Novels like The Cannon Fodder of the 1970s Moves to the Capital and Marries a Stoic Tycoon
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Cannon Fodder of the 1970s Moves to the Capital and Marries a Stoic Tycoon, best match first.
- 151 A Deadly Romance 致命情缘 In the 1990s, a stream of villagers headed south to find work on construction sites. The pain of leaving home, the hardship of being alone in a strange place, and the tangled ways of the human heart were all crammed into tiny workers’ sheds. Li Guixiang escaped after her husband used her to pay off a debt, while Chen Jianjun left his family and everything he owned behind to earn a living. Two people, each burdened by their own troubles, met and kept each other company, thinking they were only of 2.5kReads—Score18114d adds
- 152 Picking Up a Wife on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway: My Story with a Budget Traveler 川藏线捡媳妇：我和穷游女的故事 I’m well into my thirties, out of work, and my wife has left me. I watched outdoor vloggers on short-video apps making money while cuddling up to women, and slapped my thigh: Why shouldn’t I be able to do that? I gritted my teeth and bought a secondhand camper van. I called it chasing poetry and distant horizons, then hit National Highway 318. Really, I just wanted to see if I could find myself a wife along the Sichuan-Tibet route. Who would have thought I’d find all kinds of stories instead 10.7kReads7.0Score93314d adds
- 153 The Moon Deep in the Cornfield 玉米地深处的月亮 That summer, her new husband publicly insulted her, saying she “looked like an eggplant.” She grabbed her bundle and ran away in the middle of the night. Su Caiying sat on the edge of the kang until well past midnight. Instead of a wedding night, all she got was humiliation. By morning, the whole village knew that the new bride of the Liu family was “bad luck for her husband.” Her man had run off on their wedding night. When the family split up, she was given half a sack of dried sweet potatoes, 8.3kReads6.4Score53714d adds
- 154 The Debauched Tang: Drunk, Reclining on a Beauty's Lap 脏唐之醉卧美人膝 The Tang dynasty was considered immoral mainly because its people disregarded propriety. Emperor Gaozong made Wu Meiniang, his stepmother, empress, while Emperor Xuanzong took his daughter-in-law Yang Yuhuan as a consort. Even today, with our open-minded attitudes, people still can't accept such outrageous acts! Modern special forces soldier Cui Shiyin transmigrates into the body of the wealthy young noble Cui Shi by a twist of fate, reliving a turbulent tale of love and hatred with Princess Tai 3.7kReads8.5Score27314d adds
- 155 My Supermarket Connects to Another World, and the Immortals Chase Me for Spicy Snack Sticks 超市通异界，仙子追着我要辣条吃 [Absurd Comedy] [Urban Fantasy] [Multiple Heroines] [the Myriad Worlds] Lin Xiaodong owns a little grocery store. Then, one day, An immortal maiden, gravely wounded, fell from the sky. She grabbed some expired spicy strips from the corner and started chowing down. Pointing at them, she called them peerless immortal pills. She even said that if he had this immortal treasure, She would trade anything for it. And so the cultivation world gained an invincible new existence: The Spicy Strip Immortal! 109Reads—Score714d adds
- 156 The Seventh Coffee Cup 第七个咖啡杯 The Seventh Coffee Cup —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 Reborn Under the Tutelage of the Guesthouse Owner 我在民宿老板娘的调教下重生 [Roguish CEO and Rich Young Master x Fierce Big Sister and Money-Loving, Loyal Heroine] Older Woman-Younger Man Romance, Packed with Satisfying Moments On a stormy night, Lu Qiming, president of the SM Group, is ambushed by his own uncle. He fakes his death in a car crash and escapes, covered in blood, before pounding on the door of a mountain lodge for help. To his surprise, the person who opens the door is a young proprietress with even more grit than he has: Murong Laidi. At just twenty, she’ 174Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 158 Laid-Back Bad Boy: From the Start, I Got a Million Yuan in Hush Money 摆烂痞帅：开局喜提百万封口费 Golden finger, System, X-ray vision, feel-good power fantasy, invincibility, supernatural abilities, good-for-nothing, lie flat, giving up, getting rich overnight, showing off, face-slapping, crushing the opposition. The roguishly handsome male lead, Han Yu, is carefree and irreverent. He lies flat and gives up, then makes a comeback by unlocking three top-tier cheat abilities and defying fate! He wins big in both his career and love life. Upright and kind, easygoing and funny, he does as he ple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 Imprisoned by Love, She Has Nowhere to Run 囚爱，她无处可逃 [Both leads are sexually inexperienced + forced love + age gap + obsessive and possessive; proceed with caution if this bothers you] Li Sihan is the heir apparent to the wealthy Li family in City A and the group’s sole successor. He is uninhibited, arrogant, and untamable. Ye Xingwan is secretary to the chairman of the Li Group. Though she comes from a poor family, chairman Li Nanting funded her education, allowing her to graduate and join the company. He trusts and values her greatly. The two s 1.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 160 The Heiress Was Sold for Two Thousand Cash While Fleeing Her Wedding 千金大小姐逃婚途中被两千发卖了 To escape the miserable engagement her family had arranged, Fu Bingyue fled in the middle of the night. By a twist of fate, she was kidnapped and sold, then ended up entering into a marriage of convenience with Xiao Jibai, a man rumored to suffer from a serious illness and to have spent years relying on a wheelchair. Everyone said Xiao Jibai was near death and had a gloomy, difficult personality. But after they married, Fu Bingyue accidentally stumbled upon a shocking secret: his inability to wa 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 My Life as Empress Dowager in the Brain-Dead World of My Fair Princess 还珠格格之我在脑残的世界当太后 Xiao Yanzi can't learn the rules? For real? I don't believe it! Ziwei Flower, Nostril Kang, and Char Siu Wu can go act like idiots all they want, but don't you dare bully my little Qing'er! This book is going to put the main cast through the wringer. If you dislike the main cast, or are a die-hard fan of theirs, read with caution! If it's not for you, just scroll on by! 830Reads6.9Score29014d adds
- 162 Sent to the Northwest Countryside, I Hunt to Feed Uyghur Triplets 下乡大西北，狩猎养活维族三胞胎 [No AI, entirely handwritten] (period setting + educated youth + hunting + sent down to the countryside + pocket dimension + antique appraisal) Modern office worker Yi Xin is furious when a friend borrows money and refuses to pay it back, so he decides they should die together. Unexpectedly, he is reborn in 1968 in the body of a man in the capital with the same name. From the start, he is reported for associating with an old Taoist and is thrown into a cowshed. At his lowest point, he awakens a 7.4kReads7.3Score57214d adds
- 163 He Watches You from the Shadows 他在背后凝视你 Chi Wan, a female detective, had seen more than enough corpses, but never one with roses offered after death. A famous woman painter was brutally murdered in her studio. There was a small wound between her brows and a thornless rose by her side. Every piece of evidence pointed to her abusive husband, and Chi Wan was ready to close the case, until a man appeared. “My name is Wenren Jing. I’m the victim’s defense attorney.” Gentle and refined, he nevertheless brought the case crashing down with a 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 The 1980s: The Heiress Marries a Rugged Man Who Keeps Her Under His Thumb 八零：白富美她嫁糙汉被掐腰宠 Military marriage + 1980s + supermarket pocket dimension + building wealth + satisfying face-slapping + rich beauty... She transmigrated to the 1980s with supplies worth hundreds of millions. Her father was missing, her mother was timid, someone else had taken her place at school, and she and her mother and sister had been driven out of their home by her awful grandmother, uncle, and aunt, who also wanted to seize the family’s property... She set out to help her whole family get rich. They opene 1.9kReads9.0Score17114d adds
- 165 A Captivating Beauty in the 1960s, Imprisoned and Doted on by Powerful Men 六零娇媚佳人，多位大佬执念囚宠 After spending a lifetime dealing with emperors in the Forbidden City in her previous life, Wen Huiyan had had more than enough. When she opened her eyes again, she had become a beautiful girl from a poor family in a sixties-era Beijing hutong. Poor, but unapologetically beautiful and fully aware of it. She had just received her admission letter from Peking University when four men set their sights on her aboard the train: a retired military bigwig from a prominent family, a military-region com 2.8kReads—Score21814d adds
- 166 Sent to the Countryside: I Bring My Sister to Save the Five Tibetan Beauties 下乡知青，带妹救赎藏族五朵金花 [Two comic adaptations are in production] [Ensemble cast + multiple heroines + treasure hunting and inheritance + instant revenge + rural comeback + fiercely protective and scheming + everyday family life] Lu Chuan is reborn in the capital in the 1960s as a capitalist's son, despised by everyone. With his family in shambles, he quickly takes his younger sister to the grasslands to join the rural resettlement program and start his life over. He only meant to get by and look for the treasure his a 18.1kReads7.3Score1.7k14d adds
- 167 The Childhood Friend Who Tore My Old Belt That Year Spent the Rest of Her Life, Twenty Years, Making It Up to Me 那年扯我旧腰带的青梅，耗尽二十年余生赔我 The childhood friend who tore off my old belt that year spends the rest of her life, more than twenty years, making it up to me 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 The Whole World Thinks I’m Crazy, but Only I Know Refusing Is the Right Choice 全世界都觉得我疯了，只有我知道拒绝才是正确选择 The Whole World Thinks I'm Crazy, but Only I Know That Refusing Is the Right Choice —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 Crossroads: Three Versions 岔路口-三个版本 Crossroads: Three Versions 288Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 Transmigrating to America: A Miracle Doctor Rebuilds His Estate and Hires Maids 穿越美利坚：神医重建庄园雇女仆 [Choice System] [Farm] [Tornadoes] Oklahoma, 1995. Tornadoes ravage the plains year after year, and farms in the West are facing ruin. Hua Zhong, an heir to a family of traditional Chinese doctors, transmigrates by accident and inherits a sprawling eight-hundred-acre ranch. In the cellar, he discovers gold and old U.S. dollars left behind by the previous owner. With a fortune from the start, he has no need to worry about money. Wild boars and coyotes run rampant across the grasslands. Armed with 768Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 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
- 172 Stop Saving Her, the Princess Consort Is Determined to Get Herself Killed 别救了，王妃一心要作死 Ye Zhiyi transmigrated, becoming a despised princess who had been married off as a substitute! But Ye Zhiyi had no desire to be a princess. All she wanted was to find a reasonable way to die as soon as possible so she could return and inherit her trillion-yuan fortune! So she set out on a never-ending path of courting death! She jumped into a lake to die? The prince turned around and had the lake filled in. She provoked a powerful minister? He promptly sent over three carts of supplements. She t 2.5kReads—Score25414d adds
- 173 Xia Hua, the Village Girl 村女夏花 [Realistic rural life + slow burn + heroine’s growth + family and everyday life + face-slapping the scoundrels] Lin Xiahua’s husband is dead. With two children and a dimwitted older brother to support, she has become the most tempting target in Hama Gou Village. Burdened with her family, without a single plot of land, and with her mother-in-law threatening to sell her by the pound to an old widower and his son! To survive, Xiahua learns to navigate all kinds of men and women. She smiles and char 81Reads7.0Score10514d adds
- 174 Master Fu’s Most Treasured One 傅爷的心尖千神 [Powerful leads + Ultra-sweet mutual devotion + Devoted couple with a happy ending + Flirting and doting on each other + Nonstop thrills + Childhood sweethearts forever] When four-year-old Qin Qian ran away from home and, by chance, rescued the badly wounded Fu Yaoting from a car full of assassins, the gears of fate began to turn. She thought she’d picked up a poor little stray, but he turned out to be a future business magnate. He thought he was protecting a sweet little girl, but she was the 219Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 After Saving People in a Flood, I Gained Control of Everyone’s Memories 洪水救人后，我掌控所有人的记忆 🔥 Torrential rain and catastrophic floods! He risked his life to save a girl, only to unexpectedly gain an incredible supernatural ability! A deluge battered Tianmen City, and floodwaters surged everywhere! Lin Hua, an internet café manager, leapt into the deadly torrent to save a little girl who had fallen into the water. His strength gave out and his consciousness blurred. He was about to be swallowed by the flood At the brink of death, a strange shadow attacked! A bizarre current coursed thro 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 My Wife Went to Her Date Looking Radiant and Came Home Shattered 妻子光鲜赴约破碎归来 His wife left for her date looking radiant, then returned in pieces 414Reads—Score1114d adds
- 177 The Dashing, Invincible Demon Hunter Is About to Wreck the Life of a Peerless Master Thief 风流无敌捉妖师要霍霍绝色神偷啦 This story is all about one thing: pure, unadulterated fun! Fun for the body, fun for the mind, and unbeatable fun! It's a heady concoction of wacky humor, a dopamine rush, and a supernatural plot full of twists and turns. Colorless and tasteless, it draws you in before you know it. After reading this novel, you might laugh so hard your guts cramp, find your thoughts running wild, feel your hormones going into overdrive, or even forget all the stresses and troubles of real life... In short, t 220Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Reborn, the Young Lady Goes Wild 重生后，大小姐飒飒飒疯了 (Power Fantasy + Female Lead’s Revenge + Dark Redemption + Secrets of the Wealthy, with a face-slapping scene right from the start) #Sweet on the outside, ruthless underneath, and serving face-slaps# #Unhinged# In her previous life, Jian Yue was framed by Ruan Yinyin for bullying her, leaving her ostracized by the entire school and stealing her recommendation for early admission. Ruan Yinyin goaded Jian Yue’s brother into shaving off all her hair, and even hired someone to throw acid on her at t 4.4kReads7.6Score34314d adds
- 179 Reincarnated on a Farm: A Peaceful Life with My Elf Wife 【男频短篇】转生农场：我和精灵老婆的悠闲日常 [Male-Oriented Short Story] Reincarnated on a Farm: The Laid-Back Daily Life of Me and My Elf Wife —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 After I Went Broke, My Little Sister Gave Me a Card 破产后，小妹给我一张卡 After I Went Bankrupt, My Little Sister Gave Me a Card 54Reads—Score114d adds
- 181 So Sweet! The Cold, Aloof Movie Emperor Fell for Me 甜爆了，高冷影帝爱上我 [Amateur heroine + love grows over time + mutual devotion + extra sweet + both leads' first love + entertainment industry + secret pregnancy and escape + winning her back] In public, he was Si Cheng, a cold, abstinent top-tier star. In private, he was a clingy puppy who constantly begged for kisses and cuddles. “Baby, this is more exhausting than hanging from wires... Can we learn another way?” “Everything's so hard... My tongue's about to tie itself in knots. Teach me, big sis...” “Baby... I m 5.9kReads8.1Score16114d adds
- 182 The Gloomy Older Brother’s Canary 阴湿哥哥的金丝雀 [Older, possessive man x pure, orphaned girl] [Both each other's first] [Forced love] [Redemption] Lin Bai Chen once had a younger sister named Lin Lu, but she fell into the sea and drowned when she was four. Later, he found an orphan girl on a mountain road who looked a lot like his sister. And later still, he lost the girl he'd taken in, too. From then on, he was consumed by endless guilt, which gradually twisted into a pathological need to possess! Fifteen years later, when he found her again 14.1kReads7.8Score67514d adds
- 183 Pregnant with Twins and Joining the Army, I Get Kissed to Tears by a Rugged Officer 揣双胎去随军，被糙汉军官亲哭了 (Period novel + marriage first, love later + pocket dimension + daily life raising a child + family and neighborhood matters + rough-edged man + sweet doting romance) Li Wu transmigrated into a period novel as the younger sister of the villainous supporting female character. Her sister stole her fiance and constantly manipulated and belittled her. From the start, Li Wu was heavily pregnant and traveled a thousand miles to find her husband, while her sister kept trying to kill her along the way. 6kReads6.4Score57414d adds
- 184 When the Goofball Junior Brother Shows Up, Who Doesn't Get the Short End of the Stick? 沙雕小师弟一出，谁不冤种？ Ye Feng transmigrates to a cultivation world with one goal: to become a wealthy landowner who does whatever he pleases. Cultivation? What a load of crap. He just wants to live it up like an immortal. But on his way out of the Ye family, Daoist Lingyun forcibly takes him as a disciple. He is dragged off to the Cloudsoar Sect, though all he plans to do is slack off. After all, a nap is a nap wherever you take it, right? But how could Daoist Lingyun let him have his way? His third senior sister, Gu 282Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 185 The Driver Who Stole His Boss's Woman 挖了老板后院的司机 The Driver Who Stole His Boss's Wife 5.6kReads—Score5314d adds
- 186 The Nine-Tailed Fox Demoness Raised Me for Fifteen Years, and Now She Wants to Eat Me? 【男频短篇】我被九尾狐妖养了十五年，她竟想吃掉我？ [Male-Oriented Short Story] A Nine-Tailed Fox Demon Raised Me for Fifteen Years. Does She Actually Want to Eat Me? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 You Asked for a Bigger Bride Price, but Now You’re Complaining 临时加彩礼真给你加了你又不乐意 Lin Feng had been dating Zhao Xiaoqing for eight years, and they were finally old enough to talk marriage. But Zhao Xiaoqing sprang a 100,000-yuan bride price on him at the last minute, more than he could scrape together even by draining his savings. They were forced to break up, and only then did he discover it had all been a scheme. Lin Feng: “You want me to pay for your school-beauty sister’s education?” Zhao Xiaoqing: “Of course.” Lin Feng: “You want me to pay so your younger brother can dat 1.1kReads7.3Score10314d adds
- 188 After Moving to the Countryside, the Capitalist Young Master Becomes the Village Favorite 下乡后，资本少爷成村里的香饽饽 [No AI, Entirely Handwritten] Don't pay attention to the newly posted rating (period setting + educated youth + hunting + sent down to the countryside + treasure hunting + space + multiple female leads) Li Wu's soul travels to the 1960s, where he arrives in the capital. Because his grandfather was a capitalist, his uncle and cousin reported him and had him denounced, leaving Li Wu no choice but to go to the countryside. Before leaving, he strips the treasures his grandfather left him bare, and t 20.3kReads7.6Score2.1k14d adds
- 189 Living Life to the Fullest in the 1960s 六零年代恣意活着 [Transmigration + Two Strong Leads + Period Setting + Daily Life] A career woman from the new century transmigrates as Ruan Mianmian and escapes her family of origin. When she reaches the right age, she marries Chen Yuan'an, a handsome, well-built regiment commander. They bicker in the early days, but later settle into a sweet life together: her husband dotes on her, and their son is clever and adorable. Both leads know how to enjoy life. In an era of scarcity, they use money to make sure they n 1.9kReads6.9Score10014d adds
- 190 Riding Against the Tide 逆骑 Riding Against the Tide 477Reads—Score1214d adds
- 191 An Apocalypse Survivor Transmigrates into a Cannon Fodder, Leaving Her Enemies Completely Wiped Out 末世女穿成炮灰，仇人片甲不留 [Quick Transmigration] [Alternate Universe] [Tearing Down Scumbags] [Living Life to the Fullest] [Period] [Ancient Times] [Doesn’t Rely on Men, But Makes Use of Them When Needed] Qi Lele spent ten years surviving by the blade in the apocalypse. Just as she was dying, she unexpectedly became bound to a System. She transmigrates into tragic cannon fodder characters across different worlds, avenging the wrongfully killed originals and fulfilling their wishes. “What do you mean, yours? What’s yours 8.7kReads9.0Score1.1k14d adds
- 192 In a Qipao, I Know How to Turn Heads; Out of Heels, I Can Throw a Punch 穿上旗袍会撩人，脱下高跟能揍人 She can turn heads in a qipao, and throw punches in heels. 175Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 Before My Whole Family Was Sent to the Countryside, I Took My Child and Ran 穿到全家下乡前，我带娃跑路了 [Soul transmigration to the 1960s + pocket dimension + raising a child + sweet romance + both leads are devoted only to each other] Shu Yao thought someone must have put a curse on her. In her dreams, she saw another version of herself live a miserable life: when her husband was sent away for reeducation, she abandoned him and their child, then married a divorced man with a child of his own, only to become his unpaid nanny. Unable to take it anymore, she jumped into a river. The one who buried h 39.5kReads8.2Score5.8k14d adds
- 194 In the Thirty-Eighth Year of Wanli, I Became the Princess Who Guards the Nation 万历三十八年，我成了镇国公主 Tags: #MingDynastyPowerStruggles #RebornAsAPrincess #RigorousHistoricalResearch #SolvingAndInvestigatingCases #HouseholdAndCourtIntrigue #InfrastructureAndReform Beneath the tiny body of a child lies the soul of a forty-year-old who has seen it all. Everyone takes her for an innocent little girl, indulging and patronizing her without a second thought. But they don't know that behind those seemingly clear childlike eyes, she has already seen through the ills plaguing the Ming Dynasty. Illegal k 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 King of Peach Blossom Island 桃花岛上我称王 Orphan Cao Jianping, a retired Marine, accidentally arrives on a deserted island while traveling. It is practically a paradise! From then on, his life is on easy mode, bringing him wealth and luxury! 13.5kReads7.9Score51814d adds
- 196 That Year, I Was Sixteen 那年拾六岁 When Li Shanyue was sixteen, her family traded her to Zhang Debiao from the neighboring village for three thousand yuan and two pigs. Zhang Debiao was a widower with two children. Everyone in the village said marrying him was Li Shanyue's fate. Li Shanyue didn't believe in fate. She smiled as she brought Zhang Debiao water and cooked his meals, cared for his two children as if they were her own, and kept the house spotless. Everyone thought she had accepted her lot. Zhang Debiao ended up wit 994Reads—Score11214d adds
- 197 My Senior Sisters All Want to Drive Me Down the Mountain 师姐们都想将我赶下山 Fantasy power trip + multiple heroines + love rivalries + lighthearted + guaranteed sweetness + no pitfalls + no angst + no dragging things out + no saintly protagonist + invincible Xu Ruofeng's life began in tragedy. A difficult birth, his family destroyed, and a crushing defeat at the hands of a romantic rival: he got hit with it all. His one piece of good fortune was being taken in by the Glazed Sword Sect, the greatest sect on the Spirit Void Continent. That's right, he got special treatmen 499Reads8.7Score1.2k14d adds
- 198 1970s Military Marriage: I Take My Pocket Dimension and Slay My Way Through 七零军婚，我携空间杀疯了 Synopsis: Military marriage + devoted couple + pampered by everyone + marriage first, love later + pocket dimension. Liu Zhixia, a self-made businesswoman in the 21st century, never imagined that a routine inspection of a shopping mall would somehow lead her to transmigrate into a book. She becomes Liu Zhixia, a cannon-fodder supporting character in the 1970s who was supposed to die by suicide. Her father uses a debt of gratitude to secure what he believes is the best possible future for his dau 8.3kReads9.1Score96914d adds
- 199 My Son Asked Me to Care for His Paralyzed Father, but We've Been Divorced for Ten Years 儿子让我照顾他中风偏瘫的爸，可我离婚十年了 My son wants me to care for his father, who's had a stroke and is paralyzed on one side, but I've been divorced for ten years. 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 The Half-Closed Door 半掩门 The Half-Open Door 3.1kReads—Score10014d adds
