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- 1 My Heartbeats Earned Me Cash, and Now I’m a Top-Tier Star 心跳返钱后，我成了顶流 One yuan for every heartbeat, a hundred thousand a day! But the money has to be spent by the end of the day, or the System will turn you into a black donkey! Other people enter talent shows to pursue their dreams. I entered one to complete a spending task. I casually tipped a small-time streamer, only to find out she was a show judge? Great, I'll give you all 110,000 yuan I'm getting today! While everyone else relies on singing and dancing, I'll spend my way to becoming a top-tier star! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Showbiz: From F4's Scumbag to a Top-Tier Star 娱乐：渣男基从F4开始走向顶流 A new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. The protagonist has a similar character setup to Li Xiongji. The original owner, Li Xiongji, had a Han Chinese father and a Uyghur mother. His father was a business tycoon. After a falling-out with him, Li Xiongji ran away to Taiwan. His girlfriend thought he had no ambition. Determined to prove himself, he got involved with Sister Chai, then died suddenly and the protagonist transmigrated into his body. He got his start 138Reads6.1Score10014d adds
- 3 Showbiz 2002: Starting Out as a Bad Boy! 华娱2002从渣男开始！ Who's the biggest playboy in showbiz? Nian Jun is the undisputed champion. This is the story of a legendary playboy in the entertainment industry. The story of a generation's greatest playboy, a master of men's rights, a legendary director, and a legendary tycoon. It's really, really good!!!! 2.3kReads5.9Score10514d adds
- 4 Chinese Showbiz: A Capital Mogul Invades the Entertainment Industry 华娱：资本大佬入侵娱乐圈 [Handcrafted] [Showbiz] [Director] [Capital] [Multiple Heroines] A transmigrator finds himself in the body of someone reborn, beginning an urban legend about a young capitalist tycoon who infiltrates the entertainment industry under the guise of a director. His cousin Chen Kaige gives him hands-on lessons in filmmaking. When The Promise bites the dust, where will the story of Chinese cinema go from there? 1.9kReads5.1Score10414d adds
- 5 Starting Out in Chinese Entertainment by Investing in a TV Drama and Starring in It 华娱从投资电视剧当主角开始 A burned-out wage slave from 2025 is reborn in 2007. He has no System, but he does have a golden finger that helps him act, and he gets into the acting program at Beijing Film Academy as a member of the Class of 2008. In his new life, he’ll make money on the stock market, profit from investments, make a name for himself in the entertainment industry, and pursue beautiful women. This time, he’s determined to have both wealth and romance. 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Showbiz: Becoming the Man Behind Sister Mi, Go for It! 娱乐：做蜜姐背后的男人，推！ [Entertainment industry, feel-good story, no System, reborn in a bygone era, pop-culture plagiarist] Han Guang transmigrates back to 2004, armed with knowledge of how film and television will develop in the future. His pop-culture plagiarist mode activates, and he sweeps all before him. He signs Yang Mi and makes her a star. And he willingly becomes the man behind Yang Mi! 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 This Chaebol Isn't So Cold 这个财阀不太冷 A young man who knows Asian entertainment history and the art of investing inside out has his soul transported into the body of a Korean youth with the same name, who fell into a coma after an “accident” in 2002. He's the neglected third son of the mid-sized chaebol Hanseong Group, his mother died young, and his position is precarious. He fights to survive the ruthless chaebol power struggle and rise to the top. Using that position as leverage, he helps stars such as Lim Yoona, Victoria Song, Ki 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 A Spring Breeze in the Entertainment Industry 春风得意娱乐圈 A former king of soldiers was struck in the head by shrapnel during a mission, but when he underwent surgery, the shrapnel had vanished. After recovering, he left the military and returned home. Worried about his marriage prospects, his mother signed him up for a dating show. There, every female contestant turned off her light, and everyone mocked the fragmentary song lyrics he'd recorded from his memories. What no one knew was that hidden within the endless mist in his mind lay every piece of e 13Reads6.7Score114d adds
- 9 My Landlady Is Dilraba from the Start: I Go Viral as the King of Catchphrases 开局热巴房东，我靠梗王爆红 [Easy laughs + devoted romance with one heroine + meme and hit-song king = a high-energy, wildly satisfying showbiz adventure from start to finish!] Transmigrate into an unemployed good-for-nothing? From the start, he ends up renting a room from top-tier star Dilraba Dilmurat! Chen Mo has barely transmigrated before he's dubbed a “handsome good-for-nothing,” so broke his pockets are cleaner than his face. To his utter surprise, the place he's renting belongs to top-tier goddess Dilraba Dilmurat —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Chinese Showbiz: What’s Wrong with Female Actresses Wanting to Improve? 华娱：女演员想进步有什么错 [System] + [Director] + [Entertainment Empire] + [Multiple Heroines] Back in the golden age of Chinese entertainment, he makes a movie from the start that shocks Berlin! Fu Yibai discovers that in this life, not only does he have the System backing him, but he can also draw freely on all the classic works he remembers. Make movies, win awards, build a company, invest in blockbusters, sign talent, build a theater chain... From genius director to industry titan, his journey spans the entire sea of 22.9kReads6.3Score1.6k14d adds
- 11 Showbiz: A Rich Older Woman from the Start, Saving Me Twenty Years of Hard Work! 娱乐：富婆开局少走二十年弯路！ Beijing Film Academy’s King of Seduction, the Ultimate Freeloader Ender!!! Ex-girlfriends all over the entertainment industry! The most shameless director in history!!! How wild the entertainment industry gets is up to your Brother Lang!!!! 195Reads6.6Score1514d adds
- 12 Chinese Showbiz Director: What's Wrong with Having a Sharp Tongue? 华娱导演：嘴毒一点怎么了？ [Showbiz, not reborn, chubby guy rises to become an artistic heartthrob, acclaimed director, radically reworked movies] My name is Xie Xiaomeng, not Xie Xiaomeng! And not Charles! You wrote me into the script, made me play the role, and now you want me to carry the camera too! Aren't you just bullying an honest man? So I fought back. From then on, the System gave me one attribute after another, along with directing skills. I got handsome, became a renowned director, won over a rich heiress, and 2.3kReads8.0Score10014d adds
- 13 Showbiz: Yang Mi Wants to Sign Me? Kiss Me First! 娱乐：杨蜜想签我？先亲了再说！ Good news: I, Lu Yu, am the sole heir to a top global financial dynasty. Bad news: I only wanted to experience an ordinary life, but failed on the very first day. I figured I could join a talent show and make my debut based on my skills, right? But the mentor said my song was lame and tried to eliminate me. I had no choice but to make one phone call and get him kicked off the show. The whole internet: “Dude, who even are you? Why are you so loaded?!” I figured the show was too boring, so I could 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Reborn in Chinese Showbiz: Above the Penthouse 重生华娱：顶楼之上 After the awards ceremony, Lu Chen walks up to the rooftop alone. His phone vibrates seven times. Seven messages, from seven different people. He doesn’t rush to read them. He tilts his head back and gazes at the star-filled sky. In his previous life, he looked up at that same sky from his rented room, convinced the whole world had abandoned him. Now he knows he has the whole world. He lowers his eyes to his phone Yang Mi: “Are you free tonight? I’ll be waiting at our usual place.” Reba: 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Reborn in the Star Empire 重生之星光帝国 In his previous life, he was an obscure director who never got his big break. One day, he woke up in 1990, the year he turned six. Armed with memories of the next thirty-six years, Lin Yichen started out in a small county in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He helped his mother turn her street stall into a success, made his first fortune investing in subscription certificates, shorted the market during the Asian financial crisis, and bought the dip at just the right time during the dot-com bubble. He enter —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 My Top-Tier Star Girlfriend Is Reba 我的顶流女友是热芭 I fell in love with the brightest star in the entertainment industry, and we had to keep our relationship hidden. I’m Shen Qingci, a restorer with a little bit of a reputation in the world of cultural relics. My world used to be nothing but black and white, and silence, until I met her: Dilraba Dilmurat, dazzling on screen, but in private, she’d curl up on the sofa in my studio, eating chips and asking me, “Is this painting from the Tang dynasty or the Song?” At first, I thought it was just a te 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Director: Tone Down the Acting. Me: I Can't Hold Back at All 导演：收着点演，我：收不了一点 [Showbiz + god-tier acting + face-slapping top-tier stars + industry upheaval + adored by the big shots] [A docile puppy in front of his seniors, a wild husky king in the eyes of the audience] Lu Chen transmigrates to a parallel world and spends three years as a professional corpse, until he awakens the [SSS-Rank Movie Emperor Training System]: as long as he stirs the audience's emotions, he can grow stronger! And so begins his nonstop, outrageous comeback: he tears a tank apart to make his expl —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Showbiz: I Rise to Fame Through Variety Shows 文娱：从综艺开始走红 Lin Feng, a washed-up actor in his previous life, is unexpectedly reborn in the year he first entered the entertainment industry. Armed with the memories of his past life, he defies fate this time around, basking in the adoration of countless stars and surrounded by beautiful women. Becoming a top-tier star in China is only the beginning. His goal is the stars and the sea! 7.8kReads6.6Score45514d adds
- 19 Chinese Showbiz: My High School Desk Mate, Da Mimi 华娱：我的高中同桌大蜜蜜 [The rating just went up, and it’ll keep climbing! Give it a try!] [Not reborn + everyday life + comeback + multiple heroines] By a twist of fate, Xu Zhiyuan became deskmates with seventeen-year-old Da Mimi... From then on, there was no turning back. Giving up on the top universities Qingbei, Fudan, and Jiaotong, Xu Zhiyuan plunged headfirst into the entertainment industry... Writer, screenwriter, arranger, singer, director, and entertainment mogul Xu Zhiyuan, and his rumored girlfriends (Liu Qi 11.1kReads6.3Score1.1k14d adds
- 20 Reborn at the Turn of the Millennium: My Starlight Paradise 重生千禧：我的星光乐园 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novels. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is my motivation to write, and I will strive to tell every story well! 5.7kReads6.3Score74714d adds
- 21 Chinese Showbiz: I Date Women Only to Build My Career 华娱：我交女朋友都是为了搞事业 Female leads: Yang Mi, Zhang Meng, Taylor Swift, Ivanka, Kim Tae-hee Reborn in 2005, male lead Lu Yu regrets being too wild in his previous life and vows to focus on building his career this time around. But there are just too many temptations in the entertainment industry. A playboy at heart, he keeps swinging between restraint and indulgence. To keep his vow, he sets out on a brand-new path to building an entertainment empire. 94Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 22 Chinese Showbiz: Not a Single Beauty Star Left Behind 华娱：美女明星，一个都不能少 [Loads of heroines + Chinese entertainment + showbiz + System + business] The motto: If he wants her, he gets her. Wang Jie is reborn in 1997, wins over Gao Yuanyuan from the start, and awakens a System. Every time he has an intimate encounter with a female star for the first time, he randomly receives a reward. Starting with taking Wu Jing’s place in the cast of “Tai Chi Master,” he climbs higher, step by step, until he becomes a legendary industry patriarch. At the same time, he builds a busin 933Reads6.4Score10114d adds
- 23 Showbiz: From the Start, the Celestial Fairy Sister Was Pregnant with My Child 文娱：开局天仙姐姐怀上我的孩子 [Alternate World + Parallel World] [One Heroine] [System] [Sweet Romance + Satisfying Power Fantasy] [Entertainment + Business] In 2005, gold-medal editor Jiang Chen returns reborn, hoping to coast through life as a lazy slacker. But a phone call from United Family Hospital shatters his peaceful existence: “Mr. Jiang, Ms. Liu is pregnant. The baby is yours.” His wife turns out to be a goddess, and she's expecting twins! Her manager sneers, “Where did this penniless nobody come from, thinking he 2.6kReads6.0Score13514d adds
- 24 Reborn: After My Parents Die, I Sell Everything and Run 重生：父母双亡后我卖光家产跑路 [Rebirth + Farming + Entertainment] Xia Lingfeng, the son of a coal magnate, was reborn the day after his parents died in a car accident. To escape his parasitic relatives, he sold off the family assets, took the money, and ran. Then he entered the entertainment industry to start over, gradually becoming a giant in the business and taking back the family fortune in revenge. 1.8kReads5.6Score10914d adds
- 25 Showbiz: Playing Matchmaker for Da Mimi from the Start 娱乐：开局给大蜜蜜当红娘 He transmigrates to 2013 and awakens the Breakup Counseling System. He persuades Yang Mi to call off her wedding and gains singing skills, persuades Liu Tao to divorce and becomes a stock market guru, and persuades the Goddess to break up and becomes an award-winning actor… 445Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Chinese Showbiz: I Cultivate Immortality in the Entertainment Industry 华娱：我在娱乐圈修仙 After transmigrating back to 2015, Chen Hao became a background extra at Hengdian. He thought that would be his life from then on, but he unexpectedly received the Creation Jade Disc as a gift from a powerful figure. Using popularity in place of spiritual energy, it could not only rewrite the past and present, but even help him attain sainthood. However, as soon as he entered showbiz, he was faced with all kinds of temptations. They were all tribulations... P.S. The early story mainly focuses on 177Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 27 Top Star: I Started Out as a Sleepyhead at Beijing Film Academy 顶级明星，从北电当睡神开始 52Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 28 Chinese Showbiz: Starting in 1996 华娱：从1996开始 A singer? An actor? No, no, of course I'm going to be a director. Is there anything better than being a director? Reborn, Chen Xingwen has only one goal: to become a mogul in the entertainment industry and create his own empire of film and culture... 168Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 29 Apocalyptic Villain: Reborn, I First Seduce Reba and Yang Mi 末世反派：重生后先渣热芭大蜜蜜 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 30 This Agent Is Something Else 这个经纪人有点神 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Showbiz: Backed by Boss Cao’s Playbook, I Take on Mi Ba Head-On 娱乐：曹总模板护体，硬刚蜜芭 [Showbiz + Boss Cao style + wish fulfillment + face-slapping + leveling up + top-tier stars loved by the whole nation] Qin Fei transmigrates into a parallel world and gets bound to the Boss Cao System. Qin Fei: “System, are you sure you’re on the level?” As it turns out, the System really isn’t all that proper. 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Reborn at Beijing Film Academy: I Start by Writing a Viral Web Novel 重生北影开局先写本爆款网文 “Praise the rich ladies!” At six in the morning, Yan Shi abruptly opened his eyes on the single bed in his rented room and reverently murmured those words to the ceiling. It was his unwavering “daily prayer” ever since being reborn half a month ago. After all, a rich lady had made him financially free in his previous life, so even if he had only three thousand yuan from the start this time, he still had to show his gratitude. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Showbiz: Born With the Body of a Casanova, I Win Over the Goddesses 娱乐：先天曹贼圣体，盘服女神圏 [Showbiz + System + Beautiful Stars] When Ji Ran wakes up, he discovers he has become the assistant to a top-tier star, and awakened an outrageously powerful constitution! Fatal attraction to goddesses? Physical abilities far beyond ordinary people? It’s like this was tailor-made for me! And with a “System” to help, he can identify “high-value” goddesses and receive missions! From the start, he sets his sights on top-tier star Dilireba: Sacred constitution draws her in → System-guided mission → 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Chinese Showbiz: What's Wrong with a Blockbuster Box Office? 华娱：票房高嚣张怎么了？ What? An art-house director says I've betrayed the essence of cinema? That means I got it right. Art-house filmmakers criticizing me means audiences like what I do. My nephew criticizing me means the people love the stories I make. Those Hollywood executives criticizing me? That proves even more that I got it right! The more my enemies oppose me, the more it shows I'm on the right path. An actress says I'm a womanizer? If a director doesn't play the field, what's the point of being a director? 630Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 35 Chinese Showbiz Begins with The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber 华娱从倚天开始 (New book out: Reborn in Chinese Showbiz: First, Make a Little Money) [Multiple Heroines] [No System] [Building a Career] [Chinese Showbiz] Reborn in the golden age of Chinese Showbiz, Wang Xuan sets a modest goal from the start: make money first, art later! He uses his talent to release albums and earn his first pot of gold; then gets into the directing program at the Beijing Film Academy and embarks on a legendary career as a director. Everyone thinks he is merely a box-office juggernaut, a to 10.1kReads6.2Score58714d adds
- 36 Showbiz: I Have a Door to the Future! 娱乐：我与未来有扇门！ (The rating just opened. Ten thousand words a day. This is not a story about handing things over to the state. The two versions of the same person from different timelines will meet.) (Self-directed and self-performed, pure wish fulfillment, with all the popular actresses from the 1980s and 1990s you could want.) “Ne Zha 2: The Devil’s Child Rages Against the Sea has passed 10 billion yuan at the box office, becoming the first animated film in Huaguo film history to reach that milestone!” “The b 44.4kReads8.2Score4k14d adds
- 37 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! 224Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 38 Showbiz: The Man Who Only Falls in Love on Screen 娱乐：只在荧幕里恋爱的男人 1.3kReads7.3Score11114d adds
- 39 From the Start, I Operate on Bai Lu 开局给白鹿做手术 Bai, Meng, Yan... “What are you grinning about? Come on, tell me what you’re so happy about. Share it with me. “It’s just... a moment ago, you suddenly... your face turned dark... like one of those Sichuan opera face-changing acts... “Bai Mengyan, is it? I’ll remember you. You say I’m dark? Let’s see you get as tanned as me, then you can call yourself Hei Mengyan. When are we eating?” 123Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Showbiz: I Signed with Tangren, Where the Whole Company Is Love-Struck 娱乐：签约糖人，公司全员恋爱脑 [Showbiz] [Female Star] [Multiple Heroines] Back in 2011, he signs with a company full of hopeless romantics. From the start, he sets out to win over the company's number-one hopeless romantic. After successfully living off her, he gives up trying. He courts women and flirts with girls, while casually investing in a few hit projects. Before he knows it, he has built his own entertainment empire and become friends with the goddesses of half the entertainment industry. Li Xun: "Boss Cai, the docto 6.7kReads6.1Score46014d adds
- 41 Chinese Showbiz: The Blossoming Beauty of the Mortal World 华娱：人间富贵花绽放 That dazzling flower of worldly wealth began to shine with brilliant light and illuminate Chinese entertainment because of his arrival! Li Jia, a nobody who drifted from one film set to another, returns to the past twenty years and makes a remarkable life of his own! 1.3kReads6.6Score10614d adds
- 42 My Lover from a Past Life? I'm the One Female Stars Can't Get Over 前世情人？我成女明星们的意难平 After an accident in a parallel world, Mo Sheng is sent to the hospital when actress Zhang Ruonan crashes into him. That very impact awakens memories from his previous life. What he doesn't know is that when he interacts with actresses, his memories of them from his previous life are shared with them, too. And because these are Mo Sheng's memories, he naturally appears as the male lead in the scenes they see. Since he's a screenwriter, he starts writing scripts about these actresses. And then... 66Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 43 Showbiz: Taking the Industry by Storm, Starting with the Great Tang Poet Immortal 娱乐：纵横娱乐从大糖诗仙开启 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Li Mu enjoyed two glorious years in show business. Just as the big investors began targeting him, he retired from the spotlight. Over the next three years, he used the System and memories from his previous world to build his own business empire. He also dealt with the investors who had once tried to target him, one by one. No outsider knew any of this. They had no idea he had stayed behind the scenes all along, and the story was only now truly beginning. 887Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 From Male Model to Top-Tier Star: The Female Lead Is Xiaotian from the Start 从男模到顶流：开局女主是小田 (Showbiz + top-tier star + multiple female leads + acting + mostly everyday life) Shen Yan, a male model who made his name on the international runway, was suddenly thrown into showbiz as an actor. Everyone was waiting for him to crash and burn, unaware that he had already bound himself to the [Male God Development System]. His debut drama was So Cute We Are, co-starring Tian Xiwei. He unlocked a “youthful charm” buff from the start, and his acting skills rivaled those of veteran actors. From be 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Showbiz: I Live Off the Goddess, and Liu Xiaoli Is Fuming 娱乐：我吃天仙软饭，刘晓莉麻了 [Entertainment, feel-good, System, leveling up, parallel world] Lu Yang transmigrates to a parallel timeline on Blue Star and is ready to take his plagiarism skills to the limit! Novels, scripts, music: he can copy it all! He'll build an entertainment empire of his own! —Reads—Score2.3k14d adds
- 46 Transmigrated: I Started by Kidnapping the Goddess of the Entertainment Industry 穿越之开局就绑架娱乐圈女神 My new story is here! You’re welcome to 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! 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Surrounded by Beauties in the Entertainment Industry 娱乐圈之群美环绕 My new story is here! You’re welcome to 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! 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Director, Your Movie Makes No Sense! 导演，你拍的不科学啊！ [Showbiz + Urban Martial Arts + System Story] A century ago, a catastrophe severed the roots of civilization in the nation of Daxia. As spiritual energy quietly returned and the world entered an age of cultivation, this country, a leader in modern weaponry, found itself in an awkward position: its people had no idea what cultivation was, its ancient texts contained no mention of cultivation methods or incantations, and even Body Tempering cultivators who had just awakened were exceedingly rare. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Reborn in 2010: A Different Life 重生2010年，不一样人生 A civil engineering man from 2026 transmigrates to 2010 after one night of drinking and begins a completely different life. Who hasn't had regrets in life? So why not do it all over again... 28Reads—Score114d adds
- 50 The Beloved White Moonlight Bought Out for Thirty Million: My Ex-Husband's Reckoning Diary 三千万买断的白月光：前夫的清算日记 The Woman He Bought for Thirty Million: An Ex-Husband’s Reckoning Diary 1Reads—Score—14d adds
