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- 101 Reborn, Starting with Collecting Scrap 重生从收破烂开始 What??? Collecting scrap??? Life was already so hard in my last life. This time, I absolutely won't allow... Thinking of all this, Wang Xing felt his strength surging... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 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—14d adds
- 103 Chasing the Light: When the First Star Shines 逆光追途：初星闪耀时 [Love Triangle! Bankrupt Designer’s Comeback vs. Unconventional CEO Who Insists on Marrying Her vs. Music Idol’s Devoted Love + Authentic, Logical Business Battles] The whole internet mocks her for “climbing the ladder by seducing a sugar daddy,” but she turns around and conquers the cutthroat world of finance to become its queen! Ruan Ruchu, a bankrupt fashion designer and entrepreneur, joins top consulting firm McKensen to make her comeback. By day, she’s CEO Cheng Yanqing’s “number-one strate 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Twenty Years in Rongdu: A Poor Student's Rise 蓉都二十年：寒门学子的逆袭 The true story of a seventeen-year business journey: a mathematics student from a rural background starts out as an intern at a business registration agency, then makes his way through guarantees, negotiable instruments, financial upheaval, and trial and error in industry, eventually founding and taking a company public in the low-altitude economy sector. 5Reads—Score114d adds
- 105 Oh No! This System Is Completely Insane! 夭寿啦！这个系统太疯癫！ Zhang Wei, a finance PhD from Qingbei, dies suddenly after staying up all night, only to be told by Xiaoqian, the Fengdu AI, that in his previous life he was a stray dog who owed someone a debt of gratitude. Want to come back to life? Reborn in Hong Kong as a dog and pay it back! Transformed into a ferocious dog standing 90 centimeters tall at the shoulder, “Mi Qi,” Zhang Wei is baffled. Biting people is one thing, but how is he supposed to help his benefactor, Liu Huabin, take revenge and seize —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Reborn in 2009: I Started Building a Fortune at an Internet Cafe 重生2009：从网吧开始做首富 At middle age, Zhang Yu returns to the age of eighteen. Standing at the crucial crossroads of his life, he decides not to repeat his old mistakes and to make up for every regret from the past. 275Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 107 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 11Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 108 They Wanted Me to Drop Out and Support the Campus Belle: Reborn, I Refuse to Be a Doormat 让我辍学供校花，重生后不当怨种 [Reborn] + [Build a Career] Chen Hao was reborn on the day he graduated from high school. In his previous life, Zhao Xue, the girl he had a crush on, came to him in tears. Her mother was sick and her family was poor, so she hoped he would drop out and earn money to support her and her mother. An orphan, Chen Hao sacrificed his future for love. He didn’t even submit his college applications, and instead started earning money by setting up a street stall. He took care of Zhao Xue’s mother, paid fo 70Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 109 Reborn in 2003: I Started with Gaming and Made a Fortune 重生2003从游戏开始赚成首富 [Two heroines] [Reborn] [Entrepreneurship] [Easygoing] A financial mogul is reborn in a car accident, back in his high school days. Seeing that his parents, who would spend the rest of their lives in a nursing home in the future, are now healthy, he resolves to make money immediately and change what happens to them after they’re laid off. At first, he makes his first fortune by exploiting a bug in a game, then shorts the game’s merchants through its in-game financial market. In the middle and la 140Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 110 I Came Home to Start a Business: I'm a Pioneer in Technology 回家创业，我是科技领路人 Su Xiangnan awakens Earth's memories before graduation and obtains a System. From then on, he returns home to start a business, rising from humble beginnings and leading Huaguo's technological development. He will restore Huaguo to the pinnacle of the world. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 Reborn, My Enemies Are Starting to Panic 重生后，我的仇家开始慌了 [Scheming]+ [Revenge]+ [No System]+ [Reborn]+ [Business warfare] Chen Jingyang has been reborn, back ten years in the past. In his previous life, his innocent younger sister was murdered, bringing about the ruin of his entire family. He himself was beaten to death. In this life, he swears to make the killer’s whole family pay. Drawing on his memories of his previous life, Chen Jingyang begins laying plans, eventually driving each member of the killer’s family to the brink of ruin… 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 Reborn in 2009: First, I’ll Make Half a Billion 重生2009，先挣它五个亿 Xu Xin, from 2023, accidentally transmigrates into Wu Feng’s body in 2009. Apart from fourteen extra years of memories, he has nothing else. With no other choice, he has to earn his first pot of gold. After much deliberation, he comes up with a workable plan: sell Tencent the idea behind WeChat, which Tencent would develop in the future. Isn’t that making money out of thin air? And just like that, he swindles his first pot of gold from Tencent: five hundred million yuan… Start a business? No 4Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 113 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 28Reads—Score214d adds
- 114 Reborn: The Investment King 重生之投资天王 In my previous life, my family went bankrupt. My father couldn't take the pressure and passed away, while my mother was plagued by an old illness and spent every day depressed. Thankfully, fate gave me another chance, and I returned to 2008. Relying on my memories of the future, Lin Tiancheng invested in companies and won powerful figures over. In just a few short years, he acquired businesses, won the heart of a beauty, crushed his enemies, and ultimately rose to the top of the world, becoming 120Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 115 Business Tycoon 商业枭雄 The business world should be about financial transactions alone. But once personal feelings get involved, who ultimately loses? The elite of the business world may seem dazzling on the surface, but behind the glamour lie the dirtiest truths and the most hypocritical lies. Amid the cutthroat deals and ruthless competition, what are family, friendship, and love worth? To become a true tycoon, everyone fights to get ahead, but who can really seize ultimate power? Who will wake up in time and emerge 152Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 116 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—14d adds
- 117 I Sell Herbal Plasters, and Somehow I Have 100,000 Distributors 我卖狗皮膏药居然有十万名代理商 Li Qiankun is reborn in 2014. In his first year, he makes his first fortune in social commerce: a tidy sum of one hundred million yuan. In his second year, he enters the cosmetics industry and starts emptying rich women’s purses. In his third year, he leads a hundred thousand agents in opening a chain of snack shops. Ten years later, a reporter asks, “Mr. Li, how does it feel to be the world’s richest man?” “Money is just a number to me. Besides, I’m not interested in money.” 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 In the End, I Touched Capital's Cheese, Cake, and Noodles 终究动了资本的奶酪，蛋糕，面条 What’s it like to be a capitalist? Before he was reborn, Su Xiu thought it meant oppression, exploitation, plunder, bloodshed, and wealth passed down through bloodlines. But after he was hanged to death, Su Xiu decided that running a business might be a little better. Except Su Xiu thinks running a business is still about oppression, exploitation, and plunder, and is still soaked in blood! Employees: Got it! Exploit our competitors! Oppress capital! Plunder the world! Capital: Is that really how 307Reads8.7Score10114d adds
- 119 Reborn as a Low-Key Tycoon 重生之低调大亨 What would you do if you were reborn? Chu Qiankun, who had been living an ordinary life, is unexpectedly reborn and returns to 2004. Armed with more than a decade of foresight, he embarks on a low-key yet luxurious life, working behind the scenes to build a great empire. 18Reads8.0Score1314d adds
- 120 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! 46Reads6.7Score814d adds
- 121 Goodbye, 996! The E-Commerce Boom Begins in 2006 告别996！2006电商风口起 [Reborn in 2006 + campus entrepreneurship + e-commerce empire + brothers united] Huang Kai woke up back in 2006 at Anxin Institute. Seeing his roommates still playing World of Warcraft, he grinned. The e-commerce boom hadn't arrived yet, but campus businesses were already a gold mine! He started by selling socks to earn his first pot of gold, then turned around and opened a campus work-study service center. Its 15-minute delivery zone covered 43 colleges, bringing in 128,000 yuan a month! IDG an 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 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—14d adds
- 123 Guns and Roses 枪炮与玫瑰 A blend of business warfare in China’s telecommunications industry and romance, featuring pure, ethereal beauties, bold and bewitching femmes fatales, fickle lovers, sharp-minded professionals, and even a Chinese Ghost Story... As Qin Kan comes of age, the novel lifts the veil on industry giants and focuses on four pivotal battles, using fierce commercial rivalries to showcase astonishing strategies and techniques. • First battle: As foreign powers’ monopoly over China’s telecommunications indus 175Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 124 The Whole Crew Are Ruthless Bandits: You Call This a Legitimate Company? 全员悍匪：你管这叫正经公司？ Back in 2008, Jiang Che takes over a security and labor services company on the verge of bankruptcy and about to be made an example of in a crackdown. Looking at his thousand-plus employees, all tattooed and only good for fighting, Jiang Che waves a hand. “Times have changed. Put on suits, everyone. We're getting into the internet business and making money legally!” To improve efficiency, Jiang Che introduces the most advanced cutthroat corporate culture and performance reviews. But he never exp 14.9kReads8.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 125 Reborn: I Started Getting Rich by Buying Lottery Tickets 重生之我靠买彩票开始致富 Lin Sheng had spent his whole life as a pushover. The most romantic thing he ever did was drink pesticide while looking up at his wife’s grave. When he woke, he found himself back in the year 2000. Lin Sheng took it as a chance from Heaven to turn his life around. To make up for the regrets of his past life, he decided to live properly this time, and set off on the road to riches by buying lottery tickets! 203Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 126 Reborn: Back to 2014 to Defy Fate and Change My Life 重生：回到2014逆天改命 Xu Zhenfeng is reborn in 2014, in the body of a good-for-nothing man who shares his name. The original owner was a textbook wastrel. He squandered billions in family assets, got drunk and hit his wife, Qiu Lin, and nearly gambled her away! A domineering CEO worth hundreds of billions, Xu Zhenfeng has been reborn in the body of a loser. He is determined to defy fate and change his life. He swears to make Qiu Lin the happiest woman in the world, and to take charge of this era. But just as Xu Zhenf 780Reads8.1Score10214d adds
- 127 The Vocational College Boss Makes a Trillion and Wrecks Global Finance 职院扛把子狂赚千亿杀爆全球金融 [Reborn + Brotherhood + Helping His Crew Get Rich + Business + Law-Abiding + No System] After his release from prison, Lin Feng, once a fearsome underworld boss, is reborn to his days as the leader of a vocational college gang. Seeing his old brothers again, Lin Feng is overwhelmed with mixed emotions. In his previous life, his brothers had entrusted him with their lives. But he had failed to lead them well. Some died, some were injured, and some ended up behind bars, weeping over their sentence 58Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 Back to 1998 回档1998 He wakes up to find that he has somehow returned to 1998, with a beautiful wife and an adorable daughter to boot... But... this doesn't seem like the beginning of a happy life! 82Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 129 Reborn in 2004, I Quit My Iron Rice Bowl of My Own Accord 重生零四，我主动砸了铁饭碗 Gu Yunzhou was reborn in 2004, the year his daughter turned one. With the economy in a downturn, the company was cutting operating costs and gave him two choices: take a pay cut and stay, or accept compensation and leave. The company executives assumed he would choose the first option, but to everyone's surprise, Gu Yunzhou didn't hesitate. He walked away with the money, giving up his iron rice bowl of a job. “I'm done putting up with this!” All he wanted in this life was to make money and suppo 2.1kReads8.6Score10114d adds
- 130 From Penniless to the Top of the World 从身无分文到世界之颠 The male lead, Chen Hao, is reborn in 1988. Armed with the memories of his previous life and the System's support, he cuts down gods, Buddhas, demons, and ghosts alike in the business world, blazing his way to the top. 36Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 131 Restarting 1996 重启1996 [Single heroine, smart characters, grand scope, morally gray protagonist, hard-hitting] Su Wu is reborn in 1996, an era where gold seems to be everywhere. This time, he charges ahead, overcoming every obstacle to build a business empire of his own. This time, he makes up for all the regrets of his past life and lives a completely different one. Watch as this decisive, strategic, rational, and composed man embarks on a turbulent and legendary journey. 240Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 132 Reborn in 2002: From Tianya Forum to Internet Empire 重生02，从天涯网到互联网帝国 [Just rated, entirely hand-written, rebirth, internet business wars, entertainment, multiple heroines] A failed state-owned enterprise accountant returns to 2002, only to be kicked out by Baidu. The internet winter is lingering in the darkness just before dawn. Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu are poised to take off, but none has taken complete control of the field. Lei Jun is still selling software at Kingsoft. There’s still time to change everything. Xiao Yang sparks a battle for Chinese online com 35.3kReads7.6Score3.3k14d adds
- 133 Reborn in 1990: The City Kid Knows How to Run the House 重生90：城里幼崽敢当家 Yang Yajing feels her life is worthless. At 36, she's still single, earns a meager salary, and can't even afford her mother's medical bills. Her best friend not only stole the man she'd secretly loved for more than a decade, but also ruined her chance at happiness. As she closed her eyes for the last time, she hated her life and the script fate had written for her. If she could start over, she'd tear up that damn supporting-character script with her own hands and live life on her own terms! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 My Reborn Life Doesn't Seem Quite Right 我的重生好像不太一样 [Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Multiple Heroines + Reborn + School Life] "Don't miss a good girl, and don't waste a bad girl." A carefree civil servant with no house but a car transmigrates back to high school. The moment he opens his eyes, the blackboard reads: 100 days until the college entrance exam. Wait, I never asked to be reborn. Can you send me back? Even if I had to be reborn, couldn't it be before the college entrance exam? I've forgotten everything the teachers taught me, haven't I??! 8kReads8.0Score63314d adds
- 135 Technology: The Super Factory 科技丶超级工厂 A new work is out! Come read my stories on Fanqie Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 13Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 136 Reborn in the City, Forced to Become a Playboy! 都市重生，我被迫成为渣男！ [Farming] [Building a Business from the Ground Up] [Urban Romance] [Multiple Love Interests] [No System] [No Mindless Protagonist] A good-for-nothing middle-aged man, going nowhere in life, unexpectedly finds himself reborn twenty years in the past. Since Heaven has given him a chance to start over, he'll rewrite this wretched, humiliating life! In this life, he'll erase every last humiliation and make up for all the regrets he once had. Drawing on the memories and wisdom of his past life, along —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 Reborn: I Help My Father Fulfill His Ambitions 重生之我扶我父青云志 The azure clouds bid me behold the world; beneath the heavens, all things lie within my gaze. Chu Yi was once a good-for-nothing heir who lived under his father's protection and enjoyed everything his father did to make up for his shortcomings. But the fickle hand of fate suddenly turned against him. The family suffered another upheaval, his father was sent to prison for a second time, and the family's glory vanished overnight once more. Chu Yi's world grew dark. He could not understand his fath 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 From the Start, I Short the Island Nation and Make a Trillion 开局做空岛国，豪赚万亿 “What? Stocks are just gambling? Then I'm all in!” Li Yunlong was reborn. This time, he wasn't a general, but a heavily indebted illegal immigrant in Hong Kong. In this capitalist world where money rules all, Li Yunlong awakened! Whether it was the famous Plaza Accord or Black Monday, he saw each one as a perfect opportunity to launch an ambush! He directed his traders as if he were leading troops into battle: “All companies, listen up! Dump those short-selling orders! Don't be afraid of losing —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 The Grassroots College Student’s Rise to the Top 草根大学生的逆袭人生 My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's. What I tell is not only the story of how I fought my way up from the bottom to build a business, but also the story of my youth. My name is Han Yu. I'm from Qingcheng, Zhejiang Province, and I'm 32 years old. I'm the lead wolf of an entrepreneurial team, the founder of more than a dozen companies, including ML and CL, the chairman of CC Group, and the first person in my family to break with the past and show the way forward. Through my own efforts, I esc 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Back to the Nineties: No More Playing It Safe, From the Start I Sell Underwear at a Street Stall 重回九零：拒绝上岸，开局摆摊卖裤衩 [Reborn in the 1990s] [The Real Struggle] [A Grassroots Rise] [Everyday Life] [Beaver Keeps It Low-Key] The 1990s were a time of upheaval. The bold got rich, while the timid went hungry. My parents pulled some strings to get me a job at a state-owned enterprise. I thought I was doing great, but among my brothers, I ended up the biggest failure. Now that I've been reborn, I'm going to become a big shot! With fate reset, I'm bound to turn things around. I'll lead a bunch of rough-and-ready brother 38Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 141 The Pinnacle of Entrepreneurship 创业之巅 An inspirational story of entrepreneurship When dreams become reality, an ordinary person can build an extraordinary business. Li Jun, a young man from an ordinary family, has always dreamed of changing the world. At university, he was passionate about the film and television industry, but he had neither a wealthy family nor useful connections. Still, that did not stop him from moving forward. Lin Zhiyuan is an unremarkable ordinary man whose life is plain and uneventful, yet deep inside him bur —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 I Have a Magic Wand 我有一根魔法棒 Lin Qi unexpectedly obtains a magic wand that can make any object bigger or smaller. From then on, he gains money and beautiful women, reaches the pinnacle of life, and even takes some time to explore the universe... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 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—14d adds
- 144 Reborn as a Capitalist Tycoon: No More Simping 重生资本巨鳄之不再做舔狗 Chen Mo was reborn with the next ten years of financial storms in his hands. Lehman Brothers' collapse, the European debt crisis, the Swiss franc black swan, Bitcoin rising from a few cents to 60,000... In this life, he'll take back everything he was owed in his past life, with interest. Are you ready, old friends on Wall Street? 112Reads—Score414d adds
- 145 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 409Reads7.3Score10414d adds
- 146 Back in 2002, I Helped Mr. Lei Become the Richest Man 回到2002，我帮雷总登上首富 Li Chengdong died of illness at forty, only to unexpectedly come back to life and transmigrate into his twenty-year-old self in 2002. Naturally, reborn, he was determined to make his life different. He seized the best opportunity he had missed in his previous life, winning the favor of Mr. Lei, then just the CEO of an ordinary software company. Starting with a small studio, he launched his own business, developed games, and built a platform, ultimately becoming a pillar of the internet boom and 203Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 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 1.8kReads—Score12514d adds
- 148 Oh No, I've Arrived in a Parallel World 完蛋我来到平行世界了 He unexpectedly transmigrates to a parallel timeline, a world almost identical to the one he knows, yet secretly different. Here, technology and social change are still at their starting point, and history has followed the same course. But Li Chen discovers that the people and memories from his original world seem not to exist here. Everything feels brand new. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 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.” 318Reads7.5Score3514d adds
- 150 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—14d adds
