Lin Feng is reborn.
Other people's rebirth: a System at their side, crushing everyone in their path.
His rebirth: a head full of movies he'd watched and songs he'd heard in his past life, but no actual skills to speak of.
A nobody who spent ten years as an extra at Hengdian, he arrives in a new world with a jumble of incomplete memories. All he wants is to save enough money to return to his hometown and open a restaurant selling braised pork.
But he remembers the plots without knowing how to write scripts, and gets told his work reads like “an elementary school essay.” He can play just one song on the piano, “Für Elise,” and that's the extent of his repertoire. He can hum the tunes but can't remember the lyrics, and knows nothing about arranging or harmonies.
Yet every time his half-baked imitation nearly goes wrong, the age mistakes it for a “timeless masterpiece.”
He sincerely says, “I really don't have any talent,” but nobody believes him.
Starting with a 300,000-yuan wager, he takes on a 30-million-yuan blockbuster with a budget of just 160,000. From an unknown in Hengdian to a standard-bearer of Chinese cinema, he gets pushed along every step of the way. He can't leave the industry even when he wants to, and can't keep a low profile no matter how hard he tries.
After all the twists and turns, his restaurant dream never comes true, while the entertainment industry's dream gets thrust upon him for a lifetime.
In the end, he admits it: he loved that dream, too.
