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- 1 Chinese Showbiz: This Art Student Wants to Be a Director 华娱,这个美术生想当导演 [This book has over 7,000 average paid subscribers and is aiming for 8,000] After returning to 2009, Lu Zhiyuan, who had failed to get into art school, received a rudimentary [Director Talent System]. As long as he directed a production and took first place, he could randomly gain one of his rivals' talents! … “Your music video "Maybe" has reached number one on the MTV charts. Congratulations, you've gained [Director Ning's absurdist humor]!” “Your film "Real Steel" has become the month's box-o 0Votes103.9kRecs326.4kFans
- 2 Artist of a New Era 新时代艺术家 (The early part of this book is a standard entertainment-industry story, but it really takes off in the middle and later chapters. It started with 400 paid subscribers and grew to over 6,000 average subscribers, with 2,000 still following the latest updates. I hope you'll be patient. You can also jump straight to Chapter 113, which lays out the author's historical perspective and the tone of the book.) Shen Santong, born in 1984, the king of cinema. He forges box-office hits into epic tales, mak 7Votes98.1kRecs297.2kFans
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Reborn, Who Needs Romance? 都重生了谁谈恋爱啊
After struggling all the way to the age of thirty-eight without being able to afford a home, he is told that getting married requires paying a bride price of three hundred thousand yuan first. He has scrimped and saved for most of his life, worked himself to the bone, but where did all the money go? Who exactly earned it all? Jiang Qin, reborn at eighteen with countless grievances weighing on him, opens his eyes with only one thought: start a business and make money. Step one: take back the lo
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Restoring the Song Dynasty 绍宋
To inherit is to continue; to guide is to lead. In 1127, the Northern Song fell. Soon afterward, the ninth imperial prince, Zhao Gou, ascended the throne in Shangqiu amid great expectations, inheriting the Song dynasty and adopting the Jianyan era name. Yet within three months, Li Gang was dismissed as chancellor, Chen Dong was executed, Yue Fei was driven out of the army, Zong Ze was abandoned in the capital, and the plans to resist the Jin in Hebei were scrapped wholesale... After all that eff
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- 5 Becoming a Fox Immortal in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio 从聊斋开始做狐仙 Being human is hard; being a fox is even harder. Gong Mengbi has no choice but to cling to Lady Mount Tai's coattails and become an immortal official first. For a fox, making connections far and wide is the way to cultivate immortality. Only later do people realize that this fox seems to be everywhere, no matter how vast the world is. 166Votes458.9kRecs508.8kFans
- 6 Wanli Emperor 万历明君 In the year 1572, seventy-two years remained before the fall of the Ming dynasty and the loss of its lands. At this time, Japanese pirates ran rampant in the southeast, the Tatars battered the northwest passes, local land annexation was growing worse by the day, the military and government were exhausted, the people were suffering, and the Longqing Emperor had just died. Yet at this moment, Shi Yue transmigrated into Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor who would later go thirty years without attending 6kVotes735.4kRecs1.6MFans
- 7 Reborn in 2008: The Gear-Type God of War 重生08:装备系男神 Zhai Da is reborn in 2008, back at a high school in a small town, and awakens the [Life Equipment System]. Powerful emotions, obsessions, and states of mind can seep into objects. Zhai Da can imbue special items with life and turn them into equipment for his own use. Best of all, equipment can be combined over and over again! Its rarity can be increased, and eventually he can even collect a [Set]. [Old Man's Television]: The shows it plays are addictive? Zhai Da whips out study materials instead 0Votes269.9kRecs477.3kFans
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Swarm of Heavy Cannons Annihilates Immortal Cultivators 集群重炮轰杀修仙者
Artillery shells are flying swords, too! The fake Qi Refining cultivator: casts water and fire spells, commands a flying sword to take an enemy’s head from dozens of paces away, and carries a shield artifact for both offense and defense. The real Qi Refining cultivator: drives a Type 99 main battle tank equipped with a 125 mm artifact main gun guided by divine sense, two 12.7 mm dual-purpose anti-aircraft and ground-attack artifact machine guns guided and aimed by divine sense, nine assorted ele
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Journey to the West: From the Start, I Became a Disciple of Patriarch Bodhi 西游:开局拜师菩提祖师
King Wen had his carriage pulled for eight hundred paces, securing eight hundred years of rule for the Zhou dynasty. During the Western Zhou dynasty, Jiang Yuan had a great dream. It felt like a lifetime had passed, and he realized that flowers were not flowers, mist was not mist, and he was not himself. At the age of four, Jiang Yuan resolved to seek the Dao and pursue eternal life. Seeing that both his parents were still alive, he kept his ambition hidden and decided to serve them for the rest
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- 10 Great Ming: The Longevity Emperor Cultivates Immortality! 大明:万寿帝君修仙了! Zhu Cong transmigrated! And became the Jiajing Emperor of the Great Ming, Zhu Houcong! But this was Jiajing near death. If the timeline was right, he had only six years left to live. What was he supposed to do? Just as Jiajing stared at his frail body in a panic, he discovered that he could enter a world of immortal cultivation... And so, a Jiajing who traveled between two worlds and cultivated immortality was born! In the hands of the true Lord of Longevity, a brand-new Great Ming would become 0Votes24.2kRecs222kFans
- 11 The Long Sword at the End of Jin 晋末长剑 As the Tang poet Xu Yin wrote in his poem “The Two Jins”: “Deep schemes across three generations laid the foundations of an empire. What a pity for the widow and orphan. Cheng Ji’s crime brought Heaven’s wrath; the spear that struck a wise ruler is mourned for all eternity.” The Western Jin came to power through illegitimate means and made far too many mistakes, inheriting every ill that had accumulated since the Eastern Han and the Three Kingdoms. By the end of the Jin dynasty, the damage had b 123Votes2MRecs2.1MFans
- 12 EN 1979: The Golden Age 1979黄金时代 This is still a somewhat nostalgic story, hmm… 8.7kVotes3.7MRecs2.5MFans
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