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- 1 Showbiz: This Director Is Incredibly Productive 文娱：这个导演真高产 At the turn of the century, China's performing arts industry in Qiongxing began transforming into the entertainment industry. Actors, singers, and others in the business all came to share one grand, unified title: celebrities! Luo Su, reborn from Blue Star with a practically useless cheat ability, chooses to become a director. No novel of his takes the world by storm! No screenplay makes investors haul sacks of money to his door! No dramatic flexing sends celebrities flocking to join him! All he 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I Asked You to Make a Flop, So What Is This Nezha: Demon Child Conquers the Sea? 让你拍烂片，哪吒魔童闹海什么鬼 [Ne Zha + The Wandering Earth + The Three-Body Problem + ...] I'm Lin Ruoxi. From the start, my dad dumped a film company on me and told me to run it. Luckily, I got bound to a loss-rebate System. As long as the company loses money, the System compensates me tenfold. So my goal is to run the company into the ground! I'm Xu Chen. From the start, I transmigrated into the body of a director and discovered that this world's entertainment industry was terribly backward. Luckily, I got bound to an Ear 62Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 3 I Made Terrible Movies, Yet Became the Box Office Champion! 专拍烂片的我，成为票房第一人！ Zhang Bo transmigrates. He becomes an obscure, down-on-his-luck film director. Having had enough of poverty, he sets himself a life goal: Make the cheapest films and earn the biggest box office. So what if people call him the King of Flops? My box office is number one in the world! “Director, please let me make a flop with you.” “Fine, get up and speak. The floor’s cold, so stop kneeling.” 928Reads8.4Score103Shelves
- 4 You Asked for a Bandit-Suppression Story, but You Wrote Let the Bullets Fly 让你写剿匪，你写让子弹飞 Xu Jun woke up one day to find he'd transmigrated and was taking part in a live screenwriting competition. Contestants had to create a script based on a prompt drawn by the host. The prompt for this round was bandit suppression. While the other contestants earnestly hunted bandits in various dynasties, Xu Jun went straight for Let the Bullets Fly. Viewers all thought Xu Jun had been drinking and was scribbling nonsense, but just as the script was nearing completion... "Don't rush... let the bull 45Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 5 Showbiz: Director, Stop Filming! I'm Not Getting Enough Nutrition! 娱乐：导演别拍了，营养跟不上！ Movie buff Su Yu, who has watched countless films, transmigrates and discovers he has become a nobody of a newly debuted director. From the start, he pulls out the most explosive movies from his previous life! Reba’s Fast & Furious has no acting? Who told you to watch for the acting? A beauty and a luxury car, now that’s what you call fast and furious! Shishi’s Titanic is too explicit, corrupting public morals? If it corrupts public morals, why did you drive its box office all the way to number 439Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 6 Foreshadowing: The Screenwriter’s a Sneaky Trickster, and Every Scene Is a Trap 伏笔：编剧个老六，到处都是坑 The ringing in his ears faded. Lin Qi realized he had transmigrated, and was currently competing in a screenwriting variety show, the National Young Screenwriters’ Innovation Contest! Contestants had to write a script based on a prompt drawn by the judges. The first theme was “Get Rich.” While the other contestants wrote about winning the lottery, finding diamonds, or helping an old lady cross the street, Lin Qi went straight for Hello Mr. Billionaire. From the start, the protagonist inherited t 1.6kReads6.0Score103Shelves
- 7 I Asked You to Draw a Detective, and You Drew Chinatown Detective? 让你画侦探，你画唐人街探案？ Lin Mo transmigrates to a parallel world and discovers that he’s taking part in the National Comic Competition, where contestants must create a comic based on a given prompt. The first prompt is [Kung Fu]. While the other contestants are still drawing stories about young kung fu heroes roaming the martial world, Lin Mo goes straight for Kung Fu Hustle. “Kung fu is a killing art!” “First fists, then kicks, followed by grappling; weapons and internal arts combined into one.” “Settle who’s stronger 1.1kReads6.4Score100Shelves
- 8 I Asked You to Shoot a Promo, Not Make Me a Bright Sword 让你拍宣传片，你给我整亮剑 After transmigrating, Ye Fan discovered that he had become a civilian director in the military. Before he could even react, his superiors assigned him a job on the spot: shoot a promotional video! Ye Fan braced himself and planned to do a quick-and-dirty job with his amateur skills. But then his System activated! He instantly gained master-level directing skills and the complete script for “Drawing Sword”! Battalion Commander: “I only asked you to shoot a promotional video. How did you turn it i 967Reads5.3Score103Shelves
- 9 I Asked You to Write a Romance, and You Came Up with a Peerless Hero, the Supreme Treasure? 让你写恋爱，你盖世英雄至尊宝？ Su Muchen wakes from a dream to discover he has transmigrated to a parallel world and is competing on the creative variety show "The New Screenwriter". After rounds of nationwide selection, the top 32 contestants gather in the capital for a livestream watched by the whole country! They draw a prompt on the spot, then write independently under the watchful eyes of the audience and judges. They’ll need both luck and skill to make it through! The first theme is: Romance. The other contestants are w 4.1kReads8.4Score203Shelves
- 10 Making It in Showbiz as Stephen Chow’s Nephew 从星爷侄子闯荡娱乐圈 (An entertainment-industry story with one female lead and no harem. Read with caution.) Starting out as a screenwriter with a little family influence and a golden finger, he rises step by step to become a major figure in the entertainment industry’s film and television world... 2.4kReads8.0Score102Shelves
- 11 I Made a Crime-Fighting Promo About The Knockout, and the Whole Internet Went Wild 反黑宣传片我拍狂飙，全网爆火 Wang Lin transmigrated as a rookie at the police department, and his very first assignment was to make an anti-triad drama! The characters had to feel vivid, the plot had to be fresh, and it couldn't be clichéd. What could possibly be more suitable than The Knockout? Police Department Chief: “I asked you to make an anti-triad drama, and you broke the ratings record? Next time, don't make the villain so vivid!” Criminal Investigation Commissioner: “I asked you to show how tough it is to be an und 1.5kReads7.0Score104Shelves
- 12 I Asked You to Make a Romance Movie, So Why Are You Making the Whole Internet Cry? 让你拍恋爱电影，你给全网发刀？ Gu Qing dreams of becoming an internationally renowned director. He transmigrates to a parallel world where the film industry has fallen into decline. He plans to make his mark, only to discover that this world is full of CEO idol dramas, with no good screenwriters or scripts to be found. Fortunately, he won the birth lottery this time: he's rich, very rich. Just as he's about to lie flat, he awakens the System for Revitalizing Great Xia's Film Industry. You all like watching sweet romances, 9.5kReads7.9Score691Shelves
- 13 Three Kingdoms: Recreating an Age of Chaos on Blue Star 三国：我在蓝星复刻乱世 The protagonist, Lin Chen, transmigrates to Blue Star, a world with advanced virtual technology but no historical records. With the help of a System, he sets out to create the ultimate virtual Three Kingdoms game. (This novel draws on a variety of sources, including Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Records of the Three Kingdoms. The story is for entertainment only and does not strictly follow history. This is not historical fiction, but entertainment fiction. Entertainment fiction. Entertainmen 128Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 I Asked You to Make a Game, So Why Did You Scare the Judges Unconscious? 让你做游戏，你怎么把评委吓晕了 Lin Zi'ang transmigrated to Blue Star and discovered a world where virtual reality technology was highly advanced and the gaming industry was booming. But compared to other games, horror games were few and far between, a niche within a niche. Their average production quality was also far below what he’d known in his previous life, with most of them relying on nothing but shoddy jump scares. As luck would have it, he’d brought along a horror game development System, packed with horror games from 2.4kReads8.3Score202Shelves
- 15 The Strongest Screenwriter King 最强编剧之王 [No female lead + slow-burn pacing] This is my first novel, so please forgive me if it's not very good. Lin Moran, a veteran screenwriter who worked himself to death at a drinking table while scrambling for investment and trying to please his clients, transmigrated. The good news: in this world, screenwriters are the ones calling the shots! The bad news: his former teacher had just accused him of plagiarism and had him blacklisted. The good news: this world has no transmigration dramas, rebirth 1.8kReads7.8Score101Shelves
- 16 You Were Supposed to Write a Comedy, So Why Did You Make Everyone Cry? 让你写喜剧，你怎么把人都写哭了 Jiang Lu transmigrated into a parallel world and discovered he was in the middle of a live-streamed creative competition. Contestants had to create something on the spot based on a theme randomly drawn by the judges. When the judges announced that the theme was [comedy], the other contestants got to work. Some crafted comedic plots with biting social satire, while others created a cheerful, harmonious atmosphere through stories of young people pursuing their dreams. Without hesitation, Jiang 9.7kReads8.0Score796Shelves
- 17 Showbiz: From the Start, I Wrote a Screenplay, and Yang Mi Came Knocking with a Knife 娱乐：开局写剧本，杨密提刀上门 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 2.3kReads6.7Score105Shelves
- 18 Lord of Entertainment: From the Start, a Blockbuster Hit with The Wandering Earth 文娱之主，开局王炸流浪地球 Renowned director, writer, and game developer Chen Ping transmigrates. In this world, the Dragon Kingdom is powerful, and its cultural market is thriving like never before. Yet the market has no products to match the Dragon Kingdom's economic stature. Every year, foreign blockbusters storm the Dragon Kingdom, seizing most of the profits while exporting their cultures to the country. Korean pop worship, Japanese pop worship, hero worship... Foreign ideas keep battering the minds of the Dragon Kin 7.6kReads8.3Score478Shelves
- 19 Reforming Showbiz, Starting as a Rookie Screenwriter 整顿娱乐圈，从小小编剧开始 [Entertainment industry + screenwriter + System + no romance + strong female lead] A genius screenwriter gets into a car accident on the night she receives an award and transmigrates into the body of a screenwriting student with the same name in a parallel world. A scumbag plagiarizes the student's work, then turns around and accuses her of plagiarism, instructing the cast to make things difficult for her. Hounded by the entire internet and facing trouble with her father, she sleeps just two hou 2.5kReads9.0Score173Shelves
- 20 You Were Asked to Promote Cultural Heritage Preservation, and You Made The Grave Robbers' Chronicles? 让宣传文物保护，你拍盗墓笔记？ After transmigrating, Qin Feng is reduced to a third-rate film director, scraping by on small advertising gigs. Then he lands a job from the Anti-Fraud Bureau, which asks him to make an anti-fraud educational film. At a loss for what to do, Qin Feng receives the ‘All-Round Director System’ and starts letting loose! When "No More Bets" hits theaters, the whole internet is stunned! “Look into this director. He might be the head of a fraud ring!” “We asked you to make an educational film, and you m 8.6kReads7.9Score978Shelves
- 21 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
- 22 I Turned a Police Department Promo into a Film About an Outlaw 我把警署宣传片拍成了法外狂徒 The chief: “Chen Fan, if you can't shoot a video that goes viral this time, you're fired.” So Chen Fan filmed the classic Siping Police Affairs video about a cloud in the northwest sky, with a crow among a flock of phoenixes. The chief: “Hmm, not bad. Keep it up!” Chen Fan then filmed Uncle Desert's video, The Light of Justice, earning himself the title of the police world's black-hearted villain. The Armed Forces Department borrowed Chen Fan to shoot a recruitment video, but he went and made Wo 3.5kReads8.8Score273Shelves
- 23 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 11kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
- 24 Gourmet: Taking Over the Bear’s Prison Canteen 美食：从承包毛熊监狱食堂开始 After a disastrous blind date, Tang Lei flees overnight, only to bind himself to a Chef God System that randomly assigns him a place to run: the cafeteria of a prison in a nation of tough fighters! Pork stewed with potatoes, red-braised pork, stuffed eight-treasure duck, sweet-and-sour ribs… Homestyle dishes! State-banquet cuisine! Every delicacy imaginable! Bring a taste of the culinary kingdom to Siberia, a barren wasteland of food! The vicious, unruly inmates: “Boss, do you need anyone to was 2.8kReads9.2Score309Shelves
- 25 You Asked Me to Review Shops, but I Became a National Tourism Ambassador 让你探店，你成全国旅游推广大使 [Poetry and Song] [Music, Chess, Calligraphy, and Painting] [Intangible Cultural Heritage] [Writing Poems at Scenic Sites] [Finding Solace in Nature] [Cultural Confidence] [Human Geography] [Making Scenic Sites Famous] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lu Li becomes a travel blogger who visits local businesses and tourist attractions, and gains the City Promotion System. From the start, he heads to Zibo to take the imperial examinations and posts a video exploring F4. The warm hospitalit 12.1kReads8.8Score875Shelves
- 26 Bankrupt from the Start: Creating the Avengers of the Entertainment Industry 开局破产，打造娱乐圈复仇者联盟 [Showbiz + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + No Romance + Music + Literature + Film and TV + Comics + History...] Also known as: “Showbiz: Conquering the World with Viral Hits,” “Showbiz: Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill Until I Go Crazy” Years later, The Avengers premieres. Only then does the world learn that the Song Emperor Iron Man, literature’s top-tier star Hulk and Black Widow, genius screenwriter Loki, top directors Wukong, the God of Comics Thor, and the Song God Spider-Man were 27.2kReads8.9Score1.8kShelves
- 27 A Sixty-Year-Old Man Is Reborn and Soars to the Top 60岁老大爷重生后一飞冲天 A 60-year-old man is reborn and rises to the top overnight 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Screaming City: Overtime Hell 尖叫城市之加班地狱 Screaming City: The Overtime Hell 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Living Off Reba: Spent Her Little Fortune from the Start 吃热芭软饭，开局花光她的小金库 Lin Mo transmigrates and becomes classmates with Reba, a future superstar. From the start, he even talks her into becoming his wife! While his classmates are still struggling to figure out how to shoot their graduation films, Lin Mo invests in Love Is Not Blind, turning it into a box-office dark horse! An investment of 4 million brings in 300 million at the box office! The entire industry is stunned! After that, Lin Mo takes the director's chair and shoots films such as Goodbye Mr. Loser, Dying 33.8kReads8.8Score2kShelves
- 30 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 29.1kReads8.7Score2.7kShelves
- 31 Livestream: Why Go to Peking University? Come to A University with Dad! 直播：上什么北大，跟爹上A大！ The apocalypse arrived, and Ai Chen was reborn. In his previous life, he drove his son away by being too strict. This time, he'll spoil him rotten. During the apocalypse, father and son stay home and play video games. Son: Dad, I want to get into Peking University! Ai Chen: Why go to Peking University? Come to A University with me! With that, he pulled his son into a two-player game. Son: Dad, I'm tired of gaming. I want to do homework for a while... Ai Chen: You finished your homework already. 586Reads9.2Score165Shelves
- 32 The Depressing Literary Master: One Copy of To Live Brought the World to Tears 致郁系文豪，一本活着全球泪崩 (Parallel World + Rebirth + System + Literary Prodigy + Career + No Over-the-Top Drama + Not a Harem Novel) After leaving the military, Li Liwen, an office worker in a parallel world, had finally gotten his life back on track. But an unexpected industry downturn left him unemployed. The sudden blow triggered a heart attack in a fit of anger. When he woke up, he discovered he had returned to the age of seventeen. That year, he hadn’t even started his second year of high school. Then he stopped ho 26kReads9.2Score1.9kShelves
- 33 I Transmigrated, So Why Am I a Wolf? 穿越了，怎么是狼 Some transmigrate into the body of a farmer’s son, pass the imperial examinations, and become pillars of the nation. Some transmigrate into the body of a prince and remain unshaken amid raging storms. But how come I transmigrated into a wolf, and not even a grown one, but a wolf cub? 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 A Tragic Rich Kid Opens a Tourist Attraction 悲剧富二代开景区 I transmigrated, my family fortune was stolen, my luxury car was gone, my mansion was gone, and so was my company. Oh, I still have three islands. Damn this System, making a transmigrator work for a living. How about opening a tourist attraction? The mermaid legend could work, and Journey to the West could work too. Peach Blossom Island is out of the question: I’m the island master. Should I add immortal cultivation? Maybe demonic cultivation too? 136Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 After Reincarnation, You're Still a Scumbag 轮回后的你依然是渣男 Even after reincarnation, you’re still a scumbag 84Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Global Creator 全球创作家 [No System + Pure Wish Fulfillment + No Angsty Plotlines] After enduring trials across dozens of worlds and mastering every skill, Lu Xun was on his way back to Earth when he stumbled into Blue Star and unexpectedly became a composer. Composing music came naturally to him. Acting was a piece of cake. Writing books was effortless. Playing the piano was no big deal. Fortune-telling, though, was the real deal! He made the legendary superstar. He turned him into a celebrated movie emperor. If he 34.2kReads9.4Score2.7kShelves
- 37 My Brother's Getting Married, So This Fat Guy Is Stepping In 兄弟结婚，胖子我顶上了 Tian Bohao, a three-hundred-jin man, looked at his bride, Xiao Yingxue, who stood before him with tears in her eyes and not a word to say. Ring, ring! Wasn't that a phone call? It had to be the newlyweds having a spat and calling me for help. He answered and deliberately turned on the speaker. “Elephant?” Cao Xiang's voice came through the phone, frantic but deliberately hushed, begging for help: “Haizi! Haizi! I've landed in serious trouble this time. It's an emergency, and you've got to 12kReads6.1Score454Shelves
- 38 EN Mortal Cultivation: Ten Thousand Corpses Forge an Immortal Bone 凡人修仙，万尸铸仙骨 Demonic cultivation + no System + scheming underdog + decisive and ruthless. This book is dark, so don't read it if that's not your thing. The moment Song Wen kills the frail little beggar and seizes his blood and soul, every cell in his body cheers and leaps with excitement. His mind races, and he knows that killing will be part of his life from now on. For survival and immortality, he'll stop at nothing: petty schemes, conspiracies, and ruthless slaughter. On the road to immortality, bones are 96kReads8.9Score8.2kShelves
