Novels like Cross-Industry Director: Big Bro, You're Too Good at Filmmaking
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- 1 Wen Xun's Everyday Life in Republican-Era China 文薰的民国日常 [Gentle, independent young lady of a distinguished family x sensitive, melancholy scholar and young master. Together, they strive to build an ideal society!] Lang Wenxun has just returned from studying in England when her family arranges an engagement for her. Her match is the third young master of the Mo family in Jinling. After the wedding, Lang Wenxun discovers that her husband knows how to stand up for himself, flirt, express his feelings, and defend her. He also cries a lot. He's witty and 1.5kFavorites1.8kClicks/ch3.5kGifts
- 2 A Woman in a Man's Body: My Best Friend and I Crossed Over Together to Sell Our Bromance 女穿男：闺蜜一起穿，敬业卖腐 [The central premise is, "Bestie, in our next lives, let's be male idols and sell fanservice. We could get rich." This is a niche trope, so proceed with caution.] [Lots of forum-style posts, with the entertainment industry as the main plot.] [Important: Selling fanservice is part of an idol's job, not the protagonists' genuine romantic relationship. This novel has no CP.] · Another year, another season of idols getting exposed. Yet another male idol's career has crashed, with the usual girlfrien 19.4kFavorites17.2kClicks/ch66kGifts
- 3 The Top-Tier Star Is Reborn, Starting in Hong Kong's Entertainment Industry 顶流重生，从港圈开始 [A traditional entertainment-industry story, a long epic with stories within the story, marked in the chapter details. The early chapters focus on Hong Kong entertainment.] Zhong Yi was a top-tier star of his generation. He couldn’t sing in tune, but had held concerts; he was stiff as a board, but had served as a talent-show judge. He was extremely dedicated, though all he ever managed was memorizing his lines. Hailed as a destined superstar, he had actually bought online hype on credit and ende 16.6kFavorites18.6kClicks/ch80.4kGifts
- 4 Returning to Showbiz with a Max-Level Account 当满级大号重回娱乐圈 On her way to the film festival awards ceremony, Li Mo was caught in a massive pileup and died at the age of twenty-eight. The good news: She didn't die. She transmigrated. The bad news: She transmigrated with her whole body. The good news: It was a perfectly legal transmigration. Back at the age of twenty-one, Li Mo decided to return to her old line of work. She landed a job at an entertainment agency on the strength of her looks, ready to make her way in show business again. But less than a 9.3kFavorites11.5kClicks/ch14.2kGifts
- 5 21+ After Becoming a Trainee on an Idol Survival Show 成为养成系练习生后 11.5kFavorites13.1kClicks/ch106.1kGifts
- 6 The God of Acting [Entertainment Industry] 表演之神[娱乐圈] "You can't make anything out of that blockhead." "She's too wooden even to be a pretty face." "Is the director blind? How could they cast her in this role?" Cheng Cheng sincerely loves acting and wants to become an actress. But that's just how things are in this world: The things you love and want don't necessarily fall into your hands. Like most people in the world, she lacks talent. "If you can, please give me just a little talent. Just a little is enough, even the scraps left over aft 7.2kFavorites15.4kClicks/ch15.8kGifts
- 7 Chosen by the Nation's Destiny, I Drew the Talent Reversal 被国运选中，抽到的天赋是逆转 Bad News: Blue Star has been chosen for the National Destiny Battlefield. Each country must send ten contestants to fight, and contestants are replaced upon death. Every time one is eliminated, a random city in their country will be struck by a disaster. From then on, disasters both imaginable and unimaginable descended upon the world: extreme cold, extreme heat, desertification, floods, viruses, even zombies and strange beasts... The people of every city were terrified, living in constant dread 51.8kFavorites62.9kClicks/ch192.3kGifts
- 8 I Became a Top Student, and You Say You're a Superstar System 成学霸了，你说你是大明星系统 [Next up: The Movie Star, But He Only Films Romantic Dramas. Click to see a gorgeous movie star whip the melodramatic romance market into shape!] I, Jian Yun, was an ordinary top student. I made it from the preliminary round to the finals of a math competition, was chosen for the national team, and earned admission through a recommendation. Just as I was agonizing over whether to go to Q University or B University, my System, which had been loading for ten years without ever finishing, finally 44.4kFavorites65.3kClicks/ch74.5kGifts
- 9 Can a Nobody Be the Chosen Star? 路人甲也可以是紫微星吗？ Age 0, Your parents decide to have a pretty baby to leech off. Age 3, They start planning a career path for their little superstar. Age 6, A carefully planned publicity stunt lines up a batch of future fans for you. Age 8, Your parents joke around on social media, asking, “Could my child be a child model?” and “They'll be too old to model if we don't start now!” Their posts land you your first acting role, and your first paycheck. Age 14, You start puberty and your voice breaks. You're now a 43.1kFavorites54.9kClicks/ch183.2kGifts
- 10 Full-Time Fan, Part-Time Top-Tier Star 全职粉丝，兼职顶流 After transmigrating into the body of an internet-wide hated, obscure D-list nobody, Yu Qingsong was bound to a fan System and forced to work two jobs at once. Her first job: a famous actress in the entertainment industry. Her second job: a fan of a famous actress in the entertainment industry. [Choose your fan secret identity: A: A solo stan who thinks everyone else is trash and their fave is the one true superstar. B: A shipper who thinks my fave is the entertainment industry's white rice, 12.3kFavorites11.7kClicks/ch52.5kGifts
- 11 Life in Ancient Times Is a Breeze 人在古代，顺的不行 Original title: My Luck Is Really That Good Li Yun transmigrates into an ancient world where supernatural forces exist and people vie for destiny. As the saying goes, when the time is right, Heaven and Earth lend their strength; when fortune turns, even heroes are powerless. Li Yun stumbles blindly into this era, and thanks to his absurdly good luck, he somehow stumbles into becoming the winner. This is probably a lighthearted story about raising kids. I swear on my life. Things to know bef 31.9kFavorites103.1kClicks/ch67.9kGifts
- 12 Character Experience System [Entertainment Industry] 角色体验系统［娱乐圈］ [Thanks to all the lovely readers who like Xiao Yu! My other serial in the same genre, "Top-Tier Star Reborn: Starting in Hong Kong’s Entertainment Scene", is updating now. Please support it. "Role-Playing System: Director Edition" is coming in 2026, so please add it to your favorites!] As a protagonist with maxed-out luck, Yu Xunguang received a System before his acting career had even begun. The so-called Role Experience System lets you meet the character you played in another dimension afte 39.2kFavorites44.8kClicks/ch189.3kGifts
- 13 The God of Survival Shows: The Entertainment Industry 选秀的神[娱乐圈] Jiang Taiyi had been the school heartthrob ever since he was a child. Hounded by talent scouts, he decided to join a survival show. This season was hailed as the glorious peak of group survival shows. Its debut lineup swept the scene, and the members were praised as undeniable monster rookies. The members who debuted, along with so many names that left fans wondering what might have been, are remembered every summer. The beautiful and the great, the bittersweet yet complete, the gods of surviva 32kFavorites48.7kClicks/ch83.2kGifts
- 14 The Child Star Has Something to Say 养成系有话说 New series: Live-Streaming a Subconscious Talent Show: The Pinnacle of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty Live streaming + chat comments + full immersion Bonus chapters are being updated, and the manuscript is being revised bit by bit. The author is not responsible for pirated copies~ Huohuo is reborn. A soul over twenty years old moves into a body not yet twelve. He becomes a legendary trainee under Dream Factory, a company specializing in developing young idols. Choose your teammates and debut wit 30.7kFavorites38.5kClicks/ch204.8kGifts
- 15 After Failing to Debut Through a Talent Show 选秀出道失败后 My new novel, I Write Novels Purely to Make Money, is currently being serialized. Thanks for your support! The huge talent competition show Tomorrow's Star Path was an overnight sensation. Every member of the debut group Wink shot to fame, going from unknowns to a top-tier idol group. Unfortunately, there were eight debut spots, and Lin Yuan came in ninth. Three years later, Wink went from famous to forgotten. Lin Yuan, who had ranked in the debut lineup throughout the competition, became even m 40.5kFavorites56.6kClicks/ch141.5kGifts
- 16 Our Group Disbanded, and I Became a Star! 组合解散，我爆红了！ Actor Lu Xu wakes up one day and finds himself a member of Verse, a hugely popular idol boy band. The good news: he has a handsome face. The bad news: Verse has just disbanded, and Lu Xu is not only its least popular member, he’s also the only one of the four who got kicked out of the company. Verse fans only support three of them. A quick keyword search turns up tens of thousands of scandals about 95kFavorites168.6kClicks/ch251.7kGifts
- 17 Giving You Back Sixty Years 还你六十年 At sixteen, Chi Chi became a stand-in, an extra, a bit player. Later, she became the youngest Best Actress, the most versatile performer, and a legend who moved people like no other. No one knew that inside her was the aged soul of someone who had spent sixty years tormented by an impossible dream. Since giving up everything had left her with nothing but a fire of resentment, then she would keep burning, until she reached the end of miracles. The author usually writes feel-good, sweet stories. 50.7kFavorites177.2kClicks/ch113.6kGifts
- 18 The Overseas Relatives of a Period-Novel Sacrificial Character Are Back 年代文炮灰的海外亲戚回来了 Blurb: Su Xun transmigrates into an 1980s novel as a wealthy returnee from overseas. But aside from inheriting a bunch of troublesome relatives who are destined for tragic ends as cannon fodder, she doesn’t have a single cent to her name. Luckily, she gets a weird “universally loathed” System. Whenever someone hates her enough to want to beat her up, she earns one loathing point, worth 100 US dollars. To maintain her wealthy persona, Su Xun has no choice but to claim these cannon-fodder relative 87.8kFavorites185kClicks/ch294.4kGifts
- 19 The Sacrificial Royal in a Boy Band Audition 男团选秀里的祭天皇族 A quick plug for my upcoming novel in the same series. It’s also a woman transmigrating into a man’s body and becoming an idol: "Woman in a Man’s Body: My Best Friend and I Transmigrate Together and Build a Career by Shipping Guys". [The full text has been extensively revised, so many reader comments no longer match. Comments are temporarily disabled.] [Content warnings: The central premise is a woman in a man’s body. This is not an ensemble story; everyone besides the protagonist is a supporti 93.6kFavorites138.8kClicks/ch567.4kGifts
- 20 Becoming a Top-Tier Star, Starting with a Talent Show 从选秀开始成为顶流天王 The End. Thank you for supporting the official release~ [Comments about pirated copies or real-life people will be deleted. Please respect one another. Thank you, everyone.] If life were judged by the roles of protagonist and supporting character, then Xie Xizhao seemed to have been cast as a cannon-fodder character in every one of his lives. As a boy band member, he was the invisible one with the least popularity outside the group, and the timid leader who was ostracized within it; As an acto 69.9kFavorites121.3kClicks/ch132kGifts
- 21 Starting from Zero: A Cultivation Family Simulator 从零开始的修仙家族模拟器 You play a family-building game. You start as an ordinary mortal, without even the faintest trace of a cultivator in sight, yet the goal is to build the greatest cultivation clan in the world. Unlike an ordinary family game, this one lets you pass the game down through generations. You can create each new clan leader, your apparent descendant, from scratch. After countless generations of hard work, you look at your overflowing inheritance points and the traits you’ve given the next clan leader y 86.6kFavorites81.4kClicks/ch319.5kGifts
- 22 Survival Guide for the Otherworldly Hero 异界勇者生存指南 [The full story has been revised, with 40,000 additional words, rewritten scenes, retold events, and reworked character arcs. I take no responsibility for content on sites that pirate the novel.] Blurb 1: I thought that when you died, that was it. But when I opened my eyes again, I was in another world. “You really are beautiful,” remarked a skull he happened to pick up by the roadside. Scott 140kFavorites209.5kClicks/ch673kGifts
- 23 Stockpile Supplies, Then Survive 囤货，然后活下去 Zhang Baibai, who was born with little emotional capacity, spent more than twenty years as an ordinary corporate drone, living by the rules and keeping her head down. Who could have guessed that one day, while she was working as usual in the office, she'd get up to pour herself some water and suddenly be pulled into a safe house? Zombies roared outside. The safe house was falling apart, and an electronic 278.2kFavorites273.3kClicks/ch2.6MGifts
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