Novels like Starting in 2008, I Took Over the Whole World
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Starting in 2008, I Took Over the Whole World, best match first.
- 1 Reborn as a Financial Tycoon 重生之金融大鳄 When history returns to 2012, Chen Feng knows his chance to get rich has arrived. Invest, invest, invest! Using the advantage of being reborn, he takes one step at a time toward becoming the richest man in the world. 225Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 2 2018: Don't Think You Can Fool Me Again 2018，别想再骗我 Before jumping, Zhang Yue's final thought wasn't about money. It was about Zeng Wan. The girl on the factory assembly line who always snuck him water, her eyes curving like moons whenever she smiled. She came from a wealthy family and had only joined the factory for some life experience. In his previous life, she confessed her feelings, but he rejected her out of insecurity. Later, he heard she had married a spoiled rich kid and was unhappy. When he opened his eyes again, it was the summer of 2 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Reborn with the Stock Market's Soul, I Command a Billion Trades Like a God 重生觉醒股魂，操盘神之亿手 This book is complete, and the ending is not rushed. Read with confidence. In the stock market, whoever knows the secret to wealth can soar to the top. A small-time city dweller is reborn and awakens the soul of a stock trader. He breaks through every obstacle, uses AI to harvest global assets, aggressively develops new technologies, and rewrites the course of the world. He battles above his weight class, taking on capital, billionaires, and Wall Street. He makes a spectacular impact in the fina 53Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 4 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
- 5 The World’s Richest Man: A Never-Ending Flow of Wealth 世界首富之财源滚滚 In her previous life, the crushing burdens of everyday life broke Zhao Ming. By a twist of fate, he returned to 1995. Caught in the tide of the times, Zhao Ming had hoped to keep a low profile, but his abilities wouldn't let him. He could only forge his own path to the top! 442Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 6 Back in My Senior Year of High School: Letting Loose All Summer 重回高三，从暑假开始尽情浪 To win the heart of the campus belle, Jiang Ye gave her all his money and shares in his company. Not only did he fail to win her affection, but the greedy girl poisoned him and took his life. Fortunately, Jiang Ye was reborn in 2006, an era of youthful innocence and reckless abandon. That year, Jiang Ye had just turned eighteen, with only a month left until the college entrance exams. Given a second chance at life, Jiang Ye resolved to take his revenge and established his own life motto: Make mo 2.5kReads7.3Score202Shelves
- 7 Reborn in 2015: The Palm-Sized Tycoon System 重生2015：掌上神豪养成系统 [Finance + business warfare + technology + tycoon] [Build a financial empire early on, then pivot to developing technology] Su Beichen had been enjoying the blessings of the 996 work schedule. After three straight all-nighters, his vision went black. When he woke up, he found himself reborn in the summer of 2015, just after finishing his junior year of college. [Tycoon Training System activated. Have fun!] Su Beichen took a closer look. Wasn't this the shady mobile game I'd made while pulling al 25Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 8 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—Shelves
- 9 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
- 10 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
- 11 Becoming a Super Rich Man Starting in College 从大学开始，成为超级富豪 Back in 2005, the internet was entering a golden age, and the protagonist hoped to claim the most delicious slice of the pie. Starting with Renren, he ventures into movies, phones, games, investments, entertainment, e-commerce, new energy, drones... From the internet to manufacturing, from the internet to showbiz, he builds his fortune while enjoying life. Watch as the protagonist gradually becomes a business magnate. 469Reads—Score100Shelves
- 12 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
- 13 Reborn in 1997, I Became the World’s Richest 重生1997，我成了世界首富 Ling Yun was reborn in 1997 as a young man saddled with massive debt. He had no choice! Relying on memories from his previous life, he decided to borrow some money from financial markets around the world to tide himself over. Wall Street, with its abundant capital, was naturally the perfect place. His frenzied money-making and large-scale acquisitions soon caught the attention of Western financial conglomerates, which moved to suppress him. And so began a war of blockades and counter-blockades, 1.4kReads8.7Score111Shelves
- 14 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
- 15 Reborn as a Financial Power Player 重生之金融大玩家 In his previous life, he was the good-for-nothing his classmates mocked, a hapless stock-market sucker, and even his first love became his enemy's plaything. After being unexpectedly reborn, Cao Yi decided to cherish every second of his life and build a financial empire of his own! What? You say he has a few too many female confidantes? No worries. Your bro is full of energy. I can handle it... 37Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 16 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
- 17 Reborn: The Business Empire of the Old Yuan Family 重生之老袁家的商业帝国 Reborn, he discovers that his father actually came back several years earlier. His father has laid a decent foundation. With no System and no golden finger, if he wants to lie flat, he’ll first need to build up the family’s assets. He’ll farm diligently and earn money honestly. Due to review requirements, Chapter 2 appears after Chapter 42. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause while reading. 750Reads6.9Score102Shelves
- 18 Reborn in the Millennium: Rising from the Ruins of My Family's Bankruptcy 重生千禧年：从家族破产开始崛起 Chen Ping'an wakes from a deep sleep to the sound of countless people demanding that he pay them back. When he sees his familiar surroundings, he freezes: he has been reborn at the moment his family went bankrupt. Armed with memories from his previous life and all kinds of marketing tricks, watch Chen Ping'an resolve his family's financial crisis and lead them to become the richest family in the world. 670Reads7.2Score100Shelves
- 19 Reborn: Misappropriating Tuition to Trade Stocks, Earning a Trillion 重生：从挪用学费炒股，爆赚万亿 Wang Hao is an ordinary finance worker who has repeatedly hit a wall in the stock, futures, foreign exchange, and cryptocurrency markets, suffering loss after loss. Then, while saving someone in an unexpected accident, he is hit by a car and reborn with his memories intact in 2013, back when he was still a student. Even more miraculously, he gains a mysterious financial System. Facing a year that feels both familiar and strange, Wang Hao is filled with excitement and anticipation. He knows this 5kReads7.9Score345Shelves
- 20 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
- 21 Reborn: Is Making a Trillion No Problem? 重生赚个一万亿没问题吧？ Li Zongliang was an ordinary man who became a stock market sucker in hopes of getting rich. After being fleeced time and time again, he finally saw the light. By a stroke of luck, he got in on a hot stock and earned his first fortune, turning his life around. He thrived in the stock market and succeeded in business, building up assets worth tens of millions in a short time. But before he could enjoy his life, he unexpectedly became reborn as a miserable high school student. With memories from mo 87Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 22 Back to 2004: The Investment Tycoon 重回2004之投资大亨 Lin Yuan unexpectedly returns to 2004, when China is experiencing rapid economic growth. The surge in car ownership is driving oil demand through the roof, while real estate, the internet, and other industries are on the verge of explosive growth. With his insight into future trends, the protagonist decides to start with a gas station and carve out a path to success. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Reborn in 2002: The Wild Years of Electric Bikes 重生02：电动车的草莽岁月 A subversion of every formulaic power fantasy. A dark parable. A reconstruction of rural civilization. Three close friends reunite in 2002 and discover that they are the only “glitch” in a world that has repeated itself countless times. They hold memories of the future. Instead of making a name for themselves on Wall Street or becoming gods in Silicon Valley, they return to their dilapidated hometown: Jiangzhen. The three divide the work with the precision of a cold, well-oiled machine. Yan 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Legends of the Stock Market 股市群侠传 In a bull market, anyone can call themselves a stock-market genius. Only a bear market reveals who's the real deal. This book follows a stock-market novice as he makes a fortune trading shares. A live-trading stock market novel. By the time you finish reading, you'll be able to call yourself a stock-market genius too, seeing the secrets hidden behind financial statements. 32Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 25 The Stock God Legend: Li Wushuang 股神传奇李无双 [A hard-core stock-trading story. If you prefer light, fluffy novels, this one's not for you.] Li Wushuang, a Wall Street financial hunter, is reborn fifteen years in the past. Watch as he uses his superb stock-trading skills to rise to prominence once more and become a legendary stock-market god. 2.5kReads9.1Score207Shelves
- 26 Reborn: I Really Don't Want to Make Money 重生：我真的不想挣钱 In his previous life, he was a high-level corporate drone. After a family crisis and his wife’s betrayal, he finally dropped dead on the job from overwork. When he opened his eyes again, he was back on the day before the 2010 college entrance exams, and his life on easy mode began. The stock market, the internet, technology: he left his mark in every field. Top student, stock-market genius, richest man: those were only a few of his many titles. In an interview, he was asked, “Mr. Chen, why are y 5.8kReads8.1Score388Shelves
- 27 Reborn: King of the Stock Market 重生之股海为王 The family conglomerates behind Wall Street, investment management firms controlling trillions in capital, and secretive clubs with long histories. Back in 2004, Yu Hao turns around and steps into the securities market once again. Here, unseen battles rage, and underhanded schemes unfold in the shadows. What kind of undercurrents and turbulence lie beneath the market’s seemingly calm surface? Cornering the market, market-making, colluding to manipulate prices. Margin calls, losses beyond one’s c 4.2kReads8.3Score272Shelves
- 28 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
- 29 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
- 30 You Want Me to Take the Fall? Take This Slap Instead 要我顶罪，反手一个大逼斗 [No System + Streetwise Troublemaker + Ruthless Tough Guy + One Female Lead...] Wang Xun, an ordinary young man, returns to the year 2000. He is just seventeen and a half, has dropped out of school, and has been poisoned by gangster movies. Full of youthful passion, he sets out to make a name for himself in the underworld. He puts brotherhood first, would take a knife for his good friends, and isn’t afraid to fight! After being persuaded by his biased grandfather and others, he is about to take 416Reads7.3Score104Shelves
- 31 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
- 32 Reborn: From the Start, I Made a Billion Yuan in One Go 重生之开局狂赚一百亿 Lu Yongping lived an unremarkable life. Reborn, he decided to make his second life shine in a whole new way. He returned to the moment the 2010 college entrance exams ended. His extraordinary life officially began. He snapped up a place at a top-tier university and won big on the World Cup lottery. He bought shares in companies that would later become industry giants. He helped major electric vehicle makers enter China ahead of schedule and made their patents open source. He invested early in ch 352Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 33 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
- 34 Reborn During the Stock Market Crash: Don't Panic, It's No Big Deal 重生股灾爆仓时？不要慌问题不大 (Urban slice of life + rebirth + finance + making money + no System or golden finger) Lin Yiming worked hard for half his life, yet achieved nothing. He couldn't afford a home or the bride price... An accident gave him the chance to start over. But when he got another life, he found himself back at the moment the stock market crashed and his account was wiped out. He was starting out in debt? Now that he was reborn, there was no need to panic. It was no big deal. This time, he would start by goi 1.9kReads6.9Score106Shelves
- 35 Making Waves in the Stock Market: The Super Retail Investor 股海纵横之超级散户 [Lighthearted + Daily Life + Stocks + Futures + Workplace + Wealth + Romance] In his previous life, Zheng Kang spent years pursuing his dream girl, Li Lizhen, from high school all the way through college. He brought her meals and water, saved seats for her, helped her register for classes, and delivered medicine whenever she was sick. He was an utterly devoted simp, and the most relentless member of her loyal army of admirers. But Li Lizhen only ever saw Zheng Kang as a backup for her backup. Th 1.8kReads7.6Score180Shelves
- 36 Reborn in 2000: From Couch Potato to Business Tycoon 重生2000：咸鱼翻身变首富 [Also known as: Fortune That Reaches the Heavens] Awakening one day, Feng Qingyun returns to twenty years ago. After a previous life of poverty, despair, and being bullied by everyone, he swears that this time he will shake up the business world and rise to its very peak! 132Reads8.2Score105Shelves
- 37 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—Shelves
- 38 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
- 39 Reborn in 1981: My Family Is Just a Little Powerful 重生1981：我的家族有亿点强 Lin Chu was reborn in 1981. At the time, his family was at the height of its power, and his grandfather, the family's bedrock, was still alive. His father was ambitious and poised to climb the political ladder. The woman who would bring him endless humiliation in his previous life had yet to fulfill their engagement. Overjoyed, Lin Chu vowed to turn his family's imminent decline around. He would make the wife from his previous life, who had looked down on him, regret it for the rest of her life. 48Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 40 Reborn in 2008: Making a Trillion in Seconds and Rising in Hong Kong 重生08，秒赚千亿崛起香江 The 2008 financial crisis hits. That year, real estate prices on the mainland soar! The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong plunges! Qin Fei gets another chance at life. Seizing the moment, he rides the wave, all for the sake of changing his sister's fate. In his past life, he trampled over countless corpses to amass a fortune of hundreds of billions of dollars! This time, he can do even better. No one can stop him from making money. Rising to prominence in Hong Kong, he turns the tide, invests in Beis 8.3kReads6.9Score461Shelves
- 41 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
- 42 I’m the Heir to Henda, Responsible for a Trillion and Never Running Away 我，亨达太子爷，负责万亿不跑路 (Hengda, corporate warfare, no female lead, technology, System!) In his previous life, Qian Wanyi worked himself to death paying off his mortgage. He transmigrates to 2020 in another world, becoming the only son of Hengda's chairman. The chairman of Hengda not only owes trillions in debt, but plans to flee, leaving behind a trail of unfinished buildings. Qian Wanyi can't stand the thought of a capitalist getting away with it, so he turns against his own father and takes charge himself. Just as Q 5kReads8.0Score138Shelves
- 43 From Starting with Nothing to Becoming a Global Oligarch 从白手起家到世界寡头 [Tech startups + beauties galore] After graduating from college, Lu Feng is humiliated by his future mother-in-law and awakens the Entrepreneurship System. Qingyun skincare products whiten skin and smooth wrinkles, taking the world by storm and winning the devotion of billions of women. His cancer drug hits the market, solving a major challenge in medicine and astonishing the world. His superpower battery makes its debut, ushering the auto industry into the age of new energy vehicles. Artificial 2.9kReads8.1Score191Shelves
- 44 Reborn, I Became the King of the Capital Behind the Scenes! 重生后，我成为了幕后资本之王！ Armed with several decades of memories from the future, Huang Feiyang returns to 2001, the year he turned eighteen. Millions in “pocket money” from the start? A family conglomerate waiting for him to inherit it? Huang Feiyang: “Then I’ll take the road everyone else has taken and leave them with nowhere to go!” The internet? Gaming? Technology? Finance? And more... Only children make choices. I want it all! In this life, I’ll lead Huaxia to the top of the world! My goal is the stars and the sea! 16.5kReads8.4Score993Shelves
- 45 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
- 46 Get Rich: Conquer the Volatile Stock Market Starting with Ten Thousand 暴富：狂暴股市从一万起步 A new work is out! You can find my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 2kReads9.0Score158Shelves
- 47 Reborn: I Don't Want to Be a Chump Anymore 重生：我不想当韭菜了 (High-IQ Protagonist + Crypto + Founding a Nation in the Golden Triangle + Wish Fulfillment + Realistic) How long would it take to turn 100,000 yuan into 100 billion in crypto? Su Zhe, reborn, says it only takes six months. When you have a hundred billion in hand, you might think you can finally enjoy life. But reality tells you that you're just a fat sheep with a thicker coat of wool. Will you kneel and accept your fate, or fight to the bitter end? Su Zhe says you can take another path: build u 6kReads8.8Score370Shelves
- 48 Comeback in 1990 逆袭1990 Chen Dong wakes up to find himself reborn in 1990, a year when gold seems to lie everywhere. Haunted by regrets from his past life, he starts out selling tea eggs... The financial crisis, the oil crisis, the food crisis... Through one black swan event after another, Chen Dong turns the tables and surges ahead. He uses the very weapon his enemies know best, capital, to show everyone: The dragon of the East has awakened! 2.1kReads8.2Score147Shelves
- 49 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 283Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 50 Stock Trading Simulator: From 8,000 Yuan to 1 Trillion 炒股模拟盘：从八千块赚到一万亿 I woke up reborn in 2018, carrying ten years of future memories back to the stock market. In six years, I’ll turn 200,000 yuan into a fortune. This time, I’m going to win back everything I lost! (Based on a true story, retracing the trading path of the Beijing Trader.) 220Reads—Score—Shelves
