Novels like I Asked You to Write About Gourds, So What's with These Calabash Brothers?
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- 51 China Has No Hard Sci-Fi? How About Interstellar Transmigration? 龙国没有硬科幻星际穿越了解一下 Pei Li wakes up to discover that he has transmigrated, and is now competing in the finals of the National Film and Television Screenwriting Competition. The entire final is broadcast live, with millions watching. Contestants must write a story based on a theme provided by the judges. Pei Li discovers that film and television in this world are very underdeveloped. The masterpieces he watched in his previous life have yet to be made here. When the judges announce the theme: Father and Daughter, al 217Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 52 You Asked Me to Write a Lie! So I Used The Truman Show to Crush You? 让你写谎言！你用楚门世界碾压？ Zhao Jiayu transmigrated right onto the set of a variety show about writing movie scripts! He couldn’t write scripts, and then he drew the hardest subject of all: lies. One contestant wrote a modern love story, focusing on romantic entanglements. Another wrote a sinister tale of power struggles, full of scheming and deceit. Someone else wrote a well-intentioned lie, built around a mix-up that led to one laugh after another! Zhao Jiayu opened with the ace up his sleeve: The Truman Show. You write 2kReads5.4Score222Shelves
- 53 The Internet Hated Me, but My Novels Made Me Famous 全网黑的我靠写小说爆红了 (The rating will continue to rise.) Female-led + no romance + face-slapping + writing novels “Congratulations, Host. You’ve bound the ‘Beloved by Everyone’ System.” “Every time your novel wins genuine affection, you can exchange it for [Talent Points] to improve your writing.” Fang Yan wipes the tears from her lashes and closes the trending topic on her phone, its stark black-and-red headline reading #Fang Yan Get Out of Online Fiction#. Three days ago, her xianxia novel, Tribulation, broke into 425Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 54 My Roommate Is a Ghost 我的室友是鬼魂 My Roommate Is a Ghost —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Calling in the Crew to Butcher Pigs in the Twelfth Lunar Month 腊月摇人按猪 Calling in Reinforcements to Catch Pigs in the Twelfth Month —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Those Seven Days After I Was Sold Into the Mountains! 我被卖进大山里的那七天！ Those Seven Days I Was Sold into the Mountains! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 The Fake Socialite's High-Society Hunt! 假名媛的上流狩猎！ The Fake Socialite's High-Society Hunt! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 I Asked You to Write About Starting a Business, and You Wrote About the Oath of the Peach Garden? 让你写创业，你写桃园三结义？ [Three updates every day!] Zhang Yang was taking a dump when he suddenly transmigrated onto the set of The Literary Creation Competition. The show's prompt was “Entrepreneurship.” Everyone racked their brains for all kinds of plot devices, but most of them wrote old, classic business-startup stories that felt bland and unoriginal. Zhang Yang, however, went straight for the Three Kingdoms. Feng Xiaogang: The Three Kingdoms? You're writing about such an obscure subject? There aren't even that many 2.7kReads5.4Score145Shelves
- 59 You Asked Me to Write About Regret, So Why Did You Write About a Butterfly Flapping Its Wings? 让你写遗憾，你写蝴蝶扇动翅膀？ I’ve written two mind-bending mystery films: The Butterfly Effect and Shutter Island. Feel free to check them out! Lin Xuan opens his eyes and discovers that he has transmigrated into a screenwriting contest called Ink and Inspiration. The contestants have to write a script based on a prompt from the judges! The show gives them the theme: “Regret.” While the other contestants rack their brains to describe unrequited love and family bonds too deep for words, Lin Xuan decides to explore regret fro 6.9kReads8.0Score924Shelves
- 60 Showbiz: The Carefree Life of an Online Novelist 文娱，网文作者的逍遥人生 Reborn in 2010, Lin Yi only wants to be a quiet slacker. In his previous life, he was a workaholic editor who pushed himself to death. This time, he just wants to sunbathe, sleep in, and roll over once in a while. Better yet, he hopes to grow to six feet tall. Then the System named “Carefree” shows up at his door. “Host’s slacker compatibility is 99%. This System will help you become a literary great… provided you don’t skip your sunbathing.” And so, sixteen-year-old Lin Yi begins living a do 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 I Asked You to Write a Romance, So Why Did You Write Fox Spirit Matchmaker? 让你写恋爱，你写狐妖小红娘 Qin Feng opens his eyes and finds himself transmigrated to the set of the National Young Writers’ Competition. Contestants have to write based on a given prompt. This round’s prompt: Love. While everyone else is still writing about domineering CEOs falling for ordinary girls and men chasing their exes after losing them, Qin Feng takes a different approach, determined to give this world a shock. He immediately starts writing Fox Spirit Matchmaker. At first, the audience thinks it’s just a funny l 954Reads7.4Score101Shelves
- 62 You Were Told to Write a Horror Comedy, but You Wrote A Chinese Ghost Story 让你写恐怖喜剧，你写回魂夜 (I only write horror movies. If you have any favorites or classic horror films you think are worth watching, leave a comment. The author will pick some to write about.) Lu Chen loved turning off the lights at midnight to watch horror movies. Then one day, he woke up to find himself transmigrated to the set of a parallel world's National Horror-Themed Screenwriting Competition. The first theme was horror comedy. While the other contestants racked their brains trying to combine two seemingly incom 1kReads6.9Score100Shelves
- 63 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
- 64 Showbiz: From the Start, I Wrote a Novel and Became an Internet Sensation 文娱：开局写小说，我成了全网顶流 After being reborn, Lu Yang found himself in a parallel world where the entertainment industry lagged behind. Here, online fiction was still in its infancy, an untamed wilderness! Here, the entertainment industry was a cesspool, with pretty young men everywhere you looked! Here, Chinese-style pop had fallen into decline, and no one could hold up the sky! After binding himself to a Showbiz System, Lu Yang could obtain the novel 260Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 The Deposed Empress Takes a Job for 3,000 a Month 废后上岗，月薪三千 The Deposed Empress Is Back on the Job, Earning Three Thousand a Month 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 You Asked Me to Invent a Fictional World, So Why Did I Write China? 让你编架空世界，你直接写华夏？ A friendly note before you read: Due to the author's limited skill and ability, this book is no longer making much money. Since a small number of readers want to keep reading, the story will continue in plain-language historical prose. It will be based almost entirely on standard, serious historical sources, such as the Twenty-Four Histories, Records of the Three Kingdoms, Zizhi Tongjian, and Strategies of the Warring States. There's no need to tip. This is just for the enjoyment of the few read 4.9kReads6.5Score356Shelves
- 67 Reborn with a Keyboard from the Start 重生之开局一个键盘 He spent eight years writing web novels under six different pen names, with his highest monthly income reaching just 4,800 yuan. The day he died suddenly in his rented room, his bank account held only 206 yuan and 43 cents. His father had diabetes, and he couldn't even afford a plane ticket home. When he opened his eyes again, he was back in 2008, sitting for the college entrance exam. That year, Qidian had just been acquired, mobile reading had yet to take off, and Tang Jia San Shao had not 406Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 After Awakening to the Comments, the Cannon-Fodder Consort Rose to the Top 觉醒弹幕后，炮灰良娣扶摇直上了 [Live comments + underdog comeback + palace and household intrigue] Yan Siyu was an unfavored consort in the Eastern Palace, living cautiously under the protection of her good friend, the Crown Princess. When she was seven months pregnant, she took a fall and unexpectedly saw live comments revealing her fate. [She’ll die in childbirth, and both mother and child will perish] The person responsible for this fate was none other than the Crown Princess, the woman she had always trusted. She didn’t w 293Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 69 I Asked You to Write About Social Issues, and You Wrote Calabash Brothers? 让你写社会现象，你写葫芦娃？ Zhang Shan transmigrates. When he opens his eyes again, he's already a contestant in the top 32 of the Young Creators Competition. The theme for the round of 32 is social issues. He pulls out the cartoon he watched when he was six. Calabash Brothers! When he announces that his piece will be an animated series, almost everyone thinks he's just trying to draw attention to himself. “Social issues? Animation? What a stunt!” But then... Green Snake Demon: “First, we need to cut off their communicatio 1.8kReads6.6Score100Shelves
- 70 I’m a Plagiarist, and I Plagiarized My Way into Founding a Genre! 我，文抄公，抄成了流派创始人！ Jiang Han transmigrated to the Blue Star, a world where screenwriting was at the center of everything. He became a fresh graduate in screenwriting and entered the auditions for the show Golden Screenwriter. The first episode’s theme was cultural relics. Some contestants wrote about artifacts spanning five thousand years of Chinese history. Others wrote about a pair of rival thieves recovering artifacts from overseas, or a love story born from efforts to protect cultural relics. Was cliched roman 717Reads5.8Score100Shelves
- 71 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
- 72 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... 2.6kReads8.0Score109Shelves
- 73 The Unfinished Sacrifice! 未完成的献祭！ The Unfinished Sacrifice! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 The Coffin! 棺椁！ The Coffin! 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 I Asked You to Write About a Teacher, So Why Did You Write About a Drug Master Making Ice? 让你写老师，你写毒师制冰糖？ Film and television enthusiast Su Yi accidentally arrives at the venue of a parallel-world screenplay competition. Unable to figure out what’s going on, Su Yi somehow enters the first round. The assigned screenplay topic is: Teachers! The only requirement is that the screenplay promote positive values! Su Yi just wants to go home and be a shut-in, so he casually writes a screenplay for Breaking Bad. I’ve strayed this far from the topic. I’m bound to be eliminated, right? … Director: This screenp 2.9kReads6.6Score285Shelves
- 76 I Asked You to Write Something Inspiring, and You Wrote The Battle at Lake Changjin 让你写热血，你写长津湖 Su Zhou wakes up to find himself taking part in a live-streamed show called Class Is in Session! Contestants have to create something based on different keywords. When the production team gives them the prompt [Passion], Su Zhou sees the other contestants writing about [Young Love] and [Striving for Success]. He decides to take a different approach and give the audience a shock! The Battle of Changjin Lake, you're up! At first, the audience thinks it’s an essay about scenery, but the further the 868Reads8.6Score107Shelves
- 77 Literary Prodigy 2025: Starting at a Vocational College 文豪2025，从上大专开始 After failing the college entrance exam, Li Xiuwen begins his literary career by enrolling in a junior college. Years later, at the Nobel Prize ceremony, the judges praise him: His “The Little Prince” is one of the finest works of children’s literature ever written. His “The Call of Cthulhu” is one of the most groundbreaking horror stories of all time. His “Hopscotch” is one of the most complex and greatest works of fiction ever written. Beloved literary classics such as “To Live” and “The Stran 2.6kReads8.3Score115Shelves
- 78 One Farewell from the Chancellor, and Why Are All the Netizens Crying? 一句丞相保重，网友怎么都哭了？ Yang Xu was utterly bewildered to discover that he had transmigrated and was now taking part in a global creative writing competition! Contestants had to create a work based on a theme provided by the organizers. When the organizers announced the theme [Regret], Yang Xu immediately began writing The Great Qin Empire, focusing on Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor in history! A dark, cold childhood, betrayal and misunderstanding from those closest to him, a grand ambition that fell just one step sh 8kReads8.2Score897Shelves
- 79 Reborn in 1976 as a Literary Giant 重生1976当文豪 [Reborn + Period Piece + Literary Great] His “Scar” laid bare the festering wounds of an era and established him as a leading figure in scar literature. His “The Herdsman” became a household name. Xu Lingjun and Xiu Zhi, brought to life by his pen, captured countless readers’ hearts. His “Ordinary World” was hailed as an enduring classic that inspired millions of young people. His “To Live” brought countless readers to tears. His “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” “Red Sorghum,” “The Silence o 243Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 80 I Really Don’t Want to Be a Web Novel Superstar 我真不想当网文大神 [No System]+ [No golden finger]+ [Just writing novels] In this unfamiliar world, I only want to get by doing as little as possible. But the entertainment scene is so dull. With nothing better to do, I just want to quietly be a novel copyist. As I keep copying, I somehow end up becoming a top-tier star on Tomato Chinese Website... [Note: If you don't like it, go ahead and flame me. The more, the better. I flame novels myself too: ones that go on hiatus, ones with delayed updates, and ones that ma 762Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 The Female Physician's Examination 女医官的考试 The Female Physician's Examination —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 She Returns with the Spring Breeze 春风再度她归来 Spring Breeze Returns, and She Comes Home —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 The Empress's Shadow Guard 女帝的暗卫 The Empress's Shadow Guard 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 After the Divorce, I Became His Client! 离婚后，我成了他的甲方！ After the Divorce, I Became His Client! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 You Asked Me to Draw What I Like, So I Drew Frieren: Beyond Journey's End 让你画喜欢，你画葬送的芙莉莲 [Healing fantasy] Jiang Chen transmigrates and finds himself on a live-streamed anime production competition! The creative keywords are: Western fantasy + love! Others create stories of Western fantasy: bloody tales of love amid the struggles between witches, werewolves, vampires, and heroic princesses... Jiang Chen thinks of a story about an elf and a hero’s journey, an everyday tale brimming with warmth: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. At first, the audience and judges think it’s an ordinary lo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Who Told You to Write Such a Tragic Ending! 谁让你这么写遗憾的！ Shen Lei transmigrates to a parallel world and happens to be competing in a global screenwriting contest! He discovers that the film and television industry here is underdeveloped, and that none of the masterpieces from his previous life have ever been made! Shen Lei decides to give the people of this parallel world a literary shock! In the quarterfinals, the assigned theme is “Regret.” While everyone else is writing heart-wrenching love stories, Shen Lei thinks of a group of old friends. 116Reads5.4Score235Shelves
- 87 The Consort's Accounting 贵妃的会计学 The Consort's Accounting Skills 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 The Concubine-Born Daughter's Art of War 庶女的兵法 The Concubine-Born Daughter’s Art of War 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 The Contest: Deception and Games, and I Choose The End of Ten Days 比赛：欺诈与游戏，我选十日终焉 [AI competition] [Slay the Gods] [The Ten Days] [Beast City] [Mortal Bones] [The God of Drama] Lin Xia transmigrates to a technologically advanced parallel world, where he becomes an AI called Tomato and competes as the Yanxia AI at the world’s biggest AI competition. In the first round, the AIs face off in a novel-writing contest, creating stories based on given prompts. The prompts for the first match are [Deception] + [Game]. Lin Xia generates The End of Ten Days. “I saw the ceaseless, surgin 1.9kReads6.5Score141Shelves
- 90 The Villainess in the Comic Sees the Comments and Goes on a Killing Spree 漫画反派看到弹幕后，她杀疯了 [Villainess Awakening + On-Screen Comments + Comic + Academy of Supernatural Abilities + Working Like a Mule for the Academy + Genius + Strong Female Lead + Female Lead Has No Romantic Pairing + Ensemble Cast of Women] The villain is a hopeless romantic, but the object of her affections is her school (?) As one of the hottest comics around, Strange Tales of Supernatural Abilities has a huge cast of popular characters, each with a distinct personality, as well as a whole host of inexplicably trag 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 I Asked You to Write About Monkeys, and You Wrote Havoc in Heaven on the Spot 让你写猴子，你现场写大闹天宫 [Retelling the Four Great Classical Novels + personal opinions + a blend of semi-classical and modern Chinese] Su Chen opens his eyes and discovers that he has transmigrated into another world, where he is taking part in a writing competition. Contestants must write a story based on a given prompt! The production team announces the theme: [Monkeys] Everyone else racks their brains for cliched tales about humans and nature or migrating monkey troops... Drawing on memories from his previous life, 9.7kReads6.1Score762Shelves
- 92 The Iron Lady of the 1990s Factory 九零厂的铁娘子 The Iron Lady of Factory No. 90 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 The On-Screen Comments Warned Me Not to Get Myself Killed! 弹幕劝我别作死！ The On-Screen Comments Warn Me Not to Tempt Fate! 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Balenciaga in a Korean Semi-Basement! 韩国半地下室里的巴黎世家！ Balenciaga in a Korean Semi-Basement! 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Sickly-Sweet Obsession: Lost in the Role 病娇·入戏 Sickly Love: Getting into Character 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 I Asked You to Write a Heroic Tale, and You Wrote Nezha: The Demon Child 让你写成见，你写魔童哪吒 The National Destiny Battlefield has arrived. Contestants from each country can exchange for props from that country's film and television works. Other countries have rich mythological traditions, while Dragon Nation has nothing but clichéd xianxia romance dramas with painfully low power levels. To strengthen the nation's destiny and foster more outstanding creators, Dragon Nation's government holds a national creator competition, with topics announced on-site and films and television works crea 1.2kReads8.8Score104Shelves
- 97 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
- 98 I'm in the Gaokao Exam Hall! Somebody Help Me! 人在高考考场，谁来救救我 My name is Xu Yi. I woke up to find myself sitting in the college entrance exam hall. Is there any way to save me? Waiting online. This is urgent. Day One: Xu Yi said, “I told you, I’m just a transcriber. Why won’t any of you believe me?” Day Two: Xu Yi said, “Let me, a humble bookstore owner, give the Blue Star literary world a little shock!” An ordinary bookstore owner becomes a literary plagiarist and rises to the top of the literary world! 731Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 99 The New God Group 新神集团 (Supernatural, but not scary; exorcism by physical force; no System, no harem, no overpowered protagonist, and hardly any romance.) "People say God created the world, and God protects it." "But all I see is that when people face demons and pray for help in desperation, the gods in heaven do nothing. We are the ones who help them." "When demons run rampant in the human world, we are the ones who make them disappear forever." "Those so-called gods are gone. Now, we're the only ones capable of prot 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 From the Start, the Second Nezha Movie Sends Online Viewers Into a Frenzy 开局魔童二部曲，网友观众炸疯了 Su Ming wakes up one morning to discover that he has transmigrated, and is competing in the final of the New Directors Competition! Contestants have to create a work according to rules set by the judges. When the judges choose “animation” as the theme, Su Ming’s competitors play it safe, deciding to tell their stories from a child’s perspective. Su Ming, meanwhile, brings out Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child! At first, viewers think it’s just another run-of-the-mill story based on Investiture of 1.7kReads7.6Score158Shelves
