Long Live Entertainment

Long Live Entertainment is an urban-life novel by the web novelist Wo Zui Bai. It began serialization on Qidian Chinese Network in August 2017 and was completed in 2020, running to 962 chapters and roughly 2.03 million characters across eight volumes: A New Beginning, The Seven Luminaries of Film, Prelude to an Era, Crimson Prosperity, International Auteur, Marvel Universe, A Brilliant Chapter of Entertainment, and Immortal in Name. The protagonist, Luo Yuan, was a film director in his previous life who died of sudden death from chronic overwork. He wakes to find himself transported into a parallel world where the entertainment industry is highly developed but lacks the classic works of Earth, becoming a graduating student in the directing department of Jinghua Film and Television Academy. The original owner of the body had drunk himself to death after blows in both love and career, leaving behind a mess, a close friend, and a "female buddy." Armed with complete memories of Earth's film and music works, Luo Yuan decides to start over in his old profession: beginning with a youth campus web series, he assembles crews, casts actors, polishes scripts, and controls budgets, earning a reputation on set as a strict "set tyrant." Work after work opens doors for him as he expands into film, television, music, and animation, builds his own team and company, competes head-on with industry capital and veteran directors, and ultimately takes his business global, completing his layout in areas such as superhero franchises. Built on the core idea of "using the splendor of this shore to achieve the myth of the other shore," the book is a steady-paced entertainment-career novel that emphasizes the details of filming and the workings of the industry.