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- 1 Chinese Showbiz: I Never Planned to Get By on My Looks 华娱我真没想靠脸吃饭啊 [Actor story + multiple heroines + no System + some business elements + romantic push and pull] Reborn in 2010, he goes from a matchmaking show to becoming an entertainment industry's top-tier star! "Mr. Jiang, people all over the internet say your performance in Swords of Legends ushered in the era of traffic stars in Chinese entertainment. They call you a traffic star and accuse you of fueling fan-club culture. What do you think?" "As long as it makes money." "The media hail you as the light o 0Votes16.9kRecs71.5kFans
- 2 Chinese Showbiz: The Rising Stars’ Top-Tier Star Boyfriend 华娱：小花们的顶流男友 Reborn in 2016, Su Yu decides to become an actor. Having once been a corporate wage slave, his reason for entering the entertainment industry is simple: it pays well. At first, he only wants to quietly work as an employee in the entertainment industry. But after diligently finishing one production after another, he suddenly discovers: how did he become a top-tier star? 3Votes6.4kRecs35.6kFans
- 3 Chinese Showbiz: Starting Out as an Unemployed Male Model 华娱：从失业男模开始 [Actresses born in the 1990s, 1995s, and 2000s] [Singers] [Actors] [Business] [Career] Back in 2016, Wei Jun had no intention of returning to his former career as a male model. He resolutely stepped into the entertainment industry. Just two months after he signed with an entertainment company, it was acquired, leaving him unemployed. Fortunately, his agent Yang Hua believed in him. They set up a studio and got him onto the second season of the dating show We Are in Love, where he was paired with 0Votes1.7kRecs15.7kFans
- 4 A Writer Joins the Chinese Entertainment Scene 华娱圈来了个作家 She started writing novels in 2008 and making films in 2013... novels, anime, games, and film and television! This book focuses more on everyday life and less on plot. The protagonist mainly adapts foreign films and TV series, while getting involved in domestic entertainment through investment and partnerships. 92Votes4.6kRecs41.5kFans
- 5 Chinese Entertainment 2016: The Beginning of Global Gamification 华娱2016：从全球游戏化开始 [Showbiz strategy + love rivals + plenty of daily life + slow pacing] Bai Liang is trapped in a semi-gamified showbiz world. From 2016 to 2026, if he fails to meet the conditions for clearing it, time resets and he has to start over. After three resets spent exploring and gathering information, he returns with a trove of strategic intel and officially begins his campaign to clear the game. Other people in showbiz compete over projects and connections. Bai Liang competes over Easter eggs, gear, a 0Votes1.6kRecs339Fans
- 6 King of Entertainment: From the Start, I Went on a Blind Date with a Star 文娱之王：从开局相亲女明星开始 “Gou Wazi, do you want a wife or not?” This was a casual question from the village Party secretary during the Spring Festival of 2013. Fang Mo was nearing graduation and lost about his future when, for reasons he could not explain, he chose to accept. The girl Fang Mo was introduced to was a sweet-looking, beautiful teahouse owner. However, just as the two caught each other's eye and confirmed their relationship, a door leading thirteen years into the future opened. His girlfriend was actually t 0Votes4.5kRecs4kFans
- 7 From Unemployed Crosstalk Performer to Chinese Showbiz's Top-Tier Star 从相声失业到华娱顶流 Yu Liang transmigrated. The good news: he became a crosstalk performer at Deyun Society, partnered with Guo Qilin. The bad news: just after he became the “crown prince's consort,” the crown prince went solo. As his fellow apprentices put it, he was a widowed man out of work. No shows, no income, and no one looking after him. Bored, he posted on Douyin, only to find the comments full of insults: “Does this idiot think Douyin is his personal feed?” “Post again and I'll get someone to deal with you 0Votes1.6kRecs14.2kFans
- 8 Showbiz: Starting at CoolMeow Video 文娱：从入职酷喵视频开始 Tang Lou is reborn in 2015, just as he starts working in Kumo Video’s department. As he’s getting ready to report for work, Yang Chaoyue, an employee at his family’s small sock factory, gets her finger crushed by a cutting machine. “Little Boss, I don’t need to go to the hospital. I can just get it treated at the local clinic.” “If I take time off, I’ll lose my attendance bonus. I just want to earn a little more money.” Seeing Yang Chaoyue looking so pitiful, and since you already call me Little 0Votes681Recs9.5kFans
- 9 Chinese Showbiz: There’s Always a Rising Star Who’s Making Moves on Me 华娱：总有小花对我蠢蠢欲动 Reborn in 2014, just as the rising stars of the entertainment industry were competing to outshine one another. Moving among a hundred flowers without a petal clinging to him; romantic but never promiscuous, debonair but never corrupted! 0Votes607Recs158Fans
- 10 Chinese Showbiz: Just Entering the Industry, I’m Already Being Pursued by Young Actresses 华娱：刚入圈，就被小花倒追 They say it’s hard to convincingly play a deeply devoted lover opposite your on-screen partner. Zhou Jin was puzzled. Wouldn’t it be easier to solve that by dating the actress playing your love interest? “What? You’re supposed to break up after filming wraps?” 0Votes1.4kRecs10.6kFans
- 11 Chinese Showbiz: Who Says They Can’t Act? 华娱：谁说她们没有演技的 Cheng Cheng, an actor in short dramas, accidentally drove into a river after falling asleep at the wheel. Back in 2013, he had already decided to quit acting when he unexpectedly awakened the “Method Acting Master” talent. [Effect One: You possess the world’s most extraordinary acting talent and can understand and inhabit a role faster than ordinary people.] [Effect Two: Your outstanding acting talent grants you powerful empathy. Each month, you can choose one person to bond with. Once bonded, y 0Votes1.6kRecs9.6kFans
- 12 Chinese Showbiz: I Became a Legend by Making Bad Movies 华娱：我靠拍烂片封神 In 2018, the traffic-star era begins, and terrible dramas are everywhere. Shen An, who was destined to die after years of playing extras, is reborn as a freshman at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, equipped with the [Experiential Acting Trait System]. From then on, while others rely on their looks and green screens, he immerses himself in life to unlock traits! [Atmospheric Gaze]: Instantly stirs emotions, expressing every feeling required through the eyes. [Hypocritical Smile]: Perfectly conveys a 0Votes150Recs61Fans
- 13 Chinese Showbiz: I Have a Proficiency Panel 华娱：我有一个熟练度面板 Li Qingyuan was an utterly ordinary office drone. On New Year's Eve in 2026, he transmigrated back to 2009. No superhuman brain, no unbelievable physical prowess. All he had was a proficiency panel. In this life, he wanted to live spectacularly and be remembered by the world. Watch him make a stunning debut on The Voice of China, then break out of Huaguo, conquer the globe, and become an icon of his era. Along the way, he also grows ever closer to one rising starlet after another, until their li 0Votes925Recs8.5kFans
- 14 Chinese Showbiz: I Manage the Rising Stars 华娱：我是小花主理人 “If the domestic entertainment industry had no Li Han, who knows how many would be called hits, how many would be called top-tier stars...” Li Han was reborn, returning to the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 2016. Having lived another life, Li Han was determined to carve out his own place in the entertainment industry. He would climb to the very top, one step at a time. “I carried the burden of the twenty-four provinces across the two sides and three regions! What right do you have to criticize me!? 79Votes12.7kRecs40kFans
- 15 Chinese Showbiz: Becoming a Top-Tier Star After a Breakup with a Rising Star 华娱：顶流从被小花分手后开始 Lin Ze is reborn in May 2020. That day, Zhou Ye tells him they’re breaking up. In his previous life, he went all in after the breakup, mortgaging his home to enter the stock market. His capital kept growing until his assets reached tens of billions, but he eventually died in a drunk-driving accident. Since Heaven has given him another chance and the breakup can’t be undone, this time he wants to take a good look at the world. Unexpectedly, his System awakens, allowing him to draw rewards with po 74Votes4.5kRecs21.2kFans
- 16 Chinese Showbiz: Turning Her into a Top-Tier Star 华娱：调成顶流小花 A background performer at the Central Conservatory of Music in the age of AI accidentally finds himself at the 2018 League of Legends World Championship S8 final. He wins the world esports title, then retires due to poor hand-eye coordination. He never expects that after crossing over into the Chinese entertainment industry, hit songs will keep pouring out and he’ll become a major player, even unexpectedly turning numerous top-tier starlets into his devoted followers and sparking endless feuds! 114Votes7kRecs48.9kFans
- 17 Chinese Showbiz: Rising from Tencent 华娱：从鹅厂崛起 In 2014, the entertainment industry’s star-driven boom was growing unchecked, capital was pouring in, satellite TV stations dominated, web dramas were still treated as an afterthought, and video platforms were burning through cash just to survive. Shen Ci: “I’m here. Video content can be saved, and so can actresses.” (Harem. Detailed romance. No doormats.) 0Votes11.2kRecs49kFans
- 18 I Just Got Into a Top University, and the System Wants Me to Join Showbiz 刚考上985，系统让我混娱乐圈 Yang Tiancan, born into a wealthy second-generation family, performed exceptionally well on the gaokao and was admitted to Beihang University, a top-tier 985 university. Just as he happily began university and prepared for his exams, he inexplicably awakened a System from the future. The System also told him that more than a decade later, he would go bankrupt after investing in films and be forced to jump from a building. What? You’re saying that this innocent young man who gave up Zhejiang U 0Votes5.4kRecs33.4kFans
- 19 Entering Chinese Showbiz in 2016 从2016年开始进入华娱 As a child, Wang Zian awakened memories from versions of himself in different times and slowly became the kind of kid other parents wished they had. But after a friend mistakenly reported him as a candidate for the arts entrance exam, the course of his life changed, and he entered the entertainment industry. Zhou Ye: What are we to each other? We’re classmates! Wang, Tian, Zhang, Liu: … 50Votes5kRecs6.4kFans
- 20 Chinese Showbiz: It All Began When I Went Public with Yang Chaoyue 华娱：从和杨超月官宣开始 When Yang Chaoyue confesses her love to the whole internet, the trending topics explode, and the young actresses around her start acting strangely. Tian Xiwei corners Lin Chen against a wall. “Want to try a taste of my spice?” Zhang Jingyi drops her guard. “I’d do anything for you. Would she?” Liu Haocun tells the media, “There are no Zhang Yimou girls, only Chen girls. Brother Chen says I understand him best.” Lin Chen wants to run. This isn’t how it was supposed to go! At last, he realizes: Ma 0Votes1kRecs3.4kFans
- 21 Chinese Showbiz: Now That I'm a Top-Tier Star, Who Needs Real Love? 华娱：都当顶流了，谁还谈真感情 Xu Shen, who spent ten years playing bit parts in Hengdian, is reborn in 2018. In his previous life, he was too proud to take the easy way out, and ended up wasting half his life. Given another chance, he sees his wealthy former classmate Meng Ziyi getting drunk late at night and looking for comfort, and has an epiphany: Only a fool turns down a shortcut! Just then, his [Keyword System] awakens. Whenever he triggers an important event, he can obtain a magical keyword. Joining The Untamed, he equ 0Votes940Recs11.8kFans
- 22 Chinese Showbiz, 2018: Surrounded by Rising Starlets 华娱2018，我被小花们包围啦 Scene A: Zhou Ye looked at the [National Banquet: Mala Tang Recipe] he’d won in the lottery. He didn’t accuse the System of being broke, just chalked it up to bad luck. Scene B: Zhang Jingyi flipped through "The 2019 Hit Drama Guide" and resolved to work hard at winning the favor of the chosen one. Scene B (Exterior): Jiang Peiyao saw that Zhang Jingyi had the same copy of "The 2019 Hit Drama Guide" and made a decision that would betray her ancestors. Scene C: Li Landi kept going for morning run 0Votes627Recs453Fans
- 23 The Top-Tier Star of Chinese Showbiz: I Raised the Starlets Myself 华娱顶流：小花是我带大的 Actor Zhang Yu is reborn in 2014. With the memories of his previous life and help from the System, he sets out on the road to stardom once more. In this life, he wants to take in the most beautiful sights, and make his way to the top of the entertainment industry, one step at a time. But along the way, growing flowers is an essential part of the journey, too. “Mr. Zhang, what kind of flowers are you growing?” “What kind? Of course, little flowers.” Years later Zhang Yu: “Who on earth put a l 0Votes3.3kRecs9.9kFans
- 24 Chinese Showbiz: I'm the Top-Tier Star! 华娱：我即顶流！ In 2016, Lin Ran dreamed of himself ten years in the future. In his dream, he was the entertainment industry’s once-in-a-generation superstar, chosen by fate and utterly one of a kind. When he woke, he had every entertainment work that would belong to him over the next ten years etched into his mind. … Life is unpredictable, and things took a different turn. Through a strange twist of fate, Lin Ran stumbled into the entertainment industry. His dreams and his original motivation had always been 158Votes20.5kRecs84.6kFans
- 25 Chinese Showbiz 2016: My Childhood Sweetheart Tian Xiwei 华娱2016，我的青梅田烯薇 Xu Xiao returned to 2016 and discovered that his childhood friend was actually Tian Xuwei, and that he just kept getting more handsome. Wouldn't it be a waste of the talent Heaven gave him if he didn't join the entertainment industry? Dudu, Chu Ran, Chaoyue, Zhou Ye, Sai Bo Ruonan... Why are all of them calling me a playboy? Fans of the new generation have no manners at all!!! PS: Multiple heroines, love rival showdowns! 42Votes7.5kRecs41.5kFans
- 26 Chinese Showbiz: Making TV Dramas Makes Me Stronger, Even Short Dramas Count? 华娱：拍剧就能变强，短剧也算？ Wait, you can get stronger just by making TV shows? Reborn into a new life, young Shen Qingquan is taken by surprise when he receives the [Attention] golden finger. Make productions, build a public image, and harvest everyone's attention to receive rewards from those productions? But as a history student at the end of 2016, how is he supposed to break into the industry? TV dramas and movies aren't easy to make. What? Short-form dramas count too? Then that settles it. Let's get to work and show t 56Votes9.5kRecs60.7kFans
- 27 Chinese Showbiz: You Were Supposed to Be a Top-Tier Star, So How Did You Become a Capitalist? 华娱：说好顶流，你成资本了？ Lin Shen: They say being a top-tier star is a young person's game, so it wouldn't be too much if I bought the kitchen where the meals are made too, would it? This book is also known as The Top-Tier Star Who Won't Do His Job in Chinese Entertainment and This Top-Tier Star Only Wants to Sell Stuff. 0Votes3.7kRecs27.4kFans
- 28 Chinese Entertainment: Starting by Inheriting a Video Website 华娱从继承视频网站开始 Back in 2013, Su Xingzhou inherited P Station, a niche video-streaming site on the verge of bankruptcy. Facing the major video platforms, all throwing money around and racing to build up their arsenals, Su Xingzhou took on the roles of celebrity boss and producer, making quality content and investing with precision to turn small bets into big wins! He manipulated public opinion around golden boy-and-girl celebrity pairings, and his self-produced The Long Night set the entire internet ablaze! Sta 230Votes20.1kRecs82.8kFans
- 29 Chinese Showbiz: Turning Down the 2000s Actresses on a Dating Show 华娱：从恋综拒绝00花开始 While appearing on a dating reality show, the Divorce Comeback System suddenly awakened. Lu Yuxiao: I was clearly the first to get close to Tan Wen on the show! Liu Haochun: Rather than calling me a girl picked by Zhang Yimou, you might as well call me a girl picked by Tan Wen. Zhou Ye: If Senior Brother Tan Wen wants me to play a role, I’ll play it. I’m the same on-screen and off. Tian Xiwei: Actually, I’m more spicy than sweet, and Tan Wen knows that better than anyone. Meng Ziyi: I’m grateful 0Votes2.7kRecs9.4kFans
- 30 Chinese Showbiz: The Top-Tier Star Director Who Only Promotes Rising Actresses 华娱：专捧小花的顶流导演 Rewinding to 2015, Lu Yunzhou binds to a Director System. Every time he makes a film, he gets a reward: [Delayed Aging], [Perfect Physique], [Immune to All Illnesses], and [More Children, More Blessings]! He only meant to focus on directing and rack up rewards, but the temptation of a million yuan a day proved too much. He took a guest role, and before he knew it, there was no turning back! … 10 million, 20 million, 30 million… What? I have over a hundred million female fans around the world! T 207Votes54.4kRecs185.9kFans
- 31 Showbiz: I'm Bound to a Female Star 娱乐：我被女明星绑定了 Ji Man, the owner of a little tea shop in an alley, unexpectedly becomes an exclusive quest NPC for the entertainment industry. Driven by the System, Zhou Ye arrives in a state of anxious trepidation. Chen Duling comes to check out the shop and catches the System's eye. Hu Lianxin falls in love at first sight and takes the initiative to pursue him… More and more actresses find a binding System popping up in their minds, and every quest points to Ji Man's shop. From filming and dates to shop 0Votes19.5kRecs49.1kFans
- 32 I'm a Top-Tier Star, and I'm Really Going to Work You All Hard 华娱顶流，我真得狠狠操作你们了 Xu Xiu, a bit player on the fringes of the entertainment industry, returned to 2018. In this era of traffic-driven fame, the Four Greats and Three Young Stars were at their peak, while established and rising actresses competed to outshine one another. After two and a half years of training, Xu Xiu chose to sign with a major agency and debut on a talent show, ready to show the top-tier stars what a top-tier star of the new age really looked like! Reporter: “Some say you have unbelievably good con 0Votes7.6kRecs66kFans
- 33 Chinese Showbiz: Young Actresses Have Their Eyes on Me 华娱：我被小花们觊觎了 People say that to make it in the entertainment industry, you need connections, influence, and resources. Otherwise, you’ll be faced with a harsh reality full of shady dealings and unspoken rules. Everyone in the industry believes it. When young actresses are desperate to break through but discover that veterans have firmly blocked every path to success, leaving them helpless and uncertain... A newcomer with a System arrives on the scene: Gu Luojin. Zhang Jingyi: “Gu, we’ve known each ot 84Votes6.7kRecs62.1kFans
- 34 Chinese Showbiz: Starting Out as a Film Producer 华娱：从影视出品人开始 Book recommendation: Chinese Entertainment: Rising from Tencent The moment I stepped into the entertainment industry, the nightmare of every female celebrity in the business began. 15,000 words updated daily+ Featuring mainly the post-1995 and post-2000 female stars (No bootlicking)(No naivety)(Career-focused)(Everyday-life story) 0Votes14.2kRecs52.6kFans
- 35 Chinese Showbiz: Starting with a Simulated Romance 华娱从模拟恋爱开始 [Want to befriend, date, and get to know female celebrities better?] [Click to play!] In 2015, aspiring arts student Yu Wenliang gets a dating simulator. An electronic romance with female celebrities from real life? What's the point if it's virtual! Yu Wenliang couldn't care less! What? You say it can simulate the future? Yu Wenliang looks at the countdown to the college entrance exam. The top scorer is waiting for him! What? You say he can gain the abilities of the characters in his simulations 5Votes33.4kRecs76.4kFans
- 36 Oh No, I'm Surrounded by Actresses Born in the '90s! 糟糕，我被95花包围了 Post-95 actresses, young stars, Xiao Tian, a boat, a coconut... Also known as: Chinese Entertainment: I'm Already an Award-Winning Actor, and Now You Show Up, System? Xu Ao transmigrated and became an actor in Hengdian. After ten years of hard work, Xu Ao finally won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor, becoming the leading young actor of his generation... And then the System showed up!? [Entertainment Industry Big Player System... Starting] “Wait, I'm already an award-winning actor. You're 0Votes13kRecs37.8kFans
- 37 Chinese Showbiz: She Made the First Move 华娱：是小花主动的 Chen Mo, who had struggled in the modeling world for more than a decade, was reborn and returned to 2016. That year, the Big Four and the Little Three were at the height of their popularity. That year, rising young actresses began to make their mark. By interacting and forming connections with celebrities, Chen Mo could gain opportunities to draw entries. [Narrative Voice]: Your voice naturally carries a sense of storytelling, making it easier for people to listen attentively when you speak and 114Votes47.5kRecs204kFans
- 38 Chinese Showbiz: Now That I’m Capital, Can’t I Let Loose? 华娱：成资本了还不能放纵吗？ Day One After Being Reborn: Li Zhou treads carefully. One Month After Being Reborn: Holy crap! This crappy game, Dungeon Fighter Online, already has a money-making bug?! One Year After Being Reborn: Damn, could all the suffering I went through in my past life have turned into blessings in this one? Let loose? Hell, I have to let loose! On the variety show Heart Signal, Yang Chaoyue revealed that she once confessed to a boy when she was a student. But the boy gave Yang Chaoyue a "good person 432Votes52.6kRecs200kFans
- 39 Chinese Showbiz: The Top-Tier Star Has No Days Off 华娱：顶流没有假期 After ten years toiling as a financial-sector wage slave, Jiang Bai suddenly returns to 2016. Looking at the noisy, tumultuous world, Jiang Bai grins. Finance? Not even a dog would do that! You shouldn't step into the same river twice! In this life, Jiang Bai plans to dive headfirst into the entertainment industry and see how it tastes! He'll start by becoming a top-tier star in campus dramas! What? You say the entertainment industry is a mess? Could it possibly be messier than finance? Jiang Ba 1.4kVotes41.2kRecs265.4kFans
- 40 Chinese Showbiz: I'm Reborn, So Why Would I Still Go to Grad School? 华娱：都重生了谁还读研啊！ Also known as: “Who Says You Don't Need a Degree to Make It in Showbiz?” and “What's Wrong with Me Dating These Rising Stars?” Lin Ke is reborn in his sophomore year of college. Looking at the graduate-school exam prep materials in his hands, he remembers his miserable former life as an “academic workhorse” and finally gets it: “Whoever wants to go to grad school can go! The hardships of showbiz are what I should be putting myself through!” During a special period when everyone is staying home t 179Votes34.4kRecs85.7kFans
- 41 I'm a Top-Tier Star, So What's Wrong with Promoting a Rising Actress? 我一个顶流捧小花很合理吧？ Shen Yan returns to 2016, a good-for-nothing who has decided to lie flat. Then he sees the [Actress Development System] and regains his drive. Develop actresses? If I can't make them world-class, I'll admit defeat! He helps Cheng Xiao rise to fame and earns his first fortune. He clears the name of Meng Jie, the silly beauty, and 0Votes28.9kRecs99.5kFans
- 42 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
- 43 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
- 44 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
