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- 1 Reborn in the 1980s: Life as a Demolition Relocation Resident 重生八零拆迁户的日常 A feel-good story about getting rich after being reborn Liu Chunfen lived to the age of ninety and was always regarded as a long-lived elder, but only she knew how hard her life had been. Then one day, she was reborn, and none of it had happened yet. Determined not to repeat her old mistakes, Liu Chunfen encouraged her children to take the college entrance exams, bought houses again and again based on her memories, and tried to keep her husband from dying young. In the end, she became a famous d 117Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 2 Back to the 80s: I Got Rich from Demolition 重回80：靠着拆迁暴富了 [Rebirth, farming, period setting, secret crush, revenge, cathartic comeuppance for awful people] In her previous life, her biological father and stepfather's family drained her dry, and she was killed by the wife of the man who had made her his mistress. Reborn in 1980, she refuses to be anyone's fool. Her scumbag father and awful relatives can forget about taking advantage of her. Anyone who crosses her will learn their lesson. Though she can't read a single character, she makes a living peddl 104Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Getting Rich, Starting with Ten Demolition Properties 从十栋拆迁楼开始暴富 Chen Dong doesn't know who the richest person in the world is, but he is definitely the person with the most houses. It all starts with ten buildings awarded as demolition compensation... 1.2kReads7.5Score—14d adds
- 4 Reborn in the 1990s: I Struck It Rich from Demolition Compensation 重生九零：我靠拆迁躺赢 In her previous life, Song Zhiyi's father was murdered, and her mother died of illness after being overcome with grief. While investigating the cause of her father's death, Song Zhiyi met a tragic end herself. When she woke again, she had been reborn at the time her father was injured. With the advantage of knowing what was to come, she borrowed money to save him and went to university. Drawing on her past life's knowledge, she soon made a name for herself, while also cashing in on a demolition 375Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 5 I Made a Hundred Million from Demolition in the 1990s 我在90年代靠拆迁分到一个亿 Shen Baoying wakes up to find she has transmigrated into the body of a 1990s housewife who shares her name. It’s a prosperous era of reform and opening up, and Shen Baoying’s husband has followed the times by going into business. As the saying goes, a man with money turns bad, and Shen Baoying’s husband is no exception. And so a divorce agreement lands on the table in front of Shen Baoying. She looks at the divorce settlement: 5,000 yuan in cash and a street-facing bungalow inside the capital’s 3.4kReads8.1Score24414d adds
- 6 After the Divorce, I Strike It Rich Through Demolition Compensation 离婚后，我靠拆迁暴富了 When Zhong Hui was twenty, she defied her parents and married Ge Zhihua, a fellow villager. Eight years into their marriage, they had an adorable daughter. She had thought that even if life wasn’t ideal, they could still live out their days in peace. Just as Zhong Hui was thinking of saving up to build a house and, like the women in Shangtuan Village, becoming a landlady who rented out her property, Ge Zhihua unexpectedly asked for a divorce. What? A divorce? Zhong Hui was dumbfounded. After ask 3.4kReads8.1Score29114d adds
- 7 Reborn, I Help My Mom Make a Fortune 重生后，我带妈妈忙赚钱 [Historical setting, school life, youth, romance] An Na was reborn and returned to the year of her high school entrance exams. She became the apple of her mother's eye once more, and from then on, her life took off. She became a top student in the eyes of her classmates and teachers, helped her mother make money, and bought a home at a low price to fulfill her dream of becoming a landlady after the neighborhood was redeveloped. Her rewritten life became even more complete when he entered it. The 158Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 8 Reborn in 1980: Demolition, Riches, and Taking on the Worst of the Family 重生回80，拆迁！暴富！斗极品 [Working-class life + Demolition and relocation + Plenty of awful people + Family squabbles + Getting rich + A touch of ensemble cast] Hu Yan spent her whole life as a devoted wife and loving mother, only to die suddenly on a factory assembly line. In one moment, she returns to thirty years earlier, just two months after marrying Chen Guangze. At this point, the village houses haven't been demolished, and she and her husband haven't split from the family. They haven't given up their village home 14.7kReads7.5Score1.3k14d adds
- 9 The 1990s Property Mogul 九零买房大户 [Demolition] [Alternate History, Set in a Past Era]+ [Ensemble Cast]+ [Mistaken Child]+ [Buying a House] Note: A lightly ensemble-focused story, with a little more focus on Xia Guofu and Xia Zhiqiu. What? The Xia family’s old home in the countryside is being demolished. The news left everyone in the residential compound reeling. They remembered how, the year before, the Xia family had bought a huge stretch of woodland and land in the countryside. Back then, people had mocked them for being out o 1.4kReads6.2Score11614d adds
- 10 Reborn as Grandma Zhang, Beating Up Old Men in the 1990s 重生之张老太在九零年代打老头 Dear readers, this book is not mainly about a military marriage. The abuse of a martyr’s widow is just one part of the story later on, so please read the synopsis. The title you see is the best one chosen after testing it with a million readers, and it can’t be changed. Sob, the author isn’t happy about it either! Protagonist: Zhang Shufen [Period] [Nineties] [Reborn] [Feel-Good Story] [Family Life] [No Golden Finger] Granny Zhang is reborn, returning to the time before her eldest son started hi 897Reads8.0Score11714d adds
- 11 A Fortune from Demolition! The CEO Pursues Me Relentlessly in the 1990s 拆迁暴富！我在九零被霸总猛追 [90s feel-good story + face-slapping + masterful comebacks + everyone’s darling] After causing a scene at the company where she interned, which had been bought out by someone from Hong Kong, and getting rid of her awful boss, Xie Zhaozhao decided to go home and lie flat. She wanted nothing fancy: just grow some vegetables, collect rent from two small apartment buildings, and run a little convenience store. Life would be sweet. Who could have guessed she'd run into the demolition boom of the 1990 1.5kReads7.1Score11214d adds
- 12 Back to 2003, Before the Demolition 重返2003拆迁前 2003. That year, China’s national college entrance exam was moved up to June for the first time. That year, Liaoning Province’s exam covered nine subjects, with no division between arts and sciences. That spring, SARS raged. That spring, news came that the village where Zhao Yongwei’s family lived was to be demolished. One scheme after another followed. In this life, she would protect her family and overcome the crisis! And she would make a fortune! 4.8kReads8.2Score31214d adds
- 13 Reborn Before the 1990s Demolition: I’m the Landlady, and I’m Giving Up 重生九零拆迁前，包租婆我要摆烂 [Rebirth + demolition compensation + getting rich + laid-back life + adorable child] After being reborn, Li Muyu’s greatest wish is to keep her orchard and wait for it to be demolished. And then? Well, there is no “then.” She’ll just lounge around like a lazy fish... Li Muyu is determined to live the laid-back life to the fullest: buy more houses, collect rent, and have an adorable little girl to lounge around with... 933Reads6.6Score10614d adds
- 14 Twelve Buildings from the Start: Renting Them Out Shakes the Whole City 开局十二栋楼，我靠租房惊动全城 [A touch of a System + career-focused + wealthy big shot who never wants for money + no romance] [Just started getting rated, so the score will be low. Idealized community life! Idealized!] Jiang Yu inherited more than a dozen apartment buildings and became a landlady. On a whim, she visited one of the old neighborhoods and saw peeling walls, exposed wires, and crumbling roads... Meanwhile, in the System shop, soundproof walls, climate-controlled furnishings, air-purifying ventilation, and all k 4.1kReads8.9Score42614d adds
- 15 A Comeback Life: Back at 18 逆袭人生：回到18岁 The male lead appears fairly late because he’s a grabby, competitive sort. Neither the male lead nor the female lead is a good person in the traditional sense! They’re just two not-particularly-refined egoists, so read with caution! Lin Shen is reborn, returning to the year he was seventeen. He works hard for a year and gets into college at eighteen. This time around, Lin Shen refuses to be a couch potato or give up on himself, and he won’t let problems send him spiraling into despair. Since he’ 9.1kReads7.7Score85114d adds
- 16 Reborn in 1996: Helping My Adoptive Parents' Whole Family Live Well 重生九六，带养父母全家过好日子 [Reborn in 1996 + Business + Academic Prodigy + No Forgiveness] (The story begins with her early struggles, then moves into the later stages of the demolition boom.) Xia Mengsi was given away as soon as she was born. Her biological parents rejected her because she was a girl, but her adoptive family cherished her like a treasure. She got into the best high school, and her adoptive father sold blood while her adoptive mother worked herself to the bone to pay for her education. But Xia Mengsi fail 469Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 17 Reborn at Fourteen, I Made 99 Buildings 重生十四岁我挣了99栋楼 [Reborn + strong female lead + business + top student + realism + independent heroine] He Wenlin, the daughter of migrant workers, is reborn in the year 2000! She has not dropped out of school yet, her father has not been scammed, and her family is debt-free! Given a fresh start at life, she is determined to change her fate and leave no regrets! She sells boxed lunches, opens a food factory, sells holiday goods, and trades in shoes and clothing. Whatever makes money, she does it. At seventeen, w 1.6kReads8.3Score15514d adds
- 18 Reborn in the 1990s: Time to Get Ready for Demolition 重生九零：收拾收拾，准备拆迁 [Reborn + Period Piece + Put the Scumbags in Their Place + Demolition Windfall] Ye Ke wakes up one morning back in 1992. Time is short and there’s a lot to do. Eyes open, get to work! The University of C, which he regretted missing out on in his previous life? Got it! The barren mountain no one wanted to develop in his previous life? Got it! The grandparents who caused trouble in his previous life? Got... No, not that one. Beat them into submission! With a flurry of decisive moves, Ye Ke ea 1.6kReads8.8Score10314d adds
- 19 Reborn in the 1980s: I Struck It Rich Through Demolition! 重生八零年代，我靠拆迁暴富了！ This book was originally titled I Just Want to Run a Shop, So Why Do You Keep Demolishing It? Liao Yongming is reborn in the 1980s. He doesn't want to relive the hardships of his previous life, and hopes to fulfill his eldest grandson's wish by changing his family's fate through business. So Liao Yongming decides to sell the job his family bought for him with their hard-earned money and seize the opportunity to go into business. With the money from selling the job, he buys a shop and sets out co 10.8kReads8.0Score69514d adds
- 20 Back to 2003: My Rise Begins in the Demolition Zone 重返03，从拆迁区开始逆袭 Treasure hunting and bargain finds across the board: demolition zones, construction-waste yards, antique street stalls, scrap-buying stations, and more. The experiences of his past life taught Chang Shun a truth more commonplace than any other: money can't buy everything! But without money, you can't take a single step! Reborn with experience living in demolition zones, all he wants is to start making money... 16.1kReads8.4Score1.6k14d adds
- 21 Reborn: Speculating and Making a Fortune in the 1980s 重生，我在八十年代投机倒把 When she woke up, Jiang Xiaoxi had returned to 1987, to the age of eighteen. Her grandmother was still alive, her parents were young, her sister wasn’t sick, and she hadn’t married a jerk. Everything was wonderful. Given a second chance at life in an era ripe for rebuilding, how could she not make something of herself? See how Jiang Xiaoxi, reborn, uses every opportunity to make money and change her life. 4.7kReads8.9Score40814d adds
- 22 Surprise! The Reborn Heroine’s Cousin, Her Foil, Awakens 惊！重生女主的对照组堂姐觉醒了 [Foil characters + female supporting character awakens + lightly ensemble-focused + everyday life] After a week of nightmares, Xu Zhiqian realizes she is the miserable foil character in a rebirth novel. More precisely, she’s a cannon-fodder character in the background. Faced with her predetermined ending, Xu Zhiqian... Step one: get into the university she wants. Step two: build up her income with side jobs, achieve financial independence, and keep studying without falling behind on exams and ce 6.7kReads8.8Score49614d adds
- 23 Back to the '90s: A Rich Girl on Campus 重回90校园当富婆 At forty, Xiao Yao feels like she's accomplished nothing. She doesn't have much education, and work has always been a struggle. Even at forty, she still has to watch what she says around others. She loves children and wants a family. But a scumbag wasted the best years of her life, and now she's alone. Her parents used to work at a state-owned factory. By now, their glory days are long gone. They didn't go into business when others did, and they didn't buy a home when others were buying. They li 5.7kReads8.9Score55514d adds
- 24 Getting Rich Through Demolition in the 1990s, My Whole Family Kicks Back and Enjoys the Show 九零拆迁暴富，全家躺赢吃瓜忙 The God of Wealth is here, the God of Wealth is here, good deeds bring good fortune... La la la la la! In 1994, to the tune of “The God of Wealth Is Here,” Happy Village is demolished! Xu Ran’s family of three becomes rich overnight. With a huge pile of compensation money in hand, they buy houses, shops, plots of land, then more houses and a gold mine. The more they buy, the richer the family gets. One stack after another of red property deeds comes home with them. And they get to enjoy all the 23.7kReads9.0Score2.7k14d adds
- 25 Reborn, Starting with Buying a House 重生从买房开始 [Rebirth + the millennium + family life + school + top student + love that grows over time] Chen Yifan, a modern office worker, is reborn in 2004. That year, Chen Yifan is still an elementary school student in a uniform and red scarf. That year, her father, Chen Jianguo, is still hale and hearty, and alive. That year, homes in Haicheng cost just 2,000, and came with household registration. How much? Say that house price again! Mom, Dad, what are you waiting for? Hurry up and buy a house! See how 26.6kReads9.0Score3.2k14d adds
- 26 Back in the Eighties: My Family's Demolition Compensation Bought Half a Street 重回八零：我家拆迁分了半条街 [Rebirth + Period Setting + Farming + Strong Male and Female Leads + A Feel-Good Rags-to-Riches Story] After spending ten years selling boxed lunches at construction sites, Jiang Tian was reborn in the year she dropped out of school. That year, her younger brother hadn't yet been tricked into a backstreet brick kiln and worked to death, and her mother hadn't yet fallen gravely ill. Picking up the boxed-lunch skills she'd honed over the years, the first thing the “Lunchbox Queen” did after being 7.7kReads9.1Score76914d adds
- 27 The Jin Yuanbao Family’s Sudden Fortune from Demolition Compensation 金元宝一家的拆迁暴富日常 Old Madam Jin dreamed of a golden ingot while pregnant. She asked each of her four favorite daughters-in-law, but none of them admitted it! Could it really have been Ying Canru, who could never get enough to eat and always burned the bottom of the pot when she cooked? ~~ In the delivery room, Ying Canru screamed as she gave birth. Outside, Jin Laifu paced back and forth, glancing at his watch from time to time as he muttered, “Please let the baby be born on the eighth day of the eighth month. Ot 1.7kReads8.8Score11014d adds
- 28 Reborn in 2007: From Internet Celebrity to Queen of Investment 重生07，从网红到投资女王 [Reborn + grounded realism + escaping a toxic family + making money] Jiang Xue was reborn, returning to 2007. Her father didn't care for her, her mother didn't love her, and they expected her to work in a factory tightening screws! There was no way she was going to work in a factory. The internet was still wide open in 2007, and WeChat and Weibo hadn't even launched yet. Using her makeup skills, she became a celebrity on Tianya, a makeup artist for stars, a renowned photographer, one of the firs 11.2kReads9.0Score1.2k14d adds
- 29 I Only Wanted to Sell a House and Make a Quick Buck, Not Steal the General Manager Away 只想卖房捞一笔，没想拐走总经理 I’m reborn!!!? And I still don’t have a golden finger~~ At first, Yin Yi only wanted to change her miserable fate as a mortgage slave in her previous life. By chance, a bubbly saleswoman from a real estate office dragged her along to collect a bag of rice. And so began her journey to becoming a sales champion. She might not have a golden finger, but she had good luck and kept unexpectedly finding customers. She raked in the cash, determined that there was no way she’d be a mortgage slave in this 7.3kReads9.4Score81614d adds
- 30 The Reborn Son-in-Law's Road to a New Life 赘婿的重生之路 [Rebirth + Period Drama + Urban + Feel-Good] Yin Tianshui was an orphan. At eighteen, he was chosen by the Feng family in a neighboring village to become their live-in son-in-law. The Feng family’s daughter had a married lover, and she was already pregnant when she got married. On their wedding night, her whole family conspired to get Yin Tianshui drunk, making him believe he had consummated the marriage and injured his new wife in the process. Yin Tianshui endured twenty years of abuse and humi 30.5kReads9.0Score3.1k14d adds
- 31 Back to the 1980s: From the Start, I Cut Ties with My Family 重回八零：开局断亲斩亲缘 Tang Guangyuan has suffered from asthma since childhood, enduring years of hardship and abuse at the hands of his family. After his biological mother beat his own son, who was not yet three years old, Tang resolutely cut ties with her entire family. Overcome with rage and resentment, he unexpectedly became reborn, his soul coming from his modern-day self in the future. After being reborn, Tang Guangyuan awakened the “Farming Spirit Spring System.” The spirit spring water not only cured his ast 636Reads—Score10014d adds
- 32 The Old Woman Is Reborn Before the Demolition, and Beats Her Evil Son and Vicious Grandson with a Stick 老太重生拆迁前，棒打恶子毒孙 Old Madam Zhou spent her whole life worrying herself sick over her four sons. She even divided the property and cash she received from the demolition compensation among them. She thought she had treated them all equally and taken each son into consideration. But in each son’s eyes, she was biased, and they all resented her and refused to support her. Old Madam Zhou should have been enjoying her retirement, but instead, at her advanced age, she survived by collecting trash and eventually died of 52.2kReads8.6Score2.9k14d adds
- 33 Reborn in 1990, I Traded My Ex-Husband for Eight Houses 重生九零，我用前夫换了八套房 [Strong leads x no pocket dimension x no System x loving family x building wealth x career first, romance later] Bai Zhenzhu is reborn on the very day she divorces her scumbag husband. The mistress pulls out a stack of cash and asks her: “How much do you want to agree to the divorce?” Bai Zhenzhu replies, “One hundred thousand. Not a cent less.” One hundred thousand to get rid of the scumbag, twenty thousand in divorce compensation, and twenty-four thousand in child support. Bai Zhenzhu takes t 19.7kReads9.3Score2.7k14d adds
- 34 Reborn in the Nineties: Racing Toward Life as a Landlady 重生九零之向着包租婆的人生狂奔 (Also known as: Reborn in the 1990s: Racing Toward Life as a Landlady) (Also known as: Reborn Housewife: Mom, Dad's Acting Up Again) After Shen Xiaojun divorced, she had a dream and found herself back twenty years in the past. Back then, she was only twenty-five, yet already the mother of three children. Her eldest daughter was six, her younger daughter four, and her little boy had just turned one month old. Xiaojun's head spun. Did she really have to live through all of this again? For her chil 28.5kReads9.4Score3k14d adds
- 35 Reforming My Good-for-Nothing Husband, Starting at Age 20 改造废物老公，从20岁开始养老 [Period story x making money x family and village life x a touch of ensemble cast x raising kids] Lin Hui has a dream. In it, she turns fifty after spending twenty-seven years as a widow, struggling to raise her children, only to develop cancer and die before she can enjoy life. When she wakes, she finds herself back in 1980, the year she just married Xu Dongsheng, the “lazy bum” of the surrounding villages. She grits her teeth. She absolutely cannot let her life follow the path in her dream. Fr 34.1kReads9.1Score4.1k14d adds
- 36 Back to the 1980s: Bringing My Family of Six to a Better Life 重回八零：带着全家六口过好日子 The Gu family has no sons, only four daughters. Plenty of people in the village are waiting to laugh at them. But they wait and wait, only to watch the Gu family build a two-story house and buy a car. They hear the family has even bought a grand home in the capital. The Gu sisters are each more successful and more devoted to their parents than the last. The villagers: What are you waiting for? Go home and have daughters! After being reborn, Gu Siqing discovers that her sisters are nothing like t 86.6kReads9.4Score5.2k14d adds
- 37 Marching Out of the Ten Thousand Mountains to Reclaim Our Homeland and Expand Our Borders 兵出十万大山，复故土拓新疆 Liu Yongfu went up the mountain to gather firewood. In a dream, an old man told him that he was a mighty general who should defend his home and protect his people. When he woke, he also had a new set of memories from the future. Liu Yongfu decided that, besides defending his homeland, he should find the Han people a place to settle, help them survive more than a decade of war and natural disasters, and fight against imperialism... [Some parts of this story take liberties with history, or happen 5.4kReads—Score38514d adds
- 38 Fallen Rose: The Dark Moon and Her Counterattack 陷落玫瑰：黑月光与她的反杀局 [Revenge Against Scum] [Forced Possession] [Awakening to Her True Identity] [Rivalry for Her Affections] [One Woman, Four Men] [Sweet on the Outside, Dark and Scheming on the Inside, a Seductive Strategist × Her Possessive Adoptive Brother / Abstinent CEO / Gentle Young Nobleman / Capitalist Predator] ▲ Her true identity awakens, and a bloody revenge begins Abandoned at an orphanage as a child, she was later molded by the Song family into a tool for a marriage alliance. She bides her time, turni 318Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Reborn as a Top-Tier Star Heiress: The Rich Fight Over Me 重生商界顶流千金：豪门疯抢 [Revenge against scumbags + forced possession + reborn heroine + romantic rivals competing] [Sweet-faced, scheming seductress × unhinged heir / abstinent CEO / rugged military king / refined but depraved bureau chief / financial predator] [In her past life, she was abandoned by her own family, betrayed by the one she loved, and bullied and framed, until she lost her reputation and died with bitterness in her heart!] [Reborn in the year 2000, Li Muan returns from the ashes with memories steeped i 661Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 After the College Entrance Exam, I Used My Foresight to Become a Tycoon 回到高考后，利用先知成富豪 By a twist of fate, Chen Feiyu returns to the day after his class reunion, held after the college entrance exam. Using his information advantage, he makes up for past regrets. From the start, he sets his sights on the Brazil World Cup to earn his first fortune, then uses his expertise and memories to grow his money in the stock market. He also keeps in touch with his high school crush and his senior from university, wins the hearts of both beauties, and becomes a winner in life! 2.8kReads—Score11014d adds
- 41 Li Chengdao 李承道 Special forces soldier Li Chengdao unexpectedly transmigrates to a strange valley. He transforms the valley and makes his way out of the mountains. Using the valley as his base, he builds his own Heavenly Dao Group in the world of immortal cultivation. He establishes the Li Family Medical Hall and heals the sick. He makes his fortune with spiritual-root wine, branches into every industry, and becomes the richest man under heaven. He establishes a free Heavenly Dao Academy and cultivates a great 1.1kReads9.2Score24514d adds
