Any Comeback Stories About Rising From Nothing to Become a CEO? 有没有白手起家到总裁的逆袭文
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The Empire's CEO: Building a Fortune from Scratch 帝国总裁之白手起家
This inspiring novel tells the remarkable story of Xiao Chuan, who rises from a poor child in a mountain village to a business magnate in the city. His journey is one of courage, perseverance, and self-transcendence, reflecting the struggles and dreams of countless young people in China. The novel opens with Xiao Chuan’s harsh life in the mountain village. His family’s poverty forces him to shoulder its burdens at an early age. But he refuses to accept the fate laid out for him. Curious about th
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Lingering Warmth on a Spring Night 春夜余温
Multiple short drama adaptations are now available. The story features a reunion after years apart, rekindled love, a devoted couple, and sweet married life. A beautiful, down-on-her-luck heiress x a powerful man who loves her deeply but keeps his feelings buried. In high school: a proud rich girl x a cool, poor boy. Wen Yu reunited with Song Qingshu at the lowest point in her life. The poor boy she'd once dumped had become the chairman of a publicly listed group worth tens of billions. Wearing
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The Wild and Bad-Boyish Mr. Wei Keeps Coaxing His Soft-Hearted Sweetheart 野痞卫总又在诱哄他的心尖软
“Wei Xuan, smoking is bad for you. Why don’t you quit?” “If you want me to quit smoking, then be my girlfriend.” “Sure.” “What did you say?” “I said I want to be your girlfriend.” Later, when life forced her to give up on her dream of going to university, that somewhat unreliable guy said he'd work to support her. She laughed and cried at once. “I'll definitely marry you someday.”
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Reborn as the Abusive Novel’s Male Lead’s Mother 穿成虐文男主他妈
[Short story contest] [Foodie fiction] [A sweet little treat] Overnight, she transmigrates into a book with a baby in her belly whose father is unknown. On closer inspection, the baby turns out to be the male lead from the tragic novel she read before. He's a poor little thing whose father doesn't care for him and whose mother doesn't love him. Penniless, Ding Sha relies on her excellent cooking skills to become the food goddess of a construction site. Spicy diced chicken, cured pork with garlic
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After I Changed My Target, the Cold Male Lead Went Mad with Rage 我换攻略对象后，高冷男主气疯了
Su Wensheng and Shen Qingchen had been married for ten years. She'd eagerly agreed to the System's demands, giving Shen Qingchen all her love and working herself to the bone to put him through school. Su Wensheng thought Shen Qingchen was cold by nature, until she caught him giving her year-long wood carving to his beloved. So he had only been cold to her. If your heart belongs to someone else, then have it your way. But when they met again after she switched targets, he acted completely out of
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Simmering Gently 温水煮沫沫
Song Yimo considers herself ordinary, so even when given a second chance at life, she never expects to live an extraordinary one. To her, making sure her grandmother survives is the sole purpose of her new life. She never dreams of becoming a renowned writer, becoming a top-tier simultaneous interpreter one day, or meeting someone so remarkable. She simply lives each day earnestly, taking one steady step at a time. Without realizing it, with that man's companionship and support, she has traveled
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The Yandere Princess Imprisoned and Tormented Me, Then Took Her Own Life After I Died 病娇长公主囚宠折磨我，死后殉情
[Doting Dad] [Super-Sweet Daily Life] [Saving Each Other] “Xu Mo, did you know? Huanhuan is your daughter!” “If you die, I can’t go on living!” After being brought back to the Xu family, Xu Mo thought he had finally found the warmth of family and could escape the obsessive, possessive love of the wealthy heiress Liu Ruyan. But his first love had long since joined forces with the Xu family’s adopted son, using Xu Mo as bait and abusing him until he was on the brink of death. The only one who aven
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Three Years Later, My Celibate Girlfriend Is Back! 三年后，禁欲系女友她回来了！
[Angst first, sweetness later; strong heroine; one heroine] My girlfriend of just one year, whom I met in college, suddenly left me? Three years later, she came back with a vengeance, took me to a bar and into bed, then forced me to marry her and kept me by her side like a caged canary.
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In the Name of General Qi 祁将军的名义
[In the Name of the People spin-off] [Reborn] [No System] [Powerful Family Background] [Not a mindless power fantasy] [Meme mash-up] [Crossover with TV dramas including The Flowers of War, Ice Breaking Action, The Knockout, Drawing Sword, and more. Read with caution if this bothers you!] At Lone Eagle Ridge, Qi Tongwei had shot himself. Now he was reborn on the eve of the day he would kneel to Liang Lu and propose to her at Handong University... But in this life, Director Qi resolutely refused t
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Gender Swap: The CEO’s Little Wife, and My Many Ways of Wooing My Husband 变身：总裁小娇妻，我花式撩夫
Gender Swap + Transmigration and Marriage + One-on-One Romance + Actress + Livestreaming + Singing + Sweet Romance + Everyone’s Favorite + Dominant CEO + Transmigration + Fictional Setting When Li Fei, a 21st-century office worker, got drunk one time, he accidentally transmigrated into Yu Qing, an extraordinarily beautiful woman in a parallel world~ When a cold, calculating CEO meets his breathtakingly beautiful young fiancée, will sparks of love fly between them? How will the aloof CEO graduall
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Sobbing! I Ran Away, but My Yandere Brother Pinned Me Down and Kissed Me Furiously 狂哭！逃跑后被病娇弟弟按住狂吻
[A top-tier star who’s a lovesick villain × the strongest heroine with a System! The male lead is utterly devoted and incredibly possessive! Sweet and clingy!] All the fans of top-tier star Ling Qianhe know that he owns a beautiful doll as tall as a person. But they don’t know that late at night, he tenderly kisses the doll on the cheek. “My dear Mu Ci, when will you come back?” Lin Muci is the most accomplished quick transmigration agent, and her next challenge is the villain Ling Qianhe, t
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I Told You to Get Yourself Killed, Not to Bring the Big Shot Home 让你作死没让你把大佬拐回家
[Transmigrate into a Book + System + Devoted Love + Favoritism + Protective + Beloved by All + Mutual Devotion] Xu Beibei transmigrates into a book. And gets bound to a troublemaking System. So every day, she walks the fine line between mischief and disaster. When the big shot has a fever, she splashes a basin of cold water in his face. “You've got a fever. Here's some cold water to cool you down.” When the big shot gets out of the shower, she steals his towel and clothes. “I heard you have eigh
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The Fierce, Flirtatious Darling in the Arms of a Sinister Tycoon 阴鸷大佬怀里的小娇娇又凶又撩
[The short drama of the same name, The Villain with a Dark Personality Keeps Blushing Because of Her, is now streaming.] Qu Qingzhi transmigrates into a book and becomes a vicious supporting female character. Facing a man who will eventually turn into a powerful villain, she trembles with fear inside, but has no choice but to maintain the original owner's spoiled, overbearing persona. She humiliates him arrogantly: “Xie Muhan, get down on your knees and beg me to be your girlfriend.” Xie Muhan's
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Saving the Obsessive, Troubled Boy 救赎那个偏执阴暗少年
[Rebirth and Redemption + Mutual Devotion + Devoted and Sweet Romance + The Heroine Makes Her Feelings Clear + The Hero Has a Secret Crush + From School Days to the Wedding] A brooding, insecure boy × a bright, sweet, flirtatious girl 1. Only after Jiang Wanyue died did she learn that a boy had gazed up from the abyss countless times, hoping to catch a glimpse of the moon in the sky. When the moon fell one day, the boy’s world collapsed completely, leaving not a trace of light. Reborn, this time
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A Flash Marriage, a Pampered Life: The Wealthiest Mogul Falls for Me 闪婚成宠首富大佬爱上我
She was an ugly country girl who took her younger sister's place as the bride of Fu Nancheng, the most powerful man in Ye City. By day, she worked diligently as a humble maid. By night, she took off her scars to reveal a peerless beauty, becoming the stand-in bride of a tycoon worth hundreds of billions. When the secret of her stand-in marriage came out, Ye City's socialites waited for her to be humiliated. But all they got was a front-row seat as she launched her unstoppable new life, blending
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A Gentle Seduction 软诱
The print edition of Rose Crown goes on sale August 10. Available on all platforms. [Married First, Love Later + Secret Crush + He Chases His Wife After Losing Her, But She Never Looks Back + Both Are Each Other’s First] She was the Xu family’s adopted daughter, and Zhou Yuetian’s little shadow. She had followed him everywhere since childhood, until she heard him say this at the age of twenty-four: “She’s just the Xu family’s adopted daughter. Why would I actually care about her? People like us
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Mr. Tang, Your Wife Secretly Had a Baby 唐总，夫人偷偷生崽了
[The print edition of The Tenderness at the Heart of Time goes on sale June 5. Stay tuned!] (Story complete) Sweet romance + multiple couples On the day Lin Shu discovered she was pregnant, before she could tell Tang Yichen, she received divorce papers. She endured the pain in her heart and walked away with her head held high. Three years had done nothing to change the outcome. It was her fault she couldn't change his heart. Later, carrying the secret she had never managed to tell him, she chose
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My Sister Changed My College Application, So I Became a CEO 被姐姐篡改志愿后我成了CEO
(Angst first, then catharsis; a powerful duo; newly wealthy; built from nothing) The face-slapping starts in Chapter 64, so readers who prefer pure wish fulfillment can start there. The earlier chapters may be a little angsty! When she opened the Gu family household register, her younger brother was on the first page, her older sister on the second, while Gu Lingling seemed destined to remain tucked away in a corner of the appendix. She had a childhood spent being “sensible,” a family bond that
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The Day I Met You 我遇见你的那一天
Xu Ruheng was the pride and joy of everyone around him. In college, Ning Jiayan broke up with her senior from the same department, Xu Ruheng, because of a misunderstanding. After that, they never spoke again. Six years later, Xu Ruheng suddenly appeared as Ning Jiayan’s direct boss.
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Flowers Bloom at Just the Right Time 花开正是好时节
Life passes in a flash. If there’s anything to hope for, it’s simply warmth and someone who keeps you in their thoughts. Live well. You don’t have to meet again to miss someone, and you don’t have to be together to love someone. Every distance has a reason to exist.
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Nightfall 入夜
The door opened, and a tall, slender man stepped out. Lin Mian stared at him, dumbstruck, forgetting even to snap out of it. “What are you looking at, hmm?”
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The Whole Family Is Insanely Eavesdropping on My Thoughts 全家偷听我心声杀疯了，我负责吃奶
The Red Fruit short drama adaptation of My Whole Family Hears My Thoughts: Fu Bao Chaochao is now open for reservations! Please show it lots of support and give it a follow! [Whole-family mind reading + cannon fodder + beloved by the whole family + powerful figure transmigrates into a book + play the pig to eat the tiger + feel-good story] Lu Zhaozhao transmigrated into a book. She became a cannon-fodder character who was drowned at birth, while the heroine stole her identity. The heroine turned
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