Li Xiaochuan, a modern social animal who suffered the devastation of 996, accidentally traveled to the Ming Dynasty while relaxing in the Huaguo Mountain Scenic Area in Lianyungang, and met Wu Chengen, a down-and-out scholar who had not yet written "Journey to the West". The two met by fate and were involved in a "living" mythical world of Journey to the West that could be independently derived. In order to survive and return, this pair of "brothers in distress" from different time and space had to rely on Li Xiaochuan's "plot guide" and Wu Chengen's increasingly awakened "author's authority" to struggle to survive in the familiar and out-of-control 9981 crisis, and gradually uncovered the astonishing truth behind this strange world.