Chinese Entertainment Industry Stories: I've Read Hundreds, Here Are a Few Hidden Gems to Share With Fellow Readers 华娱文，已读几百本，压箱几本和书支们共享
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- 51 Chinese Showbiz: A Top-Tier Star Begins by Checking In at Qingcheng Mountain 华娱：顶流从打卡青城山开始 [Ding! Check-in at Qingcheng Mountain successful. Congratulations, you have received...] [Ding! Check-in at the vocal music classroom successful. Congratulations, you have received...] [Ding! Check-in at the XX production crew successful. Congratulations, you have received...] [Ding! Check-in at Tian Xiwei's heart successful. Congratulations, you have received...] Lin Huai transmigrated to 2016 in a parallel world and obtained a Check-In System. He originally thought he could embark on the path 2.9kReads5.9Score191Shelves
- 52 My Capital Is a Little Too Big 我的资本，有点大 Reborn as the Emperor of the Entertainment Industry! In her previous life, she was a humble wage slave, only to be stabbed in the back and laid off by Penguin, leaving in disgrace. Reborn, she sees where the internet age is headed, seizes every wave of opportunity, and builds an entertainment empire! Her goal in this life: use every bit of capital at her disposal to crush Penguin! 38.7kReads6.6Score1.8kShelves
- 53 Chinese Showbiz: This Director Is a Bit of a Playboy 华娱：这个导演有点浪 [Chinese Showbiz] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Director Story] [A Huge Harem] After an unexpected stroke of luck, Cao Shixian gains memories of the future and earns a recommendation to the Beijing Film Academy through a new-concept essay contest. Chinese-language cinema is now at the height of its story-driven film era. This is its finest hour, and the only period in which Chinese-language cinema has a chance to build global influence. Armed with memories of outstanding films from the future, Cao 15.5kReads6.1Score1.2kShelves
- 54 Showbiz: Nurturing a Rising Star with Capital 娱乐：资本灌养小花 [Rebirth + System + Chinese entertainment industry + tycoon investor + beautiful actresses + wish fulfillment] Back in 2014, he awakens the Entertainment Empire System. Ten million yuan arrives in his account every day! There’s only one requirement: it has to be spent on the entertainment industry! And so, a capital monster that makes the entire industry tremble is born. The Left Ear, Wolf Warrior 2, The Wandering Earth... Running Man, Go Fighting!, Produce Camp... While others are fretting over 10.7kReads5.2Score687Shelves
- 55 Chinese Entertainment: I Became a Tycoon by Investing in Artists 华娱，我靠投资艺人成首富 [Multiple Heroines] + [Entertainment Industry] + [Chinese Showbiz] + [System] + [Reborn] + [All-Rounder] (The rating just came out and will rise later.) [Current heroines: Li Yitong, Li Qin, Nazha, Reba, Dudu, and Tianxian] Reborn in 2010, Li Xianyu binds himself to an investment System. He dives headfirst into the entertainment industry, signing one future top-tier star after another. A dance major becomes a Hundred Flowers Award-winning actress, a young woman from Xinjiang lands a leading role 41.1kReads6.7Score3.9kShelves
- 56 From the Start, Forty Million to Help Me Restart My Chinese Entertainment Career 开局四千万，助我重启华娱人生路 [Chinese Showbiz] [Multiple Female Leads] [Behind the Scenes] Li Meng is reborn in 2013, during his freshman year at Beijing Film Academy. From the start, a national soccer team's catastrophic defeat earns him forty million. Armed with memories of his past life, he takes a three-pronged approach: entertainment and film, business investment, and stock holdings, restarting his journey through Chinese showbiz. 17.4kReads6.1Score1.2kShelves
- 57 My Chinese Entertainment Career: Starting by Ripping Off the Americans 我的华娱：从薅美利坚羊毛开始 [Dual Careers in American and Chinese Entertainment | Cashing In on America | Snatching Up Hollywood Blockbusters] Lead Screenwriter + Capital Investor [Multiple Love Interests] [Actresses born in the 1980s and 1990s] In 2026, a struggling screenwriter died suddenly after staying up all night, then transmigrated as Li Hang, a man with the exact same name. After transmigrating to Los Angeles in 2008, Li Hang was faced with a total mess from the start! His predecessor had been expelled from co 27.6kReads7.7Score2.7kShelves
- 58 Entering Showbiz, Starting with Meeting Liu Xiaoli 踏入娱乐圈，从结识刘小丽开始 [The rating just came out, so it's a little low!] Female leads: Very Sweet + the Three Beauties of the Western Regions + Fan Bingbing + Da Bai Ran + Big Pear + Zhao Liying + Liu Shishi + Tang Yan + Chen Duling + Mao Xiaotong + Wang Churan... Reborn on Blue Star, Lin Heng only wants to work hard, make something of himself, and give the grandparents who adopted him a stable home. Who knew that, by a chance of fate, Mother Earth had left him a System: the Goddess System. Every gift from a goddess e 9.3kReads6.0Score519Shelves
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Keep Running: You Told Me to Make a Bold Claim, So Why Are You Taking It Seriously? 跑男：让你放豪言，你给我玩真的
[Chinese Entertainment Industry] [Stars] [Plenty of Variety Shows] [Keep Running] [Bai Lu] [Multiple Heroines] [Back to Field] [Challenges] [Peak] [The Inn] Chen Cheng transmigrated to a parallel world that was similar, yet not quite the same, and became an entertainer who had trained for two and a half years and been in the industry for two and a half years. After awakening the Great Entertainer System, he had his entire fortune wiped out on the spot and drew a skill that was both incredibly po
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- 60 To Make Money, I Took Director Zhang as My Godfather 为了赚钱，我认张导为义父 In his previous life, he was just an ordinary citizen with a life in shambles. Then one day, he unexpectedly transmigrated into the past and got into the acting program of the Beijing Film Academy's Class of 2009. He has no grand ambitions. He just wants to join the 208 club and rake in the money. Having seen through the ways of the world, all he wants is money! 51.4kReads8.0Score3.4kShelves
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Meeting Nazha Through the Xuanyuan Sword 从轩辕剑认识那扎开始
[Showbiz] + [Actor] + [Music] + [Variety Shows] + [One Female Lead, Nazha] + [Slice of Life] Lu Qi was reborn into a military family, but had a cousin in showbiz. By a twist of fate, he ended up on the set of Xuan-Yuan Sword. After meeting Nazha, he gradually began his journey in showbiz. One high-quality song after another helped him win The Voice! He then went on to star in TV series such as Special Forces and Love O2O! At a young age, he became a regular performer at the Spring Festival Gala!
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The Unorthodox of Chinese Entertainment 内娱邪修
[Urban Fantasy] [Borrowing Songs for Entertainment] [Unorthodox Cultivation System] [One Female Lead] [Feel-Good Face-Slapping] Liu Xin transmigrates from a carefree playboy worth over a hundred million into a talented musician saddled with tens of millions in debt and drained by a toxic ex. With both legs broken from the start, he also has to deal with the entire internet turning against him? Fortunately, he activates the [Unorthodox Cultivation System]! As long as he collects other people's ne
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- 63 I Made Mimi Younger, Becoming the Savior of Huayu's Beauties 让蜜蜜变年轻，我成华娱众美救星 [Showbiz, multiple heroines, actresses, wish fulfillment, films and TV, variety shows] Chu Shengchen has the extraordinary ability to reverse aging and make people young again. Actresses from all over flock to him, hoping to regain their youth. Once blacklisted and buried under a mountain of scandals, he shoots to fame and takes the entertainment industry by storm. 82kReads7.1Score8.9kShelves
- 64 The Superstar at His Peak 巅峰巨星 Li Ze was an unfulfilled songwriter in his previous life. Reborn in a parallel world, he plunges into a world where the tide of pop music has only just begun to rise. The wind is still fresh, and the air is still sweet. In this life, he will be the brightest star of all. He will lead the tide of the times and become their defining icon! This book is a tribute to the classics of our bygone years: to the youth we have lost, and to the days we spent copying lyrics into our notebooks! 17kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves
- 65 My Years in Light and Shadow 我的光影岁月 What’s it like to have a top-tier star for a big sister? After gaining the memories of a parallel world, Su Yan began his life as a director. From a rookie director of web dramas to a regular at major film awards, Su Yan saw countless sights along the way. 3.5kReads7.1Score105Shelves
- 66 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
- 67 The Campus Belle Wept Regretfully Over a Song Asking Heaven for Five Hundred More Years 一首向天再借五百年校花悔哭了 [An era when musical legends battled it out] [A behind-the-scenes songwriting genius] Tang Yan transmigrated to a parallel world in a golden age of entertainment. When the campus belle he had loved for years looked down on him, he awakened an Entertainment Gold-Spending System. From then on, he learned his lesson and set about writing songs and making money, stunning the world with classic hits from his past life! With an entire world backing him, what kind of impact would Tang Yan have on this 62.1kReads8.0Score4.1kShelves
- 68 EN Entertainment Spring and Autumn 娱乐春秋 In a fictional world of martial arts and a hundred schools, a modern person tells the locals that cultivation isn’t the only way to get what you want. Want to be the young hero everyone in the martial world adores? Easy, as long as you’re sincere... For example, why not invite your junior sister for a drink? Confucius said: “When you transmigrate, don’t just toil away at cultivation. The locals aren’t as capable as you!” The heavens make a board, the stars make its pieces, and knowledge is the g 38.1kReads9.5Score4.9kShelves
- 69 Reborn in the City: The Lazy Fat Guy Turns His Life Around 重生都市之咸鱼胖子要翻身 [Slice of life + no System + entrepreneurship + entertainment industry] A chubby homebody was reborn twenty years in the past. He no longer wanted to lie flat and wanted to experience a different life. Relying on the memories he had brought back, he had originally planned to make a little money and then drift through life. Instead, he accidentally stepped into the legendary entertainment industry. The actresses he had once only seen in his dreams gradually became part of his life... 21.2kReads7.9Score1.1kShelves
- 70 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? 310Reads7.0Score188Shelves
- 71 This Movie Emperor Is Neglecting His Day Job 这个影帝不务正业 “Walking Encyclopedia of Gossip” “World’s Richest Man on Paper” “Grand Slam Director” “Grand Slam Movie Star” Yang Jian was kicked back to the summer of 2002. The World Cup hadn’t started yet. He’d only meant to skim a little off the bookmakers. They could have the meat while he took a bit of the broth. That wasn’t unreasonable, was it? But on the day his acceptance letter from the Beijing Film Academy arrived, a little system popped up. From then on, he plunged headfirst into the treacherous en 613Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 72 Chinese Entertainment, 2004: The Genius Director 华娱04之天才导演 Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, and Xu Su filmed a live-action version of Your Name. Annoyed that The Legend of the White Snake was always bursting into song, he filmed a live-action version of White Snake. Unable to accept the loss of a loved one, he filmed a live-action version of Coco. One female lead: Changchang 10Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 73 I'm Just a Minor Actor, Yet Goddess Liu Sishi Is Throwing Herself at Me? 我一个小演员，女神刘思诗倒贴？ After transmigrating to a parallel world, Yang Mu becomes an actor! Fortunately, he gets a golden finger! He can get stronger just by delivering famous lines from movies and TV shows while playing a role? When he’s told to play a bandit: “You only make a few hundred a month. Why risk your life for this?” When he’s told to play an assassin: “This man is my dearest friend, my sworn brother. You’ll have to pay extra!” When he’s told to play a warlord: “I don’t eat beef!” When he’s told to play a eu 11.6kReads8.2Score710Shelves
- 74 Showbiz: The Pretty Boy Debuts as a Top-Tier Star 娱乐：小鲜肉顶流出道 After returning from Korea, Lin Yi is frustrated with how little he's achieved. Back home, he catches Yang Mi's eye, and she coaxes and tricks him into signing a contract. He makes his debut through Idol Producer and gradually becomes a global superstar. 24Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 75 I Won't Play a Role Unless They're Miserable, and My Fans Beg Me Not to Leave the Show 角色不惨我不演，粉丝求我别下线 [Lighthearted comedy + showbiz + acting talent + no romance] [This book has no romance, so feel free to dive in. It focuses on acting, and a few close relationships between male and female characters are included to show the protagonist’s charm.] With just five hours left to live, Lin Yan is bound to the “You’ll Die If You Don’t Act” System. If he wants to survive, he has to “die” in front of the camera! He agrees to work for free just to land a role, but plays a corpse so convincingly that his 5.2kReads8.1Score675Shelves
- 76 Showbiz: I Start Out Living Off Rich Women and Take It All in Stride! 娱乐：从富婆开始软饭硬吃！ A millionaire heiress’s romance-writing guide: when men become the top-tier pick, they become true gods! The entertainment industry’s king of living off women, trained by the Tiger of Serious Crimes, Cao Dahua. Living off a woman while holding your head high: that’s our style. Living off a woman while holding your head high: the ideal man. Have you been living off a woman today? 69.2kReads8.7Score3.4kShelves
- 77 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？ [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
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Becoming the Godfather of the Internet and Raising Yang Mi from a Little Girl 成为互联网教父，萝莉养成杨蜜
Reborn, he returned to 1986 and became neighbors with Yang Mi’s family. Years later, Yang Mi was just about to make her debut, still green and innocent. Years later, the internet was only just emerging, and BAT was in its infancy. He had led an ordinary life in his previous life, but now he held the future in his hands and could defy fate! He invested in Tencent, joined forces with Lei Jun, swept through the world of capital, and dominated the internet. While others were still striving to get ah
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Transmigrating as a Spoiled Young Master: The Rest of My Life in Qingyan 穿越纨绔，余生渡清晏
[Fate across two lifetimes + soul swap + mutual healing + comeback in the entertainment industry] When only half of your heart remains, it turns out the other half was already yours all along...
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High Martial: Entertainment to the Death 高武：娱乐至死
After one heavy drinking session, Li Tianming, a wandering singer from Earth, passed out under the table. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself hanging in midair. After a series of twists and turns and several close calls, he somehow transmigrated to a high-martial world that was similar to, yet different from, Earth. He had become a penniless bit player, a martial apprentice with an inferior constitution. To survive and live comfortably, he planned to bring classic songs from Earth to
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- 81 From Jade Cutter to Lord of Jadeite 从也木西到翡翠之主 A rising young star on the verge of becoming a second-tier celebrity is ambushed. At death's door, he unexpectedly gains an incredible supernatural ability and a mysterious space. Starting out as a rough laborer in a jade mining district, he enters the stone gambling business, turns his fate 7.5kReads8.3Score841Shelves
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This Is Crazy! One Divine Song from the Start Blows Up the Entertainment Industry 疯了！开局一首神曲炸穿娱乐圈
The rating has just come out, and it's still going up. He's the one person in the entertainment industry nobody dares mess with. He sang "Wukong" and tore into the judges, and the whole internet called him a lunatic. But as people kept criticizing him, they started to realize something was off: this madman's songs were just too good. When other contestants withdrew, the whole internet cursed them. When he withdrew, the whole internet regretted it. His album broke sales records on its first day,
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Life Restart: Back to the End of Middle School 人生重启：回到中考结束后
Science has proven that the human body can be cloned, but can the soul be cloned too? Perhaps everyone simply keeps reincarnating in the long river of life, with all their memories disappearing at the moment of death. In 2039, Xu Ming, who had spent his whole life as a corporate drone, finally died of illness one year after retiring. When he opened his eyes, he hadn’t become a newborn baby. Instead, carrying all his memories, he had returned to the day he finished his high school entrance exams
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Reborn, I'm Going to Be a Simp 重生了，我要做舔狗
Ji Mulin spent his previous life as a humble laborer for fifty years. His wife, Liu Hong, died young from overwork, while his daughter, Doudou, fell ill as a child and suffered lifelong complications because they couldn't afford timely treatment. He could only watch helplessly as his wife and daughter met with misfortune, unable to change a thing. At fifty, he closed his eyes in a construction-site accident. When he opened them again, he was back in a middle school classroom at thirteen. This ti
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Chinese Showbiz: My AI Film Crew Just Sunbathes All Day 华娱：我的AI剧组全在晒太阳
[Showbiz + Reborn + System + A Carefree Life of Lie-Flat Creativity + Pseudo-Exclusive Female Lead] “Director Zhang, why was your new film, Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant, such a success?” “Set aside plenty of time every day to rest and unwind. That keeps your mind full of inspiration, and you’ll be able to tell great stories.” “How come you live such a relaxed life without pulling all-nighters? You just lie flat and chat about stories every day, yet you still make great films.” “Because I hav
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A Max-Level Expert Crashes Five Hags, and Their Secret Identities Are Revealed Everywhere 满级大佬闯五哈，马甲掉一地
Updated regularly every day, with no breaks. Thank you for your support! I was hit by a car in an accident and spent about a month in the hospital. I was a bit out of it, so the plot went off track for a while. It’s back on the main storyline now!!! [Lighthearted] [Funny] [Everyday life] [Variety shows] [System] [Entertainment industry] [One female lead] [Rising star] White Ye went out to buy breakfast and had an incredible stroke of luck: he ended up in Blue Star, a parallel world to Earth! Tha
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The System Took Me into Korean Showbiz, but I Only Want to Pick Up Girls 系统带我混韩娱，我却只想泡妞
[Multiple Heroines]+ [Feel-Good Power Fantasy]+ [Korean Showbiz]+ [System]+ [Girl Group Bulldozer] On July 11, 2010, Running Man premiered. Hosts: Yoo Jae-suk, Ji Suk-jin, Kim Jong-kook, Ha Dong-hoon, Gary (Kang Hee-gun), Lee Kwang-soo, Song Joong-ki, and Ximen Liuxiang! Ximen Liuxiang? That's right! Young Master Ximen is determined to learn from “The Thief,” Chu Liuxiang.
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Divas Hit the Road 5: The Beginning of Chinese Entertainment 花少5：华娱开端
[Season 5 of Divas Hit the Road: Silk Road] [Dilraba] [Single Female Lead] [Idiot System] [Reborn] [Chaotic Chinese Entertainment Timeline] I've been reborn. I'm a rich second-generation heir, Dilraba's childhood friend, with a System and a handsome face. So I have no choice but to experience the unspoken rules of the entertainment industry as a member of the elite. P.S. The story will mainly focus on the variety show Divas Hit the Road Season 5 in the early chapters, because it's honestly k
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Back in 2003, This Time the Advantage Is Mine 重回2003，这波优势在我
A working-class laborer dies in a car accident in 2026 and is reborn on June 5, 2003, with every memory from 2003 to 2026 intact. Using his knowledge of the future, he makes his first fortune in Hong Kong's futures market, then starts with a Taobao shop and expands into e-commerce platforms, his own logistics network, brick-and-mortar retail, mobile phone hardware, and payment systems. In just six months, he goes from having nothing to a net worth of hundreds of millions, takes on Eachnet head-o
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- 90 In the Name of the People: Qi Tongwei Quits Politics for Business from the Start 名义：开局祈同伟弃政从商 After shooting himself on Solitary Eagle Ridge, Qi Tongwei was reborn at the turning point of his fate! Back at the moment when he knelt before the Liang family, before taking the wrong path in officialdom, he carried memories of the future from 2026. He rejected Liang Qunfeng's promotion on the spot, abandoning his political ambitions for good and refusing to repeat the old path that had ended in disgrace. He seized the first opportunities brought by reform and opening up, using treasury bond a 7.3kReads6.1Score200Shelves
- 91 Showbiz: The Traffic King 华娱之流量天王 [A veteran Huayu writer from a certain web-fiction site + multiple heroines] [The rating just came out, so don’t take it too seriously. Come see if it’s to your taste.] Before the battle for top-tier stars in 2014, entertainment reporter Piao Jingming transmigrates. The good news: He transmigrated. The bad news: He’s a K-pop trainee. Making his debut in Korea is out of the question. Why do that when he could return home and grab a foothold before the battle for top-tier stars? That would be much 2.7kReads6.8Score113Shelves
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An Ordinary Man's Starbound Journey: I'm a Librarian 凡人星途：我是图书管理员
[Entertainment Industry + Behind the Scenes + Slow Burn + Variety Shows + Everyday Life + Romance] After transmigrating to a parallel world with the memories of Earth, and with the Yan and Chu kingdoms on the verge of merging, Lin Yi became a temporary librarian and began his behind-the-scenes career in entertainment. Years later, Lin Yi decided to step forward without hesitation, and countless members of the media swarmed him. A Yan Kingdom reporter asked, “Lin Yi, what inspired you to create s
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The Happy Years I Spent in Dongguan 那些年我在东莞的幸福往事
[Urban everyday life] + [multiple heroines] + [first person] My name is Hao Jian. I'm a college graduate who left a small inland county to make a living in Dongguan. A female classmate who'd been quite a flirt back in school introduced me to the city. I thought I'd find a factory job and earn some money, but things didn't go as planned. I ended up in a bar, and that's where my life took an unexpected turn.
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Peninsula: My Girl Group Exorcism Diary 半岛：我的女团驱魔日记
In a modern world where spiritual energy has run dry, Chen Ming, who has cultivated to the peak, goes on a trip to the peninsula, only to stumble into a story about a peninsula teeming with ghosts and monsters! Obsessions and starlight intertwine as he gently protects those around him! (This is a story about helping girl idols drive out evil spirits while falling in love with them! Multiple heroines! A harem novel!)
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- 95 The Soul of Tang Returns to the Righteous Cause 归义唐魂 To the west, he allied with his uncle’s Yutian Kingdom; to the east, he reclaimed eleven prefectures of Helong. He drove the Uyghurs north and secured the Tianshan Mountains; looking south toward Chang’an, he reclaimed the old frontiers. Gunpowder shattered the Tibetan ranks; iron cavalry trampled the Khitan camps. The Three Stars Banner swept across Youzhou and Yunzhou, and the Han realm’s sky was opened anew beneath the sun and moon. 1.6kReads—Score142Shelves
- 96 The Heavenly Kingdom: The Rise of an Imperial Dynasty 天国王朝：帝朝崛起 This is the legendary life of God's agent, entrusted with shepherding His flock! From a modern transmigrator to a medieval infant, he relied on the Mount & Blade System and his own strategic brilliance to break free from constraints, defend the Holy City, establish an empire, and change the course of history for both the Crusaders and the Islamic world. (Early game: using Mount & Blade to break through; mid-game: political scheming; late game: cyberpunk space opera) 79Reads—Score106Shelves
- 97 The Yin Within the Coffin 棺中太阴 When he woke up inside the coffin, the thing pressing down on its lid was poking its head over to sniff him. The spiritual energy in this world had been depleted for eight hundred years, and the Celestial Court and underworld had long since become legends. In their place stood a set of rules, cold to the core: The register is heaven's decree: every cultivator's rank, the prices in the ghost market, and the incense masters' standings in the White Lotus Sect are all recorded in an invisible ledger 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 Folk Customs Record: Chen the Paper Effigy Maker 民俗录：纸扎陈 There's an old saying in western Hunan: “Better to walk through a mass grave at night than cross the Paper Effigy Chen family.” When Chen Ming woke up, he found himself lying in a thin-walled coffin. Paper figures all around the room were smiling at him. He was the last living member of the Paper Effigy Chen family. For three generations, his ancestors had made paper effigies for a living, but the Chen family didn't just make paper people and horses... They shaped souls. They shaped rules. They 48Reads—Score—Shelves
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Chinese Showbiz: Now That I’m Reborn, Who Still Wants Pure Love?! 华娱：都重生了谁还玩纯爱啊！
[System] [Multiple female leads] [Timeline anchor: 2008] [Fictional parallel world] [It’s a fictional world, so why are people nitpicking real-world rules? How silly!] [Female leads: Jing Tian, Liu Shishi, Yang Mi, Liu Yifei...] Having lived two lives, he spent half of his previous one as an extra. After being reborn, he had hoped to live comfortably off a wealthy beauty, cling to Jing Tian, and enjoy a carefree life. Who could have guessed that his plans to borrow money and make a film would be
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Back to the 1980s: From the Start, I Cut Ties with My Family 重回八零：开局断亲斩亲缘
Tang Guangyuan has suffered from asthma since childhood, enduring years of hardship and abuse at the hands of his family. After his biological mother beat his own son, who was not yet three years old, Tang resolutely cut ties with her entire family. Overcome with rage and resentment, he unexpectedly became reborn, his soul coming from his modern-day self in the future. After being reborn, Tang Guangyuan awakened the “Farming Spirit Spring System.” The spirit spring water not only cured his ast
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