Chinese Showbiz: From Nobody to Top Director

[Lighthearted, satisfying, showbiz, and packed with memes: a director story that will make you laugh all the way to the end] Nine days in theaters, box office of 73 million, number one on the trending charts: Niulai, the year's worst movie, mocked by the entire internet. Chen Zhou woke up to find he had become the director of the film. The distributor urged him to pull it from theaters: “Buddy, take it from me. Quit while you're ahead.” Netizens urged him to leave the industry: “Please stop making movies. You're going to make our eyes go blind.” The System told him: “Hate-driven popularity is paid out at a thirty percent rate. Congratulations, everyone insulting you is working for you.” Looking at the screen full of mockery, Chen Zhou smiled. In his previous life, he was a marketing genius who had made countless terrible movies into hits. He understood one thing better than anyone: if the whole internet is trashing it, that means the whole internet is watching. He fired back with a post: “I hear that after you watch Niulai, the cows come home.” Three days later, stock investors went wild, theaters were packed, and scalpers came roaring back overnight.