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Besides all the wuxia/xianxia/xuanhuan genres, there are plenty of other web novels on Qidian that are excellent. Currently #2 on Qidian's monthly voted ranks is "I'm Really a Superstar" (我真是大明星).
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The genre is "Workplace Novel > Entertainer". It is a great modern-day novel. I just finished reading 900+ chapters and am caught up.
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The general premise is that of a modern day human, Zhang Ye who ends up appearing in another modern day Earth, but now he has a game ring. It is powered by 'popularity'. He gains popularity if people approve of something he did. He can use the popularity points to have a chance at a jackpot which can grant him stat increases (strength, speed, stamina), one-time items (save points, lucky bread, unlucky charm against one person, AOE unlucky charm, invisibility, etc), special game abilities (such as unlocking a 'merchant shop' where he can buy a specific item with his popularity points), skill books (hacking skillbooks, Tai Chi skillbooks, acting skillbooks, directing skillbooks, video skillbooks, etc)
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His goal is to become the number one celebrity in the world. Now, notice I mentioned that he came into another modern Earth, but this Earth has something different with its entertainment history or even history. It can be backwater in certain ways compared to his own Earth, so he can plagiarize…I mean share the knowledge from his own world to this world and become popular as a result.
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By chapter 900, he is a top host, top actor, top comedy skit actor, top stand-up comedian, top songwriter/composer, top hacker, Chinese professor, Math professor, top radio host, top poem writer, top novel writer and has even flown a plane after defeating hijackers.
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The only difficult part is this novel uses a lot of Chinese poems. And if people like reaction chapters, this novel is chock full of them, and the language used is extremely 'flowery' (read swear words in a funny way). In fact, it feels like a modern day xianxia story. MCs use skills you don't really understand to beat their rivals? Zhang Ye uses his poetry and cursing to beat his rivals.
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Oh btw, he uses a Brick in the recent chapters to fight against other martial artists…
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