Review at chapter 37: MC reincarnated back into himself at age 18, in 2004. He's a wealthy third generation, and knows that his father and uncle will destroy the family business by the time he graduates college, so he convinced his grandfather to let him go to beijing for college instead of a local university. He then begins a hilarious scheme after scheme using the most simple yet underhanded tactics to create businesses. He's both brilliant and a con artist, carefully using every government agency and public institution to support his schemes by calling on their base desires for wealth, recognition, promotion, and sex. Review at chapter 1004: still reading, nice combo of business strategy and sex. Not too much sex with his occasional flings or his stable of wives who live with him. The business plans are good, reasonable, and highly researched for the era. 1000 chapters and it's only March 2008, and the story began mid 2004. Some definite humor in both the situations he gets himself into, and his smart mouth that gets him in trouble.

Chapter 15 review: In this book the MC returned to circa 1912 China as a 6 year old. At age 16 he went to the UK and then America for schooling for 6 years, and also used his future knowledge to build up some wealth. It's now 1928 and he has just returned to his family home in Shanghai. He has plans to build a business empire in a city dominated by foreign powers, and a country about to be invaded by Japan. Writing is ok, but it's not a very gripping story.

Chinese guy reincarnated into a 1989 Japanese bank manager. He immediately starts figuring out how to survive coming economic crash, and uses all kinds of inside knowledge to invest in companies that haven't mortgaged themselves into poverty. Also includes yakuza, and Nuevo rich property development companies and back stabbing corporate drones. Not really my thing.

Not sure how to rate this, the book doesn't actually start until chapter 29 or 30, so skip straight there. I'm unfamiliar with the story it's based on, but it seems to be a cultivation novel. I had been hoping for a novel involving industrialization of the ancient world. Writing is ok, comedy level is mild. Giving it a 3 because I'm not reading farther but someone else might like it.

The raw for this one is pretty awful after chapter 700, and not great prior to that. https://www.piaotia.com/html/7/7125/index.html has a much better raw text. The MC is a movie lover and uses his return back in time and his gifted memory from a future Shanghai to 1988 Los Angeles to enter the movie industry, and later finance and tech industries. MC at age 18 quickly behind banging every hot girl he comes across, from Jennifer Anniston to the Kardashian mom. If movies or lots of sex aren't your things you probably won't like this one. I thought it was written well. The story does an excellent job of examining the movie world of Hollywood and it's economy, 1988-1999, even though the constant box office results get annoying. Edit: Thinking back about this story I suddenly realized that the MC was grooming these young girls, actress and models, even though he didn't sleep with them until they were over 16. So be aware that might be a really big reason not to read this book. It is categorized as Seinen though, so there is some warning.

Throwing at the halfway point, there are some pretty touching scenes in this book, and the background business detail is excruciatingly boring. I like the MC, and I like that he has a memory of future events to help him make money, but seriously, it drags on so much! I'm halfway thru the book and not even 18 months since his rebirth have happened. There have been a few ridiculous things that have happened also. I like the plot, I like the characters, I like the business stuff, but the way each day drags out over multiple chapters hides the fact that his business growth and wealth growth have been ridiculous. I'm going to take a break, If/when I come back I'll leave an additional review.

The beginning of a little difficult as all the names kind of run together as the MC works hard to resolve the immediate family crisis on his return to 1994. The source is not particularly good, with lots of repeated text and weird inserts from other stories. I switched to https://m.hetushu.com/book/67/44590.html to continue reading at book chapter 80, site chapter 93.

I'm not an apple fan, i quite like the term iq tax when applied to Apple products. That said, I've enjoyed this book so far. Yes the details get tedious at times, but it remains enjoyable (at least so far chapter at 219). MC is composed and thoughtful, makes interesting mistakes that the reader can recognize, especially since they are pointed out. Will be interesting to see if his mention of tiktok in 2014 will have an effect when it is released in 2017. Much of the extra description of the process does seem to be the author padding the word count. Author mentions that the summer will be a couple hundred chapters and school will be a couple hundred. I'm hoping the story speeds up soon. Update: Story got even slower. All 447 chapters cover just 30 days. I'm excruciating detail. TLDR: guy goes back in time to a nearly identical universe from 2021 to 2014. His phone, his laptop, and a few hard drives filled with days from the company he worked at go with him. Using his new and improved mental focus, and ability to program he releases three games very quickly because he wants to go to the Apple developer conference. They are wildly successful. Meanwhile he uses archived data that includes the national exam to ace the college exam, gets invited to MIT after making a few patents and releasing a summarizing natural language tool, and making millions of dollars and billions of yuan. Then his fame blows up big, and the story ends abruptly. I've moved out from 4 stars to 2. You might like it, but there's also an annoying thing that chapters have sections that repeat themselves which makes the story even more repetitive.

The early chapter rewrite makes the book much more polished, for those 9 chapters. The rest of it has often inexplicable events. MC basically has been gifted knowledge from an unknown source about biology, but somehow builds artificial intelligence? He creates a super brain serum, and so studies everything to become an expert in everything in just a month. He spends a month locked in his laboratory and comes out to visit all his company executives, then goes home to take a shower for the first time in a month. Maybe that's just a Chinese thing. There has to be better books out there, I'm back to searching again.

Pretty weird book. Seems very fast paced, hard to follow the side plots of rival construction companies. Don't quite understand the system, if buildings don't work when town center is destroyed, how is the blacksmith shop working to refurbish equipment? I'm going to try to find a different book, might come back later.