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Reborn as an Oil Magnate

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He wakes in the body of a junior petroleum engineer with one impossible advantage: the memory of another life and the hard-earned technical knowledge that came with it. Where others see tired wells and wishful spreadsheets, he sees equations, flow paths, and opportunities—practical tricks and modern techniques that can turn marginal fields into steady profit. Quiet, methodical, and dangerously precise, he sets out to apply what he knows: smarter well placement, profile control, injection strategies, and cost-cutting that looks like miracle work to everyone else. But oil is not a science in a vacuum. Each engineering win drags him into boardrooms of hungry investors, backroom deals with corrupt officials, and rival companies that will steal or sabotage at the first sign of success. As his projects produce more than they should, money and enemies multiply in equal measure. He must learn to be more than an engineer—negotiator, strategist, and sometimes a ruthless operator—to protect his people and his plans. This is a slow-burn tale of industry, ambition, and consequence. Expect detailed oilfield problem-solving and the slow accumulation of power, punctuated by political pressure, corporate intrigue, and the moral price of extracting wealth from the earth. Every well drilled is a step toward an empire—and toward choices that will define the man behind the calculations. THIS IS A WORK OF TRANSLATION NOVEL IS WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR: 想不初
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The Extra: Subject 082

Rio only wanted to see how the story ended. Instead, he woke up inside it. Not as the protagonist, not even as a supporting character—but as someone who barely existed in the narrative. An extra with no importance, no future, and no place in the story’s direction. At least, that’s how it was supposed to be. Now in the body of Rio Valen, a disgraced noble exiled from his own house, he finds himself in a region the original story barely touched—one driven as much by advanced technology as it is by arcane power. And buried beneath it, something far worse. The facility he wakes up in shouldn’t exist. The experiments conducted there shouldn’t have succeeded. And whatever was placed inside him was never meant to survive. As fragments of memory return—both his own and the life he inherited—Rio begins to understand the situation he’s in. The world still follows its original course. The key figures are still moving toward the same future. But his existence doesn’t fit anywhere within it. Even so, people begin to notice him. Not because of who he is—but because of something they can’t quite explain. A presence. A flaw. Or something far more dangerous. Some approach out of curiosity. Others, for reasons he doesn’t understand. And a few, simply because staying away isn’t an option. With no role to follow and no clear path ahead, Rio is left with a simple choice: Stay invisible and survive. Or step into a story that was never meant to include him. Because in a world that already has its main character— an extra that shouldn’t exist might be the only thing that can change it. **The cover used is temperoray, I hold no credits towards the art**
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