Novels like I Just Want to Retire in the Seventies, but the World Is Leveling Up
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- 51 The Growth Rings of Purple Pearwood 紫油梨的年轮 The Growth Rings of Purple Oil Pear Wood 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 An Orphan Girl Gets a Jade Pendant Space and Transmigrates to the Countryside in the 1970s 孤女得到玉佩空间穿越七零下乡 [Orphaned Girl + Space + Sent to the Countryside + Stockpiling Supplies + Photographic Memory] Modern-day orphan Song Qianqian unlocks the space inside a jade pendant, stocks up on supplies, transmigrates to the 1970s, and then heads to the countryside. Ji Mufeng, a young man from a well-connected family compound, is signed up by his stepmother to go suffer in the countryside. Through a twist of fate, he marries Song Qianqian. At first, Ji Mufeng says, “Hmph, don't think you have a chance with m 17.2kReads9.1Score1.4k14d adds
- 53 The Rugged Man Can't Get Enough of His Sweet Young Educated Youth 糙汉对娇娇知青欲罢不能 A pampered, beautiful little princess of Heaven’s Will × a doting, rugged country man Ye Zhiyu, the proud little princess of Heaven’s Will, was so busy having fun that she neglected her cultivation. After failing to survive the lightning tribulation, her father, Heaven’s Will, banished her to a small world. She became a tragic supporting character with the same name, abused until she was utterly broken. Spiritual energy was scarce after the founding of the nation, but luckily her sharp-tongued, 5.7kReads8.9Score58014d adds
- 54 The Lovesick Plum, the Plum of Longing 相思梅，梅相思 The Lovesick Plum, the Plum of Longing 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 Fortune Is Easy to Gain, But True Love Is Hard to Find 千金易得，真心难求 A thousand pieces of gold are easy to find, but true love is hard to come by 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Distinguish Right from Wrong, Set the World to Rights 明黑白，正乾坤 Discern right from wrong, and set the world straight 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 My Loose Tongue, One Word Foretold Disaster 嘴碎的我，一语成谶 My Loose Lips, My Words Come True 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Love Is Stronger Than Gold, and We’ll Never Betray Each Other 情比金坚，永不相负 Our love is stronger than gold; we will never betray each other 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 The Bustling City and the Deep Mountains Are No Different; A Peaceful Heart Is a Peach Blossom Haven 闹市深山无分别，心净便是桃花源 There is no difference between a bustling city and a remote mountain; with a pure heart, anywhere can be a Peach Blossom Spring 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 The Strongest Educated Youth in the 1970s 七零大力女知青 Su Zhu is the family member best suited to go to the countryside, so she volunteers. Keeping her family's advice in mind, she gets along famously in the village with her passionate enthusiasm and natural strength. It's just that one male educated youth looks at her in a very strange way... 6.8kReads7.7Score52714d adds
- 61 An Autistic Girl Transmigrates and Pursues Scientific Research in the 1970s 自闭症穿越，她在七零搞科研 [Alternate setting + scientific research + stunning 175 cm beauty + everyday life] (The research projects are made up. Please don't try any of this at home!) I'm no good at writing a synopsis, so please read the story. Check the comments for warnings. 41Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 62 Ten Years Between Life and Death, Bound by Longing 十年生死，魂牵梦绕 Ten Years of Life and Death, a Soul Haunted by Longing 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 True to Our Love, True to the Peach Blossoms 不负相思，不负桃花 True to My Longing, True to the Peach Blossoms 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 The Rugged Man of the Eighties Is Full of Wild Passion, Yet His Little Wife Kisses Him to Tears 八零糙汉野性足，偏被小妻亲到哭 [Period setting + devoted couple + everyday life + putting scumbags in their place + marriage before love] Ye Xiaozhen is beautiful, but was born with an intellectual disability. To get a city bride for her own son, her stepmother sells her to a bully who has already widowed three wives, taking the bride price. He's the notorious jinx of the surrounding villages, a wife-killing menace, the strongest donkey on the production team, and a devil everyone avoids. What good can come of Ye Xiaozhen fal 5.8kReads8.8Score52314d adds
- 65 Reborn in the 1970s: I Take the Village Bully's Whole Family Back to the City to Live the Good Life 重生七零：带着村霸全家回城躺赢 In 1977, the college entrance examination was reinstated, and Su Jinyan, an educated youth sent to the countryside, passed and got into Peking University. The original owner, already married with children, was about to leave her husband and kids behind and return to the city for school when modern-day Su Jinyan arrived. I want this man. I’ll take these two children, too. I’ll take care of my disabled father-in-law and blind mother-in-law, too. Su Jinyan brought her husband, in-laws, and children 8.1kReads9.0Score75614d adds
- 66 A Thatched Cottage by a Bamboo Fence, Where I Met a Beauty by the Plum Trees 竹篱茅舍，梅边遇佳人 A Bamboo-Fenced Cottage, Where a Beauty Waits by the Plum Blossoms 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 The Charming Educated Youth of the 1970s: With My Pocket Farm, I Cling to My Rough-Hewn Man 七零俏知青，携空间农场抱紧糙汉 [Putting scoundrels in their place + doting on his wife + magic space + devoted couple + adorable babies + magical pets] Su Lian’s family was destroyed by the treacherous couple who set her up. The child she had been tricked into bearing was switched at birth and killed. After being reborn, she swore to avenge the terrible wrongs she had suffered in her previous life. She also wanted to make the man who had loved her all his life, and lost a leg because of her, happy. She was marrying him even t 1.7kReads9.1Score16814d adds
- 68 The 1970s: This Background Character Young Intellectual Just Wants to Watch the Drama 七零：炮灰知青只想吃瓜看戏 Synopsis: [Pocket dimension shopping mall + transmigrate into a book as a doomed side character + alternate setting + gossip-watching + building a career + military marriage + slice of life] Yang Tao transmigrates into the 1970s as a pitiful girl from an ordinary working-class family. No problem. The huge shopping mall she just inherited has come along with her. Her younger sister schemes to send her to the countryside? No worries. Yang Tao promptly sends her off to the far northwest instead. Fa 12kReads8.5Score1.1k14d adds
- 69 The Nightmare Demon in the Mirror 镜中的魇魔 The Nightmare Demon in the Mirror 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 Hate and Separation 恨，别离 Hate, and parting 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 In 1990, She Was a Good Big Sister 九零年，她是好姐姐 (Not a power fantasy with an all-conquering heroine, and definitely not a rebirth-and-revenge story. It’s just a quiet, everyday tale with some odd conflicts.) Chen Xihua, a rich kid from the twenty-first century who had become a wage slave, was about to turn thirty and inherit the family business when she suddenly transmigrated into the body of Chen Xihua, a seven- or eight-year-old village girl in the 1990s. She realized she had transmigrated into a book, and was a minor cannon-fodder characte 7kReads9.0Score59014d adds
- 72 Making a Fortune in the 1970s Through Sign-In Rewards 我在七零靠签到致富 [New Romance Contest] Su Nuannuan transmigrated to the 1970s, an era when people earned work points. Luckily, she got a sign-in System. She signed in at home. “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you’ve received three jin of pork belly.” She signed in in the rice fields. “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you’ve received four jin of rice.” She signed in at the brigade office. “Congratulations, Host, you’ve received one yuan and fifty cents.” In an era when even dining out required ration coupons, Su 6.9kReads7.9Score49114d adds
- 73 The Beautiful 1970s Educated Youth, Doted on by a Rough-Hewn Man 七零漂亮女知青，糙汉捧在手心宠 [Period setting + rugged man + delicate peach blossom spirit + three lifetimes of romance + sweet doting + healing] A delicate, beautiful peach blossom spirit heroine × a rugged hero who adores his wife The peach blossom spirit Tao Yingli failed her heavenly tribulation. When she opened her eyes again, she had become a cannon-fodder villainess in a period novel. In the countryside of the 1970s, farm work was hard and life was harsh. Tao Yingli had lost her peach blossom body, and even pulling up 1.6kReads9.0Score21714d adds
- 74 Military Marriage in the 1960s: I Join the Army Corps with a Pocket Dimension and Take It Easy 六零军婚：带空间兵团里面当咸鱼 [Completed] Si Yang transmigrates into a period novel as the unloved biological daughter, where she is framed by the scheming fake heiress and rejected by her whole family. If this place has no room for me, there’s always somewhere that does. With a pocket dimension, what have I got to fear? First, she cleans out the family’s food stores and valuables, then heads to the border region with the corps. The fake heiress wants her to waste away on the frontier? Keep dreaming! A few meritorious deeds 3.5kReads9.0Score40114d adds
- 75 Transmigrated as a Cannon-Fodder Heiress? I Cut Ties and Head Straight to the Countryside 穿成炮灰千金？断绝关系直接下乡 After transmigrating from the apocalypse to the 1970s, Yun Siying, a woman with a spatial dimension, wood powers, and telekinesis, begins her new life in the decade. The story features a mix-up between a real heiress and a fake one. She never expected to find an identical lotus jade pendant in this world, which upgrades her spatial dimension. Her family thinks she is the fake heiress. On a whim, she runs an experiment and discovers that she is actually the real Shu heiress. She doesn’t expose th 18.7kReads8.9Score1.9k14d adds
- 76 I Became a Team Doctor in the 1960s, and the Whole Village Went Wild Spoiling Me 穿进六零当队医，全队村民宠疯了 [Military marriage + period setting + golden finger + satisfying read + no charity work] No one has had it worse than Lu Xiangnuan. She has parasitic parents, a good-for-nothing younger brother, and a boyfriend of five years who cheated on her with her best friend. Her life is practically the definition of misery. But that's okay. She'll handle things herself. Her specialty is cutting ties with everyone, and if anyone makes her life miserable, she'll make theirs miserable too. Take her cheating 1.6kReads9.0Score15714d adds
- 77 The Village Chief's Beloved Daughter-in-Law in the 1970s 七零团宠：村长家的下乡娇娇媳 She was the darling of heaven, forced to go to the countryside as an educated youth. Her brother used every connection he had to arrange everything for her, hoping only to make her life a little easier. But as soon as she arrived in the countryside, she became the apple of the village chief's family's eye. He was the mischievous, lively youngest son of the team leader's family. One glance was all it took for him to fall deeply in love with her. Qin's father and mother: “Xiao Zi is our preciou 5.1kReads8.9Score39314d adds
- 78 After Striking It Rich in the 1970s, My Dead Husband Came Back 在七零暴富后，死去的丈夫又回来了 [Period setting + satisfying revenge + farming + face-slapping + sweet romance] One day, Shen Ning transmigrated back to the 1970s and was completely dumbfounded. To make matters worse, she was a widow whose husband had just died! With a dilapidated home and two children in front of her, Shen Ning rolled up her sleeves and got to work. She caught a wild boar, dug up lingzhi mushrooms, and soon their lives began to improve. Then she took the college entrance exam and went to the city to make mone 46Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 79 Spirit Spring Space: I Became an Immortal by Growing Crops 灵泉空间：我种种田就成了仙 [Farming is the focus for the first hundred chapters; cultivation takes center stage afterward] Xiao Li’s mother was divorced by her father, who wanted nothing to do with her. As an abandoned daughter of a marquis’s family, all she could do was follow her mother to the countryside. Just as her enemies were celebrating, she explored her ancestors’ tomb and found a genuine spatial ring, inheriting her forebears’ legacy. She used spirit spring water to improve the constitutions of those around her, 1.4kReads8.9Score15014d adds
- 80 My Lucky Carp Can Turn Calamities into Blessings 我的锦鲤可逢凶化吉 My Lucky Carp Can Turn Misfortune into Fortune 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 Delivering Takeout in the Underworld 我在阴间，送外卖 I Deliver Takeout in the Underworld 38Reads—Score314d adds
- 82 The 1970s: A Rough Country Boy Blushes Red After the Sweet Educated Youth Flirts with Him 七零：乡下糙汉被娇娇知青撩红脸 [Spoiled capitalist heiress vs. naive, rugged country boy + reborn + space + spirit spring + lucky charm] In her previous life, Lin Wanwan was forced to marry the poor, rough son of a rural landlord after accidentally falling into the water. When the transfer order arrived, Lin Wanwan resolutely chose to divorce him and return to the city with her childhood sweetheart. It wasn’t until her childhood sweetheart carved out her heart that Lin Wanwan finally realized the person who loved her most was 4kReads8.8Score33914d adds
- 83 The Beautiful, Wealthy Young Educated Youth Desired by a Rough-Hewn Man 被糙汉惦记的白富美娇娇小知青 (Sweet, adorable local young educated woman VS cunning, reborn rough country man with a serious case of lovesickness. This story is set in an alternate history.) Beautiful as a flower, Ruan Yanzhi volunteers to go to the countryside. The first thing she does when she meets Xue Yu is shove their marriage certificate at him and demand that he marry her! Xue Yu: The woman I secretly loved for so many years in my last life is forcing me to marry her in this one? Should I say yes right away, or just 1.4kReads8.7Score13514d adds
- 84 Reborn in the 1970s: The Research Prodigy Lets Loose 重生七零科研大佬她放飞自我了 [She saved humanity in her last life. This time, she wants to live for herself.] Qi Luo'an died after bringing the apocalypse to an end. To thank her for her outstanding contribution to humanity, the System helped her transmigrate. They said she could choose for herself, and the new body even had the same name. Then I get here and you tell me I'm called Li Xiaohua? The big shot's composure shattered. At least she still had a whole space full of supplies. She catches spies, does research, plays t 82Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 85 The Apocalypse Big Shot Refuses to Be Cannon Fodder in a 1970s Novel 末世大佬拒绝在七零年代文当炮灰 [Transmigrate into a book + 1970s setting + space + special abilities + educated youth + devoted couple + strong heroine] At death’s door, Yang Zhenzhen dragged the Zombie King down with her. When she regained consciousness, Yang Zhenzhen had transmigrated into a book called Beautiful Educated Youth Becomes a Big Shot in the 1970s, as a cannon-fodder supporting character. Since she was there, she might as well make the best of it. With a wood-based special ability and a space, she planned to kee 1.2kReads8.6Score10914d adds
- 86 The Beautiful Young Educated Woman Smiled Sweetly, and the Rugged Man Lost His Cool 貌美知青娇滴滴一笑，糙汉急了 [Historical setting + educated youth + farming + System + sweet romance] The moment Lin Shuyan opens her eyes, she finds herself transmigrated into a book, into the hungry and threadbare 1970s. She’s a cannon-fodder character with nothing going for her but beauty and money! “Educated Youth Lin, you need to weed today!” “I can weed! How hard can it be?” It doesn’t take long for her to get hit with a reality check. This is really hard! Luckily, a strong, rugged man steps in to help her with the wo 2.2kReads8.9Score16314d adds
- 87 A 1970s Military Marriage: The Sweet Young Educated Youth Wins Over the Wildest Country Boy 军婚七零娇娇知青撩爆最野糙汉 [1970s + devoted couples + rugged man + military marriage + sweet, gentle educated youth * stern, rugged man] A car accident sent Song Tianzhi, who had been a dance student, into a novel set in the 1970s. She became a pampered young lady who was sharp-tongued, foolish, and spoiled, only to meet a tragic end in a pigsty as a disposable side character. Song Tianzhi sighed. Why was her luck so terrible? Looking at Wen Feng, the male lead, who stood before her with a cold expression and few words, s 1.7kReads9.0Score22114d adds
- 88 Transmigrating into a Period Novel About Frenemies? The Hidden Big Shot Is Addicted to Spoiling Her 穿进敌蜜年代文？隐藏大佬宠成瘾 [Pocket Dimension]+ [Getting Pregnant Before Marriage]+ [Powerful Male Lead]+ [Sweet Romance]+ [Everyone’s Favorite] Shen Zhiyu opened her eyes and found herself inside a period novel written by her archrival. The character she’d been given nearly made her sick with rage. Watching her real-world nemesis getting all lovey-dovey with the male lead, Shen Zhiyu reclaimed her own golden finger and made sure her rival couldn’t take advantage of her again. She turned around and married the good-for-not 6.3kReads8.4Score44514d adds
- 89 Reborn in a Bygone Era: This Wife Brings Prosperity to Her Family 重生年代，这个媳妇儿很旺家 [Complete] [New book: Dressed in Eighties Style, the Rugged Man Won’t Leave His Sweet Wife Alone] [Sweet romance, everyday family life, devoted couple (No space, no space, stop asking. I’m not writing one. The heroine herself is her golden finger, thank you.)] Xia Youtao was sitting peacefully at home when the ceiling light suddenly fell on her. When she woke up, she had arrived in an unfamiliar era. Back before she transmigrated, her parents only knew how to hold out their hands for money, all 1.1kReads8.8Score10014d adds
- 90 Reborn in a Pocket Dimension: The Supreme Path to Immortality 重生空间之无上仙路 [Traditional fantasy cultivation + strong female lead + slow burn + portable space] [Who doesn't love a heroine who can be both sweet and formidable?] [Complete] [Alchemy, artifact crafting, formations, spirit talismans, spirit pets] An Ge was born into her new life in the womb, never expecting that she would transmigrate to a world of cultivation. The ancient jade she had worn around her neck in her previous life turned out to be a primordial chaos space, and it granted her the rarest of gifts: 11.6kReads8.7Score1.3k14d adds
- 91 Quick Transmigration Through the Eras: The Alluring Villain 快穿年代：迷人的反派角色 [Self-serving and unapologetic + Overpowered from the start + No suffering for others, no saintly heroine + No fixed couple + Sweet romance] After Jin Baolin perished alongside the Zombie King, she unexpectedly became bound to a godawful holier-than-thou System. It wanted her to take the place of disposable characters who refused to follow the plot and selflessly give everything to the protagonists, preferably working herself to the bone before making a glorious sacrifice. Oh, and she had to l 13.3kReads8.3Score1.1k14d adds
- 92 I Came from the Stars to Witness the Age of Soaring Technology 我从星际而来，看科技腾飞时代 [Technology to strengthen the nation + alternate setting + interstellar transmigration + no romance, focused on getting things done + not a power fantasy + period piece] Ling Yue is transported from the interstellar age to Blue Star in the 1960s when an explosion caused by the mad scientist next door sends her through time. The land lies in ruins, beset by troubles at home and abroad. Watch as Ling Yue helps her country achieve a technological leap forward. A foreign country threatens us with at 66Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 93 The Sixties: An Ordinary Educated Youth's Farming and Gossiping Days 六零，路人甲知青种田吃瓜日常 [Gossip-Watching + Farming + Beloved by Everyone + Metaphysics + Pocket Dimension] Song Beibei was reborn in 1966 and sent to the countryside as an educated youth. The good news: she had a golden finger. The bad news: her golden finger made her farm. And it only gave out rewards after the harvest, so she was forced to farm every day, working even harder than the locals and turning into a regular workhorse. Song Beibei: I’m going to lose it!!! (furious) That would have been bad enough. But why di 5kReads8.7Score35814d adds
- 94 Transmigrate into a Book, Find a Secret Space, and Turn My Life Around: I Become the Army Commander’s Daughter-in-Law 穿书有空间翻身后我是军长的儿媳 Song Yan never expected that she would transmigrate into a book. Well, so be it! The 1970s weren’t anything to be afraid of. But she never imagined she’d land in the body of a minor character who was the male lead’s supporting character. The original owner had generously given the male lead an entire secret green pasture, tricked him into marriage and swindled his money, and even caused her mother-in-law to break her leg... The male lead demanded a divorce! But Song Yan couldn’t afford to leave 9.3kReads9.3Score1.4k14d adds
- 95 After Four Years as a Fool, I Wake to Find My Parents Starving and Skin and Bones 傻了四年，醒来后爹娘饿成皮包骨 [Reborn from the womb] Xia Mo, a woman from the apocalypse, had two special abilities. She only meant to take a little nap, but unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of a newborn in a hard-pressed era. Her parents were true love; she was an accident. Her grandmother favored boys, and an accident left her asleep for four years. Faced with famine, let’s see how she rides the waves in this difficult era. 3.5kReads8.8Score41414d adds
- 96 A Delicate Beauty Reborn as a Cannon-Fodder Villainess in the Seventies 娇气美人穿成七零年代炮灰女配 Xu Wanning transmigrated into a book and became the villainess in the novel The Sweet Wife of the Seventies. In the end, she was destined to die a miserable death in prison... Miss Xu Wanning: “Waaah, I want to go home...” The great villain Han Jinghuai: “Be good, Ningning. Don't be afraid. Your husband will stand up for you.” 4kReads8.5Score28114d adds
- 97 The 1970s’ Rich Beauty Is Teased to Tears by Her Handsome Mixed-Race Husband 七零白富美被漂亮混血老公撩哭了 [Rich, beautiful young female intellectual × mixed-race, aloof heartthrob] [Rebirth + adorable baby + sweet romance + period setting] In poor, backward Taolin Village, there was a mixed-race boy known far and wide. He had clear blue eyes and was strikingly handsome. But because of his family background, no one dared approach him or spend much time with him. Everyone assumed he would never find a wife. Then someone saw the aloof mixed-race boy holding hands beneath a peach tree with the pretty yo 1.8kReads8.8Score20014d adds
- 98 Transmigrate into a Book Set in the 1970s: I Want This Hooligan 穿书七零：这痞子我要了 (Complete) Also known as Transmigrating into a 1970s Novel: The Supporting Actress Becomes the Cook at the Educated Youth Compound Chi An never dreamed she would transmigrate into a period-piece novel about a lucky heroine, becoming the heroine’s unfortunate older cousin. In the book, the original owner had a tragic life. Married off to the wrong man at a young age, she died after people spread rumors that she had an incurable venereal disease. After transmigrating into the book, Chi An couldn’t 5.6kReads8.9Score42414d adds
- 99 A Supporting Actress’s Gossip-Filled Life in the 1970s 七十年代女配的吃瓜日常 After learning she has transmigrated into a historical-era novel as a pawn meant to whitewash the protagonist's group, Jiang Yanqiu first steals half of the original heroine's golden finger, then gives away half of the transmigrated heroine's golden finger. Then she keeps her head down, stays away from the protagonist's group, and enjoys the show. With nobody at the educated youth station willing to talk to her, bored Jiang Yanqiu has nothing to do but gossip to pass the time. She has to admit, 1.9kReads6.2Score10214d adds
- 100 Before Going to the Countryside in the 1970s, I Used My Space to Empty My Enemies’ Homes 七零下乡前，我用空间搬空仇家 [Military Marriage + 1970s + Pocket Dimension + Spirit Spring + Combat Skills + Gossip + Emptying the Original Heroine's Pocket Dimension] Luo Jingyan, a modern rich beauty, accidentally transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes a short-lived cannon-fodder character in a period novel. After her parents are framed by their own relatives, she has no choice but to take her younger brother and head to the countryside as an educated youth. Before leaving, she gets revenge by clearing out her enemy's eno 12.3kReads9.1Score1.6k14d adds
