“You can get rich by making terrible shows? This System has to be a scam!”
Reborn in 2010, Lu Ran binds himself to the [Lose Money to Get Rich System]. The rules are simple and brutal:
Make a profitable show? Every million yuan in profit gets you one yuan of pocket money!
Lose money making a show? You earn back whatever you lose!
Lu Ran is ecstatic. “Losing money is easy! Just hire washed-up actors, use a melodramatic script, and slap on some bargain-bin special effects!”
And so...
He invests tens of millions in a show called My Tyrannical Eunuch Lover, deliberately gives it a deathly color filter, and it ends up hailed as “the founding work of retro aesthetics.”
He tells the actors to keep their faces blank throughout, but viewers rave that they’re “using microexpressions to dissect human nature.”
The finale force-feeds the audience a miserable ending and a heart-wrenching death. The trending topics explode: #DirectorUsesTragedyToSatirizeThe996Grind!
As every terrible show becomes a hit, the company expands from film and television into food delivery, esports, real estate, and more...
During an interview, Lu Ran breaks down and slams the table. “I really just wanted to lose all fifty billion yuan!”
The employees applaud with tears in their eyes. “President Lu has revolutionized the industry through performance art. He is the lone hero of our age!”
