Novels like Starting Today, I’m a Tycoon
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- 51 Reborn as an Industrial Overlord 重生工业霸主 In a dream, he returned to thirty years ago and took over a car factory on the verge of bankruptcy. Wang Yu resolved to build an industrial powerhouse and become a pillar of the nation’s heavy industry. 664Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 52 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. 277Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 53 Reborn in My Senior Year, and Suddenly Surrounded by Beautiful Girls! 重生高三，身边竟多了好多美女！ Rebirth + High School + University + Making Money + Entrepreneurship What would happen if you were reborn in high school? This is a fresh start for a 40-year-old unemployed man in 2024. It's also the carefree life of a high school senior in 2004. 59Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 54 Restarting My Life, I Take Control of the Global Economy 重启人生，主宰全球经济 Chen Hao is reborn and returns to 1993. He is eighteen that year and about to take the college entrance exam. A disaster is also about to befall him and his parents. In an age when gold lies everywhere, what path will he take? 61Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 55 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! 49Reads6.7Score100Shelves
- 56 Reborn Youth: Building a Tech Empire 重生韶华：打造科技帝国 Reborn in his second year of high school, he applies to the youth program at the University of Science and Technology of China, accidentally becomes the top scorer in his province, and starts a tech company. From betting on soccer and copying futures trades to making phones and launching satellites, he sweeps all before him and goes into full overdrive, building his own tech empire and helping Chinese technology take off... 179Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 57 I Can See 24 Hours Into the Future, and I'm on Top of the World 预知24小时，我走上人生巅峰 On the day he graduated from high school, Zhao Dezhu, a poor young man, was beaten unconscious. His parents borrowed money to pay for his treatment, but because their family was so poor, no one was willing to lend them anything. Instead, they subjected his parents to the worst insults. What no one expected was that Zhao Dezhu awakened the ability to foresee the future in the accident. From then on, he began his mad dash to make money... 3.8kReads8.1Score389Shelves
- 58 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
- 59 Reborn as a Couch Potato 重生当咸鱼 Reborn, he has no intention of going back to work. With no particular talents, he planned to live a lazy little life off his family’s three storefronts, two homes, and one small supermarket. But Heaven had other ideas and gave him a golden finger that lets him earn money just by lying around. Chen Yu gradually realizes that his abilities can no longer keep pace with his growing wealth. Can he still enjoy his lazy life? 2.3kReads8.5Score101Shelves
- 60 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—Shelves
- 61 Awakening in 1999 觉醒在1999年 The year before the new millennium was destined to be extraordinary: Macau returned to China, a grand military parade marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of the nation, NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project got underway, and more. Ordinary Su Yu also became a first-year high school student that year, serving as both class monitor and Communist Youth League branch secretary. An extraordinary life quietly began... The Eurasian continent lay ri —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Reborn in 1996: The Father-and-Son Powerhouse Duo 重生1996之枭雄父子 After a car accident, Jiang Nan was unexpectedly reborn, returning to early 1996, an era when state-owned and collective enterprises were going bankrupt one after another and workers were being laid off. Thanks to his memories of his previous life, Jiang Nan helped his father, Jiang Dongping, avoid a frame-up and escape being fired. As Jiang Dongping rose to a higher position, he set about turning his workplace's fortunes around and getting it back on track. Meanwhile, drawing on his memories, J 47Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 63 From Retail Investor to Market Mogul 从散户到游资大佬 Yin Fang is a workshop technician who stumbled upon the stock market by chance. From an ordinary retail investor, he rose to become a major player in the hot-money market, idolized by countless small investors. His story began that day... 885Reads7.1Score105Shelves
- 64 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 204.8kReads8.5Score21.4kShelves
- 65 Reborn in S2: Taking the Esports Scene in Hand! 重生S2：调教电竞圈！ [Business Development] [Esports] [Club Management] [Game Development] Reborn in 2012, a year that was neither here nor there, neither particularly good nor particularly bad. Lin Shu felt a little helpless after missing countless opportunities to get rich overnight. Still, thanks to all those years he spent working his way through the esports scene in his previous life, he had some foresight about this industry, which was emerging alongside the growth of the internet. And after being reborn, Lin 7kReads8.3Score201Shelves
- 66 Monopolizing Black Technology?! I’m Just Trying to Change the World 垄断黑科技？！我是为了改变世界 [Cutting-Edge Tech, Business Management] Lu Shaojun transmigrated to a parallel world just as he was graduating from college. He'd planned to go home and live off his parents. Who could have guessed he'd activate a cutting-edge technology System? And so, a tech mogul was born. Virtual brain-computer interfaces, bionic robots, bio-batteries, hovercars, DNA storage... Years later, Lu Shaojun gave an interview. "Mr. Lu, Hyperdimensional Technology is set to monopolize global technological developme 1.8kReads6.7Score102Shelves
- 67 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... 1.6kReads6.8Score101Shelves
- 68 Other Middlemen Make Their Cut, but You Sell Arms? 别人中间商赚差价，你卖军火？ In the run-up to Singles' Day, I managed to sell exactly one item, and it got refunded??? Lin Feng, an e-commerce middleman, picks himself up wherever he falls. Then he activates the Military Industry Modification System. The Laiyang Steel Plant is dumping steel pipes in bulk? Add rifling, and mortar production in the Middle East skyrockets. Yemen's energy minister needs a large supply of gas cylinders? Fit them with tail fins, and their range doubles. Conflict breaks out in Africa, and Antarcti 22Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 69 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 11.4kReads6.9Score904Shelves
- 70 Reborn as the World's Richest Man 重生之世界首富 On their wedding day, his mother-in-law suddenly demanded another 100,000 yuan in bride price. Seeing this, Song Ning, reborn, turned around and walked away. “I’m not going through with this wedding.” 328Reads7.5Score183Shelves
- 71 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 342Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 72 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 285Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 73 The Stock Market Path to Wealth: A Leek's Growth Story 炒股致富法门：韭菜成长史 He came to Shanghai with dreams in his heart, but no matter how hard he hustled, he never got anywhere. He tried the stock market, only to lose again and again! On the verge of despair, he suddenly saw the light. From then on, everything went his way, and he rose from a small-time investor to a legendary stock god. 255Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 74 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
- 75 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 3.3kReads7.8Score217Shelves
- 76 It Was Supposed to Be Niche Software, So Why Did It Go Viral Worldwide on Douyin? 说好小众软件，抖音爆火全球？ “Short videos? Who watches that stuff?” Xiao Ma looks at the newly launched app and doesn’t take it seriously at all. Qin Mo transmigrates. He discovers that this world has iQIYI, Youku, and Tencent Video, but no Douyin; it has QQ, but no WeChat; it has Dota, but no League of Legends. So... Qin Mo quietly launches the first app: Douyin. His competitors laugh at him: “Who’s going to watch videos that are only ten-odd seconds long?” Xiao Ma waves it off: “It’s no threat.” Da Ma declares: “This 61kReads8.2Score5.1kShelves
- 77 Reborn in 1985: Going All In on the Tech Tree 重生1985狂点科技树 Reborn 50 years in the past, Wang Ming is stuck in a little body and can't do a thing! With no other choice, he urges his parents to go into business overseas, persuades his second uncle to move abroad, and buries himself in his studies at school. He becomes a student of Mr. Qian, advances the chip industry, and uses Xingchen Corporation as his starting point. Backed by the Hongmeng Laboratory, he leads Chinese companies in rapidly advancing their technological capabilities... Just as everything 344Reads6.8Score103Shelves
- 78 Back at University, I Really Don’t Want to Be a Scumbag 重回大学，我真不想做渣男啊 He had only just been reborn when a scheming green-tea girl gave him a hard time, demanding that he buy her 999 roses. Faced with her unreasonable demands, Gu Linyuan made an unexpected decision. Whoever wants that green-tea girl can have her! Am I, Gu Linyuan, the kind of man who can’t find a woman? With no woman on his mind, beauties would come knocking on their own. In this life, Gu Linyuan decided to live differently... 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Reborn in 2003: Ruling the Tech World with Intelligence 重生2003：智霸科技界 (Slow-paced + urban slice of life + entrepreneurship + technology) After spending five years fawning over his goddess, Ye Yunzhou’s heart shatters when he sees her fawning over another man in his Maybach. Reborn on the eve of the college entrance exam, he finds that everything has changed. The goddess he used to fawn over? Get lost. He needs to make up for all the regrets he left behind in his previous life. Before he knows it, he’s made things a little too big. At a certain summit. Host: Up nex 86Reads6.9Score120Shelves
- 80 Slacking Off at College Made Me Stronger, and Now the Campus Beauties Are Confessing and Chasing Me 大学摸鱼就变强，众校花表白倒追 [Campus Life] + [Taking It Easy] + [Multiple School Beauties] + [Wealthy Protagonist] Gu Bai was reborn, returning to his college days, when cutthroat competition was at its worst. In his previous life, he worked like a dog to get into graduate school and pursue the campus beauty, only to end up with nothing. This time, Gu Bai made up his mind: To hell with the rat race. I'm going to take it easy! [Ding! The Host has refused to run for student council and successfully slacked off. Reward: 1 mill 15.8kReads6.1Score1.7kShelves
- 81 The Dream-Chasing Years 逐梦年代 Jiang Qiming, a fishmonger at the wet market, sees his fate take an unexpected turn! One dream takes him thirty years into the future, giving his life a major boost. From then on, he’s surrounded by wealthy heiresses, business tycoons’ daughters, and movie stars. At last, the down-on-his-luck young man embarks on a life of glory... Thanks to everyone who looked down on me! You’ll only make me stronger! 2.1kReads8.4Score199Shelves
- 82 Reborn: The Day My Parents Died 重生，回到父母身亡这一天 In his past life, Jiang You reunited with his parents in his dreams countless times. He had made a name for himself, yet had never managed to give them a good life. He always felt that this wretched Heaven was terribly unfair. But when he woke up one day, Heaven had actually given him another chance? And his parents’ deaths hadn’t been accidents? Fine. You ruined my family, so I’ll make you pay for it in blood! 17.6kReads8.8Score1.9kShelves
- 83 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! 2.9kReads7.8Score106Shelves
- 84 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
- 85 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 13Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 86 My Empire of Money and Technology 我的金钱科技帝国 “We can't let his game enter the market, or we'll go bankrupt.” A gaming-company mogul “No, this can't be happening. He's got his hands on engine technology. We're in serious trouble.” A military-industrial giant “Trying to compete with him in money? You guys are insane.” A famous tycoon Wang Shang smiled faintly. Heh heh, should I tell you I've got a System? Just you wait. Moli's new book, My Money-Fueled Tech Empire, is now out. Old and new friends, come show your support! Give Moli all your 855Reads7.1Score101Shelves
- 87 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—Shelves
- 88 Reborn: You Split Up the Family Like This, Did I Agree to It? 重生：你们这么分家，我同意了吗 [Reborn] + [Campus Beauty] + [Everyday Flirting] + [Making Money] (A slow-burn plot, half everyday flirting and half business and money-making. If you want a fast-paced power fantasy, this isn’t for you.) Li Lei’s first task after being reborn is to sever ties between his family and his uncles’ families, then get his hands on his first pot of gold. He uses that first pot of gold to get started, originally planning to copy a website from his previous life and sell it for a good price. He’d become 12.1kReads8.1Score1.1kShelves
- 89 Reborn in 2010: Financial Freedom After the World Cup 重生2010，世界杯后财富自由 [Reborn in College] [Business and Wealth-Building] [Financial Investing] [Multiple Heroines, Including Female Celebrities] [No System] The World Cup gives him a chance to take off, and he sets out on the road to financial freedom. Overseas, he trades international crude oil, gold, foreign currencies, and cryptocurrencies... At home, he trades sugar and cotton futures... He invests heavily in unicorn companies at home and abroad... He starts a gaming company to rake in money and a media company t 87.5kReads7.5Score8.8kShelves
- 90 Reborn in 2008: I Want Both a Startup and the Campus Beauty! 重生08年，创业和校花我都要！ [Lighthearted Wish Fulfillment]+ [Reborn Male Lead]+ [College Campus]+ [Campus Belle]+ [Realistic Entrepreneurship]+ [No System] Zhang Chen, a teacher at a training center, was reborn in 2008 and took to the new era like a fish to water. In college, he had entrepreneurship on one side and the campus belle on the other. A reborn man doesn't have to choose. I want it all! Starting with a business in a small city, he found the right partners at university and built an invincible tech empire. Once w 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 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. 129Reads6.8Score106Shelves
- 92 Reborn at 14: A Fintech Tycoon 重生14，金融科技神豪 After Wang Gan broke his leg while delivering food, he was reborn in 2014, back in his college days. He made his first fortune starting with the World Cup, then invested in finance and technology, becoming a top tycoon. He spends money like water: a real-world god of wealth. 16.7kReads6.2Score1.2kShelves
- 93 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 405Reads8.3Score100Shelves
- 94 Reborn in 2009: The Northwest Boy’s Rise 重生2009之西北少年逆袭 At 35, Hai Lang drops dead and wakes up back in his second-year junior high classroom in 2009. Fate rewinds, and his regrets are piled high. This time, starting with nothing, he fights his way to the top. He earns his first fortune with the lottery, stuns the whole school with the guqin, writes his own songs on the guitar, and becomes a legend on the basketball court and in the street dance club. When punks block his way, teachers doubt him, and his father worries, he simply plays his instru 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Reborn as a Tycoon 重生之土豪人生 Sun Yang, a 32-year-old police officer, is reborn in 1997. Back then, a penguin was just an animal, an apple was just a fruit, and CS was just two English letters. He only wants to live a quiet life, but finds himself unwittingly on the road to riches. 2.1kReads8.4Score132Shelves
- 96 After My Six Senses Awakened, I Became the Jiang Family's Grandson-in-Law 六识苏醒后，竟成了江家孙女婿 [Urban Farming] + [Live-in Son-in-Law] + [Urban Fantasy] + [Transmigration to Ancient Times] "Jiang, you're so good at this. How many people have you kissed besides me?" "F-Five, six, seven, eight, I guess..." "You're such a flirt, little brother... I'll forgive you, since you brought me a gift..." Jiang Yannian chuckled. How hard could it be to make money? Starting with two thousand, I'll make two hundred trillion! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 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—Shelves
- 98 The 360 Strategies: Merchant Emperor of the Myriad Worlds 360计万界商帝 #Urban comeback #Interworld cultivation profiteer #Arrogant male lead #Wild heroine #Thirty-Six Stratagems Kang Linjie owed 800,000 yuan, and the System gave him the Thirty-Six Stratagems. Stratagem One: Get Meituan to do the work for free. Stratagem Two: Cut off supplies and crush your rival. Stratagem Three: Trade across dimensions: salt that costs two yuan on Earth sells for a hundred in the cultivation world. Zhu Qunqun isn't a sweet little girl. She's a wild leopard. She was earning 3,000 y 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 We Agreed Not to Date. Now I'm a Billionaire, So Why Are You Crying? 说好不谈恋爱，我成首富你哭什么 [Comic adaptation now available, college life, multiple heroines, first fortune made during the World Cup, the internet, investment] Ye Chen was reborn, and this time he didn't want to run himself ragged. He'd get into one of Shanghai's top 985 universities, let his parents enjoy life, and make a little money he couldn't possibly spend. He casually placed some bets on the World Cup and made millions. He made a simple game that brought in tens of millions a month. On campus, he was the low-key Ye 112.8kReads7.7Score8.6kShelves
- 100 I'm Already Reborn, Why Would I Need a System? 都重生了，还要什么系统啊 He worked hard until he was thirty, and with help from his family, finally managed to buy a house. All he needed was to borrow another 380,000 yuan for the bride price, and he could get married. Zhang Lei thought he was finally about to enter the next stage of life. Who knew the building would be left unfinished, and that the developer would beat him to death when he tried to fight for his rights? Reborn in high school, all Zhang Lei wanted was to make money and achieve financial freedom. The fi 19kReads7.1Score1.6kShelves
