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Becoming a Billion-Dollar Female Director Starts with Filming Cheesy Short Dramas 成为百亿女导从拍土味短剧开始
[Transmigrate + Entertainment Industry + Copycat Author + Female-Oriented + Director + No CP + Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Ying Jia transmigrates to a parallel world with a hundred-billion-yuan movie System and sets her sights on becoming the first female director to join the hundred-billion box-office club. But the damn System only gives her scripts, not money. She gets a movie script, but has no way to pay for production! Ying Jia slaps her forehead. Then she’ll make some cheesy short dramas to e
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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
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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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After Failing to Break Through to Nascent Soul, I Pursue Immortality 突破元婴失败，我追求天仙
Entertainment Industry One Female Lead: Liu Yifei (If you don’t like it, don’t read) (No romantic entanglements, one person for life.) In 2002, Zhang Mianqing was reborn. “When other people are reborn, they rush to change the world. When he was reborn, all he wanted was to keep the starlight in her eyes shining forever.” “From their carefree youth to the pinnacle of cinema, they walked hand in hand, and together they were the perfect script.” Actor, director, award-winning actor, regular on th
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- 55 Back in 1977, I Married the Queen of the Daughters' Kingdom 回到1977年，娶了女儿国国王 Ji Yuning transmigrated back to 1977. He went from being a 21-year-old educated youth returning to the city to a literary young man, a great poet, and a famous novelist. It was all thanks to his memories of his previous life and the books he copied. But his greatest reward was marrying a wife as beautiful as a fairy. 11.7kReads8.0Score759Shelves
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Showbiz: I Reveal I'm Reborn from the Start 娱乐：开局自爆重生者
[System] + [Cultivation] + [multiple transmigrations] + [celebrities] [~~~Reborn alongside five female celebrities~~~] Meng Ziyi: “How about we take him back and interrogate him?” Zhao Liying: “Confess and you'll be treated leniently. Resist and you'll be punished severely.” Zhou Ye: “So you like playing games where you raise someone, huh?” Jiang Peiyao: “Am I really that unpopular?” Bai Lu: “I want to know how that skill-sharing thing works.” Liu Yifei, Liu Shishi, Yang Mi, Dilraba, and Fan Xia
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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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- 58 Who Sent Him to Hollywood? 谁让他去好莱坞的 Han Weiping graduated from the directing program at the Central Academy of Drama. He’d dreamed of becoming a director since childhood, but after graduation, he couldn’t find work in Hengdian and ended up as a Sanhe drifter, living in internet cafes and scraping by on day jobs. Desperate about his life, he one day transmigrated into the body of a Chinese American student at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television in mid-1990s Los Angeles. “No System? Just an incredible memory of the movies 18Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 59 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 好莱坞往事 He is Hollywood’s box-office cure-all. Every movie he stars in sparks a global rush to the theaters, and studios gladly spend a fortune to get him. He is the directors’ muse. His distinctive style and masterful interpretations of his roles have made him a regular during awards season and prompted countless renowned directors to compete for the chance to work with him. Defiant and unconventional, he once clashed over musical vision with the Rolling Stones’ lead singer backstage at the Golden Glob 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 A Chinese Entertainment Director: Starting with Goodbye Mr. Loser 华娱大导，从拍夏洛特烦恼开始 Lin Zhou transmigrated into a parallel world. Everything here was the same as before, except that none of the movies and TV shows from his old world existed. Shen Teng was still doing comedy sketches, Ma Li hadn’t made it big, and the masterpiece Goodbye Mr. Loser didn’t exist! With only two thousand yuan in his pocket, he dug up a script and went looking for investors, enduring accusations that an amateur was messing around. The financiers laughed at his delusions, and even Shen Teng’s team had 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 King of Comedy? More Like a Shameless God! 喜剧之王？这就是一个贱神！ A nobody transmigrates into the body of Zhen Jian, a disgraced celebrity in a parallel world. After binding himself to the All-Heavens Jerk God System, he discovers that Daxia here is even more… politically correct than the one he came from. Many hilarious works simply don’t exist here. “Collect public hatred, contempt, resentment, and other negative emotions to earn rewards?” And so Zhen Jian begins his career as a troublemaking Jerk God. On the singing show The Sound of Heaven, the other singe —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Reborn in Hong Kong: I Became the King of Directors 重生港岛：我成为导演之王
He transmigrated to Hong Kong Island in 1990, in a parallel world much like Earth. The same chaos, the same darkness, and just as many talented people! But here, there is no Young and Dangerous, no A Better Tomorrow, no Infernal Affairs, and certainly no Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This is the worst of times, and the best of times. It is also the golden age of Hong Kong cinema. Chen Mo: a name the world would remember. He set out from Hong Kong Island and showed the whole world what Chinese
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- 63 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 16.7kReads8.8Score954Shelves
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I'm a Succubus, and You Want Me on a Dating Show? 我一魅魔，你让我参加恋综？
[Lighthearted Daily Life + Dating Show + Comedy and Absurdity + Livestreaming + Entertainment] Su Yuan awakens his memories and discovers that he's become an individual trainee who's been practicing for two and a half years. That morning, the fat director demands that he keep her company… Then that afternoon, Su Yuan is blacklisted and saddled with a 500,000 yuan breach-of-contract penalty. Feeling down, he goes to a bar to drown his sorrows. But who should strike up a conversation with h
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Chinese Entertainment: I Transmigrated to 2002 华娱，从穿越到2002开始
A first-time author writing a book for the first time. Chinese entertainment industry setting, with Liu Yifei as the sole female lead. Harem fans, this one isn't for you. I hope you enjoy it. Your support keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Showbiz: I Can Increase the Odds of Success 文娱：我能增加成功率
(The rating is low because it just came out.) He woke from a nap to find the world had changed. Lu Yao was a film and TV content creator in 2025, spending late nights editing commentary videos. He never expected to wake up as a ten-year-old child in 1985, when the country was just getting back on its feet. Well, the chubby guy is four now, the pretty one is six, and the future megastar Yang Mi won't be born for another year, while Liu Yifei won't arrive for another two… Did he come a little too
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- 67 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. 5.9kReads6.1Score237Shelves
- 68 Godfather of the Entertainment Industry 娱乐圈教父 A down-and-out keyboardist breathes his last in a hospital bed. From playing accompaniment in dance halls at sixteen to scraping by in Sanlitun at thirty-two, he'd tasted every sweetness and hardship life had to offer. When he opens his eyes, he's back in Northeast China in 2002. His young body houses a heart weathered by life's vicissitudes, along with classic melodies that shouldn't exist until the future. No System or cheat ability, just a lifetime's worth of musical talent and experience. In 51.2kReads9.2Score5.1kShelves
- 69 Reborn as an Entertainment Master 重生之娱乐宗师 After transmigrating to a parallel world with a highly developed entertainment industry, Xiao Yunhai made a name for himself with the knowledge he retained from his previous life. Music, screenwriting, literature, martial arts: there was nothing he couldn’t do. He became a true master of the entertainment world. 11.1kReads8.7Score873Shelves
- 70 I Asked You to Play an Extra, and You Won Every Best Actor Award 让你跑龙套，你拿下影帝大满贯 [Showbiz + Antics System + Unstoppable rise + No clowns + Taking over the global film industry] An accident sends Chen Sheng reborn to Hong Kong Island in the 1990s. After watching Ke Dadan leap over the Great Wall, Chen Sheng awakens the “Extreme Antics” System. “Walking a tightrope between the Twin Towers” and “jumping the Yellow River in a car.” Chen Sheng shocks the world with his stunts. Titanic, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Avengers... The movies Chen Sheng makes crush Hollywood time and 4.7kReads7.2Score259Shelves
- 71 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 449Reads6.3Score—Shelves
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Chinese Showbiz: A Lifetime as a Top-Tier Star 华娱：一世顶流
Yun Jie thought his first half of life had been a joke. He had spent seven years in the Magic City chasing his dream of becoming a musician, only to end up back in his hometown as a music teacher, getting his brain fried every day by the piano racket made by a bunch of little brats. Who could have guessed that he would wake up and find himself back in 2008! That was before capital had entered the game and before traffic stars had risen. Opportunities were everywhere. The songs from my past life?
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Showbiz: Auntie, I Really Can’t Marry the Celestial Beauty 文娱：阿姨，我真不能和天仙结婚
[Reborn + Chinese Entertainment + Director + Liu Yifei + One Female Lead + Lighthearted + Sweet Romance] Reborn in 2008, I get cornered at my door by the fairy’s mom, who immediately tells me to marry her daughter. Are you kidding me? Auntie, I’m a respectable man. Besides, marrying her won’t save the fairy, but I can. System: There are no rewards for remaking domestic films. This System really sucks. What? Adapt a foreign film for a Chinese audience and the System rewards you with: James Camero
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The Reborn Ice-Cold Campus Belle Is Relentlessly Pursuing Me 高冷校花重生了，疯狂倒追我
[Lighthearted daily life]+ [One heroine]+ [Sweet romance]+ [No System]+ [Mutual healing] … In a car accident, Lin Ran bravely risks his life to save his former high school deskmate, the school belle. When he wakes up reborn, Lin Ran is back in his high school classroom at eighteen. The next second, the school belle beside him rushes over with tear-filled, red eyes and hugs him tightly! School belle, choking back tears: “I found you!” Lin Ran: “?” … It turns out his school-belle deskmate has been
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- 75 Max-Level Director: Surrounded by Actresses 满级导演：我被女明星包围了 [Multiple heroines + director story + mostly slice of life] In 2008, film-directing student Xiao Ran becomes bound to a “movie and TV transfer System.” Whenever he brings works from a parallel world into this one, he receives rewards from the System. And so, a genius director hailed by the media is born. He sweeps up awards and breaks record after record... As he grows more successful, more and more actresses begin appearing by his side... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Reborn in 1996: The Genius Director Who Steals Every Opportunity 重生96：天才导演，到处截胡 [System] [Director] [Multiple heroines] Ye Kai returns to 1996 on a different timeline. With the System’s help, he embarks on a path to becoming a world-famous director. Watch as he makes his own way, step by step, in this timeline. 12.5kReads6.6Score627Shelves
- 77 Showbiz: I'm a Top Director 娱乐：我是大导演 [Director story] + [multiple female leads] + [multiple female leads] + [multiple female leads]. The important things are said three times!!! A web-series director gets incredibly lucky, runs into a major opportunity, and returns to 2004. He... There’s a System, but it doesn’t affect the plot. It’s dropped outright after fifty chapters. 1Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 78 After Being Blacklisted by China's Entertainment Industry, I Became a Hollywood Director 被内娱封杀后，我成了好莱坞大导 After offending Huayi Brothers, the entertainment industry's reigning powerhouse, rookie director Fang Yuan was blacklisted across the board. Faced with a disastrous start, he had no intention of toughing it out. Instead, he went to Hollywood and casually made a film called Saw. With a budget of one million, it raked in over a hundred million dollars at the global box office! When the news reached China, everyone was stunned. Who was Fang Yuan? Why had nobody ever heard of him? Countless netizen 19.4kReads6.8Score1kShelves
- 79 Showbiz: One Low-Budget Movie Takes the World by Storm 娱乐：一部小成本电影，席卷全球 [Entertainment Industry] [System] [Super Satisfying Story] “500,000 yuan to make a movie? You’d be better off begging for alms!” Ye Feng worked himself to the bone all his life. Just before he died, he finally achieved enlightenment at Longchang, grasping the secret to success. After transmigrating to a parallel world, he awakens the Enlightenment System. With his learning ability maxed out, he starts making movies on a shoestring budget and betting big. And so, he begins a series of crazy moves 1.9kReads6.7Score103Shelves
- 80 A Path in Cultural Communication Starting at Beijing Film Academy 从北电开始的文传之路 [Chinese Showbiz] [Media] [No System] [Multiple heroines] Taking it one step at a time, growing bigger and stronger, and reaching new heights! This isn't an entertainment novel in the usual sense. Not in the usual sense. Not in the usual sense. Or you could say it's a reborn urban novel dressed up as a showbiz story. Readers who enjoy fast-paced, easy reading should proceed with cauti 28.6kReads8.3Score1.7kShelves
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Showbiz: My Dad Is a Movie Emperor 娱乐：我爹是影帝
Zhang Yu has barely made a name for himself when he transmigrates. Talk about rotten luck. Transmigration would be bad enough, but then he discovers that his biological father is a movie star. Before he can even celebrate, he finds out that his father abandoned his wife and child. And he... is the one who was abandoned. Whatever. He doesn't care about being a movie star's son. All he wants is to promote entertainment from another world and earn a little money for retirement along the way. Entert
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Steady Happiness in K-Pop 韩娱稳稳的幸福
The story of Shirley and her husband! Kim Ji Woo is a small-time director who unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a small-time owner at a Korean entertainment agency! I don't think the pacing will be very fast! I haven't figured out how to write it yet! I'll just see where it goes! If nobody reads it, I'll read it myself, haha!
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- 83 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 319Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Variety Show Director Reboots the Original Running Man and Crushes the Traffic Stars 综艺大导演重启初代跑男吊打流量
Welcome home! To all the fans of the original Running Man crew Variety show + original Running Man + entertainment industry + celebrities + director + daily life + System + reality show The original seven-member Running Man team reunites Everyone thinks it will be the veterans' farewell performance! Unlimited funds: rebooting the original Running Man to crush the entertainment industry’s traffic-driven idols!
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This Actor Plays by His Own Rules 这个演员路子野
A reborn story set in the Chinese entertainment industry. After being reborn, the male lead, Li Mufu, has no idea that he is gradually turning into a monster. Only after becoming a megastar does he discover his true form. When that time comes, what should he choose? Become a traditional monster that eats people, or a traditional scumbag in the entertainment industry?
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Chinese Entertainment: The International Mega-Director 华娱之国际大导演
(This book's completion rate was too low, so I've switched to a new one: Showbiz: From the Start, Making Titanic in Hollywood. Thanks to all the readers for your support.) In his previous life, Chen Le graduated from the directing department at Beijing Film Academy, spent twenty years languishing on film sets, and ended up as an ill-fated director of short dramas. Reborn in 2003 with his memories from his previous life, he remembers the plots of all the movies he watched back then. He'll win ove
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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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Long Live the Director! 导演万岁
A veteran director from 2025 unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Qian Yue, a student who has just taken the college entrance exam in 2001. As it happens, this Qian Yue has already applied to the directing program at the Beijing Film Academy. Given a second life, Qian Yue's goal is to rapidly amass capital and become a top tycoon. He will direct films that sweep both awards and box office, become the hottest director around, and have countless beautiful actresses pining for him.
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The Helmsman of an Entertainment Empire 娱乐帝国掌舵者
[Reborn in 1996: From Washed-Up Director to the Crown Prince of Beijing’s Elite] When Lin Wangshu, a washed-up 40-year-old director, finishes singing “The Wind Is Rising” at a bar, the gears of fate turn backward, sending him to the new-student welcome stage at Yanjing Film Academy in 1996. This time, he is no longer a poor student nobody cares about. His mother, a real estate tycoon, gives him a wealth of resources, while his father, the head of the Public Security Department, offers him a powe
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Showbiz Queen: Starting with Liu Yifei's Rebirth 华娱女王：从刘奕菲重生开始
In 2025, international movie star Liu Yifei unexpectedly died just as she received a lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival. When she opened her eyes again, she was back in 2002, in a 15-year-old body with the soul of a 38-year-old. Her mother had already arranged for her to study acting at the Beijing Film Academy. “Mom, I want to apply to the directing department.” From then on, the entertainment industry had one fewer idol known for her pure image and one more young director w
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Returning Home, the Top-Tier Star Makes His Debut on Running Man 归国顶流从跑男出道
In 2016, the Chinese entertainment industry enters the age of mega-stars. The Four Big and Three Small are at the height of their popularity, while actresses compete to shine. Lin Yun, who left South Korea after terminating her contract, will carve out a path to success through the nationally beloved variety show Keep Running and completely reshape the celebrity landscape...
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- 92 Showbiz: My Story with the Celestial Beauty 华娱我和天仙的故事 A string of Five Emperors Coins hangs beneath the eaves of the shabby Maoshan temple. The characters on the coins face inward and their faces point upward. The thin cord threaded through them has worn smooth and shiny, as if it might snap at any moment. Much like the dilapidated temple itself, most of the walls have collapsed and the door hangs crooked. The whole courtyard is so overgrown that wild rabbits could run through it. These days, only one young Daoist priest remains to keep watch. “Cre —Reads—Score1.3kShelves
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