The Light of Chinese Entertainment: Director Lu's Dimensionality-Defying Blow

2014: the dawn of the traffic era, and the last age of innocence for Chinese entertainment.

Lu Chen, who had worked himself into a stomach perforation trying to raise investment, opened his eyes in the hallway of the Beijing Film Academy.

That year, the Four Returning Sons were at the height of their fame, big-IP adaptations were just beginning to take off, and all Lu Chen had was 500,000 yuan he'd scraped together.

“Make a movie? No, I'll start with a web series!”

While his peers were still making mother-in-law dramas and over-the-top anti-Japanese war series, Lu Chen set the entire internet ablaze with one show, Crime Psychology.