Want to Hear My Song? Go Buy a $9.99 MP3 Player

Lin Chen transmigrates to a parallel world and finds himself, from the start, cast as “the biggest clown in Chinese entertainment,” vilified across the internet and forced to quit the industry. The entire industry has blacklisted me? Every music platform is forbidden from playing my songs? Lin Chen sneers, turns around, and takes over a rural electronics factory on the verge of bankruptcy. Then he awakens the [Cross-Industry Black Tech Tycoon System]! If they’re blacklisting me online, I’ll take my business offline! Counterfeit MP3 players for 9.9 yuan, mobile phones for seniors for 39.9 yuan, and dance speakers for 69 yuan flood the lower-tier markets! To save on licensing fees, he stuffs world-class hits from the parallel world, like “Nocturne” and “Uptown Funk,” into his products as “factory test tracks” and “default ringtones”! At first, his haters buy the MP3 players just to film themselves mocking him for making electronic junk. But once they put on the 9.9-yuan headphones, one listen to “Nocturne” is enough to school them! The whole internet is stunned: “How can a nine-yuan-and-ninety-fen device produce sound this divine? Why can’t I find this masterpiece anywhere online?!” Later, Grammy judges travel across the ocean and line up with the old men from the village to fight for 39.9-yuan phones, just to hear the exclusive English-language hits on them! The capital that monopolizes streaming panics and begs Lin Chen for the rights. Lin Chen says, “Want to hear my new songs? Go buy the fusion-powered rice cooker I just released. It has a screen that plays music videos!”