Period Fiction 年代文

1. 1 七 A Melancholy Beauty in the Seventies 七零年代丧系病美人 Three Scrolls Bound as One三卷成册Romance174k WordsCompleted New novel coming soon: "If I Can Farm, Why Would I Work?" Find it on the author's page. Song Wanqiu, the most beautiful interpreter, transmigrates to the 1970s. Her original owner had been frail and sickly since childhood, gasping for breath after every few steps. She was the very picture of a delicate beauty in poor health. But after an accident, she had no choice but to marry the compound's "great menace." Everyone in the compound felt sorry for Song Wanqiu 8.2kFavorites23kClicks/ch2kGifts
2. 2 1 A Brilliant British Composer in the 1980s 1980s英国作曲佳人 Top of the Class at the Cafeteria打饭第一名Romance268k WordsOngoing In 1979, Evelyn opens her eyes while burning with a fever and remembers that in her previous life she was an independent musician in China. But Evelyn has no intention of returning to her old profession. She remembers how thrilled she was to land a pile of low-paying jobs on an online platform, then spent every night revising them until late. Evelyn vows that this time she'll choose a career that makes her rich! Musicians? Not even a dog would Do it! Music is exactly what she'll do! By a twis 6.6kFavorites7.7kClicks/ch7.4kGifts

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   The serial I'm currently following

3. 3 民 A Writer in Republican-Era China 民国写书人 Half-Moon Rose月半蔷薇Romance121k WordsOngoing In the eighth year of the Republic, opium addicts were everywhere. People said, "When the guns start firing, you either sell your child or pawn your wife." After squandering the family fortune and pawning his wife, Xie Laosan naturally set his sights on his thirteen-year-old daughter. Xie Qinghe, who had transmigrated into this world and was worth just one silver dollar and eight copper coins, refused to accept her fate. She ran dozens of miles through the night and climbed aboard a small st 6.5kFavorites4.5kClicks/ch8.9kGifts

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   It's good, but it's only at 100,000 words so far.

4. 4 在 Driving a Taxi in the Nineties 在九零开出租的日子 Moon Over the Empty Mountain空山澜月Romance404k WordsOngoing Jiang Yan was killed by an object thrown from a high-rise and woke up in the 1990s. Things were going terribly from the start: her father was dead and her mother had remarried, leaving her with a younger brother and sister. Those two had been part of an illegal-birth “hit-and-run” family, too. Luckily, her late father had been a taxi driver, and the family still had the “yellow minivan” he’d bought on credit. And the 1990s were the golden age of the taxi business. People said that when the accel 6.4kFavorites10kClicks/ch6.3kGifts

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   Both this and the next one are quite long, so you can read them!

5. 5 穿 Transmigrating to the 1960s as a Terrible Middle-Aged Man 穿到六零当极品中登 The Witch Porridge Pot巫婆熬粥Romance413k WordsOngoing [Next book: Transmigrating to the 1970s, I’m Reborn as My Mom’s Twin Sister] Blurb: Xu Chuan transmigrates into a period novel as its short-tempered, stingy, blindly filial father. His selfish parents and country siblings, who leech off him; his meek, soft-hearted wife, whom anyone can bully; his lovesick second son, who’d burn himself just to shine a light on his goddess; his fifth daughter, the real heiress whom the original body switched into his own family; and his fourth daughter, a trans 2.6kFavorites4.4kClicks/ch2.6kGifts

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   So pretty! 🤩

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