With a Monthly Salary of 36, I Made the Fifth Generation's Top Director a Star

[Entertainment in the 1980s] [Power Broker Behind the Scenes] [Slow-Burn Pace] [The Nation's Memories] [Godfather of Chinese Entertainment] [Grounded Life] Spring, 1980. 1.6 million votes for the Hundred Flowers Awards swept through the editorial office of Popular Cinema like a raging blizzard. At the time, he earned a monthly salary of thirty-six yuan and was a temporary worker without even a permanent position. At the time, the great directors of the Fifth Generation were still chewing on cold steamed buns on the grounds of the Beijing Film Academy. At the time, the crews adapting the four great classical novels, including Journey to the West, were still struggling to find funding, and the CCTV Spring Festival Gala was nowhere in sight. But Zhou Heng alone knew that those mountain-high stacks of ballots contained the secrets behind the most glorious forty years of entertainment this land would ever see. He stayed at the source of that acclaim, writing articles, planning projects, and securing investments. So, in an era when even cameras were scarce, he personally launched a generation's reigning diva, who would dominate the screens for forty years; brought the unforgettable Great Sage and Queen of the Women's Country to the screen; and made the Spring Festival Gala on Lunar New Year's Eve an early celebration for an entire generation. In his previous life, he had been timid and cautious, and spent his whole life feeling stifled. Reborn, he was determined not only to amass a fortune and give his family a warm, comfortable life, but also to ensure that the stunning women who should have dazzled their era each left a vivid mark on his life. “From today on, I make the rules of Chinese entertainment.” This is the story of an honest man who returns to the 1980s and starts by counting ballots, only to accidentally stir up the times and become the first mogul of Chinese entertainment.