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- 1 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
- 2 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
- 3 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
- 4 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
- 5 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 4Votes16.9kRecs71.4kFans
- 6 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
- 7 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
- 8 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 0Votes627Recs452Fans
- 9 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 85Votes9.6kRecs61kFans
- 10 Chinese Showbiz: Am I the Top-Tier Star Trendsetter? 华娱：我成顶流风向标了？ Entertainment blogger Chen Shu was doxxed by a deranged fan, then knocked back to 2016 with a single blow! And so, the entertainment industry welcomed its true star of destiny! While everyone else was still fighting over billing in fan circles, Chen Shu had already cemented his place as a top-tier star with hit after hit! While everyone else was still singing, dancing, and rapping, one of Chen Shu's hand dances inspired the whole nation to imitate him! While everyone else was still rehashing sta 174Votes22.4kRecs71.6kFans
- 11 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 234Votes20.9kRecs85.2kFans
- 12 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 286Votes54.8kRecs186.5kFans
