This director only directs blockbusters.

Reborn in 2002, Yang Ning possesses the cinematic memories of the next twenty years, yet he only has the body of a twenty-two-year-old. In his previous life, he was the industry's undisputed "most useful" executive director—in this life, the system's activation condition is to direct a film with an investment exceeding 100 million yuan. But it's 2002 now, and the total annual box office for Chinese films is less than one billion yuan. When Han Shanping, the head of China Film Group, looks at this recent graduate and hears him say he wants to spend 120 million yuan to make "China's first apocalyptic special effects blockbuster," he only replies: "Young man, do you know you're starting a war?" "I know," he says, "but Chinese-language cinema lacks such a war." From then on—Chinese-language cinema has its own superpowered world. When the prehistoric world sweeps across the globe, Yang Ning delivers a speech at the Oscars. "What I want to build is never just a company, but an era." All films mentioned in this article are original works.