Chinese Entertainment's Top Director: This System Has Problems

After acting in a mindless short-form drama, Chen Mo is reborn back in the late 1990s, carrying along a "Grand Best Actor System" attached to him. But there's something seriously off about this system. He lands the male lead role in a theatrical film—and receives a David Fincher director template as a reward. He appears in a banned film—and unlocks sci-fi filmmaking techniques. Wasn't this supposed to be a system for becoming a Best Actor? Why are all the rewards oriented toward directing? Years later, having risen to become a top-tier director who masterfully balances both arthouse and commercial cinema, Chen Mo looks back on his journey and still finds himself at a loss for words. He was determined to be a Best Actor—so how on earth did he end up becoming a generation-defining great director instead?