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- 51 Developing Beidou GPS in the 1970s 我在70年代研发北斗GPS (Technological powerhouse + period setting) Ye Fan, a programmer at Beidou Navigation, a major state-owned company in Huaguo, is an overworked corporate drone. The moment he opens his eyes after waking up, the villagers of Hongqi Village have him cornered in bed. Faced with their vile remarks, how will he get himself out of this mess and leave the villagers marveling that Ye the Second has turned over a new leaf? 999Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 52 Transmigrate into 72: I Won't Be the Doormat Male Supporting Character 穿越72：不当怨种男配 [Period novel transmigration] + [schemes and plotting] + [everyone is sharp] + [revenge served on the spot] + [the special space isn’t for farming, it’s for killing enemies] Revenge isn’t limited to killing your enemies. Ruin their reputations and make them infamous; make them wish they were dead. Do-gooders and the morally squeamish, enter at your own risk! The protagonist occasionally goes off the rails. There are no absolute heroes or villains; good and evil often depend on where you stand, a 6.4kReads8.3Score45314d adds
- 53 The Reborn Tycoon's Rise 重生之首富行 Back to the turbulent 1980s! Opportunities abound, and so do wolves. In his previous life, he was honest and diligent, crushed by big business and cheated by unscrupulous merchants. He spent his life struggling to get by, only to end up with nothing and meet a miserable end. Now reborn, he brings forty years of business foresight and knows every trend before it takes off. He tears up his mediocre old life and starts over! He starts out selling goods at a vegetable market, taking advantage of his 194Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 I Transmigrated to the 1960s and Activated a Storage Ring 穿越60年代，我激活了储物戒指 Zhu Chengcai is an ordinary wage slave who dreams of getting rich overnight and living a blissful life: waking up naturally after a good night's sleep and counting so much money his fingers cramp. Instead, he has ended up as a wage slave with not a moment to spare. Just as he's preparing to return to his hometown, lie flat, and wait to die, he saves a little girl on the road and unexpectedly transmigrates to the 1960s, where he accidentally activates a storage ring he'd obtained by chance. So Zh 45.5kReads7.9Score4.9k14d adds
- 55 Middle-Aged in Shanghai: I’ve Hidden My Medicinal Wine Ability for 20 Years 上海中年：我藏药酒异能苟20年 In 2006, Shanghai was swept up in a wave of reform. Large numbers of veteran workers at state-owned enterprises were laid off, and a lifetime of stability vanished overnight. At forty, Zhang Jianguo saw his eighteen years of service wiped out. His buyout compensation was slashed, and in middle age he had no one to rely on while raising a young daughter. To feed his family, he took grueling construction jobs, did backbreaking labor, suffered wage deductions, and endured bullying, struggling eve 88Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Bullied by My Boss, My Aunt Helps Me Fight Back 被上司欺压，阿姨带你去反扑 During a round of layoffs at the company, Xia Zhan was abandoned by the leader he trusted most, something he never saw coming. But Xia Zhan refused to give up. He teamed up with Hou Xiaotian and planned his moves step by step. Watch Xia Zhan enjoy life in the workplace. 377Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 Reborn: From the Start, I Can Hear the Young Intellectual’s Inner Thoughts 重生，开局就偷听女知青心声 [The rating just came out and will keep rising!] [Period rebirth, farming, pure romance, slow-paced and not violent] If you like this kind of story, come take a look! If you don't, head on over to Tomato Book City, where plenty of great books are waiting for you! Su Yun is reborn in 1974 as an educated youth sent to the countryside. From the start, the educated youths' dormitory collapses, so he has no choice but to board with a local family. By chance, he ends up under the same roof as Lin Qing 1.6kReads6.2Score—14d adds
- 58 A Bitter Girl’s Rebirth 苦妹之涅槃重生 Inside Ku Mei’s five-year-old body lived the soul of someone who had died with a heart full of hatred. Reborn, she faced a spiteful grandmother who beat and berated her, a cold grandfather who enabled the abuse, and a mother who could only weep helplessly. Ku Mei concealed her boundless hatred and memories of her past life, pretending to be timid as she carefully plotted her every move. She outsmarted her relatives and broke free of her shackles, starting with a bottle of chili sauce from the mi 121Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 Reborn: Back to 2008 as a Tycoon 重生：回到2008当富豪 Wei Lan is reborn in 2008. The youth that had faded away, the love that had withered, the struggles of youth: everything gets a second chance. He sleeps with beauties in his arms and wakes with the world's wealth at his fingertips. He builds great national enterprises and shorts Wall Street. 10Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 60 Leaving on the Journey South 南下归途离开 Every so often, a generation leaves home to make a living, leaving its youth behind on construction sites and streets far from home. Our fathers left the mountains with worn-out woven-plastic bags on their backs, heading south to find work. They knew nothing of polished talk. They only knew to keep their heads down and work hard, relying on brute strength to feed their families. They lived in cramped shacks, endured grueling day and night shifts, and swallowed their homesickness and grievances. 27Reads—Score214d adds
- 61 The Years I Built a Business From Scratch 白手起家创业的那些年 2016, Binhai. As a child, he happened to learn a little about the art of reading fate and karma. At twenty-eight, Luka struck out alone in the foreign trade business. Armed with data software, he seized the opportunities of the times and built his business step by step. Fitness equipment factories, textile mills, glassworks, grain and oil processing, bulk energy trading. Real estate, logistics, chain hotels, and driving schools gradually took shape. He weathered countless hardships and built eve 48Reads—Score10714d adds
- 62 Reborn at Eighteen, I Really Just Want to Make Money 重生十八，我真的只想搞钱啊 (Reborn as a food-delivery app developer, no System, multiple female leads, everyday life, entrepreneurship, an entertainment-industry storyline, with illustrations) After an accident, Lin Shuchen wakes up as an eighteen-year-old boy. After spending more than a decade as a programmer in his previous life, he doesn't want to work for someone else this time around. Starting with an inconspicuous food-ordering mini-program, he visits restaurants, builds the system, takes on group catering, and trie 44Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Reborn: The Golden Age 重生之黄金年代 The 1990s were the golden decade that today’s business tycoons look back on with nostalgia. Opportunities were everywhere, and gold was there for the taking. That’s why it was also known as the Great Era! Zhou Liang’an returns to 1993, back to the bottom rung of a company. The old workers take him for a pushover and bully him. The woman he was dating is about to dump him. His friends and relatives all want to take advantage of him, and not one of them means well. But… no one expected Zhou Liang’ 4.6kReads8.2Score38414d adds
- 64 I Transmigrated to 1976 and Became a Rogue Scholar 穿越到1976年成痞儒 My new work is out! Welcome to Tomato Literature. I am a storyteller and inheritor of Guangdong's Cantonese and Guangfu culture. I have worked in cultural media for many years and am especially interested in the Guangfu culture of the Pearl River Delta. I hope to tell the story of a red artist who is reborn in 1976 as a seven-year-old boy in a waterside town in Guangdong Province, a child who is neither wholly good nor wholly bad, and who sets out on a new path to becoming a roguishly charming C 162Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 She Outlived the Other Woman, Then Was Reborn 熬死小三，她又重生啦 [Not a palace-intrigue novel, not a farming novel: the heroine's growth and the redemption of a life.] Bai Chunyu had a miserable life in her previous life. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the 1970s, before any of those tragedies had happened! She decisively cut ties with her family, severing them once and for all. She would protect her genius little daughter with her life. Her family's ancestral silver bangle concealed a pocket dimension, stocked to the brim with supplies. S 281Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 66 The Man with Six Marriages 六婚男人 A marriage spanning half a century, full of ups and downs, and one man's six sorrowful, blood-stained journeys into wedlock. In the late 1970s, at a state-owned coal mine in Northeast China, Kim Dazhuang, an ethnic Korean Chinese who had returned from Korea, was tall and burly, with a fiery temper. He sweated through his work amid the roar of steam locomotives. Over the course of his life, he went through six marriages. Each time, he entered with hope, only for almost every one to end in heartbr 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Reborn in 1959: Startling by Each Step 魂穿59，步步惊心 The novel is being revised... (One heroine, spatial abilities, mild violence, family life, a gradual build, steady growth.) The story mainly has three stages. In the early part, he helps his family escape poverty. In the middle, he gets a job at a steel mill, working on equipment and supplies, with some familiar courtyard-life elements mixed in, though they are not the main focus. In the later part, he helps the country develop its national defense. His spatial abilities are controllable, and he 134Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Reborn in a Bygone Era: Never Forgive 重生年代：永不原谅 Reborn in the 1970s: Refusing Rural Reassignment, Turning the Tables, Cutting Off Family, Marrying His One True Love, and the Fake Young Master Mystery. No Space or System. In his previous life, Luoyang was utterly ruined by the so-called family he trusted. They stole his job, signed him up for rural reassignment, took his university spot, and saddled him with his brother's lover. Finally, they had both his kidneys removed, leaving him to die a miserable death! Reborn, he defies fate: passing th 4.6kReads8.0Score29314d adds
- 69 1973: Starting with Educated Youth Sent to the Countryside 年代1973：从知青下乡开始 [Sent to the Countryside in the 1970s + Lighthearted Humor + Everyday Family Life + Cunning Old Fox] On the day Lu Yuan is sent down to the countryside, he saves the village’s five-year-old little matriarch. From then on, even the village dogs salute him... ... ... (From the start, there’s no stealing houses or jobs, an abusive stepmother, or cheating followed by revenge. Read with caution if that’s what you’re looking for!) 3.6kReads7.6Score14514d adds
- 70 Back in the 1980s, I Returned to Beijing to Rule the Scene 80年代，杀回京圈当大佬 In 1985, even a pig could take flight if it stood in the right place at the right time. Xiao Guofeng returns to this era reborn, bringing his seed shop with him. Standing before his family's fishpond, he vows, “In this life, I won't let you exploit and squeeze us dry ever again. I'll take good care of Grandpa, protect my little sister, and marry the wife who's suffered a lifetime of hardship. Our whole family will live well!” 905Reads6.6Score10414d adds
- 71 The Guanshan Saber 关山刀 On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God ascended to Heaven. Yan Feilong's father did not come home. Three days later, his mother was found dead in the village temple, a wound in her stomach. The twelve-year-old boy slipped a chipped knife into his clothes and walked into the salt flats, looking for a man: tall and thin, with a mole on his chin. He found him. Three strikes. One for his father, one for his mother, and the last so he could go on living. His revenge was d 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Famine Years: With the System, I'm Invincible 灾荒年：拥有系统的我无敌了 [System] [Space] [Multiple Women] [Not Brain-dead] [Not a Saint] After transmigrating into the resource-scarce 1960s, Lin Hao loses both parents and then his grandfather right from the start, leaving him with nothing but four bare walls. Fortunately, his sign-in System arrives, and he has a mystical spring space at his disposal. Marrow-cleansing pills, supplies, and skills keep pouring in. He hunts with one hand and practices medicine with the other. He can venture into the mountains to chase bl 15.4kReads6.6Score1.7k14d adds
- 73 Back to the 1970s, Looking Back on Life 重返七零，回首人生 When he wakes up, he’s a tiny baby. He opens his eyes, and before he’s even had a chance to enjoy life, he discovers that his parents have been split off from the rest of the family. He moves into a drafty thatched hut and begins his new life there. As the saying goes, little kids have no rights. It isn’t until one day, when he meets a mysterious Taoist priest who teaches him the “Taixu Divine Art,” that he finally escapes his grim fate and holds his head high. His family is destitute, and his p 636Reads6.6Score11114d adds
- 74 Fifty Years of Bride Price: In 1974, It All Began with a Broken Engagement 彩礼50年，1974从悔婚开始 In the bitter winter of 1974, Zhao Shuangzhu publicly called off his engagement and was given three days to come up with a hundred yuan for the bride price. He swallowed his pride and borrowed from every neighbor he could, took the old folks’ burial savings, and went into the mountains at night to hunt rabbits and trade them for cash on the black market. Dodging the market inspectors, he stumbled through the hardest hurdle of his life. He spent the rest of his life marrying, raising children, an 113Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 I'm a Lie-Flat Guy, but My Beautiful Wife Refuses to Divorce Me 我躺平汉，漂亮老婆不肯离婚 Chen Shuai was reborn. In his previous life, he was a lazy freeloader who did nothing but lie flat and loiter around the neighborhood. Now it was his responsibility to earn money and support his family, all for the sake of his beautiful wife! Her best friend said, “Hurry up and get a divorce. Even I can't stand watching this anymore. You're the one making all the effort. When will it end?” His father-in-law said, “You should go out and hear what people say about you. A big, strapping man like yo 67Reads6.8Score16914d adds
- 76 The Newlywed Young Widow 新婚小寡妇 In the winter of 1976, Li Yanmei was newly married when her husband died. Branded a “husband-killing” jinx, she was pregnant when her cruel in-laws threw her out with nothing. On a stormy night, she gave birth in a melon shed. Starving and freezing, she swallowed the slur “loose woman” along with her tears. For the little one in her arms, she wiped away her tears and turned humiliation into a stepping stone. She went from selling goods at a black-market stall to reclaiming land for farming, from 1.6kReads6.5Score11014d adds
- 77 Reborn, Selling Fish and Shrimp, and Making a Fortune! 重生卖鱼又卖虾，我赚麻了！ [Everyday life][1980s][Making money][Rebirth][Family] In his previous life, Shu Zhiqiang married the village beauty, only to discover that none of his three sons were his. To marry her, he dragged his whole family down and let down everyone who had ever treated him well. Perhaps it was karma that made him die of a serious illness at fifty. But to his surprise, he was reborn on the day he got engaged to his previous-life wife. When faced with his future mother-in-law’s aggressive demands, he 6.1kReads8.3Score49814d adds
- 78 Striving in 1998: Grabbing Success and Beautiful Women with Both Hands 奋斗九八：事业美女两手抓 Li Jianming, who had spent his life as a workhorse, is reborn. The first thing he does is save his father from an imminent mine disaster, completely changing his family’s fate. But this also entangles him in the fate of the young widow living upstairs. Then he discovers that his body and brain have been enhanced. He has an extraordinary memory and can effortlessly connect the dots. From then on, his studies progress by leaps and bounds, and he astonishes everyone. Beautiful campus queens keep ap 13.7kReads8.1Score1.6k14d adds
- 79 Rural Sisters-in-Law 农村妯娌 This is a story of war and peace between two women, and also a miniature epic chronicling the transformation of rural China from collectivization to the modern era. When the well in Liuxi Village was filled in and running water reached every home, the women who had once argued, wept, and whispered secrets beside that well proved through their lives that time can bury old grudges, and that a resilient spirit can blossom in the soil. 2.3kReads7.1Score26214d adds
- 80 Reborn in 1985: I'm Focused on Making Money, but Young Master Lu Is Chasing Me 重生八五：一心搞钱，陆少追疯了 [Rebirth + Period Setting + No Golden Finger + Comeback + Business Battles + Mystery of Her Origins + Power Couple] In her previous life, Su Hanxue gave everything for her family, only to be forced into a marriage that served their interests. She suffered abuse after the wedding, until her husband pushed her into the freezing river and drowned her. He then used the payout from her accident insurance to live it up with his mistress. In this life, she fights with all her strength to refuse the mar 72Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 Reborn in 1983: I Take On My Biased Grandma and Protect My Family 重生八三，手撕偏心奶奶护家人 The short drama Reborn in 1983: From Doormat to Life's Winner and the animated series The Legendary Road of Yin Chuan are now available. Li Yinchuan is reborn, returning to the day his biased grandmother falsely accused him of stealing money so she could sell him to another family as a live-in son-in-law. Why should I have to sell myself to pay for my eldest cousin's wedding and my second cousin's college tuition? Why should my mother, younger brother, and younger sister suffer bullying in this 7.8kReads8.9Score63214d adds
- 82 My Second Brother: Two Young Men Venture into the Northeast 我的二哥之二小闯东北 My second older brother ran away from home when he was twelve, heading northeast with a child from the neighbors’ family. The two of them endured countless hardships to make it there, only to find themselves in the wolf’s den and the tiger’s lair. And so began a story no one could ever forget. 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Reborn in 1982, the World's Richest Man 重生82年，全球首富 Marriage Before Love + Reborn to Make Amends + Revenge at Last + Trillions in Assets + Retiring in Comfort Original title: Reborn in 1982, the World's Richest Man The male lead, Ye Nan, spent years burying himself in work. After being diagnosed with cancer, he donated all his possessions and eventually passed away with regrets. But when he wakes up, he remembers how, after getting drunk and acting recklessly, he caused Ji Yuqi to become pregnant before marriage, which ultimately led her to jump 2kReads8.2Score19014d adds
- 84 The 11th Book of a Corporate Slave Shut-In 社畜宅宅第11本书 [Persuading Women to Turn Over a New Leaf + Multiple Heroines + Reborn + Redemption + Comedic Push and Pull] Trust my writing! This is a story about being reborn and saving the girls from his past life before they fall into ruin. As a man, he faces the problems head-on. In his previous life, he was timid and ran away from his problems, watching helplessly as the two girls he loved drifted farther away and went down a path of no return. He spent the rest of his life filled with regret. In this li 629Reads8.1Score11614d adds
- 85 Water Willow 水性杨花儿 (The rating was just added and will rise. It's already going up!) Neighbor Guo Hongmei ran off with another man? What? That man is Yang Hua'er's husband, Zhao Dashan? Talk about gossip coming right back to bite you. They say nine out of ten people born in the Year of the Sheep are fated to have a hard life, but Yang Hua'er doesn't believe in fate. Even without a man, she can still make a warm and happy life for herself. 10.1kReads8.2Score65814d adds
- 86 San Biaozi 三彪子 In 1980, in Kaoshan Village on the banks of the Songhua River, the Gao family’s fifth child is born. Dubbed “San Biaozi” because he is a bit dim, he grows up amid poverty and gossip. His mother bears the painful memory of having been assaulted, while his father quietly shoulders the burden of their broken family. San Biaozi drifts through life in a daze, but after a string of fires, people begin to suspect him of arson. While working the night shift guarding the grain depot, he learns to smoke. 751Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 The Award-Winning Nanny Reborn with a Professor's Book Collection! 金牌保姆带教授藏书重生啦！ [Reborn + family bonds + everyone’s favorite + healing + mystery] The main story is complete, with some bonus chapters in the works. Feel free to dive in. Lin Chuyi was a top-tier caregiver who spent more than a decade looking after an elderly professor and his wife. They treated her like their own daughter. Before they died, they left her an inheritance and a jade pendant, which sent her back to the age of eighteen. The pendant is a key, and the library is a space connecting her past and future 501Reads9.2Score10014d adds
- 88 In 1975, I Went to the Countryside to Escape Disaster 1975年我下乡避祸 This is not a feel-good power fantasy. There is no pocket dimension, no System, no rebirth, and no transmigration. The times are turbulent, and the road ahead is uncertain. To protect Li Chengxiao, his family bears the pain of sending him to the countryside for an assigned rural posting, away from danger. Alone, he puts down roots in the village, enduring hardship and lying low with quiet resolve. With his unique insight and steady temperament, he establishes himself amid adversity, discreetly b 89.5kReads8.5Score10.9k14d adds
- 89 Transmigrating to the 1970s, I Lie Flat! 穿越七零我躺平了！ A 48-year-old man who’d chosen to lie flat transmigrates into the body of 18-year-old Li Changshun! He becomes one of the sent-down youths heading to the countryside in 1973. In Kaoshan Tun Brigade, Dongfang Commune, Dong’an County, Danjiang City, he lies in bed, keeping a low profile as he waits for the new era to arrive. (This is simply a story about the ordinary life of a sent-down youth. The writing is unassuming, and the plot moves at a fairly slow pace. It’s steeped in everyday life, not a 62.6kReads7.0Score4.9k14d adds
- 90 Reborn 20 Years Ago: From Street Tough to Upstanding Young Man 重生20年从顽主到四有青年 [Reborn] [No System] [Ensemble cast] [Everyday life] [Business rivalry] [Romance] [Martial world] Does being reborn count as rebirth if you have no memories of your past life? In 2024, business tycoon Chen Yuanping is framed and sent back to the autumn of his nineteenth year. A completely different life begins... At the foot of the imperial city, in Liulichang. A group of young people born in the sixties and seventies leave the crowded courtyard houses in the hutongs, carrying their dreams 4.2kReads7.5Score21314d adds
- 91 The Playboy and the Five Golden Flowers 风流之子与五朵金花 [Completed] If you happened to click on this, please read a few more pages, or even a few dozen, and help boost my stats. Thanks for your support! This is the story of a group of people who came from elsewhere to work and put down roots in Zhuhai. They fall in love, get married, buy homes, and have children. The first half covers their lives up to marriage. The second half explores marriage, human nature, changes in society, and growing up in middle age. This novel has a calm and gentle tone, pe 87Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 Reborn and Living the Good Life: Starting with a Breakup with the Campus Belle 重生风流，从和校花分手开始 [Rebirth, No System, Stock Trading, Entrepreneurship, Business Empire] Lin Ze was reborn. When he opened his eyes, it was the day in 2014 when the college entrance exam results came out. He had missed the English exam, and his total score was 559, just one point short of the cutoff for a key university. In his previous life, he obediently followed his parents' and girlfriend's advice, retook the year at school, and got into Zhongshan University, hoping to land a stable, well-paying job. But whil 14.7kReads7.0Score64314d adds
- 93 A Mogul Reborn: Back to 1977 as an Educated Youth 大佬重生：回到1977当知青 [Reborn in the 1970s + daily life + no System + building a career] Reborn in the late 1970s, he is immediately framed for hooliganism and thrown in jail. “Officer, I'm innocent!” Watch Fang Xu turn the tables with his knowledge of the future and bring the village's hooligans to justice. He hunts in the mountains and fishes in the river, saving up his first bit of capital. When the college entrance exam is reinstated, he gets into university. He studies abroad and pits his wits against foreign po 203Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 94 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 23.9kReads8.3Score3k14d adds
- 95 Childhood in the Old Days 旧时光里的童年 The author recalls a rural childhood in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province, during the 1970s and 1980s. The book describes rural life and the changes brought about by the household responsibility system in the early days of reform and opening up, along with the joys and hardships of the author’s childhood before the age of ten, major family upheavals, and the warmth and coldness of human nature. 39Reads—Score314d adds
- 96 Reborn: You Keep Grinding, I'll Take It Easy 重生：你们卷，我躺赢 Period setting + no System + one female lead + chips + lithography machines + smartphones + Bitcoin + new energy vehicles + game development + esports + internet + AI + data services + real estate + business warfare + face-slapping Reborn in 2008, he had only a few hundred yuan in his pocket. That year, Bitcoin was still worth less than a cent, Jensen Huang was still selling graphics cards, no one knew what AI was, the mobile gaming market was a blue ocean, the golden decade for real estate had 682Reads7.0Score22014d adds
- 97 Upholding Justice 公义立身 Xu Zhiqiang was born into a poor rural family in the 1960s. Through sheer hard work, he got into university. After graduating, he was assigned to work at a steel mill, where he brought a near-bankrupt factory back from the brink. Later, an anonymous letter changed the course of his life once again. After enduring setbacks in life as well as pressure and blows at work, Xu Zhiqiang entered the real estate business and rose to the pinnacle of success. 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 A Way Forward Through Mountains and Rivers 出路之山重水复 [Period setting + Family + Women + Career + Workplace business battles + No romance + Society + An exploration of human nature] No cheat powers, no dramatic comeback. A deep look at the struggles and prospects of 99% of ordinary people! Wish-fulfillment stories are everywhere, but once the excitement fades, only emptiness remains. In the end, we all have to face the grind of daily life and the warmth or coldness of human relationships. This slow-burning work of realism offers no lucky breaks or 2.5kReads9.5Score36214d adds
- 99 My Years as a Migrant Worker in Shenzhen 我在深圳打工那些年 Two AI comic adaptations of this book are already online, and a third is in production. In 1997, I was 17, carrying 300 yuan as I left my hometown in Hunan and headed south to Shenzhen alone. With no skills and no temporary residence permit, I was chased by security patrols, turned away by factories, left hungry, and forced to spend nights hiding in a cemetery. I went from a penniless kid to a sewing-machine operator at a handbag factory, then seized the opportunities of the times, opened a shop 18.8kReads8.8Score1.5k14d adds
- 100 A Coder’s Rewind: The Flying Youth of 1997 码农回档：飞扬的青春1997 Programmer Lü Xin is sent back to 1997 after a car accident, his soul traveling through time. Back on his high school campus, he refuses to settle for an ordinary life. With the times at his back and the knowledge and memories of his past life to rely on, why shouldn't his youth soar on the winds of change? [Reborn in a bygone era + no System + no golden finger + campus life + entrepreneurship] 20.3kReads7.4Score1.8k14d adds
