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  1. 1 China's Household Products Industry, 1981 大国日化1981 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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  2. 2 Becoming the Ex-Wife of a Daughter-Doting Tycoon 穿成女儿奴大佬的前妻 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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  3. 3 Reborn: A Sudden Awakening 重生之豁然 Danmei (BL)783k WordsCompleted There are always people who start with a decent hand, only to end up playing it into total disaster. After losing so much, Lin Jingzhe returns to the age of eighteen, before he failed the college entrance exam. It's the nineties, when the economy is taking off and business opportunities are everywhere. This is his best age, and his chance to start over. A short story about being reborn. Some regrets from the past are worth making right. Don't let the blurb fool you: this is actually a feel- 271.5kFavorites542.3kClicks/ch458kGifts
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  4. 4 After the Engagement Was Annulled, I Married a Boss From Shiwen 被退婚后我嫁给了年代文大佬 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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  5. 5 The Military Industrial Compound in the 1950s 五十年代军工大院 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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  6. 6 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 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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  7. 7 Back To The 90s 重回九零 Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Everyday life in a bygone era] Lin Wenjun lay on the operating table, looking back on a life that had, by all accounts, been pretty good. Her husband had made his fortune in the 1990s. He never kept a mistress or cheated on her. Her three children were reasonably filial. She had never endured great hardship or suffered terribly. So why had she never been satisfied? Was it because she and her husband had grown further and further apart? Because her three children resented her for not treating th 219.3kFavorites575.6kClicks/ch1.2MGifts
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  8. 8 After Accidentally Marrying the Big Shot in a Period Novel 错嫁给年代文大佬后 Romance750k WordsCompleted Yan Xue had terrible luck with transmigration. While still young, she had to travel far beyond the pass to get married in order to escape her circumstances. She'd heard her prospective husband had lost his family backing, but he was capable, tall, handsome, and a fine-looking fellow. Yan Xue was reasonably satisfied. That day, heavy snow blanketed the logging camp. She had taken a long-distance train and then a local train, and her hands and feet were frozen stiff. Through the swirling snow, s 217.9kFavorites275.5kClicks/ch238.1kGifts
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  9. 9 21+ The Cannon-Fodder Ex-Wife Finds Happiness 年代文炮灰原配幸福起来 Romance502k WordsCompleted 191.8kFavorites410.6kClicks/ch390.1kGifts
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  10. 10 A Beautiful, Wealthy Woman in the Seventies 七十年代白富美 Romance546k WordsCompleted [The author changed pen names ^ ^ The old name was Sumeping Sheng, the new name is Qiguang] · [Tips: 1. The couple reunite after a separation. 2. The second male lead is reborn.] The village ne'er-do-well, so poor he couldn't afford a single coin of bride price, with no ambition and nothing better to do than loaf around, actually married a beautiful, rich city girl! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The beautiful, rich Zhao Lanxiang is reborn, and the first thing she does after waking is hurry off to find 187.9kFavorites524.7kClicks/ch129.5kGifts
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  11. 11 Hong Kong Detective [The Nineties] 香江神探[九零] Romance1.7M WordsCompleted Many years later, when speaking to a cover-story reporter from Time magazine, Yi Jiayi would look back on that distant afternoon when the head of the Major Crimes Unit took her to see a corpse... In that moment, she heard the victim's anguished cries, saw the killer's face, and gained the ability to mentally rewind a crime scene. From then on, Hong Kong had one fewer junior policewoman who drank tea and gossiped at work, then went on dates and went shopping after hours. In her place, it gained 174.9kFavorites302.8kClicks/ch2.2MGifts
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  12. 12 Grassland Veterinarian [1960s] 草原牧医[六零] Romance1.4M WordsCompleted “I hope I can go somewhere that respects veterinarians more!” With that one sigh, Lin Xuejun transmigrates to the grasslands of the 1960s, where she becomes a starving, freezing young woman sent to the countryside. Modern veterinary medicine is only just getting started in this era. A minor epidemic can kill hundreds or thousands of cattle and sheep, destroying a year’s hard work for the herders and wiping the smiles from the faces of the hospitable grassland people. As an ordinary graduate stud 165.8kFavorites290.9kClicks/ch1.3MGifts
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  13. 13 Pearls and Jade Beside Me in the 80s 八零之珠玉在侧 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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  14. 14 The Pampered Beauty of a Powerful Figure in the 1970s Is Reborn 七零大佬的娇气美人重生了 Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Meng Yanqing was breathtakingly beautiful and exceptionally talented. Though she married young, her husband was gentle and attentive, and her little son was clever and adorable. Even in the worst of times, she was always cherished and protected. After falling gravely ill and passing away, she learned that she had been living in a novel set in a bygone era. The novel's overpowered transmigrating male protagonist married the true heiress, breezed through every obstacle, and reached the pinnacle of 122.7kFavorites325.2kClicks/ch95.6kGifts
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  15. 15 Stepmother 后娘[穿越] Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Liu Ling, who never wanted to marry, lived freely all her life. Before she died, a friend asked if she had any unfulfilled wishes. Liu Ling said she regretted never raising a child. Her friend was stumped. That would be hard to arrange. Before the friend could say anything, Liu Ling added that childbirth was dangerous for both mother and baby, so maybe it was for the best. Unfortunately, Heaven heard her. Instead of entering the Underworld after death, she transmigrated into the body of Song Zha 121.7kFavorites458.1kClicks/ch446.3kGifts
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  16. 16 21+ I Travel Back to the 1960s and Get Pregnant with a Big Shot's Baby 穿六零怀了大佬的崽儿 Romance1.4M WordsCompleted 109.1kFavorites200.3kClicks/ch155.7kGifts
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  17. 17 My Mother-in-Law Is Reborn [The 1970s] 我的婆婆是重生的[七零] 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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  18. 18 A Marriage Swap in the 1960s: Marrying a Chef 六零换亲嫁厨子 Romance728k WordsCompleted [Several completed period novels and food stories in my author profile] After enduring seven or eight years in the apocalypse and going hungry, Wang Ying transmigrated to the 1960s. Her cousin, who lived in another branch of the family, came down with a fever. When she woke up, she started making a huge fuss about breaking off her engagement to the man she had been promised to. Her tearful aunt came to Wang Ying and asked her to marry him instead. When Wang Ying heard he was a cook, she was d 95.8kFavorites292.6kClicks/ch107.2kGifts
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  19. 19 Returning to 1995: Contentment with Modest Prosperity 重回九五之小富即安 Romance786k WordsCompleted [Complete! I have several completed novels on my author page. Please follow me!] Jian Li died after suffering a heart attack from working overtime at a 996 job. On top of that, she was dieting and hadn't eaten, so her blood sugar plummeted and she couldn't catch her breath. After dying, Jian Li realized one thing: in her next life, she absolutely wasn't going to push herself so hard. All that matters in life is food and drink. No more dieting: 90.1kFavorites156.3kClicks/ch279.9kGifts
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  20. 20 The Women’s Director of the 1970s 七十年代妇女主任 Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Going VIP on the 25th, with a 10,000-character update. Thanks for your support.] Zhao Ke was a disgruntled workaholic who traveled back to the 1970s and became remarkably laid-back. After all, once the college entrance exams returned, her future would be bright. Then one day, out of the blue, Zhao Ke realized she was living in a novel set in the past. Everyone in the book was either the male or female lead, or one of the awful people who got humiliated by them. The latter included, but weren' 85kFavorites180.2kClicks/ch220.2kGifts
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  21. 21 Female Machinist [1960s] 女钳工[六零] Romance740k WordsCompleted They were revered and held in high esteem. They were synonymous with master artisans, the workers of their era who enjoyed star-like fame, and the backbone of the nation’s industrial rise. “Eighth-Grade Craftsmen” “So why can’t I be one of them?” “She’s just a wild girl, fierce as can be!” Lin Qiaozhi never dreamed that her speed, strength, and sturdy build would lead to her dying young, writhing in pain on a dirt bed while giving birth. “Ha!” Lin Qiaozhi jolted awake, drenched in cold 85kFavorites107.3kClicks/ch485.6kGifts
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  22. 22 The Pretty Little Tailor of the Seventies 七零之漂亮小裁缝 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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  23. 23 The Man I Was Forced to Marry Is Fierce [Period] 强嫁的对象他超凶[年代] 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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  24. 24 After Becoming the Substitute Bride of a Powerful Man from the Past 替嫁给年代文大佬后 Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [Next up: My Beautiful Mother Handed Over the Villain Kid. See my author page!] In the 1960s, Deng Kunlun, a PhD in aerospace physics and engineering, overcame countless obstacles and finally returned to his hometown across the ocean after twenty years away. He became a leading figure in the heavy industry sector. Seeing that he was single, the organization searched far and wide for a kind, beautiful wife to introduce to him. Su Xiaoe, cousin of Su Yingtao, made it through round after round o 77.9kFavorites303.3kClicks/ch389kGifts
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  25. 25 The Butcher’s Daughter Who Died Young in the 1960s 六零之杀猪匠的早逝闺女 Romance831k WordsCompleted When Mu Mian returned to her hometown for the Qingming Festival to pay respects to her ancestors, she heard some grandmothers from the village telling stories about their childhood. One grandmother said that when she was young, there had been a family in the neighboring brigade that met a tragic fate. They had been one of the most prosperous families in the brigade, but their happy life ended the moment their youngest daughter was kidnapped. The old woman died after suddenly taking ill, and the 72.6kFavorites174.1kClicks/ch123.1kGifts
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  26. 26 I Really Didn’t Mean to Time Travel 我真没想穿越啊 Romance516k WordsCompleted Zhu Shuangjiang is a university student nearing graduation. One day, she suddenly transmigrates thirty years into the past. Transformed into a child, she lands on the street and is eventually sent to an orphanage after passing through several hands. The orphanage provides for basic survival, but offers no freedom. After thinking it over, she realizes the only reliable path is to study hard. ① There is a romance, but the main focus is the plot, with a slice-of-life feel. ② This is a wish-fulfill 71.4kFavorites130.9kClicks/ch235.7kGifts
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  27. 27 The Hong Kong Chef [The 1980s] 香江大厨[八零] Romance1.2M WordsCompleted There's a restaurant in Mong Kok that's been open for over thirty years. It's always packed, and diners rave about it. But even amid all its success, danger is looming. The elderly owner has no successor, and his apprentice has opened a rival restaurant, luring customers away with low prices. The diners secretly lament that the restaurant probably won't last more than a few years. One day, the owner brings his biological granddaughter over from the mainland and decides to hand the restaurant ov 64.8kFavorites110.4kClicks/ch71kGifts
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  28. 28 The Stunning Beauty of the Seventies Takes Hong Kong by Storm 七零之绝色美人玩转香江 Romance962k WordsCompleted In her previous life, Ye Tianhui made a name for herself on the battlefield. Now, born in the 1970s, she has become the biological daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong family who was left behind on the mainland. There's no family affection among the rich, only self-interest. She's come to this dazzling, colorful Hong Kong with just one wish: to eat something delicious. She rolls up her sleeves, ready to get to work. Make money! Get rich! Then eat her fill! Theme: Wherever you are, keep striving and s 59.4kFavorites130.1kClicks/ch127.3kGifts
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  29. 29 Don’t Ask Me Who’s the Disco King [The 1980s] 别问我谁是迪斯科[八零] 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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  30. 30 A Remarried Couple in the 1960s 六零再婚夫妻 Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Before the wedding, Du Chunfen's in-laws treated her like royalty. After they married, her younger brother-in-law relied on her salary to get through school, her younger sister-in-law relied on her connections to find a good husband, and her husband caught the eye of a rich heiress. Then her in-laws kicked her and her two three-year-old daughters out. They even told everyone that Du Chunfen couldn't bear a son. Little did they know that Du Chunfen was already fed up with the whole family and ha 50.1kFavorites172.1kClicks/ch153.5kGifts
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  31. 31 A Zhaodi Reborn 一个招娣的重生 Romance787k WordsCompleted Song Zhaodi has always been pretty content. She thinks her life has turned out all right: not as good as some, but better than others. She hasn't had any serious illnesses, though she's always had one minor ailment or another. Her features are regular, though an employer three years older than her calls her "Auntie Song." But after two or three decades of hard work, this country girl finally has a home of her own in the city, even if she still has twenty years of mortgage payments left. She has 24.2kFavorites57.7kClicks/ch62.5kGifts
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  32. 32 The 1970s' Obstetrics and Gynecology Expert 七零妇产圣手 Romance2.9M WordsCompleted Coming next: “I Got Rich After My Divorce.” One-line summary: The daily life of an outspoken single mom raising a child and making a fortune in the 1980s. Yu Qiu, a doctoral expert in obstetrics, took the subway and somehow ended up in a small mountain village in the 1970s. Medical care was underdeveloped in the 1970s, and whether a woman survived childbirth was all down to luck. The young daughter-in-law at the east end of the village had a breech baby. The baby at the west end had crowned, 24.1kFavorites154.9kClicks/ch71.8kGifts
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  33. 33 Fortune-Telling in the 1970s 七十年代神算生涯 Romance374k WordsCompleted Hong Kong, Goldfish Street, 1975. "Brother Seven, a word of advice: go easy on spicy food these next few days and take care of yourself." He Xi smiled warmly and handed a red snapper to the new boss of Mong Kok. "Little girl, you'd be better off studying. Don't follow your godfather's example at such a young age. Fortune-telling, reading faces, driving out evil spirits and war 23.7kFavorites127kClicks/ch16.1kGifts
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  34. 34 Reborn in the Nineties: A Mother Must Stand Strong 重生九零之为母当自强 Romance2.6M WordsCompleted Coming next: I Got Rich After My Divorce. One-line summary: The daily life of an Eighties single mom raising kids and making a fortune. Chen Fengxia died. She worked her whole life, and spent it being a good wife and mother, yet when she was on her deathbed, she was estranged from her husband and children. When she opened her eyes again, it was 1996. Her two children were crying and making a fuss, and her husband had walked off as soon as he finished eating. Looking at their cramped rental in 19.5kFavorites80.4kClicks/ch113.4kGifts
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  35. 35 Life in the Factory District in the 1980s 80年代厂区生活 Romance766k WordsCompleted After waking up in a parallel world, Sun Pian, born in an era of unrest and raised in the 1980s, spends her days with her family in the residential compounds of a power plant and a tire factory. The Sun family muddles through the small everyday affairs of life, both inside and outside the factory compound. Theme: No matter how the times change, family and loved ones wi 18.9kFavorites78kClicks/ch32.1kGifts
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  36. 36 The Female Tycoon of the Eighties 八零年代女首富 Romance2.8M WordsCompleted Next up: My Night School Teacher in the Seventies. In one sentence: My students are big shots, and so am I. Complete, so dive in without worry. Also known as: The Spicy Mom's Wealth-Building Days in the Eighties; I Was Beaten to Death by My Husband, Then Reborn; Men Only Slow Down My Money-Making. The story focuses mainly on her career, with everyday life as a secondary thread. Her daughter died young, her son was cold and distant, and her husband beat her. After her fifth failed attempt to div 16.2kFavorites52.4kClicks/ch69.9kGifts
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  37. 37 Back to 1998 重回1998 Romance576k WordsCompleted [Complete] As Lin Qing slipped down the mountain, she thought back over her life. At eighteen, she received her university acceptance letter, but never went to college. She was determined to make a fortune and quickly make something of herself, just to show her deadbeat father, who had abandoned her mother and her, what he had missed. By the time she finally achieved financial freedom, she looked back and found that her mother had grown old and her younger sister had changed. Lin Qing bought 15.7kFavorites47.5kClicks/ch11.1kGifts
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