An Eighties-Born Beijing Powerhouse, the First Man in Chinese Entertainment
80后京圈大佬，内娱第一人
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- Completed
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- 1.3M Words
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- Urban
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- Urban High-Concept
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- 11mo ago
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- Chinese Showbiz: I'm a Good Director, But I Was Held Hostage by Hype华娱：我是好导演，被流量绑架了Alternate title on Fanqie
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Everyone, Bring Out Your Finest Fiction-Writer Novels
Looking for Showbiz Novels with Plenty of Drama
Entertainment-industry stories with a System, rebirth, or anything else are all fine. I'm not picky, as long as it's set in the entertainment industry.
Share Your Number One Entertainment Industry Novel
Who's the Queen of Showbiz Novels?!!!
No Romance, Showbiz, Male Protagonist
I want to read something similar to Gossip! The Laid-Back Academic Prodigy Rises to Fame in the Front Line. As the title suggests, there should be no romantic partner. It can be set in the entertainment industry or elsewhere, like Zhou Qiqi and Chu Yu. I am also suffering from a bit of a reading drought.
Urban Fiction Is Getting Worse and Worse. Please Recommend a Truly Great Book.
Reborn, Internet, Starting a Business, and Feel-Good Fiction
Looking for books similar to "Reborn: From the Internet to the World's Richest Man". I want feel-good power fantasies, not depressing stories, and they should be over a million words.
Writing-Cheat Stories Focused on Copying Novels and Screenplays, Not Songs
Stories about copying existing works, mainly novels and screenplays. No copying songs, and definitely no switching to acting halfway through.
Chinese Entertainment, Showbiz, Director Story. No Yang Mi, Xiao Nuomi Is Already Eleven This Year
Looking for books similar to "The Fairy Sister's Personal Director". The story should start in 2000 or 2002.
The Entertainment Industry Is Such a Mess. Any Good Novels?
Preferably with Dilraba in it!
Any Chinese Entertainment-industry Stories Set in the Real World, with No Alternate Universe and No System?
The Ultimate Showbiz Novel! One Heroine!
Only recommend one book.
What's Going On with Entertainment Fiction? Looking for Good Reads
Looking for books similar to "The Entertainment Industry’s Number One Sugar Baby". Please recommend something good. Everything else is just the same old plot repeated over and over. If you’re going to repeat things, at least give us something interesting! What’s happened to entertainment-industry novels? They can’t all revolve around Yang Mi and Dilraba Dilmurat...
Entertainment Industry Novels About Actors. Don't Recommend Yang Di Liu, I'm Sick of Them
Looking for the Best Entertainment Industry Novels
I've been reading for over ten years. Please recommend some good books you've come across recently.
Stories About Directors and the Entertainment Industry
Stories that cover the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Looking for Entertainment Industry Stories About Directors, Movies or TV Dramas Are Both Fine
I enjoy patriotic, uplifting stories and official propaganda-style works, such as "The Age of Awakening", "Special Forces: Blade of the Blue Sea", "Wolf Warrior", and "No More Bets".
Looking for Novels Where the Protagonist Directs TV Shows or Variety Programs. Movies Are Fine Too
No actors, please. I've read quite a lot of those and I'm getting tired of them.
Showbiz Novels About Focusing on One’s Career and Acting, Preferably With No Romance or Ambiguity
Either the male or female lead’s perspective is fine. No entertainment-industry veterans like Yang Mi. The productions should preferably be original, and the characters shouldn’t act stupid.
Looking for Books About Becoming a Director
Looking for a book like "Director: I Only Wanted to Make Ends Meet, but Somehow Became a Big Shot". This one is good, not a novice-level story.
Real-Life Entertainment Industry Stories
Urban Fantasy With Great Writing and Worldbuilding, A Smart Plot, and Plenty of Twists
Looking for books similar to I Became a God in My Own Book.
Stories About a Director Who Travels to a Parallel World to Make Movies, TV Shows, and Variety Shows
Any gender is fine
Urban Fantasy and Sweet Romance, Please!
Looking for books like A Complete Guide to Drawing Adorable Comic Characters (Full Color). The heroine should have a golden finger, like mind reading or understanding animal speech. The male lead should be a scheming but doting type, with plenty of satisfying moments and no contrived misunderstandings. Something like The Fake Heiress Solves Cases with Her Animal-Speech Skills and Becomes Everyone’s Beloved.
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Director: I Only Make Bad Movies, Yet I Became a Top-Tier Star
Director, Do Your Extras Get Internship Certificates?
The Strongest Director in Chinese Entertainment
The Poorest Director: I Can Only Make Movies Through Crowdfunding
Chinese Showbiz: From the Start, I Won Venice's Golden Lion for Best Short Film
The Superstar Player in Showbiz: Act Your Age, Female Stars
A New Era of Chinese Showbiz Begins in 1984
Transmigrating to Another World: From Nobody to Legendary Singer
The Director Returns to 1996
Showbiz: My Era as a Director
I Became an Actor at Three, and Dilraba and I Grew Up Together
Showbiz: Why Become a Director When You Could Be a Gangster?
God-Tier Director: The Whole Internet Is Begging for My Next Film
With the System, Becoming a Star Is Inevitable
As a Director, It's Only Natural to Be a Little Multitalented
A Director's Journey Begins in the 1990s
Chinese Entertainment: Starting in 1994 in Beidian's Directing Department
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I hope no one will notice if I secretly give myself a 5-star rating 😏
It's so good! I've read five or six novels about directors making TV shows, and they all seem to want to include every popular TV series and movie, completely disregarding realism and time constraints. But this one is one I genuinely read from beginning to end without skipping any chapters.
I've been following this book. As a female reader, I don't like male leads having harems or anything too exaggerated. This one is quite well-written. Keep it up! I've been following this book, and it's one of the best-written I've read so far. It doesn't have a harem or any overly powerful cheat codes (although it's copied from real-life scripts, etc.), But the story flows very smoothly.
It's rare to find a character so devoted, and it's a new female lead with a fresh perspective—not bad.
I've read 240 chapters so far, which is great so far. Intelligence is online, logic is online, and writing skills are online. I hope the male and female leads live happily ever after. As for the male lead's mother, in my personal opinion, she was never present in his life from birth to adulthood, so without familial affection, there's no real hatred!
It's not bad. I'd seen this book before, but I didn't want to read it after seeing that the female lead was Peng Xiaoran. But actually, after reading it, I found it was alright, not awkward, and readable.
Could the author please have a director make a film adaptation of "The Lost Tomb" with the original cast from beginning to end? That kind of super IP would be amazing!
So far, it looks pretty good. It's quite enjoyable without any messy romantic subplots. All the shows featured so far are ones my child likes. I hope they can make another one like "Zhu Xian: Kite." Keep up the good work, author, and update more often!
At first, I might have felt a little uncomfortable with some of the plot points and wording, but the story was quite interesting. Although there were some plot points that I didn't quite understand, the flaws didn't detract from the overall enjoyment, and I read the whole book in one go. As I got to the middle, it got better and better.
To be honest, this book is quite well-written. Unlike other time-travel novels that are poorly written and completely disregard time constraints and market competition, it doesn't rely on haphazard writing.