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Not quite what I was expecting. From the summary, my initial thoughts on this story was... well something along the lines of a very mature man making big waves in business? That does happen in the novel, but it’s more like... well *thinkingface* let’s try this again! The main focus of the story is the growth of the MC (Lin Jingzhe). He gets a second chance at life and is directly reborn as an 18yo. At the time, he was still living in a semi-rural area as a high school student aiming to get into college. So the first arc of the novel is him taking on the college entrance exams and getting past his family drama. This part was relatively slow, it takes a bit of time for him to push into business, and most of his moves are the high-risk, almost-gambling type, so it doesn’t have the tone most poor-to-rich novels have (which usually involve putting in a lot of effort to earn capital and slowly working hour way up). He’s in it to earn big, so he doesn’t waste his time and jumps in directly.Because of this premise, the story has a more mature, fast-paced theme. But the writing itself is a bit slow? As mentioned by other reviewers, the author is quite wordy and has a tendency to add info-dumping. I don’t mind this since I love worldbuilding, but it is admittedly a bit of a dry read at times. The romance with the ML (Xiao Chi) who is very similar to the MC when it comes to investments, is a bit more exciting in contrast. But because the TL stopped right when things were getting spicy, I can’t tell whether further developments will be good T.T I’ll warn you now... I was hoping I would be able to read the MTL for this. But it ended up being horrible! Only 60% readable. It’s weird because some parts are very coherent, and other parts just *explosion*. Anyway, I’m a bit hesitant to give this novel a full rating cause I didn’t finish it. I do recommend it to those interested in novels about business management, but it’s unfinished state is definitely a bit of a hot poker most will probably want to avoid so! For now, I’m leaving this unrated and not fully reviewed. Current estimates would have me rating the novel at around 3.75-4/5. Which is slightly better that average for me.