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- 1 Building a Media Empire, Starting with Saw 打造传媒巨头，从电锯惊魂开始 Note: This story focuses more on business and has less entertainment-industry content. Back in 2003, Li Yang starts with the movies he knows so well. He takes control of cinema chains, seizing the lifeline of film scheduling; acquires media outlets, creates Weibo, and steers public opinion! He enters gaming, devours Blizzard and T2 to build a gaming empire, and expands into esports worldwide; builds his own streaming platform, upends traditional distribution, and gets users around the world to p 63Votes4.2kRecs45.3kFans
- 2 The Stern American Father 美利坚严父 Only I Have the Power + Cutting-Edge Tech + Mega-Corporations + Economic Colonialism “Why did you come to America?” “It's vast and rich in resources, the people are simple and honest, and the air smells sweet. I love it here.” “I want the truth.” “Guns, smuggling, corruption, chaos. This place is paradise.” “So that's why you came to America to build an underground dictatorship? Don't forget, we're the most powerful country in the world, the global police force.” “Wouldn't that make it even 242Votes13.4kRecs71.7kFans
- 3 King of Capital, Rising from 1978 资本之王，从1978开始崛起 Chen Bingwen wakes up to find himself back in 1978. Reform and opening up have only just begun. Asia’s Four Little Dragons are poised for takeoff, while undercurrents are stirring in the global industrial landscape. And in his mind lies a map of every opportunity waiting to emerge over the next forty years. From a dessert shop to a beverage factory, from taking on Coca-Cola with a single bottle of energy drink to crushing Nintendo with arcade games. While others are still fighting over territory 114Votes70.8kRecs252.1kFans
- 4 Hong Kong Stories: 1963 香江往事1963 Hong Kong history researcher Lin Zhaoyuan discovers he has been reborn on Hong Kong Island in 1963. Here, the four great detectives weave their interests together, laying the foundations of an empire of wealth. Here, powerful factions run rampant, and people clutch their clothes tightly whenever they go outside. Fortunately... The Fiendish Yuan has arrived, and the underworld is at peace! Mr. Lin is here, and Hong Kong finally has an incorruptible champion of justice! 302Votes19.3kRecs93.8kFans
- 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 Reborn: Taking Over the County's Internet Celebrity Scene 重生从操盘县城女网红开始 [Internet celebrity + high finance] After working hard for ten years, Lin Lang is financially trapped for life simply because he bought an apartment in Modu. His assets worth tens of millions are tied up, and even the dating scene looks down on him because his parents have no pensions and he isn’t a local. Meanwhile, his old classmates who stayed in the county town, from elementary, middle, and high school, are all living happily with beautiful wives and complete families. Reborn in 2018, Lin La 4Votes66.7kRecs278.5kFans
- 7 Life Game: Signing Up Internet Celebrities, Starting with a Bar 人生游戏：从酒吧开始签网红 Chen Jincheng was reborn in 2018 with a game called Life Management, which was bound to the MCN media company under his name. He started by signing the hottest nightclub DJ goddess of his previous life at a bar. As he continued earning rewards from the game, he signed more and more internet-famous goddesses, gradually becoming the godfather of online influencers. Years later, all he wanted to say was that “never let a good girl down, and never waste a bad girl” was the biggest misunderstanding p 0Votes81kRecs193.7kFans
- 8 Chinese Showbiz: The Top-Tier Star Has No Days Off 华娱：顶流没有假期 After ten years toiling as a financial-sector wage slave, Jiang Bai suddenly returns to 2016. Looking at the noisy, tumultuous world, Jiang Bai grins. Finance? Not even a dog would do that! You shouldn't step into the same river twice! In this life, Jiang Bai plans to dive headfirst into the entertainment industry and see how it tastes! He'll start by becoming a top-tier star in campus dramas! What? You say the entertainment industry is a mess? Could it possibly be messier than finance? Jiang Ba 1.4kVotes41.2kRecs265.4kFans
- 9 From Fully Invested in A-Shares to a Capitalist 从满仓A股开始成为资本 (A high-stakes financial stock-market novel told from the perspective of a speculative trader. There is nothing else like it anywhere online, so do not miss it!) A plane crash meticulously orchestrated by Jewish capital causes Zhang Yang, a manager at Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s top asset-management firms, to unexpectedly return to 2009. That year, the aftershocks of the subprime mortgage crisis had only just subsided, while the global economy and stock markets were poised to su 450Votes160.7kRecs505kFans
- 10 Real History Simulation Game 真实历史模拟游戏 Countless worlds, traversing the heavens! While billions of players struggle to survive within the rules of the game, you stand above the dimensions, surveying the whole board. You arrive in 1990. While everyone else heads south to strike it rich or works as a middleman, you're the only one looking overseas, using kvass to pry open the Soviet Union's aircraft orders. (The Soviet collapse arc is complete.) The Qing dynasty sinks into decline, and colonial wars erupt. While players scramble to pic 119Votes88.9kRecs325.4kFans
- 11 Back to 1995 重返1995 In 1995 America, the internet had only just caught fire, cell phones were still brick-sized, and Hollywood films had yet to enter the age of special effects. The arrival of Song Yang would usher in a whole new era. The media marveled that he was the new Howard Hughes. Just as Hughes had once blazed trails and driven countless people wild, Song Yang went even further than Hughes had, changing an entire era. But when asked about the media's verdict, Song Yang simply replied, “I am who I am. Histor 1Votes75.9kRecs166.7kFans
- 12 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
- 13 Reborn in 2008: Diagnosed as a Medical Authority 重生08，我被确诊为医学泰斗 [A career-focused novel with one heroine, averaging 30,000 paid subscriptions] Reborn in 2008, Jiang He holds medical technology twenty years ahead of its time. That year, the medical community was still helpless against the King of Cancer. Minimally invasive surgery was still considered off-limits in oncology, while genetic screening remained a barren wasteland... From revolutionizing the Whipple procedure and stunning the medical world to developing broad-spectrum anticancer drugs ahead of sch 630Votes144kRecs772.2kFans
- 14 Back to 2006 返回2006 The story of a failed author who goes back to 2006. After that... he stops being a failure! But he still thinks writing novels is a dead end, and keeps wanting to try something else. Then he actually does... 0Votes312.8kRecs206.2kFans
- 15 Reborn as a Financial Tycoon 重生之金融巨头 [The new book Reborn in 2013: Super Technology Empire is out. It's a cutting-edge tech startup story with no System. The protagonist is a genius, and the book has three major arcs: Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe.] In battles of capital fought without bloodshed, plain words can become warriors in steel helmets and armor, while rules mastered by heart can turn into an arsenal of weapons wielded with ease. Who knew a war with neither gunpowder nor cold weapons could be so thrilling… Put 0Votes248.7kRecs387.5kFans
- 16 The All-Around Painter 全能大画家 “He is the highest-paid illustrator of all time, and the reason children fall in love with art!”, The New York Times. “East and West in perfect harmony, drawing on the strengths of many traditions. He is the most brilliant graduate in the two-century history of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts.”, President Martin Köttering. “We have seen countless artists become overnight sensations here... Tonight, another newcomer will join the ranks of these great names.”, Venice International Art Biennale 12Votes213kRecs278.3kFans
- 17 Reborn: The Strongest Tycoon 重生之最强大亨 In 1978, Li Ka-shing was not yet the richest Chinese man. In 1978, Hollywood still had its eight major studios. In 1978, Apple had yet to take a bite from the apple. It was the best of times: technology was poised to take off, and gold was everywhere. It was the worst of times: profit came first, and capital ruled all. It was an age of chaos, when dragons and snakes danced and warlords rose everywhere. The story begins in a small fishing village in Hong Kong in 1978... Born on a rainy day, the f 2Votes526.9kRecs339.6kFans
- 18 Generation Z Artist Z世代艺术家 From Taking Down Public Intellectuals to Conquering the Entertainment Industry A Gen Z online troll born in 2005 is reborn in 1998. He has no rose-tinted view of this era, and it leaves him feeling utterly suffocated. The crude picture quality of TV and films, the eye-searing special effects, costumes like scraps of cloth, makeup that looks like a joke, and a filming philosophy of “good enough is good enough”... Men and women, directors and producers, every last one of them is garbage. The young 1.5kVotes1.3MRecs870.9kFans
- 19 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
- 20 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
- 21 EN Red Heart Patrols the Sky 赤心巡天 The print edition of The Redhearted Path is now available everywhere. In ancient times, the demon race vanished without a trace. In the near-antiquity era, the dragon race disappeared. The age when the divine path flourished has faded like smoke, and the age of flying swords at their peak has finally fallen into decline... What happened to this world? Who will listen to the truth of history buried in the river of time? Across a thousand miles of mountains and rivers, I write of corpses lying low 2.1kVotes8.2MRecs8.1MFans
- 22 EN Lord of Mysteries 诡秘之主 Amid the tide of steam and machinery, who can reach the extraordinary? In the fog of history and darkness, who is whispering? I awoke from the mysteries and opened my eyes to see this world: Guns, cannons, battleships, airships, difference engines; potions, divination, curses, the Hanged Man, Sealed Artifacts... Light still shines, and the mysterious has never left. This is the legend of th 11kVotes37.4MRecs37.6MFans
- 23 Spare Me, Great Lord! 大王饶命 A car accident changes high school student Lu Shu’s life. When the age of spiritual qi revival arrives, he’s determined to lead the way. Survival of the fittest. The victor rules. … 152Votes11.6MRecs5.4MFans
- 24 The Sacred Ruins 圣墟 Rising from ruin, returning from extinction. The seas turn to dust, lightning and thunder fade away, and that wisp of dark mist draws near the earth once more. The shackles of the world are broken, and a brand-new world reveals a mysterious corner of itself... 36Votes32MRecs20.3MFans
