
Chinese Showbiz: This Art Student Wants to Be a Director
华娱,这个美术生想当导演
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- Completed
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- 4.0M Words
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- Urban
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- Showbiz Romance
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- 7mo ago
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Now I understand why the main characters' romantic storyline felt awkward.
The protagonist is portrayed as someone who prioritizes pure love and career. However, the author repeatedly incorporates harem-like storylines. Furthermore, the author deliberately introduced Guy Ritchie's special talent to maintain a sense of plausibility. To be honest, Jing Tian's "rich girl" character is really unlikable.
I want to kill the author! It's clearly a single female lead story, but they insist on calling it multiple female leads.
The lead actors seem to never consider the suitability of the roles when filming, only focusing on a few actresses like the "Three Beauties of Xinjiang" and the "Poet Immortal of Tang Dynasty," as if there's no one else in the entertainment industry.
Having so many women listed as victims and only accepting one should be considered fraud and should be reported.
This is the third book by this lousy author. The only redeeming quality of this author is his pretentious, artsy style, but his romantic descriptions are terrible. He can't write a harem story. It's simple: just identify one absolute female lead (the fact that he could switch leads and get married at the end of the first book was a real blunder).
Many female celebrities are incompatible. For example, how can Yang Mi compare to Liu Yifei or Jing Tian? She's not pretty enough, and her personality isn't likable. Gathering a bunch of female celebrities for publicity only results in an awkward and off-putting situation.
Kun Kun's interactions with the female lead and supporting female characters have a much longer length than the male lead's, and his characters are more well-developed. The male lead feels completely dispensable; it would be better to just give Kun Kun a cheat code.
Seriously, if you reduced the amount of romance and focused more on the film's plot, no one would criticize your harem or single-female lead story. Of all the entertainment novels I've read, your film plot is the best. The others either plagiarized *Lost in Thailand*, *Tangren*, or *The Wandering Earth*. Women are all obsessed with Liu Cixin. Even though a slightly chubby guy might not be obsessed with Liu Cixin, your film plot is indeed excellent. It's a pity.
Here are some parts of this book that I think should be changed!
The romance storyline is either pure love or a harem. This is what it means to jump around from side to side; it's the most unpleasant to watch. The pure romance has only one female lead, and it's the same female lead even after the series ends. The harem is just a collection of all the main characters.
Are scam articles all the rage now?
It's supposed to be a single-female-lead story, but the female lead has so many problems. 😅