Novels like At First, I Just Wanted to Make Money
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- 1 Reborn in Chinese Showbiz, Starting After Graduation 重生华娱从毕业开始 New book: Rebooting My Life in Chinese Entertainment What's the most important thing when you get to live your life over? Obviously, to live better than you did last time! As a blond sports and arts student, he has to review his past experience, focus on his own resources and strengths, find a niche that suits him through his unique advantages, combine strategies, reuse his existing momentum, and break through the fiercely competitive industry. Put simply, this is a story about a reborn man maki 0Votes4kRecs29.5kFans
- 2 Reborn as an Electrician 重生从水电工开始 Sun Tao thinks he’s terribly unlucky. He struggled hard, and fate once opened a door for him, only to inexplicably kick him back out. After twenty years of going around in circles, he returns to 2002. He’s still the same apprentice electrician. This time, he’ll do whatever he wants and keep his Dao Heart steadfast. 0Votes19.8kRecs66.7kFans
- 3 Showbiz and Longevity 娱乐长生 Jiang Changsheng: "Now that I am reborn, there are countless opportunities to make a fortune. Would I have to be out of my mind to enter the entertainment industry?" "What? You want a girlfriend from the industry? Do you have an enlarged heart? Never mind the fact that there are so many loose women in the industry. Wouldn't you feel disgusted watching your wife film kissing scenes with other men?" Fan Bingbing: "Am I not beautiful enough?" Liu Yifei: "Brother Changsheng!" Yang Mi: "What did you 0Votes11.3kRecs74kFans
- 4 After Getting into Beijing Film Academy, I Became the World's Best Director 考进北电后，我成了世一导 Audience: Director Lin, you have to keep making movies. If you stop, what are us ordinary folks supposed to watch? Three Golds: Director Lin, please come to the awards. What will happen to our ceremony if you don't? Actress: Director Lin, there are a few things I don't quite understand. Could I come ask you about the script? Reporter: Director Lin, could you share your thoughts on becoming the world's number-one director? Lin Yicheng: It all began in 2002, when I got into the directing program a 0Votes16kRecs90.8kFans
- 5 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
- 6 In Chinese Showbiz, I Joined the Cast with Funding from the Start 人在华娱，开局带资进组 Later, readers discovered that actors follow a certain pattern when choosing roles. Deng Chao rewards himself with a comedy after every successful serious drama. Xiao Ming-ge rewards himself with a domineering-CEO story after every successful production. Liu Yijun rewards himself by playing a police officer after every villain role. And ever since Zhang Xianzong in Wuxin Fashi, every time Chen Zhibin releases a hit, he rewards himself by not filming a second season... (The protagonist's tastes a 0Votes23kRecs126.1kFans
- 7 The Fan 歌迷 (The dad-with-a-kid storyline starts at 2 million words, Chapter 821. There are lots of cute little-kid scenes, so welcome back, longtime readers! QAQ) I used to be a music fan too. I worked just a little bit harder and became the God of Song. That summer, Yang Qian wanted to sing and received a “Music Fan” System from Earth. He never expected that he would go on to lead Chinese pop music into a new era of glory. (The author has the long-running, highly popular novel The Literary Life of a Dad, 0Votes178.1kRecs90.3kFans
- 8 Eighteen in Chinese Showbiz 华娱那年十八 Eighteen that year, surrounded by big shots, standing there like a nobody~ Back in 1998, Lu Heng is brought to a reunion marking twenty years since the Class of '78 at Beijing Film Academy. Quietly making himself useful on the sidelines, he swears to himself: I'll become an entertainment mogul! The author has completed novels such as From Comedy Star to Superstar and The Movie Emperor Returns to Eighteen, with a combined total of over ten million words. 0Votes32.2kRecs114.5kFans
- 9 King of Directors 2000 导演之王2000 New book: Chinese Entertainment: A Dimensionality-Defying Takeover, 2011. Li Shengyao is the youngest professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. He transmigrates back to the year 2000 and becomes an extra. Of course, he has no intention of becoming an actor. Actors are nothing but puppets in a director’s hands. He intends to take control of the set and become the greatest director of the new century. 0Votes21.9kRecs140.5kFans
- 10 New York, 2006 纽约2006 The protagonist transmigrates to New York in 2006, sharing an era with Adele, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, and others. America, TV dramas, the American entertainment industry, authenticity, plausibility, realism, singers, capitalists, and the tech industry. 0Votes15.2kRecs80.1kFans
- 11 Back to the 80s: My Literary Life 重回80：我的文艺人生 Synopsis: A middle-aged man with a love of literature somehow finds himself back in the early 1980s, where he becomes a permanent staff member and low-ranking gatekeeper at the Yanhe magazine office in Qin Province. He minds the gate, slacks off a little, and writes poems, novels, and screenplays on the side. Before he knows it, he has become a great writer in everyone’s eyes. Life is prett 1Votes45.5kRecs186.3kFans
- 12 Chinese Showbiz: Indulging in Fame and Fortune 华娱：纵情名利场 Back in 2009, on the eve of a film shoot, the producer absconded with the money to pursue a heavenly life in North America. In an era when people all over the world looked up to the West, this was nothing unusual. It only made the investors furious... He Fang, who had transmigrated here, stepped up to take charge and made a grand entrance into the fame-and-fortune-filled entertainment industry. Beautiful celebrities, lavish spending, thrilling amusements... Tsk, this world of fame and fortune wa 0Votes19.5kRecs109kFans
- 13 Chinese Showbiz: A Director's Simple Joy 华娱：导演的快乐就这么简单 Reborn in 2000, does being a film directing student mean you have to join the entertainment industry? Lu Ping'an wiped his glasses. “Sure, I'm handsome, but sorry. I have a house, a car, and stocks. I can lie flat until old age without a worry, so I'll pass on joining the entertainment industry and burning through my vitality and lifespan.” [Ding~ Successfully wrapped production on The Piano Tuner. Reward: enhanced physique; nearsightedness can be corrected.] Lu Ping'an: “Help me up!” 0Votes28kRecs238kFans
- 14 The First Chapter of the Night 夜的第一章 “I’ll say it again: I’m really not some genius singer or genius songwriter! I have no love for singing! My dream is to be a carpenter!” “But, Mr. Xu, you’ve won every major award, and your albums have the highest cumulative sales worldwide! Your songwriting and production have made so many kings and queens of pop! Everyone thinks you single-handedly dominated an entire era!” “Weren’t we supposed to talk about woodworking? Are you trying to get fired?” “No, boss! But this is your TV station, so y 0Votes58.9kRecs71.3kFans
- 15 This Movie Star Doesn’t Look Like a Good Guy 这个影帝看着不像好人 Jiang Bai transmigrated here. In his previous life, he was a government lackey, sent to infiltrate the martial arts alliance by posing as the alliance leader’s confidant. Thanks to his superb acting, he rose through the ranks and eventually became the target’s adopted son, in charge of all the dirty work. But in the end, he was betrayed by a spy and die 0Votes7.3kRecs215.6kFans
- 16 Chinese Showbiz: Young Master Gao Wants to Be a Movie Star 华娱：高衙内他想当影帝 One day, after getting completely drunk, Gao Yanei was enjoying the company of courtesans when he suddenly transmigrated to the Great Celestial Empire and became an honorable… bit-part actor! Then he was stunned to discover that a certain man surnamed Shi had pinned a huge scandal on him!!! His godfather, Gao Qiu, was the one trying to suppress the military families in the Imperial Guard. What did that have to do with him? Was Lin Chong’s wife as skilled in bed as Lian’er from the Spring Breeze 0Votes23.7kRecs105.6kFans
- 17 Chinese Showbiz: Galloping Ahead from 2003 华娱从2003开始策马奔腾 New book out: Showbiz Begins with a Male Model Reborn in the early 2000s, Bai Anliang inherits a martial arts school. He leads fifty junior disciples in a brutally forceful “takeover” of the entertainment industry. He knows the law, but plays dirty! From Hong Kong’s entertainment scene to mainland showbiz, talent isn’t the only way to beat the big money. Sometimes, you can do it with brute force! “That’s how we do things!” “My rules are the rules!” “Cut the crap. You think I’d steal your girlfri 0Votes24.5kRecs128.3kFans
- 18 Showbiz, Starting in 1999 文娱从1999开始 0Votes14kRecs110.8kFans
- 19 The Musclebound Director 肌肉大导演 This is the story of a muscular director turning the entertainment industry upside down~ Keywords: muscles~ muscles~ skr~~ 0Votes45.2kRecs127.2kFans
- 20 Chinese Showbiz: I Blew My Girlfriend’s Secret Savings! 华娱：花光了女友的小金库！ Reborn, Su Mu’s first move was to spend every last bit of his girlfriend’s secret savings. Then he started getting used to a life of lying flat ahead of time! “If I can lie flat in comfort, why make life so hard for myself?” 0Votes45.1kRecs213.3kFans
- 21 Chinese Entertainment in 2004 华娱2004 What’s it like to be reborn in 2004 and work as a security guard at a film academy? Jiang Yu says, “I’m serious about making money.” 0Votes37.4kRecs109.4kFans
- 22 An Actor's Journey, Starting in 1998 演技派从1998开始 Li Tang, a Chinese-American actor languishing in the ranks of Broadway's nobodies, accidentally transmigrates to 1998. A graduate of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, he has an apartment (an old one), a car (a Happy 90), a famous ex-girlfriend he can't quite let go of, and a secure government job. Directors from every corner are flocking to him... 0Votes30.9kRecs117.6kFans
- 23 Chinese Entertainment: The Ordinary Movie Star of 2002 华娱零二平凡影帝 He first became known for a bit part in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. Then he made a splash in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, The Return of the Condor Heroes, and Kung Fu! This guy has joined every production he could get into! He’s played a mountain of bit parts! He’s known in the industry as a lucky charm. Any show with Fang Yu is bound to be a hit! And somehow, he looks the part no matter what he plays! According to industry insiders, the award-winning actor Fang can do everything from shoei 1Votes15.6kRecs163.9kFans
- 24 Showbiz: Letting My Achievements Speak for Themselves 华娱之实绩为王 “Shen Lang's new movie is about to break two billion dollars at the box office.” “No way. How did it make so much?” “Who knows? His track record speaks for itself. Oh, I forgot to tell you: your idol is working with him again. The production company behind The Legend of the Immortals even launched an event, bringing back the Six Directions Mirror and the Zhu Xian Sword. I'm definitely going to get the Zhu Xian Sword this time.” “Oh no, he's a playboy! Didn't they break up? And now they're workin 9Votes130.2kRecs288.9kFans
- 25 I Wrote a Showbiz Novel, and Its Villainess Prototype Came Knocking 写文娱被女反派原型找上门 My name is Xu Chuan. After I transmigrated, I wrote an entertainment-industry novel. It featured a villainous top-tier star, and now the real-life model for that villain wants to have a word with me after reading my novel. P.S. This book focuses more on behind-the-scenes struggles within the entertainment industry, so its content may differ somewhat from standard entertainment-industry stories. If that bothers you, ple 0Votes26.5kRecs113.9kFans
- 26 The Internet Tycoon Kidnapped by an Entertainment System! 互联网大佬，被娱乐系统绑架！ "The System completes its upgrade in Chapter 60 and becomes reward-based. The early setup exists solely to get the protagonist into the industry." [The Domestic Entertainment Rectification System has finished loading. As a first-year student at Beijing Film Academy, you enter the entertainment industry full of hope, but the business is steadily rotting, and it pains you deeply. To turn things around, you resolve to reform domestic entertainment...] [Novice Mission: Build a good relationship wi 12Votes31kRecs252.4kFans
- 27 I Really Never Wanted to Become a Top Student in the Past 我真没想在过去的年代当学霸 A mediocre college student transmigrates into the impoverished, fervent era. Who would have thought that my family would have an eldest brother, a second brother, a third brother, a fourth and fifth brother, an eldest sister, a second sister, a third and fourth sister, and three to five younger brothers and sisters? There are two or three older uncles in the courtyard, one or two younger uncles, a second aunt and a younger aunt. My father ranks first at slacking off, while my mother ranks first 0Votes143.5kRecs161.1kFans
- 28 Showbiz: I Only Like Making Movies 文娱，我只喜欢拍电影 In 2008, Chinese entertainment cinema emerged from its pioneering era and entered a period of wild growth and flourishing diversity! That year, countless people experienced both joy and sorrow! That year, Chinese entertainment cinema gained a Fang Ziheng! Transmigrated and reborn, he sets sail! From low-budget comedies to big-budget suspense, historical, and sci-fi films, Fang Ziheng goes step by step from a newcomer to a world-renowned director with box-office hits, forging his own path in the 0Votes44.3kRecs306.1kFans
- 29 Chinese Entertainment: I Am the Destiny 华娱之我即是天命 From the age of online traffic onward, the road ahead for Lin Qingyuan stretches toward the stars and the sea! Also known as: The Road to Top-Tier Stardom Begins with a Feud-Filled Variety Show 0Votes50.2kRecs177.3kFans
- 30 This Director Is Very Reliable 这个导演很靠谱 Filming a television or film production is an enormously expensive and mentally exhausting undertaking. Making a movie is difficult, and making a good movie is harder still. With all sorts of messy unspoken rules filling your mind every day, how are you supposed to make a good film? : Shen Changlin V group: 685421440… 0Votes203.6kRecs258.3kFans
- 31 Travel Begins with Photography 旅行从摄影开始 [Travel System] [First Loading Message: To encourage residents to leave their homes, the Travel System was specially developed. It can provide cash, skills, talents, and cultural products from parallel worlds. We hope residents will leave their homes, see the blue sky, embrace the sea, and enjoy the sunshine.] [Skills: None] [Talent: Photography] [In the past nineteen years, your travel has taken you no more than one hundred kilometers from home. In this age of advanced transportation, you are n 0Votes37.7kRecs148.6kFans
- 32 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
- 33 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
- 34 An Engineer Wandering Through the Turmoil of Late Qing China 游走在晚清的乱世理工男 As a science-minded guy with a solid technical background, I actually transmigrate to another world. It's beyond belief! But when in doubt, turn to quantum mechanics! . Fate, oh fate... Since I'm here, after all those years of racking my brains, I still might not publish a single paper in Science. So why not... start a column instead! . Let's talk about the most breathtaking chapters in the history of human technology. Let's look at that unprecedented transformation unseen in three thousand year 0Votes44.2kRecs229.4kFans
- 35 Tokyo's Godfather of the Arts 东京文艺教父 After transmigrating to Tokyo in 1994, when Japan's economic bubble had just burst, society was full of “satiated poor,” people who had enough to eat but could afford little else. Fujiwara Kei was one of them. To escape his predicament, Fujiwara Kei, who was about to graduate, faced two options: debut as a mystery writer or enter broadcasting and produce television programs. Fujiwara Kei's choice was simple: only children have to choose. Adults take it all. It all begins with Byakuyako! 0Votes25.8kRecs100.3kFans
- 36 1994: The Vegetable Farmer's Comeback 1994：菜农逆袭 Vegetable farmer Chen Jiazhi returns to 1994. That year, he is 21. He leaves home for Huacheng and begins his first stint as a vegetable farmer. Then the rookie farmer is hit by one disaster after another: the rainy season rots his crops at the roots, torrential rain wipes out his harvest, typhoons bring floods, heat waves bring drought, and then a cold snap strikes... Now he has a chance to start over. For vegetable farmers, terrible weather is both a disaster and an opportunity. (Farming + Dai 29Votes116.3kRecs174kFans
- 37 The Gossip-Loving Movie Emperor of the Entertainment Industry 娱乐圈的吃瓜影帝 Lu Xun once said: “Those with gossip can achieve anything; those without it can’t take a single step.” As the Year of the Horse draws to a close, the Year of the Chahar is about to begin. A certain gossip-loving bystander is suddenly struck by a Gossip System falling from the sky, setting him on a path of no return. Red carpets, film sets, award ceremonies, celebratory banquets: wherever there’s fun to be had, he’s sure to show up. For the sake of gossip, he comes up with all kinds of bizarre pu 2Votes57.4kRecs316.4kFans
- 38 Who Are You Calling a Powerhouse? 骂谁实力派呢 Who are you calling a powerhouse performer? Who are you insulting? Do you have any idea what it means to be one of Asia’s Ten Most Handsome Men? 8Votes264.5kRecs843.1kFans
- 39 After Switching Careers, I Became the Basketball World's Number One 转行后，我成了篮坛第一人 Starting in the mid-1990s, he forged his own glory and completely dominated the sport of basketball. Legendary coach Pat Riley once proposed that every team retire the number 23 jersey to show their respect for that man. The Four Shooting Guards were all his juniors, and they idolized this number 23. In the world of basketball, mention the number 23 and you’ll think of the court tyrant who drove fans wild and made his opponents suffer. He was, without a doubt, the God of Basketball. Michael Jord 0Votes141.3kRecs287.9kFans
- 40 What Does It Matter If My Songs Are Cheesy? I Only Wrote a Few Lines 歌土跟我有什么关系？我才几句词 Good news: I've transmigrated, and I have an Entertainment System. Bad news: I need to bind myself to a girl to activate it. Good news: The binding worked, and I got a duet as a reward. Bad news: Netizens think the song is tacky, and I can't sing. Good news: I only have two lines! The concert begins. Audience: What a diva! Why did that singer bring a bodyguard onstage? The concert is nearing its end. Lin Zhixing puts down his kebabs and joins her onstage for the duet. Audience: Holy crap, the bo 2Votes65.1kRecs716.3kFans
- 41 Striving for the Third Generation 拼到第三代 New Book: The Landlord in North America … Given a second life. Standing on the shoulders of those who came before, he rides the waves at the turn of the century. He goes where he wants to go, becomes who he wants to be, and fulfills the dreams he once had. This is an everyday story of gentle sunshine and brilliant youth. 0Votes116.1kRecs199.1kFans
- 42 New York, 1995 纽约1995 A wrestler, an actor, a rock singer, a traveler searching for lost memories. 0Votes28kRecs52kFans
- 43 The World of the Arts 文艺世界 New book: Love Yourself, Director In 2001, domestic art-house directors were rushing one after another toward Cannes, Berlin, and Venice. Commercial directors were obsessed with making blockbusters and taking on the global box office. At this time, Fang Nan was quietly working as a stuntman on one film set after another, starting from the bottom and eventually becoming a top-tier director known worldwide! 0Votes56kRecs164.8kFans
- 44 I Really Can't Act 我真不会演戏啊 “I’m going to take my talent into the entertainment industry…” “But you can’t actually act.” “Having a good face is enough.” 0Votes79.3kRecs127.3kFans
- 45 You Don't Know How Much Fun Being a Director Is 导演的快乐你不懂 ★ Book status: Complete! Conquest 108 ★ Born in 1985, admitted to the directing program at the Beijing Film Academy in 2003, went on exchange to the University of Southern California in 2005, and directed his first Hollywood movie in 2006. He became famous overnight! But at the height of his success, Wang Quan announced he was returning to China to pursue his career. The domestic entertainment industry was shaken, and the international scene was stunn 2Votes192.6kRecs495.5kFans
- 46 This Star Might Be Mentally Ill 这个明星疑是精神病 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Han Zhou gained the ability to get into character as anyone at any time. Add a little childishness, and everyone became convinced he had multiple personalities. Han Zhou's fanbase is the largest group of fellow patients in the world. “You have to be mentally ill to write lyrics like ‘Combustible and Explosive,’ right? I want to know what Old Han was thinking when he wrote ‘Sunny Day’ and ‘Cloudy Day.’” Fans: “Old Han, ‘Mr. Tree,’ ‘The First in the World, 0Votes63.9kRecs332.6kFans
- 47 Great Nation, Great Mechanic 大国机修 “Dongqing, you’re a college graduate. Isn’t it beneath you to fix cars with us?” In the small repair shop, a group of roughnecks teased him. Ji Dongqing wiped the sweat from his brow, a wry smile rising in his heart. It was 2002. Rather than spend years going in circles as a college graduate, he’d be better off taking advantage of the high wages in auto repair, earning money early, and paying off his student loans. If he could manage it, he’d buy a place in the city, find a good woman, get marri 0Votes43.9kRecs314.6kFans
- 48 My Life Has Narration 我的生活有旁白 After Su Qing, a recently graduated video blogger, accidentally ate a poisonous mushroom sent by a fan, his peaceful life was disrupted by a narrator. Morning: “Morning is here. All things are revived, and once again it's mating season for the animals.” Mealtime: “High-end ingredients need only the simplest cooking methods. The food before you has fermented overnight and gone bad. Eat it, and in thirty minutes you'll get to experience hospital-grade internet speeds.” Driving: “There are count 2Votes66.7kRecs386.8kFans
- 49 The Band's Summer 乐队的盛夏 Ye Weiyang, a 30-year-old office worker, wakes up to find himself in a classroom on a summer afternoon. Sunlight pours in through the window and falls squarely on his face, dazzling and blinding. He has the chance to start over. This time, he decides to reclaim the dream he let slip away. To strive, to venture out, to cry, to laugh, to fall, to feel lost, to shout, and to cheer for his dream! “I’m the lead singer, Ye Weiyang!” “Tonight, we’re staying open all night!” A playlist und 0Votes45.6kRecs148.2kFans
- 50 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
