Novels like Starting Out Adrift in Hong Kong's TV Universe
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- 1 Conquering the Heavens, Starting with Hong Kong Cinema 从港综开始纵横诸天 The story begins in the Hong Kong crossover universe, with the sequence up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, forward, back, forward, back... 0Votes23.9kRecs83.8kFans
- 2 EN Supernatural: From Stat Points to Earth's Strongest 神诡：从加点开始到地表最强 Fan Wu transmigrates to a world of gods and ghosts and gains a stat-point golden finger! By slaying demons and monsters, he earns points he can use to boost his own attributes! From then on, the world of gods and ghosts has a new addition: a muscular Daoist with a style all his own. Facing the trembling demons and monsters, Fan Wu flashes a savage grin. “Your purity is way too low!” “System, add points!” P.S. I already have a completed, well-received novel, “The Saintess Helps Me Simulate Cu 1Votes27.3kRecs368.1kFans
- 3 Hong Kong Crossover: Cao Dahua Is an Undercover Agent by My Side 港综：曹达华在我身边卧底 Lin Zishe squatted by the roadside, gazing at Silver Snake Tower across the street. He took out his phone and dialed a number. “Hello, Liu Qiang. I want to make a movie called Underworld Jianghu.” “Sounds like a terrible movie.” “So you're saying you don't respect Brother Silver Snake?” 0Votes22.2kRecs156.9kFans
- 4 A Hong Kong Entertainment Industry Life Simulator 港娱的人生模拟器 Zhao Donghuai transmigrates to Hong Kong Island in 1983 and gets a strange life simulator. [June 1983: By chance, you join the Winners and Sinners film crew as a stunt performer. In mid-June, your good looks steal the scene, and you appear as a masked fast-food restaurant robber. Big Brother Hong kicks you through the restaurant window and out onto the street, where you accidentally injure your spine.] [January 1984: You “create” a new version of Nocturne using milk tea bottles, but get trapped 0Votes180.4kRecs225.3kFans
- 5 I Turned Down Peking University to Enlist, Then Rose Through the Ranks 不读北大去当兵，我卷成军官 [Not a Special Forces story] Li Xiu, a Peking University graduate and amateur hacker, returned to the 2000s and awakened the Military Life Competition System. As long as he outcompetes everyone in the military, he'll reap the rewards. Having hated his former life as a programmer, Li Xiu decisively gave up on continuing his studies at Peking University and enlisted instead, launching a career of relentless competition in the military. A military overachiever has appeared, always looking to outdo 0Votes32.5kRecs198.7kFans
- 6 The Fringe Artist of Showbiz 娱乐圈的边缘艺术家 Back in 1994, Chen Li'an has no desire to become an award-winning actor or a great director. He just wants to be an outsider in the entertainment industry and talk about art with beautiful women. Talking about art is fine! But there's no way I'll let you win my heart! When interviewed by reporters, the beautiful women of the entertainment industry all spoke from the heart. “He's the most charming man I've ever met.” 0Votes50.5kRecs140.4kFans
- 7 Lurking in the Eastern Palace to Raise My Talent, I Discover the Crown Prince Is a Woman 苟在东宫涨天赋，发现太子女儿身 Twelve years ago. The empress gave birth to a princess, but announced to the world that the child was a prince named Xia Shimin. Three years ago. Xia Shimin was made crown prince and betrothed to the Grand Tutor’s daughter, securing the imperial throne through marriage. Zhang Ronghua transmigrated at birth. Born into a hereditary noble family with impeccable credentials, he was a proper member of the Imperial Guards. He spent fifteen years lying low in the prince’s residence, gaining a point 0Votes70.6kRecs381.3kFans
- 8 Period: The Laid-Back Life I Started After Moving to the Countryside 年代：从下乡后开始的咸鱼生活 I transmigrate, but all I want is to live a carefree life. Here, I have a warm, kind family, a graceful little beauty, and a stunning, bewitching white lotus. There's a born beauty who's grown numb to life, and a petite, delicate neighbor who has to work in the fields every day. But all I want is to stay with my warm family and quietly live the life of a landlord, lounging around like a salted fish. But some things can't be avoided, and some people can't be kept at bay. 20Votes192.1kRecs408.1kFans
- 9 I Became a Martial Saint in Another World 我在异界成武圣 Strange events struck Blue Star, and a mysterious force affected large numbers of its inhabitants, causing their souls to temporarily transmigrate to another world. It was a world shrouded in darkness and crawling with the uncanny. Prices were exorbitant, evil spirits lurked in the shadows, and the various factions fought among themselves, waging vendettas across the martial world. The common folk at the bottom suffered miserably. Yang Fang was a psychiatrist at a mental hospital, and he too tra 0Votes67.6kRecs311.6kFans
- 10 The Great Good Samaritan of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio 聊斋大善人 “When you see a living creature, you cannot bear to watch it die. When you hear its cries, you cannot bear to eat its flesh. This is the way of a gentleman.” “So that’s why you secretly put fleas in my clothes?” Zhang Xiu transmigrated into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. As long as he released animals, he earned rewards. From then on, the world had one more “great benefactor”... 0Votes63.9kRecs276.6kFans
- 11 A Bard Makes His Way in Showbiz 吟游诗人混迹娱乐圈 “The character has gained the Heart of a Bard and successfully taken up the Bard class...” Shuoshuo, have you ever thought about becoming an actor? An actor? Chen Shuo glanced at his class panel and fell into thought. Come to think of it, he might actually be a good fit... 0Votes42.7kRecs106.4kFans
- 12 The Years of Red Flags Flying High 红旗招展的岁月 Engineer and homebody Jiang Hua returns to the past, bringing with him the pleasant surprise of a vast pocket dimension. He's also in great shape and can eat anything without a care. And in this parallel world, he has an unruly younger brother. He can't waste this fresh start. He'll keep his head down for now, and when the opportunity comes, he'll change the world. I have God's-eye view. I arrive, I see, I conquer! 6Votes123.7kRecs365.6kFans
- 13 Traversing the Myriad Heavens, Starting with Hong Kong Cinema 诸天纵横，从港综开始 The new book All Heavens: Starting with Hong Kong Movies is currently being serialized. Welcome to read! The book covers movies, TV dramas, games, and anime, with nothing left out. It's a wildly entertaining web novel that breaks the mold. The protagonist doesn't start out as a police officer in the first world. (Note: Most Hong Kong crossover stories seem to use police undercover work as their backdrop. Let's write one where the protagonist isn't a police officer!) 0Votes53.1kRecs332kFans
- 14 Korean Variety Shows: Starting as an Undercover Agent in New World 韩综：从卧底新世界开始 He is Ding Qing and Li Zicheng’s sworn brother. He is the most deeply embedded insider. He is the sixth great chaebol of the rising South Korea. But before all that, he was just a low-ranking undercover cop who seemed to have been kicked off the force for getting caught up in someone else’s mess. [The New World storyline has begun.] After seeing the words floating before him, Lin Wei made himself a vow. “One day, I’ll have the entire Korean Peninsula under my heel!” New World, The Yellow Sea 3Votes57kRecs242.4kFans
- 15 Ten Thousand Versions of Me Across the Heavens 一万个我纵横诸天 Lan Nuo thought he had simply transmigrated into an ordinary post-apocalyptic wasteland, until he discovered that he had become ten thousand people. From then on, the world began to take a strange turn. When it came to fighting, all ten thousand of them charged in together. When it came to cultivation, ten thousand people could pass their power on to one. When it came to learning, each person specialized in one field. I was an entire civilization! One person can't become a jack-of-all-trades, bu 11Votes85.2kRecs176.1kFans
- 16 Cultivating Through Grinding Experience 从刷经验开始修行 Check out my new novel, Dragon Subduing After working at a major tech company for years, Wang An has grown old before his time. By chance, he gets a cheat that lets him grind experience, and leveling up his skills brings him unexpected surprises. It turns out some things are more than just legends. Lightfoot skills really can let you walk across snow without leaving a trace and scale walls with ease. The Indestructible Diamond really can grant diamond-hard strength and a diamond-hard body, imper 0Votes88.6kRecs333.2kFans
- 17 EN Marvel: Wolverine Reversed 漫威逆转金刚狼 In a world of dragons and serpents, a martial arts grandmaster with extraordinary talent but a frail constitution is reborn as the sole heir to Canada's largest estate in the nineteenth century. He thought he'd just practice his boxing and make some money. He'd become a titan of his age by riding the Industrial Revolution. With a mean fist in one hand and U.S. dollars in the other, he'd live a carefree life. But it turns out the original owner was an incurable invalid, too! And his claim to the 14Votes64.2kRecs286kFans
- 18 Reborn: Rising in Hong Kong 重生：崛起香江 Rickshaws, floral water, the Four Great Detectives, and pleasure boats on the Kowloon River! Cheongsam-clad beauties swaying to and fro, and the dreamlike Hong Kong! Reborn in Hong Kong... With a hand full of unbeatable cards, Shi Zhijian makes opportunity bloom everywhere! 0Votes121.8kRecs293.2kFans
- 19 EN In a Hong Kong Movie World, You Call This Undercover? 人在港综，你管这叫卧底？ A fake undercover agent: Carefully hides his identity, swallows his conscience to play the lowlife, and occasionally sneaks off to do good out of pity. Meeting his handler feels like sneaking around with a lover. A real undercover agent: Bold yet meticulous, ruthless and merciless, openly slips the cops a note to report his rivals. 0Votes162.3kRecs443kFans
- 20 From the Hong Kong Film Universe to the Heavens 诸天从港综世界开始 Xu Luo transmigrates and opens his eyes at the scene of a gang of robbers splitting their loot. Having inherited none of the original owner's memories, he mistakes himself for a real robber and decides to take everything for himself, pocketing diamonds worth fifty million! After achieving financial freedom, two police officers suddenly show up and tell him he's an undercover cop. They order him to investigate on the streets who pulled off the diamond heist and where the stolen goods went. Xu Luo 0Votes68.1kRecs357kFans
- 21 EN My Universe in a Bottle 我的瓶中宇宙 Li Qing, a psychiatrist, received a patient who claimed to be the “Creator God.” The patient told him about his transmigration: “Dr. Li, I've discovered that I have a superpower. I can create a microscopic civilization in this room. I've unleashed a great flood to destroy the world more than once, wiping out all its people. But I'm about to die, and I'll die as Pangu.” Li Qing reassured him: “I believe you. I believe you.” The man said, “My death is fated. It will usher in a new era of civilizat 3Votes84.4kRecs337.3kFans
- 22 I Want to Pick a Fight with Superman 我要与超人约架 I was reborn in the DC Universe with a cheat ability: taking a beating lets me level up, though I can only spend skill points on defense. Superman gets challenged to fights and never seems to win, always ending up battered and humiliated. Batman gets challenged and never seems to lose… Maybe I can ask Superman for a fight and boost my defense until I have an invulnerable body of steel? (De 2Votes481.5kRecs186.7kFans
- 23 Saving the World of Movies 电影世界大拯救 I'm Lu Shouyi's brother-in-law in Dying to Survive. To save him, I choose to work with Cheng Yong. In the end, I see him off at the pavilion ten li away before returning. I'm a detective in Detective Chinatown. I set out to save Sinuo, only to discover that she is the ultimate villain. Just how deep can human malice run? I found out this time. In Goodbye Mr. Loser, I beat up Xia Luo, kiss Qiu Ya, and ruin Chen Kai. Here, I call the shots. I'm Yu Huanshui in If There Is No Tomorrow. I beat up my 0Votes227.9kRecs282.2kFans
- 24 Senior Brother Is Right 师兄说得对 “Disciple, you have the makings of a great immortal!” When his master said this and sent Song Yin into the alchemy furnace, Song Yin understood... Reviving the righteous sect is our bounden duty! 0Votes67.4kRecs481kFans
- 25 EN A Hundred Lifetimes to Renew the Heavens 百世换新天 A transcendent yet decaying world. The strength of individuals determines the order of things. Great clans control knowledge, monopolize resources, and build up their foundations with every passing generation. Destiny, constitution, spiritual sense, comprehension, spiritual roots, Dao artifacts... Every path to the Great Dao has been severed. For tens of millions of years, order has endured without change, leaving no room to breathe. Only the True Immortals look down upon the mortal world. Then 2Votes60.1kRecs309.1kFans
- 26 Hong Kong Crossover: Infernal Affairs 港综之无间道 Han Chen, Chen Yongren, Yang Jinrong, Liu Jianming, Lin Guoping, Chen Jun… You thought Han Chen sent out five undercover agents back then. No, there were actually seven. What would you do if you woke up and discovered you were one of the seven moles working for Han Chen? See how Zhou Yu turns the Hong Kong crossover world, starting with Infernal Affairs, on its head. Wealth, status, luxury cars, mansions: could you give them up? Black or white, evil or good: who gets to judge? … Zhou Yu patted h 0Votes106.6kRecs302.8kFans
- 27 Wandering the World of Myriad Heavens 人在诸天，浪迹天涯 A Myriad Heavens crossover featuring a mix of film and TV worlds. The first world is a little long, and the story doesn't follow the original plot. Same old rules. 0Votes109.6kRecs189.9kFans
- 28 Shi Potian Transmigrates into Linghu Chong 石破天穿越令狐冲 Shi Potian, who had just sworn brotherhood with Zhang San and Li Si, woke up one morning to discover that he had become Linghu Chong, the Huashan Sect's senior disciple. And so... [Scene One] Yue Buqun: “If you aren't Linghu Chong, then who are you?” Shi Potian: “I am Dog Bastard.” Yue Buqun: “???” [Scene Two] Yu Canghai: “Do you mean that, in your eyes, all the disciples under my command are useless? That you could kill every one of them without lifting a finger?” Shi Potian: “No, no, how could 2Votes129.3kRecs332.2kFans
- 29 Longevity Martial Arts: Starting with the Five Animal Health Fist 长生武道：从五禽养生拳开始 Su Chang Kong woke up one day in a world ravaged by war and overrun by demons. His aptitude for martial arts was mediocre, but he discovered that as long as his [Lifespan] increased, his talent and potential could also improve [Infinitely]! Five-Animal Frolics: Mimic the tiger, deer, bear, ape, and bird. Practice it to strengthen your body, sharpen your reflexes, and ward off all illness! Turtle-Breathing True Meditation: A breathing art modeled on the thousand-year-old turtle. Breathe deeply an 1Votes177.8kRecs949.4kFans
- 30 EN After Signing with AC Milan, I Started Slacking Off 签约AC米兰后，我开摆了 Lao Ye has a new book out. Title: If You’re Brothers, Come Play Soccer Kaka: Huang was the biggest hero of the Istanbul night, even if he didn’t play much. Ancelotti: Huang is a super talent. It’s a shame he’s not in great shape. Maldini: Huang is the team’s most important player. I recommend the club renew his contract for another five years. Barcelona: To show our sincerity in signing Huang Kaiwen, we’ve decided to offer his cousin a salary of one million euros a year. Milan’s team doctors are 9Votes232.9kRecs361.3kFans
- 31 The Outcast: I, Zhang Zhiwei, the Arrogant Zhang 一人之下：我，张之维，嚣张的张 Transmigrated as the Young Old Celestial Master My name is Zhang Zhiwei. Zhang as in arrogant, Zhi as in covering the sky with one hand, and Wei as in doing whatever I please. 3Votes225.8kRecs590.4kFans
- 32 In a World of Gods and Ghosts, I Can Rewrite Fate 神诡世界，我能修改命数 This is a world ruled by a human empire, where those in power command the fate of all! This is a realm of the living and the dead, where the uncanny runs rampant! The ancient immortals and Buddhas have vanished, leaving only Daoist fruits returned to the void. Myths of old are awakening, awaiting the opening of Heaven's Gate. Ten True Dragons, Heaven's Chosen Demon Stars, traitorous factions that bring ruin to the realm, martial saints with sacred physiques... In this magnificent age, where all 0Votes127.9kRecs602.1kFans
- 33 The Blue Dragon's Endless Journey 蓝龙的无限之旅 Reborn in a multiverse, he searches for traces of the Dragon Gems in the world of Dragon Nest; he beats the stuffing out of Smaug in the world of The Hobbit; he forcibly tears Arthas’s head off in World of Warcraft; in the world of Overlord, he takes the throne atop the Great Tomb of Nazarick... When you gaze into the abyss, you discover you’ve been standing in it all along! This is the story of a lawful evil blue dragon who keeps sowing his influence and growing stronger across the infin 0Votes51.7kRecs94.7kFans
- 34 EN I Alone Conquer the Chaotic World 我一个人砍翻乱世 The story of one man carving his way through a chaotic world. Zombies: Grrr! Lin Fan: “We’re all neighbors. Why are you so hostile?” Lin Fan: “I still need to go grocery shopping.” Lin Fan looks at Xiao Qing, who has turned into a zombie. “Xiao Qing, I bought a few bottles of water. I’ve already scanned them, okay?” Lin Fan: “Boss, I’d like to collect my wages.” Sunshine Residential Community, where Lin Fan lives, is inundated with countless refugees seeking shelter. We should all learn from Lin 0Votes276.7kRecs901.7kFans
- 35 Men and Women, Food and Drink 饮食男女 Eldest Uncle: The funeral arrangements are hard to settle Second Uncle: Holding office and enjoying good food Third Uncle: Careful budgeting Qin Huairu: A pretty face He Yuzhu: Fighting and cooking Lou Xiaoe: Unable to escape the courtyard Once Li Xuewu shows up, the uncles' years of effort go down the drain, and even Silly Zhu wishes he could trade places with him. 654Votes925.6kRecs909kFans
- 36 EN This Text Adventure Game Is Seriously Cursed 这个文字冒险游戏绝对有毒 It all begins when the protagonist downloads a game called The Fool (Beta). From that moment on, his life takes a completely different turn. It's a text adventure game so crude it has no graphics or music, just lines of text and countless choices. Yet every choice in the game affects the player's fate, because on the other side of the game lies a real, unknown world! Players cannot enter the other world or see what it looks like. They can only experience what the game character sees and hears at 1Votes178kRecs920.5kFans
- 37 EN My Past Life Simulator 我的前世模拟器 A cash-on-delivery package sent He Zhao down a path he had never imagined. “To all my past lives, I thank your ancestors for eighteen generations!” New book: My Ultimate Modifier. 0Votes100.5kRecs541.6kFans
- 38 My Ming Dynasty Is Rich in Martial Virtue, but I Choose Cultural Victory 我大明武德充沛但选择文化胜利 [A 19th-century Great Ming restoration novel] Also known as The Founding Father of Reverse Conquest Theory, the True Ruler of the Americas, Savior of the Yin People, Nightmare of Europe, Supreme Leader of Eastern Civilization, Emperor of the Fourth Great Ming Empire, Founder of the Five Splendors Alliance, Greatest Thinker, Educator, and Inventor of the Nineteenth Century, Dream Lover of 300 Million Girls, Perpetual Box Office Record Holder in Film History, Paragon of Every Virtue, the Greatest 1Votes189.8kRecs285.1kFans
- 39 Wandering Through the Film and TV Worlds 漫游在影视世界 Lin Yue, a C-list actor, obtains a System that lets him travel between cinematic worlds. From then on, he embarks on a wondrous journey, experiencing all kinds of extraordinary lives as he roams through the worlds of movies. In Detective Chinatown, he corrects Qin Feng's deductions and finds the real culprit behind the gold heist. In My Chief and My Regiment, he brings everyone home. In Project Gutenberg, he unmasks the mystery of the Painter. In Chasing the Dragon, he fights his way through Kow 7Votes599kRecs597.9kFans
- 40 The Li Clan 李氏 The bold ride dragons and tigers, while the timid ride cats and sit on rabbits! At the end of the road, the awakening of humanity marks the beginning of divinity. (Seven Deadly Sins Series II: Greed) 1Votes60.2kRecs249kFans
- 41 I Descended into the Myriad Worlds 我降临于诸天世界 New book: You're Cultivating Immortality All Wrong has started serializing! Welcome, readers! Lately, rumors have been spreading through the myriad worlds that I, Chen Chushi, am devious and treacherous, cruel in my methods, and willing to do anything to get what I want... Slander! I'm an upright man who stands up to bullies and helps the weak! The Descent of Kui, The Curse, The First Rule, Seven Days After the Zombie Rebirth, The Great Zombie Era, The Tag-Along, The Haunted School, The Ten Curs 1Votes147.2kRecs758.7kFans
- 42 This Sandbox Game is Unreliable 这个沙盒游戏不靠谱 As a sandbox game player who loves peace and enjoys farming, Chen Xiyi insists he isn’t the kind of Fourth Calamity who brings chaos to the world. He prefers to win over his enemies with truth and justice. “Let’s talk this out. Put away that weapon of mass destruction first. We can work anything out.” These were the last words of a certain red-name NPC. 0Votes59.1kRecs272.5kFans
- 43 How Could I, a Top-Tier Star from the Start, Ever Fade Away? 开局顶流的我怎么会糊 Chu Zhi transmigrated to a parallel world and became a top-tier star in China. Even a throwaway post on Weibo earned him hundreds of thousands of comments. A young idol who'd become a complete has-been after a series of malicious smears: throwing his weight around, plagiarizing a new song, secretly getting married, and cheating. With everything going wrong from the start, he was lucky to have the [Personality System]. By doing things most celebrities wouldn't dare, he could earn points and draw 2Votes334.6kRecs541.4kFans
- 44 The Common Lord 俗主 [Folklore mystery, Soulslike world, tabletop role-playing experience, cosmic secrets] A text-based tabletop role-playing game called The Mortal World quietly appears. People discover that rewards earned in the game can actually be brought into reality. Thus begins a new age of exploration for all humanity. Some people look up into the depths of space and summon the courage to embark on a journey home, while others set out to mine their way toward the origins of civilization, seeking mysterious t 1Votes218.4kRecs717.9kFans
- 45 True Lord, Please Calm Your Anger 真君请息怒 The military path is a way of engaging with the world: refining baleful energy to temper the body, drilling formations to rout bandits, slaying demons and vanquishing evil, and defending one's home and borders. But those who do not cultivate both body and spirit will live no longer than a hundred years. Wang Xuan's soul transmigrated into the cultivation world, but he has alr 0Votes201.8kRecs406.4kFans
- 46 Reborn in the Great Era of 1993 重生大时代之1993 The story of Zhang Xuan, who becomes a literary giant after being reborn. 41Votes460.5kRecs1.3MFans
- 47 Peninsula Prosecutor 半岛检察官 Xu Jingwen transmigrates into South Korea and, from the start, kills his twin brother, who was plotting to murder him. With their identical faces, he assumes his dead brother's identity and takes his job as a prosecutor, his house, and his fiancée. Having taken the place of one man with another, he decides to be a good person and wipe out every corrupt official and criminal. But on his very first day at work, he discovers that the corrupt official is... himself. PS: The protagonist is a playboy 0Votes184.4kRecs800.1kFans
- 48 Generation Z Artist Z世代艺术家 From Taking Down Public Intellectuals to Conquering the Entertainment Industry A Gen Z online troll born in 2005 is reborn in 1998. He has no rose-tinted view of this era, and it leaves him feeling utterly suffocated. The crude picture quality of TV and films, the eye-searing special effects, costumes like scraps of cloth, makeup that looks like a joke, and a filming philosophy of “good enough is good enough”... Men and women, directors and producers, every last one of them is garbage. The young 1.5kVotes1.3MRecs870.9kFans
- 49 I Can See Experience Points 我能看见经验值 Before going to sleep, He Xiaotian merely complained that he was bored. Yet when he woke up, he discovered that the entire world had changed! The glowing screen in the upper-left corner of his vision became his only support. “Fine, I can accept all of this. But shouldn't you at least tell me how to gain experience points?!” (PS: New book, My Past-Life Simulator. Synopsis: A cash-on-delivery package sent He Zhao down a path he had never imagined. “To all my past lives, I thank your ancesto 1Votes235.9kRecs379.9kFans
- 50 The Movie Emperor Doesn’t Want to Be a Eunuch 影帝他不想当太监 I'm never going to be a eunuch again! The Ming Dynasty's youngest and most handsome chief eunuch transmigrates into the body of a film extra in Hengdian. The countdown to being sent back has begun! Time remaining: 92 hours, 29 minutes, 48 seconds... Will he become a superstar and earn two million a day, or be sent back to become a eunuch? You call this a choice?!!! The author's previous book, I'm About to Lose Money Until I'm a Muggle, was completed in just 300 words. It's about a wizard who tra 7Votes714.3kRecs587.2kFans
