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- 151 My Grandmother Is a Bit of a Character 我家祖母有点皮 In the battle to defend the southern frontier, Marquis Wu'an, his three sons, and one daughter-in-law fought to the bitter end. All five members of the family gave their lives for their country. When the old madam heard the terrible news, she fell gravely ill and never woke again. But when the person in the bed opened her eyes, she was Qi Lin, from a thousand years in the future. The family was renowned for its loyalty, but all that remained was a bunch of unruly children. With no grown men left 91.3kReads9.1Score16.7k14d adds
- 152 The Fierce Granny of the 1970s Remarries a Military Officer and Tears Into the Villains! 七零狂暴老太，改嫁军官撕极品！ [Reborn + period setting + military marriage + revenge + face-slapping and punishing scum + System] Wang Huizhen worked herself to the bone her whole life. After marrying Chang Wenxin, a teacher, he kept her shut inside the house to bear him sons. But she gave birth to nine daughters before finally having a son! After one tragedy after another befell her nine daughters, Chang Wenxin still forced her to wait on their precious son and his family. At ninety, after she was diagnosed with terminal ca 1.8kReads8.0Score—14d adds
- 153 What?! The Vicious Old Lady Strikes It Rich Thanks to Her Lucky Granddaughter 惊！极品老妇她靠锦鲤小孙女开挂了 [A fabulous old woman + a blessed granddaughter + building a fortune + raising children and crushing scoundrels + no romance] Yang Mei transmigrates into an unfinished farming novel, becoming the wicked, over-the-top grandmother of the little heroine, who is destined to turn evil. The original owner favored boys over girls, was stingy to a fault, and never listened to reason. Her granddaughter has an extraordinary background, and the villain is in for trouble. A ruined character image is no big 92Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 154 Transmigrating into a Difficult Life as the Legitimate Mother 穿越之嫡母难为 A woman who had been a community women's director with no family of her own transmigrates into the mother of nine children. Naturally kindhearted, she takes good care of every one of them, whether born to the principal wife or a concubine. After all, she's transmigrated into the richest family around! Though Madam Miao is already fifty, she's taken great care of herself! What? The emperor has feelings for her? Are you kidding me? Go on, ask him to his face! 16Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 155 A Good Mother-in-Law’s Guide to Self-Cultivation 好婆婆修炼手册 As an outstanding member of the Space-Time Administration, Jiang Cen has won the prestigious title of “Top-Performing Host” year after year. Everyone loves her, flowers bloom wherever she goes, and newcomers practically bow down in awe. Then one day, Jiang Cen gets tired of it all. She has seen it all and no longer wants to do missions; she just wants to enjoy her retirement. But what’s this Good Mother-in-Law Training Manual? What happened to retirement? Facing all kinds of daughters-in-law, Ji 507Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 156 Transmigrated with a Pocket Dimension into the Body of a Fierce Old Farmwife 带空间穿成超凶的农家老太婆 Feel-good power fantasy + no romance + lighthearted + strong fighter + modern firearms (An alternate-world story. An alternate-world story. Don’t compare it to any real dynasty. No romance, no romance, no romance. There are modern firearms, firearms... If that’s not your thing, don’t read!) The story continues after the main arc, with extra chapters. Zhu Hanyue, queen of the apocalypse, died in battle when her energy ran out, only to transmigrate into the body of Zhu Guixiang, a village woman in 4.7kReads9.1Score42214d adds
- 157 Transmigrated to Ancient Times: This Old Woman Tells Fortunes and Supports Her Family 穿古代，老婆子我算命又养家 [Transmigration + Fortune-telling + Farming + Alternate Ancient Setting, no romance] Hu Yaoyao is a 22-year-old, delicate, pale, slender beauty who likes men. Someone once asked her, “If you turned into a man, would you still like men?” The answer, of course, is... What else would it be? If you’re a man who suddenly turns into a woman, would you like men or women? But now... She’s neither! 971Reads8.6Score10014d adds
- 158 Transmigrated as a Widow with Five Kids, I Lead My Family to Prosperity 穿成寡妇一拖五，带领全家去致富 (Flight from famine + no romance + family life + farming + raising children + widow) Qin Wanqiu is an angry young woman who takes on the world, everyone in it, and even thin air. She came across a short video about someone who had won five million in the lottery. Eager to try her luck, she bought a ticket too. Only... she did get rich overnight, but forgot to pray for safety! Just days after claiming her prize, she was hit by a large truck and died. When she woke up, she had transmigrated. If sh 47Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 159 Reborn, I'm Done Putting Up with This: Scumbag Husband and Evil Son, Get Lost 重生老娘不伺候了：渣夫逆子滚 In her previous life, Huang Chunyan worked like a beast of burden, serving her entire family, only to be thrown out on New Year's Eve and die of rage. Reborn, Huang Chunyan spends every day either beating her useless husband or her disobedient sons! Anyone who won't listen gets a beating. Anyone who won't work gets a beating. Anyone she can't stand gets a beating! She just can't stop hitting people! Better to go crazy than put up with it until your breasts grow lumps. Her troublemaking mother-in 3.8kReads7.6Score25514d adds
- 160 Reborn After Transmigrating into a Book: The Marquis's Stepmother 穿书重生之侯府继母 [Completed] [Alternate-universe political intrigue + Slice-of-life ensemble cast + Transmigrate into a book and be reborn + Spiritual spring space] Shen Wan stayed up late reading a novel and scored a one-way ticket into the book. And she transmigrated right into the night vigil. Just thinking about it was thrilling. Looking at the wicked stepmother’s role she’d been given, minor cannon-fodder Shen Wan felt a little scared. She stole a glance at the male lead kneeling beside her, only five years 490Reads8.6Score10114d adds
- 161 Reborn in the 1980s: This Old Lady Won’t Clear Her Children’s Names 重生八零：老太太不为儿女洗白 [Period] [Feel-good power fantasy] [Family life] [No golden finger] [Reborn] [Get rich] Old Lady Cao died a miserable, bitter death in her previous life. She favored her eldest son, expecting him to support her in old age, but her eldest daughter-in-law abused her to death. After taking over her job, her eldest daughter married into a wealthy family and wanted nothing more than to cut ties with her poor family. Her second son became a live-in son-in-law and had long since forgotten he even h 748Reads6.8Score11314d adds
- 162 The Professional Code of Conduct for Mothers-in-Law 为人婆婆的职业操守 Ma Cuicui was reborn. In her previous life, she had worked herself to the bone to make her son successful and even found him a wife. Yet he said that the person he hated most in this life was her. She treated her daughter-in-law like her own daughter, but her daughter-in-law said she would never forgive her for what happened during her confinement. After Ma Cuicui helped raise her son and daughter-in-law's child, they kicked her out of their home. Later, her son developed liver cancer and forced 96Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 163 Married into a Wealthy Family at Sixty, She Blossomed Back to Life on the Brink of Death 六十嫁入豪门，濒死生命从此绽放 [No transmigration, no rebirth, no golden finger + everyday life + family squabbles + the later years of an older person’s life + an inspiring tale of farming] Huang Huixin is a retired teacher. She raised a son, put him through college, and helped him start a family and buy a home. Her marriage had once come close to falling apart. For a time, her son believed she was unfaithful to her marriage, dishonest, unkind, and unloving, and that she was selfish. He grew to resent her. The two generation 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Reborn in the 1980s: Grandma Takes Her Unfilial Descendants to Task 重生八零：老太太棒打孝子贤孙 Raising children to support you in old age? What a joke! Liang Chunmei was bedridden with paralysis. Her children quibbled over a thousand yuan in medical bills, and none of them would pay. She died with regrets. Reborn, Liang Chunmei decided to live for herself for once. All those dutiful children and grandchildren could get lost. Her eldest son holds out his hand for money? Get lost. Her second son looks down on the family's poverty? She cuts ties with him! Her ungrateful youngest daughter wan 188Reads7.1Score10414d adds
- 165 Why Keep Giving to Others? Treat Yourself Better 为别人付出？不如好好对自己 Lin Wanxia has been reborn, back in the 1990s, when there’s still time to change everything. In her previous life, she trusted her children far too much and spent all her time giving everything to them. In the end, she was left homeless and died a miserable death out on the streets. In this new life, she refuses to follow the same old path. What? Her children are still constantly demanding things from her? Get lost! From the moment she was reborn, she swore she would live for herself! 52Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 166 The Old Ancestress Doesn't Want to Follow the Plot 老祖宗她不想走剧情 Only after she died did Old Madam Huang learn that she had been living in a book. In the story, she was foolish, ignorant, and all looks with no brains. Her younger son, a high-ranking official, should have been the one she relied on, yet she had somehow become obsessed with protecting her eldest and second sons. In the end, she let their two households cause a terrible disaster, dragging the whole family into confiscation and exile. During the journey into exile, her eldest and second sons foun 532Reads8.3Score10014d adds
- 167 Transmigrated as a Miserable Old Woman, I Get Forced to Bind Myself to a Nation-Building System 穿成极品老妇后，被迫绑定强国系统 [Fleeing famine, farming, strengthening the nation, System, old woman, wish-fulfillment] Qiao Lan, a successful woman in her prime, opens her eyes to find herself an evil old woman nearing fifty who sells her children and grandchildren. She also has a 1980s nation-strengthening System bound to her. This is clearly a desperate flight through a time of chaos, and you’re talking to me about strengthening the nation?! With no other choice, Qiao Lan sets out to strengthen the nation: She sets her chi 47Reads8.9Score1014d adds
- 168 Beloved by the Whole Family: I Take My Pocket Dimension and Flee the Famine 农门团宠：我带着空间去逃荒 Synopsis: [Everyone's favorite + space + System + flight from famine] Su Xiaomao looks at her little black paws in despair. She had just stocked up on all kinds of snacks last night, but when she woke up, she was in the middle of nowhere. Most importantly, she was on the road fleeing from famine. Who would have thought that transmigration was all the rage these days? Now she's the foolish daughter of the Su family in Xiaohe Village, Su Chunhua! Just look at that high-quality name, Little Spring 12Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 169 In Quick Transmigration, You Have the Protagonist’s Aura, but I Have an All-Powerful Grandma 快穿你有主角光环我有全能奶奶 Who says cannon fodder can only have a bad ending? Once they have a powerful granny backing them, getting rich, becoming beautiful, and reaching the peak of life takes no time at all. Liu Xu, a veteran of the quick transmigration bureau, takes on this mission and becomes the powerful granny to cannon-fodder characters in countless period novels. 1. The granny of a village belle from the 1970s is a rice expert 2. The protective granny of a vicious younger sister-in-law from the 1970s 3. The grann 407Reads6.5Score10114d adds
- 170 Reborn in the 1990s: An Old Woman Reforms Her Ungrateful Children 重生九零：老太太改造不孝子女 [Rebirth] [Period setting] [Family squabbles] [Golden finger] [Building wealth] Yu Qiuying is reborn, returning to the years when she worked herself to the bone for her children. In her previous life, she devoted herself to her children and gave them everything, hoping they would have good lives. In the end, she received no gratitude, only their resentment. Her second and youngest daughters both blamed her for favoring her two sons. Her eldest son resented her for the rest of his life over somet 1.2kReads8.6Score10414d adds
- 171 Transmigrated into a Farming Novel as the Wicked Mother-in-Law 穿成种田文里的恶毒婆婆 Deng Yu and her hapless ex-boyfriend are fighting over their breakup when they both fall from a balcony and transmigrate into a book. She becomes a nasty, malicious mother-in-law, while he becomes the village's only old bachelor. He thinks she's lazy, so she buys his family's land and makes him toil away in the fields while she sleeps at home. He laughs at her for being an old widow, but her three wonderful daughters-in-law are all incredibly fertile. She has children and grandchildren all aroun 97Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 172 Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Woman Gets Rich After Splitting Up the Family and Cutting Ties 老太重生八零，分家断亲一路暴富 [The Eighties Granny: Cutting Ties, Making a Fortune, and Becoming a Business Legend] [No-Nonsense Granny] [Breaking Up the Family] [Family Squabbles] [Building a Fortune] [Racing Through the Business World] [A Touch of Ensemble Cast] [A Touch of Pocket Dimension] In her previous life, Mu Yunzhi slaved away for eighty years, only to discover that every one of her dutiful children had died horribly, all because two ungrateful wolves had been scheming behind her back! Reborn in 1983, the old lad 23.9kReads8.5Score2k14d adds
- 173 The Mind-Reading Empress Dowager Wins Without Lifting a Finger 会读心的太后躺赢了 (A humorous, feel-good story with a strong female lead. The empress dowager lies flat while helping everyone build a harmonious society. A somewhat ensemble cast, sensible logic, and no official romance.) When Ruan Qing, who had worked herself to death, opened her eyes again, she discovered she had become the newly installed empress dowager of some obscure dynasty. The newly enthroned emperor was her own son. She had also acquired a special ability: mind reading. She could hear the thoughts of a 380Reads8.8Score10214d adds
- 174 With Pinduoduo in Hand, I Take the Sickly Prince on the Run from Famine 手握拼夕夕，我带病娇皇子去逃荒 Xia Ye has a blast fleeing famine with Pinduoduo by her side. Drought, famine, plague, and war hold no fear for her: with Pinduoduo, she has all the cheats she needs. "Ninety-nine yuan to get the koi's heaven-blessed luck." "Ninety-nine yuan to get peerless martial arts." "Ninety-nine yuan to get a puppet NPC." "Ninety-nine yuan to get an AK-47." She provides famine relief, puts down rebellions, slays evil beasts, and stabilizes the nation. After helping the lovesick Xu Ziqian ascend the throne, 233Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 175 The Farm Girl's Space: Our Whole Family Transmigrates to Escape the Famine 空间农女：逃荒从全家穿越开始 Other people transmigrate and become heroines in feel-good stories, gaining status and handsome men. Sang Jingning, who has a whole family in tow, says, “No way.” One day, she transmigrates into the body of a girl despised by everyone in a poor village. Before she even has time to feel sorry for herself, she discovers that her parents have transmigrated too! With tears in her eyes, Sang Jingning masters farming and hunting to feed the family. Just when they finally make it, disaster strikes. Eve 40Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 176 Transmigrated as an Ancient-Era Wicked Mother-in-Law: I'm Doing Just Fine 穿成古代恶婆婆，老娘我好着呢 (Raising kids + daily life + no romance + satisfying wish fulfillment) After transmigrating, Su Li is immediately faced with a choice during her daughter-in-law's labor: save the mother or the baby. Do you even have to ask? Of course we save... Naturally, both of them! Luckily, with her ability-space golden finger, Su Li saves her eldest daughter-in-law's life. But the days that follow are the real test. Still, if she made it through life back then, what are a few family squabbles and difficult 201Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 177 One Cup of Milk Tea Paves the Way to Wealth in Ancient Times 一杯奶茶造就古代致富之路 Transmigration + Simple, Peaceful Life + Starting from Scratch + Making a Fortune + No Romance {Food + Opening Shops + Buying Houses and Storefronts + Making Tea + Opening a Mountain Resort + Milk Tea + Nail Art + Supermarket Chains... She’ll build it all!} All I did was drink a cup of milk tea and stay up late. Why did I, a fine young woman of the 21st-century Chinese nation, wake up in an obscure dynasty with no place in the history books, as a sickly, delicate girl from a tiny village? At lea 138Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 178 Reborn in the 1970s: Shen Laotai Abandons Her Husband and Children and Strikes It Rich 重生七零：沈老太抛夫弃子暴富了 [Period setting + rebirth + feel-good power fantasy + family drama] Granny Shen is reborn, returning to 1976, when her useless husband wanted her to give up her job to a martyr's widow and stay home to care for her in-laws, while sacrificing her honest, kind children as blood donors for ungrateful ingrates. In her previous life, Granny Shen dragged her dutiful eldest son and eldest daughter into devoting their whole lives to the Wang family. She cared for her in-laws until they died, then her us 2.5kReads8.0Score24114d adds
- 179 After They Read Her Mind, the Wicked Mother-in-Law Could No Longer Keep Up Her Act! 被读心后，恶婆婆人设立不住了！ [Farming Fiction] Jiang Wan fought desperately for ten years in the apocalypse. Just as victory was within reach, she was dragged to her death by her hopelessly lovestruck best friend. When she opened her eyes again, she had become Zhang Cuixiang, the notorious shrew of Xiahe Village in the Great Zhou Dynasty. To keep anyone from discovering that her soul had crossed into another body, Jiang Wan put on an Oscar-worthy performance and did her best to maintain her shrewish mother-in-law persona. 99Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 180 Reborn in the 1980s: My Dutiful Children Can All Get Lost 重生八零：孝子贤孙都滚蛋 [1980s] [An elderly woman is reborn] [Family life] [Ensemble cast of ordinary people] [No golden finger] Old Madam Li spent her whole life working herself to the bone. She bought houses for her children, lived apart from her husband so she could help them, and looked after her grandchildren. Who could have guessed that her old age would end in such misery? Her husband suffered so badly from stomach cancer that he writhed in pain. They couldn't even afford painkillers that cost just a few dimes, 651Reads7.3Score10314d adds
- 181 Even an Old Lady Can Transmigrate: All I Can Do Is Talk Your Ear Off 老太也穿越：我只会话唠啊 Old Lady Li (Li Ningyu) had only gone out to buy groceries when she was hit by a car on her way home. She transmigrated to a fictional dynasty modeled on the Tianlong era, where war with the neighboring Chaoyang kingdom had left the borderlands in misery. She ended up in the body of someone with the same name, and the original owner's family had no choice but to flee. When Old Lady Li woke, she found she had nothing, except that she was more than ten years younger. Now she had to support her fam 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 A Mom of Three Transmigrates With Her Bathroom 三胎宝妈带着厕所穿越了 Zhao Wanwan, a mother of three, transmigrates to the Xia Dynasty as a peasant girl and is furious. Other people transmigrate with a golden finger: all kinds of Systems, pocket dimensions, spiritual springs... She, on the other hand, comes with a whole portable toilet. This is just absurd. From the start, she’s fleeing famine, separated from her family, and robbed. With no other choice, she makes do, farming while searching for relatives and old friends. After finally finding her family, she over 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 Reborn as a 70-Year-Old Woman, Forced to Get Her Life Together 穿成70老太，被迫摆正心态 [1970s + golden finger + no romance + family and daily life + light ensemble cast + never putting up with mistreatment] She transmigrated, she really transmigrated. Even Lu Xiang gets to experience something this trendy. But when she takes a closer look at the broken-down house, the family fighting like chickens and dogs, and her own dark, wrinkled face… It feels like the sky is falling. She’d be better off reincarnating all over again. Recently, Hu Yu has noticed something strange happening at 1.5kReads7.5Score12014d adds
- 184 The Whole Village's Darling Little Farmer Girl: Escaping Famine With Her Space 团宠小农女：带着空间去逃难 She went to sleep and somehow transmigrated to ancient times? As if hardship and poverty weren't enough, she also had to flee a famine? One blow after another drove Gu Xiangwan, a laid-back foodie, to despair! Maybe exhaustion was making her see things, but where had this house suddenly come from... They'd keep a low profile as they went, discard what was worthless, hold on to the people they could trust, and, united, find a new home and build a better life~ Marriage? She'd never even consider 89Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 185 He and I Flee Famine and Raise Kids! We Unlock Two Spaces 我和他逃荒养娃！开启双空间 I transmigrated and got a companion thrown in as well. Fine, I owe him one. This guy has a sharp tongue and a scheming nature, yet acts like a little puppy in front of me. Together, we unlock two pocket spaces, take the kids on the run from famine, and survive years of disaster. From floods to droughts, we cross mountains and rivers. Xu Zhao and Ma Xin, two people from the 21st century, join forces with the village head and the villagers to weather hardship in ancient times and build a new life. 105Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 186 Kidnapped by the System and Made to Transmigrate, Granny Li Dominates the 1980s 被系统绑架穿越，李老太制霸八零 The full novel is complete. Enjoy reading!!! The rating is low because the book has only just appeared. It will gradually rise over time. Feel-good story + life in a crowded courtyard + an old lady + a married couple transmigrate into a book + everyday life + family squabbles + a small ensemble cast + period setting + no whitewashing After an ordinary night's sleep, Li Qingzhi somehow transmigrates into a notorious period novel she'd read, becoming the universally disliked Old Mrs. Li. From the 1.1kReads6.3Score10414d adds
- 187 After Becoming the Ultimate Old Lady, All I Want Is to Take It Easy 穿成极品老太太后我只想摆烂 [Elderly Woman + Farming + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Golden Finger + Adorable Kids + No Male Lead] What’s it like to become an ancient rural granny whom everyone hates from the start? Lin Ruyi says it’s a bit hard to stomach. She was once a trillion-yuan CEO who lived boldly and did as she pleased. All she did was refuse to go on a blind date, and her own father smacked her off to meet the King of Hell with a thermos. When she opened her eyes again, a gaggle of grown sons were kneeling before he 1.2kReads8.7Score18314d adds
- 188 Reborn After Her Top-Scholar Son Burned Her Alive 被状元儿子烧死后，老太太重生了 Reborn / feel-good power fantasy / farming / building wealth / doting on his granddaughter In her previous life, Old Madam Huang had let greed cloud her judgment. She forced her eldest son to risk his life working in an illegal coal mine, then sold his daughter for silver. Her eldest daughter-in-law fell to her knees and beat her head bloody, but it still wasn’t enough to get the child back. That very night, she hanged herself, taking both her own life and the baby’s. Her eldest son dragged hims 1.5kReads8.1Score18714d adds
- 189 The Wicked Mother-in-Law Woke Up Acting Strange 恶婆婆她醒来后不对劲了 Farming + no romance + portable space + raising children + slow life + war + both leads transmigrate After finally getting out of the army, soldier Su Xiaoxiao planned to live like a lazybones. But after taking a nap in her own courtyard, she transmigrated into the body of a peasant woman. The woman was the only scoundrel in her family, and she was also a hopelessly devoted sister who had no limits when it came to helping her younger brother. From the start, she was selling her eldest daughter-i 146Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 190 The Wicked Farmhouse Matriarch Just Wants to Take It Easy 农门恶婆婆只想当咸鱼 Ji Yuehe transmigrates into the infamous wicked mother-in-law of a farming family. Every member of the family is a mess, pale and scrawny, timid and weak. As a 24-year-old single woman, she wakes up more than a decade older and has to face a chaotic household every day. Looking at all those hungry eyes staring up at her, all she wants to do is lie around and do nothing. 192Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 191 A Hunter Took Me In While I Was Fleeing Famine, and I Had Triplets 逃荒被猎户看上，媳妇她一胎三宝 [Cozy Daily Life + Farming and Business + Yandere + Adorable Kids] Ning Xia Yue, a refugee fleeing famine, catches the eye of a rugged mountain man. He's fearsome-looking, the stuff of children's nightmares, but Ning Xia Yue isn't afraid of him one bit. And then... Ning Xia Yue is carried off to his mountain cave. That sickly, possessive man is not someone you want to mess with. He'll hide you away at the slightest provocation. Later, they have three children. The first two are ugly-cute, wh 345Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 192 After Becoming a Wretched Old Woman: I Farm, Raise the Kids, and Stew a Goose 穿成极品老妇后：我种田养崽炖大鹅 [Wicked Mother-in-Law, Adorable Pets, Building a Fortune, Heartwarming, Farming] Li Manyuan was craving goose stew cooked in an iron pot, but unexpectedly transmigrated into an old farmer's wife and became the mother of eight children! She thought having a few good sons for free might not be so bad, but as it turned out, the only thing she got for free was a bunch of unfilial brats! Each of her sons had his own agenda, and even her terrible daughters-in-law sided with outsiders. The family was s 379Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 193 I Transmigrated into a Seventies Grandma, Surrounded by Four Sons, Four Daughters, and a Houseful of Grandchildren 穿成七零老太，四儿四女子孙满堂 #Family squabbles, everyday life, no black market, building wealth, no romance# Yang Qiaoying never expected that when she opened her eyes again, she would have become a widow in 1974, a sprightly fifty-three-year-old with an adopted son who was married with children of his own, four sons, four daughters, and a house full of grandchildren. But having lots of children isn't always a blessing. Her youngest son insists on getting two hundred yuan to pay the bride price for his girlfriend. Yang Qiao 9kReads8.8Score76114d adds
- 194 I Worked Myself to the Bone for Fifty Years, and You Say I Deserve to Die? 操劳五十年，你说我该死？ [Reborn + family drama + a portrait of ordinary lives] [No golden finger, the protagonist is an ordinary person] In her previous life, Zhang Lanfen enjoyed a life of success for most of her years. She bore the Li family four strapping sons and two daughters. She had her husband completely under her thumb, earned her mother-in-law's favor, and worked herself to the bone to buy a new house and car for the family of her beloved second son. The whole family was thriving under her careful arrangement 5.9kReads7.9Score45414d adds
- 195 Reborn in the 1980s: A Widow Dumps Her Wretched Son and Takes On Her Vicious Daughter-in-Law 80寡妇重生，弃逆子，斗毒媳 Chen Pingchun’s husband died young, and she raised four children all by herself. People say children are there to care for you in your old age, but when she fell and cried out for the children she had raised from infancy, not one of them came. After the fall left her bedridden with brain damage, she heard her children bickering and shifting the responsibility, treating her like a burden. She had waited on the whole family like a servant, lived under the stairs, eaten scraps, and worked from dawn 41Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 196 Transmigrating to Ancient Times: A Superpowered Granny Battles Aliens 穿越古代，异能老太大战外星人 Old Madam Wu had no children her whole life. She didn’t have any particular hobbies either, apart from watching short videos and mini-dramas. One day, she stumbled upon a story about aliens visiting the ancient Blue Star. Good grief, what a mess! An alien travels all that way to Blue Star. What could it possibly want? To kidnap the heroine’s cat? To make it in time for Blue Star’s apocalypse? Isn’t that ridiculous? Could a human being really come up with a plot like that? No way. One-star revie 87Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 197 Reborn After Starving on New Year’s Eve, I Cut Ties with My Family 饿死在新年夜重生后六亲不认 In her previous life, Granny Lin toiled to raise four sons and two daughters. But because she favored boys over girls, she made her daughters serve as stepping stones for her sons. She later gave all her property to her four sons, only to be abandoned by her eldest son’s family in the bitter winter and left to starve to death. Reborn, Granny Lin is determined to change the course of her life and make it up to her two devoted daughters. She also plans to thrash her four unfilial sons and kick 79Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 How Can We Flee Before We’ve Even Started Living? 怎么还没生活呢？就逃荒 No romance + no golden finger + farming + fleeing famine + business + slow development (A slow-burn story that takes its time and lets things unfold naturally.) One day, Li Shulan wakes up to find she has become a farm wife. Her original self was quite a handful, and she has no golden finger or influential connections, so she has to rely on herself for everything. After working hard for over half a year, she’s finally on the verge of a better life, only for a snow disaster and war to hit. To sur 355Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 199 Think I'm a Fool? Reborn in the Seventies, the Old Lady Throws Her Weight Around 当我冤种？重生七零老太作威作福 [Seventies era + ensemble cast + everyday family life + a fool finally wakes up + face-slapping + putting scumbags in their place + satisfying read] A husband who gives everything, a biased wife, and a daughter blinded by love ruined this family! At seventy, with late-stage lung cancer and ungrateful children before her, Wang Shuzhen finally understood the truth of life. Rather than drag out a miserable existence, she might as well leave cleanly and decisively, so no one would have to hold anyon 602Reads7.5Score10714d adds
- 200 A Confident Old Lady Uses Reason to Win in a Melodramatic Drama 自信老太在狗血剧里以理服人 Wang Cuihua is a trendsetter at the cutting edge of fashion. At seventy, she’s still active in her square-dancing group. Her greatest hobbies, besides dancing, are watching short dramas. Who could have guessed that while watching one, the pathetic heroine would raise her blood pressure so much that she’d have an attack? In an instant, she was transported into the world of short dramas. From then on, the short-drama world got its strictest, sharp-tongued mother yet. She scolds the pathetic heroin 65.7kReads9.2Score4.5k14d adds
