Novels like The Golden Age Against the Tide
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Golden Age Against the Tide, best match first.
- 1 Reborn in 2012: I Actually Became the World's Richest Man 重生2012:我竟成了世界首富 In his previous life, Ding Wei founded Dingding Bike and ended up sending his entire family to prison. By sheer luck, he travels back to 2012 during a livestream. Given a second chance at life, he seizes opportunity after opportunity in the internet boom, starting with bike-sharing and expanding into finance, short-form video, e-commerce, and more, ultimately building a vast business empire. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Reborn Tycoon: Ruler of the Global Internet 富二代重生之世界互联网霸主 A rich heir is reborn in the year 2000. A playboy in his previous life, he resolves to become the richest man in China and enters the internet industry. Somehow, he accidentally becomes the richest man in the world. Who can he even complain to about that? 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Back to 2000: Everything Is Just Right 重回2000，一切刚刚好 [It is the best of times, and it is the worst of times!] (Rebirth + college + entrepreneurship + cozy daily life + internet + no System) After a night of heavy drinking, Li Tianhai, a nobody, is reborn just after the college entrance exams in 2000. His parents are healthy, he’s young, and college life is about to begin. Everything is just right, and the future is full of possibilities. In business, he starts by selling shoes over summer vacation, earning his first pot of gold. Once college begin —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 I Have a Future AI 我有一个未来智能 What would you do if you had an artificial intelligence from the future? Punch Tencent in the face and kick Alibaba to the curb? Or surround yourself with beautiful women and become the king of entertainment! Perhaps only time can provide the best answer. Let us witness Qiao Yu's legendary life, like something straight out of a wish-fulfillment novel. I'm face-blind. I've never thought my wife was pretty! My biggest regret is founding Baidu Encyclopedia! Let's make our first small fortune! Our t 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Back to Life in 2004 重返人生之2004 Jin Fei, a loser, was lucky enough to be reborn. His smooth sailing after being reborn went to his head. A harsh dose of reality taught him what the real world was like. Being reborn doesn't solve everything. If you want to live it up after being reborn, you still need money. Without enough, it's simply impossible! 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 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
- 7 Reborn in 1999: From the Start, I Bought Tencent for a Million 重生1999：开局百万买企鹅 Lin Chen personally experienced the humiliation and helplessness of his country being comprehensively strangled by foreign restrictions. Then, reborn in 1999, he carried the memories of his past life and awakened the [Tenfold Value Investment Cashback System]. In Tencent’s office, on the verge of bankruptcy, Ma Huateng and the other founders were discussing selling the company off cheap. Lin Chen slapped a check for one million yuan onto the table. “I have one million. I’ll buy you the chance to 644Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 I Saved Enough Startup Capital in Two and a Half Years, Then Conquered the Internet 两年半攒够启动金，我横扫互联网 [Just got its rating, but it’ll go up later] [Internet business + rebirth + business wars + social apps + group buying + food delivery] In 2026, Chen Yang, the owner of a small software outsourcing studio, and his girlfriend drive off a cliff on Highway 318. Reborn in 1997, Chen Yang spends two and a half years earning his first fortune by doing software outsourcing and running intensive programming courses. Late 1999. Penguin: Founded just this year. It already has hundreds of thousands of user 1.4kReads5.3Score102Shelves
- 9 Reborn in 2004: Creating a New Era 重生2004创造大时代 If you were reborn in your final year of high school, how would you rebuild your future? Memorize the college entrance exam answers and get into a top university? Or use your knowledge of what's to come to start a business and make money? Corporate drone through and through, Lin Yi says, “Both!” In his previous life, Lin Yi worked grueling nine-to-nine-six hours every day, getting up earlier than a chicken and going to bed later than a dog. In the end, he died of overwork, only to be reborn on t 55Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 10 Reborn to Live Without Regrets 重生续无悔人生 By middle age, people often feel that everything is over. Gao Yang refused to simply lie flat. After an unexpected accident, he miraculously got his hands on a so-called “regret pill,” giving him the chance to be reborn in 2004, a year brimming with possibilities. In the days just after his rebirth, Gao Yang was briefly lost. His mind was full of questions, and he had no idea what to do with his new life. Anxiety shadowed him, too. He worried that it was all just an illusion, a dream that could 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Becoming the Richest Man, Starting with Being Reborn 成为首富，从重生开始 Chen Bei wakes up one day in another world. He discovers that the entertainment industry there has stagnated. He decides to develop a chat app and a game to earn his first capital. Then he starts a company and releases Jump Once, Sparkling Match, and Lime Shared Bikes. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Reborn as a Business Tycoon 重生之商业大亨 If you make a show of yourself just to brag, you're nothing but a weakling. A true powerhouse keeps a low profile, quietly rises to the top, commands authority, masters extraordinary skills, and is fabulously wealthy! 8Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 13 Reborn: From Street Vendor to a Ten-Trillion-Yuan Tycoon 重生：从摆摊到十万亿首富 [Reborn in 1998 + business battles + grand strategy + no System + realistic] [Everything the protagonist does is part of his grand plan. Every villain is manipulated by him, and he never once suffers a setback passively.] Lin Fan, a trillionaire, is reborn at the age of nineteen, burdened with 100,000 yuan in debt. Starting with a street stall, he sets out to build his business empire all over again. He takes a stake in the biggest internet company and acquires the world's largest tech company. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Reborn in 2000: From a Little Shop to a Capitalist Tycoon 重生2000：从小店到资本巨鳄 Li Tian was deceived in his previous life by Liu Yiyi, the high school class beauty. He paid all her university expenses, only to hear after graduation, “I’ve always thought of you as an older brother.” He spent the rest of his life in misery and eventually died of cancer. Reborn, he is mature and clear about his goals: wealth and control over his own fate. He is reborn without a System or a golden finger, and can’t remember any lottery numbers. All he has are memories of the social, economic, a 129Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 15 The Reborn Mystic’s Step-by-Step Master Plan 神棍重生步步为营 A fortune-telling master, rich enough to rival a nation, gives away all his wealth just to make up for one regret. Heaven answers his wish, sending him back to that chaotic era. He plans carefully and treads cautiously, not to reclaim his former glory, but to protect her and keep her safe for life. Yet with his abilities, even a gem buried in dust will eventually shine. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Her Loan-Shark Husband Got Her Killed. Reborn, She Became a Rich Woman 被网贷老公害死，她重生当富婆 Reborn in the new millennium, she kicks her debt-ridden scumbag husband to the curb! In her previous life, Mo Qianmi trusted love and married a man drowning in online-loan debt. Her whole family was dragged into a mountain of debt, and her life ended in misery. Reborn in her college years, she refuses to make the same mistakes again! She joins forces with her girlfriends to make money, seizes the opportunities of the times, and works her way from street vendor to listed-company founder. Her 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 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
- 18 Return to 2005 重返2005 Ordinary office worker Zhong Hao returned to 2005. In the Internet boom of its untamed early days, he turned the tide with a flick of his hand. Smartphones, online shopping platforms, big data, artificial intelligence, new energy... With a flawless business portfolio, he became the most celebrated investment genius of the 21st century! Start your business early! 291Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 19 Why Work When I’ve Been Reborn? 都重生了谁还打工呢 No System | Campus Youth | Passionate Entrepreneurship | Sweet Everyday Life | Solid Logic [The story starts at a gentler pace, then gradually picks up after the business gets going. Who gets rich right after being reborn? You’ve got to take some time to adjust first!] A programmer earning close to a million yuan a year is unexpectedly reborn in his college days. He decides to stop being a corporate drone and become a domineering CEO, starting a business and carving out his own world. The goddes 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Reborn in 2002 重生到2002年 Mo Hai, driven to the brink by credit cards and online loans, is reborn in 2002 as a college student. He makes his first fortune through cross-border trading, his second in manufacturing, and his third in the internet industry, then becomes a behind-the-scenes mogul across numerous sectors through investing. As for destroying the credit card and online lending companies that drove him to the brink, that's just a little windfall. 1kReads5.7Score103Shelves
- 21 Reborn: Back in 1988 to Become a Billionaire 重生：回到1988当首富 [Rebirth + Period Setting + Business + Romance + Dad Life + Adorable Kids + Political Maneuvering + Stocks + 5G + Lithography Machines] Also known as Returning to 1988: Loving You Once More Billionaire Li Shaoping is reborn in 1988. In his previous life, his daughter fell ill and died because he couldn't afford her treatment, while his wife spent half her life in a mental hospital. Reborn, Li Shaoping hopes to make up for the regrets of his past life. Starting from nothing, he builds a business —Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 22 After Being Reborn, I Was Supposed to Be Faithful 重生后，本来我挺专一的 [One Female Lead] [Sweet Romance] [No Harem] [Building a Brick-and-Mortar Business] My name is He Zheng. I hated my first love for twenty years. After I was reborn, I realized I’d been the one she deceived all along… This is a lighthearted, witty, and entertaining story about starting a business by selling goods at a street stall. It follows a high school graduate who uses 5,000 yuan in startup capital to gradually build himself into a business tycoon. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Reborn in 2008: The Internet Empire Rose with Food Delivery 重生08：互联网帝国从外卖崛起 [Internet Industry + Business Rivalry + Multiple Female Leads + Reborn + Entrepreneurship] Jiang Feng returns to 2008. After getting his first pot of gold from Tianxian, he starts with campus food delivery, then launches a counterattack into the group-buying market. Short videos, e-commerce, micro-dramas, music apps, travel and hospitality, local services, internet finance, AI. Amid the three-way rivalry between Penguin, Alibaba, and Baidu, he carves out a place for himself against all odds. Pen 23.3kReads—Score3kShelves
- 24 Reborn in 2016: No More Living Off a Woman This Time 重生2016：这一世不再吃软饭 At thirty-four, Mu Guanyu finally reached what people called the pinnacle of life: he married a rich woman and took his company public. His later years promised a happy family and travels around the world. He never expected to be reborn at this crucial moment! Reborn in 2016, Mu Guanyu used his memories of his past life and his video-editing skills to earn his first fortune, bought Bitcoin, and brought a girl along to make videos on Douyin... Those years really were the best moments of his l 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 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—Shelves
- 26 Reborn in 2005: I Built My Fortune by Opening an Online Store 重生05年靠开网店起家 [High-Quality Business Warfare + Romance with a Campus Belle + A Master of Schemes Like Chen Hansheng + No Mindless Wish Fulfillment + Reborn with No System] Old Hei's zero-cost shopping spree can make Walmart shut down its stores! Wang Chen: Hurry up and come shop at my one-yuan sale! That's right, a pair for just one yuan! Walmart doesn't know the first thing about business! Look at me, selling shoes for one yuan and still making hundreds of thousands! What? The heat patches are one yuan too? 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 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. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 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! 137Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Reborn in 1994 重生1994 Reborn in 1994, Jiang Hao returned to his high school days. Facing the tides of the times, he had just one thing to say: “My youth is mine, my first love is mine, my money is mine. Everything is mine.” 771Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 30 Reborn in 1998: From Selling CDs to Internet Legend 重生98：从卖光盘到互联网传奇 Li Fan returns to the summer of 1998, after the college entrance exams. He makes his first fortune selling CDs… He builds the Tianya Forum, attracting tens of millions of users with “Workplace Stories” and “Emotional Confessions”… He launches the “Steal Vegetables” and “Grab a Parking Spot” mini-games, which sweep the country… He takes part firsthand in the mobile internet and short-video revolutions… Group buying, food delivery, ride-hailing, short videos… 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Reborn: Starting a Business in College 重生大学创业 A family will produce a child who brings prosperity within three generations. Relying on no ancestral fortune, they make their own way from nothing, ambitious and distinctive. Such heroes may be reserved in their early years, hesitate when making decisions, and avoid competing with others in daily life. But after weathering storms and trials in friendship, career, and love, they rise from the ashes like phoenixes and are reborn... 130Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Back to 14: My Unrestrained Life 重回14，我的肆意人生 [Reborn + satisfying read + internet business warfare + multiple heroines + clever characters] After a night of heavy drinking, he woke up reborn at his high school graduation party in 2014. That year, his naive childhood friend had yet to leave. The kind auntie who sold snacks by the school gate had yet to fall victim to a crime. And the stunning older schoolgirl was still waiting for the one destined for her… An ordinary man starts changing his fate against all odds with the World Cup. The int 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 1992: Dad Ran Off with the Money and His Mistress 1992：老爹带小三卷钱跑路了 Fang Ming should have been a rich second-generation heir, living a carefree life and envied by everyone. But fate played a cruel joke on him. His own father ran off with his mistress, leaving Fang Ming and his mother with a debt of 200,000 yuan. Back in 1992, Fang Ming has just one thing to say: 200,000? That’s nothing! —Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 34 Reborn in 1995: From a Hardware Factory to a Tech Empire 重生95年：从五金厂到科技帝国 In 1995, Lin Feng was framed by his business partner in his previous life and sent to prison. His wife remarried, and both his parents died. Reborn on the eve of his imprisonment, he faces the impending frame-up: being accused of stealing factory parts. 3.1kReads—Score147Shelves
- 35 Restarting My Rise to the Top in the 1990s 九十年代重启巅峰 Liu Lin is unexpectedly reborn in 1991, with a beautiful wife and an adorable daughter. Now that he's got a second chance, how can he spend his life drifting aimlessly? Riding the waves of the times, he seizes business opportunities and fights his way forward. Across an era of change spanning twenty years, a sweeping picture slowly unfolds... 186Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 36 Rebooting in 2000: I Become a Business Tycoon 重启2000，我成为商业大亨 Li Xiaobo died in 2015 after coughing up blood due to decompensated cirrhosis. But then he opened his eyes again and discovered he had transmigrated back to the year 2000. Given a second chance at life, he didn't want to be a police officer in the government system anymore. He wanted to become a successful businessman. He would not only avoid the pitfalls himself, but teach others how to avoid them too. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 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
- 38 They Wanted Me to Drop Out and Support the Campus Belle: Reborn, I Refuse to Be a Doormat 让我辍学供校花，重生后不当怨种 [Reborn] + [Build a Career] Chen Hao was reborn on the day he graduated from high school. In his previous life, Zhao Xue, the girl he had a crush on, came to him in tears. Her mother was sick and her family was poor, so she hoped he would drop out and earn money to support her and her mother. An orphan, Chen Hao sacrificed his future for love. He didn’t even submit his college applications, and instead started earning money by setting up a street stall. He took care of Zhao Xue’s mother, paid fo 81Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 39 Reborn: My 1992 重生之我的1992 Reborn in 1992: Save My Parents, Find My Love, and Return to an Era Rife with Opportunity! 51Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 40 Reborn: I Made Billions with a Quantitative Trading Program 重生，我靠量化程序赚了几百亿 Volume One, “Food Delivery Platform,” follows Wang Shuo as he starts the Weitu Food Delivery platform on campus and earns nearly 500 million. Volume Two, “Conquering the Stock Market,” follows Wang Shuo as he creates a quantitative trading program and makes tens of billions in China’s A-share market. He then reaps huge profits from international investors in the U.S. stock market, earning hundreds of billions of dollars. Volume Three, “Business Empire,” follows Wang Shuo as he founds three major 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 41 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. 488Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 42 The Road to Becoming a Tycoon Begins with Working in Reborn Singapore 首富从重生新加坡打工开始 A senior white-collar worker from the city unexpectedly returns to 1994, to his days working overseas in Singapore. He suddenly realizes that he’s on the eve of an era about to sweep across the world, with opportunities everywhere and a royal flush in his hand! He had planned to make his first fortune in women’s lingerie, but never expected it to come from one of his own pillowcases. He also runs headlong into a wealthy Nanyang Peranakan family and gets caught up in an ambiguously romantic story 52Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 43 Reborn, My Enemies Are Starting to Panic 重生后，我的仇家开始慌了 [Scheming]+ [Revenge]+ [No System]+ [Reborn]+ [Business warfare] Chen Jingyang has been reborn, back ten years in the past. In his previous life, his innocent younger sister was murdered, bringing about the ruin of his entire family. He himself was beaten to death. In this life, he swears to make the killer’s whole family pay. Drawing on his memories of his previous life, Chen Jingyang begins laying plans, eventually driving each member of the killer’s family to the brink of ruin… 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 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—Shelves
- 45 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 95Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Reborn as an Internet Mogul 重生之互联网大亨 2004. Baidu had been online for four years. JD.com had been founded six years earlier. NetEase had been around for seven years. Alibaba was celebrating its fifth anniversary, and Taobao had only just launched the year before. Luo Chen was unexpectedly reborn in 2004, as the internet was beginning to boom. Watch him rise step by step to become an industry magnate! 1.1kReads5.1Score—Shelves
- 47 Reborn, the Bewitching Campus Beauty Pursues Me 重生后，魔女校花倒追我 [Rebirth + business rivalry + campus beauty + multiple heroines] In 2024, Wang Hai was featured on the cover of the globally renowned Fortune magazine. Profile: At nineteen, he made his fortune from scratch, earning twenty million with a browser game. That same year, he launched a second game and became a billionaire, making him the youngest billionaire in 2002. At twenty, he founded a tutoring website for students at China’s top universities. It swept the country, and college students natio 107Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 48 I Sell Herbal Plasters, and Somehow I Have 100,000 Distributors 我卖狗皮膏药居然有十万名代理商 Li Qiankun is reborn in 2014. In his first year, he makes his first fortune in social commerce: a tidy sum of one hundred million yuan. In his second year, he enters the cosmetics industry and starts emptying rich women’s purses. In his third year, he leads a hundred thousand agents in opening a chain of snack shops. Ten years later, a reporter asks, “Mr. Li, how does it feel to be the world’s richest man?” “Money is just a number to me. Besides, I’m not interested in money.” 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Reborn: Back in 2006 as a Web Fiction Superstar 重生：回到2006当网文大神 [Not brainless, not a naïve web novel. Writing online fiction is just an early way to raise capital. Later on, there are also stories about Xiao Yansheng starting a business, but the novel isn’t all about entrepreneurship; there’s plenty of romance too, so readers can rest assured.][Warning: This is not a brainless wish-fulfillment story! This is not a brainless wish-fulfillment story! If that bothers you, don’t read it.] Xiao Yansheng used to be a miserable construction worker hauling cement. A 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Reborn in 1984: This Time, I'm Devoted to My Wife 重生84：这次我选择做老婆奴 Everyday life + career success and getting rich + a wealthy family + no awful relatives In 1984, the winds of reform swept fiercely across the land of China. What kind of life will Li Weimin, reborn into this turbulent and magnificent era, make for himself? According to later-day statisticians, a great many Chinese tycoons came from Kaoshantun, a small village in the north, and every one of their fortunes was tied to Li Lao'er. 21Reads6.7Score—Shelves
