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- 1 Who Are You Calling a Pretty Boy? I’m the King of Pop 叫谁小鲜肉，我是天王 After three years of training, I debuted as an idol. I still hadn't made any money when my useless teammate's career came crashing down... Is this the price of growing up? Reborn, Shen Yan decided to live a different life... Uh, maybe I should figure out how to support myself first... 0Votes103.9kRecs141kFans
- 2 How Can I Be Chongzhen Without Money? 没钱还怎么当崇祯 Transmigrated as the Chongzhen Emperor? Buried in debt from the start! The moment Zhu Siwen opened his eyes, he had become Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming dynasty. Faced with an empty treasury, border troops clamoring for supplies, a court torn apart by factional infighting, and Huangtaiji watching like a hawk from beyond Shanhai Pass, he smiled. “No money? Easy! Crack down on corruption, seize estates, raise funds, marry into money, sell off land... That should bring the cash rolling in 0Votes97.7kRecs141.5kFans
- 3 Travel Begins with Painting 旅行从画家开始 [Set out! If you do not live freely and brilliantly, how can you do justice to a life you get only once?] [Go be the wind that blows free.] A Travel System arrives when you are twenty-seven, the age when you are supposed to get married and have children? Luo Bingwen thought about it for an entire night. So what if I'm twenty-seven? Who decided that twenty-seven makes someone an older young person? I feel like I'm in the prime of my life, so of course I should go out and see the world. Do what yo 0Votes15.7kRecs63.6kFans
- 4 All the Female Stars Are Chasing After Me 女明星们都来倒追我 Mi Mi: What! I'll be nearly forty and still playing a young woman in a costume romance! Bing Bing: What! I'll be blacklisted by the industry in the future! Shi Shi: What! I'll marry an old man who's sixteen years older than me! Li Ying: What! I'll actually become the top star among actresses born in the 1980s! Yi Fei: Wha... Oh, I'll still be gorgeous in the future! Once the actresses get the System and learn a few tidbits about their futures, how will they seek redemption and change thei 0Votes21.1kRecs71.5kFans
- 5 Chinese Showbiz: The Academy-School Director 华娱之学院派大导演 “I don't pay much attention to actors' acting skills when I make films. As long as their appearance fits the characters I've envisioned, I can find a way to bring out the essence of those characters,” Cao Yang said during a speech in the auditorium at Beijing Film Academy. After being reborn, Cao Yang gained the ability to make actors experience their roles firsthand. No matter how poor their acting was, living through the characters' joys and sorrows would help them understand. What, they still 0Votes73.9kRecs260.8kFans
- 6 EN I'm a Stranded Prince—Send Money! 我，落难王子，打钱 I clearly wanted to retire in another world, yet I became a tyrant and war criminal in the eyes of others. This is entirely thanks to my brothers, the players, and their powerful support, or rather, kicking me while I was down. In short, rise up, Empire. Tremble, all enemies who stand against the Fourth Calamity. I bring war and death, as well as peace. 2Votes41.2kRecs95.6kFans
- 7 Chinese Showbiz: A Former Child Star Who Only Wants to Make a Name for Himself 华娱：童星出身的我只想成名 After being reborn and transmigrating back to 1988, he becomes the younger brother of child star Shi Xiaolong! I'm leaving my lie-flat days behind. I will make a name for myself in China's entertainment industry! Starting with writing, then moving on to acting, screenwriting, and directing... You want to talk about connections? I've got several novels that have sold over ten million copies. I can crush the competition by operating on a whole different level, and all six major Hollywood studi 0Votes45.9kRecs144.8kFans
- 8 I'm a Triple-Crown Director, So Being a Versatile Talent Makes Perfect Sense 我一个三金导演十项全能很合理吧 After being reborn, Lu Rui returns to 2001, having made brainless short dramas in his previous life. He also brings along a [Ten-Disciplines-All-Rounder Director] System! Goal: Reach the pinnacle of life! But the System refuses to play by the rules! The from-the-start quest is to adapt a Hollywood movie for a Chinese audience? The reward is all kinds of directing techniques from Hollywood directors? The temptation is irresistible! Let’s do it! I’ll adapt Hollywood films! I’ll direct! I’ll borrow 414Votes105.5kRecs316.8kFans
- 9 This Director Has No Vision 这个导演没有格局 (A veteran author of Chinese entertainment novels, with several acclaimed works. This book has already achieved great success and is now aiming for ten thousand paid subscribers!) Reborn in 2009, Jiang Yifeng stirs up a storm in the entertainment industry. Yet people are always saying he lacks perspective. “Director Jiang, people say you made Old Boys to capitalize on the attention surrounding Michael Jackson’s death. Do you admit it?” “That’s true.” “Others say you criticized Wolf Totem and too 0Votes143kRecs275.3kFans
- 10 Artist of a New Era 新时代艺术家 (The early part of this book is a standard entertainment-industry story, but it really takes off in the middle and later chapters. It started with 400 paid subscribers and grew to over 6,000 average subscribers, with 2,000 still following the latest updates. I hope you'll be patient. You can also jump straight to Chapter 113, which lays out the author's historical perspective and the tone of the book.) Shen Santong, born in 1984, the king of cinema. He forges box-office hits into epic tales, mak 7Votes98.1kRecs297.2kFans
- 11 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
- 12 Add One More, I’m Not Very Good at This 加一个，我不太会打 At the turn of the century, the OK combination swept all before them, the Pistons' blue-collar squad was invincible, the Spurs won every odd-numbered year, and the Suns played fast-paced basketball. The basketball world was a hundred schools of thought contending. Li Ang smiled faintly and looked at all the big brothers: "Mind if I join? I'm not very good at playing~" It's just that this kind of "playing" is a little improper... 3Votes231.1kRecs577.2kFans
- 13 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
- 14 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
- 15 We Agreed to Develop Match-Three, So What's With the Earth War? 说好开发消消乐，地球战争什么鬼 P.S. Set on a parallel Blue Star, with no history of world wars. Anti-war themes. Fictional setting for plausible deniability. Scene One Inside a game livestream somewhere in the Great Xia Federation. “All right, that’s it for this anti-war game. I’d give it a four out of ten. Let’s check out the next anti-war game... Huh?” “An immersive story from the start? It’s called... D-Day.” “Looks like a landing operation. The streamer’s on a landing craft, but he’s too far back to see what’s going on up 13Votes307.7kRecs1.7MFans
- 16 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
- 17 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
- 18 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
- 19 EN 1979: The Golden Age 1979黄金时代 This is still a somewhat nostalgic story, hmm… 8.7kVotes3.7MRecs2.5MFans
- 20 Infinite Splendor 无限辉煌图卷 Divine arts and demonic magic, a hundred realms and countless races; supernatural powers and martial clashes, a wild song across the ages. Monsters and mechanical abominations, all manner of strange creatures; an infinite world stretches out before us. Welcome to a new era of the Main God Space. Worlds gather and disperse like stars. Who can shine as brilliantly as the sun and moon? PS: This is not an original Infinite Flow fanfic. The worlds in the story may include extensive alterations and 12Votes226.4kRecs472.4kFans
- 21 Chinese Entertainment, 1997 华娱1997 In early 1997, Cao Xuan, who has the memories of a seasoned entertainment writer from the future, appears in Water Margin, the last of CCTV’s Four Great Classical Novels adaptations. The most handsome Ximen Qing in history is born... 2Votes386.2kRecs749.9kFans
- 22 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
- 23 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
- 24 The Right Way for a Lazy Fish to Turn Things Around 咸鱼翻身的正确姿势 Synopsis: My name is Gu Zheng. I specialize in arguing with Systems, overpowered academic geniuses, dating Systems, portable weapons... In one word: argue with them. My new books have now been released: the urban novel I Can Only Transmigrate Halfway and the realistic novel A Grassroots Man in Republican-Era China. Both are guaranteed to be high quality and absolutely worth your support. 0Votes784.2kRecs432.8kFans
- 25 The Great Wei Palace 大魏宫廷 New book, Zhao's Tiger Son. Born a prince of Great Wei, I would rather be an idle lord in an age of peace. My ambitions lie in wine, women, and song, but my heart holds the fate of my country and its people. If my elder brother is worthy, if my younger brother is wise, you can rule while I take it easy. But if you cannot make the nation strong, then I’ll ascend the throne and become emperor! Hongrun, You Can’t Do It, So I’ll Take Over 1Votes2.1MRecs1.1MFans
- 26 Mythical Version of Three Kingdom 神话版三国 Chen Xi watched a soldier toss aside a boulder weighing hundreds of pounds and stared speechlessly at the heavens. Is this really the late Eastern Han? Lu Bu single-handedly tore through an army of ten thousand. There’s no way that’s scientifically possible. Zhao Zilong really seems to have a dragon’s soul possessing him. He split a mountain with one sword. Is he even human? Dian Wei protected Cao Cao by himself as they fought their way out of the enemy camp, casually slaughtering thousands of e 2.3kVotes11.9MRecs2.8MFans
