Novels like Back to the 1980s: The Rise of Technology
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- 1 Reborn in 2006: Making the Most of Life 重生2006玩转人生 A minor executive at a major corporation unexpectedly finds himself reborn in the year he was a high school senior. The once awkward, shy student who blushed whenever he spoke to girls and cared only about studying suddenly becomes a master of social graces, always saying and doing just the right thing. He not only changes the course of his life, but also draws more and more attention from girls. Girl: Ye Yun, what are your good qualities? Ye Yun: I'm honest, and I don't say much. Childhood frie —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Reborn in 2014: I'm a Master Trader! 重生2014：我是神级操盘手！ In the stock market, it’s life or death, not just a matter of spotting a golden cross. There’s no room for trial and error! Returning with twelve years of market experience, he starts out with barely a thousand yuan in his pocket. A chance gathering at a mahjong parlor brings him into contact with all sorts of big shots, and he builds a private trading operation from nothing! He makes his first fortune with breakneck short-term trades in A-shares, then sweeps through the commodities market in br 143Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 A Great Power’s Industry, Starting in the 1980s 从80年代开始的大国工业 [No System] [One Female Lead] [Pure Industry] Foreigner: “You can’t make engines. Buy them from us.” Yang Zhifeng: “Having what others have is no match for making it yourself. I’m going to build cars of our own.” What were the 1980s? They were a turbulent era, a time of passion and ambition. The call of reform and opening up had sounded. Join Yang Zhifeng as he rises from a tiny bicycle factory to build an industrial group spanning cutting-edge fields like motorcycles, cars, and drones. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Reborn as a Business Tycoon 重生之商业大亨 If you make a show of yourself just to brag, you're nothing but a weakling. A true powerhouse keeps a low profile, quietly rises to the top, commands authority, masters extraordinary skills, and is fabulously wealthy! 8Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 5 Reborn in 1988: Building a Money Empire 重生1988：缔造金钱帝国 Lin Dong, a CEO worth more than two billion, is reborn in 1988. As a successful business elite, he knows all too well that 1988 is the golden age of market reform and opening up. As long as he seizes the opportunities, there is gold everywhere. He will make a name for himself in this era! Turning money into more money and growing one company after another will be little more than a side project. He will build a financial empire of his own. 78Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 6 After Being Reborn, I Was Supposed to Be Faithful 重生后，本来我挺专一的 [One Female Lead] [Sweet Romance] [No Harem] [Building a Brick-and-Mortar Business] My name is He Zheng. I hated my first love for twenty years. After I was reborn, I realized I’d been the one she deceived all along… This is a lighthearted, witty, and entertaining story about starting a business by selling goods at a street stall. It follows a high school graduate who uses 5,000 yuan in startup capital to gradually build himself into a business tycoon. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Back to 14: My Unrestrained Life 重回14，我的肆意人生 [Reborn + satisfying read + internet business warfare + multiple heroines + clever characters] After a night of heavy drinking, he woke up reborn at his high school graduation party in 2014. That year, his naive childhood friend had yet to leave. The kind auntie who sold snacks by the school gate had yet to fall victim to a crime. And the stunning older schoolgirl was still waiting for the one destined for her… An ordinary man starts changing his fate against all odds with the World Cup. The int 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Back to 2000: Saving the Nation Through Industry! 重返2000，实业救国！ After weathering two waves of mass layoffs, Liu Huaxing finally understood: the internet, finance, real estate, it was all one damn bubble! So after returning to the year 2000, Liu Huaxing wants to do just three things. Build real businesses! Build real businesses! And build more real businesses! Because he knows that only real industry can save the country, and only real industry can make it prosper! 135Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 9 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.” 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Back to 1985: I Found a Fortune in Scrap 重回85，捡破烂捡出个首富 [Reborn] [No System] [1980s] [One Female Lead] [Building Wealth] [Business Rivalry] After getting thoroughly drunk at the company annual party, Lu Feng wakes up to find himself reborn in 1985. The first thing he has to do is take his wife's handcart from her, preventing the accident that would kill her and their daughter. Given the chance to make up for a lifetime of regrets, Lu Feng seizes it with both hands. Drawing on his knowledge of the decades of rapid economic growth that lie ahead, Lu Fe 2Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 11 Awakening of the Nine Purples 九紫觉醒 No System, no golden finger, one female lead, and no brainless characters. An unemployed programmer transmigrates to another world, develops the internet, struggles to build a business, and unites people through hard work to ultimately fulfill his dream. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 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 252Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Reborn at Eighteen: The Growth of a Domineering CEO 重生十八岁之霸道总裁成长记 After an unfortunate encounter, the male protagonist catches his girlfriend in an improper relationship with a wealthy businessman. In the furious, desperate confrontation that follows, the businessman's bodyguard accidentally pushes him off a high-rise building. In a shocking twist, the protagonist is reborn at eighteen, back in his high school days in 1998. Drawing on the historical knowledge and experience of his previous life, he enters the business world and, through tireless effort and ing —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Who Gets Reborn Just Before the College Entrance Exam? 谁家重生在高考前 This is a business-war novel with exceptionally sound logic, written to make up for past regrets. It’s not a mindless power fantasy, so readers who don’t like that should proceed with caution. If you could start over, would you choose to save the world or save mathematics? After one wild night, Wang Zhuo opens his eyes and finds himself back on the eve of the college entrance exams. He looks at the math test he took to assess himself. “15 points!!!” 3.8kReads6.9Score30714d adds
- 15 Reborn in 2008: From Selling Melons to Business Mogul 重生08：从卖瓜到创业大佬 Chen Wei unexpectedly returned to the day he had to submit his college entrance exam applications! This time, armed with more than a decade of memories from the future, he was ready to go all out! With the ultimate playbook for seizing the opportunities of the era in hand, he started out selling melons in the fields, then made his first fortune with creative marketing, igniting the fuse for his comeback! He went all in on Bitcoin in its early days, claimed his place in e-commerce as it rose, 314Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 They Wanted Me to Drop Out and Support the Campus Belle: Reborn, I Refuse to Be a Doormat 让我辍学供校花，重生后不当怨种 [Reborn] + [Build a Career] Chen Hao was reborn on the day he graduated from high school. In his previous life, Zhao Xue, the girl he had a crush on, came to him in tears. Her mother was sick and her family was poor, so she hoped he would drop out and earn money to support her and her mother. An orphan, Chen Hao sacrificed his future for love. He didn’t even submit his college applications, and instead started earning money by setting up a street stall. He took care of Zhao Xue’s mother, paid fo 74Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 17 Transmigrate Through Time and Space: Hiding from Assassins on a Space Station 穿越时空：我在空间站躲避追杀 Hard Sci-Fi + Behind-the-Scenes Protagonist + Urban Technology + Interstellar War Also known as: Transmigrating Through Time: Hiding from Assassins on a Space Station “That day, I stood in front of the US Capitol with a kitchen knife in my hand, swinging it again and again! I hacked my way from beneath the Stars and Stripes all the way to the gates of the White House. Wall Street billionaires, members of Congress, from the eighty-nine-year-olds down to the ones who’d just learned to walk, which 259Reads8.2Score10114d adds
- 18 The Villain Is Reborn in 1998 with a Super Memory 恶棍重生98，我拥有超级记忆 Historical era + urban daily life + youth and school days + building a career + big shots A new novel is here! The story starts slowly, then picks up speed. Readers, hop aboard without worry. Ning Hao is reborn. In his previous life, he was a thug. His school saw him as a blight, students treated him like a street punk, and society considered him a parasite. He went to prison for taking the fall for someone else in the name of so-called brotherhood. After his parents died in an accident, he spen 167Reads6.4Score21214d adds
- 19 Reborn in the Freewheeling Era 重生之浪荡时代 2009. Freshman year. The property and stock markets were booming, the internet was booming, domestic phones and cars were booming... It was an age when you could bend down and pick up gold. Might as well enjoy the sight of some long legs, too. Guo Jiayi was so lucky. Now that he was reborn, he couldn’t keep holding himself back. If he didn’t live it up, what was the point of being reborn? In this new era, he was going to live it up to the fullest! 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 The Chinese-Made Cars I Built Took the World by Storm 我造的国产车享誉世界 [Chery Cars + Chinese-Made Sports Cars + Doomsday Survival Vehicles + Metal Armor + Flying Mechs + Mutated Creatures] This novel is written for Chery fans. The author is a die-hard Chery fan and an owner of an Arrizo 7 and an Exeed TX. Drawing on Chery's accumulated expertise in engines, chassis, modular platforms, three-speed DHT hybrid systems, hydrogen fuel cells, and other advanced technologies, the story blends modern industry, business, and science fiction to build world-class sports cars, 226Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 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—14d adds
- 22 Reborn in 2001: Master Craftsman of the Lithium Battery Industry 重生2001：锂电大国匠 In 2001, Chen Mo was reborn at Jianghai Battery Factory as a temporary worker who had been made the scapegoat and laid off. His superiors bullied him, his coworkers ostracized him, and he was on the verge of being kicked out of the factory. Looking at the batch of defective battery cells in his hands, Chen Mo smiled. In his previous life, he had meekly accepted his dismissal. This time, he uncovered corruption in the supplies department and brought the factory director down, then walked away 295Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The King Returns: Reborn 王者归来：从重生开始 In his previous life, Lin Xiao was betrayed by his unattainable first love and died. Reborn, he takes complete control of everything and becomes the uncrowned king of both the business world and the underworld. Standing at the top of the world, he makes everyone who betrayed or looked down on him kneel and submit. He tries to bring Su Wanli back to life, but ultimately understands that people must look forward. In the end, he sits atop his business empire, with the women who have stood by him al 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Unbeatable Automaker: A Price War? I'll Fire the First Shot 无敌车企：价格战？我打响第一枪 Cutting-Edge Tech + Sci-Fi + Unbeatable + Corporate Warfare + Tycoon + Rise of a Great Power + Urban A young person’s first car might not be a Xiaomi or a Redmi, but a Lu Wu 001 electric vehicle. Just 79,800 yuan for a Lu Wu 001. You won’t lose out, and you won’t get ripped off. The Lu Wu 001 doesn’t have many features? It’s only 79,800 yuan. What more could you ask for, a bicycle? Sure, it may not be well-equipped, but it’ll keep the wind and rain off you. Fan Zihan transmigrates into an er 315Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 25 Awakening in 1999 觉醒在1999年 The year before the new millennium was destined to be extraordinary: Macau returned to China, a grand military parade marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of the nation, NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project got underway, and more. Ordinary Su Yu also became a first-year high school student that year, serving as both class monitor and Communist Youth League branch secretary. An extraordinary life quietly began... The Eurasian continent lay ri —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Be Reborn, Wang Lili 重生吧，王丽丽 How does a middle-aged woman break free and start over when marriage, children, unemployment, and poor health all weigh her down? This book follows Wang Lili, a middle-aged loser who uses her chance to be reborn to climb, step by step, to the peak of life. 46Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 27 Are You Crazy? I'm Already This Perfect, Why Do I Need to Be Reborn? 疯了吧！我这么完美还要重生？ [Reborn + period setting + school beauty + romance + entrepreneurship + making money + lighthearted + daily life + comedy + leisurely pace + no System] Lu Mingfei returned to 2002 and faced countless choices. Naturally, only children are forced to choose: adults take it all. Thus began his perfect life, with success in both business and love. 136Reads8.0Score10314d adds
- 28 Back in College, the Campus Belle Can't Keep Her Hands Off Me 重回大学，校花女神倒贴 Peng Chihan, a young man worth tens of millions, is planning a road trip with a beautiful woman when he suddenly finds himself reborn in the summer after graduating from high school. From the start, things get exciting: his dream girl shows up with flowers and confesses to him. But before he can even celebrate, he hears the voice of his online girlfriend through his headset. “I clearly wanted to focus on my career first!” Peng Chihan has just finished a date with his gentle dream girl. The momen 53Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 29 1995: The Tech Empire That Began with Batteries 1995：从电池开始的科技帝国 Reborn in 1995, Lin Feng becomes the owner of a small battery factory on the verge of bankruptcy. Armed with twenty years of memories from his previous life, he is back to change everything! Nickel-metal hydride batteries? He knows the formula! Lithium batteries? He gets in early! USB drives, MP3 players, mobile phone chips? He can make them all! Sony, Samsung, Qualcomm, MediaTek? They can all step aside! While others are still earning money through backbreaking labor, he has already been 23kReads6.2Score1.6k14d adds
- 30 Reborn: I Have a Pair of Technological Eyes 重生：我有一双科技之眼 Veteran programmer Lin Yan was kicked back by fate to the springtime of his youth at twenty-two. He dusted himself off and gladly embraced 2006, when smartphones had yet to become widespread and the mobile internet had not yet unleashed its full potential. He decided to forge a vibrant life on his own terms, with no regrets. 279Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 31 Reborn, I Become a Business Tycoon 重生后我为商业大亨 Ye Ze, a miserable middle-aged man, is reborn after transmigrating to 1982. His family is poor, his parents are honest and simple, and he has a whole crowd of siblings. They’re so poor they can barely afford to eat! But Ye Ze isn’t worried at all. He’s full of confidence and ambition. His previous life was a muddle, and he never amounted to much. Heaven must have taken pity on him, because at last it’s his turn to be reborn and transmigrate. He activates the rebirth golden finger and... Hahaha! 846Reads8.0Score10014d adds
- 32 Reborn in 2004: Reshaping China's Business World 重生到2004年，重写中国商圈 [Reborn + No System + E-Commerce + Internet + High Tech + All Kinds of Startups] [All Kinds of Business Wars] His company was losing money, and a sham divorce turned into a real one. The house, car, and assets were all transferred to his wife, and he even discovered that the two children he’d raised for over a decade weren’t his. At forty-four, Ye Bufan couldn’t accept the truth. After dragging his wife to her death with him, he woke up reborn twenty years in the past. Though he has to start his 277Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 33 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. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Reborn in 2008: Starting with Online Fiction 重生08之从网文开始 [Multiple heroines] + [Not brainless] + [No System or golden finger] + [Smart characters] + [Sweet romance] Come on in, dear readers! Everything you're looking for is inside! To keep the characters true to themselves, the early chapters spend more time laying the groundwork of everyday life. Wang Ye was a bastard in his past life. He ran with gangsters, got involved in pyramid schemes, squandered his parents' savings, and left his brother disabled. He thought his life was over. Then he opened h —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Now That I’m Reborn, Who’d Still Go Work Like a Beast at a Big Corporation? 都重生了，谁还去大厂当牛马啊 Reborn in the impoverished Northwest, I turned down a million-yuan salary at a major corporation. I want to lie flat, so I’ve returned to my hometown to inherit a barren mountain and desert! The whole village laughed at me, waiting to see me get buried in the sand. But they didn’t know I’d awakened a Greening-to-Wealth System! Plant one tree and earn a sum of money. Treat a patch of desert and double the returns! Willow trees take root → earn over a thousand a day! An oasis takes shape → earn ov —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Tokyo, 1991: A New Era of Game Development 东京1991游戏制作新时代 New book: Revisit the Eighties: The Rise of Technology. Currently serialized. This time, it covers the entire IT field, with the story set in China. Feel free to add it to your bookshelf, request updates, and leave comments. Another serialized work, the crime-investigation mystery Tokyo Women Detectives’ Casebook, has already reached 600,000 words. Dive in without worry. Transmigrate to Akihabara, Tokyo, in the autumn of 1991. Start with pixel-art PC games and climb the tech tree on the path t 2.7kReads8.4Score25214d adds
- 37 How to Achieve Financial Freedom After Being Reborn in 2008 论重生2008如何实现财富自由 Standing before you is a one-of-a-kind reborn man, founder of the short-selling American capital accumulation strategy, owner of assets worth hundreds of billions, the man who calls the shots over Earth's mineral resources, and the youngest capitalist of the 21st century. He short-sells U.S. stocks to subsidize his homeland, takes an iron-fisted grip on global mineral resources, and devotes everything to technological research and development. He personally establishes Earth's most powerful inve 513Reads7.1Score10014d adds
- 38 Reborn, I Built My Wife an Energy Empire 重生后，我给老婆建了个能源帝国 [Reborn and changing his fate + devoted husband + brotherhood + building an industrial empire + no golden finger] After eight years in prison, his girlfriend, Xu Anning, waited faithfully outside, while his brother, Li Yichen, worked tirelessly on his behalf and died in a car accident. Zhou Jiyang poured his bitter experience into an autobiography, but he was its only reader. The moment he closed his eyes, he was reborn in 2016, on the eve of falling into Hongxin Technology’s trap! Looking at Xu —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Reborn in 2007: Surrounded by Beautiful Women 重生2007，美女如云 Business empire + multiple entrepreneurial ventures + sweet romance + beauties everywhere Yuan Mufei was reborn at the most crucial turning point in his life: the summer before he started college. In his previous life, he had wasted four years at university, and after graduation, he had no choice in the matter. Given another life, he would not let himself fall into ruin or lose his first love. Throughout his four years at university, he studied and built businesses, striving forward with the per 1.1kReads6.2Score10014d adds
- 40 Reborn Through Technology: A 2006 Comeback 科技重生之逆袭2006 [Rebirth + Technology + System + Business Warfare + Sci-Fi + Invincible + Tech Battles + Wish Fulfillment + Futuristic Tech] A wish-fulfillment tech novel that doesn’t rely on mindless antics. A workaholic dies from overwork, only to be reborn in 2006 as the young heir to a knockoff factory? Si Wen, a top programmer and workaholic from 2025, dies from working overtime and is reborn in 2006 as the son of the owner of a knockoff phone factory on the brink of bankruptcy. From the start, it’s hell 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Reborn in 2009: I Started Building a Fortune at an Internet Cafe 重生2009：从网吧开始做首富 At middle age, Zhang Yu returns to the age of eighteen. Standing at the crucial crossroads of his life, he decides not to repeat his old mistakes and to make up for every regret from the past. 281Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 42 Back to College: Break Up Before Starting a Business 重回大学，要创业先散伙 Break up the partnership before starting a business. That was Xia Gucao's first major decision after being reborn in his college days. He was especially quick to get rid of his awful girlfriend, who had derailed all four years of his college life. No talk of a breakup fee. With his knowledge of the major events of the next twenty years, Xia Gucao still decides to start small, choosing to sell a nationally acclaimed edition of Japanese manga. He even disbands the college manga-selling team he use 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Reborn, I Bind the Perfect Life System 重生归来，绑定完美人生系统 By chance, Qin Tian returned to the eve of the 2009 college entrance examination and became bound to the Perfect Life System. His previous life was plain and ordinary. This time, he swore to make up for every regret: wealth, career, love, and beautiful women would all be within his grasp! With extraordinary abilities granted by the System, including a photographic memory, miraculous medical skills, and golden eyes, he dominated the campus and the business world, won the heart of the campus bel 678Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 44 Building a Business Empire, Starting with an Internet Cafe 从网吧开始打造商业帝国 Reborn in 1998, he builds an internet empire and creates a global conglomerate. In the internet age, Lin Yu starts out in an internet cafe. He develops chat software, video and music platforms, builds a closed-loop e-commerce ecosystem, and monopolizes online traffic. In the mobile age, he creates smartphones, develops his own operating system, and launches ride-hailing and food delivery services, crushing the competition with a technological leap. In the age of intelligence, he branches into 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 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 396Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 A Life Without Regrets: Back to 1992 人生无憾之重回1992 Things don’t go your way nine times out of ten. If I could live again, I’d make up for every regret in my life! Career, family, relatives, friends, romance, brotherhood: I won’t miss out on a single one! Everyone who bullied, humiliated, or trampled on me in my last life will end up beneath my feet! Reborn in 1992, the protagonist Yang Fan doesn’t just want to be a butterfly flapping its wings. He wants to become a pterosaur stirring up the world. 1.3kReads8.6Score11014d adds
- 47 Back to Senior Year: From Buying the Dip with Everything to a Trillion-Dollar Empire 重返高三：从满仓抄底到万亿版图 (Reborn + urban setting with no System + pure wish fulfillment + multiple heroines + global ambitions) His money is in a Swiss bank. He is at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, falling off a cliff. Top retail investor Chen Mo is reborn in 2014 as a penniless high school transfer student who can't even speak standard Mandarin properly. His previous life as a timid, insecure high schooler has only just begun again. And the bull market frenzy of 2015, which will make countless people millionaires, is j 210.7kReads8.5Score21.9k14d adds
- 48 You’re a Coal Tycoon, So What Do You Know About Tech-Driven National Strength? 你一个煤老板，谈什么科技兴国？ [Animated Series Now Streaming] + [Technology-Driven National Strength] + [Rise of a Great Power] + [Cutting-Edge Tech] + [Making Up for Past Regrets] [No regrets about being born in China; in my next life, I hope to be born in the Flower-Planting Nation.] Only on his deathbed does coal magnate Su Cheng discover that the will leaving 1 billion to build a chip research institute has become a wedding gift for his wife and brother. Even his son isn’t his. He dies with bitterness in his heart, then 53.2kReads7.1Score4k14d adds
- 49 Other Middlemen Make Their Cut, but You Sell Arms? 别人中间商赚差价，你卖军火？ In the run-up to Singles' Day, I managed to sell exactly one item, and it got refunded??? Lin Feng, an e-commerce middleman, picks himself up wherever he falls. Then he activates the Military Industry Modification System. The Laiyang Steel Plant is dumping steel pipes in bulk? Add rifling, and mortar production in the Middle East skyrockets. Yemen's energy minister needs a large supply of gas cylinders? Fit them with tail fins, and their range doubles. Conflict breaks out in Africa, and Antarcti 22Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 50 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 11.1kReads7.0Score86514d adds
