After a strange time-travel experience, actor Ebert Dawson wakes up in a reality that hits him hard: far from being the acclaimed star he remembered, he is now the laughingstock of Hollywood. His name appears in the headlines… but not the way he wanted. He’s won a Razzie for Worst Leading Actor. His performance was a disaster, his reputation is in ruins, and the entire industry looks at him with contempt.... more>>

But Ebert is not willing to give up.

Forced to start from the very bottom, he accepts supporting roles and works tirelessly, determined to prove his true talent. Between film sets, rejections, and challenges, his passion for cinema drives him to rise step by step: from the Golden Globes, Berlin, Cannes, all the way to the coveted Oscar.

Along the way, he faces ruthless criticism, moments of loneliness, and the weight of an unforgiving industry. But he also finds allies, unexpected opportunities… and a romance as scandalous as it is touching with none other than Leonardo DiCaprio.

Red carpet gossip, behind-the-scenes secrets, moments of glory and disastrous falls: this is the story of an unforgettable comeback. A journey to the heart of Hollywood, where true talent shines even in the dark, and love — when it’s real — doesn’t need to hide. <<less

A young herbalist from the deep blue mountains of Nandu, ten thousand jang high, one day dreams of becoming a herbalist... A lively and spectacular... more>> coming-of-age story that unfolds in a world where beasts and demons, wizards and spirits, evil spirits and ghosts, and humans coexist. <<less

After completing several transmigration missions perfectly, Shi Fei returned to his world with enough points and a bunch of skills he learned during the missions.... more>>

When he returned, his goal was to eat, drink, sleep and win every day, and when he was bored, he would draw, design, write a book, become a hacker or cure someone who had a terminal illness.

When the interest comes, he would go to a talent contest and get a ‘Best New Performer’ award or something in the entertainment industry.

It seemed like the vests [disguises/covers] were getting more and more careless, and he was very satisfied with this life.

Until one day, Shi Fei accidentally signed out his pen name when he was signing autographs for his fans.

Fans:….

Media:….

Reporter: “Latest news, it turns out that the mysterious painter Mr. J, who once sold for a billion dollars, is the popular youngster Shi Fei.”

Media: “The headline, the design industry’s rising star Ai Wei designer is actually the popular youngster Shi Fei.”

Netizens: “Surprise, when a bastard stalked Shi Fei, he accidentally found out that he was actually Mr. Fei, the world’s best doctor.”

Fan: “Honey, how many more vests [covers] do you have, I think even if you tell me now that you are the richest man in the world, I won’t be too surprised.”

Shi Fei: “I’m not the world’s richest man, but the world’s richest man is my boyfriend.” <<less

Reborn in the millennium, Hua Jie: "Isn't it great to do something? Only puppies learn to paint!"... more>>

However——

Just a few days later,

Hua Jie: "Woof!"

It smells good! <<less

Shi Xi, a struggling 108th-tier actress, gets entangled in a mysterious game. Initially believing it to be a deadly horror game, she discovers it's actually a cheat code that grants her various skills.... more>>

Encountering a ghost actor, she inherits their acting talent, rising from obscurity to become a viral sensation and the beloved eccentric of the entertainment industry.

By meeting a ghost Taoist priest, she gains magical abilities, transforming from someone who fears ghosts to someone who hunts them. She soon earns a new vest as a prominent figure in the Supernatural world.

A ghost painter bestows upon her artistic talent, turning her from a novice into a renowned artist. She takes on another vest as a genius painter.

A ghost novelist shares their creative prowess, enabling her to write hit after hit. She becomes a bestselling author, her third successful vest.

Upon reaching the maximum level in the game, all of Shi Xi's vest achieve legendary status. <<less

One day, I started seeing special things with my eyes.

As a farming blogger, Lin You lived happily among the green mountains and waters. Until an unexpected landslide sent her into a novel about the entertainment industry.... more>>

In this novel, Lin You, with the same name and surname as the female supporting character, was used by the female lead's admirer in various ways, ultimately being scorned and pushed out of the entertainment industry.

When Lin You crossed over, it was just as she was being exploited by her unscrupulous manager, forced to be a stepping stone for the female lead during her time as the internet's most hated person.

Looking at the amount in her bank account, enough for her to live the rest of her life comfortably:

Lin You: … I’m out of here, goodbye!

After negotiating her contract termination, Lin You packed up and returned to the original owner’s old family home.

In the small village where no one knew her, she returned to her old profession.

“Today, I’m going to the fields to harvest peanuts, then I’ll make salted peanuts when I get back.”

“I’ll go up the mountain to see if there are any wild mushrooms.”

“Wild chestnuts! I’ll take them back to make chestnut chicken stew!”

—

Lin You lived more and more comfortably, while the people who used to curse her became more and more conflicted.

Damn, how is she living so well after leaving the entertainment industry?

So kicking her out of the entertainment industry was the right move?

It’s all hype! Definitely hype! By the way, are the wild chestnuts still for sale?

Tsk, how come her looks have improved? Is she a beaver?

—

Bo Chuan found a quiet place to meditate. After all, with his prestigious family background, all he sought in life was enlightenment.

However...

Could the food from next door stop smelling so delicious?!

Days and nights interrupted from the path to enlightenment by food <<less

Li Yangxiao was a down-and-out actor. Due to a chain of rear-end collisions, he encountered a high-ranking official in the capital, Chi Mingyao. The two quickly struck up a deal involving their bodies… ... more>>

Main couple: Li Yangxiao, Chi Mingyao <<less

Liu Yi, who has just entered art school, has loaded the Social Death System. As long as he experiences a socially embarrassing situation, he can exchange it for wealth. ... more>>

So... he sent the wrong confession message, Social Death value +233,

Failed his driving test and drove the car onto a roof, Social Death value +999.

However, when the system upgraded, he discovered that he could exchange for far more than just money. It's better to suffer social death together. Come on, let's hurt each other. <<less

Qi Xiaoyu was a pillar of the Red Moon Troupe during the Republic of China period. He had a unique appearance, figure, and singing style. His ability to adapt to all kinds of people and situations is even more remarkable.... more>>

Meanwhile, Qi Xiaoyu, the starlet in the novel “Sick President Sadistically Loves Me”, is the complete opposite. As a small cannon fodder who had a “warding-off” wedding with the soon-to-be-dying President Xun in order to “wash away” his bad luck and “cure his illness,” this person is s*upid, conceited, arrogant, and proud of his beauty. He gave the president a green hat, coveted the president’s family property, framed the protagonist shou, and was finally sent to an asylum by the sick president, where he was locked up until he turned into an actual lunatic.

When Qi Xiaoyu transmigrated, it was the same night that he was sent to the sick president for the warding-off ceremony……

Qi Xiaoyu judged the situation and was very clear about what he wanted:

Before the protagonist shou appeared, he would obediently clamp his tail tightly between his legs, coax the president into submission, and strive to develop his acting career. After the protagonist shou appeared, he would work hard to match the two of them, retire after success, and divorce the president!

Qi Xiaoyu blinked his big, innocent eyes and smiled, saying, “What the Third Master said is right. Come on, I’ll massage your legs.”

His face is harmless, innocent, and pure.

At the beginning, Third Master Xun casually glanced at Qi Xiaoyu and said, “I have a cleanliness habit. Don’t just push a random person toward me.”

Not long after, Third Master Xun lazily looked at Qi Xiaoyu at his side and said, “This little thing is quite attentive.”

Later, Third Master Xun, whose attitude has completely made a 180-degree turn, couldn’t leave his wife for a day and just wanted to spoil him to heaven. <<less

“Lin Yuan, I remember we sent you to infiltrate the righteous faction as an undercover agent to sabotage them, right?”... more>>

“Yes.”

“Then why are the righteous disciples now full of high morale, well-balanced in their efforts, and improving their cultivation speed by seventy percent? Do you have any explanation for this?”

“How the heck would I know? I’m just a lousy game designer!” <<less

Macy, a ghost-painter, lives exploited by her family for her talent. Her legs are becoming limp, and her hands stiffen due to the Name’s curse.... more>>

The only way to break the curse is to make contact with the Name’s master.

"Take it off."
"Excuse me?"
"Take it off. Are you deaf too?"

Finally meeting the name partner, Eren.

He wishes to proceed with the Name treatment in a secluded cabin, with eyes covered.

He does not hide his unwelcome attitude….

"Do you have someone you want to kiss?"

The man who showed such detachment begins to show inexplicable possessiveness towards Macy.

* * *

"Eren, you're my paramour, not my lover, right?"
"Ah, you want to treat me like a paramour?"
"Is that wrong?"

He twisted his mouth as if it was ludicrous.

"Completely wrong. You seem to have misunderstood; you should have only me as your man. You can never marry and must wait for me alone in that dark, dreary cabin forever."
"Why?"
"Because I decided so."

The mouth that uttered such arrogant words suddenly engulfed Macy's lips.

Unable to bear his twisted love, she fled, but he found her again.

"Come here, Macy. I won't be angry."

His face looked the same yet different.

There was madness lingering in his bloodshot eyes. <<less

The first time Shi Yin met Gu Congli was in high school, under the art building of their school.... more>>

The man was wearing a gray shirt, holding a drawing board, with thinly double-lidded eyes, light-colored irises, and his lips pressed into a cold, straight line.

Stunned by his beauty, Shi Yin decided to start learning how to paint.

On her first day at the art studio, Shi Yin quietly found a corner seat and called him over: “Teacher.”

He lowered his gaze.

“I saw a senior from the neighboring class bring in a handsome man as a model,” Shi Yin whispered, “When can I start learning to draw human figures?”

Gu Congli: “…”

Cold and aloof but secretly possessive and tsundere editor-in-chief x bold yet timid and chatty manga artist

[New releases every Thursday] <<less

Zhu Ming, a neuroscience genius whose career was derailed by an accident that left him unable to walk, had his dreams of scientific research shattered—and put his future marriage on the line.... more>>

Forced to go on a blind date, he comes face-to-face with the cold and handsome Xi Xianqing.

This proud and haughty jewellery designer has a spiritual form as a green peac*ck that cannot naturally spread its tail.

Xi Xianqing said coldly, “I’ll help you with your aunt, you’ll help me with my spiritual form. A marriage agreement benefits us both, and we can divorce after a year.”

Zhu Ming’s past profession made him drawn to challenging cases involving spiritual forms, and he saw Xi Xianqing as a compelling candidate for experimentation.

Zhu Ming smiled. “Let’s see how it goes.”

Later in their marriage, Zhu Ming developed a highly-effective medicine, which Xi Xianqing took for months, but the peac*ck showed no change.

Zhu Ming devised a new form of mental treatment. After several treatments, the peac*ck remained unable to shake even a single feather.

—Until a certain c*cktail party, the completely drunk Zhu Ming smiled as he hooked his arm around Xi Xianqing’s neck and, in front of the crowd, gave him a passionate kiss that echoed.

Once Zhu Ming sobered up, he was hit with a splitting headache. “…Sorry, I’m really bad at holding my liquor.”

Xi Xianqing remained silent for a while before saying, “Next time, please drink more responsibly,” and then walked away.

Zhu Ming was upset with himself for having crossed the line.

He sighed and looked down through the window, happening upon an expressionless Xi Xianqing in the garden.

—As well as the green peac*ck that was frantically spreading its tail behind him.

Xi Xianqing x Zhu Ming

Non-Guideverse. Fictional setting. <<less

The main character, Tokisaka Iori, is an inconspicuous high schooler, but secretly he is a well-known professional illustrator.... more>>

A mistake in a delivery leads him to be discovered by a beautiful silver-haired girl, Minase Asumi, who lives next door.

Asumi is an honor student who is known as a “saintess” at school, he thought she was living in a different world from the one in which he was living, but one word from her changes everything.

“Tokisaka-san, you are my “Mama”, aren’t you?”

Surprisingly, Asumi is the person behind the popular VTuber “Kanadome Hyouka,” for which Iori was in charge of the character design.

“I’ll help with anything, even household chores, for Sensei’s illustrations.”

“Oh no, the viewers will find out everything! Cut off the stream!”

“I was only able to do my best because of you, Iori-kun.”

After learning each other’s identity, they eat dinner together, stream together on good terms, and help each other with household chores……..

In this way, their relationship, which they thought would never cross paths, gradually becomes entwined.

A sweet next-door neighbor romantic comedy between a heavenly illustrator and a super popular streamer――――is about to start! <<less

"…The marriage talks are already directed towards my sister."... more>>

"Then should I sleep with you and marry your sister?"

On the day when life felt barren and she strayed off course, she never imagined that the man she met by chance would be arranged to marry her sister.

"I'm different from my sister... from birth. I can't even step outside this house. So, please stop."

A bastard child who had to paint for her grandfather, who holds her mother's life by a thread.

She was fundamentally different from her sister, who inherited the legitimate bloodline.

"Why can't you go out? It's entirely possible if you set your mind to it. Should I show you how?"

However, he made no effort to understand her life at all.

He stubbornly grasped her hand, half the size of his, intertwining their fingers like a net, and pulled her close.

"How about showing your family what you're like under me, Seo-hye?"

After all, they are families that greatly value honor.

"The sight of you crying beneath me was irresistibly beautiful."

If dirty rumors spread, they might just throw you to me. <<less

Huang Dan’s sensation of pain is innately different from ordinary people. The littlest tear in his skin can cause him to sweat all over his body in pain, to the point where he is unable to say a word.... more>>

Somehow, he began to cross through different worlds, following Mr. System to complete tasks…

In the first world, Huang Dan realizes what it means to be in such pain as to die, live, and die again. <<less

"I… am an elementary school girl?"... more>>

I, a failed artist, returned to my childhood.

Everything was the same… except for one thing: my gender had changed.

And then, one day.

I saved a genius who should have died in an accident.

As I followed her and enrolled in an art school for gifted students, my life began to change. <<less

Shen Youbai is arrogant. Xu Pinyu belongs to him.... more>>

Xu Pinyu and Shen Youbai are students in the same grade, but there is a gap between them, the U-shaped school building. Xu Pinyu is in class K, where the grades are barely passible, whereas Shen Youbai is in class A, where there are elite students everywhere.

But this doesn't stop Xu Pinyu's secret love for Shen Youbai. She secretly gave him roses, secretly cut the buttons of his shirt because of the school rumour, and intentionally violated the school rules and pretended to wear a short skirt in order to have more contact with him. Everything she did was for him, the one in her heart.

The first half of this dark unrequited love is like a solo dance, you can feel the sour and bitter feelings in it.

But what she didn't know about the other person, was that he had already fallen deep into the nightmare called 'Xu Pinyu'. <<less

【1V1 + Arranged Marriage Before Love + Shameless Forced Possession + Sweet Pampering + Fake vs. Real Heiress + Mutual Purity】 ... more>>

Feiyan was betrayed by her own family and lost everything. Upon waking up, she discovered that her boyfriend had long been entangled with the real heiress. Heartbroken, she was about to fall apart when a man pulled her into his embrace with a commanding voice:

“Dump him. Be with me.”

“Except in bed, I won’t let you suffer even a little.”

Feiyan slapped him across the face and spat, “You’re no good either!”

To win over this fiery woman, CEO Li resorted to both open flirtation and subtle temptation.

“In ancient times, they said beauty can make a hero bend the knee.”

So, he decided to play the hero and save his beauty—only to be slapped again.

“Despicable.”

Later, when Feiyan tried to slap him once more, CEO Li, unfazed, leaned in and offered his face.

“Go ahead, hit me right here. But even if you do, you won’t escape from me.”

Feiyan: “…Shameless!”

Until one day, a reporter handed a microphone to CEO Li and asked with a smile:

“Mr. Li, how did you manage to win over your wife back then?”

CEO Li first patted his own undeniably handsome face.

The reporter immediately understood, “Are you saying the first step is having good looks?”

“Don’t interrupt.”

“…”

With a smug expression, CEO Li continued, “When chasing a woman, you need thick skin.”

“And how thick is thick enough?” the netizens asked.

Without hesitation, CEO Li shared his wisdom:

“First, boldly express your love. Test the waters. If she doesn’t reject you, make your move. If she’s uncomfortable, apologize immediately—‘Sorry, baby, I just love you so much that I couldn’t help myself.’”

Netizens: “…Yeah, that’s some seriously thick skin.” <<less

Xu Fei is a D-list actor with nothing to lose. The man who keeps coming back to him is a top-tier celebrity who doesn’t know how to say what he wants.... more>>

They understand each other, but only in bed. Outside of it, silence stretches, words fall short, and nothing ever changes. <<less

Tsunami, Earthquake, Zombies, Meteor Showers, Bridge Collapses, Hailstorms, Volcanic Eruptions, Acid Rain, Thunderstorms.. Yu Xi’s apartment’s storage room unexpectedly became connected to a star house in a different dimension. After a forceful binding, she must undertake [apocalypse survival tasks] every month to earn star coins and upgrade the star house.... more>>

Luckily, there’s a [Star House Storage] for storing large quantities of food and supplies, which might help her survive a bit longer.

[Host has completed three apocalypse tasks, unlocking the Star House’s portable shelter function in this world.]

[The apocalypse is now covering the host’s G Blue Star. Please enhance your strength, upgrade the Star House, and unlock functions such as water, electricity, interior design, and mobility.]

[Please strive to survive!] <<less

If life were a story divided into protagonists and supporting characters, Xie Xizhao had always been cast as the cannon fodder.... more>>

As a boy band member, he was the least popular outsider, the weak leader ostracized by his teammates.

As an actor, he was a background extra, a nameless figure mocked by gossip columns.

Just when he finally rose to fame as a singer, tragedy struck—an anti-fan poisoned his throat with a special dr*g, ruining his voice forever. Reduced to obscurity, he met an untimely end in a sudden car accident.

The moment he closed his eyes, Xie Xizhao calmly watched the montage of his exceptionally unlucky life.

When he opened them again, he found himself back at the very beginning.

—

Employee 001 of the Time-Space System, Xie Xizhao, had finally reached full completion and was officially retiring. All the employees of the system celebrated his departure.

As a key member of the "Cannon Fodder Division" in the entertainment industry, Xie Xizhao’s hard work over the years had not gone unnoticed.

Someone patted him on the shoulder and sighed, "It’s been tough. It’s over now."

Xie Xizhao smiled, finished his celebratory drink, and replied, "Not tough at all. It’s just beginning."

Half a month later, Xie Xizhao returned to his original body.

Six months later, the entertainment industry witnessed the debut of the strongest dark horse in history—a triple-threat rising to the very top.

#No Romance

Reading Notes:

1. A max-level Boss returning to the Novice Village. The story begins with a talent show and leads to dominance in acting, singing, and variety. The talent show structure is inspired by the traditional "Produce 101" format.

2. The protagonist is a calm and collected master of the scene.

3. No real-life references—please do not assume character inspirations. <<less

A major ordeal has struck someone like me, a socially inept person who finds everything in life bothersome.... more>>

Thanks to my average looks, I had been coasting through life effortlessly, but suddenly, I found myself the center of unwanted attention. And, as expected, I’ve somehow become Baek Eun-Seong, an extra whose sole joy is tormenting the main characters before ultimately meeting their downfall.

Apparently, I’ve been kidnapped by the male protagonist, Cha Gil-Do…

“Can I take a nap now?”

“Are you out of your mind? Do you still not understand the situation?”

“…Yes.”

I might be slow to grasp things, but hey, what’s life, anyway? I’m just an extra, so I figure staying quiet will do the trick. I just want to be left alone to rest, but why are you keeping me locked up instead of dealing with the heroine? <<less

What To Do When Your Girlfriend Dies Again?... more>>

When face with despair, don't give up, as a turning point may be right in front of you.

The term 柏舟(Bai Zhou or Cypress Boat) remains a metaphor for uncertainty and unsteady intentions. <<less