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- 51 Reborn in the 1980s: My Journey to Becoming a Tycoon 重生80，我的富豪养成记 A modern-day powerhouse lawyer unexpectedly found herself in the 1980s, reincarnated as a country woman who had married into a wealthy family. The original owner had lived a wretched life and died without ever clearing her name. But the heroine used her modern knowledge and perspective to transform not only the original owner’s life, but also the lives of everyone around her. They all followed in her footsteps to achieve greatness, turning their lives around! 163Reads—Score714d adds
- 52 Hunting in the Anling Mountains 安岭赶山狩猎生涯 Imagine waking up to find yourself back in the opportunity-filled yet challenging 1980s, as Liu Xiao, a young man whose parents died early, living in a small mountain village in Northeast China. Don’t panic: you’ve got a golden finger! The story begins amid the curling chimney smoke and snow-covered landscape of Kaoshantun. Our protagonist Liu Xiao and his steadfast brother Wang Qiang, a straightforward and energetic fellow who can be a little careless at times but is absolutely loyal, decide to 2kReads7.2Score12414d adds
- 53 Reborn in 1985: My Passionate Years 重生1985：我的炙热年代 [A reborn, period-set farming story, relying entirely on memories of a past life and hard work in the present. No golden finger, System, pocket dimension, or harem. Things start looking up from Chapter 15! A positive story all the way!] When Lu Zheng wakes up, he has returned to the fateful summer of 1985. In his past life, he was a coward all his days. He watched helplessly as his uncle seized the family property, the woman he loved married far away so she wouldn't hold him back, and his parent 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 The 1980s: I Transmigrate into a Book and Become a Model of Morality 穿书八零，贪财女配成了道德模范 The score is finally in and still rising! Thanks to everyone for your reviews. [1980s Setting + Transmigrate Into a Book + Sweet Romance + Building Wealth + Marriage First, Love Later] She transmigrates into a novel set in the 1980s as the wicked female supporting character: in debt, lazy, and hated by her whole family. The original owner has such a terrible reputation that she’s always trying to take advantage of others. The neighbors despise her, and even her new husband treats her coldly. Xia 25Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 55 Born in ’68: My Life in a Bygone Era 六八开局：我的年代生活 Jiang Wu’s life came to an abrupt end on a sunny weekend. While saving a mother and her child, he was struck by a car and sent back to 1968, where he shrank into Zhao Wu, a ten-year-old orphan. But! He soon realized it was a pretty good deal: He got a spatial ring for free, along with a “Dragon-Elephant Pill” that greatly increased his strength, with the side effect of tripling his appetite. 2kReads6.5Score10414d adds
- 56 I'm Done! I Won't Be the One to Take Over in This Reborn 1980s Life 麻了！重生八零这接盘侠我不当了 [Period setting + urban life + reborn + no System + one heroine + building a fortune + everyday face-slapping] Lin Zihong was forced to marry someone he didn’t love. Thinking that once she was his wife, he should treat her well, he spent decades groveling at her feet like a lovesick fool. Little did he know, she had only married him to find a sucker to raise the child in her belly! After decades of unwavering devotion, all Lin Zihong got in return was a wife who cheated on him! Not long after th 378Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 57 Reborn, I Cook in the Underworld 重生后，我在地府炒菜 An accident leaves the protagonist's restaurant blown to smithereens. When he is reincarnated, the King of Hell decides his cooking is delicious. He becomes a chef who walks between the worlds of the living and the dead. Cooking is his main job, while his side gig is helping the underworld meet its quotas. He's worked like a beast on both sides, but eventually makes a comeback. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Laid-Back Days in the Seventies: My Best Friend Builds a Fortune While I Squander One 七零摆烂日常：闺蜜兴家我败家 [Dual transmigration + System + satisfying period story + best friends pampering each other + everyday riches] The two women transmigrate to the 1970s with a System. In these hard times, when everyone is tightening their belts just to get by, they live like a blissfully happy couple. Yun Qian throws herself into her career and boldly declares, “I love the thrill of making money and competing for success! I want my best friend and family, Tangtang, to be able to spend money without a care in the 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 Reborn in the 1980s: Life Is Sweet 重生八零：生活就是甜甜的 Ding Nian returns to the eve of the day she was tricked into marriage. Taking her parents and younger siblings with her, she heads to the city to build a better life. Who would have thought she’d meet the legendary big shot from her previous life, except that right now, he’s just a boy as green as a cabbage. The boy’s mother says, “My son is honest and well-behaved.” Ding Nian thinks of how the boy’s previous life ended, and realizes it had nothing to do with these people. Should she get on good 776Reads6.8Score10414d adds
- 60 1980: From Nothing to a Trillion-Dollar Fortune 1980：从一无所有到万亿身家 [Period] [business management] [mountain foraging] [leisure] [lighthearted] Zhou Xia, a modern livestreamer who played games for a living, worked himself to death in front of his computer. When he awoke, he had been reborn in 1980 as a sickly man who shared his name. Looking at the quiet, peaceful mountain village, Zhou Xia knew that from this year onward, all of China would undergo earth-shaking changes. In an era full of opportunity, with everything waiting to be rebuilt and gold lying everywh —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 The 1980s Supply and Marketing Co-op: I Won Over a Soldier by Selling Goods 八零供销社：我靠卖货撩到兵哥哥 Shen Mian transmigrates to the 1980s. Third Aunt splashes her awake: "Third Aunt, those chive pockets have quite a kick." The whole village bursts out laughing. The System gives her two cents, and she flips goods four times, making a clean yuan without putting up a cent. Someone blocks her when she sells tomatoes at the village entrance. The newcomer wears a blue work uniform and limps slightly on his left leg. "You're operating without a permit. Come with me." Shen Mian looks at him for three s 73Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 Reborn, I Sold Off My Family 重生后，我把娘家卖了 At 43, Xie Qiuhe died in a hospital corridor. The last thing to light up on her phone screen was a call from her younger brother, Xie Weidong. She answered. He said, “I've been pretty busy lately.” The call lasted 43 seconds. Then she died. Before she did, she remembered being 18. Her father called her into the main room and told her he'd arranged a marriage for her: a bride price of 1,800 yuan, and the man had a bad leg. She fell to her knees and begged her father. It was no use. She married hi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Transmigrated into the 1970s as a Glamorous Young Woman, the Apocalypse Queen Is Unstoppable 穿越七零娇女郎，末世女王拽爆了 [Transmigration] ✙ [Sent to the Countryside] ✙ [Superpowers] ✙ [Dimensional Space] ✙ [Military Marriage] ✙ [Strong Male and Female Leads] Chi Nian struggled to survive in the apocalypse for eight years, then died alongside the Zombie King. She thought her body and soul had perished. Instead, she transmigrated to 1970, into the body of an eighteen-year-old girl whose mother had just died. When she heard her aunt and grandmother plotting to sell her to an old man in exchange for a job, Chi Nian sm 2.8kReads7.3Score36414d adds
- 64 Runaway Bride 逃婚 Set in the early 1990s, Escape from an Arranged Marriage tells the story of Li Xiaohong, a village girl who bravely flees her wedding in pursuit of freedom and love. Li Xiaohong is supposed to be traded in marriage to secure a wife for her younger brother, but she refuses to accept the fate laid out for her and resolutely leaves her hometown for Longcheng. There, she and Zhao Qilei support each other, while she begins a complicated romance with Ma Mingjie, a rich second-generation heir. However, 4.2kReads9.4Score31414d adds
- 65 Transmigrated to the ’70s, I Dumped My Cheating Boyfriend and Got Rich 穿七零，甩劈腿男后发家致富 [Transmigration + period setting + marriage first, love later + putting scumbags in their place + sweet romance + building wealth] She transmigrates to the 1970s, only for her future mother-in-law to storm over and call off the engagement. What use is a man who can't do a thing and cheats on her? Break it off! Absolutely! Her family is so poor they can barely scrape by? So what? She's a transmigrator with modern knowledge, and getting rich is no dream. The village is too poor? Fine, one family g 724Reads7.7Score10114d adds
- 66 Shenzhen, 1996: The Glamorous Life of a Migrant Worker 96深圳：风流打工人生 [1990s urban life + rags-to-riches rise + entrepreneurial business wars + highly intelligent heroines + beautiful women by his side + airtight logic] In 1996, Qin Lang, a retired special forces king, heads south to Shenzhen and seeks out his childhood sweetheart, Lin Wanqing. He starts out as a security guard at an electronics factory. From the factory gate and rework materials to Huaqiangbei, Hong Kong businessmen, foreign trade, startups, and going public, every step is full of opportunity. Al 3.1kReads7.2Score22114d adds
- 67 Back to 1990: I Became a Powerful Businesswoman 重回90，我逆袭成了女霸总 [Reborn + top student + campus romance + equally strong leads + entrepreneurship + revenge] Lin Qingyao was an utterly ordinary office drone. After working overtime for days on end, catching her boyfriend cheating, and learning that her father was gravely ill, she died suddenly from sheer shock and anger. When she woke up, she found herself reborn in her childhood. This time, she resolved to rewrite her fate through her own efforts. She would study hard, become a top student, get into Tsinghua o —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Got Rich and Became Her Family's Lucky Charm 重生八零：老太太暴富成全家锦鲤 In her previous life, Zhou Guifen closed her eyes in a nursing home with a life full of misery behind her: her husband had died young of liver cancer, and her son had been killed in a car accident. When she opened her eyes again, she was back at thirty-seven years old. Her husband, Ma Jianguo, was still a violent drunk at Hongxing Steelworks. Her son, Ma Xiaojun, was sneaking around changing the answers on his electronic watch to cheat, and even buying food in their apartment block meant scrimpi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Reborn in the 1970s: The Cool, Gorgeous Real Heiress Is a Little Crazy 重生七零：酷飒美真千金有亿点癫 (Period setting + pocket dimension + reborn + adorable pets + revenge and putting scumbags in their place + hilarious + wish fulfillment + a touch of fantasy + supernatural) Content warning: Family squabbles, lighthearted humor, and not your typical heroine sent down to the countryside story. In her previous life, Ruan Xinghe was caught in bed with Lu Yang, her cousin Ruan Xinglan's fiancé. Heartbroken over losing the man she loved, her cousin went to the countryside. Ruan Xinghe became a fox sp 1.7kReads8.5Score23014d adds
- 70 After a Dream, I Lie Flat and Live Off My Parents in the 1990s 做梦后，我在九零躺平啃老 Qiao Huan: “Mom, Dad, I dreamed that our homeroom teacher scolded me for being glib and said I wasn’t acting like a girl!” Qiao Guoqing and Qiu Heping: “What? How can a teacher say that about our Huanhuan? We have to talk to them!” Qiao Huan: “Mom, Dad, I dreamed that our homeroom teacher accused me of stealing someone’s dictionary!” Qiao Guoqing and Qiu Heping: “What? How can a teacher falsely accuse our Huanhuan? We have to get you transferred to another class!” Qiao Huan: “Mom, Dad, I dreamed 329Reads8.1Score3814d adds
- 71 Reborn in the 1980s: A Spicy Old Lady's Everyday Life 重生八零麻辣老太烟火人生 (Period drama + reborn comeback + feel-good power fantasy + strong heroine + farming and business + punishing villains and putting them in their place + heartwarming healing) [A miserable death in her past life, a glorious new life this time!] The moment Zhou Guifang opened her eyes, she was back in 1985. In her past life, she had lived a miserable, powerless existence until old age. Her husband lost his job and became lame, and each of her three sons had it worse than the last: the eldest got m 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Reborn in the 1990s: Life Is but a Dream 重生玖零年代：浮生若梦 [Both Reborn + Building Wealth + Family Drama + A Portrait of Rural Life + Slow-Burn Feel-Good Story] Cao Chunhua spent decades being tormented by a mistress and a lousy husband, until she was utterly exhausted in body and mind. One day, she wakes up reborn thirty years in the past. Armed with only a little knowledge of what lies ahead, she sets up a street stall, starts a small business, opens a shop, and then a factory, steadily changing her circumstances. Just as she’s working up a storm, her 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 In Search of Immortals: Reborn, I Seek the Path to Immortality for All 寻仙录：重生，我为众生寻仙路 In his previous life, Zhang Mingjie was saddled with millions in debt. One cold, windy night in the city, drunk and alone, he saw a truck hurtling toward him. He thought it was all over, but the mysterious ancient ring he'd picked up at an antique market in his darkest hour suddenly awakened. When he opened his eyes, he was back in his high school classroom as a sophomore. Sunlight streamed through the window, and everything had returned. Facing the same hardships and the same life as a depend 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Reborn: Campus Chronicles 重生校园记 Reborn in the 1990s, farming, sweet romance, one-on-one, both leads are each other's first and only, medical skills, System. My new book is here! Thank you all for reading. May all your wishes come true and everything go smoothly! 289Reads6.8Score10414d adds
- 75 My 1989 我的1989 Twenty years ago, a homewrecker tore my family apart and took my father away; Twenty years later, her greed returned, and now she wants to take the only home left to my mother and me. My father was cold and heartless, abandoning his family. With a powerful enemy at the door, every move was a calculated trap. I stopped holding back and bet everything I had on fighting back head-on. From a helpless daughter trapped by the wounds of her upbringing to someone who turns the tide and claims her own ha 2Reads—Score88514d adds
- 76 Reborn in 1985: It All Began with a Street Stall 重生1985，一切从摆地摊开始 [Ding! A fashion System has been activated! Current year: 1985. The fashion scene is 100% untapped.] She casually pulled a shabby “made for export, sold domestically” windbreaker from a woven sack. [System: Silhouette +80, presence +999! Hidden style unlocked: a look straight off the Paris runway five years from now.] Night-market vendor: How about ten yuan? Su Wanqing: No. I’m going to trade it for a storefront. [Quest: Make 100 passersby’s hearts race within 24 hours.] Reward: Cash ×3,000, sta 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 The 1990s Property Mogul 九零买房大户 [Demolition] [Alternate History, Set in a Past Era]+ [Ensemble Cast]+ [Mistaken Child]+ [Buying a House] Note: A lightly ensemble-focused story, with a little more focus on Xia Guofu and Xia Zhiqiu. What? The Xia family’s old home in the countryside is being demolished. The news left everyone in the residential compound reeling. They remembered how, the year before, the Xia family had bought a huge stretch of woodland and land in the countryside. Back then, people had mocked them for being out o 1.1kReads6.2Score6314d adds
- 78 Back to 1993: From the Start, I Took Over an Entire Bankrupt Factory 重回93，开局盘下整座破产工厂 Urban rebirth, business rivalry, entrepreneurship in a bygone era, a legend of the times, and an ensemble of intertwined emotions A passionate, satisfying read, with realistic business battles, a brisk pace, a growing ensemble cast, and a richly evoked era After his life falls apart, twenty-year-old Lu Fei is reborn in 1993. Armed with a clear understanding of the economic waves, industry shifts, pivotal moments in capital, and social trends of the next thirty years, he starts out as a lowly qua 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 Becoming a Stepmom in the 1970s: Ready-Made Meals Raise a Future Billionaire 穿成七零后妈：预制菜养出首富崽 The rating just came out today, so it’ll go up later. [Stunning young stepmom X dependable, fatherly cop] [Transmigration + time travel + sweet romance + raising a child + wish fulfillment + fight back against anyone who crosses you + storage space] Both leads are each other’s one and only! The child is the adopted son of her husband’s fallen comrade! The heroine is rich and bold both before and after she transmigrates! Qiao Yan, executive chef at a five-star hotel restaurant, opens her eyes and 4.1kReads8.2Score65214d adds
- 80 1980s Military Marriage: The Sales Champion's Wife Opens a Shop to Make Money 八零军婚，销冠军嫂开店搞钱 After refusing to register her marriage to a jerk, she is pushed over and falls to her death. Ye Qinghuan, the twenty-first century's top saleswoman, transmigrates into her body and opens her eyes to find herself facing military man Lu Zhanfeng. Seeing her injured, Lu Zhanfeng anxiously takes her to the hospital and urgently calls for a doctor to treat her. Touched by his character and thoughtfulness, Ye Qinghuan is moved. With nowhere else to go, she tells Lu Zhanfeng, “To repay you for saving 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 The 1980s: The Real Heiress Has One Goal, Make Money 八零：真千金一心搞钱 No System, no being reborn, no transmigrating. This is a story about a woman making her own way in the world. She has only a one-cubic-meter space, and it doesn’t play a major role. Gu Dongcao knew from childhood that she could rely only on herself. She realized it when she was so hungry that all she could do was drink the water used to wash pots in the kitchen. She realized it when her eldest brother stole the money she’d saved from collecting scraps, then beat her for it. She truly woke up to 230Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 82 Mom Got Rich Selling Egg Pancakes in the Nineties 妈妈在九零卖鸡蛋饼暴富啦 [Reborn + heartwarming everyday life + entrepreneurship + writing + making a fortune + feel-good story] On the very day Zhou Xue finally passed the teacher recruitment exam after three years of hard work, she was reborn. It was winter break in 1999. Her father had taken every last bit of money from the family and gone to Yunnan Province to find his mistress. Her penniless mother was taking eight-year-old Zhou Xue and her ten-year-old brother to pick through vegetable scraps at the wholesale mark 532Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 83 Reborn in the 1980s: She Wants Nothing More to Do with This Family 重生八零这个家她不要了 Lin Xiaoman, an elite international agent from the 21st century, has her soul transported to the 1980s after a plane crash. She becomes a pitiful girl whose father doesn't care for her and whose mother doesn't love her, and who is bullied at every turn. So the big shot finally drops the act and effortlessly begins taking down her tormentors, using her formidable skills to build a brilliant life in this extraordinary era... 3.1kReads8.9Score37114d adds
- 84 Transmigrated to the 1970s: The Sweetheart Scientist Is as Sweet as Honey 穿越七零，科研娇妻甜如蜜 [Transmigration + sweet romance + period setting + unhinged + patriotism + pampered husband] On her first day after transmigrating, Li Lanxi hurried off to school and accidentally bumped into an overseas student. Looking at the name written in his book, she couldn't help murmuring, “A scholar must be resolute and broad-minded, for his burden is heavy and his road is long.” After Jiang Yiyuan was bumped into by this reckless girl, he started feeling strange. He was supposed to study hard and retu 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 My Father Used Me to Pay Off a Debt of 3,000 Yuan 我被爹抵了三千块的债 When I was nineteen, my father traded me to the village butcher to cover his thirty-thousand-yuan gambling debt. The butcher was twenty years older than me and treated me like livestock. When I gave birth to a daughter, he despised her for being a girl and tossed her into the back hills to be fed to the dogs. My grandmother, my only family, died. My own father didn't even send word, just to save the fare. On a snowy night, I used a knife to sever the tendons in the butcher's wrist, stole fifty y 472Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 Incredible! I Transmigrated to 1959 惊天！我居然穿越在1959年 Astonishing! I Actually Transmigrated to 1959 is a high-octane farming novel blending period rebirth, a pocket space, and the everyday charm of old Beijing. In 2025, Chen Yuan, a mediocre antiques dealer, unexpectedly transmigrates to a Beijing courtyard home in 1959, taking over the body of a young boy. He awakens a thousand-cubic-meter space and starts a farm where crops grow a hundred times faster, making sure his family always has food in the house. He outsmarts the black market and cleverly 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Reborn in the 1970s: Hunting in the Mountains, Starting Life Anew 重生70年代：赶山狩猎重启人生 War hero Li Congsheng is reborn in the remote mountains of Northeast China in the 1970s. With a bare home and a mother left all alone, he draws on his military training, hunting wild animals with his precise marksmanship and carving out a world of his own. "No food? I'll take care of it." "Bandits? I'll shoot them down one by one." Protect the local people and build a fortune through business. Watch me lead the way! Amid the wilderness of Northeast China, Li Congsheng begins a new life of his ow 856Reads7.1Score10614d adds
- 88 Reborn in the 1980s: Love and Career, I Want It All 重生八零：爱情事业全都要 [Reborn + 1980s + farming + building wealth + family life + strong heroine + devoted couple] Fang Qiushui is reborn and forced to marry an alcoholic gambler many years her senior, in exchange for a wife for her cousin. Why should I have to trade away my whole life so my cousin can get a wife? Why does his family get to eat eggs while I have to live on dried radish? Dream on! I won’t agree to this! She takes her mother and younger sister and decisively splits from the family. She tears into her c 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 I Got Sent to 1931 with the Annoying People from Work 和单位的烦人精们穿到1931 One day, I transmigrated with a group of awful coworkers into the war-torn world of 1931. Other transmigrators get cheat abilities. I was bound to a System from the start: I had to attract the attention of Tokko Section Chief Shimami Kazuya and use him to complete one near-impossible anti-Japanese mission after another. Shimami Kazuya: “You belong to me.” Yin Jiu: Sorry, I’m Chinese. He was as gentle as moonlight, yet when he turned ruthless, the whole city trembled. I hid a blade behind my fei 71Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 90 Reborn in the ’70s: I Set Up a Stall Selling Braised Snacks at the Machinery Plant 重生年代：我在机械厂摆摊卖卤味 [Period fiction, food, everyday life, farming] [If you spot any glaring issues, the author will fix them right away and welcomes feedback. Even if you give the book a very low rating, please tell the author why.] [Now adapted into a comic drama under the title “I Quit My Iron Rice Bowl and Picked Up a Pot of Braised Delicacies.” Welcome to watch!] Lin Yan, owner of a grand restaurant, is reborn in the 1980s. From the start, he saves the daughter of a machinery factory director and sells his appr 3.1kReads8.0Score16514d adds
- 91 Invincible Through Farming 无敌从种田开始 The worst you can do is beg for food. If you don’t die, you’ll eventually make it. A farmer from a mountain village stumbles upon an extraordinary opportunity and inherits the Medicine King’s legacy. He can do anything, from farming to healing illnesses. He takes on the village bully and tramples the second-generation rich. If he’s going to live, he’ll be a man above all others, drunk with beauty in his arms and waking to command the world. This is how a man should live. When life is good, enjoy 256Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 92 After Awakening, the Factory Girl Impulsively Marries Her Ex's Childhood Friend 觉醒后，打工妹闪婚前夫发小 [Flash Marriage, Both Leads Pure, Face-Slapping, Wife-Doting, Building a Fortune] Li Wei was a young migrant worker from a remote mountain village in Xiang Province who headed south to find work in the late 1990s. She was very lucky. She was pretty and had a college diploma, so the highly educated Wang Zhibin fell in love with her at first sight. After dating for a year, they planned to get married soon. The first time Li Wei met Wang Zhibin's family, his mother asked her to go into the kitchen 1.8kReads6.9Score10114d adds
- 93 Reborn as a Cannon-Fodder Wife in the 1990s 穿成九零年代炮灰原配 A mishap during a trip sends Zhao Yanqin transmigrating to the 1990s. The moment she arrives, she’s heavily pregnant and about to become a mother, and the father is a notorious hooligan known throughout the surrounding villages. She also has a dream in which she dies right after giving birth. Absolutely not. She decides that staying alive comes first, so it’s time to make money, make money, make money! She needs to make sure she feels completely secure!! 441Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 94 After Becoming a Wicked Mother-in-Law in the 1980s, the Whole Village Vies to Spoil Me 穿成八零恶婆娘后：被全村争着宠 [Transmigrate Into a Book in the 1980s + Transmigrated Woman vs. Reborn Woman + Everyday Family Life + Devoted Husband] Fang Ruyan, a 21st-century PhD with dual degrees in traditional Chinese medicine and agriculture, was so infuriated by the frustrating plot of a novel she was reading that she died. When she woke up, she discovered she had transmigrated into the body of Fang Ruyan, a character in the book who shared her name. In the original story, Fang Ruyan was a woman in the 1980s who was fo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 A Tigress Arrives at the Compound 大院来了个母老虎 In 1983, the peaceful military compound erupted into chaos. Shen Fang, the only son of the military district chief of staff and notorious as “the biggest playboy in the capital,” was cornered at the mouth of an alley by a woman holding a child. In front of all his childhood friends, she slapped him hard across the face. The woman wore a faded floral shirt and Liberation shoes, with a long knife wrapped in cloth across her back and a two-year-old girl in her arms. Her eyes and brows looked exactl 479Reads6.1Score10014d adds
- 96 A Translator Transmigrates to the Eighties and Gets Rich with Her Ruffian Husband 翻译穿越八零，携混混老公致富 [Transmigration + Period Drama + No Going to the Countryside + Building Wealth + Pocket Dimension + Family Life + A Touch of Ensemble Cast + She Pursues Him] The heroine is a cool, aloof beauty of the alley; the hero is a streetwise gang leader. Modern-day translator Chen Yingxue wakes up and finds herself in the 1980s. The Chen family is a real handful, but from the start, she lands a secure government job. The eldest sister is lovesick, the second brother is a mama’s boy, the third brother let 537Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 97 Reborn in 1980, I Become a Millionaire 重生八零，成为富一代 (Strong male lead + strong female lead + sweet romance + feel-good wish fulfillment) Yu Chuxia, a rich second-generation heiress who speaks several languages and graduated from Harvard, worked her way up from general manager of a branch office to the position of group CEO, only to end up in 1982 after a car accident. Even with all her skills, she finds herself unable to do much in the 1980s without resources. She has to start from scratch: launching clothing and cosmetics brands, setting up a co 740Reads8.4Score10314d adds
- 98 A Peaceful Life in a Yanjing Courtyard, Beginning in 1945 燕京宅门，1945起的安稳岁月 In 1945, Chen Han of Beiping and his grandfather both dreamed that their entire clan had been wiped out. He activated the ancestral jade bangle’s pocket dimension. He dismantled the workshop, faked bankruptcy, and stockpiled grain and gold. He led his whole family safely past every calamity, lying low until the Reform Era began. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 After My Love Was Stolen, I Overturned My Fate by Eavesdropping on the Transmigrator's Thoughts 被抢对象后，偷听穿越女心声逆袭 [Alternate 1970s setting + one-on-one romance, both leads pure + subverting expectations + face-slapping the transmigrator + fighting the System + female growth + building wealth through hard work] (PS: The female lead is a native of the story world with a golden finger, while the supporting female character is a transmigrator with a System.) Luo Xiaoyu realized that her older sister was acting very strangely! She had a perfectly good life in the city, yet she insisted on coming to the country 17Reads—Score11014d adds
- 100 The 1980s: The Machinery Plant’s Top Technician Is a Rebel 80年代：机械厂技术大拿是刺头 [No transmigration, no rebirth, no pocket dimension, no golden finger] [Courtyard houses and factories, an ordinary person's story, with a slice-of-life focus] A proper period novel set in the 1980s, with a serious tone and humorous Beijing flavor Period setting + the many sides of ordinary life + loyalty and responsibility + tangled relationships + state-owned enterprise reform + career choices Zhang Yongli is a senior technician at Hongxing Machinery Factory in the 1980s, and a notorious "t 72Reads6.8Score314d adds
