1940s Male-Oriented Stories With a Space and a System That Can Identify Enemy Spies and Help the Nation 40年代男频 有空间，有系统能鉴别敌特 帮助国家

1. 1 重 Reborn in 1940: The Red-Hot Era Begins with Fighting the Invaders 重生40，火红年代从杀鬼子开始 My Teacher's Last Name Is Yang我老师姓杨Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Gu Shanhe, a frail college student, is reborn in a parallel 1940 and becomes a six-year-old child. The Japanese invaders arrive, his parents go missing, and he is left to live with his second uncle's family. His second aunt despises him, and simply staying alive takes all his strength. Luckily, Gu Shanhe has the transmigrator's essential golden finger: a portable space. He's decided that once he's had a good meal, he'll celebrate by killing a Japanese soldier. Watch as a modern kid makes a color 21.3kReads7.6Score1.4kShelves
2. 2 双 Traveling Between Two Worlds to Fight in Korea, I Beat Up the Americans 双穿抗美援朝，我暴打美国佬 Trying to Stay Alive 999努力活着999Historical632k WordsOngoing In 2026, overworked wage slave Su Tianci gets his writing royalties. He plans to go out for a foot massage with the full-service treatment, as a reward for himself. But he never expects to open his eyes and transmigrate to a battlefield engulfed in war. There’s no water, medicine, or food. Fortunately, he can return to 2026. Two vastly different eras now lie before him. 24.7kReads7.2Score1.7kShelves

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3. 3 双 Crossing Between Two Worlds: From the Start in 1952, I Was Already a County-Level Cadre 双穿一九五二开局就是正科级 Good Luck Keeps Coming好运不断Urban443k WordsOngoing In 2026, Su Tianci accidentally transmigrated to the war-torn Korean battlefield. Fortunately, he had brought along a pocket dimension. The System grabbed a bucket and ran. To return to 2026, he had to reach the siheyuan. Two vast eras lay before him. 28.5kReads5.5Score1.6kShelves
4. 4 魂 My Soul Transmigrated to 1948 Beiping: Keeping My Head Down Is the Key to Survival 魂穿北平1948，苟住才是王道 Charlie Is Actually a Cat查理其实是只猫Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Period Novel + Light System + Pocket Dimension + Plundering Resources from Countries Around the World + One Heroine Li Shengli, a 32-year-old real estate agent, was hit by a passing minivan as he rushed toward a potential client. He thought, at least now he could scam them into buying him a big Land Rover. When he woke again, he found himself tied to a cross. The walls all around him were lined with bloodstained, ice-cold torture devices. A burly man beat him, and the intense pain made his blood 29kReads7.6Score2.9kShelves

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5. 5 穿 Transmigrated to 1942: From the Start, All I Have Is a Handful of Grass 穿越1942，开局一把草 Warm Sunshine in Spring春天里的暖阳Urban851k WordsCompleted During the Republic of China era, warlords run amok, foreign enemies invade, and natural disasters strike! When staying alive becomes a pipe dream, survival, and finding a way to live better, become the protagonist's only motivation. See how Hou Xiaoge, an older single man from the new century, transmigrates to the Republic of China and stirs up a storm. 17.3kReads8.4Score631Shelves
6. 6 1 1992: My Husband Wants to Sell Our Beijing Courtyard House for Ten Thousand Yuan 1992年，丈夫要一万元出售京城四合院 Yiyi一熠Modern Romance9k WordsCompleted In 1992, my husband insisted on selling our Beijing courtyard house for a paltry 10,000 yuan. I remembered how, in my previous life, he had deliberately delayed getting help while I was in labor for the sake of his so-called true love, causing me to die in childbirth. After being reborn, I agreed on the surface, but after the divorce I went and got the property deed. He borrowed money to start a business and made a fortune, then deliberately held his wedding to his true love in the courtyard hou 510Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 7 穿 Transmigrating to 1934 穿越从1934开始 Sweet Potato Baozai宝仔红薯Male-Channel Fanfiction1.0M WordsCompleted A modern man is accidentally brought by the System into the real world of Love in the Courtyard. It finds him a baby’s body and gives him a small pocket dimension as compensation, then leaves him to fend for himself. As a baby, he can only grow up slowly and struggle to survive in this turbulent era. 456Reads5.4Score105Shelves
8. 8 年 In Those Days, This Job Was Different 年代，这个编制不一样 Hu the Number One Scholar探花胡Urban2.3M WordsOngoing Ye Qiu nearly worked himself to death before finally landing a secure government job in 2025. The celebratory drinks hadn't even worn off when he opened his eyes again... Winter, 1949. The north wind whipped through his threadbare padded jacket. He had a new body and a new name: Feng Shijie. An illiterate man from the outskirts, with no food in his pockets. Luckily, fate had not abandoned him. His third uncle returned covered in blood and kicked him straight into the Subdistrict Office: “ 59.3kReads8.5Score5.2kShelves
9. 9 四 Siheyuan: Born into the World in 1937 四合院之胎穿1937 A Heart of Brick and Stone砖石的心Male-Channel Fanfiction1.2M WordsOngoing After a car accident, I was reborn in 1937. When I was nine, my parents sent me to live with a maternal uncle in the capital. From then on, I made my home there. I didn’t see my mother again until Beiping was liberated. (I have a small pocket dimension, but I rarely use it. It only comes in handy during difficult times.) 7.7kReads6.7Score169Shelves
10. 10 四 The 1940s: Using My Pocket Dimension to Strip My Landlord Father Bare 四十年代，用空间掏空地主老爹 Why Are You Snatching Yaoyao, Wild One?抢瑶瑶野干嘛Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Miao Chu, an e-commerce supervisor, collapsed at her desk in the middle of the night after staying late to work on a PowerPoint presentation and analyze data. When she opened her eyes, she found herself reclining with her legs crossed on an ornately carved canopy bed. Well, would you look at that! She’d transmigrated into the youngest daughter of a wealthy landlord family in the 1940s! Before she could enjoy her rich life, the Japanese were already coming to raid the place! Looking at the fa 16.1kReads8.0Score1.4kShelves
11. 11 1 1942: Hunting My Way to a Comfortable Life 1942，我靠打猎丰衣足食 Everyone Step Aside, Let This Daoist Handle It都退后让贫道来Urban1.0M WordsCompleted A modern shut-in transmigrates to the famine-stricken year of 1942, when every household lacks food and clothing, and even cornmeal buns are scarce. Yet he makes a comfortable living by hunting, enjoying lavish meals of fish, meat, rice, and fluffy white steamed buns every day. The men think he can’t even farm and is completely useless! The women think he’s capable and knows just what to say! The children think he’s a wonderful person. He always tells them stories and gives them candy! Candy 3.3kReads6.2Score109Shelves
12. 12 搬 She Cleared Out the Family Fortune and Joined Her Husband at His Military Post 搬空家产，资本家小姐去部队随军 Spring Breeze from the Western Regions西域春风Modern Romance603k WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Period Setting + Capitalist Heiress + Pocket Dimension + Face-Slapping the Scum] When Qin Yuening woke up and found herself in unfamiliar surroundings, she thought she had transmigrated into a period novel and become the ill-fated stepsister of its pampered heroine. Her scumbag father had just tricked her out of the family fortune left to her by Old Master Qin, and her wicked stepmother immediately signed her up to be sent to the countryside. As she was leaving, her father e 7.9kReads8.2Score890Shelves

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    The female protagonist has a keen eye and can tell which one is the enemy spy.

13. 13 谍 Espionage: I Pose as a Japanese Officer in Enemy-Occupied Territory 谍战：我在敌占区扮演鬼子军官 Fists in Kindergarten拳打幼儿园Urban2.1M WordsCompleted [This novel has a System, with no more than ten uses] [Large cast] [Espionage + business warfare + nation-stealing] The novel has three volumes: [The Mainland Arc] Mainly follows the protagonist's rise and development. [Siam Arc] Portrays the Japanese military in the later stages of the war from Siam's perspective. [Japan Arc] Begins at Chapter 648 and mainly focuses on postwar Japan. Many readers consider this part the highlight. Lin Zhiyuan is Hengdian's best-known actor for playing Japanese 135.4kReads8.7Score17.5kShelves

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    [Got it][Thumbs up][Please follow] The plot and characters are both good. 1. The male lead is a spy; he's daring and his actions are incredibly powerful. 2. The female lead is building a base.

14. 14 1 1938: From the Start, It's Hell 1938：开局地狱 Dream of a Winter Night冬夜之梦Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Patriotic tale + wartime resistance and espionage + multiple identities + strong female lead + System + no romance After Kong Qianrou dies by accident, she transmigrates to the Republican era. She knows how to choose between dying right away or waiting a little longer to die. Looking at a land torn apart, she wears an innocent expression as she takes up the butcher's blade, becoming someone who strikes terror into the Japanese. On the outside, the protagonist is a Republican-era Lin Daiyu. In re 17kReads9.1Score2.2kShelves
15. 15 我 I Solve Cases to Put Food on the Table 我靠破案养家糊口 Empty Words in a Dream梦中的虚语Male-Channel Fanfiction1.2M WordsCompleted Reborn in 1958, I moved into Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. Did I transmigrate into a TV drama or transmigrate into a book? Good thing I have so many buffs stacked that I don't have to spend all day playing family power games in one little courtyard! 5.2kReads9.3Score571Shelves

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    The protagonist has a system and transmigrates into a courtyard full of birds. He solves cases, helps the country catch enemy spies, and lets the birds in the courtyard experience the allure of power.

16. 16 间 The Spy's Daily Life After the System Dumped Me in Republican-Era China 【被系统坑到民国的】间谍日常 Listening to Rain in the Night Wind夜风听雨Urban1.3M WordsCompleted An ordinary office worker gets a System, but before she can enjoy any of its benefits, it dumps her into a parallel-world version of Republican-era China. That's where her life as a spy begins. From an ordinary field operative to an undercover agent, from a regular spy to a triple agent, she goes from reluctant to willing, writing her own legend in the great metropolis of Shanghai... Check out the new book next door: The Village Girl, the Grand Diviner, also known as After Getting a Puppet Space 45.9kReads9.5Score4.8kShelves

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    This is pretty good.

17. 17 她 She Has the Nation at Her Back. Why Mess with Her? 她背靠国家，你惹她干嘛 Mu Qiyao幕七尧Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Military marriage + entertainment industry + turning over the System + national darling + sweet romance + both leads are inexperienced in love, one-on-one Making a wish at Yonghe Temple doesn’t work. Just after winning the Best Director award, Chi Qingyu falls into a sewer, transmigrates into a book, and gets bound to an interstellar System. System: Dear, you’ll get rewards for completing missions! Chi Qingyu calmly takes out her phone: Hello? 110? I’d like to turn myself and the System in. Late 16.8kReads9.0Score1.7kShelves

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    Super super super super super super super super good-looking

18. 18 穿 After I Transmigrated, I Leaned on the Nation and Became Everyone's Favorite 穿越后找国家爸爸做靠山成团宠 Qing's Shadow清的影子Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted After countless people posted online, “If the great scientists of the 1970s hadn’t died young, Huaguo would be the world’s greatest nation,” their words caught the attention of the Main God. So Ruan Ruan, from the twenty-second century, is chosen by the Main God to transmigrate back to the Ruan family in the 1970s and binds herself to a rescue System. Upon transmigrating, Ruan Ruan gains a golden finger: the great national leaders can hear her thoughts within two meters, while she can hear the t 455Reads7.5Score101Shelves
19. 19 穿 Delivering Supplies Across the Sixties, I Help the Nation Guard Its Borders 穿梭六零送物资，我帮国家守边疆 Ji Azhai纪阿宅Modern Romance333k WordsCompleted [Era setting + time travel + stockpiling + sweet romance + satisfying revenge] Li Xue, an overworked office worker, was moved to tears by the book Memoirs of a Veteran, grieving for the hero and lamenting his tragic fate. That very night, the bathroom in her home turned into a portal. Whenever she opened the door, she could enter the room of Zhou Huaimin, a hero living in the 1960s. Learning that soldiers and civilians along the border were facing famine, Li Xue, a stockpiling expert, became a m 640Reads8.9Score—Shelves
20. 20 六 The 1960s: One Yuan for a Thousandfold Return on Supplies 六零年代：一元秒杀万倍物资 Flavorful Coffee Beans风味咖啡豆Urban676k WordsCompleted [This novel has been adapted into the short drama Brave Adventures in the 1960s] Li Changge transmigrates to the 1960s and gets a One-Yuan Instant Purchase System. Ten thousand jin of pork belly for one yuan? Bought! A hundred jin of duck down for one yuan? Bought! Ten thousand briquettes for one yuan? Bought! Ten thousand barrels of Yibao mineral water for one yuan? Bought! While everyone else struggles to get by, Li Changge lives the good life, and young women and married ladies keep showi 12.8kReads8.1Score870Shelves
21. 21 四 Siheyuan: Absorbing Bang Geng's Luck to Extend My Life from the Start 四合院：开局吸取棒梗气运来续命 Online Courtesy礼上网睐Male-Channel Fanfiction1.6M WordsCompleted [Siheyuan courtyard · Period setting · System · Pocket dimension · One heroine · Enemy spies...] (Also known as Siheyuan: I Join the National Investigation Department at Eight and Siheyuan: I Absorb Bang Geng's Luck from the Start to Prolong My Life) Mei Wenhua, an overworked laborer, exhausts himself rescuing someone from the water and transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan courtyards, where he activates the System. He gains the ability to absorb and plunder people's luck. As long as some 11.1kReads7.9Score504Shelves
22. 22 空 A Pocket Dimension: After Dying of Illness, I Arrived in the 1940s 空间：病死后来到了四十年代 A Road of Blossoming Flowers一路繁花盛开Modern Romance809k WordsCompleted Just a few years after graduating from college, Gu Wanyue went to the big city of Shanghai to work. She earned five thousand yuan a month, yet still sent half of it back home. Because of hardships she endured in childhood, she developed stomach cancer. Then, in a dream, she saw the life of a young girl in an era ravaged by war, when all industries were waiting to be rebuilt. It was also the era in which she would embark on her own journey. 96Reads8.3Score147Shelves
23. 23 五 Retirement in the 1950s: The System Helps Me Lie Flat at the State Council 五零养老：系统带我躺平政务院 Zero Existence零存在Modern Romance463k WordsCompleted In 1955, Wen Shuyan, a top student in Yenching University's Chinese Department, was assigned to the North China Bureau Archives through her family's ties to an “old revolutionary.” She became the most laid-back female cadre in the entire office, spending her days copying old documents and organizing archive cabinets, then clocking out on time without ever working overtime. On her first day, the [Retired Cadre System] suddenly activated: “Ding! Task complete: ‘Organize the First Cabinet of Archiv 274Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 24 夫 A Couple with Steady Jobs in the 1950s 夫妻俩在五十年代端金饭碗 Nuan Xiao Bai暖晓白Modern Romance696k WordsCompleted Dear readers, since this is a period story, the author has looked up much of the historical data online. I don’t make up figures unless I can’t find the answers online. Sometimes there are several answers, so I choose the one that seems most reasonable. Lin Wanyu and Bai Ye grew up relying on each other in an orphanage in their previous lives. Because a soul collector took the wrong person, they both died in a car accident. They spent ten years together as mortgage debtors, from the day they mar 5.7kReads8.3Score280Shelves
25. 25 穿 I Transmigrate to the 1940s and Make Waves with My Space 穿越四零，我靠空间兴风作浪 Yellow Sand, Heart in Sorrow黄沙心悲凉Modern Romance832k WordsCompleted [Alternate-History Power Fantasy] + [Strong Female Lead] + [War of Resistance Against Japan] Zhuang Jingzhu, a PhD who had returned from overseas, died alongside the ringleaders of a criminal gang to avenge her father. She transmigrated to another world much like Earth, where a great famine was raging and the entire nation was fighting back against the Japanese. Using her spatial ability, she cleared out Japanese weapon depots, grain stores, and hospitals, seized supplies to support the resistan 11kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
26. 26 1 1959: With an Achievement System, She Throws Herself into the Grind 1959：携带成就系统，她卷了 Dream of a Winter Night冬夜之梦Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted This novel has been adapted into the short drama Sixies Technology's Glory. A stirring, inspirational, patriotic story, featuring a heroine who grows over time, strong values, smart characters all around, a one-on-one romance, love that develops over time, and plenty of humor. Du Yimeng only wants enough to eat and warm clothes in an era of scarcity. But after seeing the deep love others have for their country, she is gradually moved by their example and joins the fight for her nation. She wield 38kReads9.3Score3.5kShelves
27. 27 穿 Transmigrated Into a 1940s Book: From the Start, It's Just Me, My Little Sister, and a Baby Fleeing for Our Lives 穿书四零：开局就剩妹妹带娃逃命 Cute Little Mahua麻花小萌Modern Romance3.6M WordsOngoing High school student Jiang Jiyun was innocently caught in the crossfire while watching an incident out of curiosity, then transmigrated to an era torn apart by war. It was the setting of a historical novel she had read, where she became a nameless passerby who was killed off without ever appearing in the story. From the start, Japanese soldiers swept through the countryside, massacring the entire village. After burying the original owner’s mother, Jiang Jiyun set out with the child entrusted to h 14.7kReads9.1Score1kShelves
28. 28 穿 Transmigrating to the 1940s: The Landlord's Son and the Bandit's Daughter 穿越四零：地主儿子与土匪闺女 Happy Salted Fish开心的咸鱼Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Completed] [1940s] [Husband and wife both transmigrate] [Husband becomes a woman] [Wife becomes a man] At the edge of a cliff: “Wife, let go!” Chen Yiqiao is sprawled over the edge of the cliff, one arm wrapped around a large rock at the top while one hand clutches Chen Bing's hand tightly, refusing to let go. “No! If we live, we live together. If we die, we die together!” Feeling Chen Yiqiao's body slowly slipping lower, Chen Bing panics. “Wife! Let go! I want you to live!” “Shut up! I said, i 22.2kReads9.4Score2kShelves
29. 29 穿 Transmigrating to the 1950s: The Allure of the Family Tree 穿越五零：族谱的诱惑 Poor Sanqi!贫穷的三七呀！Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Military marriage + sweet romance + academic ace + building the nation + past and present lives + everyday rural life + raising children + transmigrate into a book + cannon fodder + pocket dimension + joining the family register This story is an extremely slow burn, with a leisurely, sweet romance at its heart. A few things to know: 1. The heroine is a food-loving star traveler from three thousand years in the future. When she first arrives on Earth, she may be a little clueless. 2. The System i 2.2kReads8.9Score166Shelves
30. 30 叶 Ye Xiaoman in the 1950s 叶小满在五零年代 Life in Progress生活进行时Modern Romance403k WordsCompleted After Liu Xiaonuan dies, she transmigrates into the body of a seven-year-old girl in the 1950s. The girl is named Ye Xiaoman, a first-year student at the children’s school attached to the Binjiang City Machinery Factory. She has two older brothers and an older sister, and is the youngest in the family. Her father, Ye Shoucheng, is the foreman in the machinery factory’s repair shop, and her mother, Cai Dafeng, works for the factory union. 3.8kReads7.2Score390Shelves
31. 31 5 The 1950s: I Help Build the World 50年代之我为世界添砖加瓦 Mint Fragrance薄荷清香Modern Romance338k WordsCompleted Zhang Nuannuan considers herself a warmhearted person. Wherever she goes, she helps the people there, never asking for anything in return. She just doesn't understand why none of the countries she's visited welcome her back! Is she not gentle enough? Does she have a bad temper? Is she not kind enough? They could just tell her! It's not like she can't change! She, Zhang Nuannuan, was born to shine her light on the world and make it a better place! Please call her Little Fairy, thank you! 1.3kReads8.8Score145Shelves
32. 32 五 The 1950s: The Family's Beloved Child Takes a Grain Shop Through the Famine 五零团宠，带着粮铺混饥荒 llx Flying Fishllx飞鱼Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [For female readers] [Period] [Spatial storage] [Famine] [Family darling] [Everyday family life] [Slice of life] [Dual transmigration] [Coming of age] [Reincarnated in the womb] [Alternate historical setting] [A black pot falls from the sky: transmigrate to the 1950s and become the family’s darling] When Zhao Suisui returned home for the New Year, she passed her aunt’s grain shop. Her aunt had something urgent to do and asked her to mind the store. Just as she was lying on a rocking chair, watch 24.5kReads9.2Score2.4kShelves
33. 33 带 Back to the 1950s with My Pocket Dimension 带着空间回到五十年代 Mu Zhen木甄Modern Romance1.8M WordsCompleted After waking up, Lin Xuechun discovered that she had become smaller. She wasn’t in a hospital bed, but had woken up in a large vintage American-style bed. After waking up, Luo Kaiming also found that he had become smaller. He wasn’t in a hospital bed either, but had woken up on a narrow military cot. The two had been married in the modern world. When a neighbor’s improper construction work caused an explosion, they were caught in it. When they woke up again, they realized something was wrong. Th 1.2kReads7.7Score109Shelves
34. 34 穿 Transmigrate to the 1950s: Starting by Leaving a Mountain Village 穿越五十年代：从走出小山村开始 Salty Fish Liver咸鱼肝Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [A delightfully ordinary young man + everyday life + college entrance exams + hard work + one heroine] Just as Zhou Xingran's life was getting back on track, he suddenly transmigrated to a remote mountain village in the 1950s. His father doesn't care for him, his mother doesn't love him, and his family is dirt-poor. No matter. Relying on others is worse than relying on himself. So, first things first: he might as well get into college! P.S. The golden finger is very minor. The protagonist mainly 13.4kReads8.9Score700Shelves
35. 35 重 I Was Reborn in the 1950s 重生到五十年代的我 Yu Mei语妺Modern Romance799k WordsOngoing My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 36 双 Twin Rivers: Bloodbath in Republican-Era Shanghai 双川民国之沪上血战 Good Luck Keeps Coming好运不断Urban2.6M WordsOngoing Su Tianci has spent 25 years as a working stiff. After leaving the military, he has the job he earned stolen by someone with power and influence. His attempts to seek justice come to nothing, and with the other side's overwhelming influence, he has no choice but to become a delivery driver. Who could have guessed that while performing a good deed, he'd be struck by a heavy truck and sent straight to the Republican era? Then his transmigration golden finger turns out to let him travel between the 172Reads7.2Score149Shelves

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    Blood test for kinship: May all your wishes come true

37. 37 双 A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金 Striving to Stay Alive8888努力活着8888Urban3.3M WordsOngoing Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More 532Reads7.7Score135Shelves
38. 38 两 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Red-Hot Years 两界穿梭之火红年代 Trying to Stay Alive 999努力活着999Urban2.9M WordsOngoing Li Xiaren is an ordinary office worker, trudging through grueling days that start at eight in the morning and end at midnight. One day, after finally getting several months of back pay, he plans to give himself a well-deserved break. Who could have guessed that eating a grilled kidney for no apparent reason would send him back to the 1970s when he woke up? Luckily, he discovers he can return to 2025, and so two completely different eras open up before him!!! 254Reads7.6Score101Shelves
39. 39 在 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Strive for Happiness努力幸福Urban1.5M WordsOngoing Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 7.6kReads5.8Score316Shelves
40. 40 两 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The 1970s 两界穿梭之七零年代 Trying to Stay Alive2努力活着2Urban3.2M WordsOngoing Wu Xiaoyao is a working-class nobody, a corporate drudge who likes to unwind by grilling skewers and letting loose whenever he has a bit of free time. But an out-of-control dump truck sends him hurtling back to the fiery age of the 1970s. What surprises him is that he can travel back and forth between the seventies and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before him. 131Reads7.6Score—Shelves
41. 41 穿 Transmigrating to the 1980s, I Became a Tycoon After Returning Home 穿越80，当回国神豪 Trying to Stay Alive 999努力活着999Urban294k WordsCompleted When his family's old house was slated for demolition, Lin Yuan returned to sort through their belongings. By chance, he discovered a bronze tiger tally and accidentally transmigrated to the 1980s. Two vastly different eras now lay before him. 851Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The scene of the two armies facing off looks pretty good.

42. 42 在 The Tycoon Who Went Undercover in 1980s China 在80伪装回国的神豪 Strive for Happiness努力幸福Historical188k WordsCompleted The protagonist is Su Tianci. By chance, he used the pocket watch his grandfather left behind to transmigrate back to 1983. The pocket watch could take him back and forth between the vastly different eras of 2025 and 1983, opening up a whole new world before him… 6Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 43 两 A Trader Between Two Worlds: From 1983 to 2025 两界倒爷：从1983到2025 Trying to Stay Alive2努力活着2Urban353k WordsCompleted Su Tianci was a street punk in 1983 who suddenly transmigrated to 2025. From nylon stockings, digital watches, and clothing to starting companies and building factories... 226Reads—Score—Shelves
44. 44 我 The Eighth Book by My Fate Is Mine 我命由我不的第8本书 My Fate Is Mine, Not Heaven's我命由我不由天地Modern Romance207k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Sweet Romance + Strong, No-Nonsense Heroine + Married First, Love Later] Su Ran, the “Little Pepper” no one dares cross at the machinery factory, can take apart and reassemble anything with her skillful hands. Just as she is about to be promoted to senior engineer, an official notice from her workplace leaves her stunned: You are married, and you have a record of abandoning your husband and eloping. Your file contains a serious blemish! Su Ran is furious. She is an independent 498Reads8.5Score—Shelves
45. 45 穿 Before My Whole Family Was Sent to the Countryside, I Took My Child and Ran 穿到全家下乡前，我带娃跑路了 Cream Cake Frosting奶油蛋糕酱Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Soul transmigration to the 1960s + pocket dimension + raising a child + sweet romance + both leads are devoted only to each other] Shu Yao thought someone must have put a curse on her. In her dreams, she saw another version of herself live a miserable life: when her husband was sent away for reeducation, she abandoned him and their child, then married a divorced man with a child of his own, only to become his unpaid nanny. Unable to take it anymore, she jumped into a river. The one who buried h 38.4kReads8.1Score5.6kShelves
46. 46 穿 Transmigrate into a Book in the 1970s, and My Best Friend's Big Brother Spoils Me Rotten 穿书七零，闺蜜大哥把我宠上天 Slacking-Off Director摸鱼总监Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The short drama and comic drama are now available. [Period Setting + Both Transmigrate into Books + Swapped Marriages + Fertile Woman X Infertile Man] After staying up all night reading a novel, Xia Zhi dies suddenly. When she wakes up, she discovers she’s become the male lead’s first wife, who dies young, in the period novel she was just reading! And, as luck would have it, her best friend An Xiaoxiao has become her sworn enemy, the vicious female villain! “Xiaxia, are you really going to marry 1.5kReads7.8Score212Shelves
47. 47 双 Dual Transmigration to the 1960s: A Prosperous Nation and Strong People 双穿六零之国富民强 Strive for Happiness努力幸福Male-Channel Fanfiction133k WordsOngoing In 2025, Su Tianci was just another overworked wage slave. He ate a roujiamo at Red Romance, then opened his eyes to find himself back in that fiery era. What’s more, he had somehow become a wanted criminal. See how Su Tianci fares with the System’s help: will he be doomed from the start, or turn danger into safety? 295Reads—Score—Shelves

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    309 Tianjin

48. 48 双 Dual Crossing to Republican-Era China: A Blood Sacrifice to the Land 双穿民国之，血祭山河 Strive for Happiness努力幸福Urban184k WordsOngoing Su Tianci is an ordinary office drone from 2025. To make ends meet, he joins a film crew shooting short dramas. Who could have guessed that he would lose his footing and fall into a deep pit? When he opens his eyes again, he has transmigrated to 1937, a year engulfed in war. Fortunately, he has a portal that lets him travel back and forth between this war-torn era and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before Su Tianci… 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
49. 49 两 Invincible Between Two Worlds 两界穿梭之无敌 Trying to Stay Alive 999努力活着999Urban177k WordsOngoing Wu Xiaoyao was an ordinary wage slave. To survive in this damnable era, he had no choice but to go abroad and become a mercenary, risking his life for a living so his family could have an easier life. Who could have guessed that, through a twist of fate, he would transmigrate back to the late 1970s? See how Wu Xiaoyao, equipped with the golden finger every transmigrator needs, makes a name for himself in that red-hot era! 653Reads—Score—Shelves
50. 50 两 Trading Between Two Worlds in 1983: A Tycoon Rises 两界倒贩1983巨鳄崛起 Trying to Stay Alive2努力活着2Urban500k WordsOngoing Destitute Su Tianci accidentally transmigrates from 1983 to 2025, an age of soaring economic growth. Two vastly different eras now lie before him: one wad of bills from 1983 can be exchanged for over a hundred thousand, while an electronic watch from 1983 costs only a few bucks in 2025... 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A truly overwhelming feeling

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