Novels like Dad Told Her, If You're Unhappy, Make a Scene
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- 1 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
- 2 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
- 3 Liu Xiaocui, the Village Girl of the 1980s 八零村妹刘小翠 She has barely gotten over a scumbag who deceived her in love when her own father sells her to an old widower. What should she do? Beat the scumbag senseless. And I'm done being your daughter. She heads to the city, but gets harassed by hooligans along the way and almost loses her life. As long as I'm still alive, Liu Xiaocui, you'd all better watch out. Once she reaches the city, local bullies try to crush her business as soon as she starts out. You've got powerful connections, do you? I 159Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Hunter's Youngest Daughter Marries into the Military District, Shaking the Whole Family Compound 猎户幺女嫁军区，家属院里抖三抖 [Short Drama Now Streaming] [Period Setting + Youngest Daughter] [Reborn + Combat Prowess] Jiang Shiyue, the youngest daughter of a hunter’s family, was reborn at the moment a scummy educated youth tried to cheat her out of her recommendation for a workers’, peasants’, and soldiers’ university. She had a bow and a dagger. Tender and easygoing? Not her style. But when it came to fighting, she was the real deal. After exposing the scumbag, Jiang Shiyue turned around and accepted the marriage propo 7.4kReads8.4Score983Shelves
- 5 Back to the 1980s, I Lead My Whole Family to Wake Up and Strike It Rich 重回八零，带着全家一起觉醒暴富 In 1989, Shuangxi's uncle, younger uncle, and aunt all headed south for work with their spouses, leaving behind nine children without anyone to look after them, as well as their elderly grandparents. It was Shuangxi's parents who stayed home to care for the children and look after the two old folks. Like oxen, they worked themselves to the bone farming the land, sending one nephew or niece after another to university and out into the world. When her father was injured in an accident and lost the 42.7kReads8.1Score4.4kShelves
- 6 Mom Took Me Back to the 1970s: We’ll Make Money and Find Me a Dad 我妈带我回七零，既赚钱来又赚爹 [Period setting + transmigration + ensemble cast + love after marriage + family squabbles + making money + no golden finger] Single mother Xu Yuzhi transmigrates to the 1970s and is simply grateful that her daughter came along with her. Shortages and low wages are no big deal. Starting a new business is all it takes. It’s just that having a man in the house takes some getting used to for both her and her daughter. Still, this man in her new life doesn’t seem so bad. He hands over his wages witho 1.5kReads8.6Score139Shelves
- 7 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
- 8 After Transmigrating into a Book, Watch Me Take Down the Wicked Female Lead 穿书后，看我如何干翻恶毒女主 The rating just came out; it’ll go up later. [Everyday family life, a laid-back heroine who sometimes has a soft heart and learns from her mistakes. There’s a System, a pocket dimension, and a job. She doesn’t go to the countryside.] Su Jiahui fell asleep and transmigrated. She never expected that, as an only child, she would end up in a large family with many children, and be the least favored one of all. After awakening her System, she discovered that she had transmigrated into a book. And of 1.5kReads6.0Score101Shelves
- 9 The Feisty Pepper and Her Cool, Powerful Commander 小辣椒闹腾，高冷首长宠宠宠 [Period setting + satisfying revenge + trash takes a beating + pocket dimension + both inexperienced] In her previous life, Li Yuchu, whose soul was incomplete, was tricked into going to the border by a scumbag and a scheming woman working together. She ended up dead, her body fed to dogs! Reborn, she is clear-headed and decisive. The scumbag wants a promotion? She sends him off to face a firing squad without hesitation! The schemer wants to have it both ways? Dream on! You deserve nothing b 26.1kReads8.4Score2.1kShelves
- 10 Sweet Little Wife of the 1960s: The Educated Youth Dotes on Me Without Hesitation 六零小甜妻：知青宠我没商量 [Steady Educated Youth vs. Beautiful Village Girl / Entire Cast Are Locals, No Golden Fingers or Black Markets / Everyday Life / Marriage First, Love Later / Flawed Characters / Leads Grow Together / Sweet Romance] Lin Yuan goes to the countryside at eighteen. As the youngest child in his family, he gets first pick of all the food and drink, giving him a broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted, long-legged frame that stands six feet tall. It doesn’t take long for someone to set their sights on him as s 65.3kReads8.9Score10.1kShelves
- 11 Military Marriage and Scientific Research in The 1970s: The Genius Foolish Wife Is Fierce 七零军婚科研：天才傻妻太凶猛 [1v1, highly intelligent but socially clueless heroine + interstellar transmigration + supernatural powers + golden finger + period setting + technology] Si Yue, an interstellar research PhD with no idea how to handle people, transmigrates into the body of a dim-witted girl in the 1970s. Her father is dead, her older sister is frail, her mother is timid, and her step-grandmother's family has taken over their home. None of that is a problem. If they won't listen, one good beating will do the tric 10.3kReads8.2Score1.2kShelves
- 12 The 1960s: Even a Second Marriage Can Help Me Marry Up 六零年代：二婚也要攀高枝 [Master of making promises, speaks each person’s language, only wants a good life for herself heroine X handsome, capable, rebellious, insecure, affection-starved hero] [Period setting + reborn + everyday family life + career] A shameful scandal has rocked Li Jia Village. Li Jinhe, who married into the city to live a life of comfort, has been divorced because she can’t have children. Her husband doesn’t want her anymore! Those who once envied her for marrying into the city now turn around and pi 11.9kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves
- 13 Transmigrated into a Cool, Pregnant Wife: Here Comes Your Beautiful Soldier King 穿成清冷孕妻，貌美兵王我来啦 (Original title: The Cool, Aloof Pregnant Wife Joins Her Husband in the Army, Causing a Sensation Across the Entire Military Compound) [Military Marriage + Transmigrate Into a Book + Punish Scoundrels + Marriage First, Love Later + Soldier Hero with a Love-Struck Heart] Chu Yan, an AI engineering postdoctoral researcher, is just about to serve her country when she unexpectedly transmigrates to the 1970s. In the original novel, her parents die overnight, and she goes to the countryside while preg 3.5kReads8.5Score401Shelves
- 14 The Female Lead Not Only Speaks Her Mind, She Also Spreads Rumors 女主不光长了嘴，她还会造谣 Xie Longxi grew up in the countryside. At sixteen, her biological parents claimed her, and she successfully made the transition from the countryside to the city, then back to the countryside. Her birth parents had claimed her so she could take her two-years-younger full sister, Xie Weihong's, place when she was sent down to the countryside. Forced to go down to the countryside, she finally endured countless hardships to return to the city. First, she broke up with her boyfriend, then her ex-boyf 5.5kReads8.4Score635Shelves
- 15 The Road to Promotion in the 1980s: She Made Her Mark Through Her Own Ability 年代升迁路：她凭实力出圈 [Period] [Career] Dai Xinghua wakes up in 1972 in the body of an orphan who shares her name. Her parents died in the line of duty, and their home is about to be repossessed. Looking at the hand she’s been dealt, former “career star” Dai Xinghua takes a deep breath. Stay calm. I can win! She sticks firmly to her principles: What does it matter how much you work? We’re all just cogs in the machine. Don’t compete, don’t fight. But when it comes to my job, I’ll do it to the best of my ability 13.4kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
- 16 I’m the Little Fool They’re Always Talking About! 我就是他们嘴里那个小傻子！ (A female lead who looks clueless but is genuinely unwell; a male lead born with a hopelessly romantic heart, sky-high IQ, and zero social skills; an alternate-history period setting, so don't overthink it; just something to unwind with after work.) Yun Qiao was a doomsday survivor who was reborn in the womb, and she managed to get herself killed. When she opened her eyes, she found herself in a different world. For someone who was sick of life, maybe the thing she loved most was killing herself 4.1kReads8.6Score382Shelves
- 17 Raised on Neighbors' Meals in the Sixties, I Became a Top Scientist 六零吃百家饭长大我成了科研大佬 [Couple] [Period Setting] [Village Life] [Academic Prodigy] Chen Songguo was an orphan from birth, raised on a meal from one family and then the next in the village. Later, when everyone accidentally discovered just how brilliant Chen Songguo was, they slapped the table and decided to send five-year-old Songguo to school. When it was time to collect the report cards, every villager scrambled to go. Frugal Grandma Zhou said, "Tuition is so expensive. You'd better learn everything you can to make 91.9kReads9.2Score15.8kShelves
- 18 The Country Girl Who Was Supposed to Be My Nephew’s Fiancée Became My Wife, and the Factory Heartthrob Panicked 乡下准侄媳成了小媳妇，厂草慌了 (Seventies, reborn) Zhou Minghan: At his older brother’s urging, Zhou Minghan goes to the countryside to deliver a letter. As a result, without knowing what was going on, he helps his eldest nephew break off an engagement. The country family refuses to accept it, gets him drunk on several cups of liquor, and sends the young woman to his room that night. Since his own family was responsible for this disgraceful mess, Zhou Minghan has no choice but to accept it and take the young bride back to the 3.3kReads7.1Score240Shelves
- 19 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. 12.7kReads8.6Score1.1kShelves
- 20 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
- 21 Nonsense! Why Can't a Capitalist Heiress Strengthen the Nation Through Science? 胡说！资本家大小姐怎么不能科研强国 Original novel of the short drama I, the Goddess of Scientific Research, Repair Tractors in the 1950s Qu Lingyi transmigrates into the 1950s and becomes the foil to the heroine of a period novel: an unlucky heiress from a capitalist family in Gusu. The moment she opens her eyes, she’s landed in a nightmare from the start. Her scumbag live-in son-in-law of a father plans to flee to Hong Kong with his illegitimate children, leaving her behind to take the fall. Her childhood sweetheart swears he’ll 15.1kReads8.1Score1.8kShelves
- 22 Sixies: Flowers in the Sun 六零之向阳花开 The genres are: Zhou Xiangyang never expected that one act of bravery during her senior-year internship would restart her life in 1960. She became a baby with the same name in the family compound of a machinery factory. Her family was simple but loving: an engineer father, a mother who worked at the supply and marketing cooperative, and two siblings, each with a personality of their own. Her English degree from her previous life was still with her, along with a temperamental “mystery box” sign- 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 A 1970s Military Marriage: I Take My Terrible Family Along for the Ride 七零军婚：我带极品家人一起起飞 (Completed) [1970s + military marriage + period setting + family drama + trading System + building wealth + transmigration and rebirth] On her way to school to pick up her admission letter from Capital University, Gu Tao gets hit by a black car and lands in the 1970s, along with a somewhat “simple-minded” little System. She opens her eyes to find a scheming dad, a lazy mom, a brother and sister bent on scrounging from their workplaces, and two younger brothers who keep wanting to smash other peo 8.9kReads8.5Score926Shelves
- 24 The 1970s: Grandma Lu Joins the Army with Her Daughter 七零，陆老太跟女儿随军去了 In her previous life, Old Madam Lu never married because of her health. She had no idea how she died. She was nearly eighty, but exercised regularly, had no high blood pressure or other illnesses, and still had a healthy appetite and all her teeth. Then, after just one night, she woke up in the 1970s, decades younger! Old Madam Lu racked her brain, unable to figure out what had happened. But since she was here, she would make the best of it. Besides, she had a biological daughter here, which cou 14kReads8.4Score1.4kShelves
- 25 90: Reborn, I Let My Husband Go and Pursued My Career, Then Married an Army Doctor 90：重生让出老公搞事业嫁军医 [Rebirth] [Period Setting] [Child of a High-Ranking Cadre] [Both Leads Have No Past Relationships] [Military Marriage] [Everyday Family Life] [No Space-Based Golden Finger] After ten years of living apart, Bai Yulan was still divorced, and her child was taken away by her ex-husband, who had gone into business and made a fortune. At last, her son graduated with a PhD and found a good job, only to call her over to look after his child. She worked herself to death. When she opened her eyes, Bai Yul 967Reads6.5Score109Shelves
- 26 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
- 27 You’re Marrying a City Girl? Fine, I’ll Marry the Commander of the Military District 你娶城里姑娘？行，我嫁军区首长 Originally titled: “Divorced in the Sixties Without a Worry, My Ex-Husband Plays Matchmaker for Me” Career arc: From child bride to female military doctor [The Sixties + remarriage + joining the army + devoted husband + medical skills + cozy everyday life + no needless angst] Zhu Linlang woke up one day to find she had landed in the 1960s. The good news: the world was at peace, and she still had all her arms and legs. The bad news: her husband, who had just been promoted, wanted a divorce. Her b 16.7kReads8.9Score2.1kShelves
- 28 I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s 我在八零当后妈 Rich heiress Xu Yang spent years offering a fortune to have a child, but to no avail. Then, after transmigrating, she found herself in a steamy, adults-only scene and got caught in bed! Even more ridiculously, she got pregnant after just that one time! Only after she was forced into marriage did Xu Yang learn that Zhou Shao had five difficult children, and every single one was a “problem child”! Xu Yang: “…” There was no need to hand her this hell-difficulty child-rearing script! P.S. This is a 12kReads8.2Score544Shelves
- 29 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
- 30 I Went to the City with My Lame Dad to Live Off a Rich Woman, and I’m Loving It 随跛子爸进城吃软饭，我真香了 [Ensemble cast + family life + blended family + stepmother reborn + cozy everyday life] In her previous life, Xiang Nuan was terribly unlucky. Born with a congenital illness, she was abandoned by her parents and relatives. Unloved and uncared for, she struggled through twenty-four lonely years. Her next life began just as miserably. While still very young, she was abandoned by her mother. Her father was a cripple, and the two of them were driven out by their own clan... The one thing she could l 13kReads8.3Score1.9kShelves
- 31 Born into the 1950s, I Helped My Scumbag Dad Divorce by Cutting Him Out of the Family 胎穿五零，渣爹要离婚我送他除族 The short drama I Was Born in the 1950s, and I Helped My Mother Remarry is coming on April 15, 2025. Stay tuned! Yan Dan is a plant-based ability user in the apocalypse, where people have become experts on plants. She also has a decent-sized storage space for all kinds of supplies. She thought she could live at the base until the apocalypse ended, but then a zombie horde led by the Zombie King attacked it. And then... then she accidentally kicked the bucket. When she opened her eyes, she had som 10.2kReads8.9Score966Shelves
- 32 Born in the 1950s, Switched at Birth 五零，出生被调换 [Transmigration + 1950s + transmigrated as a baby + spatial storage + self-interested heroine + military marriage] Gu Yihan is caught up in a transmigration to the 1950s because of a mutated hamster. The moment she opens her eyes, she discovers that her mother, who favors boys over girls, has switched her with someone else's son. Her adoptive mother dislikes her, and her adoptive father favors boys over girls. From childhood, Gu Yihan works hard to win her grandmother's favor and earn the chance 11.7kReads7.8Score767Shelves
- 33 Transmigrate into a Book: The 1970s Female Farm Manager Sets the Whole Regiment Ablaze 穿书七零：女场长她火爆全兵团 [Military farm] [Building an era] [Humorous farming] After making an offhand complaint, overworked Tan Xiaoxu transmigrates into a melodramatic romance novel as the male lead’s doomed original wife. The good news: the plot has gone off the rails, and her cousin has taken over the doomed wife’s fate! Tan Xiaoxu, deeply grateful: “What a wonderful person!” If you want to be the doomed wife, go ahead and take my place! Romance-addled fools have no future. Better to reclaim wasteland and build a car 8.6kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
- 34 Military Marriage in the 1980s: The Billionaire Wife Brings Her Child to Force the Commander to Marry Her 八零军婚，百亿夫人带崽逼婚首长 [Period Drama + 1980s + Military Marriage + Family Life + Beauty + Transmigration + Raising Kids + Ensemble Cast] Shen Qingzhi transmigrates into a living nightmare from the start. The original owner was sent to the countryside, kidnapped, and drugged. How awful! After Shen Qingzhi escapes, an accident leaves her stranded overseas. Seven years later, she returns with a fortune worth tens of billions and a pair of “heavenly little darlings.” Her daughter is a princess from ancient times sent off 4.9kReads6.3Score414Shelves
- 35 The Sweet Life of the Sixties' Beloved Darling 六零团宠的蜜糖生活 After an accident, Yang Anyi, a wilderness ranger, transmigrates to the 1960s and becomes a six-year-old girl with the same name, dismissed as a little fool. As the only daughter of the Yang family, she’s cherished by her parents and three uncles and aunts, doted on by her three older brothers and thirteen male cousins, and respected by more than twenty nephews. She gets to experience the warmth and affection of a big family firsthand. But a happy life always has its hardships... Maternal uncle: 2.5kReads9.0Score213Shelves
- 36 Back to the Seventies: I Pledge My Life to the Nation, Not to Marriage 重回七零：此生许国，不嫁了 (The ratings just opened, so a low score is normal!) Xia Qing'an is the chief designer of the Xiao-9 fighter jet. After the Battle of Xiping, this little-known aircraft makes a name for itself across China and the world overnight. Academician Xia, who has just celebrated her sixty-fifth birthday, gazes up at the cloud-piercing Xiao Yun fighter jet, decked in honors, her eyes brimming with tears. The next moment, she realizes she has returned to 1977, when she first arrived at the Lu family's h 3.6kReads8.2Score338Shelves
- 37 After My Biological Brother Was Reborn, the Real Heiress Returned 亲哥重生后，真千金回归了 Lin Yanhui is miserable. Her paternal grandparents favor boys over girls, her father is taciturn, and her mother has a sharp tongue and a sharper heart. And now her name is Huang Zhaodi. In the middle of her chaotic life, she never imagined that one day a group of people would show up at her home and tell her she was their biological daughter! Lin Yanhui: !!! - It wasn’t until three days before Lin Rui died in the line of duty that he learned his family had raised someone else’s child. When they 35.9kReads9.0Score4.1kShelves
- 38 You Won't Let the Little One Eat Her Fill? Flip the Table! Then Nobody Eats! 不让奶团吃饱饭？掀桌！都饿着！ [Period Setting + Adorable Child + Everyone's Darling + Mostly Locals, Light Ensemble Cast + Lighthearted + Funny + Not a Single Member of the Family Is a Soft Touch + Get Even on the Spot] Luo Panpan had never known hardship from the day she was born. Then, at five and a half, her father died. From then on, she never had enough to eat, and they even planned to send her away to be adopted? Not a chance! Her mother was a famous tigress for miles around: bold, resourceful, and good at making money 18.8kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
- 39 The Strongest Educated Youth in the 1970s 七零大力女知青 Su Zhu is the family member best suited to go to the countryside, so she volunteers. Keeping her family's advice in mind, she gets along famously in the village with her passionate enthusiasm and natural strength. It's just that one male educated youth looks at her in a very strange way... 7.1kReads7.7Score541Shelves
- 40 The Butcher’s Chubby Daughter Was Broken Up With, Then Her Luck Soared 屠户家的小胖妞被退婚后福运太旺 [Adapted into a short drama of the same name] + [Strong heroine] + [Sweet romance] + [Comedy] + [No pocket dimension, no System, no transmigration; a lighthearted, invincible ancient-era domestic-strife romp] After years of continuous warfare, the population of the Great Yue Kingdom kept dwindling. To encourage population growth, the rulers introduced a law requiring every woman in Great Yue to marry by the age of eighteen. Any woman who remained unmarried upon reaching marriageable age would be 12.5kReads8.6Score1.4kShelves
- 41 The Fierce Eldest Sister of the 80s Crashes Her Scumbag Father's Wedding from the Start 八零长姐如虎开局砸了渣爹结婚宴 [Historical setting + 1980s + light ensemble cast + false rebirth + adorable children + satisfying revenge + no golden finger + family drama] Her scumbag father brought his mistress home, moved into his ex-wife's house, slept in her bed, and even abused her children! Then Yao Shula, specially brought in to deal with the scumbag father, was reborn. She had to deal with her scumbag father and his mistress, and look after her younger siblings too. And since she'd come all this way, she might as wel 67.9kReads8.9Score2.7kShelves
- 42 The All-Powerful Queen Goes Back to the 1970s and Spoils Her Cold, Handsome Soldier 全能女王到七零，娇宠高冷兵王 [Historical Era + Following the Army + Extra Sweet + Feel-Good + Devoted Husband + Powerful Heroine + No Storage Space] The main story is complete. The ongoing chapters are extras. Jiang Yunmeng, an all-around queen, was gravely injured and died after falling into the sea. She arrived in the resource-scarce 1960s and 1970s as a delicate young lady who was on the verge of death. After being rescued again and again, someone asked for her hand in marriage. He was a handsome army officer, standing a 9.8kReads8.0Score1.4kShelves
- 43 The Young General’s Sassy Instructor Teases the Enemy Agents Until They’re in Tears 军少娇痞教官戏耍敌特颤泪三行啊 [Alternate-history 1960s + strong leads facing off + hilarious face-slapping wish fulfillment + bickering couple + farming during famine + getting rich through research] Rebellious, cocky, and charming instructor VS calm, cool, and calculating young master from the capital In her previous life, Nan Fengyun was known as Phantom, the world's strongest international assassin. But her arrogance got the better of her, and she was killed when her target ambushed her during a mission. Then she was rebo 781Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The 1970s: How Did Saving Someone End in Marriage? 七零，救个人怎么就要结婚了 Summer, 1970. Su Maiya, home from school for summer vacation, leisurely rides her bicycle back to the village from the county seat. As she passes the village pond, she hears a sound and glances over. Huh? Does it look like someone’s flailing around in the pond? Did someone fall in? Should she save them or not? She hesitates for a long while. The person seems to be sinking... She quickly parks her bicycle, jumps into the pond with a splash, and swims over as fast as she can. When she gets close, 8.8kReads8.2Score924Shelves
- 45 You Want Me to Cook at Three in the Morning? I’ll Slap Your Whole Family Away 让我三点做饭？我反手扇飞你全家 (The short drama My Slaps Changed My Fate in the 1970s is now available.) [Period setting + military marriage + mental illness + both devoted to each other + career in government + a heroine who would rather throw hands than talk, versus a rough-around-the-edges regiment commander who stole his comrade’s bride] Ever since Su Wanxing was diagnosed with a mental illness, life has been going wonderfully. She can curse out whoever she wants and beat up whoever she wants. She can even beat up a perve 17.3kReads8.6Score2.2kShelves
- 46 A Tycoon’s Heir? Perfect, I’ll Take Him Home as My Husband 资本家大少爷？正好扛回家做老公 [Period setting + fishing village + marriage first, love later + devoted husband + building a fortune] “Chu, do you want a man or not?” One moment, Song Nianchu is celebrating her company going public. The next, she has transmigrated into an orphan girl in a fishing village in the 1970s. The girl is young and beautiful, but born with superhuman strength. She can kill a mad bull with one punch, and now that she is nearly twenty, no one dares marry her. Her late father is so furious that he appear 22.1kReads8.1Score866Shelves
- 47 The Days I Happily Enjoyed Gossip in the Crowded Compound 我在大杂院快乐吃瓜的那些日子 [Period] [The Sixties] [Light Ensemble Cast] [Book Transmigration] [Pocket Dimension] [Feel-Good Story] [Everyday Family Life] [No Going to the Countryside] Cheng Ying discovers that she has transmigrated into a Period novel. She has four older siblings, some sharing only her father and others only her mother. The whole family is set up as a foil to the female lead, who lives with them in the same crowded compound, and they all meet tragic ends. Known throughout the compound as the tigress who c 295.4kReads9.0Score44.3kShelves
- 48 The Lucky Star of the 1960s: The Lu Family's Grain Storehouse Is Overflowing 六零小福星，陆家屯粮爆仓了 [Farming in a bygone era, getting rich, everyday family life, super strength, reading fortunes and earning merit, adorable lucky baby, everyone's favorite, pocket dimension, stockpiling supplies, gossip] After her parents die in service and her grandparents pass away, the four-year-old little dumpling is left an orphan. The good news: everyone in the Lin family wants to adopt her. The bad news: they're all after the money set aside for her care. As the orphaned child of fallen heroes, the lit 25.4kReads8.6Score2.9kShelves
- 49 Mother-in-Law Rushes to the Capital Overnight: She Wins Over the Compound with Her Cooking from the Start 婆婆连夜进京：开局厨艺征服大院 (Period setting + cozy everyday life + raising kids + family and neighborhood affairs + career + ensemble cast) Chen Zhimin is a no-nonsense Northeast Chinese auntie. When her son and daughter-in-law need help, she packs her bags overnight and heads straight to the capital to look after the child. If her daughter-in-law says east, she won’t go west. If her daughter-in-law tells her to chase the dog, she won’t go after the chickens. Thanks to her cooking skills, she thrives in the military compo 51.2kReads9.1Score4.7kShelves
- 50 A Landlord Travels Back to the 1960s, Takes His Fortune, and Goes to the Countryside with His Younger Brother 包租公穿六零卷了家产带弟弟下乡 [Period] + [raising kids] + [pocket dimension] + [sent down to the countryside] Xu Yanhao had graduated from college and settled into life as a landlord, but after a nap, he opens his eyes to find himself back in 1965. His family has all disappeared overnight, leaving behind a huge house, a fortune no one knows about, and a little brother just three and a half years old who is still hungry and helpless. Once he's figured out what's going on, Xu Yanhao immediately packs up and heads to the countr 17.8kReads8.1Score2.5kShelves
