Can a Spring Wheat Field Heal You? My Essay Woke Up the Whole Internet

When Chu Yuan woke up, he was back at the 2020 college entrance exam.

Essay prompt: How soothing are the wheat fields in southern province in spring?

An endless sea of green, brimming with life. The pride of the country's leading wheat-producing province? The hope of another year of abundant harvests?

Bullshit!

The article sings of peaceful times, yet refuses to lower its head and look at the world!

In this culturally impoverished parallel world, Chu Yuan, bound to the Literary Master System, put pen to paper.

"How are the spring wheat fields not soothing?"

They are generations of people facing the earth and turning their backs to the sky, unable to buy a bottle of water with a pound of grain.

They are a seventy-year-old farmer who dares not sleep at night, irrigating his fields and scrambling for water at the well, his bronze skin earned without ever setting foot in a gym.

They are poetry written in green, while all I see is a farmer's father, his back bent beneath the burden.

The spring pool is lovely, yet we are trapped on the endless Langlang Mountain!

When the essay was revealed, it caused an uproar across the internet!

"Defamation! Zero points!"

"It deserves full marks! They've become so detached from the people!"

"Green wheat is worth more than the grain, but they won't let me harvest what I planted."

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