Passing Yourself Off as an Overseas Chinese Returnee (Period Setting) 冒充归国华侨（年代）

1. 1 在 Posing as a Returnee Tycoon in the 1980s 在八零伪装归国神豪 San Yao He三爻禾Urban887k WordsCompleted [80s Era] [Feel-Good] [Big Shot] [Tycoon] [No Female Lead] [Building a Career] [Everyday Life] The story of a fake tycoon with nothing to his name who becomes a real tycoon worth billions. Good news: After transmigrating into the 1980s, his heart condition is gone and his body is healthy. He also gets a Reputation System, which lets him exchange reputation points for assets. Bad news: He transmigrated with his whole body, so he has no official identity. And right now, he’s flat broke, with poc 32.8kReads8.2Score2.7kShelves

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   They all have cheat codes, making them very interesting. The main characters are patriotic and use the systems to serve their country.

2. 2 抗 On the Eve of the War Against America, I Returned from Studying Abroad 抗鹰前夕，我留学归国 Ugly Puppy丑丑狗子Urban2.4M WordsOngoing The ratings just opened, so a low score is normal. It’ll go up later. [Military Industry Powerhouse + Transmigration + System + Passionate Patriotism] “You call that a sniper rifle?” “It has a scope, a long range, and hits like a dream. If that’s not a sniper rifle, what is?” Lin Jian says, holding a Type 107 rocket launcher. Lin Jian, chief engineer of the national defense industry, transmigrates and becomes an international student stranded in Star-Spangled Country. When he hears that his mot 19.4kReads6.7Score1.5kShelves
3. 3 归 A Cheap Import Who Studied Abroad? Call Me the Father of Chips! 归国留洋水货？叫我芯片之父！ This Meat Is Poisonous这肉有毒Urban1.4M WordsOngoing [The 1950s + technological powerhouse + academic prodigy] A young man from the new century transmigrates to 1955 as an overseas student returning to China, becoming one of the same group of ocean-liner returnees as Qian Xuesen. The original list of twenty-four people has inexplicably gained one additional name: his. However, this Stanford graduate in his former life actually graduated through his family's donations. He has no real knowledge in his head and is already someone about to be eliminat 386.8kReads8.7Score28.7kShelves

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   I rarely recommend books, but this one I just came across today was pretty good, though it's a bit short. I've read another book by the same author. The writing style is generally fine.

4. 4 刚 Just Arrived in Republican-Era China, I Have Nothing but Money 刚到民国，除了钱，一无所有 Tianyang Peak, Who Loves Handmade Wheat Dumplings爱吃手工麦饺的天阳峰Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Su Ning transmigrated into a series of novels set in the Republic of China era. The good news: she had a System. Better yet, the System's reward pool held a full ten billion. Once she spent it all, Su Ning could return to the modern era and live happily as a billionaire. The bad news: the System was called "The Rich Are Heartless"... In the turbulent Republic of China, she had to play a villain who was rotten to the core. Determined to stay alive, Su Ning racked her brains to become relatives wi 96.3kReads8.7Score10.4kShelves

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   My favorite is this time-travel novel where the protagonist impersonates an overseas Chinese returning to find relatives. The difference between the first and second books is that in the first book, the system involves ganging up on the female lead to play the villain and collect "victimhood points," while in the second book, the system collects "faith points." I prefer the second book, which is already finished. Furthermore, the male lead focuses on his career and family relationships throughout the books; there's no flirting or power struggles. Everyone has their own way of thinking, strengths, and weaknesses. I really like novels with that kind of style.

5. 5 八 The Eighties: A Fake Overseas Student Serves His Country in His Own Way 八零年代：冒牌留子另类报国 Zhanjiang Red湛江红Urban918k WordsOngoing Xu Zhiyuan, from the 21st century, was hit by a truck and sent straight to the 1980s, where he became an international student studying in America. The top student Xu Zhiyuan majored in mechanical engineering, a field that desperately needed engineers back home. His soul was replaced, and a layabout who’d barely scraped through school took the place of the academic ace. A third-rate punk really couldn’t make sense of all those technical terms. He couldn’t even keep pretending. In reality, Xu Zhi 123.8kReads8.9Score11.8kShelves

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   This is really enjoyable to watch! The main character doesn't get bullied at all, but there are no idiotic villains. You won't regret watching it. The cover is a bit hastily made, but the writing is excellent.

6. 6 带 I Take Trillions of Netizens Back to the Eighties to Rebuild the Nation’s Heavy Industry 带万亿网友回八零，重铸大国重工 Ling Tai Three Hearts灵台三心Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Industrial powerhouse + period setting + livestreaming + no heroine] After transmigrating to the Great Northwest in 1980, Lin Xi didn’t want to spend his life as a mere draftsman. When Mr. Qian tried to recruit him, he replied with astonishing boldness: “I’m not going to the design office. I want to make money at the labor services company!” He knew that without money, wind tunnels would shut down, projects would be cut, and the nation’s master craftsmen wouldn’t even be able to afford a new pa 66.3kReads9.2Score8.9kShelves
7. 7 我 I Brought Ten Billion Back to 1995 to Save My Niece 我带百亿回九五救外甥女 Su Chenzhou酥沉舟Modern Romance418k WordsOngoing [Period setting + satisfying revenge + building a career + everyday life] Reborn in 1995: Raising My Miserable Niece with Billions is also known as I Brought Billions Back to 1995 to Save My Niece. Shu Yu made a fortune of ten billion dollars through her own hard work, but in middle age, she developed an incurable illness. Every day she spent lying in a hospital bed, she regretted not enjoying life sooner. She'd wasted her whole life. As she lay dying, something calling itself a Revenge System 161Reads5.2Score—Shelves

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   These are all historical fiction, and some are stories about wealthy overseas Chinese who have returned to China.

8. 8 六 The Sixties’ Hong Kong Heiress 六零香江女富豪 Forever a Blossoming Beauty永远的人间富贵花Modern Romance413k WordsOngoing Also known as The Wealthy Hong Kong Businesswoman of the 1960s No CP, no domestic squabbles, just a pure career-focused story. The author is terrible at naming things 😭 Please don't give up on the book just because of the title, thank you. Han Shuying is reborn in the 1960s, only to discover that she is living inside two novels. In one, she is a vicious cannon-fodder character who dies horribly in the mountains. In the other, she is the protagonist, armed with a child-raising cashback System, wh 821Reads8.1Score103Shelves
9. 9 绑 Bound to a Cashback System, I Make Money Like Crazy with My Secret Identities 绑定返现系统，马甲狂刷钱 From Today On, I'll Be a Godly Tycoon从今天开始当神豪Modern Romance473k WordsCompleted [Livestreaming + Big Spender Tip Cashback System + Creating Secret Identities to Tip Herself + Secret Identities of All Genders + Never Gets Found Out + Female Lead Always Wins Her PK Battles by a Landslide + Playful Drama Queen + No Romance + Pure Wish Fulfillment] Lin Anran is an ordinary university graduate living in Shanghai. She has sent her resume to more than a dozen companies, and every one of them has turned her down. Just as Lin Anran is losing hope and planning to return to her hometo 6.3kReads7.4Score583Shelves
10. 10 神 Tycoon System: I Spend Money to Raise Kids in a Period Novel 神豪系统：我在年代文里氪金养崽 The Brightest Bulb Is Me灯泡属我最亮Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted (1990s setting + tycoon System + spending money to raise the kids + no romance + building a business empire + wish fulfillment) When Ye Xiaolin woke up, she had landed in a world formed from a fusion of several period novels. She’d become a wicked woman who despised poverty and loved wealth, abandoning her children and running away in pursuit of a materialistic life. She was bound to a tycoon System. To complete its main quest, she created the persona of a wealthy overseas returnee and embarked 8.6kReads7.8Score660Shelves

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    These few are pretty good.

11. 11 归 The Returnee Tycoon: Building Up My Hometown and Making It Rich in the 1980s 归国神豪之人在八零发展家乡致富 Cantonese Melon粤瓜Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + System + Feel-Good Story + Powerhouse + Tycoon + Married Couple + Building a Business + Cozy Daily Life] Carrying out his late grandfather's final wish, Chen Dong, a wealthy businessman returning to China, sets off with his wife and children to find his roots in Lianzhai, the hometown his grandfather often spoke of, and give him a proper resting place. But they run into a time-space wormhole and transmigrate to Shantou, Huaxia, in the 1980s, car and all! In this era of scarcity 14.7kReads6.8Score661Shelves
12. 12 普 After an Average Girl Binds to a Billionaire System 普女绑定神豪系统以后 Let the Spring Breeze Carry Three Mountains Away蓬州吹取三山去Modern Romance314k WordsCompleted The arrival of her boyfriend’s parents made Chen Zhao see through this family’s schemes. She quickly broke up with him and fled the cesspool. Her roommate broke their agreement and brought a man back to the dorm again. Unwilling to waste the rent she had just paid, Chen Zhao was about to swallow her anger when a cold, mechanical voice rang in her mind: “Ta-da! Tycoon System loading...” P.S. The heroine loves money and good looks. She dates but never marries. She’s flawed and not clever, so do 4kReads8.2Score535Shelves
13. 13 香 Raised by the Richest Man in Hong Kong, the Tragic Romance Hero 香江首富亲手养大了，虐文男主 Shi Eryue拾迩月Urban595k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + 1960s Hong Kong + Redemption + No Romance] This story involves raising a child. Some readers say that a male lead without a romance is basically a nanny story. If that's not your thing, feel free to skip it. After brain death, he transmigrates and wakes up in 1960s Hong Kong! Tycoon System: Gratitude points equal a mountain of gold. Give money away to buy more time! Cheng Su throws money around his way to becoming a big shot, but the System informs him: “Your real mission is to 12.4kReads8.7Score1.6kShelves
14. 14 爆 My God-Tier Rich Relative Returns to the 1980s to Save Our Broken Family 爆改神豪亲戚回八零拯救破碎的家 Qi Wan柒莞Modern Romance627k WordsCompleted Blurb: [Period Setting + System + Satisfying Revenge + Face-Slapping + Building a Career + Changing Fate] Shen Shuning had just gotten a promotion and a raise when a scumbag seeking revenge on society ran her down on her way home. As she lay dying, the person she worried about most was her elderly, hard-luck grandmother. Heaven took pity on her. After Shen Shuning died, she was bound to a System that could send her back to the 1980s. Shen Shuning vows to change the fate of the Shen family. Sh 3.3kReads7.1Score224Shelves
15. 15 平 Ordinary World: Faking It as a Returned Tycoon in the Eighties 平凡的世界：在八零伪装归国神豪 Cantonese Black Sesame广式黑芝麻Male-Channel Fanfiction580k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Returnee Tycoon + Film and TV + Entertainment + System] Modern-day corporate drone Jin Junfeng wakes up one morning to find he has transmigrated into the novel The Ordinary World. Right beside him is Wang Manyin, a notorious drifter. Luckily, he’s bound to a Reputation System that lets him exchange reputation for all sorts of things. So he pretends to be a wealthy returnee, helps Shuangshui Village prosper, invests in factories in Yuanxi County and becomes an honored guest, the 2.3kReads6.9Score100Shelves
16. 16 亲 My Mom Faked Being a Returned Tycoon, and Now Her Cannon-Fodder Kids Are Saved 亲妈伪装归国神豪炮灰儿女有救了 Mr. Shu Ye书野先生Modern Romance113k WordsOngoing Main character: Qiao Xin [Reborn in the 1980s + System + Billionaire + Career-Driven Female Lead + Satisfying Story + Underdog Comeback + Strengthening the Nation Through Technology] After her alcoholic ex-husband accidentally beat her to death, Qiao Xiaolan unexpectedly came back to life in 1983. That year, her eldest son, unable to find work because he was deaf and mute, turned to the black market and ended up in prison. Her two daughters were both injured trying to save their big brother. Mea 3Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 17 靠 With My Tycoon System, I Become a Rich Woman in a Period Novel 靠着神豪系统我在年代文里当富婆 Ning Yi甯意Modern Romance420k WordsCompleted By a twist of fate, Cheng Yi binds herself to a Tycoon System just as her soul transmigrates into the 1970s. The more hatred she earns, the more money and ration coupons she can exchange for, and the System will make everything seem perfectly legitimate. She thinks that with the System on her side, she can sit back and relax. Only later does she realize she has transmigrated into a period novel she read in high school. The original owner was a spoiled, arrogant villainess who met a miserable end 3.9kReads8.5Score252Shelves
18. 18 八 Eighties Heiress: Saving the Darkened Villain 八零神豪小姐姐：拯救黑化大反派 Warm and Fuzzy Cat暖洋洋的猫Modern Romance691k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Tycoon + Transmigrate into a Book + Wish Fulfillment + System + Daily Life + Entirely Fictional] Overnight, she transmigrates to Hong Kong in 1982, becoming a low-level working girl who is ruthlessly exploited. Just as Bai Shuning starts to worry that she’ll work herself to death, [Ding! Congratulations, Host! You’re about to become the world’s most outrageously wealthy lady!] [Ding! Congratulations, Host! You’ve received five million Hong Kong dollars and a luxury apartment wo 2.1kReads7.3Score192Shelves
19. 19 双 Two Male Leads: How to Become a Tycoon 双男主之神豪是如何养成的 Ye Xuan Has Loved Mantou Flowers for Ages喜欢馒头花的叶玄许久Two Male Leads2.8M WordsOngoing Reborn in 1985, this is a Western urban novel featuring two male leads and no System. The legendary life of Eugene Olivier, Duke of Loire. Through his own abilities, he makes his mark on the history of global finance. Master the games of finance! Keep your finger on the pulse of the times! See how he builds his own power base in 1985, holding both authority and wealth in the palm of his hand. This time, he will make the world tremble before him! The other male lead is Roy McMillan, a young gentl 4kReads9.0Score329Shelves
20. 20 冒 Impersonating a Beijing Elite, I Control Global Capital 冒充京圈子弟，操纵全球资本 May Ice City五月冰城Urban1.5M WordsOngoing [Reborn + Magnate + Making Money + Politics and Business + Ruthless + Period Piece + Tycoon + High IQ] A fresh take with no substitutes. Sixty million dropped into my lap from the start. If you were me, how would you spend it? Chen Hao gave himself a suitably flashy identity and set out to make his mark across the globe. As long as your identity is mysterious enough, money from all over the world will flow into your pockets. "Young Master Chen, should we buy this plot of land?" "Buy it." "Young 93.8kReads8.7Score15.7kShelves

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    These are gods among gods.

21. 21 建 Early Years of the People’s Republic: Returning Home to Develop Supertechnology 建国初期，回国发展超科技 Blazing Cosmic Sky炽宇天穹Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Synopsis: In the early years of the People's Republic, overseas student Qin Liang receives the Dragon Soul Technology System! He resolutely returns home to build a complete industrial system! If the Americans have it, we need it too. If America doesn't have it, we need that as well! Back then, you had planes and cannons, while we had a will of steel! Now we have planes and cannons too, so you'd better have a will of steel as well! 30.4kReads7.8Score1.8kShelves
22. 22 让 You Asked Me to Pretend I Studied Abroad, and I Built a Nuclear Reactor by Hand? 让你伪装海归，你手搓核反应堆？ Gu Xinghe11顾星河11Urban231k WordsCompleted Lin Qi transmigrated to 1955 and became a rich playboy studying abroad who had bought a fake diploma. He had planned to return home and coast through life. But as soon as he stepped off the ship, the state welcomed him with the highest honors as a "national treasure-level scientist" and even forcibly appointed him head of a top-secret military-industrial project! Lin Qi, who couldn't even use a vernier caliper, panicked. At a critical moment, he awakened the [Trans-Temporal Hard-Core Forum], whe 3.1kReads—Score122Shelves
23. 23 开 From the Start, I Returned Home on the Same Ship as Qian Xuesen, and Now This Slacker’s Panicking 开局归国同船钱老，学渣的我慌了 Little Little Ginger-Scallion Fish小小姜葱鱼Urban786k WordsCompleted [1950s + technological powerhouse + academic prodigy] In 1955, aboard the President Cleveland ocean liner. The list of 24 Chinese students returning from abroad somehow had a 25th name on it: Jiang Ming. He wasn't a genius or a pillar of the nation, not even a qualified college student. He was a fraud who had only gotten his diploma because his family made a donation, a good-for-nothing targeted by America's kill line who'd die if he didn't run. Returning home? He was just looking to scrape toge 11kReads5.6Score1kShelves
24. 24 伪 Pretending to Be a Slacker, I Return Home to Build a Pillar of the Nation 伪装学渣，归国造出国之重器 Di Xing, Who Loves Nutmeg喜欢肉蔻的狄幸Urban779k WordsOngoing In 1955, a ship carrying veteran scientists returning from overseas studies slowly approached their homeland. Everyone aboard was a brilliant expert with a wealth of knowledge, except the young Su Bai, who faced a barrage of criticism. Everyone knew his grades had been at the bottom of his class while studying abroad and that he had ended his studies early and returned home. To outsiders, he was simply an idle young man who had learned nothing. Seeing no impressive academic record to speak of, f 10kReads—Score685Shelves
25. 25 斯 A Stanford Returnee, a Total Fake? No! Give Me Another Electroshock 斯坦福留洋水货？不！给我再电斯 Salt and Pepper Grilled Chicken Wings椒盐烤鸡翅Urban705k WordsOngoing [Ensemble Cast] [Parallel Worlds] [Technological Powerhouse] [1950s] [System] Lin Yuan, a modern military industry technician who has barely even learned to use a lathe, suddenly wakes up in 1950, transmigrating into the body of a Stanford student who has returned to serve his country! China is at a difficult turning point, with everything in ruins and in urgent need of recovery! Its total steel output is less than one percent of America's. Its industrial base is virtually nonexistent, top ta 323.5kReads8.4Score34.7kShelves
26. 26 留 A Foreign-Educated Fraud? Call Me the Father of Medicine! 留洋水货？请叫我医学之父！ An Eighth Day That's Hard to Find难遇星期八Urban558k WordsOngoing [1950s + wave of returning emigrants + medical golden finger + playing the pig to eat the tiger + building the nation + satisfying novel] Autumn, 1955. On a ship returning to China, Shen Fan watched a passenger suddenly develop acute appendicitis and peritonitis, and completely panicked. In name, he was a medical PhD from Johns Hopkins University. In reality, he’d earned the degree only because his uncle had donated a whole building to the university. Now they expected him to pick up a scalpel i 142Reads—Score106Shelves
27. 27 八 The Mixed-Race Beauty of the Eighties Returns Home to Become the Richest Woman 八零之混血娇女，归国做首富 Motang Listens to the Wind墨棠听风Modern Romance648k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Feel-Good + Tycoon + Building a Business + Everyday Life] After working overtime for half a month straight, Chu Linxi tragically drops dead on the job. When she wakes up again, she finds herself in America across the ocean in 1983, as a Chinese-American mixed-race woman. She now has American citizenship, something people in her era and even future generations envy. But after acquiring the Tycoon Game System, she immediately packs her bags and returns to China. China is in the m 4.5kReads6.7Score291Shelves
28. 28 父 A Father and Son Transmigrate to 1980 in a Rolls-Royce 父子俩开着劳斯莱斯穿越1980 Little Mushroom Who Loves Hot Pot and Barbecue爱吃火锅烤肉的小蘑菇Urban770k WordsCompleted [No System, no golden finger, slow burn] History teacher Qin Shou wins five million yuan in the lottery and instantly buys a “sucker’s” Rolls-Royce. A beautiful saleswoman mistakenly sells him an antique Silver Spur as a junker! He takes his son Qin Dashou back to the village to show off his wealth, only to crash headlong into 1980. Father and son use their knowledge of history to launch one wildly successful business after another, rising from patriotic overseas Chinese to the richest men in th 528Reads—Score—Shelves

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    1. The protagonist travels to a parallel world and is bound to a reputation system. It's a refreshing story. The protagonist arrives just before things start to go wrong and is determined to save and help the kind old lady and her family. 2. The protagonist and his wife plan to return to their homeland to help their relatives in order to fulfill their grandfather's last wish. However, they unexpectedly get into a car accident on the way and travel to that special era.

29. 29 天EN The Heavenly Eye Feng Shui Master 天眼风水师 Light of the Dao道之光Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [A feng shui novel] [Featuring feng shui, Daoist medicine, psychology, and economics; read faces and phone numbers] [Practical insights] [Explaining the esoteric with science] My master hastily taught me the art of divination and passed down a few books. Before I even had the chance to formally begin my training in the mountains, he sent me down into the world to help people... Where can I even go to complain about that? Amid the mortal world, I help others and cultivate myself. 694.2kReads9.6Score146.3kShelves

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    This is a very practical book. I added it to my bookshelf a long time ago but didn't read it. I recently picked it up again, and I didn't expect to be unable to put it down. I felt calm and peaceful as I read.

30. 30 穿 I Transmigrated to the 1980s and Showered Everyone with Cash Thanks to My Tycoon System 穿越八零，我靠神豪系统狂撒币 A Cluster of Flowers一丛花令Modern Romance222k WordsOngoing (The rating just came out, so it’s low for now. It’ll gradually rise!) [Tycoon + transported in body + wish-fulfillment + no CP + slice of life] When Guan Yue woke up, she had become an undocumented person in the 1980s, without a penny to her name. Luckily, she was bound to a [Tycoon Prestige System]. The System generously gave her a bodyguard who was “on his way,” but told her: Want money? Go earn prestige points! So, to turn her “pretend tycoon” persona into cold, hard cash, Guan Yue began put 19Reads5.1Score—Shelves
31. 31 七 The 1970s: The Glamorous Heiress Transmigrates into a Book with a Trillion-Dollar Fortune 七零：美艳娇气包带千亿资产穿书 A Duo u阿哆uModern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The young lady never lived through that era, so you can't expect her to have the same spending habits as ordinary people. [Not a poverty-relief story] [Sweet romance + period setting + transmigrate into a book + golden finger + feel-good power fantasy] [Both are virgins, one-on-one romance] Shanghai–Beijing–Hong Kong [Warning: The heroine is spoiled and not truly kind or beautiful inside! The hero is a lovesick fool! Don't get hung up on prices! If there are any plot holes, just treat them as au 24.7kReads9.2Score2.5kShelves
32. 32 年 In the 1980s, I Pretended to Be an Overseas Chinese in Northbound and Southbound 年代我在南来北往装华侨 Qing Xue Han清雪寒Male-Channel Fanfiction702k WordsCompleted In 2025, Xu Luohua is knocked unconscious by something falling from above at a shopping mall. When he opens his eyes, he's transmigrated to 1983 and finds himself in the world of the hit TV drama A Lifelong Journey! Wearing a trendy hoodie and ripped jeans, he becomes the hottest guy at Ningyang Railway Station, instantly drawing everyone's attention, including that of Wang Xin, a young police officer. With no money and no identity, he's about to be treated as a vagrant or even a spy. But then X 1.5kReads—Score—Shelves

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    It's really pretty!

33. 33 海 The Pampered Returnee: My Connections Are Thicker Than Bricks 海归娇娇，我的背景厚如板砖 Tong Jiusi童九思Modern Romance613k WordsOngoing After transmigrating, Shen Suihuan goes from being a rich beauty to... a rich beauty... But it happens to be the Red Era, and she's an overseas returnee. Luckily, her background is powerful enough that no one dares mess with her. When she says she wants to return to China to find her family, her adoptive mother, Mrs. Strong, immediately arranges for her to live with a minister. But the minister's ignorant wife secretly sends her down to the countryside. Before she can even despair, the System ar 469Reads6.2Score101Shelves
34. 34 我 I Don't Want to Be a Transmigrator: I Was Kidnapped to Another World 我不要当穿越者，我是被拐到异界的 Ink-Stained Bronze Traces墨染铜迹13k WordsCompleted I Don't Want to Be Someone Who Transmigrated. I Was Kidnapped to Another World 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The first one is absolutely great, I saw it myself. As for the other two, please allow me to add my own opinions; bored people can check them out, since they're free.

35. 35 成 I Became a System, but I Want to Become Human 成了系统的我想变成人 Ink-Stained Bronze Traces墨染铜迹6k WordsCompleted I Became a System, and Now I Want to Become Human 3Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 36 丑 The Ugly Maid Is Irresistible: The Unhinged Villain Begs Her to Be Gentle 丑丫鬟太诱人，疯批反派请温柔 Ink-Stained Bronze Traces墨染铜迹Ancient Romance158k WordsCompleted An alternate ancient setting with the unhinged male lead Baili Huang. The female lead, Su Ruanruan, is a modern woman who transmigrates into a book. To save her own skin, she plays the fool while hiding her claws. She has a bizarre System that keeps rewarding her with unique, bizarre golden fingers and attribute points, such as a universal heartthrob aura and a natural fragrance. Su Ruanruan thinks her life is just too hard. In the modern world, she was a born corporate workhorse, helping her bo 13Reads—Score—Shelves
37. 37 我 I Returned Home with Core Technology, and the Whole Country Went Wild 我携核心技术回国，举国沸腾 Lone Cloud Reaching Far孤云致远Urban574k WordsCompleted [A Powerful Military Industry] + [Heaven-Defying Comprehension] + [Livestreaming] + [Patriotism] “This antiaircraft gun doesn’t even have a sight. How are you supposed to shoot down a plane?” “Who says you need to aim to shoot down a plane?” Lin Tianyou calmly gives the order. The shell detonates in midair a thousand meters up, and the enemy plane instantly turns into a ball of fire! The veteran gunner is left dumbfounded. Lin Tianyou, a weapons expert who gave his life for his country in his pr 12.3kReads7.5Score1kShelves

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    Is this okay?

38. 38 年 1951: My Clones Lay Plans Across the World 年代1951，分身布局天下 Twenty Years Dumping Concrete on Construction Sites工地打灰二十年Male-Channel Fanfiction1.1M WordsCompleted [Siheyuan]+ [Film and TV Worlds]+ [Fishing Across the Heavens] A slice-of-life story, no hostility, no hostility, no hostility... Overnight, Xu Ping'an transmigrates from the 21st century to the early years of the People's Republic of China. He leaves behind the grind of waking at five every morning to commute and arrives in a blazing-red era. This time, all he wants is to enjoy a life when carriages and horses are slow, and even the mail takes its time. 75.5kReads8.1Score7.2kShelves
39. 39 重 Reborn in 1983: My Carefree Hunting Life in Northeast China 重生83：我在东北打猎的悠闲人生 Luo Tian洛天Urban3.6M WordsCompleted [Authentic period drama + no pocket dimension, no System + one heroine + devoted husband + hunting with guns + digging for ginseng + business + adorable pets + food + farming] Tang He had spent most of his life rushing from place to place. Just before he died suddenly, he saw once more the vast mountains, forests, and sea of trees in the Greater Khingan Range, along with the girl in the little floral jacket. Life was so exhausting and bitter. If he got another life, he thought, he would like t 10.3kReads8.8Score1.1kShelves
40. 40 随 Joining Her Husband's Army on the Island: Mountain Delicacies and Seafood with Chicken and Duck 随军婆婆上岛：山珍海味配鸡鸭 Lu Chaichai鹿柴柴Modern Romance1.6M WordsCompleted The short drama adaptation is now available (no space, no romance, island military life, everyday life, family matters, raising kids, delicious food, capitalist daughter-in-law) In her previous life, Chen Guilan looked down on her daughter-in-law for being a capitalist's daughter and hated the hardships of island life. She refused to join her son at his post and care for his pregnant wife, choosing instead to stay nearby and look after her pregnant daughter. But her daughter, son-in-law, and gra 10.7kReads8.4Score919Shelves
41. 41 一 A Family in Northeast China: Making a Fortune Hunting Since 1966 一家子在东北，从66年打猎致富 Matcha Daifuku抹茶大福Urban2.1M WordsOngoing [Revive the Great Northeast!] [All Handcrafted + Period Setting + Local Bully + Hunting + Business + Everyday Life] In his previous life, Chu Ziheng gave up on himself, leading to the deaths of his wife and daughter. That left him alone for the rest of his life, and he died with regrets. But when he opened his eyes again, he had been reborn, returning to an era sixty years earlier, when supplies were scarce. His wife was still alive, and so was his child. There was still time to make things righ 9.8kReads7.9Score659Shelves
42. 42 重 Reborn in 1978: My Wife Begs Me to Take In Her Sister 重生78：老婆求我收容她姐姐 Breaking the Spring Breeze破春风Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Period Setting] [Hunting] [Mountain Foraging] [Reborn] [Pocket Dimension] Reborn in 1978, I find my wife desperately begging me to take in her beautiful older sister, and I agree on one condition. But with two more mouths to feed, supplies are desperately scarce. What do we do? Pick up a gun and head into the mountains to hunt! In this life, I’ll give them a better life! 17.5kReads7.9Score1.5kShelves
43. 43 带 Taking Pinduoduo to 40 带着拼夕夕在40 Willows by the Water水边柳杨Modern Romance562k WordsCompleted [Farming + Infrastructure Development + Beloved by All + War of Resistance Against Japan] She woke up in the 1940s, with a Pinduoduo System? An Yu thought for a second, then decided to come clean: “I’m from the future, and I have a golden finger.” Canned luncheon meat, work boots, motorized tricycles... Fertilizer, canned luncheon meat, military coats... If Pinduoduo sells it, you can get it here! This time, she absolutely wouldn’t let their forebears fight the Japanese invaders on empty stomach 77.4kReads9.0Score11.6kShelves
44. 44 带 I Brought a Fortune to the 1970s and Became the Boss of the Family 带着巨额财产穿七零，成家中一霸 The Sun on the Mountaintop山顶的太阳Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Period drama + military marriage + pocket dimension + family life On the first day after Lin Xiangnan transmigrates, her family gets into a huge argument over sending someone to the countryside. At first: “So what if I have to go to the countryside? I've got hundreds of millions of supplies in my pocket dimension. How could I possibly fail to get by out there?” After helping her second great-uncle weed his fields for two days: “There's no way I'm going to the countryside. I'm lazy, gluttonous, a 105.4kReads9.3Score8.9kShelves
45. 45 资 The Capitalist-Era Educated Youth Is Highly Enlightened, Winning Big by Serving the Nation 资本知青觉悟高，为国效力赢麻了 Yan Qi Yun Qian言蹊云浅Modern Romance994k WordsCompleted [1970s + transmigrate into a book + military marriage + special abilities + love after marriage + devoted husband + family life + joining the army + building wealth] Su Mo, a dual-ability user, discovered that she had transmigrated into a book. She'd become the cannon-fodder character who gave the heroine her start-up funds, and she was supposed to die right from the start. Even after dying, she'd be dragged out of the heroine's memories again and again to serve as a foil, with the destruction o 53.1kReads9.3Score5.6kShelves
46. 46 让 You Asked Me to Explain the Universe, So Why Do I Say It’s Inside a Black Hole? 让你科普宇宙，你说它在黑洞里？ Become a God成神Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [No heroine] [A story that defies conventional wisdom] Strategist Jiang Zhe transmigrates to a parallel world with little scientific knowledge and becomes the guardian of his high-school sophomore sister. He gets bound to a System that makes him stronger whenever he tutors her. So he decides to take matters into his own hands. “Xiaoyu, the inside of the sun is only 36 degrees. Come on, I’ll show you how to calculate it.” “But the textbook says the sun is thousands of degrees!” Jiang Zhe calmly e 8.7kReads8.3Score889Shelves

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    Overseas Chinese who have returned to China talk about the universe

47. 47 四 Siheyuan: I Take Over Courtyard No. 95 and Fill It with My Ex-Wives 四合院：我独占95号院住满前妻 King of Milan米兰球王Male-Channel Fanfiction252k WordsOngoing Multiple female leads, no System, relying entirely on brains and memories. A top-level career path, with little angst and a realistic tone. In 2026, at the Dialogue studio. Host: Elder Jing, were you afraid when you swam back to the mainland? Jing Daqiang pondered for a moment. He thought, Back then, I'd only just transmigrated, and they were pointing a gun at me. I was terrified. His expression stayed composed. "No. I was driven by a powerful conviction." Host: What made you think of applying 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves

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    Wearing the clothes of 1951, without a system, with little malice, relying entirely on brains and memory.

48. 48 归 I Returned Home to Build the Country, but Became God's Immune System 归国建设，却成了上帝免疫系统 Pork Belly Rolls with Century Egg白肉卷皮蛋Urban703k WordsOngoing The rating may be low at first, but it’ll rise later. A top biomedical academician from 2050 unexpectedly transmigrates to America in 1945! After transmigrating to 1945, the protagonist awakens extraordinary mental abilities. He thinks three times faster than ordinary people, never forgets anything he sees, and grasps complex ideas at a glance. All his past-life research knowledge and vast medical expertise remain in his mind. At this time, the motherland is struggling to rebuild, its pharmaceut 21.3kReads7.0Score1.2kShelves

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    The protagonist has a cheat ability, is patriotic, works in medicine, and earns foreign exchange for the country.

49. 49 重 Reborn in 1980: From Courtyard Menace to Peerless National Scholar 重生80，从大院祸害到国士无双 The Song Is Not Yet Finished一曲未完Urban1.0M WordsOngoing The winds of change are sweeping through 1980! Ye Xiaotian, chief engineer at a high-tech company, is unexpectedly reborn. His memories of future technology become a blade with which to turn the tide of the era. With a deluge of patents in his left hand, he drives his rivals straight into bankruptcy. With black-tech blueprints in his right, he forces foreign companies to grovel. Just as foreign firms are preparing to sweep across China with their wired remote controls, he sneers: “Infrared wirel 4.7kReads6.3Score291Shelves

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    🔥A bombshell!🔥 A must-read in any book drought: the second installment of the "Troublemaker Trilogy," *Reborn in the 80s: From a Menace in the Compound to a Peerless Hero*! It's simply amazing! [Sending hearts][Sending hearts] [Laughing][Laughing][Sending hearts][Sending hearts]

50. 50 穿 I Became a Fussy Old Lady: While Everyone Else Fled the Famine, I Reclaimed the Land 穿成作精老太，别人逃荒我开荒 Fragrant Tangerine橘香袭人Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (No space, no System, no romance. A short drama with the same name has already been released. A warm, rustic story. Everyone says they wouldn’t survive three episodes after transmigrating into a chaotic era. Read this book, and you’ll survive ten more!) She transmigrated into a book, becoming the villainous aunt who abused the protagonist in a male-oriented novel, and was destined to be killed off. Jiang Zhi didn’t cling to the protagonist. She left him behind and relied on her extensive knowled 86kReads9.5Score8.2kShelves

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    This story, about a protagonist who travels back to ancient times and survives by farming and selling medicinal herbs, contains many relatable and practical facts, and has received a high rating.

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