My Favorite Stories Set in a Past Era 很喜欢的年代文

1. 1 五 The Military Industrial Compound in the 1950s 五十年代军工大院 Deer Grass鹿子草Romance1.6M WordsCompleted Ye Manzhi’s view of herself: the prettiest flower in the military-industrial compound, and the glue that keeps her family harmonious. That is, until she sees a line of text above her third sister-in-law’s forehead: [When is this home-wrecker finally marrying into Director Zhou’s family? I’m ready to throw hands!] Ye Manzhi rubs her eyes. ??? When she discovers that she’s living inside a novel as the heroine’s co 229.4kFavorites378.7kClicks/ch1.1MGifts

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   I've had it saved since it was never updated, and I've finally finished reading it after following every chapter. I absolutely love this historical fiction! Seeing so many recommendations makes me so happy that such a great story has been discovered! Each of your historical fiction works is better than the last; you're already amazing, but you manage to be even better! Actually, I'm quite picky about historical fiction, but your work always touches my heart. I especially love your portrayal of the career storylines, and now the romance is even better! I'm looking forward to your next book!

2. 2 被 After the Engagement Was Annulled, I Married a Boss From Shiwen 被退婚后我嫁给了年代文大佬 Lemon Nine柠檬九Romance900k WordsCompleted Xia Shao had had enough of her life as an overworked corporate drone and was planning to quit and retire in her hometown. To her surprise, when she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated to the 1960s, an era of shortages, and found herself saddled with a cuckold's hat. By the time she traveled thousands of miles to the Northeast to confront her fiancé, he had already married a local woman and had two children. Afr 244.1kFavorites458.3kClicks/ch291.4kGifts

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   Super good! It feels like this novel's title is holding it back! The content is fantastic, and there aren't any truly awful characters or events. The historical setting is quite unique, and the genre isn't mainstream, which feels refreshing. The male and female leads are very down-to-earth; it's a sweet, everyday story, but they don't neglect their careers at all, and there are even some satisfying moments. I absolutely love it!

3. 3 在 Selling Chili Peppers in a Period Novel 在年代文里卖辣椒 Rain in Berlin柏林雨声Danmei (BL)797k WordsCompleted *My new serial, The Ruined House on the Mountain Connects to the Sixties, is now open. Please add it to your reading list! *If you've read the whole thing, please leave a five-star review. Thanks! Chen Chen, the owner of a farm-stay, transmigrates into a novel set in the past and becomes the factory troublemaker who stands in the way of the male and female leads. He eventually meets a tragic end. Chen Chen: “Honestly, I just like the countryside.” Working in a factory just isn't right for me. 18.9kFavorites39.7kClicks/ch20.1kGifts

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   It looks pretty good. While reading the article, I really wanted to try the taste of pickled chili peppers. It's so tempting!

4. 4 八 Pearls and Jade Beside Me in the 80s 八零之珠玉在侧 The Queen Is Not Home女王不在家Romance2.0M WordsCompleted People say Chu Wan grew up surrounded by antiques, with nothing in her eyes but old artifacts and no room for people. She can tell an antique's age and style at a glance. Chu Wan married Lu Jianshi to obey her grandfather's wishes, honor an old family promise, and secure a peaceful life for herself. Lu Jianshi treated her well enough, and she didn't want anything else. That is, until the day she saw Lu Jianshi with his arms around a young woman, saying, "My wife looks pretty, and everyone wants 163kFavorites457.8kClicks/ch603.2kGifts

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   A huge, highly recommended read! I doubt I'll ever be able to get into another archaeology-themed novel like this again! The early romance is beautifully crafted, and I loved the tension and the forbidden feeling. The antique-hunting plot is even better! I also learned a lot about antiques from the author; their knowledge and research are truly impressive. In short, this is a fantastic novel that handles both national sentiment and romantic relationships exceptionally well.

5. 5 在 Being the Worst in a Period Novel 在年代文里当极品 Zhai Baili翟佰里Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [This novel has a 90% piracy protection ratio, with a 72-hour protection period. If you bought it but can't read it, try clearing your cache. There's nothing I can do about this lousy System, QAQ.] At a teahouse in the capital, Su Jinxiu was on a blind date. The man across from her was thirty, a skilled worker, widowed, and had a three-year-old son. Su Jinxiu said, "When I was sent to the countryside, I dug mud out of a river in the dead of winter and injured myself. I can't have children." "An 86.2kFavorites321.3kClicks/ch80.6kGifts

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   It's good. The career storyline is animated, and the female lead draws comic books. Many of the animations mentioned in the novel are ones I watched when I was a child.

6. 6 穿 Becoming the Ex-Wife of a Daughter-Doting Tycoon 穿成女儿奴大佬的前妻 Red Celery and Crisp Wine红芹酥酒Romance598k WordsCompleted [If you've bought the complete book, please leave a five-star rating before you go!] Originally titled "A Better Life After Rebirth" Jiang Rou first saw that man in an interrogation room. Down on his luck, silent, and grim... His eyes were ruthless, and he wore a mocking smile, but there was no denying he was handsome. Even at forty, with fine lines at the corners of his eyes, it was hard to imagine what he must have looked like when he was young. His name was Li Xiao. The police had been tra 292.9kFavorites666.6kClicks/ch287.2kGifts

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   This is amazing!!! You'll regret it if you don't read it! This book is so heartwarming and comforting, and the author's writing style is wonderful.

7. 7 满 The Green Tea’s Crushing Victories in the ’70s 满级绿茶在年代文躺赢 Clouds, Auspicious Brocade云吉锦绣Romance993k WordsCompleted Tong Xuelu is nicknamed the Green Tea Queen. She's gorgeous, has a slender figure, and countless admirers, yet she can move through a crowd of suitors without getting involved with any of them. Just as she's had enough of her sweet-talking ways and is ready to turn over a new leaf, karma strikes! She transmigrates into a book, landing in the materially deprived 1970s, as an awkwardly placed fake heiress! According to the plot, the real heiress, reborn, will grind her face into the dirt, frame h 187.9kFavorites628kClicks/ch240.6kGifts

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   Food articles, also

8. 8 抱 My Adorable Little Sister Was Reborn After the Mix-Up 抱错后可爱妹妹重生了 Huan Ruojun浣若君Romance976k WordsCompleted Banxia died at the age of five, then was reborn. The first thing she did after being reborn was look for her biological family, the family of Dr. Gu, who had returned from overseas. She had discovered that she wasn't the child of her current parents. She had been switched at birth in the maternity ward, and was Dr. Gu's biological daughter. She also discovered that she had not only an incredible father, but three amazing older brothers who would go on to achieve great things in medicine, technol 149.9kFavorites412.6kClicks/ch285.5kGifts

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   Hooray for the ending! The plot was pretty good, but some parts were quite infuriating. Also, the author's writing style and punctuation made it a bit awkward to read.

9. 9 七 The Pretty Little Tailor of the Seventies 七零之漂亮小裁缝 Shu Shushu舒书书Romance615k WordsCompleted [The plot has undergone major revisions and differs considerably from pirated versions. Please read the official edition.] Ruan Xi was an accomplished fashion designer. She never expected to wake up as a supporting character with the same name in a novel set in a bygone era. The original Ruan Xi had been left in the countryside by her parents when she was little and raised by her grandparents. The heroine, meanwhile, was the orphan of one of her father's comrades, whom her parents had raised the 82kFavorites204.1kClicks/ch57.6kGifts

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   A gentle, flowing stream is very beautiful.

10. 10 漂 Beautiful Sister-in-Law, Peaceful Hong Kong [The 1980s] 漂亮大嫂，和平香江[八零] Huan Ruojun浣若君Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Interstellar General Su Linlang wakes up one morning and finds herself back in 1980. The good news: She's become the daughter-in-law of the He family, the richest family in Hong Kong, and from the start she's the eldest daughter-in-law. The bad news: On their wedding day, her husband is kidnapped and her father-in-law is attacked. A joyous occasion turns into a funeral. Even worse, in 1980s Hong Kong, a tycoon can be the richest person in town one day and the most indebted the next. The big shot 165.7kFavorites375.6kClicks/ch235.4kGifts

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    The whole book was a great read, but the author's writing style, as always, was unique and initially quite difficult for me to follow. However, it gradually improved, or perhaps I just got used to it, and it became less awkward. The imagery wasn't very strong. But that didn't detract from the overall enjoyment; the plot unfolds seamlessly, and you watch Ah Sa carry the whole story! The author did a good job developing the supporting characters like Shui Zai, Xu Zai, Qian Sir, Lu Liu Ye, and Ah Xia, but some characters were a bit... Well, overall the book was quite good, and I'd still recommend it.

11. 11 我 I Never Expected to Make This Much Money 我真没想过赚这么多钱 Four Single Shop四单铺Romance698k WordsCompleted Ye Zhao, who has accepted fate and decided to lie flat as a human vegetable, transmigrates into a book. Her role: a cannon-fodder supporting female character, despised by her father and competing with her stepsister for affection... Ye Zhao sweeps the plot aside. Why fight for someone's favor? It's 1988, the economy is about to take off, and she's going to make her landlady dreams come true. With a single piece of young ginger, she pulls off a deal without putting up a cent and sets off on the 101.6kFavorites231.9kClicks/ch163.6kGifts

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    It's a unique historical novel set in Guangdong, and it also features a suspenseful plot.

12. 12 强 The Man I Was Forced to Marry Is Fierce [Period] 强嫁的对象他超凶[年代] Huan Ruojun浣若君Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Currently updating: The First Police Sergeant's Wife in Hong Kong [The 1980s], by Huan Ruo Jun Lin Baiqing never had children and ended up divorced. Now she has been reborn. Bound by a marriage pact, she still has to choose one of her ex-husband's brothers to marry. Since she's destined not to have children... of course she'll choose someone who won't have any either, and live a carefree life! Lin Baiqing... chooses her ex-husband's uncle, a military doctor who has never married, always immacula 80.1kFavorites192.9kClicks/ch99.6kGifts

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    Watching books on traditional Chinese medicine will give you a better understanding of the challenges faced by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in our country.

13. 13 香 Fortune-Telling in Hong Kong: One Thousand Gold for a Reading 香江算命，一卦千金 Yi Nan Suyi易楠苏伊Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [This story differs from versions on piracy sites in several places. The official version on Jinjiang is the definitive one!] Blurb: Su Nianxing transmigrates to the 1990s and becomes an undocumented immigrant who has snuck into Hong Kong. At first, she only plans to earn enough capital to return to the mainland, start a business from scratch, and restore her family's former glory. Then she unexpectedly discovers that she can see other people's fates. From then on, Causeway Bay has a young for 79.5kFavorites202.7kClicks/ch175.8kGifts

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    While the divination and metaphysics theme has its shortcomings, it's generally acceptable, with a tight plot and heartwarming neighborhood scenes in the transitional chapters. Surprisingly, many plot points were foreshadowed so early on.

14. 14 穿 After I Mistook My Husband in a Period Novel 穿进年代文认错老公后 Meng Ling Qianye萌铃千叶Romance807k WordsCompleted Novel Blurb: Shui Lang is reborn as a girl with the same name in a Period novel. In her previous life, the girl mistakenly believed that the mistress who had angered her mother to death was her benefactor. First, she handed over the detached house in Shanghai and the family fortune, then went to the countryside thousands of miles away. Ten years later, when her property was returned, the mistress deceived her again. She tore up the will, causing the detached house her mother had left behind and 71.8kFavorites196.6kClicks/ch47.4kGifts

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    Although it has its shortcomings, it's not bad. The female lead is an architectural designer, which is a rare type.

15. 15 别 Don’t Ask Me Who’s the Disco King [The 1980s] 别问我谁是迪斯科[八零] Deer Grass鹿子草Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Please add my upcoming novel, "The Military Industry Compound in the 1950s", to your reading list!] As a handsome university student with bright prospects in the 1980s, Di Sike had nothing to worry about except being broke. Then he discovered that he was living inside a book called "The Pink Tycoon: Love Can’t Escape Me". The heroine was destined to become a tycoon in the entertainment industry, while he was the short-lived unrequited love she remembered fondly! According to the plot, Di Sike 57.4kFavorites104.3kClicks/ch347.5kGifts

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    I highly recommend this author's period novels; they're all very well written, and I especially love this one! The author seems to work within the system.

16. 16 满 Max-Level Supporting Actress, Changing My Fate Online [The 1980s] 满级女配，在线改命[八零] Er Ting二汀Romance829k WordsCompleted Being transmigrated as a lovesick fool isn't the problem. The problem is being penniless and unable to afford even a steamed bun. The male and female leads can wait. Making money comes first! Overnight, Qin Xi transmigrated from being a famous chef in her previous life into the third daughter of Qin Hai and his wife, who worked at Shuguang Cable Factory. In her memories, the whole family was considered awful by everyone else. But after getting to know them, Qin Xi realized that her family's af 45.3kFavorites117.4kClicks/ch31kGifts

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    Looks pretty good, food article

17. 17 大 The Rise of a Great Nation: 1980 大国崛起1980 Great River Flows大江流Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Check out my completed novel, The Great Nation's Manufacturing Industry, 1980] Xu Ruyi, a mechanical engineering PhD, opened her eyes and found herself transmigrated to 1980, on her way to report to the Liaoyuan County Machinery Factory. The factory had just been called out in Boiler, the industry's most famous newspaper. Its boilers were criticized as outdated in design, shoddy in workmanship, questionable in quality, and terrible in service. The factory had become 43.1kFavorites89kClicks/ch80.2kGifts

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    Highly recommended! A truly remarkable story of a "rising great power," and it's incredibly satisfying to watch! Although I know it's idealistic, I still feel a sense of envy and wish it were real. However, this is about machine tools, so there are many technical terms involved.

18. 18 茶 The Crafty Big Sister Who Parents in Reverse [The Sixties] 茶艺长姐，反向带娃[六零] Big Goose Treading Snow大鹅踏雪泥Romance768k WordsCompleted (Please leave a rating now that it's complete! Recommended upcoming novel: The Lazy Couple of the Seventies. Scroll down for the blurb.) Preschool teacher Song He transmigrates into Song Hehua and opens her eyes in the middle of a great famine. With the elders now gone, she has to take her three younger siblings to Li Family Village and seek refuge with her aunt! Song He rolls her eyes and wants to die for a little while. With nothing but a broken bowl from the start, how is she supposed to kee 32.7kFavorites102.4kClicks/ch37.7kGifts

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    The author writes very heartwarming stories, with no awful characters or events. The protagonist's career path involves working in the education industry.

19. 19 七 The Lazy Couple of the 1970s 七零之懒夫妻 Big Goose Treading Snow大鹅踏雪泥Romance704k WordsCompleted Completed! Friends, please leave a rating! Coming soon: Husband Sent Down to the Countryside [The 1970s] and Straight Girl Meets a Male Green Tea. Scroll down for the blurbs! Cheng Baozhu was exactly what her name suggested: her parents' precious darling, a useless little thing who couldn't carry a shoulder pole or lift a hand. On her twentieth birthday, she accidentally transmigrated to 1975 and married the laziest man for miles around. Looking at the black, greasy pickled vegetables, the draf 32.5kFavorites96.1kClicks/ch31.9kGifts

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    Although the book is titled "Lazy Couple," these two are anything but lazy. Their career path revolves around food.

20. 20 九 Raising a Child in the Nineties 九零年代养崽日常 Wielding a Brush to Part the Clouds执笔开云Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Strong Female Lead, Career-Focused Story; Periodic Polishing and Proofreading; Stolen Versions May Differ Considerably from the Official Text] Su Guanyue transmigrated into a period novel, becoming the villainous cannon-fodder character who shared her name. For money, the original Su Guanyue married a nouveau riche man and became his children's stepmother. After the man died unexpectedly, she devoted herself to climbing the social ladder again. She went on blind dates with several wealthy men, 22.6kFavorites74.7kClicks/ch17.3kGifts

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    Although it's about raising children, I really love the career storyline the author wrote, which is quite rare – it's about working in the supermarket industry. I never imagined there were so many intricacies within the supermarket industry.

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