On my first day livestreaming, I got an arms dealer put on the wanted list.
My name is Liu Dongsheng. I’m a good-for-nothing who got laid off, got cheated on by my girlfriend, and fled Shanghai with my last five hundred yuan.
I escaped to Laining in the Western Regions, hoping to waste away beside a naan oven.
On my first day livestreaming, I filmed something I shouldn’t have while trying to charge my phone: three men carrying crates of weapons, the stocks of AK-47s gleaming coldly in the moonlight.
As a thug pressed a knife to my throat, the System suddenly activated: [Sell embroidery worth ten thousand yuan within 72 hours, or be erased]
From then on, I livestreamed sales beside a naan oven on the frontier, but my poverty-relief work turned into an international manhunt
When the internationally wanted criminal known as “Professor” barged into my livestream and pointed an AK-47 at my forehead, I smiled.
The camera turned toward the scene behind me: a policewoman reloading her magazine, a scar-faced veteran wiping down his combat knife, and an eighty-year-old embroiderer drawing her family’s heirloom Tang sword.
A million viewers witnessed it: What kind of livestream seller was I? I was a defender of the nation’s gates, broadcasting live!
From a “frontier beggar” mocked by the entire internet to an “anti-terrorism influencer” honored by national television;
from my ex-girlfriend coming back to beg me to take her back, to Ayi Guli slapping her household register in front of me and saying, “My name goes first.”
When the System asked me to choose between a ten-million-yuan prize and a 5G base station, I grabbed the microphone:
“I choose a third option: dedicate the rest of my life to this land. By the way...”
I looked toward the policewoman below, who was drawing her gun and aiming at a foreign spy:
“Can I sleep at your place tonight? My house got blown up by a black camel.”
There’s no subway here, but the sun doesn’t set until ten at night.
There’s no 996 work schedule here, but there are people who would trust you with their backs.
