Novels like Travel Through Time and Get Rich, Starting in 1985
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Travel Through Time and Get Rich, Starting in 1985, best match first.
- 1 My Life in 1979 我的1979生活 He accidentally fell into a river. His ancestral jade pendant changed, sending him to a parallel timeline. He returned to 1979. Wild fish, shrimp, crabs, and clams, along with organic vegetables, tasted delicious. Rare treasures were worth a fortune. He worked from sunrise to sunset and rested when night fell. In ragged clothes, with a palm-leaf fan in hand, he took life easy and enjoyed himself immensely. What did it matter if he lacked food and clothes? He could always go back to 2022 and get 0Votes18kRecs60.3kFans
- 2 Great Ming Partners 大明合伙人 By sheer chance, Shen Lang, with nowhere else to turn, discovered that his family's warehouse was connected to the imperial palace of the Ming Dynasty. That brought him into contact across time with Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming. Emperor Chongzhen nearly had the unexpected visitor beheaded. But once he learned the Ming Dynasty had only a year left, the two finally found a basis for cooperation. 0Votes46.4kRecs141.7kFans
- 3 Publicly Revealing Transmigrators: Cultural Invasion of a Parallel Blue Star 公开穿越者：文化入侵平行蓝星 Facing the cameras, Lin Xuan revealed that he was a transmigrator! After transmigrating from Earth to Blue Star, Lin Xuan gained the ability to travel back to any time and place in Earth's world while appearing on a show. And so began the full-scale fusion of the civilizations, art, economies, sports, entertainment, games… of two worlds! Also known as Di 0Votes27.4kRecs393.5kFans
- 4 Chronicles Across Time 超时空史记 One day, four uninvited guests showed up at Chu Zhen's home. One was Li Shimin, the second son of the Duke of Tang, who claimed to be a devoted brother. One was the Hongwu Emperor, who snatched the map of China hanging on his wall as soon as they met. One was the young lady Li, who remarked that “Su Shi's lyrics are pretty mediocre.” And one was Lin Daiyu, who dropped from the sky, with smoky brows and cherry-red lips. After Chu Zhen spent some time in warm, friendly, in-depth conversation with 0Votes78.6kRecs262.7kFans
- 5 1983: Starting Out as a Big-Time Aquaculturist on a Small Island 1983小海岛，从养殖大户开始 [A novel about marine aquaculture in the early 1980s. At first, it’s kelp farming, oyster farming, catching eel fry, and raising swimming crabs...] Back in 1983 on a small island, Li Duoyu risks his life to haul in a net full of large yellow croaker. He thinks he’s about to make a fortune, only to have reality slap him in the face: at the time, large yellow croaker sells for just 40 cents a jin. But Li Duoyu also discovers that far from the coast, dried oysters, dried squid, dried kelp, and drie 0Votes78.7kRecs249.5kFans
- 6 Those Years I Solved Cases at the Zhenfusi 我在镇抚司探案那些年 In the tenth year of Yonghe, bandits roamed the land. With the provincial governor due to pass through, the magistrate of Heyan County came up with a harebrained scheme to restore his image and manufacture impressive results: a “mock robbery drill” targeting wealthy households. Everyone at the county office understood the unspoken arrangement. It was all just for show. But Qi Ping, the constable assigned to play a bandit, had other ideas. “As a transmigrator, I refuse to settle for mediocrity!” 4Votes58.7kRecs185.3kFans
- 7 Hello, 1983 你好，1983 Hello, 1983! I'm back! My family, my friends, my hometown: everything will change because of me... 0Votes168.9kRecs241.4kFans
- 8 Back to 1980 to Enjoy the Good Life 重回1980去享福 The first incense offering at the ancestral rites, a family tree entry of one’s own, and a place in the history books: these are a man’s ultimate dreams, and Deng Shirong achieved them all after being reborn. [This book is rich in rural flavor, with realistic prices, solid logic, and a leisurely storytelling style. At 2.27 million words, it still gets over 3,400 readers returning within 24 hours. The quality is excellent, making this a rare gem among period novels. Don’t miss it if you’re passin 0Votes112.6kRecs224.2kFans
- 9 Back to the Roaring Eighties 重返火红年代 Liu Hai transmigrates to the fiery-red era, starting by cobbling together a motorcycle. Motorcycles, cars, trucks, tank engines... Along the way, Liu Hai creates an industrial age of his own. 7Votes166.1kRecs324.7kFans
- 10 A Hong Kong Entertainment Industry Life Simulator 港娱的人生模拟器 Zhao Donghuai transmigrates to Hong Kong Island in 1983 and gets a strange life simulator. [June 1983: By chance, you join the Winners and Sinners film crew as a stunt performer. In mid-June, your good looks steal the scene, and you appear as a masked fast-food restaurant robber. Big Brother Hong kicks you through the restaurant window and out onto the street, where you accidentally injure your spine.] [January 1984: You “create” a new version of Nocturne using milk tea bottles, but get trapped 0Votes180.4kRecs225.3kFans
- 11 Back to 1977: Farming and Raising Kids 重回七七种田养娃 Xu Shiyan is reborn forty years in the past, on the second day after his wedding. His lovely new bride has just arrived, and everything is off to the best possible start. He can grow crops, go hunting, and head into the mountains to dig up a giant ginseng root whenever he likes. Life in the 1970s really isn't so bad. He wasn't much to speak of in his previous life, and he has no grand ambitions in this one. He just wants to live happily with his wife and raise their daughters to succeed. His eld 3Votes131.1kRecs363.2kFans
- 12 The Path of Technology Across the Myriad Worlds 诸天科技之路 Nano Core World: Yue Yuanzhou: "I transmigrated just because I lowered my head to play with my phone?!" "And after transmigrating, I don't even get a golden finger." "Fine, I'll make one myself." Transformers World: Cybertron is about to descend upon Earth. This is the end of humanity. Yue Yuanzhou was ecstatic: "Perfect. A 'spaceship' like that is just right for someone low-key like me!" Super God Universe: Yue Yuanzhou: "The dark plane should not exist. I will destroy it and usher in the Age o 0Votes63.8kRecs128.5kFans
- 13 A Door in My Mind 脑海带着一扇门 Jiang Xiaochuan transmigrates to another era in a parallel world. In these times of scarcity, he uses his pocket dimension and supernatural abilities to improve life for himself and his family. While everyone else is limited to just six liang of meat a month, Jiang Xiaochuan's family secretly eats their fill. While others struggle to find cotton in winter, he grows it in his pocket dimension. An ageless protagonist returns to the era of ration coupons. He keeps his head down and gets by... Pocke 0Votes476.7kRecs541.1kFans
- 14 My Little Farmstead in 1978 我的1978小农庄 A small farm opens in a mountain village far from the noise of the city. Here, there is Moutai that costs more than ten yuan a bottle after aging for seven or eight years, and Wuliangye that costs seven or eight yuan. Organic vegetables, organic fish and shrimp, organic boiled mutton, all green, eco-friendly, and delicious. A failed, middle-aged divorced man turns around and becomes the leisurely owner of a farm. The small mountain-village farm becomes famous far and wide. Slippers, undershirt, 8Votes866.3kRecs407.4kFans
- 15 EN I Have a Two-World Seal 我有一枚两界印 A jade seal lets Lu Zheng transmigrate freely to another world. At first, he thinks it is an utterly ordinary ancient world. With no great ambitions, he plans to become a carefree traveling merchant, enjoy the life of a wealthy man, find a few lovely companions to keep him company, and spend his plain, dull days eating and wandering around. Until... he gives a meal to the beggar at his door, and the jade seal gains a few strands of fortune... Fox women come by day, alluring ghosts visit by night 2Votes406.2kRecs663.3kFans
- 16 I Have a Home in 1982 我在1982有个家 Wang Yi gets a key. Open a door in 2022, and it leads to 1982. Open a door in 1982, and it takes him back to 2022. Two vastly different eras lie before him: Plentiful food, advanced industrial products, miracle medicines, and an explosion of information: this is 2022. Simple, honest customs, abundant wild resources, forgotten antiques, and treasures of a bygone age: this is 1982. Traveling between these two eras, Wang Yi has no grand ambitions. He just wants to enjoy a comfortable, fulfilling li 3Votes659.1kRecs510.5kFans
- 17 Starting in Maoshan, Across the Myriad Worlds 诸天从茅山开始 What would you do if you could travel back and forth to a “special” version of Republican-era China? Become the richest man alive and marry a harem of beauties? Take up your brush to serve the nation and become the greatest writer in the land? Prepare for war, then rise to nobility and command armies? Or... Train until your form is as graceful as a crane, with two books beneath a thousand pines. I came to ask the Way, but found nothing left to say: clouds in the blue sky, water in a bottle. P.S. 2Votes246.3kRecs724.5kFans
- 18 The Ming Dynasty's Imperial Preceptor 大明国师 After witnessing the end of the Jingnan Campaign, Jiang Xinghuo, marked for extermination of his entire clan and nine relations, finally breathed a sigh of relief. As a veteran transmigrator, he would return to the modern era and gain immortality after transmigrating nine times. Certain he was about to finish the job, Jiang Xinghuo grew so bored that he began giving lectures in prison. But things gradually started to feel off… Ma Sanbao: “What is the Age of Exploration in The Sea Power Doctrine? 29Votes427.7kRecs6.2MFans
- 19 EN Cultivation Through Big Data 大数据修仙 Feng Jun graduated with two degrees, only to find himself unemployed. He struggles to make a living in the city, yet refuses to lower himself, so his predicament is easy to imagine. Then one day, lightning strikes him and his phone, and he suddenly discovers that he can turn into data and enter apps. What can he do as data inside an app? Plenty. Just use your imagination... Wait, the money in his mobile banking account? Stop! Don't change that! Of course, that's not all. He also discovers that h 4Votes6.6MRecs652.7kFans
- 20 Starting in 1983 从1983开始 A story with a touch of nostalgia. The old reader group is full. 14Votes4.3MRecs1.1MFans
