter and look around. By a stroke of fate, he merged with the remnant soul of an ancient Water God. Not only did he inherit the Water God's legacy, he also obtained a treasure that controlled water: the Black Tortoise Banner, one of the Four Di 752Reads8.6Score—14d adds
34. 34 重 Reborn as a Cow: Ruling the Dark Planet 重生成牛：称霸黑暗星球 Fourth Master Nan Gai南丐四爷Urban113k WordsCompleted Ye Daniu transmigrated and was reborn in the body of an African buffalo that had just been killed by a lion. Using human intelligence, he killed the lion and became the King of the Buffaloes. From then on, the African buffaloes began practicing martial arts and forming battle formations, wiping out prides of lions and packs of wolves. They exterminated the hyenas, unified the grasslands, and became its overlords. When the apocalypse arrived, the King of the Buffaloes led herds of buffaloes, zebr 144Reads—Score—14d adds
35. 35 七 In 1970, I Married a Handsome Divorced Officer 七零年，我嫁给了离婚帅军官 A Commoner from the Southern Mountain南山庸人Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Period drama + military marriage + stern military officer + pocket dimension + family life + farming Tang Yaoyao is an utterly ordinary office worker. By a twist of fate, her soul is mistakenly taken, and the underworld sends her to the 1970s to make amends. She plans to quietly farm at home and wait for the college entrance exams to resume. But when she goes to help a fellow military wife through her postpartum confinement, she meets an incredibly handsome senior officer next door. Too bad he's 7.1kReads8.5Score75814d adds
36. 36 去 After Keeping the Child and Leaving His Father, the Heir Regretted It 去父留子后，资本家少爷后悔了 The Old Wang Next Door 1218隔壁老王1218Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Shen Zhiyi had a clear goal. She wanted to find a handsome, good-looking live-in son-in-law who wouldn’t compromise the next generation. That was a little hard to find. Luckily, she found one. The young master of a family of disgraced capitalists was quite handsome. A family of frail old folks and women who couldn’t even kill a chicken needed a strong, beautiful, clever, and kind girl like her to protect them. She happily brought him home. On their wedding night, she had a dream. Three months la 2.5kReads7.9Score23814d adds
37. 37 穿 After Transmigrating to a Year of Famine, I Became the Worst Mother-in-Law 穿到荒年后，我成了极品恶婆婆 Morning Clouds Purple朝云紫Ancient Romance1.9M WordsCompleted [Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + adorable kids + no male lead] Cheng Wanqun woke up in the body of a 33-year-old farmer's wife in ancient Dahuang Village. Her four sons were kneeling by the bed, calling her Mother, and her daughter-in-law had another grandchild on the way. After being single her entire life for 33 years, she'd suddenly become a mother-in-law and grandmother. Raising four sons was already hard enough, but then disaster struck: locust plagues, droughts, snowstorms. 68.1kReads9.4Score7.6k14d adds

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38. 38 全 The Whole Family Is Exiled! I Take the National Treasury and Flee the Famine 全家流放！我带着国库去逃荒 Hawthorn Soda Pop山楂啊玻璃泡Ancient Romance244k WordsCompleted (Transmigration + alternate setting + supplies + golden finger + fleeing famine + revenge and face-slapping + heroine is no saint + infrastructure building + feel-good story) Yu Tingwan transmigrates, waking up as the legitimate daughter of a general’s household. Unfortunately, her father and three older brothers have all been accused by the emperor of plotting rebellion because their achievements have overshadowed the throne. The entire family is sentenced to execution by beheading in public. O 325Reads8.6Score—14d adds
39. 39 雪 In the Year of the Great Blizzard, I Became the Big Sister Raising Five Little Ones 雪灾年，我穿成五个崽的包子姐姐 Qibao Tuantuan柒宝团团Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Empress + ensemble cast + farming and infrastructure + strong female lead power fantasy + an insanely powerful golden finger!!!!] Lin Jiahe transmigrates into a book and binds to a multiverse livestream System. Her entire family are cannon fodder whose fortunes were stolen by the original story’s heroine. The harder they work, the more miserable their lives become, while the heroine grows ever luckier! Blizzards bury the roads. Drought and famine leave corpses strewn everywhere. Lin Jiahe is sh 2.6kReads9.3Score37714d adds
40. 40 军 Sweet Military Marriage: The Pretty Army Wife Makes a Fortune in the 1980s 军婚甜蜜蜜：俏军嫂在八零赚麻了 Xing Yuyan邢毓晏Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted The short drama is now available Original title: Sweet Military Marriage: The Pretty Military Wife Makes a Fortune in the 1980s Zuo Jingyan had achieved financial independence and was ready to enjoy life as a wealthy, beautiful woman. Then a car accident sent her back to 1980, and things got off to a rocky start! She became a notorious nuisance, causing so much trouble that everyone in the compound avoided her. Her military husband was determined to d 21kReads9.5Score3.5k14d adds

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    The first book has positive values, a good-natured and opinionated female lead, and a loyal, upright, and responsible male lead. The plot is well-organized, the characters are vividly portrayed, and the details are plentiful! The second book is a refreshing read, with a female lead who is witty and sarcastic, and a handsome and charismatic male lead!

41. 41 七 The 1970s: Reclaiming My Luck, the Tycoon's Darling Wife Wins Without Lifting a Finger 七零：夺回气运，首富娇妻躺赢了 Azure Sea and Blue Sky碧海青天Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Satisfying, sweet, and feel-good + spatial powers] In her previous life, Lin Qianxue had her fortune stolen, and after her soul transmigrated, her family was destroyed within three years. When she opened her eyes again, she was back before everything had been taken from her. Refusing to be a sacrificial pawn, Lin Qianxue struck back and reclaimed it all. The rough-and-tough veteran Liu Zongzhen had a heavy fate, a fiery temper, and abundant vitality. He swiftly carried his petite wife home. Whe 34.7kReads9.2Score3.3k14d adds
42. 42 重 Reborn in the 1980s: I Won’t Marry an Officer, I’ll Marry a Rich Playboy 重生八零：不嫁军官，嫁纨绔 Wu Jiayunbei武家云北Modern Romance500k WordsCompleted [Devoted couple + sweet romance + pampered life as a wealthy family’s daughter-in-law in the 1980s] In her past life, Jiang Xianli was set up by her twin sister and married a man who married into wealth for his own benefit, while her sister took her place and married a spoiled rich heir. After the wedding, her husband was specially recruited into a military academy and rose through the ranks to become a senior officer. Jiang Xianli became the official’s wife whom every woman envied. But her sist 106.2kReads9.1Score6.2k14d adds
43. 43 八 The 1980s: A Beauty with Skin Like Jade Marries a Soldier and Raises a Child 八零凝脂美人，嫁个军人带带崽 Radish Rabbit Who Loves Cabbage爱吃白菜的萝卜兔Modern Romance521k WordsCompleted [Eighties setting + military marriage + seducing the man + sweet romance + marriage first, love later + heroine has experience, hero doesn't] She opens her eyes to find she's become the male lead's wicked aunt in a period novel. She abuses him and his younger sister, cheats on their stern uncle, and ultimately brings about her own death. Lu Manman, a breathtaking beauty with smooth, radiant skin, is determined to take it easy. All she wants is to go back home. Who knew her niece and nephew would 12.3kReads9.1Score1.3k14d adds
44. 44 赌 I Married My Crush's Cousin Out of Spite, and Had Triplets 赌气嫁给心上人的堂哥，我一胎生三宝 Thirty Moons叁拾月Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted After the man she loved got married, Lin Nuo married his cousin in a fit of anger. She obsessively monitored the couple's life until his wife became pregnant. Then Lin Nuo shoved her over, nearly causing a terrible accident. Reborn in the 1990s and faced with the same script, Lin Nuo only wants to gouge her eyes out. Her parents dote on her, her in-laws indulge her, and her older brother, a folksy tycoon, treats her like a princess. Even her college-student husband, who seemed to fade into the b 7.9kReads9.3Score97414d adds
45. 45 重 Back to the 1960s: Farming, Building a Fortune, and Raising the Kids 重回六零：种田发家养崽崽 Southern Lychee南方荔枝Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Transmigrating into the impoverished 1960s wasn’t scary. Becoming a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a book wasn’t scary either. What was scary was that her three stepsons would grow up to become major villains, and all of them, along with their upright, aloof father, would meet tragic ends. How could she let that happen? Lin Qinghe looked at the three future villains, none of whom was even ten years old, and made up her mind: changing a villain starts when they’re young! 3.8kReads9.0Score48914d adds
46. 46 刚 I Had Multiples Right After Joining the Army: The Easygoing Military Wife’s Good Fortune 刚随军就多胎，咸鱼媳妇好运来 Cute Little Mango可爱小芒果Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Completed] (1960s, military marriage, soldier king, daily life, multiple births, sweet romance, devoted couple) She transmigrates to the 1960s and becomes the village’s contrast to her older female cousin. Her cousin is clever, gentle, and virtuous, while she’s spoiled, arrogant, and big-busted but dim-witted. Jiang Qian, who arrives with a pocket dimension stocked full of supplies, thinks that’s no problem at all! When her blind date takes a liking to her cousin, apologizes to her, and then se 27.1kReads9.0Score3k14d adds
47. 47 七 The Plump Wife of the 1970s and the Reserved Educated Youth Tycoon 七零肥妻，禁欲知青是大佬 Man Qin满沁Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Su Xunwei is a renowned master chef, yet somehow she ends up in the body of a chubby village girl who was tricked by a scumbag in the 1970s. The moment she opens her eyes, she pins down a young educated man who has just been sent to the countryside and has her way with him. The scumbag breaks off their engagement, and the whole village insists she force the young educated man to marry her? No problem. That’s a piece of cake! With a spatula in her left hand and seasonings in her right, she’ll coo 7.6kReads9.1Score89914d adds
48. 48 七 Back to 1970 Before I Lost My Chastity: Husband, I Was Wrong 七零回到失去清白前，老公我错了 Shameless Young Master公子无耻Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Everyone in Yonggan Village knew that the newly arrived Shen Jiaojiao was a little temptress. She dressed in flashy clothes every day and chased after men. Later, a scumbag chopped off Shen Jiaojiao's legs, threw her in a basement, and tortured her until she wished she were dead. When she was critically ill, the man she'd personally sent to prison, Xu Mo, bought her for a million. Shen Jiaojiao thought Xu Mo had bought her to humiliate and torment her. But he put their past behind them, marri 15.1kReads9.2Score1.7k14d adds
49. 49 重 Back to the 1980s: Bringing My Family of Six to a Better Life 重回八零：带着全家六口过好日子 Yu Fu余弗Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The Gu family has no sons, only four daughters. Plenty of people in the village are waiting to laugh at them. But they wait and wait, only to watch the Gu family build a two-story house and buy a car. They hear the family has even bought a grand home in the capital. The Gu sisters are each more successful and more devoted to their parents than the last. The villagers: What are you waiting for? Go home and have daughters! After being reborn, Gu Siqing discovers that her sisters are nothing like t 86.6kReads9.4Score5.2k14d adds
50. 50 重 Reborn as a Top-Tier Star Heiress: The Rich Fight Over Me 重生商界顶流千金：豪门疯抢 Light-Sugar Jinjin微糖金金Modern Romance581k WordsCompleted [Revenge against scumbags + forced possession + reborn heroine + romantic rivals competing] [Sweet-faced, scheming seductress × unhinged heir / abstinent CEO / rugged military king / refined but depraved bureau chief / financial predator] [In her past life, she was abandoned by her own family, betrayed by the one she loved, and bullied and framed, until she lost her reputation and died with bitterness in her heart!] [Reborn in the year 2000, Li Muan returns from the ashes with memories steeped i 661Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Knowing the script is her biggest advantage. But she's not content to follow the rules; instead, she wants to use information asymmetry to break the existing framework and redefine the rules of the game for herself.

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