Reborn: Starting as the Top Scorer in the Arts Entrance Exam
重生从艺考状元开始
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Best Picks in Showbiz and Period Fiction (Updated 2026-10-28)
A list of entertainment novels I'm following. If you like this genre, give them a try. I often check the rankings. This genre is relatively easy for new authors to write, but competition is fierce too. I update regularly, so keep an eye on changes to the list's title.
Bookworm Reading List
Only introducing books I personally think are decent
Liu Yifei, Xixi, the Celestial Beauty, An Feng [Only One Heroine]
Only collecting stories with one female lead, where she's as beautiful as a celestial maiden. Some of these are old enough that I've forgotten the details, but they're all worth reading. These are all books I was able to keep following. This is just my personal taste, so please don't flame me. Rating system: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly recommended ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pretty good, worth a read ⭐⭐⭐ Worth reading when you're out of books ⭐⭐ Fine if you don't think too hard, just read for fun ⭐ Gross, frustrating, or impossible
Reading Slump Relief Station
Well-written, easy to read all night, no padding or nonsense. I'll delete books that ruin the story.
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Novels with Liu Yifei as the Female Lead: Only the Best Chinese Entertainment Fiction, Xixi the Celestial Fairy Liu
Liu Tianxian's life has had three stages ● 2002–2008: Rise to fame Innocent, lively, and adorable. Just look at the goofy jumping around in those behind-the-scenes clips from The Return of the Condor Heroes. ● 2009–2020: The low point She was [redacted], [redacted], and [redacted] by a certain company. In particular, she nearly quit the industry in 2009 and 2010. She got through it by reading lots of inspirational books. In 2011, she got close to the declining Hong Kong entertainment scene. In 2
Novels with Yifei as the Female Lead
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Qianqian, single female lead
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Novels with Liu Yifei as the Sole Female Lead
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To put it bluntly, "The Grandmaster" is just a self-indulgent affair within the Hong Kong film circle. If it's really that amazing, why doesn't it get any attention at other film festivals?
I really liked this book. The single female lead never had any ambiguous relationships with other female stars from beginning to end. Compared to the top-ranked single-female lead fairy novels, I feel that the career development in this book is the best. The other books have too slow career progress and take up a large proportion of daily life, which makes them sweet but lacking in excitement.
Are there any dramas where the female lead isn't Liu Yifei?
Guys, do you know any Chinese entertainment novels where the female lead isn't Liu Yifei? Every single one I've been reading lately has her as the female lead. It's not that having her as the female lead is inherently bad, it's just that she's too obsequious... She lacks any sense of grandeur or depth in the rebirth aspect. Honestly, I just don't get it.
There's no way around it; Liu's looks in her youth were unmatched in the entertainment industry, even in Hong Kong during the 80s and 90s, she was considered top-tier in terms of beauty. Even after two decades, she still has a large and loyal fanbase, which is why she's widely recognized as a "blood bank" in the entertainment industry.
Sissi
Why is it Sister Liu again as the female lead?
I randomly clicked on any entertainment novel, and the female lead was Sister Liu. I admit that Sister Liu is indeed good-looking, but why is it that every novel features Sister Liu as the female lead? Look at Sister Liu's acting skills now. Her acting skills are not good, and she can't win any awards. She changed her nationality to American in 2004. Why do people still fawn over her every day?
Reborn into the past and still want to be an actor? Shouldn't the focus be on making money, making money, making money, becoming a capitalist? Everyone should know who's in charge, right? Becoming a capitalist is what a reborn person should be doing, not going back to acting.
In contemporary entertainment novels, there is a growing trend against Liu Yifei becoming the female lead. Liu Yifei has been exploited far too much. As a long-time consumer of entertainment novels, I've gone from being neutral to now opposing her. My stance is a growing trend, and I advise authors to be cautious when choosing Liu as their female lead!
These days, there are practically no more Chinese entertainment novels that simply focus on actors. It's all about directors starting out and then becoming investors. Some even go so far as to be authors, songwriters, singers, directors, actors, and stock market gurus—all incredibly successful, making the protagonists seem almost superhuman.
The biggest challenge in writing her as the female lead was her mother. We readers all know what kind of person her mother is; she's offended too many people.