Novels like A Young Couple’s Struggle in the 1970s
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- 101 Marrying a Playboy in the 1980s 八十年代嫁纨绔 [Period setting]+ [no golden finger]+ [both leads are chaste] This is the story of my parents. These days, it would be called a classic hero-rescues-beauty, straight-out-of-a-romance-drama kind of romance. Back then, it was the kind of pairing that left everyone speechless, and made them sigh that a beautiful flower had been stuck in a pile of cow dung! My mom: beautiful, kindhearted, and long-legged. My dad: tall, and otherwise just fierce. My mom: one of the first college students after the na 4.3kReads9.0Score38814d adds
- 102 A Capable Village Belle and Her Good-for-Nothing Live-In Son-in-Law 能干村花和她的窝囊倒插门 Zhao Hua is the capable, no-nonsense village beauty of Taiping Village. She supports her family with a small shop, while her adoptive parents hope she'll marry a man who can support them in their old age. A scandalous affair involving a potential match ruins the marriage prospects outright. Unable to find a man willing to marry into her family, she chooses the impoverished Li boy who lives behind her house. His family is buried in debt, he's timid by nature and always lowers his head when troubl 3.8kReads—Score12414d adds
- 103 The 1970s: A Village Girl Who Transmigrated into a Book and Her Doting Educated Youth Husband 七零：穿书村姑和她的知青娇夫 A single office drone past the age of marriage gets herself killed while saving someone. Eighteen years later, she discovers she's transmigrated into a book about a transmigrated female educated youth and a male educated youth from the capital, and all their tangled love and hate. Lin Yunyun is a nameless extra who doesn't even get a line. Figuring that the main characters bring nothing but trouble, Lin Yunyun decides to stay as far away from them as possible and live her own quiet life. This ha 2.6kReads8.7Score19714d adds
- 104 Transmigrating to the 1950s: I Land a Secure Job Thanks to My Uncle, the Director 穿越五零：靠主任舅舅端铁饭碗 Parallel world, Period piece, Northeast factory workers, everyday family life, enjoying life, a happy life. Food delivery rider Zhou Guoqiang takes a tumble into a parallel world in 1950, where he finds a home with bare walls and a drafty, rundown house. His most valuable possession is half a ration biscuit, which he had in his pocket when he transmigrated. Zhou Guoqiang thinks about the policies of the time. Surely he can't spend his whole life bent over the fields? Just as he's worrying about 25.4kReads—Score2.2k14d adds
- 105 The Fake Heiress of the 1980s Lies Flat, and Her Officer Husband Spoils Her Endlessly 八零假千金躺平，军官老公宠不停 Su Yao wakes up in a period novel as the long-suffering aunt who gets the short end of the stick. Her husband was injured on duty, leaving him unable to have children. Her brother and sister-in-law talked her into divorcing him so she could raise their kids, who would treat her like their own mother and support her in her old age. She got her husband to divorce her, just as they wanted. Afterward, she took on 90 percent of her brother and sister-in-law’s endless household troubles. Her brother a 837Reads8.4Score10014d adds
- 106 The 1950s: The Young Army Wife from the Apocalypse 五零：末世来的小军嫂 Chen Yuesheng was the most sought-after son-in-law among the families in the new camp. Who could have guessed that after going home on leave, he would return with a fiancée, and that the young woman would have a six-year-old younger brother in tow? Poor girl: her grandfather had just died, and after a long, exhausting journey, she fell ill as soon as she arrived. Song Xiaoman was once a genius girl, but the apocalypse struck. After fighting to survive for five years, she finally closed her eyes. 3.6kReads8.8Score44314d adds
- 107 The 1970s: My Childhood Sweetheart Ran Off, So I Turned Around and Married the Toughest Commander 七零：竹马跑了我转头嫁最野首长 [Period] [Pocket Dimension] [Building Wealth] [Strong Female Lead] [Military Compound] When trouble hits her family, her childhood sweetheart runs off faster than a rabbit. Qiao Wanqing just laughs. Good, that saves her the trouble of wasting time on him. Born into this world, she enjoyed twenty years of luxury and wealth. Now her family is in crisis, but Qiao Wanqing isn’t worried. She has a plan. “Brother Lu, will you marry me?” Under the moonlight, tears on her face, she finds him looking hea 34.2kReads8.5Score3k14d adds
- 108 In the 1970s, She Was Rejected and Threw Herself into the Second Male Lead's Arms 年代，被嫌弃后转身扎进男配怀抱 [Timid sweetheart vs. sharp-tongued, scheming straight man] Qiao Yue, a college student who loved eating and taking it easy, transmigrated into the body of the cannon-fodder female side character who shared her name. No pocket dimension, no golden finger, and no way to escape the heroine’s halo. For a while, she became the most miserable transmigrator of all. Living by the lazy-fish motto that if you can’t beat them, you can avoid them, Qiao Yue turned and threw herself into the arms of the man 293Reads8.5Score10314d adds
- 109 Transmigrate into a Book: The Cannon-Fodder Female Supporting Character's Fake Marriage in the 1970s 穿书七零：炮灰女配假结婚了 [Historical Period + Transmigrate Into a Book + Marriage Before Love + Everyday Family Life + A Changing Era] After an accident, Zhang Yunqing transmigrated into the book Seventies-Era Male Educated Youth, where she became a cannon-fodder blood bank for the male lead. Zhang Yunqing said, “No, thanks. My political awareness isn't high enough for this. Someone else can be the blood bank.” After passing her job exam and securing her place in the city, the question of housing came up. To keep her fu 10.5kReads7.3Score92514d adds
- 110 1970s Youth Educated in Northeast China: First in Line for the Daily Gossip 七零知青在东北，吃瓜天天第一线 [Historical Era + Everyday Family Life + Front-Row Gossip + System + Hilarious Daily Life] Jiang Ning won a fifty-million-yuan lottery jackpot in high school, but hadn't spent a cent of it when she was hit while watching the commotion and transmigrated into a book set in the 1970s. The black-hearted System told her she could get rich and stay alive by keeping up with the gossip. Jiang Ning was so delighted she nearly jumped for joy. She spent every day hiding by the heroine's side, listening in 83Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 111 The Forest of Chongde 崇德的森林 A realist story, with no transmigration or over-the-top antics. Come along if you enjoy stories set in a bygone era. Hardship is a different kind of beauty in life. Should people face difficulties head-on or lie flat and go with the flow? Difficulties are like a spring: the weaker you are, the stronger they push back; the stronger you are, the weaker they become. How much longer will life keep tormenting Liu Jiang? When will his hardships finally come to an end? But even as Qin Zhongmin lay dyin 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 Unable to Take the Hardship of Rural Life, I Go Home to Find a Match and Marry an Army Officer 吃不了下乡的苦，回家相亲嫁军官 Shu Yun spent more than twenty years pinching every penny. She finally got a huge payout when her hometown was demolished, but before she could spend a cent, she drowned and died. Even her rotten luck seems to come with a touch of good fortune. She died, but not completely. Her soul returned in another body, and she transmigrated! Now she's a pitiful, unlucky girl with parents who died in an accident and wolves circling, eager to prey on her! When her aunt suggests an arranged marriage, Shu Yun 882Reads7.4Score10814d adds
- 113 Liu Cheapskate’s Daily Life 刘抠门的日常生活 [Period drama, not reborn, no transmigration, no golden finger] Liu Xiaoyun has been stingy since she was little. Her family is poor, but not so poor that they can't afford food. She's the stingiest one in the family, and her mother dreams of marrying her off. Better to have her make life difficult for someone else's family than their own. Read on to see how Liu Xiaoyun makes married life a roaring success. 12.3kReads8.6Score1.1k14d adds
- 114 Reborn in the 1980s: Saving the Kids My Late Husband Spoiled 重生八零，挽救早逝老公养废的娃 Reborn, everyday family life, building wealth In her previous life, Su Xiaowan listened to so-called folk remedies for having a boy and neglected her two daughters. Her husband, Xiao Beiguo, had to support the family and care for both girls. Su Xiaowan’s constant tantrums and troublemaking wore him down, and he died young from overwork. His daughters stood by his coffin and cursed her. “You should have been the one to die! If you hadn’t been so obsessed with having a son, Dad wouldn’t have worke 321Reads6.8Score10914d adds
- 115 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 8.1kReads8.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 116 An Overworked Office Drone Finds Her Dream Life in the 1970s 大龄社畜圆梦在七零 Wang Yaning was over thirty and worked herself to the bone. She had graduated from a junior college and had no particular skills. She had lived with her boyfriend for seven years, but in the end, they went their separate ways. She was always dreaming of turning back time to high school. She would choose the humanities, get into a teachers' university, and become a teacher after graduation! Zhou Ziqiang's mother was a martyr, and he grew up with his maternal grandparents. His grandfather had onc 1.4kReads9.1Score13214d adds
- 117 In a Period Novel, the Cannon Fodder Who Brings Gear Changes the Plot 年代文，送装备的炮灰擅改剧情 [Period Setting] [Golden Finger] [Gossip and Treasure Hunting] [Family Life] [Some Ensemble Cast] [Money Is No Object] [Heaven Has a Will] [Characters Aren't Dumb] [No College Entrance Exam] [No Job] The heroine is an ordinary person with flaws! The pacing is a little slow! She won't miss out on a single bargain worth finding! She won't forget a single grudge worth settling! A box thrown by her neighbor knocks Jian Xingmian into the year 1968! Only after waking up does she realize she's been in 2.9kReads6.9Score17214d adds
- 118 Stealing Her Fiancé? She Marries an Officer and Becomes the Most Beautiful Military Wife 抢她未婚夫？她嫁军官当最美军嫂 In her previous life, her cousin Fang Yan took her college acceptance letter and went to university in her place. She also stole Sheng Yao's childhood betrothal and married the military officer who was meant for her. Meanwhile, Sheng Yao was married off by her biased mother to a pig farmer in the neighboring village, becoming a stepmother to a three-year-old. With a mean, picky mother-in-law, an autistic son, a difficult sister-in-law, and a husband who always listened to his mother, things only 1.8kReads8.3Score22314d adds
- 119 Reborn in the 1970s: The True Heiress Changes Her Secret Identity and Goes on a Rampage 重生七零，真千金换个马甲杀疯了 [Feel-good revenge + multiple rebirths + punishing scumbags + magical space + cats + strong female lead] Ye Zhiyi was abandoned at a farm by her fiancé and endured eight years of hardship! Then she was enslaved and abused by the fake heiress, Wu Xuewen, for ten years! Only on the brink of death did she learn that Madam Wu was her biological mother! She was the real heiress of the Wu family! She had been tricked into living with her mother for ten years without either of them knowing who the othe 179Reads—Score10214d adds
- 120 The Story of Village Girl Taoye and Xiang Dong 村女桃叶与向东的故事 [A handsome man who has been secretly devoted for ages × a clearheaded, gentle beauty at rock bottom] Burdened by family troubles and forced to marry the good-for-nothing Zhang Dawei, Wang Taoye is caught between a rock and a hard place. Li Xiangdong, the village's cold and stern farm-machinery mechanic, sees all her troubles. He gets straight to the point: "Come be with me." He helps her withstand the Zhang family's pressure and provides medicine and food for her family. Half a year passes, and 30.9kReads6.7Score1.2k14d adds
- 121 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—Score13414d adds
- 122 The Flirtatious Girl of 1992 Gets Caught Up in Romance as She Makes Her Way to the County Seat 1992俏妞情乱闯县城 In 1992, Chen Xiu'e had failed the college entrance exam several times. Her boyfriend, who had passed the exam and gotten into university, coaxed her into coming to the county town, promising they would build a life together. But soon after arriving in the city, he changed his mind and dumped her. Then another letter came from home: they wanted to sell her to a crippled man from another village for bride money to help her brother get married. Xiu'e had a younger sister, and the thought that her 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 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 [Period Setting + Transmigrate into a Book + System + Building Wealth + Face-Slapping + No Sent-Down Youth] After Ye He dies, the System forcibly binds itself to her, and she transmigrates into a period novel as the villainous supporting female character of the Ye family. The Ye family is a blended family with seven children. The original Ye He is the youngest daughter, with both parents alive but neither of them caring for her. Before she has even graduated from junior high, they force her to g 913Reads—Score15914d adds
- 124 A Beauty Drops Into the 1980s: The Loudspeaker Beauty Is Destined for Wealth 天降美人穿八零，喇叭美人富贵命 [1980s setting + satisfying revenge + a heroine who's gorgeous and delightfully unhinged + a handsome, sly hero + putting scumbags in their place + lighthearted] Qin Mumu transmigrates into a book. Great, she's not the heroine. No pocket dimension, no System, no special powers or skills. All she has is her beauty. Most importantly, she's the first cannon-fodder female supporting character. She gets used, dumped, and turned into a fool, then meets an early end. Luckily, there's still time. Qin Mu 2.4kReads8.6Score22814d adds
- 125 The Fiery Stepmom of the 1970s: After They Said I Was Infertile, I Had Several Babies 七零辣后妈：被传不孕后我多胎了 [Military Marriage + Sassy Stepmom + Raising Kids + Taking Down Scumbags + Marriage Before Love + Cozy Everyday Life] At eighteen, Shen Fenghua plunged into the water in the bitter chill of early spring to retrieve vital documents and save her factory from losses. The ordeal damaged her health and left her unlikely to have children. After years of blind dates, by the age of twenty-three Shen Fenghua had seen every kind of weirdo and lost all hope. She sent away her last date, propped her chin on 255Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 126 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.) 20.1kReads8.8Score1.8k14d adds
- 127 So Sweet! After Marrying a Butcher in the 1970s, I Lie Flat 甜爆！七零嫁杀猪匠后我躺平了 [A lie-flat beauty vs. a doting husband / No golden finger, no black market / Everyday life] Chu Jiaojiao wakes up one day to find that she has transmigrated to the 1970s. Looking at the poverty-stricken home, bare of everything, she feels like banging her head against a wall just to knock herself out... To avoid the backbreaking labor, she sets her sights on the village butcher, who lives better than anyone else. At first, the butcher coolly rejects her advances. Chu Jiaojiao tries all thirty-s 664Reads7.2Score10714d adds
- 128 An Educated Youth in the 1970s, His Little Wife Since Childhood 年代知青，自少时的小妻子 When Xu Mingzhen was thirteen, she received an old-fashioned marriage contract. The other party was a “third-generation military family” heir she had never met. What century is this? An arranged marriage? She picked up her pen and wrote back, “I don’t agree!” Then she saw his photo… handsome, poised, and radiant! Actually, good traditions deserve to be passed down! Wei Zhou didn’t learn he had a young fiancée from the countryside until he was eighteen. He wrote to test the waters, only to receiv 2.2kReads8.6Score19414d adds
- 129 1970s Military Marriage: The Handsome Man of the Beautiful Widow Has Returned 七零军婚，漂亮寡妇的男人回来了 Liang Xinyue, a young widow whose marriage was never consummated, couldn't take any more torment and jumped into a reservoir. A passing soldier rescued her. But the man who saved her was supposedly someone who had died ten years ago... And the woman he pulled from the water was no longer the Liang Xinyue she had been. Having transmigrated into Liang Xinyue's body from a university of agriculture, she uses the soldier's influence to escape her tormentors and follow him to his military post. But w 4.4kReads8.7Score63214d adds
- 130 The Sweet, Soft Educated Youth Is Irresistible 娇软知青最勾人 [Period Setting] [Both Leads' First Love] [Sweet Romance] [Building a Fortune] [No Rebirth] [No Golden Finger] A sweet, gentle yet stubborn educated youth vs. a blunt country boy who says one thing and means another Lin Shuwan secretly signed up to go to the countryside without telling her family. Everyone thought the delicate, soft-spoken girl would have a hard time in the countryside. Little did they know that Lin Shuwan would soon completely change their opinion of her. Lin Shuwan only wanted 816Reads7.1Score10014d adds
- 131 Trapped in a Book: Immersive Rural Life in the Eighties 书穿八零：沉浸式农村日常 [Transmigrate into a Book + Down-to-Earth Military Marriage + An Unusual System, with a Daily-Life Focus. Based on Real Rural Life, Told in a Realistic Style] When a sudden apocalyptic disaster triggered a landslide, Shen Xue was struck by a falling rock and, to her great honor, transmigrated into a period novel written by her college roommate. She was the heroine's awful sister-in-law, a walking plot device. In a 1.2-million-word book, she had two chapters' worth of scenes, and spent the whole 7kReads8.2Score49714d adds
- 132 The Good Girl Joined the Army, So Why Won't the Commander Divorce Her? 乖乖女随军，首长这婚怎么不离了 [1980s + Marriage First, Love Later + Slow-Burn Romance + Love-Him-Once-You-Get-to-Know-Him Warning + Size Difference + Age Gap] (Clearheaded, sweet, and perceptive beauty with a PhD in neuroscience vs. older, abstinent, career-driven military officer who turns into a lovesick fool) Ye Jingqiu works nonstop in the lab for a week, then transmigrates into a book the moment her vacation begins. She becomes the doomed cannon-fodder with an arranged marriage to the second male lead? And according 96.2kReads8.5Score12.1k14d adds
- 133 The 1960s: I Work for the Female Lead! 六十年代：我给女主打工！ [Period setting + no romance + local protagonist + sent to the countryside + watching the drama unfold + everyday life] Jiang Yu is forced to move to the countryside. On the train, she meets Shi Ruoning, who has transmigrated from the modern world, and Shi Wei, who has come from a post-apocalyptic world. Lured by Shi Ruoning's money, Jiang Yu is more than happy to work for her. Shi Wei, whose combat skills are formidable, also bows to the lure of money and becomes Shi Ruoning's bodyguard. Jea 100Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 134 Period: I Stockpile Supplies and Transmigrate, and the Commander Asks Me to Keep It Secret 年代：囤货穿越，首长请替我保密 [Twins Switched in Time × Jealous Military Officer × Siblings Take on the World × Rise to the Top in the Seventies] Su Suisui and her twin brother, Jiang Zhuo, were sent to the wrong time period. As compensation, they both transmigrated to the 1970s. She became a helpless orphan with both parents dead. No big deal. She had a spirit spring, a pocket dimension, and all the supplies she could stockpile. If she had no powerful backer, she would become the powerhouse herself. He became a privileged e 203Reads6.8Score10914d adds
- 135 A Space of My Own 蹭来的空间 [Pocket dimension golden finger + no CP + ordinary person ventures into the world of cultivation + apocalypse + unconventional wish-fulfillment + clear-eyed heroine] Other people transmigrating get the whole package: a System, a pocket dimension, and the destiny of the chosen one. As for Mi Yao? She just brushed against a scrap of energy and got sucked into this mess. This woman in her thirties gets swept up in the trend and transmigrates into a pitiful five-year-old with no father's love or mot 16.9kReads8.5Score2.4k14d adds
- 136 Educated Youth in 1975: My Ring Holds a Living Paddy Field 七五年知青：我的扳指有片活水田 In 1975, Lin Xiao Mai was sent to the countryside by her own mother and assigned to the salt-alkali wasteland that the whole village despised. All she had in her pocket was the seventeen yuan and eighty cents she had saved for ages. Luckily, she found a jade thumb ring and gained a mountain spring and rich black soil without lifting a finger. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 Transmigrated Into a Book in the 1980s: I Start Dating a Bad-Boy Hunk 穿书八零，开头和痞坏糙汉处对象 [1980s book transmigration + rugged man + sweet, delicate beauty + healing romance + devoted, fatherly boyfriend] A two-way healing romance between a tough man with a soft heart and a sincere, stubborn girl Zhong Ling transmigrated into a book and landed in a deadly predicament from the start! The rugged man next door, freshly released from prison, tall and long-legged with a body full of muscle, was being framed by a widow in the courtyard. Knowing the plot, Zhong Ling was terrified. She knew t 472kReads8.9Score58.7k14d adds
- 138 Become a Stepmother in the 1960s 穿到六零年代当后妈 [Family Squabbles + Bickering and Banter + Food and Farming + Raising Kids on an Island] After waking up, Xu Wei, once a university lecturer, found herself in the body of Xu Erni, a girl from a rural village in the northwest in 1967. Xu Erni was past the usual marrying age and had no prospects, so someone introduced her to Cheng Weiguo, an army regiment commander who had two children from his previous marriage. She followed him to an island in the south. In those difficult times, Xu Wei and Chen 495Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 139 Twin Sisters Take on the 1970s 双胎姐妹花勇闯七零年代 [Period Drama] [Light Ensemble Cast] [Family Life] [Educated Youth Sent to the Countryside] [No Female Rivalry] [Everyday Life] [Heartwarming] In 1970, twin sisters Lin Xiaoyang and Lin Xiaoyue were forced to go down to the countryside to make room for their younger brother. They arrived at Baishan Village in Northeast China, where they earned respect through hard work and sincerity and fell in love with Zhou Jianjun and Zhou Jianguo, the village chief's sons. The four formed a study group, pori 3.9kReads8.4Score33314d adds
- 140 The Seventies: My New Husband Is a Powerful Tycoon, and I'm Losing My Nerve 七零之重组家庭丈夫是大佬心慌慌 [The rating was only just posted, so it's very low qwq] [No pocket dimension + no going to the countryside + the heroine doesn't go to the black market + everyday family life + 1970s setting + second marriage. The hero is pure in body and mind, and the child isn't his.] Zhang Qiuwan went from a rich family's daughter to the third child, unloved by her parents and nearly starved to death. After waking up, she changed her fate, cut ties with her family, and married a soldier. Who knew her husband 880Reads6.5Score10914d adds
- 141 The Courtyard House of the 1980s 八零烟霞宿舍院子家 [Period Setting + Ordinary Life + Ensemble Cast + No Pocket Dimension + No System + Slice of Life + Teachers + Small Joys] Colleagues getting along, marriage and family, the path of an ordinary life, the warmth of everyday life, little joys and great happiness. In the 1980s, several young people who had never known one another before meet in the staff dormitory of a teacher-training school... Xiao Ning is laid-back and straightforward, carefree and openhearted. She moved here with her family —Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 142 Transmigrate into a Book: Daily Gossip in the Compound in the 1960s 穿书六零：大院吃瓜日常 (Historical setting + transmigrate into a book + everyday life + gossip-watching + a touch of ensemble cast) When Lin An’an wakes up, she has transmigrated into a historical novel as a disposable side character. According to the plot, her so-called best friend will rob her and kill her, then spend her money, sleep in her bed, and hit her child... Knowing how the story goes, Lin An’an decides to stay far away from both her so-called best friend and the seemingly perfect blind date. Who could have 3.9kReads8.4Score29314d adds
- 143 After Kicking Out My Scumbag Husband, I Became the War King’s Most Cherished One 踹开渣夫后，我成兵王心尖宠 [Period Setting + Strong Female Lead + Military Marriage + Light Ensemble Cast + Reborn + No Golden Finger] [Bold, Spirited Go-Getter + Devoted, Straightforward Man] Everyone in Xingping Village had heard the news: Chai Yubing, the youngest daughter of the Chai family, who had been cherished beyond measure, was dating a self-employed businessman who had served time in jail. Those who were jealous of the Chais, resented them, or were on bad terms with them were secretly waiting for the family to 1.3kReads8.4Score13414d adds
- 144 Life Afloat on the Riverbank 江岸浮生 [Contemporary realism + period chronicle + rural ensemble cast + women’s struggles] Spanning half a century of rural China, this book tells the story of three generations of women on the Jianghan Plain. Caught in the tides of history and the shackles of their families of origin, each struggles against fate in her own way and faces her inner demons, ultimately learning to live for herself. (I’m only here to tell the story as it is. I won’t give the characters perfect personalities. I’ll portray h 541Reads8.5Score10614d adds
- 145 Transmigrating to the 1960s: Everyday Family Life in a Courtyard Compound 穿越六零之大杂院里的家长里短 [Sweet Romance + Marriage Before Love + Life in a Courtyard Compound + Gossip] Ye Fangfei was an ordinary office drone in the twenty-first century. One day, she transmigrated into the body of a young woman with the same name, who had just graduated from high school and lived in a crowded courtyard compound in the 1960s. The young woman was also named Ye Fangfei, and the day she arrived was the very day she was supposed to meet a potential match. The man was a demobilized soldier who now drove a 10.4kReads8.4Score65114d adds
- 146 A Lone Star Meets the Warm Sun 孤星遇暖阳 [Native-born leads, no pocket dimension, no System, no golden finger, age gap, family and village life, slow-paced, cozy daily life, sweet romance] A word of caution: The leads have vastly different social status. This is not a wish-fulfillment story, and there is no strong female lead. Please don’t read if that bothers you! As Jiang Wenyi nears high school graduation, her unusual family background puts her at risk of being sent to the countryside. Her grandfather wants her to marry a handsome s 6.5kReads8.2Score63714d adds
- 147 The Money I Earned in the 1970s Still Spends Just Fine After I Transmigrate Back 七零年代挣的钱，穿越回去照样花 [No Male Lead + Female Lead Focuses on Her Career + A Pocket Dimension That Can Produce Unlimited Supplies] She transmigrates to the 1970s, and her apartment comes along with her. Everything inside can be replenished infinitely, and it has internet, a kitchen, and a bathroom. With this powerful advantage, Li Zhiwei goes to the countryside, attends university, starts a business, and buys a house, finally achieving financial freedom. In the end, she even returns to her own time with a vast fortune 425Reads8.0Score10514d adds
- 148 Military Marriage: With a Silver Needle in Hand, the Plot Goes My Way 军婚之银针在手，剧情就得跟我走 The Bai family’s Jishi Hall had been passed down for a hundred years, but was brought to ruin by the ravages of war. Only Bai Yun and his grandfather remain, relying on each other. Though Jishi Hall is gone, their work of healing and saving lives continues. They carry on, cherishing every step along the way. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. The author is not a doctor, and the medical content in this novel should not be taken as fa 552Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 149 After Awakening, the Vicious Supporting Female Lead in a Period Novel Seizes Everything at Every Turn 年代文恶毒女配觉醒后步步抢夺 The rating has only just opened and will rise later. Liu Weiwei was the vicious supporting woman in a period novel, and she died a miserable death in a bleak hospital room. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the beginning of the tragedy: her mother was handing her a bowl of drugged porridge. In her previous life, she was set up and lost her virtue, then died miserably in the countryside, while the “heroine,” Su Wanqing, lived a life of glory and couldn’t even be bothered to look 456Reads8.7Score12714d adds
- 150 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 842Reads6.0Score13214d adds
