Novels About Starting Your Own Business, Not Stock-Investing Stories Disguised as Business Novels 自己创业的创业文,不要是披着创业文投资股票文
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Me, a Prodigy? 我,妖孽也
There are two kinds of cultivators in this world. One follows a proper, orthodox lineage, whether practicing the righteous arts or demonic cultivation. Either way, they have a master. The other studies from books and practices blindly on their own. These are commonly known as self-taught outsiders, or fox-spirits practicing Zen. An Lin belongs to neither the orthodox sort nor those self-taught outsiders who blindly follow books. By observing the “phenomena” within himself, he grasps the true mea
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Back to 2006: Living Life on My Own Terms 重回06之肆意人生
Multiple heroines + a touch of romantic rivalry + a perfect ending What is meant to be will be; what isn't cannot be forced. Reborn in 2006, Wang Quan no longer believed in fate. He believed that people could triumph over destiny.
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The 1990s: A Business Empire Built from Five Thousand 90年代:五千起步的商业帝国
[Stock Trading + Ancient Wisdom + Comeback + Entrepreneurship + Opportunities of the Era + Romance] In 1997, on the eve of the handover, Lin Tiebo entered the stock market at its peak with 5,000 yuan in his pocket. It was all the money he had, and his only hope of finding Xiaomei. The first time he made a move, people laughed at him in public for “not even understanding the rules.” Yet this outsider used ancient wisdom from works like the Biographies of Merchants to buy precisely at the bottom a
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2000: From Paper Seller to CEO in Three Years 2000:卖纸大专生三年成总裁
In 2000, Jiang Yanzhou, a penniless drifter in Beijing, built Xin Gan Xian from the ground up by selling printer paper and supplies. A formidable rival, Ji Ke Gou, wielded its capital to crush him, launching price wars, playing tricks on customers, and applying pressure from every direction. Time and again, Jiang was pushed to the brink. He broke through one obstacle after another by focusing on service and building a supply chain. His counterattack in the court of public opinion gained momentum
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Reform and Opening Up: Beneath the Tide 改开,浪潮之下
[No System + Realistic Entrepreneurship + Everyday Life + The Tide of the Times + Clear-Eyed View of Life] (No convoluted plot twists, no AI, and sound logic throughout.) When Li Ze'an moves from the countryside to the city, all he wants is to pedal his tricycle, look after his pregnant wife and their child, and live a steady, peaceful life. Nobody expects this lowly deliveryman, running back and forth through the clothing market, to be swept along by the times and land on every rising trend,
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Tycoon: From the Start, I Own Shares in a Trillion-Yuan Conglomerate 神豪:开局获得千亿集团股份
The campus heartthrob gets dumped by his gold-digging girlfriend from the start, only to unexpectedly awaken the God-Tier Tycoon System. In an instant, he goes from having nothing to becoming a CEO worth over a hundred million. Ding! The following limited-time flash sale items are now available: “1% stake in the Ferrari Group” (worth 2.1 billion yuan) “One estate at Xianyun Manor” (worth 1.9 billion yuan) “One Pagani Zonda” (worth 65 million yuan) With the items refreshed by the System each day,
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It Was Supposed to Be Niche Software, So Why Did It Go Viral Worldwide on Douyin? 说好小众软件,抖音爆火全球?
“Short videos? Who watches that stuff?” Xiao Ma looks at the newly launched app and doesn’t take it seriously at all. Qin Mo transmigrates. He discovers that this world has iQIYI, Youku, and Tencent Video, but no Douyin; it has QQ, but no WeChat; it has Dota, but no League of Legends. So... Qin Mo quietly launches the first app: Douyin. His competitors laugh at him: “Who’s going to watch videos that are only ten-odd seconds long?” Xiao Ma waves it off: “It’s no threat.” Da Ma declares: “This
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Reborn in 2007: From Knockoff Phones to Global Dominance 重生07:从山寨机开始制霸全球
[Phones and digital tech, cutting-edge technology, business wars, semiconductor industry] An LV5 author and a legally certified chronicler of unofficial history. With 3.3 million words of completed novels in similar genres, including digital tech, phones, and technology, and a steady update schedule. Welcome! Chen Xing transforms a radio factory into a knockoff phone factory, catching the last wave of Huaqiangbei counterfeits. From four SIM cards with dual standby to super speakers, from flashy
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Reborn in 2000: Fired by Tencent from the Start 重生2000:开局被鹅厂开除
[Rebirth + Pengcheng + entertainment + internet business wars + global tech rivalry] In 2025, Li Yun, a Blue Star programmer and struggling author, died suddenly late at night while researching the art of an island nation. In 2000, the US internet bubble burst, and a global internet winter swept across the world. Major internet companies everywhere began laying off workers to save themselves. Future internet giants Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba were struggling to stay afloat. Apple was still in th
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Reborn in 2001: The Only Immortal Under Heaven 重生2001年唯我独仙
[Reborn + Pocket Dimension + Status Panel + Proficiency + Daily Life + Cultivation] Luo Zhengyang, a middle-aged man, was laid off and returned to his hometown after many years away. When he woke up one morning, the world had changed, and he was back at the start of middle school in 2001. Then, by chance, he awakened an attribute panel that let him add points, record skills, and continuously raise their levels through practice. Luo Zhengyang realized that the things he had cared about in his pre
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A Second New Beginning 二次新生
[No System] [Not Reborn] [Realistic Urban Life] [Restaurant Startup] [Slice of Life] It wasn’t until the day I got divorced that I understood: closing the noodle shop wasn’t the hardest part. The hardest part was watching my ex-wife get into someone else’s car, then having to smile as I served the last pot of bone broth to my summer customers. Later, I won a bet to take over a restaurant. I thought my life was finally turning around. Until I realized that every step I took was a square on someon
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Oh No, I've Arrived in a Parallel World 完蛋我来到平行世界了
He unexpectedly transmigrates to a parallel timeline, a world almost identical to the one he knows, yet secretly different. Here, technology and social change are still at their starting point, and history has followed the same course. But Li Chen discovers that the people and memories from his original world seem not to exist here. Everything feels brand new.
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Siam Diaries: My First Adventure in Southeast Asia 暹罗日记之初闯东南亚
The Siam Diaries tells the story of Chen Ming, whose business failed, and his childhood friend Leizi, as they flee to Siam to survive and start a business. When they first arrive in a foreign country, the language barrier and differences in customs repeatedly trip them up. Fortunately, a local Chinese man named Ka Ang guides them, helping them find their footing. To escape the struggle at the bottom, they venture into the industrial district, where they learn the survival rule of “sticking toget
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The Bankrupt Finance Dad: My Returns Come from Pushing My Kids to Excel 破产金融爹:我的收益全靠鸡娃
"A Father Grows Strong" + "Play It Safe and Build Up" + "Tiger Parenting System" "From Billion-Dollar Fund Manager to Blacklisted Deadbeat, It Took Me Just Three Days." Creditors block the door. His wife is in despair. His son cries, “Dad, I’ll quit school to save money.” Just as his life falls apart, the “A Father Grows Strong” System forcibly binds itself to him. It doesn’t hand out cash; instead, it teaches Ji Baisheng to use hard-core financial thinking to raise his child scientifically. So
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Beauty Industry Cat 美业猫
Beauty Business Cat is not a book of empty industry theories, but a "guide to avoiding pitfalls" built from 26 years of hands-on experience by beauty industry veteran An Ci, working on the shop floor. From a small training room in Jinan to a consulting firm in Shenzhen, she has seen too many businesses that "could have survived, but drove themselves to ruin": attracting customers with low prices but failing to keep them, using tricks to make quick money and ruining their reputations, or blindly
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Reborn at Eighteen, I Really Just Want to Make Money 重生十八,我真的只想搞钱啊
(Reborn as a food-delivery app developer, no System, multiple female leads, everyday life, entrepreneurship, an entertainment-industry storyline, with illustrations) After an accident, Lin Shuchen wakes up as an eighteen-year-old boy. After spending more than a decade as a programmer in his previous life, he doesn't want to work for someone else this time around. Starting with an inconspicuous food-ordering mini-program, he visits restaurants, builds the system, takes on group catering, and trie
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Watch Me Stir Up a Storm in the Stock Market 看我如何在股市舞动风云
From losing everything to becoming the legendary “Stock Saint,” it took him just four years. During the 2008 financial crisis, finance student Lin Xiaofeng went all in against the market as stocks crashed. When the four-trillion-yuan stimulus was announced, his assets multiplied a hundredfold, but he had also stepped onto capitalism’s bloodiest battlefield. Inside were insider deals, leverage, and lies, as well as a web of stock manipulation spun by industrialists. Only when he was set up and br
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The Peerless Son-in-Law 绝世神婿
To pay for his mother’s treatment, Su Moxuan becomes a live-in son-in-law. Then he unexpectedly inherits a sacred legacy, gaining mastery of medicine, martial arts, antiques, feng shui, mystical acupuncture, cultivation techniques, and more. From then on, he rises to the top, dominates every arena, and looks down on the world!
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Bound to an Ancestor, I Make a Fortune in the Modern World 绑定老祖宗,我在现代疯狂暴富
[Rewriting history from the moral high ground + cause and effect + unwavering devotion] She loved Gu Sinan for five thousand years. But her ancestor, Gu Mingze, erased all her memories! Fate took an unexpected turn. In a new world, she fell in love all over again with the cool, calculating Gu Sinan... Though Gu Shengwan was born unlucky and ill-fated in this new world, with little affection from her family and misfortune at every turn, she spent half her life struggling under a cloud of despa
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Back to 2002: Starting with Water Margin Cards 回档2002:从水浒卡开始
If you could live your life over again, what would you do? Lin Xiaoyu’s answer is to return to that summer, bite into a chilled watermelon to the mournful hum of an old electric fan, and meet the young version of himself and the people he loved all over again. In 2002, in a small city in Shuzhou, time moves slowly and the future is full of promise. With an adult’s soul, he hides the weight of age and cautiously grows up all over again. This time, he won’t be a hero. He just wants to be an ordina
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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.
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Back in 2003, This Time the Advantage Is Mine 重回2003,这波优势在我
A working-class laborer dies in a car accident in 2026 and is reborn on June 5, 2003, with every memory from 2003 to 2026 intact. Using his knowledge of the future, he makes his first fortune in Hong Kong's futures market, then starts with a Taobao shop and expands into e-commerce platforms, his own logistics network, brick-and-mortar retail, mobile phone hardware, and payment systems. In just six months, he goes from having nothing to a net worth of hundreds of millions, takes on Eachnet head-o
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In the Name of the People: Qi Tongwei Quits Politics for Business from the Start 名义:开局祈同伟弃政从商
After shooting himself on Solitary Eagle Ridge, Qi Tongwei was reborn at the turning point of his fate! Back at the moment when he knelt before the Liang family, before taking the wrong path in officialdom, he carried memories of the future from 2026. He rejected Liang Qunfeng's promotion on the spot, abandoning his political ambitions for good and refusing to repeat the old path that had ended in disgrace. He seized the first opportunities brought by reform and opening up, using treasury bond a
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A Merchant's Journey Abroad 异国商途
Guo Feng mortgaged his family home and handed 200,000 yuan to an agency. They promised him a job at a New York restaurant, with meals and accommodation included and a monthly salary of $3,000. But when he arrived, he discovered that the so-called “high-paying position” was nothing but illegal kitchen work in Chinatown. The pay was only a third of what they had promised, and they kept deducting various “agency fees.” When he tried to seek justice, the unscrupulous agency had already vanished with
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Youth in Debt: My Real-Life Hustle 负债青春:我的搞钱实录
[Campus life, making money, entrepreneurship, turning the tables] No System, no golden finger. In 2008, Lin Cong was a freshman who had never wanted for food or clothes, until his family suddenly fell on hard times and he became penniless. After a brief bout of depression, reality forced him to fend for himself. He started with odd jobs, moved on to business, and eventually became a boss. Along the way, he met a sophisticated older career woman, a sweet and innocent junior, an intellectual senio
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At Home in Another Land 本国他乡
Success doesn't depend entirely on ability. Sometimes, luck plays a much bigger role. If today's successful people had to start their businesses all over again, most of them probably wouldn't dare. This book tells the story of a man with thoroughly mediocre intelligence who defeats one cunning schemer after another. It can't help but make you wonder: between the clever and the foolish, who really has the upper hand?
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Good for Nothing 百无二用
This book is entirely made up. It does not refer to any person or event. If it happens to offend anyone, that is purely coincidental! If a scholar is useless in every way, what would it mean to be useless in every other way? Is there any truth to the saying that kindness cannot command an army and righteousness cannot manage wealth? Is the scariest thing in the world a thug who knows martial arts? There’s another possibility: a top student in a leadership position. Chen Xu, a core R&D team membe
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I Don't Have Superpowers 我没有超能力
This book is entirely fictional. There is no such thing as changing feng shui with traditional Chinese painting. Please don’t take it seriously; just enjoy it for fun! Mr. Liujiang was an ordinary, penniless painter until he met his master, Zhou Mingqi, who taught him a method for adjusting people’s feng shui and improving their fortunes. After five years of poverty, and with his master’s permission, Mr. Liujiang was finally able to use this supernatural ability to get rich. How did Mr. Liujiang
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How Children Can Learn to Write Well 孩子如何写好字
This book is complete nonsense, so just read it for fun. Don’t take any of the information in it seriously. If you happen to think something in it makes sense, that’s purely a coincidence. I didn’t mean to. Come on, come on! I wrote this book because I had nothing better to do.
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Seeking the Way in the Legal World 律界问道
[Comeback and growth + charming lawyer + mysteries surrounding cold cases + officialdom and workplace + wits and will] He turns his life around, with Death brushing past him several times. A string of cold cases remain shrouded in mystery...
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My Mom Wants Me to Set My Best Friend Up with My Unemployed Cousin 我妈让我把闺蜜介绍给无业表弟
My Mom Wants Me to Set My Best Friend Up with My Unemployed Cousin
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The April Foot Masseuse 四月足疗师
The April Foot Massage Therapist
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At Thirty, I Got Deleted by a Twenty-Year-Old Male Nurse 三十岁那年,我被二十岁的男护士删了
The Year I Turned Thirty, a Twenty-Year-Old Male Nurse Deleted Me
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The Five-Yuan Sugar Baby Contract 五块钱的包养合同
The Five-Yuan Sugar Baby Contract
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I Put Defiant Singles in Their Place, Earning 2,000 a Day, Until My Ex Became a Client 我专治相亲不服,日赚两千,直到前女友成了我的客户
I Specialize in Putting Unruly Matchmaking Clients in Their Place, Earning Two Thousand a Day, Until My Ex-Girlfriend Became My Client
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The Director’s Bicycle 主任的自行车
The Director's Bicycle
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The Visitor in the Dead of Night 半夜凌晨的访客
A Midnight Visitor
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Grip the Steering Wheel Until It Breaks 打死方向盘
Slam the Steering Wheel
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The Thunderous Boyfriend Recovery Plan 《雷霆男友回收计划》
Thunderous Boyfriend Retrieval Plan
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My Blind Date Said My 30,000-Yuan Monthly Salary Was Nothing Special, So I Exposed Her Fake Socialite Persona 相亲女说我月入三万一般,我扒出了她的假名媛面具
My Blind Date Said My 30,000 Yuan Monthly Salary Was Nothing Special, So I Exposed Her Fake Socialite Persona
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The Third Leg 第三条腿
The Third Leg
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Underwear Judgment Day: Reborn, I Tore Apart Her Hypocrisy 内衣审判日:重生后我撕碎了伪善
The Day of the Underwear Trial: After Being Reborn, I Tore Apart Their Hypocrisy
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The Sixth Older Brother 第六个哥哥
The Sixth Older Brother
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After Dumping the Nice Guy, I Could Never Measure Up to Him 甩掉老实人后,我高攀不起了
After Dumping the Honest Guy, I Could Never Measure Up to Him
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A 300,000-Yuan Bride Price for My Womb? I'm Calling Off the Wedding 三十万彩礼买我的子宫?这婚我不结了
Three hundred thousand in bride price to buy my womb? I'm calling off the wedding.
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The Blackout Dormitory 黑灯寝室
The Dark Dormitory
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The Perfect Bubble 完美的气泡
The Perfect Bubble
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After Turning into a Puppy, I Bit Through the Scumbag's Throat 变成小狗后,我咬断了渣男的喉咙
After Turning into a Puppy, I Bit Through the Scumbag’s Throat
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Does a Woman Have Less Than 180 Months in Her Life to Have Children? 个女人这辈子能造人的时间,其实只有不到180个月?
Does a woman really have fewer than 180 months in her life when she can conceive a child?
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When She Saw the Message, Tangtang Was Taking a Nap 看到那条消息的时候,糖糖正在午睡
Tangtang Was Taking a Nap When She Saw That Message
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