Underdog Rise Short Dramas
2,346 short dramas in Underdog Rise — synopsis, ratings and where to watch.
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Sweet Hubby? Goldigging Trash!CEO Grace Sutton is run off the road by her own car—driven by a stranger. Her husband Luke gave it to his mistress, along with her black card. Grace plays along, gathers proof, exposes the affair and murder plot. Both women pay. Justice served. She walks away clean. But when the man who used her comes begging for forgiveness… Will she even look back?
Reborn: Swallow the WorldReborn into Year 2 of the apocalypse, he awakens a system that lets him swallow monsters to grow stronger. But the serpent crest on his arm ties him to the dark secrets of the Blood Moon. Transforming into the very horror humanity fears, can he master this dark power and save the world, or will it swallow him whole?
Debt to Death? I Bet on Magic!Stranded in the cyber metropolis of Cangqiong with a 300,000-credit debt, Lin Zhou awakens an ability that can make a lie real if someone believes it. A desperate magical-card gamble turns his abduction by the Black Fire Gang into a promotion to second-in-command, but his attempt to go legitimate draws him into a corporate human-experiment conspiracy and a corrupt P.S.B. official's deadly pursuit.
Betrayed Him? Now They’ll Beg!After five years in Hellhold for Coral, John gains the Kylin Kidney, then learns she and boss Kevin framed him. Hired by Casey, he finds love as she helps with the kidney's backlash. As Hellhold's Underboss, he defeats Daniel and Leo, gains admirers Laura and Erin, and confronts betrayers. His path to happiness?
Weak Pup? I'll Upgrade ForeverYuehao wakes up in the body of a small white wolf. He is the discarded offspring of the previous empress, who was overthrown, which puts him at the bottom of his bloodline and makes him a target. Assassins close in almost immediately. Before that he was an ordinary man who barely left his room at home, and he does not know how he got here. A system that strengthens him binds to him while he is cornered. He grows from a weak wolf by pushing past his limits and beating stronger opponents, working toward taking back the throne his ancestors held, though the loss of that empire has more behind it than he knows.
Stole My Bunker? Girl, My T-Rex Says HELLO.Su Yao dies in the first days of the collapse, attacked by dinosaurs after Zheng Lanlan, the popular girl at her school, sets her up. She opens her eyes again on the morning of her graduation ceremony, before any of it has happened.
She goes for the Kanas caves and buys the ownership outright, borrowing four hundred million to do it, then puts the money into turning the caves into a shelter built to hold against a nuclear strike. A system wakes up in her. She tames a pterosaur, then a tyrannosaur, then a brontosaur, and keeps going until she has an army of them.
Zheng Lanlan has come back as well. She brings armed men against the shelter and is turned away, then attaches herself to the Azure Dragon Group, which has mechanical dinosaurs, and with them she takes the caves. Su Yao goes after the brontosaur lord on her own and brings her army back to the caves.
Betrayed? Watch Me Rule!Betrayed and murdered, he wakes in a primal world with a System. His cheat? Cultivating with monster girls grants ultimate power! From a seductive cat demon to a fierce wolf spirit, he builds a ruthless harem to crush the hunters. Watch a loser rise, claim the ultimate power, and conquer the three realms!
A Romance In A BrothelLiam and Leonard Pierce spend their days inside Paradise Pavilion, a brothel its regulars call heaven for men. They are there because the people who killed the rest of the Pierce family are still looking for the two who got away, and a house full of paying customers is the last place anyone thinks to check.
Staying hidden means acting like they belong, which neither brother manages for long. One misunderstanding runs into the next, the women of the house are not easy to avoid, and the search for them carries on outside while they are stuck in there.
From Fireman to CEO: Her LossFirefighter Ryan catches his wife Rachel cheating with her brother-in-law. Heartbroken, he divorces and moves to Capital City as a top technician earning millions. His talent makes him CEO of Summit Group and a billionaire. Rachel regrets her betrayal as Ryan becomes unreachable. She lost love and family. Can she fix it... or is it too late?
Bite Me? You're Mine, Zombie!Betrayed and thrown to zombies, he should have died. Instead, every zombie that bites him becomes his slave. While others run, he hunts them down, begging to be bitten. He builds an undead army. One by one, he claims them all. Now the entire horde answers to him. But if he controls every zombie… who's left to fight?
Freeze or Die with Lady DocsThe national survival game opened and the temperature outside fell toward absolute zero. Under its rules the death of a player brings a full-scale disaster down on the country he plays for.
The first time through, he followed the build the strategy experts were recommending and opened with supplies. He froze in a map running at eighty below, and the Dragon Kingdom went down with him.
He came back to the day of the selection with the choice still open in front of him. He passed over the weapons and the supply lines and put three women doctors on his roster, one who works with data, one a nurse, one trained in close combat. Word of the pick was across the country before the day was out and the reaction was general fury, most of it aimed at him. The four of them went into the frozen map, where the levels come with monsters in them.
Not Her Mom, But Her Doom!Betrayed and killed by her own daughter, Yana Cole learns too late the daughter only used her, while the daughter-in-law she mistreated fought to protect her. Reborn, she sees everyone clearly and starts moving pieces. This time, she's not playing mom. She's playing chess...
I'm the Ultimate Soccer God!Armed with the ultimate skills of world-class icons, a 16-year-old prodigy awakens in a new life! Watch how this young genius rises from the ashes to lead his country to the absolute pinnacle of the sports world!
Help! Trapped with a Spoiled Heiress!Stranded with a spoiled heiress and strangers whose personalities clash, an ordinary office worker must turn reluctant companions into a survival team. Finding food and building shelter are only the beginning: conflict with an island tribe and secrets hidden on the island put their developing trust to the test.
A Loser's Zombie Labor EmpireZhang Yang arrived in a world after the apocalypse. His family, a wealthy one, tested him, found no ability, and put him out. He then woke a system that assigns labour to zombies.
Other survivors were fighting over food. Zhang Yang put S-class zombies into rice fields to plant, into pens to raise animals, and into workshops. The output grew into factories, the largest operation standing in the ruins. His family, who had thrown him out, were pulling mouldy bread out of the rubble. Outside groups moved on what he had built. He hit back at both, and the scale of it drew attention across the wasteland, where people began to speak of him as the one rebuilding.
From Zero to Sword GodDisgraced "Kirin Prodigy" Aaron Stern, unable to contract a Sword Spirit, binds the cursed Ruby, one of the four Magic Swords, and awakens the Aegis System. With the Voidborn Cataclysm looming, he rises from waste to Sword God. But just as he prepares to face the disaster, he realizes the Voidborn is...
Die or Play? I Choose Truth!A man is on a mission to catch a killer. He accidentally falls into a carefully planned death game. In each deadly level, he uses his smart mind to get through. But then, he finds out things are not that simple. Behind it all is a shocking experiment...
Reborn Emperor: Healing the Ice QueenAt his ascension, Sol Sue was attacked by the woman he was with and by his own disciple, who took his innate dao bone out of him. Clare Lynn, who had been counted as his rival up to then, went in to get him out and was killed there. Sol Sue did not survive either.
He came back to the night before the martial examination in his last year of school, at a point when the people around him had him marked down as a failure. Clare Lynn at this date is being worked on by a cold poison and is stuck below the level she should be at. Sol Sue treats her with methods from the life before, run as massage sessions, which pulls the poison out and clears the block. He keeps what he can do to himself. In the sealed ground used for the examination he goes through opponents rated well above him, and he takes Clare Lynn off a beast that has hold of her.
Woke Up to My Loyal GuardA young woman of the Jensen family is forced into a substitute marriage, and the man she is married to is Nathan, once the loyal follower of the family's founding matriarch a hundred years ago. The bride's body is no longer occupied by the bride. The matriarch, dead for a century, has woken up inside it.
She uses what she knows to help Nathan settle the infighting in his own household and take back the authority he lost, then turns to her own family and reasserts her standing as its head. The curse that killed her a hundred years ago has not let go of her, and she does not know who brought her back or why. Someone is working from a distance, and the matter of a secret method for prolonging life keeps drawing people toward her.
Betrayed? Groveling For Mercy!Kael Voss, a Pallbearer of the Underworld, signs a 3-year marriage pact to shield the Hales. The Hales repay him with brutal betrayal, expelling him when his term ends. Financial collapse, loss of kin, as catastrophe strikes, they beg for his return... Will he come back to help them?
My 100-Ton Truck Crushes All!Everyone in this world awakens a profession, and the ones that fight are the only ones that count for anything. Support trades get called life professions and nobody wants one, whatever grade it comes at.
Lin Feng arrives from another world and awakens at SSS rank, which almost nobody does. The profession under it is Driver. The academy expels him without discussion.
A system attaches itself to him afterwards, and with it a truck, the Hundred-Ton King, that can be upgraded with no ceiling on it. He gets through the beginner dungeon by driving over the whole thing. At the Ten Thousand Beasts Grassland assessment the other candidates run from the monsters and he keeps his foot down and turns them into levels. The principal who threw him out sees this. Jinghua University, the top school in the country, takes him in outside the normal admissions.
He is quiet and well mannered out of the cab and turns into something else once he is driving. Other countries have been watching him by now and are putting people together to come after him.
Trash? My Gatling Says No!Diệp Phàm xuyên không đến dị giới nơi toàn dân thức tỉnh nghề nghiệp. Bị coi thường vì nghề nghiệp cấp chưa xác định, anh lại sở hữu nghề nghiệp ẩn cấp SSS – Bậc thầy Hỏa Lực Vô Hạn. Với Gatling tiến hóa, Diệp Phàm chinh phục Tháp Thử Luyện, bước vào Điện Chiến Thần, đánh bại Quốc Thực của Quốc Hoa Anh Đào và bảo vệ Đại Hạ.
Regret Marring My Rival? No!She’s a formidable heiress with a hidden past. He’s a cold, powerful tycoon. Trapped in a marriage of lies and power games, they fight and plot against each other. Yet passion ignites beneath the hatred. When her true identity is exposed, will she regret marrying him in the end?
I'm Not Your Average Housewife!On the eve of Spring Festival, middle-aged Gloria learns she's the true heiress of a wealthy family! Returning with her husband and son, she faces humiliation from the fake daughter. As she shatters the elite's schemes, one question remains. Who really belongs at this family table?
The Lost Heiress Is BackBefore he died, the head of the Shaw family left a last wish that his daughter be found. She was taken twenty years ago and raised in the Lim village under the name Louise Lim. Her three brothers go looking in the countryside and meet her without recognizing her, because the details they have do not line up. Matthew, the eldest, arranges for Louise to come back to the Shaw house pretending to be the missing heiress so their father's wish can be carried out. The stepmother and stepsister there are after the family money and keep testing her to prove she is a fraud, and the three brothers take turns covering for her. Louise wins over the father by being straightforward with him. The stepmother is preparing something larger when a jade box that has been in the family surfaces, one that opens only to the real daughter's fingerprint.
Taming the Ice QueenEvan, a grind, has mom's medical bills, sis's tuition bills, and a job that works him to death... But one day he dreams of his lady CEO, and they're entangled in each other... After he wakes up, a mysterious system appears: conquer her, get rewards. Is this his lucky break or the beginning of something he never imagined?
Your Majesty, My New FatherEthan's father is the emperor's brother, which nobody tells Ethan until well after he has stopped needing to know. Ethan places first in the imperial examination, and at the audience that follows he addresses the emperor as "Father". The emperor lets it pass. He had already decided to marry Ethan to the princess before the summons went out, so the slip costs Ethan nothing. Then Ethan sees the princess, who is ugly, and the decree has already been issued.
He cannot refuse it. He accepts the marriage and lives with what he has been given, and the fact about his father comes to him afterward.
(Dubbed)Sword God: The Legendary JanitorWhen the world's top escort agency is hired to transport a corrupt official to his execution, they face a deadly threat from 'The Shadow'. And the leader decides to rely on a mysterious janitor, who is actually a retired sword god!
His Lucky Princess Fixed It AllChloe Shay disturbed the order of the human world. The heavens punished her by sending her down into it, with a task attached: to put the fortune of the Aetherian Empire back in order.
She comes down into a family where her sister carries the memories of a life already lived and where the father takes the sister's side in everything. A marriage had been arranged. The brides are swapped, and Chloe is the one who goes to Elian Thorne, heir of the northern palace, who is known for idling.
At the palace she finds every person in the household marked for a short life. Her mother-in-law and her husband's younger sister take her side. The grandmother who runs the family has decided otherwise, and so has the sister who came back. What Chloe has to work with is the power over luck she had before she was sent down.
Jailed Loser? True All-Rounder God!Lucas Shaw lost it all: his freedom, his family, his empire—stolen by the woman he loved. In prison, he mastered ancient arts: antiques, jade, medicine, even cultivation. Now he's out. And he has one mission left: protect his only surviving aunt. But can the city handle a man who returned from hell with nothing left to lose?
I Rule the Haunted TrialsCountries lose territory and citizens whenever their representatives fail the supernatural trials invading Earth. Su Chen enters able to perceive what each phantom wants. In his first challenge, he responds to an SSS-ranked ghost with a kiss, gains her loyalty, and achieves the unprecedented feat of bringing her back into the human world.
The CEO’s Revenge: Betrayed at the WeddingJulian is at his own engagement party when his fiancée gets up and proposes to another man, the one she loved before him, in front of the guests and the press. She tells the room that Julian has been cheating on her. His company's shares drop on the news and the accusations spread online. Julian says nothing in his own defence. He ends the engagement and walks out.
He then starts putting together a case against the two of them. He follows the money, gathers the evidence that has been kept from view, and works out who was behind what happened at the party.
Bye Ice Queen, Hello Easy Millions!Abandoned after eight years of simping, J Julian hits rock bottom—until the Scam-to-Reality System crashes into his life. Every scam backfires into real cash, cars, and mansions. Now his ex is begging for round two. His response? Not a chance.
I Stir-fried, I ConqueredA modern food god becomes a discarded escort. Armed with a stick, she fights back, shocking nobles with scientific braising, winning over the Empress Dowager, and foreign envoys. She builds an empire, uncovers the truth, and rises to glory. When Prince Bob begs forgiveness, the emperor has already paved her way. Armed with food, she conquers all.
Sweet Revenge, SweetheartFalsely branded infertile at her own wedding, a bride loses her fiancé to her half-sister and is thrown out. A powerful man newly returned from abroad offers her marriage and revenge, making her the senior wife in the very family that rejected her. At the next family banquet, her former tormentors must kneel before their new matriarch.
Mock Me? My Beggar Hubby Is the EmperorIn this world a man who takes first place in the imperial examination can claim the marriage he was promised, and the emperor sometimes moves through the city in ordinary clothes with nobody told who he is. Summer Shaw grew up next to a boy who said he would marry her once he passed. The chancellor's daughter mocked her for being low-born and told her the marriage would be going to her instead.
Summer Shaw walked out into the street, found a beggar sitting there and married him. The beggar was the emperor, out in plain clothes. She had not known that when she made the offer. She stayed with him and let people say what they wanted about it.
Love, Lies and a Deadly ExAt the engagement party, Wendy Sterling publicly rejected her long-time boyfriend and fiancé, Charles Grant, and turned to the arms of her returned first love, Evan Blake. Yet when she finally sees Evan's true colors and wants to turn back, will Charles give her another chance? And what is the final outcome?
Oh Yeah! Crazy Cashback, Crazier GirlsReleased from prison and betrayed by his ex-wife, Caleb Hart nearly dies until a magic rune awakens the Tenfold Cashback System. With money multiplying and grudges settling, Caleb learns one thing fast: nothing beats a slap in the enemy's face.
Got X-Ray Vision? Try Treasure Empire!A strange stone gives ordinary worker Mia sight that penetrates objects, allowing her to find overlooked treasures and win fortunes by gambling on raw jade. Each of four additional magic stones unlocks another ability as she humiliates a corrupt boss, restores national relics, explores ancient tombs, and battles criminal forces. Her discoveries carry her from warehouse labor to jewelry shareholder and honorary museum director, placing both Mia and her family at the summit of the antique world.
(Dubbed)No More Mr. NobodyJulian hid his name, his power, and his fury for five years, playing the useless husband no one respected. When betrayal and a child’s lie push his marriage to the edge, he stops pretending. As the true mastermind behind a life-saving medical project returns to claim his throne, Julian’s revenge begins. Will the woman he loved recognize him before it’s too late?
I Can Turn Fake Things Into RealityAfter his wife betrayed him and left his father to die, Ye Qiu gained a system that makes anything real. He rises from a poor worker to a trillion-dollar tycoon, takes revenge on his ex-wife and rival. They thought they destroyed him… but Ye Qiu’s ultimate revenge has only just begun.
Don't Mess With the Genius HeiressGenius Eve Cole was framed and broken in the asylum. Betrayed again by her family, she finally breaks free. At a grand ceremony, she exposes her sister’s lies, reveals her own brilliance, and leaves her regretful family behind forever.
Survived? I’m More Than AliveThe family is in the middle of a banquet when the son they have treated coldly for three years bursts in, announces to the whole room that he is the real son of the house, and lays out in front of the guests how the family has dealt with him over those three years.
The body is his own, though what is moving it now is a spirit that came in after he died. Chad, who had been living as the family's heir in his place, buried him alive. He died in the ground with the grudge unsettled, and he gave himself up as an offering so that a vengeful spirit could take the body and collect on his behalf.
At the banquet Chad falls back on an old trick and stages an injury to make himself look like the victim. The heir takes the act apart in front of everyone and tells the family he is finished with the house. His eldest sister catches sight of the scars all over his body, and her manner toward him changes on the spot. She orders him to come home, and he refuses, taking her threat as one more reason to carry on with the reckoning.
Chad keeps setting traps for him after that. He turns each one back, and a little more of Chad's real nature comes into the open every time it happens.
Drive to Survive: The CEO EditionA retired underworld fighter's quiet life as a cab driver ends when he rescues two kidnapped sisters. One is a brilliant researcher hunted by powerful groups for an advanced AI chip she refuses to surrender, and he becomes her personal driver and protector. She initially dismisses his casual manner, but repeated attacks reveal the formidable skill and intelligence he has kept hidden, drawing them together as they defend both her life and the invention.
(Dubbed) The Emperor's Double LifeEinst stürzte Nachtkaiser Karl Schmidt sechs Länder in den Abgrund. Nach dem Verrat und dem Tod seiner Frau zog er sich zurück, um seine Töchter in der Anonymität eines Arbeiters großzuziehen. Doch als ein Lohnstreit ihn in eine tödliche Verschwörung zieht, muss der legendäre Nachtkaiser zurückkehren.
Three Brides to Save My LifeHe was one step from immortality… until he was cursed to marry three women or die. Thrown into the mortal world, he wakes up married to an ice-cold CEO and straight into a vicious corporate war. Love is chaos. Enemies are circling. And the other fiancées are coming.
Love is chaos.
Enemies are closing in.
And the other fiancées… are already on their way.
Where Past Fades, Love DepartsAfter dying from betrayal, Mary is reborn on the day she's chosen to marry into the Holt family. She soon realizes her husband is also reborn. Choosing to leave, she's still targeted by schemes meant to ruin her. When Tom extends a partnership offer, Mary accepts, using her past-life experience to help build his company into an empire...
Cheat Again? I Flip the Table!An anti gambling master returns for her sister's wedding… only to find a brutal casino trap. Wedding gifts lost. Treasure stolen. Lives on the line… She steps onto the table to expose cheaters and reclaim a national treasure. But when the real mastermind appears… can she win again?
Sorry, Family! I'll Win Without You!Just before the national college entrance exam, a steward from a wealthy family in the capital turns up looking for a boy who has lived in an orphanage since he was small. The boy is the best student in his village and has set himself on the top university in the country. The steward tells him he is the family's real son, and that he was mixed up with another baby at birth.
He goes back with the steward to the family house, partly to make sure nothing gets in the way of his studies. There is no welcome. The family looks at him coldly, and the young man who was raised in his place sets traps for him at every turn and means to bring him down. No one in the house takes his side, and he keeps relying on the thing he has always relied on, his own head.
X-Ray Gem: Rise from the RubbleA miner can see the jade inside discarded stone after surviving a beating that nearly kills him. His new vision lets him profit where other buyers rely on luck, but the sudden rise turns powerful mine owners against him. A gift that makes him rich also makes him a target.
Rags to Riches: I Hear Animals' Talk!The woman across the table on the blind date makes it plain what she thinks of a man who delivers food for a living. Frank sits through it and leaves able to hear what animals are saying.
He starts using it. Animals tell him where to look, and the police get their hands on the men behind a string of robberies and close the killing in room 666 at the hotel. The same tips put a rosewood recliner in his hands for far under what it is worth, and an old block due for demolition that pays out when the notices go up. He pulls Yvonne, who runs her family's company, out of trouble, and while he is at it he works out what her relatives have arranged against her. A bet gets put on the table over that, and he takes it.
Word goes around about what he can do. People with money and people with worse than money begin to want the ability for themselves, and he is still working deliveries.
Survive? Please. I'm on a Wraith Shopping SpreeThe Anomaly Realm comes down and ghosts move through the world killing as they please. One thing holds them back. A person who stays inside the rules cannot be touched. The other thing that holds is money, since Soul Credits will buy a ghost's obedience, and almost nobody can get hold of any.
Wayne Vance comes back to life at the start of all this. His first move is to back a female ghost against a wall, which sets off a reward of a trillion Soul Credits. With that he stops being something to hunt. He buys allies, he buys zones, and he buys the ghosts themselves to work for him.
Reaper's Forbidden VowSerena wants to be alive again. She is the daughter of a rich family, and on the night before her wedding a car crash, passed off as an accident, put her outside her own body. The one who meets her there is a Reaper, cold and hard to read, and he tells her that her name is not in the register of the dead.
That leaves her one way back. Within thirty days she has to collect three tears cried for her in earnest. If she fails, her soul comes apart when the time runs out.
The trouble is the people who ought to be crying. From outside her body she can see that her fiancé's gentleness has something else under it, and that a plan to take her family's property is moving forward now that she is out of the way. Her relatives put on grief for show, and the friends she trusted turn out to be calculating. She goes from one to the next looking for a real tear and is let down each time.
Each letdown brings her closer to the centre of the plot. It also does something to the Reaper. Pieces of a memory he had lost start to come back to him, and he begins to look at her as if he had known her before.
What? 8-Yr-Old Archer IS The Champ!Rosie Harris was Jude Thomas's lover and also head of the world archery federation, and she killed him on the eve of his retirement. He was the world champion. He woke up in the body of an eight year old beggar boy, and the person who took him in was Li Ya, the adopted daughter he had raised himself.
Without him the Thomas family lost the one thing holding it up and fell apart inside six months. The head of the family and Jude's two brothers went after the estate he left behind, arguing that Li Ya was only adopted and had no claim, and they pressed her to hand it over so the family could be rebuilt. Jude, eight years old and with a champion's mind, sets about helping Li Ya keep the property, and prepares what he intends to do to Rosie Harris and Yasser.
My Family Framed Me. Time For Payback!A car struck a man on the road and the driver kept going. The driver was the son the Cole family had adopted. Adrian Cole was the one who stopped and tried to help, and his two sisters told the police that Adrian had been at the wheel. He went to prison for three years.
He came out on the day the sentence ended. His sisters were at the gate with a speech about what he had cost the family, and they cut him off from it there in the street. An heiress from another business family was waiting at the same gate, and she left with him.
He was named chief strategy officer of a large group. His family had not heard, and believed their adopted son had won the senior post there. At the appointment banquet in the Cloud Peak hotel they spent the evening in front of the other guests calling Adrian a convict. The secretary went to the microphone and read out the name of the new officer. The family changed their tone at once and asked him to come back to them, and he refused. The heiress crossed the room and hit them in front of everyone.
Move Aside, That's My Mom's Grave!Sam married into the Ford family and rose through it to run the company. He has kept a mistress, Lydia, for years without the family knowing. When the elder Ford daughter is killed in a hit-and-run on September 30, her daughter Betty inherits, and out of feeling for her parents she puts her mother's funeral in Sam's hands and considers handing him the business as well.
Lydia's dog dies. She wants a plot in the Serenity cemetery for it, and takes the plot Sam had bought for his wife, believing it was meant for her. Betty arrives to bury her mother and finds Lydia there. In the argument over the grave, Betty learns that Lydia is her father's mistress and that Lydia was the driver in the hit-and-run.
The Man They MisjudgedA man in designer labels holds the floor at a jewelry exhibition, going through what he has bought and what he has done with himself, and he picks out someone he knew years ago to measure it against. That person is Victor, who has come to buy a present for his sister's wedding.
Victor had put his girlfriend's birthday together himself. The gift set off an argument, the argument ended the relationship, and he was still in that when word came that his sister was getting married. So he went to the exhibition.
The two men have history. In front of the other buyers Victor is talked down to until the room is watching, and then he says who he is. He runs a film company, and the money behind him is money nobody from his hometown had any idea about. The exhibition's own president comes over to greet him.