Chen Song, a socially anxious short-video scriptwriter, transmigrates and gets thrown in prison on his very first day for writing a single character wrong. In this world where literature holds power, poetry can unleash bloodshed, and even cursing a corrupt official can trigger a backlash of literary energy. The System tells him he can go home after serving a total of 30 days, but the timid man can barely bring himself to yell at a prison guard.
Who could have guessed that his casual remark, “His Majesty’s head is as hard as iron,” would make the emperor’s purple-gold crown clamp down like an iron hoop? When he writes “Ode to the Locusts” to denounce corruption, a real swarm of locusts arrives and devours the government granaries. Then he discovers a transmigrator from an earlier age hidden in the depths of the prison, while the warden uses blood ink to forge his poems into a god-slaying curse...
The coward clutches his trembling pen: “I... I really wasn’t trying to rebel!”
It's really cool. It's so well written.