Transmigrated to the Cultivation World to Become a Director

[Updates follow the rankings when listed, otherwise 2-3 chapters a week]

[For current progress, see below the blurb]

Before transmigrating, Ning Guan was an experienced director. He'd filmed everything except what couldn't be broadcast.

After transmigrating, Ning Guan became the owner of a struggling shop selling recording stones, with nothing but a warehouse full of them and a mountain of debt.

His creditors came knocking one after another. Penniless, Ning Guan clenched his fist: At this point, there's only one way out!

That day, the streets were jammed with people, all there to watch the viral short videos over and over.

[His parents despise him! His brothers mock him! His fiancee breaks off their engagement! The day he's thrown out, a hundred thousand cultivators arrive to welcome him: We greet the Dragon King on his return!]

[At the Dao-Couple Ceremony, his scumbag top runs away, humiliating him as the crowd whispers. He says, "I'll marry anyone who wants me." A man's voice comes from the crowd: "I want you!"]

[To find out what happens next, tune in to See You Again TV, ]

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A friend from a cultivation family is worried about his rebellious younger brother and offers to pay Ning Guan to help him.

Ning Guan waves a hand, and the TV station launches a new show: The Role-Swap Diaries.

[He! Is a spoiled young master of an immortal sect, bullying his fellow disciples, stealing spirit beasts, and doing every sort of evil, ]

[He! Is a cowherd boy in the mountains, born with spiritual roots but with no way to enter a sect, ]

[When the spoiled young master enters the mountains and the mountain cowherd joins an immortal sect, how will they change? The first episode of the large-scale lifestyle role-swap show, The Role-Swap Diaries, coming soon!]

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As Ning Guan's fame grows, more and more people come to his TV station, and the range of services he provides expands.

[The Spirit Beast Sect can't sell its spirit beasts! Please help us!]

And so the large-scale farming and food documentary Spirit Beast World goes live.

[The disciple smiles with unassuming sincerity: "I think this spirit goose drowned. Let's put it over the fire and see if we can save it..."]

[The younger disciples in our sect lack ambition. We're worried their excess energy will lead them to cause trouble and disrupt the cultivation world's order.]

And so the reality talent show Cultivators 108: Season One is launched.

[A sword dance every three days, a sword formation every five. Round one: eliminated! Round two: eliminated! Round three: eliminated, with the losers sent to reclaim the wilderness! Pick the group of cultivators you think best represents the new generation!]

[The Dance and Music Sect is finding it increasingly difficult to recruit new disciples. We're afraid the art of dance and music cultivation will die out. Young friend, can you find a way to turn things around?]

And so the inspirational fantasy youth drama Saving the Sect Starts with Idols is greenlit.

[Facing the threat of dissolution, five young cultivators decide to debut as musical dance idols, dazzling the cultivation world at the upcoming grand contest and saving their sect from ruin!]

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One day, the Acacia Sect comes knocking too...

Station Director Ning: Hm?

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Reader's Guide:

1. CP: Ning Guan (bottom) x Sheng Shiyin (top). The Role-Swap Diaries comes first and stays on after its launch.

2. Short dramas, long dramas, films, variety shows, documentaries, tokusatsu shows, and more may all appear.

3. [Important!] The supporting characters themselves have no romance, but the characters they play may have romantic storylines or no CP. The dramas within the novel may feature same-sex or opposite-sex couples (none so far), or no romance, unrelated to the main couple and main plot. The author's note and subtitle in the chapter before each new show starts will say which. Skip it if it's not for you.

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Current progress, in order:

1. "My Scumbag Groom Ran Away, So I Married His Uncle" - Complete

2. The Record of Heaven series, three books: "The Dragon King Returns," "The Dragon Lord Seeks the Way," and "The Dragon God Defies Heaven" - Complete

3. Two couples in "The Role-Swap Diaries" - Complete

4. "Taking a Master" - Complete

5. "Spirit Beast World" - Complete

6. "The Little Black Cat I Found Is a Cat Demon Lord" - Complete

7. Myriad Phenomena Secret Realm - Complete

8. The Cultivation World's Grand Contest - In preparation

To be filmed, not in order:

1. "Saving the Sect Starts with Idols": friendship, transformation, singing and dancing

2. "Exchanging Abodes": swapping home renovations + Dream Home Makeover

3. "Twin Acacia Blossoms": twin siblings, one immortal and one demon, separated from childhood and swapping identities

4. "Cultivators 108" + "Cultivators, Let's Reclaim the Wilderness"

5. "Mechanical Love": a puppet gains consciousness and falls in love with its maker

6. "Untitled": giving the cultivation world a shock with a little ABO

7. "Untitled": After two years alone at home, his general husband returns with a beauty

Theme: From unknown to famous throughout the world, success takes hard work.