Looking for a More Realistic Story Set in a Past Era, Nothing Too Exaggerated, With Sensible Characters 年代文现实一点,不要太夸张,有脑子一点
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Wrongly Married in 1975: The Rugged Man and the Sophisticated Beauty 错嫁1975:糙汉与御姐
[Period setting + military marriage + marriage first, love later + farming + cuisine] [Realistic and down-to-earth + slice of life + light comedy + heartwarming] Qiao Yujie, a 34-year-old elite doctor. During the Qingming tomb-sweeping festival, she bowed nine times to her ancestors, and five thousand strings of firecrackers burned to ash Then she was gone. When she opened her eyes again, it was 1975, and she was being "packed off" to marry a man in a military district. Her fiancé had gone fro
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After My Love Was Stolen, I Overturned My Fate by Eavesdropping on the Transmigrator's Thoughts 被抢对象后,偷听穿越女心声逆袭
[Alternate 1970s setting + one-on-one romance, both leads pure + subverting expectations + face-slapping the transmigrator + fighting the System + female growth + building wealth through hard work] (PS: The female lead is a native of the story world with a golden finger, while the supporting female character is a transmigrator with a System.) Luo Xiaoyu realized that her older sister was acting very strangely! She had a perfectly good life in the city, yet she insisted on coming to the country
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Back to the 1980s: Turning My Life Around Through Fishing and Hunting 重回80年代,靠渔猎跑山逆袭
Back at the age of twenty, he's known throughout the village as a no-good loafer. But no one knows he's returned carrying the regrets and memories of his previous life. He catches and sells fish, hunts in the mountains, and earns his first fortune through hard work. Before the flood hits, he even issues an early warning and organizes an evacuation, saving countless lives. From the village to the county, from small-time trading to grand strategies... In this life, he won't just clear his name. He
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Reborn in 1990: Escaping My Toxic Family from the Start 重生90开局逃离原生家庭
[One heroine] After being reborn, I hadn't even had time to enjoy my new life before Qian Lao saw through my identity when I predicted the breakup of the Soviet Union. This is so hard… I start a media company and recruit Liming and Huang Jiaju to take on the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment industries… Then I do everything I can to find the love of my previous life. In this life, I'll live for her…
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Transmigrated to the 1960s, the Young Educated Woman Is Spoiled by Her Older Lover 穿越六零,小知青被大叔狠狠宠爱
Su Qingge unexpectedly arrives in the 1960s, alone in the world. By a twist of fate, she meets Shen Chaozong, who protects and loves her. Every day, every chapter is full of affection and sweetness. There are also plenty of stories about life and its many different faces, along with tales of rural life. Come and read! This isn’t a power fantasy about an all-conquering heroine. It’s about a laid-back girl who wins by doing nothing.
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The CEO Is Reborn: Back in 1984 as a Technician 总裁重生:回到1984当技术员
[Rebirth + female CEO + taking on a state-owned industrial giant + changing her fate] Wei Yumei, an iconic designer in China's high-end fashion industry and CEO of Yunqifang, is reborn, returning to 1984 and the place that changed her destiny after she left: Nanfeng Silk Spinning Mill! Armed with memories of her past life and secrets gathered from the Nanfeng Silk Spinning Mill Museum, she enters an era when the planned economy and market forces coexist. For her parents, her boyfriend, and the m
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Reborn in the 1950s: Granny Guan’s Comeback Against the Odds 重生五零:关老太的逆风翻盘
(Slow-paced + reborn in a bygone era + strong heroine + winning back his wife + getting rich) Nearly eighty-year-old Grandma Guan was reborn, returning to 1951, when she was seventeen. In her previous life, she had always played the role of a good daughter, a good wife, and a good mother. For her family, she gave up more and more of herself, spending her whole life caught up in the daily grind, until she finally died in agony from cancer. Now that she had been given another chance at life, sh
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I Put My Childhood Bride Through College, and Now She Wants to Dump Me 供童养媳上大学,毕业就想甩夫君
[Love family + Patriotism + Chaoshan 1988] "I want to break off the engagement!" He said: "Okay, let's consummate the marriage." A rough man from rural Chaozhou hugged his beautiful girl overnight, but he didn't expect that the beautiful girl ran away the next day! He chased Guangzhou Newspaper, University of Munich in Germany, Xi'an Mecha Research Institute, Jiangmen Mecha Experimental Base, and Dahao Undersea Tunnel Mecha Experimental Base! The entanglement of love cost her her life! The conne
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Life on an Island: A Military Wife Raising Kids in the Old Days 年代,军嫂养娃海岛生活
[1970s + Military Marriage + Special Abilities + Raising Kids + Food + Medicine] Han Shuang transmigrates from the 1970s to the apocalypse. She thinks she’ll never make it back, but unexpectedly transmigrates back again, now with a pocket dimension and a wood-based ability. Using the supplies she gathered during the apocalypse and her wood-based ability, Han Shuang makes it through the hard times. With a big one in one arm and a little one in the other, she raises the brothers to be chubby and r
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The Crazy Girl’s Rugged Husband Isn’t Human 疯批丫头的糙汉老公非人类
[Transmigration + spatial powers + poison doctor + both leads are sexually inexperienced + unhinged romance] Beauty-loving enchantress VS a lovesick, nonhuman roughneck. She was a celebrated genius in the world of finance. An heir to the Thirteen Needles of the Ghost Doctor. A big shot who ruled the dark web hacking scene. Who could have guessed that on the carefully chosen day she planned to lose her virginity, she’d accidentally transmigrate to 1975? She became a dark, fat, pitifully ugly girl
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Reborn With a Pocket Dimension: The Superpowered Medicine Master and the Strongest Soldier King 重生空间,异能药师VS最强兵王
Reborn + space + special abilities + mutually devoted romance + stone gambling Hacker, beautiful pharmacist, military-family heiress vs. the mightiest soldier king For thirty-five years, her parents kept her under their thumb. They arranged for her to donate bone marrow to her cousin, causing her to miss the high school entrance exam. She became their favorite target for bullying. Every chore in the house, big or small, was dumped on her, and whenever anyone was in a bad mood, beatings and insul
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The Doomsday Survivor Transmigrates into a Pitiful Bride in the 1960s 末世苟王穿成六零替嫁小可怜
(Transmigration + period setting + both virgins + pocket dimension + military marriage) She was the most vengeful survivor in the apocalypse, but after someone close to her grievously wounded her, they threw her into a horde of zombies. She was the sidekick to the eldest daughter of the Qian family in the capital. Just because she was pretty, they poisoned her and deliberately fed her hormones, turning her into a fat, ugly scapegoat. Now the apocalypse’s most vengeful survivor has transmigrated
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The 1980s: I Transmigrate into a Book and Become a Model of Morality 穿书八零,贪财女配成了道德模范
The score is finally in and still rising! Thanks to everyone for your reviews. [1980s Setting + Transmigrate Into a Book + Sweet Romance + Building Wealth + Marriage First, Love Later] She transmigrates into a novel set in the 1980s as the wicked female supporting character: in debt, lazy, and hated by her whole family. The original owner has such a terrible reputation that she’s always trying to take advantage of others. The neighbors despise her, and even her new husband treats her coldly. Xia
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Reborn in 1990: Dazzling Jewels Beneath the Sea of Stars 重生90,珠光宝气踏星河
Su Wan was a renowned jewelry appraiser and designer in her previous life, but after trusting the wrong people, her business partners took her assets and stole her designs. She ultimately died with regrets in an accident. Reborn in 1995, just after graduating from high school and at a time when her family was of modest means, she brings decades of professional expertise, market insight, and memories of her connections from her previous life. Determined to change her fate, she sets out to build a
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The Seventh Door of Mother 妈妈的第七扇门
For a long time, I never understood my mother’s past. This was the first time I had looked so deeply back on her life: one generation of women interpreting another. In the 1990s, my eighteen-year-old mother left a small mountain village in Nanyang and headed alone for the glittering city. A scrap of gum wrapper brought her face to face with the calamity of her life: Liu Dawang. And so the door to her fate opened. She made a living in urban villages and hotpot restaurants, leaning on her best fr
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Transmigrating to the 1970s: The One-Shot System Takes Me to New Heights 穿越七零:秒杀系统带我飞
The rating just came out, so it’ll go up later! 1970: I Have a Golden Finger and a Maxed-Out Family Ding! Your limited-time flash-sale System has been bound! Wen Jingshu, an English major in graduate school in 2024, was halfway through studying for the civil service exam when she transmigrated. When she woke up, she’d become a graduate student in trade and economics in 1970. Her father was a police bureau chief, her mother a section chief at the agricultural bureau, her eldest brother a battalio
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90: Reborn, I Let My Husband Go and Pursued My Career, Then Married an Army Doctor 90:重生让出老公搞事业嫁军医
[Rebirth] + [Historical era] + [Mutual devotion] + [Military marriage] + [No pocket dimension] + [Wife-chasing] + [No doormat heroine] After ten years of long-distance marriage, Bai Yulan is still divorced. Her children are taken away by her ex-husband, who has made a fortune in business after going south. At last, she lives to see her son graduate with a doctorate and land a good job, only for him to ask her to look after his child. She works herself to death. When Bai Yulan opens her eyes, she
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The 1970s Villainess: I Stole a Tough Guy and Made Him My Devoted Husband 70恶女,我抢糙汉变娇妻
[Transmigrate into a Book + Historical Era + Educated Youth + College Entrance Exams Resume + System + Devoted Couple] The day He Nianyun transmigrated into a book was the very day the scumbag Cheng Xiangdong and his dream girl, Li Man, schemed to steal her worker-peasant-soldier college recommendation and ruin her reputation. In her previous life, she’d been infatuated with the scumbag, gladly handed over her recommendation, gave up her teaching job, and spent twenty-five years as an unpaid nan
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The South Wind Knows My Heart, and I’ll Never Walk Alone Again 南风知我意,从此不孤行
Some people say dandelion seeds look like pretty little parachutes, drifting lightly in the breeze, utterly romantic. But Xu Nanfeng thinks they look more like homeless children, wandering everywhere with nowhere to settle. Just like her: no real kin, no true friends, arriving without a ripple and leaving without a sound. There's an old saying: you reap what you sow. But I, Xu Nanfeng, refuse to believe it. I'll grow into the very person you all thought I could never become! Nanfeng knows my hea
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Somebody Somewhere in the Crowd 行走在人海中的某某某
There is only one true heroism in the world: to see life as it is and still love it. Whether it’s the wind blowing through a valley, clouds drifting over the sea, poplar trees by the roadside, foxtail grass on a hillside, or people, Zhao Xiaoqiu thinks they’re all much the same, aren’t they?
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I Still Have My Memories, Too 我也还是有记忆的
(Fictional setting! Fictional setting! Please don't compare this to reality!) History's number one scapegoat, Xu Duoduo, has grievances she can't voice. When disaster comes from heaven, it can still be avoided. When you bring disaster upon yourself, there's no escaping it. So what if life is hard? If you can stomach eating bitter greens, you can do anything. I'll give it my all! Come watch a post-2000s girl living the '50s version of a wild-vegetable-foraging life. Let's go!
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Transmigrate into a Book: A Life Swap with the Villainess in the 1970s 穿书70和女配的交换人生
Transmigrated into a Book in the 1970s: Sweet Fake Siblings, Officer, Stay Away [By-the-Book, Adorably Stiff Young Officer vs. Bootlicking Girl with the Soul of a 38-Year-Old in an 18-Year-Old’s Body]|No Vicious Rival Female|No Intense Conflict|A Gentle, Slow-Burning Romance|Please Don’t Read If It’s Not Your Thing Lin Xiaoran had lived for thirty-six years. When her husband fell victim to a scam, she passed out in a fit of rage. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself in an unfamiliar
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Transmigrating to the Seventies: The Young Educated Youth Is Dumbfounded 穿越七零,小知青她懵圈了
(Everyday life of sent-down youth, not a strong female lead, a touch of an ensemble cast, unhurried pacing, with a couple) Gu Xiaoman, from the twenty-first century, dies suddenly after getting drunk while celebrating landing a job. She wakes up aboard a green-painted train carrying sent-down youth in the 1970s. No space, no System, no golden finger, and not even the original owner’s memories. She’s definitely the most wretched transmigrant in history, with none of the usual perks. Good heavens!
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The Strongest Clan: No One in the Yu Family Backs Down 最强家族:郁家无怂人
Yu Yu thinks the sky has fallen. She turns out to be the fake heiress. The real heiress is coming in hot. What should she do? Sniffle, Dad, are you still going to care about me? Oh, good. As long as you still do. Boohoo, Big Brother, you can't treat her better than me. Fine, I won't. And just like that, the sky clears again. In a turbulent era, great families struggle to survive. The Yu family alone stands firm, unyielding! When family members scheme and the world turns ruthless, the Yu fami
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The Award-Winning Nanny Reborn with a Professor's Book Collection! 金牌保姆带教授藏书重生啦!
[Reborn + family bonds + everyone’s favorite + healing + mystery] The main story is complete, with some bonus chapters in the works. Feel free to dive in. Lin Chuyi was a top-tier caregiver who spent more than a decade looking after an elderly professor and his wife. They treated her like their own daughter. Before they died, they left her an inheritance and a jade pendant, which sent her back to the age of eighteen. The pendant is a key, and the library is a space connecting her past and future
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She Outlived the Other Woman, Then Was Reborn 熬死小三,她又重生啦
[Not a palace-intrigue novel, not a farming novel: the heroine's growth and the redemption of a life.] Bai Chunyu had a miserable life in her previous life. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the 1970s, before any of those tragedies had happened! She decisively cut ties with her family, severing them once and for all. She would protect her genius little daughter with her life. Her family's ancestral silver bangle concealed a pocket dimension, stocked to the brim with supplies. S
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Back to the 1990s: I'm Done Being a Good Girl 重回九零,不做乖乖女
[Lighthearted Comedy + Inspirational Youth + Reborn and Doted on by Everyone + Healing] Completed. He Laifa still hasn’t woken up. No one knows if she ever will, but her passion, her hard work, her determination, and her kindness and intelligence have all affected the people around her. The people of Yangjiatun will never forget her. The people of Hejiabao will never forget her. He, and all the others, keep striving in their own posts, shining brightly. She is strength. She is hope. She is their
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Human Life Lies Deep in the Loess 黄土深处是人间
This is a collection of true stories from the countryside. One book captures a century of life in all its variety on the Loess Plateau. Brotherhood, the warmth and coldness of family, partings in life and death, and the changes of an era: one independent story after another weaves together the fates of several generations. There is hardship, pain, tears, and warmth, portraying the struggles of those at the bottom as well as the resilience of ordinary people. There are no chosen-one advantages an
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That Red Land 那片红色的土地
[Period setting] [Slice of life] [Entrepreneurship] [Family] [Rural life] [No clichés] [Not a power fantasy] [No transmigration] [Slow-paced] [Realistic] [Urban] [Hardships] Trust me, it gets better and better as the story goes on, and it absolutely won't end badly! Writing an original work is no easy task. Every word comes from the heart. Please don't leave a low rating or bad review. A casual three or four stars from you could deal a fatal blow to this niche novel. This novel is neither a cr
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A Way Forward Through Mountains and Rivers 出路之山重水复
[Period setting + Family + Women + Career + Workplace business battles + No romance + Society + An exploration of human nature] No cheat powers, no dramatic comeback. A deep look at the struggles and prospects of 99% of ordinary people! Wish-fulfillment stories are everywhere, but once the excitement fades, only emptiness remains. In the end, we all have to face the grind of daily life and the warmth or coldness of human relationships. This slow-burning work of realism offers no lucky breaks or
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From the Start in 1938, My Pocket Dimension Can Keep Me Alive 开局1938,我的空间能续命
Medical student Fu Wen wakes up in 1938 Henan with a lifesaving pocket dimension! Floodwaters are on the way, and the land is strewn with corpses. With no hope of surviving on her own, she has no choice but to cling to the local “kingpin,” Li Baisheng, a young master who seems like a spoiled playboy but is actually ruthless and clever. In a world thrown into chaos, she provides the medicine and he does the heavy lifting. From finding each other unbearable to relying on each other for survival, t
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I Cleared Out the Family Assets Before Divorcing, and the Cold-Faced Officer Lost His Cool 搬空家产去离婚,冷面军少红了眼
[Period Setting] [Rebirth] [Military Marriage] [Mystic Spring Space] [Marriage Before Love] [Revenge on Scum] [Mutual Firsts] [Face-Slapping] Xie Chaoyun had a miserable life in her previous life. After her foster parents went to the countryside, her so-called biological parents took her in. Not only did they seize all her property, they also sold her to human traffickers. In the end, she died a horrible death in Little Black Mountain Village. Consumed by boundless hatred, she was reborn. This
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Lost the Countryside Challenge? I’ll Marry the Chaste Commander and Have Five Treasures 下乡输了?逆袭嫁禁欲首长生五宝
[Reborn in the 1970s, an old woman reborn, capitalist heiress sent to the countryside, fake and real heiress, rise to success, celibate military officer, adorable kids] In her previous life, Lu Yuelan, the real daughter of a capitalist family, took the place of the fake heiress, Lu Xinmeng, and married a butcher in the countryside who already had two children. It turned out her butcher husband was a third-generation military man. She built a business and became a wealthy woman in the capital, an
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1970s Military Marriage: The Capitalist Heiress Has a Spirit Spring Space 军婚七零,资本大小姐有灵泉空间
[Period Setting] [Educated Youth] [Stockpiling] [Alternate World] [Stunning Heiress] [Violence] [Pocket Dimension] [Pure Wish Fulfillment] [Everyone’s Darling] [Face-Slapping and Putting Scumbags in Their Place] Jiang Zhitong had been venting online after someone doxxed her, and suddenly she became fabulously rich overnight! Not only did she gain a fortune worth hundreds of millions, she also unexpectedly awakened a Spirit Spring Dimension. With her identity laid bare, she worried her vast wealt
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The Reborn Prosperity-Bringing Bride: A Sweet Second Life for a Returned Educated Youth 重生旺家媳:重生知青有点甜
Era, rebirth, favored articles, sweet articles, getting rich, rough guys and educated youth When she heard the truth, she realized how wrong she was! The husband committed suicide, the child drowned, and the family was destroyed. As soon as I open my eyes, I am reborn in 1980! The system was activated, the space was obtained, and she ran back to the countryside overnight! Tears bursting: "I will never leave you again!" In this life, dote on your husband and raise your children, reverse the trage
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From Village to City: Their Lives Swept Along by the Tide of the Times 从村到城,她们在时代洪流里沉浮
Their fates seem to repeat across generations. Three generations of women all grew up under the shadow of fathers who left or divorced their mothers. Raised in households with only their mothers, the women share similar traits: resilient and adaptable, dignified and self-assured, hardworking, and devoted to living life well. From the countryside to the city, women of the new era have finally welcomed a spring of their own. Their lives have become richer and more colorful, full of endless possibi
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My Scumbag Dad Remarries, So the Pitiful Girl from the 1970s Takes Her Sister to Find Their Father 渣爹另娶,七零小可怜带妹去寻父
[Ancient-to-modern + military compound + reborn + transmigration + everyday family life + golden finger + ensemble cast in small doses + play the pig to eat the tiger] Jiang Wenluo of the Great Jin Dynasty was punished by Heaven for putting justice before family and transmigrated to the 1970s, becoming a seven-year-old child. The child had a miserable life. Her mother died in childbirth while having a second child, and her father remarried six months later. Her grandmother favored boys over girl
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Reborn in the Nineties: A Country Girl's Rise to Riches 重生九零,农女逆袭当富婆
Reborn + a rural woman's rise + making a fortune + taking down scumbags At the entrance to a garment factory, reborn Wu Xiaolan's grape juice stand becomes a hit. Her rivals cut prices? She launches a new product: cold skin noodles. Management makes things difficult? She leads the way in securing the first license for a mobile food stall. Short on workers? She brings together a feisty girl who sells eggs on the black market, a quick-witted young woman who works at a snack shop, and the village c
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Reborn: Thriving in the 1970s 重生后,我在70年代混得风生水
In her previous life, Shen Yan was deceived by a scumbag. Blinded by love, she defied her family and insisted on marrying him. After the wedding, she cut ties with her relatives and worked tirelessly, serving her husband's family like a beast of burden. Her mother-in-law tormented her, her sister-in-law bullied her, and her husband turned a blind eye. In the end, she died a miserable death... Reborn, she decides to stay away from scumbags and cherish her life. She will build a fortune alongside
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Playing the Supporting Actress in a Period Novel 我在年代文里做女配
The rating just came out; it’ll go up later. [Everyday family life, a laid-back heroine who sometimes has a soft heart and learns from her mistakes. There’s a System, a pocket dimension, and a job. She doesn’t go to the countryside.] Su Jiahui fell asleep and transmigrated. She never expected that, as an only child, she would end up in a large family with many children, and be the least favored one of all. After awakening her System, she discovered that she had transmigrated into a book. And of
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The Heart-Stealing Thief 缚心贼
[1980s | Strong heroine | Both leads reborn | Military marriage | Revenge on scumbags | Business | Treasure-filled space | A battle to bind the heart] In 1983, Min Jiahui was reborn on her wedding night. In her past life, a scumbag trapped her with a fake marriage certificate and made her live as a wife in name only for the rest of her life. She served his parents, cared for his younger siblings, and raised the son he had with his mistress. In the end, his mistress showed up with a marriage cert
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Yu Guinian Returns to 1968 as a Ten-Year-Old to Protect the Whole Family 玉归年重回68年十岁顽童护全家
[Period Setting, Reborn, Super-Civilization Space, Coming of Age, Strong Female Lead, Sweet Romance] Nian Baoyu and her husband shot each other dead. When she opened her eyes again, she was back in 1968, before her tenth birthday, on the night her father fled home to escape the armed factional fighting. Her father was hiding in the attic when someone informed on him. The commune's armed militia took him away, and more than ten days later, they sent back his corpse. Her mother was devastated and
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The Fate of an Orphan Girl 孤女的命运
This is a sad story. Lin Jiang had an affair, and Shi Qiaosi endured it for three years before suddenly coming to her senses and decisively divorcing him. After the divorce, she secretly gave birth to a daughter of her own, Shixu. The disasters brought upon three generations of a family by an unfaithful man and a scheming woman eager to take his wife’s place. See how an elderly grandmother schemes for her granddaughter, building a bridge through time with her own life so that Shixu can return to
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The Ups and Downs of Business: A Life Well Lived 商业浮沉:不负韶华
"No Cliches, No Idiocy, No Melodrama, No System, No Power Fantasy, No Golden Finger. Read at Your Own Risk" "Jiang Xiaobei’s Comeback" Only later did Jiang Xiaobei understand: Not every effort gets the chance to bloom, not every affection gets an answer, and not everyone who says “next time” really gets a next time. No one could have predicted what came later. That poor kid who couldn’t afford a single shirt, the failed exam candidate whose father pointed at him and said, “This is all you’ll
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The Nation’s Little Sister: Actually, Being a Top Student Is My Main Job 国民妹妹:其实学霸才是我主业
[Transformation and glow-up + triumphant heroine + uplifting feel-good story + top student's growth + fairytale romance + authentic post-80s generation] Note: Please don't let the heroine's looks put you off! The protagonist is called “XX Fat” purely because the author has a mischievous sense of humor. In reality, Xia Weiwei has a figure the likes of which appear only once every three thousand years. She's an outgoing, adorable girl with sky-high emotional and intellectual intelligence; she's th
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Reborn in 1986: I Open a Supermarket in the City 重生1986我在城里开超市
The ratings have only just come in, so they’re bound to rise!! Everything is handmade from scratch~ [Period setting + reborn + feel-good story + building wealth + opening a supermarket + devoted husband and father] [Buy one, get one free] [Trade in your old goods] [The Vegetable Basket Project] … Reborn in 1986, with no awful relatives to deal with, he sells wild greens, opens a supermarket, and starts a franchise... Free eggs with every in-store purchase! Spend 10 yuan, get 1 yuan off; sp
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The Period: Reborn in 1958 年代:重生1958
He transmigrates, and finds himself with a crippled older brother and a younger sister who has dropped out of school. They face the earth and turn their backs to the sky, toiling in the fields. It’s 1958. People may not have much to eat, but their spirits are rich. Everyone has faith and hope for the future. As long as they work hard, they can create a better tomorrow! … A country kid transmigrates. He makes a living off the land, then eventually moves to the city. He has a space that can grow.
2.3kReads7.0Score103Shelves
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A Tigress Arrives at the Compound 大院来了个母老虎
In 1983, the peaceful military compound erupted into chaos. Shen Fang, the only son of the military district chief of staff and notorious as “the biggest playboy in the capital,” was cornered at the mouth of an alley by a woman holding a child. In front of all his childhood friends, she slapped him hard across the face. The woman wore a faded floral shirt and Liberation shoes, with a long knife wrapped in cloth across her back and a two-year-old girl in her arms. Her eyes and brows looked exactl
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The Laughingstock Factory Compound 笑料厂大院
[Blended Family + Childhood Sweethearts + Building a Fortune + Healing + Everyday Life] In 1985, my dad brought my mom home as his bride with a copy of Household Budgeting in hand. She was sharp-tongued but soft-hearted; he was a timid bean-counter. Together, they held a family together. For a home of their own, for the sake of making ends meet, and to raise a daughter who wasn’t his by birth. My biological father got out of prison and asked my mom if they could go back to the way things were
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Twin Souls: A Teenage Martial Artist Thrives in the Famine Years 双生:散打少女在饥荒年代横着走
[Soul Swap + Payback for Every Grudge + Satisfying Famine Tale + Healing Family Bonds + Leading the Whole Village to Prosperity] During a year of severe drought and famine, Su Dayya had climbed several mountains to dig up wild greens, only for the village bully to steal them. Her whole family was on the verge of starvation. As she lay dying The protective charm her late father had given her showed its power. When she opened her eyes again, she was in a world of immortals. Iron boxes raced ever
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