I Use a Tutoring System to Set the Entertainment Industry Straight

[The start of Hand-Building a Movie Studio from Wasteland has been postponed to 10/13. If you're interested, could you add it to your reading list in advance? orz]

Jiang Ji is a moderately well-known publicity agent in the entertainment industry.

After being thoroughly disillusioned by the abilities and attitudes of various stars, he decisively gets ready to quit

But he doesn't make it. He transmigrates :)

His financially independent retirement is gone. After transmigrating, he is still in the entertainment industry, now an intern agent for a minor, thirty-eighth-tier actor.

Jiang Ji: Hmph.

While Jiang Ji is thinking about the future, the “Entertainment Godhood System” drops from the sky and hits him on the head.

The System's mission is for him to become an entertainer and reach the top of the entertainment industry.

Jiang Ji raises an eyebrow. “What if I don't?”

Ignoring the System's suggestion that he become an entertainer, he remembers all the grief those stars gave him and turns around to find a loophole in the System.

Using the System's dream-learning space, he builds a fake endless-loop game called “Entertainment Godhood Challenge” and drags celebrities of every size into the space to give their skills a brutal workout.

Actors enter role-playing game scenarios, where breaking character triggers a plot-based punishment. The options range from scrubbing public toilets to a day in prison.

Singers enter monster-fighting escape scenarios, where they fight monsters with their voices. Hit a wrong note, and the monsters catch up with them for a game-over ending.

Idols enter a singing, dancing, and flying-chess scenario. Each square tests a different skill, and a poor performance earns them a socially mortifying dare.

Of course, between challenges, there are classes taught by famous instructors from all over history, which “players” can choose to attend and improve their skills.

Jiang Ji: Whether they want to take classes is up to them. I'm not some kind of devil :)

Under the pressure of the challenges, actors rapidly improve their voice, stage presence, appearance, and acting. Singers' vocal technique and musicality suddenly soar, and idols' singing, dancing, and rapping skills surge.

Gradually, onlookers notice that the once-boring entertainment industry has a new star: a company called Liuming Entertainment.

Its owner, Jiang Ji, is very young, but every entertainer who passes through his hands sees their abilities soar.

After entertainers join Liuming Entertainment:

A weak singing-and-dancing group suddenly starts performing knife-sharp choreography?! Their stage presence is so captivating you can't look away.

The “studio singers” on a variety show suddenly sing a cappella as steadily as old pros! They can even sing twenty songs in a row at a concert without showing the slightest fatigue.

The listless, formulaic acting of a rising young actress suddenly comes to life. It's as if a different person has taken over in her new drama, and later she even wins Best Actress!

Even production crews start improving, with meticulously researched, natural costumes and sets, tightly woven plots, and camera work that makes viewers feel as if they're right there.

The audience has landed in a warehouse full of high-quality content and couldn't be happier.

Viewer A: Hehe, is the domestic entertainment industry... bouncing back from rock bottom? Getting up and down again?

Viewer B: Jiang Ji really knows how to whip the whole entertainment industry into shape!

Viewer C: @Celebrity A, @Celebrity B, go to Liuming Entertainment and get some lessons from Jiang Ji, please!

They shower Liuming Entertainment and the man behind it, Jiang Ji, with praise, calling him a conscientious capitalist and the man at the top of the entertainment industry.

Company boss, mastermind behind the scenes, madcap agent Jiang Ji smiles calmly. “It's dark. Let's... start class.”

A little scene:

Gu Zhiqing is a famous oddball in the entertainment industry. He doesn't care about anything except acting and lives like a robot.

People think his ideal type must be a script, and that spending even a single day away from a film set would be like a fairy descending to earth and getting tainted by the mortal world.

Jiang Ji is a new top-tier agent. Anyone he picks becomes a star, making him a modern-day Bole.

He's strikingly beautiful and forceful in his work, and people think he's a ruthless career obsessive.

Everyone thinks these two will never have anything to do with each other.

Until #Gu Zhiqing Jiang Ji Romance# trends online.

In the video, Gu Zhiqing's eyes and brows are full of vivid displeasure as he clings tightly to Jiang Ji, sulking while rubbing his cheek against him over and over.

Jiang Ji gently pats Gu Zhiqing's back. After a while, he grips the back of Gu Zhiqing's neck and pulls him upright, whispers a few words with an indulgent smile, then gently kisses his eyes.

Onlookers: This robot Gu Zhiqing can actually look so full of life? And this career obsessive Jiang Ji can actually be so soft and clingy?

Onlookers: This flavor... is so weird. Let me watch again.

Onlookers: Wait, this is kind of shippable?!

Note:

1. A bold, dazzling, career-driven fun-lover shou × a genius, clingy, affectionate big-dog gong. The gong appears late because his acting is so good he doesn't need tutoring :)

2. There will be lots of entertainer side characters, with tons of screen time! (Important!)

3. An alternate, fictional parallel world.

Check out my upcoming novel in my author page! Hand-Building a Movie Studio from Wasteland is also a feel-good entertainment-industry story.

Theme: Say no to slacking off, starting with yourself.