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- 51 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
- 52 Reborn in 2005: Being a Scumbag Was Never My Intention 重生05，渣男不是我本意 [Urban] [Rebirth] [Multiple Leads] [Business] [Entertainment Industry] [Handcrafted with Traditional Methods] All you handsome guys, come on in and have a look around. Chu Da, the owner of a talent agency, had just finished getting acquainted with a newly signed college student under his management. Who would have thought that a puddle of water on the floor would cause him to fall, bringing his head into intimate contact with the corner of his desk? When he woke up, he was back on t 6.3kReads—Score44814d adds
- 53 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
- 54 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… 215Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 55 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 50Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 56 Back to 1990 to Start a Business 重回1990去创业 The art of making money, with beautiful women all around, in the 1990s, when supplies were desperately scarce. A computer cost a hundred thousand jin of rice, and a Santana cost as much as ten courtyard houses. It was a rough-and-tumble age teeming with entrepreneurs, and ruthless players driven by greed. 1.4kReads—Score10114d adds
- 57 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 78.4kReads8.5Score6.9k14d adds
- 58 Reborn and Calling Off the Engagement, the Campus Belle Cries and Insists on Marrying Me 重生退婚，校花哭着非要嫁我不可 A top student and stunning beauty who keeps a low profile: “Ye Qiu, want me to walk you home after evening study?” A gorgeous senior from Tsinghua University: “What the hell, you got a perfect score on the top-student exam. So what? I’ll make sure you regret the next three years!” The school beauty he’d hopelessly chased in his previous life: “Ye Qiu, she’s gone now. This time, let me pursue you. Please say yes!” Reborn in 2009, just before the college entrance exams, Ye Qiu finds that Bitcoin h 192Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 59 Rebooting 2001: Rising to the Top Through Gaming 重启2001，从游戏开始崛起 [Just received a rating. Updating 6,000 words daily in April, with occasional extra-long updates.] In 2001, Wu Mengde is reborn. He returns to the year he graduated, bringing 38 years of programming experience with him. Looking at the crumpled resume in his hand, he balls it up and tosses it in the trash. In this life, he won't be anyone's workhorse. He'll be the big boss! He'll transform the income structure of working people, contribute to the lives of those in the mountains, and build a sharp 487Reads5.8Score10014d adds
- 60 Reborn: From the Internet to the World's Richest Man 重生：从互联网到世界首富 In his previous life, the enormous debt he unexpectedly found himself saddled with forced Chu Feng to work to pay it off. It also made him miss the golden age of the internet’s explosive growth. And even the person he loved most! But this time, he was reborn! Everything would be different! He would take back everything he had lost with his own hands! He would make up, piece by piece, for everything he had missed! Alibaba? Tencent? Even food delivery? Chu Feng planned to get involved in all of it 806Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 61 Back to 1986: Starting with Selling Eggs 重返1986：从卖鸡蛋开始 (Rebirth in a bygone era + no System + a bit of brains + single heroine + business + daily life) Zhao Shixiong, a frustrated middle-aged man, dies on the street and takes over the body of Xiao Zhao, who is just as frustrated. Then he discovers that someone else has taken his place at the university he got into!!! Luckily, his brothers stand together, his relatives and friends get along, and the villagers help one another! Reborn, Zhao Shixiong can't help feeling that the two of them share the sa 426Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 62 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. 3.4kReads8.1Score26014d adds
- 63 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
- 64 Reborn, I Become a Business Tycoon 重生后我为商业大亨 Ye Ze, a miserable middle-aged man, is reborn after transmigrating to 1982. His family is poor, his parents are honest and simple, and he has a whole crowd of siblings. They’re so poor they can barely afford to eat! But Ye Ze isn’t worried at all. He’s full of confidence and ambition. His previous life was a muddle, and he never amounted to much. Heaven must have taken pity on him, because at last it’s his turn to be reborn and transmigrate. He activates the rebirth golden finger and... Hahaha! 800Reads8.0Score10014d adds
- 65 I Want to Retire, but They Keep Making Me Rich 我想养老，偏让我发财 [Down-on-his-luck man reborn + 1998 + third-tier city + wealth-building and retirement + golden finger] Originally titled: [I Want to Retire, So Why Do They Keep Making Me Rich?] A few things to know: The male lead takes time to grow, so be patient with him. One female lead, with limited screen time. He only has a daughter and will not have any more children! All he wants is to retire! In his previous life, Kang Shaoqi was dirt poor, ridiculously unlucky, and a scumbag to boot! Reborn in 1998, a 325Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 66 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
- 67 Reborn in 1990: Starting a Business with a Single Dime 重生1990：从一毛钱开始创业 Xiao Daoming, a rising business tycoon, unexpectedly returned to 1990. From the start, his biological parents cut ties with him. Even more bewildering, he was behind on rent and had not a penny to his name. At least Zhu Yuanzhang had a broken bowl when he started out. What did that leave him with? Fortunately, his sweet little niece gave him a ten-cent coin. Fine, he’d use that dime to start a business. Back in 1990, making money was almost too easy. In this life, he would make the two Mas bow a 925Reads8.5Score10114d adds
- 68 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! 2.8kReads7.8Score12414d adds
- 69 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. 129Reads6.8Score2614d adds
- 70 Reborn in 1999: The Prodigal Returns 重生1999之浪子回头 When he woke up, he found himself back in the year he had lost his wife and daughter. Qin Tian made up his mind to… 72Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 71 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
- 72 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
- 73 Seizing the Moment to Become a Tycoon 踏准风口成巨富 In his previous life, Li Shun was a nobody, a poor wretch crushed by life until he could barely breathe. Time and again, he bowed his head to life's demands, only to scrape by from one breath to the next. In this life, Li Shun is lucky, and so are his friends. They can rely on one another and stand shoulder to shoulder through the tide of reform, rising with every new opportunity. The great waves wash away the sand, leaving heroes behind. Blessed by the Goddess of Luck, Li Shun also finds his ow 10.8kReads8.8Score1.3k14d adds
- 74 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
- 75 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 318Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 76 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—14d adds
- 77 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. 4Reads6.1Score414d adds
- 78 Reborn in 2003: I Built a Fortune on My Looks 重生03：我靠卖颜值发家致富 [A classic rebirth story, with a clever, clear-eyed protagonist! He leads his brothers to wealth and success in a sweet romance with a single heroine] In his previous life, Jiang Xin went from a penniless boy to a billionaire CEO, only to fall victim to a scheming green tea bitch. His reputation was ruined, and he lost everyone he wanted to protect. Reborn in the summer of 2003, he’s just been rejected after confessing his feelings. The green tea bitch looks at him coldly and says, “You need bre 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 Reborn in 1985 重生1985 A man from the post-70s generation died on duty and returned to 1985! He achieved nothing in his previous life, but this time he was destined to soar to the top! I’m here! The one standing at the forefront of this great era isn’t a pig! It’s me, Zhao Yao! I was devastated to hear that Mr. Huang, the Mother of Longxin, had passed away. May you find peace and joy in another world, sir. If there is a next life, may you be born in China today and enjoy the very best our motherland has to offer! Once 1kReads8.5Score10814d adds
- 80 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. 136Reads8.0Score10314d adds
- 81 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
- 82 Reborn: The Tech Empire 重生之科技帝国 Reborn in 2003, back when Penguin wasn’t yet a behemoth and China’s internet companies hadn’t gone through their wild-growth phase. Li Jin is a genius from the future. Let’s see how he takes the world by storm. (This book requires you to check your brain at the door. If you curse me out, you’re right to.) 2Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 83 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... 277Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 84 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... 809Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 85 Reborn: I Became a Big Shot in Every Industry 重生：我成了各行业大佬 [One female lead + 2004 + developing both the internet and traditional industries] Su Chen is reborn. If his family uses their money to treat his father's illness, he won't be able to go to college. If he goes to college, his father won't receive treatment and will be left permanently disabled. Su Chen doesn't want his father's lifelong disability from his previous life to happen again. He joins his mother in selling boxed meals at a street stall and helps her build a career in the food industry 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 I’m a Billionaire, So What’s Wrong With Being a Little Scummy? 我一个首富，渣一点不过分吧 3.4kReads8.5Score25114d adds
- 87 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. 275Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 88 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
- 89 Reborn: Building My Business Empire 重生缔造我的商业帝国 [Passionate, fast-paced, highly recommended by a million readers] Reborn in 2000 with only 8,000 yuan to invest, I said I would use the stock market to make a thousandfold, even ten-thousandfold profit. Some people said it was impossible, that I wasn't good enough. I said I would go to the moon and into space, and they told me to wake up. I said I would fly to Mars, and they still said I was dreaming. Just watch me climb to the top of the world, one step at a time. With unwavering conviction and 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 Reborn in 2005: Conquering the Business World Without Regrets 重生2005：纵横商界无悔人生 At thirty, Mu Yan is the youngest sales general manager at a tech giant. On the night he closes a fifty-million-yuan deal, a car accident sends him back to 2005, to that summer when he was fifteen. From the cutthroat world of business banquets to a high school classroom piled with exam papers, he discovers that he has not only brought back fifteen years of future memories, but also a deep sense of guilt toward his family and the life he has lived. In this life, he has the foresight of someone wh 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 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! 46Reads6.7Score814d adds
- 92 Reborn in 1976: The Industrial Internet Empire 重生76：工业互联网帝国 Ren Jie, a professor in the metallurgy department of a university in Yanjing, never married after his girlfriend was assaulted by thugs and jumped off a cliff to her death while he was sent to the countryside for reeducation. By a twist of fate, Ren Jie is reborn in the countryside where he was once sent to work. Amid the intertwined love and hatred of two lifetimes, he pursues revenge and roams the land as a fugitive. See how he survives in the cracks of his era and, after enduring countless tr 402Reads8.3Score10014d adds
- 93 I Made My Start-Up Capital Delivering Food and Became the CEO of a Public Company 我送外卖挣股本成为上市公司总裁 The protagonist builds a fortune from nothing by delivering food. He has no System, no pocket dimension, doesn't transmigrate, and isn't reborn. After graduating from college, he can't find a job in his field. To survive in the big city, he has no choice but to start delivering food. As he makes deliveries, he keeps his eyes and ears open, picking up valuable investment tips and earning his first pot of gold. With a steady temperament, he finds his footing in adversity. Through a series of coi 187Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 Reborn in the 1980s: Love and Career, I Want It All 重生八零：爱情事业全都要 [Reborn + 1980s + farming + building wealth + family life + strong heroine + devoted couple] Fang Qiushui is reborn and forced to marry an alcoholic gambler many years her senior, in exchange for a wife for her cousin. Why should I have to trade away my whole life so my cousin can get a wife? Why does his family get to eat eggs while I have to live on dried radish? Dream on! I won’t agree to this! She takes her mother and younger sister and decisively splits from the family. She tears into her c 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 Building a Business Empire, Starting with an Internet Cafe 从网吧开始打造商业帝国 Reborn in 1998, he builds an internet empire and creates a global conglomerate. In the internet age, Lin Yu starts out in an internet cafe. He develops chat software, video and music platforms, builds a closed-loop e-commerce ecosystem, and monopolizes online traffic. In the mobile age, he creates smartphones, develops his own operating system, and launches ride-hailing and food delivery services, crushing the competition with a technological leap. In the age of intelligence, he branches into 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 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—14d adds
- 97 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
- 98 Reborn in 1983 重生1983 A young CEO worth tens of billions is sent back to 1983 by an accident, reborn in the body of a small-time punk who loves to fight. The two become one, and together they are invincible! He starts a business with a gang of shady friends, beginning in a tiny workshop and rising swiftly to the pinnacle of wealth. But when it comes to love, he finds himself in crisis after crisis: caught between the wives he had in his past and present lives, as well as the young women, married women, and Peking Uni 35Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 99 Reborn: A Peerless Hero 重生之一世枭雄 Back at the age of twenty-two, Jiang Zichuan cashed out a hundred million from the stock market and set off on a legendary life. In the eyes of the public, he was the stock god of the East, a god of investing, and a patriotic tycoon. To his rivals, he was a predator, a vile and despicable businessman. His fortune taught everyone what it meant when gold coins rang out: the whole world trembled... 464Reads8.0Score10114d adds
- 100 Siheyuan: I'm Silly Zhu's Older Brother, and I Have a Pocket World 四合院我是傻柱他哥，我有小世界 I’m Silly Zhu’s older brother, and I have a tiny underworld of my own! Anyone who takes advantage of Silly Zhu, I’ll send them to the underworld for reform! Until I discover that parallel worlds conceal an enormous mystery from antiquity! From that moment on, everything becomes utterly baffling! 189Reads6.7Score—14d adds
