You Were Supposed to Livestream Sales, So Why Are You Reciting the Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng?

[When Grain Prices Fall, Farmers Suffer] [Chinese History and Classics] [On the Same Wavelength as the Ancients] [A Great Book!!]

In a parallel world, livestream sales rely entirely on vulgar shouting and scripted stunts.

Lu Li transmigrates into the body of a small-time streamer at the bottom of the ladder. He helps impoverished rural farmers sell their rice, which has been piling up unsold.

As the few dozen haters in his livestream mock him, the System awakens!

[Choice One: Shout, “Family, click the link!” Reward: one plaster for aches and pains.]

[Choice Two: Sell through cultural overkill. Reward: “Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng” and god-tier persuasive power!]

Lu Li doesn’t shout himself hoarse. Instead, he picks up a handful of rice and speaks gently:

“Rosy clouds and a lone wild duck fly together; autumn waters merge with the boundless sky. This is more than rice. It’s the autumn waters the ancients gazed upon a thousand years ago, the evening breeze that once swept past the Pavilion of Prince Teng…”

The livestream explodes! Viewers cry out, “I just wanted to buy a bag of rice, and you gave me a timeless masterpiece?”

In ten minutes, a hundred thousand tons of rice sell out!

The top streamers across the internet are losing their minds: “You were supposed to sell products, but you turned your livestream into a class in Peking University’s Chinese department?”