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Showbiz: With My Background, Why Am I Still Begging for Work? 华娱，我这背景还跪着要饭？
Wang Jing, an IT big shot who made it to forty without being laid off, opens his eyes again and finds himself in 2003. He isn't hurt, just completely bewildered. The good news: he transmigrated. The bad news: he arrived too late. His predecessor, that little darling, chose the most ridiculous path imaginable and cut off his chance to make a name for himself. There are plenty of people out there who want to break his legs... But no matter. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Making waves in the en
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A Cultural Desert, but My Scripts Take the World by Storm 文娱荒漠，我的剧本火爆全球
[Transmigration] [No CP] [Screenwriting] [Entertainment Industry] [Career-focused] Screenwriter Wen Lan has had cancer for years when she transmigrates to another world. There, audiences are desperate for screen productions, but the entertainment industry has few good ones. This world has none of the usual tropes: transmigration, xianxia costume dramas, rebirth and revenge, fake and real heiresses, or infinite-flow stories. From the start, she's hit with an unofficial industry ban. So what if sh
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Chinese Showbiz: Starting in 2002, I Write My Way to Stardom 华娱：从02开始，执笔星途
Core tags: No romance, strong female lead, career-focused, urban fantasy, heated forum discussions, global box office queen, path to becoming the richest person alive At nineteen, she won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival from the start. People thought she was just lucky. No one knew this was only the beginning. From director to industry mogul, from Golden Bear winner to the richest person alive. Wang Yufei needed only two years. Some said she was using cheats. She laughed. “I’m not
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A Film Industry Slump? Director Fu Takes the World by Storm 影视寒冬？伏导火爆全球
[Lots of on-screen comments and reader reviews + copying works from another world + no romance + devoted to her mother + sharp-tongued toward scumbags + starts as a director (may involve anime) + satisfying wish fulfillment + only works behind the scenes, no acting or singing] Fu Qing was hit by a car and spent three years bedridden in a vegetative state. During those three years, her family’s entertainment company came close to bankruptcy. Her live-in son-in-law father, Jiang Chengshan, showed
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Becoming a Great Director, Starting in 2000 成为伟大导演从2000年开始
[Transmigration and plagiarism] [Female-oriented] [No romance] [Strong female lead] [Female director] [Feel-good story] (The rating has only just started, and it'll go up later.) Sang Yu transmigrated to a parallel world in the years just before the new millennium. She got her hands on a video app containing every film and television work from ancient times to the present, from China and abroad, and used it to become the greatest director of the twenty-first century. She went on to dominate the
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Blacklisted, I Became a World-Class Director 被封杀后，我成了世界级名导
[Female-oriented plagiarist + transmigration + System + entertainment industry + no CP] Chen Che rides the wave of transmigration and becomes a proud graduate of a film academy. Before she can even start dreaming of making 208 yuan a day, a blacklist notice from the entertainment industry crushes those dreams to pieces. Fine, fine. At least she still has a System that can provide scripts. Chen Che gives a sinister smile and sharpens her knife... then heads overseas. If the road at home is blocke
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- 7 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 10.4kReads9.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 8 I Have No Idea. They All Call Me the Godmother of Music 不知道啊，他们都叫我音乐教母 [Transcription + No Romance + Pure Wish-Fulfillment + Behind the Scenes + Song Recommendations] Lin Tingfeng stayed up all night writing when everything went black before her eyes. She thought she’d died from overwork, but it turned out the interdimensional showbiz-propagation System had dragged her across worlds to do unpaid labor. She and a girl on Blue Star who shared her name switched souls. Her mission was to spread Earth’s music in this place called Blue Star. Lin Tingfeng: Huh? Spread mus 20.6kReads8.9Score2.7k14d adds
- 9 Director Qin, Your Drama Has Taken the World by Storm 秦导，你拍的剧火爆全球了 If you transmigrated into the body of a rich second-generation heir with assets worth billions, what would you most want to do? Qin Yu’s answer was simple: enjoy life, of course~ So the System bound to Qin Yu started enjoying life, while Qin Yu embarked on a career as a director. The filming never ends, it just never ends. She films modern romances, then period romances; xianxia dramas, then modern romances; comedies, then tragedies. Once she’s done with yours, she’ll film yours tooᖰ•᎔•₎ᖳ First, 32.1kReads8.3Score4.5k14d adds
- 10 Have You Ever Even Been on a Set? And You’re Writing Showbiz Fiction? 出过道吗？你就乱写文娱小说？ Yuanyou, an obscure author, transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a bottom-tier idol on the verge of being kicked out! She thinks she can rely on her past-life writing to face-slap everyone and reach the pinnacle of success, but when she tries to recall her works, all she can remember are scattered fragments. She wants to quit while she's ahead, return to her old career, and make her way in the online fiction world, but her golden finger arrives, late but right on time! As long as she re 7.3kReads8.4Score60114d adds
- 11 Every Film I Make Becomes a Hit: The Female Director Is a Legend Again 拍一部爆一部，女导演她又封神了 (The score just came out and will go up.) [Entertainment Industry + System + Female Lead with No CP + Feel-Good Read] Jiang Han transmigrates to Blue Star and gets bound to an entertainment System. The System says, “Make TV dramas to earn more life. If you don’t, you’ll just have to wait to die.” She looks at her medical report: terminal illness, and she won’t live to see 22. Then she’ll make TV dramas. From the start, her adaptation of My Sunshine shoots straight to the top of the year’s drama 34.1kReads8.1Score4.4k14d adds
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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
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This Big-Time Director Can Do It All! 这个大导演啥都会！
[Read with confidence, no need to turn off your brain] A director who treated filmmaking as a hobby dies suddenly, then is reborn in 2003 as a rich, spoiled second-generation student at the Beijing Film Academy. In this life, he’ll do things differently! After seven days in seclusion, he makes the future hit Night Shop his own! He earns a million before even filming a frame! He makes a name for himself by riding on a famous director’s reputation, then signs a team of future superstars! Everyone
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Hilarious Heavenly Court: My Mouth Has Been Blessed 爆笑天庭：我的嘴开过光
[Everyone’s Darling + Jinxed Tongue + Sibling Shenanigans + Best Friends + Gossip-Watching + System + Learning Skills] [No Romance] [Comedy] Reborn as Nezha’s little sister, I thought I could just lie flat and enjoy being everyone’s favorite. But the moment I opened my mouth, Dad lost his beard. I opened it again, and the Southern Heavenly Gate came crashing down. The whole Heavenly Court thought my brother did it. Nezha: Go ahead and cause trouble, sis. I’ll take the blame! Li Jing: Don’t
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