Chinese Showbiz: The Director Returns
华娱：导演归来
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- Showbiz Romance
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Xixi’s Multi-World Mutual Aid Alliance (Liu Yifei & Xixi & Xiao Liu)
This list is for the mutual-support alliance of authors writing Xixi. Feel free to recommend books! Books abandoned by their authors will be removed periodically, or whenever I get around to it. As a fake fan of Xixi, I won't compete with you all for her. After all, I already have a wife: a little Liu born in 1987. Our child is in fourth grade now. Show me your Xixi novels! Only newcomers, please! Let's see who can keep writing to the end!
Readable Niche Novels
My reading tastes are pretty broad. I can follow hundreds of books and read over a thousand in a year, across historical fiction, Chinese entertainment, xuanhuan, fan fiction, and basketball. I leave out the really popular ones.
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
Empress Xixi's Single-Heroine Novels
A selection of new and old books that I currently think are decent. Created on May 8, 2026. I'll add more if I come across any good ones.
Princess Xixi
Single heroine, Lao Liu.
Liu Yifei, My Moonlight Crush
A loser’s idealized romance in the Chinese entertainment industry.
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I'll choose Liu Yifei as the female lead.
Why choose Liu Yifei for this entertainment article? First, she's beautiful. Second, she's been popular for a long time; think about it, of the "Four Dan and Two Bing" (referring to four top actresses and two top actresses in China), how many are still around today? Third, she's clean; although many say Liu's mother lacks taste, she shielded her from most of the negative influences.
Suddenly, I discovered that in the review section of every novel written by Xiao Liu with a single heroine, there was a comment that subtly planted a thought orientation that was antipathetic to Xiao Liu, the single heroine. I opened the door to a new world when I was just an actor at the same level and fell in love with China Entertainment.
Small suggestion
Among the novels featuring Liu Cixin's female protagonist on Qidian, this is one of my favorites. Putting everything else aside, Liu Cixin's character is really well-developed, and she feels quite real, unlike other novels where she's just a pampered, dependent wife.
I'll post one too.
This one is amazing!
Most of the female protagonist novels featuring Liu Yifei in the Chinese entertainment industry on Qidian.com are single-female-lead novels, but most of them flop. The failure rate is especially high for novels featuring Liu Yifei as the sole female lead. Furthermore, the increasing number of authors writing such novels leads to growing reader aversion to Liu, further increasing the failure rate. Therefore, this book is not worth reading; it's 100% another flop.
A very sincere book
Most of the classic tropes in Chinese entertainment novels involve rebirth, complete knowledge of future movies, and the absence of a system, which is great. Secondly, the protagonist isn't a rebellious, angry young man; instead, before achieving fame, he diligently writes scripts, draws storyboards, seeks guidance from teachers, and personally handles all aspects of starting his company.
Reuters, December 7, 2025
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Don't make films with multiple female leads, and don't make them commercial.
I suggest the author avoid multiple female leads and commercial themes. So many entertainment dramas have been ruined by these overused elements. Multiple female leads aside, and commercial elements should be confined to film and television production; don't try to be all-encompassing. The author could look to successful filmmakers for inspiration, such as Jackie Chan, Tsui Hark, or Spielberg.
Cute
It was found elsewhere and brought here.