Novels like Reborn: Hard Work Always Pays Off
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- 1 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.” 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Reborn in 2000: From a Little Shop to a Capitalist Tycoon 重生2000：从小店到资本巨鳄 Li Tian was deceived in his previous life by Liu Yiyi, the high school class beauty. He paid all her university expenses, only to hear after graduation, “I’ve always thought of you as an older brother.” He spent the rest of his life in misery and eventually died of cancer. Reborn, he is mature and clear about his goals: wealth and control over his own fate. He is reborn without a System or a golden finger, and can’t remember any lottery numbers. All he has are memories of the social, economic, a 129Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 3 My Name Is Zhou Fan, the Fan in Zhou Bufan! 我叫周凡，周不凡的周凡！ (Also known as Super Part-Timer System) Life is like getting screwed. You can’t refuse, so you can only learn to enjoy it!, Zhou Fan. Life is like a terrible movie you can’t fast-forward through. You’re both the audience and the star., Zhou Fan. Just like his name, Zhou Fan is an ordinary person. The only thing that sets him apart is that he’s an orphan. It takes a while to get going. Hope you enjoy it! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 A Rich Heiress Woke Up in the Body of an Ordinary Working-Class Girl 豪门千金一觉醒来魂穿草根普女 A mishap sends Yao Jinling, a wealthy heiress, into the body of an ordinary woman from humble beginnings who is struggling to make ends meet. What seems like the start of a nightmare also marks the beginning of her legendary comeback. At work, she fights her way from an oppressed intern to someone who proves her worth and shatters prejudice. In love, she decisively dumps her “toxic” boyfriend, then stays true to herself amid a tangled love triangle. On her entrepreneurial journey, a lack of fun 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 An Ordinary Person Gets a Cheat Ability 普通人得到外挂后 At thirty, Wang Hao was stuck in the middle of nowhere when, out of the blue, he acquired a skill-proficiency cheat. Skills that would take others years of hard work to master were his for the taking: he only had to grind up his proficiency, and he could reach heights others might never attain in their entire lives. From then on, an ordinary man living at the bottom of society began following a very different path in life. But as his skill levels kept rising, their miraculous effects gradually b 1.6kReads5.6Score100Shelves
- 6 The Proficiency Panel: I Started with Tai Chi 熟练度面板之我从太极拳开始 In a fictional dynasty where martial arts flourish, Li Ansheng has been transmigrated here for sixteen years. Now beset by illness, he awakens a System panel in a single moment. What kind of storm will this soul from another world unleash? Skill: Tai Chi (Uninitiated/0/100) [Effect: None]>> Skill: Tai Chi (Mastered/0/∞) [Effect: Perfected physique, qi reaching the divine, yin and yang united as one!] Skill: Tai Chi Breathing Method (Uninitiated/0/100) [Effect: None]>> Skill: Tai Chi Breathing Me 95Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 7 Reborn in 2010: I Have a Golden Finger System 重生2010，我有金手指系统 Reborn from 2025 into 2010, he buys lottery tickets for the 2010 South Africa World Cup and earns his first fortune. He mines Bitcoin like crazy, creates the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, and becomes the biggest market maker. He founds ByteDance Group, whose subsidiaries include Toutiao, WeChat, Panda TV, Bilibili, Huya Video, Douyin, TikTok, Honor of Kings, Ele.me, Pinduoduo, and more... After Xia Feng is reborn, he gets a System, making it easy to earn money and turning his life int 251Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 After the Office Drone Won the Lottery 社畜中奖之后 What happens when an overworked office drone wins the lottery? Zhang Qiangwei stared at the ticket she’d bought on a whim. She’d really won the jackpot, and she was completely dumbfounded. Looks like yesterday’s wish to the God of Wealth really came true. 768Reads—Score104Shelves
- 9 After the College Entrance Exams, My Billionaire Identity Was Exposed! 高考结束，我的首富身份被曝光！ [Plenty to Read][Reborn][One Heroine][Business] In his previous life, Xu Yang drifted through life. He delivered takeout, hauled bricks, and reached his thirties without accomplishing a thing. One day, he woke up back in a middle school classroom in 2010. His deskmate was still the goofy Li Chuan, the quiet Chen Mo still sat in front of him, and their homeroom teacher, Old Zhou, still loved scolding students over his thermos. He knew what was coming: the smartphone boom, the rise of Bitcoin, 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 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—Shelves
- 11 Reborn in the 1990s: Break the West's Tech Stranglehold and Make Trillions 重生九零：科技卡脖欧美赚爆万亿 The rating just came in! [Reborn entrepreneurial story, building up industry, no System, slow burn, with sound business-war logic] Back in 1993, Su Lei makes his first fortune reselling pagers. He makes a killing worldwide with electronic pets, rapidly builds his business, catches up with Motorola and Intel, and establishes a foothold in the semiconductor chip industry. During the 1997 financial crisis, he fends off international speculators and buys up undervalued assets in Japan and South Kore 11.4kReads6.9Score904Shelves
- 12 The Free-Roaming Wage Earner System 自由打工人系统 The male lead, Li Zerui, gets a daily-pay System that doubles his wages every day. While achieving financial freedom, he also helps his friends gradually leave behind their lives as wage slaves. If you're going to work for someone anyway, why not work for yourself? 135Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 I Awakened a System, but It Only Works for Other People! 我觉醒了系统却只能给别人用！ I awakened a System, but I can only use it for other people! Maximum thrills: a sharp-tongued career woman gets secretly spoiled by a sweet young man who's actually a hidden big shot! Xu Rulin has been on the job for just half a month when he finally activates his god-tier support System, only to have his hopes dashed: he can't use it himself! Even more ridiculous, the person bound to the System is Lin Rui, the female team leader he fears most in the whole company and has had a secret crush on f 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Laying Low in the Market and Grinding Proficiency: I'm Way Too Cautious 苟在坊市刷熟练度，我太稳健了 Also known as Cultivation: I Rely on a Proficiency Panel to Live a Long, Carefree Life! This is a proficiency-panel-and-longevity novel! Please give it a look, everyone. It's not about an ordinary cultivator breaking through and adding years to their lifespan. The protagonist can live forever (·∀·) Synopsis: Li Ping'an transmigrates and gets a proficiency panel. He practices spells that slow aging, masters the divine art of longevity, and gains several times the lifespan of cultivators at the sa 346Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 15 Starting My Life Over After Winning 27.91 Million in the Lottery 彩票中奖2791万后的人生重启 Ordinary people are always confused and struggling, weighed down by all kinds of worries. If a windfall suddenly came your way, how might life change for ordinary people like you and me? 1.4kReads—Score102Shelves
- 16 The Path to Martial Sainthood Begins with Grinding for Experience 武圣之路从肝经验开始 Su Chen transmigrates to another world with an experience panel. Heaven rewards diligence: as long as he practices a cultivation technique, he is guaranteed to master it. With the experience panel at his side, Su Chen sweeps aside one genius after another, eventually becoming a Martial Saint with skin like bronze and bones like iron, impervious to blades and spears. 477Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 17 Reborn with the Cool School Beauty from the Start, How Could I Lose? 都重生了，清冷校花开局，怎么输 [Reborn] [Campus Life] [No System] [Internet Entrepreneurship] A car accident sends Xu Yuan back to 2001. The aloof campus beauty he once admired turns out to be nothing like he imagined. Since he’s been reborn, he has to win the girl who’s always been his one true love... If you’re reborn and don’t make money, you’re no better than roadkill! The bad news: He’s back in high school, with not a cent to his name. The good news: He still has the skills he picked up in his previous life, and he can s 95Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 My Proficiency Has No Upper Limit 我的熟练度没有上限 In my previous life, I was a loser everyone despised. I couldn't even protect the girl I loved most. Reborn in 2012, Tao Binbin is still the girl with dimples whenever she smiles. In this life, I'll use the System to defy fate. I don't want to rule the world, I just want to be worthy of her. When her mother demands to know, "What makes you think you deserve her?" an entire business empire stands behind me. "Auntie, this time, I'm capable of loving her for the rest of my life." 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The God-Tier Sales System 神级售货系统 Freshman Lin Chen unexpectedly binds himself to a god-tier vending System, and his life is never ordinary again. While other people sell snacks and drinks, he sells “Stay-Up-Late Coffee” and “Stamina-Boosting Candy.” While others work part-time handing out flyers, he trades “Spirit Spring Drops” for emotions and exchanges “Elemental Crystals” for treasures. The System's vending machine is filled with rare treasures from the Myriad Worlds: the Eye of Truth, which sees through illusions; Element 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Perhaps I’ll Live a Life of Romance in This One 此生或许风流 Love is something everyone has to experience in their lifetime. Some end up with the one they love by their side, some spend their lives alone, and others become carefree womanizers. What will become of Meng Haokong? This story has one heroine, or none at all. 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Don't Call Me Boss, I'm a Law-Abiding Entrepreneur 别叫我大哥，我是守法人民企业家 [Reborn + Reformed Gangsters + Business Empire + A Cast of Drama Queens] Jiang Che is reborn on the eve of the Green Dragon Gang's bloody killing spree. He tears up their machete permits and declares, "From today on, anyone who talks about fighting and killing again gets their performance bonus docked!" While his rivals wait for him to make a fool of himself: • Three hundred underlings sweep the streets before dawn and land a contract to supply disposable tableware to restaurants across the city 106Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Reborn: Making Money Is What Matters 重生，搞钱才是王道 [No System] + [Not mindless wish fulfillment] + [Smart protagonist] + [Urban entrepreneurship] + [Urban life] + [Reborn and making money] + [Building wealth], proceed with caution if these aren't your thing. The protagonist is reborn in 2002. Starting with World Cup betting, money pours in and his life takes off. His immense wealth gives him the life he wants, but it also brings trouble. Whether you're rich or poor, you'll always run into different kinds of trouble. Dealing with trouble is a par 276Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 23 Reborn in 2002: A Diary 2002重生日记 With the Child of Destiny’s luck, 24 hours of memories, and half a lifetime of experience, he rose to become the world’s richest person in four years and launched a business empire powerful enough to rival nations. From the internet and finance to agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and high technology, see how this man uses money and public opinion to dominate the world. If you had one chance to start over, how would you spend the dream life you’ve always wanted? 914Reads7.5Score129Shelves
- 24 The Million-Yuan Lottery 百万彩票记 What would an ordinary wage earner with a stable job do after suddenly winning five million? A simple, everyday experience, criticized for reading like a ledger. After going around in circles, he’s still alone. 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Xuanhuan: I Have All-Round Proficiency 玄幻：我有全能熟练度 You threw a stone at a pig. Hidden weapon proficiency +100 You gave a pig an injection. Medical proficiency +100 You sent a pig to the afterlife. Pig-slaying knife: proficiency +100 You finished butchering the pig. Butcher’s knife: proficiency +1,000 You breathed. Breathing: proficiency +1+1+1 You walked. Walking: proficiency +1+1+1 You ran. Running: proficiency +1+1+1 You slept. Sleeping: proficiency +1+1+1 You gain proficiency no matter what you do, including, but not limited to, eating, drink 50Reads8.0Score102Shelves
- 26 Reborn in 1994: Building the Perfect Leading Man 重生94：打造完美男神 The rating just came out. It’ll go up later~ [No Excessive Hostility] [Fast Timeline] [One-on-One Romance] At thirty-three, Liu Sen gets a fresh start after a failed life and returns, carrying memories of his previous life, to a maternity ward in 1994. The Perfect Male God System activates, and this time he starts striving for excellence from infancy. Discipline, growth, strength. The pacing is fast. It takes about 20 chapters to go from infancy to college, so keep up! A new author with a new b 297Reads6.5Score106Shelves
- 27 Reborn by Chance, I Seize the Moment and Live the Good Life 意外重生，踩住风口过惬意人生 Main characters: Lin Feng, Ye Yao After failing at business and in his marriage, Lin Feng became a hapless fool raising another man’s son. One night, after drinking himself into a stupor with his buddies, he returned to the carefree days of 2014. He was eighteen that year and had yet to meet the person who would drag him to rock bottom. It seemed that everything still lay ahead of him. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Whoa! Transmigrating to 2016 Is the Best 我去！穿越到2016真的爽翻了 The male lead took first place in the entire grade during his first semester, then grew complacent. During a class in his first year of high school in 2006, he fell fast asleep and accidentally transmigrated ten years into the future, to 2016. When he woke up, everything around him was utterly unfamiliar, as if he had slept through the past ten years without experiencing any of them. The people and things around him had all become strangers. He didn't even recognize his best college classmate an 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Miss Jiang's Everyday Road to Riches 姜姑娘暴富日常 The ratings just came in, and they're still going up, hehehe. I finally have a rating too, hahahaha! The Stunning Beauty Wins the Lottery, and Her Arrogant Younger Brother Goes Crazy Chasing Her A sweet-and-sassy older sister × a wolfish younger guy, an ultra-sweet older-woman-younger-man romance. Overworked office worker Jiang Chuyan suddenly wins the lottery. Since she loves to lie flat, she quits her job and decides to enjoy life. By chance, she meets Xie Jingchuan, her younger brother's room 4.6kReads8.7Score396Shelves
- 30 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—Shelves
- 31 Reborn: A Scumbag's Self-Redemption 重生，一个人渣的自我救赎 [Reborn] + [Period] + [Entrepreneurship] + [Multiple Heroines] Li You A real estate tycoon who betrayed everyone close to him in his quest for power. By chance, he was reborn in his final year of high school. The family and friends he had lost long ago have returned! Faced with the brothers and the woman he once betrayed, Li You is overwhelmed with emotion... You’re back. You’re all back! This time, I won’t hurt you again... 28Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 32 Forging Martial Arts into the Abyss: Maxing Out Proficiency to Become a Martial Venerable 武炼成渊：熟练度拉满，成武尊了 “Others train for ten years, but I train for ten days. As long as the spirit stones are there, my realm can rise in an instant!” From the start, he has nothing to his name and even trains in the Basic Body Tempering Art more slowly than everyone else. Then he activates the [Proficiency Panel] ✅ Training progress at 100%? Break through the very next second! ✅ Bone-Splitting Palm at 37.2%? Add points and max it out! Others rely on talent; he relies on grinding. Others compete for resources; he co 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Reborn as a Ruthless Mogul 重生之商界狂少 After his business went bankrupt, Lin Mo leaped from the thirty-seventh floor in despair. To his surprise, he returned to his college days more than ten years earlier. In this new life, he has not only brothers bound to him by loyalty and gratitude, but also a girlfriend who loves him deeply. With their help, he overcomes one hardship after another and eventually becomes a business magnate. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 I’m the Business Savior of the Modern Era 我在当代当商业救世主 I'm a Business Savior in the Modern Age 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 After Winning Ten Million in the Lottery, I Quit My Job and Retired to the Countryside 中一千万大奖后，我辞职回村养老 [Spirit Spring Farming + Rustic Cuisine + Family Life + Dogs + Retirement + Romance] Lin Yuwan, a modern-day wage slave, graduated from an ordinary university only to be knocked flat by the job market. After finally finding work, she discovered that her boss's lover had plagiarized her design and was trying to pin the blame on her. She took them straight to court and secured 300,000 yuan in compensation. Then came a ten-million-yuan lottery jackpot. She returned to the mountains and used spirit 693Reads6.5Score107Shelves
- 36 The Fire Burns Bright 炉火正红 A person’s life is like a lump of coal. Only by resisting the lure of superficial pleasures, enduring crushing pressure, and quietly growing stronger can you kindle a bright, fiery tomorrow! This book faithfully records the rise of a coal-mining family worth tens of billions, giving readers a glimpse into how the first generation of wealthy entrepreneurs made their fortunes in the 1990s. The title itself is ironic: the wave of private appropriation back then made a great many well-connected peop 641Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 37 Reborn Youth: Building a Tech Empire 重生韶华：打造科技帝国 Reborn in his second year of high school, he applies to the youth program at the University of Science and Technology of China, accidentally becomes the top scorer in his province, and starts a tech company. From betting on soccer and copying futures trades to making phones and launching satellites, he sweeps all before him and goes into full overdrive, building his own tech empire and helping Chinese technology take off... 179Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 38 Reborn in 2005: Starting with Taking My Studies Seriously 重生2005年，从好好学习开始 Synopsis: [Reborn] + [Making up for regrets] + [Youthful campus life] + [Everyday life] + [Elegant prose] + [Music] + [Family-centered] + [Turning one's life around] + [Writing plagiarized works] Wen Yuan has been reborn. It's 2005, and there are still so many opportunities. Haicheng is still a fishing village, housing prices haven't skyrocketed across the country, and he's still so young... Though Wen Yuan is still a student, he is fired up with ambition. Starting as a ghostwriter, he steadily 419Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Fat Guy Awakens: A Tycoon's Life 胖子觉醒：神豪人生 [Tycoon + dual Systems + body modification + explosive action + business empire building] Beside the rain-lashed sports field, Shen Hao clutched the hem of his soaked shirt, the sound of mocking laughter ringing in his ears. Zhang Zihao: “You fatso? You think you're worthy?” Lin Xiaodong: “Hao, don't back down!” An electronic voice exploded in his mind: [The A Dou Choice System has activated. Beginner mission, “Seven-Day Transformation”: Run five kilometers every day for seven consecutive days.] —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Reborn in 2018: I’ll Build the Metaverse Anew 重生2018：我要再造元宇宙 He once dreamed of the future, but now he must return to the past and create a different possibility. In 2018, serial entrepreneur Le Tian awoke from a vivid dream, having lived through the triumph and collapse of the metaverse over the next eight years. As the dream faded, he decided to stake everything on one last startup. He would no longer chase trends; he would create the eye of the storm. Illustrator Huang Xiaomo doesn't believe in the metaverse, but she believes in the untainted digital 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Psychological Counselor: I Have a System of the People’s Wishes 心理咨询师：我有众生愿系统 A newly qualified therapist comes into the world with a rosy view of humanity. A powerful official’s son blocks him from getting a job, and he is smeared for standing up for justice. With no clients coming to his counseling room, he has no choice but to remake songs from Blue Star to make ends meet. In this bustling world, people are swept along by their desires. He takes on human traffickers, battles scam gangs, and rescues girls who have been drugged... Watch as he becomes a master of micro-ex 112Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Road to Immortality: Grinding Experience with the Eight Brocades 长生之从八段锦开始肝经验 After transmigrating to another world and becoming an orphan, he uses a proficiency panel to grind out experience, starting with Baduanjin from Earth. Step by step, he changes this world and embarks on a thrilling, perilous life in the martial world. 447Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 After I Was Reborn, the Ice-Cold Professor Chased After Me 重生后冰山女教授追着我跑 If only I could be young again, to fulfill the hundred thousand and eight thousand dreams I once held. Zhao Tianyi, who was chatting with beautiful women in qipao and getting his back walked on at a foot massage parlor while discussing how love rises with the wind, transmigrates. Fortunes change with the times. This year, it’s the Zhao family’s turn. He sets out to change the dismal, broken state of affairs from his previous life. While taking good care of his family, Zhao Tianyi also wants to b —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Building a Digital Divine Nation, Crushing the World with Technology 打造数据神国，科技碾压全球 [Business, System, Technology, AI, high IQ] Lin Yuan is about to graduate when he discovers that his consciousness can enter a world filled with data! There, he can control the very limits of technological evolution! While international capital frantically blocks access to technology, his innovations already dominate the financial markets! Cutting-edge technology from the virtual world overturns the technological order of reality! Global tech giants panic, capitalists move to besiege him, and in 60Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 45 Reborn: Starting With a 5 Million Cash-Out 重生从提现500万开始 Back in 2008, Chen Feng was still regretting how little he had studied in his previous life. Then, the next moment, a “ding” sounded in his mind, making him feel like he could take on the world again. Maybe it was because he’d spent too long cooped up at home in his previous life. With the System backing him up this time around, Chen Feng starts letting loose... 518Reads7.4Score100Shelves
- 46 Buried Alive from the Start, My Farm Turned Dark 开局被活埋，农场黑化了 The beasts of another world have awakened. My childhood sweetheart and I farm the land in pursuit of eternal life... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Dear readers, all you need to bring is your glasses. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥… 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 An Eighties Kid Returns to 2001 80后回到2001 Multiple heroines + Russian sisters + beautiful mother and daughter + esports + stock trading riches: from 250 yuan in his pocket to a billion in assets They say everyone encounters seven opportunities in their lifetime, and seizing just one or two is enough to achieve financial freedom. If you could live your life over, how would you plan it? 259Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Formation Array Battery 阵法电池 The cultivation world is so starved of spiritual energy that people's eyes are turning red. Only one person in the entire world can make spirit stones. Liang Yi made his fortune selling power banks: electricity, light, water, heat. A turn of his array formation transforms them all into spiritual energy, and a press compresses that energy into spirit stones. Boards that cost sixty sell for five hundred. They charge fully in twelve minutes and last ten thousand cycles. When competitors take them a 219Reads5.4Score101Shelves
- 49 High Martial World: I Got a Game Interface 高武世界：我拥有了游戏面板 [Modern high martial arts + monster hunting and loot drops + leveling up and allocating stats + invincibility + mission System] Duan Xiaozhou transmigrated into this world. After awakening a golden finger in the form of a game interface, he began growing stronger at a rapid pace in this turbulent world by completing the missions it issued. [Ding! Daily mission: Kill 10 chickens. Reward: 100 coins and 10 experience points.] [Ding! Daily mission: Kill one demon bug. Reward: 100 experience points a 154Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 50 From the Start, She Predicted the Lottery Jackpot 开局她预言到彩票大奖 [Prophetic heroine + strong female lead + satisfying revenge + building wealth] A college student takes a nap and dreams of the winning numbers for tomorrow's Double Color Ball lottery! Jing Yue thinks: With a life this fantastical, how could I not go crazy? She comes from an ordinary family, and now she has to figure out how to spend all those extra zeroes that just appeared in her bank account. She hasn't even figured out how to explain it to her family when that night she dreams that someone 919Reads8.6Score112Shelves
