Please add my upcoming stories to your reading list: The Village Beauty Becomes the Brigade Leader in the 1970s, The Great Hong Kong Island Writer of the 1960s, and Climbing to the Top in the 1960s.
Blurb:
In her previous life, Shen Zhiwei was a little-known director with plenty of talent but no chance to put it to use.
In the blink of an eye, she finds herself in the 1980s, when China's film and television industry is just beginning to take off.
Best of all, her husband is a coal boss. He may not have much of anything, but he's got money to spare.
As people in the future would put it, the era when coal bosses invested in the industry was the most prosperous period for Chinese film and television, with few hassles and plenty of money.
So, honey, give me money! Invest!
She wants to make TV shows and movies! She wants to start boy bands and girl groups! She wants to open a company!
In 1985, her directorial debut, a feel-good drama, breaks 45% in ratings and sweeps aside the tearjerkers.
In 1987, her film wins the Golden Bear, making her the first Chinese director to receive the award.
That same year, her film and television company is officially established, destined to become the largest such company in China and even Asia.
In 1988, one of her actresses wins Best Actress, ushering in a golden age in which the company produces one award-winning star after another.
In 1990, an iconic boy band bursts onto the scene, sparking an idol craze across China and Asia. The mainland idol industry takes off years ahead of schedule!
Reading guide:
1. Parallel world, fictional setting.
2. Focuses more on her career.
---- Upcoming story: The Village Beauty Becomes the Brigade Leader in the 1970s. Please add it to your reading list!
In the 1970s, Hulugou is so poor it echoes.
The brigade leader falls ill, and nobody wants to take over this mess.
The four sons of the He family are such tight-lipped dullards that you couldn't get a word out of them with three blows from a stick.
When He Manyue, the youngest daughter of the He family, wakes up after a fever, she finds a "System to Lead the Whole Village to Prosperity" in her head. If she doesn't become brigade leader, the System will take her life!
He Manyue kicks open the door. "What are you waiting for? I'm the brigade leader now!"
The whole village is in an uproar. What can their delicate Manyue do? Lead everyone to starve?
But on her very first day in office, He Manyue has everything sorted out, from the eighty-year-old granny to the three-year-old playing in the mud, even the dog at the village entrance!
And then everything takes a turn:
The loafers get sent to raise pigs and become expert pig farmers.
The gossipy wives form a women's federation and become unbeatable.
Even the big yellow dog at the village entrance is trained to patrol. If anyone slacks off, it'll bite them!
Nobody could have guessed that this poor, remote village would one day become a nationally famous "Top Scholar Village" and "Richest Village."
Years later:
The country's richest man says in a tearful interview, "Without Brigade Leader He, I'd still be playing in the mud."
An academician from one of China's top academies says, "Brigade Leader He taught me math with a fire poker in the snow. That's how I got started."
An Olympic champion says, "Brigade Leader He told me to run faster, or she'd sic the dog on me. That's how I got good."
---- Upcoming story: The Great Hong Kong Island Writer of the 1960s. Please add it to your reading list!
When she wakes up, Zhong Ruoying has become a pretty young woman on Hong Kong Island.
Her father is a gambling addict, her mother is sickly, her younger brother is a troublemaker, her younger sister is rebellious, and their home is bare and shabby. She has no one to turn to.
The family of five is crammed into a home of barely forty square meters, eating, drinking, and doing everything else in their pigeon-cage apartment.
It's the 1960s on Hong Kong Island, a time when culture is flourishing and novels of every kind are springing up like mushrooms after rain.
Zhong Ruoying grits her teeth and picks up her pen again, determined to write something that will shake the heavens and earth.
At first, publishers call her submissions garbage, not even fit to be used as toilet paper.
Later, publishers across the island compete to publish her books.
Some accuse her of writing nothing but melodramatic fiction.
Later, they sob over her literary novels.
Some say her novels will never make it beyond China.
Later, physicists from home and abroad compete to discuss the mysteries of the universe with her.
They call her the queen of romance, an anatomist of human nature, and a giant of science fiction.
---- Upcoming story next door: Climbing to the Top in the 1960s
Jiang Rutang is the most eye-catching flower in Nong San Alley.
Her eldest sister is hardworking, her second sister is capable, and her third sister is clever. As for her, all she has is her face.
She loves beauty and looks down on the dull, shabby boys in the alley.
She loves beauty and doesn't want to get trapped in the drudgery of daily life.
At eighteen, Jiang Rutang wants only to marry into a wealthy family and live a glamorous life.
Then one day, she looks out the window and sees a car parked outside the neighboring courtyard.
The young man who gets out is handsome and tall, and everything about him says two things: he's rich!
Jiang Rutang is smitten.
She decides: he's the one.
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But Gu Huai is a much tougher nut to crack than she'd imagined.
No matter how much she flirts with him, he remains unmoved.
Jiang Rutang grits her teeth. Fine, if she can't crack this one, she'll find another.
She turns around and sets her sights on her next target.
That night, she returns from a moonlit date with her new target and has just stepped into her room when
A scorching body suddenly pins her to the bed, hot breath blowing against her ear.
Gu Huai clamps a hand over her mouth and bites hard into the delicate skin of her neck, his voice hoarse and saturated with repressed madness:
"Jiang Rutang, who said you could switch to another rich guy?"
Theme: Strive, work hard, and keep reaching for the top!
The Village Flower Becomes the Brigade Leader in the Seventies
Climbing the Ranks in the 1960s
The Great Writer of 1960s Hong Kong
Marrying the Crown Prince a Second Time
The Sixties Cannon-Fodder Female Lead Marries the Male Lead
I Went Viral After Lying Flat on a Variety Show with My Parents
I Reincarnated as a Rich Woman and Became a Star-Chasing Sensation
Ding! You Have a Supply Drop to Claim
The Grand Princess Only Wants to Slack Off and Eat Melons
The Beloved Daughter-in-Law of the Compound in the Seventies
The Pampered Wife of a 1980s Hong Kong Tycoon, a Cannon Fodder
Thoughts after reading the book: "Movie Tycoon of the 1980s", I can definitely conclude that this is the most exciting entertainment novel this year, bar none! With its solid writing style and carefully polished plot, I don't know what to lose with this novel! This is really a novel that I just finished reading in the morning, and I want to write a book review for the first time. There is so much to say. The illusory country of China in another world is really enviable... Especially I just saw the Weibo news this morning - under the impact of AI, the short drama that has only been rising for a year and a half seems to be about to perish first. It is really sad. Now in 2026, both domestic entertainment and short-term companies can hardly survive. In another parallel time and space, that is, under the leadership of the heroine Shen Zhiwei in the book, the screenwriting is stable, the works are guaranteed, and the industry atmosphere is clean. Even in the 2020s when film and television entertainment is on the decline, at least the film and television empire created by the heroine is still thriving. To use a sentence in the book, the heroine laid an iron foundation for the system in the 1980s before capital eroded the industry... It is really awe-inspiring and does not dare to cross the line easily, which is why the Chinese culture in the book is on par with or even surpasses the Western culture headed by Hollywood. This novel is one of the rare novels that has a lot of accumulation but not a lot of hair. If I hadn't been very patient over the weekend, I would have even been a little worried that I wouldn't be able to hold on until the heroine starts her career. Because I am one of the few novel readers who is allergic to the emotional line. The first ten chapters of the heroine are all foreshadowing the emotional line of the male and female protagonists. When I saw that the real career line of the heroine had not entered into the ten chapters, I was really worried. I remember that the introduction said that the main career line... But I couldn't resist the author's good writing style, which kept me. The author's writing style is not like someone who writes about the entertainment industry, but more like an author who is good at writing about the 1980s and 1990s. The short stories about parents are vivid and vivid. The psychological description and environment of the supporting characters are very detailed and very immersive. If she hadn't kept a lot of things and clicked through, I wouldn't have had the patience to deal with the mess that the heroine made before she traveled through time. After all, I am used to the fast pace of short plays and novels. However, when I saw the heroine's first drama explode, and then the movie, I felt that all the patience was worth it. The early preparations laid an excellent foundation for the heroine, a harmonious family, an environment where she can display her talents without any worries, and a sympathetic partner with outstanding business skills who can support all her wild imaginations and actions. This makes the emotional line preparation in the first dozen chapters particularly important. The heroine's villain husband gives her an extremely generous life, and her well-behaved son means that she no longer has to worry about the risk of having children affecting her career. She only needs to focus on her career. The soul of this novel that I really fell in love with was the first film directed by a female protagonist, "Twenty-Four Actors in Peking", which was really inspiring. I have to say that the author's writing style is so strong. The first two dramas both directly describe how to start filming, which is straightforward. The filming of this movie immediately changed to a different way of writing. After a direct time change, it cut to the scene where the heroine plays the role. It was written that a bunch of actors on the set were muttering to themselves. They didn't know what they were playing. It was very similar to Wong Kar-Wai's filming method, which is to let the heroine only rely on his feelings to film every time. Just say that it feels wrong, start over, and then repeat it several times inexplicably, so that all the actors don't know what their roles are. Very flexible writing style, very unique entry point, it is impressive at once, and finally reveals the good and evil of the character. Originally, I wanted to tell this story, but I think it is better for everyone to read it in the book. It is a very touching story. I thought of the movie "Unknown". It is no exaggeration to say that this plot in the book made me cry at least three times. It also made me feel less repulsed by the fact that the heroine won the Berlin Double in her first film. After all, the heroine used very powerful methods and angles that I had never thought of to perfectly combine politics with this movie. If I can't win it, I don't think it will be possible to win the award. There is also a caveat here, this section is very, very exciting. It is also a rare road of frustration for the heroine, although the final ending is perfect. Speaking of rejection, this novel has a slight flaw, which is the timeline. Every time I see the clues in the book about the 1980s, I think of the heroine in this era who auditioned, formed a boy band and a girl band, and finally directed an animated feature film, and also created a Disney-like movie in the 1990s. I felt that the timeline was very inconsistent with the movie. Of course I understand that the title of the author is about the film and television tycoon of the 1980s, so it must be the 1980s, but I feel that the development of technology is not enough to support the heroine in building such a film and television empire. If everything happened in the 1990s, I think it would be very logical. The 1980s were still too ahead of its time. But apart from this point, this novel can be said to be perfect, with perfect emotional lines, and a perfect film and television empire. Almost every conceivable bug in the film and television industry has been blocked by the heroine. Under the control of such a film and television empire, China's culture is not good enough to believe it. And the most powerful point here is that it goes back to the author's foreshadowing of the emotional line. Why I mention it again is because the prototype of the heroine's partner's business empire is Wanda Mall. When I first saw the heroine suggesting that the hero build a comprehensive mall, I didn't realize the importance of this behavior at all… I simply thought that if the male protagonist made more money, the female protagonist would be able to film the scenes she wanted to film with more peace of mind... But I never expected that that would be the prototype of Wanda!!! Yes, the release of subsequent movies is also controlled by the heroine. The author who wants to take ten steps at a time is really strong. This is a rare piece of writing that I have emphasized so many times, and I admire the author greatly. Moreover, in addition to borrowing money from the male protagonist in the first drama, the female protagonist later made the peripheral products bigger and stronger. After controlling the copyright of the peripheral products, she made no less money than the male protagonist. She was simply a walking money-making machine. Except for the first drama, the financial dealings are all about the male protagonist giving him the confidence to release the movie. Basically, they are two separate business empires, and since the movie, the appearance of the male protagonist and the child has been a normal background, almost a little embellishment of the female protagonist's career. Only the last episode was lamented about the fairy love. The author's great grasp of importance is truly at its peak. I really love this guy who has such a solid foundation in writing about the entertainment industry! It's not suspended at all, it's very down-to-earth. I even think that if I follow the lead of the heroine in the book, I can really create such a film and television empire step by step. Here again, I would like to praise the author's great writing style, because in the 1980s, print media and television were still in power, so there was no forum style that is common in modern entertainment industry articles. Newspapers from all over the country speak out. Every time the three o'clock newspapers in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China speak out, and later joined the Western newspapers, etc., They are all very distinct. Even for the same event, even the title is very distinctive. Sometimes I am too lazy to read carefully because of the shortcomings of the supporting characters. I will jump a little, but when the paper media speaks out, I concentrate... If all the entertainment industry articles were written in this style, I wouldn't be able to read one out of 10 every time, which would be considered good, but I might not be able to read them all. I really hope the author will write another similar book. I love the author's generous writing style.
I've finished watching it, it's a super exciting plot! The heroine's career line accounts for a large part, which is very consistent with the title of the book! Very nice!
Dear, when will the new article be published and which one?
Check in after reading. Come on, author!
I want to know if Sensory has invested in those animation students?
The two sentences 205L and 209L are the same
Wuhu, the celebration is truly over
When will the new article be published?
Congratulations to Sahua╰(*´`*)╯
Please have some more, it's not enough