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Black Tech: Starting with Selling $999 No-Name Phones 黑科技：从卖999元杂牌机开始
After graduating from college, Li Mu transmigrated to a parallel timeline and awakened the Cutting-Edge Technology Talent Summoning System. It was now 2011. Dami Technology had only recently been founded, Huawei phones had just shifted from carrier contracts to regular retail sales, and the mobile phone market was flourishing with all kinds of brands. Determined to make the words “far ahead” ring true, Li Mu plunged into the phone market and launched a no-name phone priced at 999 yuan.
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Cutting-Edge Tech Delivered Every Month: Is America Going to Sanction Me? 每月发放黑科技，美帝要制裁我？
After transmigrating to 2008, Lin Chen finds himself the owner of a phone contract-manufacturing plant on the verge of bankruptcy. Eight million in debt, 500,000 in cash, and a stockpile of feature phones nobody wants to buy. Just as he's about to cut and run, the System arrives. [Technology Reward: Deep Blue Mobile Operating System 1.0] From that moment on, Lin Chen sets out on a path of his own. The System grants him one cutting-edge technology every month: starting with a mobile operating sys
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From Top Gaokao Scorer to Master of Civilization 从高考状元到文明掌控者
Reborn in 2007, Chen Wen only has three things in mind: Face-slapping, making money, and saving human civilization along the way. In his previous life, he was a chip engineer who died under mysterious circumstances. In this life, he's a high school senior with terrible grades, and his homeroom teacher publicly told him, "You'll only ever be good for hauling bricks." Chen Wen doesn't rush. He walks up to the blackboard and writes down three predictions in a flurry: The whole class: This guy's
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We Agreed Not to Date. Now I'm a Billionaire, So Why Are You Crying? 说好不谈恋爱，我成首富你哭什么
[Comic adaptation now available, college life, multiple heroines, first fortune made during the World Cup, the internet, investment] Ye Chen was reborn, and this time he didn't want to run himself ragged. He'd get into one of Shanghai's top 985 universities, let his parents enjoy life, and make a little money he couldn't possibly spend. He casually placed some bets on the World Cup and made millions. He made a simple game that brought in tens of millions a month. On campus, he was the low-key Ye
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Reborn in the 1990s: Break the West's Tech Stranglehold and Make Trillions 重生九零：科技卡脖欧美赚爆万亿
The rating just came in! [Reborn entrepreneurial story, building up industry, no System, slow burn, with sound business-war logic] Back in 1993, Su Lei makes his first fortune reselling pagers. He makes a killing worldwide with electronic pets, rapidly builds his business, catches up with Motorola and Intel, and establishes a foothold in the semiconductor chip industry. During the 1997 financial crisis, he fends off international speculators and buys up undervalued assets in Japan and South Kore
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Reborn in 1996: A Chipmaking Journey 重生1996：芯途
“What is this lithography machine you want to build?” “It’s the dream of every Chinese person.” “Then where do we start?” “With a mirror.” “Zhang Cheng, what are you doing?” Jiang Yiyi asked. “What if I told you I just picked up a ray of light? Would you believe me?”
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Whoever Dares Force Him to His Death Will Fall First 谁敢逼他赴死，谁就得先倒下
This is not a story about a noble, righteous hero. Han Yan is an utterly ordinary man who transmigrated to another world. Other people transmigrate with a System, a wise old mentor, or a golden finger. He got nothing at all and had to claw his way forward on his own. He is cautious by nature and lives by the principle that self-interest comes first. Morality? What is that, can you eat it? When it comes to enemies, if he can fight, he won't waste time talking. If he needs to kill, he won't he
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- 8 Back to the Sixties to Do Scientific Research 回到六十年代搞科研 Transmigrated into that innocent era, why am I still getting caught up in the endless Siheyuan dramas across the myriad worlds? A great man once said, “There’s plenty to do in this vast world.” No more pointless infighting; there’s no time to waste... 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Ninth Base City From the Start 开局第九基地市 On Awakening Day, Li Xiang was tested and found to have an F-rank, defective talent: [Repair]. Everyone mocked him as a good-for-nothing who could only fix scrap metal. They had no idea that Li Xiang's talent was conceptual-level "Repair." A cultivation technique has a flaw? Repair it. A bloodline has impurities? Repair it. Memories have gaps? Repair them. While others fought tooth and nail over a single S-rank piece of equipment, Li Xiang quietly repaired one artifact after another from the jun 77Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Real Estate Market Crashes, We Owe a Trillion, and the Young Master Wants to Dive In 地产崩盘欠万亿，公子要下海
A hard-edged near-future novel about national fortunes, starting in September 2026. No System, no rebirth, no dumbed-down characters, no showing off. Just the kind of story veteran readers love. Question: Why is it raining again? Answer: Mars is being resupplied.
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The Origin of Pain 痛觉缘起
The author is a veteran scientist working in research, and has long lamented how few hard science fiction works have appeared since Liu Cixin. Unable to resist, they decided to try writing one. Scientists are people too, but traditional science fiction tends to be rather cool when it comes to emotions. The Painful Origin is hard science fiction from a fresh perspective, yet it still features the sweet, devoted love of first romance, bringing warmth to the genre. It’s a brisk read with no draggin
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Reborn in 2018: I’ll Build the Metaverse Anew 重生2018：我要再造元宇宙
He once dreamed of the future, but now he must return to the past and create a different possibility. In 2018, serial entrepreneur Le Tian awoke from a vivid dream, having lived through the triumph and collapse of the metaverse over the next eight years. As the dream faded, he decided to stake everything on one last startup. He would no longer chase trends; he would create the eye of the storm. Illustrator Huang Xiaomo doesn't believe in the metaverse, but she believes in the untainted digital
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Reborn in 2009: Am I the Compass of the Business World? 重生09：我是商界指南针？
(No System) (Business Rivalry) (Entrepreneurship) (Everyday Romance) What does it feel like to go from financial freedom to having nothing at all? Zhou Zhiwen, a supplier of building materials to the real estate industry, has experienced that entire journey firsthand. In 2009, Zhou Zhiwen opens his eyes and discovers he has returned to this hopeful era. This is the year he has just graduated from high school. This is the year the real estate industry is not yet in ruins. This is the year the int
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Frequency: Here 频段：在
The wind on Silent Star stopped. It wasn’t switched off. It was eaten. Like a giant sponge, the frequency vacuum swept across the planet’s surface, sucking every sound, every memory, every trace that anything had ever “been” into a bottomless black hole. Only one frequency remained. Like a seed, like a cry, like the first quiver in someone’s throat before they learned to speak. That frequency would later be called: The Key.
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- 15 My Tricycle Repair Van Can Tell Crosstalk 我的三轮修理车会讲相声 The unluckiest day of Ye Ming’s life was when his ex-wife kicked him to his knees on a county road, made him sign divorce papers, and left him with a three-wheeled cart with a hole in the bottom. There was a fist-sized hole in the bed, all three tires were flat, and the bare rims scraped over the stones. As he pushed the pile of scrap metal east, the horn suddenly blared: “Reverse Entropy Furnace activated. Or, to put it another way... something worth more than your ex-wife’s conscience.” The me —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Back to 2025: I Rose to Prominence by Open-Sourcing Doubao 重回25年，从豆包开源开始崛起
Li Wei is reborn in 2025, carrying complete memories of the future year 2049 and knowledge of cutting-edge technology. His “Photon Mesh” retinal projection glasses completely transform the way displays and interactions work. Using his memories of the future, he makes precise moves around Taobao Flash Shopping’s launch in March 2025 and the food-delivery subsidy war in April.
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Rekindling 2008: I’m Back from Wall Street 重燃2008：我从华尔街归来
A new work is out! Come read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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The Enlightenment Human Community 启明人类共同体
(The rating just came in and will keep rising, so feel free to give it a try. People keep saying there’s no room for sci-fi here, that everyone only likes cultivation and fantasy, and that The Three-Body Problem is the only one that can compete. Let’s prove them wrong!) Abducted by aliens? Turns out that’s a good thing: we’re the pandas of the universe. They won’t let us visit home? There’s always a way around every obstacle! They lock us in cages and cut us off? Then we’ll just have to secretly
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- 19 Against the Tide of 1990: The Godfather of Science 逆流1990：科学教父 Reborn in 1990, a tech mogul becomes a penniless orphaned college student! With answers from the future in hand, he makes his first fortune as a middleman, then builds phones and online shopping platforms, forging a Chinese tech empire. A first love, an intelligent older beauty, and an artistic underclassman all fall for him. Lu Chen builds a business legend with one hand and stands by those he cares about with the other, rising to become a titan of the tech industry! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Guiding the Stars of Evolution 引领进化之星际
After dying suddenly from overwork, Wang Tianmeng transmigrates and wakes up as an orphaned freshman on Blue Star in 2030. From the start, he has late-stage cancer, no money for treatment, and has just jumped into a river in despair as his predecessor. Everyone thinks he doesn’t have long to live. But Wang Tianmeng awakens the “Hard Work Pays Off” talent. Medicine, biology, materials science, programming, machinery, energy, aerospace… As long as he’s willing to study, everything becomes a progre
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After the College Entrance Exams, My Billionaire Identity Was Exposed! 高考结束，我的首富身份被曝光！
[Plenty to Read][Reborn][One Heroine][Business] In his previous life, Xu Yang drifted through life. He delivered takeout, hauled bricks, and reached his thirties without accomplishing a thing. One day, he woke up back in a middle school classroom in 2010. His deskmate was still the goofy Li Chuan, the quiet Chen Mo still sat in front of him, and their homeroom teacher, Old Zhou, still loved scolding students over his thermos. He knew what was coming: the smartphone boom, the rise of Bitcoin,
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Reborn in 2008: I Used Black Technology to Remake the World 重生08，我用黑科技魔改世界
[Rebirth + cutting-edge technology + business warfare + one (or two) heroines + wish fulfillment] In his previous life, he was the chief architect of the nation’s heavy industry. He worked himself to death developing the “Transcendent Computing Core.” When he opened his eyes again, Shen Feng had returned to 2008, an era of wild ambition and gold on every street corner. Even more incredible, the chip implanted in his brain, “Maple Leaf,” had come back with him! Starting out in a rundown attic in
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Reborn in 1980: From Courtyard Menace to Peerless National Scholar 重生80，从大院祸害到国士无双
The winds of change are sweeping through 1980! Ye Xiaotian, chief engineer at a high-tech company, is unexpectedly reborn. His memories of future technology become a blade with which to turn the tide of the era. With a deluge of patents in his left hand, he drives his rivals straight into bankruptcy. With black-tech blueprints in his right, he forces foreign companies to grovel. Just as foreign firms are preparing to sweep across China with their wired remote controls, he sneers: “Infrared wirel
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- 24 Great Tang's Number One Menace 大唐第一祸害 His Majesty Li Er was furious. “My machine-gun company has been lured away by that little menace again?!” A minister replied carefully, “Your Majesty, the Japanese envoy was a month behind on his liquor tab at Wangfujing, so the Crown Prince… the Crown Prince just…” Li Er looked disdainful. “Nonsense! Japan is a friendly neighbor of our Great Tang. They’re only a little behind on payment. Would he really go that far?” The minister answered cautiously, “Your Majesty… the debt is 108,000 strings o 46.5kReads8.4Score3.3kShelves
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Soda, Cats, and a Ten-Million-Euro Beluga Whale 3 汽水，猫与一千万欧元的白鲸3
This is a prequel, covering everything from A’s youth to the founding of Heaven. Three new characters join the plot to seize dominance in the AI pet world: Chairman Lin Jingyuan, whose death marks the starting point; CEO Whale Fall; spokesperson Paper Kite; journalist Chen Wei; and von Elsa, with her AI ethics exemption.
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- 26 Black Technology: From Rags to an Interstellar Empire 黑科技：从草根到星际帝国 [Black Technology + System + Civilizational Leap + Tech Empire + Interstellar Industry] Unemployed, in debt, and abandoned by everyone, Lin Fan had once been full of ideals. Then, overnight, he hit rock bottom. Just as he was at the end of his rope and believed there was no hope left, a mysterious legacy of black technology from the future quietly arrived. From then on, Lin Fan’s fate was completely reversed. He kept a low profile in the city, relying on technology a thousand years ahead of its 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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An Alien Little Sweetheart Came to My Home 我家来了个外星小棉袄
This novel is rich in elements, like a treasure trove. Choose a path below to explore according to your interests: For fans of military technology and strategic simulations Key chapters: 74–81 The “Spirit Realm Guardian” project: A national intelligent defense system built by adapting Dona’s firefighting system. Highlights: Intelligent swarm warfare, one-sided battlefield transparency, overwhelming technological superiority, and revolutionary defense concepts. For those interested in environment
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Reborn: I Build a Technology Tree in 1976 重生：我在一九七六开科技树
Engineering PhD Chen Mo opens his eyes and finds himself back in the resource-strapped 1970s. The mud-brick house in the northern countryside is drafty, the watery porridge never fills anyone up, and troublesome relatives keep making life difficult. His grandmother favors his second uncle’s family, letting them take all the good things while dumping every hard job on Chen Mo’s family. Just as Chen Mo is at a loss, the Technology Tree System activates. Touch any mechanical or electrical device, a
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Building a Business Empire, Starting with an Internet Cafe 从网吧开始打造商业帝国
Reborn in 1998, he builds an internet empire and creates a global conglomerate. In the internet age, Lin Yu starts out in an internet cafe. He develops chat software, video and music platforms, builds a closed-loop e-commerce ecosystem, and monopolizes online traffic. In the mobile age, he creates smartphones, develops his own operating system, and launches ride-hailing and food delivery services, crushing the competition with a technological leap. In the age of intelligence, he branches into
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