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- 1 Transmigrate into a Book: The 1970s! I Marry a Crazy Villain and Make Him Cry 穿书七零！嫁疯批反派！我疼哭他 Updated with 30,000 words a day. Trust me and come read! [Transmigrate into a book + 1970s + pocket dimension + sweet romance + everyday life + building wealth + raising kids + beautiful, tough villainess + rugged male villain] The moment Ye Qi opened her eyes, she saw a man who was perfect in every way. Thinking she was dreaming, she devoured him. When she opened her eyes again, she realized she had transmigrated into a book, and not just any book: she was now inside a novel written by her enem —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Village That Year 那年的村庄 This is a purely realistic rural novel set in the 1980s. It has no rebirth, no transmigration, no System or cheat, no golden finger, and no underdog comeback or face-slapping tropes. It realistically portrays the everyday life of the countryside from beginning to end, capturing the ordinary struggles and varied lives of a generation. Readers who prefer fast-paced power fantasies, cheat-driven wish fulfillment, or melodramatic comeback stories can move right along. Those who love historically gr 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Back to the Eighties: Transmigrated as a Strong Woman to Build a Career 重回八零：穿成女强搞事业 Chen Tingting is the clever, sensible daughter of the chairman of Dongning Group and a top student. She is preparing to apply for a PhD at one of the country's top universities, studying late into the night every day. At two in the morning, after finishing revisions to her thesis, she suddenly feels as if her head is splitting, and then loses consciousness. When she opens her eyes again, she has traveled back to 1983. Her namesake, "Chen Tingting," is being forced into marriage in exchange for a 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 I Reincarnate as a Stunning Beauty in the 1970s and Head to the Countryside 穿成七十年代大美人我去下乡了 [Powerful heroine, male lead appears later, illustrious family background, sweet romance] When Li Wanqing wakes up, she discovers that she has become a great beauty in the 1970s. To keep her parents from noticing the change, she decides to go to the countryside. After arriving in the countryside, Li Wanqing becomes a muscular beauty: strong, skilled in martial arts, and gorgeous. No one in the village dares to mess with her. Fang Yichen realizes that he is falling more and more for Li Wanqing. H 3.9kReads7.4Score310Shelves
- 5 The Empress Arrives at the Educated Youth Center 皇后娘娘驾到知青所 In the Great Xia Kingdom, Chen Lan, daughter of General Chen, is known as the Sleeping Beauty. Of the twelve two-hour periods in a day, she spends eight of them asleep. But no one knows that after her soul leaves her body in Great Xia, Chen Lan ends up in the body of Chen Lanwei in Huaguo, living a completely different life. And so, in the 1970s, a quirky little country girl appears. They first meet on a train. Lu Yichen is about to help when a small figure darts out, snatches a child away, an 2.3kReads8.5Score293Shelves
- 6 The Spoiled Heiress Is Marrying a Wife-Doting Maniac 娇气包大小姐结婚对象是宠妻狂魔 Delicate beauty × lovestruck military officer [Military Marriage + Spirit Spring Space + Feel-Good Story + Devoted Husband + Marriage Before Love] The male lead has secretly loved her for a long time, and his careful plotting finally pays off. Before breaking off her engagement, Yu Yue dreamed of her past life. She listened to her best friend, ended her engagement, and got together with a scumbag, who cheated her out of her family fortune and left her to starve to death on the streets. After wak 365Reads5.3Score114Shelves
- 7 I Came to the Capital to Break Off My Engagement, Entered the Wrong Room, and Was Spoiled by a Military Officer Who Couldn’t Have Children 进京退婚走错房，被绝嗣军官误宠 [1970s + transmigrate into a book + devoted couples + everyday family life + spirit spring space] After finally passing the civil service exam and landing a job, Jiang Youyou was reborn from birth into a period novel as a cannon-fodder character. The original owner broke off her engagement to the male lead, who was supposedly unable to have children, and was scared to death by his icy, stony expression. Jiang Youyou struggled through nineteen years, then headed to the capital with the engagement 18.5kReads8.5Score2.3kShelves
- 8 Married Off to a Rough-and-Ready Army Officer, the High-Maintenance Beauty Is Doted On 换嫁！作精美人被糙汉军官娇宠了 [Radiant, high-maintenance beauty vs. patriarchal, domineering military officer | 1980s | Eight-year age gap] Wen Jiaojiao, a high-maintenance beauty, accidentally discovers that she's a cannon-fodder supporting character in a book. Back then, she used underhanded tactics to sleep with Fu Jingyao, a powerful military officer who was supposed to become her brother-in-law, and marry him. After their wedding, she raised hell, relying on her powerful backer to turn the Fu family upside down. Meanwhi 5.4kReads—Score582Shelves
- 9 Spending the Wedding Night with My Widowed Sister-in-Law? I Empty My Ex's Home and Marry a Young Officer 圆房夜陪寡嫂？我搬空前夫嫁军少 (Feel-good revenge, reborn to crush scumbags, sent-down youth, pocket dimension) In her previous life, Jiang Ning was a beautiful, fair-skinned daughter of a wealthy capitalist family. Faced with being sent to the countryside or exiled, she chose to marry beneath her station. She thought she had grabbed a lifeline, but instead she had jumped into a bottomless pit of fire. When she had nowhere to go, her in-laws moved into the house her parents had left behind. At home, she worked like an ox, whi 41.8kReads8.5Score5.1kShelves
- 10 Transmigrated into a Book, the Delicate Educated Youth Blushes Under the Rough, Possessive Man's Flirting 穿书，娇气知青被偏执糙汉撩红脸 [Transmigrate into a book + period setting + both leads are pure in body and mind + love grows over time + satisfying face-slapping] Delicate young lady VS a rough, gruff man with a soft heart (the male lead is clean and smells like soap. He really doesn’t stink!!!) The delicate young lady Wen Yinru transmigrates into a period novel she once read. The moment she opens her eyes, she has become the vicious supporting female character who shares her name. She smacks her lips and swears she will nev 37Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 11 Educated Youth on the Black Soil 黑土地知青 On the wastelands of the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps, young people sent to support the border set down their luggage and picked up their hoes. They reclaimed and defended the land, while protecting the frontier. They put down roots in this black soil, sowing in spring and harvesting in autumn, training through the coldest days of winter. In company barracks, communal homes, and between the fields, they made a life out of the most authentic days of Corps life. There are no gol 303Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 A Delicate Female Side Character Hooks a Rugged Man in the 1970s 七零年代之娇软女配钓糙汉 [Period setting + reborn + sweet romance + farming] The heroine, Yang Zhenzhen, transmigrates with a pocket dimension golden finger. She faces a spiteful grandmother who makes life difficult for her, a timid mother, and a sickly father. Everyone keeps saying she can’t give birth to a son. Yang Zhenzhen swears that one day everyone will envy her. With the grain from her pocket dimension, she manages to get close to Chen Xuan, a worker at the steel mill, and the two eventually become the richest p 37Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 13 Reborn in the 1980s: Making Money and Winning Over Men 重生80年代，赚钱撩汉两不误 Lin Father: The government has announced its policy. The farmland belongs to the farmers... Lin Mother: That's wonderful! We'll have land of our own... Lin Huiru: Mom, Dad, we can lease the land, plant fruit trees, raise geese, and grow medicinal herbs... Lin Younger Brother: Sis is right. We can really make something of this... Lin Older Sister: Sure, I'll go along with you. The family of five began farming... Then they opened a clothing store... Lin Qinghe: Hello, we're carrying out an operati 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Reported and Sent to the Countryside in the 1970s, the Sweet Young Educated Youth Can Talk to Rats 七零被举报下乡，娇软知青通鼠语 The whole novel is complete! Give it a chance and read the first two chapters! [Feel-good story + period setting + alternate history + everyone’s favorite + transmigrate into a book + everyday life in the countryside] Jiang Nian was hit by a car. As a contract worker in the underworld, after her death she used her employee benefits card to be reborn in the 1960s. Her ability to communicate with rodents came along with her, and later, through a twist of fate, she also got a prize-drawing wheel! [ 2.2kReads8.1Score208Shelves
- 15 Transmigrating to the ’70s: The Most Gorgeous Enchantress Takes the World by Storm 穿越七零，最美妖精撩翻天 (A gorgeous, proud, slim-waisted beauty VS a rugged, wickedly charming military officer) A bickering couple at first, then he spoils her rotten Farming life + family squabbles + slow pace If it's not your cup of tea, please don't flame me! I beg you! The heroine is timid but loves to flirt; the hero is wicked and doting! In the modern world, Mo Qing'er is a lonely office worker forced to master all kinds of skills. As she nears thirty, her wallet is bursting and she has achieved financial freedo 277Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 16 The 1960s: I Bring a Tycoon Home to Harbor City with My Spatial Supplies for Revenge 六零，我携空间带大佬回港城复仇 Alternate-era setting + transmigrate into a book + an obsessive, unstable big shot + a personal dimension. Early story: sent to the countryside + black market + starting a business in Hong Kong + reuniting with family and taking revenge. Overworked Bai Xingran is in a car accident on her way home from work and unexpectedly transmigrates into an era novel, becoming the fallen daughter of a capitalist family. It's hell mode from the start! Her scumbag father takes all the family fortune and flees 35.3kReads8.6Score5.8kShelves
- 17 The Sickly Young Master’s Forced Love in the 1980s 八十年代病娇少爷强制爱 [Both reborn. A male lead who seems gentle and refined but is secretly sinister, scheming, and obsessively possessive x a gentle, hardworking heroine] Yuxin had a miserable life in her previous one. Reborn at twenty, she came to the city to work on an assembly line and became the “bedmate” of a sickly young master who was also twenty. At first, the young master disliked her bad sleeping habits. Yuxin tried everything to please him, and fortunately, he was considerate and didn't replace her. But 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 After a Lightning Marriage, a Peony Blossom Spirit Is Doted on in the 1970s 闪婚后，牡丹花妖在七零被娇宠 [Period story + alternate setting + marriage first, love later + raising kids] Tian Yanyan is strikingly beautiful, and thinks she can rely on her looks to get away with acting spoiled. But when her mother and stepfather have a son of their own, they decide she’s no longer useful and kick her out. Tian Yanyan has no choice but to seek refuge with her father. As luck would have it, less than three days later, he is demoted because of a mistake. Her father, stepmother, and the rest of the family a 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The 1980s: My Gruff Officer Husband Is Too Fierce for His Delicate Wife 八零：糙汉首长太凶，娇妻受不住 [Period setting + military marriage + sweet and delicate heroine x rugged male lead + one-on-one, both pure + marriage before love] “Gang, hurry up. This is the ladies’ restroom...” Back in 1980, Su Wanqing got a shock from the start! She caught her scumbag fiancé fooling around in the women’s restroom! Faced with his schemes and pressure from her awful relatives, she had just one thought. This marriage had to be called off! She’d get her revenge right then and there! She deliberately twisted he 54Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 20 Flirting with That Rugged Man 招惹那个糙汉子 How to Win Over That Roughneck 39Reads—Score112Shelves
- 21 The 1990s: My Sickly Sweet Husband, Don’t Be Like This 九零年代：病娇老公别这样 [Yandere / Obsessive / Devoted / Corruption / Redemption] Lin Beisheng lost his mother as a child. Living in darkness, he was like a little wolf cub. His only source of warmth was Ruan Anmian. The little fool didn’t know she had long since become the wolf cub’s prey. Years later, Ruan Anmian was taken away and forced to stay by his side. She feared him, struggled, suffered, and tried to run, but in the end she always returned to where it began. Lin Beisheng: “You’re my darling. Without you, I ha 629Reads—Score100Shelves
- 22 Dani and Jianguo 大妮与建国 In the 1980s, Dani and Jianguo come from a small village called Qingshui Bay. At first, one dreams of becoming an obstetrician-gynecologist, while the other wants to be an auto mechanic. How will their story end? 126Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Sweet as Honey: A Pampered Life in the Eighties 蜜糖年代：八零娇宠日常 After modern designer Shen Zhiyi dies suddenly, she transmigrates into a period novel as a cannon-fodder supporting heroine who gets dumped by her fiancé right in the opening chapter. Faced with the original male lead’s patronizing promise, “I’ll take responsibility,” she tears up the script in front of everyone. “The engagement is off. We have nothing to do with each other.” Everyone waits to laugh as the orphan falls into ruin, only to watch her move into a cramped apartment building and dazzl 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Sweet Military Marriage in the 1980s: The Delicate Beauty Is Irresistible 八零军婚甜蜜蜜，凝脂美人苏又撩 Rugged military officer: cold and abstinent at first, then a devoted husband who protects his wife × stunning, flirtatious little enchantress of a heroine (they save each other) Su Su transmigrates into the first wife of the male lead in a period novel, a woman destined to die young. She’ll fall gravely ill at twenty-three and die in the prime of her life. Even her two young children are doomed, one to die and the other to go mad. The heroine is assigned to care for her. At her bedside, she co 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 I Transmigrated into a Book Set in the 1990s, Married a Bully, and Found a Beautiful Life 穿书九零，嫁恶霸享美好人生 [Period + Transmigrate into a Book + Marriage First, Love Later + Sweet Romance + Stingy Bully vs. Lazy Darling] Shi Ting and her domineering boss, Yun Fan, transmigrate into a book as siblings. The hapless pair come up with all sorts of schemes to slack off and avoid working. When their interests align, they work together. When they don't, they argue until they're red in the face. Neither wants to work in the fields, and the one who hates school most of all pretends to be stupid and even fights 348Reads6.4Score102Shelves
- 26 The Charming Eighties Girl Gives a Wink, and the Cold-Faced Officer Spoils Her with His Life 八零娇女勾勾手，冷面军官拿命宠 Powerful man brought to his knees + a long, hard road to winning her back, transmigrate into a book, both are pure, simmering romantic tension On the train to the capital, she drew the attention of the entire carriage the moment she stepped aboard. It couldn’t be helped: she was simply too striking. Her small face was pale and luminous as jade, her almond-shaped eyes clear and glossy, her lips a vivid red. She was both sweet and alluring, with a hint of sensuality beneath her innocence. The o 277Reads7.5Score107Shelves
- 27 The Four Men in My Life 我生命中的四个男人 Xu Li is a pure-hearted, beautiful, independent young woman from a poor rural family. She devotes herself to studying for college, but after moving to the provincial capital, she accidentally becomes the mistress of a wealthy man and even gets pregnant. She has no idea what to do. Worse still, she and her first love are inexplicably drawn into a lawsuit from twenty years ago. Thirty-six people died in that case, and a survivor has come forward with information that might turn things around. With 1.6kReads6.6Score112Shelves
- 28 After Following the Villainess Plot, I Had the Time of My Life! 走恶毒剧情后，我爽极了！ Lu Xiaqing transmigrates into a period novel as the villainous fiancée. In the original story, the heroine's predecessor covets the male lead's status as an army officer and does everything she can to marry him. Just as they are about to hold the wedding banquet, he receives an urgent assignment and leaves. Afraid her cooked duck might fly away, she moves into his home to serve his entire family, waiting for him for three years. After three years, she can wait no longer and runs off with a man f 20.4kReads8.1Score3.2kShelves
- 29 Reborn, the Charming Educated Youth Is Spoiled by the Mightiest Soldier King 俏知青重生后，被最强兵王宠翻天 124Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 30 Xiao Shuang Is Vain 萧爽她爱慕虚荣 Xiao Shuang grew up deep in the vast, remote reaches of the Da Qing Mountain range, where the lofty peaks and dense forests seemed to cut her off completely from the outside world. Every day, all she saw were green mountains and clear waters, along with the birds and beasts that roamed the slopes. She knew nothing about the colorful world beyond. Then one day, a popular reality show arrived in the remote mountain forest where she lived, completely disrupting her peaceful life. When she first saw —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 An Eighties Military Marriage: A Stunning Fox Spirit Enters the Era Novel 八零军婚，绝色狐狸精到年代文后 (Also known as Eighties Fox: The Stunning Vixen Who Dreams of Having an Affair Every Day) (Military marriage + both leads inexperienced + pregnant and on the run + desperate pursuit + seduction + System + captivating heroine) Lin Wan is a nine-tailed fox who is three hundred years old. The fox clan has only one special ability, the art of bewitching hearts, along with their naturally stunning beauty. After eating a high-grade beauty fruit, she transmigrates to the 1980s. Now she has the System. 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Sweetheart Calls Off the Engagement, and the Rough Commander Couldn't Be Happier 娇娇一退婚，糙汉首长笑麻了 [Transmigrate into a book + 1970s + military marriage + spiritual spring space] [The heroine is stunningly beautiful, the most beautiful in the book, and she only gets prettier!] After finally defeating eighty-eight other heirs, Tang Nianhuan became the sole designated successor to a family of traditional medicine practitioners. She was on the verge of reaching the pinnacle of success when she opened her eyes and found herself in a novel set in the 1970s, as a cannon-fodder supporting female cha 824Reads8.5Score109Shelves
- 33 The Beloved Lucky Star of the 1980s 八零团宠锦鲤妻 [Feel-good power fantasy + strong heroine + doted on by everyone + baby] He Qinglian is reborn in the 1980s, on the very night she was tied up and taken to a sweet potato cellar. There, she meets again the cool, taciturn man. In her previous life, because of the feud between their families, they were husband and wife for just one night before being separated. This time, He Qinglian decides they’ll be husband and wife for life! But before she can make a move, everyone starts doting on her. “Big S 4Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 34 The Celibate Officer Seduces His Fertile, Adorable Wife Every Night, and They Have Multiples 禁欲军官夜夜撩易孕娇妻一胎多宝 Su Wan'er, a pampered young woman from Shanghai, was forced to marry Lu Heng, the “Living Hades” stationed on a distant island, to repay a debt of gratitude. He was a regiment commander. Everyone said Commander Lu was cold, celibate, and uninterested in women, and that marrying him meant a life without a husband. Su Wan'er prepared for a marriage of icy politeness, too. But who could have guessed that the man who was as cold as an iceberg by day would be as passionate as a volcano on their weddi 289Reads8.4Score105Shelves
- 35 Peachy Treasure of the Seventies: The Sweet, Soft Village Beauty 七零桃宝：娇软村花甜又撩 [Clumsy, Soft Beauty X Lovelorn Big-Shot Educated Youth + Everyone's Darling + System + Sickeningly Sweet] In her previous life, Xu Ningyi was a thousand-year-old ginseng spirit deep in the mountains. Her greatest obsession was gaining human form, going down the mountain, and eating every delicacy in the world. But then... she got struck by lightning and fried to a crisp! ✨ When she opened her eyes again, she'd become the beloved darling of the Xu family in the 1970s! Her parents doted on her, 549Reads5.6Score111Shelves
- 36 The 1970s: A Cold, Rugged Man Takes Me Home as His Little Fairy 七零：被清冷糙汉当作妖精捡回家 [Period Drama + Naive Little Spirit + Refined, Rugged Man + Fantasy + Fake Everyone’s Favorite Female Side Character + Sweet Romance + Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Also known as Camellia Blossom Spirit in the Seventies Synopsis: After a flower spirit is struck by lightning, she wakes up to find a young man with a mole between his brows has picked her up. This is the story of how she lives through an era of scarcity. There is romance and ambition among the educated youth, along with the everyday life 47Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 37 Don’t Run, Sweetheart! The Big Shot from Shanghai and Beijing Is Claiming You 乖别跑！沪京大佬强制爱 [1990s + Period Setting + Everyday Family Life + Local Bully + CEO + Cozy, Sweet Romance + Building Wealth + Winning Her Back + Taking Her by Force] (Not a traditional power fantasy) (A 1990s CEO-tries-to-win-her-back story) In her previous life, Jiang Min was sold by her family to the factory manager’s son. Later, his family sent her to sleep with a superior in exchange for job opportunities. Luckily, Wei Xiao rescued her. Unfortunately, Wei Xiao, the man who saved her, turned out to be a r 253Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 38 I Was a Sent-Down Youth 我是知青 This is a strictly realistic novel about educated youth sent to the countryside at Hongqi Commune on the Loess Plateau. It vividly depicts their years in the countryside from start to finish, recreating the simple, arduous realities of everyday life for an entire generation. Readers who love realistic historical fiction set in a bygone era and true-to-life depictions of educated youth life are welcome to read on. 668Reads—Score101Shelves
- 39 An '80s Flash Marriage to a Sweet, Gentle Beauty: Her Husband Spoils Her Rotten 八零闪婚娇软美人，男主宠上瘾 [Period Setting + Transmigration + Marriage First, Love Later + Beloved Wife + Golden Finger + One-on-One Sweet Romance + Building Wealth + Adorable Baby] Su Liyu has just won a beauty pageant when she gets drunk and transmigrates back to the 1980s. From the start, she's in one crisis after another: a mysterious person plots to kidnap and sell her. Though a tall, broad-shouldered stranger rescues her in time, malicious gossip ruins her reputation. How could her family stand by while Su Liyu face 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 My Scumbag Husband Protects the Capitalist's Daughter, So I Join the Army with a Spirit Spring 渣男护资本家小姐，我带灵泉随军 [Alternate history + reborn + military marriage + spirit-spring space + face-slapping revenge + bright and confident heroine vs. cool and devoted hero] In her previous life, Shen Qinghe spent twenty years as a widow. She also spent nearly twenty years raising someone else’s child for nothing. In the end, she learned that her parents and family had all died because of her, and that she had been nothing but a stepping stone for a spoiled capitalist heiress! She thought that killing the heiress and 19.8kReads8.5Score2.7kShelves
- 41 A Beautiful Educated Youth Marries a Rugged Country Man and Gets Spoiled Every Day 貌美知青下乡嫁糙汉后被日日强宠 Jiang Shinuang wakes up to discover she's been reborn as a sent-down youth in the countryside in the 1970s. Her boyfriend and best friend have betrayed her and schemed to marry her off to a penniless local village bully. But as she looks at the village bully, Jiang Shinuang thinks, Isn't this the famous business magnate she saw on the news in her previous life, the man who built his fortune from nothing at a young age and remained unmarried and childless all his life? What are the odds? And yet, 78Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 42 The Sharp-Tongued Educated Youth Munches on Seeds and Makes Her Way into the Military Compound 毒舌知青，磕着瓜子混到军属大院 When Miss Su wakes up, she finds herself transmigrated into the body of a poor girl about to be sent to the countryside in the 1970s. Her lecherous stepfather wants to take advantage of her, her mother is cowardly and selfish, and her stepsiblings are vicious and greedy. It would be bad enough if they were just taking advantage of her, but they even want her dead. Is she going to put up with that? Absolutely not! So she beats up her scumbag father, gets her stepbrother sent to prison, and sends 1.1kReads8.5Score100Shelves
- 43 I Take My Child to the Military District to Find Their Father, and My Reformed Ex-Husband Cries as He Kisses Them 带娃上军区找爹，改造前夫被亲哭 A college girl from the 1970s shows up at the army base pregnant, looking for the officer she abandoned, her ex-husband [She trains her husband into a military-region powerhouse + a marriage swap lets her keep her man in line + fair-skinned, beautiful heiress from a capitalist family VS the commander’s biological son, just brought back from the countryside] Xia Tao is a fair-skinned, beautiful young heiress from a capitalist family, a rare college student in this era. Her mother is scheming and 207kReads8.5Score20.6kShelves
- 44 The White Moonlight Is Reborn with Her Beauty 白月光她持美重生 [Clear-headed, decisive beauty x possessive, aloof military officer | Devoted to each other | Extra-sweet romance | Utterly cherished] Reborn and kicking her trash ex to the curb, Ruan Wei sets her sights on the most dangerous iceberg of all: Mr. Gu. Everyone says he’s cold and ruthless, and that no one should go near him? She’s determined to provoke him. But... every attempt to make things difficult for her turns into him backing her up, and every provocation becomes a declaration of war! He ha 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Love in a Rental Apartment 出租房里的爱情 Chen Mo comes from a poor village deep in the mountains. After someone else takes his place at university by intercepting his college entrance exam admission letter, he has no choice but to head to the prosperous Pearl River Delta, where he struggles to survive and pursue his dreams. This book paints a sweeping portrait of the stories of young men and women born in the 1970s and 1980s who went south to work in Guangdong in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The era captured in these pages is both a 46kReads8.3Score4kShelves
- 46 The Cool, Beautiful Interpreter of the 1970s Catches the Eye of an Obsessed Army Officer 七零冷艳翻译官被病娇军官盯上了 Lin Tingwan had achieved fame and success before transmigrating into a period novel, where she becomes a young educated woman sent to the countryside who dies from the start. After someone saves her, she promises Lu Bozhou, the sickly, possessive military officer who rescued her, that she’ll repay him for saving her from drowning. Lu Bozhou turns around and hands her a huge burden, using it as an excuse to keep in touch with Lin Tingwan. He even risks his own life to save her. Once Lin Tingwan —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Beloved Transmigrator in the 1970s: The Capitalist's Eldest Daughter! 万人迷穿书七零，资本家大小姐！ Jiang Xiaoxiao had known since childhood that she was beautiful. After all, beautiful people were always treated well. Everyone around her had always been kind to her. Ever since she was little, her drawers had been filled with stack after stack of love letters. In the words of a novel, she was a total heartthrob! What a shame... She died in the prime of her youth. The good news was, she came back to life. The bad news was, she had transmigrated into a book, as a capitalist heiress who never eve 44.4kReads7.2Score4.8kShelves
- 48 Wake Up! The Delicate Darling Is Kissed and Spoiled by Her New Husband 睁眼！娇气精被换亲丈夫又亲又宠 Please check the top-left corner. The rating is low because not many people have reviewed it. [Rebirth + Spoiled Female Lead + Devoted Male Lead + Sweet, Affectionate Everyday Life + Utterly Pampered Wife + Both Are Each Other's One and Only] An Xin is fair-skinned and beautiful, a renowned village beauty. But because of her family's poor class background, no one dares to marry her. In the end, she is forced into a marriage swap with Song Zhiyuan, a man from a poor family. She resents the marria 15.6kReads7.2Score1.6kShelves
- 49 The Cannon Fodder Everyone Loves in a Period Novel 年代文里的炮灰万人迷 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Spoiled Girl Plays Helpless, Making the Officer Melt and Comfort Her 作精娇女装可怜，让军官心软轻哄 [Period setting + military marriage + face-slapping + a golden finger that multiplies and returns everything + sweet romance + mutual devotion] Yu Yihuan transmigrates into a period novel and becomes a pitiful girl adopted by parents who neither love nor care for her. Her cousin is the brigade leader's daughter, and her childhood betrothed is a soldier. Yu Yihuan, meanwhile, is supposed to marry a lazy country bumpkin with three children. * While Yu Yihuan watches a handsome man bathing by the r 32Reads6.6Score—Shelves
