Novels like Reborn in the 1990s: Older Husband, Younger Wife, I'll Take Care of Everything
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- 1 The Most Hated Youth in the Educated Youth Compound Is Actually a National Treasure? 知青院的万人嫌，竟是国之重器？ [Period Setting + Possessive Love + Only One Another + Equally Matched + Rivalry Among Men + Stunning Beauty] Su Nuannuan transmigrates into a book, becoming the Ji family’s adopted daughter, with a face full of freckles and a scrawny figure. In the original story, the original Su Nuannuan secretly loves the young master of the Ji family. She drugs him and climbs into his bed, then throws a tantrum, threatens suicide, and finally marries Ji Xiao. But she spends three years alone in an empty room 30.9kReads8.5Score5k14d adds
- 2 A Collection of Satisfying Short Dramas 短剧爽文合集 This is a collection of short, cathartic dramas. Every romance is a heart-wrenching tangle of love and hate, and every conflict is a battle of deeply restrained, all-consuming devotion. The twists never stop, the tension stays high, and every story keeps you on the edge of your seat. One person lies low in silence, then awakens and tears apart her obsessive ex-husband; One person disguises their way into the game, then turns the tables and takes control; One person returns after being hurt by l 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Spoiled Heiress Is Marrying a Wife-Doting Maniac 娇气包大小姐结婚对象是宠妻狂魔 Delicate beauty × lovestruck military officer [Military Marriage + Spirit Spring Space + Feel-Good Story + Devoted Husband + Marriage Before Love] The male lead has secretly loved her for a long time, and his careful plotting finally pays off. Before breaking off her engagement, Yu Yue dreamed of her past life. She listened to her best friend, ended her engagement, and got together with a scumbag, who cheated her out of her family fortune and left her to starve to death on the streets. After wak 365Reads5.3Score11414d adds
- 4 The 1980s: A Billionaire’s Rise to Fortune 【八零】亿万富翁的发家史 [Ensemble family story + changing times + raising children] Xiao Qian, an engineer at Hongyuan Television Factory, had one great wish in life: to go to college. When news of the 1977 college entrance exam reached the factory, he was overjoyed and prepared to sign up. Then came the devastating news: applicants had to be no older than 25. The good news was that he was 25. The bad news was that his household registration book said he was 26. He called in favors and pulled strings, but nothing worke 3.1kReads8.7Score28614d adds
- 5 Mom! Your Dead Husband Is Back! 妈妈！你死去的老公回来了！ The rating is low because the book just started, so feel free to ignore it~ [Period novel, military marriage, local protagonist, raising a child, joining the army, everyday family life] “Mom! Your dead husband is back!” The chubby three-year-old looked up at the man in front of him who claimed to be his father, then introduced him to Wen Yu. Xu Shaoyuan had been covered in blood on the battlefield without even blinking, but the distance in his wife and child’s eyes brought tears to his own. Her 9.6kReads8.6Score91914d adds
- 6 Reborn in 2005: Mom, Dad, Don't Run Off. You've Got Me 重生05年：爸妈别私奔，有我呢 (This is the first book, and it's complete! Find the second book on my homepage!) P.S. The heroine is cherished by her whole family but isn't a pushover. The hero only dotes on her, there are no contrived misunderstandings, and the story is sweet, healing, and packed with satisfying moments! (Adorable little lucky star vs. aloof, withdrawn CEO vs. feel-good period novel vs. defying fate vs. mutual devotion) In her previous life, her parents were driven to elope. Her father built a business empir 409Reads8.2Score13114d adds
- 7 Sent to the Countryside in the 1970s, I Caught the Eye of a Powerful Official 七零下乡，被权臣大佬盯上了 [Period Setting + Dual Transmigration + Dual Pocket Dimensions + No Handouts] [Male Lead Travels from Ancient Times to the Present + Love at First Sight + Hopeless Romantic] Modern rich beauty Pei Nian was born into her mother's womb in a previous life and lost her memories for eighteen years. Raised by her grandfather, she never expected that the moment he passed away, her scumbag father would immediately sign her up to go to the countryside. As Pei Nian headed home in a fury to settle the scor 29kReads8.8Score4.2k14d adds
- 8 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
- 9 Quick Transmigration: After the Host Gives Up, the Missions Complete Themselves 快穿：宿主摆烂后任务自己完成了 (Completed) It gets better and better as it goes on. If you love sweet romance, please stick with it! This story is entirely made up by the author. Any similarities are because someone else plagiarized it. Male lead is a split-personality version of himself; one-on-one romance. The heroine is stunning! A love story between two people who are both hopeless romantics. It's a sweet romance disguised as a conquest story. 1: The bad-boy-handsome campus heartthrob walks right into her trap 2: There is 9.5kReads8.9Score1.3k14d adds
- 10 Transmigrate Into a Book: After Slacking Off in the Eighties, I Was Spoiled by a Rugged Man 穿书八零：摆烂后我被糙汉宠上天 [Period-setting wish fulfillment + wish fulfillment + wish fulfillment + wish fulfillment + strong heroine and sweet romance] Complete and ready to read. A sweet romance with a male lead who spoils his wife without question. The heroine gets revenge on scumbags and serves up face-slapping in the early chapters, then builds wealth and engages in business battles later on. After Jiang Mian bound herself to the [Lazy Fish Lie-Flat System], she completely gave up trying. [System task: Slack off for 18.2kReads8.9Score1.3k14d adds
- 11 The Little Treasure Hunter of the Fifties 五零捡漏小当家 A kindergarten teacher in her thirties wakes up to find herself in 1952, inhabiting the body of Qian Laixi, a five-year-old playmate kept by a capitalist family. The household is about to flee, the country is in turmoil, and her own family is still stuck in poverty as servants. No problem! She has a stingy “Junk System” that recycles just about anything. The He family is clearing out? Fine, she’ll scan every last inch of their property! Unclaimed treasure? She’ll gladly take it all, from silver 19.7kReads8.3Score1.5k14d adds
- 12 After a 1970s Flash Marriage to an Officer, the Nation Has My Back 70闪婚军官后，国家给我做靠山 [Military Marriage] + [Book Transmigration] + [Storage Space] + [Marriage Before Love] + [Everyone’s Favorite] + [Period] The moment Shen Qingling opens her eyes, she realizes she has transmigrated into a book. She thought that after spending her last life busily studying all sorts of skills and competing in contests, she could finally marry a military officer in a whirlwind wedding and settle into an easy life as a military wife. The wives in the compound look down on her, but the aroma of her 3.6kReads8.8Score39214d adds
- 13 After Her Thoughts Are Read, the Capitalist Heiress's Persona Crumbles Again 被读心后资本家大小姐人设又崩啦 Mind-reading and gossip + goofy plot + devoted couples Originally titled The Capitalist Heiress’s Persona Falls Apart Again After Her Thoughts Are Read Shi Yuanyuan transmigrates into a period novel about a woman adored by everyone, becoming the crazy, vicious ex-wife who is destined to die young at the hands of the powerful male lead. System: “Host, you know what a villain is, right?” A villain? I wouldn’t even Shi Yuanyuan declares: No one understands villains better than I do! What does a vil 5.3kReads7.5Score54114d adds
- 14 An Ordinary Life for a Girl Born in the Eighties 八零后女孩的平凡人生 [No transmigration] [No rebirth] [No golden finger] [Rural life in the 1980s] [A small ensemble cast] [Family squabbles] [Gentle and heartwarming] Xu Congcong and Xu Mingming are sisters born in the 1980s. They are lucky to have a grandma and father who love them unconditionally, as well as a mother whose personality is a little complicated but who loves them just as much. Sheltered by their whole family, the sisters grow up carefree. Through the sisters’ coming-of-age story, this novel traces t 3.3kReads9.2Score23814d adds
- 15 Getting Rich Through Demolition in the 1990s, My Whole Family Kicks Back and Enjoys the Show 九零拆迁暴富，全家躺赢吃瓜忙 The God of Wealth is here, the God of Wealth is here, good deeds bring good fortune... La la la la la! In 1994, to the tune of “The God of Wealth Is Here,” Happy Village is demolished! Xu Ran’s family of three becomes rich overnight. With a huge pile of compensation money in hand, they buy houses, shops, plots of land, then more houses and a gold mine. The more they buy, the richer the family gets. One stack after another of red property deeds comes home with them. And they get to enjoy all the 23.7kReads9.0Score2.7k14d adds
- 16 You Won't Let the Little One Eat Her Fill? Flip the Table! Then Nobody Eats! 不让奶团吃饱饭？掀桌！都饿着！ [Period Setting + Adorable Child + Everyone's Darling + Mostly Locals, Light Ensemble Cast + Lighthearted + Funny + Not a Single Member of the Family Is a Soft Touch + Get Even on the Spot] Luo Panpan had never known hardship from the day she was born. Then, at five and a half, her father died. From then on, she never had enough to eat, and they even planned to send her away to be adopted? Not a chance! Her mother was a famous tigress for miles around: bold, resourceful, and good at making money 18.7kReads8.8Score1.8k14d adds
- 17 An 80s Military Marriage! So Sweet, the Officer Husband and His Baby 八零军婚！甜翻军官老公生崽崽 [Complete] [Period setting, 1980s, family love, military marriage, age gap, doting father type, gentle slow-burn, unconventional period novel, awful characters get taken down quickly, no frustrating setbacks, making a fortune, high-ranking families, no pocket dimension, no golden finger] The moment Wen Zhile opened her eyes, she realized she had been reborn. She had gone from being a professor’s daughter to the second daughter of the Dai family, villagers in Jianghe Village. They treated her lik 5.2kReads9.0Score53614d adds
- 18 Shocking! After Transmigrating into a Book, I Became the Child's Mother 惊爆！穿书后我成了孩子他妈 Original title: The 1980s: Commander, Your Baby Is from Ten Years in the Future [Period drama transmigration + marriage first, love later + family life + adorable baby + marriage to bring good fortune] The instant she receives her college admission letter, Qi Shiyu finds herself standing at the gates of a school in 1985. She's become a high school senior, with only three months left before the college entrance exams. She's transmigrated into a book. She thought she'd been cast as an insignifican 32.8kReads7.9Score5.1k14d adds
- 19 After My Scumbag Dad Married His White Moonlight, He Lost All His Descendants 渣爹娶了白月光后，断子绝孙了 [Period] [The 1960s] [Transmigration] [Ensemble Cast] [Feel-Good Story] [Little One, Big Impact] Original title: After My Scumbag Father Married His One True Love, His Family Line Came to an End Su Moqian, head of a prestigious hidden medical clan, was ambushed by her enemies. She used her last breath to take them down with her, only for her soul to drift into the 1960s of a parallel world. Lack of clothes and food was bad enough, but she had also been reborn as a four-and-a-half-year-old toddle 95.2kReads9.0Score5.7k14d adds
- 20 The 1970s: The Beloved Family Member Who Uses Technology to Strengthen the Nation 七零团宠科技兴国 [Transmigrate into a Book + Bygone Era + System + Adorable Child + Hilarious Comedy + Scientific Research + Child Prodigy] [Original title: The Beloved Darling of the Seventies Brings Prosperity Through Science and Technology] The Interstellar God of War is betrayed. With the last of his strength, he sends away his only daughter, Yuan Yuan, then dies alongside the traitor. Interstellar toddler Yuan Yuan transmigrates into a beloved little cousin in a period novel and gets bound to an Interstella 8.6kReads9.4Score72714d adds
- 21 The 1960s: After Getting into Technical College, I Secure a Cadre Position 六零：考上中专后，我稳坐干部岗 [1960s + everyday life + extremely, extremely slow-paced + family squabbles + no rural assignment + vocational school entrance exams + few awful relatives] [This is a female-oriented novel! The heroine is an ordinary person, not a powerhouse heroine. Please don’t read if that bothers you.] Heartbroken and still looking for an internship? To escape reality, senior college student Zhou Yuan casually signed a contract for the full-immersion game Awakening. When she opened her eyes, she had become Z 17.7kReads8.5Score1.3k14d adds
- 22 Reborn and Awakened: This Time, I Won’t Be a Love-Struck Fool 重生觉醒，这次我不做恋爱脑 [Both leads reborn + school life + gloomy, manipulative green-tea male lead + healing] Only after Lin Wu died did she learn that she was the villainess in a campus romance novel. Born into a wealthy family and blessed with a pretty face, she was still nothing more than a stepping stone in the sweet love story of the hero and heroine. Even though she and Xie Yanhui had grown up together and were engaged. Xie Yanhui only ever had eyes for the pure, poor Xia Ruoruo. Sadly, she was too obsessed to l 114.9kReads9.1Score23.2k14d adds
- 23 A Sociable Little One Takes Her Sweet, Delicate Mom Along to Join the Army 社牛崽崽带娇软亲妈去随军 [Period Setting + Military Marriage + Marriage First, Love Later + Gifted Kids + Women Supporting Women] Jiang Ningning transmigrates into a military-marriage novel as the deceased biological mother of a pair of gifted twins. Her husband sends her a monthly child support payment, but the original owner is weak-willed and constantly gets swindled out of the money by her in-laws on one pretext or another. The twins raise their mother by scavenging, until their fifth birthday, when the disillusione 9kReads8.9Score91714d adds
- 24 To Avoid Disaster, the Village Belle Marries the Village Bully and Asks Him for a Baby 八零村花为避祸嫁村霸，邀他生崽 [Delicate village beauty + rugged man + adored by all + cozy romance + having a baby + childhood sweethearts] Su Yunqi was famous throughout the surrounding villages for being a delicate beauty. Unfortunately, the Su family had little power and couldn't protect her. When a rich hooligan took a fancy to her, they had no choice but to hastily marry her off to a rugged man from the neighboring village, an even bigger village bully and hooligan. He was five years older than her, and they'd grown u 15.2kReads9.0Score1.1k14d adds
- 25 The Man Who Joined the Army Is Married, So I Turn Around and Marry His Commander 随军男人已结婚，转头嫁他首长 1970s + period setting + substitute marriage + military marriage + devoted couple Qin Shu opened her eyes to find herself on a train, held hostage by a criminal with a gun pressed to her forehead. Her life was hanging by a thread. From the memories she inherited, she learned that the original owner had been sent to marry a soldier in someone else’s place. First, she beat the criminal senseless and secured herself a job at the Public Security Bureau. Then she went to the military base to find th 19.7kReads8.7Score2.3k14d adds
- 26 After I Transmigrated into a Book, My Sons' Golden Fingers Merged with Mine 穿书后我和儿子们的金手指合并了 [Twins + Space + System + Book Pavilion + Military Marriage + Everyday Parenting] The male lead is basically just a background character, though he gets a little more screen time later on. Qiu Yinuo transmigrates into a book, becoming the vicious supporting female character in a period novel, as well as the future commander’s plump wife, who dies young. As the wife of a powerful man, she has everything she could want, yet she makes trouble at every turn and ends up bringing about her own death 34.8kReads9.4Score5k14d adds
- 27 The 1970s: My Son and His Dad Both Have Off-the-Charts IQs 七零：崽和崽他爹智商双爆表 {The short drama is now streaming ♥ Title: The Best Mom in a Period Novel} [Alternate-history period setting + transmigrating into a book + adorable child + cozy everyday life] After transmigrating into a book set in the 1970s, Su Taotao faced two choices: 1. Follow the original plot, abandon her husband and child, return to the city, and rekindle her romance with her childhood sweetheart; 2. Do nothing and wait for her husband of convenience to show up six months later and take her back to the 22.4kReads9.3Score2.3k14d adds
- 28 Awakening in the 1980s: I Have a Child with the Infamous Village Tyrant 睁眼八零：和凶名在外村霸有崽了 When Hu Yao woke up, she found a mischievous yet well-behaved son and a scoundrel of a man beside her. Shocked and bewildered, she heard from the neighbors she knew that four years earlier, she'd hit her head so hard she was left simple-minded, and her mother had sold her. Over those four years, she had not only gained a husband but also a mischievous child who fiercely protected her. The bastard of a man was always putting his hands on her, and he was exceptionally fierce and unreasonable. Terr 38kReads9.2Score3.2k14d adds
- 29 Transmigrating into the 1960s as a Young Educated Youth 穿越六十年代小知青 (Complete) (Parallel world + spoiled younger man + military marriage + devoted husband + raising kids) Xu Ning transmigrated into a book, ending up as a minor character in a period novel, a young woman who had gone to the countryside with her younger brother to become an educated youth. Lin Miao, another educated youth, was an internet celebrity from the 21st century, while the male lead was an educated youth from the capital. Their tangled love story made life miserable for everyone in the educ 32.1kReads9.4Score3.2k14d adds
- 30 The Poorest County Magistrate's Wife in History Leads the Whole County to Prosperity 史上最穷县令夫人带全县百姓赚钱 Hang Ying, head of a reclusive modern-day clan, dies during an expedition and transmigrates into Yingzi, the wife of Xu Mengran, a penniless county magistrate in the Great Chu Empire. Who ever heard of a county magistrate being poor? Well, this one wears a patched robe, and his wife earns money washing and mending clothes to help him pursue a career in the imperial examinations. They have no maids or guards, the yamen runners look down on them, and a rich young lady even comes to their door to b 706Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 31 Help! Pregnant with Twins, and This Rugged Man Won't Stop Spoiling Me! 怕！双胎体质，被糙汉掐腰猛宠！ (Complete) (Period setting + rugged man + devoted husband + everyday life + devoted couple, one-on-one romance) As a minor cannon-fodder shrew of a supporting female character in a period novel, she was destined for a miserable ending that would leave everyone sighing with pity. But sorry, I'm here now. Looking at the man before her, with his straight, sturdy posture, phoenix eyes, and high nose, both his face and physique seemed made to match her tastes perfectly. Bai Yueji: How thoroughly brai 81.2kReads9.4Score5.3k14d adds
- 32 I Brought a Fortune to the 1970s and Became the Boss of the Family 带着巨额财产穿七零，成家中一霸 Period drama + military marriage + pocket dimension + family life On the first day after Lin Xiangnan transmigrates, her family gets into a huge argument over sending someone to the countryside. At first: “So what if I have to go to the countryside? I've got hundreds of millions of supplies in my pocket dimension. How could I possibly fail to get by out there?” After helping her second great-uncle weed his fields for two days: “There's no way I'm going to the countryside. I'm lazy, gluttonous, a 107.9kReads9.3Score9.2k14d adds
- 33 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库 An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan 1.3kReads—Score10714d adds
