Novels like Reborn in 1985
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- 1 A Passion for Business: The Reborn Young Master’s Comeback 商海燃情：重生少东家的逆袭 Passion in the Business World: The Reborn Young Master Strikes Back I transmigrated into Wang Tianyou, the universally despised playboy heir of the Wang Group in Binhai City in 1998! His father had been secretly murdered, and his uncle had usurped the company and drained its assets. Just as the original Wang Tianyou got drunk, caused a disaster, and lay on the brink of death, a modern finance master's student returned with the memories of twenty years of economic foresight! With finance and cap —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Reborn: I Really Didn't Mean to Become the Richest Man 重生之我真没想当首富 Zhang Haoyang was reborn in the 1990s. At the time, his father had not yet been framed, and his mother had not been implicated. With Zhang Haoyang’s help, his father dealt with the enemy who had set him up. Meanwhile, Zhang Haoyang quickly rose to success in this era brimming with business opportunities. Years later, when a reporter asked what it felt like to rank first on the Forbes list, Zhang Haoyang answered with complete seriousness: “I never wanted to be the richest man.” 326Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 3 Reborn in 1980 重生1980 A once-in-a-generation business genius accidentally transmigrates back to that day, that year. At last, he has a chance to make up for the regret that had seemed impossible to put right in this life. For her, he would spend every last coin under heaven! Watch as he builds his fortune step by step, seizes the advantage in the market, claims his share of the profits, rises to the forefront of the world, and reaches the summit once more! 37Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 4 Reborn: Career and Love? Money and Beautiful Women! 重生，事业和爱情？金钱加美女！ Reborn in 2005: investment, fortune, multiple heroines, and no System After the protagonist is reborn, he gets into stocks, venture capital, futures, real estate, and more. A complete golden finger for financial investing, with a real historical basis for every kind of investment. The fun lies in keeping it real, with a story that is 100% true to the development of China’s financial markets. The fun lies in keeping it real. 100% hands-on financial industry experience. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Reborn in 1997: Taking the Reins of a Prosperous Era 重生九七：执掌盛世繁华 This is an urban novel with no System. It has both tender, heart-wrenching romance and grand, turbulent business intrigue. See how Tang Xiao starts from nothing, builds his own business empire, and takes charge of a prosperous age. 50Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Living a Second Life, I Gave It My Most Precious Possession 重活一世，我把命根子给了它 2002: Robbed right from the start. His tuition was gone, his living expenses were gone, and even his ID card was gone. But the mysterious pendant from the corpse of his previous life had come along with him. The deputy general manager he’d been in his previous life had fallen so low that he was penniless, barely scraping together his next meal. What made him think he could still act so cocky? I know how to get ahead of the competition and avoid pitfalls. You tell me, isn’t that impressive? Of co 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Reborn in 1983 重生1983 In 1983, when our family split up, all I got was two mu of dry farmland and a dilapidated pigsty. I swore on an empty stomach that I would make something of myself! 126Reads7.2Score103Shelves
- 8 After I Was Reborn, My Wife Gave Birth to Twins, a Boy and a Girl 重生后，老婆为我生下龙凤胎 One night in 2002. Chen Haodong got a call from a mahjong friend, hurriedly shut the door behind him, and rushed straight to the gambling den. That night, back at home, the doors and windows were tightly shut, and the coal briquettes in the stove burned bright red. His pregnant wife lay asleep in bed. When he returned home the next day, his wife and their unborn child had already died of carbon monoxide poisoning. It left Chen Haodong with a lifetime of regret. … Fortunately, Chen Haodong was re 137Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 9 Reborn as an Investment Expert 重生之投资专家 Reborn and back for revenge, I’ll crush every clown in the world. I’m the greatest investment expert 108Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 10 Reborn in 2012: Riding the Tide 重生2012逆流而上 [Sound logic] [Clear-eyed about the world] [One heroine] [First-time writer, please bear with me] [Just kidding, don't come after me] Reborn, Lu Yuanzheng gets a second chance at life. With an unreliable System, he rises to the top and builds his own business empire. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Tide Trilogy: 1984, Rekindling Life 浪潮三部曲：1984，重燃人生 Lu Zhenhua, a business magnate worth trillions, wakes from a dream to find himself back in 1984. His father is facing unemployment, his family is on the verge of falling apart, and he alone holds the key to the next thirty years. He makes his start trading government bonds, navigating the cracks in the dual-track pricing system and building a bloody fortune in the gray areas of steel and cement. He is the sharpest hunter amid the first stirrings of a new era, and the boldest gambler before the r —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Reborn in 1999: From Poverty to the World's Richest 重生1999，我从贫困户走到全球首富 In his previous life, he was timid and obedient, with a beautiful wife and a child. All he wanted was a quiet, stable life, and he thought his life was perfect and brilliant. He never expected it would all come to nothing, and that he would die without knowing why. Reborn, he was kicked out by his wife with nothing to his name. From that point on, he began his journey from discarded son-in-law to the richest man alive... —Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 13 Reborn: Back in 1987 to Become a Millionaire 重生：回到1987当富翁 Li Zhi unexpectedly arrives in 1987. His family has nothing, and they can't even scrape together enough money to buy meat for the New Year. His family of five is hungry and freezing, but with him around, there's nothing to fear. Give him seven days, and his family's life will be transformed beyond recognition. Then he fights his way to the top, taking on clothing, restaurants, real estate, automobiles, and high technology! With insight far ahead of his time, he builds his own business empire! In 114Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 14 Reborn in 1999 重生1999 Fate plays Chen Rui a cruel joke. He returns to the age of eighteen, with memories long forgotten and youth restored. With a real second chance at life, what can he do? Live without regrets, stand on the shoulders of giants, feel the Siberian sea breeze, and drink Spanish red wine. Become the godfather of the entertainment industry… the idol of the rich… the sugar daddy of the powerful… Chen Rui, a shameless, penniless loser, makes an incredible comeback! 525Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 15 Reborn in 1986 重生1986 Li Lijuan lived an utterly ordinary life, but then she returned to her childhood. When she experienced all those things she hadn't understood back then all over again, she realized how much she had overlooked. Surely she could avoid at least some of those regrets this time. 593Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 16 Reborn in 2004: Get Rich First, Then Help Others Get Rich 重生2004：先富带动后富 In 2004, Long Xing was reborn on a train heading south to find work. In his previous life, everyone had thought he was brilliant, but in the end, he became a source of regret for them all. His father died after falling ill in poverty. His mother went gray overnight, and his younger sister dropped out of school to work, growing estranged from him from then on. His childhood sweetheart, He Yuxin, never forgave him because of a misunderstanding. His girlfriend, Ma Xiaolan, miscarried after an accid 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Back to 2007 as a Big Shot 重返2007当大佬 [Urban + Period Setting + Reborn + Urban Daydreams + City Life + Workplace] Lu Yang, founder of the Kuaidou platform, is reborn in 2007. In this life, he wants to do just two things: never again miss the people he shouldn't have let slip away, and never let the people around him suffer even the slightest grievance! Along the way, he'll dabble in the internet and build up the nation through industry. 488Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 18 Reborn in the 1980s: Making My Mark in the Business World 重生八零纵横商海 This novel follows the male protagonist as he develops the rural economy in line with the historical course of the 1980s. Amid the tide of reform and opening up, he leads farmers to prosperity and makes his due contribution to safeguarding national interests and protecting national security. It portrays the many faces of society in the early years of reform and opening up, a time of immense change when some people pursued only their own interests while others worked for their country and their p 208Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 19 Reborn in 1988 重生1988 Internet tycoon Jiang Ning returns to 1988. Seeing his beautiful wife about to take her own life and his adorable daughter, he’s at a loss. In this era of land grabs, Jiang Ning makes fortunes with a wave of his hand. He wins his wife and daughter’s affection, looks after his siblings and friends, and ultimately achieves great things. 30Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 20 Reborn in 1999: I Became the World's Richest Man 重生1999，我成了全球首富 [No System + High Technology + Multiple Heroines] Xia Chao is reborn and decides to do something spectacular. He sets himself a modest goal: to become the richest person in the world! He finds his first pot of gold in his enemy's woodshed. Then his wealth grows through the stock market. After that, he opens internet cafes, develops online games, and builds computers, phones, cars, massive ships, and aerospace carriers... Looking back years later, he realizes that even then, he set his sights too 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Reborn, I Bid Farewell to My Ex-Wife 重生了，告别前妻 In his previous life, he married Yang Caifeng, a beautiful widow, and became the laughingstock of the Fen Dou Forest Farm. After spending half his life helping her support another man, she ran off with someone else. He lost everything and met a tragic end at the hands of his adopted son, who beat him with a wooden stick. He never expected Heaven to take pity on him and give him a second life. Reborn in 1981, he is in the middle of divorcing Yang Caifeng. Yang Caifeng: “This time around, you're m 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Reborn: Back in 1991 to Become a Tycoon 重生：回到1991当首富 Business tycoon Li Yi is reborn in 1991. His wife hasn't divorced him, and his daughter hasn't been kidnapped. Before the IT boom arrives, he gets his start at a meat processing plant, rides the wave of the times, and builds one business legend after another... 41Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 23 Reborn as an Internet Mogul 重生之互联网大亨 2004. Baidu had been online for four years. JD.com had been founded six years earlier. NetEase had been around for seven years. Alibaba was celebrating its fifth anniversary, and Taobao had only just launched the year before. Luo Chen was unexpectedly reborn in 2004, as the internet was beginning to boom. Watch him rise step by step to become an industry magnate! 1.1kReads5.1Score—Shelves
- 24 Reborn, With One Goal: Make Money 重生，一心一意搞钱 The Judge's verdict left Ox-Head and Horse-Face staring at him in utter confusion. Was it “live again”? So Wang Ming got to live again, and even brought along a stock market prediction System. Can he build the life he wants in this new chance at life? What kind of exciting experiences await him? This is a story of defying fate and changing one's name, of making different choices to resolve the regrets left by a previous life. Once you're rich, would you dare say, “In this life, money holds no in 1kReads8.1Score105Shelves
- 25 Back to 1998 重返1998 After years of dominating the business world, he was unexpectedly reborn in 1998, an era when fortunes were there for the taking. Without his billion-dollar fortune or former glory, he had to start everything over from scratch. Jiang Yang was determined to carve out a new era, one that belonged to him alone! 23Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 26 Life's Winner Starts at Forty 人生赢家从四十岁开始 “The Host's physical condition is poor. Would you like to improve the Host's health?” “Improving the Host's health has begun.” “Improvement complete. System binding successful.” At forty, Chen Tian arrives at another crossroads in life, when a System for Life-Winning Success drops from the sky. Starting with buying and selling stocks, she goes on to establish companies, sell her Zhihu shares, acquire the Shangri-La, and become Apple's largest individual shareholder. She crosses paths with numero 1.4kReads7.3Score—Shelves
- 27 The Strongest Rising Star 最强红人 At nearly thirty, Zhang Chengguang had terrible luck. His career was plagued by setbacks, and his superiors humiliated and oppressed him. Even his beloved wife chose that moment to ask for a divorce! Zhang Chengguang had reached the darkest point of his life. Then, an accident changed everything. After rescuing an old man on the roadside who was close to death, he suddenly became director of the General Office of Dongjiang Iron and Steel Group. From then on, he rose steadily, enjoying success at 256Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 28 Reborn in 1983: Sister-in-Law, I'm Back 重生1983：嫂子，我回来了 Synopsis: Song Fei is reborn in 1983, when he is 21. Matchmaker Sun comes to his door to propose that he marry a simple-minded village girl, but he flatly refuses! Liu Nong comes to collect a debt from his sister-in-law, Ma Yueying, and Song Fei immediately promises to repay it for her. Riding the wave of reform, he builds a thriving business and gives his sister-in-law a taste of warmth. His sister-in-law won't marry, and Song Fei won't take a wife. Rumors spread throughout the village. Ma Yuey 226Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 29 Ruthless and Decisive: The Hong Kong Tycoon’s Rise to Power 杀伐果断：港岛大亨强势崛起 It's 1973. Just as things were looking up, an unprecedented typhoon came along and sent Big Shot Wah and all his top men, boat and all, to the fishes. Snake Boy Ming had been hanging around the dock warehouse, hoping to coast through life doing nothing. Thanks to his eight years as a veteran member of the Wo Tu gang, he somehow rose through the ranks... What? Make a run for it? No way. We don't have a boat. What do you mean? You want more money... 1.1kReads6.2Score—Shelves
- 30 Reborn, Who Would Study Civil Engineering? 都重生了谁学土木啊 [Campus life + Everyday moments + Lighthearted + No System + Sweet romance + A struggling startup + A little romantic rivalry] On a construction site, the only thing that’s female is a nut. Everything else is male! Yu Xian spent ten years mixing concrete on construction sites, so he knew this all too well. He thought he was destined to be alone for the rest of his life, but unexpectedly, he returned to 2012, when he was eighteen. Unwilling to accept his fate, the young man decisively broke free —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Back to 1970: Starting Out as a Fool! 回到70从傻子开始！ He returns to the 1970s and becomes a fool known far and wide. He has parents who love him, brothers and sisters who get along wonderfully, those mountains, that water, and that lovely, charming girl! 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Reborn in 2002: I Strike It Rich and Buy a Stake in Penguin 重生02：暴富后举牌企鹅 “The domain name and trademark have already been registered?” “Which company registered them?” “Future Investments?” Old Ma was surprised to hear that someone had registered the name he had racked his brains to come up with. When he learned it was Future Investments, he smiled. Great minds really did think alike. “What? Someone has taken a stake in the company?” Tencent had only recently gone public, and Ma Huateng was riding high. The news left him stunned. “Was it Future Investments?” “Oh, th 1.6kReads—Score125Shelves
- 33 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 1.2kReads8.4Score103Shelves
- 34 Back in the 1970s as an Educated Youth: Beating the Thief Who Stole My Life 重回七零当知青：爆锤人生小偷 [Reborn in the 1970s + farming + pocket dimension + a pampered, sweet young wife] With a deafening bang, Zhou Shiyi was sent flying by a car. It was only today that he learned the truth about his own life. He had been admitted to university, but someone had taken his place under a false name. That person was now thriving, with a bright future ahead. If not for that letter, he would still be completely in the dark. Reborn, he swore not only to reclaim the life that should have been his, but also 2.4kReads8.0Score213Shelves
- 35 Reborn in 1987, I Set Up a Street Stall and Become the World's Richest 重生1987，摆地摊成世界首富 Chen Yong transmigrates and is reborn, rising from a good-for-nothing to a trailblazer of his age! When the pathetic Chen Yong catches his wife betraying him, he leaps from a high-rise in despair, only for a soul from another world to arrive by chance: another Chen Yong, with the same name but great ambitions! Reborn in 1987, a golden age full of opportunity and challenge, he vows to rewrite his fate and leave the humiliations of the past behind. Divorce is the first spark of his new life. It se 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Road to Becoming a Tycoon Begins with Working in Reborn Singapore 首富从重生新加坡打工开始 A senior white-collar worker from the city unexpectedly returns to 1994, to his days working overseas in Singapore. He suddenly realizes that he’s on the eve of an era about to sweep across the world, with opportunities everywhere and a royal flush in his hand! He had planned to make his first fortune in women’s lingerie, but never expected it to come from one of his own pillowcases. He also runs headlong into a wealthy Nanyang Peranakan family and gets caught up in an ambiguously romantic story 52Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 37 I Am a Martial Arts Grandmaster, Conquering the Soviet Union to Become an Oligarch 我，国术宗师，横推苏联成寡头 Powerhouse, tycoon, political intrigue, oligarchs, martial arts, and the struggle for supremacy. A recommended audiobook, with rapid-fire updates and nonstop thrills. Moscow foothold arc → Clear out the Urals → Take over the aviation industry → The Ukrainian warlords' battle for supremacy arc (ongoing) In 2026, martial arts grandmaster Lu Zheng stepped in to help during a street attack. In two seconds, he crippled six knife-wielding thugs, but was ambushed and stabbed in the heart while protecti 255Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 38 A Monthly Salary of 4,000, Yet I Can Still Invest a Trillion in New Energy 月薪四千，不耽误我投万亿新能源 The good news: I got fifty billion from the start. The bad news: my monthly salary is 4,100. The good news: my salary goes up when my hometown’s GDP grows. The bad news: my hometown’s industries are in decline, and its talent is leaving in droves. Chen Mo bound himself to the Hometown Revitalization System and got a fifty-billion-yuan dream start. But the money could only be spent on developing his hometown, while he himself was stuck with a pitiful salary. His monthly pay would rise only if his 56.3kReads7.5Score3.7kShelves
- 39 The Whole Internet Calls Me the Goddess of Good Fortune, but I'm Really a Man 全网叫我锦鲤女神，可我真是男的 [Cross-Dressing] [System] [Finance] [Comedy] [One Female Lead] [Stock Market Jinx] [Lucky Physique] Shen Zhou is a financial genius who got a perfect score in math on the college entrance exam. He’s also the internet’s most famous stock market jinx: his analysis is always right, but his conclusions are always the opposite of what happens, giving him an 87% reverse-prediction success rate. His followers do the opposite of what he recommends and beat the CSI 300 by twenty percentage points. Big-ti 98Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Transmigrating Through Reform and Opening Up 穿越改革开放 Lin Chen, a seasoned entrepreneur with deep experience in the modern internet, physical commerce, and capital operations, transmigrates by accident to 1978, on the eve of China's reform and opening-up. He becomes a down-and-out young man with the same name in a poor village in Guangdong Province in the south. His parents died when he was young, leaving him with a dilapidated home and nothing to his name. Cowardly by nature, the original Lin Chen was looked down on by the villagers and bullied by 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Reborn in 1980: My Road to Riches 重生80我的致富人生 Zhang Bin was an ordinary man at the bottom of modern society. Under the pressure of life, he ended up losing his wife and family. He'd planned to drink himself into oblivion, but unexpectedly returned to the 1980s. Given a new lease on life, Zhang Bin decides he won't live like his predecessor, waking up every day to run around paying off his car and mortgage, supporting his family and children, and constantly worrying about what others think. I'm tired, says Zhang Bin. This time, I'm going to 61Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 42 Reborn in 2007: Surrounded by Beautiful Women 重生2007，美女如云 Business empire + multiple entrepreneurial ventures + sweet romance + beauties everywhere Yuan Mufei was reborn at the most crucial turning point in his life: the summer before he started college. In his previous life, he had wasted four years at university, and after graduation, he had no choice in the matter. Given another life, he would not let himself fall into ruin or lose his first love. Throughout his four years at university, he studied and built businesses, striving forward with the per 1.1kReads6.2Score100Shelves
- 43 Urban: I Accidentally Became a Business Tycoon 都市：不小心成了商业巨头 This is not a wish-fulfillment novel, and there is no System. It focuses on entertainment and business, with tight, consistent logic. “You sold our house.” “It was my house, not ours.” Zhang Yizhe emphasized the point, then looked at the fashionable, beautiful young woman across from him and demanded angrily, “You had Professor Liang arrange this coffee date with me just to talk about this?” 1.4kReads7.8Score105Shelves
- 44 Reborn in 1997: Building My Business Empire! 重生97：打造我的商业帝国！ [No System] [Revenge] [Scheming] [play the pig to eat the tiger] [Rise of an ordinary man] [Ostentatiously wealthy] In his previous life, Jiang Nan was thrown in prison, and his life sank into the dust. He drifted through it in a daze. After being reborn, he didn't repeat the mistakes of his previous life. Although he knew in his previous life that it was a plot against him, he had been powerless to take revenge. In this life, he would hack his way through every obstacle and make his enemies pay 177Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 45 Reborn in 1996: I Made Billions in the Stock Market 重生96：我股市赚千亿 Zhou Hao died. Reborn in 1996, he was just eighteen years old. But he knew this was a golden age for the stock market. With just 8,000 yuan in startup capital, he earned his first fortune in stocks! After building up his capital in the stock market, he invested in real estate, technology, medicine, and more! He became the richest man in the country! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Back to 1980: Riding the Wave to Make a Fortune 回到1980，乘着风口去捡钱 [Fast-paced, no dragging things out. You’ll see what it’s about for yourselves.] Qin An is reborn in 1980. Drawing on his knowledge of the future and riding the wave of economic reform, he builds his business empire step by step. He opens a cigarette factory and earns foreign currency. He opens a canning factory, producing canned mushrooms, asparagus, and mesona. He supports the development of special economic zones and drives reforms to the rationing system. He starts a construction company and 5Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 47 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! 4kReads7.9Score274Shelves
- 48 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… 217Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 49 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! 456Reads8.1Score100Shelves
- 50 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... 437Reads8.0Score101Shelves
