Novels like Taking the Easy Road: From Apartment Security Guard to Capitalist
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- 1 Reborn as a Capital Tycoon 重生之资本大亨 “One hundred billion yuan has been deposited into your bank account.” After being reborn, Chen Yu takes on Symbol Rolling, kicks Nanshan Bi Sheng Ke to the curb, buys a stake in Ali Baba, and snaps up Pinduoduo. He marries the most beautiful woman and revels in all the splendor the world has to offer! 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Reborn, the Campus Beauties Make Me Lie Flat 重生之后，校花们逼我躺平 [Multiple heroines + not brainless + lighthearted] You want me to be a workhorse? No way! You want me to toil and struggle? Not a chance! Hey! I just want to lie flat! Stop pushing me toward the top! Make money? Just a tiny bit more than enough to get by will do. Pursue women? Love should happen naturally. Why would I chase after anyone? Fame? I have to keep a low profile! A low profile! Life is exhausting, so you have to learn to relax! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I'm Already the World's Richest Man, So Stop Making Me Shoot Movies 都成世界首富，别再让我拍电影了 [No female lead] [Showbiz] [Director] [System] [Lighthearted] In a parallel world, Chen Jiale transmigrates into a third-year directing student. His older brother is a top-tier star, but gets blacklisted after offending powerful figures in the capital's social scene. Their parents dig into their life savings and say, “Just shoot something, anything, and make your brother famous again!” At that moment, Chen Jiale activates the “All-Purpose Filmmaker System.” With directing, screenwriting, cinemat 1.5kReads7.5Score101Shelves
- 4 God-Tier Online Shopping: Starting with a Science-Obsessed Brain 神级网购：从科学瘾脑开始 Qin Sheng is an ordinary student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in organometallics and polymer-material reinforcement. Yet he always feels like he isn’t smart enough. By chance, he discovers a mysterious product on an online shopping platform! A top-tier scientific brain, priced at just 0.5 yuan! The product description claims that the brain will grow right inside the buyer’s head, and the reviews are glowing: Some people say their brains started itching the very nigh 537Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 5 The God of Currency Who Runs a Scrap Yard 开废品收购站的货币之神 After an accident, Gu Ping inherits the divine status of the God of Currency and returns to the time a few years ago when he had just opened a scrap recycling shop. Through repeated experiments, Gu Ping discovers that the divine status that came to him by chance has mutated under the influence of this world’s fundamental laws, becoming a primordial treasure much like the legendary Jade Disc of Creation. After establishing an initial bond with the divine status, Gu Ping inherits some of the God o 5.7kReads6.7Score368Shelves
- 6 Reform and Opening Up: Beneath the Tide 改开，浪潮之下 [No System + Realistic Entrepreneurship + Everyday Life + The Tide of the Times + Clear-Eyed View of Life] (No convoluted plot twists, no AI, and sound logic throughout.) When Li Ze'an moves from the countryside to the city, all he wants is to pedal his tricycle, look after his pregnant wife and their child, and live a steady, peaceful life. Nobody expects this lowly deliveryman, running back and forth through the clothing market, to be swept along by the times and land on every rising trend, 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 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 1.6kReads—Score125Shelves
- 8 The Stock Market Has No Shore, So I Must Save Myself 股海无涯，唯有自渡 Just as ordinary young Li Heyi enters the working world, he is confronted with life’s challenges. He works hard and keeps his feet on the ground, yet still struggles to get by and feels utterly lost about the future. Life at the bottom forces him to change. His youthful ambition clashes with his meager circumstances, and life pushes him into the stock market, setting him on a path of enlightenment he both loves and hates. Amid the constant bustle of people, he also meets a domineering female tra 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 From Haojiang to Xiangjiang: Building the Zhou Family Dynasty 从濠江到香江打造周氏百年家族 [Realistic + business warfare + multiple women + transmigration and rebirth + Hong Kong entertainment + farming + capitalist's perspective] The life of a low-ranking chef in a wealthy family. Let's see how this chef, born into a life of luxury from the start, can stir up a storm in this turbulent era, surround himself with beautiful women, and become a business legend. Zhou Zhanheng: “My own life is far from satisfactory, yet I just can't bear to see others suffer.” This story is entirely fictio 1.9kReads—Score—Shelves
- 10 We're All on the Same Side. What Can You Possibly Do to Me? 全都是自己人，你拿什么跟我玩 [Urban Fantasy] [Recruitment] [Tycoon] [Soldiers] Lu Fan stares, bewildered, at the blue screen in front of him. “A Soldier Recruitment System?” “Do soldiers need to be paid?” “Can I put soldiers back into storage?” ...One rule after another appears on the screen. “System, come out here and tell me: do these rules sound like anything a person would say?” “Soldiers actually have a loyalty rating, and if it gets too low, they can choose to obey orders but ignore their summons?” “They even have bas —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 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 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Seizing the Moment to Become a Tycoon 踏准风口成巨富 In his previous life, Li Shun was a nobody, a poor wretch crushed by life until he could barely breathe. Time and again, he bowed his head to life's demands, only to scrape by from one breath to the next. In this life, Li Shun is lucky, and so are his friends. They can rely on one another and stand shoulder to shoulder through the tide of reform, rising with every new opportunity. The great waves wash away the sand, leaving heroes behind. Blessed by the Goddess of Luck, Li Shun also finds his ow 11.3kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
- 13 Reborn in 2000: Fired by Tencent from the Start 重生2000：开局被鹅厂开除 [Rebirth + Pengcheng + entertainment + internet business wars + global tech rivalry] In 2025, Li Yun, a Blue Star programmer and struggling author, died suddenly late at night while researching the art of an island nation. In 2000, the US internet bubble burst, and a global internet winter swept across the world. Major internet companies everywhere began laying off workers to save themselves. Future internet giants Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba were struggling to stay afloat. Apple was still in th 43.5kReads7.4Score2.9kShelves
- 14 I Become a Legendary Merchant in an Apocalypse Game 我在末世游戏中当传奇商人 [A partially digitized world] + [apocalyptic setting] + [decompose and reassemble matter] + [fun-loving troublemaker] + [cutting-edge technology] + [not a lone wolf] One day, electrical automation engineer Bai Tao and all of humanity are thrown into a radiation-blasted wasteland straight out of an apocalyptic game. This is a VIP seat in hell: the [Radiation-Tech Wasteland]. By day, radioactive dust storms rage; by night, electromagnetic storms strike. The odds of survival plummet like a roller 2.7kReads7.2Score171Shelves
- 15 I Made a Fortune in Stocks and Founded TikTok! 炒股赚钱成立抖音平台！ New book: [After the Divorce, I Let Loose!] Click the author's homepage for details. Wang Xu was reborn. In 2015, he bought shares in Baofeng Video from the start, then shorted stock index futures... Housing prices still had one last surge ahead. Getting a job? No way. Not in this life. If I die, so be it. If I don't, I'll live for a thousand years. So, two horizontal strokes and one vertical... If you don't like it, let's fight! 17.4kReads6.8Score974Shelves
- 16 Bound to a Real-World Game, I’m the Only Player! 绑定现实游戏，我成了唯一玩家！ [System + urban life + wish fulfillment + good and evil + 10,000 words a day from the start] [Leans toward realism, multiple female leads, ensemble cast, diverse characters. If it’s not your thing, feel free to move on, but don’t attack other readers.] What’s it like for an ordinary person to get cheat abilities in real life? Chen Fan is living an ordinary life, but somehow gets bound to a game System? Loading the Real Life Game, launching Parallel Earth Online. From the moment the System finish 10.6kReads7.5Score1.1kShelves
- 17 Super Positioning System 超级定位系统 Wu Tian was a broke loser who had accomplished nothing even five years after graduating from college. Then one day, he fused with a super-positioning System, and his life of scraping by and waiting for death took a dramatic turn. From then on, he embarked on a dazzling life of playing the pig to eat the tiger. 11kReads8.2Score1.3kShelves
- 18 Getting Paid Brings Rewards: Starting with Making Phones After Being Reborn 发薪就有回报，从重生造手机开始 Reborn in 2016, Jiang Sheng discovers that he’s become a rich second-generation heir. He thinks he can lie flat from now on, but instead, one disaster after another comes crashing down. His father gets into a car accident, the company teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, distributors demand refunds, and suppliers gather outside to block the doors... One headache after another keeps piling up. The good news is that he comes with the [Full Pay, Full Heart] System. As long as he pays his employees, 1.2kReads6.9Score103Shelves
- 19 Suddenly Rich, I Lie Flat at a State-Owned Enterprise 乍富，躺平国企 Life rushes by. Thirty years have passed, but has he managed to stand on his own two feet? For the first thirty years, a man honors his father; for the next thirty, his son honors him! Like the sound of his name, Lou Yi is just one of countless insignificant ants in this world! At thirty, with no career to speak of and no family of his own, he returned home for the New Year and looked at his aging parents, their backs bent and their hair half white. His heart was filled with bitterness and helpl 11.4kReads7.0Score467Shelves
- 20 Wait, Have You Ever Worked at a Legitimate Company? 不是？你去过正规公司吗？ [No Female Lead] + [Daily Life] + [Misunderstood as a Mastermind] + [Business] + [No Supernatural Elements] (The main story focuses on business and companies. Su Bubai starts a business in the gaming industry, then gradually expands into other fields. So far, these include smart home devices, sanitary pads, basketball, sports brands, smartphones, and food delivery.) Su Bubai transmigrates to a capitalist world where practically everyone is a slave. The people at the bottom have grown used to fle 1.5kReads7.5Score100Shelves
- 21 Reborn in 2009: Budget Phones Usher In an Era of Domestic Brands 重生09：千元机开启国货时代 Tired of endless knockoff stories? Why not see what happens when a legitimate brand rises to the top? Reborn in 2009, on the eve of the boom in domestic smartphones. Chen Yan turns down easy money from knockoffs and builds his own brand instead. His custom ROM package becomes legendary on online forums. A spectacular big-screen phone priced at just 999 yuan bursts onto the scene! Official games, a silky-smooth System, and a launch price of 999 yuan! One battle puts an end to the chaos of knockof 462Reads—Score355Shelves
- 22 Building a Career at a State-Owned Enterprise 混国企搞事业 I was coasting along at a state-owned enterprise, and suddenly I was about to lose my job! After thirty years of hard work, I finally realized that the theme of this era is to lie low, then embrace dreams that seem forever out of reach! But just as I settled down, fate sent me an incredible opportunity! So, these days, maybe all you have to do is lie low and wait for opportunity to find you! 26Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 23 Reborn at 14: A Fintech Tycoon 重生14，金融科技神豪 After Wang Gan broke his leg while delivering food, he was reborn in 2014, back in his college days. He made his first fortune starting with the World Cup, then invested in finance and technology, becoming a top tycoon. He spends money like water: a real-world god of wealth. 16.7kReads6.2Score1.2kShelves
- 24 Laid Off: I Made Trillions by Trading Stocks, Starting with 80,000 被裁后：我靠炒股从8万赚到千亿 On the third day after being laid off by a private equity firm, Lu Zhou sat in his rented apartment and opened his trading app. Account balance: 80,000 yuan. Of that, 30,000 yuan was severance pay. His thesis advisor had called his dissertation “too applied,” while his boss had said, “The model is great, but you don’t understand the market.” He had earned a master’s degree in mathematics and received formal training in time series analysis, yet after losing 3 million yuan in a live trading sessi 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Reborn: The Business Empire of the Old Yuan Family 重生之老袁家的商业帝国 Reborn, he discovers that his father actually came back several years earlier. His father has laid a decent foundation. With no System and no golden finger, if he wants to lie flat, he’ll first need to build up the family’s assets. He’ll farm diligently and earn money honestly. Due to review requirements, Chapter 2 appears after Chapter 42. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause while reading. 750Reads6.9Score102Shelves
- 26 The Day Evergrande Crashed, I Revealed My Trillion-Dollar Fortune 恒大暴雷那天，我亮出万亿身家 [The troublesome plot points have been fixed] [Reborn] [Ordinary man] [Real estate] [Stocks] [Internet investments] [Business investments] [Entertainment industry] [Actresses] After losing his job in middle age and being dismissed as useless, Liu Yang suffers a family property dispute during his divorce and is secretly sabotaged by his younger brother-in-law. He closes his eyes, filled with regret, only to open them again on the eve of his graduation in 2003! That year, the golden age of real 90.9kReads8.4Score4.8kShelves
- 27 I Was Reborn as a Scumbag 重生的我成了渣男 2.6kReads7.3Score127Shelves
- 28 Wild Prosperity 野盛风云 My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 From Gifted Student to Extraordinary Scholar 从天才学生到超凡大学士 Everyday life + strategy + business + technology. Technological progress doesn’t happen overnight. Reborn in a parallel world in the year 2000, Qin Jun used his foresight to start laying the groundwork early. Step by step, he filled in the gaps and led his people and his country toward prosperity, and onward into space. P.S. There’s a farm, but this isn’t a farming novel. Agricultural security is also an important part of national security. Synopsis two: More than twenty years ago, Qin Jun sold 366Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Reborn in 1995: Huaqiangbei Leaves America Shouting, 'We Can't Beat Them!' 重生95华强北，美帝惊呼不可敌 [Transmigration and rise to success / A technologically powerful nation / Corporate warfare and espionage / Face-slapping foreign companies / Feel-good story set in the 1990s / The rise of Chinese-made products] In 1995, Huaqiangbei was a whirlwind of opportunity! Chinese innovative companies were crushed by Silicon Valley’s technology war. Their patented technologies were forcibly seized, leaving devastation in their wake! That was when Cheng Xin was kicked back into this era of grassroots inno 2.3kReads8.7Score170Shelves
- 31 Reborn, I Raised Myself into a Rich Second-Generation Heir 重生后，我把自己培养成了富二代 Chen Rui was a middle-aged corporate drone in his thirties, sick of eating pork trotter rice and tired of living in a crowded urban village. He was reborn and returned to the vibrant years of being eighteen. In this life, he would turn his family's small factory into a world-famous giant. In this life, he would personally groom his parents into tycoons on the rich list. As for himself, he would quietly enjoy being a rich second-generation heir. He would savor a life of morning drinks and evening 938Reads6.5Score102Shelves
- 32 The Mischievous Third Boy 耍耍三郎 The Journey to the West you believe in is a script written by the Celestial Court. He knows the whole story by heart, yet discovers he is the only “typo” who knows the truth. On the surface, he is the forgotten third brother. In truth, he is the only “living evidence” among the Five-Colored Stone siblings who was never suppressed. Bound to the “Cognitive Rewriting System,” the more you believe in the myth, the more he can tear open the truth. In this life, he won’t seek the true scriptures. He’l 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Summoning from Another World: Strategists by the Thousand, Generals by the Ten Thousand 异界召唤：谋臣如云将如雨 [No Romance + Another World + Golden Finger + Summoning + Imperial Dynasty] When a modern soul arrives in another world, what awaits Long You isn't a carefree path to immortality, but a deadly trap at every turn! In the depths of desperation, the Reincarnation Jade Edict awakens! [Ding! First random summon successful: famous late-Ming general, Sun Chuanting!] Summon brilliant strategists to devise plans for the realm; Summon peerless generals to rout a million troops; Summon the Myriad Worlds an 3.2kReads8.8Score222Shelves
- 34 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 5.8kReads8.1Score388Shelves
- 35 Master, That's My Wife and My House 师傅，那是我的老婆，我的房 In his previous life, Chen Feng was tricked by his master into a fake marriage so he could get an apartment. In the end, he lost both the woman and the apartment, and landed in prison. Given another chance at life, Chen Feng declares: “I want both the woman and the apartment!” With a second chance, Chen Feng is determined to change himself and write his own story in this extraordinary era. 17.5kReads8.5Score1.6kShelves
- 36 I Eventually Became an HR Person Who Does No HR Work 最终成为一个不干人事的人事 [A grind-at-work story, not a power fantasy! Not a power fantasy! Not a power fantasy! (Whether it turns out to be satisfying depends on what I write later. I don't know either.)] [This story is for venting. If you have something to vent about, leave a comment, send me a private message, or whatever you like. You're also welcome to suggest names for future characters.] The author, who was about to become famous, often says, “The world is one giant amateur operation.” What career should you choos 13.1kReads8.2Score845Shelves
- 37 Reborn in Hong Kong: I Am a World Tycoon 重生港岛：我是世界大亨 Reborn on Hong Kong Island in 1974. To make money, Chen Zhixue starts out as a plagiarist. He launches a newspaper, starts a magazine, opens a film and television company, and acquires technology giants... He builds businesses in everything from culture to energy, technology, finance, and real estate. Step by step, he rises to the top and leads Chinese brands to dominate the world. He establishes a global business empire and founds the Chen family, a dynasty spanning generations. Years later, Ch 6.2kReads8.1Score214Shelves
- 38 Heading South at the Turn of the Millennium: Rolling Coins 千禧南下：翻滚的钢镚 During the rainy season of the millennium, torrential rain poured down on Ruili. Bai Hao and his group sped along National Highway 556 in a four-wheel-drive Toyota Prado, relying on their off-roader’s powerful performance to plow through the terrible road conditions. As they drove past the embankment in Leiyun Village, they came across Burmese border residents moving supplies across the border. They learned that it was legitimate border trade. The group stopped to watch, unaware that danger was 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Manufacturing a Great Power 大国制造 Industrial prodigy Zhong Bai unexpectedly arrives in 1981... That year, France’s TGV train broke the world record at 380.4 km/h, becoming the fastest wheel-on-rail passenger train in the world at the time; That year, IBM released its first personal computer, ushering in a new era of computing; That year, the F-117 took its first test flight, beginning its place in the history of stealth aircraft; That year, Zhong Bai, brimming with ambition, walked into a struggling county fertilizer plant, vowi 2.5kReads8.4Score213Shelves
- 40 A Director’s Workplace Musings 总监的职场碎碎念 Lin Feng has just parachuted into the role of general manager at an auto trading company, only to find himself mired in financial obstruction, salespeople taking credit for his work, and factional infighting. He carefully plans his moves and fights back, striving for results, holding to his principles, and winning people over amid the undercurrents of the car business. From being besieged on all sides to finding his footing, he writes a story of workplace battles and rising from the bottom. 50Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Reborn in 2016: The Rise of Douyin 重生2016抖音风云 At 46, Lu Chen was drowning in debt. His mortgage and car loan left him barely able to breathe, and he couldn’t even afford his two sons’ tuition. His wife endured the hardship alongside him without a single complaint. He worked himself to the bone delivering takeout, until he finally collapsed and died on the road. When he opened his eyes, he was back in 2016, the year Douyin first launched. That year, a funny video he and his wife had filmed on a whim went viral. They gained 50,000 followers, 591Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 1953: The Brigade Commander Lured Me into Harbin Institute of Technology 1953，旅长把我拐进哈工大 Also known as From Top Student to Defense Industry Tycoon. After transmigrating to Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, in 1953, Lin Yan binds to the Great Power Top Student System. As long as he studies, he can earn System points and purchase all kinds of technological achievements and even items from the System shop. As it happens, that same year, the brigade commander is ordered to bring a group of Soviet advisers and experts to build a military engineering academy. The students studying Soviet 238.3kReads8.8Score27.2kShelves
- 43 Reborn in 1986: Making It Big in Hong Kong 重生1986闯荡香江 After being reborn in Jiangcheng, the protagonist gains spiritual awareness and heads to Hong Kong to make his fortune. Using memories from his past life and his spiritual awareness, he quickly amasses wealth. With his vast funds, he recruits large numbers of engineers and scientists to develop all kinds of new technologies, rapidly capturing the semiconductor chip and internet markets. 885Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 44 Reborn in 2011: Changing Myself 重生11年改变自己 Wang Hu never expected to wake up reborn ten years in the past. And with a golden finger too! He can make a killing in the stock market and win over beautiful women with ease! There are all kinds of beauties, so there's bound to be one you like! 80Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 45 Rewinding My Life: I'll Stay in China and Be a Rich Second-Generation Heir 回档人生：我要留在国内当富二代 Move abroad? No way. My goal is to stay in China and live like a rich second-generation heir. After being reborn, Li Huan planned to stay in China as a rich kid who did nothing but eat, drink, and wait to die. He never expected that even a little effort would send him straight to the pinnacle of life. 16.9kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 46 After Being Reborn, I Only Want to Achieve Financial Freedom 重生后的我只想实现财富自由 He worked hard until he was thirty-seven, yet still lived in a shabby old apartment of barely sixty square meters. His once-radiant wife had also been worn down by the hardships of life. Even his retired parents were still working, just to help support him. After getting drunk, Chen Mo was reborn at the age of twenty-two. The only thought in his mind when he opened his eyes was to achieve financial freedom. 3.5kReads7.1Score224Shelves
- 47 Storm Over Luocheng 洛城风云起 [Urban Romance + Business Warfare + Multiple Heroines + No System] "Do you still want to tonight?" Her question was so direct that I was momentarily at a loss for words. The campus belle has already driven three men to their deaths. Why are you still getting involved with her? At the crucial moment, Sun Tao stopped me. Returning to the place where it all began, I only wanted to put an end to my youthful regrets with the campus belle who had been such a knockout back then. I had no idea she was a 25.9kReads8.3Score3.3kShelves
- 48 Reborn, I Built a Business Empire 重活一世，我铸就商业帝国 Lu Chen, who once owned a company worth tens of billions, dies with regrets and is reborn in his second year of high school in 2007. In his previous life, he wasted his youth, lost both his parents, and spent his whole life missing his chance to be with Shu Qingwan. Now reborn with twenty years of memories of the future, Lu Chen throws himself into his studies to get into a top university, seizes the internet boom, and gets ahead of the curve by investing in social media, short videos, and socia 146Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The First Book by Someone Who Never Confesses 从来不表白的第1本书 My new work is out! You can find 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! 7.4kReads7.3Score380Shelves
- 50 Reborn: Building My Tech Empire 重生：打造我的科技帝国 Another world + rebirth + technology Qin Yi, an “outdated” expert, goes from “tech refugee” to “undocumented engineer.” Step by step, he will climb to the top and build a technological empire in another world. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
