Novels like I Became a Working Girl in the 1990s
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- 101 Reborn in 1985: I'm Focused on Making Money, but Young Master Lu Is Chasing Me 重生八五：一心搞钱，陆少追疯了 [Rebirth + Period Setting + No Golden Finger + Comeback + Business Battles + Mystery of Her Origins + Power Couple] In her previous life, Su Hanxue gave everything for her family, only to be forced into a marriage that served their interests. She suffered abuse after the wedding, until her husband pushed her into the freezing river and drowned her. He then used the payout from her accident insurance to live it up with his mistress. In this life, she fights with all her strength to refuse the mar 72Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 Transmigrated to the 1970s: I Took the Man the Reborn Woman Had Her Eye On 穿到七零：抢了重生女看上的男人 [A heroine who refuses to be taken advantage of vs. a hero who’s cold to everyone else but warm to her] [No pocket dimension, no System, no huge golden finger. She mainly relies on her own hard work.] Lin Baozhi died in another world, then came back to life and discovered she had become a village girl in the 1970s, unloved by both her father and mother. The girl had a younger aunt born on the very same day. As the youngest daughter born to older parents, her aunt was doted on by her parents and 2.7kReads8.8Score21514d adds
- 103 The Pitiful Girl from the 70s Gets Kissed by an Obsessive Educated Youth 七零小可怜被阴湿知青按着亲 Everyone in the family says Chen Zhi caused her father's death. As the family’s “sinner,” Chen Zhi is unloved and unwanted. Her married cousin dies, leaving behind four sons. Afraid the children will be mistreated by a stepmother, her cousin’s husband’s family and her uncle’s family unanimously decide that Chen Zhi should become their stepmother. Grandma says, “Your cousin’s husband’s family is well-off. If you marry into it, you’ll have enough to eat. You won’t even have to give birth, so you’l 14.8kReads8.7Score2.2k14d adds
- 104 I Told You to Divorce, Not Become the Whole Era's Darling 让你离婚，没让你在年代文当团宠 [Complete] [Beautiful, ambitious, pampered heroine VS aloof, secretly affectionate, devoted hero] [1970s + Period Drama + Both Pure + System + Everyday Life] Gu Shuning suddenly awakened to the fact that she was living out the wrong plot and was bound to a "Sacrificial Extra System." The System patiently coaxed her, promising that if she divorced the hero, Jiang Chengyuan, and made room for the original heroine, she would be rewarded with a peaceful life and avoid repeating the tragic fate of th 3kReads—Score38114d adds
- 105 The Runaway Bride Wins Over the Handsome Factory Director and Embraces a Life of Passion 逃婚女拿下帅厂长，共赴滚烫人生 To escape her birth family’s schemes, Su Yunke stole the household registration booklet and fled in the middle of the night! Standing in an unfamiliar city, she had only one mao to her name. In an era when even a one-mao coin found on the street had to be handed over to the police, she encountered many kind people. With their warmth behind her, she fought her way to building a business empire of her own. Later, the tough man who cherished her above all else complained in a wounded voice, “B 1.3kReads—Score12814d adds
- 106 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 42kReads8.1Score4.4k14d adds
- 107 Transmigrate into a Novel Set in the Old Days: The Crybaby’s Comeback 穿越年代文之小哭包的逆袭 I, Liu Nange, actually transmigrated into a novel I’d read and became a nobody. But if I had to transmigrate, why did I have to be a little kid? With awful grandparents and relatives, and a mother who only cries and holds us back, this is a disastrous start from the get-go! What? My dad is actually the real young master from the family compound? Then I’m going to stir up this whole hornet’s nest! I only meant to lead my family to a comfortable life, but we ended up getting rich! You poor little 2.7kReads8.3Score26314d adds
- 108 Reborn: My Boyfriend Is the Son of a Demolition Millionaire 重生之我的男朋友是拆二代 [A slow-burn farming story] Also known as My Sweet Little Life with My Demolition-Windfall Husband After nearly twenty years of twists and turns, Li Yan and Chen Quan found their way back to each other. At last, they were ready to take their honeymoon, but then a plane crash happened. Li Yan suddenly found herself back in her junior year of college. The moment she stepped off the bus, she saw her down-to-earth boyfriend waiting to pick her up. She was used to seeing her polished, professional 1.8kReads9.0Score17114d adds
- 109 Reborn in 1996: Helping My Adoptive Parents' Whole Family Live Well 重生九六，带养父母全家过好日子 [Reborn in 1996 + Business + Academic Prodigy + No Forgiveness] (The story begins with her early struggles, then moves into the later stages of the demolition boom.) Xia Mengsi was given away as soon as she was born. Her biological parents rejected her because she was a girl, but her adoptive family cherished her like a treasure. She got into the best high school, and her adoptive father sold blood while her adoptive mother worked herself to the bone to pay for her education. But Xia Mengsi fail 469Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 110 Reborn Before My Mother Takes Her Own Life, the Heroine Goes on a Rampage 重生在母亲自杀前，女主她杀疯了 Wan Anning has two great regrets: first, her mother died an unjust death; second, she never had a child. When she opens her eyes again, it’s the day before her mother’s suicide. The two people who drove her mother to kill herself in her previous life show up to torment them once more. Without a word, Wan Anning grabs a club and goes berserk… She thinks she’s finally changed her mother’s fate, but once her mother is saved, the truth that was kept from her in her previous life also comes to ligh 13.4kReads9.1Score1.7k14d adds
- 111 A Working Girl’s Life Through Wind and Rain 打工女孩的风雨人生路 In the 1990s, a wave of migrant workers swept across the country, and countless young people left their hometowns for the big cities. The dazzling neon lights of the metropolis conjured one fantasy after another, while burying the youth of so many. Longing for a fresh start, the naive young Zhou Jie joined the great wave heading south. From getting a factory job to running away, from falling on hard times to fighting her way forward, she had to tread carefully at every step. She thought that a 259Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 112 Reborn, I Wish My Husband and Best Friend a Long and Happy Marriage 重生后，我祝老公和闺蜜百年好合 (Rebirth + revenge on scumbags + inspiration + the turn of the millennium + quietly building wealth + heart-melting romance) Tan Mingxin’s previous life was miserable. While pregnant, she was pushed down the stairs by her husband and best friend. She died and was reborn at seventeen, before any of the tragedies had happened. She remakes her mother, dumps her scumbag father, destroys her traitorous friend, takes revenge on the scumbag man, and builds her fortune step by step. Men and romance can 6.7kReads9.1Score77014d adds
- 113 The 1970s: The Black Boss I Ran Off with Becomes a Coal Magnate Again 七零之拐走的黑佬大又成煤老板了 --COMPLETED-- [A devoted couple, no golden finger, no farming, no black-market adventures. This is simply the story of an unfortunate woman, constrained by her times, held back by her family, and deceived by her husband, who is reborn, escapes her ex-husband, and finds a love that is returned in full!] Everyone said Wen Haitang was lucky. She’d grown up in a crowded courtyard compound, yet married into the wealthy Dong family and moved into a Western-style mansion. But no one knew her marriage w 441Reads8.8Score11314d adds
- 114 Reborn at Fourteen, I Made 99 Buildings 重生十四岁我挣了99栋楼 [Reborn + strong female lead + business + top student + realism + independent heroine] He Wenlin, the daughter of migrant workers, is reborn in the year 2000! She has not dropped out of school yet, her father has not been scammed, and her family is debt-free! Given a fresh start at life, she is determined to change her fate and leave no regrets! She sells boxed lunches, opens a food factory, sells holiday goods, and trades in shoes and clothing. Whatever makes money, she does it. At seventeen, w 1.6kReads8.3Score15514d adds
- 115 Life in a Little Courtyard 小院儿生活 When Taohua married into the family, her mother told her that the Xiao family would most likely split up. But Taohua never expected it to happen so soon. (No rebirth, no transmigration, no golden finger: just working hard to live and striving to make a life.) 20.1kReads8.8Score1.8k14d adds
- 116 Dongguan Memories: The Girls Who Loved Me Back Then 东莞往事：那些年爱过我的女孩 [Urban Slice of Life + Multiple Heroines + Underdog’s Rise + Workplace] In 2006, Lin Yu arrives in Dongguan just after graduating from college. The city is said to be full of opportunities and romantic adventures. There, he meets the women who warm and support him as he grows, while he slowly rises from a rookie who can’t even tighten a screw to a workplace elite. He struggles and fights for his dreams in the face of reality, but growth always comes at a price. No System giving him cheat powers, 988Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 Back in 2000: Everyday Life as a Farm Girl 回到2000年，农家女日常 [Turn of the millennium + satisfying story + no golden finger + building a prosperous family through hard work] Yu Congxin falls off a cliff and opens her eyes in the year 2000. After working hard to amass a fortune worth tens of millions, she wakes up back at thirteen, with nothing to her name and a bare, empty home. Her grandmother is still throwing a fit at home, demanding her older sister quit school and go to work, and cursing her mother as a barren hen. Her father is so furious he feels di 1.4kReads8.9Score11714d adds
- 118 The Flowers Have Bloomed on Nanshan 南山花已开 Feng Jinqing only realized later that the leap in his heart when he saw Ye Ya, eyes brimming with tears beneath the Chinese wingnut tree, was the feeling of falling in love. From that moment on, he couldn't help wanting to treat her well, just as he had when they were children, and even better: to spend a lifetime making up for the four years he'd been gone. 1.1kReads9.1Score13714d adds
- 119 I Hit the Jackpot After Getting Close to the Educated Youth from the Capital 傍上首都来的知青后我躺赢了 Su Ling is a good-for-nothing college student in the 21st century, and a nationally protected treasure of a layabout, sheltered by her landlord parents and her big brother, the boss of a gaming company. Just as she’s planning to spend her plain and uneventful life this way, who should show up to stir things up but the transmigration god? Maybe he couldn’t stand seeing her so comfortable, because a dump truck sent her straight to the 1970s. Oh, transmigration god, open your eyes! Did you hit the 648Reads5.8Score10114d adds
- 120 That Year, Because of the Campus Belle, I Ran Off to Guangdong to Become a Handsome Lad 那年因为校花，我跑路广东当靓仔 [Jianghu]+ [Workplace]+ [Romance]+ [No System]+ [Not reborn] [Based on the author’s real experiences working in Guangdong, this is a story about migrant workers in cities like Dongguan and Shenzhen. This is not a wish-fulfillment novel, so don’t read it if that’s not your thing!] In 1997, Zhang Zaiye, Li Yaocong, Jiang Xinyue, and others met while working summer jobs in Guangdong, and formed a deep friendship. At the time, Dongguan’s economy was growing at a breakneck pace. Workers poured in fr 7Reads—Score114d adds
- 121 The 1970s Scheming Girl Has a Little Conscience, But Not Much 七零心机女有点良心但不多 [Alternate-history period setting + works in the city instead of being sent to the countryside + family life + watching the drama unfold + no golden finger + male lead appears much later] After an accident, Song Qi was lucky enough to recover her memories of a past life. As it turned out, she had transmigrated from a world decades in the future. Thinking back to the period novels she had read in her previous life, then looking at the time she was now living in, she realized it was already 1970. 198Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 Daily Mystery Boxes: The Laid-Back Heroine Thrives in the Sixties 每日抽盲盒，咸鱼女主在六零躺赢 In the 1960s, she wakes up from the start so hungry that she has to be rushed to the hospital. Her original self was lovesick and psychologically manipulated by a scumbag. How is she supposed to turn things around? Forget it. One slap sends the “player” packing. She refuses to be the backup girl! Trouble is on the way, but fortunately, her parents have powerful connections. With her older sister and brother doting on her, and mystery boxes to open every day, the laid-back heroine decides life ca 793Reads6.7Score10014d adds
- 123 The Supporting Female Lead in the 1970s Courtyard Wakes Up 七零大杂院对照组女配觉醒了 The main story is complete; extra chapters will drop from time to time. After awakening as the contrasting female lead in a 1970s shared courtyard, she only wants to live well and enjoy the gossip along the way!! "Ordinary life + family squabbles + gossip + a touch of ensemble cast + outrageous characters + not a face-slapping power fantasy" Chu Mian had fair skin and a beautiful face. When she didn't smile, she looked almost otherworldly; when she did, her smile could melt anyone's heart. Every 4.7kReads8.3Score38814d adds
- 124 Reborn in the 1980s: From the Start, I Took a Factory Job 重生八零，开局进厂打工 Ji Yunxi transmigrates into the role of a universally loathed supporting character, the female foil to the heroine. The heroine endures endless hardships without giving in, while Ji Yunxi lives in comfort, spoiled and cruel. During the 1987 wave of migrant labor, the heroine gets into college and finally holds her head high, while Ji Yunxi uses connections to land a job on an assembly line. The heroine lives out a romantic drama straight from real life every day, while Ji Yunxi seethes with jeal 47.5kReads8.4Score4.9k14d adds
- 125 Transmigrated to the Seventies, and My Million in Supplies Vanished 穿越七零，我的百万物资消失了 Romance + Mostly Slice of Life + Not a Power Fantasy + Not a Strong Female Lead Story A useless System dumps Xie Wei into the 1970s. A million yuan worth of supplies vanishes into thin air. Her stepsister doesn’t want to suffer in the countryside and covets Xie Wei’s job, so she signs her up for rural relocation. Xie Wei turns the tables, sells her job, and signs her stepsister up too. Taking her System and pocket dimension with her, Xie Wei heads to the countryside for reeducation by the poor a 5.1kReads8.9Score66414d adds
- 126 Back to 2003, Before the Demolition 重返2003拆迁前 2003. That year, China’s national college entrance exam was moved up to June for the first time. That year, Liaoning Province’s exam covered nine subjects, with no division between arts and sciences. That spring, SARS raged. That spring, news came that the village where Zhao Yongwei’s family lived was to be demolished. One scheme after another followed. In this life, she would protect her family and overcome the crisis! And she would make a fortune! 4.8kReads8.2Score31214d adds
- 127 The 1960s! I Transmigrated into an Erotic Novel 六零！我穿进辣文里了 P.S. The female lead will not fall in love with the male lead, and she's no lovesick fool. [Born into the world + transmigrates into a steamy novel + educated youth sent to the countryside + strongwoman + male lead transmigrates from the apocalypse with special abilities + everyday family life] Shen Shuyue is a darling little fairy, born into this world with a golden finger, money, beauty, and influence. At seven or eight, she awakens memories of her past life and learns that troubled times are 4.6kReads6.9Score21914d adds
- 128 The Strongest Lawyer Is Reborn: No One Gets to Guilt-Trip Me 最强律师重生谁都别来道德绑架我 A star student of a big shot at the W University School of Law has been reborn. This time, she resolutely chooses the career she loves and becomes a lawyer in the coastal city of S City. Follow her as she takes things one step at a time, continually challenges and fulfills herself, and finally becomes a renowned attorney! 1.3kReads8.9Score16614d adds
- 129 The Gorgeous Educated Youth Was So Irresistible, the Rugged Man Carried Her Home to Spoil Her 娇美知青太招人，被糙汉扛回家宠 [No Golden Finger] After finishing middle or high school, educated youths struggle to find jobs. To address unemployment in the cities, the leaders make the important decision to send young people to the countryside. Under this policy, Xu Jinan is sent to Lujiagou to join the rural workforce. There, she meets Lu Zhouye, a taciturn man destined to be alone forever. But who is this person acting like a doting housewife now? In a nutshell: an old house catching fire, nothing can be done about it. W 1.1kReads8.7Score10814d adds
- 130 A Radiant Educated Youth Meets a Brooding Tough Guy 明艳知青遇上偏执痞汉 Period drama, mutual flirting, sweet romance, pocket dimension, everyday life, adorable kids [Stunning, charming transmigrated beauty blogger meets a roguish, handsome, possessive country lad] She was a dazzling beauty blogger in front of the camera, but one day she wakes up in the 1970s. Ordinary clothes can't hide her natural radiance. Being bold is simply in her nature. Sent to the countryside, she meets a rough, roguish man who's just her type. She only meant to flirt with him to get back at 9.9kReads8.1Score1.1k14d adds
- 131 The Suffering Heroine of a Period Tragedy Gets Possessed 年代虐文的苦情女主被穿了 [Period setting + military marriage + sweet romance + both leads have only ever been with each other + traditional Chinese medicine + childbirth + transmigrate into a book + everyday life] Medical student Xia Songlan dies in an earthquake relief effort and transmigrates into an early melodramatic novel as its tragic heroine, who happens to share her name. Determined to change the heroine’s fate, she flatly rejects the unreasonable demand that she go to the countryside in her cousin’s place and s 128Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Reborn Before the 1990s Demolition: I’m the Landlady, and I’m Giving Up 重生九零拆迁前，包租婆我要摆烂 [Rebirth + demolition compensation + getting rich + laid-back life + adorable child] After being reborn, Li Muyu’s greatest wish is to keep her orchard and wait for it to be demolished. And then? Well, there is no “then.” She’ll just lounge around like a lazy fish... Li Muyu is determined to live the laid-back life to the fullest: buy more houses, collect rent, and have an adorable little girl to lounge around with... 933Reads6.6Score10614d adds
- 133 The Story of Three Working Girls 三个打工女孩的故事 Three young women of the same age, each from a different family background and with a different personality, head to Guancheng to find work. Set in the 1990s, their experiences capture the memories of an entire era. When their birth families are thrown into turmoil, should they stand by and do nothing, lend a hand, or sacrifice their dignity to help them through it? Some come to repay their parents' kindness, while others only cause their parents trouble. The three girls each have a different an 5.8kReads9.0Score49114d adds
- 134 Period: From Steel Mill Supporting Actress to Top Academician 【年代】从炼钢厂女配到院士大佬 [1970s] [Female Side Character] [Strengthening the Nation Through Science and Technology] Yu Zifang had a strange dream. In it, she was a disposable female side character who was hopelessly in love with the heroine's older brother and met a tragic end. Yu Zifang: ? Is that supposed to be me? Not sure. Let's wait and see. She was a worker-peasant-soldier university student and a technician at a steel mill, yet she let romance derail her career, landed in prison, and after her release was taken 1.4kReads8.4Score11314d adds
- 135 Reborn in 1980: I Dumped the Scumbag and Married a Butcher 重生八零甩掉渣男嫁屠户 [Period] + [Reborn] + [Pocket Space] + [Farming] + [Family Life] + [Entrepreneurship] Li Wenhui is reborn before her blind date with a scumbag, and this time she exposes the affair between him and her best friend with her own hands. Thinking of the butcher who supplied her restaurant throughout her previous life and even came to her aid at a crucial moment, Li Wenhui decides they can team up and start a business this time around. But how does it end up with the two of them getting married and bu 3.9kReads8.2Score40414d adds
- 136 Transmigrating to the 1970s to Become a Laid-Back Couch Potato 穿越七十年代做躺赢咸鱼 [Period setting + transmigration + space + sent to the countryside] When Lin Shu'an realized she had transmigrated and had a golden finger, she thought she must have become a cannon-fodder supporting character in some book she'd transmigrated into. There was no other explanation: her golden finger was nothing like the setup she'd expect for a heroine. Weren't the novels she'd been reading lately always giving the supporting female character some kind of cheat? But it seemed neither the heroine n 1.3kReads8.5Score10714d adds
- 137 The Golden Age: From the Start, I Was Forced to Drop Out and Work to Support My Family 黄金年代：开局被逼辍学打工养家 This was a golden age, with opportunities everywhere and money just waiting to be picked up. Liang An was a corporate drone who somehow returned to 1991, becoming a young man from a rural village in a remote region. As soon as he arrived, he was forced to drop out of school and work to support his family... 12.1kReads7.6Score77214d adds
- 138 The Trucking Rogue Who Put Me Through College in the ’80s Spoils Me Rotten 八零货车痞夫供我上大学后宠疯了 [1980s + family life + adorable children + marriage before love] Ji Yu is the unwanted extra in her family. She’s known since childhood that nobody cares about her, and has grown sensitive and timid. When her younger brother makes a mistake, her father forces her to marry a man she’s barely spoken to, accepting the bride price behind her back. She cries and fights back, but nothing works. Unwilling to accept her fate, she defies convention and changes grooms just before the wedding. It’s the b 3.9kReads7.5Score35714d adds
- 139 Reborn in 2007 with a Phone 带着手机重生2007 On her way to deliver her boss’s phone, Ji Shumiao missed a step. When she woke up, she was back in 2007. That year, Ji Shumiao was ten. Her father was still alive, her mother’s health hadn’t yet failed, and housing prices hadn’t skyrocketed… And in her hands… in her hands was a Huawei Mate 60! Even better, the Mate 60 still showed the time from before she transmigrated, and she could still use it to access the internet… Ji Shumiao rubbed her hands together. “First, I’ll look up the lottery numb 1.4kReads8.5Score17314d adds
- 140 Transmigrate into a Book in the 1970s, System in Hand, and Refuse to Be Cannon Fodder 穿书七零，手握系统拒做炮灰 Su Qingwan was born into the 1950s. Thanks to her foreknowledge, she started working at the Red Star Garment Factory at fifteen and was assigned an apartment at eighteen. Life went smoothly for her. One day, she fell into the water. Not only did she finally gain her long-awaited golden finger, she also discovered that she hadn’t simply transmigrated: she had become the younger sister of the heroine in a period novel. According to the plot, before long, the heroine, Song Qingzao, would marry a tw 19.1kReads6.8Score1.7k14d adds
- 141 [The 1970s] The Landlady's Laid-Back Life 【七零】包租婆的躺平日常 [Rebirth + 1970s + No Romance + Front-Row Seat to the Drama + Striving Toward a Goal] (Complete. The rating is low because there are so few reviews, but it's slowly climbing. Please don't give up on it!) Su Linzhao wakes up and finds herself in 1975, a pitiful girl with too little food and clothing. She packs up and heads to the countryside. She plans to keep her head down and quietly get rich. She originally meant to keep her distance from her family so they wouldn't discover her secret, but 3.9kReads8.9Score44914d adds
- 142 In the 1970s, Even the Wrong Match Makes a Sweet Marriage 七零年代之相错的亲也很香 Jiang Wan had transmigrated to the 1970s for no apparent reason. She was faced with the prospect of being sent to the countryside if she couldn’t find a suitable match. She took one look at her petite frame and hurriedly got herself ready to go on a blind date. She could still be saved. “Hello, are you Comrade Yan? I’m Jiang Wan.” Yan Beixun had just returned home after finally getting some time off, only for his grandfather to arrange a blind date for him. “Yan Beixun.” An unexpected encounter, 1.6kReads8.7Score15214d adds
- 143 A Woman Named Chunxiu 一个叫春秀的女人 [Period drama + everyday family life + marriage + building a career + personal growth] I married a state-owned enterprise worker, and after years of trying, I finally had a son. Then, just as my husband was sent to prison, my mother-in-law branded me a bringer of bad luck and threw me out of the house. Qiu Yue, widowed and bullied, and Wang Feng, tormented by domestic abuse, shared my fate. The three of us hard-done-by women joined forces, working, doing business, and opening a factory. We neede 9.3kReads8.1Score78414d adds
- 144 You Mock Me for Being Infertile? I'll Marry an Officer and Have Triplets 嫌我不孕不育？嫁军官一胎生仨 Period setting + everyday life + multiple births + a weak, slowly growing female lead in the early chapters After being reborn, Lin Xi's older sister, Lin Yu, decides that her military officer husband from her previous life died too young. The first thing she does in this life is hand her younger sister the short-lived groom she was betrothed to as a child, making her sister marry him in her place. After all, her younger sister was rejected by her in-laws in her previous life for failing to have 2.3kReads8.1Score22014d adds
- 145 A Comeback Life: Back at 18 逆袭人生：回到18岁 The male lead appears fairly late because he’s a grabby, competitive sort. Neither the male lead nor the female lead is a good person in the traditional sense! They’re just two not-particularly-refined egoists, so read with caution! Lin Shen is reborn, returning to the year he was seventeen. He works hard for a year and gets into college at eighteen. This time around, Lin Shen refuses to be a couch potato or give up on himself, and he won’t let problems send him spiraling into despair. Since he’ 9.1kReads7.7Score85114d adds
- 146 My Years as a Migrant Worker in Shenzhen 我在深圳打工那些年 Two AI comic adaptations of this book are already online, and a third is in production. In 1997, I was 17, carrying 300 yuan as I left my hometown in Hunan and headed south to Shenzhen alone. With no skills and no temporary residence permit, I was chased by security patrols, turned away by factories, left hungry, and forced to spend nights hiding in a cemetery. I went from a penniless kid to a sewing-machine operator at a handbag factory, then seized the opportunities of the times, opened a shop 18.8kReads8.8Score1.5k14d adds
- 147 Reborn in 1987: I Married a Sweet Young Wife, and It Feels Amazing 重生1987，反手娶小娇妻真香 [Adapted into the short drama Back to 1987: I Turn Around and Marry the Beautiful Young Wife] [Urban farming] [No more putting up with humiliation] Back on the day of his humiliation in 1987, Li Feng’s bride ran off the night before the wedding. His family was left without a bride on the big day, and the whole region mocked them for years. He has no intention of letting that happen again in this life, so that very night he marries her younger sister, who has just been accepted to college. His br 3.6kReads7.1Score19714d adds
- 148 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 1.5kReads8.6Score12314d adds
- 149 A Military Marriage in the 1980s: The Spoiled Female Side Character Is Sweet and Charming 八零年代军婚，作精女配甜又媚 [Period Military Romance + Sweet, Satisfying Romance + Flirty, Mischievous Heroine + Marriage Before Love] Xia Keqing transmigrates into a book, becoming the troublesome supporting female character in a period novel. The male lead pays for her college education, but once there, she flirts with other guys, calling it free love and a meeting of the minds. Later, with the heroine by his side, the male lead earns distinction and becomes a big shot in the military district. As for Xia Keqing, she get 1.1kReads8.2Score10114d adds
- 150 Back to the Nineties: I Bought Half a Street by Picking Through Junk 重回九零，我捡破烂买下了半条街 Reborn diplomat landlady heroine × refined, distinguished research genius hero Zhao Lijun had just seen off her parents, who had died in their fifties after years of pent-up sorrow, when she suddenly returned to the starting point of every tragedy. This year, her little brother hadn’t yet drunk the pesticide that would make him depend on medicine for the rest of his life. Her older brother hadn’t dropped out of school because the family was poor, only to sit at home while her aunt’s family sche —Reads—Score—14d adds
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