Novels like A Life in Science and Technology
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- 51 Black Tech: Building a Lightsaber for My Graduation Project 黑科技：从毕设开始造光剑 [Technology drives national strength in the early stages] [Mechs and interstellar warfare in the middle and later stages] After Xu Teng unlocked the System, he built a lightsaber. Then he posted a question on a website: “Would building a lightsaber for my graduation project and getting an outstanding-project award help me get into grad school?” The commenters joked in response: “Not only will it help, but your professor will personally come to recruit you.” “What are you talking about, my esteem 3.5kReads8.5Score19614d adds
- 52 My Wife Was Kidnapped, and My Black Technology Was Exposed 老婆遭绑架，我的黑科技曝光了 [Black technology + one heroine + satisfying read + livestreaming] Tang Ke activated the Black Technology System. As long as he developed something in a particular direction, he was guaranteed to create it! One day, he casually modified his wife’s car. Little did he know that she would be ambushed by robbers on her way home, bringing his black technology into the spotlight. He founded a black technology company, bringing the world one shock after another and leading Earth toward a Level Seven ci 8.4kReads8.8Score58614d adds
- 53 Divine Choices: From the Start, I Chose a Perfect Score on the College Entrance Exam 神级选择：开局选择高考满分 [Top student + System + cutting-edge tech + showing off, lighthearted with no angst] If you had to choose, would you take a perfect 750 on the college entrance exam, or 7.5 million in cash? Staring at the pop-up on his phone, Cheng Hao was at a loss for words. He chose a perfect score on the exam. What? You want to know why he didn't choose the 7.5 million? Don't ask. It's because he has lofty ideals! Who knew it would actually be real? Cheng Hao really had returned to the eve of the college ent 13.9kReads8.3Score1.1k14d adds
- 54 I’m Filming The Wandering Earth, So Building a Space Elevator Is Perfectly Reasonable 拍流浪地球我造太空电梯很合理吧 [I’m Filming The Wandering Earth. Isn’t It Reasonable to Build a Space Elevator?] [Movie-Making Black Tech + The Wandering Earth + Film Industry] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Liu Lang graduates from film school and obtains a Movie-Making Black Tech System. The films he creates can become reality. With the film industry rotting under the rule of traffic stars and fan-driven economics, Liu Lang decisively chooses to make science fiction films. Starting with The Wandering Earth, he bu 10.6kReads8.6Score89314d adds
- 55 EN Technology: Turning Over Controlled Nuclear Fusion to Get Into College 科技：为了上大学，上交可控核聚变 [Patriotic Tech Novel] To get into Longke University, Jiang Fan submitted some of the formulas and data for controlled nuclear fusion. The result sent the top experts across Longguo into an uproar... 9.6kReads8.1Score1k14d adds
- 56 Reborn: Patenting Every Technology to Sever the West’s Tech Advantage 重生：全系专利，斩断欧美科技树 [Cutting-edge technology + business + military industry + defending the country + upright values] Carrying the memories of two thousand scientists from every field, Chen Hao is reborn on the day of the college entrance exams in the year 2000. He missed the exam and scored just 180 points? He solves the ten greatest conjectures in mathematics, and the top ten universities fight to recruit him! His father is bankrupt and about to jump off a building from the start? He builds the XP System and 35.1kReads9.0Score3.5k14d adds
- 57 You Sent Me to College, and I Became a National Treasure of China? 让你上大学，你成了华夏国士？ The protagonist, Su Lin, transmigrates to another, similar world and becomes a high school senior. A few days before the college entrance exam, his homeroom teacher, Sun Xue, calls him to her office. “Su Lin, you’re the first student in our school’s history to be recommended for admission to Huaqing University. Sign here, and you’ll be admitted without taking the exam.” Just then, Su Lin awakens a God-Tier Choice System. Choice One: Turn down the recommendation and receive nanometer-scale lithog 14.2kReads9.0Score1.2k14d adds
- 58 Black Technology: Building Controlled Nuclear Fusion by Hand from the Start 黑科技：开局手搓可控核聚变 Chu Ge awakens the Military Industry System. As it continually upgrades and improves, its cutting-edge technology lets him sweep all before him, successfully turning Huaxia into the world's leading military-industrial power! One astonishing military technology after another emerges, leaving the traditional powers trembling with fear and green with envy! Controlled nuclear fusion: successfully developed, mass production ready... Prism defense towers: successfully developed, mass production ready. 9kReads8.9Score59314d adds
- 59 Give It Up, Eagle Sauce. Outside Are All Huaxia Star Destroyers 收手吧鹰酱，外面全是华夏歼星舰 [Technological Superpower + Hawkish Patriotism + Strategic Intimidation + South Heaven Gate Project + Cold Nuclear Fusion + Interstellar Civilization + Multidimensional Universe = ?] Lin Mo, formerly chief engineer of the South Heaven Gate Project, transmigrates to Blue Star’s Huaxia and becomes Professor Ai’s student. He awakens a strategic intimidation technology System: by targeting hostile forces such as the Eagle Nation with strategic intimidation, he can continually unlock future technolog 17.5kReads8.9Score1.3k14d adds
- 60 I've Been Gone for Three Years, and My Campus Belle Girlfriend Tells Everyone I'm Dead 消失三年，校花女友到处说我死了 [Peerless national hero + ultra-sweet romance + everyday campus life] Chu Yang is a peerless national hero who has been living under an assumed name. He disappeared for three years to lead the design and development of China’s 1nm lithography technology. Three years later, Chu Yang completed his mission and returned to the city. Hoping to make up for the regrets of his high school years, he enrolled at Kyoto University to experience student life, becoming a freshman there. But during orientation 19.1kReads8.9Score3.5k14d adds
- 61 The System Just Activated, and the Goddess Called for Help 系统刚激活，女神打来求救电话 [Satisfying Power Fantasy + Transmigration + System + No Cultivation + One Female Lead + Dad Hero + Business Wars] Zhou Yuchen used to be a programmer at a gaming company. After being laid off, he started a successful business. Then he was diagnosed with liver cancer and transmigrated to a parallel world, bringing along the game he had developed. All Zhou Yuchen had to do was study diligently and improve his proficiency to gain the corresponding skills from the game. It took him four years to fi 30.7kReads8.8Score2k14d adds
- 62 In Prison: Developing Mechs to Win My Freedom 人在监狱：为了出狱研发机甲 Framed and thrown into prison, Zhou Yang awakened the All-Purpose Technology System at the very moment he was locked up. It took Zhou Yang two years to complete the System's first mission. Who could have guessed the first reward would be the technology to build mechs? The first-generation mech took to the skies, ushering humanity into the age of mechs. Then interstellar warships arrived, taking humanity into the age of space travel. Zhou Yang declared, “My goal is the stars and the sea.” 808Reads8.7Score18614d adds
- 63 From the Start, I Break Through Nuclear Fusion and the Nation Assigns Me a Campus Beauty Girlfriend 开局突破核聚变国家分配校花女友 [One Female Lead + Sweet Romance] [Couple Moments] [No Shocking Twists, Read with Confidence] Under Jiang Yi's leadership, the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully broke the ten-minute record for sustaining an artificial sun! Since the country cannot reveal Jiang Yi's identity or his contributions, it assigns him a girlfriend. But Jiang Yi never could have imagined that his girlfriend would be the aloof campus belle at his very own university! What he could never have imagined was that the c 8.3kReads9.3Score73514d adds
- 64 Industrial Deep Dive: Manufacturing Arresting Cables from the Start! 工业大摸底：开局制造阻拦索！ [The internet’s only 4-million-character industrial deep-dive into cutting-edge technology] [Print edition, Industrial Innovation is published and on sale] [Several animated adaptations are now streaming] [System + Major Industrial Power + “Call Her Mom” Craze + Unwavering Patriotism + No Female Lead + Technology Race] Also known as [Industrial Deep Dive: Manufacturing Arresting Gear from the Start!] [Industrial Deep Dive: Uncovering the South Heaven Gate Project] [After Dumping My Ex, I Awakene 90.7kReads8.1Score6.4k14d adds
- 65 Back in 2003, This Time the Advantage Is Mine 重回2003，这波优势在我 A working-class laborer dies in a car accident in 2026 and is reborn on June 5, 2003, with every memory from 2003 to 2026 intact. Using his knowledge of the future, he makes his first fortune in Hong Kong's futures market, then starts with a Taobao shop and expands into e-commerce platforms, his own logistics network, brick-and-mortar retail, mobile phone hardware, and payment systems. In just six months, he goes from having nothing to a net worth of hundreds of millions, takes on Eachnet head-o 3.7kReads6.0Score13814d adds
- 66 Reborn: There's a Desktop Computer Inside Me 重生：我体内带个台式机 [No mindless plot] [Urban] [Lighthearted] [Technology] [Feel-good power fantasy] Jiang Cheng, a computer repairman, was “electrocuted” back to his senior year of high school, with a desktop computer inside his body. He made a stunning impression on the college entrance exam and got into the best university. At university, he pursued his dreams and founded the most exciting company, catching the wave of a tech boom and going on to lead the world. Just a programmer? No. He was a pioneer in technol 29.7kReads9.0Score1.8k14d adds
- 67 I Took a Temp Job, Only to Be Classified as a National S-Level Secret 当个临时工，竟被国家S级加密了 [Cutting-edge technology + disasters + interstellar adventure + war + passion + bandits + System + supernatural abilities] Lin Luo, an intern on the verge of being fired, gains a Super Gene System that can modify human genes. When Eagleland is proudly developing its eighteenth-generation supersonic aircraft, people in Huaxia are flying through the sky on swords, overtaking them and shocking the world! When aliens from a Level Nine civilization arrive on Earth, swaggering with supreme arrogance, 8.7kReads8.9Score63814d adds
- 68 Technology Blockade? I'll Build a Sci-Fi Heavenly Realm in Nine Levels 技术封锁？我反手打造科幻九重天 [Black tech + bandits + conquest + interstellar + war + arms dealing + black market] Back then, the Eagle Sauce had its hands in its pockets, convinced it had no rivals, with its arms trade spanning the globe. Back then, the Dragon Nation was under a technological blockade, its science and technology stuck at a bottleneck. Back then, advanced alien civilizations looked down on Blue Star, not taking it seriously at all. Then one day, Lin Feng, a new recruit at the Strategic Deception Bureau, show 17.4kReads9.1Score1.4k14d adds
- 69 Cutting-Edge Tech: Who Let Him Make Phones Like This? 黑科技：谁让他这么造手机的 Please welcome the pioneer of full-screen phones, the creator of ultra-fast charging, the gravedigger of Fruit phones, the leader in domestic chips, and the boss of Hongxing Group, the world's largest phone manufacturer: Chen Chen! Chen Chen was reborn in 2011 and took over a phone company. He took on Big Rice, stabbed Apple in the back, and stayed completely calm in the face of US sanctions, retaliating by sanctioning the United States instead. He drove China's technological progress forward th 45.1kReads8.9Score2.8k14d adds
- 70 I’m a Food Delivery Guy, and I Became Invincible After Three Years of Daily Sign-Ins 我，外卖小哥，签到三年后无敌了 [Sign-In + Top Student + Cutting-Edge Tech + Livestreaming + Food Delivery + Invincible + One Female Lead] [Short drama of the same name now available] Chen Nuo, a sophomore at Huaqing University, takes a summer job delivering food and gets bound to a god-tier sign-in System. At the System's initial level, every time a customer signs for a delivery, he can sign in and receive a random skill. Once the System levels up, he can also draw prizes; Signing in at a physics professor's home earns him sk 18.1kReads9.2Score1.5k14d adds
- 71 In the Name of the People: Qi Tongwei Quits Politics for Business from the Start 名义：开局祈同伟弃政从商 After shooting himself on Solitary Eagle Ridge, Qi Tongwei was reborn at the turning point of his fate! Back at the moment when he knelt before the Liang family, before taking the wrong path in officialdom, he carried memories of the future from 2026. He rejected Liang Qunfeng's promotion on the spot, abandoning his political ambitions for good and refusing to repeat the old path that had ended in disgrace. He seized the first opportunities brought by reform and opening up, using treasury bond a 7.5kReads6.1Score21814d adds
- 72 Divine Craftsman 神工 A good-for-nothing boy stumbles upon a divine skill and transforms into a prodigious genius engineer! With his ultra-precise Nano-Control System, he can do anything and never lose! He navigates the member states, keeping the various forces in check as he rises against all odds to become the supreme ruler. In the bustling city, he skillfully looks after one beautiful woman after another, gaining both wealth and romance as he steadily climbs to the pinnacle of life! 29.8kReads9.1Score2.9k14d adds
- 73 Reborn in 1989: Building China's Technology Empire 重生1989：缔造华夏科技帝国 Reborn from 2035 into the golden age of 1989, Xu Huasheng, a top Chinese chip expert, stands at the forefront of the times with a mind full of technological knowledge. He swears that this time around, he won't let himself be pushed around. Starting with the VCD industry, then moving into home appliances, pagers, mobile phones, chips, lithography machines, the internet, cars, drones, new energy, medical equipment, rockets, and satellites, Xu Huasheng begins with his own electronics factory and se 60.9kReads9.1Score4.6k14d adds
- 74 You Asked Me to Open a Repair Shop, So Why Am I Starting a Mecha War? 让你开维修店，你掀起机战风暴？ "Sonny! Mom and Dad are leaving. Don't miss us!" The young man stands at home, staring at the letter in his hands, completely frozen. "Sonny! Mom and Dad aren't that heartless. We got you a little repair shop. You'd better work hard!" Young man: ... "You call this rundown warehouse a repair shop?" Just then, the System awakens, and the dilapidated warehouse before him transforms into the best mech repair shop on the planet. "Boss... isn't your price for repairing mechs a little too high? It's ju 68.4kReads8.9Score7.8k14d adds
- 75 A Technical School Student Builds a Nuclear Fusion Reactor and Turns It Over to the Nation! 人在技校，造了核聚变上交国家！ Chen Yang, a vocational school student who had obtained a technology System, had no choice but to go on a blind date with a female PhD student to complete a System mission. Instead, she mocked and ridiculed him. But when the woman returned to her research institute, the nuclear fusion data she had brought back from Chen Yang was classified as the nation’s highest secret. The entire institute was placed under tight control. Skeptical but curious, a nuclear fusion expert went to Chen Yang’s vocati 22.7kReads9.2Score2.1k14d adds
- 76 Our Glorious China Strides Across the Multiverse 我泱泱华夏纵横多元宇宙 Fang Jing somehow came into possession of a magical machine that could let him transmigrate into all kinds of science-fiction films and TV shows! In response to the United States' suppression, he starts with The Wandering Earth, developing exoskeletons, crewed lunar missions, a moon base, and a space elevator... China rises all the way from The Wandering Earth to The Three-Body Problem, conquering the multiverse until it eventually ascends into an eternal multiverse civilization! 60.2kReads9.1Score3.5k14d adds
- 77 At This Moment, I Am China's Guardian Deity 此刻，我为华夏守护神 On Christmas Eve, December 24, 0260, a large horde of sea beasts appeared in Old Copper Mountain, Mi Nation. Not a single person in the city survived! On April 23, 0261, Level 6 sea beasts appeared in North Bear Nation. The entire country fell! On New Year's Day, January 1, 0262, a Level 10 sea beast appeared in Huaxia, codenamed [Taotie]. Huaxia fell! In January 0260, Huaxia's God of War, Chen Feng, was reborn eleven months before the sea beasts emerged. He won the trust of the country's 1.3kReads9.0Score51014d adds
- 78 EN I Exchange Black Technology by Crushing the School Bully 我靠打爆学霸兑换黑科技 [Academic Prodigy + Black Technology + Technology to Strengthen the Nation + War and Terror Bureau] High school student Song He gets the Academic Grudge System. As long as he can make top students lose their composure, he can exchange their resentment for all kinds of black technology. So Song He keeps driving the top students over the edge: “You snatch first place in the grade, and every other top student drops in the rankings. Resentment +10,000!” “You receive a special research allowance for 55kReads9.3Score6.3k14d adds
- 79 EN I'm a Type II Civilization with a Dimensionality Reduction Strike, Isn't That Perfectly Reasonable? 我一个二级文明有二向箔很合理吧 [Technology + Disaster + Interstellar + Tech Tree] In the year 2050 AD, the Sun is affected by an unknown force, and a helium flash is imminent! Is Earth on the brink of destruction? No matter. I’ll handle it! Is the Trisolaris system’s Proxima Centauri civilization about to invade? No matter. I’ll handle it! Are advanced civilizations locked in conflict across the dark universe? No matter. I’ll handle it! … Starting with controlled nuclear fusion, the protagonist, Lü Yongchang, ushers humanity 89.9kReads9.6Score7.9k14d adds
- 80 EN My Right Eye is a God-Tier Computer 我的右眼是神级计算机 I am the super artificial intelligence in your eyes. You humans call an IQ of 85 stupid and an IQ of 135 smart, but you will never understand what an IQ of 125,000 means! From now on, I will be your right-hand man! 150.8kReads9.2Score19k14d adds
- 81 Reborn in 1975: From the Start, I Tore Up the Order to Return to the City 重生1975：开局撕毁回城调令 Zhou Yang, an unrivaled patriot who devoted his whole life to his country, was reborn and returned to the remote mountain village where he had been sent down to work in 1975! Looking at the transfer order in his hand, this time he didn't hesitate. He tore it to shreds! In his previous life, he'd been blinded by greed and abandoned his wife and daughter to return to the city, watching helplessly as Li Youwei and her daughter met tragic deaths. Reborn, all Zhou Yang wanted was a warm home with his 163.2kReads9.5Score18.2k14d adds
