Chen Shi, a tech-minded man, tumbles headfirst into Nanjing in the third year of Hongwu. His only lifeline turns out to be a maddening cross-temporal Pinduoduo System!
Want to survive? First, make a fool of yourself in public! Even to buy a pack of instant noodles, he has to trick passersby into shouting “Give me a slash!” at the northwestern sky. He gets farmers to shout it, then peddlers, and finally even Zhu Yuanzhang, a deeply suspicious man, is tricked into becoming a “Super VIP” and shouting the humiliating catchphrase at the roof of the Hall of Heavenly Manifestation!
But this maddening System has its own “the more you use it, the better it gets” rule! Buy a “toy gun” and receive a real flintlock; buy rice seeds and get super hybrid rice plus an instruction manual; buy a flashlight and it upgrades into a solar-powered LED superweapon! Things shrink instead? No, this is the plus version of the Ming dynasty’s technological revolution!
Watch Chen Shi teeter on the edge of public humiliation, using “miracles” obtained through Pinduoduo’s slash-to-save deals to help Hongwu soar, while Zhu Yuanzhang keeps suspecting everything and yet cannot help shouting, “Honest and dependable young man, give me another slash! This deal is a steal!”
Very interesting setting!
Did the author change the outline halfway through writing?