Novels like That Kid Is Really Making It Big
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- 1 Bloodbath in the Southern Frontier: Made Into a Soldier King as the Fall Guy 浴血南疆：背锅炼成兵王 Bloodied in Southern Xinjiang: From Scapegoat to Soldier King —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Last Mo Dao: Forty Years in a Lonely City on the Western Frontier 最后的陌刀：安西孤城四十年 The Last Mo Dao: Forty Years in a Lone City of Anxi 90Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I Scavenge for Scrap in the Middle East 我在中东捡破烂 I Scavenge for Scrap in the Middle East 214Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 What Do I Do After Reincarnating as the Mad Emperor Gao Yang? 穿成精神病皇帝高洋怎么办 What Should I Do After Becoming the Mad Emperor Gao Yang? 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Back to 1987 重返1987 Billionaire Liang Huan transmigrates back to 1987 and becomes a lowly nobody. His wife has been stolen away, his home is bare, and only a young widow silently stands by his side. Now that he has been reborn, making money is easy. This time, he will not only ride the wave of reform and opening up, but also keep the future firmly in his grasp. 44Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 6 Reborn in 1980: My No-Nonsense Life 重生80：我的硬核人生 This is the rebirth story of a tough-as-nails man: a wrench in his left hand, the power to shape the world in his right. Riding the wave of reform and opening up, he uses his skills to rise from a small-town craftsman to the forefront of “Made in China,” turning his life into a story that proves you can do anything if you know how to use your hands! 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Reborn in 1993: After Prison, I Became Filthy Rich 重生1993，出狱后我壕无人性 The low-profile billionaire Chen Dong returns to 1993, reborn one month before his release from prison. After getting out, branded a “gangster” and an “ex-con,” he plunges back into the world of business. With his far-sighted vision and wealth of life experience, he builds an entirely new business empire. He was already rich in his previous life, but this time he’s even more outrageously wealthy. If I want someone, I’ll shower her with money. If I don’t like someone, I’ll pay others to beat him 18.1kReads8.6Score1.1kShelves
- 8 Invincible at the Center of the Storm 风口无敌 I returned to the day I was supposed to pick up my bride for the wedding. My mother-in-law suddenly demanded an extra 80,000 yuan in bride price, and my father, already buried in debt, was just like I remembered him, wiping away tears as he prepared to kneel and beg. “I'm here to pick up a bride, not attend a funeral.” “My dad has only ever kowtowed to the dead. No matter how tough your fate is, you can't afford to receive one.” 230Reads7.2Score104Shelves
- 9 Siheyuan: The Road to Life Begins in 1953 四合院：53年开启生活之路 In 1953, in a parallel timeline, at Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang in the capital, Xiao Zhen stood calmly at the gate and said, “Mr. Yan?” “That's right, it's me,” Yan Fugui replied, adjusting his glasses... “Damn this damn courtyard!” Xiao Zhen thought, but his hands didn't stop. He pulled out two Huazi cigarettes... And so Xiao Zhen began his journey to study hard, work diligently, and strive to become a successor to socialism! 2.5kReads6.4Score100Shelves
- 10 Siheyuan: I Took Down Silly Zhu from the Start 四合院：开局打废傻柱 Also known as: Courtyard: Taking Revenge on the Bullies in Hong Kong, Becoming a Home Appliance and Entertainment Mogul, and a Chip Tycoon [Has a pocket dimension and clones; beats up the bullies without hesitation; strikes from the shadows and never forgives; later develops his business in Hong Kong] After transmigrating to a Beijing courtyard in 1965, Li Fugui awakens a pocket dimension and the ability to create clones. Once he has prepared his tools, he cripples Silly Zhu's arm and leg that v 1.2kReads6.2Score209Shelves
- 11 Steady Resistance Against Japan: I'm Settling Down in the Capital! 稳健抗日：我要安家四九城！ [Period] + [War of Resistance] + [Space] + [Traditional Chinese Medicine] + [Hong Kong] + [Family] + [Patriotism] Modern man Wang Qingping was reborn in a parallel world in 1937, where he was still a ten-year-old boy. Thinking of everything that would happen in this era, he felt a little panicked: Damn, the full-scale War of Resistance was about to break out. Luckily, the System that helped him escape had left him some resources. With that, he had the confidence to help his family live better li 1.2kReads6.8Score100Shelves
- 12 The Exam Machine of 1978 1978做题家 The solar wind blew Xiao Zhen back once again, this time into his mother's womb in his family's old home in Yudong, Banan, Chongqing, in 1978. In this life, he didn't want to train as a sprinter or give his parents too many tips on how to get rich. Most of all, he wanted to enjoy all of his parents' love. He wanted it all to himself: to be an only child, have a rural household registration, and, above all, become a demolition-relocation millionaire! He didn't want to push himself so hard again, 1.7kReads6.3Score103Shelves
- 13 Reborn in 2004: Starting With Writing Novels 重生零四：从写小说开始 In 2003, "Zhu Xian", "Zi Chuan", and "Xiao Bing Chuan Qi" took the entire online-novel world by storm. In 2004, Xue Hong made his name and rose to godhood by carving a path through the entire online-novel world with "Sheng Long Dao". At the time, future greats like Tu Dou, Chen Dong, and Er Gen had yet to make their debuts. Companies like Pinduoduo, Meituan, Xiaomi, miHoYo, and ByteDance had not even been founded. In his previous life, Li Mu had been a mid-tier author on Qidian. Reborn in 2004, 11Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 14 Reborn, I Just Want to Find a Few More Beauties 重生后只想多找几朵桃花 A slow-burn opening, multiple heroines, romance, and making money, with a sensible plot. Before turning thirty, the protagonist, Wang Changyang, had a life full of ups and downs, but it was also remarkably eventful. After thirty, he had a modest fortune, a car, and a house. He had some regrets, but overall, his life was happy and fulfilling. Then he woke up back in the year he started working at eighteen. Wang Changyang was on the verge of a breakdown, terrified that the women he’d once had woul 2.3kReads6.8Score116Shelves
- 15 Reborn: My Family Really Does Own a Mine 重生：家里真的有矿 My Dad Owns a Coal Mine, and I’m a Coal Tycoon’s Son. Lin Hao thought he’d been incredibly lucky during the first half of his life. He grew up surrounded by luxury, with fancy cars, grand homes, and beautiful women always at hand, all because his family really did have a few mines. The only thing that annoyed him was how people kept calling him a coal boss or a coal tycoon’s son. Yes, the mines were coal mines, and his father was a coal boss, but those labels sounded unbearably tacky to him. In 27Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 16 Back to 1985 to Stir Up the World 重返八五搅动世界 Reborn in 1985, the first thing he does is sell his job to raise money for a business. He designs products, poses as a foreign investor, and creates a buzz to build up capital quickly. Inspired by real cases, the story depicts the history of Wenzhou merchants. 232Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 I’m Reborn, and Now I’m Terrifyingly Strong 都重生了，现在我强得可怕 [The manhua adaptation is out. Please be kind!] Ten years as a lovesick simp, then a tragic death and rebirth? This time, he’s going to cheat his way to godhood! Lu Qiao spent ten years pining after the school belle, only to end up in a fatal car crash. He closed his eyes, opened them again, and, hey, he was reborn! He didn’t even get a chance to drink Granny Meng’s soup. What comes standard with being reborn? A System, of course! Just as he thought it, a chime rang out: [Ding! Your “Cultivation 644Reads7.5Score101Shelves
- 18 Reborn: The Hunt Begins in 1978 重生七八狩猎开始 (Special forces soldier reborn + hunting + period setting + no System) In his previous life, Li Jianming, whose parents had died when he was young, was entrusted to his uncle. His uncle’s family doted on him especially. Even when it came to food, the whole family ate cornmeal while he alone got fine grains. In the winter of 1978, a severe cold wave hit large swaths of the country, and his uncle’s family was running out of food. To feed everyone, his uncle joined a large group from the village an 3.1kReads7.5Score128Shelves
- 19 The Supreme Financial Emperor of the City 都市之至尊金融皇帝 Life in middle age is worse than being a dog. Li Fei, an overworked wage slave, somehow transmigrated back to the turn of the millennium! With memories that put him twenty-two years ahead of the entire world! Looking at familiar candlestick charts and recalling the financial upheavals that had once taken place, Li Fei was a caged dragon released into the sea! Under his command, he could do whatever he wanted in the stock market, while the futures market was nothing but his own field of leeks to 380Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 20 Now That I'm Reborn, I Really Want to Be a Playboy 都重生了，真想做个渣男啊 On his way to see his ex-girlfriend one last time after she took her own life, Jiang Mo was unexpectedly reborn. Being devoted to just one woman is out of the question. He really wants to have one woman in each arm and be a proper playboy! But it seems harder than he thought. Every one of them is precious to him. Who should he choose? Being a playboy is tough. Maybe making money is easier. 86Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 21 1958: A Happy, Loving Family 年代1958：欢乐有爱的一家子 Li Fusheng transmigrates to Nanluoguxiang in 1958. What should he do? Could he really just mix it with some cement? With a small pocket dimension at his disposal, Li Fusheng loves making money on the black market. Before he knows it, he becomes a neighborhood police officer. With his little pocket dimension, he never has to worry about food or drink, and life is full of pleasures: fishing, trading goods, catching enemy spies, and offering advice. From 1958 all the way to the present day, Li Fush 16.7kReads7.1Score979Shelves
- 22 Hunting Beauties, Beasts, Kingdoms, and the Wilds in a Chaotic Famine 乱世荒年，我猎艳猎兽猎国猎山海 [Meat at every meal during famine + hunting + ancient setting + elite soldier + devoted husband + Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms + farming + multiple heroines] Imagine you’re an invincible elite soldier who transmigrates to ancient times. You open your eyes to discover you’re a rich young master, but your father has kicked you into a desolate mountain wilderness because of your gambling addiction! Your wife remains by your side, and your daughter is sweet and well-behaved... You come to your se 3.9kReads7.7Score325Shelves
- 23 Siheyuan: Beijing’s Meat Grinder, Sending Every Invader to Hell 四合院：北平绞肉机，鬼子全归西 On the eve of Beiping’s fall, Zhang Lei was abducted by Lin Wan’er, the Black Wind Stronghold’s boss and the dual-pistol-wielding Red Whirlwind, to become her husband. After transmigrating, he obtained a vast arsenal of advanced weapons through the System. Barrett rifles, RPG launchers, Katyusha rocket launchers, Tiger tanks... With all this equipment, why stay holed up in a ravine playing bandit? So he united the Black Wind Stronghold’s forces, swallowed up six nearby bands of bandits, and beca 3.4kReads6.7Score201Shelves
- 24 Siheyuan: Starting Out in the 1942 Famine 四合院之1942饥荒开局 In 2025, Li Ping’an woke up to find that he had become Yi Rui-dong, a dying boy caught in the great famine of 1942 in Henan Province. Corpses littered the land, Japanese invaders ran rampant, and Beiping gasped for breath beneath their rising-sun flag. Fortunately, Yi Zhonghai, the “Celestial Worthy of the Dao,” rescued him and took him in at Courtyard No. 95, Nanluoguxiang. He thought he had merely transmigrated into the opening of Love in the Courtyard, but then he unexpectedly bound himself t 8.2kReads5.7Score283Shelves
- 25 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
- 26 Reborn in 1990: I'm a Worker at the Broken Ore Mine 重生90，我是碎矿全民工 A novel by Old Ning is bound to be a masterpiece. (This isn't some brainless story about a nouveau riche. It's a grounded tale of life in a bygone era. Take your time and savor this different story from days gone by, and relive the vibrancy of that age.) Zhang Tiejun, a small-time millionaire with a comfortable, trouble-free life, wakes up one morning forty years in the past, just as he is about to graduate and receive his job assignment. Full of questions, he begins an entirely new life. Who do 642Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 27 An Outsider in the Siheyuan 四合院局外人 [Transmigration + Genius + Technology + Watching the Drama] Xiao Zhen, version 50, was forced back to the 1950s by the will of the cosmic singularity. But he arrived a little too early. His uncle, Xiao Zheng, had not yet died in action, and Xiao Zhen was still in his second year at Bashu Middle School. If nothing changed, Xiao Zhen knew that in 1953 he would get mixed up with the attention-seeking oddballs from the Siheyuan again. All Xiao Zhen wanted now was to save his uncle. He never wanted t 2.9kReads7.1Score102Shelves
- 28 Urban: I Accidentally Became a Business Tycoon 都市：不小心成了商业巨头 This is not a wish-fulfillment novel, and there is no System. It focuses on entertainment and business, with tight, consistent logic. “You sold our house.” “It was my house, not ours.” Zhang Yizhe emphasized the point, then looked at the fashionable, beautiful young woman across from him and demanded angrily, “You had Professor Liang arrange this coffee date with me just to talk about this?” 1.4kReads7.8Score105Shelves
- 29 Reborn in 1985 重生1985 A man from the post-70s generation died on duty and returned to 1985! He achieved nothing in his previous life, but this time he was destined to soar to the top! I’m here! The one standing at the forefront of this great era isn’t a pig! It’s me, Zhao Yao! I was devastated to hear that Mr. Huang, the Mother of Longxin, had passed away. May you find peace and joy in another world, sir. If there is a next life, may you be born in China today and enjoy the very best our motherland has to offer! Once 1kReads8.5Score108Shelves
- 30 Shocking: My Son Actually Made Me a Billionaire 震惊：儿子竟让我成了亿万富翁 Synopsis: [Reborn in a bygone era + doting dad + farming + sweet romance] Can a person's fate be changed? After Li Jianguo is laid off, he falls into despair. He feels that his life is over, because finding a job in this cold city is so difficult. Then, suddenly, a slip of paper lands at his feet. It mentions a stock called Yin Guangxia that is about to soar several times over... (This niche novel touches on all sorts of topics, including internet product design, stock market finance, social law 751Reads8.5Score101Shelves
- 31 Reborn as an Investment Tycoon 重生之投资大亨 Since I’ve been reborn, I should become rich enough to rival a nation! Wait, no. First, I need to find my stunningly beautiful wife. At this point, she hasn’t started dating her ex yet. I need to make my move fast! I can’t let that scumbag get her… 218Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 32 A Long Life Through History: I Lived from the End of Qin to the Modern Era 长生历史：我从秦末活到现代 (Not a wish-fulfillment novel. Story-driven, steady development, political intrigue and power struggles, immortality and loneliness. From the start, all he had was a bowl.) Chen Yan is a modern man who wakes up one day in the final years of the Qin Dynasty, having transmigrated into the past and gained the skill of immortality. Thus begins his life of eternal life. In the final years of the Qin Dynasty, he goes from a homeless beggar to a warlord ruling a region, tricks Han Xin into becoming h 314Reads7.6Score101Shelves
- 33 Reborn: I Really Don't Want to Make Money 重生：我真的不想挣钱 In his previous life, he was a high-level corporate drone. After a family crisis and his wife’s betrayal, he finally dropped dead on the job from overwork. When he opened his eyes again, he was back on the day before the 2010 college entrance exams, and his life on easy mode began. The stock market, the internet, technology: he left his mark in every field. Top student, stock-market genius, richest man: those were only a few of his many titles. In an interview, he was asked, “Mr. Chen, why are y 5.7kReads8.1Score380Shelves
- 34 Reborn as a Financial Power Player 重生之金融大玩家 In his previous life, he was the good-for-nothing his classmates mocked, a hapless stock-market sucker, and even his first love became his enemy's plaything. After being unexpectedly reborn, Cao Yi decided to cherish every second of his life and build a financial empire of his own! What? You say he has a few too many female confidantes? No worries. Your bro is full of energy. I can handle it... 34Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 35 Transmigrate to See a Different World 穿越之我要看不一样的世界 The protagonist transmigrates into the body of a seven-year-old boy in the 1980s. He has no money, no home, and no ability to survive on his own. He's a triple threat in all the wrong ways. Though his start is as disastrous as it gets, he encounters warmth and kindness at every turn, masters extraordinary skills, fights evil, builds an empire, and protects his family and country. Then he takes a beautiful wife and sees all the splendor the world has to offer. 406Reads8.4Score105Shelves
- 36 Achieving Financial Freedom by Predicting the Stock Market 财富自由从预知股市开始 [Reborn] [Stock Trading] [Multiple Heroines] [Never Loses at Trading] [Internet Investing] Back in his college days in 2013, Wang Lin gained the ability to predict the stock market. It all began when he talked a pair of sisters into investing one million yuan. The gears of a financial legend quietly began to turn. International Financial News: “Sources say Wang Lin has seized assets worth more than 10 billion dollars on the international markets!” The Wall Street Journal: “Wall Street’s greatest 2kReads7.6Score102Shelves
- 37 Starting in 1948: The Sixth Brother’s Life of Adventure 从1948开始，老六的纵横人生 Lin Yu was once a top investment adviser who could move markets on Wall Street. After a car accident, he finds himself inhabiting the body of the eldest son of the Lin family in the Forty-Nine City of 1948. The moment he opens his eyes, he witnesses his entire family being slaughtered by rogue soldiers, and is himself run through the heart with a bayonet. At the brink of death, the Infinite Space System activates, granting him not only the abilities of a top special forces soldier from 2026, but 14.9kReads6.5Score953Shelves
- 38 Reborn: From the Start, I Made a Billion Yuan in One Go 重生之开局狂赚一百亿 Lu Yongping lived an unremarkable life. Reborn, he decided to make his second life shine in a whole new way. He returned to the moment the 2010 college entrance exams ended. His extraordinary life officially began. He snapped up a place at a top-tier university and won big on the World Cup lottery. He bought shares in companies that would later become industry giants. He helped major electric vehicle makers enter China ahead of schedule and made their patents open source. He invested early in ch 352Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 39 Back to 1996: Rising from Selling Fish 重回96：从卖鱼开始崛起 [Dual Female Leads] The once-mighty tycoon Kun Ge has been reborn! He returns to 1996. Starting out as a fishmonger bullied by his peers, he rises step by step to become the richest man in the world. The ups and downs of the global economy are all at his fingertips. With just one sentence, “Foreign capital is not allowed to come to Huaxia to make money,” he makes foreign conglomerates treat his words as gospel, never daring to cross the line into the country. “My name is Chen Kun. Kun, as in Kun 72Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 40 In This Life, I Only Want to Live for Myself 这一世，我只想为自己而活 Zhang Jun was an old man who had served in the military, fought in wars, worked as a police officer, and arrested hooligans. Over the course of his life, he lost the love of his life and his family, and failed to fulfill his fallen comrades' last wishes. He spent his life alone. After an accident, he was reborn in the year his life began. He had no golden finger, no superpowers, no portable space, and no powerful connections. All he had were the memories of his previous life. Cautiously feeling 1.9kReads8.0Score131Shelves
- 41 Reborn as a Financial Tycoon 重生之金融大鳄 When history returns to 2012, Chen Feng knows his chance to get rich has arrived. Invest, invest, invest! Using the advantage of being reborn, he takes one step at a time toward becoming the richest man in the world. 225Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 42 Reborn in 2002: I Won’t Become the Richest Man 重生2002，我不做首富 [Reborn in 2002]+ [A flood of memories]+ [Everyday life]+ [Building the nation through industry]+ [Web fiction superstar]+ [Patriotic] When Yan He woke up, he had returned to 2002, the year he started seventh grade. Reliving his youthful days, he battled against the current, and forged a very different life. 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Reborn in 2008: I Want Both a Startup and the Campus Beauty! 重生08年，创业和校花我都要！ [Lighthearted Wish Fulfillment]+ [Reborn Male Lead]+ [College Campus]+ [Campus Belle]+ [Realistic Entrepreneurship]+ [No System] Zhang Chen, a teacher at a training center, was reborn in 2008 and took to the new era like a fish to water. In college, he had entrepreneurship on one side and the campus belle on the other. A reborn man doesn't have to choose. I want it all! Starting with a business in a small city, he found the right partners at university and built an invincible tech empire. Once w 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 From 80 Million in Debt to a Global Entertainment Mogul 负债八千万到全球娱乐大佬 Reborn into hell: His father jumped from a building, the company was 80 million yuan in debt, and only three months remained on the performance agreement. Liu Tianxian, daughter of Liu Xiaoli, his father's friend in the entertainment industry, was the first actress signed by Ren Tianxing. Over ten years, he went from owing 80 million yuan to becoming the godfather of global entertainment. And as he looked back from the top of the world, the girl who had gathered rainwater at the age of fourteen 193Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 As a Man, What's Wrong with Having a Little Money? 作为一个男人我有亿点点钱怎么了 Enough pretending! I'll come clean! I'm the billionaire everyone's talking about! What's wrong with a man having a little bit of money? This story takes place in a parallel universe. Any similarities are purely coincidental! 10.5kReads7.9Score438Shelves
- 46 Making Waves in the Stock Market: The Super Retail Investor 股海纵横之超级散户 [Lighthearted + Daily Life + Stocks + Futures + Workplace + Wealth + Romance] In his previous life, Zheng Kang spent years pursuing his dream girl, Li Lizhen, from high school all the way through college. He brought her meals and water, saved seats for her, helped her register for classes, and delivered medicine whenever she was sick. He was an utterly devoted simp, and the most relentless member of her loyal army of admirers. But Li Lizhen only ever saw Zheng Kang as a backup for her backup. Th 1.8kReads7.6Score171Shelves
- 47 Reborn in 1983, I Ruin My Ex-Wife's Family 重生1983让前世老婆家破人亡 After spending 40 years as a sucker who raised another man’s child, Zong Dawei died and was reborn in 1983. When his wife from his previous life confessed her love to him again, he rejected her on the spot. “I’m sure as hell not raising the kid in your belly as my own.” From the start, he takes control of his future father-in-law and drives his family to ruin. After taking his revenge, he heads south to the special economic zones and north to the capital, where ten thousand yuan can buy a siheyu 306Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 48 After I Was Reborn, I Focused on Making Money 重生后我埋头搞钱 [Multiple Heroines] + [Farming] + [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Mu Xin wakes up one day, reborn at the age of eighteen! While studying abroad, he gets up to all sorts of steamy things with countless beautiful women from exotic lands. Making money is all he cares about. After getting a second chance at life, everything seems so much easier! He breaks into every industry and amasses endless wealth! Then one day, Mu Xin suddenly realizes a simple truth: when you have money, you really can do whatever y —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Making a Trillion Dollars, Starting With Building an Army of Beauties 暴赚万亿美金从打造美女军团开始 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 2.1kReads7.3Score171Shelves
- 50 Bottom of the Class? I'm Just Earning My First Fortune 班级吊车尾？我只是在挣第一桶金 Qin Tian is reborn in 2012. Back then, he was a hopeless student about to take the college entrance exam, the very bottom of his class. When his teachers tried to motivate him with all their heartfelt speeches, Qin Tian thought, I’ve had my fill of that in my last life. I can’t stomach another drop. Studying is what top students are good at. Why should he use his weaknesses to challenge someone else’s strengths? So, rain or shine, he climbed over the wall every night to go online. One morning, h 620Reads6.5Score101Shelves
