Novels like Artist of a New Era
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- 1 Hong Kong’s Turbulent Times, 1984 香江风云1984 A senior manager at PwC's consulting firm is repeatedly run over by a dump truck in a traffic accident, then transmigrates to Hong Kong Island in 1984. He was a scapegoat in his previous life, and he never expected to be one again after transmigrating. Xu Jingliang secretly swears that, given a second life, he'll take his fate into his own hands. When the times are cruel, you have to be a little ruthless! 0Votes22.1kRecs65.8kFans
- 2 Chinese Showbiz: It's Over, I'm Surrounded by Rising Young Actresses! 华娱：完蛋，我被小大花包围了！ Sister Bingbing: We're discussing the script. Sister Yuanyuan: We're discussing the script. Black Widow: We're discussing the script. Changchang: He's my brother! Fairy Liu: I've wanted to discuss a script with Director Xiao for ages. The leading actresses and rising stars in the film industry: To be honest, I want to discuss a script with Director Xiao too. Xiao Zhenlin watched as more and more actresses gathered around him, and smiled faintly. “Mm, we're just discussing the script.” The Chines 0Votes11.3kRecs128.2kFans
- 3 I Have No Ambition in Chinese Showbiz 混迹华娱的我没有格局 A big star? A big director? Breaking out of Asia? Shining in Hollywood? Yu An says, “I just want to act, and while I’m at it, ask the older sisters on set for acting tips. That’s all. I’m not aiming that high.” (This book is pure nonsense. Just read it for fun, no need to take it seriously.) 0Votes16.7kRecs120.5kFans
- 4 Director, I Like This One 导演，我喜欢这个 Actress: Director Jiang, about that second male lead my husband is playing... Jiang Yang smiles serenely: Second male lead? He's the lead! Actress: The lead!? Jiang Yang places a hand on his heart: Your husband's a brilliant actor. He'll have no trouble playing the lead! Actress: Director Jiang, you... what a huge surprise you've given me! Jiang Yang gently strokes her hand: That's just how filming goes. Heaven rewards hard work. As long as you put in the effort, you'll reap the rewards! [Mainly 0Votes2kRecs32.6kFans
- 5 Chinese Showbiz: If You're Not Going to Be a Mogul, Why Enter Entertainment? 华娱：不当资本，混什么娱乐圈 Wei Qian, who spent his previous life working himself to the bone, returns to 2009. Back at another crossroads in his life, he has the Path to Movie Stardom System in hand and decides to give the entertainment industry he abandoned in his previous life a proper try. Looking at the skills he has received from the System, Wei Qian feels the entertainment industry is getting more and more interesting. [Strong and Healthy: Your body is the foundation of everything. Greatly improves the Host's physic 98Votes19.4kRecs75.5kFans
- 6 We’re Reborn, So Who’d Still Be an Actor? 都重生了，谁还当演员 Ten years as an unknown extra, then one short drama makes him famous throughout the world. Reborn in 2008, on the eve of the traffic era. The System was deeply afraid that Li Mingyang would not make it, so it gave him a pair of "peach blossom eyes." 113Votes72kRecs288.8kFans
- 7 Everyday Crossover Cinema: My Superpowers Refresh Every Season 日常系综影：我的超能力每季刷新 After being reborn into the world of Chinese urban dramas, He Chen discovers that he can gain a new superpower each season. From then on, his everyday life takes an unexpected turn. “Crane’s Years, Tortoise’s Age”: Train until your form is as graceful as a crane’s! I’m not Lan Xiaodie from "New Legend of the White-Haired Witch", so why would I use my superpowers to save money? “Zhuge’s Wisdom”: Zhuge Dali, your Zhuge is female, while mine is male. Yours stops working when it runs into my male Zh 96Votes86.2kRecs238.7kFans
- 8 Let Me Debut, I Can Still Become a Hit! 让我出道，我还能爆！ “My secret admirers ruined me, my rivals sabotaged me, the haters insulted me, the industry took advantage of me, and my fans abandoned me... I've returned from hell! I'm going to war with my secret admirers! With my rivals! With the haters! With the industry!!! And with my fans, ” “Pah, pah, pah! Wasn't it you who got exposed for dating right before your debut night, then had to leave the group and quit the industry, only to get married at lightning speed and become a live-in son-in-law? How do 0Votes39.7kRecs49.3kFans
- 9 How Can You Become a Star Without Money? 没钱怎么当明星 “What matters most when working with celebrities? Talent? Resources? Connections? No, no, no. Cash is what matters most. How can you work with celebrities without money? Money cannot buy acting skill, but it can buy an old veteran actor to carry a production. Money cannot buy talent, but it can buy talented workhorses. Money cannot buy connections, but it can buy traffic and buzz.” “Then why do you insist on cash?” “Because I only accept cash. I do not accept empty promises.” This is a story wit 0Votes48kRecs151.2kFans
- 10 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
- 11 I'm Really Not an Actor 我真不是影帝 In Hengdian, I had just finished playing a corpse when a stamp-collecting System appeared out of nowhere. Collect all eighteen ways a bit player can die, and you'll be rewarded with acting skills honed at death's door? Collect eighteen roles as ordinary nobodies, and you'll get 180,000 yuan in cash? Collect five iconic moments from the entertainment industry, and you'll get 1 GB of insider secrets? Collect the screen-kissing debuts of six actresses, and you'll get eighteen kissing techniques? Co 0Votes47.1kRecs194.1kFans
- 12 Light and Shadow Entertainment 光影文娱 An ordinary person, with only a few songs in his head and memories of a handful of hit movies and TV shows. He refuses to film anything he hasn't seen, so he'll just get by like this. 0Votes46.6kRecs152.8kFans
- 13 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
- 14 Chinese Showbiz: This Art Student Wants to Be a Director 华娱，这个美术生想当导演 [This book has over 7,000 average paid subscribers and is aiming for 8,000] After returning to 2009, Lu Zhiyuan, who had failed to get into art school, received a rudimentary [Director Talent System]. As long as he directed a production and took first place, he could randomly gain one of his rivals' talents! … “Your music video "Maybe" has reached number one on the MTV charts. Congratulations, you've gained [Director Ning's absurdist humor]!” “Your film "Real Steel" has become the month's box-o 0Votes103.9kRecs326.4kFans
- 15 How Did He Get Into Showbiz? 他怎么混进娱乐圈的 Starting out as a lowly assistant director, he builds his own circle step by step. What does it take to make it in show business? Acting talent? Money? Ability? No, no, no. When you’re out in the world, you make your own status. I’m going to see for myself what this entertainment industry is all about. Seniority? All those rules and regulations? You think I’ll let you push me around? I’m going to throw my weight around and bully men and women alike in show business! [A different world. Any resem 0Votes45kRecs205.5kFans
- 16 Reborn in 2004: A Lone Figure in the Literary World 重生2004：独行文坛 Zhang Chao, a tutor, returns to his senior year of high school. He only plans to get into college by writing, but unexpectedly, he takes down the biggest name in youth literature with a single shot... From then on, he kicks Guo Xiaosi and punches Han Han aside, rising to become the literary scene’s brightest new star. Like a raging tide, he sweeps through the stagnant, dispirited Chinese literary world and puts Chinese-language literature back on top of the world! “Lone Wanderer in the Literary 0Votes36.9kRecs220.5kFans
- 17 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
- 18 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
- 19 1990: Starting on Baojia Street 1990：从鲍家街开始 (Baojia Street refers to the Central Conservatory, not a band.) Zhou Yan rubbed his eyes and transmigrated from 2023 to 1990, becoming a third-year student at the Central Conservatory of Music. By a stroke of luck, he also joined the music team for the film Raise the Red Lantern. At first, Zhou Yan only planned to take a temporary job and earn an extra 150 yuan a month. But things didn't quite go the way he expected. “You play the flute beautifully. Come play Chen Feipu.” “This piece of yours is 0Votes74.2kRecs229.1kFans
- 20 Chinese Showbiz: Starting Out as a Stand-In Director 华娱从代导开始 From the start, it’s 2010! One heroine, Old Liu! Principal: “I’m not here to obey the rules. I’m here to break them.” 8Votes99.1kRecs179.7kFans
- 21 The Tang Dynasty Rises Again 大唐再起 New book: Ming Dynasty 1860. A steam-age Ming Dynasty, revived by transmigrators... Crowned emperor the same year as Zhao Kuangyin, he takes steady steps, launching a northern campaign from the south and moving ahead of schedule on the road to unifying the realm. 0Votes77.1kRecs109.9kFans
- 22 Chinese Showbiz: I Was Reborn, Yet They Still Make Me Play the Bad Boy 华娱：重生了，还逼我做渣男啊 (In two years, this went from 300 to an average of 10,000 subscriptions. A very slow-burn, serious story about an actor. The scumbag stuff is all just a joke :) A stunning internet celebrity with tens of millions of fans is reborn in 2004. Good news: He’s twenty years younger. Bad news: There’s no System. Good news: He’s just started his final year of high school. Bad news: He scored 351 on the placement exam. Good news: His family is pretty rich. Bad news: A financial crisis is coming. So… 1.4kVotes186.6kRecs607.3kFans
- 23 The Earthy Superstar 土味巨星 Country bumpkin Li Tiezhu accompanies his good friend Qin Tao to audition for a talent show. Li Tiezhu: “If you become a star, you can open a pig farm ten times bigger than your dad’s. I’ll do the construction work for you.” Qin Tao: “Damn it! I’ll be famous by then. Why the hell would I open a pig farm?” “If you’re not raising pigs, what will you raise?” “How do you not get it? Once I’m a big star, I won’t raise pigs any 0Votes129.4kRecs224kFans
- 24 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
- 25 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
- 26 This Isn't a Bug, It's a Game Feature 这不是BUG，这是游戏特性 After awakening a game developer System, Chen Ba vows to become the godfather of gaming and usher in a new era of video games! But he soon realizes that something is off… Why do the games he makes keep coming with the strangest bugs? How can a perfectly good dating sim let you romance other players, turning it into a social matchmaking app? How can a perfectly good fighting game let you attack your opponent’s graphics card with skills, blacking out their screen to win? When players demand answer 0Votes40.6kRecs230.3kFans
- 27 Turbulent 1979! 激荡1979！ This literary giant is no ordinary man! He wears luxury watches, drives expensive cars, lives in a mansion, and is close to several actresses. He shaped not only one generation's childhood, but the childhoods of several generations, and their childhood idols, too. Want to know why he's so bold? Wei Ming: “I was already earning foreign currency back in 1980. The culture I exported on my own was worth about as much as the entire contemporary literary scene. I've spent my whole life writing novels. 358Votes382.2kRecs576.1kFans
- 28 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
- 29 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
- 30 EN Film and TV Worlds: Starting from Drug God 影视世界从药神开始 An ordinary person, living one extraordinary life after another... ,,,, Aiming for urban stories, no cultivation. Dying to Survive, Infernal Affairs, Nothing But Thirty, The Year We Chased the Wind, The Grandmaster, Ode to Joy, Feather Flies to the Sky, New World, Beijing Love Story, Brotherhood of Blades, Spring Breeze Is No Match for You, The Greed of Man, All Is Well, Malena, Let’s Get Married, In the Name of the People, Chasing the Dragon, A Lifelong Journey, Water Margin, So Young, The Gold 205Votes416kRecs509.6kFans
- 31 Picking the Day to Become Famous 择日走红 From 375 first-month sales to over 10,000 average monthly subscriptions! - He transmigrates into the body of a washed-up idol who debuted at just fifteen, and is still a high school senior. His unscrupulous agent forces him to quit the entertainment industry. No work means no income. His most pressing task after transmigrating is, unexpectedly, to figure out how to feed himself. But without a System or a golden finger, how can he recreate a miracle with nothing but his own limited memories? No b 0Votes297.2kRecs669.7kFans
- 32 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
- 33 The Academic Ace's Military Research System 学霸的军工科研系统 Chang Haonan, an arms industry engineer from 2023, is reborn in 1996, back in his university days. At this darkest hour, before China's military industry takes off, he obtains a [Scientific Research Guidance System] that rivals the greatest mentor. Starting with improvements to a fight 21Votes554.6kRecs847.8kFans
- 34 The Heavens: Starting Anew 诸天之从新做人 He Xie is a private detective who specializes in investigating affairs. He once had mistresses and cheating men quaking in their boots, and was an ambitious young man with lofty ideals. Then he died unexpectedly and received a System that gave him the chance to be reborn by completing missions across different worlds. 0Votes172.7kRecs290.3kFans
- 35 The Han Dynasty's Founding Emperor 汉世祖 Transmigrate into Liu Chengyou, the Hidden Emperor of the Later Han, and assist in founding the dynasty. Thereafter, while still young, inherit the newly established enterprise, preserve the fortune of its great expansion, and guard its unshakable foundation. P.S. If his father and elder brothers had not died so young, he might have become a Li Er reborn. 1Votes323.7kRecs267.2kFans
- 36 This Movie Emperor Only Wants to Earn Certificates 这个影帝只想考证 After awakening the Attribute-Absorbing System, he becomes an attribute-absorbing maniac in the entertainment industry, with a chance to absorb attributes from other people. But the attributes he absorbs have to be stored in the corresponding certificates, so Hao Yun has no choice but to embark on a frantic quest to earn certifications. He’s either taking an exam or on his way to take one! Reporter: I hear you’ve earned over a hundred certificates. You’re the star with the most certificates in t 29Votes624.1kRecs792.6kFans
- 37 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
- 38 My Years in Film and Television 我的光影年代 Some say that film is a composite art, using powerful lights to project a continuous sequence of images onto a screen, creating the illusion of real movement. Others say film is a window, a mirror, and a dream. For Lü Xiaoran, movies are just a little garnish on an ordinary life… A friendly reminder: this is a showbiz novel… V group: 599828918 (verification of fan rank required) 0Votes492.6kRecs185.1kFans
- 39 This Movie Star Wants More Money 这个影帝要加钱 Transmigrating from the Ming dynasty to the year 2000, Ding Xiu can only live a different kind of life this time around. Director: I hear you're good in a fight. I have a role I'd like you to take. It's very difficult. Ding Xiu: Pay me more and it's fine. Director: Actually, I'm hiring you just as insurance. We may not even need you. Ding Xiu: That's not my concern. If you hire me, you have to pay me. Not a single penny less... P.S. New book: The Unscientific Movie Emperor. Feel free to check it 0Votes226kRecs851.8kFans
- 40 Chinese Entertainment in Those Days 那年华娱 They say this industry is full of hidden dangers. Lin Nan wanted to go in and see for himself, to find out how vast the woods were and how deep the waters ran. He never expected to get trapped the moment he stepped inside... 104Votes876.2kRecs1.1MFans
- 41 I Am Merely an Actor 朕只是一个演员 Yue Guan is hailed as the man who created five thousand years of Chinese history. From Qin Shi Huang, who unified the land, to Emperor Wu of Han, who expanded the empire's borders; from Emperor Taizong of Tang, peerless in military strategy, to the Yongle Emperor of Ming, who turned defeat into victory against all odds, and even King Zhou of Shang from the age of myth. In five thousand years of Chinese history, there isn't an emperor Yue Guan can't play. He has created countless classic screen p 4Votes437.3kRecs749.6kFans
- 42 EN The God Mimic 神的模仿犯 Twelve men and women of different backgrounds are invited into a new world. Here, they must not only decide how to live by voting on proposals, but also keep taking part in deadly games to extend the time on their visas. And the people designing these games of life and death are actually among them. 2.1kVotes523.9kRecs1.4MFans
- 43 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
- 44 The Long Sword at the End of Jin 晋末长剑 As the Tang poet Xu Yin wrote in his poem “The Two Jins”: “Deep schemes across three generations laid the foundations of an empire. What a pity for the widow and orphan. Cheng Ji’s crime brought Heaven’s wrath; the spear that struck a wise ruler is mourned for all eternity.” The Western Jin came to power through illegitimate means and made far too many mistakes, inheriting every ill that had accumulated since the Eastern Han and the Three Kingdoms. By the end of the Jin dynasty, the damage had b 123Votes2MRecs2.1MFans
- 45 America, 1982 美利坚1982 He has received the most dazzling praise and the most vicious insults. Every vein in his body pulses with defiance. He is a white kid who will never become a member of high society. He is a young man whom the public sees as a country boy. He is Tommy Hawk. He has been reborn. Welcome to a story whose first half tells the tale of the American Dream and whose second half tells of the American Nightmare. Let's welcome Tommy Hawk to the stage, on a winter's day in 2022. 0Votes302.6kRecs479.2kFans
- 46 EN 1979: The Golden Age 1979黄金时代 This is still a somewhat nostalgic story, hmm… 8.7kVotes3.7MRecs2.5MFans
- 47 Soft, Melt, Things 软，化，物 All kinds of wild ideas in a collection of short stories. The Light, Short, and Scattered Trilogy: Light, Short, and Scattered; Soft, Transformed, and Things; Turn, Leave, and Depart. Part science fiction, all about wild ideas. Soft science fiction, chemistry, and physics. Everything comes down to people’s hearts; even the rarest things are strange. Take things as they come. It all begins in the heart. 0Votes83.8kRecs145.5kFans
- 48 EN Red Chamber: Defying Heaven's Fall 红楼之挽天倾 A thousand beauties weep, ten thousand fair women mourn. White bones pile like mountains, their names long forgotten; all were once young lords and lovely ladies. A young man from a later age transmigrates into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, taking the place of a distant relative of the Ningguo House. To avoid being dragged down by the Jia family, he must tread carefully at every turn. Yet when he looks around, he sees a nation on the brink of chaos. To keep the Central Plains from falli 22Votes1.1MRecs1.4MFans
- 49 Wanli Emperor 万历明君 In the year 1572, seventy-two years remained before the fall of the Ming dynasty and the loss of its lands. At this time, Japanese pirates ran rampant in the southeast, the Tatars battered the northwest passes, local land annexation was growing worse by the day, the military and government were exhausted, the people were suffering, and the Longqing Emperor had just died. Yet at this moment, Shi Yue transmigrated into Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor who would later go thirty years without attending 6kVotes735.4kRecs1.6MFans
- 50 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
