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.
- 51 Reborn: I’m Going to Become a Simp 重生后我要成舔狗 Reborn in school + campus belle + making money in business + everyday romance + not a single heroine Lin Tian is reborn and returns to the day he receives his university admission letter. He turns the girls he once liked into blind boxes. No matter where you are, I want to go see you. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Reborn, I’m Going to Live It Up 重生就得尽情浪 When Qin Tian was at the peak of his career in his previous life, he left the secular world and became a monk at Shaolin Temple. After passing away, he was reborn in his junior year of college. At last, he understood what kind of life he should live this time around! Living a second life, watch Qin Tian build a life with cheat-like advantages! Living a second life, watch Qin Tian settle the grudges and entanglements from his previous life! 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 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—Shelves
- 54 The Top Student Transmigrates to Become a Royal Spy 学霸穿越当皇家密探 Ding Bufan, originally named Ding Yijian, is a sophomore at Rongcheng University. He transmigrates after climbing over the wall of Imperial Tomb Park and returns to the dynasty of the tomb’s owner. A girl named Ye Ziqiu, whose name is identical to that of his girlfriend, rescues him. After facing several trials and studying hard, Ding Bufan becomes a royal spy, arrests corrupt officials, rids the land of bullies, and marries a princess. From then on, his life takes off with every advantage imagi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Reborn in the Freewheeling Era 重生之浪荡时代 2009. Freshman year. The property and stock markets were booming, the internet was booming, domestic phones and cars were booming... It was an age when you could bend down and pick up gold. Might as well enjoy the sight of some long legs, too. Guo Jiayi was so lucky. Now that he was reborn, he couldn’t keep holding himself back. If he didn’t live it up, what was the point of being reborn? In this new era, he was going to live it up to the fullest! 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Reborn as a Low-Key Tycoon 重生之低调大亨 What would you do if you were reborn? Chu Qiankun, who had been living an ordinary life, is unexpectedly reborn and returns to 2004. Armed with more than a decade of foresight, he embarks on a low-key yet luxurious life, working behind the scenes to build a great empire. 19Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 57 Reborn: Phoenix Rising in 2007 重生涅槃2007 [Non-System Rebirth Power Fantasy] Reborn by accident in 2007, Wang Long sets out on a new life, rising from the ashes. His journey brings the innocence and passion of college life, the confusion and anxiety of city living, the heartbreak and bitter tears of the stock market, and the deception and strategy of the business world. Watch him overcome every obstacle, build a business empire, and become a titan of finance. 1.9kReads8.5Score192Shelves
- 58 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 277Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 59 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
- 60 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 402Reads7.3Score104Shelves
- 61 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—Shelves
- 62 Relax, I'm Not Exactly a Good Person! 别紧张，我又不是什么好人！ When other people are reborn, they either hoard Bitcoin like crazy or buy into Alibaba and Tencent early. Yang Yan, on the other hand, dives straight back into a small county town in 2012. Smartphones are just taking off, housing prices haven’t skyrocketed yet, and Yang Yan’s herniated disc is right on schedule. Looking at his reflection, now thirty pounds heavier, Yang Yan gets it: this rebirth trial run is all about starting from behind. Now that he’s reborn, who’s in a hurry to make money? Bu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 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
- 64 A Phone Costs 199, and I Somehow Become a Tycoon! 一部手机199，我竟成为首富！ [Reborn + business battles + cutting-edge technology] How much does a top-of-the-line phone cost? 6,999? No! 2,999? No! 1,999? No! 199, with the best specs? I’m in! Chen Mu had only one goal at first: pay back the fifty million he owed and, while he was at it, pay the workers at Jiangnan Electronics Factory. Luckily, the System appeared and gave him access to a huge supply of incredibly cheap raw materials. But when he looked back, he discovered that his Jiangnan Electronics Factory had become a 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Reborn in 2010: I Have a Golden Finger System 重生2010，我有金手指系统 Reborn from 2025 into 2010, he buys lottery tickets for the 2010 South Africa World Cup and earns his first fortune. He mines Bitcoin like crazy, creates the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, and becomes the biggest market maker. He founds ByteDance Group, whose subsidiaries include Toutiao, WeChat, Panda TV, Bilibili, Huya Video, Douyin, TikTok, Honor of Kings, Ele.me, Pinduoduo, and more... After Xia Feng is reborn, he gets a System, making it easy to earn money and turning his life int 252Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 I Made Games and Earned Tens of Millions 我做游戏商人怒赚千万 Xu Chuchen accidentally discovered that he could make money reselling in-game items. He gradually recruited a team and, after overcoming countless difficulties, successfully launched a game-trading website. But after running it for twelve years, he was left behind by the times. In the end, his college sweetheart gave her life for him and helped his company successfully transform, eventually leading him to start a mobile game company! (This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual p 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 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 1.7kReads8.4Score105Shelves
- 68 Reborn by Chance, I Seize the Moment and Live the Good Life 意外重生，踩住风口过惬意人生 Main characters: Lin Feng, Ye Yao After failing at business and in his marriage, Lin Feng became a hapless fool raising another man’s son. One night, after drinking himself into a stupor with his buddies, he returned to the carefree days of 2014. He was eighteen that year and had yet to meet the person who would drag him to rock bottom. It seemed that everything still lay ahead of him. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Reborn in 2002: A Diary 2002重生日记 With the Child of Destiny’s luck, 24 hours of memories, and half a lifetime of experience, he rose to become the world’s richest person in four years and launched a business empire powerful enough to rival nations. From the internet and finance to agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and high technology, see how this man uses money and public opinion to dominate the world. If you had one chance to start over, how would you spend the dream life you’ve always wanted? 914Reads7.5Score129Shelves
- 70 Reborn: Starting with Predicting the College Entrance Exam 重生：从预测高考开始 Lin Chuan, whose AI company is about to go public, unexpectedly returns to the hundred days before the 2007 college entrance exam. Mr. Lin, who was nearing the peak of his life, suddenly reverts to being a student. He has absolutely no desire to be reborn. Fortunately, as someone reborn, he has not only his memories from his previous life, but also the ultimate weapon of cause and effect: the Wish System. As long as he spends causality points, he can solve any problem. Lin Chuan originally w 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 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! 992Reads7.7Score100Shelves
- 72 Reborn in 2002: I Just Want to Flirt with Beautiful Women and Make Money 重生02：只想撩撩美女，赚赚钱 When “Suspended Drowning” starts playing, pure love takes center stage! This is high-end romance... [Urban farming]+ [Reborn]+ [No System]+ [One heroine]+ [Sweet romance]+ [Face-slapping the vile campus beauty]+ [Business and making money] After the vile Ma Baoli tricked male lead Xu Zhimo out of all his money, he finally came to his senses. He fell in love with Zhu Peiqi, the heroine who had always stayed by his side in silence. But their happiness didn't last. Having been swindled into massive —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 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—Shelves
- 74 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
- 75 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 287Reads8.7Score101Shelves
- 76 Reborn: Chasing Dreams in the Livestreaming World 重生：逐梦直播圈 Liu Ke had reached middle age without accomplishing anything when he unexpectedly returned to his university days. Where’s the next big opportunity? What’s the easiest way to make money? Obviously, it’s livestreaming and fleecing the viewers! See how Liu Ke, given a second chance at life, chases his dream in the livestreaming world and rises to the top! 866Reads8.7Score103Shelves
- 77 Reborn in 2012: A New Beginning 重生2012：再启人生 [Reborn] [No System] [Urban] [Entrepreneurship] [Slice of Life] [Youth and School Life] After achieving nothing in life, Wang Dongqing unexpectedly wakes up back in his senior year of high school. Since Heaven has given him another chance, he'll rewrite his unhappy past! He'll make money and enjoy life. Wealth, friendship, love: he wants it all! He embarks on a new life. He reunites with his first childhood crush, his almost-lover from high school, and the girl who seemed out of reach in college 2.8kReads—Score168Shelves
- 78 Back to College: A Different Road to Rebirth 梦回大学，不一样的重生之路 (No System + Not a Feel-Good Story + Campus Life) In his previous life, when Ye Chenlong was at a low point in his love life, Chu Yiling chose him. The two had nothing and struggled together as a poor couple. Because of the influence of her family, Chu Yiling was torn between family ties and love. She chose to divorce him, and also chose to leave her family behind. Living his life over again, Ye Chenlong tries to change Chu Yiling from the perspective of an ordinary person. Later, he discovers ( 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Transmigrating Through Reform and Opening Up 穿越改革开放 Lin Chen, a seasoned entrepreneur with deep experience in the modern internet, physical commerce, and capital operations, transmigrates by accident to 1978, on the eve of China's reform and opening-up. He becomes a down-and-out young man with the same name in a poor village in Guangdong Province in the south. His parents died when he was young, leaving him with a dilapidated home and nothing to his name. Cowardly by nature, the original Lin Chen was looked down on by the villagers and bullied by 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Reborn in 1992: The Road to My Dreams 重生1992圆梦之路 At first, he goes to school to help his family escape poverty and settle down in the city, making sure his father's tragedy never happens. In 1997, he gets into the Beijing Film Academy and fulfills his dream of entering show business as an actor, singer, and more. In his previous life, he sang at nightclubs and played bit parts. This time, he wants to be a star too. 2.3kReads8.3Score100Shelves
- 81 Now That I’m Reborn, I’m Going to Enjoy a Life of Freedom! 都重生了，当然要享受肆意人生！ [Reborn + Clever Wish Fulfillment + Multiple Heroines] Xiao Changkun accidentally discovered that neither of the two children his wife, Cao Lan, had given birth to was his! How could he put up with that? So he was angered to death. Luckily, Xiao Changkun was reborn, returning to the day he had confessed his love to Cao Lan. Looking at the pure, beautiful Cao Lan before him, Xiao Changkun didn’t confess this time. Instead, he raised his hand and slapped her hard across the face. In this li 1.3kReads5.8Score106Shelves
- 82 Life Rewind: 2012 人生回档2012 Back in 2012, the year he graduated from college, Ma Yibo used wildly surging stocks to build a fresh-food business. He invested in ByteDance, DiDi, Bitcoin... By the time DiDi was valued at hundreds of billions, ByteDance was worth trillions, and Bitcoin was worth tens of thousands of dollars, Ma Yibo had become someone people could only look up to. Titles came one after another: industrial magnate, tech magnate, investment god, agriculture pioneer, and philanthropist. Then Ma Yibo set off on a 10Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 83 Reborn in 2008: Starting with Phone Screen Protectors 重生2008：从手机贴膜开始 Other people transmigrate and become tech geniuses or the richest people in the world. After Zhang Xiaoshan transmigrated, he had no idea how to make money. He couldn't get into college, and working for someone else was out of the question, so he could only make ends meet by running a street stall. 2.2kReads8.5Score108Shelves
- 84 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—Shelves
- 85 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—Shelves
- 86 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—Shelves
- 87 Reborn in 2001: Master Craftsman of the Lithium Battery Industry 重生2001：锂电大国匠 In 2001, Chen Mo was reborn at Jianghai Battery Factory as a temporary worker who had been made the scapegoat and laid off. His superiors bullied him, his coworkers ostracized him, and he was on the verge of being kicked out of the factory. Looking at the batch of defective battery cells in his hands, Chen Mo smiled. In his previous life, he had meekly accepted his dismissal. This time, he uncovered corruption in the supplies department and brought the factory director down, then walked away 295Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 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—Shelves
- 89 Now That I'm Reborn, I'm Definitely Going to Live It Up 都重生了，肯定要浪出花来 After spending twenty years studying in prison, Wang Hao is reborn on the night before his arrest, the night he got a hotel room with his ex-girlfriend. With a second chance at life, naturally he won’t leave any regrets this time. He’ll double down on both his career and his love life. What’s that? You can’t have both a career and romance, so you have to choose one? Pah! Only kids have to choose. Adults get everything. I want to make big money, and I want beautiful women too. So what should I do 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 Reborn in 1985: Tales from the Plains 重生一九八五：平原往事 When business tycoon Yu Yang woke up, he had returned to 1985 and become a rural young man with nothing to his name. Standing at the cusp of a new era, he drew on a vision more than thirty years ahead of his time and started from an unremarkable corner: he bought a tractor, began hauling goods, and earned his first fortune. Next, he took over the town’s market and built a commercial hub; founded a plastic hose factory to complete the supply chain; and acquired a flour mill to begin capital opera 190Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Reborn in 2002: Don’t Make Me Become a Big Shot 重生2002：不要逼我当大佬 [Reborn slice of life + No System + Multiple heroines + Building a business and making money + Master of floral art] Academic underachiever Qin Feng is reborn in the 2002 college entrance exam hall, carrying the answer key with him. In just 15 minutes, he changes his fate against all odds, leaving his beautiful teacher so excited she can hardly close her mouth. Once the door to this new world opens, things gradually spiral out of control. In this arena of desire and fame, an insignificant nobody 28Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 92 Rewind to 2006 回档2006 Reborn: The Qingyun Era of 2006 In the blood-red dusk over the Myanmar jungle in 2026, Xu Qingran falls before his eyes. Even after building an empire worth trillions, Luo Bei is trapped in endless regret, living out the remaining thirty years of his life alone. When he opens his eyes, he is back in his senior-year classroom in 2006. Carrying a century's worth of scientific and technological knowledge, Luo Bei returns. Making money and building a career are easy enough. Protecting those he loves 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Reborn in 1988: Starting a Business 重生1988开始创业 Reborn at eight years old, he's too young to change his fate by any means other than selling popsicles. From then on, money rolls in as he leads his family to prosperity, makes powerful friends, and rises to the top. Packed with nostalgic period flavor. If you love the vibe of the 1980s, come on in. 196Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 94 Are You Crazy? I'm Already This Perfect, Why Do I Need to Be Reborn? 疯了吧！我这么完美还要重生？ [Reborn + period setting + school beauty + romance + entrepreneurship + making money + lighthearted + daily life + comedy + leisurely pace + no System] Lu Mingfei returned to 2002 and faced countless choices. Naturally, only children are forced to choose: adults take it all. Thus began his perfect life, with success in both business and love. 136Reads8.0Score103Shelves
- 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 11.1kReads7.0Score865Shelves
- 96 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—Shelves
- 97 Now That I've Been Reborn, Who Wouldn't Want to Lie Flat? 都重生了谁不想躺平啊 At thirty-five, Lin Qi had the kind of annual salary others envied, along with a house and a car. Yet somehow, he was reborn. Wait, why does he get to be reborn? After being reborn, Lin Qi no longer wanted to repeat his old life. Since he’d been reborn, who wouldn’t want to lie flat? Of course, he might as well earn enough to lie flat in comfort. 43Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 98 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 11Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 99 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. 281Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 100 After Being Reborn, I Became the Top Scorer on the College Entrance Exam 重生之后我成了高考状元 [Reborn-era novel] + [No System] + [Youth and school life] + [Business and making money] In his previous life, Zhang Yang pursued Wang Zhimeng for eight years, only to end up cheated on. In this life, he returns to his high school days in 2008. Determined to change his fate, he steers clear of the calculating woman from his previous life and wins over the wealthy class beauty who has a crush on him. Outside the exam hall, he boldly tells a beautiful reporter that he’ll get into Peking Univer 17.3kReads7.0Score1.3kShelves
