My Animals Can Dance. What’s Disney So Worried About?

Shen Lian is reborn as the illegitimate son of a Hong Kong tycoon. After receiving a hundred million in severance pay, he is kicked out of the family and returns to Yunxi County to attend his own funeral. After all that, he somehow gains the [King of Beasts System] in his head. So he stays in Yunxi County, buys the town’s bankrupt zoo, and begins enjoying life with the animals! Twenty-three million in debt? Pay it off! Staff wages six months overdue? Make them whole! Water and power cut off, poison and dirty tricks? Catch them! Other people tame animals with whips. He does it by chatting with them. When a depressed tiger refuses to eat, he spends 400,000 yuan to make it snow in May. An eleven-minute video of the tiger frolicking in the snow sets the internet ablaze overnight. When the monkey king starves himself, one word from Shen Lian gets the old king back to his former line of work. Bears, peacocks, alpacas, parrots… For a taste of his secret-recipe pet food, every animal in the zoo lines up for a job, competing harder than people do. From a rundown, debt-ridden county zoo to the nation’s first animal interaction park, and then to a world-famous animal entertainment resort. When a video of that tiger high-fiving visitors through the fence reaches the other side of the ocean, Disney calls an emergency meeting in the middle of the night: “How on earth did this Chinese guy do it?!” Shen Lian says, “Trade secret.” After all, he can’t exactly tell everyone that every animal in his zoo is a relentless overachiever.