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- 151 The Butcher's Fierce Wife Is My Third Sister-in-Law 卖肉悍妇是我三嫂 When Wang Xiuying was eighteen, she chased two men through the streets with a shoulder pole. Everyone in the village said she was too fierce. Who would dare marry her? And yet my useless third brother insisted on marrying her. On their wedding night, she laid down three rules: from now on, I make the decisions at home; don't let anyone bully you again; wherever I point, you hit. We all thought our third brother had married a tigress and that their life together would be impossible. But who could 986Reads—Score10514d adds
- 152 In a Period Novel, the Cannon Fodder Who Brings Gear Changes the Plot 年代文，送装备的炮灰擅改剧情 [Period Setting] [Golden Finger] [Gossip and Treasure Hunting] [Family Life] [Some Ensemble Cast] [Money Is No Object] [Heaven Has a Will] [Characters Aren't Dumb] [No College Entrance Exam] [No Job] The heroine is an ordinary person with flaws! The pacing is a little slow! She won't miss out on a single bargain worth finding! She won't forget a single grudge worth settling! A box thrown by her neighbor knocks Jian Xingmian into the year 1968! Only after waking up does she realize she's been in 2.9kReads6.9Score18314d adds
- 153 The Beautiful First Half of Her Life 美艳的前半生 The story takes place in a rural village in Hebei in 1999. Meiyan has been sweet, beautiful, and clever since childhood, and everyone in the village agrees she's the local beauty. After failing her university entrance exams on her second attempt, she has no choice but to face the path fate has laid out for her. Swept up by Li Gangqiang's relentless pursuit, she gives him everything. But on the very day he steps through the gates of college, he gets together with another woman. Betrayed, Meiyan s 8.2kReads7.1Score16714d adds
- 154 A Way Forward Through Mountains and Rivers 出路之山重水复 [Period setting + Family + Women + Career + Workplace business battles + No romance + Society + An exploration of human nature] No cheat powers, no dramatic comeback. A deep look at the struggles and prospects of 99% of ordinary people! Wish-fulfillment stories are everywhere, but once the excitement fades, only emptiness remains. In the end, we all have to face the grind of daily life and the warmth or coldness of human relationships. This slow-burning work of realism offers no lucky breaks or 2.4kReads9.5Score34314d adds
- 155 Wild Chrysanthemums, No Tears 野菊花，不流泪 “The eldest gets doted on, the youngest gets spoiled, but the one in the middle suffers most!” In the late 1970s, under the weight of son preference and the pressure of family planning, Xiaojü was born in the middle. Her tragic life began from the moment she was born: an unwanted child, abandoned by both Heaven and Earth! When Xiaojü was four, the grandmother who had raised her passed away. In her final moments, Grandma told her that she had been born in a season when wild chrysanthemums were i 2kReads8.4Score15214d adds
- 156 Quick Transmigration: The Art of Splitting into Clones 快穿之：分身有术 The most important thing in life is not where you stand, but the direction you face. In the real world, some people laugh, some cry, some shout, and some remain silent. Life is, in essence, an exercise in endurance. Beauty and ugliness, good and bad: everyone has their own feelings about them. Faced with this tumultuous world and the countless selfish thoughts crowding our minds, we often find ourselves wanting to do more than we can, because there simply aren’t enough hours in the day. But what 60Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 157 Reborn After a Horrific Death, I Dump the Scumbag and His Mistress and Marry the Commander 惨死重生后，踢飞渣男绿茶嫁首长 [1970s + Reborn and Revenge + Pocket Dimension + Building Wealth + Military Marriage + Alternate History] In her previous life, Yun Qiuyue spent her whole life as a beast of burden, giving up her own bright future to care for the bedridden mother of a scoundrel. Only on her deathbed did she discover that the man she had loved and waited for all her life had already married and had children. And the woman he married was the very “little sister” he had always talked about! Alone in the countryside 1.2kReads8.5Score12914d adds
- 158 Laid-Back Days in the Seventies: My Best Friend Builds a Fortune While I Squander One 七零摆烂日常：闺蜜兴家我败家 [Dual transmigration + System + satisfying period story + best friends pampering each other + everyday riches] The two women transmigrate to the 1970s with a System. In these hard times, when everyone is tightening their belts just to get by, they live like a blissfully happy couple. Yun Qian throws herself into her career and boldly declares, “I love the thrill of making money and competing for success! I want my best friend and family, Tangtang, to be able to spend money without a care in the 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 Leaving on the Journey South 南下归途离开 Every so often, a generation leaves home to make a living, leaving its youth behind on construction sites and streets far from home. Our fathers left the mountains with worn-out woven-plastic bags on their backs, heading south to find work. They knew nothing of polished talk. They only knew to keep their heads down and work hard, relying on brute strength to feed their families. They lived in cramped shacks, endured grueling day and night shifts, and swallowed their homesickness and grievances. 27Reads—Score214d adds
- 160 Reborn in the 1980s: The Road to a New Life 重生八零：逆袭人生路 [Period setting + reborn + building wealth + business and farming + face-slapping and crushing villains + wicked relatives meet their doom] In her previous life, Lin Xiulan was nothing but a blood bank for the Lin family. Her cousin stole her college admission letter, her husband took all her property, and her uncle's family ground her into the dirt. Seven months pregnant, she was pushed down a freezing staircase. As she perished in a sea of flames, only the taciturn officer Lu Weiguo charged i 50Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 The Whole Village Mocked Me for Raising Fish, Then I Became a Tycoon 养鱼被全村嘲笑我反手成了大享 Reborn in the 1990s, I had a home with nothing in it and endured everyone's contempt. Everyone called me a dreamer and said fish farming would leave me dead broke. My family played favorites, my neighbors were mean, and everyone made things difficult for me. But I was determined to defy fate. With one fishpond, I could turn the tide! I proved the whole village wrong, made a fortune, and became the person they admired most! 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 Spirit Spring Space: The Fake Heiress Becomes Everyone’s Darling 灵泉空间，假资本家大小姐成团宠 [System Space] [Everyone's Favorite] [Building a Career] [Marriage First, Love Later] [A Slow-Burning Romance] Shen Xuwei, an obscure actress, transmigrates into a book set in 1975 and becomes a cannon-fodder character who shares her name. From the start, she reclaims her space and binds herself to the [Road to Stardom Comeback System], gradually transforming from a pretty young woman into a stunning beauty. Her space keeps leveling up, and its rewards grow ever more generous, improving her from 10.3kReads6.9Score1.9k14d adds
- 163 The Lingering Warmth of the Earthen Bed 土炕上的余温 The quarry in the hills behind Laojing Village buried the men from half the village. All that remained were a village full of widows and children crying from hunger. Thirty migrant miners moved into the workers' barracks, all strapping bachelors. The widows cursed men to their faces, then dug out their floral jackets at night and deliberately walked past the barracks. Each of the three widows had her own reasons: one wanted a protector to help raise her child, one hoped to get some rice and flou 13kReads8.9Score83214d adds
- 164 Old Huang and Old Hei 老黄与老黑 [Period Drama] [Countryside] [Married Life] Set in the early 1980s, this novel tells the story of four families, the Lins, Wangs, Lius, and Chens, in an unremarkable village on the Loess Plateau in the Great Northwest. They scheme and struggle against one another, while brothers and sisters-in-law within each clan bear their own grudges and grievances. But it is better to resolve enmity than let it fester. Lin Junjie is the first young man in the village to get into college, bringing honor to th 56Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 165 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 19kReads8.3Score2.5k14d adds
- 166 A Traveler in Years of Famine 荒年客 A survival epic about ordinary Chinese people. From rural China to the torrents of modern life, three generations of the Hou family are swept along by the tide of history. The grandparents put down roots in the land. Their values, admonitions, and “family scandals” form the family's original identity and its shackles. The parents struggle through a time of transition, inheriting heavy burdens while kindling a desire to change their fate. As someone born in the 1980s, I linger at the divide betwe 140Reads6.6Score10514d adds
- 167 The Man with Six Marriages 六婚男人 A marriage spanning half a century, full of ups and downs, and one man's six sorrowful, blood-stained journeys into wedlock. In the late 1970s, at a state-owned coal mine in Northeast China, Kim Dazhuang, an ethnic Korean Chinese who had returned from Korea, was tall and burly, with a fiery temper. He sweated through his work amid the roar of steam locomotives. Over the course of his life, he went through six marriages. Each time, he entered with hope, only for almost every one to end in heartbr 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 Reborn in the Nineties: A Country Girl's Rise to Riches 重生九零，农女逆袭当富婆 Reborn + a rural woman's rise + making a fortune + taking down scumbags At the entrance to a garment factory, reborn Wu Xiaolan's grape juice stand becomes a hit. Her rivals cut prices? She launches a new product: cold skin noodles. Management makes things difficult? She leads the way in securing the first license for a mobile food stall. Short on workers? She brings together a feisty girl who sells eggs on the black market, a quick-witted young woman who works at a snack shop, and the village c 134Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 I Transmigrated to the 1960s and Became the Aunt Who Died Young 穿越六零，我成了早夭的三姨妈 [Transmigration, 1960s setting, golden finger, a touch of ensemble cast, cozy everyday life] A university counselor transmigrates to the 1960s and becomes the third aunt who died young in her previous life. In an era full of both opportunities and challenges, she firmly believes education can change one's fate and insists that her whole family study hard! When hardships arise, the family faces them together. When opportunities come, they pull together, ultimately finding lives completely differe 137Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 170 I Married the Village Bully in the 1980s 我在八零嫁村霸 [Both leads are reborn + sweet romance + love grows over time + clever money-making ideas + raising a child] If you had the chance to be reborn, what would you do? Win back a lost love, or rekindle a relationship with family you’d grown distant from? If you asked Gu Man, she’d say she only wanted to save the one child she lost in her previous life. Gu Man really was reborn, back to shortly after her wedding, when she was so terrified and disappointed in her village tyrant of a husband that she j 452Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 171 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
- 172 Tales of Qingshiyu 青石峪往事 The story follows nearly half a century of change in Qingshiyu, a village in the Yimeng Mountains. As the mountain countryside is transformed, it portrays the full journey of rural China from the final years of collectivization to the new era of rural revitalization. It tells the stories of life in and beyond the village, exploring tradition and modernity, staying and leaving, survival and growth, and the profound tension between individual destinies and the tides of the times... 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 A Realistic Life for a Family in the 1970s 七零一家人的写实生活 [A rural story set in Suzhou] [No transmigration, no wish fulfillment, and an unhurried pace] [A down-to-earth farming story set in a bygone era] [An ensemble cast] Liang Qiuhua is the third child in the family. Perceptive and sensible, she takes an interest in embroidery, becomes an apprentice, and gradually blossoms into her own life. Liang Dahua, the eldest, is the family's best-looking member and a good-hearted pushover. Liang Erhua, the second child, is a street loafer who dreams of making 50Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 174 A Cadre's Daughter in the 1970s: From Village Belle to Translator 七零高干：从村花到翻译官 [Era of Reversal] [Rise of a Great Nation] [Clear-Eyed Money Making] [The Heroine’s Growth] [Marriage Before Love] [Building a Business in the 1970s] In 1975, deep in the Ten-Thousand Mountains, a single dirt road trapped countless rural children in lives of poverty. Zhao Shuhe had a secret: inside her mind was a 2025 course System. While everyone else was still using abacuses, she already knew matrix calculations. While others were memorizing the 26 letters, she had a complete university-level 215.8kReads8.8Score34.9k14d adds
- 175 Reborn in the 1970s: The Prosperous Family's Young Daughter-in-Law 重生七零：旺家小儿媳 A brick house? A warm, cozy bed? A kerosene lamp? I’ve gone back to when my parents were alive! The heavens still have a conscience and have given me a chance to be reborn and get revenge! In my previous life, my scumbag husband and a widow bullied me until I died. They schemed to make me miscarry my five-month-old baby, and I foolishly thought it was my own carelessness. I humbled myself and coaxed Chen Zhiqiang, earning work points to support the whole family. I never had a child of my own, an 39Reads—Score214d adds
- 176 Reborn in the 1970s: My Soldier Boyfriend Spoils Me Into a Fortune 重生七零年代：兵哥宠我开挂暴富 Transmigration + the 1970s + a sign-in System + supplies + a spatial realm + a soldier + sweet romance! Boosted by cooking and foreign language skills + coasting into academic excellence + everyday life + great food! -- Su Miaomiao wakes up one day transmigrated to the 1970s, where she is about to be sold to an old widower for his third marriage! Ding! The Host has changed a pivotal moment in her fate. The Era of Prosperity Sign-In System is now active! Ding! The Host has successfully completed 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Reborn in 1978: Sharpening My Blade Against the Great Powers 重生七八，磨刀霍霍向列强 (Period drama + ruthless action + reborn + System) Chu Xing's military parents were murdered, and his younger sister was sold. Even when he died, he had been unable to avenge his parents or find his sister. Reborn in his fifteen-year-old body, he acquired a System by a twist of fate. In this life, he swore to find his sister and avenge his parents. But these two seemingly simple goals were fraught with danger. And from the very beginning, he had fallen into a carefully laid trap set by the Syste —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Reborn in 1980: Demolition, Riches, and Taking on the Worst of the Family 重生回80，拆迁！暴富！斗极品 [Working-class life + Demolition and relocation + Plenty of awful people + Family squabbles + Getting rich + A touch of ensemble cast] Hu Yan spent her whole life as a devoted wife and loving mother, only to die suddenly on a factory assembly line. In one moment, she returns to thirty years earlier, just two months after marrying Chen Guangze. At this point, the village houses haven't been demolished, and she and her husband haven't split from the family. They haven't given up their village home 14.7kReads7.5Score1.3k14d adds
- 179 Transmigrated Into the 1970s, I Flash-Married the Strongest Man in the Book 穿书七零，闪婚全书最强大佬 New book out now~ [Fair-skinned, stunning beauty X Chaste, dignified, aloof heartthrob] [A marriage sparked by love at first sight] While sorting through her grandmother’s belongings, Jiang Mingjiao unexpectedly bound herself to a portable space! Before she could finish stocking up on sought-after goods from the 1970s, the System tossed her into a tragic romance novel. She became the short-lived supporting female character who was tricked by her reborn cousin into moving to the countryside, losi 12.5kReads7.8Score1.7k14d adds
- 180 Reborn in the 1960s: I Became Grandma’s Little Sister 重生六零：我成了外婆的妹妹 [When an ordinary person is reborn in a rural village in the 1960s, forget about getting ahead or making grand plans. First, stay alive.] [1960s rural life + family and neighborhood affairs + education and growth + ensemble cast] [Not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story. Please don't read if that's not your thing. Thank you.] When Zhu Yan wakes up in the body of her grandmother's second-youngest sister, who died young, she vows to change her grand —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 The Charming Village Girl Doesn't Give Her Heart Away 俏村花她不走心 People say that a widow’s doorstep invites trouble, but Chunfang isn’t afraid. She goes out of her way to surround herself with men. After years of struggling in the dirt, she’s seen through it all: you can’t rely on a man’s heart, but you can rely on his money and connections. So she smiles as she plays several men against one another. One helps her come up with the cash, another finds her a market for her goods. The villagers call her shameless. Chunfang sneers. “How much is a reputation worth 21.5kReads8.0Score1.3k14d adds
- 182 Alone in an Empty Room, While the Factory Director Next Door Holds Me Close at Night 守空房，隔壁厂长夜揽小蛮腰 [Period Setting + Rugged Hero + Both Pure in Love + Sweet Romance + Traditional Story, No Rebirth or Transmigration] [Pretty Widow + Untamed Steel Mill Director, With a Striking Difference in Build and Skin Tone, and Chemistry Through the Roof] After her husband dies in an underground accident, He Xiaohe becomes the “jinx widow” everyone at the steel mill thinks they can bully. Her vicious mother-in-law wants to seize her house, then sell her off to the countryside for a bride price. Her shamele 2.4kReads—Score10814d adds
- 183 Xue Mei's Story 雪梅的故事 Bare, barren loess hills. Ravines and ridges wind their way into the distance. This is where the story’s heroine, Xuemei, spent her childhood, grew into a shy young woman, and endured until she became a mature wife. She works hard, cultivating this poor yellow earth, and sings the praises of the diligence and simplicity of rural women in the new era. 148Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Eighties Elopement: The Blacklisted Sisters Went on a Rampage 八零逃婚：黑户姐妹花杀疯了 [Period setting, punishing scumbags, women's growth, two heroines] Li Zhaodi was born into a family that favored boys over girls and was sold to a butcher in his fifties. Zhaodi refused to accept her fate and risked her life to escape that hellhole. But just as she escaped the wolf's den, she fell into the tiger's jaws. While being trafficked, she met Zhao Xiaocao, who shared her plight, and the two relied on each other to survive. They refused to be doddering vines at the mercy of others. In th 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Neighbors in the Ancient City 古城邻里 A new work is here! Come read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Set in Yuhè Courtyard, the central compound of Qinghuai Lane in an ancient riverside city in southern China, this novel traces a century of ups and downs among several longtime residents and their neighbors. Through their stories, it captures the changes in the city from the early years after liberation to the present day, the younger generation’s outlook on life amid a market economy, the bustle of its streets and lanes 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 Reborn in 1976, My Father-in-Law Hopes I Die Every Day 重生1976，岳父天天盼我死 [Rebirth + period setting + logging + no System] In his previous life, Chen Beishan was the chairman of a timber conglomerate worth tens of billions. As he died at his rosewood desk, the last document he received wasn’t an obituary. It was a lawyer’s letter from his son, contesting the inheritance. He opens his eyes in 1976, in the Greater Khingan Range, at minus forty-two degrees. He’s now the “softie Beishan” everyone at the logging camp calls a coward: a good-for-nothing who abandoned his p 976Reads6.5Score10814d adds
- 187 After Escaping, She Built a Beautiful Life with Her Child 逃离后她带娃美丽 Pushed down the stairs by her daughter, she wakes up in a hospital bed, where she is left unattended for three whole days. Meanwhile, her husband is lost in a lovey-dovey reunion with the woman he thought he’d lost forever. Her in-laws, sister-in-law, and daughter seem to be the ones who truly belong together as a loving family. Her heart is utterly shattered, beyond repair. She never had family to begin with, so why keep longing for their affection? Goodbye. She’s leaving to find a life of her 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 The Great Pagoda Tree at the Village Entrance 村口那棵大槐树 The 1960s: too few clothes and too little food! In remote Tianshui Village, everyone was struggling to stay alive! Every character is a vivid reflection of that era. They have no golden fingers and they don't transmigrate... so they can only fight tooth and nail against life and fate just to survive! Girls especially had a harder time of it in those days. Listen to the names: Dai Xiao, Huan Xiao, Zhaodi... You can tell at a glance they were named by parents hoping for a son. Back then, many girl 62Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Leading the Whole Family to Wealth in the 1970s 七零年代带领全家发家致富 [Period Setting + Childhood Sweethearts + Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Business Rivalry] You can’t get away from me, Jiang-ge, my childhood sweetheart! Lin Ziqing carefully leads her whole family to prosperity, taking the Lin family to new heights. There’s a sly old fox of a grandfather, a grandmother shrouded in mystery, and a shocking secret hidden at her maternal grandparents’ home. One careless move could cost her her life. 158Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 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—Score12014d adds
- 191 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 4.1kReads8.2Score41414d adds
- 192 Childhood in the Old Days 旧时光里的童年 The author recalls a rural childhood in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province, during the 1970s and 1980s. The book describes rural life and the changes brought about by the household responsibility system in the early days of reform and opening up, along with the joys and hardships of the author’s childhood before the age of ten, major family upheavals, and the warmth and coldness of human nature. 39Reads—Score314d adds
- 193 Rural Chronicle 乡村纪实 The little details of life, all those everyday moments, come together to paint a picture of a changing countryside. Generation after generation pursues its dreams, working hard in the mountain valleys. They make it through the winter, then the hills turn green in spring. Summer crops blanket the mountains, and autumn is always a season of joy. 249Reads8.4Score1414d adds
- 194 Back to the 1970s: A Village Girl's Path Beyond the World 重回七零年代，村女的破界之路 [Elderly woman + reborn + 1970s + dumping a scumbag + no romance + family life + spatial storage] After being angered to death at the age of seventy, Zhou Qiuying is reborn in 1975. In 1975 in her previous life, Zhou Qiuying was an eighteen-year-old country girl. She gave up her secure job as an elementary school teacher to marry an educated youth sent down to the countryside. In return, her husband cruelly abandoned her after passing the college entrance exam, and her loved ones died tragical 179Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 The Plains' True Colors 平原底色 Beginning in the twenty-first century, this novel follows Fang Lizhu, a child of the post-80s generation growing up in the rural Jianghan Plain of central China. Through Fang Lizhu's education, work, and the many people he meets and events he experiences, the novel portrays how life has changed for people across the plains since the start of the new century. It also depicts the many ways ordinary people respond to sweeping changes in a new era and a shifting social landscape: the choices they ma 23Reads—Score114d adds
- 196 Outliving My Wicked Mother-in-Law and Stepmother, I Survive a Century of Chaos 熬死恶婆后娘，乱世活百年 [Complete] [Just Rated] [No Cheap Tricks] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Novel] [No Cheats] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural] [Hardship] A thousand thanks for all your support and comments. Oh my gosh, my story finally got a rating... even if it only just came out!! Chen Xiulan was my maternal grandmother. She passed away at the age of 103. Only now does a promise I made years ago, left unfulfilled, pierce my heart: I once promised to write her a thick memoir. When I was little, I was always 765Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 197 The Young People of Chemen Courtyard 车门院里的年轻人 This is a symphony of destinies spanning generations. In a small courtyard in northern China in the 1970s, several families struggle and drift with the tides of the times. Lei Shaxiao, an orphan whose parents died young, falls in love with Aiai, another orphan from the neighboring courtyard. They were an ordinary couple, but amid the raging currents of the era, Shaxiao rises to become a renowned lawyer who commands the room. Money, power, and desire come one after another. He loses himself in th 35Reads—Score314d adds
- 198 Changing the World, One Supernatural Chive at a Time 从培育出超凡韭菜开始改变世界 [Period novel + farming + slice-of-life System + food + slow burn + no heroine + unconventional power fantasy] Question: What are the most frustrating things about novels where someone transmigrates back to the past and starts farming? Answer: The protagonist has such an overpowered cheat, but the story still saddles them with a bunch of relatives like Pokemon, endlessly bickering about family affairs. Why can't they just get on with farming?! And they've already had a modern education, so why d 626Reads6.8Score10614d adds
- 199 Whose Youth Is Without Scars? 谁的青春不带伤 In the eighties and nineties, I was a child too. I went from being confused and bewildered to a rebellious teenager, from a student whose ideals shone bright to a laborer struggling through hardship. Friendships faded and were forgotten; my first love left a deep mark before ending in heartbreak. Being young means constantly growing up. 92Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Reborn in 1978: Starting with Selling Herbal Tea 重生1978：从卖凉茶开始 In his previous life, Chen Fan was a businessman who met a crushing defeat. His family was torn apart, his loved ones were gone, and he was left with nothing but regrets. When he opened his eyes again, he was back at the dawn of Reform and Opening Up, eighteen years old once more. His family was drowning in debt, his mother was gravely ill, his sister's engagement had been called off, and his overbearing uncle was determined to seize the family's last means of survival. In this desperate situat 1Reads—Score—14d adds
