Crosstalk: Who Says Our Fellow Performers Are All Starving?

"Even if my master makes no progress for fifty years, nobody in the crosstalk world can surpass him!"

"Do those people in mainstream crosstalk even know traditional crosstalk? Do they have the basic skills?"

"It's not that I'm especially good, Guo Jungang. It's just that my peers make me look good."

"If mainstream crosstalk has what it takes, then sell tickets!

If the audience won't even spend a dime on you, what are you talking about art for?"

These words leave the mainstream crosstalk world unable to hold its head up.

Then one day, a man named Xu Nanqing appears online.

He comes from what people call the mainstream crosstalk world.

Yet with his own efforts, he changes a landscape dominated by a single player.

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