Novels like Life’s Restart Button: A Grounded Journey to Wealth
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- 1 Rebooting 1996: Building a Tech Empire, Starting on Campus 重启96之科技帝国从校园开始 Business tycoon Chen Yan had achieved fame and fortune, only to die unexpectedly. When he opened his eyes, he was back in 1996, on the first day he reported to university. Before him were mottled walls, noisy crowds, and the 486 computers everyone was scrambling to buy. Armed with memories from twenty years in the future and a sharp business instinct, he decisively abandoned the usual path of study and used all his tuition money to make his first fortune. Starting with “the nation’s first intern 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Reborn as a Tycoon in Rongcheng 重生之我在蓉城当神豪 Chen Mo, a 38-year-old corporate drone, had spent half his life struggling in Rongcheng, only to be betrayed by his closest friend and his wife working together. All the effort he had put in over the years went to waste. In the midst of his grief and outrage, he unexpectedly found himself reborn in 2008, in the summer after he had just turned 18 and finished the gaokao. With precise memories of the economic tides of the next twenty years, he began by reselling sneakers at the Lotus Pond wholesal 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Reborn as a Stock Market God 重生之成为股神 Everyone else who is reborn gets cheats and a System. Good heavens! Where's my cheat? Where's my System? What a disastrous start! Then I'll build my fortune through stock trading on my own! I'll acquire companies one by one and meet the woman of my dreams. I've also been looked down on by others. At the top, everyone is family. When you're down, no one asks after you. In the end, I win the beauty's heart! Time reveals a person's true nature! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 My Empire on Wall Street 朕的江山在华尔街 After his soul crossed into the modern era, Zhu Youjian, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, became a cleaner on Wall Street. From the start, a fund manager publicly humiliated him, trampling his dignity! [Ding! The Host has suffered "extreme contempt." Triggering the emperor's stress response!] [The Great Ming National Fortune System has activated! Current national fortune: -99,999,999!] [Warning! National fortune is negative. The Host will suffer a "backlash from the people" and be plagued b —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Hong Kong's Titan: Starting with Crude Oil Futures 港岛巨神：从原油期货开始 Shen Wangshu woke up to find that he had gone from being a financial tycoon to a spoiled young heir of Hong Kong’s wealthy Shen family. He had expected to lie flat and enjoy life as a third-generation heir, but he unexpectedly activated the [God-Tier Reputation System]. The higher his reputation, the more outrageous the rewards he could redeem. [Financial Eye] Predict the future? Starting with a hundred million dollars, he sent shockwaves through the crude oil futures market, raking in a billio 90Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Reborn in the Millennium: Ma's 70 Billion Yuan Gift from the Start 重生千禧年，开局马总奉上七百亿 Xiao Ma: Brother Bei is doing something completely new with the internet. I'm the only one in the world who truly understands him, and he's the only one who truly understands me! Qianqian: Don't flatter yourself, person above! The one who understands Big Brother best is me! Me!! Liu Yifei!!! Jackie Chan: Brother Bei has always been my guiding light, showing me the way as I made my mark in Hollywood! Jay Chou: I feel like I've always lived in Brother Bei's shadow! Wu Zongxian: Brother Bei saved m 160Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Starting with Two Bucks, I'll Sweep the Global Stock Market 开局2块钱，我要横扫全球股市 Li Jian opens his eyes and finds himself reborn in 2007. On a whim, he buys a lottery ticket and wins five million. He trades stocks, dives into finance, and invests in real businesses, embarking on a wealthy life of his own. (The introduction is brief. For the exciting details, read the story.) 310Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 8 Reborn in 1999: Wall Street’s Capital Predator 重生1999：华尔街资本猎杀者 Reborn in 1999: A Wall Street Capital Predator. Du Xiao accidentally went back in time to April 23, 1999, while watching the Lyra meteor shower. He was in his final year of high school, with 75 days left until the college entrance exam. After studying hard, he finally made the honor roll alongside the school belle. While attending school, he used his knowledge of history to snap up bargains and make money in the stock market, building his capital as he enjoyed the company of beautiful women. But 11Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 9 Harvesting the Cultivation World: The Queen of Speculative Capital Swallows Up the Sects 资本收割修真界：游资女王鲸吞宗门 Harvesting the Cultivation World: A Hot-Money Queen Swallows Up the Sects 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 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
- 11 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 131Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 12 Between the Station Platform and the K-Line Chart 车站月台与K线之间 Chen Mo is an ordinary person, one face among countless others in the crowd. The only thing that sets her apart is an unexpected windfall of Bitcoin. Could it become the turning point of her life? After graduating from university, with nowhere else to go, she can only use connections to get a job in the railway System. Her salary goes into the stock market, and she doesn’t want to bring a single cent home. Can she use this new kind of risk hedging for the modern age to break free from the constr 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Why Work When I’ve Been Reborn? 都重生了谁还打工呢 No System | Campus Youth | Passionate Entrepreneurship | Sweet Everyday Life | Solid Logic [The story starts at a gentler pace, then gradually picks up after the business gets going. Who gets rich right after being reborn? You’ve got to take some time to adjust first!] A programmer earning close to a million yuan a year is unexpectedly reborn in his college days. He decides to stop being a corporate drone and become a domineering CEO, starting a business and carving out his own world. The goddes 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 I Was Pure and Innocent, but the Ladies Won't Leave Me Alone 我本纯情，奈何小姐姐们纠缠不休 This novel mainly explores romantic relationships between men and women in a big-city setting, with a touch of entrepreneurship. It focuses on different attitudes toward love and the choices people make with different partners. The characters feel human, and the plot is logically sound. Everyone is intelligent. This isn't a brainless, simplistic story. It's realistic in tone, neither a feel-good power fantasy nor a tragic tearjerker. Not recommended for readers who have never been in love. Readi 269Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 15 Starting with the 1998 World Cup 从98世界杯开始 Xu Mo, an ordinary man, wakes up back in 1998 and starts enjoying one stroke of luck after another. With his family and friends behind him, he buys stakes in BTA, acquires property in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, and gradually becomes a business tycoon. 9Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 16 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
- 17 Reborn: I Made Tens of Billions of Dollars by Exploiting the Financial Crisis 重生：借金融危机狂赚百亿美金 He returns to 1996, saves the woman he has always loved, and makes his plans early. Using the 1998 financial crisis, he earns tens of billions of dollars overseas, then returns home to invest aggressively in industry, advance technology, and hold America by the throat. Today, America will die! 1.3kReads—Score10514d adds
- 18 Stock Trading and Everyday Life in the Future: My Robot 炒股，未来日常生活：我的机器人 Everyday life in the city, real and not science fiction!!! This imaginative, tech-filled story follows the daily life of its protagonist in a future world fifty years from now. In this era, technology has advanced to astonishing heights. People can control devices directly with their minds to work more efficiently, and medical technology has also improved enormously, greatly extending human lifespans. The protagonist’s life is filled with all kinds of high-tech products, such as intelligent robo 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 After Getting Hit by a Car, I Gained the Ability to See the Future 被车撞后获得了预知未来的能力 Feel-good story + one female lead! After getting hit by a car, a young man gains a cheat ability and begins his rise to the pinnacle of life! Starting with a lottery win, he conquers the stock market and futures trading, then develops an industrial empire, builds his own armed forces overseas, and sets out to conquer the world. Everyone is welcome to read. 511Reads6.9Score10514d adds
- 20 Reborn in 1984: Rising to the Top by Buying a Tractor on Credit 重生1984从赊拖拉机开始崛起 This book has no posturing or face-slapping. It's all about starting a business, everyday life, romance, and family. Dong Qing, a billionaire consumed by lifelong regret, is unexpectedly reborn on the rainy night his wife suffers a difficult labor. He swears he won't make the same mistakes again in this life. He has just one goal: make money, support his family, and spoil his wife... He sells ceramics, takes over a tractor factory, and buys up land in Pengcheng. Using his knowledge of the fu 442Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 21 Back to College: From the Start, I Win 250 Million in the Lottery 重返大学，开局中奖两亿五千万 If you had 250 million yuan, would your life be different? [No System + Entrepreneurship + Internet + Manufacturing + Technology] See how Yuan Hua builds his business empire through a series of strategic moves, making breakthroughs in the internet, smartphones, hardware, new energy, AI, and more. This novel focuses mainly on business. It is a slow burn, with no harem and no mindless wish fulfillment, and is suited to readers who enjoy traditional rebirth novels. Yuan Hua, who had originally d 165Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Rebuilding 1997: Launching a Financial Empire 重塑1997：开启金融帝国 Su Langtao, a genius from the 21st century, is reborn and transmigrates to 1997, an era when gold seems to lie everywhere. Through his own efforts, he goes from working at a factory to building a business empire of his own. 1.6kReads—Score12614d adds
- 23 Reborn, the Bewitching Campus Beauty Pursues Me 重生后，魔女校花倒追我 [Rebirth + business rivalry + campus beauty + multiple heroines] In 2024, Wang Hai was featured on the cover of the globally renowned Fortune magazine. Profile: At nineteen, he made his fortune from scratch, earning twenty million with a browser game. That same year, he launched a second game and became a billionaire, making him the youngest billionaire in 2002. At twenty, he founded a tutoring website for students at China’s top universities. It swept the country, and college students natio 103Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 24 A 25-Year-Old Financial Maverick Moves Trillions in State Assets 25岁金融狂人，操盘国资万亿 Reborn in 2008, Lin Feng, the financial wolf who once rocked Wall Street, was unexpectedly “sent back” to China. At twenty-five, he was parachuted in by an official order into an obscure asset liquidation team under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. His colleagues laughed at his youthful arrogance, and his rivals saw him as a clueless lamb. But they had no idea that Lin Feng possessed financial knowledge fifteen years ahead of its time, along with eyes that could 103Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Reborn: A Life in the Ledger 重生流水账 Do you ever find yourself thinking, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be reborn?” What would you do? How would things go? What would you be able to do? If you’ve ever wondered, come see how an ordinary person, Xia Ge, lives freely after going back from age 26 to 19! (Please don’t flame me, thanks.) This is mostly everyday life, just as the title suggests. If that’s not your thing, proceed with caution. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Reborn in 2000, I Want It All 重生2000年，我都要 Reborn? No cheat? No System? Lu Ye says: Being reborn is the biggest cheat, the greatest golden finger. Can someone really be reborn and still fail to get rich? No way, right? 13.5kReads6.6Score92714d adds
- 27 2018: Don't Think You Can Fool Me Again 2018，别想再骗我 Before jumping, Zhang Yue's final thought wasn't about money. It was about Zeng Wan. The girl on the factory assembly line who always snuck him water, her eyes curving like moons whenever she smiled. She came from a wealthy family and had only joined the factory for some life experience. In his previous life, she confessed her feelings, but he rejected her out of insecurity. Later, he heard she had married a spoiled rich kid and was unhappy. When he opened his eyes again, it was the summer of 2 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Tycoon Who Sees Through Scratch-Off Lottery Tickets 神豪从看透刮刮乐开始 Wang Yu was an ordinary wage earner. Then one day, he suddenly discovered that he could see the true value of any item. So he went to a lottery shop, and instantly couldn't believe his eyes! “One scratch card, worth 10 yuan.” “One scratch card, worth 0 yuan.” “One scratch card, worth 500,000 yuan.” Wang Yu was grinning from ear to ear! 935Reads7.4Score10214d adds
- 29 Reborn: Starting a Business in College 重生大学创业 A family will produce a child who brings prosperity within three generations. Relying on no ancestral fortune, they make their own way from nothing, ambitious and distinctive. Such heroes may be reserved in their early years, hesitate when making decisions, and avoid competing with others in daily life. But after weathering storms and trials in friendship, career, and love, they rise from the ashes like phoenixes and are reborn... 136Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 From Ten Thousand to a Hundred Million: I Cracked the Stock Market Code 从一万到一亿：我撬动了股市密码 Yu Zitao, a fixture in the stock market, is mocked for living worse than a dog. Does stock trading really make no money? Does it mean living without dignity? Watch him turn ten thousand yuan into a fortune, step by winning step, and become a billionaire within a year. He'll revel in luxury and spend his fortune down to the last coin, until he's someone you can't even hope to reach! 70Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 31 The Honest Man's Comeback, 2003 老实人逆袭2003 Honest and straightforward Zhao Feng is reborn, back on the eve of the college entrance exams, young once again! That year, the boy was just discovering love, but didn't dare confess to the school beauty he'd had a crush on for three years! That year, Legend of Mir hadn't launched yet, his brothers' blood was still hot, and their dream of slaying the dragon remained unfulfilled! That year, gold and opportunities were everywhere. Ride the wave, and even a pig could take to the skies! Drink the st 57Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 32 Keeping a Low Profile, Living Life in the Fast Lane 默默无闻，低调狂飙人生 There are many ways to live. You don't have to pursue political power or a fortune worth hundreds of billions or trillions. Just live your own life well. A chance to be reborn came after being pinned down by a ghost. With better fortune on his side, Chen Yong set out with his passion and began a dream life that took flight. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 The Tech Empire That Began with the College Entrance Exam 从高考开始的科技帝国 A slow start, with one female lead Chen Shuo, a 35-year-old programmer, was kept awake one night by memories of the regrets he'd had at 18. When he opened his eyes again, there were 62 days left until the gaokao. This time, he starts at Fudan University, then moves into instant messaging, short videos, cloud computing, smart cars... While everyone else is worrying about the gaokao, he's already built a technology empire. “I don't need to stand at the center of the trend. I am the trend.” 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 The Financial Red Zone 金融红区 Four young people on the verge of leaving the ivory tower couldn't sleep. Lying in their own beds, each was thinking about something different. Zhou Zihao was thinking about the clauses in the risk-control manual; Lü Anqi was calculating next month's rent and her mother's medication costs; Wang Zhifei was planning how to rise quickly after joining Huasheng; Su Xiaoxiao was worrying whether she could handle the analyst job. They didn't yet know that fate had already laid the groundwork. That fift 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 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 1.7kReads—Score12514d adds
- 36 Replay the Game: Live Up to Our Youth and Each Other! 覆局重弈：不负韶华不负卿！ A life you've already lived, a road you've already explored and a river you've already crossed: will there still be thorns and whirlpools? When you're reborn, should you seek the right answer or the optimal solution? In his previous life, Ji Mo spent all his years pursuing a life of comfort. Can he attain it this time around? 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 That's Ridiculous! Are You Treating the Stock Market Like an ATM? 就离谱！你小子把股市当提款机？ Liu Mingyu failed the college entrance exam and worried about his future... Ding! System binding successful! Winning a million in the lottery? Easy. Doubling a million through the stock market? A piece of cake. With nothing better to do, he even chipped in to help a friend's family save their company from crisis. A massive earthquake hit the futures market, but he didn't bat an eye. Making easy money was no problem. Years later. When asked about the secret to his success, Liu Mingyu looked p 683Reads7.0Score10214d adds
- 38 After the Divorce, I Came Clean: My Account Has a Billion in It 离婚后摊牌了，姐账户躺着十个亿 After spending six months dutifully caring for her in-laws and getting her brother- and sister-in-law settled, her husband returned from America with a fake foreign woman, announcing that he'd found true love and had to divorce her. Divorce? Wonderful, let's head to the Civil Affairs Bureau! Six months after the divorce, her father-in-law was singing a prison blues, her mother-in-law was laid up in the hospital, her sister-in-law had been expelled from school, her brother-in-law was in jail for 1kReads8.2Score19514d adds
- 39 Back to 1989 重回1989年 Ye Xiaomei worked like a beast of burden for the Guo family for over a decade before discovering that they had sold her older sister into the mountains, where she was abused to death, and that her husband had sent people to break her father's leg. After learning the truth, she took revenge on the entire Guo family, then poisoned herself and died. She thought she would go to hell, but instead she returned to the turning point that had changed her life. Given another chance, Ye Xiaomei uses her me 110Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 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
- 41 Reborn in 1970s Hong Kong: Starting Out by Preying on Predators 重生70年代香江从黑吃黑开始 An ordinary 996 wage slave from the 21st century drank himself to death after things went badly in life. In a cruel twist of fate, he transmigrates into Chen Ping'an, a man fleeing to Hong Kong in the 1970s in a parallel world. No sooner does he arrive than he gets caught up in a robbery. Let’s see how he builds his way up, step by step. "This is my first time writing, so there’s plenty of room for improvement. I hope you’ll be understanding." 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Reborn in 2012: The King Returns 重生2012之王者归来 Betrayed after spending his previous life as a lovesick doormat, he makes a comeback in this one. The story follows how a reborn man uses his foresight to build a business empire amid the mobile internet boom… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 The Whole Internet Calls Me the Goddess of Good Fortune, but I'm Really a Man 全网叫我锦鲤女神，可我真是男的 [Cross-Dressing] [System] [Finance] [Comedy] [One Female Lead] [Stock Market Jinx] [Lucky Physique] Shen Zhou is a financial genius who got a perfect score in math on the college entrance exam. He’s also the internet’s most famous stock market jinx: his analysis is always right, but his conclusions are always the opposite of what happens, giving him an 87% reverse-prediction success rate. His followers do the opposite of what he recommends and beat the CSI 300 by twenty percentage points. Big-ti 95Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Reborn as a Stock Market God 重生之我是股神 Li Mo, a mediocre stockbroker, is reborn at the tail end of the 2008 financial crisis. With knowledge of the future stock market, he's about to become a legendary stock god... 198Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 45 Reborn, I Dumped My Girlfriend Who Always Spoiled Her Brother from the Start 重生后，我开局甩了扶弟魔女友 (Reborn in a period setting + appraising antiques + X-ray vision + business battles + no System + one heroine + feel-good story) Chu Yang spent half his life destitute, with his wife and her entire family constantly bleeding him dry to support her younger brother. By a twist of fate, he is reborn in 2002 and awakens the Heavenly Eye. He can see the trends of stocks and futures, as well as appraise antiques and gamble on jade. The first thing he does after being reborn is kick his girlfriend, who 7.3kReads8.3Score63014d adds
- 46 From the Start, Yang Guo's Daughter Was Named Sifu 开局，杨过之女名思芙 The story of Yang Sifu, who transmigrates between ancient and modern times. The plot develops in a very unusual way. I wonder if everyone will like it. I'm not sure whether this way of writing works or whether it's worth reading. 239Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Now That I'm Reborn, Why Be a Sucker? 都重生了还当个毛韭菜！ Reborn in the city, farming + realistic stock market storyline + sweet romance with one heroine + carefully plotted, not brainless + not a mindless power fantasy Lu Ming was left utterly disheartened after his stock investments collapsed and his fiancée betrayed him. By a twist of fate, he was reborn ten years earlier, in 2014. The experience of being fleeced in the stock market in his previous life became Lu Ming's greatest asset and source of confidence in this one. Given a second chance at 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Getting Rich from Stocks: What’s Wrong with That? 炒股暴富，有什么不可以？ The moment Zhao Huaimin stood at the pinnacle of the world, he looked back and realized how much he had missed. Yet in the blink of an eye, he found himself in the markets of 2005. Unprecedented change swept over him. That year, the Shanghai Composite began at 998, and his path to invincibility was born. Years later, some called him a market manipulator, some called him the market’s phantom, and others said he was nothing but a gambler. When reporters interviewed him, Zhao Huaimin smiled. “All I 69Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 49 Reborn in 1998 重生1998 Lu Ze, who worked at a newspaper, woke up one day reborn in 1998. That year, Ma Huateng’s Tencent had just been founded, Ding Sanshi’s NetEase had just pivoted into portal websites, Baidu’s Robin Li was still working for someone else, Jack Ma had just experienced a failed venture and had yet to make his first fortune, and Liu Qiangdong was still selling CDs... That year, Jay Chou had just had his “Nunchucks” rejected by Zhang Huimei, My Fair Princess had taken the country by storm, and the mainl 830Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 50 The Lie-Flat Life of a State-Owned Enterprise Employee 苟在国企的躺平生活 [Urban Slice of Life + State-Owned Enterprise Workplace + Entrepreneurship] When Lin Feng woke up, he found himself in a tiny room barely more than ten square meters. There was nothing around him but a desk and a bed, the classic single dorm room. It took him a while to remember that this must be the dormitory from when he worked at Wufeng Mountain Mine. That was back in 2002... Had he been reborn? Why? He hadn't been cheated on, he didn't need to save his parents, and there was no unforge 7.4kReads7.4Score52214d adds
