Novels like As a Widow, I Struggled to Make It in the 1980s
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- 1 The 1980s Female Police Officer: From the Local Station to the Provincial Compound 八零女警察：从派出所到省委大院 [The female lead neither transmigrates nor is reborn. She's a career-driven woman who enters politics, solves cases, and navigates family life. Power is the best beauty treatment.] Lin Qingzhu is the luckiest girl at the embroidery factory. Her mother, Lin Meihua, is the head of factory security, while her father, Wang Yuan, is head of the technical department and an expert embroiderer. They had only one child, a daughter, who even took her mother's surname. After graduating from high school, Li 90Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 A Whirlwind Wedding in the 1970s: I Won Without Even Trying 七零闪婚后，一不小心躺赢了 Qin Niannian never thought she was unlucky, until she closed her eyes... She transmigrated in the middle of a trend. Everyone else got a golden finger, or at least some kind of pocket dimension. She got absolutely nothing. Fine, she’d just have to make the best of it. It wasn’t like she was going to drop dead! But as soon as she arrived, she was faced with a choice: go to the countryside or get married. She wanted to go to the countryside and stand her ground, but she just couldn’t do it. She mi 181Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Reborn in the 1980s: Life Is Sweet 重生八零：生活就是甜甜的 Ding Nian returns to the eve of the day she was tricked into marriage. Taking her parents and younger siblings with her, she heads to the city to build a better life. Who would have thought she’d meet the legendary big shot from her previous life, except that right now, he’s just a boy as green as a cabbage. The boy’s mother says, “My son is honest and well-behaved.” Ding Nian thinks of how the boy’s previous life ended, and realizes it had nothing to do with these people. Should she get on good 809Reads6.8Score104Shelves
- 4 I Transmigrated to the 1970s and Took the System to the Countryside 穿越七零，带着系统去下乡 Jiang Yuan thought she was terribly unlucky. Just after her job paying over ten thousand yuan a month became permanent, she was hit by a car and died. Then she thought she was incredibly lucky. After her death, she was bound to a System that treated her wonderfully. It took her to the 1970s and gave her a pocket dimension. On top of that, as long as she worked, it paid her an annual salary of over 200,000 yuan. The job was her dream: great pay, little work. An annual salary of over 200,000 yuan 21Reads—Score148Shelves
- 5 Back to 1986: A New Dad, Getting Rich in a Frenzy 重回1986：喜当爹，狂暴富 [Period Setting] [Second Marriage and Live-In Son-in-Law] [Reborn] [Making Up for Regrets] [Farming] [Past and Present Lives] [Getting Rich] We are all living inside stories of everyday life. Most of the time, we don't want to lay bare our grievances and struggles for others to hear. Yet in other people's stories, we can always recognize and empathize with the parts of ourselves that feel familiar. Those who write stories have always been best at saving themselves. I quietly worked all the r 382Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Spirit Spring Space: The Fake Heiress Becomes Everyone’s Darling 灵泉空间，假资本家大小姐成团宠 [System Space] [Everyone's Favorite] [Building a Career] [Marriage First, Love Later] [A Slow-Burning Romance] Shen Xuwei, an obscure actress, transmigrates into a book set in 1975 and becomes a cannon-fodder character who shares her name. From the start, she reclaims her space and binds herself to the [Road to Stardom Comeback System], gradually transforming from a pretty young woman into a stunning beauty. Her space keeps leveling up, and its rewards grow ever more generous, improving her from 9.9kReads6.9Score1.8kShelves
- 7 The Wrong Baby Swap of 1980: Two Lives Under One Roof for Eighteen Years 八零抱错：屋檐下的两份十八年 [Switched at Birth + Period Setting + College Entrance Exam] Eighteen years ago, a mix-up at birth meant she raised pigs and sheep in the countryside in the other girl’s place, while the other girl lived as a pampered young lady in the city. Eighteen years later, the real heiress returned to the city, and overnight, the impostor became the talk of the whole residential compound. Her biological mother cried for three days, and her biological father smoked until the ground was littered with cigare 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 A Cadre's Daughter in the 1970s: From Village Belle to Translator 七零高干：从村花到翻译官 [Era of Reversal] [Rise of a Great Nation] [Clear-Eyed Money Making] [The Heroine’s Growth] [Marriage Before Love] [Building a Business in the 1970s] In 1975, deep in the Ten-Thousand Mountains, a single dirt road trapped countless rural children in lives of poverty. Zhao Shuhe had a secret: inside her mind was a 2025 course System. While everyone else was still using abacuses, she already knew matrix calculations. While others were memorizing the 26 letters, she had a complete university-level 211.1kReads8.8Score34.6kShelves
- 9 Drugged and Forced to Sell Myself? I Turn Around and Throw Myself at a Tough Army Officer 下药强卖？我转身扑倒硬汉军官 The rating just came out, so it’ll go up. [Military marriage | wild imagination | badass woman transmigrates | everyone’s favorite | takes down the rotten lot] Lin Jingwan, a woman from the apocalypse, has transmigrated! Her father just died, her mother is a murderer, and this timid, lonely, miserable woman is being bullied by a bald thug! She kicks her “newlywed husband” unconscious, escapes, then accidentally barges into someone else’s bridal chamber? Should she take her place? Would that work 12.5kReads8.4Score2.2kShelves
- 10 The 1970s: When It Comes to Making Money, You Have to Go All In 七零之关于赚钱这个事必须卷起来 [Period setting + transmigrate into a book + sweet romance + System + gossip-watching + stirring things up + making money] Liu Qi wakes up after a car accident to find herself as Liu Xiaoyue, who is being forced to go to the countryside in place of her younger brother. If you show me no mercy, I’ll show you none either. I’ll sell my job, take the cash and ration coupons, and head off to the countryside with my bags packed! Huh? Why does this scene feel so familiar? And haven’t I heard those educ 435Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 11 A Powerful Figure’s Memoirs from the 1960s 60年代大佬记事 Synopsis: Qin Shijin was sweet-talking, lively, cheerful, and generous. She was on the verge of reaching the peak of her career when she transmigrated to the 1960s. She became an idiot who saved her own food during a famine to give it to the man she had a crush on. Though food and clothing were scarce, Qin Shijin said it was no big deal. A skyscraper starts from the ground. In ten years, she’d get into a top university. Sitting at her desk in the exam hall, Qin Shijin held the test paper in 327Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 12 Transmigrated to the 1970s, Starting Out in Beidahuang 穿越七零，开局北大荒 [Educated youth sent to the countryside + clear-headed, independent heroine + military marriage + uplifting + space] After transmigrating, Lin Wanqiu became the “sacrificial lamb” her family pushed out to take her older sister's place in the countryside. Her father was silent and domineering, her mother biased and harsh, her older brother selfish, and her second older sister hypocritical. She cut ties with them on the spot, took all her subsidies, and left without looking back. In her darkest ho 497Reads8.0Score103Shelves
- 13 Pillar of the Seventies: Upright and Unyielding, Serving the People 七零砥柱：清风傲骨掌民生 A strong female lead in a period setting. She enters politics to help the people, with career and romance as parallel storylines, plenty of satisfying moments, and a focus on power struggles and personal growth. No convenient golden fingers of any kind, and no moral blackmail. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 I Got Over My Love-Brain, but Now My Husband Keeps Chasing Me for Cuddles 丢掉恋爱脑后老公却总追着想贴贴 [Reborn + 1990s + Sweet Romance + Cute Baby + Farming] After her wicked stepsister pushed her down the stairs, Chen Xinzhu opened her eyes to find herself back in 1998, before her daughter was harmed. In her past life, everyone envied her as Mrs. Liang, but few knew her name was Chen Xinzhu. This time, armed with an emotional golden finger, she wants no foolish romance. All she wants is to protect the daughter dearest to her. She'll give up on love and just love his money. Wait, if Liang Jingxua 39Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 15 Transmigrating to the 1970s: The Everyday Life of a Background Character 穿越七零之路人甲日常 The rating just opened, so it’ll go up later. This is a gentle, everyday-life story. If it’s not your thing, please click away. Thanks! Transmigration + no military marriage + no relocation to the countryside + no black-market dealings + no vilifying the original heroine After transmigrating, Lu Jinxia finds herself in the world of a historical novel she read. Unfortunately, she isn’t the heroine, just a background character. The heroine of the book is an educated youth sent to the countryside. 23.6kReads8.2Score1.9kShelves
- 16 Reborn in the Sixties: The Cannon-Fodder Younger Sister-in-Law Refuses to Cooperate! 重生六零：炮灰小姑子拒不配合！ [1960s setting + reborn for revenge + storage space + advancing the nation through scientific research + love that blossoms over time] In her previous life, Tian Wenjing was cruelly pressured by her family into marrying a rough military officer she didn't love. From that point on, her life began counting down! Only after she died did Tian Wenjing finally realize that everything she'd suffered had been a tragedy carefully orchestrated by someone! And the people responsible... This time, she struc 1.6kReads—Score104Shelves
- 17 The High-Ranking Cadre's Daughter in the 1970s: Help the Poor? Not Even a Dog Would! 七零高干女：扶贫？狗都不扶！ Completed [Strong Female Lead] Original title: [Seventies-Era Cadre’s Daughter: Poverty Relief? Not Even a Dog Would Do It!] When a woman gains the power to speak, she won’t speak only for herself! [Sent to the Countryside in Northern Shaanxi + Local Woman Awakens, Along with the Women Around Her + Pocket Dimension and Spirit Spring + Mind Reading + True Female Protagonist + Romance Later, Male Lead Marries into Her Family] She was a genuine child of a prominent compound, the beloved youngest d 23.4kReads8.4Score3.5kShelves
- 18 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
- 19 Lazy Family? I Slack Off with the System 全家懒货？我靠系统摆烂 [System # Period Setting # Devoted Couple # Comedy] The Mao family is so lazy it makes everyone furious, yet somehow they live better than anyone else. Not only that, they’ve visibly put on weight. In an era when people can barely get enough to eat, how is that even possible? Mao Er’ya is a master at slacking off and cutting corners. After accidentally binding herself to a System, she leads her whole family in eating their fill and taking it easy. When the villain tricks her into giving the male 7Reads—Score128Shelves
- 20 I Entered a Period Novel: The Fake Heiress Became a Self-Made Rich Woman 穿进年代文：假千金她成了富一代 [Period Setting + Transmigrate into a Book + System + No Going to the Countryside] Transmigrating is nothing unusual these days, but encountering a System bug is pretty rare. So while the other Hosts are still struggling through their missions, she’s already busy shopping to her heart’s content. 248Reads7.2Score102Shelves
- 21 Bound to a System in the 1970s, I Became a Tycoon 被系统绑到七十年代后我成了首富 After Ye He died, the System forcibly bound her and made her transmigrate into the villainess of a period novel. The youngest daughter in a blended family, unloved by both parents, she was facing an order to go to the countryside before even finishing middle school. According to the book, after going to the countryside, the original owner would meet the handsome male lead and become hopelessly obsessed with him, banging her head against a wall for his sake. She would give him the hard-won opport 710Reads—Score159Shelves
- 22 On the Day of My Blind Date, the Rugged Guy Next Door Stops Pretending 相亲当天，隔壁糙汉哥哥他不装了 [Countryside + Both Pure + Mutual Habits + Childhood Sweethearts + Slow-Burn Romance] "Clever, Witty Little Sunshine + Devoted, Scheming, Clingy Big Brother" Zhang Qiuyan has never thought of Yan Guilin, the older boy next door, as her real brother. Cheerful and bold, she makes a habit of teasing and flirting with the rugged, muscular man. Yan Guilin decided when he was young that she would be his wife for life. For years, he’s hidden his feelings behind the role of a caring older brother, car 94Reads—Score158Shelves
- 23 The Road to Promotion in the 1980s: She Made Her Mark Through Her Own Ability 年代升迁路：她凭实力出圈 [Period] [Career] Dai Xinghua wakes up in 1972 in the body of an orphan who shares her name. Her parents died in the line of duty, and their home is about to be repossessed. Looking at the hand she’s been dealt, former “career star” Dai Xinghua takes a deep breath. Stay calm. I can win! She sticks firmly to her principles: What does it matter how much you work? We’re all just cogs in the machine. Don’t compete, don’t fight. But when it comes to my job, I’ll do it to the best of my ability 13.4kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
- 24 Life as a Sent-Down Youth Returning to the City 穿成回城知青的日子 (The rating has only just come out, so it's a little low. It'll gradually rise later.) (Ensemble Cast + Family Life + Gourmet + Making a Fortune + Cozy Everyday Life) Zhou Wei wakes up to find that she has transmigrated to the 1980s and become an educated youth returning to the city. As soon as she arrives, she's pressured to marry an ugly man. Get married? Whoever wants to can marry him. She's not doing it! To change her fate, Zhou Wei puts her advantages to use and earns her first pot of gold 9.3kReads7.8Score679Shelves
- 25 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
- 26 Island Life in the 1980s: The Tough Officer's Delicate Little Bride 八零海岛：硬汉军官的娇气小媳妇 After working overtime until the early hours, Jiang Ruanruan suddenly died at her keyboard. When she opened her eyes again, she had become a spoiled, troublesome village girl in the countryside of the early 1980s. The original owner was greedy for wealth and status. Relying on a debt of gratitude from her grandfather’s rescue of him years ago, she had forced Huo Jinsong, an island-based military officer, to marry her. The moment she heard she would have to follow him to a remote island and endur 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 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
- 28 After the Seventies-Era Officer Returned, He Had a Son and a Daughter 七零军官回来后，儿女双全了 [1970s + military marriage + space] Hua Jiuling transmigrated to the 1970s overnight. Her husband, Gu Beiming, was called away on an urgent mission right after their wedding. Months passed with no word from him. Her parents-in-law gave her a hard time, her sister-in-law cursed her, and her sisters-in-law schemed against her. With her pregnant belly, Hua Jiuling picked up a kitchen knife, fought back, split the family, and moved into the hunter’s little house by the village committee. Fortunately 18.3kReads8.3Score2.4kShelves
- 29 Reborn in 1996: I Left My Jerk Ex Behind, and Life Is Sweeter Than Honey 重生九六，远离渣男，日子比蜜甜 After dying alongside the scumbag, Lan Shiyao returned to the age of eighteen. Given another chance at life, she decisively stayed away from the scumbag, made up for the regrets of her past life, protected her family and friends, focused on making money, built her fortune, and thrived, until those who had once hurt her could only look up to her! 5.6kReads6.9Score396Shelves
- 30 Jilted Eight Times, She Became a Tycoon on Her Own 被退亲八次的她，靠自己成为首富 [Period setting + personal growth + two strong leads + devoted couple + farming + raising children + lost and found again + reuniting at the top] She is the village's shame, a woman who “can't find a husband.” Eight engagements have been called off, all because she has a younger brother. She wants to escape this village that devours people, even if the road ahead is uncertain. He is a bright moon fallen into the mud. Once a refined young master from a scholarly family, now all he has left is his 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The 1970s: After Breaking Off My Engagement Following a Near-Drowning, the Handsomest Educated Youth Dotes on Me 七零：落水退婚后被最俊知青娇宠 Shen Shu never expected to transmigrate to the 1970s, much less have a scummy fiancé from a ridiculous childhood betrothal. After getting rid of him, Shen Shu quickly marries a handsome educated youth. She never expected this educated youth to be such a treasure: he can do everything, though he does have a bit of a sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside streak. Lu Yandong thought he was marrying a little tyrant, but it turns out she’s a fox pretending to be a rabbit. 1.1kReads8.7Score101Shelves
- 32 Reborn as the Cannon-Fodder Wife in the ’60s: Anyone Who Objects Can Fight Me 穿成六零炮灰原配，不服就干 [Book Transmigration, period-setting wish fulfillment, a slight golden finger, no space, as realistic as possible, not an implausible power fantasy] Modern computer programmer Lin Zhixia transmigrates into a period novel as the tragic first wife her entire family sacrifices! The Zhao family conspires to frame her. Her lame younger brother-in-law forces his way into her room, and her in-laws not only take part, but afterward cover it up, poison her until she's mute, and imprison her! Her husband 1.5kReads—Score109Shelves
- 33 Transmigrate to the ’70s and Marry a Factory Worker 穿越七零嫁工人 [1970s + dramatic heroine + striving to succeed + building a fortune + sweet romance] As a ghost with no identity, forced to sneak into the 1970s, Fu Jiao’s favorite pastime was listening to gossip. She never expected to be framed by a local from the 1970s and become “Fu Jiao,” the woman being set up at a matchmaking meeting. Among those plotting against her were educated youths, including a reborn woman who wanted to change her fate. Their messy lives were nothing more than a bit of fun for Fu 923Reads8.2Score106Shelves
- 34 Stealing the Heroine’s Fortunes in the 1970s, I Snag a Soldier and Marry Him 在七零抢女主机缘，拐个军官结婚 [Six-year age gap + love at first sight + slow and steady + everyday life] Cheng Zhiyu woke up from a nap to discover she had transmigrated into a book, and not just any character: she had become a cannon-fodder character who was supposed to give the heroine golden fingers. All the original heroine’s golden fingers actually belonged to the cannon-fodder character. The original character was meant to hand them over, but Cheng Zhiyu wasn’t about to. She took the heroine’s golden fingers for hers 4.4kReads5.6Score474Shelves
- 35 The Runaway Bride Wins Over the Handsome Factory Director and Embraces a Life of Passion 逃婚女拿下帅厂长，共赴滚烫人生 To escape her birth family’s schemes, Su Yunke stole the household registration booklet and fled in the middle of the night! Standing in an unfamiliar city, she had only one mao to her name. In an era when even a one-mao coin found on the street had to be handed over to the police, she encountered many kind people. With their warmth behind her, she fought her way to building a business empire of her own. Later, the tough man who cherished her above all else complained in a wounded voice, “B 1.4kReads—Score131Shelves
- 36 1950s Military Marriage: I Kick My Scumbag Father to the Curb and Head to the City for a Secure Job 五零军婚，脚踹渣爹进城端铁饭碗 [Period setting + both leads’ first relationship + heroine builds a career + everyday life + pocket dimension full of supplies + no saintly behavior or handouts + realistic heroine] I’m no good at writing blurbs, so please read the story. The career plot begins in Chapter 53. Romance in the early chapters; from the middle onward, the heroine focuses entirely on her career. This is a story about a powerful woman entering politics, with two strong leads and an even stronger heroine. An Ran was a r 45.6kReads8.6Score6kShelves
- 37 My Adoptive Sister Moves In with a Baby, So After Being Reborn, I Break My Ex-Husband's Legs 养姐带球占我家，重生打断前夫腿 [Reborn + 1970s + sent to the countryside + pocket dimension + light hoarding + farming + a steady, prosperous life] With snow swirling outside, Song Zhiyi lay paralyzed in a freezing bed. Her adoptive sister, Luo Wanying, and her husband, Zhao Ziqiang, came through the door. Luo Wanying deliberately rested a hand on her lower back and said in a soft, delicate voice: “Zhiyi, I’m pregnant. The father is Ziqiang.” To make room for the baby, Luo Wanying told her everything, and Song Zhiyi died with 16Reads—Score219Shelves
- 38 A Needle's Eye in the 1970s: From the Start, I Land a Secure Government Job 针眼七零！开局就拿了铁饭碗 (Alternate-era setting, System, pocket dimension.) Yan Wenyao, a wealthy third-generation heiress from the twenty-first century, immediately developed a sense of impending danger after acquiring a pocket dimension. She exchanged all the money she had for gold and piled it inside, figuring that gold was hard currency anywhere. She never expected disaster to strike so soon. She went abroad for a vacation and lost her life there. When she woke up again, she had arrived in an unfamiliar era: the 197 1.1kReads8.2Score104Shelves
- 39 The Toughest Officer Reads Her Mind and Insists on Having a Baby with Her 最猛军官读心后，非要跟她生崽崽 [Military Marriage + Everyday Family Life + Slow-Burn Romance + Sweet Romance + Inner Thoughts + Alternate History] [Reader Advisory: The heroine always gets revenge, but she isn’t recklessly impulsive. She doesn’t have an overpowered golden finger, so she takes her time getting even, and every villain gets what they deserve in the end. This isn’t an instant gratification story where someone gets killed the moment they suffer a little injustice. If that bothers you, feel free to hit back now. Th 320Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 40 The Doomed Young Lady Lands in the Countryside Just Before the Move, Hiding Out in the City 末世娇女穿在下乡前夕，苟在城里 Lin Jiao was born lucky. Even in the harsh conditions of the apocalypse, she lived a life everyone envied. Who could have known that while she was browsing the shops and joining the crowds at the base, a System fragment would hit her temple, killing her and sending her to another world? Her original self was unloved by both parents. She decided to sell her job and follow the man she loved to the countryside. Then a reborn heroine stole her man, and she died suddenly from a heart attack. After tr 2.9kReads7.2Score188Shelves
- 41 At Forty, I Remarried a Commander. My Ex and His Mistress Are Both on Their Knees 40岁二嫁首长，前夫小三全跪了 The rating has only just come in, and it’ll rise later! [Second-chance military marriage + era-set comeback + two powerful, devoted leads + rugged man spoils his wife] Lying on the operating table, Jiang Wanning finally learned that her marriage had been a trap: her husband had tried to kill her for the insurance money, and the son she had raised with so much effort was actually the illegitimate child of her scumbag husband and cousin! To survive, she climbed into the bed of Commander Gu Yuanzhe 283.8kReads8.6Score13.5kShelves
- 42 Shocking! The Capitalist Heiress Gets More for Me the More She Hates Me 惊！资本家大小姐，越讨厌我越有 [Feel-good power fantasy + capitalist heiress + reborn + System + 1970s + becoming beautiful + getting rich + pocket dimension + clearing out the enemy's home] Li Su had a life of unspeakable misery in her previous life. Branded a capitalist heiress, she was forced by her father and stepmother to go to the countryside, while her stepsister schemed to ruin her engagement. After finally becoming a billionaire's wife, she was handed divorce papers by her husband on her birthday. All because she 816Reads8.1Score107Shelves
- 43 A Sweet Little Wife in the Eighties 小甜媳的八零年代 Su Jiuya was raised like a city girl. Apart from being pretty and good at school, she couldn’t do a thing. Then her father died... and she had no choice but to marry the poorest man in the village. Everyone was waiting for Su Jiuya to become a laughingstock. They expected her fair, tender face to turn as sallow as theirs, and her slender, soft hands to grow just as rough... But instead, all that changed was the man spoiling Su Jiuya. She kept studying, and she stayed beautiful... After marrying 419Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 44 The 1970s: The Counterpart Villainess Is Roughly Embraced by a Rugged Man 七零：对照组女配被糙汉掐腰狂宠 435Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 45 An 1980s Military Marriage: I'm No Widow, I'm a Tough Woman 八零军婚，不是寡妇是悍妇 [1980s, foil character, military wife, daily life, stepmother, raising kids, food, resurrection] When Jiang Li opened her eyes, she had become a widow, and a wicked foil character in a stepmother novel, no less. Her husband had just died, her four daughters were crying out to be fed, and in the future, she'd meet a gruesome end, not even leaving a whole corpse behind. Most importantly, the reborn female lead next door was watching her like a hawk, ready to compete with her for male attention. No 1.5kReads9.0Score149Shelves
- 46 The Head of the Household in the 1950s 五零年代当家主妇 Bai Baozhu awoke from a dream in a daze. In it, her children had died or been scattered, none of them had found a happy ending, and the whole family had met a tragic fate. It all began when the family was branded with that fatal class background. Waking with a start, Bai Baozhu trampled her enemies, crushed her foes, and step by step escaped their schemes, making sure her family would never suffer the same tragedy as in her dream. But who could have guessed that the deadbeat husband who never ap 5.5kReads8.7Score375Shelves
- 47 Transmigrated into a 1970s Cannon Fodder Foil 穿成七零炮灰对照组 In every period novel, the heroine has a tragic foil to contrast against. She comes from a good family, is beautiful and well-educated, and marries a capable, responsible man. Yet she looks down on everyone, is never satisfied with what she has, and refuses to stay faithful. She squanders a winning hand until it’s in tatters. That way, the heroine can shine as clever, emotionally intelligent, and well-liked... Hu Xiang transmigrates into the story as that cannon-fodder foil. On her wedding day, 1.3kReads8.6Score104Shelves
- 48 When the Voluptuous Beauty Appears, the Military Tycoon Cuts In 丰腴美人一出场，被军官大佬截胡 (1970s setting + curvy, captivating beauty vs. steady, level-headed military officer) There’s always someone like her in stories set in the past: born into a good family, beautiful, talented, and so proud that she looks down on everyone. The only person she wants is the male lead, but after she tries every trick in the book, the leads slap her down. Su Mannning transmigrates into the role of that vicious supporting character. But no one knows that the male lead is just one of the fish in her pon 29.4kReads7.5Score3.9kShelves
- 49 Taking It Easy in the Fifth-Year Military Factory Compound 五零军工厂大院儿摆烂生活 [Everyday life in a military factory compound + a young stepmother tames the kids and charms her husband + ensemble cast + marriage first, love later + sweet romance + devoted couple] Jiang Suian transmigrates into the role of the Jiang family's troublemaker! She's even pregnant with a “love child”! And to top it all off, she's bound to an “evil against evil System” that demands she commit wholeheartedly to being wicked! Her eldest brother begs everyone he can think of to help her find a chance 2.4kReads7.1Score142Shelves
- 50 The Suffering Heroine of a Period Tragedy Gets Possessed 年代虐文的苦情女主被穿了 [Period setting + military marriage + sweet romance + both leads have only ever been with each other + traditional Chinese medicine + childbirth + transmigrate into a book + everyday life] Medical student Xia Songlan dies in an earthquake relief effort and transmigrates into an early melodramatic novel as its tragic heroine, who happens to share her name. Determined to change the heroine’s fate, she flatly rejects the unreasonable demand that she go to the countryside in her cousin’s place and s 139Reads—Score—Shelves
