Lying Flat with the System in a Period Novel

[Warning! Host's emotions are too stable.]

[Forced binding: Happiness-Infecting System]

While everyone else transmigrates to the 1970s to take on vicious relatives, the System forces me to lie flat at the village entrance.

Tasks: sunbathe for two hours and teach sparrows arithmetic.

The original female lead expects me to jump into the river? I stayed up all night writing a comedy routine to call off the engagement, turning a tragedy into the village's first-ever comedy showcase.

My relatives are splitting up the family estate? I whip out an "Excel spreadsheet that disowns all six kinds of kin," with so many numbers the abacus starts smoking.

The System tells me to lead a yangge dance at a meeting. I get the whole village hooked on square dancing, and the village secretary quietly asks, "Can you teach us something even more scandalous?"

The educated youth male lead analyzes me with On Contradiction, so I hand him some sunflower seeds. "This is strategic lying flat: surfing the waves!"

The whole commune gradually goes off the rails:

People have to queue up to argue, mediation turns into a debate show, and every denunciation letter has to rhyme.

The System comes clean: "I'm from the Future Happiness Bureau, and you're the most powerful happiness virus of this era!"

I start a "comedy review class," and my students laugh their way into college;

I set up a "knitting influencer club," and our posts sell out across the whole province;

I launch a "field-side karaoke club," where the star singers are the village's uncles and aunties.

A reporter asks for my secret.

Looking at the villagers dancing below the stage, I say:

"When life tries to torment you, make the System put it on repeat."

"Then get the whole village to join in: repeat! Repeat! REPEAT!"

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