Showbiz: You're Bankrupt, So Why Are You Trying to PUA Hollywood?

"Son, our family is bankrupt!"

With ugly men and women dominating costume romance dramas in China's entertainment industry, Hollywood going all-in on political correctness, and investors forcing garbage down everyone's throats, Lu Jing returns to a parallel world thirteen years in the past, where he becomes a classmate of the Scarlet Witch.

Then a phone call from his father leaves him facing the threat of having to drop out. Without hesitation, he takes the last few tens of thousands of dollars in his account and goes all out, betting small to win big and raking in box office billions around the world:

The Blair Witch Project, made for $50,000, earns $250 million worldwide and pioneers the found-footage format;

the Paranormal Activity series rakes in billions, along with The Conjuring, It, and Get Out...

"Why are all your works low-budget?"

"I'm bankrupt, so I have to live frugally."

"So you're using horror movies to manipulate Hollywood?"

"Who says that? Juno, The Intouchables, District 9, Pirates of the Caribbean, Titanic... they're all in production."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate.