Pirates began to dominate the Chinese entertainment industry.

[Chinese entertainment, rebirth, romance, Sino-US film and television and internet business wars, multiple female leads.] Ji Yun is a highly regarded executive assistant director in the industry, but he struggles to get a chance to direct independently due to a lack of capital support. A car accident sends him back to the turbulent year of 2008. That year, he was a freshman in college, but he was overwhelmed with work taking over his family's failing pirated DVD company. When his employees were paralyzed by the piracy business and saw no hope, Ji Yun appeared with a script. "Before, I started filming late, you called me a pirate; now that I'm starting early, what should you call me? Speak up!" —————— [Before, he toasted capital; now, capital is giving him a seat.] Ji Yun seized the fleeting opportunities of the era, quickly building his fortune by shorting US stocks. Leveraging the fame and influence of a group of female celebrities, he domestically seized control of the largest online traffic pools—Weibo, WeChat, and Douyin; internationally, he aggressively acquired Marvel, the world's number one IP for the next decade, and also brought MGM, Netflix, Time Warner, and other top global giants under his wing. "Nonsense, that's America's multinational conglomerate! How could a nobody like you possibly have a chance!"... "Wait, how did he manage to get those female celebrities to be so devoted to him?" Female celebrities' inner monologue: What can I do? My man loves business, so I can only spoil him.