Novels like The Glorious Age of Chinese Entertainment
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- 1 My Career in the Chinese Entertainment Industry 华娱之我的从艺生涯 He Hua never imagined that a single stone would transform his artistic career. Looking at the vast trove of information in his mind, He Hua grinned, “Heh heh heh.” 0Votes6.9kRecs50.3kFans
- 2 Now That I'm a Goddess's Husband, Who Needs a Superstar System 都成女神老公了，谁还要巨星系统 You’ve already married a goddess-like beauty, and only now you’re giving me a Superstar System? Where have you been all this time?! 0Votes54.3kRecs85.4kFans
- 3 Best Director: 2000 最佳导演之2000 The grand upheaval of the entertainment industry’s new era reverberates, shaking the restless hearts of the people. In this world of rampant materialism and collapsing values, people devour one another to climb higher and go further. Watching the crowds flowing past me, noisy, clever, cunning, two-faced, scrambling for their own advantage... So let us congratulate mainland cinema on producing yet another “traitor.” Ever since setting foot on this path of light and shadow, Bai Wei has wanted only 2Votes7.8kRecs77.8kFans
- 4 Chinese Showbiz: Starting with the Leading Lady System 华娱从获得大女主系统开始 As a clear-eyed yet clueless college student, I was working part-time on the set of one of those crooked-smile Dragon King dramas everyone loves when, to my surprise, a brick knocked me straight back to 2002. I got the System that every transmigrator seems to have, but what’s wrong with mine? I’m a strapping six-foot-tall man, so why did it give me a “female-lead System”? First, the novels [Caribbean Islands] and [Kung Fu Panda] got me noticed. Then, with the low-budget films [The Shallows] and 1Votes4.4kRecs41.6kFans
- 5 Chinese Showbiz: The Cultural Renaissance 华娱之文化复兴 No connections, no resources, no money, and don’t want to be a wage slave? Then use other people’s connections, resources, and money to achieve your own great rejuvenation. 0Votes45.4kRecs45.4kFans
- 6 This Director Has No Ambition 这个导演太不上进 Back in 2004, Shen Ping'an had planned to coast through life as a carefree slacker... But things didn't go as he wished. His childhood sweetheart was actually a goddess? Warning: you may find yourself falling for her! And so, the showbiz world of the time lost a playboy and gained a wife-obsessed director, Shen! P.S. A lighthearted, everyday-life story with no angst. 0Votes1.2kRecs16.9kFans
- 7 Chinese Showbiz: Stirring Up a Storm, Starting as a Director 华娱，从导演开始搅动风云 The entertainment industry is a world of fame and fortune. Everyone wants to make it in show business and gain both fame and wealth. After being reborn, Ye Ran dives right in without hesitation. Starting out as a director, he gradually stirs up the industry. 0Votes13.4kRecs65.9kFans
- 8 Chinese Showbiz: It All Begins with Meeting a Fairy-Like Beauty 华娱，从初遇天仙开始 After getting his share of the spoils from Soros, Gu Li began his legendary rise. He made a fortune during crises, opened mines in Africa, and walked through battlefields. He would build a world-class conglomerate. Starting in finance, ending in industry. He would blaze new trails in Chinese entertainment and set the trends. The tycoons of the past had long since fallen, while a new generation of tycoons was still coming up. Gu Li intended to be the one and only. Problematic works had to be bann 0Votes3.8kRecs35.1kFans
- 9 Chinese Showbiz: It All Began on the Condor Heroes Set! 华娱，从神雕剧组开始！ After struggling in the industry for more than a decade, he finally becomes the director of a surprise hit. Before he can even enjoy his success, he is reborn right in the middle of the wrap party. Ren Yuan really wants to curse that rotten heaven. Since he’s been reborn, he won’t let this chance go to waste. In the entertainment industry, this life, I’m going to take it step by step, step by step, until I reach the very top. I’m going to be Ren Yuan! 0Votes4.3kRecs57.8kFans
- 10 The Fairy Sister Is My Childhood Friend 华娱之神仙姐姐是青梅 An IT loser and scumbag who knew next to nothing about the entertainment industry, haunted by regrets he couldn’t let go of before dying of illness, was unexpectedly reborn into a family of musicians, where he grew up with the girl he had always loved. With a family like that, who’d still work as a coder? With the girl of your dreams, who’d still be a scumbag? One female lead: An Qian This is a beginner’s first fast-paced novel. The early chapters can be a bit rough, so please try to st 0Votes26kRecs53.7kFans
- 11 My Career in Chinese Entertainment Started a Little Late 我的华娱开始的有点晚 After transmigrating, he got into film school, only to discover upon enrollment that not a single person in his class would ever make it big. It seemed as if the class had stolen his luck, too: of the six films he made, three failed to pass censorship and never aired. After eight years of keeping a low profile, he’d gotten to know a whole lot of upperclassmen and underclassmen. He wouldn’t make claims about everyone, but he was friends with the entire Eight-Five Flowers crowd. Then Wang Yi disco 0Votes15.8kRecs95.7kFans
- 12 My Sci-Fi World in Chinese Entertainment 华娱我的科幻世界 Chen Chen returns to the past. While dating the girl of his dreams, he makes sci-fi movies and even brings many of the advanced technologies in them to life. He goes on to lead the world in technology, trample Hollywood, take on Elon Musk, and create a sci-fi world of his own! The story begins with a robot girlfriend... 0Votes6.7kRecs32.6kFans
- 13 Chinese Showbiz: This Director Is Too Pure 华娱：这个导演太纯情 With twenty years of memories from his dreams to rely on, Su Mu buys, invests, and makes movies... Before he knows it, he’s at the very peak of entertainment-industry wealth, a true tycoon both inside and outside the business! And everything he’s done was simply for the sake of that little girl’s childhood dream. This is a story about directing, making money, and raising a celestial beauty. 0Votes12.6kRecs61.6kFans
- 14 Chinese Showbiz Through the Years 华娱似水流年 The circle is vast, vast enough to make someone famous and renowned throughout the world! The circle is small, so small that the heart can hold only one person! As the years pass like flowing water, watch Gu Wei carve out his own dazzling path in this circle! Discussion group, everyone is welcome to join 629496015 Apply to join the group 1Votes6.9kRecs75.4kFans
- 15 Chinese Showbiz Since 2002 从2002开始的华娱 Xu Qing returns to 2002. His first acting job after signing with a company is unexpectedly as an extra on the set of the Fairy Sister… (Parallel timeline, single female lead.) 0Votes4.4kRecs45.5kFans
- 16 The Movie Emperor: Practicing Every Role Ten Thousand Times 影帝：每个角色偷练一万次 [Chinese Entertainment / One Female Lead] In 2008, a headline suddenly shot to the top of Weibo’s trending list: “Beijing Film Academy’s Fierce Bro Is Invincible, Goddess Sister Falls for Him at First Sight” Xiao Liu: You like Goddess Sister? Xu Hengzhou: Don’t be ridiculous. Goddess Sister and I have nothing to do with each other. You’re the only one I’ve ever loved, Xiao Liu. By the way, what’s your real name? Xiao Liu, the real Goddess Sister, clutches her secret identity, her face icy: Liu T 0Votes20kRecs53.5kFans
- 17 Chinese Showbiz: A Myth Begins in 2004 华娱神话2004 In 2004, Kung Fu burst onto the scene, House of Flying Daggers was widely criticized, and A World Without Thieves made Wang Baoqiang an overnight sensation. But what film fans truly remembered about that year was a young man named Li Mu. That year, a transmigrator from the future plunged headfirst into China’s entertainment industry. 0Votes26.1kRecs129.8kFans
- 18 Chinese Entertainment Starts at Art School 华娱从艺校开始 Sent back to the past by his computer, I get to make a fresh choice in this life. I choose beauties like jade, a life of wealth, and the worlds of film and entertainment. In this life, I want Liu Tianxian and Da Mimi to be my senior schoolmates; I want Gu Xiaona, Zhou Dongyu, and Yang Zini to be my junior schoolmates; I want Li Xian, Zhu Yilong, and Bai Jingting to call me boss. The story focuses on making movies, with TV dramas and other projects as supporting elements 0Votes17kRecs127.6kFans
- 19 Reborn: The Days I Spent Living with the Celestial Beauty 重生：与天仙一起生活的日子 One heroine, Qianqian; slow-burn romance; romantic interactions; a shadowy golden finger. The prose is poor, the writing is awful, the stats are dismal across the board, and far below the average on Qidian. This book isn't recommended unless you're calm, looking for something to read, and enjoy books about Qianqian. If you don't meet all three of those requirements, don't read it. 0Votes12.1kRecs7.3kFans
- 20 Reborn in 2006: Starting with Disney to Conquer the World 重生06：从迪士尼开始制霸全球 In 2006, Peng Lei was reborn and returned to the turning point of his life. As a third-year university student, he had just been recommended by the Beijing Film Academy to study animation production in depth at Disney. His future should have been limitless, yet in his previous life, he had no idea that after returning to China a year later, he would suffer two crushing defeats and ultimately go home to inherit his family's acting-exam training school, remaining single and alone until he was over 0Votes6.7kRecs73.2kFans
- 21 I Pursued the Celestial Fairy Early and Became a Movie Star! 提前追天仙，我混成影帝！ "Because you spend all day drowning your sorrows!" "Because you refuse to improve yourself!" "Because you chase after women!" "Your wife has chosen to leave you!" Looking at the System's description, Xu Jiang became furious. Slander! This is slander! Don't think that just because you are the System, I have no way to deal with you! How could I, the dignified Xu Jiang, possibly have so many problems? I am only eighteen! "Congratulations on activating the Star Entertainment Ex-Wife-Chasing System!" 0Votes3.7kRecs27.6kFans
- 22 Chinese Showbiz: My Secret Marriage to the Celestial Beauty Exposed 华娱，我和天仙隐婚被曝光了 Xu Jiayang, a C-list actor, wakes up reborn to discover that he's secretly married to and living with a top-tier star known as the “goddess-like big sister”! After binding to the Wife-Doting Maniac System, he accidentally becomes a renowned director. From a kept man to Best Director, he scores box-office hits with films such as Our Times, Brotherhood of Blades, Candle in the Tomb, and Detective Chinatown. He also wins countless awards for Nobody, La La Land, and Dying to Survive. When news of th 0Votes3.8kRecs19.7kFans
- 23 Chinese Showbiz: The Years of the Bright Moon 华娱之皓月年华 Given another chance, what kind of extraordinary life can Xu Hao live? 0Votes10kRecs24.8kFans
- 24 The Director's Path: Training My Celestial Beauty Girlfriend to Become a Director 导演之路：培养天仙女友当导演 A genius director from the San Fernando Valley! Lin Lu was already good at making movies in his previous life. After being reborn, he didn’t wait for anyone else to arrive. Instead, he met his neighbor, Jiang Wen. Influenced by Jiang Wen, he set out on the path of directing once more. Cannes, Berlin, the Oscars... After winning countless awards and finding no rival, he decides to train his girlfriend, the celestial beauty, to become the world’s number-one female director! 0Votes9kRecs54.9kFans
- 25 The Goddess Reborn as a Cat 天仙重生变成猫 He Mu Chen transmigrates and is reborn after a late-night adventure. That’s normal enough. What isn’t normal is that he transmigrates with a female ghost? Even stranger, the female ghost is the fairy-like goddess he’s been a fan of? And stranger still, the goddess’s soul transmigrates into his cat? But there’s more: the goddess can actually swap bodies with Qianqian from this world! (The first dozen or so chapters are slow-paced and mainly introduce the characters, backstory, and golden finger. 0Votes10.1kRecs12.6kFans
- 26 The Gilded Age of Chinese Entertainment 华娱之鎏金时代 In the height of summer, 2003, Lu Ge looked up at the dazzling sunlight and clenched his fist! In this era of wild growth and boundless opportunity for Chinese-language entertainment, he resolved to carve out a story of his own, and usher in a golden age for the industry! “The Xiongnu are not yet vanquished. How can I think of starting a family?” “I, Li Xiaoyao, will become the greatest hero under heaven!” “Melancholy Soul-Severing Palm!” “Why am I always just a little short? Always just a littl 0Votes2.8kRecs23.5kFans
- 27 One Bite of His Pricy Fried Rice, and Old Tang Became His Disciple on the Spot 一口天价炒饭，老唐当场拜师 Li Yi transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a livestreamer who sells things from a street stall. He gains access to a mysterious space where he can learn and pass down intangible cultural heritage skills, mastering countless arts that have been lost over time. His Supreme Emperor Fried Rice is so delicious that a food-review streamer immediately kneels and begs to become his apprentice after one bite. The bamboo weaving masterpiece he creates, Havoc in Heaven, is valued at tens of millio 0Votes35.7kRecs270.7kFans
- 28 Reborn in the Beijing Film Academy Classroom 重生从北影课堂开始 He woke up, and the world had changed completely. 0Votes13.1kRecs79.6kFans
- 29 I Set Up a Stall in Showbiz and Wholesale Best Actors 我在娱乐圈摆摊，批发影帝 The companion novel to this book: the new story "Huayu: Wholesale Best Actress Awards" is here. In the summer of 2003, Lu Xin suddenly gained the ability to foresee developments over the next several decades. He then began his own business in the entertainment industry, setting up a stall to wholesale Best Actor trophies. “Lu Xin, this is your tenth time winning the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Director trophy. How do you feel?” “Behind-the-scenes rigging, absolu 0Votes2.2kRecs50.5kFans
- 30 In Chinese Showbiz, I Seek Immortality 人在华娱，我想求长生 My name is Xiao Zhang, and I am also incredibly arrogant! The career I pursue was left behind by Qin Shi Huang more than two thousand years ago. That's right, I mean immortality. But before that, I have to make a grand, arrogant appearance in the entertainment industry! Xiao Zhang is about to unlock his first entertainment-industry title: The Entertainment Industry's Walking Natural Disaster! 0Votes9.1kRecs29.1kFans
- 31 The Director's Brilliant Era 导演的璀璨时代 From 74 first-month sales to an average of 1,070 per volume, little by little, we're making progress. Make money early, and borrow scripts wisely. What did you say? Film a movie? Not even a dog would do that!!! 0Votes5kRecs49.3kFans
- 32 Time-Space Cohabitation: How Did I Become a Mogul in Chinese Entertainment? 超时空同居：怎么就成了华娱大佬 I opened my eyes, then closed them. When I opened them again, there was suddenly someone beside me. Who am I? Where am I? How did I become a big shot in Chinese entertainment? Stay away from me, chubby Xixi! It all started with an incident involving a time-space cohabitation... 0Votes23.9kRecs50.6kFans
- 33 The Green Years of Chinese Showbiz 华娱青葱岁月 Hua Yichen, a professional photographer, was reborn in the cinematography department of the Central Academy of Drama. Liu Yifei, a professional actress, was reborn in the directing department of the Beijing Film Academy. One became a producer, the other a director. Starting from scratch, they worked hard together and forged different lives. P.S. This is only about film and television, nothing else. The style stays consistent. If you don’t like it, please move along. 0Votes36kRecs46.1kFans
- 34 Saving Regrets in Chinese Showbiz 华娱拯救意难平 A reborn story wearing the skin of the Chinese entertainment industry~ Returning to age eighteen, Sun Yi discovered that his original life had developed a slight deviation. Still, it was no big deal~ When he was preparing to follow the big shots by starting his own business and embarking on a life full of bugs, he unexpectedly discovered that a female classmate from high school was actually a major celebrity in his previous life. On his first visit to a film set, he encountered the fairy- 0Votes30kRecs177.5kFans
- 35 The Best Actor: My Entertainment Era 影帝：我的娱乐时代 It starts with the acting department of the Film Academy’s Class of 2002. Zhang Yuanjun swore he’d become a good actor, one even more famous than his classmate Liu Yifei! 0Votes36.3kRecs78.8kFans
- 36 The Big Player in Light and Shadow 光影大玩家 Cheng Yu’an, a flop director, returned to 2002. He had no plans to change the entertainment industry. He just wanted to make some money and enjoy a quiet life with his wife and children. But somehow, as he kept making films, things took a turn: “Look, I really just want to make some money. Stop treating me like the godfather of cinema!” “My goal is to retire at forty. Stop asking me to make more movies!” “All the films on the charts are mine. What else am I supposed to shoot?!” “I’m out, I’m out 2Votes34.1kRecs115.7kFans
- 37 I'm a Director in Chinese Showbiz, Spoiling the Celestial Fairy, My Beloved 我在华娱当导演，宠坏天仙白月光 A little screenwriter who’d wasted nearly half his life. He closed his eyes, then opened them. In this life, maybe he’d just become a director and pursue that far-off dream. 0Votes11.3kRecs112.9kFans
- 38 The Richest Man in Chinese Entertainment 华娱第一富 [Reborn + singer + business + film industry + internet + childhood friends] (Over 9,000 premium subscribers. Enjoy without worry.) Whenever Zhang Chen shows up at an awards ceremony, he’s either there to roast someone or to stock up on trophies. Yet nobody can do a thing about him. Want to smear me? Donate as much as I did to build a Bird’s Nest Stadium first! He made his debut at the Grammys, then made a fortune overseas around the turn of the millennium. The youngest Grammy winner ever, with t 0Votes14.3kRecs102.6kFans
- 39 This Actor Is a Little Too Arrogant 这个演员有点嚣张 “This actor's a bit arrogant, isn't he? He's so young, yet he dares to change the script himself. Did the director agree?” one passerby said. “Don't you know who he is? His name is Wang Xu,” another replied. “Is he that Wang Tyrant, the one every director is fighting to cast?” the first passerby exclaimed. “Yeah, he's the Wang Xu who married the Fairy Sister!” “Waaah, he deserves to die! I'm so jealous of him!” “Wang Xu, aren't you being a little too arrogant, trying to pursue my daughter ri 0Votes13.9kRecs62kFans
- 40 This Director Is a Little Too Willful 这个导演有点任性 Zhang Xuan, who possesses hyperthymesia, transmigrated into the body of a rookie director. The year was 2003. Hollywood superhero films had already swept across the globe, and China’s film industry was beginning to develop rapidly. Armed with memories from 2023 and having watched countless films, Zhang Xuan did not believe he could fail. In this life, he would experience a life he had never experienced before! (One heroine) 0Votes4.7kRecs44.4kFans
- 41 Chinese Showbiz: I Just Want to Give My Child's Mother a Home 华娱：我只是想给孩子他妈一个家 New Book: Director 1978: From the Start, I Went on a Blind Date with the Goddess's Mother When golden wind meets jade dew, their encounter surpasses countless others in this world. In 2023, Chen Dong's first film, which he had poured all his assets into directing, went down the drain after something happened to the female lead, wasting years of painstaking effort. Fortunately, he returned to 2002 and decided to choose a different starting point and pursue his dream all over again. The first 0Votes8.7kRecs119.5kFans
- 42 The Lazy Celestial 咸鱼天仙 One female lead, Liu Qianqian. The whole book is free to read. I'm really not her fan, and I've never spent a cent on her. She's something of the unattainable first love of our generation. I've also read far too many books with her as the heroine or a supporting character. Seeing all the nasty rumors and smears about her online got to me, but I didn't want to keep posting comments to clear her name. It's too exhausting, and I couldn't be bothered. So I wrote this book to refute some of the rumor 0Votes2.2kRecs0Fans
- 43 I Took a Detour Through Chinese Showbiz 我从华娱路过 Zhuang Zhou dreams of a butterfly, then awakens from a great dream. Zhao Chen'an did not want much. He only wanted a different kind of life. The main road leads to the heavens, and everyone walks their own way. I am just passing through. After wading through the mud, I only hope never to forget my original intention and to remember my first dream. This is the best of times, and also the craziest of times. I cannot change this crazy reality, but I will leave behind a brilliant mark of my own! (Di 0Votes4.2kRecs37.5kFans
- 44 It Makes Perfect Sense That I Won the Palme d'Or at Fifteen 我15岁拿金棕榈很合理啊 No. Japan next door can have a fourteen-year-old win Best Actor at Cannes. I was reborn and transmigrated back, and I even brought along a personal-connections System. So what if I win the Palme d'Or at fifteen? Just tell me, is that really unreasonable? I have connections at the top! 23Votes29.1kRecs141.7kFans
- 45 Chinese Showbiz: Something Is Wrong with This Fairy 华娱：这个天仙不对劲 New book: "Chinese Entertainment: From the Start, I Trick the Celestial Beauty into Being My Daughter" All I wanted was to skim a few perks from the System. How did I accidentally become a global media mogul? 0Votes36.5kRecs91.7kFans
- 46 Chinese Showbiz, Starting by Teaching the Celestial Beauty to Act 华娱从教天仙演戏开始 Xu Chuan spent over a decade struggling to make it in Hengdian. Then he was reborn in 2011 as a third-year directing student at Beijing Film Academy. To get through his final assignment, he made the short film Waiting, which moved countless people! And that was where it all began! (This story has one female lead, Tianxian. Enter at your own risk if that's not your thing.) 0Votes3.8kRecs36.2kFans
- 47 Reshaping the Chinese Entertainment Industry 重塑华娱人生 A young director whose career was just taking off hadn't even had the chance to show what he could do when he was reborn in the body of a rich second-generation student with terrible grades, bringing the memories of two lifetimes with him. Can he win a place for himself in the Chinese entertainment industry as it rapidly develops after the turn of the millennium? A few years later, Wu Yuan looks at the array of trophies before him with a helpless expression. “I'm a director, not a screenwriter.. 1Votes6.6kRecs79.9kFans
- 48 Chinese Entertainment: A Sparkling Star 华娱之星光闪烁 According to the theory of quantum superposition, before a film is released, it exists in a superposition of being a masterpiece and being a terrible movie. According to Murphy’s law, when a film has a one percent chance of becoming a terrible movie, then it is definitely a terrible movie. According to Cheng Shuo’s Tumbler Theory, as long as he refuses to admit that it is a terrible movie, then it is not a terrible movie. 0Votes16.4kRecs24.7kFans
- 49 Top-Tier Star: Starting by Winning Over the Fairy Sister 顶流影帝：从攻略神仙姐姐开始 [Started with 500 first-month subscribers, now up to 1,500!] After dying suddenly in an accident, Wang Yi wakes up to discover he has transmigrated into the body of the most handsome guy at the Shanghai Theatre Academy! And that's not all: he's taking part in a couples' variety show with the Fairy Sister herself! His System awakens, and as long as he wins over Qianqian, he can earn all kinds of rewards... Villas, luxury cars, checks: he's got it all. Singing, acting, and driving skills are all w 0Votes30.4kRecs59.3kFans
- 50 This Movie Star Is Playing Himself 这个影帝本色出演 Murong Fu unexpectedly arrived in the real world and became Mu Rong, a minor actor with no name to speak of. He was going to audition for a role in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils: Murong Fu. Am I playing myself? The most handsome Murong Fu in history was born. The real world also gained an irresistibly charismatic action star. … 0Votes8.2kRecs28.2kFans
