Novels like My Third Older Sister Is Reborn
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- 1 An Accidental Entry into a Powerful Family 误闯高门 In 1968, after graduating from high school, Ma Lifeng earned a place at a steel mill through his own hard work. But his father wanted him sent to the countryside, claiming he was too pampered and needed reeducation from the poor and lower-middle peasants. Ma Lifeng refused, but his father ignored his wishes and shoved him straight into the group heading to the countryside. Ma Lifeng was so furious that on his third day there, he married the first person he could... 116.5kReads8.4Score7.3kShelves
- 2 What! The System Has Given Up? Then I'll Team Up with One 什么！系统摆烂了？那我跟一个 [Adorable child + System + Ensemble cast + Comedy + Lighthearted + No romance] The 2222 Intelligent System suffered a disastrous failure on its very first mission. Somehow, it ended up bound to a newborn baby girl. It waited until she was three before daring to reveal who it was. But after binding with Ruan Xiuxiu, not only did it get a name, it also had to answer her questions all day long. Otherwise, she would tell someone it existed the very next second. So it gave up and stopped trying. Miss 4.5kReads6.8Score668Shelves
- 3 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—Shelves
- 4 Reborn in the Nineties: I Made My Quiet Village Rich 重生九零，我带空巢村暴富 Before 1990, Phoenix Village was famous throughout the surrounding countryside as a village of empty nests. “They say the average age there is fifty-five. The whole village is full of old fogies, heh.” “That village is just cursed. Nothing they plant in the fields grows, and the villagers are just as useless as the crops. They’re all either sick or disabled.” “Anyway, anyone who gets involved with them is doomed. Stay away!” Thinking of their children and grandchildren, the young people of Phoen 5.1kReads8.8Score508Shelves
- 5 A Baby from Heaven: A Fierce Beauty Arrives in the 1970s 天降萌娃：七零来了一朵霸王花 An alternate era + adorable kid + System + family life + building wealth + everyday minutiae + no romance + father-daughter love and growing up A monster daughter who only knows how to eat? A stingy, single, lazy deadbeat dad? After getting struck by lightning for hundreds of years, the showy flower finally received the guiding heavenly lightning she had been waiting for. But does receiving the guiding heavenly lightning mean you’ll definitely become an immortal? The showy flower didn’t become 18.5kReads7.7Score1.4kShelves
- 6 After My Favoritist Grandma Was Reborn 偏心奶奶重生后 [1980s] [Toddler-Raising System (A Human Toddler Observation Diary)] [Super-Strong Woman] [Reborn] [Light Ensemble Cast] [No Romance for the Main Character] [Family Life] (The rating is low because not many people have read it yet. It'll go up.) Qiao Xia Li thinks the world became much more interesting after something called the “System” appeared in her head. It's like the immortal grandpa from a story, able to conjure all kinds of delicious food and fun things she's never seen before. Most impo 4.5kReads8.9Score521Shelves
- 7 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 15.3kReads8.7Score2.3kShelves
- 8 Forced to Marry a Man Said to Bring Misfortune? I Become the General's Family Darling Instead 被逼嫁克妻大佬？反成首长家团宠 [Period setting + transmigrate into a book + military marriage + married first, fall in love later + slow-burn romance + equally strong leads + sweet romance and face-slapping + raising a child] Ding Xia wakes up to find she’s transmigrated into a period military-marriage novel. From the start, she faces two death sentences: Either marry Xiao Jingping, the hidden powerhouse with a “widow-maker” reputation, who has already outlived two fiancées. He’s the “guardian angel” specially created by the 12.8kReads8.5Score1.9kShelves
- 9 Raised on Neighbors' Meals in the Sixties, I Became a Top Scientist 六零吃百家饭长大我成了科研大佬 [Couple] [Period Setting] [Village Life] [Academic Prodigy] Chen Songguo was an orphan from birth, raised on a meal from one family and then the next in the village. Later, when everyone accidentally discovered just how brilliant Chen Songguo was, they slapped the table and decided to send five-year-old Songguo to school. When it was time to collect the report cards, every villager scrambled to go. Frugal Grandma Zhou said, "Tuition is so expensive. You'd better learn everything you can to make 91.9kReads9.2Score15.8kShelves
- 10 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. 34.7kReads9.0Score3.9kShelves
- 11 Playing the Delicate White Lotus, Enjoying Life and Gossip in the 1950s 扮演小白花，在五零享福吃瓜 [Period setting + self-interest + scheming beauty + everyone's favorite + spatial realm] In 1955, Lin Yue'e was three and a half years old. Overnight, she transmigrated into the body of an orphan abandoned by her family. She didn't want to talk about her past life. In this one, all she wanted was to find a good family, eat her fill, and stay alive. Her chosen adoptive mother looked haggard and disheveled when they first met, but the air of nobility between her brows was impossible to hide. Using 65kReads8.1Score8kShelves
- 12 Making Do for Half a Lifetime 半生凑合 People say, "For poor people, marriage isn't about love. At its heart, it's just two people making a life together." A candid account of rural women's married lives in the 1980s. Families worlds apart and clashing values bring people together for half a lifetime, all for the sake of appearances, family, and children. These thirty years transform the countryside beyond recognition. Their marriages, too, are swept up and down by the tide of the times. Taste life's many flavors and witness the joys 167kReads9.2Score8.5kShelves
- 13 The Girl Mr. Jiang Raised Himself Has Come to Marry Him 蒋总亲手养大的姑娘来嫁他了 “Someone who truly loves you has a keen eye. They can tell at a glance how sincere other people are toward you. When you find someone you like, bring them to your second brother so he can take a look. He could never bear to see you unhappy.” Jiang Xun and Gan Lai. Ten-year age gap. He falls first. People outside have plenty to say about Jiang Xun, from his exceptionally sharp business instincts to his composed manner of handling things with ease and keeping the whole situation under control. B 77kReads9.4Score11.3kShelves
- 14 The Carefree Years of the Beloved Family Darling in the 1960s 六零年代团宠的悠悠岁月 The rating just came in, and it will rise later [Period + adored by everyone + heartwarming + food + golden finger + getting rich + intangible cultural heritage + traditional culture + everyday life] Qu Xiayu was incredibly lucky in her previous life. She never expected to transmigrate into a family that had spent six generations hoping for a daughter. In the 1960s, when no family had enough to eat, what was she supposed to do? Wait, why is her golden finger so powerful this time? Could she be H 443Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 15 The Way of Marriage 夫妻之道 [Marriage Before Love, a Lighthearted and Sweet Romance, Gentle UX Designer × Sharp-Tongued Tech Tycoon] Wen Yu was adopted from an orphanage by the Wen family at the age of six, as a replacement for their missing younger daughter. When the real heiress returned, a ridiculous wager forced Wen Yu into an arranged marriage with Fu Jinci, a man naturally cold and unfeeling. At their first meeting, Fu Jinci offered this assessment: “Mild-mannered and dull, but at least she’s quiet.” To her, their ma 17.8kReads8.8Score2.3kShelves
- 16 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—Shelves
- 17 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 35.9kReads9.0Score4.1kShelves
- 18 The Lazy Genius Girl Coasts to Victory in the 1970s 天才懒女躺赢七零 Dear readers: The platform has selected Genius Lazy Girl Lies Flat and Wins in the 1970s for adaptation into an animated comic. Thank you all for your continued support and companionship. I’ll let you know as soon as there are any updates. In her previous life, she worked herself to death. In this one, she’s determined to lie flat. Li Zhiqiu was a modern-day workaholic, a top student who got into a prestigious university and a corporate highflyer who worked herself to death. When she opens her 10.1kReads8.3Score1.1kShelves
- 19 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 15.7kReads9.0Score2.1kShelves
- 20 The 1970s: My Reborn Dad and Transmigrated Mom, While Baby Me Lies Back Like a Happy Slacker 七零：重生爹穿越娘，宝宝咸鱼躺 Jin Sihai is back in the city after spending several years sent down to the countryside as an educated youth! He’s even brought back a pretty wife and an adorable daughter! But the old couple in the Jin family are no easy company. Old Jin is lazy and loves to brag, while Old Mrs. Jin is fiery and hard to deal with. And that’s not to mention the family of Jin’s eldest brother, who all live under the same roof. Parents and children, brothers and sisters-in-law: give it enough time, and they’re bou 4.3kReads8.6Score447Shelves
- 21 Transmigrating into a Book in the 1980s: The Good-for-Nothing Big Brother’s Comeback 穿书八零：对照组废柴大哥的逆袭 One punch landed, and Shi Huajun, a young man from the modern world, transmigrated into a book. He became the most pathetic side character in a period novel: an unemployed, good-for-nothing older brother who had returned to the city in the 1980s, a laughingstock whom everyone in the crowded courtyard looked down on. In the original story, he was beyond help, slumped in a tiny ten-square-meter room and doing nothing for more than a decade. His wife was used as someone else’s pawn, forced to tak 621Reads8.3Score103Shelves
- 22 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 3.2kReads8.8Score322Shelves
- 23 With a Wave of My Hand, the Little Ones Head Back to the Village to Become Little Rascals! 小手一挥，崽崽回村当村溜子咯！ [Alternate world + adorable child + everyday life + no romance] One day, Chizao of the Chi family ran away from home and returned to her family's old home in Xisha Village. On the way, she happened to overhear some gossip. After returning to the village, she was astonished to discover: Good grief, her eldest brother was secretly obsessed with digging through manure pits in search of treasure? Chi You: “Little sister! That's not me, I didn't do it. Don't listen to those people talking nonsense!” 2kReads7.1Score185Shelves
- 24 A Family with a Scholastically Challenged Kid in the 1980s 八十年代家有学渣 [Family life and relationships + ensemble cast] Her great-grandfather is a university professor, and every member of her family graduated from university. Lu Xijia is very proud of that, if only she weren’t a terrible student who can barely score sixty when her primary-school Chinese and math grades are added together... Still, she believes she must be good at something. Everyone says, “Every person is born with a purpose,” after all~ But as she gazes at the exam papers on her desk, covered in s 2.6kReads8.9Score257Shelves
- 25 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 12.6kReads8.8Score1.6kShelves
- 26 She Cleared Out Everything Before Moving to the Countryside, and the Strongest Officer Fell for Her at First Sight 搬空下乡，被最强军官一见钟情了 [Spirit spring space + all-purpose System + military marriage + fictional setting + devoted to one another + doting husband + multiple births] Jiang Xia, a billionaire who choked to death on a fish bone, wakes up to find she has transmigrated to the 1970s. The first thing she does when she opens her eyes is beat up her scumbag father and stepmother. When she learns that her stepmother schemed to sign the original host up for the youth-educated program, she turns around and sends her stepsister t 67.8kReads8.6Score3.9kShelves
- 27 Our Niu Niu Has a Little Luck on Her Side 咱家牛妞，有点小运气在身上 For questions about the story, see the latest post. Putting missing plot details in the comments is too much trouble, so you can listen to the audiobook for additions. Thank you. [Born in the Era + Growing Through Education + Family Life + Everyday Mischief + A Little Luck] Niu Niu's family was notorious in the brigade for being lazy and greedy. Her father was lazy, her mother was greedy, and she inherited both traits perfectly: if she could lie down, she would never stand up. Her grandparents 16kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
- 28 You're All I See Out of the Corner of My Eye 余光中都是你 You are always in the corner of my eye; wherever we go, we will meet again. At every moment in life, you need to be a little braver. At every moment in life, you should love wholeheartedly. Life's greatest surprises are the encounters you could never have foreseen. Its sorrows, too, are the fears you never knew were waiting for you. 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Sharing the Burden of Raising Children in the 1970s, I Found Eight Husbands 七零分摊养育压力，找了八任丈夫 [Daughters Take Their Mother's Surname + Whirlwind Marriages and Divorces + Self-Interested Heroine + All Male Leads Are Chaste + Ensemble Cast + Watching the Drama] Lin Chuanjia is the only child in her family, shouldering the responsibility of carrying on the Lin family line. At the same time, she has a System mission: to give birth to eight children blessed with good fortune. To spread out the burden of raising them, the sensible Lin Chuanjia carefully chooses a father of outstanding backgrou 22kReads8.9Score2kShelves
- 30 Transmigrating into a Book: The Stepfather in a Period Novel 穿书之年代文里的继父 (The new book’s rating just opened, everyone. It’ll go up!) 1970s setting + sign-in System + raising kids + mutual devotion. The moment I open my eyes, I’ve transmigrated into a period novel and become the cannon-fodder stepfather who abused his stepchildren and eventually died miserably in a cowshed. I look at the three thin, malnourished children staring at me in fear, and their gentle, resilient but distant teacher wife. I silently activate the Daily Sign-In System. Today, a pound of meat. 98Reads6.0Score118Shelves
- 31 Soul Returns to Hong Kong: From Tailor Shop to Richest Woman 魂归香江：从裁缝铺到女首富 [1980s + strong heroine + academic ace + business warfare + Hong Kong] In her previous life, she had a photographic memory, but her heart could stop at any moment. As her heart stopped beating, she thought, “Next life, I don’t want to be human.” When she opened her eyes again, she was Lin Ying, nine years old, having spent nine years in a daze. Today, her soul had finally returned. The spirit medium had divined it three times: “She won’t leave again. You were always yourself. You were just put i 204.6kReads8.6Score36kShelves
- 32 Transmigrate into a Book in the 1970s, System in Hand, and Refuse to Be Cannon Fodder 穿书七零，手握系统拒做炮灰 Su Qingwan was born into the 1950s. Thanks to her foreknowledge, she started working at the Red Star Garment Factory at fifteen and was assigned an apartment at eighteen. Life went smoothly for her. One day, she fell into the water. Not only did she finally gain her long-awaited golden finger, she also discovered that she hadn’t simply transmigrated: she had become the younger sister of the heroine in a period novel. According to the plot, before long, the heroine, Song Qingzao, would marry a tw 19.5kReads6.8Score1.7kShelves
- 33 The Beloved Little Ancestor of the Era 年代团宠小祖宗 [Period setting + adorable child + pocket dimension + no romance] Dahuai Tree Village is an old clan village where the rules are more important than anything. After the little ancestor is born, she becomes the village's rule. The entire village dotes on her and does whatever she says. But no one knows she has a magical pocket dimension and a head full of modern scientific ideas. Watching the villagers struggle to get by on their meager fields, she waves her little hand: build machines, start fac 3.4kReads8.7Score253Shelves
- 34 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 65.3kReads8.9Score10.1kShelves
- 35 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 18.8kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
- 36 Transmigrate to the 1960s: The Auspicious Beast Cub Keeps the Whole Family Well Fed 穿越六零，瑞兽崽让全家吃饱饭 [Period Setting] + [Male Baby] + [No Romance] + [Beloved by Everyone] Lu Xingzhu is a young auspicious beast. He was sleeping in seclusion in his cave when he woke up somewhere completely unfamiliar. This place was poor and backward, with nothing to speak of, but its people lived in peace and had simple, honest ways. But where had his little claws and tiny horns gone?! Lu Xingzhu pinched his chubby little arm and burst into loud tears. He’d turned into a human baby! Waaaah! The human baby’s 5.1kReads8.7Score443Shelves
- 37 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, 189Reads—Score102Shelves
- 38 Little One from the 1950s: Mom, I Really Am a Good Dog! 五零崽崽：娘，我真是条好狗！ [Period drama + adorable child + no romance + farming dimension + everyday life + family squabbles + light ensemble cast + slow-paced] In her previous life, Yadan was a dog. In this life, she's human. On her first day as a human, she throws her head back and howls, then crawls around the yard in the shadows, marking her territory. She steals the precious giant bone from Big Black at the village entrance. And she gets a farming dimension? Huh? Do dogs have to farm too? Yadan looks at her tiny arm 7.8kReads9.0Score607Shelves
- 39 Back to 2005: A Little Wealth Is Enough 重回零五，小富即安 A story about a heroine who has nothing but her beauty returning to the age of ten and helping herself and her family build a better life. A heartwarming story. At first, she keeps her parents focused on starting a business so she can become a rich second-generation kid. The male lead appears later. Just after graduating from university, Li Wanwan woke up to find herself back in 2005, in the summer when she was ten years old. That summer, her parents returned from working in the south. They were 11kReads8.5Score1.3kShelves
- 40 When the Women's Director Steps In, All the Eccentrics of the 1970s Flee in Terror 妇女主任一出手，七零极品全吓走 💥 Wen Wanning, a human weapon from the apocalypse, opens her eyes to find herself a helpless, foolish orphan in the 1970s, someone everyone can bully. ✅ They scheme to send her to the countryside? She breaks her scumbag father's hand! ✅ A wife-beater hits his wife every day? She beats him to a pulp! ✅ A nightmare of a mother-in-law torments her daughter-in-law? She beats the shrew at her own game! ✅ A stingy father-in-law schemes against his son? She empties every last bit of his hidden savin 51.7kReads8.6Score6kShelves
- 41 After the CEO Broke Off Our Engagement, the Government Recruited Me 霸总退婚后，我被国家征招了 Shen Yue reaches Foundation Establishment, then descends into the mortal world, burdened with enormous debts and betrayed by her fiancé. Fiancé: “My true love is back, and she has a three-year-old child. I have to take responsibility. Sorry.” Warning: Brain-storage area. This novel has no logic, no logic, no logic. Don’t take it seriously, don’t take it seriously, don’t take it seriously. 111.3kReads9.3Score18kShelves
- 42 Reborn in the New Millennium: How Do I Return to the Mountains from the Start? 重生千禧年，开局重返大山怎么破 Before she was reborn, Shen Xuewei was over thirty. She had been estranged from her family for seven years, and after years of hard work, she had finally built a little home of her own. After being reborn, Shen Xuewei was only six years old, with tiny arms and legs. Her father was taking her to her maternal grandparents’ home in the mountains. Her childhood memories were already hazy, and she had never imagined she would be reborn. Standing outside her grandparents’ home, she watched her father 14.7kReads9.1Score2kShelves
- 43 Pregnant in the 1980s, I Go to the Capital and My Cold Ex-Husband Kisses Me Unconscious 八零孕肚进京：被高冷前夫亲晕了 [A cannon-fodder ex-wife awakens to the truth vs. a cool, reserved professor; fictional 1980s setting; rekindled romance; village girl makes a comeback; cozy everyday life] Everyone says Jiang Mian is lucky. Born a village girl with only an elementary-school education, she nevertheless married Professor Lu, a learned, refined, handsome man. After they marry, Professor Lu is cleared of wrongdoing and allowed to return to the city. Jiang Mian plans to go to the capital with her husband. Before the 17.2kReads8.1Score735Shelves
- 44 Born with Bewitching Charm, She Rejects an Officer's Proposal but Falls for Him on Their Wedding Night 天生媚骨，拒婚军官新婚夜沦陷了 Wen You was beautiful and a top student from childhood. All she wanted was to get into college and change her place in society. But Su Ning, relying on her status as the widowed sister-in-law of the military officer Huo Yanjin, forced Wen You's father out of his job and took his position as newspaper editor. As a result, financial hardship forced Wen You to drop out of school. She realized Su Ning had feelings for Huo Yanjin, and that he was willing to cover for his family. So, out of revenge, s 74.2kReads8.5Score7.3kShelves
- 45 A Sweet Southern Girl Arrives at the Military Compound 军区大院来了一个南方乖乖女 1970s setting + sweet, well-behaved girl from the south + rugged, paternal northern man + height and build difference + 11-year age gap + sweet romance Qiao Lanshu comes from a family of two state-sector employees in a provincial capital in the south. She is quiet and well-behaved, with a pretty face, and her family worries about sending her to the countryside. So her parents put a marriage certificate in her hands, send her off on a train, and dispatch her thousands of kilometers north to find 64.2kReads8.4Score5.5kShelves
- 46 The Little Darling of the Seventies: Brothers, Don’t Fight! Get in Line 七零小奶团：哥哥们别抢！排好队 [Beloved by all + period setting + three and a half years old + little lucky star bringing endless good fortune] Little Lizi, the daughter who had been missing from the Ruan family for three and a half years, came home. The whole Ruan family was overjoyed, but rumors began swirling through Shanghe Brigade. Everyone in Shanghe Brigade said the Ruan family's little girl was a jinx reincarnated. Ever since she was born, Mrs. Ruan had fallen ill, the eldest uncle had gone lame, they had been caught 1.3kReads8.9Score118Shelves
- 47 Ripe After Marriage 婚后熟透 [Uptight-on-the-surface female doctor X carefree race-car driver] [Marriage first, love later / everyday banter / happy ending / both leads’ first love] In Zhou Ye’s eyes, Chen Jialan is rigid and boring, with a superiority complex. Put on the white coat, slip on the rimless glasses, and tuck her hands in her pockets: don’t even think about getting close. Anyone who married her would have only one way to describe the rest of their life: utterly joyless. - In Chen Jialan’s eyes, Zhou Ye is a 74.6kReads9.2Score3.6kShelves
- 48 A Rich Family Marriage: Strangers in Public, Kissing Passionately in Private 豪门婚姻，人前不熟，人后猛亲 [Radiant, pampered heiress x cold, calculating man in power] Ming Yang, the only daughter of the Ming family of Shanghai, was born into wealth and doted on by everyone around her. Just like her name, she was bright and beautiful, impossible to miss. But her enviable life was thrown off course by an unexpected engagement. When she learned that the man her parents had chosen for her still carried a long-lost love in his heart, she turned instead to the man from the Shi family in the capital. Shi C 20.2kReads8.8Score2.4kShelves
- 49 Reborn in 1980: I Dumped the Scumbag and Married a Butcher 重生八零甩掉渣男嫁屠户 [Period] + [Reborn] + [Pocket Space] + [Farming] + [Family Life] + [Entrepreneurship] Li Wenhui is reborn before her blind date with a scumbag, and this time she exposes the affair between him and her best friend with her own hands. Thinking of the butcher who supplied her restaurant throughout her previous life and even came to her aid at a crucial moment, Li Wenhui decides they can team up and start a business this time around. But how does it end up with the two of them getting married and bu 3.8kReads8.2Score382Shelves
- 50 Notes from the Pastoral Dream 牧梦札记 Also known as The Shepherd's Dream Notes: A Comprehensive Guide to TV Dramas Also known as Those Years of Endless Complaints and Unsaid Words Also known as That Ghostly Couple Who Never Run Out of Things to Say, Now Writing Reading Journals The original works featured are tentatively Empresses in the Palace, My Fair Princess, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, The Return of the Condor Heroes, Dream of the Red Chamber, The Three-Body Problem, and others. (Note: Life is 130Reads—Score—Shelves
