Novels like Life as a Sent-Down Youth Returning to the City
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- 1 An Eighties Military Marriage: I Outshine the Soldiers and Make a Fortune with My Sisters 八零军婚力压军汉我和姐妹赚大钱 [Period setting + following the army + building a career + not depending on men + everyday family life + a touch of ensemble cast + no suffering in silence + devoted couples] Strong, independent reborn heroine VS an expressive military officer hero In her previous life, Qiao Ling was a country girl who died young. Then she is reborn just as her good friend is being forced into marriage. In her previous life, she fought until she was battered and bruised, yet could only remain trapped in a little 677Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Life in a Siheyuan in the 1980s 八零年代四合院的生活 [Period setting + architecture + physics + no golden finger + no pocket dimension + no System + native characters + raising a child] Composed, beautiful female architect × cool, handsome male physics professor Li Han stares at the photo of her blind date in surprise. “Why is it him?” Isn't he that famous physics teacher at her university? When Wei Chishang gets home, he finds his family waiting. His mother and sister pull him aside to talk. “Son, your sister has found someone for you,” his mothe 198Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Both Spouses Laid Off! I'll Lead the Whole Family to Prosperity 夫妻双双下岗！我带全家奔小康 In 1997, a layoff notice shattered Zhuang Xiufen’s secure job. Twenty years of service and her status as a Grade Two technician vanished overnight. Her whole family crowded into a drafty attic, and the future felt colder than the winter rain in the south. Everyone said our generation had been abandoned by the times. But Zhuang Xiufen refused to believe fate had the final say. From setting up her first dumpling stall outside the factory to founding the Xiufen Foods brand; from facing harassment b 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Transmigrated to the 1960s: No One Can Stop Me from Getting Ahead 穿越六零：谁都不能阻止我上进 From the start, it was a famine. Su Qingchen opened her eyes and took in the scene before her. The memories in her mind told her this was an era where people could starve to death. She closed her eyes, thinking she might as well die again. She could do without this transmigration opportunity. Fortunately, just as Su Qingchen was preparing to die, she discovered she had a space stocked with supplies. In an instant, she decided that staying alive was an option after all. If she died again, there w 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Reborn in the 1970s: The Rugged, Stoic Officer Dotes on Me 重生七零：糙汉冷面军官宠我入骨 [Rebirth + 1970s + Strong Female Lead + Rugged Man + Devoted Husband + Revenge + Face-Slapping + System Space] In her previous life, her wicked stepmother sold her to human traffickers for two hundred yuan. At the prime age of twenty-five, she was forced by the Zhou family's genteel scoundrel to die against a radiator in a grand house in the capital. Reborn on the day she was sold, she binds herself to the 1970s Comeback System and gains a space with spiritual fields and a healing spring. In thi 752Reads—Score144Shelves
- 6 Back to Day One of 1980: I Split My Uncle's Head Open 重回八零第一天，我把大伯开瓢了 (Feel-good story, everyone’s favorite, building wealth, military marriage, love that grows over time, college entrance exams, everyday family life) After an accident, Yun Qiao returns to the 1980s. In her previous life, she was a pushover: her relatives sold her off, bullies took advantage of her, and in the end she even dragged down the Zhou siblings who had protected her. Given a second chance, Yun Qiao understands one thing: you can’t be a doormat. When her awful relatives stir up trouble, sh —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Back in the 1990s, I Became a Factory Girl 重回九零做厂妹 While other people transmigrated to the 1990s to farm, Su Jinjin transmigrated to the 1990s to work in a factory. She became Su Mianmian, the famously silly and naive girl. The little wallflower transformed into a top student, going from being able to do nothing to being able to make anything. And so Jin Hua First Machinery Factory started from scratch, with a bold new slogan: “There’s nothing our factory can’t make, as long as the market needs it!” 156Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Desert Is So Wonderful. This Time, You Can Go 沙漠这么好，这辈子换你去 (Female lead’s growth, one-on-one romance) Qi Yue was supposed to be the bond holding her blended family together, but she was the one who didn’t belong. Her father favored boys over girls, and her mother doted on the daughter she’d had before. Qi Yue was the expendable one, the child no one would miss. Her half-brother on her father’s side and her half-sister on her mother’s side both saw her as a rival. She was foolish enough to keep hoping they’d accept her. In her previous life, they drained 47Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 9 Reborn in the 1990s: I Bought Ninety-Nine Houses 重生90之我买了九十九套房 [Reborn + Cute System + Sweet Romance + Putting Scumbags in Their Place] A novel about the female lead’s growth, with sweetness and heartbreak, workplace drama and romance. This is fiction, not an autobiography, so please don’t take it to heart. This is not a mindless wish-fulfillment story, so read at your own discretion. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 My Mother’s Life Gets Better After She Comes to Her Senses 清醒后的母亲越活越好 After coming to her senses, the mother found her life getting better and better. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Starting Work at a Factory at 35: They Call Me Uncle Fan 35岁进工厂：他们叫我凡大爷 [Factory Work + No System + Dongguan Factory Girls + Heading South for Work + Everyday Life] Fan Bo spent ten years writing novels full-time back in his hometown, but never made it big. The villagers looked down on him and gossiped about him, and even his girlfriend thought he was useless and wanted to break up. After much soul-searching, Fan Bo decided to head south and earn money. He had assumed that he was too old to get hired at a factory, but the life of a migrant worker turned out to be ev 8.4kReads—Score570Shelves
- 12 Reborn in 1980: My Daily Life as a City Worker 重生八零进城打工日常 Liang Shuifeng somehow finds herself back at the age of thirty-three. This time, she decides to live her life differently. In her previous life, she spent her days as a country girl. This time, she bravely sets off for the city with her family to find work. Note: This story has no golden finger and focuses on the ordinary lives of little people. 358Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 13 Transmigrate Into a Book: My Whole Family Is the Worst in the 1960s 穿书，六零全家都极品 Xie Ya transmigrates to the 1960s and arrives right in the middle of a famine. After barely surviving it, she discovers she’s become the female lead’s foil in the story. Thinking of the tragic fate her family faces in the novel, Xie Ya decides to overturn the plot. Her goal is to move to the city and become a worker. She refuses to stay here as some female lead’s foil. But after finally becoming a worker, she realizes her boss’s son is kind of handsome! He’s a researcher, too. Now, how can she p 118Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 14 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
- 15 Marrying a Tycoon in the Eighties: The Fussy Heroine Is Sweet and Gorgeous 八零嫁首富，作精女主娇又美 [Soul transmigration + Everyday life + Entrepreneurship + Devoted husband + Love after marriage] When the family split up, the male and female leads were getting divorced, but neither fought for anything. After the split, the heroine came to her senses and fought back! Early on, the hero leases a mountain to grow valuable timber, invests to make money, buys land, and funds a business! The heroine thought she was marrying a future tycoon, so how did she end up raising a future businesswoman into 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Stop Overthinking: The Villainous Wife Turns Her Life Around and Becomes Everyone’s Darling 拒绝精神内耗，恶妇翻盘成团宠 [Transmigrate into a Book + Healing + Military Marriage + Period Setting + Sweet Romance + Smart Leads] [A funny heroine bent on getting rich VS a hopelessly lovestruck hero] She transmigrates into a book as a vicious little cannon-fodder character who uses despicable tricks to pose as a rich, handsome military officer. From the start, the System orders her to win over the male lead’s entire family. Since the original owner spent two years trying to please them and still failed, she decides to t 18Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 17 I Transmigrated into a Book Set in the 60s and Became a Couch Potato 穿书60我咸鱼了 Cui Huanxi transmigrated to the 1960s. She was just thinking that there'd be no 996 or 007 this time, so she could lie flat! No one could stop her. Then she discovered she had actually transmigrated into a book and become a doomed cannon-fodder character! Oh, this guy is really handsome. Maybe dating him wouldn't be so bad. Two days later, she asked, “If I say let's get married now, would you?” After the wedding, she realized she'd been fooled. This guy was a big bad wolf! The big bad wolf himse 5.4kReads8.4Score549Shelves
- 18 After a Dream, I Lie Flat and Live Off My Parents in the 1990s 做梦后，我在九零躺平啃老 Qiao Huan: “Mom, Dad, I dreamed that our homeroom teacher scolded me for being glib and said I wasn’t acting like a girl!” Qiao Guoqing and Qiu Heping: “What? How can a teacher say that about our Huanhuan? We have to talk to them!” Qiao Huan: “Mom, Dad, I dreamed that our homeroom teacher accused me of stealing someone’s dictionary!” Qiao Guoqing and Qiu Heping: “What? How can a teacher falsely accuse our Huanhuan? We have to get you transferred to another class!” Qiao Huan: “Mom, Dad, I dreamed 388Reads8.1Score103Shelves
- 19 Reborn in the 1990s: Life Is but a Dream 重生玖零年代：浮生若梦 [Both Reborn + Building Wealth + Family Drama + A Portrait of Rural Life + Slow-Burn Feel-Good Story] Cao Chunhua spent decades being tormented by a mistress and a lousy husband, until she was utterly exhausted in body and mind. One day, she wakes up reborn thirty years in the past. Armed with only a little knowledge of what lies ahead, she sets up a street stall, starts a small business, opens a shop, and then a factory, steadily changing her circumstances. Just as she’s working up a storm, her 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The 1970s: Am I Going Crazy Again? 七零年代，又发癫了吗？ [Transmigration] [Sent to the Countryside] [Smart Protagonist] [No Military Marriage] [No Rough He-Man] [No Love-Brain] Bad news: Li Yunshu has transmigrated. Good news: her pocket dimension came with her. Looking at the green-tea stepsister, the sweet-and-innocent stepmother, the invisible older brother, the sister-in-law who only cares about her own family, and the original owner's trashy father, Li Yunshu took a deep breath. Well, that makes a full set of top-tier relatives, just as every tra 39Reads—Score102Shelves
- 21 Pillar of the Seventies: Upright and Unyielding, Serving the People 七零砥柱：清风傲骨掌民生 A strong female lead in a period setting. She enters politics to help the people, with career and romance as parallel storylines, plenty of satisfying moments, and a focus on power struggles and personal growth. No convenient golden fingers of any kind, and no moral blackmail. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Mom Got Rich Selling Egg Pancakes in the Nineties 妈妈在九零卖鸡蛋饼暴富啦 [Reborn + heartwarming everyday life + entrepreneurship + writing + making a fortune + feel-good story] On the very day Zhou Xue finally passed the teacher recruitment exam after three years of hard work, she was reborn. It was winter break in 1999. Her father had taken every last bit of money from the family and gone to Yunnan Province to find his mistress. Her penniless mother was taking eight-year-old Zhou Xue and her ten-year-old brother to pick through vegetable scraps at the wholesale mark 537Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 23 Reborn in the 1970s: Lin Sanni’s Country Life 重生七零，林三妮的乡下日常 [Period Setting + Family Life + Golden Finger (Useful in the Early Stages) + Educated Youth + No Romance] Lin Yun discovers she has been reborn as Lin Sanni, a young country girl in the northeastern countryside of the 1970s. To her surprise, her old rented apartment has come along with her, and she’s also gained a shopping System. In her previous life, she was an orphan. Now she has a family, and has even had a brief taste of friendship. She has adapted well to life here, too. But the educated y 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 ’80s Spatial Realm: The Abandoned Wife’s Rise to Riches and Fame 八零空间，弃妇逆袭成万人迷富婆 [Period setting + Space + Family life + Multiple male love interests + Comeback + Spirit Spring cuisine] In her previous life, Tang Zhenzhen was tricked into marriage and cut off contact with her mother and brother. She worked hard all her life to send her adopted son to a prestigious university. Just when she thought all that effort had finally paid off, her son stole the money she needed to save her life and revealed the truth: the so-called adopted son was actually her husband's child with an 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Back to the 1990s: My Adorable Little Girl Is Only Two 重回九零：我的奶萌闺女才2岁 [Rebirth + period setting + starting a business + no golden finger + everyday life + no overnight riches, just slowly building wealth + ordinary people + no great riches or status] Some details are made up, and there are plenty of things that don’t make sense. Don’t take any of it too seriously; it’s all for the sake of the story! An accident sends Wan Qinqin and Ning Jianguo back to 1999. There’s no System to give them a leg up, no instant success. All they have are the opportunities they remem 1.7kReads8.4Score101Shelves
- 26 After Awakening, the Factory Girl Impulsively Marries Her Ex's Childhood Friend 觉醒后，打工妹闪婚前夫发小 [Flash Marriage, Both Leads Pure, Face-Slapping, Wife-Doting, Building a Fortune] Li Wei was a young migrant worker from a remote mountain village in Xiang Province who headed south to find work in the late 1990s. She was very lucky. She was pretty and had a college diploma, so the highly educated Wang Zhibin fell in love with her at first sight. After dating for a year, they planned to get married soon. The first time Li Wei met Wang Zhibin's family, his mother asked her to go into the kitchen 2.1kReads6.9Score101Shelves
- 27 A Survival Journal from the 1970s 七零年代生存日志 Zhao Hongfang, a modern woman, suddenly finds herself in the 1970s. Faced with a familiar yet strange new world, she is completely bewildered. It's all right. Ever since she was little, she'd known that if you had a problem, you should go to the police. The problem is, where are the police? 1.1kReads7.0Score100Shelves
- 28 An ’80s Cannon Fodder Mom with a Child: From Cast-Off Wife to Fashion Guru 八零炮灰带崽：从弃妇到时尚教母 [Cool, beautiful “little white rabbit” VS celibate, scheming “big bad wolf”] [One-on-one romance + transmigrate into a book set in the 1980s + military marriage + scientific research genius + two strong leads + love grows over time + sweet romance and raising a child] One day, she transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder wife who was driven to take her own life by swallowing pills. And she didn’t even have a golden finger! The plot in a nutshell: an absent husband, a troublemaking —Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 29 Reborn in the 1980s: The Richest Man Who Crawled Out of a Coffin 重生八零：棺材板里爬出来的首富 No black market, no rural relocation, no educated youth, no System, no pocket dimension. Here's a different kind of transmigration story set in a bygone era, with a pace so fast you won't believe it. You won't regret picking it up, so add it to your bookshelf now! Su Wanqing, a white-collar worker from the 21st century, is reborn in the body of a poor village girl in 1980. The original owner was forced to marry a lame old bachelor and starved to death. On the day of her burial, she climbs out of 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Transmigrated to the Sixties, I Just Want a Quiet, Ordinary Life 穿越六零只想平凡过日子 Apart from cooking, Ye Shu’s greatest hobby is reading novels, especially stories set in the past where the characters transmigrate. Every time she reads one, she wonders what she would do in the same situation. One day, she goes to the supermarket to buy groceries, thinking about a novel she has just started as she picks out her shopping. Just as she gets lost in thought, she feels the ground shake beneath her feet and hears someone shout, “Earthquake!” Everyone runs for the exits, and Ye Shu r 1.5kReads8.5Score106Shelves
- 31 Reborn in the 1990s: Money Is Better Than Men 重生到90年代，钱比男人香 After her husband betrayed her, Sun Yucui ended her life with a bottle of pesticide. She was reborn in the 1990s, amid the boom of reform and opening up. She was sixteen and a half that year. Taking advantage of her experience of the times to come, she cared about nothing but making a fortune. The people she had once been unable to reach were no longer worth a second glance. Only after you've known poverty do you realize money is far more appealing than men. When making money became just a numbe 94Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Transmigrate Into a Book in the 1960s and Cling to the Supporting Male Lead's Leg 穿书六零我抱紧了男配大佬的大腿 Su Jiao is sweet and lovely, with skin as smooth as jade and a graceful figure. After coming down with a bad cold, she discovers that she has entered a period novel as the powerful male supporting character's fiancée. In the original story, Su Jiao dies young in an accident, becoming a tool the heroine uses to get close to the powerful male lead. With his support, the heroine goes on to build a fortune. So Su Jiao decides she won't be anyone's tool. She takes her family's advice, boards a train, 137Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 A White Bone Demon Transmigrates Into a Book in the 1960s and Thrives in the Factory District 白骨精穿书六零，混厂区风生水起 [1960s setting + transmigrate into a book with a cute pet + stockpiling pocket dimension + formidable career woman in a factory district + satisfying revenge story] A modern-day career woman dies in an accident while driving back to her hometown to sign a demolition compensation contract. When she learns it was all a mistake and she can't return to her body, the shrewd Bai Qingqing demands three wishes and a pocket dimension as compensation. Then she enters the novel Reborn in the 1960s: The Luc 132Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 34 Reborn as a Little Blade of Grass 重生之俺是一颗小小草 Reborn, Tian Jincao refuses to be a dependent vine in the big city ever again. She kicks her trash ex to the curb and resolutely returns to the mountains, determined to help the girls there soar, leave the mountains behind, and see a wider world. To her surprise, the man she had loved in her past life has also been reborn. When they meet again years later, the first thing he asks is, “Will you marry me?” Tian Jincao answers, “Yes. I absolutely will!” In their previous life, the leads missed thei 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The 1980s Supply and Marketing Co-op: I Won Over a Soldier by Selling Goods 八零供销社：我靠卖货撩到兵哥哥 Shen Mian transmigrates to the 1980s. Third Aunt splashes her awake: "Third Aunt, those chive pockets have quite a kick." The whole village bursts out laughing. The System gives her two cents, and she flips goods four times, making a clean yuan without putting up a cent. Someone blocks her when she sells tomatoes at the village entrance. The newcomer wears a blue work uniform and limps slightly on his left leg. "You're operating without a permit. Come with me." Shen Mian looks at him for three s 76Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Reborn in the 1990s: I Stopped Raising Ungrateful Wolves and Finally Won 重生九零：不养白眼狼后我赢麻了 [Rebirth + Period Setting + Revenge + Entrepreneurship + Entertainment Industry] Renowned screenwriter Liu Zi was killed by her own son. Reborn overnight, she returns to 1998. The sooner she divorces, the better. Anyone who wants her ungrateful son can have him! Isn’t her soft, cuddly little daughter just adorable? What? Her vicious eldest son isn’t even hers, and her scumbag husband switched the babies and kept it secret. That’s finally pushed her over the edge. If he wasn’t born to be human, t 124Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 37 Back to 1990: I Became a Powerful Businesswoman 重回90，我逆袭成了女霸总 [Reborn + top student + campus romance + equally strong leads + entrepreneurship + revenge] Lin Qingyao was an utterly ordinary office drone. After working overtime for days on end, catching her boyfriend cheating, and learning that her father was gravely ill, she died suddenly from sheer shock and anger. When she woke up, she found herself reborn in her childhood. This time, she resolved to rewrite her fate through her own efforts. She would study hard, become a top student, get into Tsinghua o —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 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
- 39 Everyday Life in the 1970s: Starting by Sending My Scumbag Dad to the Farm 七零日常：从送渣爹去农场开始 Era + old silver dollars + space + Hong Kong entertainment Lin Wei, a modern-day true heiress turned dark, opens her eyes to find herself in the 1970s, inhabiting the body of a namesake who has always been pitifully powerless. Her biological father, stepmother, and younger step-siblings want to kill her, then flee to Hong Kong with the family money... Lin Wei sneers. "Ha, steal the money and run? That's my specialty!" P.S. 1. This story is entirely fictional and set in an alternate world. 2. A 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 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
- 41 After Becoming the Villainess, I Was Spoiled by the Factory Director Husband 穿成恶毒女配后，厂长老公宠上天 In the 21st century, Jiang Niannian unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Jiang Niannian, a nineteen-year-old rural-born supporting female character in 1985. With her pretty face and excellent grades, the original Jiang Niannian got a job as a department-store sales clerk after graduating from high school. She met Ye Wanhua, the male lead's mother, who often came to shop. Seeing how generous Ye Wanhua was with money, she made inquiries and learned that her son ran a factory and was unmarri 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Married to a Disabled Officer, the Military Wife Has a Baby in the 1980s 嫁给残疾军官，八零军嫂生崽崽 [Entirely fictional] (Military marriage, devoted couple, doting husband, everyday family life, male lead secretly in love with female lead, success in both career and love) I’m Gu Ning. After twenty-five years of life, I was tortured to death. Then, in one fateful moment, I was reborn and married an older military officer! He’s considerate yet domineering, and endlessly patient with me. He’s handsome, too. He just takes a bit of a toll on my back! Every day, I try to think of ways to sneak up th 55Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 43 Transmigrated as a Green Tea Girl, I Become a Labeling Worker in a Period Novel 穿成绿茶，我在年代文里当贴标工 It just got its rating, please don't leave~ [No CP + Transmigrate into a Book + Unhinged Plot + Everyone's Cunning + Slight Ensemble Cast] Yan Yue transmigrates into a period novel, becoming a frail, sickly minor character destined to be cannon fodder. With her rural assignment looming and a gash on her head from her own sister, Yan Yue's vision goes black. Trembling, she cleans up the mess and finds herself a job applying labels at a state-run food factory. She sits down in front of cans and bi 26.2kReads8.1Score2.1kShelves
- 44 The 1970s: After Being Dumped, I Marry My Ex's Buddy 七零：被甩后我嫁给前任他哥们 Marriage first, love later, a secretly devoted hero, sweet childcare romance, no spatial golden finger, no awful in-laws Many people thought Xu Qingran was pretty but useless. So when the eldest son of the Gu family dumped her, everyone thought it was only natural. Only Xu Qingran, the one who’d been betrayed, couldn’t move on. Her dream of marrying into a prestigious family was shattered, and her mother’s hopes of making a fortune were dashed. Fortunately, her beauty was still useful, so her st 489Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 45 A City Job at the Printing Factory in the Seventies 七零年代留城当印刷厂女工 [Transmigration + period piece + realistic + romance + love grows over time + everyday family life + educated youth working the land + urban worker who stays in the city + workplace drama + college entrance exams + business] My boyfriend went to the countryside while I stayed in the city, and there were always scoundrels trying to get me to date two men at once. Jobs were hard to come by in the 1970s. After a great deal of effort, Zhu Huan finally got herself one, but her new factory-worker boy 967Reads8.0Score112Shelves
- 46 Quick Transmigration Through the Eras: The Villainess Lives Off Men and Loves It 年代快穿：坏女人她软饭硬吃 [Period-Era Quick Transmigration] + [Everyone’s Favorite] + [Selfish and Self-Serving] Pu Mingyue is a climbing vine. Once she latches onto a man, she finds every way to siphon off the nourishment she needs, wringing out the last drop of his worth before ruthlessly strangling him and casting him aside. 1. Educated youth sent to the countryside in the 1970s vs. a taciturn, rugged man + a lovesick male educated youth + an elegant professor 2. Pretty widow fleeing famine in the 1950s vs. an ungrate 831Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 47 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 800Reads8.3Score106Shelves
- 48 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
- 49 The 1990s: I Reached the Pinnacle of Life Through Stock Trading 九零，我靠炒股走上人生巅峰 [Reborn + period setting + adorable kids + comedy + face-slapping] When Yang Ting wakes up, she discovers she's gone back twenty years. Her youngest son is just one day old and wailing with hunger. There's no food in the house, and she has no breast milk... At this point, her eldest daughter hasn't died by suicide due to depression, her second daughter hasn't gone astray, and her youngest son hasn't been “given” to kidnappers by her sister-in-law... She's back, and none of that will happen this 322Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 50 A 1970s-Era Link to the Modern World: I Cut Ties, Change My Surname, and Get Rich 七零通现代：断亲改姓发家致富 [Period drama + no romance + connected to the modern era + building wealth] The rating has just been posted, and it will rise later. In the winter of 1976, Yu Xiaoran loses her father, her mother lies gravely ill, and her awful grandmother lays claim to the compensation money. Her aunt plans to give her away in exchange for connections. Right there and then, she severs ties with her family and changes her surname, cutting herself off from her parasitic relatives once and for all. At the end of h 1.2kReads8.2Score150Shelves
