You Were Asked to Film Tourism in a Poor Rural Town, but You Showcased a Glorious China

"There's only eight thousand yuan left in the county's account. Shoot whatever you want. We'll come in dead last no matter what!"

Lu Ye, a temporary worker at the Culture and Tourism Bureau, takes over a promotional project for the poorest remote mountainous region in the province. He's also facing a crisis: a team of Japan-obsessed influencers is trying to push him out.

Everyone else is copying the Japanese fresh-and-clean aesthetic, using filters so pale they look like funeral photos and making the local landscape seem lifeless.

After binding to a God-Tier Culture and Tourism System, Lu Ye is furious. "China's magnificent landscapes need no plagiarists!"

He kicks away the ghastly pale foreign filters, pilots a drone through clouds and mist, and unleashes the hit songs "Scales of the Dragon" and "Huo Yuanjia"!

"You call this a barren wasteland? It's a thousand-mile landscape painting!"

"The cliffside road with its seventy-two hairpin turns, the golden rain of sparks from the intangible cultural heritage iron-flower performance: you call this a backward, impoverished county?!"

The moment the video goes live, CCTV reposts it with a like. Ticket-buying fever crashes servers across the internet, and a million tourists drive through the night, clogging the expressways.

Furious Japan-obsessed pundits accuse him of cheating. Lu Ye fires back with the culture-and-tourism blockbusters "The Glories of the Tang Dynasty" and "Blue and White Porcelain."

Tourism bureaus overseas are stunned:

"Sir, all our tourists have canceled their tickets and gone to get Chinese visas!"