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- 1 Chinese Entertainment: The International Mega-Director 华娱之国际大导演 (This book's completion rate was too low, so I've switched to a new one: Showbiz: From the Start, Making Titanic in Hollywood. Thanks to all the readers for your support.) In his previous life, Chen Le graduated from the directing department at Beijing Film Academy, spent twenty years languishing on film sets, and ended up as an ill-fated director of short dramas. Reborn in 2003 with his memories from his previous life, he remembers the plots of all the movies he watched back then. He'll win ove 34Reads—Score533Shelves
- 2 Showbiz: A Golden Scale Is No Pond-Dweller 文娱：金鳞岂是池中物 A top-tier, feel-good chronicle of the entertainment industry. The first installment is complete. This is the story of an underdog rising to prominence in the entertainment industry. He is the aloof king of Chinese entertainment, conquering Hollywood, suppressing Japanese entertainment, and launching a counter-invasion of Korean entertainment. He takes a bloody bite out of Hollywood's bullying capitalists and their so-called blessings! He's a real MAN. He dates the top actresses born in the '80s 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Chinese Showbiz: Qinqin, Yuanyuan, Bingbing, Lili, and Qing'er 华娱：琴琴媛媛冰冰莉莉情儿 A veteran author you can trust. The protagonist is Chen Qi. The story starts in 1996 and focuses on Chinese showbiz. The blurb was reset, so this is all I can offer by way of an introduction. Please enjoy. Let's take a different journey through the world of showbiz. Here we go! 40kReads7.6Score3.3kShelves
- 4 Showbiz: Living Off Yang Mi, I Won't Even Try 娱乐：强吃杨蜜软饭，我不努力了 Su Qian unexpectedly transmigrates into the entertainment industry of a parallel world and takes over the identity of a top-tier star beset by trouble. His ex-girlfriend's tell-all post thrusts him into the eye of the storm. The whole internet is filled with abuse. After binding to the System, he is ecstatic. “I'll take on this mess!” Then, because he performs so exceptionally well, Da Mimi gazes at him with stars in her eyes and “forces” him to let her support him. Su Qian's comeback as a top-t 14kReads6.6Score1.3kShelves
- 5 A Chinese Entertainment Director: Starting with Goodbye Mr. Loser 华娱大导，从拍夏洛特烦恼开始 Lin Zhou transmigrated into a parallel world. Everything here was the same as before, except that none of the movies and TV shows from his old world existed. Shen Teng was still doing comedy sketches, Ma Li hadn’t made it big, and the masterpiece Goodbye Mr. Loser didn’t exist! With only two thousand yuan in his pocket, he dug up a script and went looking for investors, enduring accusations that an amateur was messing around. The financiers laughed at his delusions, and even Shen Teng’s team had 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 King of Comedy? More Like a Shameless God! 喜剧之王？这就是一个贱神！ A nobody transmigrates into the body of Zhen Jian, a disgraced celebrity in a parallel world. After binding himself to the All-Heavens Jerk God System, he discovers that Daxia here is even more… politically correct than the one he came from. Many hilarious works simply don’t exist here. “Collect public hatred, contempt, resentment, and other negative emotions to earn rewards?” And so Zhen Jian begins his career as a troublemaking Jerk God. On the singing show The Sound of Heaven, the other singe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Chinese Showbiz: Starting by Acquiring Golden Harvest 华娱从拿下嘉禾开始 Reborn into the world of capital, he monopolizes movie screens with one hand and churns out hit IPs to create stars with the other. Fan Ye attaches herself to him to vie for his favor, while Bingxue schemes behind the scenes for resources. He expands overseas. The actresses are all fighting to get on board? He smiles as he watches the tides turn: In showbiz, everything goes according to my script. 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Chinese Showbiz: Rising from the Blacklist to Become a Top-Tier Star 华娱：从黑流开始成为娱乐圈顶流 [Multiple heroines] [System] [Filming] [Entertainment industry] [Career] [Variety shows] Reborn in 2021, he joins Candy Is Super Sweet and creates an iconic moment from the start. With one line, “Candy is super sweet,” Shen Ci becomes the target of ridicule across the internet. He ranks last in the initial evaluation, and the whole internet calls him a pretty face and a sissy, certain he'll be eliminated in the first round and kicked out of the entertainment industry. No one knows he's bound to —Reads—Score116Shelves
- 9 Chinese Showbiz: Living Off a Woman but Making It Big, the Beijing Heiress Won’t Leave Me Alone 华娱：软饭硬吃，京圈公主赖上我 Chen Lang is reborn in the year 2000 and plans to use his memories of his previous life to build a steady career in show business. But on the very day his gold-digging fiancée breaks off their engagement, he unexpectedly activates the “Eat Off Women System.” As long as he wins the favor of high-quality women, he can trade it for god-tier acting skills, classic scripts, and business opportunities from the future! Chen Lang’s style takes a sudden turn: “Big sis, do you think I’ve got the face to l 2.4kReads—Score106Shelves
- 10 Reborn in the Millennium, I Debuted Before the Stars 重生千禧年，我比明星先出道 When Gu Mengcheng was mocked by a bar patron who splashed a drink on him, he got a call saying his father was critically ill. On his way home through the rain, truck headlights flared in front of him. When he opened his eyes again, he was in a shabby rental apartment in the year 2000. Seeing a poster for an unreleased album by “Z” on the wall, he frantically booted up a secondhand computer. “This time around, I’ll make sure everyone remembers my name.” His debut single, “Mood,” swept the radio s 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Chinese Showbiz: The Top-Tier Star of the Post-95 Generation Is Here 华娱：95小花！娱乐圈顶流来了 (Entertainment industry + wish fulfillment + actresses born in the 1990s + top-tier star + System) Xiao Tian, Zhou Ye, Liu Haocun, Meng Ziyi, Zhang Jingyi, Zhang Ruonan, Bai Lu, Li Yitong, Shen Yue, and others After transmigrating to 2015, watch Shen Yan conquer the entertainment industry and win over the actresses born in the 1990s. Get ready to shake this world to its core! 349Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Reborn in Chinese Showbiz: Meeting Sister Meng at the Exam 重生华娱从考场遇孟姐开始 Reborn in 2012, Lin Qingzhe is in his final year of high school when he decisively gives up the standard college entrance exams and chooses the arts track. From then on, academia loses an insignificant nobody, while the entertainment industry gains an all-round top-tier star and Best Actor. Meng Ziyi: You're not trying to hit on me, are you? I'm only focused on my career right now. Chen Yao: Thanks for the encouragement, Lin. I'll keep working hard. Liu Shishi: This handsome younger guy is my bi 503Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 13 Mocked by Everyone From the Start, Now the Whole Internet Copies My Nose Rub 开局遭群嘲，全网学我摸鼻梁 [Entertainment Industry] [Feel-Good] [Female Star] [No Angst] Making movies as a side gig, flirting with female stars as his main job Li Huan: You only get thirty thousand days in this life, so love for as many of them as you can. Audience: The director puts me through misery a thousand times, so I’ll send him a box of knives. Li Huan: I put the audience through misery a thousand times, and they still flock to the theaters. 271Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 14 Don't Run, Movie Emperor: The Vapid Heroine Is a Master Psychologist 影帝别跑，花瓶女主是满级心理师 Others make it in show business with good looks, money, or a scandalous reputation they later whitewash. Shen Weixing makes it by treating people! A movie star with depression, a top-tier star with mania, a young actress with a people-pleasing personality... She gets them all under control with acting and psychological intervention that hit like a dimensionality-reduction strike. While her haters are still mocking her as an illiterate pretty face, half the entertainment industry’s biggest names 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 How Did I End Up Getting Pounced on by All Those Post-90s Rising Stars? 我咋就被90后小花们疯狂推倒了 Hello, everyone. I’m Lin Yi. I used to be a proud 007 on Blue Star, but I wanted to get ahead so badly that I ended up in a parallel world. Those of you who transmigrate often know how it goes: sooner or later, transmigrators become incredible figures. Well, it just so happens that I’m a nobody, and my father is Zhang Erhe, a man with connections reaching the heavens. My second uncle played dirty and hauled me off to Beijing Film Academy, then my mom played dirty too and threw me right back out. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 My Cousin Is Liu Tianxian 我的表妹是刘天仙 Liu Dongdong patted his little cousin on the head. “Work hard, Xixi. Next year, I'll find you a sister-in-law.” “Xixi, you'd better work hard and earn lots of money.” “Auntie, I'll take care of you.” “Ah, Auntie, don't hit my butt!” “Brat, don't kiss me on the mouth. You're covered in drool.” 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Chinese Showbiz: The Post-95 Actresses Are Going Wild 华娱：95后小花们都要疯狂了 [Director; focused on post-95 actresses; multiple heroines; Tian Xiwei, Zhou Ye, Zhang Jingyi, Chen Duling, Nai Xiao, Zhang Ruonan, Meng Jie, taking the stage in that order] Warning: The celestial beauty, Fan Xiaopang, and the A-list actresses only serve as tools. Pure-love fans, stay away. Luo Chengan, reborn, became the chosen one for rising actresses. Poor acting, lifeless eyes, being mocked by everyone: it all came to him. Can’t get into character? A Character Experience Card makes you under 43Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 18 Chinese Showbiz: From North American Gang Boss to Entertainment Godfather 华娱：从北美堂主到娱乐教父 At the turn of the millennium, for reasons no one could quite explain, Xu Qian wandered into the strange world known as the entertainment industry. From that day on, the industry suddenly became baffling in all sorts of ways. The Shanghai circle, the Beijing circle, the Northwest circle, and even the Hong Kong circle that came along later all somehow became the Xu circle. 161Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Chinese Showbiz: A Lifetime as a Top-Tier Star 华娱：一世顶流 Yun Jie thought his first half of life had been a joke. He had spent seven years in the Magic City chasing his dream of becoming a musician, only to end up back in his hometown as a music teacher, getting his brain fried every day by the piano racket made by a bunch of little brats. Who could have guessed that he would wake up and find himself back in 2008! That was before capital had entered the game and before traffic stars had risen. Opportunities were everywhere. The songs from my past life? 372Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Chinese Showbiz: Starting with Jujutsu Kaisen 华娱：从咒术回战开始 Third-rate artist Gu Chi was reborn in 2013. In this life, he gained drawing skills on the level of “Yusuke Murata,” with an unbelievably powerful work ethic. In this life, Gege Akutami had yet to debut, and Jujutsu Kaisen had yet to be created. Looking at the pen in his hand, Gu Chi smiled. “This time, Satoru Gojo won’t get cut short.” “This time, there’ll be no 2.5 Gojo, only the one who stands supreme in heaven and earth!” 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Chinese Showbiz: From the Start, I Fooled a Future Top Director 华娱：开局忽悠未来大导 Reborn in Chinese Entertainment: From the Start, I Fool the Next Big Director Reborn in 2001 in Hengdian, Zhao Fan looked at his strikingly handsome reflection and nearly burst out laughing. He had planned to play a corpse for a meal, but unexpectedly stole the future Best Actor's lines on the set of Hero. Zhang Yimou stared at the monitor and slapped his thigh. “Where’d you find this kid? Give him more scenes!” After the shoot wrapped that night, Zhao Fan crouched by a malatang stall and sw 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Showbiz: After Getting Dumped, I Shocked Everyone with AI Special Effects 文娱：被甩后，我用AI特效震惊 My girlfriend ran off with a rich heir, then teamed up with him to plagiarize my graduation project, ruining my reputation and leaving me a million yuan in debt! The whole internet called me a copycat, and my landlord kicked me out! At the end of my rope, I activated a Super AI System. It can search every masterpiece on Blue Star and generate Hollywood-quality special effects at zero cost! My ex and the rich heir used my stolen work to win an award, then mocked me, saying I'd never recover. I ju 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Chinese Showbiz: The Temptation of a Succubus Director 华娱：来自魅魔导演的诱惑 A third-rate screenwriter in his previous life is reborn as a freshman in the directing program at Beijing Film Academy, with a family rich enough to own a mine. He knows this script inside out! Art-house films for Cannes? Commercial hits to rake in box office revenue? He wants it all. As for those sparkling eyes along the red carpet... No rush. We’ll take it one scene at a time. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Chinese Showbiz: Are the 1995-Born Starlets Really This Fierce? 华娱：95花都这么凶残吗？ Chen Jing, a short-drama director reborn in 2017, shakes up the entertainment industry. Yet people are always saying he doesn’t play by the rules! “Mr. Chen, some actresses who debuted in the 2000s say you’re prejudiced against them and prefer working with actresses born in the ’90s and ’95s. Do you admit it?” “That’s true.” “What do you have to say about undermining unity in the entertainment industry?” “What unity?” “Some say you were the first to make short dramas, bringing on the winter in t 2.6kReads—Score405Shelves
- 25 This Actor Wants More Money! 这个演员要加钱！ The Ming Dynasty’s last military champion transmigrates to the modern day, where Ouyang Bai takes the entertainment industry by storm. Director: I hear you’re pretty good in a fight? Ouyang Bai: Just pay me… 19Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 26 As a Director, It's Only Natural to Be a Little Multitalented 身为导演，多才多艺亿点很正常吧 No System + Parallel World + Not a Mindless Wish-Fulfillment Story + Multiple Heroines Xia Dongqi, a middle-aged salesman, unexpectedly transmigrates and is reborn in a parallel world as Xia Dongqi, a second-year middle school student. He sets himself two principles and one goal. First, never drink alcohol again. Second, be a law-abiding, upstanding citizen. His goal is to enter the entertainment industry and experience the fabled world of glitz and glamour, wine and indulgence... No, to create 365Reads8.0Score102Shelves
- 27 Supreme Succubus: I'm Going to Win Over the Biggest Rising Stars 顶级魅魔，我要攻略当红小花们 My new story is here! You can find it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Reborn in 2000: I Became a Star by Filming My Sassy Girl 重生2000：我拍野蛮女友封神 Back in 2000, Jiangnan, a student at the Beijing Film Academy, returns with all the film and television knowledge of the future. He launches his career with My Sassy Girl, then shakes up Hong Kong cinema with Infernal Affairs. With countless ace scripts in hand, investors compete to fund him, stars clamor for roles, and overseas rights are snapped up in a frenzy. From campus filmmaker to the pinnacle of Chinese-language film and television! 3kReads—Score170Shelves
- 29 Top-Tier Star: Debuting in the Center on Idol Producer 顶流：从偶练c位出道开始 [Idol Producer] + [Top-Tier Star] + [Multiple Female Leads] + [Rising Starlets] + [No System] Shen Fei was reborn in 2017. At the time, the entertainment industry was still dominated by the Four Kings and Three Rising Stars. After Lu Han announced his relationship, his popularity plummeted. When one giant falls, countless others rise. Shen Fei made his move. First, he ended his contract with his old, ineffectual agency. Then he joined Idol Producer, crushed the competition, debuted in the center 540Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 30 Chinese Showbiz: Starting Out as an Influencer 华娱从网红开始 Back in 2017, I set out to make it in the entertainment industry as an internet celebrity. They say the entertainment industry is a place full of mysticism: a little fame comes from promotion, but real stardom comes down to fate. I refuse to believe in fate. I believe I can carve out my own future through hard work. My fate is mine to control, not heaven's! They also say the entertainment industry is a cesspool. In this age of capital, connections, money, and powerful backers rule, and unspoken 113Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 31 Showbiz: A Director's Life 娱乐：导演人生 [Chinese Showbiz] [Movies] [Multiple Heroines] [No System] What? You say I’m too young to be a director? Sorry, directing runs in my family! What? You say I can’t get investors? Sorry, my family has more money than we can spend! What? You say I live an extravagant, wasteful life? Sorry, my talent won’t let me keep a low profile! Given another life, if I can’t do what I love, pursue the women I’m attracted to, or enjoy myself, then what’s the point of living? Note: This is a new author’s first bo 243Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 32 I Was Just Writing a Web Novel, Why Is a Female Star at My Door Asking for Advice? 我就写个网文，女星上门求指导？ Su Yu transmigrates to a parallel world, only to be sent straight to an orphanage. Without a golden finger, he has no choice but to pick up his old profession from his previous life: writing web novels. Unexpectedly, his entertainment harem novel, My Ex-Girlfriends Are All Superstars, becomes the "book of destiny" for female celebrities across the internet. Every entertainment-industry creation and piece of advanced technology that appears in the book comes to mind as long as Su Yu knows its cor 47.5kReads6.2Score7.5kShelves
- 33 Showbiz: I Can Increase the Odds of Success 文娱：我能增加成功率 (The rating is low because it just came out.) He woke from a nap to find the world had changed. Lu Yao was a film and TV content creator in 2025, spending late nights editing commentary videos. He never expected to wake up as a ten-year-old child in 1985, when the country was just getting back on its feet. Well, the chubby guy is four now, the pretty one is six, and the future megastar Yang Mi won't be born for another year, while Liu Yifei won't arrive for another two… Did he come a little too 5.5kReads6.6Score297Shelves
- 34 Showbiz: My S-Rank Acting Skills Got Me an Official Announcement from Yang Mi 娱乐：我S级演技，被杨蜜官宣 [Entertainment industry, satisfying read, System, multiple heroines, story plagiarist] Zhang Lin wakes up to find Yang Mi and Yaya beside him, making him the enemy of the entire internet. He binds himself to an entertainment exchange System and switches into story-plagiarist mode. From then on, his acting becomes legendary, hit songs pour out one after another, and he becomes the king of variety shows and a god of investment. 31.3kReads7.5Score3.1kShelves
- 35 Chinese Showbiz's Top-Tier Star: It All Began When I Dumped Wang Churan 华娱顶流：从渣了王楚燃开始 [TV dramas + movies + multiple female leads + heaven-defying comprehension] Chen Xusheng was born into a parallel world. While accompanying a classmate to audition for an extra role, he was discovered by a director and skipped straight up three levels. He went from an extra to a minor supporting role, then to a major supporting role. He met Wang Churan while working on a show, then got to know Meng Ziyi, Lu Yuxiao, and others through her... With all those actresses leading the way, he found hims 1kReads6.4Score103Shelves
- 36 Dating Show: One Song About My Hometown Takes the Internet by Storm! 恋综：一首莫愁乡火遍全网！ [Lighthearted daily life + dating show + livestreaming + entertainment industry + many love interests + wish fulfillment] Mo Chen accidentally transmigrates to a parallel world and awakens an entertainment System. With nothing to his name, he spots an ad for a dating show and signs up just to put food on the table. Unexpectedly, his performance of “Mochou Village” takes the internet by storm, and he embarks on a journey to dominate the entertainment industry... Many years later, Mo Chen looks at 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 I Became a Boy Band Member and I’m So Over It, I Quit 成了男团我麻了，退吧 At the end of 2009, before the stage lights of Super Junior-M had completely gone dark, Gu Ci returned to China with a statement announcing his departure from the group, accidentally opening the floodgates for the first generation of Chinese entertainment’s breakout stars. The media called him “the first to leave Korea and return to China,” while fans hailed him as “the pioneer of domestic entertainment’s top-tier stars.” Gu Ci just smiled and tossed out three lines: “Don’t call me a top-tier st —Reads—Score8.3kShelves
- 38 Who Says Short-Drama Directors Can't Make Movies? 谁说短剧导演不会拍电影 [Multiple heroines] [Success in both the arts and business] Who says a short-form drama director isn’t a real director? With enough funding, short-form directors can make better films than many big-name directors! Gu Huaiyuan, a short-form drama director, is unexpectedly reborn at the dawn of Chinese entertainment in 2002. Armed with a vision and skills far ahead of his time, he cuts a path to success with art films and builds his fortune with commercial films! One masterpiece after another is b 10.4kReads6.1Score486Shelves
- 39 Entertainment Director: Let’s Make Everything Crossover 文娱导演：全部联动起来 Characters included: Sherlock Holmes, Batman, Iron Man, the Joker, Tiga, Godzilla, Kabuto, and the Emperor Armor. [Director]+ [IP crossover]+ [No female lead]+ [Multiverse] After transmigrating to Blue Star, Duan Fei discovers that movies here have special effects, but no soul. He laughs, because he has every classic from Earth in his head! And with the support of the [IP Crossover Script Synthesis System], he starts with a winning hand! "Sherlock Holmes"+ "Batman": The ultimate showdown bet 261Reads6.0Score118Shelves
- 40 Showbiz: Why Become a Director When You Could Be a Gangster? 娱乐：你不做社会大哥，当导演？ He transmigrates to a parallel world by accident. Lin Dazai is a terrible student, looked down on by his parents and dismissed by his classmates. At the same time, he’s the leader of a group of tough kids at school! The principal can only shake his head and sigh, convinced they’re destined for miserable lives and failure. These tough kids may dress strangely, get into trouble, and act tough. That’s just their way of wanting to be noticed. In truth, they’re sensitive and full of emotion, with a r 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Long Live the Director! 导演万岁 A veteran director from 2025 unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Qian Yue, a student who has just taken the college entrance exam in 2001. As it happens, this Qian Yue has already applied to the directing program at the Beijing Film Academy. Given a second life, Qian Yue's goal is to rapidly amass capital and become a top tycoon. He will direct films that sweep both awards and box office, become the hottest director around, and have countless beautiful actresses pining for him. 30Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 42 Showbiz: Who Read My Diary?! 娱乐：谁偷看了我的日记！ [Is this a diary?] [More importantly, who in their right mind keeps a diary?] [Good thing I’m not exactly in my right mind.] Chen Hao returned to 2010 with a diary in hand, and from the start, he spotted Yang Mi on the set of The Palace. It wasn’t as if he’d never read this kind of novel before. Some people were bound to see this! He let out a cold laugh. Then couldn’t he just make up a few “new” things? For instance, he could start by inventing a wife for himself. Then he could make up a ridicu 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Chinese Showbiz: Blessed with Women, I Grow Stronger by Winning Over Actresses 华娱：旺女体质，攻略女星就变强 Qin Nuo transmigrates into a parallel world, becomes a rookie entertainer in show business, and binds himself to a System. Through his hard work, in less than three years he becomes a well-known second-tier celebrity. But he never imagined that one day his career would crash and burn. The ever-present paparazzi expose his secret relationship. His former agency kicks him out, and several major companies join forces to blacklist him. Faced with this predicament, Qin Nuo doesn't panic in the slight 98kReads8.5Score9.9kShelves
- 44 Chinese Showbiz: I Never Meant to Become a Top-Tier Star! 华娱：我真的没想成为顶流！ [Multiple heroines, 95, everyday life, variety shows, acting, slow pace, chaotic timeline] After transmigrating into a parallel world and entering the entertainment industry, Lin Xingyu swears he never wanted to become a top-tier star. P.S. A man's word is worth less than a ghost's! 213Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 45 Chinese Showbiz: You Can't Imagine How Much Fun Being a Director Is 华娱：导演的快乐你想象不到 When Zhao Fan wakes up, he finds the world unchanged, and the people still the same. But some films that should have existed... have vanished. A senior in the directing program at Beijing Film Academy, he looks at the Chinese entertainment industry of 2003 and silently takes a drag from his cigarette. Since nobody has made Parasite, Inception has gone unnoticed, and the script for Let the Bullets Fly is still locked in a drawer... Then he won’t stand on ceremony. From Venice to Cannes, from the 342Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 After My Divorce, I Return to 2000 and Conquer Showbiz 离婚后我回2000年玩转娱乐圈 After his divorce, Zhang Tiannan’s soul transmigrates to the year 2000. Determined to ditch his ex-wife Feng Yao and live by the principle of “If they haven’t made it big yet, I’ll get famous first,” he tears through the entertainment industry. Beijing bigwigs, Hong Kong legends, all of them can step aside. Nobody’s stopping me from taking off! Songs, movies, TV dramas, online streaming: I know what’s coming, so who’s going to scare me? First, I’ll make a fortune, then we’ll see. I’m here to mak —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Helmsman of an Entertainment Empire 娱乐帝国掌舵者 [Reborn in 1996: From Washed-Up Director to the Crown Prince of Beijing’s Elite] When Lin Wangshu, a washed-up 40-year-old director, finishes singing “The Wind Is Rising” at a bar, the gears of fate turn backward, sending him to the new-student welcome stage at Yanjing Film Academy in 1996. This time, he is no longer a poor student nobody cares about. His mother, a real estate tycoon, gives him a wealth of resources, while his father, the head of the Public Security Department, offers him a powe 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Who Sent Him to Hollywood? 谁让他去好莱坞的 Han Weiping graduated from the directing program at the Central Academy of Drama. He’d dreamed of becoming a director since childhood, but after graduation, he couldn’t find work in Hengdian and ended up as a Sanhe drifter, living in internet cafes and scraping by on day jobs. Desperate about his life, he one day transmigrated into the body of a Chinese American student at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television in mid-1990s Los Angeles. “No System? Just an incredible memory of the movies 18Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 49 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 45Reads—Score135Shelves
- 50 The Director Returns to 1996 导演重回1996 (A director’s story of striving for success + airtight logic + not a brainless, shallow novel) Back to 1996, when travel was slow and letters took a long time to arrive. Lin Maidong gets into the directing program at Beijing Film Academy. This is the most difficult era for the film and television industry. The Sixth Generation directors have yet to make their mark, and films are still produced under the auspices of state-owned studios. People care about art, not commerce, and domestic box office 894Reads7.0Score—Shelves
