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- 1 Reborn in the 1980s: My Adorable Pet and Sweet Wife 重生八零：萌宠小媳妇 In her previous life, Fang Wenjing married a workaholic and spent every day drowning in tears. In this life, she was going to work hard, make a fortune, and kick her workaholic husband to the curb! But can someone tell her why the workaholic from her previous life has suddenly turned into a devoted puppy? Then one day, she discovers a secret about him… 110Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 2 Transmigrating into a Book: Her Lucky Marriage in the 1970s 穿书七零她有旺夫命 Sister Tian is the kind of woman who’s tough as nails and doesn’t waste words! She wakes up in the 1970s with no food or drink, and to top it off, she’s stuck in a fat, dark, and ugly body! Luckily, she has a magical spring space. A few sips of its water clear up her acne, and the extra weight vanishes! Then the space levels up, and hey, she can even turn invisible... The only problem is Wang Jingchen, the man she was betrothed to as a child, who’s always chasing after her! What a headache... Af 160Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 3 Reborn in the 1970s: A Guide to Building Wealth and Raising Kids 重生七零：致富养娃攻略 Zhang Qiuxue wakes up as a left-behind wife in the 1970s. Her husband never comes home, her in-laws bully her, and she has the disposition of a tireless workhorse. Even with her son nearly sick to death, she still works herself to the bone for the Han family, living in a cowshed, doing the whole family's laundry and cooking, and earning work points. Just how miserable can one life get? After transmigrating, Zhang Qiuxue wastes no time clearing out the cowshed. Whoever wants to live there can hav 360Reads8.9Score10914d adds
- 4 Reborn in an Era of Hardship: The Tough Wife Is Terrifying! 重生年代之悍妻超凶哒！ Xia Ranan never imagined she would end up transmigrating into a wretched woman who caused trouble at every turn, loved eating and hated working, and was carrying on with another man. Her husband was away serving in the army, leaving behind his six- or seven-year-old younger brother, but the original owner had beaten the boy so badly he was bedridden! Faced with a thousand pointing fingers and ten thousand scolding voices, Xia Ranan declared, “I’m not taking the blame for this!” She wasn’t a wret 1.6kReads9.0Score22614d adds
- 5 Reborn as a Fierce Woman, I Turn My Life Around With My Child 穿成泼辣女后，我带娃逆袭 The short drama Transmigrating as a Shrewish Woman: I Lead My Kids to a Comeback is now streaming. [Feel-Good Story] [A Super Cool Heroine Who Always Gets Even Right Away] Other people transmigrate and become the apple of everyone's eye or a rich beauty. So why did she end up in the body of a wicked woman in her thirties? Not only has she become an evil adoptive mother, she's also destined for a terrible end. And the worst part is, she's an artsy young woman in her twenties who has never dated. 7.1kReads9.1Score61014d adds
- 6 Reborn in the 1960s: Lin Wanwan’s Life Raising Children 重生六零：林晚晚养娃日常 [Reborn + raising kids + pocket dimension + golden finger + farming + making a fortune] One day, she was reborn as the mother of two children, suddenly saddled with two kids who looked like beggars. After a moment of speechless disbelief, she rolled up her sleeves. With a supermarket in her pocket dimension, how could she fail to raise two children? But when the children's hulking father showed up, her life changed. She had planned for them to go their separate ways, but before long, she found h 5.6kReads8.9Score41614d adds
- 7 The 1970s: Raising Kids After Marrying a Rugged Veteran in My Pocket Dimension 七零空间：嫁给退伍糙汉后养崽崽 Driving a domestic car packed with supplies, Lin Yue accidentally barges into the 1970s and becomes a spoiled, troublemaking cannon-fodder character in a book. She’s about to abandon her husband and child and head back to the city for a comfortable life? Having read the book, Lin Yue knows that returning to the city would be walking straight into a trap, so she decisively stays and keeps up her spoiled ways. But why does her reputation get better the more trouble she makes? And why have the book 1.5kReads8.6Score10114d adds
- 8 A New Marriage in 1970: My Rugged Husband Spoils Me 七零新婚：糙汉老公宠妻入骨 [Sweet romance + spatial storage + rugged man + petite wife + Beidahuang farm] The moment Ma Xiaoxuan opens her eyes, she has transmigrated to the 1970s. She sneaks onto a train to a farm in the Northeast to get married. The man she's supposed to marry is a towering, burly farm tyrant. From then on, timid, delicate, and trembling Ma Xiaoxuan begins her struggle to survive by clinging to her husband's protection. Meanwhile, Gao Zhiyuan, a hot-tempered, big-bearded, tough but dim-witted “silly roe 63Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 9 Reborn in the 1980s, My Wife Was Assigned to Me by the Village 八零重生，媳妇儿是村里分配的 [Cherished by everyone, adorable baby, doting husband, food] A sweet and silly lucky carp heroine + a burly, rugged husband who dotes on his wife Luo Jinxi had just come down from the mountain when she married the rugged Tang Qingping to repay a debt of gratitude. People from outside the village all laughed at them, certain she’d be bullied until she cried. 417Reads9.1Score10114d adds
- 10 Reborn in the 1970s: The Spicy Wife Strikes Back 重生七零：小辣妻逆袭 Everyone in Jiang'an Production Team knows Liu Xiwu as a fiery, hot-tempered girl who acts on impulse and often storms through the village with a shoulder pole, beating people up. They also know she’s a poor girl abandoned by her biological father, left to rely on her sickly mother. Then, one day, she suddenly becomes sharp and clever. Not only that, she manages to snag a handsome young man who stays by her side to protect her. 1.5kReads8.7Score15014d adds
- 11 The Supporting Actress Raises Kids in the ’70s 女配她在七零养崽崽 Original title: The Supporting Female Character Raises Children in the Seventies Completed! [Transmigration + Era Setting + Supermarket in a Pocket Dimension + Raising Kids + Power Couple Romance] Gu Zhiyi, a modern woman, brings billions' worth of supplies and a supermarket pocket dimension with her as she transmigrates to another world in the 1970s! As the boys' adoptive mother, Gu Zhiyi only wants to get rich and keep her two sons from suffering the tragedy of their previous lives. Later... j 1.2kReads9.0Score10214d adds
- 12 Abandoned Wife of the 1990s: From the Start, I Divorced and Became the Richest Woman 九零弃妇：开局离婚做首富 What should you do after transmigrating into an ugly, overweight abandoned wife in the 1990s? She didn’t ask for a single cent in bride price and even brought a hefty dowry, yet her sister-in-law took over the marital home, and her husband’s family beat her bloody and called her a shrew who didn’t know her place. What should she do? Ji Xue says: Easy. Since they call her a shrew, she might as well show them what a real shrew can do. She drums up a racket to tell the whole neighborhood about her 745Reads9.1Score12114d adds
- 13 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
- 14 Reborn in the 1970s: I Became the Songbird of the Arts Troupe 重生七零之我成了文工团里的百灵鸟 When Zhang Qing opened her eyes after dying, she found herself back in 1969, at the age of seventeen. At this point in her previous life, the county cultural troupe had gone to the countryside to perform and had fallen for her lark-like voice. It was the only chance in that era for a country girl like her to change her fate. But because her mother stood in her way and she herself lacked resolve, Zhang Qing let the opportunity slip by and regretted it for the rest of her life! Reborn, Zhang Qing 1.5kReads9.2Score19914d adds
- 15 Transmigrated into a 1970s Book: I Refuse to Be the Heroine of This Tragic Romance 穿书七零之这苦情剧女主我不当了 [Period setting + transmigration into a book + sweet romance + changing the plot + everyday life] After burning the midnight oil following her college entrance exams, Jiang Wanwan worked herself to death and transmigrated into a melodramatic period drama she'd watched with her grandma. When she discovered she was the heroine, destined to suffer her whole life, she was horrified! Determined to escape her absurd and tragic fate, she boldly struck a deal with the notorious gang leader rumored to ha 12.2kReads8.5Score90914d adds
- 16 The 1980s: The Spicy Little Wife and Her Tycoon Husband 八零小辣媳：我家大佬有金矿 The short drama of the same name, "The Spicy Little Wife of the Eighties: My Man Has a Gold Mine", is now streaming. [Reborn + Sweet Romance + Gold Prospecting] Liu Yueya of Jinnianzi Village is rumored to be a shrew who brings bad luck to her husbands, so no one dares marry her. Wu Guangxu, the village bully, has just gotten out of prison, and no woman in the village dares marry him either. One day, the villagers discover Liu Yueya and Wu Guangxu having an “intimate rendezvous” in the mountains 4.8kReads9.4Score60614d adds
- 17 Transmigrated Into a Book in the 1970s: What a Joke! The Sweet Girl Is Hiding in a Rugged Man's Body 穿书七零：笑死！娇娇披着糙汉壳 [Period setting + transmigrate into a book + food + System + educated youth + sweet romance] A pleasure-loving young woman transmigrates into a book set in the 1970s. The poverty and hunger, the backbreaking labor, and the enormous secret her new body is hiding are enough to push An Ran to the brink. She is neither the lucky heroine nor the villainess. Instead, she is a deranged male character so far down the roster that she barely even counts as a number in the leads’ story. To keep anyone from 5.4kReads9.0Score69614d adds
- 18 Marrying a Rugged Disabled Man in the 1970s, I Bring a Warehouse and Make My Husband and Son Thrive 七零嫁残疾糙汉，带仓库旺夫旺仔 The short drama adaptation, The Seventies' Lucky Little Wife, is now streaming [Complete] [Rugged Hero + Sweet Wife + Gourmet Food + Transmigrate into a Book + Pocket Dimension + Secret Identity + Feel-Good Story] Jiang Congyu, a top chef who had cooked for the finest state banquets, was suddenly killed when a crystal chandelier fell on her while she was cooking. When she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated into a book she'd read before. And the timing couldn't be worse: it was her wedding ni 15kReads9.3Score2k14d adds
- 19 The 1970s: Reborn as a Cannon Fodder Educated Youth Bride to a Rough Country Man 七零：穿成糙汉的炮灰知青前妻 (Period setting + rugged hero + sweet romance + devoted to each other) After getting drunk one night, Wei Jingjing slept with Lu Zheng, the strongest and most rugged man in a period novel she had read. She was the early-death cannon-fodder female supporting character, a young intellectual sent to the countryside. Though this character came from a decent family and was beautiful and vibrant, she was hopelessly in love with the male lead, the young intellectual Jing Chen. To make him jealous, she 4.5kReads9.1Score67914d adds
- 20 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
- 21 After Being Reborn in the 1970s, I Was Carried Off by the Village Bully 重生七零年代后，我被村霸叼走了 Su Qinran opened her eyes again and found herself back on the train bound for Daqing Mountain. Lin Yaotang had never seen such a beautiful woman. At first glance, she seemed like a celestial maiden, while he was nothing but mud at the bottom of a pond. Su Qinran glanced at Lin Yaotang. In her previous life, he had pursued her relentlessly, only to die saving her in the end. She owed him her life. Lin Yaotang: “Aah!!! The goddess looked at me! I’m going to adult education classes! I’m going to le 8.7kReads9.3Score91514d adds
- 22 Reborn in the 1980s: Building a Fortune and Raising My Kids 重生八零之发家致富养崽崽 [Sweet romance + no awful characters + food + adorable kids + period setting] In her previous life, after Li Heng accidentally fell off a cliff and was left disabled, Qiao Xi abandoned her husband and child, ultimately bringing the Li family to ruin. Given another life, she looks at her gentle, doting husband, then at her adorable, lively son, and swears to make it up to them and never let the tragedy happen again. With food and clothing businesses, Qiao Xi takes things one step at a time, gradu 4.4kReads9.1Score28914d adds
- 23 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
- 24 Reborn in the 1990s: The Big Shot’s Wife Is Sweet and Alluring 重生九零：大佬娇妻又甜又撩 [Reborn] [Period Setting] [Face-Slapping Feel-Good Story] Ning Weiwei had fair skin and a slender waist. Reborn overnight, she became unstoppable, opening a restaurant and selling clothes with great success. Unfortunately, her family was a handful. With no other choice, she had to become the unfilial one, ruthlessly cutting ties with them one by one! One day, an arrogant young man moved in next door. With his high nose, phoenix eyes, straight brows, and bright gaze, he kept wandering around in f 8.2kReads9.3Score76814d adds
- 25 I Married My Crush's Cousin Out of Spite, and Had Triplets 赌气嫁给心上人的堂哥，我一胎生三宝 After the man she loved got married, Lin Nuo married his cousin in a fit of anger. She obsessively monitored the couple's life until his wife became pregnant. Then Lin Nuo shoved her over, nearly causing a terrible accident. Reborn in the 1990s and faced with the same script, Lin Nuo only wants to gouge her eyes out. Her parents dote on her, her in-laws indulge her, and her older brother, a folksy tycoon, treats her like a princess. Even her college-student husband, who seemed to fade into the b 7.9kReads9.3Score97414d adds
- 26 A Fresh Start in the Eighties: No More PUA, Just Making Money 八零重启：拒绝PUA！只想赚钱 Grandma Shen: I worked so hard raising your dad and his siblings all by myself, and now I have to help him look after the kids and cook, too! What did I do to deserve this? Shen Xiaoya: Grandma, really? Then I definitely won't do anything to deserve that kind of fate. I'll try my best to raise my kids together with someone else! Grandma Shen: … Shen's dad and mom: We aren't very capable, so you kids need to study hard! You'll have to rely on yourselves in the future! Shen Xiaoya: Mom, Dad, don't 18.1kReads9.3Score1.7k14d adds
- 27 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
- 28 I’m Done Pretending: After Winning the Factory Director’s Favor, I’m Completely Sold 不装了，抱上厂长大腿后我真香了 When Jiang Yang opened her eyes, she was not only married, she also had a sixteen-year-old son. Her husband was the thirty-five-year-old director of a steel mill, and her stepson was a high school sophomore. A month ago, Ruan Wenli, who had been single for years, quietly announced his marriage. His lovely wife was a boiler-room worker more than ten years his junior, and the news shocked the entire third-tier city. Jiang Yang returned home and saw a tall, slender figure who had suddenly appeared 7kReads8.7Score57114d adds
- 29 Transmigrate to the 1960s: A Spatial Realm of Trillions in Supplies to Support Educated Youths 穿越六零：空间千亿物资养知青 [The 1960s + Trillion-Yuan Supplies + Personal Space + Educated Youth + Transmigrate + Both Leads Are Virgins + Sweet Romance + Patriotic] She wakes up one morning and transmigrates to the 1960s~ What? Her whole body has traveled through time! She's an undocumented person with nothing to eat or drink, and not a penny to her name! No! She's ten years younger, a radiant eighteen-year-old beauty. No! She dreamed of the past in advance, so her money, ration coupons, and identity documents were all p 3.4kReads9.0Score37014d adds
- 30 1970s Storage Space: The Sweet Young Intellectual Makes the Rugged Man’s Heart Race 七零空间：娇娇知青撩得糙汉心颤 [Reborn + magic space + sweet romance + beautiful, wealthy young intellectual sent to the countryside + rugged country man + she pursues him] In her previous life, Song Ziyao was blind to the truth and foolishly trusted the wrong people, letting herself be used completely. It wasn't until she married Tan Jinhe at forty that her life finally became vivid and bright. Reborn, she skips straight past all the wrong turns and heads to the countryside to find Tan Jinhe. Who would have guessed that Tan 17kReads9.1Score1.8k14d adds
- 31 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
- 32 Reborn: Making the Most of My Youth 重生之不负韶华 In 2019, 31-year-old Wen Ying had found some success in her career and was happily in love, making others envious. In 2004, 16-year-old Wen Ying was struggling at school, secretly in love with her dream guy, and having a miserable time. One day in 2019, Wen Ying woke up back in 2004. She was 16 again, writing furiously in the exam hall during her high school entrance exams... Given the chance to restart her life, Wen Ying refused to waste her youth or leave any regrets behind this time! 1.3kReads9.5Score14014d adds
- 33 The Sweet Young Lady of the 1970s 七十年代小娇娇 The moment the young educated youth Wen Wan arrives in Lu Jiazui, she becomes famous: famous for her beauty, famous for taking her time, and famous for her sharp tongue and soft, sweet manner. When the educated youths first arrive, Lu Dongping sees Wen Wan and thinks, How is this little thing supposed to work in the fields and earn work points? Whichever team gets her will be unlucky. Take her home and she'll be treated like an ancestor. Later, Wen Wan becomes his very own little ancestor. 1.2kReads8.9Score23614d adds
- 34 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
- 35 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
- 36 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
- 37 Help! Pregnant with Twins, and This Rugged Man Won't Stop Spoiling Me! 怕！双胎体质，被糙汉掐腰猛宠！ (Complete) (Period setting + rugged man + devoted husband + everyday life + devoted couple, one-on-one romance) As a minor cannon-fodder shrew of a supporting female character in a period novel, she was destined for a miserable ending that would leave everyone sighing with pity. But sorry, I'm here now. Looking at the man before her, with his straight, sturdy posture, phoenix eyes, and high nose, both his face and physique seemed made to match her tastes perfectly. Bai Yueji: How thoroughly brai 81.2kReads9.4Score5.3k14d adds
- 38 Reborn: Back to 1983 to Become a Tycoon 重生：回到1983当富翁 (The print edition is now available on JD.com! The text has been carefully revised and is even more exciting. There are plenty of discounts right now, so if you're interested, go grab a copy!) Zhou Yufeng, a corporate CEO, unexpectedly returns to 1983, an era of planned economies and feeling one's way across the river by touching the stones. With his lovely wife wanting a divorce and his younger brother and sister struggling to get by, watch as he turns the business world upside down and changes 134kReads9.3Score16.4k14d adds
- 39 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
- 40 Pretty Eighties Stepmom Marries a Factory Director and Raises the Kids 八零漂亮后妈，嫁个厂长养崽崽 [Short drama: I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s] The 1980s, stepmother, raising kids, everyday life, love after marriage The moment she opens her eyes, Si Nian finds herself in a period novel as a fake heiress. She’s sent back to the countryside to marry a twice-married man in place of the real heiress, and has to raise a whole brood of children. To make matters worse, she runs into the real heiress, who has been reborn. In her previous life, Lin Sisi was pressured by her family into marrying a 56kReads9.4Score7.2k14d adds
- 41 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
- 42 With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s, Where I Can Make Trouble and Money with Ease 小手一背穿七零，搞事赚钱样样行 Also known as "Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Seventies: I Collect Eighty-Eight Paychecks Every Month" Su He woke up one day and transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a fake heiress who had been sent back to her village. In the book, the ungrateful real heiress was practically blessed by cheat codes, with schemes and tricks appearing one after another. The Su family ended up destroyed, while the original owner wished she were dead. Looking at her impoverished home and family members 102.5kReads9.6Score10.2k14d adds
