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- 1 I Transmigrated to the 1980s and Opened a Supermarket on the Jing-Hang Canal 穿越八零，我在京杭运河开超市 [Shipping on the Jiangnan Canal] [Families aboard] [School for the children of boat-dwelling families] [There is a cheat, but upgrading it requires spending money. Progress isn’t instant, so this may not be for you if you want a cheat that can reshape the world overnight] [Slow-paced, with careful research and a nostalgic focus on people and culture] [Ensemble cast and everyday life in a bygone era] This book is also titled Ordinary Memories. Written entirely by hand, so please show your support 482Reads8.2Score111Shelves
- 2 The 1970s: Divorce? No Problem, the Next One Will Be Even More Obedient 七零：离婚？没关系，下一个更乖 [Apocalypse + reborn + supernatural abilities + spatial storage + educated youth + no fixed pairing] When the frail educated-youth girl in the village, who took a dose of medicine every three days and spat blood as easily as she drank water, got divorced for the first time… Everyone: “She’s a sickly thing. If I could go back to the city, I wouldn’t want her either!” Ji Chu: I can’t believe my good-for-nothing husband left me so much money! I’m rich, I’m rich! When the supposedly heartbroken sick 217Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 3 Outliving My Wicked Mother-in-Law and Stepmother, I Survive a Century of Chaos 熬死恶婆后娘，乱世活百年 [No contrived plot] [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] [No cheat abilities] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural life] [Hardship] Thank you all so much for your support and comments. Mom, my story finally got a rating! Though it only just came out!! Chen Xiulan was my maternal grandmother. She passed away at the age of 103. Only now does that promise I’d let lie for so many years pierce my heart: I once promised to write her a thick memoir. As a child, I was always clinging to her, listening t 795Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 4 The Butcher's Fierce Wife Is My Third Sister-in-Law 卖肉悍妇是我三嫂 When Wang Xiuying was eighteen, she chased two men through the streets with a shoulder pole. Everyone in the village said she was too fierce. Who would dare marry her? And yet my useless third brother insisted on marrying her. On their wedding night, she laid down three rules: from now on, I make the decisions at home; don't let anyone bully you again; wherever I point, you hit. We all thought our third brother had married a tigress and that their life together would be impossible. But who could 968Reads—Score100Shelves
- 5 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
- 6 A Comeback After Twenty Years of Widowhood 守寡二十年逆袭 [Period Drama + Strong Female Lead + Farming + Family Life + Widow's Comeback + Single Mother] On her wedding night, her husband is crushed to death by a roof beam, and Liu Chunhong becomes the "husband-killing jinx." Her mother-in-law forces her to give birth to her posthumous child, then turns on her and throws mother and daughter out while she's still recovering from childbirth. Her sister-in-law blocks the door and yells, "A married daughter is like water poured out!" With nowhere else to tu 7.3kReads6.9Score375Shelves
- 7 A Reborn Interstellar Powerhouse in the 1960s: Making a Fortune 星际大佬重生六零：发家致富忙 "The melancholy evening breeze plucks at my heartstrings, the holy moonlight seduces my intelligence, and your dear mother has stolen my heart! Son, make sure you stay far away from your mom from now on, okay? Oh, that stinks! Ahh, Xu Xiaobao, did you just throw your diaper at me?" "Li Yunxiu, you have five seconds to get out of the room." "Yes, dear! I'm going to slaughter a pig." "Slaughter a pig? What are you up to now?" "My brother said we've been living off our wives every day. I'll slaught 109Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 8 Sweet Military Marriage: The Army Wife Is an Incredible Chief Engineer 军婚甜蜜蜜，军嫂总工了不起 [Sweet romance + raising kids + two powerful leads + heroine focused on her career] Su Yan transmigrated into a period novel as a cannon-fodder side character who used her beauty to get her way and ultimately met a tragic end. From the start, she was reported to the authorities and was in a panic. Unexpectedly, her boss wanted to pave the way for his own daughter, so he used the incident to arrange a blind date for Su Yan. Boss: “This will prove you're innocent. The man has three kids, though... 276Reads9.0Score101Shelves
- 9 Reborn in the 1980s: Making a Fortune at the Port 重生八零，我在港口赚爆了 [Period setting + reborn + satisfying read] [Devoted couple, 1v1] [Heroine: Lin Ziyan; hero: Lu Yunshen!] [Strong heroine + strong hero!] The heroine, Lin Ziyan, was a PhD in aquaculture and held a second degree in ship design in her previous life. She is reborn in the body of the original owner, a girl from a small fishing village in Fushi. Soon after she is reborn, both her parents die, leaving her with two younger sisters and a great-grandmother who is nearly ninety. Her father had borrowed h 601Reads8.5Score103Shelves
- 10 A Painkiller for Time and Space 时空止疼片 [Realistic] [You Were Once Here] [Beautiful] At 37, he should have been at the height of his fame, with a bright future ahead. But an unexpected fall from a building brought his life to a permanent stop at its most dazzling moment. I was just an ordinary fan who quietly admired him. One day, I happened to come across news about him, and an immense grief hit me so hard I could barely breathe. In my memory, he was always so radiant: earnest and focused at work, gentle and bright in life, with a s 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Transmigrating into a Book: The Stepfather in a Period Novel 穿书之年代文里的继父 (The new book’s rating just opened, everyone. It’ll go up!) 1970s setting + sign-in System + raising kids + mutual devotion. The moment I open my eyes, I’ve transmigrated into a period novel and become the cannon-fodder stepfather who abused his stepchildren and eventually died miserably in a cowshed. I look at the three thin, malnourished children staring at me in fear, and their gentle, resilient but distant teacher wife. I silently activate the Daily Sign-In System. Today, a pound of meat. 98Reads6.0Score118Shelves
- 12 Cultivating Immortality with Infinite Space in the 1970s 穿七零无限空间能修仙 New novel, now complete: [The real catch is a beautiful young wife who transmigrates to the 1970s]☜ [Complete, no characters acting stupid, no handouts] [Invincible pocket dimension + cultivation with special abilities and spirit pets + female lead isn’t a saint + male lead is powerful but still no match for her + fighting and killing + building wealth and strengthening the nation] An orphan transmigrates to the 1970s. Luckily, she discovers a top-tier commercial street inside her space pendant. 2.6kReads8.8Score332Shelves
- 13 Military Marriage in the 1970s: The Sickly Beauty Goes on a Rampage! 七零军婚：病娇美人杀疯了！ [Seventies setting + 1v1 sweet romance + spatial powers + obsessive love + military marriage + feel-good power fantasy] A research prodigy with a possessive streak, created by humans and codenamed Seventeen, is the most gifted young woman at the Blue Star Research Institute. One explosion, one transmigration, and when she opens her eyes again, she has become Song Xingmiao, a foolish country girl. Seventeen: ...Then what was the point of the suicide bombing I made myself?! And who is the man besi 2.6kReads—Score300Shelves
- 14 The Three Treasures Pagoda and Purple Gold Mountain 三宝塔与紫金山 The story unfolds slowly between Sanbao Town in southeastern Yunnan and Nanjing, the ancient capital of six dynasties. Yun Kun, a young man from southern Yunnan, dreams of escaping the mountains. Through sheer perseverance, he rises from a poor boy to a faculty researcher at a military academy. Ning Xiang, who lives east of Nanjing, once enjoyed a peaceful, ordinary life, but the tides of the times bring a drastic turn: her household registration is falsified, and she is forced to move to the co 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Sizzling Days of 1970 七零滚烫日子 Yang Tao was born in a small mountain village to a family so poor they had nothing. She had two older brothers waiting to trade her for bride price, and her parents were already preparing to find her a match: a lame widower in the village behind the mountain, a good-for-nothing from the neighboring village... She didn't want to spend the rest of her life trapped in poverty. Then, suddenly, a young man came into view. The county of Lijiang was building a bridge across the river, and Song Yan, a p 4.7kReads8.8Score575Shelves
- 16 The Good Life in the Sixties: Farming with Adorable Pets 六零好生活，跟着萌宠忙种田 [Transmigration + a child’s growth + strengthening the nation through technology] Lying flat in the 1960s with an interstellar System? Just as Daya and her star-beast companion Hongge had settled into a comfortable life, the System…crashed! Her star-beast companion was forced to transmigrate into a sickly boy from the capital, and even became her nominal “little uncle”? Her golden finger worked only sometimes, her body was frail, and the circumstances were pressing. They had no choice but to re 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Half-Mad 半痴 Meeting you was the best fate of all, so why spend the rest of my years pining for you? I awoke halfway through my life as if born anew. Reborn, I returned, and my boat had already sailed past a thousand mountains. This is my first full-length novel, so it has plenty of shortcomings. I hope you’ll feel free to offer advice, and I thank you in advance. With your support and encouragement, I’ll work even harder. Let’s go! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Reborn Under the Moon: I Am the White-Haired Woman 月下还魂，我是白毛女 [The 1960s, technology, major infrastructure projects, bridge-building, no horrible characters, no black markets, a love story like Romance on Lushan Mountain] An epic of perseverance through difficult times, A grand tale of the birth of a bridge, A group of builders in a special era, A romantic love story that crosses time and space... In the spring of 1960, Ma Susu woke up in a dilapidated temple. She was now a “drifter,” fleeing famine and heading for the lands beyond the pass. She’d fallen b 27Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 19 Quick Transmigration: Fate? This Woman in the 1970s Doesn't Believe in It 快穿：认命？年代女配压根不信邪 [Quick Transmigration] [Period] [Farming] [Cannon Fodder] [Comeback] [Space] [Female Supporting Character] [Strong Female Lead] [Putting Scumbags in Their Place] [Military Marriage] [Fake and Real Daughters] Shen Rushuang was a member of the Quick Transmigration Bureau. She worked diligently but never stood out, and was even bullied at work by a supervisor who looked down on her, then dumped in the Period Cannon Fodder Department, the bureau's worst-performing division. Was Shen Rushuang angry? 6.1kReads8.2Score496Shelves
- 20 Transmigrating to 1970: The Fish in the Pond Finds Love 穿越70之池鱼有喜 This story is set in a fictional world. Please don’t take it too seriously. [Ensemble cast in small doses / combat powerhouse / storage space / crafting expert / gossip and farming / taking down scumbags and getting rich] Jiang Yu has been struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world plagued by natural disasters since she was eight, and along the way she was forced to master the craft of fixing broken things. After an accident, she transmigrates to the 1970s. Reborn as a pitiful girl abused 2.5kReads8.8Score230Shelves
- 21 1970s Space: An Educated Youth Goes to the Countryside with Four Kids 七零空间：下乡知青四个崽 [Stockpiling + Portable Space + Period Setting + Spirit Spring + Food + Raising Kids + Reunion] = [Complete!!] Thinking the apocalypse was coming, Chu Xiao Yan stocked up on supplies in her portable space, only to transmigrate to the impoverished 1970s and become the wicked mother of three children, with another little baby on the way? Chu Xiao Yan couldn't bring herself to be cruel to the children. She ate well and occasionally shared a few bites with them, and when the mood struck, she even ma 4.5kReads8.8Score331Shelves
- 22 The Whole Family Transmigrates to the Great Northern Wilderness in the 1970s with the Ocean 全家带海洋穿越七零北大荒 [Whole family transmigrates into a book + Northeastern farm + cozy and funny + heroine has a love interest] Yu Xiaoye and her parents go on vacation in the Pacific, but their yacht meets with an accident. When they open their eyes, the whole family has transmigrated into a book, landing in the Great Northern Wilderness of the 1970s. Their new family is packed with troublemakers and doomed cannon fodder, and they have two local older brothers now. Dad is a troublesome cannon-fodder character, Mom 7.8kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
- 23 The Male Lead of a Period Novel? Marrying an Abstinent Military Officer Is Much Better 年代文男主？哪有嫁给禁欲军官香 (1960s, military marriage, devoted couple, female lead is a worker-peasant-soldier university student x the young heir to a powerful family in Guangdong) After her parents divorced and remarried, Liu Yao became a poor little thing loved by neither of them. After graduating from a prestigious university with a master's degree, Liu Yao thought she could change her fate against all odds. But once she arrived in the big city, she was nothing more than an insignificant nobody, one of those small-to 956Reads7.9Score110Shelves
- 24 Reborn in the 1970s: Turning My Life Around 重生七零：逆袭人生 [Transmigration + reborn + historical era + no golden finger + clear-headed, independent heroine] Have you ever stayed up too late, only to open your eyes in a panic and find yourself in the 1970s? Zhou Jinxin transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes the eldest daughter of the Zhou family in a small town. The family has five daughters and no sons, and they struggle to make ends meet. As if things weren’t bad enough, Zhou’s father falls gravely ill and is left paralyzed after overworking himself. Z 7.7kReads8.3Score598Shelves
- 25 Reborn in the 1970s: Big Brother, Your Little Sister Will Take You to New Heights! 重生七零：老哥，小妹带你飞！ (The 1970s, rebirth, a pocket dimension, medical skills, building wealth, powerful figures, and serving the nation) Also known as A Breeze Lets Me Be Young Again: Reborn in the 1970s Gao Xiaoyun, an unmarried woman well past her prime, was in a car accident and unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of her young aunt, who had drowned and died 50 years earlier. She became the ninth daughter in the family. Though things didn’t look good from the start, and she became a sickly, pitiful girl who n 13.1kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
- 26 The Sixties: I’m Just a Bystander in a Military Wife Comparison Novel 六零：我在随军对照文里当路人甲 [Alternate-history period setting + transmigration into a book + military marriage + everyday life + raising kids] Xu Cuhe originally thought she had transmigrated into this world halfway through her life, without receiving any memories. She was completely at sea in the resource-scarce 1960s. Her aloof military-officer husband, a love letter from her first love... Problems kept coming one after another, and she scrambled to adapt. It wasn’t until she met the heroine of the book and triggered a d 3.4kReads8.9Score221Shelves
- 27 With a Little Trouble-Maker at Home, Life Only Gets Sweeter 家有小作精，日子越过越有爱 [Short drama now streaming] [1970s era + transmigration into a book + military marriage + going berserk + getting rich] After putting up with a mountain of grievances in her previous life, Wen Ning transmigrates to the 1970s, where there’s nothing to be had, and gets even more fed up. She just wants to go berserk and take on the whole world. When the villagers gossip behind her back, Wen Ning’s response is simple: “I’ll just curse them out.” When she argues with her mother-in-law, Wen Ning’s res 2.5kReads8.4Score186Shelves
- 28 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
- 29 Back to the 1970s: A Village Girl's Path Beyond the World 重回七零年代，村女的破界之路 [Elderly woman + reborn + 1970s + dumping a scumbag + no romance + family life + spatial storage] After being angered to death at the age of seventy, Zhou Qiuying is reborn in 1975. In 1975 in her previous life, Zhou Qiuying was an eighteen-year-old country girl. She gave up her secure job as an elementary school teacher to marry an educated youth sent down to the countryside. In return, her husband cruelly abandoned her after passing the college entrance exam, and her loved ones died tragical 168Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Wildest Military Officer in the ’70s Is No Match for a Surgical Ace 七零，最野军官被外科大佬拿捏了 [Alternate History + Spatial Powers + Powerful Male Lead + Face-Slapping + Military Marriage] In her past life, she became famous for her comics, sold the rights, and achieved financial freedom. She also completed her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in succession, becoming the youngest surgeon ever. She rose steadily through the ranks, becoming the youngest all-around specialist surgeon. Reborn in the 1970s as an educated youth sent to the countryside, she finds all her assets wiped o 8.6kReads8.8Score1.1kShelves
- 31 The Newlywed Young Widow 新婚小寡妇 In the winter of 1976, Li Yanmei was newly married when her husband died. Branded a “husband-killing” jinx, she was pregnant when her cruel in-laws threw her out with nothing. On a stormy night, she gave birth in a melon shed. Starving and freezing, she swallowed the slur “loose woman” along with her tears. For the little one in her arms, she wiped away her tears and turned humiliation into a stepping stone. She went from selling goods at a black-market stall to reclaiming land for farming, from 1.6kReads6.5Score103Shelves
- 32 Life in a 1960s Courtyard: I Play the Scheming Villainess and Marry the Strongest Officer 六零大杂院，做缺德女配嫁最强军官 Su Weiwei transmigrates into a novel with a ridiculously powerful golden finger, where the heroine is blessed with incredible luck, ruthless, and reborn to turn the tables and deliver face-slapping revenge. Unfortunately, Su Weiwei is the lazy, greedy, spoiled, shameless villainess who gets slapped in the face. And just now, she stole the heroine’s golden finger, called her a thief, and had her own mother beat the heroine so badly that her face was disfigured. As Su Weiwei wonders how they’ll be 3.4kReads7.4Score207Shelves
- 33 The 1970s Stepmom: Raising Kids and Keeping Her Husband in Line 七零后妈，养娃御夫有一手 After dying of an illness, Yu Hui woke up to find herself in 1978, in the body of a young stepmother who shared her name! She had just been branded the most evil stepmother in the compound. In an era of relative scarcity, before the economy had fully opened up, she had no steady job, but decided to keep playing the stepmother for now. Her stepson was too unruly? She would set him straight. Her husband was too easily swayed, handing over belongings and money whenever his former in-laws came aroun 7kReads8.4Score981Shelves
- 34 Chief! The Triplets Outside the Military District Look Just Like You 首长！军区外的三胞胎长得好像你 [1980s Military Marriage + Alternate Universe + One-on-One, Both Chaste + Face-Slapping + Everyone’s Favorite + Space + Strengthening the Nation Through Science and Technology + Adorable Kids] “Reporting, Chief! The young madam had barely entered the compound when she put the senior officers in chokeholds. She even snapped their bones!” Xie Huaijing remained perfectly calm. “My wife is young and frail. No one is allowed to bully her, not even the old gentlemen.” Everyone: ??? * Ye Zhen was only 971Reads9.1Score148Shelves
- 35 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
- 36 Reborn in the 1980s: Bringing My Kids to Fish the Sea! 重生八零：带着崽崽赶海！ [Raising a child, heartwarming and healing, farming story.] [This novel is currently unavailable. The main text has been extensively revised and no longer matches the live-action audiobook adaptation, but the overall story remains unchanged. Please understand.] In her previous life, the food-loving Tong Yao married a fisherman and gave birth to a son with an intellectual disability. The couple devoted their whole lives to raising him, working hard without ever getting ahead. Then, in their old a 303Reads9.5Score—Shelves
- 37 Reborn in 1958: What Am I Supposed to Do Without a Golden Finger? 重生五八：没有金手指我该怎么办 (The 1950s + Rebirth + Supernatural Ability + Ordinary Protagonist + Making a Fortune) This story is entirely fictional. Don’t compare it to history. If you don’t like it, please don’t read! In this unusual era, it’s truly hard to live well without some kind of supernatural ability, so the heroine of this book has one! Everyday family life, unfolding at a gentle pace. Feng Qingqing is reborn in the body of her young aunt, who died prematurely in her previous life. The story starts in 1958, which 1.1kReads6.9Score—Shelves
- 38 From the Start in 1938, My Pocket Dimension Can Keep Me Alive 开局1938，我的空间能续命 Medical student Fu Wen wakes up in 1938 Henan with a lifesaving pocket dimension! Floodwaters are on the way, and the land is strewn with corpses. With no hope of surviving on her own, she has no choice but to cling to the local “kingpin,” Li Baisheng, a young master who seems like a spoiled playboy but is actually ruthless and clever. In a world thrown into chaos, she provides the medicine and he does the heavy lifting. From finding each other unbearable to relying on each other for survival, t 13.5kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves
- 39 I Married a Rugged Veteran with My Pocket Space and Lived the Good Life in the 1960s 携空间嫁退伍糙汉，我在六零躺赢 Qiao Ruolin was adopted as a child. During her graduation trip, she and her grandfather passed by a Taoist temple. The temple talked them into donating a million yuan, and she received a green jade bangle said to guarantee a comfortable life in the future. Who knew the little bangle contained a huge pocket dimension? After a car accident, Qiao Ruolin transmigrates to the 1960s, an era of scarce supplies. With no ties holding her back, she decides to help her grandfather make a fortune and marry 1.5kReads9.0Score169Shelves
- 40 An Elder Sister Is Both a Mother and a Father! 长姐如母，亦如父！ [A story set in a bygone era, with no transmigration, rebirth, or golden finger. Family life, rural romance, and a hard road to growing up.] Zhou Zimei thought she would soon marry her childhood sweetheart and fiancé. Then an accident happened, and she became what people called an old maid. Her younger siblings' tuition taught her everything she hadn't known how to do. The hardships of rural life, the warmth and coldness of human nature, and the struggle to keep growing... 41.8kReads8.2Score1.7kShelves
- 41 A Way Forward Through Mountains and Rivers 出路之山重水复 [Period setting + Family + Women + Career + Workplace business battles + No romance + Society + An exploration of human nature] No cheat powers, no dramatic comeback. A deep look at the struggles and prospects of 99% of ordinary people! Wish-fulfillment stories are everywhere, but once the excitement fades, only emptiness remains. In the end, we all have to face the grind of daily life and the warmth or coldness of human relationships. This slow-burning work of realism offers no lucky breaks or 2.5kReads9.5Score354Shelves
- 42 Everyday Life Raising Kids After I Transmigrate Into a Book Set in the 1960s 穿书六零养娃日常 [Transmigrate into a book + farming in a bygone era + child-rearing System + adorable kids + devoted husband] Cheng Ruolan had merely gone to sleep, only to transmigrate into a period novel she had read before. Even worse, she had become a cannon-fodder character who abused her own children and eventually abandoned her husband and kids. No problem! She had a child-rearing System and countless supplies. She’d take her three adorable kids and live the good life! But then the heroine tried to make 1.3kReads8.8Score102Shelves
- 43 Transmigrating to the Seventies: The Young Educated Youth Is Dumbfounded 穿越七零，小知青她懵圈了 (Everyday life of sent-down youth, not a strong female lead, a touch of an ensemble cast, unhurried pacing, with a couple) Gu Xiaoman, from the twenty-first century, dies suddenly after getting drunk while celebrating landing a job. She wakes up aboard a green-painted train carrying sent-down youth in the 1970s. No space, no System, no golden finger, and not even the original owner’s memories. She’s definitely the most wretched transmigrant in history, with none of the usual perks. Good heavens! 12.4kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves
- 44 Reborn in the 1960s: I Became Grandma’s Little Sister 重生六零：我成了外婆的妹妹 [When an ordinary person is reborn in a rural village in the 1960s, forget about getting ahead or making grand plans. First, stay alive.] [1960s rural life + family and neighborhood affairs + education and growth + ensemble cast] [Not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story. Please don't read if that's not your thing. Thank you.] When Zhu Yan wakes up in the body of her grandmother's second-youngest sister, who died young, she vows to change her grand —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 I Transmigrated as the Worst Character in a 1970s Military Romance, and My Cursed Tongue Runs Wild 穿七零军婚文极品，靠乌鸦嘴发疯 [Period setting + transmigrate into a book + pocket dimension + System + face-slapping the scum + making a fortune + feel-good story + true heiress + sweet romance] Heroine: a lucky koi with a poisonous tongue. (An audio version is now available!) Yang Caiwei transmigrated into a rebirth novel set in the 1970s. Everyone called her lazy and useless, and in the book she was a stepping stone for the heroine. If her cheap niece wanted to be a stepmother, then let her. Yang Caiwei had no interest in 8.7kReads9.0Score815Shelves
- 46 Reborn in 1980: Li Laifu 重生八零李来福 Although Li Laifu's name means “Good Fortune,” she never enjoyed a single day of good fortune in her life. Because of a mistake she made years ago, her son grew distant from her in her final years, and her husband came to resent her. Their marriage stumbled along through this strained relationship for over a decade. Since they were in a military marriage, they couldn't divorce; otherwise, she would have left her husband long ago. When she was dying, she finally understood: she had been too fooli 446Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 47 My Socially Anxious Lover Is Super Clingy 社恐对象超黏我 [A socially anxious male educated youth VS a sunny heroine + no golden finger + everyone is a local + no black-market dealings] The Lin family's precious youngest daughter has fallen for an educated youth who came from the city. He's a great guy: not only is he warmhearted, he often has all kinds of snacks in his pockets. Lin Baobao: If I date him, does that mean I can openly eat his snacks? I really want to date him. Qi Ci'an is a bona fide social phobe, and he also stutters. When getting of 4.5kReads8.7Score528Shelves
- 48 Football: I Lifted the World Cup in 1982 足球：1982年我举起了世界杯 You Xi transmigrated from 2025 back to 1981. His transmigration was caused by encountering “that ball,” which was really a fixation on Chinese football. Thanks to it, he got a cheat and won the 1982 and 1986 World Cups, becoming a legendary king of football. That ball also turned out to be a weapon for killing, looting, and laying waste to cities and nations. With it, he could take revenge to his heart’s content and vent all his pent-up frustration. And, of course, there were plenty of gorgeous 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The 1970s: The Commander’s Daughter Is Betrothed to Me 七零：首长家千金跟我是娃娃亲 Period setting + transmigration + grounded, everyday life Shi Yue never imagined that she would find love and family in another timeline, and enjoy a happy, fulfilling life. After testing positive for COVID, Shi Yue transmigrates to the parallel timeline of the 1970s, bringing along a hereditary pocket dimension. She plans to make a little money by taking advantage of the college entrance exams and the wave of reform, then settle down to a peaceful life. But it turns out she is the long-lost dau 266Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 50 Reborn in 1976: The Village Belle Clings to Me from the Start 重生1976，开局村花赖上我 [Educated-youth story + not a wish-fulfillment tale + everyday life + reborn + master of laying low + witty and irreverent] Read with caution. In his previous life, after returning to the city, he went to college, pursued scientific research, and won award after award. But an accident left him reborn as an educated youth in a small village. This time around, he only wants to put down roots in the village and live a quiet life. But you can’t hide a pearl in the mud. He ends up making an even bigg 3.5kReads8.7Score177Shelves
