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Chinese Showbiz Begins with Hong Shixian 华娱从洪世贤开始
After getting hit by a truck, Qi Hui discovered he had transmigrated into the body of a fresh-faced, clueless graduate of the Beijing Film Academy. It made him want to back out. The entertainment industry is so hard to break into. Maybe I should go back to construction work? Ding~ [Host has encountered actor Zhang Ruoyun. You have earned one lottery draw. Would you like to draw?] Qi Hui: ... So there's a System. Why would I go back to construction work...? Ahem. Construction work isn't so bad ei
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I Am Heaven's Mandate: Conquering the World from the Western Regions 朕即天命:从西域征服世界
In the name of the Yan and Huang emperors, unleash slaughter. With the power of Heaven, sweep across Europe. Li Xiao, a young man from the Western Regions, starts with his family. He builds steelworks, casts cannons, raises troops and horses, and wages war in every direction. With the Han people of the Western Regions as his foundation, he establishes the strongest army on Earth in the thirteenth century: the Six Garrisons’ Iron Cavalry. He marches east against the Mongols, battling Temujin’s ca
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Unemployed from the Start, I Bring the Queen of Pop Back 开局失业,我让歌坛大魔王回归
Jiang Yang transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a graduate of a lousy college. He gets married right after graduation and seems to reach the peak of life, only to achieve nothing, end up penniless, and start out unemployed. Just as he despairs, with only one skill to his name, his wife lifts his chin and says, “I'll take care of you.” She takes off her glasses, and the great demon king who once made the music scene tremble is back. Years later... As Jiang Yang watches Chinese-language e
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Chinese Showbiz: It All Started with Fortune-Telling 华娱之从算命开始
Do you rely on your acting skills, your connections, your System, being reborn, or transmigrating to land a role? Please, that's so old-fashioned! Directors? Producers? A film set is a battlefield. Surely you need a little reassurance before the cameras start rolling, right? What? This production is a guaranteed flop? Lin Mo flew into a rage: This is obviously a dark horse in the making! Where are you getting “guaranteed flop” from? Liu, the devoted wife and mother: “Lin Mo, should I marry into
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Reborn in Hong Kong's Crime World, 1982: I Have the All-Seeing Eye 重生港综1982:我有天眼通
I’ve been reborn; I’ve got a System; I’ve landed in the world of Hong Kong cinema; If I’m not going to make a big splash, should I just lie flat? Keung is my childhood friend, and Big D is my die-hard fan. Is it really wrong not to join a gang?
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Reborn in 1878: America's Number-One Tough Bandit 重生1878:美利坚头号悍匪
Luo Sen is reborn in 1878 and awakens the Dead Soldier System. In this untamed West, where heroes and villains dance together, the Chinese aren't even allowed to sit at the table. But Luo Sen's arrival will see him flip that table with his own hands! Chinese dead soldiers, British dead soldiers, African dead soldiers. By day, he's a mild-mannered, harmless lodger. By night, he's the bandit leader who strikes terror into the hearts of every white man in the West. His Irish dead soldier commits an
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The Evil Forces Roaming the Myriad Worlds 流窜诸天的恶势力
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Generation Z Artist Z世代艺术家
From Taking Down Public Intellectuals to Conquering the Entertainment Industry A Gen Z online troll born in 2005 is reborn in 1998. He has no rose-tinted view of this era, and it leaves him feeling utterly suffocated. The crude picture quality of TV and films, the eye-searing special effects, costumes like scraps of cloth, makeup that looks like a joke, and a filming philosophy of “good enough is good enough”... Men and women, directors and producers, every last one of them is garbage. The young
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Master of the Five Thunders: Traversing Two Realms 执掌五雷行两界
An ancestral Five-Thunder Command lets Gu Zhao transmigrate to another world. Daoist arts that he couldn't cultivate or use in the modern world can actually be used there! Doesn't that mean immortality is within reach? Gu Zhao discovers that this world has ghosts and demons, but there are alluring ghosts and gorgeous demons, too! He remembers the most famous spell of the Daoist sect. It seems to be called...
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Godly Tycoon: From a Family Business on the Brink of Bankruptcy! 神豪:从家族企业快破产开始!
What does it feel like to be lucky? An Wuyang has his own answer! First, you’re born into a wealthy and powerful family, and get to enjoy a life of luxury. Then, as the sole heir to the family business, you have nothing to worry about. But after the college entrance exams, the family business falls into crisis, even facing bankruptcy and collapse. Fortunately, An Wuyang also gets a Happy Life System... What does it feel like to have a Tycoon System possess you after the college entrance exam
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Humanity Vanishes, Luckily I Have Billions of Clones 人类失踪,幸好我有亿万克隆体
Li Qingsong used himself as the template to clone another version of himself. Then he discovered that he could connect to his clone's brain through his consciousness. With each additional clone, he gained another body and another brain. His memory, learning ability, mobility, engineering skills, and more would all increase twofold accordingly. Faced with the vast sea of stars after human civilization had inexplicably vanished, Li Qingsong felt no fear at all. “Although only I remain of human civ
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Reborn in 2008: Rising from Cheap Knockoff Phones 重生08:从山寨机开始崛起
Reborn in 2008, Xu Shenxue discovered that he had become the owner of a mobile phone company. Unfortunately, the company was facing a crisis. Xu Shenxue simply said, “No problem. System, get to work.” With a research and development System in hand, Xu Shenxue could turn ordinary researchers into experts, and experts into world-class scholars... Developing chips is difficult? Would a hundred scientists be enough? If not, bring in another thousand! Developing lithography machines is difficult? Wou
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Chinese Entertainment: Starting Out as a Male Model 华娱从男模开始
He wakes up in 2015 and enters the entertainment industry as a male model. Don’t tell me about powerful backgrounds, impressive connections, or how corrupt the unspoken rules are. Bai Liang, living a second life, says he’s never suffered much in either one. The worst thing he’s had to stomach is iced coffee, and the heaviest thing he’s ever carried is Valentino. Making it in the industry comes down to two words: Luck! He’s going to find out what this entertainment industry is really like. Some p
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From Arms Dealer to King of War 从军火商到战争之王
A magical “all-purpose toolbox” drew Qiao Jia into the arms trade. The turbulent, unpredictable world gradually changed his goals... “Sir, how did you get to where you are today?” “I don’t know. At first, I just wanted to make some money, buy a house, and get married. But little by little, more and more people came into my life, and my goals began to change.” “And what’s your goal now?” “Now, I just want to take my crew and retire in peace. Really!”
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I Have a Two-World Seal 我有一枚两界印
A jade seal lets Lu Zheng transmigrate freely to another world. At first, he thinks it is an utterly ordinary ancient world. With no great ambitions, he plans to become a carefree traveling merchant, enjoy the life of a wealthy man, find a few lovely companions to keep him company, and spend his plain, dull days eating and wandering around. Until... he gives a meal to the beggar at his door, and the jade seal gains a few strands of fortune... Fox women come by day, alluring ghosts visit by night
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