Novels like Reborn: The Entrepreneurial Life
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- 51 Reborn in 2005: Starting My Business by Conning the Principal 重生2005创业从忽悠校长开始 Liu Yang is reborn in 2005. Drawing on his entrepreneurial experience from his previous life, he sets out to build a new business. He has no golden finger and no chance to get rich overnight. He can only rely on his own ingenuity to make money. He partners with an agricultural university to develop medicinal herbs and acquires a heavily indebted farm equipment factory. A free novel website helps him make a comeback and become an internet mogul. From there, there’s no stopping him. E-commerce, lo 484Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Reborn in 1999: I Became a Media Mogul 重生1999，我成了传媒大亨 Back in 1999, Li Tiange is full of confidence and has the advantage of knowing what lies ahead. At first, all he wants is to become an unremarkable creative genius. But looking back, he finds that he has become known as a news mogul, an entertainment tycoon, and a traffic king, while shouldering the great responsibility of taking Chinese culture abroad and fighting for a voice on the international stage. The media reign supreme. This is the legendary era he built with his own hands! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Reborn in 1992: From Middleman to Business Mogul 重生1992：从倒爷到商业教父 Chen Jianguo was a small-business owner who died of late-stage liver cancer in 2025 at the age of 35. Deep in debt, he had lost both his wife and his family. Reborn in 1992 at the age of 28, he is a laid-off worker from a state-owned factory. Using his knowledge of the future to rapidly build capital, he seizes the opportunities of the era in industry and creates his own business empire. 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 Back to 2013: My Teenage Years 重回2013，我的少年时代 After a car accident, Lin Chen is reborn in 2013 and embarks on a journey to build his business empire while returning to high school. Summer is still summer, but he is no longer the person he once was. Looking back over the years, he finds himself once more where the lights fade into the distance. 129Reads—Score314d adds
- 55 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—14d adds
- 56 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 205Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 After Being Reborn, I No Longer Love Deeply, Just Sample and Move On 重生之后，我深情不再，浅尝辄止 [No System, multiple women, business warfare and strategy, with an ordinary protagonist] A word of warning: This story has no lottery wins, stock market windfalls, or Bitcoin. The protagonist works hard for every penny he earns. If you want a brainless domineering CEO or a story focused on one heroine and endless romantic push-and-pull, please don't read this. I'm begging you. If you really can't resist, just sneak in quietly, then sneak back out. The general premise: Things go horribly wrong fr 1.7kReads8.4Score10514d adds
- 58 Reborn in 2003: I Started with Gaming and Made a Fortune 重生2003从游戏开始赚成首富 [Two heroines] [Reborn] [Entrepreneurship] [Easygoing] A financial mogul is reborn in a car accident, back in his high school days. Seeing that his parents, who would spend the rest of their lives in a nursing home in the future, are now healthy, he resolves to make money immediately and change what happens to them after they’re laid off. At first, he makes his first fortune by exploiting a bug in a game, then shorts the game’s merchants through its in-game financial market. In the middle and la 131Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 59 How to Become the Richest Man! 首富是怎样养成的！ Mo Chu transmigrates to a parallel world in 2012, where he becomes a fourth-year university student and takes over his family's old, run-down appliance factory. With a keen understanding of the times, he reforms the business, starts a venture while still in college, builds his personal brand, and rises to every challenge. Step by step, he turns himself into the richest man in the world. My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, 55Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 60 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, 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Starting at a Vocational College, I Built an Entertainment Empire 大专开局，我建立了娱乐帝国 After graduating from a vocational college, Ma Yu goes through family upheaval and spends thirty years stumbling through life. Burdened with regrets, he is lucky enough to live again. In this life, he sets out to make up for his regrets and achieve financial freedom. He finds his way forward one step at a time. A vocational college graduate can live a remarkable life too. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 Goodbye, 996! The E-Commerce Boom Begins in 2006 告别996！2006电商风口起 [Reborn in 2006 + campus entrepreneurship + e-commerce empire + brothers united] Huang Kai woke up back in 2006 at Anxin Institute. Seeing his roommates still playing World of Warcraft, he grinned. The e-commerce boom hadn't arrived yet, but campus businesses were already a gold mine! He started by selling socks to earn his first pot of gold, then turned around and opened a campus work-study service center. Its 15-minute delivery zone covered 43 colleges, bringing in 128,000 yuan a month! IDG an 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 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! 992Reads7.7Score10014d adds
- 64 I Came Home to Start a Business: I'm a Pioneer in Technology 回家创业，我是科技领路人 Su Xiangnan awakens Earth's memories before graduation and obtains a System. From then on, he returns home to start a business, rising from humble beginnings and leading Huaguo's technological development. He will restore Huaguo to the pinnacle of the world. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 Back to 2007 as a Big Shot 重返2007当大佬 [Urban + Period Setting + Reborn + Urban Daydreams + City Life + Workplace] Lu Yang, founder of the Kuaidou platform, is reborn in 2007. In this life, he wants to do just two things: never again miss the people he shouldn't have let slip away, and never let the people around him suffer even the slightest grievance! Along the way, he'll dabble in the internet and build up the nation through industry. 484Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 66 Reborn in 2009: First, I’ll Make Half a Billion 重生2009，先挣它五个亿 Xu Xin, from 2023, accidentally transmigrates into Wu Feng’s body in 2009. Apart from fourteen extra years of memories, he has nothing else. With no other choice, he has to earn his first pot of gold. After much deliberation, he comes up with a workable plan: sell Tencent the idea behind WeChat, which Tencent would develop in the future. Isn’t that making money out of thin air? And just like that, he swindles his first pot of gold from Tencent: five hundred million yuan… Start a business? No 4Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 67 Reborn in 1970s Hong Kong: Starting Out by Preying on Predators 重生70年代香江从黑吃黑开始 An ordinary 996 wage slave from the 21st century drank himself to death after things went badly in life. In a cruel twist of fate, he transmigrates into Chen Ping'an, a man fleeing to Hong Kong in the 1970s in a parallel world. No sooner does he arrive than he gets caught up in a robbery. Let’s see how he builds his way up, step by step. "This is my first time writing, so there’s plenty of room for improvement. I hope you’ll be understanding." 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Reborn at Eighteen: The Growth of a Domineering CEO 重生十八岁之霸道总裁成长记 After an unfortunate encounter, the male protagonist catches his girlfriend in an improper relationship with a wealthy businessman. In the furious, desperate confrontation that follows, the businessman's bodyguard accidentally pushes him off a high-rise building. In a shocking twist, the protagonist is reborn at eighteen, back in his high school days in 1998. Drawing on the historical knowledge and experience of his previous life, he enters the business world and, through tireless effort and ing —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 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 53Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 70 Reborn with the Cool School Beauty from the Start, How Could I Lose? 都重生了，清冷校花开局，怎么输 [Reborn] [Campus Life] [No System] [Internet Entrepreneurship] A car accident sends Xu Yuan back to 2001. The aloof campus beauty he once admired turns out to be nothing like he imagined. Since he’s been reborn, he has to win the girl who’s always been his one true love... If you’re reborn and don’t make money, you’re no better than roadkill! The bad news: He’s back in high school, with not a cent to his name. The good news: He still has the skills he picked up in his previous life, and he can s 104Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Business Tycoon 商业枭雄 The business world should be about financial transactions alone. But once personal feelings get involved, who ultimately loses? The elite of the business world may seem dazzling on the surface, but behind the glamour lie the dirtiest truths and the most hypocritical lies. Amid the cutthroat deals and ruthless competition, what are family, friendship, and love worth? To become a true tycoon, everyone fights to get ahead, but who can really seize ultimate power? Who will wake up in time and emerge 145Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 72 Reborn in 1999: Building a Business Empire 重生1999：缔造商业巨无霸 [Urban + Rebirth + Period Setting + Entrepreneurship + Smart Protagonist + No System] The blurb can't do it justice, so please head straight to the story... Also known as: Reborn in the Great Era of 1999; Reborn in 1999, I Dominated the Global Economy; 1999: My Peak Life Began When the Campus Belle Called Off Our Engagement. 397Reads8.4Score10214d adds
- 73 Reborn in 2011: Fortune and Beauty in Hand 重生2011，财色双收 [Reborn] + [No System] + [Not brainless] + [Not a simp] + [Youthful campus life] + [Business tycoon] + [Living life to the fullest] Wu Yitian is reborn during the summer vacation of 2011. That year, he is about to become a senior in high school. When he meets the campus beauty who toyed with him in his previous life, he doesn’t seek revenge. Instead, he makes her play matchmaker to atone for her sins! With a second chance at life, he won’t let his family, love, or friendships down. He gradually 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Back to the Turn of the Century: I Have a Pay-to-Win Tech System 重回世纪末：我有氪金科技系统 Xu Musheng, who had many regrets in the first half of his life, is reborn in the golden age at the end of the 1990s. This time, he won’t simply live his life over again. With a pay-to-upgrade technology System, how will Xu Musheng change the course of his life… 7Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 75 Awakening of the Nine Purples 九紫觉醒 No System, no golden finger, one female lead, and no brainless characters. An unemployed programmer transmigrates to another world, develops the internet, struggles to build a business, and unites people through hard work to ultimately fulfill his dream. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 Reborn in 1992: Business Empire 重生九二之商业帝国 In his previous life, someone framed his family's soda factory and drove it into bankruptcy. His father couldn't bear the crushing debt and jumped from the rooftop. His mother was overcome with grief and soon passed away as well. Amid a series of tragedies, he sank deeper and deeper into despair. Now, heaven has given him a chance to be reborn. He swears to change everything, make a name for himself, and get revenge! And so, his rise begins with ten thousand yuan... 47Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 77 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—Score12014d adds
- 78 In the End, I Touched Capital's Cheese, Cake, and Noodles 终究动了资本的奶酪，蛋糕，面条 What’s it like to be a capitalist? Before he was reborn, Su Xiu thought it meant oppression, exploitation, plunder, bloodshed, and wealth passed down through bloodlines. But after he was hanged to death, Su Xiu decided that running a business might be a little better. Except Su Xiu thinks running a business is still about oppression, exploitation, and plunder, and is still soaked in blood! Employees: Got it! Exploit our competitors! Oppress capital! Plunder the world! Capital: Is that really how 287Reads8.7Score10114d adds
- 79 Rebuilding 1997: Launching a Financial Empire 重塑1997：开启金融帝国 Su Langtao, a genius from the 21st century, is reborn and transmigrates to 1997, an era when gold seems to lie everywhere. Through his own efforts, he goes from working at a factory to building a business empire of his own. 1.6kReads—Score12614d adds
- 80 Reborn in 1978: Business Warfare? I'll Start by Robbing Gold 重生78，商战？从抢劫黄金开始 Back in the 1970s, Zhang Ye gives up his courtyard home in Beijing and sets off alone for Hong Kong... With no money or connections, he decides to head to Japan and reclaim some of the silver the Empress Dowager Cixi left there back in the day... The Treaty of Shimonoseki: 230 million taels, with 350 million taels actually paid; then there's the 57.36 million taels in Boxer Indemnity payments... 44Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 81 Back to 2003 重回2003年 In middle age, Tang Qinghua is left with a lifetime of regrets. One night, he wakes up and finds himself back in 2003, back when he had just graduated from high school, back at the hardest point in his life. How will he use what he knows about the future to make up for his regrets and rebuild his life... 792Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 82 What's Wrong With a Middle School Graduate Like Me Making a Comeback and Becoming a Big Shot? 我中学毕业的逆袭当大佬怎么了 (Rebirth + an underdog’s rise, set in 2008, entrepreneurship + industry and finance, multiple heroines + past and present lives, no System + a sharp mind.) Want to start your own family tree? Want to become a big shot? Want to be the richest man in the country? Want to lie back with beautiful women in your arms? Damn, I want all of that! But I’ve only graduated middle school and don’t know a thing, so how could I make it happen? All right, then. How about a chance to be reborn? Yes, yes, yes! F 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Reborn in 1997: Building My Business Empire! 重生97：打造我的商业帝国！ [No System] [Revenge] [Scheming] [play the pig to eat the tiger] [Rise of an ordinary man] [Ostentatiously wealthy] In his previous life, Jiang Nan was thrown in prison, and his life sank into the dust. He drifted through it in a daze. After being reborn, he didn't repeat the mistakes of his previous life. Although he knew in his previous life that it was a plot against him, he had been powerless to take revenge. In this life, he would hack his way through every obstacle and make his enemies pay 174Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 84 Reborn in 1987: From the Start, I Shorted the US Stock Market 重生1987：开局做空美股 In his previous life, his partners conspired with JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs to kick him out of the company he had founded. Reborn in 1987 as Xu Han, a university student studying abroad on a government scholarship, he shorted the US stock market from the start and made three hundred million dollars. He returned to China with two hundred million dollars, a tenth of the country's foreign exchange reserves in 1987. He invested in industry, advanced technology, and drove China's economy ahead 331Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 85 Reborn as a Top Investor 重生后我成为顶尖投资人 Nongfu Spring tastes a little sweet. Is it really sweet? Come on! You still don't know how to make business in the information age fun? After being reborn, Chen Feng used a series of audacious stunts to build a business from nothing. A little branding and promotion sent its added value soaring! [Corrupt Emperor Experience Card], [Business Seductress]... His products kept going viral. Watch me become the industry's top-tier star! 140Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 Reborn in 1996: I Made Billions in the Stock Market 重生96：我股市赚千亿 Zhou Hao died. Reborn in 1996, he was just eighteen years old. But he knew this was a golden age for the stock market. With just 8,000 yuan in startup capital, he earned his first fortune in stocks! After building up his capital in the stock market, he invested in real estate, technology, medicine, and more! He became the richest man in the country! 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Replay the Game: Live Up to Our Youth and Each Other! 覆局重弈：不负韶华不负卿！ A life you've already lived, a road you've already explored and a river you've already crossed: will there still be thorns and whirlpools? When you're reborn, should you seek the right answer or the optimal solution? In his previous life, Ji Mo spent all his years pursuing a life of comfort. Can he attain it this time around? 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 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 402Reads7.3Score10414d adds
- 89 From the Start, I Inherit an Internet Cafe and Reach the Pinnacle of Life 开局继承网吧，走上人生巅峰 Su Wen dreams of returning to his senior year of high school, and inherits an internet cafe from the start. With his foresight and cool head, he climbs step by step to the pinnacle of success. Note: One female lead, and nothing too outrageous. 330Reads6.8Score10614d adds
- 90 Reborn in 2002: I Strike It Rich and Buy a Stake in Penguin 重生02：暴富后举牌企鹅 “The domain name and trademark have already been registered?” “Which company registered them?” “Future Investments?” Old Ma was surprised to hear that someone had registered the name he had racked his brains to come up with. When he learned it was Future Investments, he smiled. Great minds really did think alike. “What? Someone has taken a stake in the company?” Tencent had only recently gone public, and Ma Huateng was riding high. The news left him stunned. “Was it Future Investments?” “Oh, th 1.7kReads—Score12514d adds
- 91 Hong Kong, 1995: The Battle for the Chip Sea 香江1995：芯海争流 Tags: Rebirth / Tech Entrepreneurship / Semiconductor Industry / Hard-Core Manufacturing / Full-Chain Self-Sufficiency / Business Rivalries / Tides of the Times / National Revival Top chip architect Lin Xuan transmigrates into 1995, vowing to use his knowledge of the future to make up for the century-long regret of being short on chips and innovation. He will build a tech empire led by Chinese people and self-sufficient across the entire supply chain, crushing Western giants beneath his feet! 1Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 92 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. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 Restarting My Life, I Take Control of the Global Economy 重启人生，主宰全球经济 Chen Hao is reborn and returns to 1993. He is eighteen that year and about to take the college entrance exam. A disaster is also about to befall him and his parents. In an age when gold lies everywhere, what path will he take? 61Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 94 Reborn as a Ruthless Mogul 重生之商界狂少 After his business went bankrupt, Lin Mo leaped from the thirty-seventh floor in despair. To his surprise, he returned to his college days more than ten years earlier. In this new life, he has not only brothers bound to him by loyalty and gratitude, but also a girlfriend who loves him deeply. With their help, he overcomes one hardship after another and eventually becomes a business magnate. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 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 11.1kReads7.0Score86514d adds
- 96 Reborn as an Investment Tycoon 重生之投资大亨 Since I’ve been reborn, I should become rich enough to rival a nation! Wait, no. First, I need to find my stunningly beautiful wife. At this point, she hasn’t started dating her ex yet. I need to make my move fast! I can’t let that scumbag get her… 218Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 97 Reborn in 2008: From Selling Melons to Business Mogul 重生08：从卖瓜到创业大佬 Chen Wei unexpectedly returned to the day he had to submit his college entrance exam applications! This time, armed with more than a decade of memories from the future, he was ready to go all out! With the ultimate playbook for seizing the opportunities of the era in hand, he started out selling melons in the fields, then made his first fortune with creative marketing, igniting the fuse for his comeback! He went all in on Bitcoin in its early days, claimed his place in e-commerce as it rose, 314Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Back to 1990: This Time, I’m Flipping the Table 回到1990，我这次要掀桌子 After dying from overwork at 50, office worker Lin Xiangdong opened his eyes to find himself back on the day he failed the college entrance exam at 18! In his previous life, he went to work in a factory, tightening screws. He fell behind the times, missed out on his childhood sweetheart, and lived with regrets. In this life, his mind is filled with the secrets to making a fortune over the next thirty years! While his classmates are scrambling for secure jobs, he invests everything he has and res 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 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 380Reads5.8Score10914d adds
- 100 Reborn in 2002: From Cheat Codes to Ruling a Gaming Empire 重生02，从外挂到独掌游戏帝国 [Reborn] [World's Richest Man] [The Age of Online Games] [Gaming] [Period Novel] Years later, Chen Rui, the world's richest man, faced reporters in an interview. A reporter asked, "Mr. Chen, what do you think of your former rivals, Mr. Ma and Mr. Ding?" Chen Rui replied: "Old Ma? He's still better suited to being a teacher. Business warfare isn't for him." "Little Ma? He's certainly tough to deal with, but he can't beat me. Yes, I mean in business, of course. I could beat him one-on-one too, if 51.7kReads7.2Score4.7k14d adds
