China Entertainment: from Karaoke Resident to Entertainment Godfather

In Shanghai in 1998, the neon lights were first blooming but were not as bright as they were. Lin Zhou, who had just been fired from the state-run art troupe, stood at the door of the "Golden Throat" singing hall with his last few dozen dollars in hand, looking at the Hong Kong and Taiwan MV playing in the glass window, and suddenly remembered his memory from 2024—— He knows every trend in Chinese entertainment in the next twenty years: who will become the queen, which song will be popular in the streets, which film and television theme will set off a craze, and even the explosive points of Internet entertainment are well understood. From singing a stunning cover of "My Deskmate" that has not yet been released, to being discovered by talent scouts and entering the record industry; from writing "Blue and White Porcelain" and "Qili Xiang" despite "plagiarism doubts", to transforming behind the scenes to create the phenomenon-level idol drama "Meteor Garden"; from establishing a small workshop-style brokerage company, signing Huang Pi and Da Mi who are still performing small roles, to arranging film and television investment, seizing the opportunity of short videos... Lin Zhou stepped on the drum of the times, tore a gap in the cracks between Hong Kong and Taiwan's entertainment monopoly, and used his foresight to promote each "potential stock" to the top, allowing the light of Chinese entertainment to illuminate the world ten years in advance—— "Don't ask me why I always get my bets right. I just remember that the future should be like this."