In a daze, Su Ruojin was reborn as the eldest daughter of a doctor at the Imperial Academy, an eighth-rank official, in Bianjing, the capital of the Great Yin Dynasty. She watched as her mother gave birth to her younger brother and then her younger brother, and the family of a small civil servant went from struggling to make ends meet to having to borrow money to survive.

A six-year-old boy stands on a small stool to reach the stove, but he worries about where his next meal will come from. How is he going to survive?

Don't be afraid... Don't be afraid...

Living in the mega-city of Bianjing, a prosperous and thriving commercial city, and bringing with me delicacies from a thousand years in the future, how could I possibly starve to death?

Impossible... Absolutely impossible...

The Imperial College, the Three Provinces, the Five Academyes, and the Nine Temples—places where civil servants gather—everyone needs breakfast, so let's start with breakfast stalls. Fried dough sticks and sesame cakes with soy milk, sesame dumplings, eight-treasure porridge—still think we don't have enough variety? Pancakes, scallion pancakes, steamed buns, pan-fried tofu pudding, pocket bread, mutton soup with assortment—let's get started… Searching for cotton quilts and Songjiang cloth… oil mills, taverns, general stores… suppressing rebellions and capturing bandits…

You can't earn enough... you simply can't earn enough...

With a pot in my left hand and a spatula in my right, I've captured the essence of everyday life in the bustling metropolis of Kyoto. Here I come!

Originally a small clerk, I stumbled upon an immortal transcending a tribulation, and was dragged back to the Warring States Period. To survive, I resorted to modern technology, experiencing major historical events. It's impossible to revisit the original history, but to adhere to the records in the history books, I deliberately concealed many things. A chance encounter with a secret manual gradually transformed me into a cultivator. Over the course of millennia, I encountered beauties of all kinds, but without a breakthrough in my cultivation, I vanished into the dust of history...

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Li Zheng was reborn.

Li Zheng, a former researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, honorary professor at Tsinghua University, and head of the National Drug Research Laboratory, died suddenly from staying up all night. When he woke up, he found himself back in a small fishing village in 1982.

With her father missing and her mother running away from home, she was left with only her stepsister, with whom she had no blood relation, to depend on for survival.

Faced with this "hard mode" of life, Li Zheng flashed his standard eight-tooth smile.

No worries, no amount of magic tricks can compare to my brain that almost won the Nobel Prize.

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This is the story of a reborn individual striving to become a self-made millionaire. The writing style is very serious! Really!

1. This is a power-up novel where the male protagonist's goal is to reach for the stars. I can only guarantee that the male lead will appear before chapter 20.

2. This article strives to convey a sense of historical weight, but the author's writing skills are limited. Please do not attempt to draw parallels between historical facts and actual events; we should simply accept this as fact.

3. All pharmaceutical and biological references in this article are simply omitted for brevity, as the author is a humanities major and apologizes for constantly bombarding readers with information.

Mwah! Anyone you like? How about I take you in as a sugar daddy/sugar baby? *blushing*

The story takes place in the fictional Chinese kingdom of Caiyun. According to legend, a young man, aided by the power of the Eight Immortals, founded Caiyun. Consequently, Caiyun's territory was divided into eight provinces: Hongzhou, Huangzhou, Bizhou, Lanzhou, Zizhou, Heizhou, Baizhou, and Chazhou. Approximately 600 years ago, the king of the time ordered the nobles of each province to adopt one of these eight colors as their surnames (for example, the Marquis of Lanzhou became Lan, the Marquis of Hongzhou became Hong, and so on). Commoners were prohibited from sharing surnames with these eight marquises. Consequently, those bearing these eight colors were considered the most aristocratic of the nobles. Furthermore, because the Marquis of Zizhou, where the capital was located, also served as king, the Zi family became the royal family's surname. Despite being born into the prestigious Hong family, Hong Xiuli lived in poverty. She had to work extensively to support her family. Having experienced the turmoil of the throne struggle as a child, she deeply understood the suffering of the people. From a young age, she diligently studied, hoping to pass the imperial examination, become an official, assist the king, and build a prosperous and peaceful nation. However, as a woman, she cannot take the imperial examination. One day, Xiu Li accepts a high-paying commission from Grand Tutor Xiao and enters the harem as a noble concubine to teach and assist the incompetent emperor. This opportunity leads Xiu Li to a career as an official, and she encounters a variety of people.

1873 marked the beginning of the Gilded Age in the United States.

Edward Sinclair, the 7th Marquess of Ashton, arrives in New York from London burdened with his family's enormous debts and an empty title. His bargaining chip is his lineage of Old World nobility; his target is the vast wealth of the New World's bandit aristocracy.

When financial tycoon Jay Cook collapsed, Wall Street closed, and everyone was gripped by panic, Edward, with his timeless memory, saw an opportunity to rebuild the empire.

He moved among Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan; this gilded beggar would use the gold of the New World to recast the crown of the Old World.