Any Stories With a Male Lead Who's a Director? I'm Out of Things to Read, and I'd Like No CP 有没有男主是导演的啊，书荒了已经，无cp的
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- 1 A Diamond Company Wants an Ad, but You Film Titanic 钻石公司拍广告，你拍泰坦尼克号 After Chen Xiao transmigrated, he found himself a new hire in his company’s advertising department. His boss told him to shoot a diamond commercial. Chen Xiao had planned to figure out a way to phone it in. But just then, his System activated! Chen Xiao instantly gained master-level directing skills and the complete screenplay for Titanic! The diamond company: We only asked you to make an ad. How did you turn it into the greatest romance film ever?! The Ministry of Culture: We asked you to make 29kReads8.7Score2.6k14d adds
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I Asked You to Make a Romance Movie, So Why Are You Making the Whole Internet Cry? 让你拍恋爱电影，你给全网发刀？
Gu Qing dreams of becoming an internationally renowned director. He transmigrates to a parallel world where the film industry has fallen into decline. He plans to make his mark, only to discover that this world is full of CEO idol dramas, with no good screenwriters or scripts to be found. Fortunately, he won the birth lottery this time: he's rich, very rich. Just as he's about to lie flat, he awakens the System for Revitalizing Great Xia's Film Industry. You all like watching sweet romances,
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Showbiz: A Director's Life 文娱：导演人生
Reborn in 2002, at a time when Chinese-language cinema was just beginning to develop, Lin Xiunan gets a fresh start on his journey as a director. From small-budget films to major productions, from domestic success to overseas markets, Lin Xiunan creates an era of his own.
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Living Off Reba: Spent Her Little Fortune from the Start 吃热芭软饭，开局花光她的小金库
Lin Mo transmigrates and becomes classmates with Reba, a future superstar. From the start, he even talks her into becoming his wife! While his classmates are still struggling to figure out how to shoot their graduation films, Lin Mo invests in Love Is Not Blind, turning it into a box-office dark horse! An investment of 4 million brings in 300 million at the box office! The entire industry is stunned! After that, Lin Mo takes the director's chair and shoots films such as Goodbye Mr. Loser, Dying
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Reborn: Starting by Saving Leslie Cheung 重生之从拯救张国荣开始
In 2003, Chen Zui was reborn. He saved Leslie Cheung and broke into Hong Kong's film and television industry. From screenwriter to director, he used one hit work after another to revive Silver City, while holding fast to his love for his country and his sincere ideals amid the tides of the times. P.S. This is not a wish-fulfillment novel. It is not a wish-fulfillment novel. It is not a wish-fulfillment novel. The pace is extremely slow, and it contains quite a bit of dialogue in Cantonese. If yo
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Showbiz: The Immortal Beauty's Star-Making Plan 华娱之神仙姐姐养成计划
How a reborn great director builds his own entertainment empire, step by step. Movies, TV, music, animation, special effects, and cinema chains: here I come. The Big Three European film festivals, the Oscars, I'm coming for you.
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- 7 Miss Film Queen, Will You Marry Me? 影后，结婚吧 For eight years, whether director Gu Heng and award-winning actress Ye Shu had ever been together remained a favorite topic of gossip. Then reporters finally caught the two of them... Faced with questions, Ye Shu gave them a cool look. “You’re reading too much into it.” Director Gu smiled nonchalantly. “If the award-winning actress says it didn’t happen, then it didn’t.” 5.2kReads8.9Score43614d adds
- 8 Showbiz: From Flop Director to Godfather of Entertainment 娱乐：从烂片导演到文娱教父 [Filmmaking + no System + Showbiz + one heroine + all-around male lead + pop-culture references] Shen Qing was just about to become a director whose films grossed tens of billions when he was reborn. What the hell? He was reborn in a new world. One song, “Just Friends,” made him an online sensation. A record company agent told him, “Why be a director? Come work with me. You'll be the next R&B godfather, a superstar singer.” Shen Qing: “No, no, no. I'm a director.” Asked to make a sci-fi film, he 464Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 9 Who Gets It? A Top Director's Life Is Absolutely Amazing 谁懂啊？大导演的日子爽翻了 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novels. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is my motivation to write, and I will strive to tell every story well! 15kReads7.5Score58314d adds
- 10 The Strongest Screenwriter King 最强编剧之王 [No female lead + slow-burn pacing] This is my first novel, so please forgive me if it's not very good. Lin Moran, a veteran screenwriter who worked himself to death at a drinking table while scrambling for investment and trying to please his clients, transmigrated. The good news: in this world, screenwriters are the ones calling the shots! The bad news: his former teacher had just accused him of plagiarism and had him blacklisted. The good news: this world has no transmigration dramas, rebirth 1.8kReads7.8Score10114d adds
- 11 Director: Turns Out Slacking Off Works Better Than Trying 导演：不是不努力摆烂效果更好 My new book, Game Over, I’m Surrounded by Rich Women, is now being serialized. If you’re interested, check it out. [Livestream + director + slow pace + unconventional + filming live] Xu Wuhen transmigrates to a parallel world. As a director, he’s competing on a show called The Birth of a Film. Twenty directors and a hundred actors are split into twenty teams to compete. All the participating directors are ranked into different tiers. Xu Wuhen is at the very bottom. No reputation, no projects, no 238Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 12 The Ultimate Director Takes the Internet by Storm 最强导演，全网爆红 [Strong Heroine + Showbiz + Reborn + Workplace and Business Competition] [Clear-Eyed Jiang Yunchu VS Noble Young Master Yan Qingshu] In her previous life, she was an actress. In this one, she’s a director, and Jiang Yunchu makes her mark in showbiz. She once portrayed other people’s lives on screen. Now she wants to bring more outstanding works to life behind the camera. The male lead takes a backseat early on, with the romance mainly appearing in the middle and later parts. This is the story of 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Showbiz: A Director Who Knows How to Make You Cry? The Whole Internet Begs Him to Stop! 娱乐：带刀导演？全网求别刀了！ [Variety Shows + System + Classics + Tearjerkers + Livestreaming + Beauties] The National Directors’ Competition is being held in the capital, drawing widespread attention. Host: “Director Ye, people all over the internet say you only make awful commercial movies starring pretty young men to cash in, and that you can’t make anything good. What do you say to that?” Not long afterward, Ye Cheng’s first film premiered, and the whole country went wild. Host: “Director Ye, they say your success this 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Banned from the Start, I Somehow Become a Hollywood Director Worth Tens of Billions 开局被封杀，竟成好莱坞百亿导演 An actor angers a top director from the start and gets blacklisted on the spot! Forced to flee to North America, he unexpectedly awakens a Director System. His films take Hollywood by storm! His faux-documentary horror movie rakes in a fortune and terrifies audiences, stunning the world! He pioneers a whole new kind of viral marketing, and an Eastern director begins to make his mark! Iron Man revives the superhero genre and is hailed as Marvel’s savior. DC begs him to make their movies. The Fast 282Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 15 The God-Tier Director Starts at the Film Festival 神级导演从电影大赛开始 [No heroine] + [Lighthearted] + [Director] What? Another young heartthrob who got over a hundred million in investment has crashed and burned? What? That sci-fi epic costing a billion is a pile of crap? What? Tired of movies that are nothing but flying special effects and the same old formula? Then come join the Film Competition! Contestants will be given the tightest budgets and the most basic equipment. Let’s go back to making the most stirring movies of all time. Mu Yang transmigrates to a pa —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Big Director: My Film Premieres Are Unlike Anyone Else's 大导演：我的电影首映和别人不同 Reporter: “Director Zhao, why do your movies always feel so real?” Zhao Liang grumbled to himself, The System makes me experience everything firsthand. How could it not feel real? But facing the cameras, all he could do was reply helplessly, “Art comes from life. I merely present the misfortunes of real life on screen exactly as they are.” Zhao Liang never promotes his films before their premieres, yet every screening is packed. Experts and scholars from every field, including law, sociology, an —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 A Director's Journey Begins in the 1990s 导演从90年代开始 The dream takes flight. Start by making art-house films, then conquer Europe’s Big Three. First, win the Venice Best Actor award. Then claim the Golden Bear, become the first Chinese director to win Cannes’ top prize, and take home the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. These are both the best of times and the worst of times. The new millennium has ushered in the age of commercial blockbusters. 349Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 18 Making It in Showbiz as Stephen Chow’s Nephew 从星爷侄子闯荡娱乐圈 (An entertainment-industry story with one female lead and no harem. Read with caution.) Starting out as a screenwriter with a little family influence and a golden finger, he rises step by step to become a major figure in the entertainment industry’s film and television world... 2.6kReads8.0Score10914d adds
- 19 EN Reborn: Becoming a Hollywood Tycoon in Ten Years 重生之后，用十年成为好莱坞大亨 [Hollywood + a Chinese person reborn in an American’s body + director story] (Since real celebrities’ names, including homophones, aren’t allowed, they’ve been changed. Readers will have to figure out who’s who for themselves. The author is helpless too, having been sent to the penalty box many times.) A third-rate director in his previous life, he is reborn in the 1990s in the body of a 23-year-old American prodigy director. From then on, titles pile up one after another: Hollywood box office 16.6kReads8.8Score93514d adds
- 20 Showbiz: Director, Stop Filming! I'm Not Getting Enough Nutrition! 娱乐：导演别拍了，营养跟不上！ Movie buff Su Yu, who has watched countless films, transmigrates and discovers he has become a nobody of a newly debuted director. From the start, he pulls out the most explosive movies from his previous life! Reba’s Fast & Furious has no acting? Who told you to watch for the acting? A beauty and a luxury car, now that’s what you call fast and furious! Shishi’s Titanic is too explicit, corrupting public morals? If it corrupts public morals, why did you drive its box office all the way to number 440Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 21 Showbiz: This Director Has a Bigger Heart Than the Ocean 娱乐：这导演心真大，比大海都大 After transmigrating, Lin Ziran joins a reality show and blows up the livestream on its very first day. “Director Lin, if we shoot it this way, won't someone throw paint at us?” Lin Ziran: “It's fine. I'll take responsibility if anything happens. Besides, we're renting the place, so don't worry.” Cameraman: “That's not the problem. We're going to starve to death!” Lin Ziran grins. “No way. Haven't you seen the audience's reactions? They're having a great time laughing. Don't worry, you won't go 11Reads—Score114d adds
- 22 Showbiz: I Started Out as a Film Selection Consultant and Became a Director! 娱乐：从选片顾问开始做导演！ “Director Lin, I really want to get ahead…” Lin Yi was reborn and became Jing Tian's casting consultant from the start. Before long, rumors that he was a kept man were spreading all over the Beijing Film Academy. “I look down on Lin Yi. I'm ashamed to be his classmate. Okay, I can't keep this up. Damn you, Lin Yi!!” “His sugar mommy is actually a gorgeous heiress! I can't take it!!” Lin Yi: “The success of my film career has everything to do with my hard work...” 1.6kReads6.8Score10914d adds
- 23 Showbiz: My Era as a Director 娱乐之我的导演时代 [Entertainment industry, director, genius] Cheng Yang transmigrates into an era when the entertainment industry is at its peak. Here, every kind of art flourishes, there are no shackles, and geniuses can show off their talents to their hearts' content! He starts out as a director. He films the award-winning Nirvana in Fire, the heroine-led Empresses in the Palace, the fiercely patriotic war film Drawing Sword, the incorruptible In the Name of the People, the bold and stylish martial arts film SP 166Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 24 You Asked for a Sitcom, and You Made My Own Swordsman? 让你拍情景喜剧，你拍武林外传？ Lin Ying has been feeling rather frustrated lately. He was at home, eating hot pot and singing. Then, with a pop, he transmigrated. He became a down-and-out director at a TV station. So what if he was a down-and-out director? Taking it easy and collecting a paycheck every day was pretty great. But the beautiful station chief had no idea what had gotten into her. She wanted him to make a sitcom?! There wasn’t enough money, the cast hadn’t been decided, and there was no script. Fortunately, Lin Yi 50Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 As a Top-Tier Star, What’s Wrong with Making a Few Money-Losing Movies? 身为顶流，拍点赔钱电影怎么了 [Modern City + Urban Fantasy + Transmigrate + System + Tycoon + Entertainment Industry] In this world, the entertainment industry is a mess, teeming with internet-famous stars and pretty-boy idols. Li Weiyi, who transmigrates here from a parallel world, becomes a top-tier star and vows to make the biggest box-office flop in history. Here's what Mr. Li Weiyi said in an interview with a special correspondent: A lot of people say I'm the conscience of the film industry, a breath of fresh air among 6Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 26 This Director Really Knows His Stuff 这个导演很会 My new story is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 112Reads—Score—14d adds
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I'm Already Cannes Best Director, and You Still Want Me to Be Reborn? 我都戛纳最佳导演你还让我重生？
[Only female lead: Liu Yifei] Zhou Chen, the “Copy God” of China’s entertainment industry, has never won an award. After twenty years of hard work, he finally wins Best Director at Cannes in 2024, reaching the pinnacle of world cinema! He wakes up drunk after the celebration banquet, only to discover he’s been reborn in 2002, on the day he received his acceptance letter to the acting program at Beijing Film Academy.
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Starting as Ah Zu, This Fairy-Like Beauty Is No Ordinary Girl! 开局阿祖，这个神仙姐姐不一般！
[Transmigrates to 2007 + one female lead + making up for the regrets of the Celestial Maiden + slow-burn realism + conquering Chinese entertainment] He directs and acts, and takes Liu Yifei to new heights! The System is on the male lead, but it feels more like Liu the Celestial Maiden's System! Kicks Huayi and punches Marvel! Best Actor and Best Director at Europe's three major film festivals, plus an Academy Award for Best Picture! TV dramas include My Love from the Star, The Journey of Flower,
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Reborn in America: Giving Hollywood a Little Shock 重生美利坚：给好莱坞亿点小震撼
Also known as: Reborn in America: Giving Hollywood a Little Shock; Hollywood: This Director Is Seriously Fearsome! [Single male lead | classic urban setting + reborn urban wish fulfillment + no System + director + America] “Making movies? I'm just ‘bringing forward’ masterpieces from the future!” Ge Lei, a no-name director from Dongda, was reborn in America in 1994 and discovered that Hollywood was full of opportunities! David Fincher hadn't even written the script for Seven yet? Cameron's s
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- 30 Underground Filmmaker 地下电影人 [1990s + Director’s Journey + Banned from Directing + Art Films + Award-Hunting] Starting out as a director in 1990, I make a career of winning awards and handling publicity. One female lead, multiple supporting actresses... 720Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 31 1980: My Era of Cinema 1980：我的电影时代 Multiple heroines + check-ins + filmmaking + male actor “Art should serve the people.” That’s the original purpose of art, so I love telling stories to the people! One summer, Zhang Hua, a short-form drama director, arrives in an era that feels both strange and familiar~ 2.7kReads6.9Score11314d adds
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Showbiz: After Getting Dumped, I Shocked Everyone with AI Special Effects 文娱：被甩后，我用AI特效震惊
My girlfriend ran off with a rich heir, then teamed up with him to plagiarize my graduation project, ruining my reputation and leaving me a million yuan in debt! The whole internet called me a copycat, and my landlord kicked me out! At the end of my rope, I activated a Super AI System. It can search every masterpiece on Blue Star and generate Hollywood-quality special effects at zero cost! My ex and the rich heir used my stolen work to win an award, then mocked me, saying I'd never recover. I ju
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- 33 You Break Up After the Movie? What Is Wrong with This Director? 电影看完就分手？你这导演有毒吧 Lu Chen transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a minor director, barely known in the industry. Though he has never actually directed a movie, he obtains the God-Tier Screenplay System. The System's welcome package gives him the script for Her Vanished. With this hit script from his previous life in hand, Lu Chen enters a screenplay competition, wins first place, and secures funding. When the movie hits theaters, it becomes an instant sensation. Every woman who watches it is left sobbing. 525Reads8.6Score10314d adds
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Director: Filming Spider-Man From the Start 导演：开局拍摄蜘蛛侠
[Entertainment industry + System + Marvel and DC multiverse + director-focused] [All movie plots are original adaptations. Completed: Spider-Man 1, Batman 1, Spider-Man 2, Superman 1, Iron Man 1, Batman 2. Coming up: The Flash 1, Thor 1.] The System declares Ye Tingfei dead from sudden cardiac arrest, then sends him to a parallel world and binds him to the “Director System, Boss Edition”! [Ding-ding! Newbie mission: Make Spider-Man and earn over 2 billion at the box office. Fail, and you’ll be l
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I Became a Billionaire by Making Dramas That Spread Earth's Culture 我靠拍剧传播地球文化后成首富了
(No CP + feel-good story + transmigration + cultural discontinuity + interstellar + spreading culture + building a career + transmigration) Other people who transmigrated to the interstellar era were either rich heirs or wealthy beyond measure, and attended military or prestigious universities. But Tang Xingning, who had majored in directing, arrived as someone burdened with debt and without a college education. He had debts to pay and three planets to support. In an interstellar era with a cult
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Espionage: I Can Read People’s Inner Thoughts 谍战：我能洞察心声
Chen Yongren, formerly a special operations agent, has his soul transmigrate to the Republican era, where he becomes a minor spy for the Military Statistics Bureau and awakens the Spy King System. Every time he catches a Japanese spy, he gets a chance to draw a prize. He obtains the [Insight] skill: Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated. He can listen at will to the thoughts of everyone within a five-meter radius of himself. He obtains the [Ultimate Actor] skill: In a time
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When the Twining Lotus Blooms: He Waited Six Lifetimes for Me 缠枝莲开：他等了我六辈子
# The Twining Lotus Blooms: He Waited Six Lifetimes for Me Who else is obsessed? Six reincarnations + intangible cultural heritage dyeing + suspenseful adventures. This book is absolutely phenomenal! A documentary director travels to Yunnan and Southeast Asia to film traditional dyeing techniques, only to stumble upon a secret society’s treasure hunt and find herself drawn to an inheritor of this intangible cultural heritage! [So Sweet You’ll Squeal]: He searches for her across six lifetimes. Hi
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- 38 Back to Hong Kong Island in 1978 with a Movie and TV Effects System 带着影视特效系统回1978港岛 Also known as Special Effects System Dominates the World of Entertainment, 1978. In 1978, I bought the Hong Kong television station CTV. They wanted to air educational programs, so people thought they’d lose money? I have a film and television special effects System, and making effects costs nothing. How could I lose money? A Chinese Ghost Story. Transformers. Jurassic Park. How could I possibly lose money? In 1979, I bought MGM. As for mainland China, I’ll open a Lanxiang technical school, buil 353Reads—Score—14d adds
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A Golden Age of Light and Shadow: Me and the Celestial Beauty 光影年华，我与天仙
The first 80 chapters have been completely rewritten, with bugs fixed. Sixteen-year-old male lead Wang Yan goes to study in the United States and boards with a family in New York. He gets to know his ten-year-old neighbor, Liu Yifei (Crystal Liu), and her mother, Liu Xiaoli. He shows a mature mind and a clear plan for the future, advantages granted by being reborn and having foreknowledge. In his spare time, he studies films and the stock market. He quickly builds up capital and decides to shoot
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The Director of an Era in Chinese Entertainment 华娱之时代的导演
[Showbiz + Director + Multiple Heroines + Farming] Reborn into an era when the film and television industry is booming, he becomes a director, starts a company, and builds an empire. Making money is easy, but raising his social standing to match his wealth is another matter. Situ Weijie has enjoyed smooth sailing all the way. See how he makes the entertainment industry his playground. Since he's come to this era, he's determined to make a name for himself and ensure his journey wasn't in vain.
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