Novels like Reborn in the 1990s: Becoming a Scholar
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- 1 Reborn in High School: I Excel at Both Studying and Making Money 重生回高中，学习致富两不误 [Reborn + System + Personal Growth + Healing + Courage + Making Up for Regrets] Xiao Zhenzhen started gaining weight in high school. At 23, she had been single since birth and was mocked for being unable to find a partner. Her parents had fought about divorce since she was little, and her extremely stingy father left her feeling deeply insecure. After failing her college entrance exams, she went to an ordinary school and drifted through four years. After graduating, she was reborn with a System. 246Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 2 After Binding to the Top Student System, the Socially Anxious Girl's Persona Crumbled 绑定学霸系统后社恐她崩人设了 Gu Zhiruan had always thought of herself as an ordinary, timid social phobe. She hated attention and socializing, and loved keeping to herself. Until she died saving someone. Until she was reborn at the age of seven. Until she was bound to a so-called good, kind, and beautiful top-student System... Until the System ran low on energy and she had to complete special missions to stay alive. That was when she discovered that she wasn’t just a violent powerhouse, but also the leader of the Five Poiso 292Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 3 Reborn with a Genius System, I Reach the Pinnacle of Life 重生之学霸系统带我走上人生巅峰 (Campus romance + reborn twice + System + top student + devoted to each other) Song Xiaoning is reborn and bound to a top student System. From then on, handsome guys and money come her way one after another, and she rises to the peak of life! 233Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 4 The System Takes Me Back to My Youth 系统带我重回年少 [Reborn + top student + System] At twenty-seven, Shen Yan is going nowhere. Her greatest regret is giving up the chance to attend high school. By chance, she is chosen by a System while trying to save someone, and it takes her back fifteen years. Overjoyed, she decides to study hard! In her previous life, she couldn’t get her younger siblings to take their studies seriously. This time, she’ll push herself and them to work hard! She hopes her younger siblings will bravely pursue their dreams too. 100Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 5 Reborn in the 1990s: The Handsome Heartthrob Won’t Stop Pursuing Me 重生九十年代：男神追着求交往 Rebirth + school life + academics + career building + two top students Xia Yutong is reborn! She returns to the autumn when she was twelve. She had always thought there were no regrets in the thirty-nine years of her previous life; but only after being reborn does she realize she has carried an unresolved heartache all along. Back in the past, Xia Yutong is determined to leave her old life behind and get justice for her former self. More importantly, she’ll study hard and get into the university 2kReads8.8Score222Shelves
- 6 Reborn in the 1990s: The Top Student Who Reached the Peak 重生九零，学霸满级成神啦 Before being reborn, Chu Minghua was an ordinary college student, a tiny cog in society's machinery. By an unexpected twist, she was reborn at the age of five. After being reborn, she understood how precious education was and lived by the saying, “Hard work brings rewards!” Through her constant efforts, she became the top student her friends and family proudly talked about, and a source of pride for her country. Along the road to success, she also 1kReads7.6Score—Shelves
- 7 Reborn, Our Whole Family Is a Top-Tier Star 重生后，我们一家都是顶流大佬 Rebirth · System · Top Student · Everyone’s Darling After graduating, the aimless college student Yun Yiyi begins her diligent life as an overworked corporate drone. To her surprise, she wakes up one day and finds herself back on the eve of her first year of school. She has also brought along a Perfect Life System, determined to help Yun Yiyi reach the pinnacle of life. Looking at her family, Yun Yiyi secretly resolves never again to let her father be deceived by unscrupulous directors, her brot 275Reads9.2Score100Shelves
- 8 Bound to a Study System: Tsinghua or Peking University? 绑定学习系统：选清华还是选北大 [System + Growth-Focused Power Fantasy + Learning + National Strength + Showbiz + Secret Identity] (No male lead during the high school arc. The romance comes later, and it’s one-on-one.) Song Wanxing grew up in an orphanage. After being injured in a car accident while helping someone in danger, she unexpectedly acquired a learning System. The System tells her that as long as she keeps gaining knowledge, she can change her fate and reach the pinnacle of success. With the System’s help, she studi 924Reads8.7Score113Shelves
- 9 Back in My Second Year of High School, the Nation Became My Backer 重回高二，国家爸爸给我当靠山 [Reborn + top student + uplifting + satisfying read + patriotic + heartwarming + no awful characters] [No System + no pocket dimension] Xu Nian was an overworked corporate drone who nearly worked herself to death saving enough for a down payment on a home. Then, for no apparent reason, she returned to more than a decade earlier. Back in her second year of high school, all she wanted was to study and quietly outdo everyone else. And then… Homeroom teacher: First place again? Principal: Won anothe 4.1kReads9.3Score413Shelves
- 10 Starting from High School, the Supporting Actress Maxes Out Her Math Talent 开局高一，女配点满数学天赋 Chu Yao had just been admitted to B University for graduate school after graduating from a second-tier college. Before her acceptance letter even arrived, she was in a car accident and transmigrated into a cannon-fodder supporting character with the same name in the novel Sweet Moments in the Entertainment Industry, which she had read before. Now in the supporting character's body, Chu Yao looked at the admission letter from a top high school and her already maxed-out math talent. What was the e 7.1kReads8.5Score591Shelves
- 11 Reborn at the Turn of the Millennium: The Beloved Prodigy's Mentor System 重生千禧，团宠小学霸的名师系统 “No male lead! A male supporting character appears later, and there are side couples to root for too.” Qin Zhaozhao, a doctoral student struggling with her studies and taking extra time to graduate, wakes up one day to find she’s traveled back from 2022 to the year 2000. For some inexplicable reason, she’s also acquired a System. In this life, she not only has a golden finger that gives her one-on-one lessons from renowned teachers, but also the ability to help the people around her choose bette 5kReads9.4Score557Shelves
- 12 Let’s Break Up. Don’t Get in the Way of My Getting into Peking or Tsinghua 分手吧，别耽误我上清北 “Memorize ‘The Book of Songs: The Unruly’ and get a reward: lose five kilograms!” “Do a math test and get a reward: snow-white skin!” “Do a physics test and get a reward: grow three centimeters taller!” “Write an English essay and receive a master-level skill!” Guan Zhi was reborn and bound to the Peak System. As long as she studied, rewards would keep pouring in. From then on, she became so addicted to studying she couldn't stop! Get prettier, slimmer, and invincible; trade up her car, her hous 4.3kReads9.3Score517Shelves
- 13 With the Top Student System, I Was Forced to Become the College Entrance Exam Champion 有了学霸系统，我被逼成高考状元 [Studies first, romance second] To care for the bedridden grandmother of the boy she likes, Wen Ning gives up on going to college. But after she catches her scumbag boyfriend cheating and is devastated, she gets into a car accident and returns to her childhood. She unexpectedly binds herself to the Academic Ace System. The missions come so fast that she has no time to dwell on her sadness. In this life, she’ll avoid scumbags, study hard, and shine on her own. 3.7kReads9.2Score350Shelves
- 14 A Doctoral Big Shot's Beloved Life in the 1970s 博士大佬的七零团宠日常 Beloved by the whole family + striving through the years (kind family, no awful relatives) P.S. The early chapters are warm and slice-of-life; later on, there is a focus on technology. The female lead has a photographic memory and is a super-genius. There is no romance in this novel, so those who enjoy stories without romance can dive right in. In the 23rd century, the genius Dr. Leng Yue is killed by her own mother and reborn as Ling Yue, the only granddaughter of the Ling family in the 1970s. 8.9kReads9.1Score712Shelves
- 15 After I Transmigrated into a Book, the System Insisted I Become a Top Student 穿书后，系统偏要逼我当学霸 [Transmigrate into a Book + System + Top Student + Feel-Good Story + Patriotism + Positive Energy + Devoted to Each Other] When Su Yi opens her eyes again, she's back inside the novel where she once died a terrible death. After binding herself to the Top Student System, Su Yi declares that she'll be a dog if she follows the plot again. She absolutely refuses to repeat the tragedy of her previous life! Her classmates look down on her? She wins perfect scores in competitions and brings home trophy 12.2kReads9.4Score1.3kShelves
- 16 The Boyfriend in the Trash Heap 垃圾堆里的男朋友 Ning Xia was a little-known author of old-fashioned CEO romance novels online, often writing late into the night. At last, after years of staying up late, she suddenly died. But Ning Xia hadn't quite died. She discovered she'd been reborn as a child, and had run into the little beggar who had scattered her ashes in her previous life! The little beggar was now just a foolish boy with autism, raised by a grandmother who collected trash. Everyone bullied and humiliated him. Then the little beggar n 6.2kReads9.2Score682Shelves
- 17 Beautiful, Powerful, and Thriving: Back to Fifteen 美强爽之重回十五岁 [Reborn + Campus + Sweet Romance + Personal Growth] [Hardworking, gentle heroine × aloof top scholar hero] Lin Tong never expected that one fall would send her from age twenty-five back to age fifteen. Since she was here, she decided to make the best of it. To make up for the regrets of her past life, she firmly set two goals: first, to study hard and get into her dream school, Peking University; second, to become beautiful. She never wanted to be the girl who spent more than a decade feeling in 9.8kReads9.3Score1.1kShelves
- 18 The System Sends Me Back to Sixteen 系统让我重返十六岁 A rebirth story, a System story, a patriotic story, and a tale of striving for success. Top scorer in the national college entrance exam, Olympic champion, special forces soldier, diplomat. This isn't a romance. It's a female-led story, and the male lead barely appears until the final chapter. The moment Lu Xiaoxing opens her eyes, she's back at sixteen, in her senior year of high school. She's also bound to a Progress System. Walking or running each day is enough to complete her check-in tasks 15.9kReads9.5Score2kShelves
- 19 I Strive for My Country’s Prosperity! [System] 我，为祖国富强而奋斗！【系统】 [Reborn + System + top student + patriotism + positive energy + feel-good story + no awful relatives] Su Xing was always on her own, the aloof goddess in everyone else's eyes. It seemed everyone took it for granted that beautiful women should keep their distance and remain unapproachable. Only Su Xing knew she was pretending to be aloof. In truth, she had severe social anxiety! She hated dealing with people and being noticed. All she wanted was to hide in the shell she thought was safe and coast 43.1kReads9.6Score4kShelves
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