My Speech at the Centennial Celebration Shocked the Internet

"If you ask me why I study,"

"I will answer..."

"To make China rise!"

Yang Ming transmigrates to a parallel world suffering from a cultural disconnect and unexpectedly becomes a Chinese literature professor at Qingbei University.

It happens to be the university's centennial celebration.

As the faculty representative, Yang Ming takes the stage to speak. Seeing the students chatting glumly, their spirits low, and the other representatives spouting nothing but empty official rhetoric, he angrily tears up his prepared speech in front of tens of thousands. He looks around at the students and his colleagues, then cries out with impassioned conviction:

"The young have a vast future ahead, with only uncertainty behind them."

"If China is reduced to cattle, horses, and slaves, then we, the young, will suffer the cruelty of the boiling pot, the knife, and the whip."

"If China rises to dominate the world and lead the nations, then we, the young, will enjoy the glory of command and respect."

"When the young are wise, the nation is wise; when the young are rich, the nation is rich; when the young are strong, the nation is strong..."

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