Fate of the Nation: You Call This a Stand-Up Comedian?

Blue Star's resources are rapidly running out when mysterious forbidden-zone livestreams suddenly appear!

One lucky person is chosen from every country around the world, bound to their nation's fate, and sent to explore forbidden zones beyond the borders of their world.

Any resources they find in the zones will manifest in reality a hundredfold.

But the contestant representing the Dragon Nation is Xiao Zhang, fresh off winning a huge stand-up comedy competition.

In other words, he's all talk and can't even kill a chicken.

The hearts of the Dragon Nation's more than a billion people sink.

Meanwhile, foreigners gloat and jeer.

But Xiao Zhang, who awakens a meme popularity System, goes on to shock the world.

He turns every viral catchphrase he ever said into a work of art.

Underworld blessings...

Deathly suona music...

Lightning Five-Strike Whip...

Surströmming canister bombs...

Five years of college entrance exams, three years of mock exams...

Contestants around the world are reduced to tears...

We give up! We want to go home!

Also known as: National Fate: I Made the World's Contestants Cry!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.