Novels like A Powerful Figure’s Memoirs from the 1960s
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A Powerful Figure’s Memoirs from the 1960s, best match first.
- 1 Reborn in the 1990s, I Became the Village Beauty's Best Friend 重生九零，我成了村花闺蜜 Su Qing is reborn into a family in the 1990s that favors boys over girls! But that’s not the main problem. The moment she opens her eyes, she’s about to be married off in a bride swap to a man from the neighboring village with a terrible reputation! Everyone says he’s over thirty, unpredictable, all brawn and no brains, and that she’ll never have a good life if she marries him. Su Qing refuses to accept her fate. Who wouldn’t like the refined, fair-skinned top student from her own village? She’s —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 After the Scumbag and His Awful Woman Were Stuck Together, I Sold Spicy Strips in the 1970s 渣男作女锁死后，我在七零卖辣条 (A writing exercise, feel free to skip) Era + Transmigrate into a Book + Gossip + Punish Scumbags + Get Rich Blurb 1: Shen Hui wakes up one day and finds she's transmigrated into a book! In the original story, the powerful male lead of this period novel has an unimpressive ex-wife. But after he passes the college entrance exam, his ex-wife suddenly disappears! At college, he runs into his former girlfriend, the female lead. They still have feelings for each other, so they marry without a hitch. 73Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 3 Transmigrating to the 1950s: My Road to Success 穿越五零之我的青云路 [No romance, no romance, no romance. I’ll say it three times because it matters.] At 43, Li Xiuling is suspended from her job, unmarried and childless, with enough savings to lie flat until retirement. Then she’s thrown into 1949. From the start: three children and a body covered in injuries. She won’t waste time on household infighting or arguing with awful relatives. She rolls up her sleeves and gets into foreign trade. Starting with 500,000, she makes her way to the top of Huacheng. She does 6.2kReads6.5Score733Shelves
- 4 The 1970s: After Our Divorce, My Commander Ex-Husband Won’t Stop Chasing Me to Have His Baby 七零：随军被离婚首长前夫追着生 [Transmigrate + alternate setting + System + raising children + building a career + ex-husband regrets everything and pursues her relentlessly (she won't forgive her original husband or remarry him) + military marriage] Jiang Yaoyao, a modern-day corporate drudge, transmigrated into the rural first wife's body in the 1970s, married to Commander Lu Zhenting. The original owner was uneducated and unsophisticated, and her husband had looked down on her for years. The moment Jiang Yaoyao arrived, sh 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Transmigrating to the 1960s: Mom and I Become Best Friends 穿越六十年代，我和妈妈做闺蜜 [Period setting, feel-good power fantasy, strong heroine, farming!] Workplace elite Zhou Ruonan is hounded by her mother to get married every day, and she's had enough. One day, after arguing with her mother, she transmigrates back to the 1960s and meets her mother as a young woman. By chance, she becomes her mother's best friend. Life is hard and supplies are scarce in that era, so Ruonan vows to help her mother reach the pinnacle of success. “If Mom starts working toward success in the 1960s, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The 1970s: A Job Falls Straight from the Sky 七十年代，从天而降一个工作 (Just rated) (Period setting + ensemble cast + family life + building prosperity + swapped-marriage comparison) Wang Yuying has a loving mother who always takes her side and three devoted older brothers who are wrapped around her finger. For the past eighteen years, life has been smooth sailing. Then her older cousin fell gravely ill. When she woke up, life began taking an increasingly strange turn. Her cousin bounced around, scheming to marry her off to a male educated youth and worrying that 18.1kReads7.9Score1.8kShelves
- 7 Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Sixties, the Cannon Fodder Secures an Iron Rice Bowl 六零穿书，炮灰她端上铁饭碗啦 [Transmigration into a book + System + career-minded heroine + romance + won’t go to the countryside + won’t support freeloaders] Xie Nanxing has just passed the civil service exam and hasn’t even had a chance to report to work when she is killed by a “meteorite from outer space.” She is reborn in the 1960s, only to discover that her entire family are cannon fodder who die in the very first chapter of the book. Luckily, she has a System to help her, and she delights in opening mystery boxes ever 104Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Reborn in 1970, the Village Heartthrob Pursues and Spoils Me 重生七零后，村草追着娇宠我 [Rebirth + getting even with scumbags + mutual devotion between two powerful leads + farming + space] After a life of misery, Shen Qing dies of illness and returns to the age of nineteen. On the first day of her rebirth, she face-slaps the scumbag and asks for a divorce. Can't go back to her birth family? No problem. She puts the awful people in their place, gets revenge on the scumbags, and uses her golden finger to quietly make a fortune. What? The village heartthrob everyone adores actually l 46Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 9 Reborn in the 1960s, the Lucky Heroine Won’t Play Along 重生六零，锦鲤文女主她不干了 Xu Caifeng finally died at the age of sixty. Only after her death did she learn that she was the heroine of a period novel about a lucky koi, blessed with the kind of good fortune everyone envied. Xu Caifeng was furious! One moment, she wanted to set off firecrackers to celebrate finally escaping her miserable life; the next, she wanted to drag the author into the book and make them take back all that luck. The luckier she was, the more misfortune befell everyone around her. Whoever wants this 11Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 10 Transmigrate Into a Book: My Whole Family Is the Worst in the 1960s 穿书，六零全家都极品 Xie Ya transmigrates to the 1960s and arrives right in the middle of a famine. After barely surviving it, she discovers she’s become the female lead’s foil in the story. Thinking of the tragic fate her family faces in the novel, Xie Ya decides to overturn the plot. Her goal is to move to the city and become a worker. She refuses to stay here as some female lead’s foil. But after finally becoming a worker, she realizes her boss’s son is kind of handsome! He’s a researcher, too. Now, how can she p 118Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 11 Quick Transmigration: The Marquis’s Concubine’s Daughter Makes It Big in the 1970s 快穿：侯府庶女在年代爆红了 (Since you've stopped by, take a look. You can even roast me. Sending love.) A survival diary of an ancient-era concubine transmigrating quickly into the modern world. (The author loves women and won't put them through misery.) Quick transmigration + transmigrated, growth-oriented heroine + heroine with a halo (she'll have a golden finger) + self-interested but polished + slow pacing (very slow, the author has given her cheat powers) + building a career comes first! + romance / marriage and chil 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 A Wonderful Life in the 1960s 六零美好人生 A crowded courtyard compound, family squabbles, everyday life, and the lie-flat, give-up-and-let-go existence of ordinary people. No golden finger! Not a strong female lead! Liu Wenwen was stabbed and sent into the 1960s. Only to discover that she and her mother had become human blood banks for her scumbag dad’s family. There’s no way they’re going to suck her and her mom dry to climb the social ladder. Not in this lifetime. So she persuaded her mother to climb out of that pit. At last, the 1.3kReads8.1Score113Shelves
- 13 The Happy Life of a Female College Student in the 1980s 八十年代女大学生幸福生活 [Family and Everyday Life] Ever since Song Siyu became the factory's first bona fide college graduate, her name has never been out of people's mouths around the factory compound. She became the hottest topic of conversation over tea. As soon as she got into college, the snide comments started: “Well, she did get into college, but just look at the school she applied to. Tsk, it's nowhere near the top tier! Still, she made it through graduation and got assigned a job at a good workplace. And then 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Back to the 1950s, This Cannon-Fodder Cousin Is Done Playing Along 穿回五十年代，炮灰堂妹不干了 No male lead. After spending twenty years in the real world, Huang Qiuyue switched back into her own body and returned to the book, to her fourteen-year-old self in the 1950s. The vast real world even compensated her with a bathroom. That’s right, her golden finger is a bathroom. After returning, she learned that she was living inside a book, where she was the heroine Huang Chunhua’s cousin and destined to die of hunger in three years. Huang Qiuyue refused to accept that ending and decided to re 7Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 15 Transmigrating to the 1950s: I Want to Be a Lie-Flat Catfish 穿越五十年代：想做条躺平的咸鱼 (Transmigration, pocket dimension, updates) Lin Ziqi, the apple of her whole family’s eye, wakes up one morning as a baby in the 1950s. Wahhh! Luckily, her family’s house came with her, and everything inside automatically replenishes itself, so she’ll never have to worry about food or clothes! But the era she’s transmigrated into isn’t kind, so she can only keep her head down. Gu Chen, a straight-laced young man from the compound, takes a fancy to the sweet and charming Lin Ziqi, but she isn’t i 1.1kReads6.5Score106Shelves
- 16 On Our Wedding Day, My Wife Ran Off to Deliver a Baby 结婚当天，媳妇儿跑去接生了 Jiang Mai got married, to a mute who couldn't speak. She thought married life would be hell, especially since the mute was so cold and unfeeling. But she never expected that she would only truly be plunged into hell after the mute started talking. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Reborn in the 1970s: An Unemployed Factory Worker Climbs the Career Ladder 重生七零之失业女工升职记 [Period setting + no golden finger + family life + striving for a better life] After being unemployed for three months, Yang Fangjun was sitting in the park pretending to go to work, just as she usually did. Maybe she’d been sitting too long, because when she stood up, her vision suddenly went black. When she woke, she found herself back in the hard-pressed 1970s, in the body of a woman with the same name. The good news: the original owner had a job. The bad news: someone was about to take it. Y 1.3kReads6.7Score104Shelves
- 18 Transmigrating to the 1950s: I'm a Child Bride and a Military Wife 穿越五零：我是童养媳军嫂 After transmigrating to the pre-Liberation era and becoming a child bride, Wen Shuyu wanted only to move to the city and get urban residency. After Liberation, she learned that her husband, rumored to have died in battle, had returned to life, only to become another woman’s husband. It was all right. The nation was newly founded, and building the country mattered more. Cheng Zheng said, “Let’s work hard together. You build the country, and I’ll defend it and protect you, too!” 1.2kReads8.0Score104Shelves
- 19 After the Cannon Fodder Awakens, She Makes Waves in a Period Novel 炮灰觉醒后，在年代文里乘风破浪 [Period Piece + Educated Youth + The 1970s + Transmigrate Into a Book + Pocket Dimension + System + Beloved by All + Comedy + Pets] Some half-immortal granny called Huang, who popped out of nowhere, told her she was destined to face a calamity. All right, she believed her. But can someone tell her, out of all the ways she could have met with disaster, why did they have to make her choke to death on a stuffed pancake? Luckily, she also got a huge stroke of fortune: she transmigrated into a book a 26Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 20 Flowers, Wine, and Money in the 1950s 50年代有花有酒有钱 Feng Biluo, a top Cambridge graduate, arrives in the early 1950s by a twist of fate, ready to carve out a future with nothing but her bare hands. Unexpectedly, heaven sends her an incredibly powerful backer. It's just like getting a pillow handed to you the moment you feel sleepy. Wonderful, wonderful! She builds her fortune with one hand and advances the women's rights movement with the other, while one villain after another falls to their knees. Life couldn't be happier. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 I’m an Accountant in the 1970s 我在七零做会计 [Period Setting + Building a Career + Rugged Hero + Sweet Romance + Transmigrate into a Book + System] Zhang Nianchu was a modern-day office drone doomed to a life of overtime. After dozing off at work, she opened her eyes and found herself in a period novel, in the body of someone with the same name and job as her. Even worse, the original owner's fate was tragic… Determined to change her destiny, Zhang Nianchu pulled out all the stops. She not only rose to the top of her career, but also 207Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 22 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
- 23 Transmigrating to the Sixties: The Heroine Builds Her Fortune with a Pocket Dimension 穿越六零，女主靠空间发家致富 [Period Setting + Transmigration + Pocket Dimension + City Job + Getting Rich] Ji Xiangqing transmigrates into the body of a high school student in the 1960s, living in a village. The college entrance exam is still ten years away. Being sent to the countryside as an educated youth is still two years away. She's suddenly transmigrated to a rural area in the 1960s, with no phone and no entertainment. To avoid working in the fields for the rest of her life, she faces the pressure of finding a job. 3kReads7.3Score215Shelves
- 24 Transmigrating into a Period Novel While Pregnant 穿越之在年代文里带球跑 [The male lead has a relatively small role, and his characterization isn't perfect] Le Yi had studied medicine for eight years and was finally about to graduate. She stayed up several nights preparing her thesis, only to faint from low blood sugar during her defense. When she opened her eyes again, she had become a young wife in the 1970s. As a self-proclaimed forever-single woman, Le Yi joked that the state had assigned her a husband. But her mother-in-law didn't respect her, her sister-in-law 16Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 25 Transmigrated to the 1970s: The Sweet Wife Builds a Fortune and Raises the Kids 穿越七零娇妻：发家致富养崽崽 It's awful, it's awful, it's awful, it's awful. Don't read it, don't read it, don't read it. It's really, truly, unbelievably, unbelievably, unbelievably awful. Trash, trash, trash, trash. You'll regret reading it. 26Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 26 Born Into the 1960s: I Work as a Clerk in the Foreign Trade Department 胎穿六零，我在外贸部当干事 [The ratings just came in] If you've finished reading, please leave a comment. Thank you 😊 After spending eighteen years in this life, Su Xiao thought she was just a lucky girl who had been born into a warm, loving farming family. Then, in the middle of a commotion, she bumped into a table, and memories of her previous life came rushing back. Only then did she realize that she had once been an orphan and a top-tier translator at a Fortune 500 company. Now she is among the last class of English g 8.9kReads6.8Score985Shelves
- 27 A Happy Life in the 1970s 七零年代幸福生活 For the first eighteen years of her life, Lin Xi followed the usual path of going to school. Her only real setback came after the college entrance exams, when she couldn't find a job and faced the prospect of being sent to the countryside. But she found work through a recommendation from one of her brother's friends. She never expected that a hungry wolf would carry her off home just like that... Heads-up: 1. The female lead is not a strong, career-driven heroine! 2. The male lead has a secret 215Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Reborn in the 1960s: The System Says Killing Time Will Keep Me Fed 重生六零，系统说打零养我 The greatest achievement of corporate drone Bai Zhuoyi’s life came one day when she and a lunatic who’d threatened to “get revenge on society” died together. When she opened her eyes again, she’d transmigrated into the body of a namesake side character in a melodramatic period novel set in the 1960s. Even more absurdly, something calling itself the “Hope Continuation System” suddenly popped up in her mind and hit her with this: “Hello, Host. This is the ‘Original Character Life Extension Plan.’ 14Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 29 Reborn as a Vicious Woman in the 1970s, I Got Rich After Turning Over a New Leaf 穿成七零恶女，弃恶从善后暴富了 A marriage first, love later. One-on-one, devoted couple. The leads focus on building their own careers. After working herself to the bone for days, Xia Tian, the office workaholic, gets into a car accident from driving while exhausted. When she opens her eyes again, she discovers she has transmigrated to the 1970s. Worse, she’s caught in the act by her mother-in-law. “You shameless hussy! You were the one who kept throwing yourself at my son, and now you dare to cheat on him while he’s away? I’ —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 I Transmigrated into a Book Set in the 1970s and Became the Abuse Novel Heroine's Best Friend 穿书七零我成了虐文女主的好闺蜜 [Period setting + transmigration into a book + System + changing the plot + getting rich + family life] After accidentally transmigrating into a book set in the 1970s, Song Yunqing finds herself cast as the vicious villainess everyone loves to hate, and one who's destined to die young! Just as she has no idea what to do, the all-purpose System essential to anyone who transmigrates into a book appears. "You have two choices: complete your missions and return to the real world, or slack off and fo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 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
- 32 Transmigrated to the Sixties, I Just Want a Quiet, Ordinary Life 穿越六零只想平凡过日子 Apart from cooking, Ye Shu’s greatest hobby is reading novels, especially stories set in the past where the characters transmigrate. Every time she reads one, she wonders what she would do in the same situation. One day, she goes to the supermarket to buy groceries, thinking about a novel she has just started as she picks out her shopping. Just as she gets lost in thought, she feels the ground shake beneath her feet and hears someone shout, “Earthquake!” Everyone runs for the exits, and Ye Shu r 1.5kReads8.5Score106Shelves
- 33 The Cool, Beautiful Interpreter of the 1970s Catches the Eye of an Obsessed Army Officer 七零冷艳翻译官被病娇军官盯上了 Lin Tingwan had achieved fame and success before transmigrating into a period novel, where she becomes a young educated woman sent to the countryside who dies from the start. After someone saves her, she promises Lu Bozhou, the sickly, possessive military officer who rescued her, that she’ll repay him for saving her from drowning. Lu Bozhou turns around and hands her a huge burden, using it as an excuse to keep in touch with Lin Tingwan. He even risks his own life to save her. Once Lin Tingwan —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 I Opened a Factory in the Seventies 我在七十年代开工厂 [A devoted couple + sweet romance + healing + pretending to fool each other + fictional setting] The moment she opens her eyes, Mu Wanying realizes she's suddenly become the ill-fated supporting female character in a period novel. Her fiance is standing in a cornfield with a woman who's been reborn. Break off the engagement! Break it off! Father Mu: Our Wanying can do whatever she wants. She doesn't need to care what anyone thinks. Mother Mu: My precious darling, whoever bullies you, I'll g 487Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 35 Reborn in 2006: From the Start, I Tear Down Your Outhouse! 重生06：开局就拆你家茅房！ Reborn in 2006: This Time, I’ll Tear My Scumbag Ex Apart and Become a High-Ranking Official In 2006, her boyfriend was still coaxing her: “Come south with me to work, and we’ll live in luxury for the rest of our lives!” Sun Ni suddenly came to her senses. In her previous life, she had believed that lie! She emptied her family’s savings to support that ungrateful man, scrimped and saved so he could get back on his feet, and in the end he kicked her aside, leaving her to suffer in her old age, co 757Reads—Score105Shelves
- 36 I Dump My Scumbag Dad and Remarry with Mom, Then My Cold Stepbrother Spoils Me Rotten 踹渣爹随母改嫁，冷面继兄宠入骨 (A buttoned-up research genius vs. a sweet, soft black-hearted marshmallow; a guiding lover + sweet romance) The moment Shen Chuxia opens her eyes, she’s back in 1972, just as her scumbag father has climbed the social ladder and divorced her mother. In her previous life, she followed her father into his new family, only for him to send her to the bed of an old man. She died horribly. In this life, her adoptive sister eagerly volunteers to become the sacrificial pawn instead. Leaning close to her 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The 1950s: The Sisters Rely on Their Golden Finger to Survive Hard Times 五零，姊妹靠金手指熬过艰苦年代 [A logistics warehouse in hand as she transmigrates to the 1950s: putting scoundrels in their place is such a joy!] Ning Meng, an intern in traditional Chinese medicine, transmigrates by accident to the poor, backward 1950s. She is born into a family with no sons, where nine daughters have been born and five already given away. And she is the sixth. Fortunately, fate treats her kindly: her adoptive family has four older brothers and runs a century-old tavern. The Tao family dotes on her, and wit 462Reads7.7Score100Shelves
- 38 My Kept Puppy Came Home a Graduate, So I Ran Off Pregnant 包养的小狼狗学成归国，我揣崽跑 Period setting + military officer + heiress + pregnancy escape + groveling pursuit + rekindled love She is Zhou Wan Ning, the cherished pearl of the Zhou family of Jiangnan. She moved to the Soviet Union with her family and lived as brightly as the sun. At a gathering arranged by friends, she met Liang Qi, once the dashing young master of the Liang family in the south, now reduced to scrimping over a few rubles. His family's decline had dragged him into the mire before he was even eighteen. He w 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Back in 1990, I’m a Billionaire in My Own Right 重回1990，我是亿万富翁本尊 (Period setting, one female lead, fourteen courtyards) Zhou Qiming unexpectedly transmigrated back to 1990, when the winds of reform and opening up were sweeping across China. Business opportunities were everywhere, and gold lay waiting to be found. Since Heaven had given him a second chance, Zhou Qiming vowed to seize every opportunity and become a giant of his age. Making a million wasn’t the goal, and a hundred million wasn’t the end. Buying eight or ten Siheyuan courtyards would be child’s p 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 A Rising Star in the ’70s 七十年代潜力股 In her previous life, Su Yun married Wang Xuezhi, a sent-down youth. But as soon as the college entrance exam was reinstated, he dumped her! She struggled through life raising their daughter, only for him to show up at the very end and demand a share of her property. Now reborn, Su Yun looks at her own fresh, pretty face, then at Wang Xuezhi, who is trying to curry favor with her, and her mouth twitches. She tells him to get lost as far as possible! With a second chance at life, of course she’s 300Reads8.5Score109Shelves
- 41 I Transmigrated to the Sixties and Married a Soldier. He Spoils Me Rotten 穿越六零年代嫁兵哥，我被宠爆了 [Transmigrate into a book + space + everyday family life + raising kids + military marriage + the whole family’s favorite + sweet romance] After Su Ke, who loved staying up late to read novels, died suddenly, she transmigrated into the body of a supporting female character with the same name in a period novel. The original owner had managed to ruin a hand full of winning cards. She dumped the scumbag and left him to fend for himself in the countryside. She foiled the schemes of the scheming best 492Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 42 Forced to Break Off the Engagement? I Turn Around and Marry the Toughest, Most Rugged Officer 被逼退婚？我转身嫁最猛糙汉军官 [Period setting + military marriage + transmigrate into a book + face-slapping + marriage first, love later + raising kids] Right after cursing out the lousy author, Shang Yunhe transmigrates into a period novel as its arrogant, overbearing villainess. In the book, the wicked supporting character loves a man who doesn’t love her back, makes trouble at every turn, is neglected by both her parents, and dies miserably in the countryside. Just after transmigrating into the book, Shang Yunhe stumbles 117Reads—Score116Shelves
- 43 Building Technology in a Period Novel 在年代文里搞科技 Qin Guimei transmigrates into a book set in the 1990s, becoming a dramatic supporting character in a sweet romance. Once G University's youngest female professor, she has the confidence to fear nothing. As far as she's concerned, so-called “face-slapping” simply doesn't exist. A versatile materials science expert at G University, Qin Guimei can do almost anything. In this story full of melodramatic twists, she plays a crucial role in the country's industrial development during the 1990s. She re 2Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 44 Forced to Marry a Widower? I Turn Around and Marry into a Military Compound in the 1960s 逼嫁鳏夫？转头嫁进六零军区大院 [Military Marriage + 1960s + Unhinged Heroine + System + Marriage First, Love Later + No Sent-Down Youth + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Gossip + Face-Slapping] Zhao Manman had barely transmigrated when her stepmother pressured her into marrying an old widower who was old enough to be her father. She even resorted to the despicable trick of drugging her to make her comply! Who could put up with that? She certainly couldn't! She secretly switched the drug her stepmother had prepared, then let her 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Transmigrate Into a Book Set in the 1960s: The Background Character Has a Little Supermarket 穿书六零，路人甲有小超市 [Period setting + rugged man + supermarket + taking it easy + cozy daily life] Lin Xi, an older unmarried woman, transmigrates. Feeling the straw mattress beneath her, she stares blankly at the uneven, battered yellow-mud wall still patched with newspaper and wishes she could die all over again. (P.S. There’s a little supermarket. She doesn’t barter for supplies on the black market, and the heroine isn’t ambitious about her career. She just sits back and collects rent. At first, she likes using 330Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 46 Chatterbox Jiang Tang, Mute Pei Heng 小嘴叭叭姜糖，哑巴哈哈裴蘅 [1970s setting + golden finger] [Cool-headed personality + no lovesick nonsense] [Male lead is a Jiang Tang fanatic + says what's on his mind] “Mom, I'm grown up.” “I really am grown up.” “You can get a divorce. I'll support you.” Zhou Xiumei was stunned. “You're a child. What are you talking about? What daughter would tell her parents to get divorced?” Jiang Tang said, “You're the one talking nonsense. What daughter could stand by and watch her own mother suffer?” “It's too late for me to chang 41.9kReads8.2Score9.9kShelves
- 47 Educated Youth Stay in the City: A Big Shot Builds a Fortune With a Supermarket Worth Billions 知青不下乡：大佬带亿万超市发家 [Transmigrating into Two Books + A Supermarket Worth Billions + A Powerful Woman in a Matriarchal World + A Devoted Husband Chases His Jerk of a Wife + No Groveling Redemption Arc for the Leads] Su Xiaxia, a powerful woman in a matriarchal world, wakes up to find herself in two melodramatic period novels: one about abandoning a husband and child, and another about a stepmother moving to the countryside. In the reborn stepmother story, the heroine vows to find her husband from her past life as so 8Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 48 Transmigrated to the 1970s, I Married a Handsome Doctor and Keep Flirting with Him 穿越七零，嫁俊医，娇妻撩不停 [Period Setting + Military Marriage + Staying in the City + Marriage Before Love + Devoted Couple + Sweet Everyday Romance + Healing Each Other] [Growing Heroine + Possessive Hero with a Hidden Side] Nanyuexi, an orphan from the twenty-first century, transmigrates into a book and becomes the stepping stone who helps the original protagonists achieve their happy ending in a period novel. She thoughtfully sends the original leads to the Great Northwest, where the warmth of family fills the voids i 61Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 49 In the 1970s, I Rejected the Anti-Poverty System and My Whole Family Thrived 七零拒绝扶贫系统，全家躺赢成万元户 [Transmigrate into a book + Reject the System + No Handouts + Change the Whole Family’s Fate] Song Nanyang transmigrates into a book set in a bygone era as a saintly supporting character. The original owner was so softhearted she made everyone furious! The job opening her father’s death had earned her was given away out of pity for someone else, costing her eldest brother his job. She secretly gave her premature baby brother’s powdered milk to her cousin for a treat, and her little brother event 83Reads8.2Score142Shelves
- 50 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
