After Defying the System, I Became a Genius Director

On the other side of the internet, Shao Yichen saw the [Hacker] victory result appear on her game screen and let out a satisfied sigh.

Indeed, who else besides her would dare use a plain, ordinary character for “loss” as their profile picture? The mysterious player who sent a friend request to Nan Rongyu was, of course, her alternate account.

To explain why Shao Yichen would ignore the problems of film scoring and distribution, and instead laboriously scheme to attract Nan Rongyu’s attention in a game, we need to start with Nan Rongyu’s identity.

And to clarify Nan Rongyu’s identity, we must first introduce a distinctive corporate group—the South Polar Bear Enterprise.

This company’s logo features a white bear standing on the Antarctic continent, looking very much like a polar bear. Supposedly, this logo came about because the founder mistakenly believed polar bears lived in Antarctica. When corrected, he became embarrassed and angry, and since his surname was also Nan (South), he simply defined his company’s logo as a “South Polar Bear” to silence his critics.

History proved this approach not only yielded minimal results but actually perpetuated this embarrassing misunderstanding as the company grew stronger, truly a case of lifting a rock only to drop it on one’s own feet.

The company’s main products were also quite distinctive. As a well-known Chinese enterprise, its primary business was—selling toys.

More precisely, it initially made its fortune selling plush teddy bears, then successfully transitioned by investing in an animated series “Mech Knights” and a tokusatsu show “Transformation Superman,” and began mass-producing high-end toys—specifically well-designed mechs and transformation devices. Reportedly, they recently launched “Whirlwind Beyblade King” and “Gem Princess Magical Girl” series, expanding their business to toy tops and magical girl transformation wands.

Moreover, after making a name for themselves in toys, the company had reportedly begun researching real-life mech construction…

But these are all digressions. Let’s return to Nan Rongyu and his brother. From their surname, you can already see that these two have intricate connections with the South Polar Bear Enterprise.

That’s right, these two are the heirs of the South Polar Bear Group—two of them. They have three older brothers ahead of them, so the responsibility and obligation of inheriting the family business would never fall on their shoulders. Additionally, since their birth was purely accidental, they became the founder’s children in his old age, with a status in the family essentially equivalent to pets kept for amusement—well-fed, financially secure, raised with a thoroughly hands-off policy.

The result of this upbringing was that these two were more interested in achieving something of their own rather than inheriting the family business—for example, forming a band.

In her previous life, Shao Yichen was also a rich second-generation slacker—although she was a homebody slacker, fundamentally different from these two prodigal slackers—and had established a deep revolutionary friendship with them. Therefore, she had quite a thorough understanding of their performance level.

Back then, she momentarily believed their nonsense and accepted an invitation to hear these two perform at a small concert in a bar they funded at a loss. After one song, her ears and soul were devastated, yet she was pursued by the two performers asking if their “rock style that transcended the era” was very appealing—truly an unbearable memory.

At the same time, she finally understood why a restaurant with good location and dishes would consistently lose money.

With such a band howling like ghosts and wolves every night, how could any customers possibly come!

But now, she was extremely grateful that she had attended that concert back then—otherwise, she wouldn’t have such a profound impression of these twins’ music, leading her to the idea of having these two handle the sound effects and distribution!

Indeed, Shao Yichen’s plan was to entrust both the film’s distribution and sound effects production to the brothers Nan Rongyu and Nan Rongzhou.

After all, she had personally experienced these two’s musical style and was absolutely certain they wouldn’t suddenly improve to a level that would affect her money-losing scheme.

As for the cost—did these two lack money? What they lacked were performance opportunities! Even if they only drove customers away from their family’s restaurant, they would still go there whenever possible to howl freely and increase the noise. As for being tricked into paying registration fees of tens of thousands to participate in so-called music award competitions, such incidents were too numerous to count with these two. Based on Shao Yichen’s understanding of them, with a seemingly credible film project now before them—no, even if it wasn’t so credible—they would likely be attracted by this project and voluntarily work for free!

As for the distribution issue… with family heirs (two of them) personally involved, how could the South Polar Bear Group not offer support? The South Polar Bear Group, as a large enterprise holding numerous well-known animation IPs—although these animations primarily served to sell toys—released major animated films during summer and holiday seasons every year!

On one hand, they did have experience with film distribution, so handling the procedures for theatrical release would be no problem; on the other hand, apart from release procedures, they were completely clueless about other aspects like marketing and promotion for horror films. To be precise, forget horror films, they probably didn’t have a clue about how to promote and distribute live-action films either…

The more Shao Yichen thought about it, the more she felt that entrusting music and distribution to the Nan Rongyu and Nan Rongzhou twins was foolproof, truly a genius money-losing decision.

As for how to attract Nan Rongyu’s attention, Shao Yichen had formulated multiple plans but ultimately decided to approach through the “Zone Ten” game she was most familiar with—after all, their deepest interaction in her previous life was happily playing team battles together in this niche game.

Calculating the time, this game’s new version had just been released, which was exactly when Nan Rongyu had sent team invitations to her and his brother.

And Shao Yichen knew very well that her gameplay in this game, if not top-tier, was definitely strong among ordinary players. Without her specifically protecting these twins as a teammate, the stubborn Nan Rongyu insisting on choosing the Hacker profession would likely be beaten beyond recognition.

This wasn’t actually due to his operational problems—though his skill level was only average—but rather a game mechanism issue that Nan Rongyu hadn’t realized yet.

After all, the Hacker character existed to pursue an infiltration strategy, and a character that could instantly kill all other players once successful would naturally attract attention, becoming a target for everyone. Nan Rongyu was ganged up on in every match purely because other players would reach an unspoken consensus the moment they saw a Hacker, deciding to eliminate this person first as a sacrifice.

Of course, the reason why his brother Nan Rongzhou’s win rate was equally tragic was simply that he was genuinely unskilled.

But with teammates, the character’s gaming experience would immediately become different! First, with teammates’ support, the Hacker wouldn’t be sacrificed at the beginning, and even if killed, could be revived by teammates within a certain time, guaranteeing at least a basic gaming experience; second, due to this character’s characteristics, the team would absolutely deploy strategies centered around this character, with three protecting one for maximum enjoyment; finally, due to the increased uncertainty of multiple team battles, the Hacker would be more likely to complete his infiltration plan—absolutely a gaming experience where one plus two was greater than three or even ten!

Knowing this, Shao Yichen deliberately chose to show off in front of Nan Rongyu to attract his attention, ultimately successfully demonstrating her skills before him. She hadn’t expected her tactic to succeed in one go, but this coincidence undoubtedly further captured Nan Rongyu’s attention.

And now, it was time for her to turn the tables and take control of the initiative!

She smiled slightly and typed a reply in the private chat window—

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Three days later.

Nan Rongzhou accompanied his brother and another mysterious teammate, playing three-versus-three multi-team matched games for three days.

Although his performance remained poor, as the three of them gradually coordinated better, even he, with his chicken-level skills, could gradually feel the team’s win rate rising and their points gradually increasing.

Meanwhile, his interest in this mysterious teammate also gradually increased.

After all, Nan Rongyu had initially boasted to him about thrashing this mysterious person in the game, but after one game, before he even realized what had happened, his brother immediately teamed up with this mysterious person and pulled him into the team to play ranked matches together.

When he asked Nan Rongyu who this was, he said, “You don’t know them, so don’t ask”;

When he asked why they were teaming up, he said, “This person is quite skilled”;

When he further asked why someone so skilled would team up with them, he fell silent.

Nan Rongzhou couldn’t figure out what had happened. There must be more to this story; I need to investigate.

After much thought, he took the initiative to add this mysterious person as a friend—previously, they had all communicated through Nan Rongyu as an intermediary, like upstream and downstream parts of a supply chain who never knew each other.

[One Container Ark]: Hello.

The game expert named “Lose All 100,000” replied quickly, promptly sending him an outdated “Hello Friend” sticker typical of older people.

Nan Rongzhou: This person is so unique and unpretentious, successfully capturing my attention.

He continued chatting: You’re really good at this game, pro.

[Lose All 100,000]: I never expected Nan Rongzhou would compliment someone, I’m flattered

[Lose All 100,000]: I’m so impressed with myself, hands on hips.jpg

So this person knows who I am, could it be someone I know in real life? Nan Rongzhou was startled and analyzed possible suspects from his eldest brother to his second and third brothers, even to the part-time bartender at the bar, finding none met the suspect criteria. He became more confused but unconsciously lowered his guard.

After all, this person knows me, so they must also know my twin brother, and they can play ranked matches with my brother Nan Rongyu, so their identity must be fine, trustworthy!

Thus, Nan Rongzhou was successfully misled.

He clicked on this person’s avatar, trying to find clues from the identity information they had filled out, and was shocked to discover this person’s gender was female.

He had been playing ranked matches with this person for three days and had been mistaken about his—no, her—gender the whole time!

Recalling his repeated use of “bro” in the chat during these three days, Nan Rongzhou felt utterly mortified, wishing to disappear on the spot.

Fortunately, remembering his rock band ambitions with Nan Rongyu, he suppressed this impulse.

But after calming down, a terrible thought arose in his mind.

…Could Nan Rongyu be dating behind my back?

We agreed brothers would walk together for life, whoever falls in love first is a dog… I never thought you’d betray the organization so quickly?!

With this thought, Nan Rongzhou cautiously typed a few lines in the chat window.

[One Container Ark]: Sorry, I thought you were a man before

[One Container Ark]: Are you my brother’s girlfriend?

After he sent this line, the other side remained silent for a few seconds. Just as Nan Rongzhou thought this might be an implicit confirmation, the private message window suddenly showed more notifications—more than one.

Nan Rongzhou opened it to see “Lose All 100,000” frantically sending strings of question marks.

[Lose All 100,000]: ??????

[Lose All 100,000]: don’t falsely accuse me.jpg

Nan Rongzhou was relieved; it seemed his brother was still a good comrade in the single dogs’ alliance, still his good battle companion!

He contentedly replied “that’s good then,” but then felt something was off.

[One Container Ark]: Sorry, sorry, it’s a misunderstanding, all a misunderstanding

[One Container Ark]: Then why have you suddenly become so close with my brother in the game recently?

For some reason, the reply came quickly, as if they had been waiting for this question.

[Lose All 100,000]: Actually, I really like your band’s music and want to give you the sound effects part of a film to work on

[Lose All 100,000]: Do you have time? Want to take a look at the test footage and consider it?

Author’s Note: Shao Yichen goes fishing, and willing fish take the bait.

(Twins: ?)

I didn’t expect this plot would take two chapters; I’m surprised too.

Next chapter, next chapter will definitely wrap it up