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- 1 Reborn in the 1980s: A Little Slice of Happiness 重生八零小美满 [Rebirth, period setting, wealthy CEO, modern romance, pampered by everyone, devoted husband, farming] In her previous life, Song Qingyun was blind to the truth. She followed her parents' wishes and married Zhou Wenliang, the gentle and considerate man they approved of. Her two pregnancies were both sabotaged by a mistress, and after her husband cheated on her, she ended up in prison, disgraced throughout the city. Song Qingyun decisively divorced him, then woke to discover she had returned to 1 7Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 2 Reborn in the 1980s: A Taste of the Good Life 重生八零好食光 Zhu Rong is reborn in the poverty-stricken 1980s, raising her three younger siblings and trying to make ends meet. Huh, who's this poor little thing from another family? She'll warm him with her big, generous heart! If she can herd three sheep, she can herd four... Ahem, ahem! Anyone who dares disobey gets one punch each! 3Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 3 Reborn in the 1980s: Turning My Life Around and Raising Adorable Kids 重生八零：逆袭发家养萌娃 (Comeback + family squabbles + quietly overpowered, he) Everyone dies eventually, but she lived a stifled life, and even her death was an “accident.” Given a chance to make things right, she is reborn and returns to 1981. Her mother-in-law is still domineering, her father-in-law turns a blind eye, Big Bai and his wife look down on her, and her sister-in-law, a fence-sitter, occasionally takes a careless dig at her. Her father died young, her mother is weak, and her younger sister is stubborn... 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Reborn in the 1980s, I Got Pregnant by a Scumbag 重生八零，我怀了渣男的崽 Hui Ning was reborn. In her previous life, she was blind and fell for a no-good man. He was a terrible husband and an even worse father. He wasted half her life, and their children had a hard time too. Reborn, she avoided an unfair division of the family property and the eldest son’s household’s schemes. Only then did she realize she could also find a good man who would protect and cherish her. 2: The Li family’s eldest daughter-in-law was honest and kindhearted. Their newly married second daugh 243Reads7.1Score10114d adds
- 5 Reborn in the 1970s: The Spicy Beauty Refuses to Be a Cannon Fodder 重生七零：麻辣娇妻不想被炮灰 Rebirth + pocket dimension + sweet romance + satisfying read + period setting. Armed with the memories of her previous life, she is reborn at the very moment they first met. In this life, she still marries him, but not for love: she does it out of hatred. Yet, to her surprise, she ends up being doted on by everyone. Male god: “Wifey, in this life and the next, I'll love you without regret.” Mom and Dad: “Our daughter is meant to be spoiled!” Brothers: “Our sister is meant to be spoiled!” Her ene 142Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 6 Striving Through the 1980s 奋斗在八零 She suddenly finds herself a poor girl, with a scumbag father, a scumbag sister, and a horrid mother: the “three-scumbag troupe” regularly puts on a grand show. Her awful relatives are already taking advantage of the chaos, but now they want to bleed her dry too? Her life is nearly over. What’s she supposed to do? Watch as she reforms her family, leads a bunch of noobs through a desperate fight for survival, and makes a fortune! Yet someone is always following close behind her on the road to suc 1.2kReads8.0Score10014d adds
- 7 The Little Joys of the 1970s 七零年代小确幸 A pampered office worker from the 21st century transmigrated into the body of a poor girl who couldn’t get enough to eat or wear warm clothes. Fortunately, Heaven gave her a golden finger, letting her thrive in an age of scarcity. Along the way, she flirted with a man, had a baby, and found her own little slice of happiness. 368Reads8.3Score10814d adds
- 8 Reborn in the 1980s: A Wife’s Path to Prosperity 重生八零：佳妻致富忙 In her previous life, she fled the Cheng family not long after their wedding, only to meet a tragic and miserable end. Blessed by heaven, she is reborn on her wedding night. The stern, handsome man sitting at her bedside is still the same. From then on, Xue Ling's biggest goal is to win over her husband, who is cold on the outside but warmhearted within, build a good life with him, and have him father a whole troop of little monkeys with her!! 1.8kReads8.7Score20414d adds
- 9 Transmigrating to the 1970s to Support My Family 穿越七十年代养家糊口 (Complete) When she woke up back in the days before the apocalypse, Chu Tian spent all her savings gathering supplies, stocking her pocket dimension with everything she could need to eat, wear, and use. But instead of the apocalypse she’d expected, she fell asleep and woke up in another world. That’s right, she had transmigrated to the early 1970s in China’s northwestern frontier. Chu Tian looked at the peeling walls and nearly cried. But when she saw the frail little girl beside her and her pre 1.7kReads9.0Score14614d adds
- 10 Transmigrate to the 1970s with a Port Warehouse 带着港口仓库穿越七零 Shen Jinran transmigrates to the 1970s. What? The famine years are hard to get through? Don’t worry, don’t worry. She has a golden finger, countless shipping containers at her disposal, and a warehouse stocked with 36,000 square meters’ worth of supplies. What? Her family is full of awful people, and they’re the contrast to the female lead’s family? Impossible, impossible. She’ll let her family shine on their own. She swears she’ll stay out of the male and female leads’ affairs. What? She should 10.5kReads9.2Score1k14d adds
- 11 Reborn in the 1960s: This Heroine Is a Little Crafty 重生六零：这个女主有点茶 The person the members of Lengshuigou Production Team hate most is A Cha. She may be young, but she’s ruthless, and she’ll steal chickens or pull any other dirty trick. On top of that, she’s impossibly hard to kill: her father and mother are both dead, and anyone who gets close to her is doomed to bad luck. But Gao Qingyang doesn’t care. He keeps finding ways to get close to her. He knows A Cha isn’t nearly as awful as people say. She’s a good person! 6.5kReads9.1Score56214d adds
- 12 1970s Space: The Rough He-Man's Delicate Young Educated Youth, Transmigrated into a Book 七零空间：糙汉的穿书娇气小知青 [Transmigrates into a book + space + rugged man + sweet romance + raising a child] A scheming, beautiful, sweet-voiced, pampered heroine x a loyal, undercover big shot, impossibly strong, rugged military officer hero. The rich and beautiful Yu Jingshu transmigrates into a book written by her archenemy, becoming a cannon-fodder supporting character with the same name. The original Yu Jingshu's mother died young, her scumbag father didn't care for her, and her stepmother abused her. Then she was m 4.2kReads9.2Score47814d adds
- 13 The Side Character from a Period Novel Can Transmigrate to the Cultivation World 年代文女配她能穿越修仙界 (Female lead, no romance, period setting, cultivation, special abilities, punishing scumbags, supporting female character’s comeback) Feng Wanqing is framed by her cousin. Her family abandons her, and she is forced to go to the countryside as an educated youth. After nearly drowning one day, she discovers that every night she can travel to a wondrous place where everyone pursues the path to immortality and cultivators soar through the skies and burrow beneath the earth. By day, she is a delicate 6.5kReads9.1Score81914d adds
- 14 Reborn in the 1980s as a Lucky Girl 重生八零小福女 Ning Qi was just taking in the laundry when, in the blink of an eye, she was struck by lightning! By accident, she returned to the 1980s and was reborn as a little simpleton! She refused to bow to fate! (Or to being a freeloader who stirs up trouble!) The young lady rolled up her sleeves. If you want to get rich, plant trees first. Once good fortune comes your way, nothing can stop it! … Come along with her… Remember how we once braved the current, our waves holding back the flying boats? 1.5kReads9.2Score19714d adds
- 15 On My 1980s Wedding Night, I Transmigrate and Marry a Poor, Rough Man with a Pocket Dimension 穿到八零新婚夜，带空间嫁穷糙汉 Jiang Mi is a catering magnate. She brings a warehouse space stocked with billions’ worth of supplies back to the 1980s, where she marries an impoverished man with two younger siblings in tow. They can barely manage one meal to the next, and their ramshackle house could collapse at any moment. Everyone thinks Jiang Mi has drawn a terrible lot in life, saddled with a man like this and doomed to misery forever. Jiang Mi rolls up her sleeves and sets about helping them grow into their potential. Sh 2.1kReads9.2Score28514d adds
- 16 Transmigrated to the 1970s: My Wife Is a Delicate Beauty 穿越七零：媳妇是娇花 Si Hua was the most celebrated socialite in Huaguo in the twenty-first century. Then, overnight, she transmigrated back to the 1970s and nearly became an unregistered resident. Si Hua was devastated. Luckily, she still had a pocket dimension cheat. Now, let’s see how she shines in this unfamiliar era! P.S. This is an alternate-history story. Content warning: This story mainly focuses on romance. If you don’t like reading about the male and female leads falling in love, please move along. 4.2kReads9.1Score32614d adds
- 17 Military Marriage: I Married an Officer With a Billion in Supplies and Had Triplets 军婚，十亿物资嫁军官一胎三宝 [Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Supplies + Adorable Kids + Rugged Hero + Sweet Romance + Multiple Births + Devoted Husband] What if you dreamed of transmigrating into the food- and clothing-scarce 1970s? With a pocket dimension containing a magical spring and supplies worth ten billion in hand, what was there to fear? Right after transmigrating, a scumbag ruined her reputation, and her awful family married her off to a rugged soldier who had been injured and supposedly couldn’t father child 37.2kReads9.3Score5.4k14d adds
- 18 A Comfortable Life for Shu Xin in the 1960s 重生六零的舒心日子 [Strong Female Lead + Sweet Romance + Devoted Husband + Super Strength + Soldier] [A powerful, domineering, and wealthy heroine + a beautiful, delicate, scheming male lead] Shu Xin is a powerful woman born in the apocalypse. Armed with an overpowered cheat, she is reborn in the 1960s of a parallel world. Here, she finds a loving family, and achieves success in both her career and her love life. The male lead, Luo Yue, is a delicate young gentleman who transmigrated from an ancient matriarchal so 11.4kReads9.3Score1.1k14d adds
- 19 Transmigrate to the 1970s: The Lucky Star Sets the World Ablaze 穿越七零：福运大佬燃翻天 Synopsis: Futuristic high technology, strengthening the country and enriching its people, the whole family’s darling, a lucky charm, power fantasy Gu Jinxiu arrives in the 1970s with a pocket dimension full of future technology. After getting revenge on her scumbag father, who married into her mother’s family, and her wicked stepmother, making their lives worse than death, she takes her younger brother and heads to the countryside in style. Out in the countryside, she builds a career and runs bu 10.1kReads9.1Score99314d adds
- 20 Reborn at the Turn of the Millennium: The Beloved Prodigy's Mentor System 重生千禧，团宠小学霸的名师系统 “No male lead! A male supporting character appears later, and there are side couples to root for too.” Qin Zhaozhao, a doctoral student struggling with her studies and taking extra time to graduate, wakes up one day to find she’s traveled back from 2022 to the year 2000. For some inexplicable reason, she’s also acquired a System. In this life, she not only has a golden finger that gives her one-on-one lessons from renowned teachers, but also the ability to help the people around her choose bette 5kReads9.4Score54514d adds
- 21 A Sweet Wedding Night in the 1970s: Even an Arranged Marriage Can Be Wonderful! 七零新婚夜，包办婚姻也很甜！ [Completed Military Marriage Romance] [Beautiful, Sweet-Talking Wife + Gentle, Healing, Rugged Husband] She wakes up on the night of her arranged wedding in the 1970s. Her husband is a handsome, idealistic man with impeccable credentials. Should she marry him or not? Lin Qingya soon decides she’s glad she did. Her rugged husband is surprisingly sweet! The heroine is career-focused, clear-headed, and sensible. The hero dotes on his wife and is gentle and reassuring. Sweet romance throughout, no 6kReads9.1Score44314d adds
- 22 Reborn as a Lovesick Villainess, I Set My Sights on the Village Chief's Youngest Son 穿成痴汉女配，我看上村长小儿子 When Murong Xi transmigrates into a tearjerker period novel as the saintly, beloved white moonlight, what does it feel like? Thanks for asking. I’m currently researching seventy-six different ways to live or die~ According to the plot, she’s supposed to toil selflessly like a saint, giving everything she has. She’ll endure misunderstanding and torment, then burn through the last of her light and warmth. In the end, she’ll become the white moonlight propping up the male lead’s table, and the mosq 8.6kReads9.2Score71114d adds
- 23 The 1970s: A Sent-Down Youth Marries a Soldier and Builds a Fortune as a Middleman 七零嫁军汉，知青女配当倒爷起家 [A promise kept for a lifetime, giving her life to her country] Fraile from birth, Song Youxiang was abandoned by her family as a child and forced to go to the countryside. Even so, she never received a shred of kindness. Her parents despised her, her older sister resented her for life, and the second sister who had been given away as a child concealed her identity to get close to her. One false accusation after another followed, and they even stole her fiancé… In the end, Song Youxiang died al 7.2kReads9.2Score85314d adds
- 24 The Sixties: Traveling the World with My Pocket Dimension 六十年代之带着空间畅游天下 Li Beibei grew up surrounded by stories, then unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of a lucky girl in the 1950s. Touched by her family’s favoritism and kindness, she gladly accepts their love and decides to repay them with her own abilities. As she plans her future, Li Beibei chooses two careers that will let her travel at public expense, hoping to make up for the regrets of her past life: journalist and diplomat! And so begins her extraordinary journey in this world. By the seaside: “Qing f 9.4kReads9.3Score76514d adds
- 25 Back to the 1980s: Bringing My Family of Six to a Better Life 重回八零：带着全家六口过好日子 The Gu family has no sons, only four daughters. Plenty of people in the village are waiting to laugh at them. But they wait and wait, only to watch the Gu family build a two-story house and buy a car. They hear the family has even bought a grand home in the capital. The Gu sisters are each more successful and more devoted to their parents than the last. The villagers: What are you waiting for? Go home and have daughters! After being reborn, Gu Siqing discovers that her sisters are nothing like t 86.6kReads9.4Score5.2k14d adds
- 26 Back to the 1960s: Farming, Building a Fortune, and Raising the Kids 重回六零：种田发家养崽崽 Transmigrating into the impoverished 1960s wasn’t scary. Becoming a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a book wasn’t scary either. What was scary was that her three stepsons would grow up to become major villains, and all of them, along with their upright, aloof father, would meet tragic ends. How could she let that happen? Lin Qinghe looked at the three future villains, none of whom was even ten years old, and made up her mind: changing a villain starts when they’re young! 3.8kReads9.0Score48914d adds
- 27 Reborn in the 1970s: Grandma, Today It's Your Turn to Get Divorced 重生七零：奶，今天轮到您离婚啦 Also known as: Reborn in the 1970s as a Lucky Little Carp with Space Tens of billions in supplies, serving the country, the family’s darling, adorable child, satisfying story In her previous life, Shen Danluo’s family was harmed by her wicked second uncle, and she avenged them all by herself. Now she has been reborn with a space that can exchange for all kinds of supplies. In this life, she will change everyone’s tragic fate. Take down the worst offenders and punish the scum. Then quietly make a 34.6kReads9.5Score4.4k14d adds
- 28 The Black Heiress 黑千金 Zhou Zhizhi was born a wealthy heiress, but she was abandoned in a remote county and taken in by a man who had just been released from prison after serving time for a serious crime. At just five years old, she was already able to save her father. Later, she also brought home an old scholar and former examination candidate, and the three of them began building a life together. The hardened criminal turned into a coal magnate, while the abandoned girl became a true heiress of the underworld. How w 33.2kReads9.3Score4.5k14d adds
- 29 The Family's Beloved Girl: The Cannon-Fodder Darling of Her Terrible Family 七零团宠：极品家人的炮灰娇娇女 [Brooding, Brawny Man + Sweet Wife + Completed] Lu Jiajia is delicate and soft. Then, in the blink of an eye, she becomes a useless cannon-fodder character in the 1970s, with a whole family of vicious oddballs in tow. Yet in an era that favors men above women, she is the apple of her family’s eye. Her father and mother: “Jiajia is our precious girl. She deserves to be spoiled.” Her brothers: “My sister is frail and sickly. How could she do farm work!” Lu Jiajia: “…I want the ultimate winning han 105.5kReads9.4Score9.8k14d adds
- 30 EN The Bystander's Self-Cultivation in a 1970s Transmigration Novel 穿书七十年代吃瓜群众的自我修养 Have you ever transmigrated to a different scene just by blinking? Lin Yuzhu has. She transmigrated in a daze to the 1970s. No, she transmigrated into a book. She has a System, and the female lead is there too. There are also supporting female characters, but she isn't one of them. She's just an onlooker who wandered into the story by mistake. As an onlooker, she gets to watch the drama unfold every day. She doesn't want other people's dogs, and she doesn't get involved in other people's busines 94.5kReads9.6Score8.6k14d adds
- 31 Reborn in the 1980s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生八零：媳妇有点辣 Her parents died young, her family was poor, and she was plain-looking. Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a terrible hand, but after nearly twenty years of hard work, she became an executive at a multinational corporation and finally put her life back on track... Then she wakes up to find herself reborn in the 1980s, as another Xia Xiaolan, this time with a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin. The original Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a winning hand, but chose to take her own life under the pressu 44.4kReads9.5Score5k14d adds
