The Director System: Putting Every Dissenter in Their Place

【Effort without toxicity + as lighthearted as possible + wealthy families + showbiz + no romance】 After director Wu Nian gets fired, he receives the Director System. The next second, he slips effortlessly into the role of the Wu family’s real young master. The good news: he knows the fake young master. The very bad news: everyone around them except the two of them is acting out a melodramatic soap opera! … Since the script has gone off the rails, they might as well go crazy together. Stick together like one rope? A noose is a rope too! Thanks to Wu Nian’s antics, all sorts of iconic scenes come to life: His scumbag father goes drag racing with his mistress, then turns into a fresh pile of ashes on the spot. His awful mother gets involved with his uncle, then kisses him passionately at her late husband’s funeral shrine. His married eldest brother goes on a date with a sweet young woman, then gets a judo throw for his trouble. His war-god second brother heroically rescues a stunning married woman, then gets tossed into a pot and slow-cooked for two hours. His third sister, who bleeds her own family dry to support her husband’s, shows up to beg for money. Wu Nian slaps her while putting the family in order. His fourth brother-in-law, a live-in son-in-law, plots to slaughter the Wu family, then gets transformed into a blond Lolita straight out of a melodrama. Clichés never disappear, they just move around. And when all the storylines start crossing over in bizarre ways and the whole tone gradually falls apart Wu Nian spreads his hands with a smile. “Don’t ask me. I’m just an innocent director.” (The actual story gets even crazier. Welcome to the live spectacle of “Melodramatic Scripts, Everyone Crashes and Burns.”)