No New Year's Eve Holiday? I'll Crowdfund the Resurrection of the Nian Beast!

Dear hardworking people, hello. I'm sure you've all heard the notice that there will be no holiday this year for **.

As a fellow worker, this has crossed my bottom line completely.

Esteemed members of the Cabinet, this is my first warning: give us workers our holiday back.

Otherwise, I'll resurrect the Nian Beast on ** night.

And finally...

On the wild ** night, send me 50.

Three months before **, everyone received a text message like this.

At first, people thought it was just a prank.

Until that towering figure appeared, and at last the workers saw a glimmer of hope.

Overtime was abolished, social insurance and housing fund benefits were made universal, and a three-day workweek was introduced...

From then on, the Nian Beast became the workers' totem.

Just as everyone thought they were satisfied...

Beep beep beep... We're crowdfunding to develop catgirl robots. Send me 50, and I'll send you one when it's done.

Beep beep beep... We're crowdfunding to build an ancient plantation. Send me 50, and I'll send you five Black people when it's built!

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