Feel-Good Stories Set in a Bygone Era 年代爽文

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 really like the female lead's personality.

2. 2 年 After Mistaking the Male Lead, the Cannon-Fodder Heroine of the Era Novel 年代文炮灰女配认错男主后 Lemon Nine柠檬九Romance511k WordsCompleted [The novel is complete! If you like sweet romance, check out the childhood-sweethearts bonus arc. It's guaranteed to be sweet!] Lin Qiao transmigrates into a period novel that a friend once told her about. She can't even remember the male lead's name. As a cannon-fodder female character who is a poor match for the male lead, she marries him only 224kFavorites363.8kClicks/ch148.8kGifts

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   It's alright.

3. 3 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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   I like themes like antiques and jade gambling. The first half was quite good and very attractive to me, but I couldn't get through the second half.

4. 4 卧 I Went Undercover So Well, the Suspect Asked Me to Join the Team [The 1990s] 卧底太成功，嫌犯求我去上班[九零] Moonsea Demon Queen月海妖后Romance3.1M WordsCompleted An audiobook of the same name is now available on Ximalaya. Completed career-focused novels: Reborn in 1988: The IT Queen; Reborn: The Rise of a Marketing Queen; Reborn in 1920: The Fashion Queen Wang Xuejiao transmigrates into the body of a police officer and is assigned to an undercover operation. She sets up a stall by the roadside selling rice topped with braised dishes, and is chased away by city inspectors. She's worried the suspect will get away. To her surprise, the suspect runs after 109.2kFavorites165.1kClicks/ch407.2kGifts

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   It's okay, but I haven't finished watching it yet.

5. 5 我 My Mother-in-Law Is Reborn [The 1970s] 我的婆婆是重生的[七零] Fragrant Crisp Chestnut香酥栗Romance2.8M WordsCompleted (Coming next: Our Whole Village Transmigrates to the Nineties and My Dad Is the Foil to the Male Lead in a Period Novel. On the night of her wedding, Mingmei had a dream. She dreamed of a “Book of Life.” And the protagonist of that book was her mother-in-law, who was about to hit her head and pass out that very morning, then wake up reborn. Apparently, her mother-in-law had returned from fifty years in the future. She had witnessed the changing times and expe 96.3kFavorites266.5kClicks/ch378.1kGifts

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   Family matters and petty squabbles, blind impulsiveness!

6. 6 我 My Dad Is the Foil to the Male Lead in a Period Novel 我阿爹是年代文男主对照组 Fragrant Crisp Chestnut香酥栗Romance2.8M WordsCompleted There are two widowers in Qingshui Village. The two are like opposites in a study. One is hardworking and diligent; the other is lazy and slippery. One is tough and sturdy, with a firm character; the other is weak and useless, delicate and frail. One has the surname Gu, a popular surname for romance novel heroes, and the name Gu Lin, a perfect hero's name. The other has the common surname Wang, unremarkable as can be, and the name Wang Yicheng. One puts love above all else; the other is a self-i 92.1kFavorites262.3kClicks/ch601.5kGifts

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   I love crispy chestnuts. Her writing style is very distinctive, refreshing and humorous, making it easy to read.

7. 7 六 A 1960s Beat Cop Who Loves Gossip and Her Job 六零小片警爱吃瓜爱工作 Fragrant Crisp Chestnut香酥栗Romance2.9M WordsCompleted Starts August 27 at noon. Du Juan, a second-generation transmigrator, graduates from high school, takes over her father’s job, and becomes a proud little community police officer. On her first day at work, she gets accidentally hit on the head and acquires a “system.” Big or small matters, family squabbles, chaos and commotion: there’s never a dull moment. To the east, a widower abandons his children and elopes with a widow, only to get swindled out of his money. Du Juan rushes to the scene. To 70kFavorites134.6kClicks/ch411.5kGifts

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   My sleep reading material

8. 8 穿 Reborn as a Sweet and Silly Girl in a Period Novel 穿成年代文里的傻白甜 Fragrant Crisp Chestnut香酥栗Romance908k WordsCompleted Coming next: The Versatile Missy I Transmigrated Into as the Male Lead's Supporting Character Jiang Tiantian transmigrated to the 1960s overnight. Her family had nothing, she was dirt poor, and she was downright pitiful. Even her blind date was a notorious lazybones from the village, and his whole family was domineering and unreasonable. Their first meeting was a complete disaster. Jiang Tiantian's little ears twitched. With tiny dimples showing, she said sweetly, "Sounds good to me!" I recogn 68.5kFavorites371.2kClicks/ch102.2kGifts

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   I watched it a long time ago, it was good.

9. 9 七 The Unrivaled Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctor of the Seventies 七零国医无双 Old Hu Eighteen老胡十八Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Bonus chapters are updated and ready to binge] Qing Yin is driven by her career. With her superb medical skills and management talent, she achieves financial freedom at a young age. She opens hospitals, develops new medicines, and benefits her community. Then one night, before bed, she reads a period novel. In it, there's a passerby with the same name as her who appears in only one chapter and dies horribly. Why? Simply because she's the love-struck female lead's aunt. The niece is clearly old 61.3kFavorites153.7kClicks/ch86.8kGifts

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   Abundant Traditional Chinese Medicine Cases

10. 10 全 After the Whole Family Moved to Hong Kong 全家迁居港城之后 Nine-Colored Brocade九色锦Romance3.4M WordsCompleted The title has changed. The original title was “An Ordinary Family Relocates to Hong Kong.” Blurb: They thought the day the Martyrs' Affairs Office brought their family a death notice was the most painful day the Guo family would ever face. Surely things couldn't get any worse. But it turned out that the future held nothing but disaster for the whole family. They couldn't just wait to die, so the Guo family once again set off to leave their home behind. Notes: 1. This is slice-of-life, slow-pace 43.4kFavorites93.2kClicks/ch109.2kGifts

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    Opening up a new track for contemporary literature

11. 11 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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    The career line is very attractive, but the love line is almost negligible.

12. 12 七 The Little Widow in the 1970s Compound 七零大杂院小寡妇 Fragrant Crisp Chestnut香酥栗Romance2.4M WordsCompleted Qing Yu, a sanda champion standing 175 centimeters tall, weighing 165, and strong as an ox, transmigrates into a period novel and becomes Chen Qingyu, a newly widowed young woman who is 160 centimeters tall, weighs 80, and is delicate and frail. Life as a young widow is hard. Her husband is dead, her mother-in-law is spiteful, and she has two children. Four people share one room and one heated bed. The crowded courtyard is full of schemers: men who covet the young widow's beauty, gossipy old wo 43kFavorites109.5kClicks/ch136.6kGifts

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    No male lead, a lighthearted and enjoyable read.

13. 13 大 China's Household Products Industry, 1981 大国日化1981 Great River Flows大江流Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Zhou Yu, the director of Huamei Household Products Factory, is reborn in 1981 as a rural university student who shares her name and has been expelled for repeatedly ignoring warnings about dating on campus. Everyone says that since she dropped out of college, no factory will hire her, she won't get a job assignment after graduation, and no one will want to marry her. Zhou Yu: Why bother with a factory? Why get married? In the early 1980s, foreign household-products companies haven't entered Xi 42kFavorites52.2kClicks/ch95.8kGifts

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    This is a career-themed article with a very clear timeline.

14. 14 七 The 1970s Book-Trotting Literary Nitpicker 七零穿书文艺杠精 Luoshui Jiana洛水伽楠No CP655k WordsCompleted This is for readers who don't yet know the full story but are still willing to communicate. Please look at the timeline. When I started the new story on March 8, I included a content warning in its blurb, using wording in accordance with the Xinhua Dictionary precisely to keep readers who might be bothered from stumbling into it. I never expected someone to call me out over the warning, followed by people leaving low ratings and content warnings on this story, which had been completed for a year 39.5kFavorites60.9kClicks/ch128.1kGifts

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    No male lead, a feminist warrior!

15. 15 社 The Social Butterfly Baby and Her Mom's Social Death [The 1970s] 社牛宝宝，亲妈社死[七零] Qiu Ling秋凌Romance1.5M WordsCompleted Song Fenglan takes her three-year-old son to join the military. Her son, full of indignation, immediately shouts in the residential compound: "Who is my dad? Step forward!" Song Fenglan is mortified on the spot. She's here to join her husband, not catch him cheating. Qin Yizhou has been secretly in love with his wife for years. The two got together after someone set them up, and he knows she doesn't like him. He never expected his wife to bring their son to join him in the military. He had been 33.7kFavorites87.3kClicks/ch15kGifts

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    To kill time, I watched it.

16. 16 重 Back Before the 1990s Demolition 重回九零拆迁前 Fragrant Crisp Chestnut香酥栗Romance802k WordsCompleted While hospitalized, Li Shuxin looked back on her life. It had been good and bad, rich and difficult; ultimately, the biggest turning point in her fate was the demolition that year. Before the compensation money even reached her hands, people started scheming, and the money was gone. Lying in her hospital bed, she drifted in and out of con 30.9kFavorites102.8kClicks/ch31.2kGifts

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    Refreshing novel

17. 17 七 A Delicious Life in the 1970s 七零年代美滋滋 Han Xiao Qi寒小期Romance586k WordsCompleted [Starting from nothing, building wealth through food.] Reader's guide: ① The author has no sense of logic. This story is set in a fictional world, so don't read it if that's not your thing. ② Recommended completed stories: A Good Life in the 1960s, Yun Yun's Comfortable Life, The Splendid Farm Gate, Reborn After the High School Entrance Exam, The Hunter's Beloved Wife, Lord She's Hilarious Misadventures, Wang Xifeng's Rebirth, and more. ③ Please follow the author's page =3= Theme: Start from n 25.4kFavorites169.6kClicks/ch37.8kGifts

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    Food blogger, self-made.

18. 18 幼 The Whole Kindergarten Was Reborn, Except... [The Nineties] 幼稚园全都重生了，除了……[九零] Fragrant Crisp Chestnut香酥栗Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Next up for preorder: My Mother-in-Law Is Reborn [The 1970s] The new school term has begun, and everyone has become more mischievous. Yuanbao keeps insisting the arithmetic teacher is wrong, and has even made the teacher cry. Tianbao's cooking is so delicious that she stole the lunchroom chef's spatula, making him chase her around. Mengbao thought the costumes for the school performance were too ugly, so she insisted on sewing her own. And then there's Xiongbao. He has actually learned mart 24.8kFavorites108.1kClicks/ch39.3kGifts

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    Very healing and heartwarming

19. 19 重 The IT Queen Returns to 1988 重回1988之IT女王 Moonsea Demon Queen月海妖后Romance2.2M WordsCompleted The full novel is complete. Completed period novels: Reborn in 1920: The Fashion Queen and Protecting My Country Through Quick Transmigration (mainly large-scale technology). The Queen of Hit Novels is currently updating. An Xia wakes up one day and discovers that she has transmigrated to 1988. The internet is full of people saying that folks in the eighties had clear eyes and that everything was wonderful. What nonsense. You need ration coupons to buy anything, and money to do anything. Th 17.3kFavorites41.5kClicks/ch42.3kGifts

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    Career-focused story, very inspiring and exhilarating.

20. 20 七 A Seventies Couple's Everyday Life Back in the City 七零夫妻回城日常 Little Sparrow on the Moon落在月亮上的小麻雀Romance850k WordsCompleted Blurb: Yu Hongxia had been married to her educated youth husband, Jiang Guangjun, for seven years. By the time they returned to the city, they already had three children. On their first night living with her in-laws in a crowded compound, she had a long dream. In the dream, because she hadn’t returned to the city through a job placement 14.2kFavorites31.4kClicks/ch14.2kGifts

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    Good

21. 21 穿 Becoming a Phoenix Man in the 1980s 穿成80年代的凤凰男 Seven-Year Jade七年玉Romance704k WordsCompleted After transmigrating to the 1980s, He Zhifei has two goals. First: study hard, get into the medical school at Imperial University, and return to his old profession as a surgeon. Second: work hard to earn money and give his family a better life! Just as He Zhifei is working toward these goals, one day someone runs up to him and yells that he's a phoenix man, then threatens to make his life worse than death. He Zhifei gives them a baffled look. I'm a phoenix man??? PS: 1. As always, this is a r 10.6kFavorites46.8kClicks/ch8.2kGifts

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    Well enough

22. 22 七 The 1970s Female National Champion: Sweet and Satisfying Days 七零女国手，甜爽日常 Meng Qingzhou孟青舟Romance832k WordsCompleted Shen Nanxing's first half of life was filled with hardships. She repeatedly risked her life and survived against all odds. At last, she rose from apprentice at an underground clinic in Hong Kong to a miracle-working doctor whom wealthy and famous patients would pay a fortune to see. From fleeing south with nothing to becoming the head of a world-class medical group with countless patented formulas. She was a living legend! Or rather, she was, until she kicked the bucket. Just when she'd finall 7.7kFavorites9kClicks/ch7.7kGifts

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    That's a bit of an exaggeration, but the reality check is coming eventually.

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