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- 1 Becoming the Richest Man, Starting with Being Reborn 成为首富，从重生开始 Chen Bei wakes up one day in another world. He discovers that the entertainment industry there has stagnated. He decides to develop a chat app and a game to earn his first capital. Then he starts a company and releases Jump Once, Sparkling Match, and Lime Shared Bikes. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Reborn Tycoon: Ruler of the Global Internet 富二代重生之世界互联网霸主 A rich heir is reborn in the year 2000. A playboy in his previous life, he resolves to become the richest man in China and enters the internet industry. Somehow, he accidentally becomes the richest man in the world. Who can he even complain to about that? 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 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—14d adds
- 4 Reborn: I'm Really an Internet Mogul 重生：我真的是互联网大佬 [Rebirth + business warfare + beautiful women + brainy face-slapping] A class reunion sends a successful young business tycoon, once a super-genius student, back to the days before the college entrance exams. Armed with the experience of his past life, Lu Yang is determined to achieve great things while he’s young and never feel inferior again! —Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 5 Reborn: From Internet Cafe Punk to Business Tycoon 重生：从网吧混混到商海枭雄 [No System + No Simping + Business] Liu Yunfeng is reborn in 2005, starting out as a thug at a street-corner internet cafe. With a game called Fantasy Westward Journey, he quickly amasses capital, designs internet cafes with a vision ahead of his time, and expands rapidly until he controls the market completely. He makes a killing in the island nation's stock market, enters the gaming industry, and completely blocks the future path of major companies like Penguin. Heaven has given him another ch 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Reborn in 1992: Queen of the Golden Finger 重生1992：金手指女王 The moment she opened her eyes, Lin Wanqing was back in 1992. From the start, her cousin accused her of stealing money, and she nearly ended up in jail! In her previous life, she had been framed and bankrupted, then died penniless in a rented room. This time, she was bound to the [Era Business Opportunity System], which gave her a keen eye for hidden value, the ability to predict business opportunities, and skill boosts! Starting with just 50 yuan, she made over a thousand in seven days and more 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Reborn: Taking Down Pinduoduo, Starting With Crypto Trading 重生干掉拼夕夕从炒币开始 Jiang Tao is reborn. He returns to ten years ago, with all his memories intact. He starts trading crypto and makes 100 billion, starts a company and takes down Pinduoduo, expands worldwide and monopolizes global food delivery, sanctions the United States, and builds a virtual second world. 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Reborn in 2006: Making the Most of Life 重生2006玩转人生 A minor executive at a major corporation unexpectedly finds himself reborn in the year he was a high school senior. The once awkward, shy student who blushed whenever he spoke to girls and cared only about studying suddenly becomes a master of social graces, always saying and doing just the right thing. He not only changes the course of his life, but also draws more and more attention from girls. Girl: Ye Yun, what are your good qualities? Ye Yun: I'm honest, and I don't say much. Childhood frie —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Downstream: Transmigrating to 1998 溯流而下：穿越1998 [Late 1990s + reborn + business warfare + financial trickery + currency war] This isn't a mindless power fantasy. There is no System, no golden finger, and no powerful connections. He starts from nothing in a realistic world. Don't read if that's not your thing!!! After graduating from university, Su Zhe became a Wall Street elite. But instead of enjoying the smooth sailing he'd imagined, he seemed to have become entangled in a conspiracy of the century, and he had yet to realize that danger was —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Reborn as a Tech Mogul 重生之成为科技大佬 Xu Feng: There is no era without Xu Feng, only an era shaped by Xu Feng. Tencent: The decision I regret most in my life was investing in Xu Feng. Reborn in 2003 as a high school senior, Xu Feng needs to take a shortcut to get into college. Watch how he becomes the godfather of the tech world. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Stock Market God: You Call This Being Reborn? 股神：你管这叫重生？ Multiple heroines + everyday life + stocks + trading + entertainment The night Xu Dong’s futures trading account was wiped out, he leaped from the rooftop. His consciousness hazy, he opened his eyes, then stared wide-eyed at the stunning, mature beauty before him. “You call this being reborn?” After gaining the Stock God System, he grows richer and richer, and his life becomes intertwined with a mature woman, an innocent little secretary, and a stunning older beauty. Years later, at an 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The Awakening of a Cast-Off Heiress 豪门弃妻觉醒之路 When a marriage is like a frozen lake, reflecting seven years of illusions, who will kindle the light of dawn? Rong Ci was once the quietest presence in Jing Heng's world, wearing expensive yet empty pajamas and keeping lonely vigils in a brightly lit villa. Like a flower kept in captivity, she withered softly and silently in a corner of the wealthy household. Her troubles spread without warning. On her birthday, she flew across oceans for nothing but an illusion in the mirror. Her daughter was —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Social Butterfly System Forces Me to Become the Center of Attention 社牛系统逼我当显眼包 On the first day after being reborn, Lu Pingfan set three rules for himself: keep a low profile, make money, and live a little longer. After all, in his previous life, he'd spent half of it going unnoticed, and when he died in his rented apartment, no one even found him. This time, he didn't want to die without a sound or disappear into the crowd again. But he also didn't want everyone's eyes on him. Then the Social Butterfly System showed up. On day one, the System forced him to stand in the mi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 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—14d adds
- 15 Reborn in 2007: Taking Another Path Through Life 重生07再走人生路 [Reborn] [Farming] [Multiple Female Leads] [Entrepreneurship] [Powerhouse] Reborn in 2007, Lu Ping makes his start in the stock market and runs several trading companies, branching into energy and chemicals, food production, logistics, game development, and internet platforms. He invests in the most lucrative industries while keeping a low profile on campus. Yet countless startup founders learn his name early on. When aspiring entrepreneurs come to seek his advice, Lu Ping points to the women be —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Twenty Days Off a Month? I'll Lead the Workhorses to Wealth! 月休20天？我来带动牛马爆富！ At thirty-five, Li Sheng was not only fired from his job, but also accused of secretly taking photos by a young woman on the subway. After dying of anger, he was reborn fifteen years in the past and acquired the Overworked Employee Comeback System. As long as he improved the happiness of the employees under him, he could upgrade the System and redeem rewards. With the initial 50,000 yuan in startup capital provided by the System, Li Sheng joined the hit startup reality show Super Entrepreneur, c —Reads—Score114d adds
- 17 Why Work When I’ve Been Reborn? 都重生了谁还打工呢 No System | Campus Youth | Passionate Entrepreneurship | Sweet Everyday Life | Solid Logic [The story starts at a gentler pace, then gradually picks up after the business gets going. Who gets rich right after being reborn? You’ve got to take some time to adjust first!] A programmer earning close to a million yuan a year is unexpectedly reborn in his college days. He decides to stop being a corporate drone and become a domineering CEO, starting a business and carving out his own world. The goddes 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Reborn: The Chain-Store Empire 重生之连锁帝国 [After reading so many rebirth stories, I realized the satisfying parts were always missing something, so I decided to write my own.] With building a business empire and serving the nation as its two central themes, Ye Qingyun is born into a family that has always longed to prosper. As the only man of his generation, he has no System or golden finger. He relies only on the foresight and experience he gained after being reborn. Watch as he gradually makes up for past regrets, builds a business em 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 I Asked You to Buy Steel, So Why Did You Buy an Aircraft Carrier? 让你采购钢铁，你却购买航母？ (Don't drop it just because of the opening. Everything you're hoping to see comes later...) A rich young heir transmigrates into the role of head of a steel procurement team. While figuring out how to complete his assignment, he gets a sudden inspiration and sets his sights on the Russian aircraft carrier! So Gu Cheng takes two hundred thousand US dollars to Russia and starts negotiating a deal for the carrier! A few months later, a giant ship appears on the country's coastline. The whole nation 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 A Phone Costs 199, and I Somehow Become a Tycoon! 一部手机199，我竟成为首富！ [Reborn + business battles + cutting-edge technology] How much does a top-of-the-line phone cost? 6,999? No! 2,999? No! 1,999? No! 199, with the best specs? I’m in! Chen Mu had only one goal at first: pay back the fifty million he owed and, while he was at it, pay the workers at Jiangnan Electronics Factory. Luckily, the System appeared and gave him access to a huge supply of incredibly cheap raw materials. But when he looked back, he discovered that his Jiangnan Electronics Factory had become a 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 I Saved Enough Startup Capital in Two and a Half Years, Then Conquered the Internet 两年半攒够启动金，我横扫互联网 [Just got its rating, but it’ll go up later] [Internet business + rebirth + business wars + social apps + group buying + food delivery] In 2026, Chen Yang, the owner of a small software outsourcing studio, and his girlfriend drive off a cliff on Highway 318. Reborn in 1997, Chen Yang spends two and a half years earning his first fortune by doing software outsourcing and running intensive programming courses. Late 1999. Penguin: Founded just this year. It already has hundreds of thousands of user 1.4kReads5.4Score10214d adds
- 22 Reborn to Live Without Regrets 重生续无悔人生 By middle age, people often feel that everything is over. Gao Yang refused to simply lie flat. After an unexpected accident, he miraculously got his hands on a so-called “regret pill,” giving him the chance to be reborn in 2004, a year brimming with possibilities. In the days just after his rebirth, Gao Yang was briefly lost. His mind was full of questions, and he had no idea what to do with his new life. Anxiety shadowed him, too. He worried that it was all just an illusion, a dream that could 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 What?! Scrambling for Tuition Right Before School Starts 惊！开学前夕凑学费 Broke enough to live on steamed buns, Zhang Yi turns a battered computer and a haughty orange cat into the tools for transforming a kindergarten mini-game into a blockbuster with 300 million monthly active users! He hasn’t even paid all his tuition, yet the school principal is already lining up to beg him for an investment. The cat deletes his code? He gets even by putting it in the game as a secret boss! From Dorm 404 to a 40.4-billion valuation, this guy’s daily life can be summed up in one wo 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Back to 2025: I Rose to Prominence by Open-Sourcing Doubao 重回25年，从豆包开源开始崛起 Li Wei is reborn in 2025, carrying complete memories of the future year 2049 and knowledge of cutting-edge technology. His “Photon Mesh” retinal projection glasses completely transform the way displays and interactions work. Using his memories of the future, he makes precise moves around Taobao Flash Shopping’s launch in March 2025 and the food-delivery subsidy war in April. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Rebirth of the Dragon Pattern Key 重生之龙纹密钥 [Signed and safe to read] [Reborn] [Workplace] [One heroine] [Recommended suspense] [...Short-selling signal strength: 89%... Related event: Dark Web bounty... Keywords: Tencent... Tianshu... Logical flaw...] Fragments of information carried by the brand burned coldly into the surface of his consciousness. This was no longer a vague premonition, but an almost certain lead! Teng Rui Technology (00700)! Short it! Dark Web bounty! Important notice: Chapters 1–18 contain a little too much setup at 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Reborn as a Business Tycoon 重生之商业大亨 If you make a show of yourself just to brag, you're nothing but a weakling. A true powerhouse keeps a low profile, quietly rises to the top, commands authority, masters extraordinary skills, and is fabulously wealthy! 8Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 27 Reborn in 2012: I Actually Became the World's Richest Man 重生2012:我竟成了世界首富 In his previous life, Ding Wei founded Dingding Bike and ended up sending his entire family to prison. By sheer luck, he travels back to 2012 during a livestream. Given a second chance at life, he seizes opportunity after opportunity in the internet boom, starting with bike-sharing and expanding into finance, short-form video, e-commerce, and more, ultimately building a vast business empire. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Reborn as a Top Investor 重生后我成为顶尖投资人 Nongfu Spring tastes a little sweet. Is it really sweet? Come on! You still don't know how to make business in the information age fun? After being reborn, Chen Feng used a series of audacious stunts to build a business from nothing. A little branding and promotion sent its added value soaring! [Corrupt Emperor Experience Card], [Business Seductress]... His products kept going viral. Watch me become the industry's top-tier star! 139Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Reborn: I Made Billions with a Quantitative Trading Program 重生，我靠量化程序赚了几百亿 Volume One, “Food Delivery Platform,” follows Wang Shuo as he starts the Weitu Food Delivery platform on campus and earns nearly 500 million. Volume Two, “Conquering the Stock Market,” follows Wang Shuo as he creates a quantitative trading program and makes tens of billions in China’s A-share market. He then reaps huge profits from international investors in the U.S. stock market, earning hundreds of billions of dollars. Volume Three, “Business Empire,” follows Wang Shuo as he founds three major 1.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Reborn in 1999: I Became a Media Mogul 重生1999，我成了传媒大亨 Back in 1999, Li Tiange is full of confidence and has the advantage of knowing what lies ahead. At first, all he wants is to become an unremarkable creative genius. But looking back, he finds that he has become known as a news mogul, an entertainment tycoon, and a traffic king, while shouldering the great responsibility of taking Chinese culture abroad and fighting for a voice on the international stage. The media reign supreme. This is the legendary era he built with his own hands! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Rebooting in 2000: I Become a Business Tycoon 重启2000，我成为商业大亨 Li Xiaobo died in 2015 after coughing up blood due to decompensated cirrhosis. But then he opened his eyes again and discovered he had transmigrated back to the year 2000. Given a second chance at life, he didn't want to be a police officer in the government system anymore. He wanted to become a successful businessman. He would not only avoid the pitfalls himself, but teach others how to avoid them too. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 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. 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Loading a Save from 1995 读档1995 Li Shupeng dreams of returning to 1995, with nothing to his name. That year, private businesses are ready to rise from the ashes, and the dawn of an economic boom is already shining over China. That year, private firms and foreign companies compete to make their mark, with countless ventures vying for success and brilliant minds gathering from every corner. That year, Li Shupeng finds opportunity everywhere. He works every angle to build factories, gets his start in drinks and food, and overtake 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 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. 58Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Reborn in 2008: I'm a Real Estate Agent 重生2008：我是房产中介 Unlucky little real estate agent Li Yuanhao is reborn in 2008. With knowledge of how the property market will develop over the next decade and a half, and a mind-reading System, he navigates between clients and shows how a small-time agent can take on the real estate tycoons. 157Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Reborn: The Godfather of the Internet 重生之互联网教父 Ye Qiu returns to his college days and builds a vast internet empire! 3Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 37 Back to 1999: I Dominated the Internet 重回1999，我在互联网制霸一方 Fang Heng unexpectedly returns to 1999, the golden age when the internet is just getting started. Riding the wave of the times, he vows to carve out a place for himself! He'll make up for the regrets of his past life in this one. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Reborn in 2007 重生2007 I went into massive online-loan debt to pay for my girlfriend’s treatment, and now I can’t repay it... After she recovered, she wanted to break up with me... 54Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 39 Back to 1994 重返1994 In his previous life, Yang Jianguang was always scrambling to get by, but in the end he couldn't change his fate. His mother died, his father wandered the countryside, and he scraped by in the county seat under the weight of his mortgage and car loan... When he opened his eyes, he found himself twenty years in the past. Everything was starting over... 15Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 40 Reborn in 2008, I Really Just Want to Make Money 重生08，我真的只想搞钱 [Reborn + Urban Everyday Life + Campus Romance + A Little Entrepreneurship + Comedy + No System] Chen Ji was reborn one month before the college entrance exams. In his previous life, his dream girl had toyed with him for two years. This time, he immediately dumped the scheming beauty. He's serious about making money. Short-term goal: make money. Long-term goal: make a lot of money. But little by little, he realized that as he pursued wealth, he was somehow getting closer and closer to the gorgeo 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Back to 2000: Everything Is Just Right 重回2000，一切刚刚好 [It is the best of times, and it is the worst of times!] (Rebirth + college + entrepreneurship + cozy daily life + internet + no System) After a night of heavy drinking, Li Tianhai, a nobody, is reborn just after the college entrance exams in 2000. His parents are healthy, he’s young, and college life is about to begin. Everything is just right, and the future is full of possibilities. In business, he starts by selling shoes over summer vacation, earning his first pot of gold. Once college begin —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Reborn as a Business Tycoon 重生之商业巨头 Jiangcheng, 1998. Lin Hao wakes up twenty-seven years in the past with 342 yuan and 50 cents in his pocket, his mother in a hospital bed waiting for the bill to be paid, and a fire report in his file bag claiming his father died in an "accident." Others are reborn to get rich. He is reborn just to survive at first, then to make sure that fire burns the people it was meant to burn. A rundown warehouse, fifty secondhand computers, and a blackboard covered in writing. From gaming tournaments to loc 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 After Our Whirlwind Wedding, the Big Shot Spoils Me Rotten 闪婚后，大佬他宠我入骨 [Two Powerful Leads Join Forces · Marriage Before Love · Dark Conspiracies · Devoted Spoiling] 💔 Publicly dumped and left with a ruined reputation? Shen Qingwan turns away with a cold smile and, amid the crowd's mocking stares, resolutely signs a marriage contract with Lu Beihan. Their marriage of convenience is the beginning of her fightback, and a carefully laid game on his part. 💼 Lu Beihan is a cold, ruthless tycoon who holds absolute power in the capital. He marries her to get back at his 86Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 I Have a Future AI 我有一个未来智能 What would you do if you had an artificial intelligence from the future? Punch Tencent in the face and kick Alibaba to the curb? Or surround yourself with beautiful women and become the king of entertainment! Perhaps only time can provide the best answer. Let us witness Qiao Yu's legendary life, like something straight out of a wish-fulfillment novel. I'm face-blind. I've never thought my wife was pretty! My biggest regret is founding Baidu Encyclopedia! Let's make our first small fortune! Our t 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Grindset System! Starting with Milk Tea, I Make the Whole World Compete 卷王系统！从奶茶开始内卷全世界 Lin Chen defied his family's objections and insisted on starting a business. Just as his milk tea shop was about to close, he awakened the Workaholic System. He then used it to give his employees the best benefits and offer customers the lowest prices. Starting with a tiny milk tea shop, he built a world-class company, driving down prices in every industry until businesses across the board were left groaning under the pressure. (The System appears more often at first, then less and less as the s 11Reads—Score314d adds
- 46 Reborn in 1995, I Dive into Business and Build a Fortune Empire 重生95下海搞钱创立财富帝国 [Older woman-younger man romance] [Wish fulfillment] [Urban life] [Reborn] [Multiple heroines] [Entrepreneurship] Zhang Dongqiang was in his thirties, with a house, a car, and savings, but no wife. A successful, single, eligible bachelor, he was the man countless gorgeous women in his industry were fighting to marry. Just imagine how many single guys he made jealous. But why on earth did he have to be reborn?! Reborn back in the days when he was miserably pursuing the campus beauty for three yea 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 47 Back to Life in 2004 重返人生之2004 Jin Fei, a loser, was lucky enough to be reborn. His smooth sailing after being reborn went to his head. A harsh dose of reality taught him what the real world was like. Being reborn doesn't solve everything. If you want to live it up after being reborn, you still need money. Without enough, it's simply impossible! 33Reads—Score114d adds
- 48 Three Trillion in Debt from the Start, Yet I Became the Richest Man 开局欠了三万亿，我却成为了首富 Chen Yang learns that his parents' company has gone bankrupt and that creditors across the country are demanding repayment. They owe the banks hundreds of billions, and have tens of thousands of unfinished homes. Their total debt amounts to three trillion. At the very last moment, his parents transfer 100 million to Chen Yang and tell him not to come back. When Su Xiao learns of the disaster that has struck her family, she sets out from America for Longguo. Faced with nothing but insults and sla —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 I've Been Reborn, So I'll Make Up for My Regrets! 重生了，那就弥补缺憾！ After a once-in-a-century pandemic, Xia Yuan, now over fifty, dies of illness. By a twist of fate, an astronomical anomaly gives him the chance to be reborn in 1984 and make up for the regrets of his previous life... In his previous life, Xia Yuan’s family was persecuted. He went to work in a factory to make a living, suffered an accident, and was left permanently disabled. Fortunately, he met Lu Qi, the wife who would stay by his side for life, but they never had children. In the end, the pande —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Reborn Short and Poor, but the System Still Made Me Ugly 重生变矮穷，系统却还把我变丑 Reborn in the city, with rigorous logic, entertainment, sports, business, and multiple heroines. A series of events unfolds around efforts to keep housing prices from rising too fast. In the fall of 2006, Lin Muyang got saddled with a rotten System and had no choice but to work hard to keep housing prices from skyrocketing. Some things are best left unknown. Finding them out could completely upend your worldview. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
