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- 1 Loading a Save from 1995 读档1995 Li Shupeng dreams of returning to 1995, with nothing to his name. That year, private businesses are ready to rise from the ashes, and the dawn of an economic boom is already shining over China. That year, private firms and foreign companies compete to make their mark, with countless ventures vying for success and brilliant minds gathering from every corner. That year, Li Shupeng finds opportunity everywhere. He works every angle to build factories, gets his start in drinks and food, and overtake 50Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Reborn: What Jianghu Big Brother? I'm a Capital Mogul! 重生：什么江湖大哥？资本大鳄！ Back in the year 2000, his father, a big shot in the underworld, is about to fall into the mire. What underworld big shot? Our family has always been law-abiding. We've never committed any crimes. All we did was take advantage of the booming property market, use a little bank leverage, buy up land cheaply, and build Yunjiang Plaza. We simply seized the opportunities of the times. From a corner of Jiangcheng, we rise to the top and build one of the country's leading business dynasties! 106.9kReads7.0Score9.7kShelves
- 3 Reborn: The Chain-Store Empire 重生之连锁帝国 [After reading so many rebirth stories, I realized the satisfying parts were always missing something, so I decided to write my own.] With building a business empire and serving the nation as its two central themes, Ye Qingyun is born into a family that has always longed to prosper. As the only man of his generation, he has no System or golden finger. He relies only on the foresight and experience he gained after being reborn. Watch as he gradually makes up for past regrets, builds a business em 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Reborn in College: Using Metaphysics to Turn My Future Around 重生大学时代我用玄学逆转未来 First comes fate, then fortune, then feng shui; fourth comes the accumulation of hidden virtue, and fifth, education. Only by understanding your fate first and your fortune afterward can you turn danger into safety and enjoy prosperity. See how Li Zhi uses physiognomy to predict good and bad fortune, and turn the future around! 1Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 5 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—Shelves
- 6 Reborn: The Great Winds Rise 重生之大风起兮 A new-era A Ordinary World, following young people struggling upward from the poverty line. They refuse to give up, fighting stubbornly against fate... The story is grounded in everyday life. Though fictional, it offers glimpses of our own lives. My writing is limited, but I hope the story strikes a chord. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Reborn: I Made Billions with a Quantitative Trading Program 重生，我靠量化程序赚了几百亿 Volume One, “Food Delivery Platform,” follows Wang Shuo as he starts the Weitu Food Delivery platform on campus and earns nearly 500 million. Volume Two, “Conquering the Stock Market,” follows Wang Shuo as he creates a quantitative trading program and makes tens of billions in China’s A-share market. He then reaps huge profits from international investors in the U.S. stock market, earning hundreds of billions of dollars. Volume Three, “Business Empire,” follows Wang Shuo as he founds three major 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Reborn as a Top Investor 重生后我成为顶尖投资人 Nongfu Spring tastes a little sweet. Is it really sweet? Come on! You still don't know how to make business in the information age fun? After being reborn, Chen Feng used a series of audacious stunts to build a business from nothing. A little branding and promotion sent its added value soaring! [Corrupt Emperor Experience Card], [Business Seductress]... His products kept going viral. Watch me become the industry's top-tier star! 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Reborn in 2008: From Stock Trading to Trillionaire Tycoon 重生08：从炒股到万亿财阀 In 2008, the financial tsunami swept across the globe. The A-share index plunged below 1,800, leaving countless people bankrupt. That year, private equity tycoon Lin Chen was reborn in the most despairing late autumn of his life. Deep in debt from the start, he faced the prospect of being fired and dumped. Lin Chen looked at the candlestick chart and gave a cold smile. Now that he was back, he would rewrite the rules of wealth in this world! Starting with 3,000 yuan borrowed against his credit c 77.2kReads8.5Score6.7kShelves
- 10 The All-Purpose System Helps Me Conquer Blue Star 全能系统助我登顶蓝星 [Slow burn + finance-world lone wolf + won’t eat beef + built from the ground up] Han Cang had spent years struggling to make it in the big city, and was on the verge of finally getting somewhere when capital kicked him out of the game at the critical moment! Overnight, his life was reduced to nothing. He tried to seek justice, but ended up being sued instead. With capital closing in from all sides, he had no choice but to return overnight to a small city in the northwest and start over. Looki 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 From the Start, I Lost My Property Deed, But Unexpectedly Became the Richest Man 开局输掉房产证，却意外成了首富 [Urban + reborn + daily life + one heroine + entrepreneurship + border trading + period setting + building wealth] Yu Feng, who once commanded assets worth hundreds of billions, is reborn in 1999. Back then, he was destitute, addicted to alcohol and gambling, and his wife and daughter died because of him, leaving him consumed by regret. Now reborn, he unexpectedly gains the Fortune and Misfortune System, which lets him see other people's current luck. Watch as he uses the System and the foresigh 636Reads8.2Score108Shelves
- 12 Reborn to Build a Financial Empire 重生缔造金融商业帝国 Reborn in the beautiful summer of 2011, Fang Yi looked at everything familiar around him and began a brand-new life. Heaven had given him a second chance, an opportunity to create a miracle. He had achieved nothing in his previous life. This time, Fang Yi would create a whole new legend, a myth that would astonish everyone. From then on, the financial world gained a dazzling new star, and the business world gained a brilliant talent with an uncanny eye for opportunity. Business wars, financial b 7Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 13 A Billion Lives 十亿人生 Among the countless words written in this world, most chase vanity and shallow pleasures, while few show compassion for the lonely courage found in ordinary lives. Against the backdrop of Lin Xiang’s solitary life, like a lone star singing to itself, this book depicts love and heartbreak, brotherhood, the struggle against fate, and the pure heart of a child. It tells of devotion carried to the extreme, honors friendships that last a lifetime, and holds close a burning love for country and people 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Unreliable System: The Bane of the Tech World! 不靠谱系统：科技界毒瘤！ [Cutting-Edge Tech] [Projects to Strengthen the Nation] He transmigrated and became a super-rich second-generation heir with both parents dead?? And from the start, he had a gorgeous rich heiress as his girlfriend?? What should he do? Help, this is urgent!! Should he laze around or start a business as a rich heir?! Starting life as a winner, Chen Xiaochuan sets off on an electrifying journey to lead Huaxia into a new era! 315Reads6.9Score100Shelves
- 15 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 301Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 16 After Rejecting Japanese Investment, I Built Electric Cars That Became a National Pride 拒绝日资后，造电车成国货之光 Su Donglai transmigrates to a parallel world where gas prices are so insane they make you question reality. The auto industry, where electric cars have yet to appear, is trembling under pressure from foreign companies and has entered a brutal winter. The government is throwing its full support behind private companies developing fuel-efficient cars, but progress remains painfully slow. Su Donglai's girlfriend, Wu Jinyan, threatens to break up with him unless he agrees to financing from a Japanes 445Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 17 Reborn: The Tech Empire 重生之科技帝国 Reborn in 2003, back when Penguin wasn’t yet a behemoth and China’s internet companies hadn’t gone through their wild-growth phase. Li Jin is a genius from the future. Let’s see how he takes the world by storm. (This book requires you to check your brain at the door. If you curse me out, you’re right to.) 2Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 18 Reborn in 2008: I Want Both a Startup and the Campus Beauty! 重生08年，创业和校花我都要！ [Lighthearted Wish Fulfillment]+ [Reborn Male Lead]+ [College Campus]+ [Campus Belle]+ [Realistic Entrepreneurship]+ [No System] Zhang Chen, a teacher at a training center, was reborn in 2008 and took to the new era like a fish to water. In college, he had entrepreneurship on one side and the campus belle on the other. A reborn man doesn't have to choose. I want it all! Starting with a business in a small city, he found the right partners at university and built an invincible tech empire. Once w 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Reborn Youth: Building a Tech Empire 重生韶华：打造科技帝国 Reborn in his second year of high school, he applies to the youth program at the University of Science and Technology of China, accidentally becomes the top scorer in his province, and starts a tech company. From betting on soccer and copying futures trades to making phones and launching satellites, he sweeps all before him and goes into full overdrive, building his own tech empire and helping Chinese technology take off... 180Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 20 Reborn as an Abandoned Heir of a Hong Kong City Tycoon, Just in Time for the Great Miracle Day 重生港城豪门弃子，喜迎大奇迹日 Song Tianyao is reborn in 2007, the day before the Hong Kong stock market’s legendary Miracle Day! In his previous life, he was the discarded son of a wealthy family. On that day, he lost his entire fortune and completely severed ties with his biological father, the chairman of the group. His girlfriend of three years decisively broke up with him and threw herself into the arms of a major client. Given another chance at life, he swears to reclaim everything that belongs to him on Miracle Day! A 7.2kReads7.4Score456Shelves
- 21 Comeback in 1990 逆袭1990 Chen Dong wakes up to find himself reborn in 1990, a year when gold seems to lie everywhere. Haunted by regrets from his past life, he starts out selling tea eggs... The financial crisis, the oil crisis, the food crisis... Through one black swan event after another, Chen Dong turns the tables and surges ahead. He uses the very weapon his enemies know best, capital, to show everyone: The dragon of the East has awakened! 2.1kReads8.2Score147Shelves
- 22 The Genius Stock God Returns to the Fray 天才股神再战江湖 My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 2.8kReads8.8Score478Shelves
- 23 Reborn, I Quit Being a Good Sport and Became a Tycoon 重生后不做老实人的我成神豪 Reborn in 2002, with more than 20 years' worth of accumulated knowledge and experience, plus an extraordinary physique thanks to his new beginning, what will Cheng Ke do? Start a business? No! No! No! That's way too exhausting. Why not just invest instead? There's nothing better than counting money while standing, lying down, or sitting. Beautiful women? The more, the merrier, of course. Entertainment stars, cool and aloof heiresses, flirtatious twins, wild foreign beauties... They're all his co —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 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 5.8kReads8.1Score385Shelves
- 25 Reborn as a God-Tier Investor 重生之神级投资 They say even a pig can fly when it catches the wind! Reborn at the dawn of the 2014 boom, Chang Dong vows to soar like a dragon and phoenix and revel in wealth and luxury! 2.9kReads7.8Score106Shelves
- 26 After Winning 18.4 Billion, I Return to the Northeast to Lie Flat 中奖184亿后，回东北躺平 The rating just came out; it'll go up later. (Patriotic, an unconventional take on lying flat, satisfying misunderstandings, passive income, healing) When Shen Yan, who worked in the Magic City, hit rock bottom in terms of luck, he unexpectedly won the lottery and chose to return to his hometown in the Northeast to lie flat. His outlook changed, his health improved, and his wealth continued to grow. His grandfather's mountain village, his father's Yangcheng, and Shen Yan's Magic City: the pat 16.8kReads6.6Score850Shelves
- 27 Reborn in 1995: The Winds of the Times 重生95之时代风云 Reborn in 1995, Chen Yuansheng, a legendary underworld boss, returns to the darkest period of his life: fresh out of prison, penniless, framed by a colleague, and with his girlfriend marrying someone else... No matter. He was already formidable in his previous life, so this time he'll be even more incredible. With his foreknowledge of history and a firm grasp of the future, he rises at an unimaginable speed, stirring up an era of change that sweeps across the land. [If you make money ahead of yo 12kReads8.5Score953Shelves
- 28 Reborn as the World's Richest Man 重生之世界首富 On their wedding day, his mother-in-law suddenly demanded another 100,000 yuan in bride price. Seeing this, Song Ning, reborn, turned around and walked away. “I’m not going through with this wedding.” 328Reads7.5Score183Shelves
- 29 Reviving the Northeast, Giving Millions of Workers Maxed-Out Buffs 东北振兴，千万员工BUFF拉满 [Reviving Northeast China's Industry] + [Real Industry Reigns Supreme] + [A Multitude of Cross-Sector Businesses] + [Infrastructure Development] + [Ten Million Employees] + [Global Expansion] He awoke in a new era. Back in Northeast China in 1995. State-owned enterprises were struggling, factories were run-down, and laid-off workers were everywhere. The once-glorious industrial heartland of the Northeast was steadily fading. “System?” “Start factories and companies, hire employees...” “Eac 212.6kReads9.0Score17.5kShelves
- 30 Reborn Tycoon 重生大富翁 He wakes from a dream to find himself reborn in the best of times. From the start, he has just 96 yuan in living expenses. He sets up street stalls, opens a milk tea shop, and rapidly builds his first fortune. Real estate, the internet, oil and mining, electronics: several business empires rise at breakneck speed under his hand. The global business landscape will be reshaped by me, Su Qi. This is the legendary story of a reborn man who rises to immense wealth. 3.1kReads7.7Score324Shelves
- 31 Reborn: I Become a Financial Tycoon Starting With the College Entrance Exam 重生：从高考开始当金融大亨 [Finance + Technology + Mobile Internet + Business Empire + Getting Rich] Reborn in 2009, I’d be letting my second chance go to waste if I didn’t become a world-class big shot! Step one: study hard, become the top scorer, and get into a good school. The scholarship will be my first pot of gold, and my future college classmates will be invaluable connections! Step two: use my advantage as someone reborn to steal other people’s ideas and leave them with nowhere to go. I just didn’t mean to take th 796Reads7.0Score104Shelves
- 32 Reborn: From the Start, I Made a Billion Yuan in One Go 重生之开局狂赚一百亿 Lu Yongping lived an unremarkable life. Reborn, he decided to make his second life shine in a whole new way. He returned to the moment the 2010 college entrance exams ended. His extraordinary life officially began. He snapped up a place at a top-tier university and won big on the World Cup lottery. He bought shares in companies that would later become industry giants. He helped major electric vehicle makers enter China ahead of schedule and made their patents open source. He invested early in ch 357Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 33 Reborn? Let's Win the College Entrance Exam First 重生？先赢了高考再说 It’s still a modern-day story. A tale of childhood sweethearts who love and torment each other. Please come check it out. Thank you so very much!!!! 320Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 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
- 35 I Transmigrated Back to the Last Day of the Bull Market 穿越回到牛市最后一天 [Transmigration] [Stock Trading] [Business] [Get Rich] [Investment] After enduring three years of a steadily declining stock market, Li Hua was finally pushed to the brink of exhaustion and died suddenly at his office desk. To his surprise, he earned the favor of the Bodhisattva Guanyin and transmigrated to the final day of the great bull market of 2007. The crash would begin tomorrow, and after the New Year, a global financial crisis would sweep the world. Li Hua had just 500 yuan in living exp 2Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 36 Reborn in 1995: Building the World's No. 1 Village 重生95，打造全球第一村 [Reborn] + [Rise to success in a bygone era] + [Business warfare] + [Pure exhilaration] + [Family redemption] A lonely, ailing Lin Ye dies in a foreign land... When he opens his eyes again, it's 1995! In his previous life, he was a wealthy bachelor worth billions, with no family member by his bedside when he died. This time, he returns to May 19, 1995. Tonight, his beloved second older sister will drink pesticide! Lin Ye dashes out of the classroom, racing against time to stop the tragedy that h 3Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 37 Korea! From Commoner to Chaebol 韩国！从平民到财阀 Reborn in South Korea in 1992, am I supposed to become a wage slave in the future? No way! Samsung, Hyundai, LG: I’ll crush them all! One person is all it takes to enjoy the life of a chaebol! I refuse to share… [Chaebol] [Business Battles] [Showbiz] [Harem] 4.5kReads6.8Score177Shelves
- 38 Split: Brotherhood and Feuds in the Advertising World 裂变：广告江湖里的兄弟恩仇录 [Workplace + Brotherhood + Corruption + Personal Growth] Yesterday’s brothers, today’s wolves! A bloody business saga that lays bare the fracturing of human nature! Yang Jun and Da Feng, Li Fei, and Liu Jinsong grew up together and were as close as brothers. When Yang Jun first joined Northern Advertising, his impressive results and sharp ambition made him a target of repeated harassment from Wu Dazhi, a manager parachuted in from outside. Forced to resign, he left behind Lin Xue, the designer h 18Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 39 After Being Reborn, I Want to Be a Good Person 重生之后想做个好人 [Assassin] + [Reborn] + [Daily Life] + [High School] + [Not Overpowered] “I didn’t have a choice before. Now I want to be a good person…” Li Zhe works as a Grade B operative for Sinake, an international underground intelligence organization abbreviated as [S]. He has no past, and the limited life he has is spent fighting for the organization. Then, through sheer bad luck, he is selected to be a disposable pawn. Reborn as a high school student in 2001, he initially plans to stay out of trouble an 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Reborn in 2000: The Road to Becoming a Real Estate Mogul Worth Trillions 重生2000，万亿地产大亨之路 Yi Wangxi spent his whole life in real estate, working in many roles and eventually becoming the city general manager of a property group. But his personality cost him many opportunities to advance. In the end, he led an unremarkable life and died full of regret. On the brink of death, overwhelmed by reluctance and remorse, he drew his last breath. Then, as a streak of lightning flashed across the sky, a thunderclap jolted him awake. December 2000, Gangxia Village, Pengcheng. Yi Wangxi opens his 152Reads5.9Score124Shelves
- 41 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] 17.8kReads7.4Score1.5kShelves
- 42 Reborn in Hong Kong: A Chaotic Life 重生香江之混亂人生 303Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 43 Reborn, Yet You’re Holding the Campus Belle’s White Stockings? 重生了，你却拿着校花的白丝袜？ With the white socks from your first love at eighteen in your hands, how are you, a middle-aged man, supposed to explain yourself... Reborn, reborn, reborn, and this is what you do with your second chance? [Urban Rebirth]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [College Campus]+ [Realistic Entrepreneurship]+ [Steady Growth]+ [Overseas Storyline] Jiang Feng, a research director at a fund company and a graduate of a prestigious university, wakes up one night back in 2009, before the college entrance exams. So wha 227Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Reborn as an Internet Cafe Owner: Lying Flat and Enjoying Life! 重生网吧老板，躺平享受生活！ [Reborn] [Lie Flat] [Enjoying Life] [Business] [Behind-the-Scenes Powerhouse] After Jiang He died from overwork, he was reborn in 2003 and became the owner of an internet café. Thinking of how miserably he had died in his previous life, Jiang He was still shaken. Given a second chance at life, Jiang He didn’t want to be shackled by work anymore. He chose to lie flat and enjoy life instead. To make his lie-flat dream come true, Jiang He decided to train people to do the work for him while he hid 38Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 45 I Took the Advice and Went Home to Raise Pigs, and Became the World's Richest Person! 听劝回家养猪，我成了世界首富！ 2018. He failed the college entrance exam, and his classmates mocked him: “Go home and raise pigs?” [Take the advice and raise pigs at home. The System rewards you with a pig farm.] African swine fever breaks out! Pork prices skyrocket! A jealous, resentful old classmate says, “Jiang Feng, pig farming has no future. You should invest in new energy instead~” (Prices have been falling for ages. That’ll bankrupt you.) [Take the advice and invest in Tesla.] Tesla stock rises thirtyfold! With tenfold 6.8kReads8.4Score414Shelves
- 46 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 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 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 73Reads6.8Score169Shelves
- 48 Reborn: I Set Traps for the Capitalists at Every Turn 重生：我一路给资本做局 A private equity fund manager was lured into a trap and murdered, only to be reborn as a college student in 1995. Taking advantage of a brief stock market boom, he quickly got his start and changed his family's fortunes. His path to revenge began. His enemies had been billionaires in his previous life, with astonishing connections. He could only plan every move carefully and build up his strength. Gradually, he became known in investment circles as a genius. Years later, he was a top investor an 9.2kReads8.4Score647Shelves
- 49 A Tycoon Doesn't Have to Run a Big Business 神豪，不一定必须做大生意 This is also a System novel, but my System doesn’t just hand me money, houses, and companies. Is it a bit of a letdown compared to the other tycoon Systems? Looks like I’ll just have to use the System to do something worthwhile, one step at a time. 508Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 50 Stock Trading 操股 (Stock trading + national finance + multiple heroines) A big-shot hot-money trader is reborn in 2011 in a parallel world. Firmly believing that stock trading can ruin your life, he refuses to enter the market. But when his father-in-law comes to him and shares the hardships endured by the older generation, he wavers. He decides to trade for his country! Because... he was born under the red flag! 7.7kReads8.5Score438Shelves
