Novels like Reborn in 1980: Li Laifu
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- 1 Transmigrate into a Book Set in the 1980s: The Cannon-Fodder Army Wife Just Wants to Be Let Go 穿书八零：炮灰军嫂只想求放过 [Period setting + transmigrate into a book + reborn + military marriage + both leads are virgins + sweet romance + obsessive love + officer + love after marriage + spatial golden finger + running away while pregnant + groveling after losing his wife + raising a child] Su Tang transmigrates into a book as the cannon-fodder ex-wife of an obsessive military officer. From the start, her fake best friend catches her in bed with a man. Just as she thinks she’s done for, she realizes the man lying besi 247Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 2 Back to 1988: I Married Dr. Jiang, Who Was Working Away from Home 重回八八：我嫁了在打工的江医生 In her previous life, Jiang Yuan was held back by Xia Qing and couldn’t sit the final gaokao exam. He ran around everywhere trying to pay for her treatment and ended up buried in debt, while Xia Qing’s parents and younger brother cut ties with her. Reborn, Xia Qing decides she won’t scrimp and save to subsidize her family like she did in her previous life. She only wants to work hard, earn money, and make Jiang Yuan’s dream of becoming a doctor come true. Her little business takes off, and when 607Reads9.0Score100Shelves
- 3 Spoiled by Her Military Marriage: The Illiterate Village Girl's Great Reversal 爆宠军婚：文盲村姑大逆袭 [Arranged military marriage + illiterate woman fights her way up + husband grovels to win her back + love after divorce + adorable child + entrepreneurship and prosperity] Ye Xiaohua, a programmer at a major tech company, collapsed at her desk after working overtime for days on end. When she woke up, she had transmigrated into the body of a village girl named Ye Xiaohua in the 1980s. Other people transmigrated on their wedding night or while on a blind date with a handsome man. She got it even w 137Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 4 After I Was Reborn, My Husband Stopped Acting So Cold 重生后，老公他不高冷了 (Rebirth + Love After Marriage + A Twist of Fate + No Toxic Characters) Ying Jiangyue is reborn on the day before her divorce from her husband, Lu Yun’an. When Lu Yun’an returns from his mission the next day, they’ll officially divorce. In her previous life, Ying Jiangyue lived a fairly fulfilling life on her own after the divorce, with no regrets. She doesn’t know why Heaven has given her a second chance. But she has no plans to change her marriage to Lu Yun’an. Her life in her previous life wa 275Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 5 I Transmigrated Into a Book and Was Read for My Thoughts, So I Saved My Dad, Who Was Supposed to Die Young 穿书被读心我拯救了我那早死的爹 Mu Xiyao was told by an old Daoist that she wouldn’t live past eighteen. Sure enough, she died on her eighteenth birthday. But the old Daoist had also said that a great opportunity awaited her! So she fantasized about becoming some powerful ghost cultivator or something. But! Could someone tell her?!!! Why had she turned into a tiny four- or five-year-old child? And not just any child, but the pitiful cannon-fodder character from a novel she’d read! Still, something seemed a little off... Her fa 31Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 6 The Sweet Village Beauty Joins the Army, Gathers Seafood, Raises Kids, and Gets Rich 娇软村花随军后，赶海养崽暴富了 Shen Mingzhu was famous as the most beautiful woman in the surrounding villages. She was gorgeous, had a sweet singing voice, and was a top student. The local bully used every trick in the book to get her, scaring off all his rivals. But he couldn't do a thing about Jiang Zhimiao. He couldn't even make him angry. Jiang, the regiment commander on the island, was a legend: a celebrated war hero from a young age, with an impressive record of service. But he was as thick-headed as a wooden fish, and 573Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 7 The Wicked Mother-in-Law Is Reborn and Swaps Marriages; I Marry an Officer with No Heir 恶婆婆重生后换亲，我嫁绝嗣军官 [Period setting + military marriage + both reborn + everyday family drama + sweet romance + married first, love later + the whole family dotes on her] Jiang Ling is reborn on her wedding night. In her previous life, she gave up her career for her family, only to end up with a cheating husband and a son who accepted the woman who ruined their family as his mother. Jiang Ling secretly vows that in this life, all she wants is wealth and status. She wants no sincere feelings whatsoever! But to her 400Reads8.0Score100Shelves
- 8 The 1990s: This Darling Military Wife Never Planned to Have Two Kids in Three Years 九零：娇娇军嫂真没想三年抱俩 Lu Jiahua never thought she'd get to live another life. In her previous one, she listened to her cousin's lies, married a two-faced man, and wasted away her life. Lu Jiahua sat in the living room, looking at the man who had come to propose just as he had in her previous life, with a baby in his arms. Before her father could say a word, she hurriedly called out, “Dad, I want to marry him!” What a joke. This man would go on to become a high-ranking officer! She wasn't going to pass up an opportuni 997Reads8.8Score105Shelves
- 9 Rejecting the Marriage Proposal in the Eighties: The Strongest Officer Drags Me Home and Spoils Me Rotten 八零拒婚：被最强军官拽回家宠哭 [Military Marriage + Raising a Child + Taking Down Scoundrels + Husband's Long Road to Winning Her Back] In her previous life, Lu Zhen took her grandfather's letter to the capital and married Gu Jingchuan. Her in-laws looked down on her as an uneducated country bumpkin, her husband treated her coldly, and her son had her committed to a psychiatric hospital. * When she opened her eyes again, she was back on her wedding night. The husband she had thought so cold had become surprisingly clingy. Eve 16Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 10 A Military Marriage: The 1980s Makeup Artist Is Spoiled Rotten by a Senior Officer 军婚，八零化妆师被首长宠爆了 [Entirely fictional setting] (1980s + military marriage + married first, fall in love later + pursuit + everyday life + boy-girl twins) Chen Wei, a modern celebrity makeup artist at the peak of her career, died in a sudden plane crash and was reborn in the 1980s in the body of a military wife. But this military wife was in quite a state. She was lazy and greedy, and a shameless flirt who drooled whenever she saw a man. She even got herself killed just to get some meat. Chen Wei: What the heck? 517Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 11 On the First Night with My Disabled Husband, the Frail Army Wife Conceived Triplets 残疾老公第一晚，娇弱军嫂怀三胎 [1980s military marriage + disability as a secret identity + making money and getting rich + marriage before love + sweet romance] Charming little money-lover vs. chaste, loyal dog After the compound's youngest and most promising Officer Zhou became disabled, he brought home a delicate woman and filed for a marriage license that very same day. Everyone thought one of them had lost his future and the other had been rejected by her family, so they were simply making do together. Who could have 49Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 12 Transmigrated as the Country Wife of a 1970s Army Commander 穿成七零年代军长的乡下妻 [Period setting + marriage first, love later + cozy] Reborn overnight, Liu Sisi becomes the wife of an army commander in a military compound in the 1970s. The original Liu Sisi was an uneducated young woman who had a crush on the village rogue, a good-for-nothing who never applied himself. The two were forced together because their elders had arranged their marriage before they were even born. Liu Sisi made such a mess of her life that she ruined herself, and now modern-day Liu Sisi has taken he 142Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 13 My Army Officer Husband Regrets Divorcing Me 离婚后军官老公后悔了 No rebirth + no golden finger + arranged marriage + a little angst + groveling to win his wife back Li Chunni and Wu Chenghai were bound together in an arranged marriage. Wu Chenghai figured that since he was old enough to get married, he might as well do what his parents wanted. He’d marry someone they liked. He didn’t care either way; one woman was as good as another. Li Chunni was about to marry the man she loved, and every day she looked forward to their wedding. After waiting anxiously for 7Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 14 The 1980s Heiress Is Too Irresistible: The Rugged Man's Road to Winning Back His Wife 八零千金太上头：糙汉追妻火葬场 [Period Setting + Military Marriage + Both Pure + Joining Her Husband at His Posting + Strong Hero and Heroine + Marriage First, Love Later, One-on-One] Ran Yan, who has never been in a relationship, transmigrates into a book and even ends up sharing a wedding night with a soldier? Flustered and at a loss, Ran Yan says, “Wait, wait, wait. We have to get a divorce.” In the book, the original owner ruined the life of her good husband, an army officer. Ran Yan wants to spare him that fate. What she 160Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 15 Sweet Military Marriage: The Strong Army Wife Makes a Fortune in the 1980s 甜蜜军婚大力军嫂在八零赚翻啦 [Devoted Husband, Military Marriage, Love After Marriage, Husband's Long Road to Winning Her Back, Twins] Wang Xiaoli transmigrated to the 1980s and found herself in the body of a married woman born with superhuman strength. Her husband was a handsome military officer, tough on the outside and gentle within. A handsome soldier with a tender heart meets a charming little beauty who doesn't realize how seductive she is. She keeps stirring his passions until he has dark circles under his eyes. Xi 13Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 16 Reborn in 1978: From the Start, a Tough Farmhand Calls Off the Wedding and Splits the Family 重生1978：开局糙汉退婚分家 [Period setting + Reborn + Family drama + Forest farm + Everyday life + Building wealth] Reborn in 1978, Qi Feng had spent his previous life as a tireless workhorse, only to be drained to death by his awful relatives. This time, he refuses to swallow even a single grievance! His fiancée, whom he hasn’t married yet, looks down on his poverty and wants to elope with someone else? Fine, don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Pay back every last cent of my hard-earned money, with interest! His v 9.5kReads8.0Score565Shelves
- 17 Reborn in the 1980s: My Ex-Husband Begs Me to Remarry Every Day 重生八零：前夫天天跪求复婚 In her previous life, Xia Qingshu thought marrying Qiao Hongchen, the man she'd long dreamed of, was the happiest thing in the world. Little did she know it was the beginning of a nightmare. She was a village woman who had barely finished elementary school; he was a military doctor and university graduate who had ranked first in every subject. She was hot-tempered and loved to fight, while he was the most distinguished man in Qingcheng. Beside him, she felt as insignificant as dirt. After their 34Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 18 Reborn in the 1980s: My Fortunate Wife Brings Prosperity to the Whole Village 重生八零，福运娇妻带飞全村 [Parallel World + Top-Notch Husband + Devoted Romance + Leading the Whole Village to Prosperity] What’s it like to have a ridiculously handsome husband sent to you by heaven? Jiang Tiantian, worth hundreds of billions, woke up after a car accident to find herself a bride in a remote mountain village in the 1980s. The original owner was stunningly beautiful, but her parents didn’t love her, and she had an older sister who was always out to make trouble for her. The marriage had originally been ar 389Reads8.4Score102Shelves
- 19 Forced Out of Work: The Heiress Takes Her Child to Join the Army 被迫下岗：资本小姐带崽随军去 (Set in an indigenous era, with no transmigration or golden finger; realistic in style. The heroine joins the military in the middle of the story.) The fallen capitalist heiress Ding Yaoxiang was forced into an arranged marriage with Lu Jian, the son of her family’s former hired hand. Lu Jian was a celebrated rising star in the military district hospital’s surgery department, a man with a heart colder than his scalpel. Forced to marry Ding Yaoxiang at seventeen, he left to study elsewhere for fi 990Reads7.6Score100Shelves
- 20 In the 1980s, the Military Wife Everyone Looked Down On Became the City’s Richest Woman 八零军婚被嫌弃的我成了全市首富 [Business Mogul Heroine × Cold-Faced Handsome Officer] [Period Setting + Military Marriage + Face-Slapping Feel-Good Story + Punishing the Worst of the Worst + Farming + Marriage First, Love Later + Winning His Wife Back and Spoiling Her] Xia Enruo transmigrates and starts out as the most despised woman in the military compound, hated by absolutely everyone. Her husband, Gu Shaoxuan, is so worn down by her that he hides out at the military base and won’t even come home. But the heavens say, “Gu 144Reads7.7Score101Shelves
- 21 Reborn in the 1980s: With a Spirit Jade, I Lead My Family to Wealth 重生八零：携灵玉带全家发家致富 (Rebirth + period setting + wild ideas + spiritual jade + miracle doctor + top student + sweet romance + getting rich + wealthiest person) In her previous life, Tian Xiaowu was an orphan who had just won the world's Nobel Prize in Medicine. While gathering herbs deep in the mountains, she missed her footing and fell off a cliff… When she woke again, she had been reborn in the 1980s as another Tian Xiaowu, with the same name. She had three older brothers, one older sister, and two twin youn 708Reads9.0Score118Shelves
- 22 Ace Military Marriage: The Commander’s Sweet, Devoted Love 王牌军婚：首长宠妻甜蜜蜜 In an accident, Ye Xiaoxiao, heir to a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, transmigrates into the body of a troublesome young female intellectual sent to the countryside in the 1970s. After thirty years of being single, she transmigrates into a married woman's body!!! Ye Xiaoxiao is at her wits' end! Fortunately, although her husband is disabled, he refuses to let it hold him back and dotes on her endlessly. After she heals his leg, they settle into a shamelessly amorous life t 1.1kReads9.2Score147Shelves
- 23 Sweet Military Romance: The Cannon-Fodder Supporting Female Lead Strikes It Rich on an Island 军婚甜宠：炮灰女配在海岛致富了 [Taking Down Villains + Joining Her Husband in the Army + Getting Rich + Some Regretful Husbands] Liang Su lived a carefree life until she was nineteen, when she was suddenly told she was a fake heiress who had taken the real heiress's place. The real heiress, Liang Qin, returned and became the apple of everyone's eye. Liang Su was branded a thief and cursed by everyone. Driven to the brink by the rumors, Liang Su had a dream. She suddenly realized that her world was a book. Liang Qin was the be 267Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 24 Sweet Romance in the 1970s: The Mountain Man Treats Me Like Royalty 七零甜婚：山里汉把我当祖宗宠 After the Xu family girl tries to hang herself, she's carried to the Cheng family's home. The Xu family says, “In life, you belong to the Cheng family; in death, you'll be their ghost!” The Cheng family's young carpenter is kindhearted: “Once you enter my family, I'll treat you like royalty!” The Xu girl, who transmigrated here, is happy to take him up on it. A few flirtatious glances, a few tender sighs, and the young carpenter is lovestruck. You farm, I'll work as a carpenter. You manage the h 3.1kReads9.0Score338Shelves
- 25 His Darling! The Charming Army Wife Who Flirts with Her Ice-Cold Officer Day and Night 心尖宠！俏军嫂日撩夜哄冷面军官 [Period setting + military marriage + sweet and delicate beauty + cold-faced officer + true and fake heiresses + raising children + food + female lead’s business venture + sweet daily life] Shen Ruyue wakes up to find she has become the villainous female character in a period novel. In the original story, the original Shen Ruyue is stunningly beautiful, with a curvaceous figure. Her ascetic military officer husband earns a high salary to support her, while she never lifts a finger and lives a we 342Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 26 The Fiery Stepmom of the 1970s: After They Said I Was Infertile, I Had Several Babies 七零辣后妈：被传不孕后我多胎了 [Military Marriage + Sassy Stepmom + Raising Kids + Taking Down Scumbags + Marriage Before Love + Cozy Everyday Life] At eighteen, Shen Fenghua plunged into the water in the bitter chill of early spring to retrieve vital documents and save her factory from losses. The ordeal damaged her health and left her unlikely to have children. After years of blind dates, by the age of twenty-three Shen Fenghua had seen every kind of weirdo and lost all hope. She sent away her last date, propped her chin on 252Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 27 My Scumbag Husband Keeps Defending His Mistress. Now That I'm Reborn and Remarried, He's Panicking 渣男处处护绿茶，重生改嫁他慌了 [Entirely fictional setting] [Enchanting, vivacious educated youth vs. stoic, chaste military officer] [Period military romance + Devoted husband + Several children + Farming and fortune-making + Face-slapping the scum] In the 1970s, the lovely educated youth Lu Yuzhu is reborn, back on the day her cousin drugged her. In her previous life, after she was caught in bed with someone, the scumbag she had been engaged to for three years couldn’t wait to break off their engagement. Three days later, h 319Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 28 After Our Marriages Were Swapped, I Became the Apple of My Soldier Boyfriend's Eye 被换亲后，我成了兵哥哥的心尖宠 Jiang Wan inexplicably became reborn in the body of a pitiful young woman in the 1970s who shared her name. The moment she was reborn, she faced pressure from her uncle’s family to take her cousin’s place and marry a man who was paralyzed in both legs and unconscious. When her uncle’s family tried to force her, Jiang Wan went berserk. Then, for no apparent reason, she was bound to a System designed to save a villain. And the villain she had to save was the very man she was supposed to marry. 454Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The 1970s: The Black Boss I Ran Off with Becomes a Coal Magnate Again 七零之拐走的黑佬大又成煤老板了 --COMPLETED-- [A devoted couple, no golden finger, no farming, no black-market adventures. This is simply the story of an unfortunate woman, constrained by her times, held back by her family, and deceived by her husband, who is reborn, escapes her ex-husband, and finds a love that is returned in full!] Everyone said Wen Haitang was lucky. She’d grown up in a crowded courtyard compound, yet married into the wealthy Dong family and moved into a Western-style mansion. But no one knew her marriage w 491Reads8.8Score113Shelves
- 30 I Married the Village Bully in the 1980s 我在八零嫁村霸 [Both leads are reborn + sweet romance + love grows over time + clever money-making ideas + raising a child] If you had the chance to be reborn, what would you do? Win back a lost love, or rekindle a relationship with family you’d grown distant from? If you asked Gu Man, she’d say she only wanted to save the one child she lost in her previous life. Gu Man really was reborn, back to shortly after her wedding, when she was so terrified and disappointed in her village tyrant of a husband that she j 457Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 31 You Flirted with Me, and Now You Say You Mistook Me for Someone Else? 撩都撩了，你说认错人？ (The rating just opened, so it’ll go up later.) (1970s + military marriage + mutual firsts + sweet romance + rugged male lead + natives) (No transmigration or golden finger. Neither lead is perfect. This is not a strong-female-lead, face-slapping wish-fulfillment story. If that bothers you, don’t read.) Du Ruolin had lived with her uncle’s family since she was little, and stole her cousin’s marriage prospect. She’d heard the Cheng family was well-off, all their children were promising, and their 7.7kReads8.8Score978Shelves
- 32 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
- 33 The Plump Eighties Bride and Her Cold, Rugged Husband: When Will This Marriage End? 八零肥妻嫁冰冷糙汉，这婚啥时离 [Military Romance + Twins + Ex-Husband Begs for Her Back] Tian Ye transmigrates into the body of a lazy, ugly, domineering, petty, overweight woman. From the start, her soldier husband asks for a divorce. Tian Ye came from the countryside and followed the troops to the family compound in Huacheng. For a while, she has no one to turn to. Is she scared? No, no, no. Heaven knows how happy Tian Ye is. Now she just wants to sneak away with the two babies in her belly and start a new life. With the he 422Reads8.9Score107Shelves
- 34 After I Transmigrated Into a Book Set in the 1980s, I Just Wanted a Divorce and to Make Money 穿书八零后，我只想离婚认真搞钱 [Military romance in the 1980s + sweet doting romance with an influential family + marriage before love + the heroine is saved by the hero] Shu Ran, who is against marriage, transmigrates into a book set in the 1980s. She doesn’t take her arranged marriage to the male lead, Zhou Ye, seriously. Other than thinking about how to get a divorce, she focuses on making money. Men only slow her down when it comes to earning money. The farther away they are, the better! Zhou Ye gradually falls in love wi 435Reads9.0Score107Shelves
- 35 The Sweet Wife of the 1980s: Fought Over by Her Rough-Hewn Husband and Kids 八零娇妻：被糙汉老公和崽争着宠 Reborn + 1980s + System + Mutual Devotion + Adorable Child + Building a Fortune Du Juan has been in a vegetative state for six months. The only one caring for her devotedly is her gaunt ex-husband, Cai Jianjun. Only then does she learn that Cai Jianjun loves her with all his heart and is willing to die alongside her. Holding her hand, he sheds a single tear. “Juan, Kunkun has grown up. Please don’t ever leave me again, okay? Let’s stay together forever.” Reborn into a new life, Du Juan opens her 90Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 36 Sweet Military Marriage: The Feisty Wife Is Doted on in the 1970s 军婚甜宠：七零辣妻被宠爆了 Jiang Nanxi transmigrates, not only landing in the underfed, underclothed 1970s, but also becoming a young wife who has followed her husband to his military posting. The original owner of her body doesn't seem too happy with the marriage, and after the wedding, she throws one tantrum after another. Once she joins the military compound with the male lead, she only gets worse, making everyone there steer clear of her. Everyone says Jiang Nanxi isn't cut out for married life and that Gu Huaichen 164Reads8.7Score104Shelves
- 37 Sweet Military Marriage: Starting Over in the Seventies 甜蜜军婚，我在七零年代重开啦 Jiang Zitong, a highly accomplished young woman who has just graduated in the modern era, unexpectedly finds herself reborn in the body of Lin Fang in the 1970s. In an age built on stacks of ration coupons, her parents force her to marry a soldier to pay off their debt. Faced with a reality where she needs a permit just to go out and coupons just to eat, she has no power to resist. She thinks she is in for a miserable life, but instead she unexpectedly finds a treasure of a family and husband, a 835Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 38 The 1980s: I Married the Rugged Neighbor, and He Spoils Me Rotten 八零：改嫁隔壁糙汉后他宠我入骨 [Period setting + hero is a police officer + sweet, gentle heroine + rugged husband who dotes on his wife] When Ji Shanshan opened her eyes, she had become a young wife in the 1980s. On her first night after transmigrating, her husband, a mama’s boy, and his cruel mother schemed against her, and she nearly got “defiled” by the man who had saved her life. The young wife was furious. “How am I supposed to put up with this? I’m divorcing him!” The rugged veteran Gu Yuan saved a young woman who had 208Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 39 Dumped in the 1970s, Her Military Officer Husband Regrets It Too Late 七零弃夫，军官老公追悔莫及 Eighteen years ago, she was Xu Anhao, kidnapped and forced to struggle for survival in the mud. Eighteen years later, she had been found and brought home, but as Song Yunqing, she could not fit in with her wealthy family. A surging tide of fate intertwined her destiny with that of Zhou Yunji, the favored son of heaven. Yet their marriage contract had already been claimed, quite properly, by his gentle, understanding first love. To seize a light that had never belonged to her, she was willing 35.7kReads8.5Score2.8kShelves
- 40 Marrying a Rough-Hewn Man in the 1970s: The Delicate Educated Youth Wife Wins at Life with Her Spatial Realm 七零嫁糙汉：知青娇妻携空间躺赢 [Rebirth + Sweet Romance + Devoted Couple + Satisfying Revenge] In her previous life, Bai Qiang was deceived and harmed by a two-faced woman. Her reckless actions not only cost her own life but also killed her handsome military officer husband, who had doted on her and loved her more than life itself. Luckily, she was reborn. Afraid her husband would stop loving her because of how badly she had treated him before, she relentlessly flirted with him. But how had her formerly rough-around-the-edges 45Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 41 Blind Date in the Seventies: I Met the Strongest War God Officer 七零相亲：相亲到了最强战神军官 Female lead: Yu Qiao Male lead: Zheng Xiangguo The female lead transmigrates to the 1970s in an alternate parallel world. The male lead is a top soldier, and their military marriage is sweet and loving. Yu Qiao inexplicably transmigrates to the 1970s in a parallel world. At home, she’s a well-behaved, sensible girl with a little talent. Outside, she’s the clever and polite, delicate youngest daughter of the Yu family. As the well-behaved girl of the family, she thinks she’s doing a pretty good j 4.8kReads9.1Score542Shelves
- 42 Pampered by the Soldier King: The Real Heiress’s Perfect Life 兵王宠！真千金被娇养的完美人生 [Marriage first, love later + 1960s setting + twins, a boy and a girl + pocket dimension + devoted husband] Tan Xuning died young. When she wakes up, she has become the female supporting character forced into a marriage swap in a novel set in the 1960s. In the book, the heroine is married into the Tan family through the swap. She wins over the unreliable male lead with her love, inspires him to work hard, and lives happily ever after with her husband as they build a prosperous life together. Tan 308Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 43 An 1980s Military Marriage: I Become the Villain's Sister-in-Law 八零军婚：我给反派当嫂嫂 Lin Man transmigrates into a male-oriented online forum novel about cuckoldry, becoming the short-lived female cannon fodder who cuckolded the male lead. To make matters worse, her younger brother-in-law is a demonic villain… For the sake of love and justice, she changes the plot, saves the cuckolded male lead from his tragic fate, and rescues her brother-in-law before he turns evil. Even with the plot changed, Shen Hengye remains a proud soldier in uniform, covered in military honors. They agre 28Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 44 Military Marriage: Becoming the Beloved of a Stern Officer 军婚：成为冷硬军官的心尖宠 Military romance in the 1980s + Married first, fall in love later + Alternate setting + Sweet romance Wrong! Start over! What? Wen Zhixu has transmigrated to the 1980s, an era of scarce goods! Wen Zhixu: Heavens, did you really have to make things this hard for me? Watch her turn things around and make a name for herself in the 1980s through sheer talent! A little scene: Wen Zhixu: Since I'm here, I might as well make the best of it. Not only am I going to live well, I'm going to make a fortune, 258Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 45 We Agreed to Divorce, but the Chaste Commander from the 1980s Changed His Mind 说好的离婚，八零禁欲首长反悔了 [Set in a bygone era + putting scumbags in their place + marriage first, love later] Gorgeous fox spirit vs. cold, chaste man [Second male lead: Hong Kong businessman] My new story is out! You can read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 1kReads8.0Score102Shelves
- 46 Marrying a Soldier in My Second Marriage, I Head to the Islands to Build the Nation 二嫁成军嫂，去海岛建设祖国 [1980s + space + military marriage + period piece + raising children] When Ruan Yushu woke up, she had landed in the 1980s. Her parents didn’t care for her, and she was forced into marriage. Her first husband died, and the second man proposed to her was a cripple. The third was an officer stationed on an island, with two children. He was tall and handsome, though, and had a good salary. When she heard there was a chance to join the military family, Ruan Yushu said, “I’ll marry him. I have to. I’ 124Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 47 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
- 48 A Sweet Military Wife, Doted on by Her Officer: A Baby on the Way in the 1980s 军嫂娇！军官宠！八零随军好孕来 [Fictional military marriage + marriage before love + sweet everyday life as a military spouse + doting husband + adorable kids + a touch of pocket dimension] Xu Ran transmigrated to the 1980s and was in trouble from the very start. Luckily, he rescued her. After one reckless night together, the handsome soldier earnestly told her, “Comrade, I'm sorry. Let's get married. I'll take responsibility for you.” Xu Ran waved him off, but reality made her realize that her best option was to cling to Son 514Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 49 Transmigrated into a Book as a Cannon-Fodder in the 1970s, the Cold-Faced Regiment Commander Can't Get Enough of Her 炮灰穿书七零，冷面团长日日馋 [Period] [Marriage Before Love] [No Space System] [Never Go Hungry] [Alluring, flirtatious heroine VS wolf-like, rugged hero] Lin Zhi never imagined that after spending her previous life single and treating men as beneath her notice, she’d transmigrate into a book and find herself in a scene straight out of “That’s one huge bed!” Now she has to scheme to steal a man, and not just any man, but the man of the “beautiful, rich, and powerful” heroine? This is insane! “Comrade, do you want a wife 233Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Sweetest Military Marriage of the Eighties: The Painter Army Wife Takes the Nation by Storm 八零军婚超甜，画家军嫂火爆全国 [Military marriage + devoted couple + doting husband + elite young officer + parallel universe] Jiang Xiaozhen, a socially anxious artist from the 21st century, transmigrates. She finds herself in the 1980s, in the body of a military wife who made trouble at every turn and was bent on ruining her life. After being single her whole life, she never imagined transmigrating would leave her with a top-notch military officer as a husband. Her husband wants a divorce because of all the trouble the 208Reads9.1Score109Shelves
