Period Novels with a Female Lead Who Stays in the City, Works, and Rises Through the Ranks to Wealth 年代文女主不下乡，在城里上班，升官发财
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- 101 Working at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative: My 1960s Buying Spree 就职供销社，我在60年代搞代购 With a loud crash, Xu Jiaojiao, from the twenty-second century, survives an air disaster and transmigrates to the resource-starved 1960s, with three years of famine looming. Luckily, she has the “Buy-It-All Shopping Group” golden finger. She lands a job through a supply-and-marketing cooperative recruitment drive and gets a secure government job for life. Brown sugar, meat buns, milk, chocolate... While everyone else chews grass, I snack on dates. I’ll stockpile the good stuff until the warehous 6.8kReads8.9Score74014d adds
- 102 The Capitalist's Daughter Awakens and Sells the Family Fortune to Join the Army 资本家小姐觉醒，掏空家产去随军 [Military marriage + transmigration into a book + bargain-hunting System + punishing scumbags + powerful team-up + sweet-on-the-outside, ruthless-on-the-inside heiress vs. muscular, stone-faced team leader] Lu Rao was a socialite in Shanghai who had influence in both the underworld and the legitimate world. After an unexpected awakening, she discovered she was the cannon-fodder villainess in a period novel. Her second uncle had schemed against her whole family. Her father was missing, her mother 39.9kReads8.9Score5.3k14d adds
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Transmigrated to the 1990s: The Doomsday Heiress Returns to the Capital to Make Her Fortune 穿越九零，末世大小姐回京致富
[The main plot is about getting rich, and romance paves the way for wealth. The heroine will become a big shot in her own right] Wen Yuchu is the last of several generations of a wealthy young lady from the apocalypse. Just as supernatural abilities are evolving in the end times, she suddenly travels back to the 1990s. Her parents each have their own families, leaving her a poor little orphan with neither mother nor father. Though her father doesn't care for her and her mother doesn't love her,
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- 104 The Brash Little Wife Arrives in the Capital, and the Coolheaded Academician Is Smitten 八零娇蛮小媳妇进京，清冷院士香晕了 [Aloof, abstinent dreamboat + soft, flirtatious firecracker + 1980s + family and neighborhood drama + ensemble cast] Jiang Li was notorious for being lazy, greedy, and shiftless across the surrounding villages. Even dogs would shake their heads and sigh at the sight of her. More than ten years earlier, their elders had arranged for Pei Xingyu to go to the countryside and bring Jiang Li to the capital for their wedding once she came of age. She’d spend the rest of her life decked out in gold and 108Reads—Score1114d adds
- 105 I Went to the Soviet Union to Make a Killing and Became the World’s Richest Woman 勇闯苏联当倒爷，赚成世界女首富 After transmigrating into 1990, Chen Muqing opened her eyes to find her own mother, who favored sons over daughters, selling her to an old bachelor for a 5,000-yuan bride price. The original owner had been driven to jump into Shichahai, but Chen Muqing clutched her meager 10,000 yuan in starting capital and boarded the K3 train to Moscow. Everyone said that a young woman who ventured into the Soviet Union was either crazy or foolish. But no one knew she carried thirty years of business knowledge 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Reborn in the 1970s: At Eighteen, the Head of the Household Cleans House 重生七零：十八岁户主清理门户 (Rebirth, pocket dimension, strong heroine, revenge on scumbags, supernatural powers, period setting, everyone is evil) In her previous life, Shen Lanyin’s scumbag father adopted her uncle’s two children. The gold-digging scumbag took the house her mother had left her and brazenly moved his whole family in to live off her inheritance. Shen Lanyin was forced to go to the countryside. After finally returning home through the college entrance exam, she was killed by her scumbag father and stepsiste 15Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 107 The Apocalypse Powerhouse Brings Her Space to the 1950s and Takes the World by Storm 末世大佬，带空间在五零大杀四方 (The rating was just posted; it’ll go up later.) [Transmigration / spatial ability / true and fake heiresses / punishing scumbags and face-slapping / strong heroine / apocalypse powerhouse / feel-good story] When Shen Xingwan closed her eyes, she saw the flames as the apocalypse base collapsed. When she opened them, she was a twelve-year-old girl lying on a dirt kang in the countryside in 1952, waiting to die. The original owner had just been pushed off a cliff, with blood covering half her face 212.3kReads8.3Score27.9k14d adds
- 108 Cultivation Grandmaster Transmigrates into a Wealthy Family's Mom 修仙大佬穿成豪门亲妈 When she wakes up, a cultivation matriarch who has lived for a thousand years finds herself a cast-off wife from a wealthy family. The good news: her husband is devastatingly handsome, and her son is outrageously cool. The bad news: her son is a school bully and a terrible student who gets into fights every day and looks at her like she’s a stranger. Jiang Yao was planning to lie flat and live the life of a pampered, carefree rich wife Until some punks cornered her son in an alley, and she kicke 4.4kReads8.0Score47714d adds
- 109 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 [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 4.5kReads6.7Score27514d adds
- 110 A Genius Scientist in the 1950s, Where Warm Sunshine Melts the Ice 暖阳融冰科研天才的50年代 Xie Shihan, an autistic scientific genius who was imprisoned in a laboratory in her previous life, is born into a military family in the resource-strapped 1950s, carrying her cold memories and extraordinary intelligence with her. With the affection of her ten older male cousins, the care of her family, and the fiercely protective devotion of top soldier Ding Haotian, her world-weary heart gradually melts in the warmth of everyday life. From relying on nutritional supplements to craving the warmt 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 The 1980s: My Flash-Marriage Partner Is a Cold, Elite Beijing Official 八零：闪婚对象竟是京圈高冷干部 [Beloved heroine in a 1960s setting + Marriage Before Love + everyday life + slow-burn romance + abstinent official] Song Zhiyun died from exhaustion. In her previous life, she was a workaholic: classes during the day, a part-time job at night, and writing until the early hours. She had just managed to buy a house when she died. When she opened her eyes again, she had become the precious only child of the Song family for six generations in the 1960s. She had lost her parents when she was very yo 28.8kReads6.4Score4.7k14d adds
- 112 Reborn in the 1980s: From the Start, I Took a Factory Job 重生八零，开局进厂打工 Ji Yunxi transmigrates into the role of a universally loathed supporting character, the female foil to the heroine. The heroine endures endless hardships without giving in, while Ji Yunxi lives in comfort, spoiled and cruel. During the 1987 wave of migrant labor, the heroine gets into college and finally holds her head high, while Ji Yunxi uses connections to land a job on an assembly line. The heroine lives out a romantic drama straight from real life every day, while Ji Yunxi seethes with jeal 47.5kReads8.4Score4.9k14d adds
- 113 The Real Heiress Comes Clean: All My Underlings Are Commanders 真千金摊牌了：我的小弟都是首长 In 1953, Gu Qingqing, a war hero, dies on the battlefield. When she wakes up, she has transmigrated to the future. The country she protected with her own flesh and blood is now prosperous and peaceful. Just as she thinks she's a helpless country girl, a luxury car pulls up, and she discovers she's the real heiress of a wealthy family, switched at birth! She only wants to reunite with her family and live peacefully, but the fake heiress keeps sabotaging her behind the scenes, and her fiance humil 683Reads6.1Score11914d adds
- 114 The 1970s' Greatest Brain: Handcrafting a Nuclear Bomb That Amazes the World 七零最强智脑，手搓核弹惊艳世界 Su Jiji, the most powerful AI in the galaxy, wakes up as a disposable adopted daughter in the 1970s, forced to move to the countryside. Faced with awful relatives, she runs the numbers: confronting them head-on gives her a 40% chance of winning, but finding a powerful protector raises it to 99.9%! So she sets her sights on Gu Feng, the coldest, most terrifying man in the entire military district, and makes a scene in public: “Captain Gu, you have to take responsibility for me!” Everyone in the m 127Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Fragrance of Herbs Warms the Green Hills in the Fifties 五零之青山药香暖
Ji Lan, a captain in the apocalypse, is reborn as Lin Qinghe, the youngest daughter of the Lin family in a small mountain village in the 1950s. Not getting enough to eat? No problem. Her wood-element ability came with her. It may be weak, but it still comes in handy. Not strong enough? That’s not an issue either. She can shatter a millstone with one punch, and carrying water or chopping wood is a piece of cake. Most importantly, she has inherited her family’s medical knowledge, so her dream of b
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Reborn as the Eldest Sister, I Help the Villain’s Family Make Money 穿成炮灰长姐，我带反派一家搞钱
Gu Wan opens her eyes and finds herself transmigrated into a melodramatic period novel, as the eldest daughter of the Gu family, a household of villains where everyone is wicked. She's a lovesick, expendable supporting character who drags her entire family to their doom. The original Gu Wan had been so desperate to please the male lead that she sold out her parents and younger siblings, only to die a miserable death on a farm. No one in the Gu family met a good end, either. She wakes up facing a
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- 117 The Wicked Mother-in-Law Is Reborn: From the Neighborhood Office to the Provincial Committee Compound 恶婆婆重生：从街道办到省委大院 [The short drama is now streaming] [Career-driven female lead | 1970s political career progression | A female version of Game of Thrones] Striving to awaken women's consciousness + alternate historical setting + career-focused plot + blended family + male lead who understands her 💥 Modern media mogul Yin Chunjiao opens her eyes to find herself the notorious wicked mother-in-law of the 1970s. • Drove her daughter-in-law to her death? No way. I'll send her to university. • Throwing tantrums and ac 26.7kReads9.0Score2.3k14d adds
- 118 The 1990s: They Look Down on Me? I’m a Reborn Workaholic 九零：被瞧不起？呵呵我卷王重生 Tags: Clear-headed, independent heroine! After a difficult life, Li Xiaonan got to wipe the slate clean and start over. Back on the day she was tricked into buying a job, Li Xiaonan firmly said no! She resolutely decided to return to school and take the exams, and unexpectedly crossed paths with the big shot Zhou Qingbai from her previous life. Li Xiaonan: Big brother, how about being a useful connection for me? 46.4kReads9.1Score5.7k14d adds
- 119 Tales of the Lesser Khingan Mountains: The Fearless Wife of the Sixties 小兴安岭往事：六零悍妻 [Period] [Family Life] [Growing Up] [An Extraordinary Ordinary Life] In the winter of 1959, a tough woman from the apocalypse barged into the Lesser Khingan Mountains. With her brute strength, Mi Duo slaughtered pigs and wolves, and even teased black bears. Mi Duo’s wish: get married, have children, live an uneventful life, and die of old age. Mi Duo’s daily life: hunt bears, fight wolves, tear into scumbags, and pull an extra night shift whenever someone rubs her the wrong way. Mi Duo’s fut 15.5kReads9.0Score2.1k14d adds
- 120 Reborn in the Nineties: Racing Toward Life as a Landlady 重生九零之向着包租婆的人生狂奔 (Also known as: Reborn in the 1990s: Racing Toward Life as a Landlady) (Also known as: Reborn Housewife: Mom, Dad's Acting Up Again) After Shen Xiaojun divorced, she had a dream and found herself back twenty years in the past. Back then, she was only twenty-five, yet already the mother of three children. Her eldest daughter was six, her younger daughter four, and her little boy had just turned one month old. Xiaojun's head spun. Did she really have to live through all of this again? For her chil 28.5kReads9.4Score3k14d adds
- 121 Transmigrate to the 1960s and Become a Pretty Widow 穿越六零成为俏寡妇 (Content warning: The heroine is ten years older than the hero. She’s a player and isn’t sexually inexperienced, so proceed with caution!!!) Shi Lan, a carefree, troublesome party girl who loves the high life, transmigrates to the hardship of the 1960s and gets three new labels: married, mother, and widow. From the start, she’s being introduced to a prospective match. As if! She thinks her new identity is pretty great: she has money and status, and gets to be a mother without the pain of childbi 5.4kReads9.2Score49814d adds
- 122 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 [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 52.5kReads9.3Score5.5k14d adds
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Military Marriage in the 1970s: The Supporting Actress Builds Warplanes and Defies Her Fate 七零军婚：女配造战机撕碎炮灰命
[Period Setting] [Side Character Awakening] [Power Couple] [Light Ensemble Cast] [Military Marriage] [Both Leads Are Loyal in Body and Heart] Lan Huan accidentally took a fall and passed out. She had a dream and discovered that they were living inside a military romance novel. And she was nothing more than a nameless, doomed side character, brought in to make the male and female leads reunite, while also causing the second male lead to fall in love with the heroine at first sight. To stay alive,
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- 124 I Transmigrate into a Book as a Middle-Aged Woman, Just as the Heroine Tries to Steal My Golden Finger 穿书成大妈，女主正想抢夺金手指 [Transmigrate Into a Book, Period Setting, Pocket Dimension, Punish the Scum, No Whitewashing, No Forgiveness! A Touch of Ensemble Cast, Domestic Life, Building a Career] [No CP: No divorce, only widowhood! Sisters, let's not give her another man later, okay? Men are poison, and old men are even less worth bothering with. Let's not let them mess with our Hua!] Liu Xiaohua, a woman past the usual age for marriage, was forcibly sent by the System into a period novel. In an instant, she became the 14.9kReads8.2Score1.6k14d adds
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Transmigrated to 1970, Suddenly a Mom of Nine 穿越1970，喜当9个孩子的妈
Main characters: Zhao Wenting and Li Sixi [Period Setting + Information System + Transmigrate + Everyday Family Life] Zhao Wenting has transmigrated. There’s one piece of good news and one piece of bad news. The good news: she has a golden finger, an Information System. The bad news: she has nine kids from the start, more than the Calabash Brothers. Looking at the three children who are about to be sent to the countryside, Zhao Wenting rolls up her sleeves and starts toughening them up. As a res
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1980s Military Marriage: Your Soldier Boy Just Registered His Marriage with Me 八零军婚：你的兵哥哥跟我领证咯
[Career-Focused] [Satisfying Revenge on Trash] [Taking Down the Worst] [Only Ever Been With Each Other] [Sweet Romance, No Angst] In her past life, her adoptive sister tricked her into going abroad, where her organs were harvested and she died a gruesome death in a foreign land. Reborn in the 1980s, she was cruelly abused by her own father and thrown into a pigsty in the freezing cold, left on the brink of death. At death's door, she unexpectedly awakened a dream System. In her dreams, her wi
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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] [Period Setting] [Child of a High-Ranking Cadre] [Both Leads Have No Past Relationships] [Military Marriage] [Everyday Family Life] [No Space-Based Golden Finger] After ten years of living apart, Bai Yulan was still divorced, and her child was taken away by her ex-husband, who had gone into business and made a fortune. At last, her son graduated with a PhD and found a good job, only to call her over to look after his child. She worked herself to death. When she opened her eyes, Bai Yul
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Commander, Stop Pretending. You Weren't Like This Last Night 首长别装了，昨晚你可不是这样的
[Young Widow vs. Cold, Reserved Military Officer + Putting Villains in Their Place + Adorable Kids + Sweet Romance + Family Life + Everyday Moments] Everyone said Su Yingying was a jinx. She brought misfortune not only to her parents but also to her husband, supposedly causing her parents’ deaths at birth and her husband’s death after their marriage. Just as Su Yingying is caught in bed with another man, memories of her role as a cannon-fodder supporting character awaken. It turns out she’s mere
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- 129 Tyrannosaurus of the Police Force 警界霸王龙 An original suspense novel by military fiction writer Liu Gengyun. A gripping story, with every twist linked and every detail woven together. "The Tyrannosaurus of the Police Force" follows protagonists Liu Zhongyi and Cai Baobao through their careers in law enforcement, the turbulent world of the police, and their extraordinary lives. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Legend of Phoenix Village 凤凰村传奇 In 1938, Japanese invaders went on a rampage, burning, killing, and looting. Phoenix Village became a “City of Demons.” Liu Hulu and Han Mei became a legendary couple of resistance heroes, striking terror into the Japanese invaders... 28Reads—Score114d adds
- 131 The Iron Great Wall, the Green Spirit of the Army!! 钢铁长城，绿色军魂！！ This book mainly follows protagonist and squad leader Liu Hu as he takes part in flood rescue operations in the army, helps others on the way home to visit his family, shows the tenderness beneath his tough exterior, and undergoes military training. It fully captures the ironclad spirit of soldiers in the new era! 5Reads—Score—14d adds
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The 1970s Courtyard: Punching My In-Laws and Kicking My Own Family to the Curb 七零大杂院：拳打婆家脚踢娘家
[Period setting + alternate history + courtyard compound + sweet romance + gossip + family drama] When she was ten, Lin Yue followed her lovestruck mother into a marriage in Huaihua Alley. In a home where she was treated like an outsider, only her older brother was a safe haven. After graduating from high school, the notice ordering her to go to the countryside arrived right on schedule. Lin Yue made her decision at once and married Gu Xiangyang, who had grown up in the alley. “Let’s get married
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- 133 Reborn in the Seventies, I Won’t Let Go of the Officer I Caught 重生七零，逮住军官不放手 Reborn, Su Xiaomai refuses to be a doormat who suffers in silence. She just wants to find an honest man and make a life together, but accidentally ends up “faking an accident” with the fiercest live devil in the entire military district. From then on, she juggles making money with enjoying a sweet everyday life with the stern-faced officer. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
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Transmigrated to the 1960s, I Use My Pocket Dimension to Eat Well and Dress Warmly 穿越六零，我靠空间吃饱和穿暖
[No going to the countryside + period setting + pocket dimension] After Zhao Jiayue dies, she finds herself in the 1960s. Luckily, in this unusual era, she has the pocket-dimension golden finger common to transmigrators. When her family worries about where to get their next bite of meat, she brings steaming-hot meat buns out of her pocket dimension. Thanks to this gift, she eats well, dresses warmly, and takes excellent care of herself throughout the 1960s.
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Reborn in 2005: Mom, Dad, Don't Run Off. You've Got Me 重生05年：爸妈别私奔，有我呢
(This is the first book, and it's complete! Find the second book on my homepage!) P.S. The heroine is cherished by her whole family but isn't a pushover. The hero only dotes on her, there are no contrived misunderstandings, and the story is sweet, healing, and packed with satisfying moments! (Adorable little lucky star vs. aloof, withdrawn CEO vs. feel-good period novel vs. defying fate vs. mutual devotion) In her previous life, her parents were driven to elope. Her father built a business empir
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Transmigrating to the 1970s: The Everyday Life of a Background Character 穿越七零之路人甲日常
The rating just opened, so it’ll go up later. This is a gentle, everyday-life story. If it’s not your thing, please click away. Thanks! Transmigration + no military marriage + no relocation to the countryside + no black-market dealings + no vilifying the original heroine After transmigrating, Lu Jinxia finds herself in the world of a historical novel she read. Unfortunately, she isn’t the heroine, just a background character. The heroine of the book is an educated youth sent to the countryside.
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Reborn as the Darling Daughter in a Period Novel: I Refuse to Go to the Countryside! 穿成年代文闺闺：我绝不下乡！
Reborn as the Best Friend in a Period Novel: I Absolutely Refuse to Go to the Countryside!
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Transmigrating to the Seventies: A Mechanic Turns Her Hand to Farm Machinery 穿越七零：机械女工搞农机
[Alternate history + System + Slice of life + Workplace + No romance + Doesn't go to the countryside] Lin Xiaoxia transmigrates into the body of the third child of the Lin family, who live in the workers' compound of an agricultural machinery factory in the 1970s. Her older siblings are waiting to take over jobs at the factory, while her younger brothers and sisters are still clamoring to be fed. Her mother saves all the fabric and meat coupons for the youngest. Not one of the five people in the
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Another Spring of the 1977 College Entrance Exam 1977年高考又一春
[A story-driven take on history. Note: There is no single fixed protagonist. Multiple leads reflect the changes of the era and offer a full picture of the 1977 restoration of the college entrance exam.] [The story focuses on several main characters: Hu Wei and Wang Ting, Pan Xia, and Lu Xiaoyun. Their stories weave in and out according to the timeline. If you prefer to follow one character at a time, you can read their chapters in sequence for a complete biography. The other characters may only
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- 140 The 1970s: Professor Lu’s Wife Is Beautiful and Vicious 七零：陆教授的妻子娇美且恶毒 [Self-Serving, Sophisticated Heroine + Hero Who Becomes Love-Struck Later + Both Reborn] Jiang Shiyi was never a good person. In her previous life, the Lu family fell into disgrace, and to avoid marrying Lu Xianyu, she framed him and got him sent away to the countryside. Less than two years later, the Lu family was cleared of all charges. To “get revenge” on Jiang Shiyi, Lu Xianyu married her, and they spent ten years tangled up together before finally divorcing. In the end, Jiang Shiyi watche 13kReads7.0Score96414d adds
- 141 Awakening in 1968, the Villainess Refuses to Accept Her Fate 梦醒1968，女配不认命 High stakes from the start, with no dragging things out! After reliving her entire tragic past in a single night, eighteen-year-old Meng Wei sees through her family’s lies at once: the blind date was a diversion, being sent to the countryside was a death sentence, her job was stolen, her identity was taken, and years of lies have finally come to light. She activates the Strong Nation System and transforms from meek to hard-hearted. She takes on her whole family head-on, tears off the mask, gathe 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 When the Daylilies Bloom: Wang Yuxuan 萱草花开之王玉萱 In the final years of the Great Zhou dynasty, the foolish last emperor listens to slander and orders the entire family of the great general Wang Jieyu put to death. Wang Yuxuan, his eldest legitimate daughter, escapes this fate only because she is out with a friend. After avenging her family and successfully assassinating the last emperor, she takes her own life. When she opens her eyes again, she finds herself in a new dynasty. After receiving her memories, she learns that she has been reborn i 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 Reborn in 1946: A Century of Waiting, All for Nothing 重生一九四六：世纪等待终成空 Liu Yingxue waited alone for 54 years, only to find that her husband had a large family of children and grandchildren. After dying of rage, she was reborn on the morning after her wedding in 1946, at the critical moment just before her husband was about to leave. 469Reads6.4Score12514d adds
- 144 Beacon Fires Over Qin Lan: From Great Qin’s Female General to Anti-Japanese Resistance Commander 烽火秦岚：从大秦女将到抗日队长 At the end of the Great Qin dynasty, the last emperor is incompetent and heedless of good counsel. Foreign forces invade, and the great general Qin Xiaoyi and his family fight to the death, laying down their lives for their country. After being struck by an arrow, his eldest legitimate granddaughter, Qin Lan, takes her own life to avoid being dishonored. When she opens her eyes again, she finds herself in a new dynasty. Only after receiving the memories of her new life does she learn that she ha 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 After Divorcing the Marquis, She Became an Imperial Noble Consort 侯夫人和离后，当上了皇贵妃 Du Youhuan, the legitimate eldest daughter of the Marquis of Xuanwu, lost her mother when she was young and has always been frail. By the age of eighteen, no one had asked for her hand in marriage. Her mother, Madam Liu, came from the Duke of Zhenguo's household. She had three older brothers and a younger brother, all of whom were stationed at the border year-round. When Marquis Wei Yingjie of Sheng came to ask for Du Youhuan's hand, he swore he would never take another wife. Two years later, th 67Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 The Eve of Yongle: Where Is My Brother? 永乐前夜：吾兄安在 On the first day of the fifth lunar month in the fifteenth year of the Hongwu reign of the Great Ming, in Nanjing’s Kunning Palace, Crown Prince Zhu Xiongying lay in bed, barely breathing. A tiny figure quietly climbed over the threshold and slipped inside. Seeing that no one was in the palace, the figure struggled up onto the bed. Looking at Zhu Xiongying, he could not help letting out soft, broken sobs. “Brother, brother…” At the sound, Zhu Xiongying struggled to open his eyes. It was his youn 1.2kReads—Score7714d adds
- 147 Ashes of the Heavenly Palace, Spring in Jade 天阙烬，玉生春 When Emperor Tiansheng opened his eyes again amid a mountain of corpses, he was still the Sixth Prince, Xiao Jing. Beyond the broken window lattice of the Cold Palace, the only person who came was the chubby little Jia She, who climbed over the wall every day to sneak him warm osmanthus cakes. Later, he ascended the throne, but Jia She grew distant from him because his grandmother, Lady Jia, disliked him. He could only watch helplessly as Jia Hu drowned and died young, Lady Zhang bled to death, 88Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Princess of Yihe’s Revenge: Phoenix Rules the Realm 凤掌乾坤：宜和郡主复仇录 Shen Huainian, the daughter of Grand Princess Zhaohua and Commandery Princess Yi He, married into the Marquis of Xingguo’s household at fifteen. For five years, she supported her husband, raised their child, and upheld every expectation of a virtuous wife. Then, in the fifth year of their marriage, she discovered that her husband, Chu Huaijin, the Marquis of Xingguo, was having an affair with his widowed sister-in-law, Madam Lin, who was already pregnant. With the tacit approval of her mother-in 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 The Night Runner's Discovery 夜跑者的发现 Xiao Zheng is a freelancer. He spends his days earning a living, then, after work, likes to jog around his neighborhood at night. After a few laps, he enjoys practicing a few of the martial arts routines he learned as a boy in the open space at the center of the plaza. But for the past few days, an old man has claimed the middle of the plaza, dancing ballet every night in a white costume. Curiosity leads Xiao Zheng into a series of extraordinary adventures. 1. The Old Man Dancing Ballet at Midn —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Lamplight on the Cliff 悬崖上的灯影 Lamplight on the Cliff —Reads—Score—14d adds
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