Showbiz Stories With No Romance! The Protagonist Should Have Mental Health Issues, but Not Be on the Brink of Death 娱乐圈，无CP！主角要有心理问题，不是要快嘎了的

1. 1 技 With My Skills Maxed Out, I Became a Top-Tier Star 技能点满后，我成了全能顶流 He Qianyu鹤钤羽Modern Romance2.7M WordsOngoing [System + showbiz + no romance + parallel-world content recreation + ensemble cast] For female readers. The talent show arc is complete, so feel free to dive in. Volume Two, Asian Boy Band, is complete. Volume Three is underway! Content warnings are in the author’s note of Chapter One. There are countless great books on Tomato. If this one isn’t for you, just pick another. Reading is for fun, so if you don’t enjoy this book, I hope you find one you love. In the twentieth year 49.4kReads9.3Score6.8kShelves

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   The main character, He Yuchen, is a retired soldier with injuries and PTSD. His teammates dote on him, and he has a system, but its presence is weak. The story begins with a talent show, and in one chapter, the protagonist's condition is triggered by someone with ulterior motives.

2. 2 万 The Straight Man Everyone Loves Crashes Into a Tragic Romance 万人迷直男闪击虐文 Spicy Strips with Rice辣条泡饭Two Male Leads589k WordsCompleted [Everyone's Favorite, No Romance, More Men Have One-Sided Crushes on Him Than Women, Stunning Beauty, Ridiculously Overpowered Charm, Slow-Paced World Hopping] Xie Shu was an ordinary male college student, a straight man straighter than a steel girder. One rainy afternoon, while saving his younger sister, he was bound to a System that observed angsty romances between scumbag tops and pathetic bottoms. From then on, he embarked on a long and arduous road with no return. 1001: Host, you have only 21.7kReads9.2Score2kShelves

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   The main character has no romantic partner, but many people like him. He's very aloof, but doesn't seem to have any mental illness.

3. 3 文 Showbiz: The System Wants Me to Be a Content Repurposer 文娱：系统让我当个搬运工 Gu Yong咕勇Two Male Leads345k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + System + entertainment industry] People should go to bed and get up early. Otherwise, they might read novels until four in the morning, fall asleep, and wake up in another world, where some thing calling itself a System will force them to keep working in a different world... Whatever. If I'm just a content transporter, then I'll get on with it! 913Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Although it's a dual male lead story, it's really good! "I'm a Madman in the Music Industry with a Music System" Book Synopsis: [Fake Cold, Real Sweetheart Movie Emperor x White-on-the-Skinny, Truly Cold, Madman Singer x Cold-on-the-Outside-but-Secretly-Passionate Handsome Idol] Xu Yi was originally just an ordinary college student. Isolated, he developed a gloomy personality. One day, by accident, he was pushed onto a pedestrian crossing and received a "mud truck license plate teleportation gift package" and his own exclusive music system. 666: Congratulations, host, you've transmigrated! Xu Yi: Oh. 666: ? Xu Yi transmigrated into the body of a talent show idol who was being criticized online because of his script. Upon opening his eyes, he saw himself lying in the bathtub with his wrists cut. Xu Yi: "Why don't you just stay still and wait to die?" 666: "What?!" Later, netizens discovered that this person had changed. From the manipulative and scheming person in the first episode, he had become... A seemingly innocent but actually ruthless and maniacal individual. While everyone was weeping over his sinister nature beneath his white facade, someone else felt even more sorry for Lin: "Don't cry because of my departure. I don't like it." After he left, Xu Yi thought he would completely shut his heart and stop loving, but unexpectedly, a rash person with a flustered smile barged into his world. Luo Yingdi: "Little Yi, be good. Don't go crazy on stage. Let's go home." Xu Yi: "... Okay." [The protagonist follows a musical path, with a grand and sweeping musical style, truly aloof.]

4. 4 我 I’m Fixing Showbiz by Coughing Up Blood 我靠吐血整顿娱乐圈 Deng Qi灯栖Two Male Leads132k WordsCompleted I’m sorry, I don’t know how to write a synopsis! I picked the title at random too, sorry!!! Shi Li’an transmigrated just by taking a nap. He was a model young man who believed in socialism, and all it took was a nap for him to transmigrate! Transmigration was one thing, but he’d ended up as the cannon-fodder “real young master” in a domineering CEO novel. And not only was he cannon fodder, he was a total weakling?! He had no choice but to join a shady variety show. They expected him to push the 926Reads7.5Score114Shelves
5. 5 喂 Hey, I Heard the Best Actor and the King of Songwriting Are Dating! 喂，听说影帝和曲王谈恋爱了！ Yi Bai祎白Two Male Leads499k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + showbiz + talent competition + plagiarist] [A seemingly aloof but truly sweet superstar actor × a deceptively innocent, secretly dark and truly aloof, unhinged singer × a cool-looking, secretly flirtatious idol] Xu Yi was an ordinary college student. Being ostracized had left him gloomy and withdrawn. One day, someone deliberately shoved him into a crosswalk, earning him a free ride from a dump truck. He also got his very own music System, 666. 666: Congratulations, Host! You’v 1.2kReads9.0Score119Shelves
6. 6 娇EN My Darling Wife Takes On Ten With One Punch and Fights His Way Back Into Showbiz 娇娇老婆一拳打十个，杀回娱乐圈 S12 and KouS12与蔻Two Male Leads709k WordsCompleted [Reborn Max-Level Expert + Entertainment Industry + Reality Show Livestream] Tsundere wealthy heir x adorable martial arts powerhouse When Xia Zhiyi first entered the industry, nobody paid him much attention. They thought he was just another pretty boy. Then he went on a reality show livestream... Wait, he can fly?! Wait, wait, that’s martial arts?! Wait, wait, wait, is that for real? Can anyone actually memorize something after seeing it once? Wait, wait, wait, wait, he took down a human-traffi 5.6kReads9.2Score1kShelves
7. 7 我 I Am a Great Entertainer 我是大娱乐家 Not Working Today今天不上班Urban2.4M WordsCompleted When Le Xian reached the pinnacle of the entertainment industry, many people asked him the same question: “Le Xian, how have you managed to reach the top in every field of entertainment? Music, film and television, literature, and so on. Is it really just because you're a genius?” “Of course not. I just spent the time you use to eat studying, the time you use to sleep studying, and the time you use for entertainment studying.” When Le Xian finished speaking, applause broke out below. What he was 2.5kReads8.1Score200Shelves
8. 8 一 After Singing Army’s Green Flower, I Help the Nation Build Its Entertainment Industry 一首军中绿花后，我替国家搞文娱 A Ju Bajie Fell from the Sky天上掉下个居八戒Urban1.8M WordsCompleted Xu Can, the campus heartthrob of the PLA Academy of Arts, took the stage at the military’s retirement performance. For personal reasons, Xu Can had also submitted his retirement application. At this gathering, filled with the sorrow of parting, Xu Can sang “Green Flower in the Army” and brought everyone to tears. After the song was broadcast, its portrayal of soldiers’ resilience and tenderness moved everyone who heard it. The stirring military song “Green Flower in the Army” rang out across the 5.5kReads8.5Score413Shelves

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   Crushing the entertainment industry

9. 9 我 I’m an All-Round Entertainer. Is It Too Much to Have a Few Extra Skills? 我全能艺人，会的多点不过分吧！ Half a Pot of Smoky Gauze半壶烟纱Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Soul transmigration + entertainment industry + all-rounder + System] Gu Hong transmigrates to a parallel world and activates the All-Round Artist Training System. By acting, he can gain the skills of the characters he plays. From then on, he gradually becomes capable of anything, until his talents are exposed on a variety show. Yang Mimi asks in disbelief, “You know how to write songs?” “Just a little!” Liu Tianxian is astonished. “You can pick locks too?” “Just a little!” Bai Lu watches Gu Hon 8.6kReads8.4Score658Shelves
10. 10 离 After My Divorce, I Got Tricked into a Dating Show, and My Ex-Wife Panicked 离婚后，我被坑上恋综，前妻急了 A Chang'an Seeker of Fame and Fortune长安名利客Urban1.4M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + dating reality show + wife-chasing repentance + livestreaming + entertainment industry] “Shen Yu, you have to sign the divorce papers today. I can't just stand by and watch you drag our daughter down with you. You're a hopeless mess, and you don't deserve my precious daughter.” Inside a villa in the Magic City of Huaxia, a middle-aged woman, her face twisted with rage, flung a stack of divorce papers onto the coffee table. A handsome man with exquisitely sculpted features sat 62.5kReads8.1Score6.4kShelves
11. 11 娱 Showbiz: The Birth of a Top-Tier Star 娱乐：顶流的诞生 Rich and Noble Big White Ju富贵大白juUrban902k WordsCompleted For years, Li Lin floated around the entertainment industry as a barely noticed third-tier actor. His unremarkable face meant he was destined to play supporting roles. Countless times, he watched top-tier stars, who were even worse actors than him, become wildly famous, looking on with envy. Then he got another chance at life and saw the face in the mirror. Li Lin: “Now that’s what I’m talking about.” 1.3kReads5.5Score101Shelves
12. 12 直 Livestream: My Videos Shake the Whole World 直播：我的视频，炸穿全世界 Yu Zhilin鱼知临Urban893k WordsCompleted In this parallel world, online entertainment was underdeveloped, and short videos and livestreams were only beginning to take off. Liu Zihan transmigrated to this parallel world and happened to join Mango TV's The King of Creativity as a contestant. Faced with a disastrous start, Liu Zihan defied the odds with explosive livestreams and sensational video ideas, turning his fate around. From contestant on The King of Creativity to top-tier director, he gradually built an entertainment empire of hi 96Reads6.0Score—Shelves
13. 13 四 Siheyuan: Yan Jiekang's Entertainment Career 四合院：阎解旷的文娱生涯 Already Regretting It已经后悔了Male-Channel Fanfiction606k WordsOngoing [Chinese Showbiz] + [World Superstar] + [Super Idol] + [Siheyuan] + [Hong Kong Showbiz] After transmigrating into the world of Siheyuan, he becomes Yan Jiekang, who shares his name with the original. He brings over works from across the entertainment industry and, after Reform and Opening Up, becomes a superstar. 5.1kReads8.2Score247Shelves
14. 14 华 Chinese Entertainment, 2005: Big Honey 华娱2005：大蜜蜜 Dew-Kissed Orange带露水的橙子Urban338k WordsOngoing [One heroine: Da Mimi] [Sweet romance] [Rebirth] [No System] [Realistic] [Slice of life] [Clever leads] Jiang Yichen, Zhang Jizhong’s nephew! Almost forty years old, clipping his toenails, got tetanus, and died! He transmigrates back to the 2005 arts college entrance exam auditions. On the set of The Return of the Condor Heroes, he begins a romance with Da Mimi... Male lead: Singer, actor, director, film and TV production company owner, IT tycoon... Useful tool character: Yang Tianzhen... New au 198Reads6.9Score—Shelves
15. 15 港 Hong Kong Island's Rich Young Master: From the Start, I Take Down Zhou Meiren 港岛富公子，开局爆杀周美人 Not the Old Gull不是旧沙鸥Urban239k WordsOngoing In 1991, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation was swallowed up by a wealthy Hong Kong family. A few days later, at a family gathering: Zhou Huimin: “Yifei, be a good girl and call me Mommy.” Wang Zuxian: “Call me Mommy, Yifei, and I’ll buy you candy.” Li Jiaxin: “Yifei, you can buy whatever you want. I’m your real mom.” Qiu Shuzhen: “Don’t listen to them. I’m your mom.” Su Ye: “Be a good girl and call me Daddy.” It all goes back to 1984! 4Reads6.1Score—Shelves
16. 16 华 Chinese Showbiz: Setting Off with Keep Running! 华娱：从跑男开始出发！ Chen Qilin, Who Loves Qiaoguo爱吃巧果的陈麒麟Urban1.0M WordsCompleted (Urban life + entertainment + five Systems + no transmigration + multiple heroines + heartthrob + all-around entertainer + top-tier star from the start + boy band debut) When one member suddenly left without a word, the reigning top-tier boy band fell apart overnight. Lin Yi was one of its members, and he had no way out and no choice but to return to China and pursue his career there. With that as his starting point, Lin Yi began his comeback journey in a rival boy band, making his way from Chin 3.2kReads6.5Score112Shelves
17. 17 离 You Forced Me to Divorce You. Now That I'm Famous, Why Are You Crying? 离婚你逼的，我火了你哭什么？ Hangover-Healing Meat Soup醒酒的肉汤Urban1.7M WordsOngoing [Entertainment Industry + Period Setting + No System + Taking Down the Showbiz World] In his previous life, Li Qi's wife ran off with a second-tier director to become famous. She did everything she could to ruin their home and force him into a divorce. She angered his mother to death and gave his father a stroke. She even set Li Qi up and had him locked in a psychiatric hospital for more than ten years... Li Qi is reborn on a summer day in 1999. He's 22, both his parents are still alive, and eve 5.8kReads8.2Score292Shelves
18. 18 炸 Entertainment World Rocked! This Heroine Is Seriously Unhinged 炸翻娱乐！这个女主有大病 Ben Zhijie本止戒Two Female Leads765k WordsCompleted [Showbiz + Unhinged Heroine + Secret Identities + No Male Lead + Girls’ Love] Yu Jianing, a patient whose dissociative identities were both a treatment failure and a success, dies after overdosing on medication. When she opens her eyes again, she finds herself in a parallel world, at the auditions for a talent show called Go! Idol! Comment 1: She’s so alluring… She’s not even doing anything… How can she be so… Comment 2: Don’t let her fool you, people above! She’s a bad person! Comment 3: Good t 4.8kReads9.6Score710Shelves
19. 19 娱 Showbiz: I've Written All These Lyrics, So Why Aren't You Singing? 娱乐：我词多了，你们倒是唱啊 Fish Porridge Seeds鱼粥籽Urban262k WordsCompleted He failed to fulfill his dream in his previous life. After Zheng Yi was reborn, he became a singer once again. But people questioned him: “Why does he get half the money when he only sings a few words?” “Can he do anything besides sing ‘yo, yo’ and ‘oh yeah’?” “Linghua’s so unlucky to end up with a freeloader like him!” … Even so, audiences fought to sing along to his lyrics. Zheng Yi smiled. You say I don’t have enough lyrics? Fine, just wait. He brought out new songs like “Under the Sea,” “Map 5.5kReads8.0Score396Shelves

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    Entertainment solo singing novels

20. 20 文 Showbiz: The Bad Songs Really Have Nothing to Do with Me 文娱：歌土真的和我没关系。 Orange Soda橘子气泡水Urban214k WordsCompleted After transmigrating, I planned to lie flat and collect my share of the profits. Instead, I was kicked out of the group and mocked as “Oh Yeah Bro.” Those few lines of lyrics somehow earned him a fifty percent share, but who knew I wrote the song and composed the music? Sure, I borrowed it from a group in my previous life. Well, there's nothing more to say. After going solo, I joined a variety show, and “Under the Sea” burst onto the scene. No one can complain that my lyrics are too short this t 95Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 21 被 After Being Blacklisted, One Song Made Me a Nationwide Sensation! 被封杀后，我一首歌火爆全国！ Fei Wu吠吾Urban2.0M WordsCompleted After the entertainment industry blacklists me, one song gains me ten million followers on Douyin and makes me a nationwide sensation! I become the fastest-growing internet celebrity in history! I take over every major music chart and become the first of my kind in the history of Great Xia’s entertainment industry! 13.5kReads8.8Score790Shelves
22. 22 恋 Dating Show: Why Are You Picking on Him? He’s Deficient in Virtue 恋综：你惹他干嘛？他五行缺德啊 Shui Yexiang水耶香Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Goofy + hilarious + showbiz + variety shows + meme jokes + dating show + straight-talking guy] Chen Yang transmigrated. He landed in the body of a man on the day he was about to be coerced into sleeping with someone for a career opportunity. He thought he was finally about to reach the pinnacle of life, but after seeing the wealthy woman’s face, the teachings of Mencius he’d learned ten years earlier struck him right between the eyes. Wealth cannot corrupt him, poverty cannot make him abandon h 124.9kReads9.0Score14.2kShelves

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    These are a must-read, kid! They're hilarious. I was trying not to laugh while reading them late at night. After reading them, your prison cloth will have a powerful new trick up its sleeve.

23. 23 恋 Dating Show: Ladies, Please Have Some Self-Respect. I'm Just Here for Fun 恋综：姑娘请自重，我就一乐子人 Writing the Seasons执笔绘春秋Urban524k WordsCompleted [Showbiz + Meme Humor + Lighthearted + Livestreaming + Wacky Antics + Variety Show + System] Also known as “Sigma Men Don’t Date” and “Even Dogs Won’t Date, Unless Food and Lodging Are Included!” Su Xun awakens an Emotion System and joins a dating show. As long as he can provoke a strong emotional reaction in someone, he’ll earn a reward. And who could stir people up more than a guy who just wants to have fun? Reba: What’s your declaration of love? Su Xun: The wise don’t fall in love; suckers ma 7.2kReads8.7Score406Shelves
24. 24 恋 Dating Show: I Became a Top-Tier Star by Being Shameless 恋综：缺德的我成为了顶流 Feng Qian Eats Sweet Potatoes风浅吃地瓜Urban1.4M WordsCompleted The short drama adapted from this novel, Dating Show Oddball: The Top-Tier Star Can't Take It Anymore, is now streaming on Tomato! [Absurd comedy] + [Dating Show] + [Ten years of driving experience] Chen Su joined a Dating Show. He thought the director had chosen him for his looks, but it turned out to be because he was weird. From the moment he agreed to join, the whole show descended into chaos. # Guests write down their names to be assigned to teams. The female guest blushes and stammers, "Wh 16.6kReads8.7Score1.2kShelves
25. 25 穿 Book Transmigration: Showbiz Keeps Forgetting My Top-Tier Persona 穿书：娱乐圈总忘记我的极品人设 A Little Bitter in the Sugar糖中带点苦Modern Romance332k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + entertainment industry + variety show + livestream + comedy + unhinged antics + background CP] (An experiment in going off the rails. Makes no sense and is riddled with plot holes. Not recommended.) Office drone Li Shi has the misfortune of transmigrating into a book, into the role of a despicable villainess with a truly awful reputation. A diva, a show-off, vicious, selfish, a terrible actress, a rotten person… “Wow!” What a wicked character. She was only two Dragon 3.7kReads9.2Score464Shelves

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    This one! The female lead and the original owner of the body swap bodies. Although there's a romantic subplot, it appears quite late in the story. The original female lead's male lead is also very nice. The female lead calmly takes control of everyone! Highly recommended!

26. 26 娱 Showbiz: I Play Villains, and They Tell Me to Tone It Down 娱乐：演反派，他们叫我收敛一点 Nanye Wu南野武Urban1.1M WordsCompleted (Anyone interested in adapting this into a short drama can search for From Extra to Movie Star.) Su Han, a background actor working in Hengdian, activates the Villainous Movie Star System. He simulates the villain Feng Yuxiu from the film The Wrath of Vajra. After simulating Feng Yuxiu for three months in the System, he has mastered every aspect of the character's circumstances and feelings, and even acquired his martial arts skills. Before the audition, Director: “Aren't you that hopeless extra 5.1kReads7.9Score359Shelves
27. 27 系 The System Wants Me to Be a Superstar 系统让我当大明星 Xiao Feiyang笑飞扬Urban1.9M WordsCompleted Betrayed by his ex-girlfriend, he embarked on the point-of-no-return road to becoming a national idol. What? The king of the music scene wants me to write him a song? Sorry, I’ve run out of inspiration. What? An award-winning actor wants me to make a movie with him? Sorry, I’ve run out of inspiration. What? An international piano master is begging me to play a piano piece? Sorry, I’ve run out of inspiration. System: “Host, you’re the laziest person I’ve ever had.” Lu Li stretched and put an arm 836Reads8.0Score—Shelves
28. 28 穿 Transmigration: My Wife Is an Idol Singer 穿越：我的老婆是偶像歌手 A Dog Forever on the Road一直流浪的狗Urban2.1M WordsCompleted [Entertainment Industry] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [All-Rounder] [Transmigration] His songs charge through the charts! His movies break box office records time and again! His TV dramas keep breaking the viewership records he himself set. Every time people think he's reached his limit, he proves them wrong. Don't wonder when his inspiration will run dry, because that's impossible! Who is he? He's the all-powerful god of the entertainment industry! 8.6kReads8.1Score693Shelves
29. 29 娱 Showbiz: It All Began When the Heartthrob System Bound Itself to Me by Mistake 娱乐圈：从被男神系统错误绑定开始 Barbecue Made of Wind风做的烧烤Modern Romance243k WordsOngoing Zhou Wei, a young woman born in the 2000s, was unexpectedly bound to a Male God System. The System told her to enter the entertainment industry, become the nation's male idol, and win at life. Zhou Wei: “Hey, System, I'm a girl.” Only then did the System realize it had bound itself to the wrong person. Long hair, definitely a girl. Oh no, what a disaster! It picked the wrong host. There was nothing the System could do. It couldn't find another host, so it had to coax this one into completing 87Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 30 0 0713: The Savior from Another Time 0713，来自时空的救赎者 Lucky Goose r幸运鹅rFemale-Channel Fanfiction1.5M WordsOngoing [System + time travel + mutual salvation + sweet romance + 0713 fanfiction + no romance + showbiz] (Updates are sporadic for now, but there’s already a lot to read. If you’re intrigued, come on in!) Do you have any regrets? Xu Xuan has plenty. But ever since she got 7993, everything has changed... Xu Xuan accidentally binds herself to a System from the future. With the System, she travels through one sub-world after another, making up for the regrets left behind over the years. In 2008 367Reads9.3Score—Shelves

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    0713 is a story about mutual redemption between the brother and sister, but the brother and sister are not a romantic couple.

31. 31 开 From the Start, One Song from the Queen of Pop Sets the Whole Crowd Ablaze 开局一首天后燃爆全场 The Boy from Shicun石村少年Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Short drama: A Song from the Start Sets the Whole Crowd Ablaze] [He’s an all-rounder, an idol, a cultural invasion!] What? You’re a fan of King Guo, Queen Li, and those popular pretty-boy stars? Sorry, but all those people you mentioned are my fans! I’m not your idol, I’m the idol of all your idols! From the start, one song called “Ten Years” takes the entertainment world by storm, stunning the queen of pop and leaving audiences dumbfounded. Singers across the parallel world’s music scene plead 66.4kReads8.9Score4.7kShelves

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    The entertainment industry!! Transmigrating to a parallel world, dumped at the start! A decade-long saga conquers the entertainment industry! Highly recommended for a lifetime of happiness.

32. 32 体 Weight Exchange System: The Fat Man's Comeback Plan 体重兑换系统：胖子逆袭计划 Li Duping李渡平Modern Romance2.7M WordsOngoing [An entertainment-industry story about the protagonist's struggle to make it in show business.] [No slacking off, no meltdowns, no dating shows, no livestreaming. She acts earnestly, works hard on set, and becomes a top-tier star through her skill and body of work.] In her previous life, Shang Ye was an out-and-out comic foil. She stumbled into the entertainment industry, but a congenital illness left her overweight, so all she could do was play chubby nobodies in low-budget comedies. After 15.9kReads8.7Score1.4kShelves

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