Novels like King of Capital, Rising from 1978
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as King of Capital, Rising from 1978, best match first.
- 1 Reborn in 2008: Starting a Business as a Rogue Cultivator 重生08，邪修创业 After being laid off by a shady cultivator, Wang Junshan was reborn in 2008. With one wild move after another, he set out to build his own shady cultivation empire! From campus group-buying to niche e-commerce. From social networking among acquaintances to browser games. From developing smartphones to investing in new energy... It all seemed like small-time hustle, struggling in the gaps between industry giants, but in reality, he was laying the foundations for a grand strategic plan. Years late 109Votes53.7kRecs186kFans
- 2 A Fashionable Life Beginning in Paris 从巴黎开始的时尚人生 Antwerp's rigorous academic culture shaped an Eastern prodigy who would rewrite the history of Parisian fashion. Designer Li Yan fell from the crest of the fashion wave in 2025 back into the height of summer in 2007. Fresh out of school, he was parachuted into the role of head designer for YSL womenswear. A rare anomaly in the world of luxury fashion, he was personally endorsed by Yves Saint Laurent, drew the frequent attention of Karl Lagerfeld, and earned lavish praise for his talent from Gio 0Votes17kRecs51.3kFans
- 3 Journey to the West: A Long-Lived Immortal Clan Starts by Feeding the Monkey at Five Elements Mountain 西游：长生仙族从五行山喂猴开始 Jiang Yi transmigrates to an ancient world, expands the territory, works the land himself, marries, and has children. He thinks this is all fate has in store for him, and that a simple life is enough. But his five-year-old eldest son can never sit still and keeps wandering deep into the back mountains every few days. There, in a place shrouded by clouds, he stumbles upon a mountain shaped like five fingers. At its foot lies a monkey with a hairy face and a thunder-god’s mouth. Life takes a new t 84Votes48.1kRecs195.6kFans
- 4 Hong Kong's New Wealthy Clan 香江新豪门 Lin Zuhui transmigrates to Xiangjiang in 1984, and takes to it like a fish to water, like a bird to the forest. By this time, the old-line families are already unstoppable, and the ten great financial conglomerates dominate Xiangjiang. Who says the ten conglomerates are set in stone? I, Lin Zuhui, will be the first to disagree! “Wait!” Liu Luanxiong shouts from behind. “I disagree too!” The author’s acclaimed previous book, I Want to Become a Hong Kong Tycoon, has over ten thousand premium subsc 0Votes80.3kRecs312.8kFans
- 5 Reborn in 1993 重生从1993开始 Having returned to 1993, Li Dongling is ready to start a new life. This time around, he’s determined to live well and do what he wants. I’m Li Dongling, and this is my 1993! 461Votes260.7kRecs492.4kFans
- 6 Game Development: Starting with a Reboot of an Anime Game 游戏制作：从重铸二次元游戏开始 2015: an era when even pigs could take flight. That year, the anime game boom began as a tiny ripple. Over the next few years, familiar names like Honkai Impact 3rd, Arknights, Azur Lane, and Punishing: Gray Raven would rise alongside a wave of new companies and take their places on the stage of history. That year, China's single-player games were still stumbling forward in confusion, huddled in the fading afterglow of The Legend of Sword and Fairy and Gujian, desperately waiting for someone to 129Votes67.4kRecs182.3kFans
- 7 I’m a Lord in India 我在印度当老爷 From the fertile, talent-rich state of Uttar Pradesh to the city of Mumbai, where demons run amok, this wondrous subcontinent is all the promised land of Ron Suer! 0Votes93.8kRecs305.9kFans
- 8 I Am the Gunslinger! 我，枪神！ Gao Fei has failed at many things. His family's factory went bankrupt, leaving him with debts instead of an inheritance. He delivered takeout and drove for a rideshare service. Eventually, with no other choice, he went to Russia to collect a debt, only to be forced into the Russia-Ukraine war. Everyone has a stage that's right for them. Gao Fei found his on the battlefield. Becoming a mercenary was the beginning of his success. He fights his way through the Russia-Ukraine war, takes on drug cart 3.4kVotes566.6kRecs923kFans
- 9 What's Wrong with One More Person Getting Rich Later? 多我一个后富怎么了 He started out studying medicine but never practiced, then sold TVs, ran into Zhou Huihui, and moved into the sharing economy, where deposits went unrepaid. Next came real estate, where he found some success. At last, he picked a prime property, but never got to top it out… In 2008, Yu Xing woke from a dream to find himself back on the eve of the financial crisis, with his investments in the red. That was the year industry giants took shape and capital awoke. He could only struggle to build his 1.7kVotes1MRecs885.5kFans
- 10 Reshaping the Millennium Era 重塑千禧年代 At the turn of the millennium, officials were chanting slogans about GDP, bosses took pride in bringing their secretaries along, and rough-and-ready entrepreneurs fought with blades flashing amid the waves of the times. Fang Zhuo returns to the year 2000. Ten years later, a group of venture capitalists and private equity firms storm the company headquarters, demanding an answer from a stunned Fang Zhuo: “Mr. Fang, all your other projects have gone public. When on earth will this first one li 47Votes867.3kRecs825.4kFans
- 11 Reborn to Ride the Wave 重生之我要冲浪 Back in the past, Yao Yuan has only one thing on his mind: goofing off… Ahem, I mean surfing! 23Votes1.8MRecs1.6MFans
- 12 EN Chicago 1990 芝加哥1990 Transmigration, the 1990s, Chicago, American entertainment, composing, screenwriting, producing, media conglomerate 66Votes2.7MRecs896kFans
