Novels like The Splendor of Light and Shadow
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Splendor of Light and Shadow, best match first.
- 1 Reborn as a Tycoon's Director 重生之豪门导演 A Chinese assistant director is thrown by a car accident into New York, America, where he becomes the sole heir to the Morgan family, the world's second-largest financial conglomerate. In this life, he will step out of the shadows and into the light, wielding power over the conglomerate with his left hand and the camera with his right... 0Votes21kRecs18.4kFans
- 2 The Prince’s Entertainment Empire 皇子的文娱霸业 What would the Great Qin Empire look like if it developed into a modern society? And would it be a good thing to transmigrate and become a prince of the Great Qin Empire? What if this prince wanted to become a celebrity? Read The Prince's Entertainment Empire to find out. Book friends are welcome to join 669561750. This is the author’s lazy readers’ group! 0Votes8.6kRecs14.4kFans
- 3 Net-Killing Specialist 网前杀手 An accident during a tennis match at school gives the protagonist the ability to accelerate his consciousness. After being reborn, Fan Ju gains the ultimate weapon for reaching the pinnacle of the tennis world. Who says being reborn means you can only conquer math and science or build a new society? Traveling the world and becoming the king of tennis is the ultimate path! A tennis novel worth watching even if you have to kneel on a motherboard. Starting today, let’s dominate the tennis world! 0Votes51.9kRecs24kFans
- 4 From Host to Superstar of the Arts 从主持人到文艺巨星 [This year's most evocative arts and entertainment novel] After waking up, he finds himself back in 2005. That year, Happy Camp was holding its Shining New Host competition, and variety shows hosted outdoors had yet to begin. Starting in 2005, Jiang Yang is determined to achieve heights in the arts that his previous life never reached. I'm Jiang Yang. I borrowed a gust of wind from the sky by chance, and set the 0Votes19.3kRecs21.4kFans
- 5 Sailing Against the Current Through Zhou 逆水行周 Yu Wen transmigrated to the Northern Zhou dynasty and became Yuwen Wen, a noble of the imperial clan and Duke of Xiyang. He married a beautiful wife. According to the course of history, the emperor was about to seize his wife by force, then kill her husband and take her for himself. Not long afterward, Yang Jian, Duke of Sui, would usurp the throne, found the Sui dynasty, and raise his butcher's knife against the Yuwen clan. When the nest is destroyed, how can any egg survive? Yu Wen resolved to 0Votes76.8kRecs57.6kFans
- 6 A Brilliant Chapter in Showbiz 娱乐华章 A person should have something to hope for, something to look forward to. Otherwise, how are we any different from a piece of wood? 0Votes30.2kRecs22.4kFans
- 7 The Path to Becoming a Movie Star 影帝之路 It was an era of entertainment for everyone: variety shows were at their peak, idol dramas were just beginning to take shape, and the music scene was in its final days of glory. It was a true golden age of entertainment. As a classmate of the S sisters, how will Du Hanwen usher in an era of his own? The Seven Fairies of Taiwan, Black and White, F4, Guess Guess Guess, Super Sunday, the Four Little Divas. They’ll shine in this g 0Votes43.6kRecs36.6kFans
- 8 Reborn as the King of All 重生之全民天王 From idol singer to godfather of music, from screen siren to ruler of the world, reborn, Yang Yang surges down the road to the throne of entertainment's greatest star. 0Votes30.9kRecs46.6kFans
- 9 The Rise of a Mogul 大腕崛起 In 2013, mainland China’s total box office smashed through the 20-billion mark! In 2012, a single Chinese-language film broke the 1.2-billion box-office record for the first time! In 2011, a Chinese-language film reached 100 million dollars at the box office for the first time! In 2010, mainland China’s total box office surged past 10 billion! In 2009, three films in the mainland market each 0Votes52.9kRecs52.3kFans
- 10 Reborn in a Dazzling Hong Kong 重生迷醉香江 This is the best of times, the most beautiful of times, an era of the most handsome and beautiful stars, the most glorious age of Hong Kong cinema, an era that began in 1980. 0Votes39.7kRecs69kFans
- 11 A Rising Star in Entertainment 文娱新贵 That year, a number of rising young actresses had just started to make names for themselves and set out on their own brilliant paths; That year, mainland China's box office surpassed 6.2 billion, with the world's fastest growth rate; That year, the mobile internet developed rapidly, ushering in the wireless era of online fiction; That year, Zhou Xia, from ten years in the future, transmigrated into a first-year acting student at the Beijing Film Academy; "Life is just a journey. I pass through y 0Votes53.7kRecs101.8kFans
- 12 The World's Scrap King 全球废品王 Li Zhongnan, a dim-witted young man from the countryside, gets his hands on a “Recycling System” and rises step by step from scrap collector to the pinnacle of the world. 0Votes70.4kRecs136.7kFans
- 13 The Movie Star Returns to Age Eighteen 影帝重回十八岁 Ning Yuan spent 22 years going from an unknown newcomer to a movie star. Looking back once more... At last, he had the chance to make up for the regrets of the past. He would chase after all the wonderful things the future had in store with everything he had! I'm Ning Yuan, and I'm here to make history. The author has completed over eight million words across novels including the million-subscriber hit From Comedy Star to Superstar. VIP group: 392660849 (for readers wit 0Votes192.3kRecs154.2kFans
- 14 Once Again in 2010 再一次2010 After sixty years of peace, culture and entertainment flourished. The cultural industry reached an annual value of ten trillion, becoming one of the nation's pillar industries. Film box-office revenue reached one hundred billion, making it the world's second-largest market. Web dramas and online variety shows rose like comets, and the internet became an entirely new entertainment platform. This was an age of entertainment, a carnival of culture, this was… All right, I really cannot keep making 0Votes67.2kRecs87.7kFans
- 15 Shining Superstar in Chinese Entertainment 华娱之闪耀巨星 Back in 2001, Nie Wei is determined to become the brightest star in the entertainment industry. 0Votes266.2kRecs287kFans
- 16 The Nation's Heartthrob 国民男神 Fame and fortune are a game of smiling as you plot your moves. No one knows that Li Guoji has a smartphone System ten years ahead of its time in his head. He becomes a trendsetter in the media world and creates a behemoth in the film and television industry. In the eyes of the world, he is a business genius and the internet age's irreverent maverick. He is an industrialist, a philanthropist... The legend he creates with his own hands sweeps across the country and around the world like a storm. E 0Votes53.7kRecs71.6kFans
- 17 The Easygoing Tycoon 逍遥大亨 The Supreme Sacred Ring, the carefree tycoon! In the 1980s, you could take home a fine old Qing Dynasty huanghuali horseshoe-back armchair for just twenty yuan. Now, two million yuan will only get you a chance to touch one! In the 1980s, a courtyard home in Houhai cost around two thousand yuan. Now, a single property starts at twenty million! In the 1980s, you could buy one of Master Gu Jingzhou's Yixing teapots for two hundre 0Votes115kRecs110.9kFans
- 18 Reborn: Radiant Treasures 重生珠光宝色 She trusted the wrong people and met a miserable end. In her previous life, Chu Ning played an excellent hand into complete ruin. Having been given a second chance at life, Chu Ning no longer wants to live for anyone else. She will live only for herself. Rare antiques and priceless treasures all pass through her fingertips. With a supernatural ability at her command and a discerning eye, let us see how Chu Ning breaks through obstacle after obstacle, defeats one outrageous misfit after another, 0Votes48.2kRecs30.4kFans
- 19 My Gilded Age 我的镀金时代 Bai Shiqiu returns to 1999 and restarts his gilded age. He has wavered, burned with passion, played the artist, and acted the fool. Most important of all, he must find a stage of his own. 0Votes161.7kRecs172.5kFans
- 20 Chinese Entertainment 华娱 This is the story of a down-and-out singer who becomes an actor after being reborn. It is also a love story between a man and an artsy young woman. P.S. I’m terrible at writing blurbs. I really did my best. That’s it: Chinese entertainment, artsy vibes, no alternate universe. Dive in, and I’ll see it through to the end. 0Votes103.1kRecs121.2kFans
- 21 The Literary Tycoon 文壕 Tomato: My debut novel earned enough in its first month after going premium that I no longer needed my parents to cover my living expenses. Three months later, I could pay my tuition on my own. Six months later, I could afford a house. Potato: Once, I didn’t check my bank account for two months. When I finally looked, I thought, “Huh, there’s an extra six million.” So I casually gave it to my mom. Third Young Master: On the online writers’ ri 0Votes74.9kRecs45.6kFans
- 22 The Musclebound Movie Star 肌肉影帝 When Ding Cheng discovered he could control all 639 muscles in his body to act... This is awesome! 0Votes118.9kRecs146.7kFans
- 23 I'm Really an Actor 我真的是演员 Peng Yichen thought he would finally no longer have to play minor roles. But he was soon completely dumbfounded, because he had transmigrated again. This time, it was no longer a parallel world, but a movie world. Experiencing the joy of acting in a movie world, acquiring all kinds of skills in a movie world, and finding love in a movie world! Years later, some 0Votes57.3kRecs105.3kFans
- 24 The Birth of a Filmmaker 一个电影人的诞生 An accident brings Chen Jialuo to a Hong Kong that is both familiar and strange, where he becomes one of the many frustrated directors of the Hong Kong New Wave. He breathes new life into martial arts films, revives the long-forgotten wuxia genre, and creates a cinematic legend of his own. Since ancient times, beauties have lamented their fading youth, while heroes have been denied the chance to grow old. Now that everything is starting anew, let us revisit those classic memories and discover th 0Votes29.4kRecs22.4kFans
- 25 Breaking Through the Void 踏破虚空 Completed. 0Votes638.8kRecs51.9kFans
- 26 The Superstar of Everyday Life 生活系巨星 Forced into bankruptcy, I had no choice but to change careers. But after turning around, I found an even more beautiful view. Here, many people are working hard for the entertainment industry. Some do everything they can to produce shows that will lay the groundwork for Chinese music. Others stake everything they own on building special effects teams for their film careers. “Why work so hard?” “To put it simply, I want to make money. To put it broadly, I want to make my industry better.” Behind 0Votes159.9kRecs157.2kFans
- 27 The Great Nation's Entertainment Industry 大国文娱 Lin Qi discovers a door that lets him transmigrate back in time. On the other side is the year 1979. Hollywood is conquering the world, while Japanese anime and games are beginning to spread their influence across the globe... Yet the cultural sphere of Huaxia, with its splendid five-thousand-year history, has fallen half a century behind the rest of the world... Lin Qi feels he ought to do something! 0Votes158.2kRecs191.2kFans
- 28 The Superstar Career 巨星从业者 He is Huo Qubing, Zhan Zhao, Tang Yu Xiaobao, a swordsman, a young man of his time, a factory beauty, a cold-blooded killer, a warmhearted uncle, a fearless warrior, an Immortal Emperor. He, he, he... He's not a pervert, and he doesn't have a split personality. He's just an actor! 0Votes111.9kRecs154.5kFans
- 29 Mirror Illuminates Ten Thousand Worlds 镜照万界 On the path to transcendence in Superpower Out of Control, I watch the flames of karma spread across the world in Never-Ending. I dominate my age and forge a new path in The Legend of the Dragon and the Snake, then slay a flood dragon and bring peace to a chaotic world in The Twin Dragons of the Great Tang. This is the journey of a seeker pursuing the unknown. Watch him: Stride through the flames of war, brave a chaotic age, and bring peace to the Nine Realms. Outwit the wise, meet immortals and 0Votes29.9kRecs82.8kFans
- 30 The Pop Star 歌星 “Dad, do you want the phone number of that long-legged lady?” “Which long-legged lady?” “The pretty one by the fountain! If I get her number for you, will you buy me an ice cream cone?” Before Huang Guolun could answer, his food-loving son Huang Tao had already licked his lips and run off to ask the woman for her number. A few minutes later, Huang Guolun's phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number, and the caller immediately asked, “Are you Huang Tao's father? Your son is lost in the park...” 0Votes101.3kRecs97kFans
- 31 The Calligrapher and Painter from the Mountain Village 山沟书画家 New book: The Peerless Sage of Calligraphy is now out! Masters of calligraphy and painting from every era teach and pass on their skills, while he shoulders the responsibility of reviving traditional martial arts. A brush technique unchanged for millennia, lost to history until now: the Nine Divine Gestures make their return. The legendary life of an unknown country bumpkin transformed into a master of calligraphy and painting will be written by me! Readers’ group: 458448029 0Votes66.2kRecs66kFans
- 32 Reborn: The Rise of a Literary Giant 重生之文豪崛起 Reborn! If I'm going to do it, I'll become a great literary master!!! PS: The new book, Entertainment: A Director's Journey Beginning with Literary Films, has grown substantial. 0Votes353.5kRecs224.7kFans
- 33 Star Lottery System 明星抽奖系统 Singing and acting are his specialties. Writing songs, composing music, directing, and screenwriting: there's nothing he isn't good at. He always has a hand in the hit variety shows, and behind every breakout star, his influence can be found too. He is the great entertainer, Ye Qing! P.S. This is the story of a young man who transmigrates and trounces an entire parallel world. 0Votes48kRecs68.7kFans
- 34 A Tough Guy in Showbiz 硬汉的娱乐圈 When the entire entertainment industry was dominated by traffic-driven idols and pretty boys, a tough guy appeared. With godlike acting, he conquered the world. 0Votes97.3kRecs99kFans
- 35 The Wuxia Hero 武侠枭雄 With the bearing of a ruthless warlord, he seized the power of life and death. He held slender waists in his arms and drank beneath the red lanterns of the pleasure quarters. Then, standing at the summit of the world, he looked back at the bones and spoke of bygone days. Young Su Liu rose from the snow and journeyed through countless worlds. Holding fast to his principles, he charged ahead, sword in hand, and forged a martial arts legend worthy of an unrivaled powerhouse. Jin Feng Xi Yu Lou fan 0Votes131.5kRecs144kFans
- 36 The Golden Age of Chinese Entertainment 华娱大时代 Back in 2004, when Chinese-language cinema was just beginning to take off, Tang An's directing career started anew! From China to the world, this was the era when Chinese-language cinema would rise to glory, and it was Tang An's own grand age! 0Votes258.2kRecs265.5kFans
- 37 Life on the Pitch 绿茵人生 Themes: soccer, competition, Liverpool. The Premier League, the Champions League, the World Cup. 0Votes165.6kRecs88.2kFans
- 38 The Miracle-Working Healer 妙手心医 “Mr. Lin Jie, as the world's youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology, would you share your thoughts?” Lin Jie gazed at the flashes going off before him and said wistfully, “Before I turned nineteen, I was just a boy counting the days until I died. One operation changed the course of my life.” “That operation gave me more than just a new lease on life...” 3Votes229.3kRecs196.8kFans
- 39 Hunting Hollywood 狩猎好莱坞 A director from the mainland, born many years in the future, accidentally returns to Hollywood in 1986. From then on, he begins his legendary journey toward gaining control of the world’s largest center of the film and television industry. 0Votes527.7kRecs139.3kFans
- 40 Another World Between the Pages 笔下的另一个世界 For a transmigrator in a parallel world, there's no problem a pen can't solve. And if there is, just add a keyboard. Sun Peng 1Votes140.8kRecs103.6kFans
- 41 Wilderness Livestream: Alone at the Edge of the World 荒野直播之独闯天涯 A down-and-out writer who knows martial arts unexpectedly gains a Wilderness Livestream System, and from then on, his life is never the same! At his hometown, Mount Qingfeng, he revisits the memories of his childhood. At the Three Gorges of the Yangtze, he heads upstream, carving his achievements into the milestones! In Shennongjia, on the roof of China, he tests his survival skills to the limit and investigates the legend of the vanished wild men. At Namtso in Tibet, he walks through a realm of 0Votes188.4kRecs193.7kFans
- 42 Reborn with Dreams in Bloom 重生梦想花开 Back to 1994, where dreams take flight and blossom in the old days. 0Votes95.3kRecs129kFans
- 43 Fan Jin's Ordinary Life 范进的平凡生活 Transported into the world of The Scholars, I become Fan Jin in his younger days. Ha, I passed! 0Votes151.9kRecs83kFans
- 44 The Superstar Couple 巨星夫妻 Zhang Le, a nobody of a director who had only made a few small commercials, suddenly becomes an overnight sensation and the focus of every major media outlet. But what frustrates him is that he isn't famous for his astonishing talent or the golden finger he got after transmigrating and being reborn. He's famous because his wife is a popular star. Become as famous as his wife! More famous than his wife! Make his wife as famous as he is… He vows to outshine every star in the world with the brilli 0Votes210.6kRecs186.6kFans
- 45 Building a System to Read Books 造个系统来读书 A middle-aged man returns to 1998. He can’t remember lottery numbers, can’t trade stocks, knows nothing about business or music, and isn’t much of a writer. How can he turn his life around? The answer: study. This is the story of a middle-aged man returning to his school days and saving himself. This is a reborn-era novel about a warm, everyday life. The System is just a gimmick. … 0Votes145.7kRecs137.2kFans
- 46 Showbiz for All 文娱万岁 With the splendor of this shore, he will make a legend of the other shore. This is Luo Yuan’s story. The story of a director. 0Votes519.1kRecs417.6kFans
- 47 The One and Only Legend of Showbiz 娱乐之唯一传说 Reporter: “Your music has swept the charts, your TV dramas have become a hot topic nationwide, and your movies have made a comeback in Hollywood. Netizens say you’re the one and only legend in show business. What do you think of that?” Su Luochu replies calmly, “It’s just empty fame. All I really want is a house facing the sea, with spring blossoms in bloom.” Reporter: “Uh, you already have a huge house, and the paparazzi even caught you with the young diva...” Su Luochu slams the table and crie 0Votes253kRecs269.4kFans
- 48 Back to the Mountain Village to Farm 回到山沟去种田 Blurb One: A 3D fantasy city drives navigation addicts to despair! The only answer is to go home and farm! Plant trees, raise fish, walk the dog, grow orchids, wade through rivers, hike the hills... You can live a colorful life even in a mountain ravine! Blurb Two: Returning to the ridge, new clouds recognize the rain's traces; Reaching the stream, old leaves cling to Crow Village. The mountain plum lies cold, its faint fragrance gone quiet; The ravine plums bloom in profusion, snow-white petals 4Votes391.8kRecs210.3kFans
- 49 Reborn as the Green-Robed Ancestor 重生绿袍 A modern soul is reborn in the body of Green Robed Ancestor in the world of Shushan. Before he knows it, the world begins heading in an unknown direction. A gentle flap of a butterfly's wings changes everything. His arrival transforms this world! What changes can he bring to this world? And how will this world change him? Read on to see how a modern man survives in the world of Shushan as Green Robed Ancestor. This book is complete. Please add my new book, The Chronicles of the Primordial Dao, t 0Votes140.9kRecs69.5kFans
- 50 Wilderness Livestream 荒野直播 People in the martial world call her “Lord Long,” but she is most definitely not a man...! She could have coasted on her looks, but she chose to rely on her talent. She could have lived off someone else, but she chose to make her own way. She could have let others protect her, but instead she trained to become the strongest woman in the world. No, the strongest person! This is the story of a reborn chubby girl who becomes “Lord Long,” survives and saves herself in the wilderness, and eats her wa 0Votes186.1kRecs194.8kFans
