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- 1 Chinese Entertainment: The Spring of 2014 华娱之春2014 Just as talk that the Chinese entertainment industry was doomed grew louder and louder, Li Nuo burst onto the scene. 0Votes2.4kRecs5.4kFans
- 2 Chinese Showbiz’s ’95-Born Stars: How Did I Become a Top-Tier Star? 华娱95花：我怎么成为顶流了？ Returning to 2016, Han Zimo decides not to become an actor. Instead, he plagiarizes books to become a screenwriter and director, builds up his connections and resources, reshapes the careers of top-tier stars, becomes a capital tycoon, and finally discovers that he still has not graduated! Along the way, he defeats the ratings manipulators, works the European Big Three film festivals, serves as chairman of the Golden Rooster Awards, and wins an Oscar. He enters the Korean entertainment industry, 0Votes12.7kRecs51.3kFans
- 3 Chinese Showbiz: The Actresses Are All Too Eager to Get Ahead 华娱：女星们都太想进步了 In 2016, producer Lin Bai kicked him off the set... In 2017, Lin Bai planned several hit variety shows and made a complete comeback... In 2018, Lin Bai released Dying to Survive and became a hot prospect in everyone’s eyes... Years later, he had become the entertainment industry’s most towering power broker. And over the years, countless actresses had been eager to get ahead. Lin Bai’s answer was: “To the sisters from the ’85 generation, how about a few friendly matches? To the sisters fr 0Votes2.7kRecs18.7kFans
- 4 Chinese Showbiz: You Don’t Know How Much Fun Actors Have 华娱：演员的快乐你不懂 Reborn with capital in hand, Wang Xuze still chooses to throw himself into the entertainment industry. Don't ask why; you just don't understand the joy of being an actor. Zhou: Brother Ze, we've finished filming. You can let go now. Chen: The director called cut, Aze. You can put your hands down. All the female leads are post-90s actresses. Rising young actresses are my weakness. (Showbiz wish fulfillment + comedy) 0Votes8.9kRecs62.7kFans
- 5 Chinese Entertainment: I Never Meant to Be a Playboy 华娱之我真没想当渣男 After one long dream, I wake up as a freshman at Shanghai Theatre Academy. I already know how the entertainment industry will develop over the next ten years... How could that not be amazing? “You think you’re good at acting? So what if you are? To make it in entertainment, you need connections and a powerful background. Who are you affiliated with?” “So you’re just some nobody!” “I’d like to make this pe 0Votes8.3kRecs88.3kFans
- 6 Chinese Entertainment 2010: Starting Out as an Ad Model! 华娱2010：从广告模特开始！ Back in 2010, he starts his career as an advertising model. That year, Su Yuyang shot a wedding dress commercial with Nazha, stunning everyone. That year, he appeared on the dating show When Happiness Knocks and successfully paired up with Li Yitong. That year, he talked Sweet Jing into investing in the hit adaptation of Love O2O. From advertising model to major investor. This time, he wants to find out just how much fun it is to be a big shot in the industry! 0Votes12.7kRecs69.1kFans
- 7 Chinese Showbiz 2017: Starting Out as a Top-Tier Star Author 华娱2017：从顶流作家开始 In 2017, the entertainment industry entered the age of traffic stars. Online video platforms formed a three-way rivalry, while capital flocked to traffic stars. And behind many of those stars, there seemed to be one person pulling the strings. He was the mysterious writer Nan Xun. A world-renowned bestselling author, he had won countless awards. Yet he had never once appeared in public. One day, Mushroom House welc 0Votes56.1kRecs160.8kFans
- 8 Reborn in Chinese Showbiz, but Bound to a Criminal System 重生华娱，但绑定了罪犯系统 Reborn in China's entertainment industry in 2014, Shen Bai had hoped to make a name for himself, but unexpectedly became bound to a strange Criminal System! From then on, things took a bizarre turn. Each time he unlocks a criminal's character card, he gains that criminal's signature skill. Unlock a con artist, and his gift of gab reaches its peak: he's eloquent and persuasive, switching effortlessly between truth and lies. Unlock a master thief with a thousand faces, and he gains top-tier disgui 2Votes22.4kRecs99.3kFans
- 9 Chinese Showbiz: A Global Superstar Begins as a Party Animal 华娱：全球巨星从玩咖开始 In 2015, the gossip-loving crowds were buzzing with discussion. "I know him. He's a playboy who spends every day hanging out in bars." "I really like this kind of high-end playboy. He has such great style." "He has also dated several women in the entertainment industry. They've been photographed together several times, and he has never denied any of it." "But he really is handsome, and his hairstyle and outfits are incredibly popular." "What kind of hairstyle is that? Oh, it's the Xue Hai hairst 0Votes38.8kRecs126kFans
- 10 Chinese Showbiz: The Top-Tier Star Whose Career Keeps Crashing 华娱：塌房系顶流，又又又塌了 Reborn for a second time, he wakes up in 2015. Chen Yao inherits his predecessor's massive fortune and opens his eyes to find himself a returning celebrity and the fifth member of EXO. But everyone knows inheritances come with taxes! His career gets off to a disastrous start when Dispatch exposes five consecutive ex-girlfriends from South Korea. What can he do? Let his career crash and burn! Chen Yao: Ahem, let me clarify. Those weren't rumors. Antis: What gives you the right to act so cocky? Ch 4Votes18.1kRecs98.9kFans
- 11 Running Man Debut: I Conquered the Entertainment Industry with Chinese Style 跑男出道：我靠国风制霸内娱 In 2014, the Korean Wave swept across mainland China, ushering in the age of traffic-driven celebrities. The four men who returned from Korea burst onto the scene, becoming top-tier stars as soon as they got back. The actresses born in the 1980s competed for attention, each carving out her own place. The Chinese entertainment industry looked prosperous, but was being swept along by foreign cultures at every turn. In his previous life, Gu Qi 13Votes68.8kRecs259.4kFans
- 12 Chinese Showbiz: Starting as a Top-Tier Star from a Talent Show 华娱：从选秀顶流开始 Shen Juan wakes up and finds himself back in 2017. Starting with the biggest hit talent shows, he rises step by step to become a top-tier star. Billboard: “Underrated perfectly captures North American trends, and Alex Fever is spreading rapidly around the world.” Time: “Every era has its own icons. We are living in the pop culture craze created by Alex.” MTV: “This spring marks Alex’s moment to rise.” Forbes: “A Gen Z pop king has arrived. Alex is changing the world and creating an entire 2Votes113.6kRecs177.1kFans
- 13 Chinese Showbiz: How Did I Become a Top-Tier Star? 华娱：我怎么成顶流了 Reborn in 2014, Qi Liang was a first-year management student at the Beijing Film Academy. He planned to use his experience as a casting director in his previous life to build connections and capital, then return to his old line of work. But his very first production brought an unexpected turn: the director took a liking to him and wanted him to become an actor. Qi Liang thought it over and decided that might not be so bad. Everyone knew actors made the most money these days. After spending a few 0Votes33.2kRecs96.4kFans
- 14 Chinese Entertainment: The Winds Rise in 2005 华娱之风起2005 “I’m an actor, not a celebrity. Acting is what I stand on.” “Endorsements and variety shows don’t mean much to me.” “Name your price!” “Ahem, please contact my agent.” 0Votes68.6kRecs162.6kFans
- 15 Chinese Showbiz: All My Artists Are Top-Tier Stars 华娱：我的艺人全顶流 (Business and everyday life, multiple heroines, and not mindless. It currently averages 5,000 subscriptions, with peak subscriptions over 10,000, so everyone can read with confidence.) (New book: I Really Didn’t Plan to Rely on My Looks to Make It in Chinese Entertainment. Feel free to check it out.) Jiang Ye, a big shot in the entertainment industry, is hailed as the boss who’s best at coaching actresses. The stars under his management focus on helping farmers through celebrity influence, takin 12Votes63.6kRecs218.3kFans
- 16 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
- 17 Everyday Romance Starting with Yang Chaoyue 从杨超跃开始的恋爱日常 Jiang Yang binds with the Girl Starlet Development System. His goal is to cultivate future top-tier stars and harvest their attributes, but he gradually realizes that something is wrong. Yang Chao Yue is always saying that she is focused solely on her career and has no interest in romance, yet late at night she squeezes through the door with a romance contract in hand: “I was clearly here first.” Tian Xi Wei is a clingy sweet girl in public, but a hot-tempered firecracker in private: “Jiang Yang 4Votes70.8kRecs129.6kFans
- 18 Life Game: Signing Up Internet Celebrities, Starting with a Bar 人生游戏：从酒吧开始签网红 Chen Jincheng was reborn in 2018 with a game called Life Management, which was bound to the MCN media company under his name. He started by signing the hottest nightclub DJ goddess of his previous life at a bar. As he continued earning rewards from the game, he signed more and more internet-famous goddesses, gradually becoming the godfather of online influencers. Years later, all he wanted to say was that “never let a good girl down, and never waste a bad girl” was the biggest misunderstanding p 0Votes81kRecs193.7kFans
- 19 Showbiz: I Really Want to Improve Too Much 娱乐：我实在太想进步了 "A year after his debut, he became a breakout sensation. Two years later, his star status skyrocketed. How has Zhou Yutang improved so quickly?!" "That's what happens when you're handsome and talented." "In this era of everyone trying to outdo one another at being terrible, other stars are still fighting over billing to get ahead, while he's already become a mogul with capital at his fingertips." "He's an unparalleled movie star, the king of commercial-film directors, the dream man of the actres 171Votes180kRecs520kFans
- 20 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
- 21 Chinese Entertainment: Starting Out as a Male Model 华娱从男模开始 He wakes up in 2015 and enters the entertainment industry as a male model. Don’t tell me about powerful backgrounds, impressive connections, or how corrupt the unspoken rules are. Bai Liang, living a second life, says he’s never suffered much in either one. The worst thing he’s had to stomach is iced coffee, and the heaviest thing he’s ever carried is Valentino. Making it in the industry comes down to two words: Luck! He’s going to find out what this entertainment industry is really like. Some p 39Votes506.1kRecs717.4kFans
- 22 What's Wrong with One More Person Getting Rich Later? 多我一个后富怎么了 He started out studying medicine but never practiced, then sold TVs, ran into Zhou Huihui, and moved into the sharing economy, where deposits went unrepaid. Next came real estate, where he found some success. At last, he picked a prime property, but never got to top it out… In 2008, Yu Xing woke from a dream to find himself back on the eve of the financial crisis, with his investments in the red. That was the year industry giants took shape and capital awoke. He could only struggle to build his 1.7kVotes1MRecs885.5kFans
- 23 Tracing the Current of the Literary Era 溯流文艺时代 Yu Dong is reborn from 2019 into 1991, returning to the time just after graduation, when he was assigned to work as a counselor at Jinling Arts College. Starting out by writing novels, he takes things one step at a time, gradually building an empire in the entertainment industry. 0Votes108.1kRecs171.1kFans
- 24 Exploiting Hollywood, 1980 剥削好莱坞1980 Hollywood has come up with plenty of formulas... What makes a movie a hit? And yet plenty of big-budget films that follow the formula still bomb at the box office. Ronald Lee transmigrates to Hollywood in the 1980s. Can he discover the secret to making a hit movie? After all, he can dream about scenes from movies he watched in his previous life... His knack for making box-office hits and helping actors win awards brings Ronald plenty of friends, enemies, and beautiful women... Let the author tak 3Votes484.8kRecs199.1kFans
- 25 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
- 26 Reshaping the Millennium Era 重塑千禧年代 At the turn of the millennium, officials were chanting slogans about GDP, bosses took pride in bringing their secretaries along, and rough-and-ready entrepreneurs fought with blades flashing amid the waves of the times. Fang Zhuo returns to the year 2000. Ten years later, a group of venture capitalists and private equity firms storm the company headquarters, demanding an answer from a stunned Fang Zhuo: “Mr. Fang, all your other projects have gone public. When on earth will this first one li 47Votes867.3kRecs825.4kFans
- 27 An Era of Striving 拼搏年代 Back in 1998, an ordinary man who had drifted, struggled, cried, and fought his way through life hopes to get back on his feet and keep pace with the times. My new book, My American World, is a smaller-scale story. 0Votes428.7kRecs250.1kFans
- 28 I'm a Director, and I'm Not That Bad 我是导演，我不比烂 In 2006, Xu Xin had a dream. In it, he saw an entertainment industry where everyone was competing to be the worst. People would do anything to stand out and go to great lengths to chase traffic. “If that's how things are, why can't we live like a beam of light?” (High-definition, uncensored, no angst or melodrama. The author's character is guaranteed, so feel free to jump in.) 23Votes893.8kRecs1.1MFans
- 29 EN 1979: The Golden Age 1979黄金时代 This is still a somewhat nostalgic story, hmm… 8.7kVotes3.7MRecs2.5MFans
- 30 Reborn to Ride the Wave 重生之我要冲浪 Back in the past, Yao Yuan has only one thing on his mind: goofing off… Ahem, I mean surfing! 23Votes1.8MRecs1.6MFans
- 31 My Wife Is a Superstar 我老婆是大明星 My boss wants to marry me off to his daughter, who's a big star... (Everyday-life story, light comedy, no angst, nothing too intense. Give it a try...) 6Votes980kRecs1MFans
- 32 Holy Roman Empire 神圣罗马帝国 The road to Austria's revival, and the story of the Habsburg family's struggle!!! The Holy Roman Empire, which was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, has been revived!!! My completed classics, The Mediterranean Hegemon's Path and Pursuing the Dao Across the Heavens, are packed with chapters for you to enjoy. Welcome to the new Haiyue 1 readers' group. (This story is entirely fictional and exposes the dark h 1Votes774.5kRecs311.7kFans
- 33 My Father Is Emperor Gaozu of Han 家父汉高祖 The new book The Court Does Not Move South is now being serialized. Your support is appreciated! A great empire has just been born, and a new era is about to begin. Liu Chang once wondered whether he should compete for the throne and lead this brand-new empire himself. But then he looked at the people around him: Liu Bang, Empress Lu, Liu Ying, Liu Heng... Well, isn’t it better to stay alive? And so Liu Chang earned himself the title of the most shameful transmigrator and settled into 160Votes1.1MRecs3.9MFans
- 34 The Undisputed Number One 绝对一番 “Always be number one” means “fight for first place forever and never give up”! After transmigrating to Japan just as its bubble economy collapses and the country enters a severe recession, Lu Zhishou takes a look at his empty wallet, next month’s rent bill, and transmigration perks. He promptly heads for a TV station and begins his quest to claim the top spot. He also finds the woman of his dreams. He makes plans, enlists accomplices, and doggedly pursues her, but the outcome... Disclaimer: Thi 10Votes2.6MRecs736kFans
- 35 Reborn in the Wild Era 重生野性时代 Back from 2018 to 1993. In my memory, that summer was scorching hot. 1Votes3.1MRecs1.1MFans
- 36 EN I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student 我只想当一个安静的学霸 "Do you yearn for knowledge?" "Once you reach the pinnacle of human knowledge, you can have anything you want." "Then I yearn for knowledge!" 0Votes940.8kRecs693.2kFans
- 37 Coiling Dragon 盘龙 A blood-eyed, shaggy-maned lion as large as a building; a purple-eyed, golden-furred ape of boundless strength; a world-destroying Nine-Headed Hydra Emperor; a terrifying thunder dragon that wields destructive lightning… This world has no shortage of wonders. It is a vast, fantastical realm. The mighty can soar through the sky atop a black dragon's head, while terrifying magic can burn rivers, destroy cities, and flatten mountains… This book tells the fantastic journey of a young man who possess 105Votes7.9MRecs6.1MFans
- 38 The Qin Empire's Bailiff 秦吏 At the end of the Warring States period, China faced an upheaval unlike any in a thousand years. Some were born into hereditary nobility. Some were princes of noble rank. But he was reborn as Heifu, a lowly Qin soldier and an obscure figure in the Qin bamboo slips from Yunmeng. To avoid dying in a ditch and take control of his own fate, he fought his way up. Fortunately 131Votes3.7MRecs1.8MFans
- 39 Riding the Tide of a Pure-Hearted Era 逆流纯真年代 Time is a ship. Some people like to think of those few years in the early 1990s as the final voyage of a once-innocent era. Jiang Che, long since changed by the passing years, returns against the current and starts over in 1992, writing a brilliant youth that can finally be laid to rest properly. [Welcome to the second VIP group for Reversing the Current of Innocent Days: 497283806 (You must provide a screenshot showing you’ve purchased the whole book to join. This time, I’ll try to talk more.)] 41Votes2.9MRecs1.6MFans
- 40 The Legendary Mechanic 超神机械师 Han Xiao, a veteran power-leveling player in Stellar Sea, was thrown into the transmigration crowd by a mysterious force from the East, or rather, from a certain otaku. With a player interface in tow, he became an NPC and returned to the days before Stellar Sea's open beta. He resolutely chose the highest-difficulty class: Mechanic. Warships sail in formation across the stars, star-powered mechs twist through the heavens like dragons, psychic cannons lay waste to worlds, and an endless mechanica 434Votes9.2MRecs5.5MFans
- 41 Lord of Mysteries 诡秘之主 Amid the tide of steam and machinery, who can reach the extraordinary? In the fog of history and darkness, who is whispering? I awoke from the mysteries and opened my eyes to see this world: Guns, cannons, battleships, airships, difference engines; potions, divination, curses, the Hanged Man, Sealed Artifacts... Light still shines, and the mysterious has never left. This is the legend of th 11kVotes37.4MRecs37.6MFans
- 42 EN Cultivation Chat Group (The Daily Life of a Chat Group) 修真聊天群（聊天群的日常生活） One day, Song Shuhang accidentally joined a chat group for veteran sufferers of immortal-cultivation chuunibyou. Everyone in the group addressed one another as fellow Daoists, and their profile names were all things like Palace Master, Cave Master, Perfected One, and Celestial Master. Even the group owner's lost pet dog was described as a great demon hound that had run away from home. All day long, they chatted about alchemy, exploring secret realms, cultivation experiences, and such. Then one 170Votes17.6MRecs15.7MFans
