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[Group transmigration + farming, food, and variety show + public works and infrastructure]
Q: What do you do when the entire production crew transmigrates to ancient times before filming starts?
Yan Yu, the executive director of this reality farming variety show, really wants to lie down and never get back up.
She studied directing and screenwriting and has plenty of ability, but no connections. Other people have always stolen credit for her work and squeezed every last drop out of her. She finally landed this variety show and thought it would turn her life around, only for the guests to turn out to be a bunch of eccentric geniuses who all transmigrated and became bandits before filming even began.
The imperial army surrounds the mountain, blades glinting coldly.
Meanwhile, her guests are leisurely touching up their makeup and sightseeing.
Yan Yu: Somebody help me, somebody help me, somebody help me!
In desperation, she abducts the crown prince, who's traveling incognito, planning to use him as leverage over the other powers.
Who could have guessed that the crown prince would smoothly take his place among the guests?
Um, aren't ancient people supposed to be more conservative?
*
Later, the variety show finally starts filming.
But the production gradually goes off the rails.
The top-tier star who loves scallions dipped in soybean paste: "Director Yan, want one?"
Yan Yu: Do you have no image to maintain at all?
The veteran actor, famous for flaunting his seniority and hawking health supplements: "Director Yan, could you talk to that actor cosplaying as the emperor? The deep-sea fish oil I recommended is fantastic for your health! Get him to promote it!"
Yan Yu: What if that's actually the emperor?
The hilarious, chaotic female comedian: "I told you, the crown prince gege and I are innocent! The baby I'm carrying isn't his. It's from the sizzling garlic shrimp and the chicken and mushroom stew!"
Yan Yu: At least have some standards, girl!
The crown prince cuts in: "Right, it's not mine. I'm impotent."
Yan Yu: ...Wait, what aren't you?
That night, this thoroughly un-stuffy crown prince holds Yan Yu in his arms, their breaths mingling.
Yan Yu: Liar.
Nan Yi: Shh, focus on what we're doing.
*
Later still, the variety show becomes a huge hit, and more and more new guests line up to join. Yan Yu grins from ear to ear:
Come on! All of you!
You're all coming to the ancient world to build infrastructure!
Theme: Never stop striving
