Rebirth: The Entertainment Myth

Rebirth: The Entertainment Myth is an urban rebirth web novel by the online author Shengyan Minghuo. The protagonist, Li Wenzai—whose name carries the meaning "literature conveys the Way"—is reborn into a world parallel to Earth, and in his mind he retains a computer that can connect to Earth's internet. With this "built-in cheat," he transplants cultural works that already exist on Earth into this world where the entertainment industry is still underdeveloped: he first breaks through with the children's literature Shuke and Beita, then draws comics such as Saint Seiya and Detective Conan, sings songs such as "Childhood," "The Pig Song," and "The Horse-Taming Pole," and releases novels such as Harry Potter, Ghost Blows Out the Light, Zhu Xian, and Shen Mu, rising all the way from an unknown youth to a legendary figure in the entertainment world. The early story focuses on books, comics, music, publishing, and business operations; the middle section expands into sports, magic, exploration, and video games, with the protagonist founding a community and a game company; the later works turn to supernatural settings, with the protagonist gaining special abilities, his power expanding continuously, and the story ultimately moving toward cultivation and the great tribulation of deification. The book has 522 chapters in total, was completed in September 2022, and is one of the longer works in the "copying and transplanting Earth's works" branch of entertainment fiction.