Novels like I Became Invisible, Married a Rugged Man, and Got Pampered to the Heavens
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- 101 The Fish Girl of the 1970s 七十年代之鱼娘 Xiao Yu is the last fish maiden on Qiongzhou Island. From childhood, she has been incredibly strong. Her eardrums are pierced, she undergoes training, and her fingers and toes are cut apart and sewn back together to form webbing. Equipped with a breathing apparatus, she can spend a long time underwater escorting and carrying out capture operations. Sadly, her father strictly forbids her from going into the water. All he wants is for her to marry a man who will live with her family and support hi 224Reads9.3Score10014d adds
- 102 The 1980s: A Fisherman's Little Life in Southern Guangdong 八零：南粤渔家小日子 [Period Piece] [Shore Foraging Golden Finger] [Fishing and Hunting] [Everyday Child-Rearing] [Family Life] [Cozy] [A Complete Guide to Seafood, Food, and Livelihood] [Later Development in the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong] Chen Lizhen had spent half her life working at a fish stall. At last, she got to stay with her daughter for a few days, but after falling asleep, she woke up in a small fishing village in Nanyue in 1985. She was only twenty-five again, and her daughter was a four-year-old li 569Reads—Score10314d adds
- 103 Over-the-Top Military Spoiling: The Hated Educated Youth Cries from Being Pampered, Then Has Multiples 军宠超标：恶知青被宠哭后多胎了 Cheng Yue transmigrates into a period novel set in the 1970s as a vicious young educated woman sent to the countryside, becoming the heroine's stepsister in a blended family. She relentlessly pursues the male lead and stops at nothing, only for the heroine to turn the tables and trick her into marrying a disabled veteran. The disabled veteran is a hidden big shot. He's eccentric and won't let anyone get close, but he's handsome, has a great body, and is rich. Cheng Yue thinks: Perfect. All I hav 1.6kReads9.0Score21314d adds
- 104 System: I Opened a Convenience Store in the Northwest 系统：我在西北开便利店 [Slow-paced + low-key System + everyday life + lighthearted + getting rich] What does a successful life look like? Working 996 or even 007, earning a decent salary while being treated like dirt? Or doing whatever you please, earning less but living the life you want? Li Chenfeng only found the answer after returning to the small village where he had grown up. Deserts, wastelands, grasslands, forests, cattle, sheep, camels, fine horses, and eagles. Li Chenfeng runs a little shop and sits outside, 8.1kReads8.8Score51814d adds
- 105 The Capitalist Matriarch of the 1970s, Winning with Her Children 七零资本家老太，带着儿女躺赢了 [Transmigrate into a book + elderly woman + capitalist + no romance] Su Qingru transmigrates into a book! She becomes the villainous cannon-fodder mother-in-law of the heroine in a feel-good novel about a powerful woman! The heroine is ruthlessly self-serving, putting herself first in everything. If Su Qingru were the heroine, this would be a pretty satisfying story. But she's not the lead. Her whole family are unlucky stepping stones and cannon fodder on the heroine's shamelessly triumphant pat 271Reads7.1Score11214d adds
- 106 The Tail Fire Tiger and Kui Wood Wolf 尾火虎奎木狼 As the old saying goes: Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles; traveling ten thousand miles is not as good as meeting countless people; meeting countless people is not as good as spending every day with masters; and having an expert show you the way is not as good as reaching enlightenment on your own. Over the years, I’ve read plenty of books, traveled many roads, met many people, and experienced many things. I’ve also spent time with masters, and gained a fe 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 After I Was Reborn, My Childhood Friend Became Clingy 重生后，竹马哥哥成了粘人精 In her previous life, Jiang Yuechu lived cautiously and miserably. The enormous gap between her and her husband made her hide her love in her heart, never daring to confess it. Even when she died, she never knew whether the man who had grown up with her and stood by her through thick and thin had ever loved her... Given another life, she doesn't want to live so humbly anymore. She only wants to treat the childhood friend who grew up with her like a brother, like family. She doesn't want to tie h 1.2kReads8.4Score10214d adds
- 108 Song of Red Mountain 红山之歌 Told through the perspectives of A Meng and Sha Na, this book, originally titled Song of Hongshan, follows two generations of Hongshan healers as they save lives, and tells the stories of the generations of Hongshan people around them as they face birth, aging, illness, death, and struggles against fate. Through these stories, it also reveals the Hongshan people's simple kindness and their resilience in the face of hardship. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 My Blind Date Was Stolen? The Gruff Army Officer Calls Me His Darling Every Night 相亲被截胡？糙汉军官夜夜喊她宝 [Period setting + military marriage + sweet romance + marriage before love + family life; rugged older military officer and sweet young wife, eight-year age gap, he’s been plotting this for ages, one-on-one and both leads are each other’s only ones] Complete. Read with confidence! _ Su Ruan went on a blind date. The bad news: Her nemesis swooped in and stole her date. The good news: A stranger suddenly appeared and pretended to be her boyfriend, saving her face. The bad news: The man who saved h 17.6kReads8.4Score1.9k14d adds
- 110 I Transmigrated to 1976 and Became a Rogue Scholar 穿越到1976年成痞儒 My new work is out! Welcome to Tomato Literature. I am a storyteller and inheritor of Guangdong's Cantonese and Guangfu culture. I have worked in cultural media for many years and am especially interested in the Guangfu culture of the Pearl River Delta. I hope to tell the story of a red artist who is reborn in 1976 as a seven-year-old boy in a waterside town in Guangdong Province, a child who is neither wholly good nor wholly bad, and who sets out on a new path to becoming a roguishly charming C 162Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 A Worry-Free Life in the Seventies 七零生活乐无忧 Taoyao was an overworked wage slave in the 21st century. After unexpectedly getting her hands on a ring, her life changed dramatically. She transmigrated to 1972 and became Li Taoyao, an orphaned daughter of a revolutionary martyr. After being betrayed by a friend, she had no choice but to head to the countryside. On the way, she met two men and two women, and only then discovered that she had transmigrated into a book! Look forward to seeing how Li Taoyao survives in the 1970s! (I'm no good at 883Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 112 She Outlived the Other Woman, Then Was Reborn 熬死小三，她又重生啦 [Not a palace-intrigue novel, not a farming novel: the heroine's growth and the redemption of a life.] Bai Chunyu had a miserable life in her previous life. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the 1970s, before any of those tragedies had happened! She decisively cut ties with her family, severing them once and for all. She would protect her genius little daughter with her life. Her family's ancestral silver bangle concealed a pocket dimension, stocked to the brim with supplies. S 281Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 113 The 1970s: I Heard the Villain's Thoughts and Gave Up Trying 七零：听见反派心声后，我摆烂了 [Proud young lady ✖️ aloof heartthrob] The vicious supporting villainess, Song Xuezhen, has awakened! After seeing her fate of “four children in five years, then dying in childbirth,” she quickly packed her bags and volunteered to move to the countryside. With a spirit spring and a pocket dimension, she had no worries about money or ration coupons. She just wanted to laze around and wait for the college entrance exams. But the plot went completely off the rails! The female educated youth who ea 756Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 114 Taking a Little House Back to the Seventies 带着小屋穿七零 After graduating, Jiang Yan joined the army of people preparing for the civil service exams. She stayed up late doing practice questions to secure a government job, but suddenly died from overwork and was reborn in the 1970s. To her surprise, what seemed like a disaster turned out to be a blessing: she landed a secure job. 5.7kReads7.3Score27214d adds
- 115 Transmigrating to the 1970s: The Top-Tier Star Takes Root in the Great Northern Wilderness 穿越七零，顶流女配扎根北大荒 (Transmigrate into a book + alternate historical setting + pocket dimension + beauty + self-reliance + sweet romance) Qiu Xiao'e, a quirky girl who has scraped by all her life on the outskirts of the city, transmigrates with a pocket dimension. She gets a stunning new body, only to learn from the book that she is a vain, busty, empty-headed villainess destined to die young! Qiu Xiao'e swears that with the gifts Heaven has given her, she’ll make sure she gets to live as a pampered little darling 231Reads8.8Score10014d adds
- 116 Everyday Life in a 1960s Compound 六零年代大院生活日常 (Taking down awful relatives + traditional Chinese medicine + System + sign-in + daily life) After graduating from Jiangnan Medical College, Chen Wanru is assigned to work at the hospital affiliated with the Red Star Steel Mill and is also given housing. The housing is in a large residential compound with a dozen or so households. Let’s see how she makes life better and better for her family through these difficult times. 2.9kReads8.6Score13514d adds
- 117 Back to the 1970s: Home Is Where My Heart Belongs 重回七零：家我心归处 Waking from a dream, Luo Fanjin saw the familiar people and things before her and burst into tears. Her family all thought the loss of both her parents had hit her too hard, but only she knew the real reason. The devastating blow of losing both her parents had left Luo Fanjin unconscious. Who could have guessed that during those seven days in a coma, she had lived for more than twenty years in another world? Missing her family so much, she had finally managed to work herself to death. She never 2.1kReads9.2Score15514d adds
- 118 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
- 119 Transmigrate into a Book as a 1970s Cannon Fodder, and I Go Full-On Buddhist and Bonkers 穿书七零炮灰，我佛佛癫癫狂狂 After dying together with a mutated beast, Tang Hanyue transmigrates into a period novel as a pitiful cannon-fodder character. The girl is beautiful but frail, and dies on the train while taking her adopted brother’s place in the countryside. Her biological older brother, meanwhile, is the male lead of the original story. Tang Hanyue: (O_o)?? Before leaving, she clears out the home of the adoptive mother who abused the poor girl, lands her a major blow, and heads off to the countryside at her le 5.5kReads8.3Score51114d adds
- 120 Reborn: Heading into the Mountains with My Childhood Sweetheart in the Greater Khingan Range 重生后：带着小青梅赶山在兴安岭 Wang Qian, captain of a forest patrol team, got drunk at his retirement banquet and was reborn in the winter of 1983, the year that changed his fate. At seventeen, he stood once more in the snow of the Greater Khingan Range, with his childhood sweetheart Du Xiaohe and his loyal dog, Dahuang, alive by his side. In his previous life, they encountered a wild boar that day. Du Xiaohe died tragically, and he bore the blame, living alone for the rest of his life. This time, he returned with more than 2.8kReads6.2Score21714d adds
- 121 After Kicking Out My Scumbag Husband, I Became the War King’s Most Cherished One 踹开渣夫后，我成兵王心尖宠 [Period Setting + Strong Female Lead + Military Marriage + Light Ensemble Cast + Reborn + No Golden Finger] [Bold, Spirited Go-Getter + Devoted, Straightforward Man] Everyone in Xingping Village had heard the news: Chai Yubing, the youngest daughter of the Chai family, who had been cherished beyond measure, was dating a self-employed businessman who had served time in jail. Those who were jealous of the Chais, resented them, or were on bad terms with them were secretly waiting for the family to 1.3kReads8.4Score13414d adds
- 122 An Elder Sister Is Both a Mother and a Father! 长姐如母，亦如父！ [A story set in a bygone era, with no transmigration, rebirth, or golden finger. Family life, rural romance, and a hard road to growing up.] Zhou Zimei thought she would soon marry her childhood sweetheart and fiancé. Then an accident happened, and she became what people called an old maid. Her younger siblings' tuition taught her everything she hadn't known how to do. The hardships of rural life, the warmth and coldness of human nature, and the struggle to keep growing... 42.8kReads8.2Score1.7k14d adds
- 123 The Daily Gossip From 1960 Onward 从1960年开始的吃瓜日常 [Easygoing, clever heroine + refined, gentle, scheming hero; the golden finger is tiny, practically nonexistent] A modern couple has just paid off their mortgage when, after what feels like a long dream, they find themselves back in the 1960s. They have become a young couple in rural Northeast China. With no financial pressures and no lofty ambition to work hard and change the world, they stand by each other and live an ordinary life. Life's surprises arrive without warning: they learn that they 5kReads8.7Score27714d adds
- 124 Back to 1975 重回1975年 He dug in mines, hauled bricks, and did time! He worked as a bodyguard and scavenged through trash! In his later years, he was left utterly alone, living a miserable, wretched life! Zhang Wendong is reborn in 1975. This time, he’ll live for himself alone and begin a new chapter in life! 169Reads7.9Score23914d adds
- 125 After Refusing the Marriage Swap, I Take My Pocket Dimension and Join the Army 拒绝换亲后，我手握空间去随军 After a car accident, Jiang Li, from the twenty-first century, transmigrates into the body of a pitiful girl from the 1970s who shares her name. Jiang Li arrives in the middle of her stepmother beating the girl, so she gives her stepmother a sound beating in return. Before long, her scumbag father tries to marry her off to a dying man for a bride price of five hundred yuan. Jiang Li turns his plan against him. Not only does she teach her scumbag father and stepmother a lesson, she also makes her 1.5kReads9.1Score17014d adds
- 126 Getting By in a Period-Era Novel 我在年代文里混日子 Transmigrate into a book + period setting + everyday family life + a touch of fantasy Hu Yan realized she seemed to have been reborn and transmigrated. She’d become a character in an old period novel she had read long ago. Oh, the story had already ended. She was a peripheral character, even less important than a walk-on. Her family’s four lovely daughters were living miserable lives. She didn’t have the heroine’s portable dimension or special aura. But she did have her own little stroke of luck 197Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 127 The Ugly Daughter-in-Law Takes on Her Cruel Mother-in-Law 丑媳妇大战恶婆婆 The print edition is titled The Fading Embers of Mortal Life and is available on Taobao. [Satisfying highs and heartbreaking lows] [Traditional period setting] [Family drama] [The hardships of real life] This is the story of the joys and sorrows of three generations of women in a dysfunctional family, and how they grow amid the chaos of family life. Fu Ying is born into desperation. Her mother is a gambler, and her father is violent. When she reaches marrying age, no one dares take her as a wife 57.8kReads9.1Score2.1k14d adds
- 128 The Great Beauty Runs Away, and the Commander Goes to the Island to Win Her Back and Marry Her 大美人偷跑，首长下海岛追妻领证 [Period setting + everyday family life + island + invisibility ability + pocket dimension + sweet romance + devoted couple] An Yue transmigrated! An Yue opened her eyes. She kicked away the hooligan who had tried to assault her. Her ability suppressed the drug's effects, and she took every last thing the hooligan had. An Yue jumped into the water. Just as her mind began to grow hazy, An “antidote” fell from the sky. Qiao Haoyu and An Yue were in the same predicament. An Yue was dazzled by his lo 3.7kReads8.8Score42914d adds
- 129 Reborn in the Eighties: No More Being a Doormat! This Is So Satisfying 重生八零，不再当受气包！爽翻天 [1980s setting + plot-driven + slow burn + reborn + making money + entrepreneurship + daily life + heartwarming + steady and gradual + family matters + building wealth + one-on-one romance + happy ending] In her previous life, Chen Baorong worked herself to the bone to support her family. Eventually, she fell ill from overwork. She had no children, and only before she died did she discover her scumbag husband’s affair with her younger sister. When she opened her eyes again, Chen Baorong had retu 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Quick Transmigration Through the 1960s and 1970s 快穿六零七零之路 A girl raised under the flag of New China is upright, kind, and principled. What should she do when she suddenly transmigrates to the 1960s, only to discover she's transmigrated into a book? More absurdly, this isn't the first time. Faced with an inescapable bond spanning the 1960s and 1970s, where should she go from here? World One: The Cannon-Fodder Cousin in the Contrast Group World Two: The Real and Fake Heiresses of the Era World Three: The Siheyuan Courtyard's He Yushui World Four: The Edu 5.6kReads8.8Score26214d adds
- 131 A Mom from Ancient Times, a Dad from the Stars, and Her from the Sixties 古代的妈星际的爸，还有六零的她 On the day her father married her stepmother, Xu Zhao was unconscious with a high fever that had lasted several days when a novel suddenly appeared in her mind. Her father was about to be reported. Though he avoided arrest and public denunciation, life with her stepmother became a complete mess. Not only was Xu Zhao ignored by her father and abused by her stepmother, she was also dragged down by her despondent father and died at the age of ten! After waking up again, Xu Zhao successfully evolved 3.6kReads8.7Score46514d adds
- 132 A Family in Northeast China: Making a Fortune Hunting Since 1966 一家子在东北，从66年打猎致富 [Revive the Great Northeast!] [All Handcrafted + Period Setting + Local Bully + Hunting + Business + Everyday Life] In his previous life, Chu Ziheng gave up on himself, leading to the deaths of his wife and daughter. That left him alone for the rest of his life, and he died with regrets. But when he opened his eyes again, he had been reborn, returning to an era sixty years earlier, when supplies were scarce. His wife was still alive, and so was his child. There was still time to make things righ 9.8kReads7.9Score65914d adds
- 133 Hunter's Comeback: Reborn to Hunt and Gather Ginseng in Changbai Mountain 猎户逆袭：重生长白山打猎采参 [Reborn in the Snowy Mountains: This Time, I’ll Become the Hunting King!] In 1983, an accident in the Changbai Mountains sent Cao Dalin, a down-and-out middle-aged man, back to the age of sixteen. In his previous life, he was crippled while hunting wild boar and endured everyone’s scorn. This time, he’s reborn with forty years of hunting experience and swears to change his fate! “Black Panther, this time, we’re both going to be all right!” Cao Dalin stroked his beloved dog’s head, his gaze bur 149Reads6.3Score11214d adds
- 134 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
- 135 Period: Hey, Why Are You Going to the Countryside Too? 年代：喂，你怎么也要下乡 [Alternate history, fictional, not a strong female lead, everyday life, the heroine wouldn’t dare kill or set fires] Yao Yao transmigrated. After working hard for decades, she was suddenly back to square one. Yao Yao was devastated: she had a house and money, but not even an heir. Just when she had finally figured out who she was, she was sent to the countryside. Her parents had given her plenty of money, but hey, better her than her sickly older brother, who would surely die out there. Gu Zhuoy 9kReads8.9Score72014d adds
- 136 The 1970s: Grab Some Popcorn! The White Lotus Heroine Is Fuming Again 七零：吃瓜！白莲女主又被气哭了 [Completed] + [Book Transmigration] + [Period] + [Face-slapping] + [Putting Scumbags in Their Place] + [Storage Space] + [Selfish] + [Vengeful] This is the story of Zhao Xinyi, a weakling from the apocalypse who transmigrates into a Period novel and runs rampant. In an apocalypse littered with corpses, Zhao Xinyi survived for five years by relying on the supplies she had stockpiled before it began and the eight hundred tricks she had up her sleeve. In the end, she dies at the hands of a high-lev 4.5kReads8.8Score31714d adds
- 137 A Billionaire Boss Goes Broke and Starts Selling Egg Pancakes 亿万老总破产后卖鸡蛋饼 Billionaire Boss Goes Broke and Starts Selling Egg Pancakes 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 A 37-Year-Old Man's Dating Diary 37岁老男人的相亲笔记 A 37-Year-Old Man's Dating Diary 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 Your Childhood and Mine Were Actually the Same 你的童年，我的童年，其实都一样 Your childhood and my childhood were really just the same 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 In 2034, I Became the World's Richest Man with Just One Game 2034年，我成为了世界首富，只用一款游戏做到的 In 2034, I Became the World's Richest Person with Just One Game 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 In the 1970s: I Don't Want to Get Married 在七十年代：我不想结婚 What can marriage offer a woman? Some say it's the daily grind of food, clothing, and household chores, slowly wearing a woman down until she grows old. But to Li Xiangnan, those things are just the trivialities of life, not its cruelties. The real cruelty is looking back on what you thought was an ordinary life and realizing it was all a joke. Nearly ten years of marriage, and every last bit of it was a lie. What does that feel like? Devastation. Despair. It makes you question your entire life! 11.8kReads8.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 142 Reborn as a Little Green-Tea Girl in the 1970s, I Win Over the Stone-Faced Tough Guy 穿成七零小绿茶，冷面糙汉真香了 [Low Rating Because It Just Started, but It’ll Rise] [1970s + Transmigrate Into a Book + Building Wealth + Healing + Everyday Life + Superpowers + Both Leads Are Faithful + Original Female Lead Isn’t Vilified + No Awful Relatives] A gloomy, twisted man who turns into a scheming, lovesick romantic later on x a heroine with a foxlike face and the sunny, spirited heart of a little sun What should you do after ending up in a novel set in a bygone era? Obviously, take the college entrance exams, make 1.8kReads8.5Score25414d adds
- 143 The Stunning Eighties Cannon Fodder Wins the Military Big Shot's Heart 八零女配绝美，成军官大佬心尖宠 (The rating is low because it was just posted, everyone!) (1980s, period setting, military marriage, sweet romance, groveling to win her back, both leads are inexperienced) After transmigrating into a book, Qiao Man became the foil-villainess in a period novel: a busty, dim-witted beauty with a terrible reputation, destined to be cannon fodder. She and the heroine, her half-sister, were staying with the Fu family in the military compound. The heroine was sweet and sensible, beloved by the Fus, a 17kReads8.2Score1.5k14d adds
- 144 Kidnapped at an Old Age, Reborn in 1999: The Whole Family Is Together Again 被拐老太重回99，一家整整齐齐 Alternate History + Everyday Life + Family Matters + Reborn + No Golden Finger + Adorable Kids As the saying goes, rich old ladies dance in the plaza, while poor old ladies can only sell vegetables and scavenge for trash beside them. In 2029, Yuan Laotai was hit and injured while collecting empty bottles, and ended up in the hospital. Lying in her hospital bed, she looked at the few dutiful children she had left, her heart full of resentment toward heaven, the world, and herself. She thought abo 709Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 145 In the 1960s, My Partner Set Their Sights on Stealing My Grandpa’s Job 六零之对象立志要抢我爷饭碗 [Era setting + pocket dimension + building wealth + everyday family life] Content warning: The main story does not cover the heroine's background before she transmigrates. If you'd like to learn about it, you can read the extra chapters first. On the first day Song Wan transmigrated, or rather, her first night, she nearly became the unlucky soul who died the moment she arrived. On the second day, she discovered someone had stolen the fruits of her labor, so she promptly sent them a few bullets 3kReads8.4Score16114d adds
- 146 The Youngest Branch’s Elder, the Sixty-Year-Old Junior Ancestor 幺房长辈，60小太爷 Chen Yu woke up in a hospital bed and found that everything had changed. He had returned to his youth, to an era of scarce supplies when the people in the village would rather go hungry themselves than forget to support him. After all, he was the village's young granduncle. Given another chance, he couldn't let his younger relatives suffer the hardships of his previous life. After all, he was the most senior member of the village by generation. Chen Family Village was an ordinary little mountain 27kReads7.3Score2.2k14d adds
- 147 Middle-Aged in Shanghai: I’ve Hidden My Medicinal Wine Ability for 20 Years 上海中年：我藏药酒异能苟20年 In 2006, Shanghai was swept up in a wave of reform. Large numbers of veteran workers at state-owned enterprises were laid off, and a lifetime of stability vanished overnight. At forty, Zhang Jianguo saw his eighteen years of service wiped out. His buyout compensation was slashed, and in middle age he had no one to rely on while raising a young daughter. To feed his family, he took grueling construction jobs, did backbreaking labor, suffered wage deductions, and endured bullying, struggling eve 88Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Three Treasures Pagoda and Purple Gold Mountain 三宝塔与紫金山 The story unfolds slowly between Sanbao Town in southeastern Yunnan and Nanjing, the ancient capital of six dynasties. Yun Kun, a young man from southern Yunnan, dreams of escaping the mountains. Through sheer perseverance, he rises from a poor boy to a faculty researcher at a military academy. Ning Xiang, who lives east of Nanjing, once enjoyed a peaceful, ordinary life, but the tides of the times bring a drastic turn: her household registration is falsified, and she is forced to move to the co 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 The Sizzling Days of 1970 七零滚烫日子 Yang Tao was born in a small mountain village to a family so poor they had nothing. She had two older brothers waiting to trade her for bride price, and her parents were already preparing to find her a match: a lame widower in the village behind the mountain, a good-for-nothing from the neighboring village... She didn't want to spend the rest of her life trapped in poverty. Then, suddenly, a young man came into view. The county of Lijiang was building a bridge across the river, and Song Yan, a p 4.6kReads8.8Score56714d adds
- 150 An Ordinary Family 平凡一家人 Every era in which an ordinary family lives is unique and impossible to repeat. The hardships of difficult times, the years of struggle and deprivation, the pain that cannot be put into words, and the fiery passion of a new age, the spirit of never giving up and striving onward, the stories of joy and sorrow: all shine brightly through every ordinary day. Life is the passing down of the human spirit. Everyone in an ordinary family has something worth preserving and building upon. Life is a flame 3.2kReads8.9Score29114d adds
