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Director: I Plundered Japan and Korea to Become a Great Director 导演：薅光日韩，我证道大导演
+ + + + = ??? The entertainment industry’s three great regrets: Leon Lai and Vivian Chow, me and Liu Yifei, and all of you and Nanny Rong. Sorry, now that he’s back from the dead, Lin Fan says you can leave him out of the second one. He scored 728 on the college entrance exam, but chose the Beijing Film Academy over Peking University. Others mocked Lin Fan for not knowing what was good for him. Lin Fan mocked them for not u
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- 2 Living Off Reba: Spent Her Little Fortune from the Start 吃热芭软饭，开局花光她的小金库 Lin Mo transmigrates and becomes classmates with Reba, a future superstar. From the start, he even talks her into becoming his wife! While his classmates are still struggling to figure out how to shoot their graduation films, Lin Mo invests in Love Is Not Blind, turning it into a box-office dark horse! An investment of 4 million brings in 300 million at the box office! The entire industry is stunned! After that, Lin Mo takes the director's chair and shoots films such as Goodbye Mr. Loser, Dying 33.8kReads8.8Score2kShelves
- 3 A Diamond Company Wants an Ad, but You Film Titanic 钻石公司拍广告，你拍泰坦尼克号 After Chen Xiao transmigrated, he found himself a new hire in his company’s advertising department. His boss told him to shoot a diamond commercial. Chen Xiao had planned to figure out a way to phone it in. But just then, his System activated! Chen Xiao instantly gained master-level directing skills and the complete screenplay for Titanic! The diamond company: We only asked you to make an ad. How did you turn it into the greatest romance film ever?! The Ministry of Culture: We asked you to make 29.1kReads8.7Score2.7kShelves
- 4 Entertainment Reigns: The World's First Female Director 娱乐为王之全球第一女导演 Armed with a golden finger, a second-generation star from China makes her way through the entertainment industry, conquers Hollywood, and becomes the world’s number-one female director. A feel-good power fantasy has to deliver the thrills! “How much do you need?” He Yu’s skeptical voice came through the phone. He Huahuan swallowed and repeated herself. “Three million dollars. Ideally, five million.” “What happened? Why do you need that much money?!” “I’m going to make a movie!” 293Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 5 I Became a Tech Tycoon to Make a Movie 为了拍电影，我成了科技巨头 In the eyes of the bosses of major film companies, he is a genius director who's difficult to work with. In the eyes of actors, he is a genius director with astonishing talent. In the eyes of audiences, his name is a guarantee of a good movie. Reborn as a 1996 student at the Central Academy of Drama, Zhang Tiancheng is just a directing major with a highly unconventional director System. Taking his time, he becomes a renowned director and a technology tycoon. 14.6kReads6.6Score531Shelves
- 6 Chinese Entertainment in 2006: My Era as a Director 华娱2006，我的导演时代 [Director + no System] In 2006, when Chinese-language cinema has only recently begun to take off and Hollywood blockbusters are sweeping up the domestic box office, Li Xia's era as a director begins. This is the age when Chinese-language cinema steps onto the world stage and rises to glory! 7.6kReads8.6Score237Shelves
- 7 The Strongest Screenwriter King 最强编剧之王 [No female lead + slow-burn pacing] This is my first novel, so please forgive me if it's not very good. Lin Moran, a veteran screenwriter who worked himself to death at a drinking table while scrambling for investment and trying to please his clients, transmigrated. The good news: in this world, screenwriters are the ones calling the shots! The bad news: his former teacher had just accused him of plagiarism and had him blacklisted. The good news: this world has no transmigration dramas, rebirth 1.8kReads7.8Score101Shelves
- 8 My Years in Light and Shadow 我的光影岁月 What’s it like to have a top-tier star for a big sister? After gaining the memories of a parallel world, Su Yan began his life as a director. From a rookie director of web dramas to a regular at major film awards, Su Yan saw countless sights along the way. 3.5kReads7.1Score105Shelves
- 9 Making It in Showbiz as Stephen Chow’s Nephew 从星爷侄子闯荡娱乐圈 (An entertainment-industry story with one female lead and no harem. Read with caution.) Starting out as a screenwriter with a little family influence and a golden finger, he rises step by step to become a major figure in the entertainment industry’s film and television world... 2.4kReads8.0Score102Shelves
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Conquering the Entertainment Industry: It Started with Winning Over the Campus Belle 制霸娱乐圈，从收校花开始
[Reborn with foresight vs. an emperor reincarnated, entertainment industry + business wars + emotional bonds + fated showdown] When he was young and naive, Bai Xiaolong was devoted to brotherhood. He burned joss paper and swore allegiance to his big brother, Zhao Tianhao, only to be manipulated by Zhao and left with his family in ruins. Fate begins anew. Armed with knowledge of the next thirty years, Bai Xiaolong becomes a master of capital and a Midas touch. He conquers the entertainment indust
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Chinese Showbiz: Even Directing Depends on Luck 华娱：当导演也靠命
Lin Feng was a film fanatic with a dream of becoming a director but none of the luck it took to make it happen. He spent his life striving, only to die with a sense of frustration. But fate played another trick on him. See how Lin Feng, given a second life, makes his mark in the Chinese entertainment industry and investigates the “421.” (P.S. This novel takes a realistic approach, so the first few chapters move slowly. Feel free to skip them if that's not your thing.)
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- 12 Director: Starting with a Getaway from Hollywood 导演：从好莱坞跑路开始 [Chinese Showbiz] [Director] [One heroine: Liu Yifei] Zhou You had a long, long dream, one that lasted an entire lifetime. When he woke, he could remember very little, except for an instinct for directing that was etched into his bones. At nineteen, he made Buried, but his wealthy father tricked him into returning to China, hoping he would inherit the family business. From Love Is Not Blind to The Dead End. No matter. I can make it big in China too. Just wait until I make my triumphant return! T 33.4kReads7.7Score1.7kShelves
- 13 Back to Chinese Entertainment in 2003: I'm a Seventh-Generation Director 重回华娱2003，我是七代导演 A deputy professor in the directing department at Beijing Film Academy is reborn in 2003, a year when Chinese entertainment flourished and commercial movies swept the country. In his previous life, he was mocked as an academic who could only talk theory. This time, he'll change himself and change Chinese entertainment! 35kReads8.3Score1.6kShelves
- 14 Oh No, I've Become Someone's Biggest Supporter 糟糕，我成大腿了 After being reborn, this engineering-minded man has no desire to keep doing backbreaking labor, so he dives headfirst into the film and TV industry. He thought he’d get in good with the future stars ahead of time, but unexpectedly, he became the biggest star of them all... 4kReads7.7Score140Shelves
- 15 Chinese Showbiz, 1996: My Father Is the Mountain Carver 华娱96：家父座山雕 (A director story, with multiple heroines) This book was originally titled "Chinese Entertainment, 1996: My Father Is Zu Shandiao". Reborn in 1996, Han Yunfei decides to become an internationally renowned director. Years later, when reporters interview Han Yunfei, who has won the grand slam at Europe’s three major film festivals, taken home an Oscar statuette, and topped the global box office, one asks: “Director Han, what got you where you are today? Talent? Hard work? Or help from influential 27.1kReads7.2Score1.9kShelves
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Showbiz: I Start Out Living Off Rich Women and Take It All in Stride! 娱乐：从富婆开始软饭硬吃！
A millionaire heiress’s romance-writing guide: when men become the top-tier pick, they become true gods! The entertainment industry’s king of living off women, trained by the Tiger of Serious Crimes, Cao Dahua. Living off a woman while holding your head high: that’s our style. Living off a woman while holding your head high: the ideal man. Have you been living off a woman today?
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Underground Filmmaker 地下电影人
[1990s + Director’s Journey + Banned from Directing + Art Films + Award-Hunting] Starting out as a director in 1990, I make a career of winning awards and handling publicity. One female lead, multiple supporting actresses...
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- 18 Chinese Showbiz: The King of Directors, Starting in 2003 华娱：从03年开始的导演之王 [Entertainment Industry + Multiple Heroines + Director + Film Emperor + Plagiarizing from Another World + System] He is the acknowledged godfather of idol dramas, a pillar of Chinese-language cinema, a world-class director and a brilliant screenwriter. He is the irresistible dream man in every female star’s eyes, and the ladder to the top in every male star’s. He can turn a minor celebrity into an overnight sensation and give an old star a second spring. He is the entertainment industry’s bigges 8.3kReads6.2Score407Shelves
- 19 This Movie Emperor Is Neglecting His Day Job 这个影帝不务正业 “Walking Encyclopedia of Gossip” “World’s Richest Man on Paper” “Grand Slam Director” “Grand Slam Movie Star” Yang Jian was kicked back to the summer of 2002. The World Cup hadn’t started yet. He’d only meant to skim a little off the bookmakers. They could have the meat while he took a bit of the broth. That wasn’t unreasonable, was it? But on the day his acceptance letter from the Beijing Film Academy arrived, a little system popped up. From then on, he plunged headfirst into the treacherous en 613Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 20 The Long Years Spent with a Celestial Beauty 陪天仙度过的漫长岁月 Actor, director, business mogul (single heroine: Liu Tianxian), no System [10,000 words updated daily] A wounded soul is reborn five minutes before the entanglement that changed everything. Without hesitation, he turns and walks away. All he wants is to start a new life. A girl who has been beautiful since childhood. Two sincere, passionate hearts, stirred by love, will eventually be drawn to each other at a crossroads of fate. 7.5kReads7.8Score408Shelves
- 21 Is My Wife Liu Tianxian? 我老婆是刘天仙？ 4.3kReads8.0Score198Shelves
- 22 Chinese Showbiz: Youth Fades Away 华娱之韶华易逝 A new work is here! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy them. Your support motivates me to keep writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 22.6kReads8.4Score1.2kShelves
- 23 Chinese Showbiz: A Carefree Life 华娱：潇洒人生 I joined the entertainment industry to experience life! I’ll act in whatever I want, and I won’t act in anything I don’t want to! I’m not short on money! I’m a billionaire, so who am I supposed to be afraid of? The life I want is one of freedom and carefree living! 52.9kReads8.8Score2.4kShelves
- 24 The Celestial Beauty Took the Big Shot's System 天仙拿走了大佬的系统 Su Ce is reborn, and the System ends up inside Liu Yifei. Every time it issues a mission, Liu Yifei has to help the male lead complete it. [Mission] Earn the Fairy Sister's favor. Liu Yifei looks at the mission issued by the System and grits her teeth. Who would ever like that jerk? [Mission Reward] God-tier acting skills. Liu Yifei: “I admit I like him just a little bit.” [Mission] Form a girl group by signing at least five young, beautiful girls. Liu Yifei explodes with rage. “You lecher! You 8.5kReads8.6Score428Shelves
- 25 Flash Marriage to Liu Tianxian 闪婚刘天仙 I married Liu Yifei! It’s 2008, and the “Fairy Sister” has been driven out of show business by online attacks. The Fairy Sister wants to divorce me? No way! “Steady, honey. Just wait till I send you into space!” 7.8kReads8.8Score269Shelves
- 26 Who Gets It? A Top Director's Life Is Absolutely Amazing 谁懂啊？大导演的日子爽翻了 Guys, does anyone get it? Being reborn and becoming a big-time director is so freaking awesome. Why, you ask? I don’t think that needs explaining, right? Being surrounded by beautiful women, having resources at your fingertips, and having gorgeous women fawn all over you is just too good. You can’t even imagine how happy I am, Wang Chong! 15kReads7.5Score581Shelves
- 27 Hollywood: The Director's Whirlwind 好莱坞：导演旋风 Gu Xuanfeng is a student at the Southern California Film School. By chance, he takes over a movie on the verge of being abandoned. From then on, he sets out on the path to becoming a director. He becomes Hollywood's youngest director, and a master of films across multiple genres. And because of his name, film fans around the world nickname him “Tornado.” 340Reads7.1Score—Shelves
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Reborn: Starting by Saving Leslie Cheung 重生之从拯救张国荣开始
In 2003, Chen Zui was reborn. He saved Leslie Cheung and broke into Hong Kong's film and television industry. From screenwriter to director, he used one hit work after another to revive Silver City, while holding fast to his love for his country and his sincere ideals amid the tides of the times. P.S. This is not a wish-fulfillment novel. It is not a wish-fulfillment novel. It is not a wish-fulfillment novel. The pace is extremely slow, and it contains quite a bit of dialogue in Cantonese. If yo
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Chinese Showbiz: Reborn, Tianxian, Don't Run Away! 华娱：重生归来，天仙同学别跑
(Showbiz Director Novel) (Writes Books First, Then Becomes a Director) (This story is a slow burn! The protagonist is no pushover!) After Zhang Mingqing was bullied by the Great Fortune Immortal Venerable in 2026, he opened his eyes to find himself back in 2000, at the age of fifteen. He has a golden finger, but he stole it! And it's defective! Fortunately, he has memories of his past life! He plans to write books first to earn money and build up his standing in the industry! Then he'll enter t
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A Crazed Yandere? No, She’s a Cool, Gentle Older Sister 疯批病娇？不，是清冷温柔大姐姐
[One Female Lead] [Book Transmigration] [Lighthearted, Sweet Romance] [Professor Older Sister] [Cool on the Outside, Warm on the Inside] [Nurturing Girlfriend] [Song Plagiarism] When he woke up, Jiang Yichen realized he was in the very world of a tragic girls' love novel he had read in his previous life. One of the novel's original female leads was his own older sister. The other was named Qin Ling. She was so fierce that even a passing dog would get slapped twice. “Sis, listen to me. You have t
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Showbiz: I Played a Villain and Became Hated, Then My Charity Work Was Exposed! 娱乐：演反派遭人恨，慈善曝光！
He is An Jiahe, who gave viewers childhood nightmares in Don’t Talk to Strangers. He is Su Mingcheng, the “scumbag” from All Is Well. He is Zhang Dongsheng, the man who went hiking in The Bad Kids… Lin Feng transmigrates to a parallel world, becomes an actor, and activates the [Movie Emperor Training System]. But the System has one requirement: all the money he earns from acting must go to charity, which he can exchange for acting skill points… With no connections and no backing, Lin Feng can on
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This Big-Time Director Can Do It All! 这个大导演啥都会！
[Read with confidence, no need to turn off your brain] A director who treated filmmaking as a hobby dies suddenly, then is reborn in 2003 as a rich, spoiled second-generation student at the Beijing Film Academy. In this life, he’ll do things differently! After seven days in seclusion, he makes the future hit Night Shop his own! He earns a million before even filming a frame! He makes a name for himself by riding on a famous director’s reputation, then signs a team of future superstars! Everyone
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- 33 Blacklisted, I Became a World-Class Director 被封杀后，我成了世界级名导 [Female-oriented plagiarist + transmigration + System + entertainment industry + no CP] Chen Che rides the wave of transmigration and becomes a proud graduate of a film academy. Before she can even start dreaming of making 208 yuan a day, a blacklist notice from the entertainment industry crushes those dreams to pieces. Fine, fine. At least she still has a System that can provide scripts. Chen Che gives a sinister smile and sharpens her knife... then heads overseas. If the road at home is blocke 14.6kReads8.6Score1.4kShelves
- 34 Negative Emotion Collection System: I’m Going to Be the Best Actress 负面情绪收集系统之我要当影后 A new book climbing the rankings... Also known as Reborn: Making Waves in the Entertainment Industry [Reborn + System + entertainment industry + no CP ending + everything in the world serves the female lead + female growth] Reborn in a single moment, she is bound to the Negative Emotions Collection System. The System’s mission is to become an international film queen… To collect negative emotion points, Jiang Yuebai first becomes a marketing blogger and reports celebrities who break the law 23kReads9.0Score4.9kShelves
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The Palme d'Or From the Start 开局金棕榈
This is all typed by hand, guys. It’s not AI-generated. AI wouldn’t make as many typos as I do... (Traditional Chinese showbiz) (Director) (One female lead, Liu Tianxian) (Fun-loving) (Offbeat) (Internationally acclaimed director) (Fast-paced) Wins Europe’s three major film awards within 40 chapters. Sun Qian lived into his thirties before figuring out what he liked and what he was good at. He went from being a film critic to becoming a video blogger whose movie breakdowns rivaled film-school an
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The Best of Them in Entertainment 娱乐之最好的她们
Li Ze, a Chinese-African reborn with money, power, and gold mines, lost all motivation to strive from the very beginning. After returning to China, he met the women of the entertainment industry, and found himself a new purpose: to meet them, protect them, and win them over. The entertainment industry, here I come! Not to reach the top, but to be by the side of the best women.
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- 37 The Godfather of Entertainment: From Wooing Women to Global Box Office Legend 娱乐教父：从泡妞到全球票房神话 [Showbiz] [System] [Feel-Good] [Lighthearted Comedy] “A jerk? No, I just want a sincere relationship!” Ye Su transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes an obscure actor at Yang Mi's company. He awakens a System, but can't complete the beginner mission, leaving him useless for five whole years. On the final night of his contract, he gathers four friends for a spectacularly embarrassing social-death challenge as a farewell ceremony. But Yang Mi suddenly shows up and inadvertently helps him comp 34kReads8.9Score1.9kShelves
- 38 Showbiz: I Want to Get Ahead So Bad!!! 娱乐：我太想进步啦！！！ 15.6kReads8.1Score595Shelves
- 39 Showbiz: I Started Out as a Film Selection Consultant and Became a Director! 娱乐：从选片顾问开始做导演！ “Director Lin, I really want to get ahead…” Lin Yi was reborn and became Jing Tian's casting consultant from the start. Before long, rumors that he was a kept man were spreading all over the Beijing Film Academy. “I look down on Lin Yi. I'm ashamed to be his classmate. Okay, I can't keep this up. Damn you, Lin Yi!!” “His sugar mommy is actually a gorgeous heiress! I can't take it!!” Lin Yi: “The success of my film career has everything to do with my hard work...” 1.6kReads6.8Score109Shelves
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Chinese Showbiz: A Guide to Raising a Top-Tier Star 华娱：顶流养成说明书
[Showbiz + multiple heroines + film and television + System] Lin Chuan is reborn in 2015 and makes his way back into the entertainment industry. His approach, however, is pretty straightforward. “Director Lin, people say you built your company by poaching talent from other companies. What do you have to say?” “That's called the rational flow of talent.” “You criticize Korean pop culture, yet you promote fan-club culture in practice. How do you explain that?” “My colleagues forgot to chant the sl
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- 41 Showbiz: From the Start, Surrounded by the Eight Beauties of the Central Academy of Drama 娱乐，开局中戏八大金花 Zeng Li, Hu Jing, Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Tong, Mei Ting, Yuan Quan, Qin Hailu, Li Xinyu. Mi Mi, Tang Tang, Shi Shi, Tian Xian, Da Tiantian, Zhao Xiaodao, Zu Xian, Liu Xiaoli, Zhou Wenqiong, Lu Yi, Wang Likun, Taozi, Fan Xiaopang, Da Chengzi, Da Yuanyuan, Chen Shu, Li Xiaoran, Chen Hao'er, Liu Yang, 12.5kReads5.6Score983Shelves
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Chinese Showbiz: From North American Gang Boss to Entertainment Godfather 华娱：从北美堂主到娱乐教父
At the turn of the millennium, for reasons no one could quite explain, Xu Qian wandered into the strange world known as the entertainment industry. From that day on, the industry suddenly became baffling in all sorts of ways. The Shanghai circle, the Beijing circle, the Northwest circle, and even the Hong Kong circle that came along later all somehow became the Xu circle.
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Showbiz: Slander? I Absolutely Never Slept My Way to the Top 娱乐：诽谤，我绝对没有潜规则
Cao An discovered he had transmigrated to a parallel world and become a directing student. Bound to an entertainment System, he could earn all kinds of rewards by making popular works. From the start, he entered the National Young Directors Competition, ready to give this world a little shock. Every film Cao An made was both critically acclaimed and a box-office hit, becoming a sensation across the country. The “Cao girls” became more and more famous. Mi Mi, Fei Fei, Ba Ba, Yuan Yuan, Shi Shi… T
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Chinese Showbiz, Starting in 2002 华娱02年开始
I achieved nothing in my previous life, so this time I should go all out. The actresses are gorgeous, and it’d be such a shame to miss my chance. Even with only 40,000 yuan, I can make movies, invest in companies, trade stocks, and short-sell. I want both beautiful women and money.
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- 45 Showbiz: A Director Starting with The Three-Body Problem 娱乐：从三体开始的导演 Director, make 30 billion yuan in three years, with multiple heroines, the Two Bings, glamorous beauties, and beauties from Chinese Paladin. It starts with winning the short-film gold prize at all three major film festivals. Then I slowly get to live my life over again. This time, let’s make the most of it. 10.8kReads7.9Score576Shelves
- 46 Undercover: Hear Me Out, I'm Not a Cop 卧底：你听我解释，我不是条子 After being abducted and sold, she did whatever it took to survive, and accidentally became an undercover agent. Was it fate? As she struggles to stay alive, can she ever make it home? And will she be waiting for her when she does? 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 At the Acting Exam, Yang Mi Started Off Singing Off-Key 艺考大幂幂跑调开始 Zhuang Zhou dreams of a butterfly. It all began with the 2005 arts entrance exams. At the audition, he watched Da Mimi sing. Even when she went off-key, she stayed calm and unfazed, never losing her nerve. Da Mimi: Well, at least she’s loud. 428Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 48 Chinese Showbiz: A Positive-Energy Director Who Started by Making Short Films 华娱：拍摄短片开始的正能量导演 I had a dream, a very long one. At the start of the school year, I was given only 20 yuan, and had to make it last through three years of school. In the dream, I struggled through those three years. After graduation, I was signed by a company. I thought stardom awaited me, but who knew it would turn out to be a shady company? Starting over, I want to tell myself what choice to make. 281Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Chinese Showbiz: I Bumped Into Da Mimi on the First Day of School 华娱：开学撞倒大蜜蜜 I woke up in a different world. It was 2005, a year when everything was flourishing. Starting with songs, I’ll take it one step at a time, growing and climbing toward the very top, leaving no regrets behind. 1kReads5.3Score—Shelves
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I'm Already Cannes Best Director, and You Still Want Me to Be Reborn? 我都戛纳最佳导演你还让我重生？
[Only female lead: Liu Yifei] Zhou Chen, the “Copy God” of China’s entertainment industry, has never won an award. After twenty years of hard work, he finally wins Best Director at Cannes in 2024, reaching the pinnacle of world cinema! He wakes up drunk after the celebration banquet, only to discover he’s been reborn in 2002, on the day he received his acceptance letter to the acting program at Beijing Film Academy.
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