Chinese Showbiz: She Is My Cash Cow, and I Pull All the Strings

Urban / Showbiz / Reborn / System-driven / Comeback / One heroine At the moment the stunt wire snapped, the last thing Lu Yu heard was a crew member shouting, “We start shooting in two minutes!” When he opened his eyes again, it was 2013. Hengdian. He was nineteen, in a dorm for extras. There was a sharp-tongued System in his head, along with a ledger of the future: who in the entertainment industry would become famous or fade into obscurity over the next eight years, which dramas would become classics and which would flop. He knew it all by heart. The System was blunt: “To outsiders, what you do looks stupid, but it actually makes you money. That’s called a reverse-operation assessment. When the assessment is confirmed, you get a reward.” And so Lu Yu began his career of “asking for trouble.” He urged his cousin to turn down a big-budget production with a sky-high offer, and the whole crew cursed him for having rocks in his head. He paid out of pocket to replace a safety wire that everyone insisted was perfectly fine, and the team leader called him a meddler who was making enemies. He had evidence that could bring down the investors, yet didn’t even have the right to speak up. No one knew that this crew assistant, hauling boxes around the set, understood the game better than the investors themselves. Li Zheng said there were no permanent winners in this business. Lu Yu said, “We’ll see about that.” While taking advantage of the industry’s big players, he also brings his cousin, who was blacklisted and kept under wraps, back to the top-tier star’s position. He claims, “I’m just worried about the penalty for breaking the contract,” but his actions tell a different story.