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- 1 The 1970s: After My Dad Promised Me to a Powerful Man in the Capital 七零：亲爹把我许给京圈大佬后 (The rating just came out, it'll go up later!) A local woman in her seventies + follows her husband to his post + everyday life + chubby baby Delicate beauty × reserved, roguish charmer In the 1970s, Xu Huaizhen, the owner of a fabric shop in the county town, was reported and sent away for labor reform. Before leaving, he made a wild decision: send his pampered young daughter to the capital in the middle of the night to get married. Xu Yuanrou cried and refused, until she saw the black-and-white 8.9kReads8.1Score75114d adds
- 2 After a Mix-Up at a Blind Date, I Got Pregnant by a Tycoon from a Period Novel 相错亲后我怀了年代文大佬的崽儿 Military Marriage + Raising a Child Jiang Man wakes up in the body of a busty, brainless, lazy, gluttonous cannon-fodder supporting character. The character's mother died young and her father is gravely ill. Her grandparents are mean and show blatant favoritism, while her uncles are all waiting to take advantage of her father's lack of heirs. Even her fiancé gets stolen away by her cousin. Jiang Man touches her round face and decides it's no big deal. Her grandmother comes snooping through the h 64.9kReads8.6Score9.8k14d adds
- 3 Lazy Family? I Slack Off with the System 全家懒货？我靠系统摆烂 [System # Period Setting # Devoted Couple # Comedy] The Mao family is so lazy it makes everyone furious, yet somehow they live better than anyone else. Not only that, they’ve visibly put on weight. In an era when people can barely get enough to eat, how is that even possible? Mao Er’ya is a master at slacking off and cutting corners. After accidentally binding herself to a System, she leads her whole family in eating their fill and taking it easy. When the villain tricks her into giving the male 7Reads—Score12814d adds
- 4 Reborn as the Cannon-Fodder Wife in the ’60s: Anyone Who Objects Can Fight Me 穿成六零炮灰原配，不服就干 [Book Transmigration, period-setting wish fulfillment, a slight golden finger, no space, as realistic as possible, not an implausible power fantasy] Modern computer programmer Lin Zhixia transmigrates into a period novel as the tragic first wife her entire family sacrifices! The Zhao family conspires to frame her. Her lame younger brother-in-law forces his way into her room, and her in-laws not only take part, but afterward cover it up, poison her until she's mute, and imprison her! Her husband 1.3kReads—Score10914d adds
- 5 Transmigrated to the 1970s, Starting Out in Beidahuang 穿越七零，开局北大荒 [Educated youth sent to the countryside + clear-headed, independent heroine + military marriage + uplifting + space] After transmigrating, Lin Wanqiu became the “sacrificial lamb” her family pushed out to take her older sister's place in the countryside. Her father was silent and domineering, her mother biased and harsh, her older brother selfish, and her second older sister hypocritical. She cut ties with them on the spot, took all her subsidies, and left without looking back. In her darkest ho 486Reads8.0Score10314d adds
- 6 I'm the Family Babysitter in a Period Novel 我在年代文里当德华 A bold, outgoing heroine × a hero who starts out refined and gentle, then falls hard Li Qingxiu transmigrates into a period novel as the younger sister-in-law of its tragic heroine. When her family tries to marry her off to a widower in exchange for a bride price, Li Qingxiu pretends to be crazy, kicks and punches her way through them, then bundles up her bedding and heads off to be her tragic sister-in-law’s own personal Dehua. At her sister-in-law’s home, she meets the older brother, who’s an 22.8kReads8.4Score2.7k14d adds
- 7 Jilted Eight Times, She Became a Tycoon on Her Own 被退亲八次的她，靠自己成为首富 [Period setting + personal growth + two strong leads + devoted couple + farming + raising children + lost and found again + reuniting at the top] She is the village's shame, a woman who “can't find a husband.” Eight engagements have been called off, all because she has a younger brother. She wants to escape this village that devours people, even if the road ahead is uncertain. He is a bright moon fallen into the mud. Once a refined young master from a scholarly family, now all he has left is his 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Reborn in the 1970s: After Divorcing, I Cleared Out My In-Laws’ Home and Went to the Countryside 重生七零：离婚搬空婆家去下乡 [1970s Setting, Rebirth Power Fantasy, Spirit Spring Space, Making a Fortune, Miracle Doctor, Revenge] Synopsis: On the sixteenth day of her marriage, Xiao Mandong grabbed a thermos full of boiling water and smashed it over her cheating husband and widowed sister-in-law on the bed! In her previous life, she had given everything to support the Lu family, only to have her child switched, her loved ones die tragically, and herself left to die alone with terminal lung cancer. Reborn, she refused to 5.4kReads6.5Score60214d adds
- 9 My Adoptive Sister Moves In with a Baby, So After Being Reborn, I Break My Ex-Husband's Legs 养姐带球占我家，重生打断前夫腿 [Reborn + 1970s + sent to the countryside + pocket dimension + light hoarding + farming + a steady, prosperous life] With snow swirling outside, Song Zhiyi lay paralyzed in a freezing bed. Her adoptive sister, Luo Wanying, and her husband, Zhao Ziqiang, came through the door. Luo Wanying deliberately rested a hand on her lower back and said in a soft, delicate voice: “Zhiyi, I’m pregnant. The father is Ziqiang.” To make room for the baby, Luo Wanying told her everything, and Song Zhiyi died with 30Reads—Score21914d adds
- 10 Reborn in the Sixties: The Cannon-Fodder Younger Sister-in-Law Refuses to Cooperate! 重生六零：炮灰小姑子拒不配合！ [1960s setting + reborn for revenge + storage space + advancing the nation through scientific research + love that blossoms over time] In her previous life, Tian Wenjing was cruelly pressured by her family into marrying a rough military officer she didn't love. From that point on, her life began counting down! Only after she died did Tian Wenjing finally realize that everything she'd suffered had been a tragedy carefully orchestrated by someone! And the people responsible... This time, she struc 1.6kReads—Score10414d adds
- 11 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—14d adds
- 12 After the Beautiful, Fussy Woman Is Reborn, Her Roughneck Husband Spoils Her More and More Fiercely 漂亮作精重生后糙汉丈夫越宠越狠 Feel free to leave a rating. Happy New Year, and thank you all 😊 [Period setting + reborn + spoiled troublemaker + country bumpkin + doting romance] Heroine: Proud, stubborn, and awkward (friendly warning) Lin Jinyao is reborn at the time she and Lu Jinchuan were fighting over a divorce. In her previous life, she was a spoiled handful who couldn’t bear the slightest hardship or pain. She thought he was crude and unsophisticated, too strong and too clueless about how to treat her gently. After r 3.1kReads8.9Score33614d adds
- 13 After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Married the Poorest Man in the Village 退婚后，我嫁给了全村最穷的男人 After Shen Xiulan’s engagement was broken off, an acquaintance arranged for her to marry Zhao Dajiang, a farmer from the neighboring village who was too poor to find a wife. She was a mild-mannered young woman her family considered an embarrassment. He was an honest, inarticulate man whose parents had died when he was young. They had no whirlwind romance or grand ambitions. They simply learned to make a life together in a shabby earthen house. Shen Xiulan cooked, mended clothes, grew vegetables, 9.9kReads7.5Score82614d adds
- 14 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
- 15 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 66.3kReads8.9Score10.3k14d adds
- 16 You Flirted with Me, and Now You Say You Mistook Me for Someone Else? 撩都撩了，你说认错人？ (The rating just opened, so it’ll go up later.) (1970s + military marriage + mutual firsts + sweet romance + rugged male lead + natives) (No transmigration or golden finger. Neither lead is perfect. This is not a strong-female-lead, face-slapping wish-fulfillment story. If that bothers you, don’t read.) Du Ruolin had lived with her uncle’s family since she was little, and stole her cousin’s marriage prospect. She’d heard the Cheng family was well-off, all their children were promising, and their 8.1kReads8.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 17 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 41Reads—Score314d adds
- 18 The Darkened Educated Youth Returns to the City, Cuts Ties, and Becomes Beautiful and Rich 黑化女知青回城，断亲变美暴富了 [A devoted and equally powerful couple x all characters are natives of the setting x no transmigration, rebirth, pocket dimension, System, or golden finger x no contrived drama x no helpless suffering x building wealth] [An upbeat, beautiful, resilient heroine VS a scheming, obsessive, slightly unhinged hero] The heroine takes her compensation and cuts ties with her birth family, decisively and swiftly. She does not cling to them or forgive them. The story focuses mainly on making money and roma 25.7kReads8.7Score2.7k14d adds
- 19 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
- 20 The Wrong Baby Swap of 1980: Two Lives Under One Roof for Eighteen Years 八零抱错：屋檐下的两份十八年 [Switched at Birth + Period Setting + College Entrance Exam] Eighteen years ago, a mix-up at birth meant she raised pigs and sheep in the countryside in the other girl’s place, while the other girl lived as a pampered young lady in the city. Eighteen years later, the real heiress returned to the city, and overnight, the impostor became the talk of the whole residential compound. Her biological mother cried for three days, and her biological father smoked until the ground was littered with cigare 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Period: The Barren Beauty Is Held Close by the Cool and Aloof Military Doctor 年代：不孕美人被清冷军医拢在怀 [Transmigration + Family Life + Heartwarming] A new, beautiful woman arrived on a remote corner of the motherland’s territorial waters. As a fashion designer, Su Moyan had studied sketching, pattern making, and garment construction... But on this barren island, there were prawns aplenty and hardly any vegetables. What was she supposed to do? The soldiers were defending the nation’s borders. “Soldiers and civilians are one family,” Su Moyan told Qin Zheng. “We’ll protect you, too.” Later, even th 3.3kReads8.8Score32414d adds
- 22 At Forty, I Remarried a Commander. My Ex and His Mistress Are Both on Their Knees 40岁二嫁首长，前夫小三全跪了 The rating has only just come in, and it’ll rise later! [Second-chance military marriage + era-set comeback + two powerful, devoted leads + rugged man spoils his wife] Lying on the operating table, Jiang Wanning finally learned that her marriage had been a trap: her husband had tried to kill her for the insurance money, and the son she had raised with so much effort was actually the illegitimate child of her scumbag husband and cousin! To survive, she climbed into the bed of Commander Gu Yuanzhe 268.2kReads8.6Score12.4k14d adds
- 23 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 18.9kReads8.9Score2.5k14d adds
- 24 The 1970s: Framed by My Family, I Take the Spirit Spring and Claim It All 七零：被全家陷害我携灵泉夺一切 [Period Setting] [Transmigrate Into a Book] [Face-Slapping] [Abusing Scum] [Pocket Dimension] [Military Officer] [Feel-Good Story] [Military Marriage] [Contrasting Characters] After transmigrating into a novel set in the 1970s, Zhou Meibao becomes the ill-fated original wife destined for a tragic end. To steal her engagement to Major General He Siyan, her stepmother and biological father team up to drug her with sleeping pills, planning to have thugs ruin her reputation! When she opens her eyes, 6.8kReads8.1Score85214d adds
- 25 The Rugged Military Officer Raised a Delicate Darling in the Great Northwest 糙汉军官在大西北养了个娇气包 A new book’s rating will go up as more people read it~ [Period setting + sweet romance + following him to the military base + older, rough-and-tumble fatherly type x pampered, adorable girl + seven-year age gap] The Wen family falls from grace, and overnight their young heiress becomes a hated capitalist. Her parents pull strings to arrange a fake marriage with a soldier so she can follow him to his military base and lie low. At the reception desk, the man leans back in his chair and speaks in a 78.7kReads9.0Score12.1k14d adds
- 26 A Green Tea Girl Plays the Sweet, Silly Type in the 1960s 绿茶女在六十年代当傻白甜 [Manipulative little green tea vs. gentle childhood friend / Mostly everyday life / No black market, no golden finger] Wen Li transmigrated! She opened her eyes and found herself with a cowardly dad and a mom who loved causing trouble and running her mouth. But that wasn't even the worst part: it was the 1960s, and after droughts, floods, and other extreme weather, the food supply had yet to recover! After thinking it over for ages, Wen Li managed to find two things in her favor. First, her orig 8kReads8.8Score96414d adds
- 27 The Seventies: The Adored Educated Youth Chases His Wife 七零娇宠：知青大佬追妻忙 In the 1970s, at the Qingshan Production Brigade. Gu Wanqing is one of a kind in the village. As the only daughter, she is adored by her parents, doted on by her grandparents, and indulged by her brothers. Her life is simple and beautiful. Pei Xingye, who comes from the capital, has a prominent family background and an unruly nature. He's the kind of man who can make the entire capital tremble with a stamp of his foot. Being sent to the countryside is just a formality, a way to pass the time. 5.2kReads7.1Score48414d adds
- 28 Cursed with a Lonely Fate, the Hard-Headed Officer Insists on Marrying Me 天命孤煞，命硬军官非要娶我 [Military Marriage in the 1970s + Cathartic Revenge + Everyone's Favorite + Pocket Dimension + Adorable Multiple Children] When Lin Yinyin opens her eyes, she finds herself in the body of a pitiful girl whose entire family is dead. Her father died young, her mother passed away from illness, and her stepfather and stepmother are still abusing her! Put up with it? Not a chance! She makes her stepmother take her place in a marriage to fill a vacancy, and sends her stepbrother to keep a widow warm i 12.6kReads8.8Score1.6k14d adds
- 29 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 26kReads8.4Score2.1k14d adds
- 30 A Carefree Married Life in the 1990s 九零年代婚后闲散日常 [Radiant beauty X rugged construction foreman] Complete In 1993, Fang Li became pregnant. Standing there with her belly out, she thought for a long time and realized that the comment she'd seen online, “You were born in a good era,” didn't tell the whole story at all! There was no internet, no food-delivery wars, no evil capitalists. There was only a child born without a mother, kidnapped at three, and a man about to break his leg while working to earn money, miss his wife's pregnancy and childb 7.6kReads8.4Score59314d adds
- 31 After the Seventies-Era Officer Returned, He Had a Son and a Daughter 七零军官回来后，儿女双全了 [1970s + military marriage + space] Hua Jiuling transmigrated to the 1970s overnight. Her husband, Gu Beiming, was called away on an urgent mission right after their wedding. Months passed with no word from him. Her parents-in-law gave her a hard time, her sister-in-law cursed her, and her sisters-in-law schemed against her. With her pregnant belly, Hua Jiuling picked up a kitchen knife, fought back, split the family, and moved into the hunter’s little house by the village committee. Fortunately 18.2kReads8.3Score2.4k14d adds
- 32 Tales of the Lesser Khingan Mountains: The Fearless Wife of the Sixties 小兴安岭往事：六零悍妻 [Period] [Family Life] [Growing Up] [An Extraordinary Ordinary Life] In the winter of 1959, a tough woman from the apocalypse barged into the Lesser Khingan Mountains. With her brute strength, Mi Duo slaughtered pigs and wolves, and even teased black bears. Mi Duo’s wish: get married, have children, live an uneventful life, and die of old age. Mi Duo’s daily life: hunt bears, fight wolves, tear into scumbags, and pull an extra night shift whenever someone rubs her the wrong way. Mi Duo’s fut 15.5kReads9.0Score2.1k14d adds
- 33 The Beautiful Educated Youth and Her Stylish Mom 漂亮知青，时髦妈 [Period Setting + Educated Youth + Sweet Romance + Everyday Family Life] In 1979, Jiang Jingshu returns to the city with the last group of educated youths, going back to Tongxiang County, a place both familiar and strange. After years away from home, she expects an emotional reunion. Instead, she is met by awkward, distant parents, an indifferent older brother, and a younger sister who treats her with hostility... There is no place for her in the family anymore. Even her room has been taken over 4.2kReads8.4Score23314d adds
- 34 The 1950s: Starting Out as an Apprentice 五零：从学徒工开始 [Period setting + native protagonist + daily life + career + no golden finger] [An ordinary story about ordinary people] Her parents wanted Baolan to take her eldest brother's place in an arranged marriage. Baolan refused. Baolan passed the worker recruitment exam. Starting as an apprentice, Baolan attended night school, got promoted, bought a watch, bought a bicycle... Little by little, she built herself a good life. 35kReads9.0Score3.8k14d adds
- 35 Taking It Easy in the Fifth-Year Military Factory Compound 五零军工厂大院儿摆烂生活 [Everyday life in a military factory compound + a young stepmother tames the kids and charms her husband + ensemble cast + marriage first, love later + sweet romance + devoted couple] Jiang Suian transmigrates into the role of the Jiang family's troublemaker! She's even pregnant with a “love child”! And to top it all off, she's bound to an “evil against evil System” that demands she commit wholeheartedly to being wicked! Her eldest brother begs everyone he can think of to help her find a chance 2.3kReads7.1Score13914d adds
- 36 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. 12.3kReads8.6Score1.1k14d adds
- 37 Before My Whole Family Was Sent to the Countryside, I Took My Child and Ran 穿到全家下乡前，我带娃跑路了 [Soul transmigration to the 1960s + pocket dimension + raising a child + sweet romance + both leads are devoted only to each other] Shu Yao thought someone must have put a curse on her. In her dreams, she saw another version of herself live a miserable life: when her husband was sent away for reeducation, she abandoned him and their child, then married a divorced man with a child of his own, only to become his unpaid nanny. Unable to take it anymore, she jumped into a river. The one who buried h 38.4kReads8.1Score5.5k14d adds
- 38 The 1980s Nanny: The Cold-Faced Officer Loses Control and Wants a Baby 八零小保姆，冷面军官失控想生崽 [Manhua adaptation in progress] Period setting + marriage to a soldier + transmigrate into a book in an alternate world + devoted to each other + possessive, sweet romance + love grows over time + a gentle, slice-of-life romance about doting on his wife. (Older husband, younger wife; growth, comeback, doting on his wife, having a baby, and patriotism) A stern, older, abstinent military officer VS a sweet, soft-spoken girl who's both beautiful and talented, and refuses to be pushed around Bai Qia 2.8kReads8.7Score32614d adds
- 39 An Eighties Beauty Marries for Good Fortune and Is Doted on by Her Rugged, Fatherly Husband 八零美人冲喜，被爹系糙汉宠上天 Pure romance + transmigration into a book, fictional setting + period piece + older husband, younger wife + building a fortune + sweet romance + slow-burn, satisfying face-slapping. Bai Qian, from a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, transmigrates into a book and becomes a plump, laid-back young bride, married off to bring good luck to He Yanzhou, a cold-faced, rugged man. The man is gravely ill, and lays down three rules with her: this marriage is just for show, and he’ll nev 1.2kReads8.6Score16614d adds
- 40 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 3.2kReads7.1Score22114d adds
- 41 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 36.4kReads9.0Score4.2k14d adds
- 42 Reborn in 1978: Don't Even Think About Stealing My Life Again 重生1978，别再想偷我的人生 [This is a long novel about fated cycles of reincarnation across several lifetimes. No transmigration with memories, no System. Each volume is a complete story of its own: Volume One: Years Like a Song, a 1978 college entrance exam rebirth story. Later volumes include the flames of war in the Republican era.] In her previous life, she studied day and night beneath a kerosene lamp, tirelessly preparing for the college entrance exam. In the end, the acceptance letter went to someone else. In 1978, 192Reads—Score10214d adds
- 43 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
- 44 I Opened My Eyes in a 1960s Military District and Was Kissed to Tears After Mistaking Someone for My Partner 睁眼六零军区，弄错对象被亲哭了 She opened her eyes in the 1960s and woke up in a man's bed. After a night of rough lovemaking, she kissed him until she fainted, and got pregnant with twins in a single night. Only then did she realize she had transmigrated into a book. She had become a beautiful, wicked childhood sweetheart with fair skin, a slender figure, and a pretty face. She had gone to the military district to marry the male lead, but accidentally picked the wrong man and climbed into the wrong bed, leaving her forced to 76.7kReads8.4Score6.8k14d adds
- 45 Transmigrated to the 1960s, I Use My Pocket Dimension to Eat Well and Dress Warmly 穿越六零，我靠空间吃饱和穿暖 [No going to the countryside + period setting + pocket dimension] After Zhao Jiayue dies, she finds herself in the 1960s. Luckily, in this unusual era, she has the pocket-dimension golden finger common to transmigrators. When her family worries about where to get their next bite of meat, she brings steaming-hot meat buns out of her pocket dimension. Thanks to this gift, she eats well, dresses warmly, and takes excellent care of herself throughout the 1960s. 12.8kReads6.1Score99814d adds
- 46 System on the Left, Space on the Right: The Seventies Darling Laughs All the Way 左系统右空间，七零娇女笑哈哈 The heroine and her family are all a handful. This is a satisfying power fantasy, so don't read it if you're looking for strict realism. [Transmigration + pocket dimension + supplies + rebirth + System + raising children + treasure hunting] A bloodthirsty Emotion System that wants to harvest emotional energy + a kindhearted Merit System that wants to earn merit energy = a miserable heroine who just wants to lie flat but gets nagged by both Systems to complete missions every day. Modern city girl 13.8kReads8.3Score1.3k14d adds
- 47 In the 1980s, I Coasted to Victory With a High-Ranking Husband 八十年代，背靠高官老公一路躺赢 “Mom, these are the peach cakes Yanyan likes best. Keep an eye on her, though. Don’t let her eat too many, or she won’t have room for dinner.” “Dad, if Yanyan can’t get up in the morning, let her sleep a little longer. Don’t shout at her. It could make her nervous.” At their wits’ end, Shao’s parents asked, “Is she my daughter or yours?” On his first business trip after marrying her, Bai Shuyu was so worried about his wife, Shao Yin, that he sent her back to her parents’ home and asked his mothe 5.3kReads7.0Score40314d adds
- 48 An Educated Youth in the 1970s, His Little Wife Since Childhood 年代知青，自少时的小妻子 When Xu Mingzhen was thirteen, she received an old-fashioned marriage contract. The other party was a “third-generation military family” heir she had never met. What century is this? An arranged marriage? She picked up her pen and wrote back, “I don’t agree!” Then she saw his photo… handsome, poised, and radiant! Actually, good traditions deserve to be passed down! Wei Zhou didn’t learn he had a young fiancée from the countryside until he was eighteen. He wrote to test the waters, only to receiv 2.2kReads8.6Score19414d adds
- 49 My 1989 我的1989 Twenty years ago, a homewrecker tore my family apart and took my father away; Twenty years later, her greed returned, and now she wants to take the only home left to my mother and me. My father was cold and heartless, abandoning his family. With a powerful enemy at the door, every move was a calculated trap. I stopped holding back and bet everything I had on fighting back head-on. From a helpless daughter trapped by the wounds of her upbringing to someone who turns the tide and claims her own ha 2Reads—Score88514d adds
- 50 I Use the Sign-In System to Enjoy the Gossip in the 1970s 我靠签到系统在七零吃瓜 [Sign-in System + gossip + sent to the countryside + romance + a touch of ensemble cast] Su Xia, a youth soon to be sent to the countryside, suddenly finds a sign-in System in her mind. By checking in with key characters, she can obtain generous supplies. From then on, the male and female leads of countless period novels, reborn supporting heroines, idiotic second male leads... and all the bit-part characters who sacrifice themselves on the “front lines” for the plot start appearing around Su Xi 92.8kReads9.1Score13.7k14d adds
