You Asked Me to Write a Startup Story, but I Wrote Operation Icebreaker on the Spot

Lu Bai woke up one morning to find himself taking part in a live-streamed creative variety show!

Contestants had to create works based on prompts from the production team.

When the team gave them the prompt "desert,"

Lu Bai watched the other contestants write desert stories and desert romances, all about pastoral harmony.

He decided to take a different approach and give the audience a shock!

The Lost City of Jingjue, you're up!

At first, viewers thought it was a story about developing the desert, but the more they watched, the stranger things seemed...

Not long afterward, the national archaeological team discovered the tomb of the Prince of Gumo. Gradually, people realized that the Queen of Jingjue had actually existed!

The internet exploded: "A desert-themed tomb-raiding story?"

The production team went nuts too: "We told you to write about the desert, and you came up with The Lost City of Jingjue?"

"Director, The Lost City of Jingjue is in the desert. You tell me, does it fit the prompt or not?"

And so, the Prompt-Matching Venerable One burst onto the scene.

The prompt was an uncle-generation entrepreneurial story, and he wrote Operation Icebreaker.

The prompt...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.