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- 1 The State-Run Little Restaurant of the 1960s 六零国营小饭馆儿 Xu Ying spent her whole life fighting the world. She had just turned sixty and hadn't even gotten to enjoy two days of the good life, with a promotion, a fortune, and a dead husband, when cancer took her away. In her final moments, she clutched a photo of herself as a young woman and thought, If I could live my life over, I'd get rich early and take better care of my health! Then she opens her eyes to a world of yellow sand and a father who plans to trade her into a marriage, relieving himself b 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The 1980s Chef's Rise to Wealth 八零厨娘发家史 A master chef takes a tumble and is reborn in a poor rural village in the 1980s. Her parents are useless, her relatives are all weirdos, handsome men are impossible to handle, and people call her a jinx, a seductress, a money pit, and an ungrateful wretch... A terrible hand of cards is no big deal. With her incredible cooking skills, Jiang Zhilian can take on the world with nothing but her bare hands! [The heroine plays dumb while secretly outsmarting everyone; the male lead is scheming but dote 82Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Young Imperial Chef Becomes the Green Tea Girl's Sister in the Eighties 小御厨在八零给绿茶当妹妹 [Food + Marriage Before Love] Shen Qinglan was an ordinary young woman living in 1986. After unexpectedly transmigrating into an ancient food novel, she honed her cooking skills. But when she transmigrated back, she discovered that her life had changed. Her father, who used to dote on her, now hated her. Her mother, once devoted to her father, had left home and filed for divorce. And she herself had become a foolish girl who did nothing but obey. The entire Shen family was under the control of h 261Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Food Streamer and Her Spirit Spring Conquer the 1970s 美食主播携灵泉玩转七零年代 Guan Xi is a food and lifestyle streamer. After an accident, she ends up in the materially deprived 1970s and becomes an educated youth sent to the countryside. Guan Xi plans to work hard and make the best of her humble life. But then she realizes she seems to have transmigrated into a book! Her cousin appears to be the cannon-fodder villainess in the story, while Guan Xi is just a passerby in everyone else's eyes! Thinking about the future, should she simply live her life as planned, or cling t 7Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 5 The 1980s and My Pocket Space: The Charming Chef Wins Over a Handsome Veteran 八零空间：娇俏厨娘撩爆退伍糙汉 Space, cooking, food, face-slapping, revenge, and making a fortune She transmigrated just in time for the family division, and before she could say a word, the household had already been split up! With nothing but a dilapidated house, how could a family of widows and orphans survive? Luckily, she was a master chef. A new body, but the same mind. No matter how simple the ingredients, once they passed through her hands, they became top-notch dishes! With her space to give her a boost, making money 15Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 6 Transmigrating to the 1970s: She Now Has a Son and a Daughter 穿越七十年代之：她儿女双全了 [Reborn as a baby + pocket dimension + no rural relocation + no black-market dealings + no excessive child-rearing] Qin Qiong, who lives in 2024, is a typical modern woman with a comfortable middle-class lifestyle: independent, self-sufficient, and enjoying an easygoing life. She couldn't be happier with how things are. But one morning, a bag of milk upended her peaceful routine. In a panic, she started stockpiling everything! When she opened her eyes again, she was on a delivery bed in the 1970 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The 1980s: The Darling Chef Has the Big Shot Craving Her Cooking Again 八零：娇娇厨娘又把大佬馋哭了 My new story is out! You can read my work on Tomato Novels. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 56Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 8 The 1970s: The Sweet, Delicate Beauty Marries a Handsome, Rough Soldier Who Adores Her 七零娇软美人，嫁痞帅军官他超爱 [Period Setting + Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Everyday Life + Joining Her Husband at His Posting + Raising Kids] Yun Xiaoxi, an inheritor of the Beijing-style cheongsam tradition, took part in a national intangible cultural heritage handicraft project. After staying up all night to finish the work, she unexpectedly died of exhaustion and transmigrated into a period military-marriage novel as He Lin'an's doomed ex-wife, a cannon-fodder character who dies young. The original owner shared 431Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 9 I Set Up a Food Stall in the 1980s and Became a Sensation 我在八零摆摊卖美食，火出圈了 Tang Xi dies and returns to the age of fifteen, carrying the wordless book her master gave her years ago: All the Food Under Heaven. That year, the Tang family’s biological daughter is finally found, and Tang Xi is left behind by her adoptive parents. Feeling guilty toward their real daughter, Tang Xi gives in to her at every turn, only to earn her adoptive parents’ resentment and the disdain of her childhood sweetheart and fiancé... On top of that, she falls ill and misses the college entrance 160Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Making Gourmet Food in the 1970s 我在七零年代做美食 When she woke up, she took in the drab surroundings and the memories in her mind that weren't her own, and Xiang Xiaowei realized she'd transmigrated. The bracelet she'd worn for years had come with her, too. Inside it was a space measuring ten square meters. Who would've thought she'd become a mother of two? Who understands the joy of becoming a mom without the pain of childbirth! As a food blogger, she was ready to show off her skills in this era, raising the kids and building a career, and do 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 I Wielded the Wok in the 1970s 我在七十年代颠大勺 Shen Xiuzhi, the top chef in Huaguo, accidentally transmigrates to the 1970s. She becomes a pampered young lady whose family is from the Five Black Categories, the daughter of a “stinking intellectual,” and someone who’s useless at everything and eats more than she can earn. Facing a terrible hand from the start, she uses her state-banquet-level cooking skills to establish herself at a state-run restaurant. She also puts the cultural knowledge left behind by the original owner to clever use, sna 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Reborn in the 1980s: The Little Chef 重生八零小厨娘 Song Ran was reborn! She returned to the 1980s, a time of shortages, to a home with bare walls. Her sister-in-law even wanted her to marry a widower and become his children's stepmother! Song Ran was speechless. In her previous life, she'd been a renowned master chef and a top student who graduated from Tsinghua University with a degree in fashion design. There was no way she would accept this fate! A girl with a face covered in pimples? No need to worry. She had a remedy, and once she was cured 220Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 13 Transmigrated to the 1980s: Every Dish at My Restaurant Is in High Demand! 穿越八零：我的饭馆一菜难求！ When Tang Ruanyuan woke up, she discovered she had transmigrated to the 1980s. At the time, Danchuan Village had just implemented the household land contract system. Her family consisted of a father with a bad leg and a seven-year-old younger brother. Looking at their dirt-poor tile-roofed house and the nearly empty rice jar, Tang Ruanyuan rolled up her sleeves and started doing what she knew best, selling food, with her little brother at her side. In the gold-rush decade of the 1980s, Tang Ruan 51Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 14 The Cannon-Fodder Villainess Uses Her Cooking Skills to Shine in a Period Novel 炮灰女配用厨艺在年代文鲨疯了 Su Wanyi discovers she’s transmigrated into a female-led novel set in a bygone era. She’s useless at everything, but number one at being cannon fodder. Every time her cousin rises to power, Su Wanyi becomes the perfect stepping stone. Every time her cousin meets a promising backup suitor, Su Wanyi is the perfect comparison. Once every last drop of her value has been squeezed out, she dies a miserable death. Everyone says that’s simply her fate! Su Wanyi scoffs! You want to make a state-banquet c 157Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 I Close My Eyes and Wake Up in the 1980s, Ready to Open a Cafeteria 双眼一闭到八零，食堂开店全都行 [Short and binge-worthy × foodie vibes × nostalgic era setting × plot-packed × the official couple makes occasional appearances] Zhang Jinliu worked tirelessly for half her life to become the Imperial Kitchen’s top chef, despite being a woman. Then, just as she was getting somewhere, she slipped and died. When she opened her eyes again, she had become an eighteen-year-old orphan with nowhere else to go, living under someone else’s roof and enduring insults from her cheating aunt alongside her un 20Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 16 The Cannon-Fodder Supporting Female Lead Has Everything She Needs in the City 炮灰女配苟在城里应有尽有 Liu Ya was forced to transmigrate into a period novel. Rather than follow the female supporting character's path, she chose to keep her head down and grow stronger, distance herself from her family, and gradually climb to the top of the world. Before she knew it, she was living a life where she had everything she could want... 1.2kReads7.4Score114Shelves
- 17 Reborn in the 1990s: Winning Everyone's Hearts with My Culinary Space 重生九零：靠着美食空间当团宠 [Food + Portable Space + Strong Female Lead Reborn] Tang Ning was reborn, returning to 1990, when she was still a girl. Seeing the people who had ruined their lives in her previous life lining up to come cause trouble again, she sneered, punching the worst offenders and trampling the schemers. With a space at her disposal, the world was hers. She would cook delicious food and make a fortune. If she couldn’t be born rich, she’d become a wealthy, beautiful first-generation mogul! As for the man wh 273Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 18 Transmigrated to the 1970s: The Beloved Darling Gets Rich with a System 穿越七零之团宠带着系统暴富了 Transmigration + Space + System + Wish-Fulfillment Story (A devoted 1v1 couple; the heroine never puts up with mistreatment. Whoever upsets her gets it back a hundredfold~) Li Wenjiao, who transmigrated after slipping on instant noodles and dying, has to be the unluckiest transmigrator in history. But it’s all right. After transmigrating, she became the whole family’s darling, gained a space for farming, and got access to a Myriad Worlds Q&A System marketplace that supplies everything she needs. 355Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 19 A Portable Space: Everyday Delicacies in the 1980s 空间之八零美食日常 [Period drama + space + food + male lead + dual rebirth + light fantasy + light sci-fi] Chen Manman is reborn, and now she knows that she was the spiteful, vain, doomed supporting character in a period drama about a stepmother, set up as a foil to the heroine. Now reborn, with a space and a golden finger, as well as excellent cooking skills, Chen Manman refuses to become anyone’s foil. Later... While the heroine tries to win over her husband, Chen Manman sets up a stall selling steamed buns and 953Reads8.6Score100Shelves
- 20 This Is Crazy! The Little Chef of the 1970s Eats Well, Lives in Luxury, and Comes Out on Top 疯了！七零小厨娘吃香喝辣躺赢了 (Strong leads on both sides, one-on-one romance, no love-brained characters, career comes first in the early chapters) Shen Xiaotang, a celebrity chef worth tens of millions, transmigrates to the resource-scarce 1970s. No tradeable pocket dimension, no miracle pills or medicines, and no lucky star fate. Other heroines are the darlings of their families. Her? Sorry, she’s an orphan with no one to rely on. To make matters worse, her wicked aunt is forcing her to marry. Shen Xiaotang never accepts 199Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 21 I Cleared Out the Countryside, and the Strongest Army Rogue Fell for Me at First Sight 搬空下乡，被最强军痞一见钟情 [Faithful couples + military marriage + strong heroine + putting scumbags in their place + refuses to be pushed around + supernatural abilities + spatial storage] Gu Li, a powerful user of lightning, metal, and wood abilities in the apocalypse, transmigrates into the body of a pitiful young woman in 1970s Shanghai, despised by her family. The poor girl has a selfish older brother, a vicious younger sister who plots to sell her to an abusive man for money, and cruel parents. As they bargain over 17.9kReads7.9Score2.3kShelves
- 22 Transmigrating into a Book in the Sixties: The Aloof Engineer Kissed Me and Got Me Pregnant 穿书六零被高冷工程师索吻生崽 Zhao Yihuan goes on a May Day trip to Chongming Island and accidentally transmigrates to China in the 1960s. The only valuable things she has left are the gold bangle on her wrist and the suitcase she's carrying. Luckily, the suitcase contains an old-fashioned coupon collection: bicycle coupons, sewing machine coupons, radio coupons, watch coupons, grain coupons, ten-yuan bills… The 1960s Zhao Yihuan is from Shanghai. Furious at her parents for playing favorites and sending her to the count 2kReads8.2Score137Shelves
- 23 The Space-Wielding Darling Educated Youth of the 1970s Marries the Village's Most Capable Roughneck 七零空间娇知青嫁全村最出息糙汉 [Tens of Billions in Supplies and a Pocket Dimension] [Everyone's Favorite] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Sweet Romance] [Fictional Era] When Lin Qinghe opens her eyes, she discovers that she has transmigrated to a fictional era in a country called Huaguo on the planet Mercury. Rather than feeling lost in this unfamiliar place, she's thrilled, because the man of her dreams is here: Shen Liangping. After sorting through her original body's memories and discovering that her pocket dimension from mod 425Reads9.1Score158Shelves
- 24 Watching Gossip and Drama in the 1970s with a Livestream System 带着直播系统在七零年代吃瓜看戏 [Clear-eyed queen of gossip ✖️ dashing, sharp-witted veteran with a dark side] [System + sweet romance + 1970s setting + gossip + no rural relocation + feel-good wish fulfillment] Jiang Jiaojiao used to be a laid-back rich kid. Her parents each had their own families, leaving her wealthy and carefree to grow up as she pleased. Then she transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes the orphaned daughter of a fallen hero. Her relatives and family friends circle like vultures, hoping to get their hands on 1.4kReads7.5Score101Shelves
- 25 The Capitalist Heiress’s Family Goes on a Rampage After They Hear Her Thoughts 资本家小姐被读心后，全家杀疯了 [Book Transmigration] [Military Marriage] [Mind Reading] [Beloved by the Whole Family in the 1970s] [The Whole Family Is Doomed, Then Makes a Comeback] [Capitalist Heiress] [Face-Slapping] After waking up, Bai Youning finds herself transmigrated into a novel set in the 1970s, as a doomed character abandoned by her officer husband, Pei Jingzhou. Even worse, she discovers that her entire in-law family are doomed characters too, destined to lose everything and die because of their fates! She plans 10.7kReads7.9Score1.3kShelves
- 26 I Marry a Rough-Hewn Man with My Supplies: The Educated Youth Has a Space in the Seventies 携物资嫁糙汉：七零知青她有空间 [Period drama + adorable pets + sweet romance + portable space golden finger] Zhao Nianchu, who has transmigrated into the 1970s, is absolutely furious. If she had to transmigrate, fine, but she woke up in the water and nearly drowned! Still, the young man who rescued her seems pretty nice and handsome, too. He'd make a great husband. Who knew this young man was no ordinary person? He... Ever since she arrived in this era, her ancestral portable space has come along with her, full of supplies ac 835Reads8.3Score104Shelves
- 27 Hilarious Transmigration: The Bookish Fat Wife Turns Her Life Around 爆笑穿越：书生肥妻要翻身 [Both leads are each other’s only love. The heroine starts out hot-tempered and later becomes sweet and soft. The hero starts out haughty and ends up desperately trying to win his wife back.] A strong, capable CEO, Liu transmigrates into the body of Hua Junze’s fat wife. He’s a handsome, clever scholar with a debauched streak, and the result is absolute chaos. Hua Junze: “My wife is too fierce! She won’t give me money, kicks me out of bed, sells me off, and makes me study… She’s a madwoman!” Con 52Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 28 Reborn in the 1990s: Making a Fortune by Selling Snacks 重生九零：致富从卖小吃开始 [Sweet comeback romance + building a fortune + family life + supporting each other] In her previous life, when Zhou Sui was eighteen, her wealthy biological parents brought her back to the city. She thought the wheels of fate were finally turning in her favor. But her timidity, low self-esteem, and constant people-pleasing left her life in shambles. Her biological parents were distant and cold, favoring their adopted daughter. A scumbag toyed with her feelings, and she died young from a sudden i 251Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 29 I Came to the 1960s for a Life, Not Mere Survival 穿六零，我要的是生活，不是活着 Jiang Shushu was an ordinary girl with a short life. Because of a drop of the King of Hell’s son’s virgin urine, she died six hours early. To make it up to her, the King of Hell gives her three choices. 1: Be reborn along her original path, into the animal realm. (The King of Hell can guarantee she’ll have someone to feed and care for her all her life.) 2: Have her wish granted and become a billionaire. (She’ll be an 80-year-old rich woman with only six days left to live.) 3: Become an 18-year-o 2.2kReads8.8Score145Shelves
- 30 A Little Bundle of Fortune in the 1980s 八零年代小福包 When Jiang Yu was four and a half, disaster struck the Jiang family. Her father, Jiang Niqiu, was impotent; her mother, Chen Yinhua, was caught having an affair; and her paternal grandmother called her a jinx who would bring ruin to her parents, and wanted to sell her. The whole village believed it, until after the family split up, they discovered: “Jiang Yu dug up a huge ginseng root!” “Jiang Niqiu made a fortune from his greenhouse vegetables!” “Jiang Niqiu's fruit is being sold overseas!” She 229Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 31 Reborn as a Burden in a Period Novel 穿成年代文中的拖油瓶 Qin Wangshu transmigrated into a book. She wasn't the protagonist or even a supporting female character, but a mere background figure mentioned only by the heroine, whose sole purpose was to give her a golden finger and connections. Having transmigrated into the book, Qin Wangshu decides to stay away from the leads and use her knowledge of the plot to become a self-made tycoon… 183Reads6.2Score105Shelves
- 32 Cooking Up a Storm in the 1980s, My Kids Are Drooling 八零年代做美食，家里小孩馋哭了 [Everyday family life, told at an unhurried pace] Yao Jiang's consciousness inhabits the body of a chef in another world. After learning a wealth of skills, she returns to the 1980s, with a culinary pocket dimension thrown in as a bonus. She opens a steamed bun shop and raises a well-behaved child. All in all, life gives her plenty to look forward to. 424Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 I Became the Lucky Charm of the 1970s 我在七零当福宝 Lin Tiantian transmigrated into the 1970s, a time when food and clothing were scarce. While others went to the countryside, she cultivated immortality; while others fought, she farmed. Her space was her greatest trump card, and cultivation was her secret to success. She wanted more than just enough to eat and warm clothes. In this blazing era, she would make a name for herself! A guide for readers: blessed baby, farming, space, cultivation, period setting. This novel is fictional. If anything do —Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 34 Cooking in the 1970s 七零年代做美食 Meng Xi never imagined she would transmigrate into a book and become a lazy, gluttonous young wife with the same name as herself, useless at everything she tried. Then she received word that her husband had died in the line of duty. First, she would split from her awful mother-in-law! Then she would raise three children, build a new house, help spread the word, and earn the respect and approval of everyone in the village through her own hard work. But not long afterward, her supposedly dead husb 715Reads8.8Score103Shelves
- 35 Taking a World-Famous Members-Only Supermarket Back to the 1970s 带着全球知名会员制超市穿七零 [Period setting + soul transmigration + golden finger + modern romance + strong leads] A slow-burn story set in a bygone era. The author doesn't write saintly heroines. If the satisfying payback you're expecting hasn't happened yet, the author may have placed it at the point that best fits the story. Han Xiaolin, from the 21st century, transmigrates while shopping at a famous members-only supermarket. She finds herself in the 1970s, an era of scarce food and clothing. With a virtual supermarket 314Reads6.2Score110Shelves
- 36 It Began in the Republic of China 始于民国 What a shock! Chen Caiyou somehow reincarnated in 1920. She struggled for ten years in an era full of natural and man-made disasters. She only lived for ten years, so she had no idea how people started saying she was twelve or thirteen. Just as she was about to be married off, or sold, a natural disaster struck the whole village, and they began fleeing famine. Chen Caiyou boarded a train and escaped to the distance. She tagged along with her aunt, who was also her master, for food and lodging, a 816Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 37 Transmigrate to the 1960s: I'm Just a Pretty Face 穿越60：我就是个好看的花瓶 [Transmigrate into a book + spatial villa + military marriage + younger-man romance] (Stunning, beautiful, flirtatious older sister vs. a younger military officer with the eager, loyal nature of a wolf) Zhang Xiaoman, a nearly forty-year-old modern actress known for her breathtaking beauty and ornamental roles, had her soul mistakenly summoned and transmigrated to the 1960s with her spatial villa. The famine had just ended, and hardship had reduced her to little more than a skeleton. Fortunately 4.4kReads8.4Score290Shelves
- 38 The 1970s: A Village Girl Who Transmigrated into a Book and Her Doting Educated Youth Husband 七零：穿书村姑和她的知青娇夫 A single office drone past the age of marriage gets herself killed while saving someone. Eighteen years later, she discovers she's transmigrated into a book about a transmigrated female educated youth and a male educated youth from the capital, and all their tangled love and hate. Lin Yunyun is a nameless extra who doesn't even get a line. Figuring that the main characters bring nothing but trouble, Lin Yunyun decides to stay as far away from them as possible and live her own quiet life. This ha 2.7kReads8.7Score210Shelves
- 39 You Want Me to Do Chores? I'll Stun the Glorious Tang Dynasty with Modern Cuisine 让我打杂？我用现代美食震惊盛唐 [No Romance + Spirit Spring Space + Gourmet Farming + Feel-Good Story + Palace Intrigue + Leveling] Reincarnated as a lowly kitchen maid tending the fire in the Tang imperial palace, Pei Xuan wields the God of Cooking's space and takes on the palace's finest chefs. A spirit spring, mystical fields, and spirit fire: she has it all. Chili peppers, strawberries, coffee beans? Grow them all! Fried chicken, cola, spicy hot pot? Make them all! Ovens, woks, microwaves? Use them all! Modern cuisine coll 535Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 40 Reborn in the Seventies: A Tragic Cannon Fodder Seizes a Pocket Dimension and Marries an Officer 重生七零，惨死炮灰夺空间嫁军官 [Military Marriage + Space + Rebirth + Feel-Good Story + Sweet Romance + Revenge + Taking Down Scumbags] In her previous life, Qin Shuyue was manipulated by Lin Nian at every turn. Lin Nian got her brother killed, took the life of the one she loved, and left her to die a wretched death. When she opened her eyes and found herself living a new life, she saw the two people most important to her. She decided that everyone who had wronged her would pay. They want her space and still try to scheme aga 2.2kReads9.1Score271Shelves
- 41 Family Life in the Years: I Absolutely Refuse to Go to the Countryside 年代之家长里短绝不下乡 Zhou Xiaoya was an ordinary girl from the twenty-first century who unexpectedly transmigrated into a period novel she’d stayed up all night reading, becoming the original heroine’s “delivery girl”!!! Thinking of how hard the original heroine had it when she was sent to the countryside, and remembering that she couldn’t tell chives from scallions, Zhou Xiaoya secretly vowed that she would never, ever go to the countryside in this life!!!! (PS: The novel is set in a fictional world. The original h 744Reads6.4Score100Shelves
- 42 Shocking! I Woke Up in a Novel Set in the Era, but I’m Not in It 惊！穿到年代文小说，里面没有我 Have you ever gone to sleep, opened your eyes, and found yourself somewhere else? Niu Xiabing has. It’s a terrible experience. Her newly renovated, spacious apartment was ready, and today was her first day moving in! She was tired that afternoon, so she took a nap. When she woke up, she had somehow transmigrated into the 1970s. Wait, no, she hadn’t transmigrated. She had transmigrated into a book! She’d become a minor cannon-fodder character in a period novel, the kind who doesn’t survive past t 169Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 43 The 1970s Space: The Max-Level Cannon Fodder Exposes the Fake Koi Heroine 七零空间：满级炮灰打假锦鲤女主 [Transmigrate into a book + space + period setting + building wealth + academic comeback + punishing scumbags + villainous boss] The moment Shen Qiuyuan opens her eyes, she finds herself inside a melodramatic period novel written by a female coworker, as the most unfortunate cannon-fodder character in the story. She calmly touches the blood-red beauty mark beneath her eye. Her space is stocked with supplies worth tens of billions, enough to turn even someone plagued by bad luck into a person who 691Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 44 Raising Kids in the 1980s: Born Premature, I Awakened to My Past Life 八零养崽：开局早产穿前世 A completed period novel. Original setting and fictional world. Please don't apply the pocket-dimension spring-water conventions from other novels to this book. The female lead is super cool, the kid is super adorable, and the male lead is super swoon-worthy! Jiang Yu transmigrates into the body of another Jiang Yu in the 1980s, and from the start she faces a dangerous premature-birth situation! Surrounded by danger, she's lucky to have a pocket dimension, a spirit spring, and a golden finger! S 10Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 45 After Foreseeing the Future, the Pampered Heiress Goes to the Countryside to Find Her Husband 预知未来后，娇娇大小姐下乡寻夫 [Shanghai Heiress + Historical Era + Past and Present Lives + Educated Youth Sent to the Countryside] Spoiled heiress Meng Shihe × Insecure, Devoted Chen Yang In an era of scarce food and clothing, Meng Shihe already had a washing machine and refrigerator. Her family was close-knit, and she grew up without any major worries until she was seventeen, apart from a somewhat weak immune system that sent her to the hospital from time to time. On the eve of her departure for the countryside, Meng Shihe 8.2kReads8.7Score1.6kShelves
- 46 Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder Lives to a Ripe Old Age in a Period Novel 快穿：炮灰在年代文里寿终正寝 [Quick transmigration + growing female lead + historical eras + fictional settings + no fixed CP + System space and golden finger + everyday family life] After finishing a small world set during the Qing dynasty, An Linglong follows the System as she transmigrates through small worlds in different eras, helping cannon fodder characters live the lives of their own choosing. [Content warnings: Read at your own discretion!] 1. Although the golden finger is powerful, its use is limited, so this is n 478Reads6.4Score140Shelves
- 47 The 1970s: You Want a Divorce? The Sharp-Tongued Officer Won't Stop Chasing His Wife 七零：要离婚？毒舌军爷疯狂追妻 [Both leads are devoted to each other + sweet romance + pocket dimension + love after an arranged marriage] After Yun Xiangyue is shoved into a horde of zombies by her roommate, she transmigrates into a book. Luckily, she still has her spatial ability. But she has become the conniving supporting female character in her roommate's novel, complete with a family of awful relatives and Lu Yi, the husband she was forced to marry. The heroine is her cousin, whom she used to bully. Later, the cousin be 716Reads8.7Score101Shelves
- 48 A Military Wife’s Ambitions in the 1970s 七零军嫂事业忙 [Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Joining the Army + Career-Oriented Female Lead + Rugged Man] For some reason, Jiang Nian dreamed of her late parents. Then she used her mother’s bracelet to unlock a wondrous pocket dimension. Guided by the scenes in her dream, she began selling off the family’s assets and stockpiling supplies. One quiet night, Jiang Nian transmigrated to 1973. Believing that when in Rome, one should do as the Romans do, she began her new life. The benefactor who saved her ad 1.9kReads7.3Score174Shelves
- 49 The State Banquet Chef of the 1980s 国宴大厨在八零 [Imperial banquet chef + unbeatable cuisine + satisfying wish fulfillment] Tang Xi died, then returned to age fifteen with the wordless book of secrets her master had given her: The World’s Finest Cuisine. That year, the Tang family’s biological daughter was finally found, and Tang Xi was left behind by her adoptive parents. Out of guilt toward the true daughter, Tang Xi gave in to her at every turn, but all she got in return was her adoptive parents’ dislike and her childhood sweetheart fiancé’ 935Reads8.2Score120Shelves
- 50 Reborn in 1968: I Help My Sister Crush the Scumbags 重生六八：我带妹妹虐渣渣 Wang Sihan, a supermarket tycoon, falls into a period novel with her pocket space and becomes a twelve-year-old minor character destined to be cannon fodder. She has a meek mother above her, four hungry little sisters below her, and a whole pack of nasty relatives constantly looking for trouble. How could she let them push her around? She rolls up her sleeves and fights back. If her scumbag father is no good, she'll dump him and find her mother someone better. They say it's shameful to have daug 779Reads8.7Score203Shelves
