Reborn in the Entertainment Industry: This Top Star Has Real Achievements

[Brain Storage: This book is set in a parallel world. Please don't take the plot too seriously; taking it too seriously means you're absolutely right! Long live the readers!]

[There are no truly evil characters in this book; everyone is vying for their own interests, including the protagonist. Therefore, there is no intention to slander anyone...]

After all, to reach the top, one must first strive for excellence! Especially in the entertainment industry...

[One more thing: for readers looking for mindless face-slapping, harem, and overpowered protagonist stories... this book is really not for you.]

[One more thing: if you're looking for a novel with ten chapters and five movies, please scroll past this immediately. This book is about the plot, not just a novel about making and releasing movies.]

Let's all be understanding; if it's not to our taste, then we don't have to watch it.

Looking at his handsome face in the mirror again, especially those eyes that seemed to gaze affectionately at a dog, Li Xiang was almost captivated by himself once more.

What great good deeds did he accumulate to be able to catch such a luxurious time-travel package, allowing him to arrive in this colorful parallel world after being hit by the god of dump trucks?

As for why it's a parallel world instead of traveling back to the past?

Please, this place is called Blue Star...

"Knock knock knock!" A rapid knocking sound exploded behind me, accompanied by my younger brother Li Nian's tense voice:

"Brother! What are you doing locked inside? Come out now! I really can't hold it in anymore!"

Li Xiang clicked his tongue, glanced one last time at the dazzlingly handsome face reflected in his glasses, and reluctantly turned around to turn the handle.

The door had barely opened a crack when Li Nian rushed in like a gust of wind, heading straight for the toilet. In her frantic movements, she didn't forget to glare back at him: "I need to use the toilet, get out of here!"

"I know, I know, what's the rush?" Li Xiang rolled his eyes before slowly backing out.

He had just closed the door when he bumped into his mother, Wenhui, carrying bowls and chopsticks out of the kitchen, her brow furrowed: "Spending so long in the bathroom, aren't you afraid of getting hemorrhoids? What are you doing again?"

"No, I was just spacing out for a while." Li Xiang touched his nose, giving a vague answer.

"Staring blankly?" Li Ma slammed the bowl down on the table, her tone tinged with disappointment.

"Hurry up and eat! Your grades aren't great, but you can't just give up. You should at least get a college degree, right?"

"But if I go to college, who will keep you and Dad company?" Li Xiang picked at the rice in his bowl, then suddenly looked up and replied seriously.

"How about... I reluctantly take over our family business?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Ma paused in her chopsticks and looked at him as if he were an idiot.

Li Xiang was bewildered by the stare and scratched his head: "What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"

"Where would you get a family business to inherit from us?" Li's mother retorted irritably.

"The supermarket," Li Xiang said matter-of-factly.

"You're kidding me!" Li Ma laughed in exasperation, waving her hand dismissively.

"Get out of here and go to school! That supermarket is tiny, what use is it to you? All you do is spout nonsense all day long, hurry up and eat!"

"Oh my god, you really have no sense of humor at all." Li Xiang muttered, pouting as he took a bite of rice.

At this moment, the father, Li Zhi, returned from the balcony after finishing his cigarette. Looking at his eldest son, who was shoveling rice into his mouth, he said:

"I think you're getting more and more talkative. Do you think you're about to make it big and you're starting to give up? Let me tell you, you need to get into college."

Everyone upstairs and downstairs is watching our family. If you don't even get into university, I'll be too embarrassed to talk to people when they come to buy things.

"What's there to be embarrassed about? Dad, you're just too vain."

"So what if I'm vain?" Li's father glared at him. "If you weren't this handsome, would I be so vain?"

Upon hearing this, Li Xiang immediately laughed heartily: "Well, what can I do? Your son is just so handsome. With my looks, I should be in the entertainment industry."

Just then, his younger brother came out of the restroom. Hearing this, he curled his lip and said, "Then go into the entertainment industry. If you can become a star, I won't have to worry about food and drink."

Li's mother, standing nearby, also chimed in with her eyes shining: "That's right, with your grades, you should have no problem getting into an arts school."

Hearing his mother say the same thing made Li Xiang a little apprehensive. After all, he really knew nothing about acting.

In his previous life, he studied broadcasting and hosting, and after graduation, he became a low-level host who was neither here nor there, and most of the time, he could only do location shooting.

As he got older, new talents emerged one after another, and he couldn't even find time for location shooting anymore, eventually being forced to retire behind the scenes.

But these days, everyone is still an "actor" rather than a "star." If you want to break into the entertainment industry, you need to have some real talent.

However, his experiences in his previous life didn't leave him with much of a usefulness, except for being thick-skinned and smooth-talking.

He only knows about things that everyone knows, like Maozi, Apple, and Bitcoin; he can't really explain anything else in detail.

The reason he could be so relaxed was precisely because of the "consensus" that all these time travelers should know.

After all, if he can seize one or two of these opportunities, even if he doesn't become extremely wealthy, he can at least live a life free from worries about food and drink and enjoy a carefree existence.

So even though he was a senior in high school, he wasn't nervous at all. As for the entertainment industry, he did have his eye on it as he grew more and more handsome.

After all, that place looks so colorful, and given his appearance, how could he not have longed for it?

But having spent too much time on my phone in my previous life, I know that industry is extremely difficult to navigate; having a pretty face alone is far from enough.

He's not one to endure much hardship, so he only thinks about it occasionally.

But he had no idea, while his family did.

These parents are truly rare examples of loving and caring parents, but they have one flaw—they are too concerned with saving face and are extremely vain.

Moreover, this vanity is now entirely attached to his handsome son.

Especially as he grew older and more outstanding, the simple desire for face that they had before could no longer satisfy the elderly couple.

Now the elderly couple has their sights set on his university education. Seeing that Li Xiang remained silent, Li's father spoke first:

"I asked around, and those Beijing Film Academy and National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts are both prestigious universities, among the best in the country."

If you get into a junior college with these grades, I definitely won't accept it. So you should prepare, and if all else fails, you can try the art exam.

It's not like you have to be a star. Screenwriter, director, cinematographer, anything is fine. Just get accepted first.

Li Xiang wanted to roll his eyes at his father's deceptive manner, and waited until he finished speaking before slowly saying, "Don't try to fool me."

"The Beijing Film Academy and the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts aren't that easy to get into. You have to train for years beforehand. Someone like me simply can't do it."

"You child," Li's father glared at him, "you were quite good at reciting poems and performing crosstalk when you were little, how come you can't do it now?"

To be honest with you, one of my buddies has guaranteed me that with your looks, the Beijing Film Academy would love to have you.

Besides, you're thick-skinned and smooth-talking enough, so there definitely won't be any problem.

"How can you talk about your own son like that? So you think I'm shameless?" Li Xiang was both amused and exasperated.

At this point, his mother chimed in: "Can a celebrity be too concerned about saving face? You can't act well if you're too thin-skinned. I think you have to be outgoing to succeed."

I've inquired about it; it's called liberating one's true nature. You don't need to learn this personality; it's naturally liberated. Tell me, if you're not cut out for this, who is?

Besides, with your grades, it would be difficult for you to do anything else. You probably wouldn't be able to sit still at work even if you were lazy and lethargic.

"It would be great to try your luck in the entertainment industry, especially since your dad has connections at the Beijing Film Academy."

Upon hearing the word "connections," Li Xiang immediately perked up: "Wow, Dad, you have connections at the Beijing Film Academy? What's going on?"