Looking for Novels Where the Protagonist Joins a Screenwriting Competition or Something Similar. Preferably Longer 主角参加编剧大赛之类的。字数最好多一点
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I Asked You to Write About Gourds, So What's with These Calabash Brothers? 让你写葫芦,葫芦娃是什么鬼?
[Parallel world] + [screenwriter] + [mindless fun] In 2026, China welcomed the first person to win both an Oscar for screenwriting and the Nobel Prize in Literature. I made an indelible contribution to that. Because I was born 24 years ago. Du Bai, a screenwriter from another world who had never made it past the bottom tier. For the preliminary round of the national screenwriting competition, he submitted the script for "Calabash Brothers". Guo Jingming sneered. “That’s outdated!” Countless peo
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I Only Write Nursery Rhymes? Just Try Singing Them 我只会写儿歌?我怕你唱不了
[Transmigration + no System + lighthearted + power fantasy + the kind of story that tricks you into wanting a daughter] Lin Yan transmigrates to a parallel world and, as soon as he wakes up, a little three-year-old girl with a face like a doll calls him Daddy. He goes on to write classic children's songs such as “Two Tigers” and “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” From that day on, the entire entertainment industry is turned upside down by a songwriter who writes children's songs. [Found a studio]
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Living with Cancer, I Kiss the World with Song 身患癌症,以歌痛吻世界
[Entertainment + Singing + Sickly Hero + Healing + Tearjerker + Positive Energy + Redemption] Bai Chen transmigrates to a parallel world, only to discover that he has cancer and needs a huge sum of money for treatment. A singing contest hosted by pdd is underway, drawing a massive audience and offering a huge cash prize! So Bai Chen joins to earn money for his medical bills. In the preliminaries, Bai Chen sings “Under the Sea,” and the entire livestream falls silent, lost in thought. In the knoc
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I Asked You to Write a Forest, So Why Did You Write a Dark Forest? 让你写森林,你写黑暗森林?
Film and television enthusiast Su Yi accidentally arrives at the venue of a parallel-world screenplay competition. Unable to figure out what’s going on, Su Yi somehow enters the first round. The assigned screenplay topic is: Teachers! The only requirement is that the screenplay promote positive values! Su Yi just wants to go home and be a shut-in, so he casually writes a screenplay for Breaking Bad. I’ve strayed this far from the topic. I’m bound to be eliminated, right? … Director: This screenp
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I Asked You to Write a Sweet Romance, So Why Are You Making the Audience Suffer? 让你写甜蜜爱,你给观众喂刀子?
Ye Qi wakes up to discover he has transmigrated into a parallel world with a barren entertainment industry, where he is participating in a screenwriting program. The program calls for scripts about reincarnation and the great love of humanity. While everyone else is racking their brains for ideas, Ye Qi has already quietly pulled out Chinese Paladin 3. Yuzhou, Mount Shu, the Well of Gods and Demons… Jingtian, Xu Changqing, Chong Lou, Xue Jian, Long Kui, Zi Xuan… Jingtian’s tangled fates across t
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You Were Told to Write About Unity, So You Wrote Armor Hero on the Spot 让你写团结,你现场写铠甲勇士
[Entertainment industry + urban fantasy + screenwriter + live streaming] Su Yiran opens his eyes to find himself at a screenwriting competition in a parallel world. The theme “Unity” looms before him like a mountain, leaving him completely at a loss. Just as Su Yiran is overwhelmed with anxiety, memories from his previous life flash through his mind. To his delight, he discovers that Armor Hero doesn’t exist in this world yet. An idea strikes, and he writes down the title of his work, setting of
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Screenwriting Contest: The Movie Plagiarist 编剧大赛:电影文抄公
[Livestreaming + movies + satisfying read + no heroine + no System + not mindless] Lin Ye, a hardcore movie and TV fan, transmigrates into a parallel world and finds himself competing in the Longguo Best Screenplay writing contest. Contestants have to write a screenplay based on a prompt from the show! The first prompt: [Perseverance] Other contestants either get their families to help them produce two and a half years' worth of work, The Legend of the Gods, or use their exceptional talent to wr
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I Asked You to Write a Heroic Tale, and You Wrote Nezha: The Demon Child 让你写成见,你写魔童哪吒
The National Destiny Battlefield has arrived. Contestants from each country can exchange for props from that country's film and television works. Other countries have rich mythological traditions, while Dragon Nation has nothing but clichéd xianxia romance dramas with painfully low power levels. To strengthen the nation's destiny and foster more outstanding creators, Dragon Nation's government holds a national creator competition, with topics announced on-site and films and television works crea
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I Asked You to Write About Fatherly Love, So Why Is the Protagonist Pulling Off the Perfect Crime? 让你写父爱,主角上演完美犯罪?
[No Female Lead] [No System] [Analyzing Movie Plots] In a daze, Lin Luo discovers that he has gained a set of memories from a parallel universe. He is also taking part in a creative variety show called the [National Young Screenwriters Competition]! Contestants must create a work based on a prompt from the judges! The first theme is fatherly love. All the other contestants are writing My Chairman Father. But Lin Luo writes Sheared. They’re writing about fatherly love, Lin Luo! What are you doing
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You Were Supposed to Write a Comedy, So Why Did You Make Everyone Cry? 让你写喜剧,你怎么把人都写哭了
Jiang Lu transmigrated into a parallel world and discovered he was in the middle of a live-streamed creative competition. Contestants had to create something on the spot based on a theme randomly drawn by the judges. When the judges announced that the theme was [comedy], the other contestants got to work. Some crafted comedic plots with biting social satire, while others created a cheerful, harmonious atmosphere through stories of young people pursuing their dreams. Without hesitation, Jiang
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Foreshadowing: The Screenwriter’s a Sneaky Trickster, and Every Scene Is a Trap 伏笔:编剧个老六,到处都是坑
The ringing in his ears faded. Lin Qi realized he had transmigrated, and was currently competing in a screenwriting variety show, the National Young Screenwriters’ Innovation Contest! Contestants had to write a script based on a prompt drawn by the judges. The first theme was “Get Rich.” While the other contestants wrote about winning the lottery, finding diamonds, or helping an old lady cross the street, Lin Qi went straight for Hello Mr. Billionaire. From the start, the protagonist inherited t
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I Asked You to Write an Iconic Scene, and You Wrote the Nine Princes’ Succession Struggle 让你写名场面,你写九子夺嫡
On the set of the show The Screenwriter's Son Top 16 elimination round Faced with the keyword "iconic scene," Xia Fan quietly wrote down four characters: "Nine Princes' Succession Struggle"... The audience laughed in confusion, until a voice that pierced their hearts rang out. Everyone fell silent. "The pear blossoms in the courtyard have faded for another year; beneath the clear night sky, moonlight spills across the empty steps..." "We all heard it clearly: the throne is to be passed to the Fo
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I Asked You to Write a Comeback Story, Why Does It Start with a Bowl? 让你写逆袭,你写开局一个碗?
He Chuan wakes up to discover that he has transmigrated, and that he is taking part in a global writing competition. Contestants from around the world must write stories based on a given prompt. The prompt from the show’s producers is “Underdog’s Rise.” Everyone is writing about a loser marrying a beautiful heiress or becoming a financial tycoon through entrepreneurship. After much thought, He Chuan decides to write the ultimate underdog story. That’s the one: the story of a beggar who became em
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I Asked You to Write Kung Fu, and You Wrote an Absurdist Comedy? 让你写功夫,你写无厘头电影?
Jiang Feng transmigrated to a parallel world and arrived at the Comedy Screenwriting Competition, where he activated the System. While everyone else was writing one-liners, skits, and holiday comedies, he went straight for absurdist humor. The audience laughed at him: “Did you escape from a mental hospital?” But as one screenplay after another came out, including Kung Fu, A Chinese Odyssey, and King of Comedy, everyone fell silent. “I guessed the beginning, but I didn't guess the ending.” “Do yo
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I Asked You to Write a Romance, So Why Did You Write Fox Spirit Matchmaker? 让你写恋爱,你写狐妖小红娘
Qin Feng opens his eyes and finds himself transmigrated to the set of the National Young Writers’ Competition. Contestants have to write based on a given prompt. This round’s prompt: Love. While everyone else is still writing about domineering CEOs falling for ordinary girls and men chasing their exes after losing them, Qin Feng takes a different approach, determined to give this world a shock. He immediately starts writing Fox Spirit Matchmaker. At first, the audience thinks it’s just a funny l
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Director, Stop Making Me Suffer! I’ve Learned My Lesson, Please Let Me Go! 导演别刀了,已老实求放过!
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
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Who Let Him Enter the Horror-Themed Screenwriting Contest! 谁让他参加恐怖主题编剧大赛的!
(I only write horror movies. If you have any favorites or classic horror films you think are worth watching, leave a comment. The author will pick some to write about.) Lu Chen loved turning off the lights at midnight to watch horror movies. Then one day, he woke up to find himself transmigrated to the set of a parallel world's National Horror-Themed Screenwriting Competition. The first theme was horror comedy. While the other contestants racked their brains trying to combine two seemingly incom
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You Asked Me to Write About Collective Struggle, So Why Did I Write About Tazhai? 让你写集体奋斗,你写塔寨?
Li Yuan transmigrates to a parallel world and discovers that he's taking part in a screenwriting competition in place of the original owner of his body! He knows absolutely nothing about screenwriting and is just about to withdraw when he awakens the King of Screenwriting System. As long as he uses his scripts to harvest the audience's emotional points, he can earn rewards. With this, Li Yuan begins to shine onstage. The theme of the first round is “Collective Prosperity.” While all the other co
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I Asked You to Write About Starting a Business, Not About the Heavens Being Dead 让你写创业,你写苍天已死
[Three updates every day!] Zhang Yang was taking a dump when he suddenly transmigrated onto the set of The Literary Creation Competition. The show's prompt was “Entrepreneurship.” Everyone racked their brains for all kinds of plot devices, but most of them wrote old, classic business-startup stories that felt bland and unoriginal. Zhang Yang, however, went straight for the Three Kingdoms. Feng Xiaogang: The Three Kingdoms? You're writing about such an obscure subject? There aren't even that many
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The Screenwriting Contest: I Wrote No More Bets from the Start 编剧大赛开局就写孤注一掷
Lin Feng accidentally transmigrates into a live broadcast of a screenwriting competition. The theme is “Greed,” and from the start, he writes No More Bets. After watching it, the audience will remember: don't be too greedy for a bargain, or someone might pour their heart and soul into deceiving you. His later films include Sheep Without a Shepherd, Dying to Survive, and Justice, My Foot! He'll even write In the Name of the People, The Ming Dynasty in 1566, and more.
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You Were Asked to Write a Romance, So Why Did You Write About the Titanic Sinking? 让你写爱情,你写泰坦尼克沉船
Cheng Guan transmigrated to a parallel world to compete in a screenwriting contest. The underdog of the competition, with no one believing in him, he drew on his extraordinary memory from his previous life and made a bold move. He wrote one high-scoring film script after another, stories that had never existed in this world, with incredibly nuanced writing and remarkable fidelity to the originals. They instantly captivated audiences everywhere: Titanic, Dying to Survive, and Miracle in Cell No.
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You Asked for a Detective Story, but a Genius Boy Solves a Major Case 让你写侦探,天才少年破大案
Yan Yu wakes up at the scene of the [Young Screenwriters’ Competition]. The plots of the movies from his previous life are only vague in his mind. What is he supposed to do? Luckily, he activates a god-tier Screenwriter System. In the competition, contestants have to write a story based on a genre chosen by the judges. The judges announce the genre: [Detective]. Private detectives? The contestants look at one another, unsure what to do. Some write about detectives catching cheating spouses or
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You Were Asked to Write Mecha, So Why Did You Write Super Beast Armor? 让你写机甲,你写超兽武装?
Zhang Shan transmigrates. When he opens his eyes again, he's already a contestant in the top 32 of the Young Creators Competition. The theme for the round of 32 is social issues. He pulls out the cartoon he watched when he was six. Calabash Brothers! When he announces that his piece will be an animated series, almost everyone thinks he's just trying to draw attention to himself. “Social issues? Animation? What a stunt!” But then... Green Snake Demon: “First, we need to cut off their communicatio
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You Were Supposed to Write Philosophy, So Why Did You Write Super Beast Force? 让你写哲学,你写超兽武装?
Liu Hao transmigrates to a world that takes copyright extremely seriously, where a good screenwriter has a higher status in the entertainment industry than a director. That's why so many people instinctively choose to become screenwriters when applying to college, because they can sleep with... The original owner was one of them. After graduating, he joined a reality show called the “Annual Screenwriting Competition” and made it into the top sixteen. But just as he was about to advance further,
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I Asked You to Write a Story, Not Shove Angst Down Your Readers' Throats 让你写故事,你把刀子塞读者嘴里
Su Zhou wakes up to find himself taking part in a live-streamed show called Class Is in Session! Contestants have to create something based on different keywords. When the production team gives them the prompt [Passion], Su Zhou sees the other contestants writing about [Young Love] and [Striving for Success]. He decides to take a different approach and give the audience a shock! The Battle of Changjin Lake, you're up! At first, the audience thinks it’s an essay about scenery, but the further the
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A New Screenwriter: Every Line Hits Hard, and You Call This a Comedy? 新编剧:刀刀扎心,管这叫喜剧?
Su Muchen wakes from a dream to discover he has transmigrated to a parallel world and is competing on the creative variety show "The New Screenwriter". After rounds of nationwide selection, the top 32 contestants gather in the capital for a livestream watched by the whole country! They draw a prompt on the spot, then write independently under the watchful eyes of the audience and judges. They’ll need both luck and skill to make it through! The first theme is: Romance. The other contestants are w
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One Farewell from the Chancellor, and Why Are All the Netizens Crying? 一句丞相保重,网友怎么都哭了?
Yang Xu was utterly bewildered to discover that he had transmigrated and was now taking part in a global creative writing competition! Contestants had to create a work based on a theme provided by the organizers. When the organizers announced the theme [Regret], Yang Xu immediately began writing The Great Qin Empire, focusing on Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor in history! A dark, cold childhood, betrayal and misunderstanding from those closest to him, a grand ambition that fell just one step sh
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Don't Panic, It's Just Silent Hill. There's Still Outlast Ahead 别慌,寂静岭而已,后面还有逃生
Lin Zi'ang transmigrated to Blue Star and discovered a world where virtual reality technology was highly advanced and the gaming industry was booming. But compared to other games, horror games were few and far between, a niche within a niche. Their average production quality was also far below what he’d known in his previous life, with most of them relying on nothing but shoddy jump scares. As luck would have it, he’d brought along a horror game development System, packed with horror games from
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You Asked Me to Write a Lie! So I Used The Truman Show to Crush You? 让你写谎言!你用楚门世界碾压?
Zhao Jiayu transmigrated right onto the set of a variety show about writing movie scripts! He couldn’t write scripts, and then he drew the hardest subject of all: lies. One contestant wrote a modern love story, focusing on romantic entanglements. Another wrote a sinister tale of power struggles, full of scheming and deceit. Someone else wrote a well-intentioned lie, built around a mix-up that led to one laugh after another! Zhao Jiayu opened with the ace up his sleeve: The Truman Show. You write
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Spiritual Qi Revival: A Rundown of the Most Popular Figures Across the Heavens 灵气复苏:盘点诸天热门人物
Li Yi transmigrates to a Blue Star completely unlike the one he knew. Here, endless alternate dimensions are invading, and humanity has inherited all kinds of legacies, supernatural abilities, martial arts, and other strange powers. Just as Li Yi is panicking, he awakens the Ranking System. By ranking popular figures from the myriad worlds and earning people’s recognition, he has a chance to obtain their abilities! Watch as Li Yi ranks popular figures from across the myriad worlds. Bleach, Narut
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You Were Told to Write About an Actor, So You Wrote Farewell My Concubine 让你写戏子,你写霸王别姬
[A word of warning: The protagonist has flexible morals. He's shameless but capable, with flexible principles, but he does have limits. This is a lighthearted comedy with multiple female leads. Read at your own risk.] Lin. God of Love. God of Acting. Li: As long as I don't build a public persona, it can't come crashing down! As long as I have no morals, nobody can use them to blackmail me! Lin Li, the master of breakups, catches the transmigration train at the very last moment of his life. He
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Please Stop Writing! I Can’t Memorize Any More Classical Poems and Prose! 求你别写了,古诗文真背不完了!
Su Yu, a literature PhD in his previous life, transmigrates to a parallel world and discovers that countless literary works are missing here, while classical prose and poetry have been left incomplete. From the start, he transmigrates into a college entrance exam hall and writes “On the Love of the Lotus” on the spot! “Emerging from the mud unstained, washed by clear ripples yet never alluring!” Once “On the Love of the Lotus” is revealed, “pure and unsullied” becomes synonymous with the lotus!
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You Asked Me to Make a Terrible Anime, So Why Did I Make the Whole Internet Depressed? 让你制作烂动漫,致郁全网什么鬼
This is the story of a boss who’s given up and has a rebate System, and a sly schemer with an animation System. “You said magical girls were all childish. What’s with your senpai getting decapitated?” “You said harem anime rarely became hits. What’s with your ‘Greatest Work of All Time’?” “You said tokusatsu was bound to lose money. Why did you make everyone become light?” Looking at one hit animation after another, then at the profile of Hao Ren as he helped her get dressed, Jiang Ling pulled a
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You Asked Me to Write Something Creepy, So I Wrote The Lost Tomb: Reboot on the Spot 让你写诡异,你现场写藏海花
Bai Ze opened his eyes and found he had transmigrated to a parallel world, where he was taking part in a live-streamed creative variety show! Contestants had to create a work based on a prompt from the production team. The people of Kimchi Nation had the nerve to claim China had no good scripts. Even an uncle could put up with that, but an aunt couldn’t! Time to show them what a great nation could do. When the production team announced the prompt: [Eerie] You’ve got to be kidding. Nothing is all
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Timeline Review: My Identity as the Editor Is Exposed 时间线盘点:我,编辑者被曝光
An app called Timeline Editor appeared on Lu Heng's phone, turning him into a mysterious editor with the ability to edit timelines. What would happen if Xia Country's technology suddenly advanced by leaps and bounds on the eve of the War to Resist America, surpassing the Eagle and the Bear in every kind of equipment? At the end of the Ming dynasty, a Martial Dao Stele descended. If everyone in Great Xia became as strong as dragons, would foreign enemies still invade? In the glorious age of the T
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Scrolling Short Videos: A Red Shock for the Ancients from the Start 刷短视频:开局给古人红色震撼
A thousand years have passed, and Wei Wu swings his whip. The bleak autumn wind blows once more, but the world has changed. [Scrolling through the words and videos that set your blood racing in history. At the end of the video, there appears...] Ying Zheng: “This man actually said...” Liu Che: ... Li Shimin: ... Zhu Yuanzhang: ... The emperors of every dynasty are utterly horrified! Emperors of the dynasties: “Kneel before me!” “Don't kneel. Stand up!!!” [Scrolling: Brother Liu and The T
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The Master Screenwriter Who Created a Golden Age of Binge-Watching 大编剧她缔造追剧盛世
[Entertainment industry + screenwriter + System + no romance + strong female lead] A genius screenwriter gets into a car accident on the night she receives an award and transmigrates into the body of a screenwriting student with the same name in a parallel world. A scumbag plagiarizes the student's work, then turns around and accuses her of plagiarism, instructing the cast to make things difficult for her. Hounded by the entire internet and facing trouble with her father, she sleeps just two hou
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The King of Screenwriting 编剧之王
King of Screenwriters
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National Fate Battlefield: From the Start, I Summon Li Yuanba 国运战场:开局召唤李元霸
[Transmigration]+ [National Fate]+ [Livestreams for everyone]+ [Summoning historical heroes]+ [Conquest] Twenty thousand people around the world are thrust into the Ruins of Myriad Realms: thirty-six regions and five hundred billion lives. National Fate is bound, and life and death are broadcast live. Chen Yuan, an ordinary history student, draws Li Yuanba on the first day after his Transmigration. [World Announcement]: Congratulations! For the first time, a chosen one's retinue includes a peerl
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I Transmigrated, So Why Am I a Wolf? 穿越了,怎么是狼
Some transmigrate into the body of a farmer’s son, pass the imperial examinations, and become pillars of the nation. Some transmigrate into the body of a prince and remain unshaken amid raging storms. But how come I transmigrated into a wolf, and not even a grown one, but a wolf cub?
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A Tragic Rich Kid Opens a Tourist Attraction 悲剧富二代开景区
I transmigrated, my family fortune was stolen, my luxury car was gone, my mansion was gone, and so was my company. Oh, I still have three islands. Damn this System, making a transmigrator work for a living. How about opening a tourist attraction? The mermaid legend could work, and Journey to the West could work too. Peach Blossom Island is out of the question: I’m the island master. Should I add immortal cultivation? Maybe demonic cultivation too?
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After Reincarnation, You're Still a Scumbag 轮回后的你依然是渣男
Even after reincarnation, you’re still a scumbag
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