Novels like The Golden Merchant
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Golden Merchant, best match first.
- 1 I'm Just a Takeout Rider, but the Old Man Insists I'm Wearing the Yellow Robe 我就一外卖员，老头非说黄袍披身 [Entrepreneurship + Ultimate Crossover Mashup + Recruiting Across Myriad Worlds + Adventures Across the Heavens + Capitalist System] One evening, Luo Li was stopped by an old fortune-teller who insisted that he was about to wear the imperial yellow robes and feast on lavish meals every day. Luo Li pointed to his yellow delivery uniform. "Thanks for the offer, but I'm already wearing yellow. I can only smell the customers' feasts!" He thought it was a joke, until the Myriad Worlds Dream-Building 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Myriad Worlds Trading Guild: From Wandering Merchant to Guildmaster 万界商会：从流浪商人干到会长 [He explores different worlds at first, then establishes a faction later] Wang Yi died and transmigrated into a merchant who could travel throughout the Myriad Worlds. Fortunately, the ancestral planet looked after him and gave him a System. “Your cost of goods is ten times mine. What could you possibly compete with me on?” From then on, Wang Yi traveled through all kinds of worlds and encountered all kinds of curious things. Fantasy world? Sorry, protagonist. Apocalyptic world? Sorry, Heavenly 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Reborn: I'm Really an Internet Mogul 重生：我真的是互联网大佬 [Rebirth + business warfare + beautiful women + brainy face-slapping] A class reunion sends a successful young business tycoon, once a super-genius student, back to the days before the college entrance exams. Armed with the experience of his past life, Lu Yang is determined to achieve great things while he’s young and never feel inferior again! —Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 4 You Say the Merchant Class Is Weak? But I'm Interstellar-Class! 你说商人职业弱？可我是星际级！ [High Martial]+ [Professions]+ [Interstellar Civilization]+ [Invasion by Extraterrestrial Races]+ [Interstellar Commercial Empire]+ [Not a combat-stats-focused story] A year after transmigrating to High Martial Blue Star, Mo Chou finally got to take the career awakening test for second-year high school students. He'd expected to awaken a combat profession, but instead he awakened the civilian profession of Merchant. In this dangerous world, a Merchant's abilities couldn't protect him. [Congratul 3Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 5 The Myriad Realms Exchange 诸天交易所 A merchant who’s always selling pets in another world, though every now and then he sets off alone as a traveling merchant. 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Number One Pawnshop Across the Heavens 诸天第一当铺 The shopkeeper fled, leaving the young clerk to take the fall. But as a result, he came into possession of a damaged Heavenly Dao pawnshop. The place was completely empty. Where were all the treasures? Ao Lie of the Dragon Clan put up half of his clan's fortune as collateral and pawned a supreme immortal artifact, to be redeemed within a hundred thousand years, with three high-grade immortal artifacts as interest. The Lord of the Frost Realm put up fifty thousand years of lifespan as collateral 127Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 7 Married from the Start Without a Certificate, I Become a Tycoon of Badu! 开局结婚不领证，我成霸都巨鳄！ [Reborn, rise from the ashes and build a fortune, stock market investing, urban tycoon, ruthless scheming, face-slapping relatives] After three years of marriage in name only, Xu Yang has endured nothing but disdain from his fiancée's family. They lived apart for most of their marriage, while his in-laws kept squeezing him for money. After the divorce, he was devastated, drinking himself into a stupor and giving up on life. Trapped in a cramped home he was still paying off, he became a failure 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 You Fired the Company’s Lifeblood, Now You’re Crying Because I Started My Own Business 裁员裁到大动脉，我创业你哭什么 Tang Chen had been working overtime through the night. He only dozed off for a moment at his desk, but the new CEO, Lu Wei, fired him! What the CEO didn’t expect was that she’d landed herself in serious trouble. She’d cut the company’s lifeline, leaving it unable to function properly. He had built the company’s production lines from the ground up. He had led the project team at the R&D center. Even the Xuanwu architecture for the new-energy vehicles and their paintwork were all his patented desi 378Reads5.8Score109Shelves
- 9 The Great Merchant of the Planes 位面大商人 That year, he became a little peddler roaming the myriad heavens! That year, he sold a candied hawthorn stick laced with saccharin to a child suffering from a cold toxin. That year, he sold a packet of MSG to a cook named Xiao Fugui. That year, he hawked Shaolin's secret techniques, Wudang's divine arts, the secret slang of the martial world, and the hidden history of its heroes on every street and alley. That year, he sold a book of Primordial World trivia to a monkey seeking immortality. That 2.8kReads5.4Score246Shelves
- 10 The All-Around Sales King 全能销售王 What should you do in a job interview? Look here! What should a workplace rookie do? Look here! How can you sell your products? Just look here again! This is a story about revenge, a story about workplace business battles, and also a story about love. 381Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 11 Myriad Worlds Auction House 诸天拍卖行 No money, no house, no car, no status, no girlfriend. So what? As long as you still have a dream, having nothing today can turn into having everything tomorrow! My success, Ma Liang's success, comes entirely from keeping my feet on the ground and working hard. It has nothing to do with the Myriad Worlds Auction House! 109Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Infinite: The Corner Shop Across the Heavens 无限：诸天世界小卖部 After hitting rock bottom, I return to the ancestral home and begin a new life! Open a shop, trade for immortal arts. Gods or monsters, I'll sell to them all! 194Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Reborn in 2010: A Legendary Star 重生2010：星耀传奇 Reborn in 2010: The Legend of Xingyao In 2024, Wang Ye was drifting through life when he unexpectedly traveled back to his 2010 college entrance exam. This time, he earns a solid upper-middle score, all so he can seize the golden opportunity of the smartphone boom. The Xingyao System comes online, offering a personified companion and cutting-edge technology unlocked step by step. From lithium batteries to homegrown chips, it helps him build Xingyao phones. He brings his loyal friend Li Hao into 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Myriad Worlds Shop: From the Start, My First Customer Is Wuyazi 万界商铺，开局接待无崖子 Yang An accidentally transmigrates into a Hong Kong crime-drama universe and inherits a shop from his late uncle. Just as some punks show up to demand protection money and threaten to burn the place down, his golden finger awakens: the shop is connected to the myriad worlds. Thanks to this golden finger, Yang An gains wondrous abilities. But he has no grand ambitions. All he wants is to live a peaceful life with the woman he loves in this world. But as his shop connects to more and more worlds a 448Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 15 Winds Rise in the Capital, Just as Late Tang Blooms 京华风起，恰逢晚棠 "The thrills: A comeback from the depths of startup hell / A powerful female investor pursues him / A one-night stand turns into a business marriage alliance / From nothing to Series A in thirty-three days / Copy my algorithm, and I'll buy your entire market" On a Beijing CBD rooftop, he clutched 320 yuan in his palm until it was slick with sweat. His boundless retail venture, the supply-chain system he'd sacrificed his youth to build, had been gutted by investors, abandoned by his partner, and 1Reads—Score579Shelves
- 16 Reborn Entrepreneur: Starting as the Child of a Demolition Windfall 重生创业：从拆二代开始 He was once just a nobody, but was reborn in 2000 after living from 2020. He seized every opportunity he could: demolition compensation, lotteries, auction mix-ups, and more, building up his wealth before branching out into every industry. Real estate mogul, e-commerce giant, gaming empire: he’d take them all! 3.1kReads—Score120Shelves
- 17 I Really Don't Want to Become a Crooked Merchant 我真的不想成为奸商啊 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Miraculous Merchant Who Roams the Myriad Worlds 游走在诸天万界的奇迹商人 Legend has it that across the Myriad Worlds, there is a miracle merchant who has everything you want, even things you have never seen before. The Condor Heroes world: “Miss Long, I recommend this pepper spray. It’s affordable and great quality.” The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world: “Miss Wang, this is a Love Potion. Why not give one to your cousin?” “What, your cousin alone isn’t enough? Come, come, this Heart Sutra for Wanton Women will satisfy your every need.” The Snow Sword world: “Xu Xiao, 194Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 19 Xuanhuan: I Have a Universal Store 玄幻：我有一座万能商店 [Fantasy + System + wild imagination + sneaky schemer + power progression] Lin Wansheng, a man from twenty-first-century Earth, dies in an accident. After being reborn, he transmigrates to a cultivation world overrun by demons. In this world, there are immortals with incredible powers who regard human lives as worthless, Warriors strong enough to tear apart mountains and rivers with their bare hands, But the most terrifying thing is that something is wrong with this world’s nights! Fierce, blood 3kReads5.4Score370Shelves
- 20 Back in 2002, I Helped Mr. Lei Become the Richest Man 回到2002，我帮雷总登上首富 Li Chengdong died of illness at forty, only to unexpectedly come back to life and transmigrate into his twenty-year-old self in 2002. Naturally, reborn, he was determined to make his life different. He seized the best opportunity he had missed in his previous life, winning the favor of Mr. Lei, then just the CEO of an ordinary software company. Starting with a small studio, he launched his own business, developed games, and built a platform, ultimately becoming a pillar of the internet boom and 209Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Plane Merchant: My Trading Partners Are Anything but Ordinary 位面商人，我的交易对象不正常 His girlfriend cheated on him with none other than his own college roommate! Chen Mo used hacking skills to make them pay. He thought they were even after that, but then he was targeted for revenge. After returning to his hometown, he accidentally activated a planar trading System. If they wanted revenge, they couldn't blame him for using cheats. With the System at his side, he planned to trade for several tons of gold first and achieve financial freedom, then trade all kinds of high-tech goods 429Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 22 Super Space-Time Merchant 超级时空商人 [Time travel + Ordinary man's growth + Getting rich + Fiercely protective] His gold-digging girlfriend despises his poverty and dumps Luo Xiu for a rich second-generation heir. As Luo Xiu fumes, a magical ring that lets him travel through time and space falls from the sky. From then on, Luo Xiu ventures into the Myriad Worlds, traveling through countless times and places and bringing back technology, cultivation techniques, treasures, gold, and silver from other worlds to Earth. Starting with th 1.6kReads8.2Score231Shelves
- 23 Myriad Worlds Trading Mall 诸天交易商城 After losing his job yet again, protagonist Liu Mingyuan acquires a Myriad Worlds Trading Mall and begins sending invitation cards across the Myriad Worlds! Those who receive a card come from worlds with civilizations ranging from technology, martial arts, magic, and immortal cultivation to modern, ancient, post-apocalyptic, and game worlds. 728Reads7.0Score119Shelves
- 24 Back in College, the Campus Belle Can't Keep Her Hands Off Me 重回大学，校花女神倒贴 Peng Chihan, a young man worth tens of millions, is planning a road trip with a beautiful woman when he suddenly finds himself reborn in the summer after graduating from high school. From the start, things get exciting: his dream girl shows up with flowers and confesses to him. But before he can even celebrate, he hears the voice of his online girlfriend through his headset. “I clearly wanted to focus on my career first!” Peng Chihan has just finished a date with his gentle dream girl. The momen 52Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 25 Tycoon of the Times 时代大亨 Liu Bei unexpectedly returns to 1990, just as China's economy is boarding the fast train. He can't afford to miss a single booming sector: finance and securities, import-export trade, real estate, the internet, and more! Since he's been given another life, he'll turn the tide and reach the pinnacle of success! 993Reads7.7Score100Shelves
- 26 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 1.8kReads8.2Score103Shelves
- 27 Against the Current, Toward a Perfect Life 逆流完美人生 Reborn in the past, Jiang Hua must save his kidnapped daughter and turn his family’s tragic fate around. More importantly, he must seize the opportunity and be a pig waiting to take flight! 22Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 28 Reborn in Hong Kong: I Lead the City into a New Era 重生港岛，我引领香江 Starting in 1980s Hong Kong, I’ll build a whole new Hong Kong! Want to see long-legged beauties? How about I create a Hong Kong girl group? Want to see idol dramas? How about I get the Four Heavenly Kings to star in them? No 3A games at home? No great directors? No… Don’t worry, everyone. I’ll take care of it all, one thing at a time! (This is a rookie author’s first novel, so please forgive any shortcomings! Many thanks, everyone!) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Reborn in 2002: The Capital and Technology Empire 重生2002之资本科技帝国 Business runs in ten-year cycles: reform and opening up in the 1980s, street stalls in the 1990s, the internet in the early 21st century, mobile internet after 2010, and artificial intelligence after 2020. Xie Chong returned to twenty years ago, when the internet was just getting started and there was still time to do everything. In his previous life, Xie Chong had been a complete failure. Now, with a second chance, how would he seize the opportunities of the early 21st century... 693Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 30 Reborn in 2000: Building an Internet Empire and Becoming the World's Richest 重生2000，构建互联网帝国，成全球首富 [Lighthearted + Comedy + Showy Humility] Before he was reborn, he was a top-tier big shot and the world’s number-one hacker. After one drunken binge, he returned to the year 2000. A legend? Sorry, you can’t break into this market anymore. Isn’t it time to find a new game for the dreams of 800 million mouse users? Those guys at NetEase know nothing about running games. I’ll make Three Kingdoms: Generals! Zhou Zhen rekindles his dream, determined to get people all over the world playing his games! 93Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 My Parents Raised Pigs from the Start, and I Became the World's Richest Man 开局父母养猪，我成了世界首富 How do you become the richest person in the world? Liu Yingjun shares his family's experience with everyone: raise pigs. Starting with pig farming, he grew his business into an empire and became the "Pig King." Then he expanded into real estate, electronics, finance, the internet, and more... until he became the richest person in the world! 13.1kReads5.9Score622Shelves
- 32 Reborn in 2009: I Started Building a Fortune at an Internet Cafe 重生2009：从网吧开始做首富 At middle age, Zhang Yu returns to the age of eighteen. Standing at the crucial crossroads of his life, he decides not to repeat his old mistakes and to make up for every regret from the past. 277Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 33 Myriad Worlds: I Own an Auction House for All Realms! 诸天：我有一座万界拍卖场！ Lin Yang unexpectedly acquired a bronze dome and activated the Myriad Worlds Auction System from the start. He sent Myriad Worlds jade tokens to famous figures in different worlds, allowing them to bring the Divine Machine Points they had exchanged for and take part in the auctions. Immortal cultivation techniques, spirit weapons and treasures, technology from advanced civilizations, miraculous pills and medicines, and much more: you name it, they have it! The entire Myriad Worlds was thrown int 348Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Adults 成年人 Adults 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Reincarnation in the Eyes 眼中轮回 The Continent of Returning Dust is boundless, prosperous, and brilliant. Cultivators soar through the skies and burrow underground; warriors punch through the heavens; beasts bless the lands; demons charm the world; fiends slaughter across the realms; and supreme beings reign undefeated. All things coexist. A stubborn young man hones his eyes to perfection. With a single glance, he can see all things, observe the cycle of life and death, gather everything within himself, evolve worlds, and rule 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Myriad Worlds: So I’m Everyone’s Golden Finger 诸天：原来我是所有人的金手指 After quitting his job and returning home, Wang Yuan came across a Lord God System being beaten to a pulp by a reincarnator. From then on, Wang Yuan’s Number One Shop of the Myriad Worlds sprang into existence, becoming the greatest opportunity in the world for all living beings. Zhuge Liang: “Thanks to the shopkeeper’s one million crates of instant noodles, even an unworthy man like me managed to restore the Han and return to the old capital!” The First Emperor: “Shopkeeper, can I really become 311Reads6.0Score104Shelves
- 37 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 11.4kReads6.9Score904Shelves
- 38 Reborn in 2005: Being a Scumbag Was Never My Intention 重生05，渣男不是我本意 [Urban] [Rebirth] [Multiple Leads] [Business] [Entertainment Industry] [Handcrafted with Traditional Methods] All you handsome guys, come on in and have a look around. Chu Da, the owner of a talent agency, had just finished getting acquainted with a newly signed college student under his management. Who would have thought that a puddle of water on the floor would cause him to fall, bringing his head into intimate contact with the corner of his desk? When he woke up, he was back on t 7.3kReads—Score545Shelves
- 39 Reborn, I Become a Business Tycoon 重生后我为商业大亨 Ye Ze, a miserable middle-aged man, is reborn after transmigrating to 1982. His family is poor, his parents are honest and simple, and he has a whole crowd of siblings. They’re so poor they can barely afford to eat! But Ye Ze isn’t worried at all. He’s full of confidence and ambition. His previous life was a muddle, and he never amounted to much. Heaven must have taken pity on him, because at last it’s his turn to be reborn and transmigrate. He activates the rebirth golden finger and... Hahaha! 846Reads8.0Score100Shelves
- 40 Reborn in 2004: Reshaping China's Business World 重生到2004年，重写中国商圈 [Reborn + No System + E-Commerce + Internet + High Tech + All Kinds of Startups] [All Kinds of Business Wars] His company was losing money, and a sham divorce turned into a real one. The house, car, and assets were all transferred to his wife, and he even discovered that the two children he’d raised for over a decade weren’t his. At forty-four, Ye Bufan couldn’t accept the truth. After dragging his wife to her death with him, he woke up reborn twenty years in the past. Though he has to start his 285Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 41 The Smuggler 走私商 After somehow gaining the ability to travel freely between two worlds, Jiang Fan was left utterly dumbfounded, but soon found his life going completely off the rails. Hey, sis, how about I trade you this latest snowflake cream for that giant tiger of yours? Hey, sis, take a look at this magical gadget that blows wind. Would you trade me that long-bearded radish you’re holding? Jiang Fan had hoped to con his way to the top in another world, but life is hard. One little slip, and people starte 1.7kReads8.1Score140Shelves
- 42 Reborn in 2002: I’m Generous With Money and Shares 重生2002，我舍得给钱送股份 This may be the most realistic rebirth novel on Tomato, and the male lead's business model of 'being willing to give people shares' may also be the most criticized business model on the platform... 320Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 43 Urban: I Scammed the Richest Man Out of a Hundred Million from the Start 都市：开局坑了首富一个亿 After someone maliciously reported him, Lin Xiufeng's Honor of Kings account was banned. Just as Lin Xiufeng flew into a rage and wanted to make a cheat program to get back at Tencent, the System arrived! [You realized your computer skills were lacking, so you gained +10,000 in hacking skills.] Lin Xiufeng: “Holy crap!” 1kReads6.7Score—Shelves
- 44 Reborn in 1995: I Have a Fortune of Billions to Inherit 重生95，我有亿万家产要继承 (Both leads are reborn + real-world industry + multiple heroines + no System + not a wish-fulfillment story + slow burn) Jin Yang, born into a wealthy family, was raised by his parents to live frugally. He has little ambition and is better at preserving what he has than making progress. When his childhood sweetheart is humiliated and takes her own life, and foreign capital moves to encircle his company, he is powerless to fight back and can only retreat again and again. Reborn, Jin Yang naturall 13Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 45 Entertainment in 2000: My Little Sister Is a Goddess 文娱2000，我的妹妹是天仙 Reborn in 2000, Yu An has only one thought: protect his family. Starting out by shorting the Nasdaq, he buys Marvel, invests in Penguin, and takes control of Netflix, building an empire worth hundreds of billions that spans entertainment and technology. Think he is merely a godfather of business? No. He also intends to put his father in the White House and become the man at the helm of the world’s most powerful private military conglomerate. When Jewish financiers ignite war in Africa and Wal 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Reborn: The Tech Empire 重生之科技帝国 Reborn in 2003, back when Penguin wasn’t yet a behemoth and China’s internet companies hadn’t gone through their wild-growth phase. Li Jin is a genius from the future. Let’s see how he takes the world by storm. (This book requires you to check your brain at the door. If you curse me out, you’re right to.) 2Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 47 You Want Me to Take the Fall? Take This Slap Instead 要我顶罪，反手一个大逼斗 [No System + Streetwise Troublemaker + Ruthless Tough Guy + One Female Lead...] Wang Xun, an ordinary young man, returns to the year 2000. He is just seventeen and a half, has dropped out of school, and has been poisoned by gangster movies. Full of youthful passion, he sets out to make a name for himself in the underworld. He puts brotherhood first, would take a knife for his good friends, and isn’t afraid to fight! After being persuaded by his biased grandfather and others, he is about to take 416Reads7.3Score104Shelves
- 48 Reborn in 1976: The Industrial Internet Empire 重生76：工业互联网帝国 Ren Jie, a professor in the metallurgy department of a university in Yanjing, never married after his girlfriend was assaulted by thugs and jumped off a cliff to her death while he was sent to the countryside for reeducation. By a twist of fate, Ren Jie is reborn in the countryside where he was once sent to work. Amid the intertwined love and hatred of two lifetimes, he pursues revenge and roams the land as a fugitive. See how he survives in the cracks of his era and, after enduring countless tr 405Reads8.3Score100Shelves
- 49 Reincarnated as the Shadow, I Call the Shots at Pawnshop No. 8 身为黑影转世，八号当铺我说了算 After the great battle between light and shadow, the Shadow was reincarnated and the Bai family passed into the Dao. Shen Yinuo, the Shadow’s tenth reincarnation, awakens once more and takes over Pawnshop No. 8, an establishment that has existed since ancient times. Thus, the legends begin anew. Shen Yinuo: “Nine times out of ten, life doesn’t go as you wish. Come to Pawnshop No. 8! Every wish you have will be granted.” Pawnshop No. 8 accepts anything of value. Intelligence, luck, emotions, year 640Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 50 I Meant to Be a Ruthless Boss, but Became the Conscience of the Industry 本想当黑心老板，却成业界良心 After twenty-six years of going from having nothing to being buried in debt, Han Jing acquired the Super Entrepreneur System. As long as his businesses made a profit, Han Jing could earn cash rewards through the System. From then on, a business mogul began his rise to power. Along the way to becoming a mogul, he met the love of his life, and together they wrote a sweet chapter of life. This is a warm, sweet romance with one female lead and none of that scheming and backstabbing. The early story 541Reads6.6Score105Shelves
