Superstar Practitioner

Superstar Practitioner is an urban entertainment-celebrity novel by the web author Junwang Daixiao, serialized on Qidian from December 19, 2016 to March 12, 2018, totaling about 2.1 million characters in 805 chapters. The story uses a rebirth premise: the protagonist starts as a minor extra, drifts among film crews, and through a serious attitude toward acting and a series of opportunities slowly rises to ever bigger stages. The work turns its lens on the acting industry itself: auditions, crew-hopping, script changes, endorsement disputes, scandals and public opinion, and the rules and human dealings of daily crew life are all woven into the main line. The protagonist plays a wide range of entirely different roles—Huo Qubing, Zhan Zhao, Tang Yu Xiaobao, a swordsman, a young man of the times, a factory beauty, a cold-blooded killer, a warm-hearted uncle, a fearless warrior, an immortal emperor—and the novel uses these roles to write about an actor's deliberation and transformation in shaping characters, as well as a professional trajectory from being chosen to having a voice. Compared with common entertainment novels built on cheat-like advantages, this book has a slower pace, emphasizing down-to-earth growth and industry realism, with a touch of light comedy in its language—unpretentious and never overwrought.