Building the Old Summer Palace in the Desert, While Foreigners Kneel to Return Our National Treasures

[Farming] [Urban] [Slightly Fantasy] [Mindless Fun] [Emotional] [Patriotic]

Chen Shi is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and has only 90 days to live. To make matters worse, the 700-page reconstruction plans for the Old Summer Palace, which he spent three years painstakingly drawing, are stolen by his unscrupulous adviser, Chen Zhenglin, who then blacklists him. With all hope gone, he returns to the graves of his parents in the northwestern desert to await death. He plants a willow in the shifting sands, but unexpectedly activates the [Artisan Wonders System]!

He can accumulate ecological points by planting trees and combating desertification, then hand-carve models of ancient architecture. Once they receive a high enough score, he can bring the lost garden of ten thousand gardens into the Sea of Death at a true one-to-one scale!

When a miniature Haiyantang rises from the desert, a spirit spring wells up beside it, and his terminal illness is instantly reversed!

The whole internet goes wild. His unscrupulous adviser is consumed with regret, and the faces of Western architectural authorities are left thoroughly battered!

Even crazier, news breaks that the spirit spring at Haiyantang can cure every terminal illness. Dying tycoons from around the globe swarm his doorstep with checks worth trillions.

Leaning against the redwood gates, Chen Shi sneers and waves them away: "U.S. dollars? They're too hard even to wipe my ass with! Want to come in and save your lives? Kneel down and return every last national treasure you stole from the Old Summer Palace!"