The Male Lead Is Reborn in the 1980s or 1990s 男主重生80，90年

1. 51 我 I'm a Lie-Flat Guy, but My Beautiful Wife Refuses to Divorce Me 我躺平汉，漂亮老婆不肯离婚 No Trace in the Mortal World凡尘无痕Urban3.2M WordsCompleted Chen Shuai was reborn. In his previous life, he was a lazy freeloader who did nothing but lie flat and loiter around the neighborhood. Now it was his responsibility to earn money and support his family, all for the sake of his beautiful wife! Her best friend said, “Hurry up and get a divorce. Even I can't stand watching this anymore. You're the one making all the effort. When will it end?” His father-in-law said, “You should go out and hear what people say about you. A big, strapping man like yo 67Reads6.8Score16914d adds

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   This book is so good, I want to read it again and again. The unique content is unforgettable!

2. 52 重 Reborn in 1998 重生1998 Sticky Rice Dumpling糯米粽Urban1.6M WordsCompleted Lu Ze, who worked at a newspaper, woke up one day reborn in 1998. That year, Ma Huateng’s Tencent had just been founded, Ding Sanshi’s NetEase had just pivoted into portal websites, Baidu’s Robin Li was still working for someone else, Jack Ma had just experienced a failed venture and had yet to make his first fortune, and Liu Qiangdong was still selling CDs... That year, Jay Chou had just had his “Nunchucks” rejected by Zhang Huimei, My Fair Princess had taken the country by storm, and the mainl 830Reads7.3Score—14d adds

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   These four books are relatively mild, practically nonexistent in terms of toxicity.

3. 53 重 Reborn: Making the Most of My Youth 重生之不负青春 Losing One's Composure乱了方寸Urban1.5M WordsCompleted Reborn in the past, I will lead the future. In my previous life, the times crushed me. In this life, I will stand at the pinnacle of the era and become its greatest luminary. 174Reads7.8Score—14d adds
4. 54 重 Reborn as the World's Richest Man 重生之世界首富 Lazy懒Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Reborn in 1998, Chu Han is determined to live a life more remarkable than the one he had before. He earns his first fortune through tutoring classes, then uses scattered memories from his past life to trade stocks, invest in crude oil, and make leveraged bets with returns a hundredfold. During a trade war, he strikes back against the four foreign grain giants and stabilizes domestic food prices. He also ventures into the internet industry, breaking through in virtual reality technology and pushi 875Reads8.0Score10214d adds
5. 55 怼 Clapping Back and Making Money Feel So Good 怼人和赚钱都好爽啊 Goldfish Huaguoguo金鱼花果果Modern Romance1.9M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Reborn + Face-Slapping and Scum-Bashing + Top Student + Corporate and Business World] Complete! Reborn in a poor village in the 1980s, Xia Yan is dealt a terrible hand: her biological father is seriously ill, her mother favors someone else, and she has no money for school. Xia Yan quickly fights back. She collects the debts owed to her, gives her abusers a piece of her mind, and protects the money she earns herself! Her elders watch her transform from a well-behaved girl int 7kReads9.1Score91614d adds

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   These are the pinnacle of rebirth-themed historical fiction, all high-quality masterpieces, and I highly recommend them to everyone.

6. 56 重 Reborn in 1983: I Take On My Biased Grandma and Protect My Family 重生八三，手撕偏心奶奶护家人 Great Ginseng大人参Urban2.4M WordsCompleted The short drama Reborn in 1983: From Doormat to Life's Winner and the animated series The Legendary Road of Yin Chuan are now available. Li Yinchuan is reborn, returning to the day his biased grandmother falsely accused him of stealing money so she could sell him to another family as a live-in son-in-law. Why should I have to sell myself to pay for my eldest cousin's wedding and my second cousin's college tuition? Why should my mother, younger brother, and younger sister suffer bullying in this 7.8kReads8.9Score63214d adds
7. 57 重 Reborn in 1981: I Marry a Beautiful Village Girl from the Start 重生1981：开局迎娶貌美村花 Chen Jun陈钧Urban2.3M WordsCompleted In his previous life, Chen Fei cruelly rejected Liu Ye'er, the village beauty. She jumped into a river, and both she and her unborn child died. Wracked with guilt, Chen Fei never married. This time, I’m determined to marry you, return the village beauty’s love, and build a fortune so we can live well and eat meat at every meal. 1.9kReads7.9Score18514d adds
8. 58 我 I Turned My Hometown into a Paradise 我把家乡打造成人间仙境 Carp Teasing Cat鲤戏猫Urban5.1M WordsCompleted The comic adaptation of the same name, "I Turned My Hometown into a Paradise on Earth," is now available. Leave behind the hustle and bustle of the city and return to a quiet, beautiful mountain village to live the leisurely life of a small-time farmer. Build mountain roads, grow good vegetables, build a new village, and watch city workers head home. The mountains are full of rustic charm, and there are plenty of adorable animals, too. Cultivate immortality, tend the fields, make some money, and 14.7kReads8.8Score1.3k14d adds
9. 59 神 The Mysterious CEO's Cold-Hearted Wife 神秘总裁冷情妻 Qiusheng秋笙Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted She thought the carefully planned birthday banquet would make her the little princess basking in everyone’s attention. Little did she know, a conspiracy was waiting for her... 500Reads8.7Score1k14d adds

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   These are good.

10. 60 山 The Little Miracle Doctor of the Mountain Village 山村小神医 Chopped Chili Riding a Fish骑鱼的剁椒Urban12.1M WordsOngoing Fools are blessed! After Wang Tiezhu was beaten into an idiot, he unexpectedly gained his ancestor's legacy. From then on, he pursued both medicine and cultivation. He only wanted to be a handsome man who kept a low profile, but trouble always came looking for him. When he finally trampled all his enemies beneath his feet, Wang Tiezhu could only sigh helplessly: “I want to keep a low profile too, but my strength won't let me!” 20.1kReads9.2Score5.1k14d adds
11. 61 拐 Marrying a General to Build a Fortune 拐个将军来发家 Flamebearer火焰者Ancient Romance1.9M WordsCompleted She transmigrates into another world and, just as her father is laid to rest, gets thrown out of the house with nothing by her unscrupulous, awful grandparents. Faced with utter poverty, she rolls up her sleeves and leads her family into the fields to farm their way to prosperity. Watch her put her culinary skills to work, cooking dish after delicious dish and winning over the man of her dreams. Just as she begins to make a name for herself, every vile character comes crawling out of the woodwor 44Reads8.5Score—14d adds
12. 62 重 Reborn in 2002, Quietly Getting Rich! 重生2002，悄悄暴富！ Rhinoceros Resonance与犀共鸣Urban1.6M WordsCompleted After being reborn, Chen Lin first builds his fortune discreetly. Then, focusing on internet technology and using investment as his foundation, he establishes a vast business empire and a multinational conglomerate that transcends borders. In the end, with the help of a shadow government, he rises to the pinnacle of the world! 5.2kReads8.5Score29314d adds

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    Reborn in 2002, during high school

13. 63 重 Reborn, She Makes Her Scumbag Ex Turn Her into a CEO's Wife 重生后渣男尽让她做了总裁夫人 Shen Lannan深蓝南Urban307k WordsCompleted Urban Life, Rebirth, Historical Era, Getting Rich, Farming Zhang Liyang, the president of a publicly listed jewelry company who grew up in an orphanage, is unexpectedly reborn in 1986. He finds himself destitute, with a daughter who is terrified of him, a beloved wife who has lost all hope in him and is desperately seeking to end her life, a father-in-law who looks down on him, and a mother-in-law suffering from a terminal illness. Now, see how he changes his ways and makes waves in the business 6Reads—Score—14d adds

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    That fits perfectly. The male protagonist is reborn in the 1980s, then travels to the 1990s, transforming from a scumbag into the most outstanding man in his family compound, doting on his wife and daughter, and leading his family to wealth and a life of luxury. You can check it out if you like.

14. 64 一 A Pair of Delicate Red Hands 一双红酥手 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Urban2.1M WordsCompleted Reborn in 1996, I planned to strike it rich with the lottery numbers from the one thing I remembered about my past life. Who knew it would still turn out to be just a dream!!! There are only 98 days left until the college entrance exam, and I’ve forgotten every bit of what I learned in my previous life. What do I do... Fine, I’ll come clean. I just want to be a couch potato, enjoy life with a beautiful wife, and live a quiet little life... This story is entirely fictional. Any similarities are p 12.4kReads9.0Score76514d adds
15. 65 没 You’ve Got to Be Kidding: A Tang Dynasty Assassin Taking the College Entrance Exam 没搞错吧我一个大唐刺客参加高考 Loves the Forest爱森林Urban451k WordsCompleted A Tang Dynasty assassin has just beheaded a military governor, only to open his eyes as a hopeless high school senior! He spent the first half of his life relying on a swift blade. Now he has to battle trigonometry? With just 100 days left until the college entrance exam, what’s an assassin like me supposed to do? And just as the turmoil is still unfolding, he learns that his beautiful master has transmigrated from the Tang Dynasty too… 405Reads8.1Score1314d adds
16. 66 女 Wang, the Northeastern Guy in the Women's Dorm, Don't Panic 女工宿舍楼里东北汉子老王你别慌 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Urban668k WordsCompleted Wang Xinyan is a strapping Northeastern man, tall and broad-shouldered. But because his mother loved watching romance dramas, she gave him a feminine name. After graduating from college, that name got him assigned not only to a female factory-worker position, but also to a dorm room on the women's floor… 1.3kReads8.5Score—14d adds
17. 67 一 One Sword to Slay the Fairer Sex 一剑斩红粉 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Urban552k WordsCompleted [Urban Martial Arts]+ [Traditional Cultivation]+ [Multiple Heroines] Lin Che, young master of an ancient martial arts family in the city, was framed and killed in his previous life while enjoying himself beneath the peonies. His lover, a minor internet celebrity close to him, had joined forces with his family's sworn enemy to set him up. His path to being reborn is also a path to rising to power… 357Reads8.5Score1614d adds
18. 68 修 After Succeeding in Cultivation, I Transmigrated to Earth to Farm 修仙有成却穿越到地球种田 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Urban468k WordsCompleted [Cultivation]+ [Farming]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Transmigration]+ [Golden Finger]+ [Alternate Fantasy World]+ [If It's Not Your Thing, Please Don't Complain] Chen Xing, an immortal with a spirit body from the Ziling Sect, had cultivated to the peak of the continent. Just as he was reveling in a life of pleasure with six beautiful concubines, the Trial of Worldly Desires struck. His soul transmigrated into the body of a young man with the same name on Earth, who had died after slipping and falling 94Reads—Score1014d adds
19. 69 西 The Merchant’s Road to the West 西部商途 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Urban576k WordsCompleted [No System] [No golden finger] [School belle] [Multiple heroines] [The struggle of an ordinary guy] Zhang Bo is a poor kid from the countryside. He doesn’t have much going for him, except that he’s pretty lucky with girls... 399Reads—Score3414d adds
20. 70 这 I Don’t Want This Kind of Rebirth 这样的重生我不想要啊 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Urban313k WordsCompleted Being reborn isn't about having an easy, satisfying life. It's about walking the human road again through blood and tears! The hardships I've endured and the burdens I've borne aren't anything to be proud of. I'll just leave them in my memories. A simple, honest life, surrounded by a beloved wife and beautiful companions, is what truly matters... 296Reads—Score—14d adds
21. 71 重 Restarting My Life and Winning Over Several One True Loves 重启人生拐几个白月光 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Urban282k WordsCompleted So what if he was rich in his previous life? He couldn't even find his wife and daughter! In this reborn life, he'll protect his family first... A life of wealth and luxury? He wouldn't mind! But the simple pleasures of everyday life are what feel most real! 479Reads—Score—14d adds
22. 72 我 Cultivating the Great Dao in a Human Classroom 我在人间课堂修大道 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Urban229k WordsCompleted Cultivation? Pah! I just want to spend my days with the campus beauty, enjoying the simple pleasures of life and living it to the fullest. Is that too much to ask? And of course, I wouldn't mind having a few more beauties around either… 87Reads—Score—14d adds
23. 73 春 A Spring Dream Takes Me to Ancient Times: I Become a Workaholic in Dayin 春梦穿古我在大胤当卷王 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Historical147k WordsCompleted [Mystery]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Transmigration]+ [Golden Finger]+ [Alternate Fantasy World]+ [If It's Not Your Thing, Please Don't Complain] Just because he begged his goddess for a hug in a romantic dream, Lu Xiaochuan was kicked straight into a river in the Great Yin dynasty, launching his mortifying Transmigration adventure! The moment he climbs ashore, he's branded a suspect in the Witchcraft Cult case. He lets slip what he said in his sleep, then reveals the secret that he once saw a celes 47Reads—Score914d adds
24. 74 红 A Beauty’s Scheme for the Realm 红颜谋天下 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Eastern Fantasy148k WordsCompleted [Mystery]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [No Transmigration]+ [No Golden Finger]+ [Alternate Fantasy World]+ [If It's Not Your Thing, Please Don't Complain] An imperial edict of marriage sends the icy, beautiful female general Murong Xue storming into the residence with a sword. Turmoil erupts in the Song household's rear court, while strange butterfly shadows from the Xuanming Cult appear, concealing a shocking conspiracy that could overturn the world. As one beauty after another gets drawn into the gam 59Reads—Score1014d adds
25. 75 银 A Story About a Beautiful CEO Beneath a Ginkgo Tree 银杏树下的一个美女总裁的故事 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五Modern Romance20k WordsCompleted The story of a beautiful CEO beneath a ginkgo tree 65Reads—Score—14d adds
26. 76 善 The Original Sin of Kindness 善良的原罪 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五10k WordsCompleted The Original Sin of Kindness 37Reads—Score214d adds
27. 77 一 How a Village Girl Became a Bad Woman 一个山村女孩如何成坏女人的 Fifteenth of the Tenth Month拾月十五13k WordsCompleted How a Village Girl Became a Bad Woman 88Reads—Score114d adds
28. 78 公 1980 AD, Here I Come! 公元1980，我来了！ Fate Already Known已知天命Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Mei Zhichao, a legendary soldier, is unexpectedly reborn in 1980 in the body of a timid, introverted high school senior. His father died young, and his mother struggled to raise two sons alone. The family is bullied every few days... See how he rewrites his fate and changes the world! 40Reads8.5Score—14d adds

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    This is a period drama/relationship story; please do not read if you dislike this genre.

29. 79 重 Reborn in 1979: An Extraordinary Life 重生1979年之非凡人生 Zheng Zimo郑梓墨Urban128k WordsOngoing Somehow, I found myself back in 1979. I had planned to keep my head down until 1988, then live a quiet, ordinary life with my family. But my abilities wouldn't let me. I kept pushing forward, again and again. Only when I looked back did I realize that my village had somehow become the richest and most livable place around. The people I had once only been able to look up to in my previous life came flocking here, just for the chance to become my neighbors. Eventually, they all started calling me —Reads—Score—14d adds

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30. 80 重 Reborn in 1986: The Tycoon Who Came Down from the Mountains 重生1986从大山里走出的首富 Bloodstained Youth染血芳华Urban334k WordsOngoing He returns to that fire-ravaged morning in 1986. He sees his two younger sisters, who died in the blaze in his previous life, still smiling as brightly as flowers, and everything changes. Armed with memories of his past life in this turbulent era, he earns his first fortune from a lost treasure, then begins a legendary life with a cheat-like advantage. Coal transfer stations, liquor factories, beverage factories, treasury bonds, stock subscription certificates, import and export trade, real esta —Reads—Score—14d adds
31. 81 回 Back to 1980: Riding the Wave to Make a Fortune 回到1980，乘着风口去捡钱 Nine Forty-Five九点四五Urban474k WordsCompleted [Fast-paced, no dragging things out. You’ll see what it’s about for yourselves.] Qin An is reborn in 1980. Drawing on his knowledge of the future and riding the wave of economic reform, he builds his business empire step by step. He opens a cigarette factory and earns foreign currency. He opens a canning factory, producing canned mushrooms, asparagus, and mesona. He supports the development of special economic zones and drives reforms to the rationing system. He starts a construction company and 5Reads6.5Score—14d adds

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    The male protagonist is reborn in 1980. Using his knowledge from his previous life and taking advantage of the reform and opening-up policy, he opens a cigarette factory to earn foreign exchange, a cannery to produce canned mushrooms, asparagus, and herbal jelly, supports the construction of special economic zones, promotes rationing reform, opens a construction company to build the special economic zone airport, opens an airline, buys Boeing aircraft, goes to Hong Kong, acquires ATV, signs the Four Heavenly Kings, invests in film and television, produces blockbuster movies and TV series, acquires British trading companies, and enters Hong Kong's telephone, electricity, and real estate industries, transforming Hong Kong's four major families into five.

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