Novels like The Golden Age Against the Tide
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- 101 Back to 1993: Breaking Through 重返1993之突围 Rebirth + farming + morally gray protagonist + business wars + cultural warfare + financial warfare + technological warfare He returns to 1993, an era on the cusp of great change. The big brother has only just fallen. Negative talk about Daxia is everywhere on the international stage. Capital is fleeing in a frenzy. The idea that it's better to buy than to build dominates at home. Large numbers of scientific researchers are going abroad. To fulfill his mission of overcoming Daxia's technological 299Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 102 Back to 1991: Building a Business Empire 重回1991做豪门 Chen Yang had spent most of his life achieving nothing, and now he was terminally ill. Then one night, he dreamed himself back to 1991, where he found his sweet, adorable little daughter and his gorgeous, sexy wife... What was going on? He and his wife had clearly divorced thirty years ago. Overcome with excitement, Chen Yang realized he had returned to the past. In this era, where gold lay everywhere, even a pig could take off. What’s more, Chen Yang had the memories of two lifetimes. He set ou 1.2kReads8.4Score10314d adds
- 103 From the Start, I Lost My Property Deed, But Unexpectedly Became the Richest Man 开局输掉房产证，却意外成了首富 [Urban + reborn + daily life + one heroine + entrepreneurship + border trading + period setting + building wealth] Yu Feng, who once commanded assets worth hundreds of billions, is reborn in 1999. Back then, he was destitute, addicted to alcohol and gambling, and his wife and daughter died because of him, leaving him consumed by regret. Now reborn, he unexpectedly gains the Fortune and Misfortune System, which lets him see other people's current luck. Watch as he uses the System and the foresigh 541Reads8.2Score10814d adds
- 104 Reborn: The Entrepreneurial Life 重生之创业人生 Early 2003. Taobao had yet to be founded, Xiaomi was nowhere to be seen, housing prices were still within reach, and every industry was thriving... With memories of the future, Chen Ping returned to 2003, a year when gold seemed to lie everywhere. 129Reads6.8Score10614d adds
- 105 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—14d adds
- 106 Reborn in 2005: Starting with Taking My Studies Seriously 重生2005年，从好好学习开始 Synopsis: [Reborn] + [Making up for regrets] + [Youthful campus life] + [Everyday life] + [Elegant prose] + [Music] + [Family-centered] + [Turning one's life around] + [Writing plagiarized works] Wen Yuan has been reborn. It's 2005, and there are still so many opportunities. Haicheng is still a fishing village, housing prices haven't skyrocketed across the country, and he's still so young... Though Wen Yuan is still a student, he is fired up with ambition. Starting as a ghostwriter, he steadily 396Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 Reborn in the 1980s: The Village Guardian and Bane of Wild Women 重生八零年代守村人之野妇克星 Wang Erleng transmigrates into the body of a fool in 1981. In a production team in these remote southern mountains, he works the fields to earn work points and heads into the mountains to chop timber. 243Reads8.7Score13714d adds
- 108 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
- 109 With a System in Hand, I Became the Founder of a Financial Empire 手握系统，我成了财阀帝国创始人 [Entrepreneurship + Data Panel + Everyday Life + No Face-Slapping + A Female Lead Appears Later, Read at Your Own Discretion!] From the start: An orphan takes out a loan to start a business. The ending: I become the founder of a world-class financial empire. Sequel: To be determined… 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Reborn in 2000, I Want It All 重生2000年，我都要 Reborn? No cheat? No System? Lu Ye says: Being reborn is the biggest cheat, the greatest golden finger. Can someone really be reborn and still fail to get rich? No way, right? 13.5kReads6.6Score92714d adds
- 111 Reborn as the Secretary to a Good-for-Nothing Female Manager 重生后竟成为废柴女经理的秘书 A tavern owner wakes up back in 2012 and finds himself the secretary to a good-for-nothing female manager. In his past life, he was best at playing a bad hand. This time, he’s here to put know-it-alls in their place. His moment has come, and it’s time for this couch potato to turn things around. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 The Villain Is Reborn in 1998 with a Super Memory 恶棍重生98，我拥有超级记忆 Historical era + urban daily life + youth and school days + building a career + big shots A new novel is here! The story starts slowly, then picks up speed. Readers, hop aboard without worry. Ning Hao is reborn. In his previous life, he was a thug. His school saw him as a blight, students treated him like a street punk, and society considered him a parasite. He went to prison for taking the fall for someone else in the name of so-called brotherhood. After his parents died in an accident, he spen 167Reads6.4Score21214d adds
- 113 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 —Reads—Score57914d adds
- 114 Ten Million a Day, and I Can’t Spend It All at School? 每天一千万，在学校花不完？ A broke student with 86.5 yuan in his account has to spend ten million yuan every day, and he’s only allowed to spend it on campus. At first, Lin Tian thought: How hard could it be? Treat everyone to a meal, rent out a milk tea shop, give the whole school free food for a month. In the end, he’d spent only thirty thousand in a day. He’d wasted 99.97 million. He started to panic. Take over the cafeteria contract, renovate the gym, remodel the dorms, buy out the convenience store… The faster 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Tycoon? Godfather? Academician? That’s Right, I’m All of Them 首富？教父？院士？没错，都是我 [Reborn + entertainment + technology-driven national development + intangible cultural heritage + billionaire protagonist + multiple heroines + slow pace] A burned-out office worker, a coder who spent endless nights writing online novels on Tomato, finally died of overwork and returned to 1995. In this life, he planned to make enough money to go home and retire, listening to Qin opera with his mother and growing vegetables outside their door. This time, he wanted to live comfortably and stop exh 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 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
- 117 An Ordinary Man Starts Over, Giving Up Peking and Tsinghua to Attend a Second-Tier College for His Girlfriend 俗人回档放弃清北为了女友上二本 Zhang Yu returns to 2004. Remembering his past as a chef, he decides to start a food delivery website. To build up his initial capital and take advantage of the information gap, he starts by selling fish... Watch an ordinary man grow from running a single shop into a tycoon who can laugh at the world, going head-to-head with business moguls like Ma Yun and Liu Qiangdong. What would that kind of experience be like? 540Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 118 Reborn in 2000: From Couch Potato to Business Tycoon 重生2000：咸鱼翻身变首富 [Also known as: Fortune That Reaches the Heavens] Awakening one day, Feng Qingyun returns to twenty years ago. After a previous life of poverty, despair, and being bullied by everyone, he swears that this time he will shake up the business world and rise to its very peak! 132Reads8.2Score10514d adds
- 119 Dreaming Back to the Year of the College Entrance Exam 梦回高考那年 After being reborn in a car accident back in the year of his college entrance exams, he makes a cheat-like comeback in a short time and finally gets into the same university as the girl he has always dreamed of. He wins her heart at college, makes a fortune in a bull market, and launches an internet startup, making his mark in the business world. There’s campus life, romance, friendship, entrepreneurship, and family. Unlike the cookie-cutter rebirth novels, this story is sometimes youthful, some 3.3kReads7.8Score21714d adds
- 120 Reborn in 2010: Father of the Mobile Internet 重生2010之移动互联网之父 One moment he was asleep; the next, he discovered he’d gone back to his senior year of high school, just as the mobile internet was about to take off in 2010! Since he had been reborn, he’d do something truly earth-shattering: build his own mobile internet empire and trample every business empire in the world beneath his feet! 49Reads6.7Score10014d adds
- 121 A Life Without Regrets: Back to 1992 人生无憾之重回1992 Things don’t go your way nine times out of ten. If I could live again, I’d make up for every regret in my life! Career, family, relatives, friends, romance, brotherhood: I won’t miss out on a single one! Everyone who bullied, humiliated, or trampled on me in my last life will end up beneath my feet! Reborn in 1992, the protagonist Yang Fan doesn’t just want to be a butterfly flapping its wings. He wants to become a pterosaur stirring up the world. 1.3kReads8.6Score11014d adds
- 122 Back to Senior Year: From Buying the Dip with Everything to a Trillion-Dollar Empire 重返高三：从满仓抄底到万亿版图 (Reborn + urban setting with no System + pure wish fulfillment + multiple heroines + global ambitions) His money is in a Swiss bank. He is at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, falling off a cliff. Top retail investor Chen Mo is reborn in 2014 as a penniless high school transfer student who can't even speak standard Mandarin properly. His previous life as a timid, insecure high schooler has only just begun again. And the bull market frenzy of 2015, which will make countless people millionaires, is j 204.8kReads8.5Score21.4k14d adds
- 123 Reborn in 2000: Building a Business Empire 重生2000：缔造商业帝国 Chen Fan, twenty years in the future, sends a letter to his past self in the year 2000. He builds 360 Security Guard, takes on Tencent, and develops League of Legends and Honor of Kings. From China to the rest of the world, his presence is everywhere. From then on, Chen Fan embarks on a path completely different from the one his past self took twenty years ago... 1.6kReads6.8Score10114d adds
- 124 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—14d adds
- 125 Reborn in 2002 重生2002 Xiao Yang, a one-legged tycoon, was drawn by fate back to the turning point of his life in 2002. Overjoyed, he opened his arms wide and embraced an era that belonged to him. Given a second chance at life, he set himself a modest goal: first, become the richest man in the world! 4kReads7.9Score26414d adds
- 126 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
- 127 Reborn as the World's Richest Man 重生之世界首富 Reborn in 1998, Chu Han is determined to live a life more remarkable than the one he had before. He earns his first fortune through tutoring classes, then uses scattered memories from his past life to trade stocks, invest in crude oil, and make leveraged bets with returns a hundredfold. During a trade war, he strikes back against the four foreign grain giants and stabilizes domestic food prices. He also ventures into the internet industry, breaking through in virtual reality technology and pushi 875Reads8.0Score10214d adds
- 128 After I Was Reborn, I Took My Enemy's Grand Prize 重生后，拿走仇人的大奖 [Tycoon fantasy + everyday life + characters with brains] Yang Ze, reborn in the past: “Bro, did you know you won a hundred million in the lottery in your previous life?” “What? You want to know why you won't win this time?” “Because I claimed it for you. How else would I have money to invest and achieve financial freedom?” 2kReads7.0Score11414d adds
- 129 Reborn in 2008: From Stock Trading to Trillionaire Tycoon 重生08：从炒股到万亿财阀 In 2008, the financial tsunami swept across the globe. The A-share index plunged below 1,800, leaving countless people bankrupt. That year, private equity tycoon Lin Chen was reborn in the most despairing late autumn of his life. Deep in debt from the start, he faced the prospect of being fired and dumped. Lin Chen looked at the candlestick chart and gave a cold smile. Now that he was back, he would rewrite the rules of wealth in this world! Starting with 3,000 yuan borrowed against his credit c 78.8kReads8.5Score6.9k14d adds
- 130 Reborn: The Great Winds Rise 重生之大风起兮 A new-era A Ordinary World, following young people struggling upward from the poverty line. They refuse to give up, fighting stubbornly against fate... The story is grounded in everyday life. Though fictional, it offers glimpses of our own lives. My writing is limited, but I hope the story strikes a chord. 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Reborn in 2008: I Became a Tycoon with a Phone from the Future 重生08：我靠未来手机成首富 [Thrilling Business Battles] + [The Male Lead Isn’t a Saint] + [No Female Lead, Multiple Female Supporting Characters] + [Getting Rich Alongside His Brothers] Just after Shen Tian was reborn in the 2008 college entrance exam hall, he discovered a phone from 2025 in his pocket! The app “Toutiao” turned out to be a gold mine of information from the future! [Shocking! Bitcoin surges twenty millionfold in eight years!] [The first year of Taobao: Singles’ Day sales top 100 million!] [Financial crisis 6.5kReads—Score75414d adds
- 132 Reborn: The Business Empire of the Old Yuan Family 重生之老袁家的商业帝国 Reborn, he discovers that his father actually came back several years earlier. His father has laid a decent foundation. With no System and no golden finger, if he wants to lie flat, he’ll first need to build up the family’s assets. He’ll farm diligently and earn money honestly. Due to review requirements, Chapter 2 appears after Chapter 42. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause while reading. 727Reads6.9Score10214d adds
- 133 Youth in Debt: My Real-Life Hustle 负债青春：我的搞钱实录 [Campus life, making money, entrepreneurship, turning the tables] No System, no golden finger. In 2008, Lin Cong was a freshman who had never wanted for food or clothes, until his family suddenly fell on hard times and he became penniless. After a brief bout of depression, reality forced him to fend for himself. He started with odd jobs, moved on to business, and eventually became a boss. Along the way, he met a sophisticated older career woman, a sweet and innocent junior, an intellectual senio 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 Reborn in 1992 重生一九九二 Liu Xiao Tian woke up one morning reborn in 1992. Armed with the memories of his previous life, he bought subscription certificates, traded futures, built factories, seized the wave of state enterprises being transferred to private ownership, and entered the internet industry. Step by step, he built a business empire of his own. 3.7kReads8.1Score25014d adds
- 135 Reborn in 2008: Starting with Online Fiction 重生08之从网文开始 [Multiple heroines] + [Not brainless] + [No System or golden finger] + [Smart characters] + [Sweet romance] Come on in, dear readers! Everything you're looking for is inside! To keep the characters true to themselves, the early chapters spend more time laying the groundwork of everyday life. Wang Ye was a bastard in his past life. He ran with gangsters, got involved in pyramid schemes, squandered his parents' savings, and left his brother disabled. He thought his life was over. Then he opened h —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Reborn as a God-Tier Investor 重生之神级投资 They say even a pig can fly when it catches the wind! Reborn at the dawn of the 2014 boom, Chang Dong vows to soar like a dragon and phoenix and revel in wealth and luxury! 2.7kReads7.8Score11514d adds
- 137 Reborn in 1997 重生1997 I woke up to find a stunningly beautiful wife beside me, along with an adorable little daughter. My wife wanted to… 1997: the memories of those born in the ’90s, the childhood of those born in the ’80s, and the youth of those born in the ’70s. 128Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 138 Back to College: Break Up Before Starting a Business 重回大学，要创业先散伙 Break up the partnership before starting a business. That was Xia Gucao's first major decision after being reborn in his college days. He was especially quick to get rid of his awful girlfriend, who had derailed all four years of his college life. No talk of a breakup fee. With his knowledge of the major events of the next twenty years, Xia Gucao still decides to start small, choosing to sell a nationally acclaimed edition of Japanese manga. He even disbands the college manga-selling team he use 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 Oh No! The Feisty Campus Beauty Won't Leave Me Alone 完蛋！刁蛮校花缠上我了 [Multiple female leads + reborn + entrepreneurship + playboy] “Lin Fan, I don’t like you. Please stop pestering me.” In his previous life, Lin Fan confessed to the campus belle, Su Yunhan, only to be cruelly rejected. An accident sent him back to the day he confessed. This time, he swore he would never be a simp again. But now Su Yunhan, the campus belle, was getting anxious. “Lin Fan, why are you ignoring me?” “Lin Fan, I like you. I’m sorry, it was all my fault.” Lin Fan only gave her a faint 999Reads6.1Score10014d adds
- 140 Reborn in 1990: Making Waves on the Bitcoin Planet 重生1990：撬动比特地球 [Reborn × Starting from Scratch to Make a Fortune × Feel-Good Story × One Female Lead] [Early: Information Services - Mid-Story: Entertainment Industry - Late: Control of Public Opinion - Ending: ??!!] Also known as: The American Billionaire Is Actually a Spy for Another Country?! One moment, he’s an internet celebrity mogul with a net worth of over a hundred million. The next, he’s reborn in America in 1990! Staring at a creaky old “desktop” computer and listening to a dial-up connection that s 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 A Child Prodigy at Home 家有神童 (This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.) I transmigrated to a parallel world in 1993, but I was too young and transportation was too inconvenient for me to do anything. I had no System or superpowers, but so what? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 From Zero to One: Becoming a Millionaire 从0到1成为百万富翁 I was born in one of China's poorest mountain villages. Through self-study of BTC quant trading and overseas markets, I set off alone for another country. Starting with gray-market businesses, I went on to build a cross-border capital network, weathering bankruptcy and being reborn before finally turning things around in the global markets. I believe that everyone comes into this world with a mission. Whether it was luck or ability that brought me this far doesn't matter. I'm sharing my story no 33Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 143 Help! I Just Reborn, and the Green-Tea Campus Belle Confessed to Me 急！刚重生，就被绿茶校花表白了 [Urban slice of life, clear-eyed realism, making money in business, no System, multiple heroines] Zhang Anqing is unexpectedly reborn in 2014. The college entrance exams have just ended, and once again he stands at a crossroads in life. Thinking back on the regrets of his previous life, he smiles. Money can always be earned again, but if he doesn't date those girls now, they'll all be old before he gets another chance. In this life, he wants to live as an ordinary man, savoring all the world's s 216Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 144 I’m a Punk with a Moped, and You Want Me to Get into a Top University?! 我一鬼火黄毛，你要我考985！ [Chen Hansheng Reincarnated] [Shen Youchu Possession] [Urban Daily Life] [No System] [Come on, Keep Picking on Shen Youchu] [One Female Lead] [Urban] [Reborn] [Lighthearted Campus Story] Also known as "When Youth’s Blossoms Have Fallen" Lin Dong, who drifted through society after failing the college entrance exam, is hacked to death in a gang fight. Then he is reborn in the year of the exam. His rebirth doesn’t come with a ding, but he gets a golden finger even better than one. He remembers ever 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 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
- 146 Back to the Year 2000 重返2000年 He went from billionaire to having absolutely nothing, weathered great highs and lows, and then fate gave him another chance at life. On a train in the year 2000, Li Xin gazes at the stunning beauty opposite him, lost in thought… Should he become the richest man in the world, or enjoy a carefree life and indulge himself among beautiful women? Well, a grown man doesn’t have to choose! 465Reads8.1Score10014d adds
- 147 Reborn: From Rock Bottom to the Top 重生：穷途登峰 Sixteen years of wholehearted devotion brought him nothing but bankruptcy and a stumbling trip to prison. Chen Wenshan is reborn in 2001, bringing with him more than a decade of business experience and the lessons he learned behind bars. If giving without expecting anything in return can only foster evil and betrayal, then this time, Chen Wenshan will keep a sharp weapon close and let his murderous intent run wild. The flower of romanticism in his heart has withered, and in its place he has plan —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Reborn in 2005: I Built a Bubble Tea Empire 重生零五，我靠奶茶创业封神 After being reborn, Lin Wan goes from a milk tea shop worker whose wages are withheld to the Milk Tea Queen, a goddess of capital who controls a trillion-yuan conglomerate. On the streets of Guangzhou in 2005, no one knows what an enormous consumer market is hidden in that cup of milk tea, let alone that her mind holds the fate of capital over the next twenty years. Watch her turn the tables against the odds, then ride the wave to success. 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Rewind to the Year 2000 回档2000年 Given another life, Lu Fei will work hard and strive to make something of himself. He won't be a street punk or live in poverty anymore, and he won't let anyone down. He'll take on the responsibilities expected of a husband, son, and father... 7.3kReads8.6Score49414d adds
- 150 Forging Youth Anew 再铸青春 If you had the chance to live your life over again, what would you choose? Newly reborn, Ye Feng is already facing a breakup. In his previous life, he begged and pleaded. What will he choose this time? 275Reads8.2Score—14d adds
