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- 1 The 1960s: A Terrible Old Woman Works as a Street Cleaner to Support Her Family 六零：极品老太太当环卫工养全家 Shen An’an is reborn in the hardest three years of her life. She opens her eyes to find herself selling her daughter, and memories of her children’s tragic fates flood her mind. Selling her daughter was only the beginning in her previous life. She threw her weight around, and all nine of her children eventually left her. She sold her eldest for ten yuan to a thirty-five-year-old man, not knowing that he enjoyed beating and berating her. He beat her to death. Her second child went up the mountain 34Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 2 I Picked Through Trash with the Little Ones of the Sixties 我和六零幼崽一起捡垃圾 The new book has only just received its first rating, so it’ll gradually go up~ [System + Historical Era + Two Farming Ventures] Cheng Wei sighed while scrolling through short videos, saying she wished she could go scavenging too. A junk-collecting System immediately bound her and sent her off to collect interstellar trash. What she hadn’t expected was that one of her coworkers would be a little kid from the 1960s. The System was actually employing child labor! But once she found nutritious stra 892Reads7.1Score13014d adds
- 3 Reborn in 1950: Building Wealth with a Wholesale Market 重生五零：携带批发市场发财致富 Era + personal space + golden finger + strong heroine + outrageous characters + building a strong nation Lin Xiaoxue lost her life saving someone else. Fortunately, Heaven took pity on her, and she was reborn in the 1950s. But, unfortunately, she starts out with a sacrificial-lamb script. As she transmigrates into a life of fleeing famine, her parents wrap up their provisions and head northeast in search of a chance to survive, leaving Lin Xiaoxue behind in a mud-brick house on the outskirts of 2.8kReads7.6Score23614d adds
- 4 A Village Girl's Modern Working Life in the 1960s 六零村姑现代打工记 Slow burn + ensemble cast + few obnoxious characters + cozy No CP! No CP!! No CP!!! The everyday story of a village girl in the 1960s working hard in the modern era so everyone can survive the famine. In the 1960s, after a natural disaster, the world is so hungry that people are reduced to eating Guanyin clay. Xu Duoduo, the second person in the Xu family still strong enough to move, searches desperately for tree roots. Then, on the mountain, she digs up a red-and-yellow button buried by someone 225Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 5 Building Up a Barren Mountain, the Blind Box System Is Full of God-Tier Items 打造荒山，盲盒系统全是神级道具 [Infrastructure + Management + Food + Everyday Life + Ensemble Cast + No Romance + Golden Finger] Meng Rao has only three months left to live. By chance, an unreliable System barges into her mind. From then on, her modest goal is to turn a barren mountain into the nation’s top-tier star resort. - “Bind yourself to the Xia Qing Mountain Scenic Area and get disease-cleansing capsules!” “Floating islands on Mirror Lake, starlight rafting, and underwater capsule rooms!” “Misty mushroom forests, tree 1kReads6.6Score10714d adds
- 6 In the Famine Years, This Shameless Old Lady Supports Her Whole Family as a Cleaner 饥荒年，极品老太当保洁养全家 The short drama based on this book, “In the Famine, I Scavenged for Trash to Feed My Family Meat,” is now streaming! Tian Yuerong was reborn. In her previous life, she had been a concubine in an official's family in the capital and had two sons and a daughter. After the principal wife died, Tian Yuerong was about to be made the new principal wife, but then her husband died too. With no one left to protect her, she was driven out to a country estate by the mistress of the main branch of the famil 1.8kReads8.2Score13314d adds
- 7 A Woodshed in the 1960s Leads to the Modern Era: The Siblings Gather Vegetables to Feed the Family 六零柴房通现代，兄妹捡菜把家养 [Connected to the modern world from the 1960s + young siblings as protagonists + no romantic pairing for the main characters] Their dad is missing, their mom is bedridden after a difficult birth, and their heartless grandparents have separated them from the family. The siblings Su Xiaoxiao and Su Jin think they'll starve to death this winter. But when their blood accidentally gets on the door-god image at the woodshed entrance, the two children end up at a modern wholesale market. There are vege 25.1kReads8.5Score1.7k14d adds
- 8 Fleeing Famine and Farming: My Golden Finger Is a Trash Can 逃荒种田：我的金手指是个垃圾桶 (Transmigration + fleeing famine + building something from nothing + a touch of ensemble cast) (The early story is about fleeing famine, the later story about farming. A slice-of-life tale of family and village affairs, with a romantic pairing that shows up further in.) On an utterly ordinary day, Fang Li went out to throw away the trash, only to be struck dead by some thoughtless idiot dropping something from a height. When she woke up, she had become a six-year-old girl with the same name as h 29.2kReads8.4Score4.4k14d adds
- 9 Yaya's Coin Purse: From Desolate Village to Hidden Paradise 芽芽的荷包：荒村到世外桃源 [Farming + past-and-present transmigration + adorable child + cozy business management (slice of life, no romance)] Five-year-old Yaya’s tattered purse can connect to the modern world. It starts with half a braised egg scavenged from a garbage heap, then she discovers that wild greens sell for more than gold in the modern world. From scavenging to trading, from scraping by to running a business. With a little basket on her back, she travels between two worlds. From a single braised egg to a 81.1kReads9.3Score5.6k14d adds
- 10 I Inherited a Scenic Area and Turned It into a Secret Cultivation Realm 继承景区，爆改修真秘境 [No Romance + Infrastructure Building + Tourist Attraction Management + Intangible Cultural Heritage Experiences] (The protagonist doesn’t cultivate immortality. He follows a different system.) Lin Bo transmigrates to a parallel world and inherits a failed tourist attraction. Luckily, he has a System, so building up the attraction is a piece of cake. But the employees he recruits are cultivators? And he can attract investors from the cultivation world? Then he’ll build a cultivation-themed attra 25.1kReads8.8Score2.7k14d adds
- 11 My Mountain Villa Connects to Another World, and Ancient People Come to Work 山庄通异界古人来打工 After graduating from university, Jian Xingxia inherits her grandmother’s farm. But the farm lies deep in the mountains, overgrown with weeds and surrounded by leaky buildings. After pulling weeds until she’s questioning her life choices, Jian Xingxia wails, “Can’t someone come help me pull weeds and fix the roof?” The next second, a twelve-year-old girl from ancient times emerges from the mountains. “Pull weeds? Easy. Just give me the wild greens.” A skinny old man with a face that looks fifty- 107.1kReads9.0Score9.7k14d adds
- 12 The 1970s: Who Says a Female Soldier Can't Be a Slacker? 七零，谁说女兵不能当该溜子 [Female soldier + strong heroine + comedy + face-slapping + putting scumbags in their place] After Zheng Hao awakened her memories, she found herself with a biased grandfather, a grandmother who favored boys over girls, and a mother who’d been tormented half to death. Could this setup get any worse? Just as her grandmother was about to stamp the name “Bringer of Brothers” onto her little sister, Zheng Hao struck back, turning their grandparents’ main room upside down and smashing everything to 40.9kReads9.0Score6.5k14d adds
- 13 The Bargain-Hunting Era: Lin Mei’s Daily Life of Scoring Freebies 捡漏年代：林美的薅羊毛日常 [Historical Era + Everyday Life + Finding Bargains + Ordinary Person Reborn in the Womb + No Handouts, No Saintly Heroine, No Throwing Herself at Men + No Being Sent to the Countryside, No Military Marriage, No Rough-Hewn Hero + A Small Golden Finger That Gradually Levels Up + A Palm-Sized Pocket Dimension for Stashing Private Savings] Reborn in the womb in 1949, Lin Mei becomes the daughter of an ordinary farming family in Linjia Village. Beautiful but useless, she’s not cut out for great thing 14.1kReads9.2Score1k14d adds
- 14 Building a Scenic Attraction, My NPCs Are from Ancient Times! 打造景区，我的NPC来自古代！ [The short drama adaptation is now available] Qin Yao had just arrived in a parallel world when he inherited a tourist attraction! But to his surprise, it was on the verge of bankruptcy. There weren’t any attractions to speak of, and he couldn’t even afford to hire NPCs. He was about to sell the place, since the land alone was worth a fortune. But Qin Yao never expected to bind himself to an NPC System! The System had only one function: it could bring people from the pages of history to work as 66.3kReads9.2Score6.1k14d adds
- 15 Working at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative: My 1960s Buying Spree 就职供销社，我在60年代搞代购 With a loud crash, Xu Jiaojiao, from the twenty-second century, survives an air disaster and transmigrates to the resource-starved 1960s, with three years of famine looming. Luckily, she has the “Buy-It-All Shopping Group” golden finger. She lands a job through a supply-and-marketing cooperative recruitment drive and gets a secure government job for life. Brown sugar, meat buns, milk, chocolate... While everyone else chews grass, I snack on dates. I’ll stockpile the good stuff until the warehous 6.8kReads8.9Score74614d adds
- 16 Dual Transmigration to the 1960s: A Prosperous Nation and Strong People 双穿六零之国富民强 In 2025, Su Tianci was just another overworked wage slave. He ate a roujiamo at Red Romance, then opened his eyes to find himself back in that fiery era. What’s more, he had somehow become a wanted criminal. See how Su Tianci fares with the System’s help: will he be doomed from the start, or turn danger into safety? 352Reads—Score1414d adds
- 17 Dual Crossing to Republican-Era China: A Blood Sacrifice to the Land 双穿民国之，血祭山河 Su Tianci is an ordinary office drone from 2025. To make ends meet, he joins a film crew shooting short dramas. Who could have guessed that he would lose his footing and fall into a deep pit? When he opens his eyes again, he has transmigrated to 1937, a year engulfed in war. Fortunately, he has a portal that lets him travel back and forth between this war-torn era and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before Su Tianci… 1.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Dual Travels in Republican-Era China: Slaughtering the Japanese Invaders 双穿民国之屠戮倭寇 Li Xiaren was an outstanding young man who had been 25 for years. After finally finding a girlfriend, he was just about to duo queue with her when a ball lightning bolt whisked him away to Shanghai during the Republican era. To his surprise, the mark left by the ball lightning lets him travel back and forth between the two worlds. In an instant, two monumental eras open up before him... 1.7kReads6.7Score—14d adds
- 19 Traveling Between Two Worlds: 1970 两界穿梭之1970 After getting drunk in an accident, Wu Xiaoyao somehow transmigrated to the fiery era of the past. With a System that lets him travel between two worlds, he now has two great eras before him... 309Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 20 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 7.9kReads5.8Score33814d adds
- 21 Transmigrate to the Song Dynasty: The Empire's Mighty Rise 穿越之大宋雄风 A wondrous transmigration, invincible from the start. See how our protagonist, Wu Yue, recruits the heroes of Liangshan, gets up close and personal with Li Shishi, defeats mighty bandits and sweeps away powerful invaders. See how we Han people conquer the world. 872Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 22 Twin Rivers: Bloodbath in Republican-Era Shanghai 双川民国之沪上血战 Su Tianci has spent 25 years as a working stiff. After leaving the military, he has the job he earned stolen by someone with power and influence. His attempts to seek justice come to nothing, and with the other side's overwhelming influence, he has no choice but to become a delivery driver. Who could have guessed that while performing a good deed, he'd be struck by a heavy truck and sent straight to the Republican era? Then his transmigration golden finger turns out to let him travel between the 177Reads7.2Score2714d adds
- 23 Transmigrate to the Water Margin: Dominate the World 穿越水浒之雄霸天下 Wu Zhantian was one of China’s top special forces soldiers. While carrying out a top-secret mission, he was betrayed by a traitor. To ensure his teammates could withdraw safely, Wu Zhantian stayed behind alone. Seriously wounded in a sneak attack by the Japanese invaders, he chose to detonate the button bomb he carried rather than be taken prisoner. He and dozens of members of the Japanese Kamikaze Special Forces perished together. Wu Zhantian thought he was as good as dead, but the flourishing 1kReads5.9Score—14d adds
- 24 Between Two Worlds: 1973 两界穿梭之1973 An unexpected transmigration brought Wu Xiaoyao, an outstanding young man from the 21st century, to the 1970s. The golden finger that comes with transmigrating gave him hope of surviving. As the System leveled up, Wu Xiaoyao discovered that he could travel back and forth between the modern era and the 1970s. Two completely different worlds opened up before him! 494Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 25 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Red-Hot Years 两界穿梭之火红年代 Li Xiaren is an ordinary office worker, trudging through grueling days that start at eight in the morning and end at midnight. One day, after finally getting several months of back pay, he plans to give himself a well-deserved break. Who could have guessed that eating a grilled kidney for no apparent reason would send him back to the 1970s when he woke up? Luckily, he discovers he can return to 2025, and so two completely different eras open up before him!!! 254Reads7.6Score10114d adds
- 26 A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金 Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More 497Reads7.7Score6114d adds
- 27 Rising to Power Between Two Worlds 两界穿梭之崛起 After getting drunk and tumbling down a flight of stairs, the protagonist Wu Xiaoyao accidentally transmigrates to the 1970s. Luckily, he has the essential transmigration golden finger: releasing animals. See how Wu Xiaoyao carves out a place of his own in this fiery era. 577Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 28 The Controller of Ten Thousand Worlds, Roaming the City 万界掌控者都市逍遥 Wu Zhantian, a young man from Huaxia, accidentally fell from the summit of Mount Hua. He was rescued by the Venerable Myriad Swords, who happened to be passing by Earth. Wu Zhantian was then taken to the top-tier world of the Hongmeng Realm, where he became the Venerable Myriad Swords' disciple and began cultivating. By chance, his master found the Origin of the World in the Myriad Venerables' Secret Realm. But Dragon Rock Emperor, an ancient skeleton, and the Venerable Myriad Swords' eldest dis 1.4kReads6.4Score11714d adds
- 29 The Iron-Blooded Tigers Battle the Ming 铁血虎贲战大明 Chinese special forces king Wu Zhantian was betrayed by a traitor during a mission. To avoid being captured by the enemy, Wu Zhantian set off the miniature bomb strapped to his body, dying alongside dozens of enemy special forces soldiers. By chance, he touched the laws of the game. He rebuilt his body, copied abilities, and saved the Ming Dynasty from ruin. To stop the Yangzhou Massacre and the Jiading Massacres, Wu Zhantian, China's special forces king, refused to stand by. He tore Aobai apart 1.2kReads7.2Score10314d adds
- 30 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The 1970s 两界穿梭之七零年代 Wu Xiaoyao is a working-class nobody, a corporate drudge who likes to unwind by grilling skewers and letting loose whenever he has a bit of free time. But an out-of-control dump truck sends him hurtling back to the fiery age of the 1970s. What surprises him is that he can travel back and forth between the seventies and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before him. 131Reads7.6Score—14d adds
