Stories Set in a Bygone Era 年代

1. 1 普 An Average Girl, but a Genius Simulator (The 1970s) 普女，但天才模拟器[七零] Returning South回南Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Coming soon: Global Dumbing Down: I Become the Greatest Scholar. After transmigrating, Zhuang Yan binds herself to a Genius Simulator. [Congratulations, Host! You’ve drawn the 1970s! Your starting attribute points total 100. Please allocate them.] [Attribute points can be allocated to Appearance, Intelligence, Health, Family Background, and Charm.] Zhuang Yan spent her whole life as an ordinary person... She never ranked first in her class, couldn’t 39kFavorites52kClicks/ch150.7kGifts

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   The female protagonist was an ordinary person in her previous life. After transmigrating, she gained a system that boosted her intelligence, turning her into a top student and helping her straighten out her dysfunctional family and achieve a better life.

2. 2 年 The Wicked Mother-in-Law in a Tearjerker Period Drama 年代苦情剧恶婆婆 Life as Though New人生若初No CP436k WordsCompleted Shen Peilin was a plant-type ability user barely scraping by in the apocalypse. She opens and closes her eyes, and transmigrates. There is food stored at home, everything outside is lush and green, and the whole world is her pantry. Shen Peilin picks wild greens, hunts game, gathers wild fruit, and lives like a carefree immortal. "Mother, you have to stand up for Honglian!" With a bang, the heroine of a tragic melodrama falls to her knees before her, knocking her head against the floor three tim 13.3kFavorites34kClicks/ch12.9kGifts

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   The female protagonist transmigrates from a post-apocalyptic world to a rural area with plant-based superpowers, straightens out a bunch of awful characters, and becomes rich.

3. 3 福 Fu Bao's Seventies 福宝的七十年代 The Queen Is Not Home女王不在家Romance908k WordsCompleted [Blurb] After Nie Laosan's family had a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, they no longer wanted to raise Fubao. They said she was born to bring bad luck. No one in the production brigade wanted her. The Gu family drew lots and picked the character "Fu," so they had no choice but to adopt Fubao. Nie Laosan's wife stood with her hands on her hips and cursed: "Whoever wants her can raise her! Whoever does will have the worst luck for eight lifetimes!" Nie Laosan's daughter, Yinzhu, thought to hersel 145.5kFavorites583.5kClicks/ch150.9kGifts

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   The female supporting character is reborn and schemes to have her parents kick Fu Bao out. Fu Bao is then adopted by new parents and uses her good fortune to make her new family better and better.

4. 4 九 The Beast Speaker of the 1990s [Criminal Investigation] 九零之兽语者[刑侦] Hu June胡六月Romance968k WordsCompleted [Please add my next book, The Reborn Crime Records Clerk, to your collection] In 1995, after graduating from the police academy, Xia Mufan is assigned to the Anning Road Police Station as a young policewoman. Anning Road is as peaceful as its name suggests. The police station is so quiet that the officers’ bones are practically rusting. · Her first callout in July is to help a wealthy woman find her missing teddy dog. Her colleagues head out in high spirits, all of them together: At last, a chan 46.1kFavorites95.8kClicks/ch73.5kGifts

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   There is a romantic subplot, but the main focus is on the story. The female lead can communicate with animals and solves cases together with the animals that appear in the cases.

5. 5 我 I Can See the Murder List [Nineties] 我能看到凶杀名单［九零］ Ten Miles of Quiet Joy十里清欢No CP1.2M WordsCompleted [Blurb for this novel]: Yan Zhengyu, a criminal investigation team captain, had solved countless major cases. After an accident, he transmigrated to more than thirty years in the past and became a newly hired beat cop. The original owner of this body should have been the eldest son of a wealt 52.5kFavorites66.5kClicks/ch73.6kGifts

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   The male protagonist travels through time and can see the criminals' crimes.

6. 6 年 The Villain's Wife in a Period Novel 年代文反派之妻 Mu Yao Rao木妖娆Romance588k WordsCompleted Lin Shu transmigrated into the entrepreneurial era of a male-protagonist novel and became the doomed wife of the story's villain. In the original story, the villain and the male lead worked together to speculate on the black market. The villain had bad luck and was caught, but he refused to rat out the male lead. He only asked him to look after his wife and children. But by the time the villain returned, his wife and children were gone. The villain held the male lead responsible, and the two o 74.4kFavorites128.1kClicks/ch62.1kGifts

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   Love after marriage and everyday family matters

7. 7 七 The Delicate Beauty of the 1970s: Book Transmigration 七零娇气美人[穿书] Tang Su棠酥Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Blurb: Heiress Cheng Yaoyao transmigrates into a period novel and becomes a villainous supporting character with the same name. Cheng Yaoyao says: No big deal! As long as I’m still beautiful, I’ll remain at the top of the food chain! But life in a rural village in the 1970s is harsh, and the labor is grueling. The delicate heiress injures her hand just pulling weeds, and bursts into tears 114.5kFavorites447.5kClicks/ch130.9kGifts

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   The male lead is a landlord's son who has been exonerated, a wolf-dog type; the female lead is a spoiled rich girl.

8. 8 养 Raising Kids, Starting with a Street Stall 养崽，从摆摊开始 Grains of Stardust星辰粒粒Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Song Xinran transmigrated into the mother of a male supporting character. In her original body, she'd worked at a factory, dragging herself through several days of night shifts while sick, until she died from overwork. Song Xinran rubbed her dizzy head, immediately quit her job, then followed the original owner's last wish and went home to see her child. At the time, the male supporting character, Song Yu, was only three years old and living with relatives. He never had enough to eat or wear. A 47.7kFavorites78.5kClicks/ch78kGifts

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   The female protagonist transmigrates, is a skilled cook, and leads her son to a comfortable life. The ending is quite abrupt.

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