Male Lead Reborn in 1980s or 1990s America or Hong Kong, Then Returns to China to Invest 男主重生8090年代美国或香港，回国投资
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Reborn in the Wild Nineties: I Only Have Three Things to Do 重生野性时代，我只做三件事
[Reborn + scheming + ruthless + multiple women, no official pairing + business warfare] Xu Zhengwen, reborn as a Hong Kong tycoon, uses angel investment as bait, capital as a chain, and love as a lock to win their loyalty. Having secretly taken control of other nations' economies with the help of stunning women from around the world, he now has only three things left to do. First, build the world's leading technology and business empire, laying the groundwork for China's rise as a great power
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- 2 Back to 1978: The Uncle Who Returned from Abroad 重返1978：归国的小叔叔 [Wealthy Tycoon]+ [Family Life]+ [Everyday Life]+ [Heartwarming Period Piece]+ [Infrastructure Development] Zhao Qiming, a wealthy Chinese American, follows the diary his father left behind and returns to China with his father's ashes and his son, Zhao Haodong, to seek out their roots. But an unexpected encounter sends father and son, car and all, transmigrating back to China in 1978! Their gleaming Bentley and flashy outfits become the most eye-catching sight of the era. Armed with immense weal 11.4kReads6.3Score54814d adds
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The 1980s: My Dad Lives Off His Wife, and I Return Home as a Tycoon 八零：我爸靠吃软饭我回国成神豪
Tang Zhixia transmigrates to 1983, where she's just about to be fed to the fish. [Aww~ Bind yourself to me and I'll save you, but you have to take me home!] A Chinese dragon egg crashes into the space between her brows. Only after escaping certain death does Tang Zhixia discover that her “golden finger,” which saved her, can only hatch with the help of China's national fortune! And her legendary father, who made his fortune after four wealthy wives died, has just left her billions in assets and
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Traveling Between Two Worlds to Fight in Korea, I Beat Up the Americans 双穿抗美援朝，我暴打美国佬
In 2026, overworked wage slave Su Tianci gets his writing royalties. He plans to go out for a foot massage with the full-service treatment, as a reward for himself. But he never expects to open his eyes and transmigrate to a battlefield engulfed in war. There’s no water, medicine, or food. Fortunately, he can return to 2026. Two vastly different eras now lie before him.
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- 5 Crossing Between Two Worlds: From the Start in 1952, I Was Already a County-Level Cadre 双穿一九五二开局就是正科级 In 2026, Su Tianci accidentally transmigrated to the war-torn Korean battlefield. Fortunately, he had brought along a pocket dimension. The System grabbed a bucket and ran. To return to 2026, he had to reach the siheyuan. Two vast eras lay before him. 28.5kReads5.5Score1.6k14d adds
- 6 Between Two Worlds: 1949 两界穿梭之一九四九年 No morals + a little cruelty to beasts + everyday life at the heart of it Su Tianci transmigrates to Beiping in 1948, where his daily life revolves around tormenting beasts. Our protagonist has no manners and often does things without playing fair. The main idea is simple: if I have no morals, you can't morally blackmail me... [Putting the facts aside, is the author wrong to want to earn a little more tuition money? We shouldn't think only of ourselves; we need to consider the author too. I've m 3.4kReads—Score21114d adds
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Reborn in 1980: Treasure Hunting in Hong Kong 重生1980：从香港寻宝开始
[Wits and strategy + ambitious antihero + ruthless decisiveness + takes off after five chapters] (The original title is Reborn in 1980: Treasure Hunting in Hong Kong. The other titles are promotional names.) In 1980, Lin Xiaohu heard that Hong Kong was paved with gold, so he crossed the Pearl River to hunt for treasure! Starting out as a street thug, Lin Xiaohu climbs the ranks step by step and builds Hong Kong’s largest transnational crime syndicate. But then he discovers that the woman he trus
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Wei Xiaobao Conquers the World 韦小宝争霸天下
Funny, lighthearted, a little System, transmigration, souls returning... Nong di ge dong, xian ren ban ban, Xiao Xuanzi, I didn't rebel, but somehow I became a wanted criminal! What a load of nonsense! For the sake of a thousand generations, Xiao Xuanzi, I'll take your throne, and you can have Tongchi Island back!
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- 9 Warlord of the Republic: I Turned Shanghai’s Nightlife Upside Down 民国枭雄：我掀了夜上海的天 When Chen Mo wakes up, he has returned to the age of fifteen, facing the hellish slums of Shanghai. In his previous life, he lived an unremarkable life and died in humiliation. This time, he’ll overturn this world that devours people! Armed with the [Warlord System], his fists draw blood and his blade takes lives. Starting in Fangualong, he recruits followers, seizes territory, and gathers wealth... He swears to become the greatest warlord in all of Shanghai’s pleasure quarters! The underworld i 10.8kReads7.0Score60714d adds
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Reborn in 1997: While the Whole School Prepares for Exams, I Hang Out in Internet Cafes and Become a Tycoon 重生97全校备考我泡网吧成首富
[Reborn + Academic Prodigy + Capital + Behind-the-Scenes Power Player + Business] A PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences is reborn in 1997, but from the start he is so broke he can’t even afford the internet bill. With no money, no connections, and not even old enough to be an adult, how can Cheng Hao make a fortune? An idea strikes him: he invents an identity as a top Silicon Valley guru and sneaks into the world’s leading tech forum at the time. He only meant to use technology thirty years
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- 11 I Return to the 1970s as a Hong Kong Tycoon and Lead My Whole Family to Wealth 回七零当香江大少，带全家暴富 [No romance] Ye Lin arrived in Xianggang in 1978. Fortunately, he had transmigrated into the body of a Xianggang tycoon’s only son, who shared his name. Unfortunately, Ye Lin couldn’t spend the money. He could only unlock the fortune by fulfilling the tycoon’s dying wish. There’s big news in Xiahe Village lately. The second son of the Ye family, who’d been dead for decades, has been found. And he’s a tycoon from Xianggang! Oh, it’s the second son Ye’s grandson who’s come back. The second son him 3.7kReads7.9Score22314d adds
- 12 Posing as a Returnee Tycoon in the 1980s 在八零伪装归国神豪 [80s Era] [Feel-Good] [Big Shot] [Tycoon] [No Female Lead] [Building a Career] [Everyday Life] The story of a fake tycoon with nothing to his name who becomes a real tycoon worth billions. Good news: After transmigrating into the 1980s, his heart condition is gone and his body is healthy. He also gets a Reputation System, which lets him exchange reputation points for assets. Bad news: He transmigrated with his whole body, so he has no official identity. And right now, he’s flat broke, with poc 32.6kReads8.2Score2.6k14d adds
- 13 Hong Kong, 1977: Starting Out as a Gang Boss 港岛1977：从坐馆开始 This is not a feel-good Hong Kong crime drama. The story strongly promotes patriotism, and its main-theme message is essential to its existence. Reborn in a parallel Hong Kong, he takes over his father’s gang and resolves to turn it legitimate, break into international trade, support the development of the mainland, and establish a private security company. He seeks a way to survive in the cutthroat world of business and lays plans for long-term growth. Important things must be said three times: 9.7kReads6.9Score41114d adds
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Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Red-Hot Years 两界穿梭之火红年代
Li Xiaren is an ordinary office worker, trudging through grueling days that start at eight in the morning and end at midnight. One day, after finally getting several months of back pay, he plans to give himself a well-deserved break. Who could have guessed that eating a grilled kidney for no apparent reason would send him back to the 1970s when he woke up? Luckily, he discovers he can return to 2025, and so two completely different eras open up before him!!!
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- 15 Warlords of Two Worlds: The Pirates' Last Stand 两界枭雄之倭寇末路 Su Tianci was betrayed by his girlfriend. He got drunk, and when he woke up, he had somehow transmigrated to 1936, a year ravaged by war. Seeing the Japanese invaders bullying ordinary people, how could Su Tianci possibly stand by and do nothing? 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Dual Crossing to 1936: I Looted the Japanese Army’s Treasury 双穿1936我搬空鬼子金库 Lin Feng is a retired special forces soldier. After leaving the military due to an injury, he works as a security guard. His parents are ill, and his brother is in debt. Thanks to a jade pendant, he transmigrates to 1936, an era engulfed in the flames of war... 560Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Trading Between Two Worlds in 1983: A Tycoon Rises 两界倒贩1983巨鳄崛起 Destitute Su Tianci accidentally transmigrates from 1983 to 2025, an age of soaring economic growth. Two vastly different eras now lie before him: one wad of bills from 1983 can be exchanged for over a hundred thousand, while an electronic watch from 1983 costs only a few bucks in 2025... 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Twin Rivers: Bloodbath in Republican-Era Shanghai 双川民国之沪上血战 Su Tianci has spent 25 years as a working stiff. After leaving the military, he has the job he earned stolen by someone with power and influence. His attempts to seek justice come to nothing, and with the other side's overwhelming influence, he has no choice but to become a delivery driver. Who could have guessed that while performing a good deed, he'd be struck by a heavy truck and sent straight to the Republican era? Then his transmigration golden finger turns out to let him travel between the 177Reads7.2Score2714d adds
- 19 A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金 Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More 497Reads7.7Score6114d adds
- 20 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The 1970s 两界穿梭之七零年代 Wu Xiaoyao is a working-class nobody, a corporate drudge who likes to unwind by grilling skewers and letting loose whenever he has a bit of free time. But an out-of-control dump truck sends him hurtling back to the fiery age of the 1970s. What surprises him is that he can travel back and forth between the seventies and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before him. 131Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 21 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 7.9kReads5.8Score33814d adds
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Hong Kong Island, 1981: The Fierce Dragon Crosses the River 港岛1981：猛龙过江
Kidnap a mob boss for ransom from the start! Set up an Umbrella Security Company, then ship secondhand machines into China to earn the first pot of gold! After that, open a newspaper and start factories, focusing mainly on the video game industry. During the 1982 negotiations, snap up most of Hong Kong's industries at rock-bottom prices. From then on, millions of dockworkers depend on you for their livelihoods. Who would dare lay a hand on you? One heroine: Zhong Chuhong, with a heart devoted to
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A Pair of Delicate Red Hands 一双红酥手
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
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- 24 Restarting My Life and Winning Over Several One True Loves 重启人生拐几个白月光 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
- 25 The Merchant’s Road to the West 西部商途 [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
- 26 A Major Military Industry Audit, and You Call This Farm Equipment? 军工大摸底，你管这叫农具？ After transmigrating to a parallel world in the 1990s, Li Canghai takes over the “Red Star Agricultural Machinery Factory,” which is on the verge of bankruptcy. To pay off its debts, he disguises all kinds of advanced technology as civilian products for export: selling “infrared remote-sensing weed-clearing lasers” to Middle Eastern tycoons as satellite weapons, and “all-terrain pesticide-spraying mechs” to African warlords as tanks. Then the country launches a major survey of military-industria 7kReads6.3Score18014d adds
- 27 After Awakening My Comprehension, I Became the Lord of All Poisons 觉醒悟性后，我成了万毒之主 Synopsis: His soul enters the Medicine Immortal Society, and Chen Dao becomes a gu child at the mercy of others. Luckily, he gains the heaven-defying Comprehension System. By studying a fragment of the Gu Poison Art, he grasps the Five Elements Gu arts, forges a Myriad Poisons Saintly Physique, and refines a Yin-Yang Gu Mother capable of commanding every poisonous insect under heaven. He is the Society's chosen saint, the light in Chen Duo's darkness, and the sword-bearer who will bring down thi 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Hong Kong Films: I, Lu, Am a Paragon of Brotherhood 港片：我陆某仁义无双 “Go ask around the underworld. Who wouldn't praise me, Lu, for my unmatched righteousness?” “Ask who? You've already wrecked every gang in all of Hong Kong.” “Have I? That has nothing to do with me. I'm a titan of business. What do I care if those lowlifes live or die?” “Business...” “Who is this little punk? How dare he undermine me! I've spent all these years dominating Hong Kong for nothing if my reputation is undeserved. Drag him away and sink him in the sea!” “Does anyone else have any ques 82Reads5.7Score17714d adds
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I Transmigrated to the 1960s, and Now I'm a Refugee? 穿越六零，我成难民了？
Drop your personal standards and enjoy a shameless life. Reject pointless self-torment and go completely off the rails when something happens. Better to make trouble for others than suffer in silence. That was Su Tianci in 2026. He’d only joined a cycling club and wanted to talk about cycling technique. Who could have guessed he’d somehow fall off a cliff? When he opened his eyes, he found himself in the materially deprived 1960s.
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- 30 Crossing Between Two Worlds: 1949 两界穿梭之一九四九 Drop the pretense of being a decent person and enjoy a shameless life. Refuse to waste your energy on inner turmoil; if something’s wrong, just lose it. Rather than make yourself suffer, make life difficult for someone else. That’s Su Tianci in 2026. By chance, he transmigrates to Beiping on the eve of liberation. The booming economy of 2026 and the war-torn year of 1949: two vastly different eras lie before him. 5.1kReads5.8Score21614d adds
- 31 Reborn in 2010: Starting by Making My First Love Cry 重生2010，从骂哭白月光开始 [Satisfying Revenge] [Multiple Heroines] [No Dithering] A car accident sends Yu Kuo sixteen years into the past. He vows to make as much money as he can and leave no regrets. He builds a bubble tea empire, makes his mark on the internet, and ventures into new energy. Before he knows it, Yu Kuo has become a pioneer leading the times. 195Reads—Score214d adds
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Exiled from the Start, I Changed My Fate by Grinding for Experience 开局被流放，我靠肝经验逆天改命
From the Start, Exiled to the Frontier: I Defy Fate by Grinding Experience Lu Chen was a top student in the modern world, but after waking from a nap, he found himself reincarnated as a disgraced heir in a world of immortal cultivation. Exiled to the frontier from the start, with his spiritual roots destroyed, he was also saddled with a frail fiancée and a fallen family. He smiled calmly. “Perfect. Let me show you what scientific cultivation looks like.” While others were still struggling throug
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- 33 I Can Raise Anything, and Beautiful Women Help Me 万物可养，红颜助我 My new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Please leave comments asking for updates, give it a five-star rating, and send a gift if you like, even a free one. Your support keeps me going!!! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Damn, Dark Zone Breakout Helped Me Become a God 靠，暗区突围助我成神了 My new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Please ask for updates, leave chapter comments, give it a five-star rating, or send a little free gift. Thank you! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Growing Strong with the Help of Beautiful Women 成长之红颜助我 Beauty helped me succeed, and I repaid her with ten thousand taels of gold… 1kReads—Score—14d adds
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Two People Transmigrate to 1949, and from the Start We Meet Lou Zhenhua 双穿一九四九，开局遇到娄振华
Forget personal standards and enjoy a shameless life. No more emotional self-torment; when something happens, just lose it: better to inconvenience others than make yourself suffer. That was Su Tianci in 2026. By chance, he transmigrated to Beiping just after its liberation. He also awakened a pocket dimension that could take him back to 2026. The economically booming year 2026 and the war-torn year 1949, two vastly different eras, now lay before him.
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Between Two Worlds: The Rise of Republican China 两界穿梭之民国崛起
Su Tianci failed to take on the Hundred-Ton King head-on. For no apparent reason, he transmigrated to Shanghai in 1936. From the start, he witnessed the arrogant Japanese devils bullying female students. His patriotic blood awakened. He would face the Japanese head-on.
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In the ’80s, Pretending to Be a Returnee Tycoon 在八零，伪装归国神豪
Su Tianci, an overworked office drone in 2026, accidentally transmigrates to the resource-scarce 1980s. Fortunately, he can still return to 2026. Two vastly different eras now lie before him.
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Our Long, Long Road Through Life 我们的漫漫人生路
This is an epic story that can truly keep you company through the long years. Lin Yuan takes on the inertia of an entire era alone, using the resolve of an adult to live his youth over again. He sets out to find the meaning of a second chance!
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- 40 Hollywood, 1990: I Am the Money 美娱1990：我即是资本 I woke up to find myself back in 1990, the golden age. Lin Chen, a ghost from the future, quietly set foot in Los Angeles. It all began with a shocking underdog victory in a championship boxing match at the Tokyo Dome. A name that should have gone unnoticed was destined to resound across the world. He was Hollywood's prophet. When no one else could see the vision, he personally worked the miracle of Forrest Gump, saved the sinking Titanic, and brought the bespectacled boy wizard from Britain to 20Reads—Score—14d adds
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