The Top Producer Wins You Over with Money

Yan Ning was recognized as a top producer in the film and television industry. He became famous at a young age and swept the awards, and his looks could rival those of any star. He should have been the industry's hottest darling, but his arrogance and lofty disdain for commercial practices made him a notorious box-office poison, synonymous with films that earned critical acclaim but failed to draw an audience. In an era when capital bullied the industry and inferior works drove out the good, independent production was already difficult. Then came a brutal winter for film and television, with a shrinking market and a struggling industry... Funding ran out, production on his new film stopped, and the director jumped off a building. To make matters worse, an antique was hidden in the old house he'd sold to fund the film. The new owner found it and sold it for a hundred million... Burdened by years of frustration and exhaustion, Yan Ning, sick all over, suddenly died in his rented apartment. When he awoke, he was back in the year he had just graduated, still a junior stagehand on a film set. Yan Ning: I'm coming for that hundred million. With money in hand, Yan Ning had a new goal. Making bad movies was out of the question, and so was bowing to capital. But commercial films weren't necessarily bad films, and promotion and marketing weren't always harmful. The industry's dysfunction wasn't the audience's fault. His efforts alone weren't enough, so he would cater to the market, rise to the top of both the industry and the commercial world, and then set new rules himself! A top producer from the film and television industry returned to the beginner's village with a hundred million in startup funds. From then on, he set out on a one-way road to teaching the domestic entertainment industry how to behave. A clichéd, melodramatic idol drama, destined for a low rating? A disaster movie with a huge budget, bound to lose money? A dull documentary that no one would pay to watch? Yan Ning: That's not how it is. If you don't believe me, I'll make them myself. Before the premiere, viewers: Keep talking. After the premiere, viewers: Is this what they mean by Heaven itself chasing after someone to feed them? Yan Ning: It was all right. Just a normal performance. Yan Ning produced high-quality works at a prolific pace, tearing away far too many of the industry's fig leaves. The once-untouchable plagiarizing screenwriters, padding directors, and scene-stealing actors found their lives getting harder and harder. Cutting off someone's money is like killing their parents. Yan Ning had to get out of the entertainment industry! But Yan Ning, with a net worth in the hundreds of billions, had built an empire of his own. His works kept coming, and the audience loved them. Who did they think they were? The top producer had descended to put the entertainment industry in order. The ones who should get out were those people themselves! Yan Ning: The days of competing to be the worst are over. From now on, everyone, please raise your game to meet my standards. The gong's perspective: As the popular idol Yan Ning hated most, Si Yu never expected Yan Ning to look favorably on him. Even after resolutely changing careers at the height of his fame, spending ten years painstakingly honing his acting, and winning the Best Actor award, all he got from Yan Ning was disdain and countless rejections of offers to work together. Si Yu worked hard his whole life, yet even in death he couldn't melt that iceberg. He never expected that after being reborn, he would get an offer from Yan Ning. He opened the script and took a look. Well, what do you know, a clichéd, melodramatic idol drama... Si Yu: I'll take it. Hesitating for even a second would be disrespectful to love! One-on-one, happy ending, both leads are each other's only partners. A plot-driven, face-slapping power fantasy, with a focus on their careers. The next novel in the same genre: Unceremoniously Returned by the CEO Rumor has it that at Huanxing Entertainment, a top film and television studio in the domestic entertainment industry, there are only two ways to get ahead: 1. Sign a tyrannical contract, work on project after project, relentlessly hone your acting, and rise through the ranks on merit. 2. Sleep with the big boss, Lu Xingyou, become a well-connected favorite, and shoot to stardom. Yu Ran found a third way: After ten years of working himself to the bone, he returned still obscure. At long last, President Lu took an interest in him. But he went into the hotel one way and was sent back out the same way. He never became a well-connected favorite. Instead, he became the first person in the company to be returned, and a laughingstock across the internet. Yu Ran, the most renowned genius director of the golden age, never imagined that after transmigrating forty years into the future, people inside and outside the industry would still be singing the praises of his legendary achievements. The film and television industry had reached a new low. Audiences were forced to look back with nostalgia, and no one knew that the great director they missed most had become the washed-up Yu Ran. With no way out, he tried to burn charcoal at home and ended up setting an entire floor on fire. After barely escaping death, he was saddled with massive compensation costs and summarily fired by his company, which hastened to disown him. A catastrophic start. Yu Ran, who had once made films with a gun pointed at him, said: No big deal! The legendary director of film history returned to his old profession and reclaimed the industry's peak in just a few years. The process went smoothly. It was just that every move Director Yu made seemed deliberately aimed at his former employer, sending Huanxing Entertainment reeling again and again. It suffered losses year after year, and soon found itself headed for bankruptcy and liquidation. This time, it was Lu Xingyou's turn to experience what it felt like to be returned. To save Huanxing, the arrogant Lu Xingyou lowered himself and sought investors everywhere, but hit a wall at every turn. Even when he offered to give up his position as the major shareholder, no one was willing to take over. Some made excuses about lacking funds, while others claimed they weren't capable. In the end, they would twist the knife by saying he might try approaching Yu Ran, the hot new director currently on the rise. Lu Xingyou remained unmoved. The well-connected favorites he had once promoted, however, went to Yu Ran before he did. Yu Ran thought his little schemes against Huanxing had been seen through, and that his former colleagues had come to take revenge on behalf of their sugar daddy. He never expected them to be there to plead for him. Former colleagues: Director Yu, please save President Lu and Huanxing! After all these years of a brutal winter in film and television, you're the only one whose films are guaranteed hits. You're the only one who can save Huanxing from disaster! Yu Ran: Is there a problem? Huanxing has made bad movies, manipulated box-office results, fleeced audiences, hyped itself up, and laundered money. What hasn't it done? Didn't Lu Xingyou contribute to this brutal winter? Former colleagues: That's how the industry works. You can't blame President Lu alone! Yu Ran: Even so, there's no reason to come to me. Wasn't he the one who tried to force me into sleeping with him and then returned me? Former colleagues: Don't be ridiculous. President Lu likes you best. Ever since you left the company, there hasn't been anyone else in his heart. To preserve his image in your eyes, he refused to ask you for help even when he was desperate. As they say, the best is what you can't have! Yu Ran: ...? An entertainment-industry face-slapping power fantasy, one-on-one, happy ending, both leads are each other's only partners. A genius director shou who takes revenge for every slight (Yu Ran) x a scum CEO gong who cares only about profit (Lu Xingyou) Strong rivals who clash, love and hate each other, and reveal the sincerity in their rotten hearts. The original host transmigrates forty years into the past. It has a happy ending, with the extra chapter explaining the details. Theme: Stay humble and unyielding, change your fate and work for the good of the world