Novels like Starting Today, I’m a Tycoon
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- 101 Reborn on My Way to College 重生在上大学的路上 [Thick-Skinned, No-Nonsense Engineering Woman vs. A Brilliant Male Lead Who Seems Cold but Is Actually Hopelessly Romantic] Newly promoted Zhang Xiaohan thinks her life is wonderful, with no regrets. But after dying suddenly from overwork, she returns to the time when she was just starting college. Zhang Xiaohan lifts her heavy bangs and feels the spare tire around her waist, deeply wondering if her memories have gone wrong. Had she really gone through such an awkward growing phase? Having no 1.2kReads8.2Score106Shelves
- 102 Reborn into My Golden Age 重生我的黄金时代 An ordinary engineer suddenly finds himself back after the college entrance exams, following a short nap during an overtime shift. Having failed to get into the university he wanted in his previous life, this time he doesn't dare get carried away. He diligently reaches for the best he can manage, embarking on his second life in a whole new way and encountering wave after wave of challenges... 119Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 103 The Light Returns 沉光重来 Reborn in the summer of 2016, Lu Chen grows rich through stock options and awakens the memories of an ancient formation master. With one hand, he develops a homegrown GPU that breaks the overseas chip monopoly; with the other, he lays out spiritual formations across the city and seeks enlightenment amid the mortal world. He becomes a god of both technology and cultivation! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Back in 2003, I Became a Tech Mogul 重回2003做科技大佬 [Reborn] + [Internet] + [Business warfare] Reborn in 2003, Chen Dongsheng makes the grand vow to achieve 25,000 small goals. The early story focuses on internet business warfare, the middle on mobile operating systems and chips, and the later stages on cars and lithography machines. In the final stages, it goes wild with sci-fi technology, if there is any. His golden finger is a bare-bones AI equipped with only some software code and reference materials. 4.3kReads8.2Score118Shelves
- 105 After Being Reborn, I Only Want to Achieve Financial Freedom 重生后的我只想实现财富自由 He worked hard until he was thirty-seven, yet still lived in a shabby old apartment of barely sixty square meters. His once-radiant wife had also been worn down by the hardships of life. Even his retired parents were still working, just to help support him. After getting drunk, Chen Mo was reborn at the age of twenty-two. The only thought in his mind when he opened his eyes was to achieve financial freedom. 3.5kReads7.1Score224Shelves
- 106 Reborn in 2005: Rising from Internet Cafe Manager to Tech Mogul 重生05：鹅厂大佬，从网管崛起 [Reborn] [Business Rise] [Easygoing Daily Life] [No Harem] [Entire Industry Chain] [Helping Friends and Family Get Rich] [Entrepreneurship in a Bygone Era] Zhao Yuan, a tech whiz at Tencent, returns to his college days in 2005. While his roommates are figuring out how to woo girls, he writes an internet cafe management System. In the first month, it brings in over a million yuan. He only wants to make money, but before he knows it, his ambitions have grown. Afraid of being strangled by bottlenec 200.6kReads8.3Score17.1kShelves
- 107 The Golden Age Against the Tide 逆流黄金年代 Reborn in 2000, Lin Xiaolei finds that real estate has yet to take off, the internet has just weathered a downturn, and the retail industry is only getting started. As the tide of the times rolls in, what will he choose? Lin Xiaolei says, “I want to make money.” “And after you’ve made money?” “Make even more money.” “What do you need all that money for?” “Make money with money...” 2.7kReads8.2Score167Shelves
- 108 Showbiz: From the Start, the Heavenly Queen Wants to Marry Me 文娱：开局天后要跟我结婚 Su Ze transmigrates to Blue Star, a parallel world unified under one government. After being sidelined for three years, the System he’d lost finally returns, gifting him god-tier singing skills from the start. With one song, “Old Boy,” Su Ze takes the internet by storm. Just then, music queen Lin Shuyue finds Su Ze and says, “I want to marry you!” Su Ze: ???? 3kReads8.6Score210Shelves
- 109 Reborn, and You Still Want to Turn Over a New Leaf? 都重生了谁还浪子回头 [Campus Life + Multiple Heroines + Love Triangle] “If you had the chance to be reborn, would you take it?” When Chu Nian heard the question, he found it a little funny. He was in his early thirties and living a life of wine and women every day. Who would choose to be reborn under those circumstances? Chu Nian glanced at the girl beside him, wearing a lace-trimmed blindfold. “No.” … … But the very next moment, Chu Nian was reborn! He returned to the time just after graduating high school, when he 4.2kReads7.4Score290Shelves
- 110 Reborn After the College Entrance Exam, I Sign In and Become a God-Tier Hacker 重生高考后，我签到成了神级黑客 Pure wish fulfillment, no characters acting stupid, and incredibly immersive. Rebirth + school life + making up for regrets + multiple heroines [There is a System, but it doesn’t play a major role. It’s only there to improve the protagonist’s life, so this isn’t a tycoon story. If you’re looking for hacker battles, this isn’t for you.] How great is it to be reborn? You get a young, healthy body again, the chance to make up for your regrets, and the ability to know and do everything. You can 833Reads7.3Score112Shelves
- 111 Stock Market Secrets and Gold Trading 博股通金 This book only talks about the stock market; it doesn’t recommend individual stocks. If you’re hoping to speculate your way to riches, don’t waste your time reading this. A leek is still a leek, and turning into the sickle is still just a pipe dream. If you believe in value investing, read patiently. Even the highest level of martial arts requires mastery of the fundamentals. Knowing how to fish is no match for knowing where the fish are plentiful, so you can catch them easily and haul them in b 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 The Genius Stock God Returns to the Fray 天才股神再战江湖 My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 2.8kReads8.8Score487Shelves
- 113 Reborn, I Quit Being a Good Sport and Became a Tycoon 重生后不做老实人的我成神豪 Reborn in 2002, with more than 20 years' worth of accumulated knowledge and experience, plus an extraordinary physique thanks to his new beginning, what will Cheng Ke do? Start a business? No! No! No! That's way too exhausting. Why not just invest instead? There's nothing better than counting money while standing, lying down, or sitting. Beautiful women? The more, the merrier, of course. Entertainment stars, cool and aloof heiresses, flirtatious twins, wild foreign beauties... They're all his co —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 This Time, My Life Is Mine 这一次，人生由我 In 2026, Li Yu’s life in a cubicle at a publicly traded company felt like a joke. He woke up reborn in 2017, as a high school sophomore, the day after his “first love” Zhou Siyao had ruthlessly dumped him. Looking at the draft paper on his desk, covered in her name, Li Yu smiled. This time, to hell with being lovesick! He tore up his love letter in front of everyone and turned to basketball and his buddies. He earned his first fortune betting on the World Cup, and his grades began to soar. Once 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Reborn: Financial Empire 重生之金融帝国 Back to 2009, with a System to lend a hand. A slice-of-life story about stocks, futures, and business. This is the ultimate feel-good novel, though I'll do my best to keep it grounded and close to reality. Brothers, let's explore the real world of wealth together! 1.5kReads8.0Score100Shelves
- 116 Back at Eighteen, I Have No Choice but to Make a Comeback! 重返十八，我只好逆袭！ [Reborn in College]+ [Urban Slice of Life]+ [Business and Making Money]+ [Youth and Campus]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [No System] Lin Mo is reborn, back in the summer of 2011. He’s returned to the best age of all: eighteen. This time, he’ll live a more exciting and freer life. 939Reads7.2Score106Shelves
- 117 Reborn to Control My Fate 重生之掌控命运 (A low-key feel-good story + reborn, with flirtation but no romance + investing across various fields + a very slow burn!) After ten years of failed stock market investments, he was saddled with enormous debts and lost both his marriage and his parents' support. After jumping to his death in despair, he miraculously woke up fifteen years earlier, back in his college days in 2009. Faced with a second chance at life, Chen Xing resolved not to repeat his past mistakes. He would rely on his previous 10Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 118 Reborn: From 1997 to the World's Richest Man! 重生：从1997到世界首富！ He wakes up in 1997, back in his university days, and is forced to inherit the family business from the start? Huang Bufan says: “Sounds pretty good! I'll just take everyone else's path and leave them with nowhere to go!” Snatch opportunities right from under the noses of international speculators and strike back at them? Become Hong Kong's youngest billionaire? With the advantage of knowing what's coming, accidentally become the richest person in the world? Huang Bufan: “I want to keep a low pr 86Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 119 Back to 2006: I Really Don't Know How to Trade Stocks 回档2006，我真不懂炒股啊 This is the story of an ordinary man's rise, also known as Zhou Yang's Speculation Journal. In his previous life, Zhou Yang had never set foot in the stock market, and he was a failure in every sense. He returned to 2006 with a notebook that recorded stock movements. Zhou Yang witnessed this tumultuous era. He entered the stock market and went up against the market manipulators, started businesses with friends, and began his career as a speculator. After countless setbacks, he finally gained eve 6.8kReads8.4Score557Shelves
- 120 Reborn: I’ll Reach the Summit 重生之我要会当凌绝顶 Liu Chen, a 46-year-old founder of a top private equity firm, spent half his life fighting in the business world, only to be betrayed by his partners, lose everything in a hundred-billion-yuan wipeout, and die suddenly of a heart attack. As he lay dying, news that his first love, Su Wanqing, had been abused by her husband and fallen to her death became a lifelong regret carved into his very bones. He opens his eyes to find himself back in 1997, in a senior high school classroom with 98 days left 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 The Pride of Chinese Brands: From Knockoff Phones to Shocking the World 国货之光，从山寨机开始震惊全球 [Urban] [Technology] [Period] [Made in China] [Entrepreneurship] [Farming] Ye Chen is reborn as the president of a tech company, only to find workers blocking the entrance with banners, demanding unpaid wages from the start. What should he do? Anything that money can solve is easy! He activates the Super Domestic Products System and gains a host of advanced equipment, technology, and talent! He starts with knockoff phones and shocks the world! Chips and lithography machines? Those are a piece of 2.1kReads6.9Score100Shelves
- 122 Reborn: I Just Want to Make Money 重生：只想搞钱 [Reborn + Daily Life + Lighthearted + Fun + Making Money + Building] Lu Yi is reborn, and uses his foresight as a golden finger to make money like crazy. Uses a game cheat to get things started. Then cashes in on another round of compensation from a demolition project. Wait, this jade pendant is about to skyrocket in value! He runs into the campus belle he used to grovel after. What are you, anyway? Get lost! Reborn once, all he wants is to make money. Women will only slow him down. Just kee 133Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 123 Reborn as a Thoroughly Ordinary Man 重生之我是大俗人 (No AI, entirely handwritten.) Before being reborn, Feng Yu was an ordinary vulgar man. After being reborn, Feng Yu was even more vulgar. Successful men wear watches. Mature men wear a “hand card.” Let the past blow away on the wind. In this life, Feng Yu was going to make money, get foot massages, enjoy a massage… and live it up for once! … Note: The book contains many unusual details, all drawn from the author’s personal experience or things they have seen firsthand. Just enjoy the story, and 60.5kReads8.2Score4kShelves
- 124 Reborn: The Class Belle Became My Wife 重生之班花成了我的老婆 [College Entrance Exam] + [Reborn] + [Love and Revenge] + [Academic Ace] + [Class Beauty] + [Memories of a Past Life] After the love and resentment between him and two girlfriends in his past life, what will happen when he is reborn? In his past life, he married a simple village woman. After being reborn, he marries the class beauty. In his past life, he was a hopeless underachiever. After being reborn, he becomes an academic ace. In his past life, Ren Ziqiang was dumped by three women. After be 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 Reborn Before the College Entrance Exam 重生回到高考前 In his thirties and still single, Chu Chengmu is reborn in 2003, just before the college entrance exams. Looking back on his youthful past through the eyes of an adult, he realizes that many of his old regrets could have been avoided. The times he chose to lie flat, backed down, or got caught up in worry and indecision will all be changed for good. In this life, he has a much stronger starting point and a broader perspective, along with more audacious ambitions and heavier responsibilities. This 1.5kReads6.7Score101Shelves
- 126 Global Capitalist: I Became the Richest Man Starting in College 全球资本家：从大学开始当首富 Urban rebirth + business strategy + financial investment + tech entrepreneurship + showbiz + a sharp-minded protagonist Reborn in 2014, Ye Feng gets rear-ended by superstar Yang Mi, giving him his first fortune and setting him on the path to becoming a global capitalist! That year: Domestic smartphone makers were just getting started; the food delivery industry was ablaze with competition; the ride-hailing market was rife with fierce rivalry; short-video giants were mired in copyright crises. Th 100Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 127 The World's Richest Man: I'm the Stock God 世界首富之我是股神 After wasting forty years in his previous life, Li Jin was given a chance by fate to live again. Standing at the turning point of the year 2000, he swore: Rewrite the future and reach the pinnacle of life! 352Reads8.7Score285Shelves
- 128 Reborn Stock God: Starting with Tenfold Leverage 重生股神从十倍杠杆开始 With tenfold leverage, one limit-up and your money doubles! Leng Dongtian unexpectedly dies and is reborn, transmigrating to 2014. Starting with just 60,000 yuan, he uses tenfold leverage to win one battle after another, then wields billions in capital to dominate the stock market, undefeated. Here, there is wealth, ambition, and love, along with the glorious years of Leng Dongtian. This is the legendary story of Leng Dongtian. 6.4kReads8.7Score490Shelves
- 129 I’m Reborn, So Why Am I Still Getting Dumped? 都重生了，还要被分手？ [Goofy, funny, lighthearted humor, everyday campus life, no System, sweet and angsty] When faced with his first love from his previous life, he runs without hesitation. Forget personal standards and enjoy a shameless life. Better to make things difficult for others than make yourself miserable. 331Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Reborn: The Life of the Richest Man 重生之首富人生 Reborn in 1998, I ride the crest of the IT boom as wealth pours in like a flood. I can turn the clouds with one hand and the rain with the other. I’m going to make this world regret ever looking down on me. 13.4kReads8.7Score1.2kShelves
- 131 Too Young to Know Aunties Were the Best, I Wasted My Youth Planting Rice 年少不知阿姨香，错拿青春插稻秧 After spending a night tangled up with his secretary, Chen Xingzhou is reborn in 2005. When he opens his eyes, the classroom blackboard reads, "Two days until the college entrance exams," and the girl he loved in his youth is sitting beside him. Chen Xingzhou has just turned eighteen. Ahead of him lie not only the college entrance exams, but also the red-hot bull market of 2005 to 2007, the global financial crisis of 2008, and a decade-long golden age for the internet. In the prime of youth, 44.3kReads8.8Score4.5kShelves
- 132 Back to Life: The Low-Key Tycoon 重返人生之低调大亨 In the middle of the night, Gao Yuanyuan knocked on the door. “Jing Hao! Quit playing dead in there and come out to work. Look at the time! Stop slacking off.” Jing Hao: “Yuanyuan, weren't you with Anna?...” 4kReads8.2Score174Shelves
- 133 Honghuang's Stock Market God 洪荒股神 From an omniscient perspective, value investing and technical analysis are no better than a gorilla’s level of understanding. This fantastical stock-market novel cuts straight to human nature and probes the depths of the soul. In a world of ideas, imagine controlling the market, becoming a major shareholder and a market mover, and conquering the realms of Heaven, Earth, and humanity. Experience a different version of yourself, take in the grand vision and lofty perspective of the successful, and 85Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 Reborn in 1994: Building the Perfect Leading Man 重生94：打造完美男神 The rating just came out. It’ll go up later~ [No Excessive Hostility] [Fast Timeline] [One-on-One Romance] At thirty-three, Liu Sen gets a fresh start after a failed life and returns, carrying memories of his previous life, to a maternity ward in 1994. The Perfect Male God System activates, and this time he starts striving for excellence from infancy. Discipline, growth, strength. The pacing is fast. It takes about 20 chapters to go from infancy to college, so keep up! A new author with a new b 297Reads6.5Score106Shelves
- 135 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—Shelves
- 136 Back to 1993: The Perfect Life 重返93之完美人生 The 1990s were a time when fortunes were made. Countless people rose and fell, while countless others followed in their footsteps. Yet the people of southwestern Shandong remained trapped in poverty. Lu Zijian suddenly returned to 1993. His second life began with a blind date. 334Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 137 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? 271Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 138 Reborn in 2013: Starting a Tycoon's Life 重生2013开始土豪人生 After losing money in the stock market, Zhang Yang transmigrates back to 2013 and unexpectedly gains a golden finger for stock trading. He begins the most realistic battle in the capital markets, founding a real estate company, developing lithography machines, and sweeping aside international financial giants. From then on, he starts living the life of a tycoon. (This book gets off to a somewhat slow start, but the story is definitely worth looking forward to.) 5.4kReads7.9Score309Shelves
- 139 The Thrills and Reflections of a Reborn Stock God 重生股神的刺激与深思 From the author's god's-eye view, value investing and technical analysis are both only at the level of a gorilla. The book's value goal: to surpass the historic 6,124-point high of 2007. The bull market will come sooner or later, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps already on its way. But how many people truly understand a bull market? How many can seize a bull market that comes once in a lifetime? Watch Yuan Chen get reborn into the epic bull market of 2005-2007, lead his entire school and village into s 147Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 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 4kReads8.5Score291Shelves
- 141 Reborn in Hong Kong: A Chaotic Life 重生香江之混亂人生 303Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 142 Reborn in '98: From Devoted Husband to Global Mogul 重生98：从宠妻狂魔到全球大佬 The comic adaptation is now online. This million-word masterpiece delivers nonstop thrills, so read with confidence. Also known as The Dragon of the Business World and Urban Storms of 1998 (Rebirth + period setting + a scumbag turning over a new leaf + devoted husband + dad life + getting rich + nonstop thrills) “Sweetheart, if... Mom and Dad got divorced, who would you want to live with?” Luo Yuner asked her four- or five-year-old daughter in despair. “No, I don’t want Mom and Dad to get di 1.5kReads9.1Score124Shelves
- 143 All My Students Are Superstars 我的学生全是巨星 (The rating just came out, so it'll gradually climb.) Class 40, Grade 11, is where the whole year group's troublemakers are gathered. Fighting, brawling, skipping class, gaming all night, causing trouble... They can't study, but they're experts at everything else. Chen Yihang takes over the class as its PE teacher, armed with a God-Tier Teacher System. “Qualifications are a ticket for the weak. You don't need them.” “Stick with me, and in three days... Starve? What the hell are you talking a 59Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 144 Reborn, Yet You’re Holding the Campus Belle’s White Stockings? 重生了，你却拿着校花的白丝袜？ With the white socks from your first love at eighteen in your hands, how are you, a middle-aged man, supposed to explain yourself... Reborn, reborn, reborn, and this is what you do with your second chance? [Urban Rebirth]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [College Campus]+ [Realistic Entrepreneurship]+ [Steady Growth]+ [Overseas Storyline] Jiang Feng, a research director at a fund company and a graduate of a prestigious university, wakes up one night back in 2009, before the college entrance exams. So wha 227Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 We Agreed to Make Phones, So What Is This Huaxia Heavy Industries?! 说好搞手机，这华夏重工什么鬼！ “Engineer Zhou, let's start a business together...” “Starting a business takes money.” “I've still got 400 million in my account. It should be enough if we're careful.” “…” Zhou Fan, a man reborn, receives a heartfelt invitation from Mr. Lei and ultimately agrees to start a business together. But as the company grows... “Engineer Zhou, our phones have such good communications capabilities that they've ended up on the battlefield... The Americans have sanctioned us... They say it's becaus 4kReads7.3Score184Shelves
- 146 Reborn: Making Money Is the Right Way 重生，搞钱才是正道 [Business and stocks] [Period] [No System] [Campus entrepreneurship] [Revenge] [Lighthearted comedy] The protagonist, Chen Ze, is reborn in 2010, just after the college entrance exams. He confesses to the goddess he’s pursued for three years, only to be rejected. In a fit of anger, he cuts ties with her. She asks him to pursue her for another two years, but he refuses outright, saying, “I’ve lost interest in romance. Making money is the only fun in my life.” Next, he borrows from loan sharks and 5.5kReads7.8Score286Shelves
- 147 Back to Fifteen 重回十五 [Rebirth + School Life + Growing Up + Two Academic Geniuses + Childhood Sweethearts + Healing + An Equally Matched Romance + No Toxic Characters; the heroine goes through periods of uncertainty and growth, with the story varying by volume.] After working hard for thirty years, she wakes up back at fifteen and discovers she’s the book’s beloved first love? What a mental breakdown. But look at her: healthy, glowing skin, and able to eat anything she wants! Tsk! What does the plot have to do with h 394Reads9.0Score108Shelves
- 148 Reborn at Eighteen, I Really Just Want to Make Money 重生十八，我真的只想搞钱啊 (Reborn as a food-delivery app developer, no System, multiple female leads, everyday life, entrepreneurship, an entertainment-industry storyline, with illustrations) After an accident, Lin Shuchen wakes up as an eighteen-year-old boy. After spending more than a decade as a programmer in his previous life, he doesn't want to work for someone else this time around. Starting with an inconspicuous food-ordering mini-program, he visits restaurants, builds the system, takes on group catering, and trie 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 Tycoon: Dad, Go Start a Business. I'm Ready to Retire 神豪：爹，你去创业，我得养老了 Zhou Qing was a twenty-four-year-old office worker saddled with a million yuan in debt because his father had started a business years ago. After a few drinks with a friend, his retirement System activated forty years early. [Detected: Zhou Qing, still accomplishing nothing at age sixty, lamenting his lost youth. Retirement System activated. 1,000,000 yuan in pension funds issued!] [Now that your youth is gone, you should cherish your golden years! Let your imagination run wild and enjoy a retir 1.9kReads8.3Score102Shelves
- 150 Reborn in 2009 重生之2009 Ding Zhiyi was reborn in 2009. In his previous life, he lived to be thirty-five without accomplishing anything. Given a chance to be reborn, Ding Zhiyi chose to copy novels and earn his first fortune, winning the favor of a beautiful campus belle. Then he filmed a web drama, achieving great success and astonishing the beautiful campus belles at the film academy. Thanks to his second chance at life, Ding Zhiyi achieved tremendous success in his career and enjoyed life in the company of all kinds 1.8kReads7.0Score102Shelves
