Hustling the Chinese Entertainment Industry for Thirty Years

Ma Xun, a lowly director, finds himself inexplicably transported back to the year 1996. To his utter surprise, he quickly discovers that the entertainment industry of this era is remarkably unsophisticated and ripe for the taking. Armed with his wits and a keen eye for opportunity, he realizes that pulling the wool over the eyes of producers, stars, and investors is almost laughably easy. Starting from absolute nothing, he weaves a web of charm, bluffs, and clever schemes, steadily climbing the ladder from an unknown nobody. Through a series of audacious maneuvers, he transforms his initial gambles into a vast empire, ultimately rising from penniless obscurity to become a formidable titan of capital and power in the entertainment world.