Novels like Indigenous Sisters with Sharp Wits in the 1970s
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- 151 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
- 152 From Ancient Times to the Modern Age: An Empress and Emperor's 1970s Gossip Chronicles 古穿今，帝后七零年代吃瓜日常 [Period] [The 1970s] [Ancient-to-modern transmigration] [Transmigrating into another person’s body] [Emperor and empress] [Educated youth] [Storage space] [Palace] [Gossip] [Family affairs] [Female-oriented] [Alternate history] [The Emperor and Empress Strike It Rich: Daily Life in the 1970s] Yun Bianyue and Zhao Jingnian plunged into the water to evade an assassin’s hidden arrow. As they fell, they saw a flash of blue light. They had planned to swim down to the bottom of the lake and then surfa 1.5kReads8.8Score204Shelves
- 153 You Flirted with Me, and Now You Say You Mistook Me for Someone Else? 撩都撩了，你说认错人？ (The rating just opened, so it’ll go up later.) (1970s + military marriage + mutual firsts + sweet romance + rugged male lead + natives) (No transmigration or golden finger. Neither lead is perfect. This is not a strong-female-lead, face-slapping wish-fulfillment story. If that bothers you, don’t read.) Du Ruolin had lived with her uncle’s family since she was little, and stole her cousin’s marriage prospect. She’d heard the Cheng family was well-off, all their children were promising, and their 7.7kReads8.8Score978Shelves
- 154 Oh No, I've Become the Wicked Supporting Woman in a Period Novel! 完蛋，我竟成了年代文里恶毒女配 [Both leads are inexperienced in love, wicked rival, powerful male lead, late 1970s] The March sunshine was warm and bright, and Ji Nan basked in its glow. Before long, though, she let out a long sigh. She had transmigrated into a period romance full of angst, becoming a wicked rival who blindly chased the male lead, stupidly sabotaged the heroine again and again, and met a tragic end. Thinking about how it all ended, Ji Nan broke out in goosebumps. Stay away! Stay away! Stay away! Her motto in 168Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 155 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
- 156 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
- 157 A Tough Wife Brings Her Child to the City, and Her Amnesiac Officer Husband Clings to Her 悍妻带崽进城，失忆军官太粘人 [1980s Setting + Both Leads Are Each Other’s First + Rebirth and Comeback + Revenge on the Scum + Marriage First, Love Later + Cooking and Raising Kids + Scheming Husband + Strong Female Lead] To get back to the city, her educated youth father forces her to sleep with a man from the provincial capital, who becomes her husband. She gives birth to an adorable little girl, but her husband vanishes without a trace. For 200 yuan, her father forces her to marry Qin Laoshan, a lazy and lecherous man. S 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 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
- 159 Marriage Before Love: A ’70s Rough-Hewn Husband’s Everyday Devotion 先婚后爱：七零糙汉宠妻日常 [Marriage First, Love Later] [Northeastern China in the 1970s] [Family Life] [College Entrance Exam Comeback] [Sweet Daily Romance] 1976, a small county town in Northeast China. Lin Wanxing opened her eyes and found herself in the body of a second daughter whom her father didn't love and her mother didn't care for. Her older brother was the apple of her father's eye, while her younger twin siblings were the apple of her mother's. Caught in the middle, she slept in the storage room, ate leftove 25.1kReads—Score1.9kShelves
- 160 Working as a Procurement Officer in the 1960s 六零年代做采购 [Parallel-World Alternate-History Setting] [Everyday Life, Not a Power Fantasy] Gu Jinyao transmigrated on the second day after New Year! And she landed in the body of a high school senior in 1961, about to take the college entrance exams. Should she go to college? Go to college? Or go to college? Well, over the next few days, she’ll have to study herself to death and become a test-prep machine. First things first, she needs a set of self-study books on math, physics, and chemistry. What? They w 1.2kReads7.8Score101Shelves
- 161 Transmigrated into a Book in the 1970s, I Became the Family’s Treasure 书穿七零当团宠 [Book transmigration + historical era + doted on by everyone + farming] By a twist of fate, she transmigrates into the body of an adorable, frail little girl from the 1970s, cherished by her entire family~ Just as she’s getting ready to quietly lead her family to wealth and prosperity, she discovers that they’re all cannon fodder in a book... Lu Wanwan says, “Cannon fodder? Not on my watch!” 148Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 162 The Pitiful Girl from the 70s Gets Kissed by an Obsessive Educated Youth 七零小可怜被阴湿知青按着亲 Everyone in the family says Chen Zhi caused her father's death. As the family’s “sinner,” Chen Zhi is unloved and unwanted. Her married cousin dies, leaving behind four sons. Afraid the children will be mistreated by a stepmother, her cousin’s husband’s family and her uncle’s family unanimously decide that Chen Zhi should become their stepmother. Grandma says, “Your cousin’s husband’s family is well-off. If you marry into it, you’ll have enough to eat. You won’t even have to give birth, so you’l 15.3kReads8.7Score2.3kShelves
- 163 The Fake Heiress Who Was Cannon Fodder in the 1970s Lies Flat in the Countryside 七零炮灰假千金，下乡后躺平了 Shen Yushu was shoved to the ground, and her temple struck the corner of a table. She died because help came too late, only to transmigrate into a novel as a cannon-fodder fake heiress. When she woke up, she was already on a train headed to the countryside. She had fallen unconscious from an illness and was forced onto the train to go to the countryside in place of the real heiress. She turned down the novel's heroine, who wanted to take care of her, held on to the little jade pendant her grandm 957Reads7.1Score104Shelves
- 164 Chairwoman Yuan and the Quiet Life with Her Sly Mr. Lin 袁董事长和她家腹黑林总的小日子 Lin Chen is forceful in his work, steady and dependable, with great ambition. He is the mountain his brothers and friends can lean on. No one knows that his sweet, gentle little wife, Qiu Li, is the one he relies on, a mountain in his heart. As the country prospers, the young couple’s life gets better and better. This story is entirely fictional; any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. A story is just a story. 748Reads8.6Score101Shelves
- 165 Reborn in 1975, I Send My Nephew to College 重生七五年扔掉外甥上大学 The rating has only just come in and will gradually rise. [Reborn] + [space] + [spirit spring] Shen Yun is reborn in the year of her high school entrance exams: When she wakes up, it's the day she just disturbed a hornets' nest. Her head is swollen like a giant winter melon, but that doesn't stop her from giving her sister-in-law a thorough beating as soon as she gets back. In her previous life, she raised her sister-in-law's child and cared for her sister-in-law's mother after she broke her leg 49kReads7.9Score7.8kShelves
- 166 Transmigrated to the 1970s, This Cannon Fodder Won't Accept Her Fate 穿越到七零后炮灰绝不认命 [Period setting + transmigrate into a book + System + ensemble cast + no romance + no going to the countryside] Modern rich beauty Li Zhaodi transmigrates into a book after a plane crash, landing in a period novel as a minor cannon-fodder character! Her whole family are bit-part cannon fodder in someone else's story. Her mother is pressured into remarrying, so she makes the real culprit marry instead. Her sister is tricked into marriage and wants to die. This time, it’s her brother-in-law who wa 1.8kReads—Score229Shelves
- 167 The 1970s: My Educated Youth Husband and I Rise Up with a Study System 七零，和知青丈夫靠学习系统逆袭 [Transmigration and rebirth + study System + family life + cozy, sweet romance + happy ending + adorable, reluctant-to-study heroine VS thrifty, gentle, educated male lead] Liu Yufei was an office drone in the twenty-first century. She died while trying to help someone and was reborn as the youngest daughter of the Old Liu family in the 1970s. The very next day, she had to go gather pigweed with her nephews. Who could have guessed that she’d be worse at it than the kids? For the sake of a better 9.7kReads8.7Score990Shelves
- 168 After Selling Thirty Apartment Buildings, I Returned to 1960 卖了三十栋楼后，我回到了六零年 Three months ago, Lin Zi's grandfather died, leaving behind thirty apartment buildings and a dream urging her to stockpile supplies at all costs. Lin Zi sold the buildings and gathered a huge stockpile, only to transmigrate sixty years into the past along with all the supplies. She had no family, no household registration, and was stuck in a strange era. Lin Zi thought of asking her grandfather for help. But at this point, her grandfather was just a little kid, barely ten years old, with a famil 2.9kReads8.7Score568Shelves
- 169 Transmigrating into a Book in the 1980s: The Good-for-Nothing Big Brother’s Comeback 穿书八零：对照组废柴大哥的逆袭 One punch landed, and Shi Huajun, a young man from the modern world, transmigrated into a book. He became the most pathetic side character in a period novel: an unemployed, good-for-nothing older brother who had returned to the city in the 1980s, a laughingstock whom everyone in the crowded courtyard looked down on. In the original story, he was beyond help, slumped in a tiny ten-square-meter room and doing nothing for more than a decade. His wife was used as someone else’s pawn, forced to tak 621Reads8.3Score103Shelves
- 170 Period: The Barren Beauty Is Held Close by the Cool and Aloof Military Doctor 年代：不孕美人被清冷军医拢在怀 [Transmigration + Family Life + Heartwarming] A new, beautiful woman arrived on a remote corner of the motherland’s territorial waters. As a fashion designer, Su Moyan had studied sketching, pattern making, and garment construction... But on this barren island, there were prawns aplenty and hardly any vegetables. What was she supposed to do? The soldiers were defending the nation’s borders. “Soldiers and civilians are one family,” Su Moyan told Qin Zheng. “We’ll protect you, too.” Later, even th 3.2kReads8.8Score322Shelves
- 171 My Childhood Friend the Officer Won’t Learn His Lesson. I Broke Off the Engagement, So Why Is He Crying? 竹马军官喂不熟，退婚了他哭啥 [Military Marriage in the 1970s + Face-Slapping + No Forgiveness] In her previous life, Jiang Ranxing was deeply in love with her childhood sweetheart, Zhao Fongsong. Before and after their marriage, she treated him as her whole world, not only using every resource her family had to support him, but also working herself to the bone for the Zhao family. But after Zhao Fongsong and his family had squeezed every last bit of value from her, they grew sick of her and betrayed her completely. Jiang Ra 261Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 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
- 173 Reborn in the 1970s: My Late Husband, a Soldier King, Returns and Spoils Me Rotten 重生七零，亡夫兵王归来宠妻成瘾 [Period romance + male lead reborn] When Xu Chanyi jumped into the river to escape, she never thought she would survive. Fortunately, Lu Zhongbei was passing through while visiting family and rescued her. With nowhere else to go, she clung to him and married him. Three months into their marriage, Lu Zhongbei was reported killed in action. As soon as the news reached home, his parents accepted a hefty bride price to sell her off to a remote mountain village. Xu Chanyi fell out with her in-laws an 536Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 174 The Award-Winning Nanny Reborn with a Professor's Book Collection! 金牌保姆带教授藏书重生啦！ [Reborn + family bonds + everyone’s favorite + healing + mystery] The main story is complete, with some bonus chapters in the works. Feel free to dive in. Lin Chuyi was a top-tier caregiver who spent more than a decade looking after an elderly professor and his wife. They treated her like their own daughter. Before they died, they left her an inheritance and a jade pendant, which sent her back to the age of eighteen. The pendant is a key, and the library is a space connecting her past and future 486Reads9.2Score100Shelves
- 175 When the Women's Director Steps In, All the Eccentrics of the 1970s Flee in Terror 妇女主任一出手，七零极品全吓走 💥 Wen Wanning, a human weapon from the apocalypse, opens her eyes to find herself a helpless, foolish orphan in the 1970s, someone everyone can bully. ✅ They scheme to send her to the countryside? She breaks her scumbag father's hand! ✅ A wife-beater hits his wife every day? She beats him to a pulp! ✅ A nightmare of a mother-in-law torments her daughter-in-law? She beats the shrew at her own game! ✅ A stingy father-in-law schemes against his son? She empties every last bit of his hidden savin 51.7kReads8.6Score6kShelves
- 176 The Seventies' Beautiful, Wealthy Heiress 七零年代白富美 In a time of scarcity and famine, Shen Huannong wasn’t worried at all, thanks to her cooking skills. She could turn one pound of flour into five pounds of food, and make a whole banquet from a basket of taro. Even wheat bran and fish scales became delicious dishes. Her father was a political outcast, her husband was the male lead, and the heroine wasn’t her? With looks and talent, she could still live like a rich young lady, even as the villainess born into a bad family. But she got carried away 373Reads8.3Score110Shelves
- 177 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
- 178 Cozy Days at the Seventies Island Family Compound 七零海岛家属院的温馨日常 [Marriage first, love later + sweet romance with no angst + following the troops to an island + cozy farming and child-rearing + triplets] After returning from her rural assignment, the older educated youth Song Xiangjun was set up on a match by her parents and married Zhou Haifeng, a young man from a military compound, in a whirlwind wedding. They first met on a train. He wore a neat green uniform and had handsome, upright features that made her look twice. Later, her mother showed her a photo 958Reads8.7Score113Shelves
- 179 A Mismatched Marriage in the 1970s: The Comatose Officer Wakes Up and Kisses Me Furiously 七零错嫁，植物人首长睁眼就狂亲 [Married first, love later + sweet romance + devoted to each other + military service + cold-faced, wolfish hero + sweet-faced heroine with superhuman strength + mother-in-law is their number-one shipper] Song Tian opens her eyes and finds herself in the body of a military wife who was so furious on her wedding night in 1970 that she died. Her adoptive parents had tricked her, claiming her husband would never argue with her, she would have the final say in everything, and he was well-endowed. Bu 1.1kReads8.5Score142Shelves
- 180 An Evil Cultivator in the 1970s, Pregnant and Begged to Join the Establishment 邪修穿七零，挺着孕肚被求着入编 [Military Romance in the 1970s + Transmigration + Taking on the Horrible Relatives + Child Bride + An Unstoppable Female Lead Who’d Rather Throw Punches Than Argue] After transmigrating into the 1970s, Yu Lezhi, who had been single for 2,800 years, found herself made a child bride, five years older than her young husband. The day after they married, her young husband returned to his military unit. Less than half a year later, news arrived that he had died in the line of duty. At the terrible 1.8kReads8.2Score203Shelves
- 181 The 1960s: I Control the System and Lead My Whole Family to Prosperity! 六零：手掐系统带着全家致富！ Wang Xuan had worked hard for so long in her previous life, only for disaster to strike first. Suddenly arriving in the 1960s, all the money she'd earned before went to waste. In this life, she decides that as long as she's made enough money, that's good enough. If she can lie flat, she will. But when she discovers that the System has accidentally dropped her into the 1960s, with a food crisis on the way, what should she do? No romance. 1.9kReads7.1Score103Shelves
- 182 My Sweet Country Bride, Whom I Haven't Seen in Eight Years, Has Come to Join Me in the Army 八年未见面的乡下小娇妻来随军了 [Period setting + both leads are virgins + rugged man + sweet romance + making a fortune] After getting drunk, career woman Zhou Ruoyu drowns in her own bathtub and transmigrates into the body of a miserable child bride in the late 1960s. Her young husband resists their arranged, feudal marriage and joins the army, leaving for eight years. So what if she’s a child bride? Her in-laws dote on her. They travel a thousand li to the army base with her to find her husband. He’s tall, fit, and long-leg 440Reads6.9Score100Shelves
- 183 1980s Hong Kong: I Traded Marriages with a Madman, and He Coaxes Me Every Night 八零香江：换嫁疯批，他夜夜哄 [1980s Hong Kong, both reborn and switched marriages, marriage first and love later, devoted to each other, one-on-one romance] In her previous life, Shi Manyun was the unwanted daughter married off on a whim. She struggled for most of her life before finally managing to turn things around. In this life, her adoptive younger sister got there first, stealing her place and even hoping to retrace the same path she had taken. Shi Manyun watched Shi Jiahui smugly marry into the He family instead, t 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 184 I Transmigrated into a Book Set in the Seventies. Don't Mess with Me, I Came from the Apocalypse! 穿书七零别惹我，我从末世而来！ Xia Zhiqiu transmigrated into a book from the apocalypse and became an orphaned daughter of a martyr. She was a walk-on character in the story, the male lead’s fiancée who was sold into the mountains, and a stepping stone who gave the female lead her golden finger. In the book, after Xia Zhiqiu’s grandparents died, her uncles started arguing over splitting up the family. In the end, her eldest uncle’s family gained custody of her. Before long, at eighteen, Xia Zhiqiu was assigned a job as a mart 732Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 185 After Marrying a Soldier and Having Twins in the 1970s, the Cannon-Fodder Villainess Is Doted On 七零双胎军婚后炮灰女配被娇宠了 [Period setting + military marriage + devoted couple + fleeing while pregnant + sweet romance + underdog turns the tables] When student Fan Hua transmigrates into a book, she finds herself pregnant, with twins at that! The well-behaved young woman, who had never even been with a man, can barely accept it! The worst part is that she has none of the original host’s memories. She doesn’t even know what sleeping together feels like. Does this count as asexual reproduction? The thought of giving birt 73Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 186 The Real Heiress Transmigrates to the 1970s 真千金穿越70年代 A sweet romance! Both leads are inexperienced! One-on-one pairing! In the modern world, Bai Dongmei was the daughter of a wealthy family who had been lost as a child. She thought being reunited with her birth family would be the start of an even happier life, but who knew their adopted daughter was so scheming? There was no happy life, only one disaster after another. After being framed by the fake heiress yet again, she transmigrates into the body of an educated youth sent down to the countrysi 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 Childhood Symphony 童年交响曲 Five-year-old Wang Xiaozhu’s happy life in the countryside! She helps her mother wash clothes by the river and finds a duck egg in the water. She helps her mother sew a quilt on the rooftop, only to be pranked by the girl next door. Her grandmother raises a flock of chickens, but no one knows where they’re laying their eggs... 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 The Year the World Ended 世界末日的那一年 [No tired tropes, no melodrama: a healing coming-of-age story for readers born in the 1980s and 1990s] 1999, on the cusp of a new millennium. A small residential compound somewhere in southwest China is struck by an “apocalypse.” A man catches his wife cheating. Her lover jumps from a building to escape, but leaves a key behind at the scene. The man makes hundreds of copies and hands them out to every woman in town. “Give it a try. If it opens the door, that’s your husband’s key.” Qi Lin has jus 407Reads9.3Score107Shelves
- 189 Wang Xiaoli's Sixties 王小荔的六十年代 Transmigration + golden finger + pocket dimension + period drama + rural Northeast China (Lu Huaijin is an important character, but not the male lead) When she wakes up one morning, modern-day office drone Wang Xiaoli has become the “chubby girl” of Wangjia Village in the Northeast in the 1960s. Her family is dirt poor, and from the start she's burning with a fever and on the brink of death. Luckily, her little pocket dimension has transmigrated with her! Life in Wangjia Village is lively: a tou 18.9kReads8.5Score1.2kShelves
- 190 Spring of the Phoenix 鸾春 [One-to-one, devoted couple + palace and household intrigue + revenge + strong heroine + reborn + satisfying story + power struggles] The first time Lu Yuanzhi met Sheng Yi, she provoked the cold-faced demon. Everyone thought that sooner or later, she would die at Sheng Yi's hands. Then, in the blink of an eye, Sheng Yi was smiling tenderly at Lu Yuanzhi. "I know you're using me, but I'm happy to let you." "You used yourself as bait to draw me into your scheme. How could you know that wasn't exa 1.6kReads8.9Score197Shelves
- 191 Busy Solving Cases in the 1960s: Please Advise, Commander 六零探案忙，长官请多指教 [Period setting + doesn’t go to the countryside + spirit spring + pocket dimension] Her mother had been dead for only a month when her father remarried, leaving her in the countryside for over a decade without a word. Luckily, her grandmother doted on her, so she lived a pretty happy life. One day, her bargain-bin father called her to the capital. There, she unexpectedly learned that she had transmigrated into a book. She became the heroine’s bargain-bin older sister, and the heroine was about t 645Reads6.9Score107Shelves
- 192 Reborn in the 1970s: The Lovely Army Wife Has a Pocket Dimension 重生七零，俏军嫂有空间 Also known as: "One Set of Twins After Joining the Army, and the Commander Dotes on Her". [Military marriage + reborn + pocket dimension + abusing scum and face-slapping + sweet romance + cold-faced, devoted officer × beautiful capitalist heiress] Du Yunxi was reading a novel about a capitalist heiress when she transmigrated into the story and became one herself: a pitiful girl whose uncle's family had seized her property and subjected her to abuse and torment. Her uncle's family even planned to 1.1kReads6.2Score130Shelves
- 193 After Escaping, She Built a Beautiful Life with Her Child 逃离后她带娃美丽 Pushed down the stairs by her daughter, she wakes up in a hospital bed, where she is left unattended for three whole days. Meanwhile, her husband is lost in a lovey-dovey reunion with the woman he thought he’d lost forever. Her in-laws, sister-in-law, and daughter seem to be the ones who truly belong together as a loving family. Her heart is utterly shattered, beyond repair. She never had family to begin with, so why keep longing for their affection? Goodbye. She’s leaving to find a life of her 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 194 Yang Gonggong's 2nd Book 羊拱拱的第2本书 [Both leads are each other’s only love + mutual devotion] A nine-year age gap. His name contains “river,” and evokes mountains. Her name contains “water.” Mountains and rivers form a picture, yet they cannot coexist. Tong Yang is an ambitious and idealistic couch potato. Her ideal is to retire as soon as possible. Her ambition is to earn and save money, become a wealthy couch potato, and enjoy a more comfortable life of lying flat. But ever since she met Lei Lichuan, she’s gone from being a swee 82Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 195 Working in the 1960s to Earn Money and Support My Green Tea Girlfriend 我在六十年代工作赚钱养绿茶 Lin Qingyue transmigrated to the 1960s, only to find herself facing a marriage and a move back to the countryside from the start. Was that really going to happen? Before she could do anything, she found out her fiancé wanted to break off the engagement. Lin Qingyue: What a lucky break! She quickly called off the engagement, then studied hard and earned a place at the lumber mill, becoming a proud worker! After starting at the factory, she discovered that her position had been reserved for h 1.3kReads7.7Score103Shelves
- 196 I Transmigrated into the Heroine's Sloppy Little Sister, and Now I'm Just Coasting 穿成女主的邋遢妹妹，她咸鱼了 Li Xiaoqing, a freshman, stays up late reading a novel and accidentally transmigrates into the very story she just finished. She becomes the heroine's younger sister, a lazy glutton who loves causing trouble. Now that modern-day Li Xiaoqing knows the plot, she'll cling to her sister's coattails and coast to victory! Entirely fictional! Entirely fictional! Entirely fictional! 7kReads8.7Score619Shelves
- 197 Gu Qingyu's Cheat-Filled Life in a Period Novel 顾青玉在年代文里开挂的一生 [Period setting + strong female lead + career-focused plot + one-on-one romance + both leads devoted to each other + male lead appears late and doesn't get much page time] Gu Qingyu transmigrates into a period novel as an insignificant passerby. Sent back to her family's village as soon as she's born, she becomes a pitiful child no one wants after her parents divorce when she's three. But Gu Qingyu doesn't think she's pitiful at all. At three, she leads the village children in making money. At f 2.2kReads7.9Score101Shelves
- 198 A Woman Named Chunxiu 一个叫春秀的女人 [Period drama + everyday family life + marriage + building a career + personal growth] I married a state-owned enterprise worker, and after years of trying, I finally had a son. Then, just as my husband was sent to prison, my mother-in-law branded me a bringer of bad luck and threw me out of the house. Qiu Yue, widowed and bullied, and Wang Feng, tormented by domestic abuse, shared my fate. The three of us hard-done-by women joined forces, working, doing business, and opening a factory. We neede 9kReads8.0Score768Shelves
- 199 Through Life's Storms, She Blossoms 风雨人生，她自芳华 Period drama, a woman’s journey of growth, overseas entrepreneurship, a strong female lead, and realistic romance. “One woman’s four marriages, three entrepreneurial ventures, two generations finding peace, and one extraordinary life.” In 1984, she was the pampered jewel of a prestigious family, but one ill-fated marriage sent her crashing to rock bottom. Her husband was cold, and her in-laws took her daughter. Overnight, she fell from the clouds into the dust. But she refused to be beaten. 864Reads6.9Score100Shelves
- 200 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
