I Quit the Contest and Struck Back: One Note from My Suona, and the Whole Internet Begs

As the sole heir to traditional Chinese music, Jiang Chen is forced to enter a talent show for top-tier stars.

On camera, he's an awkward outsider, a "pretty-boy slacker" mocked across the internet.

The top-tier star captain humiliates him in public: "Traditional Chinese music belongs in a coffin. Are you saving it to play at your own funeral?"

Jiang Chen quits on the spot, but that very night, by the roadside, he plays the suona for a stray cat.

A Phoenix Courting the Hundred Birds tears through the night sky, and the video shoots straight to number one on the internet's trending list!

The Super Cultural Heritage System awakens, rewarding him with incredible prizes whenever he spreads traditional arts.

The next day, the top-tier star who mocked him gets caught lip-syncing onstage, while Jiang Chen's livestream climbs to the top of the rankings: he's using a two-stringed fiddle to make the local thugs cry!

The show that once cast him aside begs him to return. Jiang Chen smiles at the camera: "Go back? Sure. But this time, I'm a judge."

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