Novels like My Dad Is a Deadbeat
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- 1 Bound to a System in the 1970s, I Became a Tycoon 被系统绑到七十年代后我成了首富 After Ye He died, the System forcibly bound her and made her transmigrate into the villainess of a period novel. The youngest daughter in a blended family, unloved by both parents, she was facing an order to go to the countryside before even finishing middle school. According to the book, after going to the countryside, the original owner would meet the handsome male lead and become hopelessly obsessed with him, banging her head against a wall for his sake. She would give him the hard-won opport 710Reads—Score159Shelves
- 2 The Gorgeous Plus-Size Girl Who Snagged a Handsome Husband 极品肥妞拐了个美男当老公 Important: The rating is low because there aren't many votes! The rating is low because there aren't many votes! [Period setting + transmigration + outrageous characters + family drama + entrepreneurship + groveling-to-win-back-love romance] Wu Duomi wakes up one day to find herself a plus-size knockout in 1977. Her father is a lazy bum, and her mother is a shrew. Being outrageous is great! She loves being outrageous! Anyone who messes with her gets to see her go berserk. Life is boring. She jus 129Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 3 Back to 1986: A New Dad, Getting Rich in a Frenzy 重回1986：喜当爹，狂暴富 [Period Setting] [Second Marriage and Live-In Son-in-Law] [Reborn] [Making Up for Regrets] [Farming] [Past and Present Lives] [Getting Rich] We are all living inside stories of everyday life. Most of the time, we don't want to lay bare our grievances and struggles for others to hear. Yet in other people's stories, we can always recognize and empathize with the parts of ourselves that feel familiar. Those who write stories have always been best at saving themselves. I quietly worked all the r 382Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Back to 1979: I Used My Foresight to Become the Richest Man 重回1979：我先知先觉成首富 In 1979, in Chenjiazhai, a mountain village in western Guangdong. The moment Chen Jiale opens his eyes, he’s back on the morning when he and Su Zijing were set up in his previous life. After getting drunk, the two of them ended up in bed together, while the culprit, Shen Haonan, waits outside with a crowd, gloating... This time, he won’t run away. He’ll take responsibility to the end, leave no regrets, and make sure Su Zijing gets married, has children, and enjoys every day of a happy life! He’ 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Reborn in the 1980s: Our Family Struck It Rich 重生八零年，我们家赚翻了 Reborn in 1980, with her family destitute and their home bare, she relies on her meticulous ledgers to keep a firm grip on purchasing receipts and seize the opportunities created by new policies. She sets up street stalls and braves the night markets, sells fabric remnants and bolts of cloth, takes on troublesome relatives, gets a business license and opens a shop, then heads south to buy stock and build a factory. She relies on no System or pocket dimension, and clings to no powerful patron. He 19Reads—Score134Shelves
- 6 Transmigrated to the 1970s, Starting Out in Beidahuang 穿越七零，开局北大荒 [Educated youth sent to the countryside + clear-headed, independent heroine + military marriage + uplifting + space] After transmigrating, Lin Wanqiu became the “sacrificial lamb” her family pushed out to take her older sister's place in the countryside. Her father was silent and domineering, her mother biased and harsh, her older brother selfish, and her second older sister hypocritical. She cut ties with them on the spot, took all her subsidies, and left without looking back. In her darkest ho 497Reads8.0Score103Shelves
- 7 I Transmigrated to the 1970s and Took the System to the Countryside 穿越七零，带着系统去下乡 Jiang Yuan thought she was terribly unlucky. Just after her job paying over ten thousand yuan a month became permanent, she was hit by a car and died. Then she thought she was incredibly lucky. After her death, she was bound to a System that treated her wonderfully. It took her to the 1970s and gave her a pocket dimension. On top of that, as long as she worked, it paid her an annual salary of over 200,000 yuan. The job was her dream: great pay, little work. An annual salary of over 200,000 yuan 21Reads—Score148Shelves
- 8 In This Period Novel, My Whole Family Are Just Tools 年代文里，我全家都是工具人 Wang Xini transmigrates into a novel set in a bygone era, becoming a tool character whose job is to make the heroine shine. And she isn't the only one: her entire family are tool characters. Her grandma mocks the heroine as a stinking, fat black pig, her older sister sneers that if the heroine could become beautiful, she'd use her chin to hoe the fields, and her grandpa turns up his nose at the bracken-root noodles the heroine makes. “If you eat this stuff, you might as well be livestock!” In re 2Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 9 Lazy Family? I Slack Off with the System 全家懒货？我靠系统摆烂 [System # Period Setting # Devoted Couple # Comedy] The Mao family is so lazy it makes everyone furious, yet somehow they live better than anyone else. Not only that, they’ve visibly put on weight. In an era when people can barely get enough to eat, how is that even possible? Mao Er’ya is a master at slacking off and cutting corners. After accidentally binding herself to a System, she leads her whole family in eating their fill and taking it easy. When the villain tricks her into giving the male 7Reads—Score128Shelves
- 10 Reborn as the Cannon-Fodder Wife in the ’60s: Anyone Who Objects Can Fight Me 穿成六零炮灰原配，不服就干 [Book Transmigration, period-setting wish fulfillment, a slight golden finger, no space, as realistic as possible, not an implausible power fantasy] Modern computer programmer Lin Zhixia transmigrates into a period novel as the tragic first wife her entire family sacrifices! The Zhao family conspires to frame her. Her lame younger brother-in-law forces his way into her room, and her in-laws not only take part, but afterward cover it up, poison her until she's mute, and imprison her! Her husband 1.5kReads—Score109Shelves
- 11 A Whirlwind Wedding in the 1970s: I Won Without Even Trying 七零闪婚后，一不小心躺赢了 Qin Niannian never thought she was unlucky, until she closed her eyes... She transmigrated in the middle of a trend. Everyone else got a golden finger, or at least some kind of pocket dimension. She got absolutely nothing. Fine, she’d just have to make the best of it. It wasn’t like she was going to drop dead! But as soon as she arrived, she was faced with a choice: go to the countryside or get married. She wanted to go to the countryside and stand her ground, but she just couldn’t do it. She mi 181Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 An '80s Flash Marriage to a Sweet, Gentle Beauty: Her Husband Spoils Her Rotten 八零闪婚娇软美人，男主宠上瘾 [Period Setting + Transmigration + Marriage First, Love Later + Beloved Wife + Golden Finger + One-on-One Sweet Romance + Building Wealth + Adorable Baby] Su Liyu has just won a beauty pageant when she gets drunk and transmigrates back to the 1980s. From the start, she's in one crisis after another: a mysterious person plots to kidnap and sell her. Though a tall, broad-shouldered stranger rescues her in time, malicious gossip ruins her reputation. How could her family stand by while Su Liyu face 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Reborn in the Sixties: The Cannon-Fodder Younger Sister-in-Law Refuses to Cooperate! 重生六零：炮灰小姑子拒不配合！ [1960s setting + reborn for revenge + storage space + advancing the nation through scientific research + love that blossoms over time] In her previous life, Tian Wenjing was cruelly pressured by her family into marrying a rough military officer she didn't love. From that point on, her life began counting down! Only after she died did Tian Wenjing finally realize that everything she'd suffered had been a tragedy carefully orchestrated by someone! And the people responsible... This time, she struc 1.6kReads—Score104Shelves
- 14 After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Married the Poorest Man in the Village 退婚后，我嫁给了全村最穷的男人 After Shen Xiulan’s engagement was broken off, an acquaintance arranged for her to marry Zhao Dajiang, a farmer from the neighboring village who was too poor to find a wife. She was a mild-mannered young woman her family considered an embarrassment. He was an honest, inarticulate man whose parents had died when he was young. They had no whirlwind romance or grand ambitions. They simply learned to make a life together in a shabby earthen house. Shen Xiulan cooked, mended clothes, grew vegetables, 10.2kReads7.5Score828Shelves
- 15 My Adoptive Sister Moves In with a Baby, So After Being Reborn, I Break My Ex-Husband's Legs 养姐带球占我家，重生打断前夫腿 [Reborn + 1970s + sent to the countryside + pocket dimension + light hoarding + farming + a steady, prosperous life] With snow swirling outside, Song Zhiyi lay paralyzed in a freezing bed. Her adoptive sister, Luo Wanying, and her husband, Zhao Ziqiang, came through the door. Luo Wanying deliberately rested a hand on her lower back and said in a soft, delicate voice: “Zhiyi, I’m pregnant. The father is Ziqiang.” To make room for the baby, Luo Wanying told her everything, and Song Zhiyi died with 16Reads—Score219Shelves
- 16 Jilted Eight Times, She Became a Tycoon on Her Own 被退亲八次的她，靠自己成为首富 [Period setting + personal growth + two strong leads + devoted couple + farming + raising children + lost and found again + reuniting at the top] She is the village's shame, a woman who “can't find a husband.” Eight engagements have been called off, all because she has a younger brother. She wants to escape this village that devours people, even if the road ahead is uncertain. He is a bright moon fallen into the mud. Once a refined young master from a scholarly family, now all he has left is his 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 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
- 18 The Wrong Baby Swap of 1980: Two Lives Under One Roof for Eighteen Years 八零抱错：屋檐下的两份十八年 [Switched at Birth + Period Setting + College Entrance Exam] Eighteen years ago, a mix-up at birth meant she raised pigs and sheep in the countryside in the other girl’s place, while the other girl lived as a pampered young lady in the city. Eighteen years later, the real heiress returned to the city, and overnight, the impostor became the talk of the whole residential compound. Her biological mother cried for three days, and her biological father smoked until the ground was littered with cigare 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Spirit Spring Space: The Fake Heiress Becomes Everyone’s Darling 灵泉空间，假资本家大小姐成团宠 [System Space] [Everyone's Favorite] [Building a Career] [Marriage First, Love Later] [A Slow-Burning Romance] Shen Xuwei, an obscure actress, transmigrates into a book set in 1975 and becomes a cannon-fodder character who shares her name. From the start, she reclaims her space and binds herself to the [Road to Stardom Comeback System], gradually transforming from a pretty young woman into a stunning beauty. Her space keeps leveling up, and its rewards grow ever more generous, improving her from 9.9kReads6.9Score1.8kShelves
- 20 1959: The Supply and Marketing Cooperative Tree Hollow 1959树洞供销社 New author here. Please add this to your bookshelf, and if you like it, leave a good review 🥹. Two malicious one-star reviews have dragged down the rating for now, but it will go up! Era + time passage + parallel lives + mutual healing + reincarnation and karma A Ming, an international student working at a supermarket, tosses out food that is almost past its sell-by date. In another time and place, that food is the only thing standing between dozens of people and death. An old willow tree plante 704Reads6.0Score105Shelves
- 21 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
- 22 What! The Model Educated Youth Is Marrying a Landlord's Son? 什么！知青标杆要嫁给地主崽了？ [Devoted to each other + reborn in the 1970s + solving crimes + earning commendations + finding salvation in each other] He Yulan died in the old house that held her warmest memories. When her consciousness returned and she opened her eyes again, she discovered that she had been reborn. She had returned to the scorching summer of 1974, before she went to the countryside at seventeen. After waking, she unexpectedly bonded with a Justice System and began earning commendations one after another.. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Runaway Bride Wins Over the Handsome Factory Director and Embraces a Life of Passion 逃婚女拿下帅厂长，共赴滚烫人生 To escape her birth family’s schemes, Su Yunke stole the household registration booklet and fled in the middle of the night! Standing in an unfamiliar city, she had only one mao to her name. In an era when even a one-mao coin found on the street had to be handed over to the police, she encountered many kind people. With their warmth behind her, she fought her way to building a business empire of her own. Later, the tough man who cherished her above all else complained in a wounded voice, “B 1.4kReads—Score131Shelves
- 24 Transmigrated Into a 1960s Novel: The Spoiled, Pretty Salted Fish Wins 穿书六零：极品俏咸鱼躺赢了 [Period Setting + Transmigrating into a Book + Personal Space + Reborn + Contrast] [Content warning: The heroine is lazy and greedy, a total slacker and a nasty piece of work] A 21st-century wage slave, diligent and devoted to her job, spent her days eating, sleeping, and tightening screws. After ten years of hard work and frugal living, she finally saved enough for a down payment on a house. Before she could spend the money, she suddenly died at her workplace. What a raw deal! Fortunately, heav 1.8kReads6.6Score100Shelves
- 25 Reborn in 1996: I Left My Jerk Ex Behind, and Life Is Sweeter Than Honey 重生九六，远离渣男，日子比蜜甜 After dying alongside the scumbag, Lan Shiyao returned to the age of eighteen. Given another chance at life, she decisively stayed away from the scumbag, made up for the regrets of her past life, protected her family and friends, focused on making money, built her fortune, and thrived, until those who had once hurt her could only look up to her! 5.6kReads6.9Score396Shelves
- 26 The Sweet Young Lady Has a Rugged Live-In Husband and Big Plans 娇娇背靠上门糙汉贵婿干大事 Also known as: The Sweetheart, Backed by Her Live-In, Rugged Husband, Takes on the Big Jobs [Transmigrate into a book + farming + shopping System + space + villain + sweet romance + 1v1 + punishing scoundrels + marriage before love] Ruan Jiaojiao has been dead for three months, and nobody has even come to claim her body. All she cares about is the 50,000,000,000 in her bank account, and she regrets leaving behind more than a hundred male models. To escape her workaholic eldest brother, she hide 26Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 27 Liu Xiaocui, the Village Girl of the 1980s 八零村妹刘小翠 She has barely gotten over a scumbag who deceived her in love when her own father sells her to an old widower. What should she do? Beat the scumbag senseless. And I'm done being your daughter. She heads to the city, but gets harassed by hooligans along the way and almost loses her life. As long as I'm still alive, Liu Xiaocui, you'd all better watch out. Once she reaches the city, local bullies try to crush her business as soon as she starts out. You've got powerful connections, do you? I 159Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Transmigrating to the 1970s: The Everyday Life of a Background Character 穿越七零之路人甲日常 The rating just opened, so it’ll go up later. This is a gentle, everyday-life story. If it’s not your thing, please click away. Thanks! Transmigration + no military marriage + no relocation to the countryside + no black-market dealings + no vilifying the original heroine After transmigrating, Lu Jinxia finds herself in the world of a historical novel she read. Unfortunately, she isn’t the heroine, just a background character. The heroine of the book is an educated youth sent to the countryside. 23.6kReads8.2Score1.9kShelves
- 29 The 1980s: Keep Your Voice Down! Is It Really Something to Brag About That Five Powerful Men Take Turns Proposing to You? 八零：低声些！五个大佬轮流求婚光彩嘛？ [Alternate-Reality 1980s + Love Rival Showdown + Everyone's Favorite + Competition for Her + All Male Leads Are Sexually Inexperienced] The Shang family of Senhe Mansion had a daughter of extraordinary beauty, noble and pampered. For nineteen years, her parents and five older brothers had cherished her like a treasure, afraid even to speak harshly in case she burst into tears. Then the real heiress showed up, saying that a nurse had mixed up the babies at birth. Overnight, the most precious gree 14kReads6.4Score1.9kShelves
- 30 Shocking! I Woke Up in a Novel Set in the Era, but I’m Not in It 惊！穿到年代文小说，里面没有我 Have you ever gone to sleep, opened your eyes, and found yourself somewhere else? Niu Xiabing has. It’s a terrible experience. Her newly renovated, spacious apartment was ready, and today was her first day moving in! She was tired that afternoon, so she took a nap. When she woke up, she had somehow transmigrated into the 1970s. Wait, no, she hadn’t transmigrated. She had transmigrated into a book! She’d become a minor cannon-fodder character in a period novel, the kind who doesn’t survive past t 169Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 31 A Green Tea Girl Plays the Sweet, Silly Type in the 1960s 绿茶女在六十年代当傻白甜 [Manipulative little green tea vs. gentle childhood friend / Mostly everyday life / No black market, no golden finger] Wen Li transmigrated! She opened her eyes and found herself with a cowardly dad and a mom who loved causing trouble and running her mouth. But that wasn't even the worst part: it was the 1960s, and after droughts, floods, and other extreme weather, the food supply had yet to recover! After thinking it over for ages, Wen Li managed to find two things in her favor. First, her orig 7.9kReads8.8Score940Shelves
- 32 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
- 33 I Went Rogue After Transmigrating into a Saintly Heroine Novel 穿进圣母年代文后我暴走了 [Period Setting + Transmigrate into a Book + Fleeing Famine + System + Spatial Storage + The Male Lead Gets Eaten by Me] One moment, it’s fried chicken, barbecue, and a big cola; the next, it’s wild vegetables and weeds stewed with tree bark. Lin Xiaomi never imagined that someone who was good at nothing but eating would transmigrate into a book. And she transmigrates into the middle of a famine migration, where she’s destined to devote herself to the female lead’s saintly ideals, only to sta 834Reads8.3Score106Shelves
- 34 Life in a Little Courtyard 小院儿生活 When Taohua married into the family, her mother told her that the Xiao family would most likely split up. But Taohua never expected it to happen so soon. (No rebirth, no transmigration, no golden finger: just working hard to live and striving to make a life.) 19.4kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
- 35 The Great Famine of the 1960s? I'll Feed My Whole Family Meat! 六零大饥荒？我带全家酷酷吃肉！ [Military marriage + period setting + no saintly heroine + unapologetically self-serving + space + violent, unhinged female lead + feel-good story + a thousand schemes + ruthless heart and ruthless hands] A menace? A slacker who cuts corners? Useless at everything? Eats everything in sight? Who could that be? Why, the heroine, Ji Anran, of course~ Her violent mother planted her hands on her hips and roared like a shrew: “You lazybones! You little brat! You, you, you…” The laziest of them all, Ji 9kReads6.6Score875Shelves
- 36 The Mortician Married an Officer, and I Became the Scumbag’s Aunt by Marriage 入殓师嫁军官，我成了渣男的小婶 Just before the end of her shift, Su Nianchu received the last corpse scheduled for cremation. To her surprise, the deceased had the same name as her. Su Nianchu's heart skipped a beat. She had a bad feeling! Sure enough, an accident happened during the cremation. When she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated into the body of a village girl in the 1980s. She was lying on a kang, giving birth! Nearby, her malicious husband watched her, planning to trick her into taking sleeping pills so he and 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Transmigrate into a Book: The Cannon-Fodder Female Supporting Character in the 1960s Rejects Having Many Children 穿书六零之炮灰女配拒绝多子 [Period Setting] [Military Marriage] [Reborn] [Everyday Family Life] [Raising a Child] Xu Nuo transmigrates and marries a soldier. She thinks she'll spend the rest of her life like this, but just half a month after arriving in this era, she's told she's become a widow. Xu Nuo is close to tears! She can't believe her husband is dead, so she plans to go to his unit and find out how he died. But before she can go, a wave of hostility from the people around her hits her without warning, leaving her 928Reads7.0Score102Shelves
- 38 The 1980s: I Refuse to Be the Dutiful Wife of a Novel’s Male Lead 八零：我不当小说男主的贤惠妻子 (No CP.) The heroine isn't particularly saintly and loves herself most of all. Please don't give this book one star because of her characterization. If this book isn't for you, you can look for one that suits your taste. Honestly, comparing the heroine's parents, don't you think she handled things pretty well? Gu Yue accidentally dies from electrocution. When she opens her eyes again, she finds herself alone inside a novel she read not long ago. The novel is titled My Life in the Eighties. It t 1.7kReads7.8Score101Shelves
- 39 The 1960s! I Transmigrated into an Erotic Novel 六零！我穿进辣文里了 P.S. The female lead will not fall in love with the male lead, and she's no lovesick fool. [Born into the world + transmigrates into a steamy novel + educated youth sent to the countryside + strongwoman + male lead transmigrates from the apocalypse with special abilities + everyday family life] Shen Shuyue is a darling little fairy, born into this world with a golden finger, money, beauty, and influence. At seven or eight, she awakens memories of her past life and learns that troubled times are 4.6kReads6.9Score225Shelves
- 40 I Use the Sign-In System to Enjoy the Gossip in the 1970s 我靠签到系统在七零吃瓜 [Sign-in System + gossip + sent to the countryside + romance + a touch of ensemble cast] Su Xia, a youth soon to be sent to the countryside, suddenly finds a sign-in System in her mind. By checking in with key characters, she can obtain generous supplies. From then on, the male and female leads of countless period novels, reborn supporting heroines, idiotic second male leads... and all the bit-part characters who sacrifice themselves on the “front lines” for the plot start appearing around Su Xi 91.6kReads9.1Score13.5kShelves
- 41 Reborn in 1970, This Baby Has the Heavenly Eye 胎穿70，本宝宝有天眼 [Book transmigration + 1970s + golden finger + inner thoughts + family favorite + feel-good revenge + everyday family life] Shen Lexi was accidentally crossed off the Book of Life and Death by the son of the Great Emperor of Fengdu. To make it up to her, the Great Emperor of Fengdu allowed her to be reborn with her memories intact. But nobody said she'd be put inside a book! And she ended up in a family where everyone was cannon fodder. In the story, she herself only lasted a few chapters. How w 4.3kReads9.0Score510Shelves
- 42 Transmigrated into a Book: The Whole Village’s Cannon Fodder Hear My Thoughts and Change Their Fates 穿书七零：全村炮灰听我心声改命 An alternate setting [Transmigrate into a book + ensemble cast + controllable inner thoughts + period setting + adored by all] After working overtime for a full month, Xie Yao drops dead. Before losing consciousness, she thinks she’s done for. But who would have thought she’d get another chance at life? When she wakes up, someone has pulled her out of a river. She’s arrived inside the period novel she was reading. Worse, it’s an angst-filled story, and she isn’t the heroine or even a supporting 119Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 I Hit the Jackpot After Getting Close to the Educated Youth from the Capital 傍上首都来的知青后我躺赢了 Su Ling is a good-for-nothing college student in the 21st century, and a nationally protected treasure of a layabout, sheltered by her landlord parents and her big brother, the boss of a gaming company. Just as she’s planning to spend her plain and uneventful life this way, who should show up to stir things up but the transmigration god? Maybe he couldn’t stand seeing her so comfortable, because a dump truck sent her straight to the 1970s. Oh, transmigration god, open your eyes! Did you hit the 646Reads5.8Score101Shelves
- 44 Reborn in 1978: Don't Even Think About Stealing My Life Again 重生1978，别再想偷我的人生 [This is a long novel about fated cycles of reincarnation across several lifetimes. No transmigration with memories, no System. Each volume is a complete story of its own: Volume One: Years Like a Song, a 1978 college entrance exam rebirth story. Later volumes include the flames of war in the Republican era.] In her previous life, she studied day and night beneath a kerosene lamp, tirelessly preparing for the college entrance exam. In the end, the acceptance letter went to someone else. In 1978, 189Reads—Score102Shelves
- 45 Better to Beat Someone Up Than to Make Yourself Miserable! 与其委屈自己，不如暴揍别人！ [1970s + native heroine + self-interest + satisfying read + no swallowing grievances + family squabbles + no military marriage + no golden finger + possibly a little unhinged?] A strong heroine who just wants a good life VS a truly gorgeous, sickly male lead Also known as: Moving to the City in the 1970s to Marry Up, I Just Want a Good Life Content warning: The male lead is a bit of a needy husband, and the heroine is very money-minded. There was a notorious figure in Kaoshan Village. At five, s 19kReads8.9Score2.5kShelves
- 46 Island Life in the 1980s: The Tough Officer's Delicate Little Bride 八零海岛：硬汉军官的娇气小媳妇 After working overtime until the early hours, Jiang Ruanruan suddenly died at her keyboard. When she opened her eyes again, she had become a spoiled, troublesome village girl in the countryside of the early 1980s. The original owner was greedy for wealth and status. Relying on a debt of gratitude from her grandfather’s rescue of him years ago, she had forced Huo Jinsong, an island-based military officer, to marry her. The moment she heard she would have to follow him to a remote island and endur 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Stealing the Heroine’s Fortunes in the 1970s, I Snag a Soldier and Marry Him 在七零抢女主机缘，拐个军官结婚 [Six-year age gap + love at first sight + slow and steady + everyday life] Cheng Zhiyu woke up from a nap to discover she had transmigrated into a book, and not just any character: she had become a cannon-fodder character who was supposed to give the heroine golden fingers. All the original heroine’s golden fingers actually belonged to the cannon-fodder character. The original character was meant to hand them over, but Cheng Zhiyu wasn’t about to. She took the heroine’s golden fingers for hers 4.4kReads5.6Score474Shelves
- 48 The 1980s: A Fisherman's Little Life in Southern Guangdong 八零：南粤渔家小日子 [Period Piece] [Shore Foraging Golden Finger] [Fishing and Hunting] [Everyday Child-Rearing] [Family Life] [Cozy] [A Complete Guide to Seafood, Food, and Livelihood] [Later Development in the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong] Chen Lizhen had spent half her life working at a fish stall. At last, she got to stay with her daughter for a few days, but after falling asleep, she woke up in a small fishing village in Nanyue in 1985. She was only twenty-five again, and her daughter was a four-year-old li 563Reads—Score103Shelves
- 49 Tales of the Lesser Khingan Mountains: The Fearless Wife of the Sixties 小兴安岭往事：六零悍妻 [Period] [Family Life] [Growing Up] [An Extraordinary Ordinary Life] In the winter of 1959, a tough woman from the apocalypse barged into the Lesser Khingan Mountains. With her brute strength, Mi Duo slaughtered pigs and wolves, and even teased black bears. Mi Duo’s wish: get married, have children, live an uneventful life, and die of old age. Mi Duo’s daily life: hunt bears, fight wolves, tear into scumbags, and pull an extra night shift whenever someone rubs her the wrong way. Mi Duo’s fut 15.7kReads9.0Score2.1kShelves
- 50 The Sixties: Daily Gossip in a Compound Full of Eccentrics 六零：大杂院极品吃瓜日常 [Courtyard compound + gossip + outrageous characters + everyday life + family squabbles + comedy + a touch of ensemble cast] Yu Junsheng is reborn and discovers he was a doormat who'd been used and betrayed at every turn. As a neighbor in the courtyard compound, he not only gave someone a house, a job, and a huge sum of money, but also raised that person's wife and child. Then, at just the right moment, he conveniently died to make way for them. In the end, all he got was a line from the treache 16.8kReads8.2Score1.4kShelves
