Showbiz: Starting with the Thousand Character Classic

Thirty-year-old office drone Shen Yan wakes up in the body of a high school freshman. To make matters worse, this world has a cultural void: no Thousand Character Classic, no The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, not even a song anyone can sing. He casually recites the Thousand Character Classic from memory, and a cold voice rings in his mind: “Use a piece of another world’s culture, and incur one contract debt. Fail to repay it, and one of your abilities will be randomly taken away.” Other people’s Systems hand out money and skills. His System makes him jump from the seventh floor from the start. Fine. What’s the big deal about risking his life? So he adapts books, writes songs, makes games, and takes up parkour, climbs Mount Everest, and scales cliffs with his bare hands, eventually building the Starlight Empire across entertainment and the internet. Everyone is trying to guess who the mysterious young man is. Shen Yan just wants to bring out the good things from his previous life one by one, and protect the people he cares about.