The Director Starts Out as a Screenwriter

From assistant cameraman to associate director, Wang Ao spent twenty years honing his craft. His first film, which he wrote and directed himself, had just wrapped when he was kicked back twenty-three years into the past... He had a chance to start his life over, but some things were already too late. First things first: he had to get promoted and get rid of that suffocating word “associate.” The actresses complained, “Director Wang, you have no appreciation for women!” Wang Ao replied, “Compared with being heartless, being sentimental is a losing deal.”