The entertainment empire began with Liu Yifei's premarital pregnancy.

"Open!"

Lin Bufan's eyes lit up, and he didn't hesitate at all.

[Congratulations, host! You have opened the newbie gift pack and received: Advanced Director Skill + a three-courtyard siheyuan (traditional courtyard house) within the Second Ring Road of Beijing + 10 million RMB + a dimensional space + 1000 skill upgrade vouchers + a bottle of body enhancement liquid]

"The new player welcome pack is incredibly generous!"

[System Notification: The property deeds for the three golden courtyard houses within Beijing's Second Ring Road, skill upgrade scrolls, and body enhancement fluid have been stored in the system space. The host can retrieve them at any time!]

The skills and knowledge of a senior director were directly transmitted into Lin Bufan's mind.

According to the system's level division, skill levels are divided into: beginner, elementary, intermediate, advanced, top, master, and god, a total of 7 levels.

There are two ways to upgrade skills: one is to master the knowledge yourself and gradually increase your level, and the other is to use skill upgrade scrolls to upgrade.

Using skill upgrade tickets, you need 1 skill upgrade ticket to go from beginner to elementary level, 2 skill upgrade tickets to go from elementary to intermediate level, 3 skill upgrade tickets to go from intermediate to advanced level, and 5 skill upgrade tickets to go from advanced to top level.

To upgrade from top-tier to master-level, you need 10 skill upgrade scrolls. The most outrageous upgrade is from master-level to god-level, which requires a whopping 100 skill upgrade scrolls.

"Truly impressive directing skills!"

A few seconds later, Lin Bufan had completely mastered the advanced directing skills instilled by the system, and felt somewhat moved.

As a directing student himself, he naturally understood how much this advanced directing skill would enhance him.

With his current knowledge, his directing skills are definitely no less than those of some sixth-generation directors. For example, he could easily direct the movie "Shanghai Dreams" that he just watched with Yang Mi.

The ten million reward from the system has been successfully transferred to Lin Bufan's bank card. To ensure the funds are from a legitimate source, the system directly registered an account for Lin Bufan on the US stock market and linked it to his bank card.

"This dimensional space is quite large!"

After the dimensional space was bound, Lin Bufan glanced at it and saw that it was 10 meters long, 10 meters wide, and 1000 cubic meters in size.

However, this dimensional space cannot contain living beings.

"We've arrived at the hospital!"

Just then, the taxi stopped at the hospital entrance, and the driver turned to look at Lin Bufan.

"Here's 100 yuan, keep the change!"

Lin Bufan said, tossing down a large red bill and getting out of the car.

After getting off the bus, Lin Bufan didn't rush into the hospital. He found a relatively secluded place, looked around, and then took out the skill upgrade scroll, body enhancement fluid, and courtyard house deed from his system space.

"We'll talk about the enhancement fluid when we get back."

Lin Bufan glanced at his hand at a transparent glass bottle about 5 centimeters tall, which contained about 10 ml of body enhancement fluid.

He wasn't sure what would happen after taking the body-enhancing liquid, so he put it into his dimensional space.

"It's 1500 square meters?!"

Lin Bufan opened the property certificate for the courtyard house and glanced at it, somewhat shocked.

He originally thought that the courtyard house rewarded by the system would only be three to five hundred square meters, but he did not expect it to be so big, and it was even located within the Second Ring Road. If this were in later generations, it would be worth at least one billion.

Thinking of this, Lin Bufan put the property certificate into the dimensional space, leaving him with 10 skill upgrade scrolls.

Open the properties interface!

Name: Lin Bufan

技能：高级导演（2/5）、初级主持（1/2）、入门厨艺（0/1）、初级驾驶（1/2）

A virtual screen that only Lin Bufan could see appeared in front of him.

The interface is quite simple and doesn't have much content.

"System, check-in!"

Lin Bufan's heart stirred.

【恭喜宿主，每日签到成功，获得奖励：六味帝皇丸1瓶（10粒）、美容养颜丹1瓶（10粒）、100万RMB】

【恭喜宿主，每周签到成功，获得奖励：六味帝皇丸1瓶（10粒）、美容养颜丹1瓶（10粒）、100万RMB、技能升级捲轴宝箱1个】

【恭喜宿主，每月签到成功，获得奖励：六味帝皇丸1瓶（10粒）、美容养颜丹1瓶（10粒）、100万RMB、电影《海边的曼彻斯特》剧本一部】

【恭喜宿主，每年签到成功，获得奖励：六味帝皇丸1瓶（10粒）、美容养颜丹1瓶（10粒）、100万RMB、技能升级捲轴宝箱1个、电影《色·戒》剧本一部、身体强化液1瓶】

"This reward is incredibly generous!"

As Lin Bufan listened to the series of notification sounds, his eyes grew even brighter.

[System notification: The next annual pass date is January 1, 2006]

This annual pass is because the system has just been activated. Going forward, weekly passes will be issued every Monday, monthly passes will be issued on the 1st of each month, and annual passes will be issued on January 1st of each year.

"Today is Saturday, which means we can have another weekly check-in the day after tomorrow."

Lin Bufan's eyes lit up.

According to the system prompts, the daily sign-in rewards are fixed. The weekly sign-in rewards are based on the daily sign-in rewards, but with the addition of a skill upgrade scroll treasure chest. The treasure chest can randomly yield 1-3 skill upgrade scrolls.

The monthly sign-in is similar to the daily sign-in, where you randomly receive a movie or TV series script.

The annual pass is based on the daily pass, plus a skill upgrade scroll treasure chest, a movie or TV series script, and finally a bottle of body enhancement fluid.

According to the system, the effect of this body enhancement fluid is equivalent to increasing the physical fitness of an ordinary person.

Lin Bufan currently has two bottles of body enhancement liquid. After taking them, his physical qualities and functions will be three times that of an ordinary person.

After a quick summary, there are currently a total of 4 bottles of Liuwei Dihuang Pills.

As the name suggests, the effects of this Six-Ingredient Emperor Pill are to strengthen the kidneys and improve overall health, and most importantly, it has no side effects.

"This is good stuff!"

As Lin Bufan spoke, he put the four bottles of Liuwei Dihuang Pills into the dimensional space.

The effects of the beauty and skin care pills are also very powerful. After taking them, not only can they beautify and nourish the skin, but they can also "freeze time".

Simply put, taking one beauty and skin-nourishing pill is like freezing your appearance in time for that day, and there are no side effects.

The only downside is that the "age-freezing" effect only lasts for one day.

If taken daily, one's appearance will remain unchanged even in old age, reaching one's seventies or eighties, and one will still be at the peak of one's looks.

"Two scroll treasure chests, let's open them first."

Lin Bufan picked up the treasure chest and opened it directly.

[Congratulations, host! You have opened the Skill Upgrade Scroll Treasure Chest and received: 5 Skill Upgrade Scrolls]

Opening both treasure chests together yielded a total of 5 skill upgrade scrolls, which is pretty good.