Showbiz: The Poorest Top-Tier Star, with the Whole Internet Begging Me to Release a Song

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The entertainment industry's king of overwork, its resident maverick: Cao Zhang has arrived!

Cao Zhang is reborn as a man buried in debt, owing billions. To pay it off, he starts releasing songs, doing voice work, making movies, writing novels, and composing poetry, becoming the entertainment world's king of overwork.

He's a thorn in his peers' sides, the one they hate so much they'd love to skin him alive and eat his bones!

When Cao Zhang has won so many awards as a legendary singer, top voice performer, Best Actor, poetry immortal, and famous director that he can barely hold them all, his fans are amazed to discover that his phone is secondhand, his clothes come from street stalls, and his ride is a shared bicycle.

His fans get mad. “You think a dollar or two is beneath us? Release a song! Make a movie! Publish a new book! We want to buy them!”

Renowned composer Tan Lun says with a bitter smile, “His ‘Dongfeng Po’ taught me what true Chinese-style music is. His ‘Blue and White Porcelain’ showed me the pinnacle of Chinese style. He's a role model for us all.”

Renowned director Chen Kaige says with a bitter smile, “The moment he announced he was making a movie, I knew Director Cao was going to become a box-office juggernaut.”

Renowned writer Jia Jingwen says with a bitter smile, “‘White Deer Plain,’ ‘To Live,’ and ‘Red Sorghum’... The Nobel Prize is richly deserved.”

Renowned science fiction writer Ma Yuantu says with a bitter smile, “I'm not surprised he could write ‘The Three-Body Problem.’ What surprises me is that he hasn't even spared comics.”

Renowned online novelist Lao Ji Chi Xiao Ying gives a rueful smile. “He finally came after us, too. There's no escaping it.”

A voice-book streamer with a million followers pleads, “Grandpa, please leave us a little food to eat!”