A Picky Reader's List 挑食的书单

1. 1 香 Old Hong Kong Stories [Entertainment Industry] 香江旧事[娱乐圈] Hua Yuxia花雨夏Romance1.9M WordsCompleted When Su Yun woke up, she was in Hong Kong in 1972. This city, where Cantonese songs filled the air, was once the cinnabar mole and white moonlight in the hearts of countless people. In the 1970s and 1980s, Hong Kong, Japanese, and American entertainment were all at the height of their golden ages. There were beauty pageant fairy tales that made the whole city look up in the sweltering summer heat, and glamorous celebrity gossip about wealthy families vying for power and stars competing to shine. 21.6kFavorites58.3kClicks/ch27.8kGifts

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   A courageous time-travel novel. Nowadays, there are too many protagonists who are hesitant and timid after time-traveling, fearing they might change history. This makes the novel shine brightly in comparison.

2. 2 文 Entertainment Mogul: Hong Kong 文娱大亨[香江] Forest Antelope森羚Romance1.4M WordsOngoing Ye Niannian considers herself a transmigrator with a solid plan. After transmigrating to Hong Kong in the 1970s, she may be a nobody in a complicated family, but she never gives up on her dream of getting rich. When she publishes her first novel, all Ye Niannian wants is to earn her first pot of gold, so that in a few years, when the mainland opens up, she can buy houses and land and become a landlady. When she invests in her first movie, she figures she might as well make the money herself inst 48.7kFavorites71.4kClicks/ch258.1kGifts

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   To be continued, I'll give it four stars for now. So far, it seems heartwarming and refreshing.

3. 3 我 Gossip and Glamour in Hong Kong Entertainment 我在港娱吃瓜看戏 Fragrant Crisp Chestnut香酥栗Romance2.3M WordsCompleted On her eighteenth birthday, Jiang Jiahui awakened memories of her past life. The confident, sunny girl was instantly thrown into turmoil. This was the Hong Kong entertainment industry of the 1990s, and she had just stepped right into it. Jiang Jiahui clutched her Miss Hong Kong application acceptance notice and stared at the huge words “connected candidate” in the newspaper. Her head was spinning. Well, before she’d even started, she’d already earned the label of “connected candidate” thanks to 49.7kFavorites72.9kClicks/ch295kGifts

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   Possibly the best writer of everyday gossip articles on JJ.

4. 4 重 Reborn as a Director, but First, Let’s Get Some Fries 重生导演，但整点薯条 Lantern Shell灯笼壳子No CP511k WordsCompleted The main story is complete. Previous titles included The Director from the End of the Century, I Could Do That Too, and Can Any Tom, Dick, or Harry Make a Movie? On New Year’s Eve at the end of 1999, fireworks in Chinatown lit up the snow-covered Christmas trees along the street. Fang Keyi was lying in a hotel room, watching a rerun of the year’s hot award contender, The Matrix. In the new year, no aliens would arrive, the world wouldn’t end, and all of humanity wouldn’t fall asleep. Everyone w 19.4kFavorites22.7kClicks/ch39.5kGifts

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   I've read plenty of stories about filmmaking, but it's rare to see one that makes a reader blush and turn pale. [Panda head emoji]

5. 5 满 Max-Level Rich Lady, Living It Up in the 1990s 满级富婆，潇洒九零 Golden-Faced Buddha金面佛Romance4.3M WordsCompleted Wang Xiao, a wealthy woman with everything maxed out, transmigrates into a novel. Her namesake, a supporting female character, spends her entire life as a stepmother. To be a good stepmother, she gives up her career and devotes herself completely to her family, even choosing not to have children of her own. Then the biological mother returns in triumph, her husband gazes at his old flame with shining eyes, and her stepdaughter says that this woman is her real mother after all. The supporting 18.8kFavorites56.8kClicks/ch98.3kGifts

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   [Cracked] I'm a long-time reader of Jinzi. Jinzi's writing is excellent, the only drawback is that the suffering she depicts is too real, making it difficult for readers who can't handle the hardship to persevere. Getting back to the point, what attracts me most about "Carefree 90s" is how satisfying it is (with chips and oil, how could it not be satisfying?), Yet it doesn't ignore hardship at all. The female protagonist is truly a peculiar capitalist nurtured by the CCP (not in a derogatory sense); her desire to get rich is genuine, but so is her concern for the people's interests. These contradictory traits are cleverly blended into one character by Jin Zi's writing. This is probably because the female protagonist wields capital, rather than clings to it. The historical description of the period from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the establishment of Russia is excellent. The rest can be added later after this is over. [Clasped hands]

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