Novels like Granny's Seventy, So What's Wrong with Acting Like a Big Shot?
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Granny's Seventy, So What's Wrong with Acting Like a Big Shot?, best match first.
- 1 I Woke Up in the Body of an Old Woman in the 1980s, So I Ditched Decency and Became a Menace 魂穿八零老太太，抛开人品做极品 [Transmigration + Historical Era + Face-Slapping + Hunting + Pocket Dimension] When Jiang Lichu, a long-suffering housewife who had devoted herself to her husband and children in the 1980s, suddenly got a new soul, the family's walking blood bank started slacking off, and the ungrateful lot panicked... 4.4kReads8.5Score38214d adds
- 2 [Wildflowers on the Country Path] Thriving in My Own Way After Divorce 【野径花开】离婚后活出别样精彩 Not a pure romance: both leads have been married before, and the pain of their families of origin (Completed) Everyone said Lin Zhengzheng had landed in a pot of honey. Her husband's family was wealthy, her husband Xu Feng was handsome and distinguished, and theirs was the kind of enviable marriage and dream home countless women could only wish for. But no one expected Lin Zhengzheng to ask for a divorce. What shocked everyone even more was that she planned to leave her family behind and run aw 1.2kReads—Score10114d adds
- 3 After the Spiritual Qi Revival, I Became a Hot Commodity at 40 After My Divorce 灵气复苏40岁离婚后成了香饽饽 [Spiritual qi revival + supernatural powers + reunion with first love + ex-husband is long dead + first love turns dark] Ye Zhile is a failure of a woman. At forty, her husband cheats on her and wants a divorce, and even her child feels distant from her! Her unhappy marriage slowly snuffed out the light in the eyes of someone who had once been a celebrated prodigy. When even her child thinks she’s holding him back, Ye Zhile finally resolves to divorce her scumbag husband and leave her child b 996Reads8.6Score12014d adds
- 4 After Working Herself Ragged for Half a Year, She Dumps Her Ex's Family and Marries into Wealth 操劳半年，踹了前夫一家嫁豪门 [Older heroine + age gap + mutual redemption + forced love + groveling pursuit + angsty drama + taking by force] Forty-year-old Jiang Xiaomei is a stay-at-home mom. Gentle and virtuous, she puts up with everything and is the family doormat. She has a fussy mother-in-law, a hypocritical sister-in-law, a selfish daughter, and a husband who gives her the silent treatment. Every day, she muddles through a life full of domestic chaos. Then Fu Mohan barges into her life by force, and the two unexpecte 471Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 5 Love Along the Road 路半经过爱情 (A realistic romance about marriage, an adult love story with a touch of romance and some adorable moments with the kids~) Our love has only taken us halfway down the road. How deeply can we love? Outsiders think she might as well have married twice. Her mother-in-law has other thoughts, and her relatives think she can never measure up to the child's real mother... Only he knows that the more he loves her, the more he feels he isn't good enough for her! When everyone thinks she deceived him, onl 490Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 6 Abundant Harvest 硕果琳琅 Wealthy Family + Sperm Donation + Pregnant and on the Run + Winning Back His Wife (This story is entirely fictional. Please do not draw parallels to real life.) Lu Linlang owns a small restaurant. After seeing how her best friend’s marriage turned out, she has no interest in getting married. She just wants to find someone to “donate” sperm and have a child of her own before she becomes a high-risk mother. Following her own list of criteria, she sets her sights on Chen Shuo, one of her regular cu 6.4kReads8.7Score56614d adds
- 7 The Husband Swap 换夫记 Xue Mingming married simply because she'd reached the right age, only to discover that her husband wasn't the right person for her. She settled into a life that felt like going through the motions. Then she crossed paths with Nie Qiyuan, a former high school classmate whose career was on the brink of bankruptcy and whose marriage was hanging by a thread, though neither recognized the other. How should these two married, middle-aged people handle their work, their lives, and their feelings??? A b 18.3kReads8.6Score1.6k14d adds
- 8 A Reborn Old Woman and Her Daughter-in-Law Swap Bodies: A Life Turned Upside Down 老太重生与儿媳互换身体错位人生 An 84-year-old woman is reborn in the body of her 22-year-old former daughter-in-law, Lin Xiaoyue. Shocked, she quickly gets a divorce. Meanwhile, Lin Xiaoyue unexpectedly becomes reborn in the body of her 54-year-old former mother-in-law. Since you're going to die in a year anyway, you could say you've come out ahead, the reborn former mother-in-law thinks. To save the lives of her eldest son and youngest daughter, the two women board a train to visit her eldest son. The two women's fates are 1.2kReads—Score10014d adds
- 9 I Transmigrated as a Cleaning Lady, So I Left My Son to His Own Devices and Enjoyed Life 穿成保洁大妈，不管儿子我享福 No pairing + transmigrate + System + raising a child + everyday life At twenty-five, Lin Jiu transmigrates into the body of a fifty-year-old cleaning lady to save her life. The woman has a good-for-nothing son and a miserable life. She owns a house, but her son has rented it out, and she doesn't get the rent. She has savings, but her son borrowed them, and he's never going to pay her back. She also has a little granddaughter to raise. After transmigrating, Lin Jiu quits her cleaning job, gets he 461Reads9.0Score10214d adds
- 10 Zhao Jiji’s Love Story After Divorce 赵吉吉离婚后的爱情故事 To be loved is an extension of self-love! I thought I'd shut myself off from love for good, but I never expected to meet him in my forties... After her son takes the college entrance exam, Zhao Jiji divorces her ex-husband. She delivers food, works as a real estate agent and caregiver, and writes novels, doing her best to make a life for herself. While working as a caregiver, she meets a man she once went on a blind date with, and the two begin a beautiful relationship. 71Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Love in the Late Hours 恋恋晚时光 (Silver-haired heroine, no forgiveness and no getting back together, completed) Bai Yuwan is sixty this year when she accidentally discovers that her husband has been cheating on her for ten years! It all started with a package that should never have been opened. Every New Year’s Eve, her husband, Sun Zhenwei, claims he has to work overtime. In reality, he’s enjoying a candlelit dinner with his first love to celebrate the New Year! He even bought her a house! And Bai Yuwan? She spent her whole l 4.1kReads9.0Score43214d adds
- 12 A Forty-Five-Year-Old Country Woman Starts Over After Divorce 四十五岁村妇离婚后，开挂了 (Middle-aged and older romance + mutual devotion) Jiang Chunlan, a 45-year-old rural banquet chef, accidentally discovers that her husband is cheating. After seeing the vicious faces of her parents-in-law and sister-in-law, she starts living more and more as she pleases in the Wang household. Housework? Whoever wants to do it can do it! Farming? Her body isn’t up to heavy labor! Catering? She’d love to, but she’s not up to it! After Jiang Chunlan turns the whole family upside down with her trick 6.1kReads9.2Score80114d adds
- 13 That Night, I Broke the Legs of the Cheating Couple 那夜，我打断了狗男女的腿 That Night, I Broke the Legs of the Cheating Couple 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 At Fifty, After a Lifetime of Toil, I’m Done Serving Everyone 人到五十，操劳半生后我不伺候了 [Silver hair, a middle-aged woman awakens] Originally titled “At Fifty, After a Lifetime of Toil, I'm Done Serving Everyone” After marrying Fu Guoping, Lin Yuelian spends more than ten years caring for her paralyzed mother-in-law. She won't even buy herself a nice outfit, yet one day she sees her husband going around with his mistress, decked out in Chanel and carrying a Hermès crocodile-skin bag worth hundreds of thousands. And the mistress isn't alone: she has a son out of wedlock, about ten y 17.1kReads9.2Score2.2k14d adds
- 15 Middle-Aged Man: My Lovely Wife Is Just Young 人到中年：娇妻她只不过岁数小 At forty, Xiao Zhenglong had a pretty relaxed outlook. He’d been married and had a daughter. He’d been in love, and it hadn’t meant much. His position wasn’t especially high, but in Hong City, he wasn’t exactly a nobody. As the youngest son in the family, he had older brothers to carry on the family line and older sisters to bring honor to the family. He could just enjoy life with his brothers, live freely, and settle scores as they came. That seemed like a pretty good way to spend his life. Why 10.7kReads8.4Score56414d adds
- 16 After the Divorce, I Became a Rich Heiress 离婚后我成了豪门千金 Li Jiawei was a 33-year-old single woman working on a temporary contract at a government institution. After catching her husband of eight years in bed with another woman, she went through a divorce, a miscarriage, and a stint at the police station. Just when she was at her lowest, the richest man in Xishi found her. It turned out she was his real daughter, switched at birth with another baby. From then on, her life bounced back from rock bottom, and she went on to achieve greatness. 4.1kReads8.9Score48614d adds
- 17 Transmigrated as the Early-Deceased Original Wife? I Just Want to Lie Flat and Be a Rich Woman 穿成早逝原配？我只想躺平当富婆 [Self-serving, haughty landlady + refined but wicked old-school cadre] In the prime of her youth, Jiang Yunchu had been struggling to make her way in the world. One day, she woke up to find she had somehow transmigrated into a book, into the body of a middle-aged woman from the late 1980s who shared her name. Not only did the woman have a son and a daughter, she was also expected to become a grandmother within six months! Faced with a household full of chaos, Jiang Yunchu only wanted to ride the 2.1kReads7.6Score11914d adds
- 18 The Mighty Old Lady Transmigrates Into a Book, Farms, and Takes Out Her Whole Family Without Favoritism 大力老太穿书种田后平等创死全家 [Farming + space System + satisfying revenge + punishing scumbags + an old lady] Fu Qingfeng dies in a zombie horde at the end of the world and transmigrates into a book. But she’s not the heroine. She’s the vicious old neighbor who gets tortured to death by the heroine, and from the start she’s bound to a low-level System. The day she transmigrates into the book, the heroine also transmigrates with a high-level System in hand. Fine. We’ll each do our own thing, and stay out of each other’s way. 50.1kReads8.7Score7.4k14d adds
- 19 A Sweet Farmhouse Wife: The General's Wife Is Everyone's Darling 农门甜妻：将军夫人是团宠 [Sweet romance + everyone’s darling + lighthearted + heartwarming doting romance] Yan Xiao gets into an accident on her way to a blind date and wakes up in another world, delighted to find herself the mother of three sons. She’s never even touched a man’s hand, and now she’s suddenly a mom. She admits she has no idea how to be a mother. Her eldest son is a domineering CEO, her second is a sunny boy, and her third is clingy. One day, a new neighbor moves in next door. He’s quite handsome, and say 2kReads9.3Score23114d adds
- 20 I 'Bought' an Old Man for Fifty Thousand 我用五万“买”个老头 I “Bought” an Old Man for 50,000 120Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Stabbed to Death by My Own Grandson at 99: Reborn to Spoil My Granddaughter 99岁被亲孙捅死：重生狂宠孙女 Grandmother protagonist + family and neighborhood life + 1970s A runaway ox charges into the courtyard with a crowd of people in tow, catching an adulterous couple in the act. Yang Yuzhen, reborn at forty, pats her ample chest and vows to change her fate. She kicks out her scumbag husband, abandons her ungrateful children and grandchildren, and takes her granddaughter to join her eldest son in the military. In her previous life, her eldest son died tragically on a mission. This time, she’ll save 4.7kReads8.8Score57914d adds
- 22 At Forty, I Was Swept Off My Feet by a Powerful Man 四十岁，竟被大佬强取豪夺了 Xu Juan was just an ordinary middle-aged woman, gentle and quiet, never seeking conflict. But her life changed when she turned forty. Her husband cheated, and their marriage fell apart. Where would life take her now? 3.1kReads8.6Score22614d adds
- 23 After Thirty-Nine Thousand Years, I Was Won Over by a Puppy-Like Young Man 三万九千岁后，我被小狼狗拿下了 After Thirty-Nine Thousand Years, I Was Won Over by a Puppy-Like Boyfriend 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 I Married a Senior Officer at Forty, and Got a Fresh Start in Life 四十岁嫁首长，我的人生重开了 [Second marriage to a soldier + nostalgic retro era + comeback power fantasy] [Beautiful, clear-headed snack-shop owner vs. stern, steady senior military officer] In middle age, Ye Wentang discovered that her adopted son was actually the child her husband had had with her friend. Her husband had even hidden the truth from her and spent all their savings buying his friend a three-bedroom apartment. Ye Wentang finally saw the light. She kicked out her scumbag husband, gave up the adopted son, and 18.9kReads8.6Score2.7k14d adds
- 25 So Passionate! After Remarrying, She Was Kissed to Tears by a Chaste Old Widower 重欲！改嫁后，被寡旱老男人亲哭 [Military marriage in the 1980s + old flame rekindled + age gap + face-slapping + both are each other's first and only + love grows with time] In her previous life, she took the childhood betrothal papers that had been arranged for her and went to the city to seek out her fiancé's family. Her fiancé had climbed the social ladder after moving to the city, and looked down on her as a country girl. To marry a rich, beautiful city girl, he even framed her as having been unchaste before marriage. Hum 9.4kReads8.2Score1.1k14d adds
- 26 Sinking into Temptation After Dark 入夜沉沦 Marriage first, love later + whirlwind marriage + super sweet + mature adults A traditional Chinese-style domineering CEO VS a resilient, sickly beauty At thirty, Xin Tong nearly died from overwork. She decided to quit and take her 750,000 yuan in savings, earned over five years on the job, to lie low in a small county town. At thirty-five, Ji Jinnian read her resignation letter and asked, “Will you marry me?” He needed an honest woman to sit in the position of his wife: someone who wouldn't cau 27.4kReads8.9Score2.8k14d adds
- 27 The Wicked Mother-in-Law of the Seventh-Decade Compound 七零大院恶婆婆 [Period setting + wicked mother-in-law + family life + farming + both spouses transmigrate] Chen Suwen, who had healing, wood, and fire abilities, was hot-tempered and feisty. One day, she transmigrated into the body of a notoriously wicked mother-in-law living in a residential compound. A wicked mother-in-law? So she didn’t have to rein in her temper, force herself to compromise, or worry about acting out of character by being nothing like the original owner? She’d transmigrated from the apocal 4.8kReads8.1Score23214d adds
- 28 Granny Quit Her Job to Become a Nanny, Then Took the Whole Household by Storm 老太太裸辞做保姆家里家外杀疯了 The short drama adaptation, My Retirement as a Housekeeper Became Legendary, can be found by searching on Fanqie. [No CP] [Family Life] [No Golden Finger] [Gets Rich by Working as a Housekeeper for Powerful People] [Leaves Her Husband and Abandons Her Son and Daughter] [Dotes on Her Daughter-in-Law and Granddaughter] [Silver-Haired Protagonist] [Quits Her Job to Become a Housekeeper] [Fat, Plain, and Relaxed Female Lead] [Absolutely Refuses to Lose Weight] In her previous life, Ma Chunmei was st 26.3kReads9.0Score2.3k14d adds
- 29 When I Transmigrated into a CEO Romance as the Wicked Mother-in-Law 当我穿成霸总文里的豪门恶婆婆 [Transmigration into a book + power fantasy + wealthy family + putting scumbags in their place + sweet romance + devoted to each other] Fu Yining transmigrates into a book, landing in a novel about a domineering tycoon who chases his wife after losing her. But she isn’t the wife being chased. She’s the tycoon’s mother. When she opens her eyes, she catches the tycoon’s first love sobbing in his arms, while the heroine lies on the floor, framed by that woman. The furious male lead, the tycoon: “Mo 1.4kReads8.5Score10114d adds
- 30 Sixty-Year-Old Lovers: The Past of Maitreya 60岁恋人：弥勒往事 At the age of sixty, he jumped into a shallow pool where the water barely reached his thighs. The water was shallow, but he didn't know that. Just as he didn't know that this jump would bring him together with a thirty-seven-year-old divorced woman, that they would have a child, and that he would pursue her from Hefei to Nanjing, then on to Shenzhen. Later, someone asked him, "Why jump when the water was so shallow?" He said, "Because that person was about to fall in." What matters isn't how d 1.1kReads—Score10314d adds
- 31 After Three Years in Retirement Back in the Village, I Lost but Was Not Defeated 退休回村三年，我输了但没有败 After retiring, I was sent back to my hometown to serve as the village's First Secretary. I had barely reached the village entrance when someone smashed a jar at me: “Huai Shu Village doesn't welcome you!” An old flame brought me a bowl of fish soup, with a letter at the bottom that had never been sent, forty years ago. Someone sent an anonymous report to the disciplinary inspection committee, accusing me of misconduct. Three months on the clock. Nobody believes me. Three years later, the person 95Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 The Reborn Abandoned Wife Stands on Her Own 重生弃妇当自强 As Xu Xiaoting lay in her hospital bed, she thought about how stifled she'd been her whole life. As a rich man's wife, wasn't having plenty of money wonderful? Why had she put everything she had into a worthless man, putting up with him again and again, until the frustration finally killed her? If she could live her life over, she'd never give up her career to be a housewife. She'd never believe the nonsense that her husband would come back after getting his fill of fun, and she'd never let hers 9.8kReads9.2Score84514d adds
- 33 At the Source of the Peach Blossom Spring 桃花源头 As Old Zhou Nian lay dying, he took Zhou Liye by the hand and told him, “Xiaoye, it's up to you to carry on the Zhou family line. If you trace our family back far enough, we go all the way to the Zhou dynasty, to King Wen of Zhou, King Wu of Zhou, Ji Chang, and Ji Fa. Our ancestors were once members of the imperial family, and our original surname was Ji. It was only after the dynasties changed that our family took the surname Zhou! Here's our ancestral genealogy and the family heirloom, this ja 103.5kReads7.8Score9.4k14d adds
- 34 The Divine Emperor's Contract Beast Is Actually Female?! 神帝的契约兽竟是母的？！ The God Emperor’s contracted beast is actually female?! 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 The Hired Other Woman 雇来的第三者 The Hired Third Wheel 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 The Wicked Mother-in-Law Is Reborn: From the Neighborhood Office to the Provincial Committee Compound 恶婆婆重生：从街道办到省委大院 [The short drama is now streaming] [Career-driven female lead | 1970s political career progression | A female version of Game of Thrones] Striving to awaken women's consciousness + alternate historical setting + career-focused plot + blended family + male lead who understands her 💥 Modern media mogul Yin Chunjiao opens her eyes to find herself the notorious wicked mother-in-law of the 1970s. • Drove her daughter-in-law to her death? No way. I'll send her to university. • Throwing tantrums and ac 26.7kReads9.0Score2.3k14d adds
- 37 If I Don’t Spend Money, I’ll Become a Fool [System] 不花钱就会变痴呆【系统】 [Rebirth + a woman’s growth + family life + tycoon System + older woman pursues younger man] In her previous life, Hong Xiuxiu devoted everything to her son. After developing dementia in old age, she was despised and died alone outside. Reborn at age forty-two, she returns to 2010, just after her husband’s death and before her son starts bleeding her dry! Not only has she been reborn, she’s also bound to a System that only lets her spend money on herself. Spend 10,000 yuan in ten minutes Learn t 5.9kReads9.3Score61914d adds
- 38 Sword Venerable, Stop Chasing Me 剑尊别追了 Sword Venerable, Stop Chasing Me 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 One Kick, One Big CEO 一脚踢出个大总裁 One Kick Lands Her a CEO Husband 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Mature Women Can Be a Little Naughty 成熟女人有点坏 Six months into their marriage, Zhou Lina suddenly noticed that her husband had grown distant. She wanted to mend their relationship, but no matter how hard she tried, she could never see it through. She longed to be loved and cherished. A career-driven woman, she found herself torn between marriage, work, and love. 19.7kReads—Score1.1k14d adds
- 41 After the Divorce, I Burned Young Master Lu's White Moonlight with My Own Hands 离婚后，我亲手焚了陆少的白月光 After the Divorce, I Personally Burned Lu Shao's White Moonlight 171Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 A Widow Remarries in the 1970s 七十年代之寡妇再嫁 At twenty-four, Qiao Dani became a widow with two children, known throughout the brigade as one of its poorest households. At thirty, Lin Hengjue fell from the heights overnight. The distinguished Professor Lin, once admired for his elegance and brilliance, became one of the notorious “Black Categories” whom everyone in the cowshed avoided like snakes and scorpions. People kept urging her to remarry. Qiao Dani finally hardened her heart, stamped her foot, and marched into the cowshed to ask Li 6kReads9.3Score58214d adds
- 43 A Middle-Aged CEO's Forced Love: Nanny, Don't Run Away! 中年霸总强制爱，女保姆你别逃！ [Forced love + seemingly innocent with a dark side + drama queen + revenge] Thirty-four-year-old Wang Yun and her daughter have only each other. But when her daughter is bullied at school by the heiress of a wealthy family, she ultimately loses her life. After learning the heiress’s identity, Wang Yun understands the gulf between them. It would be nearly impossible to get revenge on her own. Then she discovers that the girl has a single father, and a wicked idea comes to her. The girl made her l 5.8kReads9.2Score72414d adds
- 44 My Motorcycle-Riding Bad-Boy Husband 骑摩托的“黄毛”老公 The "Blond Punk" Husband Who Rides a Motorcycle 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 My User Is a Female Celebrity 我的用户是女明星 My User Is a Female Celebrity 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 An Old Lady Reborn in the 1970s: Every Strike Against My Adopted Daughter Is Fatal 老太太重生七零：刀刀刀养女的命 In her previous life, Yu Mingxiang had cancer. The moment she transferred her assets to her daughter, the girl turned on her and threw her out. Only then did Yu Mingxiang learn that the girl wasn't her biological child at all. Her wicked adopted daughter had killed her entire family! After dying a miserable death in the street, Yu Mingxiang opened her eyes and found herself thirty years in the past, half a month before her whole family was sent to the countryside. Her adopted daughter was stand 60.7kReads8.7Score6.7k14d adds
- 47 Sect Leader, Please Behave Yourself 掌门，请自重 Sect Leader, Please Mind Your Manners 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Transmigrate to the 1960s and Become a Pretty Widow 穿越六零成为俏寡妇 (Content warning: The heroine is ten years older than the hero. She’s a player and isn’t sexually inexperienced, so proceed with caution!!!) Shi Lan, a carefree, troublesome party girl who loves the high life, transmigrates to the hardship of the 1960s and gets three new labels: married, mother, and widow. From the start, she’s being introduced to a prospective match. As if! She thinks her new identity is pretty great: she has money and status, and gets to be a mother without the pain of childbi 5.4kReads9.2Score49814d adds
- 49 Heartfelt Therapy 心动诊疗 Heartfelt Therapy 131Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Confession in the Long Night 告白长夜 A Long Night of Confessions 25Reads—Score—14d adds
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