I Asked You to Write About a Pillar of the Nation, and You Wrote About the Ming Weightlifting Champion

Xu Yuan, a civil engineering guy, woke up one day to find that he had transmigrated.

A young screenwriter?

Writing on the spot?

And the opening prompt was "Pillars of the Nation"?

Well, in that case, there was nothing else for it.

"The burdens of the thirteen provinces and two capitals of the Great Ming rest on my shoulders..."

"Let the common people suffer a little longer. I'll bear the blame."

"His Majesty carries the whole realm in his heart..."

"Father, it's always your son shielding you from the storm!"

Watching the Great Ming officials grow crooked and twisted, running wild through Xu Yuan's script,

the viewers fell silent. Could a crooked pillar still hold up the nation?

After barely making it through one round, Xu Yuan advanced.

The next round's prompt was comedy.

Xu Yuan: You know me. My scripts can be a little extreme, so this comedy...

"The four-stage standard crisis response strategy."

"Stage one: Claim that nothing will happen."

"Stage two: Something may have happened, but we shouldn't take any action."

"Stage three: We should take action, but it's already too late."

"Stage four..."

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